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FEBRUARY 19, 2025
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXI • NO 44
¡Buen trabajo! Bon travail! Buon lavoro! Solanco High School student excelling in three languages BY GEORGE DEIBEL
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hen Magdalena Hawkins arrived for her freshman year at Solanco High School, foreign language department chair Jen Eisenberger quickly realized she had a prized pupil. “She arrived armed with pocket dictionaries in her coat pockets and had a passion for learning as much as she could right from the start,” Eisenberger said. Now a senior, Magdalena is the school’s World Language Student of the Year and was honored as a Student of the Month at a school board meeting on Jan. 27. Magdalena is currently studying Spanish, French, and Italian and has earned all A grades in those classes. In fact, Magdalena carries a 4.0 grade point average over all her subjects, having never earned anything lower than an A. “When we sat down as a group to consider who our World
Language Student of the Year would be, Magdalena was the obvious choice,” Eisenberger said. “It is extremely rare that we have a student enrolled in multiple languages, let alone excelling in each and every one. She genuinely represents the ideal language learner, and lover, as she pours her free time into continuing her studies and helping others.” Magdalena is an intern in the foreign language department and tutors English language learners and English-speaking students who are study ing Spanish, French, and Italian. Magdalena is in her fourth year of Spanish and has been studying French for three years and Italian for two. “I’ve always been drawn to (languages),” Magdalena said. “I see it as a puzzle. It’s kind of like connecting different pieces together to create a message or a picture. I’ve always liked puzzles, so I think that’s what drew Solanco High School senior Magdalena Hawkins carries a 4.0 grade point average while studying three
Feed My Starving Children event planned for March 28 to 30
Octoraro Watershed Association announces photography contest BY FRANCINE FULTON
Although creativity and composition are considered when photographs are judged in the Octorara Watershed Association (OWA) Photography Contest, the most important characteristic of a winning photo is that it depicts an image of life in the watershed area. “We don’t have strict guidelines because we don’t want to restrict anyone’s creativity, (but we ask), ‘Does this photo represent the Octoraro Watershed in all its diversity and beauty?’” said Chotty Sprenkle, contest coordinator. Amateur photographers are encouraged to participate in this year’s contest. It is not necessary to live See Watershed pg 6
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One of the photographs from last year’s contest was taken by Chotty Sprenkle during the early morning hours on the east branch of the Octoraro Creek.
The seeds for the annual Lancaster County Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) event were planted in 2013 when pediatrician Dr. Lora Mangus Wenger and her family visited Haiti with members of Willow Street Mennonite Church as part of a Mission of Hope mission trip. “At that time, (Mission of Ho p e ) wa s fe e d i n g 5 0 , 0 0 0
children a day by distributing meals to their school, other s c h o o l s , a n d o r p h a n a g e s ,” Mangus Wenger said. “A warehouse (of food provided by FMSC) was stacked from floor to ceiling with boxes.” Mangus Wenger had never heard of FMSC before that and decided to do some research after returning home. She discovered there were no MobilePack events taking place in Pennsylvania, so See FMSC pg 9
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