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Solanco SEPTEMBER 25, 2019
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LVI • NO 26
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Berks and Chester Counties • Hay Creek Apple Festival, Historic Joanna Furnace, Morgantown - Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 12 and 13 • Country Auction and Chicken Barbecue, Conestoga Christian School, Morgantown - Friday and Saturday, Oct. 18 and 19 • Elverson Antique Show, Twin Valley High School, Elverson Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 26 and 27 Cumberland and Dauphin Counties • Caitlin's Smiles' A Night of Smiles, Radisson Hotel Harrisburg, Camp Hill - Saturday, Oct. 5 • Gretna Theatre Gala, The Hotel Hershey - Saturday, Oct. 12 • 100th Anniversary of the Treaty of Versailles, John HarrisSimon Cameron Mansion, Harrisburg - Friday, Oct. 18 Lancaster County • Lancaster Modern Quilt Guild's Quilt Show and Artisan Market, Manor Church, Lancaster - Saturday, Sept. 28
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Singers Sought For “Messiah” Chorus By Dayna M. Reidenouer
Anyone who likes to sing is invited to participate in a performance of the Christmas portion of Handel’s “Messiah” in Quarryville this fall. Memorial United Methodist Church (UMC) worship director Tom Berdos will direct the choir and orchestra, as he did many times when he lived and worked in New Jersey. Berdos started his employment at Memorial UMC in January 2019. “We had a lot of participation, enthusiasm, and joy,” Berdos said of his previous productions. “I hope the Lord blesses (this one) and that happens.” Berdos has contracted about 20 professional musicians to accompany the singers. Soloists with professional opera careers will include Monica Ziglar, soprano; Hanne LadefogedDollase, mezzo; Brian Ernstes, tenor;
and Justin Beck, bass. Berdos noted that Ziglar and Beck are soloists at the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, with which Berdos is also involved. Earlier this year, Berdos hosted rehearsals for a mass choir that performed at Ocean Grove. “I pulled people that I know (as soloists). Since I’m new to the area, I don’t know soloists here,” Berdos said. “I’m putting out an appeal to local people to join us in the chorus, and in the process, I’ll get to know new soloists.” He added, “It gives audiences new voices to hear, and that’s good too.” Some singers who have participated in Berdos’ previous “Messiah” productions
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York County • The Wonder Ball fundraiser for Easterseals, Country Club of York - Saturday, Oct. 12
Amber Pownall was selected as the 2019 Solanco Fair Queen and Rianna Green (not pictured) was named the alternate. Photos from the fair, which was held from Sept. 18 to 20, may be viewed at www.townlively.com/fairs-and-farm-shows.
Aaron Wingert of Lancaster was 30 when he experienced his first epileptic seizure. “Everything is normal in your life, and then you wake up in the back of an ambulance,” he said. Nineteen-year-old Nadine DeBalko of Adamstown was diagnosed with epilepsy at age 12 and had to change her perceptions about the disorder. “I thought it was just older people who had it,” she recalled.
Lancaster resident Kerri Michnya never remembers a time without seizures. She was diagnosed at age 10. Now age 42, she has been seizure-free for 11 years. Both Michnya’s and See Walk To End Epilepsy pg 7
Epilepsy Foundation of Eastern Pennsylvania staffer Kerri Michnya (left) and volunteers Aaron Wingert (middle) and Nadine DeBalko have helped to plan Lancaster County’s first Walk to End Epilepsy, which will be held in the Lancaster Barnstormers’ stadium on Oct. 12.
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• Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania's Garden Railways Tour, sites throughout Lancaster County and neighboring areas Sunday, Oct. 6
• 50th Greater York CROP Hunger Walk, four starting points in York - Sunday, Oct. 13
will join the chorus for the performance at Memorial UMC, 101 S. Hess St., Quarryville, on Sunday, Dec. 15, at 4 p.m. “(They) are coming from New Jersey and making a weekend of it,” Berdos related. “It’s high quality, a real accomplishment for the people who participate, and they love it.” Auditions are not required to join the chorus. Rehearsals will be held on Wednesdays from Oct. 2 through Dec. 11 from 7 to 8 p.m. No rehearsal will be held on the day before Thanksgiving, Wednesday, Nov. 27. Additional rehearsals will include noon to 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, See “Messiah” Chorus pg 4
Tom Berdos, worship director at Memorial United Methodist Church in Quarryville, is looking for singers to join the chorus for a performance of the Christmas portion of Handel’s “Messiah.” Rehearsals will begin Oct. 2.
• Landis Woods Outdoor Fine Art Show, Boettcher House, Neffsville - Saturday, Sept. 28
• Pennsylvania Cowboy Weekend, Northern Central Railway Steam Into History, New Freedom - Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 12 and 13
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