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JUNE 29, 2022
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LVIX • NO 10
Planning Commission Presents Awards Quarryville Elementary’s Student Senate Receives Recognition places2040, the Lancaster County Comprehensive Plan. The planning commission also recognized individuals who demonstrate leadership and effectiveness in bringing major community projects or projects of regional importance to fruition in Lancaster County were recognized.
The Lancaster County Planning Commission held its places2040 Planning Leadership Awards Celebration on May 24 at the Manheim Township Public Library. These awards recognize planning projects that demonstrate leadership and effectiveness in implementing
See Planning Commission pg 10
Kendra Herr will showcase her garden in the Porches and Posies Garden Tour.
Annual Tour To Highlight Local Gardens he second annual Porches and Posies Garden Tour will be held on Friday and Saturday, July 8 and 9. Southern End gardens will be featured in the self-directed tour, which will benefit Chestnut Level Presbyterian Church. The first edition of the event drew visitors locally and from outside the area. “Some of us had the SOL
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idea this would make a great community event,” said organizer Anna Mary Barcus. “I’m just really excited to do this again this year.” This year’s Porches and Posies Garden Tour will feature 12 new garden stops, which will display a variety of garden styles and growing conditions, including a cut flower garden, examples of outdoor living and two Amish gardens. “We try to have a nice assortment of styles,
Kendra Herr’s yard features container gardens filled with a variety of plants.
realistic but inspirational and achievable,” Barcus said. One of the gardens on the tour is at the home of Kendra Herr. Features of her yard include a small barn, a stone patio with a fire pit and a screened-in porch attached to the home and deck. Herr’s property is full of flower beds planted mostly with perennials and shrubs. She also enjoys container gardening and has pots of colorful annual arrangements throughout the property that contain plants such as Lantana, Coleus and Setcresea Purple Heart. Because areas of her yard include both full sun and almost full shade, Herr is able to use all kinds of plants and flowers. Herr, who said that the goal is to make her outside as inviting as the inside of her home, describes gardening as therapeutic. “I’m not a Master Gardener, and I started off knowing nothing, so hopefully I can inspire others that they can do it, too,” said Herr. “You have to want to learn and be willing to ask questions. The more you (garden), the better you get at it.”
After a two-year absence because of the pandemic, Promise Players, a community Christian theater group, will once again present a live performance, which will take place at a new venue. “Smoke on the Mountain,” a musical comedy, will be performed by Promise Players on Friday, July 8, through Sunday, July 10,
See Local Gardens pg 2
See Promise Players pg 6
Quarryville Elementary School received a student Merit Award from the Lancaster County Planning Commission.
Promise Players To Return To The Stage
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