Pequea Valley JULY 31, 2019
IN THIS ISSUE: STRIKE UP A TUNE TO HONOR VETERANS page 10
VOL LV • NO 35
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
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townlively.com for information about upcoming events and happenings in your community and throughout the region! Chester and Berks Counties • 91st annual Old Fiddler’s Picnic, Hibernia Park, Coatesville Saturday, Aug. 10 • Town Tours and Village Walks, tour of the village of Sadsburyville - Thursday, Aug. 15 • Free Third Saturdays at the Berks County Heritage Center, Reading - Saturday, Aug. 17 Dauphin and Lebanon Counties • Mount Gretna Art Show, downtown Mount Gretna Saturday, Aug. 17, and Sunday, Aug. 18 • “Picasso: A Life in Print,” Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg - through Sunday, Sept. 22 • The Pennsylvania Make It With Wool contest, Farm Show Complex, Harrisburg - Saturday, Oct. 5
A Garden Grows In New Holland pg 7
Rotary Club Presents Donations pg 3
Bookworm Frolic Scheduled pg 2
A Sweet Night Of Support By Ann Mead Ash
Drew Metcalf, of We Help Children, has an offer for those who want to help children but are not sure how. “This is an opportunity for people to get involved,” said Drew. “Everyone wants to do something to help. We would love to show people how.” Getting involved can start with attending A Sweet Night of Music, a drop-in event to be held from 6 to 9 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 11, at Stoltzfus Homestead and Gardens, 3716 E. Newport Road, Gordonville. The menu will feature stations of sweets and beverages, and Drew, along with his wife, Cindy, will talk about their ministry helping children in Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, and Chicago, Ill. Live music for the evening will be provided by the Horst Brothers, a local gospel and bluegrass group. Drew and Cindy plan to update
attendees on the growth of their ministry since they first moved their family to Guatemala nine years ago to work with children in orphanages there. “We will tell them what is going on in Central America with children and how to help them,” said Drew. We Help Children has worked to set up Children and Family Help Centers in communities so families can receive local help and give help in return. The Metcalfs and their three children are centered in Guatemala, and Drew travels to Honduras to help children there. A recent addition to the ministry includes connecting with a missionary family working with Belizean individuals who have hearing loss. The new ministry will focus on pregnant teenage girls and new mothers. In Chicago, Samantha Jakus, a Moody Bible Institute graduate who interned with the Metcalfs in Guatemala, works with children in crisis through Reborn
The Horst Brothers, a local gospel and bluegrass group, will play at A Sweet Night of Music, a fundraising event for We Help Children to be held at the Stoltzfus Homestead and Gardens in Gordonville on Aug. 11 from 6 to 9 p.m. Ministries and a local school. The Metcalfs have also taken in orphaned children who need extra help
or who are aging out of the orphanage and need to transition into adulthood. “We help them with school and work, See We Help Children pg 9
• Chiques Challenge, Columbia River Park - Saturday, Aug. 10
For The Love Of Trains
• Elizabethtown Fair, Elizabethtown Fairgrounds - Monday, Aug. 19, through Saturday, Aug. 24
Bill Cole Named Railroad Museum Volunteer Of The Year
• Richard Oehme Memorial Golf Tournament, Overlook Golf Course, Lancaster - Saturday, Sept. 21
By Ann Mead Ash
• The Penn State Master Gardeners of York County’s Butterfly Buzz, Hanover Junction Station, Seven Valleys - Saturday, Aug. 17 • Shrewsbury Flower Show, Shrewsbury Assembly of God Saturday, Aug. 24, and Sunday, Aug. 25 • Yorkfest Fine Arts Festival, downtown York - Saturday, Aug. 24, and Sunday, Aug. 25
By Ann Mead Ash
Bill Cole of Lancaster was formally recognized as the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania Volunteer of the Year at the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission ceremony in Harrisburg. Before
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Kyle Robinson, executive director of Handi*Vangelism Ministries International (HVMI), has a lot on his plate. Not too long ago, the ministry purchased the land at 3261 Rothsville Road, Akron, and work to receive approvals to locate camps, retreat centers, and day programs there is underway, with HVMI planning a capital fund campaign to begin in the fall. With all that looming, Robinson is well aware of the importance of maintaining the general budget. “Our golf See Golf Outing pg 8
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“I am a model railroader,” said Bill Cole proudly. “I love trains all the time.” A man who first fell in love with trains when he received one for Christmas at the age of 5 growing up in Minnesota could not resist visiting a railroad museum after moving to Lancaster. But making just the occasional visit to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, 300 Gap Road, Strasburg, became a thing of the past when Cole retired. Instead, after picking up a volunteer brochure around 2012, Cole signed on See Museum Volunteer pg 6
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