Pequea Valley AUGUST 11, 2021
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LVII • NO 34
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Library Acquires Hotspots Pequea Valley Public Library (PVPL) recently purchased five Wi-Fi hotspots using a portion of the $5,000 donation given to the library earlier this year by Ressler Mill Foundation. Four hotspots are now available at PVPL, 31 Center St., Intercourse, and one is available at the Gap branch, located at 835 Houston Run Drive, Suite 220.
Several hotspots and a variety of books were recently purchased by Pequea Valley Public Library using funds donated by Ressler Mill Foundation.
The Factory Ministries staff members and volunteers gave away lunches and books.
Feeding PV’s Children BY ANN MEAD ASH
ach Tuesday from June 22 through Aug. 10, cars lined up at the Paradise Elementary School in the Pequea Valley School District (PVSD) from 11 a.m. to noon and 5 to 6 p.m. Lisa Eckert, director of early learning with
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Lunch Program Provides Summer Nutrition PVSD, worked with The Factory qualified the area as an open site Ministries to oversee the summer because of the number of families lunch program, which fed about receiving free and reduced-cost 100 children each week during that lunches. At an open site, it is not necessary to qualify each family time period. The program was funded by a that receives food. “The program is Pennsylvania Department of Edu- open to any child in PVSD through cation Summer Food Service Pro- age 18,” said Eckert, who added gram grant, which Eckert explained that normally lunches would be
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eaten on site, but due to COVID-19 concerns a drive-through system was utilized. Each student received two lunches and two snacks per week. “Each of those has required components based on the grant,” explained Eckert, who noted that each lunch must offer milk, a grain, fruit, a
Scouts Share Knowledge With Younger Girls . . . . . .2 Business Directory . . . . . .2 Rizzetta’s Tones To Close Concert Series . . . . . . . . .5 House Of Worship . . . . . .12 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . .12
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