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Solanco JANUARY 29, 2020

SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954

VOL XXXI • NO 43

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Chester County Area •“Votes for Women: A Visual History” exhibition, the Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford - Feb. 1 through June 7 •“Love Your Library” fundraiser, Heatherwood Retirement Community, Honey Brook - Feb. 14 •Valentine’s Breakfast Buffet, Historic Joanna Furnace Iron Works, Geigertown - Feb. 15 Greater Hershey Area •Caitlin’s Smiles’ Have a Heart Volunteer Day, New Hope Church, Harrisburg - Feb. 1 •“Voices of the Eighth: Rhythms of Resilience,” Gamut Theatre, Harrisburg - Feb. 7 to 9 •Performance by The Tamburitzans, Middletown Area High School - Feb. 22

Mares Top Spartans, 31-25 pg 4

Japanese Drum Group Plans Performance pg 3

35th Annual Heart Ball Slated pg 6

Will Orphie See His Shadow? By Dayna M. Reidenouer

Six more weeks of winter or an early spring? Octorara Orphie is slated to reveal the truth during the 112th Groundhog Day celebration at the Slumbering Groundhog Lodge of Quarryville. The public is invited to watch the spectacle unfold on Sunday, Feb. 2, at the Chateau in the Valley of White Rock, 248 White Rock Road, Quarryville, beginning at 8:15 a.m. Guests should arrive early to secure a good place to park their vehicles and their behinds to watch the show. The festivities will kick off with a ceremonial parade from the covered bridge over the Octorara Creek. Once all of the men wearing black top hats and white nightshirts are assembled in front of the Pinnacle of Prognostication - an erstwhile manure spreader - the program will commence. Hibernating Gov. Richard M.

Rankin, positioned upon the pinnacle, will consult with Octorara Orphie, the lodge’s mascot, and hear groundhogsighting reports from a half-dozen observation squads that have spent the early morning searching for the burrows of Marmota monax, also called woodchuck. The Hibernating Governor will announce this year’s forecast from the Pinnacle of Prognostication. Defender of the Faith Stuart J. Mylin will give remarks, and lodge members accompanied by the Groundhog Marching Band will demonstrate the Groundhog Jig. But wait - there’s more. The Baby Class of 2020 will embark on an odyssey into the world of Arctomanciferial Predictification during the celebration. The inductees will willingly dress as stereotypical infants and undergo a Baptism by Fire and Water. They will submit one of their class members to a dunking

in the Octorara Creek, and all of them will bend over as a cannon is fired over their hindmost parts. Spoiler alert: The cannon only goes boom; it does not launch a heavy projectile over the adult babies. This year’s Baby Class includes Richard Benner of Groundhog Day will be celebrated on Feb. 2 at the Chateau in the Valley of White Rock, where the Lancaster, Kevin season’s forecast will be announced. Broderick of Kirkwood, Joel Neff of New Providence, Shane Snyder of charge. Coffee and doughnuts will be Willow Street, and Brian Stoltzfus of provided. For more information about the SlumQuarryville. If readers are enticed to stand out bering Groundhog Lodge of Quarryville in the cold - and possibly rain or and the 112th Groundhog Day celebrasnow - and watch adult men have tion, readers may contact Orphie’s Lip serious fun, they may do so free of William Forrey at 717-940-6372.

Lancaster County •A Taste of Western Lancaster County, Elizabethtown Public Library - Feb. 7

•Patriotic Stitchers for Veterans fundraising auction, Veterans Hall of the War Memorial Building, Leola - Feb. 22

By Dayna M. Reidenouer

April Koppenhaver and her husband, Charles E. Gaul II, already had a dog, Valentino, when a second canine came into their care. Milo was a rescue dog, so his age was undetermined. The beagle mix had been adopted by a family

York County •1st Capital Leather and Lace Ball, Wyndham Garden, York Feb. 8 •Knights of Columbus Council 8891’s Polish Dinner Dance, St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, New Freedom - Feb. 8 •Royal Tea Party, YMCA - Bob Hoffman Dover Branch March 15

member, but after more than a decade, Milo’s owner developed allergies and sought a new home for the beloved pet. Valentino and Milo were used to being the only dogs in their homes, so Koppenhaver moved Milo into Mulberry Art Studios, the gallery she founded. Milo quickly became a favorite of visitors. “He was always smiling,” Koppenhaver recalled. “He’d sit there, and you’d hear” - she tapped her See Pet-Themed Art Show pg 8

Mulberry Art Studios founder April Koppenhaver displays a representation of her late dog, Milo, and holds her pet, Valentino. The Charles E. Gaul II and Milo “We Love Our Pets” contest and exhibition is currently accepting pet-themed artwork for a show that will open on May 1. WITH COUPON

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Artists Invited To Submit Work Young Readers Needed For Pet-Themed Show For Animal Shelter Program By Dayna M. Reidenouer

Sure, you probably have heard of students reading to dogs, but did you know that cats enjoy similar attention? “Our adoptable cats appreciate being read to by our Rescue Readers as reading aloud has a positive impact on the cats in our cat colonies, while also helping the readers become more comfortable and confident reading aloud,” said Humane Pennsylvania events and social media coordinator Kylie Layman, who is in charge of the Rescue Readers program. The program is less than a year old and was developed to provide youths ages 4 to 13 with opportunities to interact with the cats in the shelter,

expand their reading proficiency, and give back to their community. Seven-year-old Hunter Griffin and his parents, Oanh To and William Griffin of Manheim Township, spent time on Jan. 12 with several felines at See Rescue Readers pg 8

Humane League of Lancaster County feline resident Wendy appears to follow along as Hunter Griffin reads aloud on Jan. 12. The Rescue Readers program invites youngsters ages 4 to 13 to spend half an hour on a weekend reading to cats at the shelter.

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