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Solanco NOVEMBER 13, 2019
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LVI • NO 33
GIVING THANKS PROJECT
Solanco schools, the Solanco Food Bank, and Buck Company Inc. are working together in the annual Giving Thanks Project. Food items are being collected and will be assembled into Thanksgiving meal boxes to be distributed to families in need within the Solanco School District. Local residents may donate fresh potatoes (5-pound bags), chicken and/or beef bouillon cubes, turkey gravy, stuffing mix, cranberry sauce, canned green beans, brown-and-serve rolls, and apple pie filling. Food items can be dropped off at any school in the district or the district’s Administration Office, 121 S. Hess St., Quarryville. Monetary contributions will be used to purchase turkeys. Checks should be made payable to Solanco School District, and Giving Thanks Project should be written in the memo line. Checks should be dropped off or mailed to the Administration Office. MEN’S BANQUET
Chestnut Level Presbyterian Church, 1068 Chestnut Level Road, Quarryville, invites men in the community to attend its annual men’s banquet on Thursday, Nov. 21, at 6:30 p.m. A traditional turkey dinner with stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, oyster casserole, peas, cranberry relish, pumpkin pie and shoofly pie will be prepared by the church’s Presbyterian Women group. A program will be presented by Solanco Neighborhood Ministries. Tickets are required and may be purchased at the church office. Call Tom Henry at 717-203-4509 for more information. FUNDRAISING EVENT
will benefit from a craft and vendor fundraiser event on Saturday, Nov. 16, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Hoffman Building at the Solanco Fairgrounds on South Lime Street in Quarryville. The event is hosted by Christin Sheets and her uncle. Last November, Sheets donated a kidney to her uncle; both donor and recipient were unable to work while recovering, so a fundraiser vendor event was held to support them. This year, the National Kidney Foundation will use the proceeds to assist other families during transplant recovery. More than 30 vendors and crafters will be present. Food and beverages will be donated by Nottingham Inn, Herr’s, Maplehofe Dairy, Wawa and Turkey Hill. Giveaway drawing tickets will be available for purchase.
Thespians To Stage “Hamlet” Spinoff By Dayna M. Reidenouer
“The purpose of life is to find your gift. The meaning of life is to give it away” is sometimes attributed to William Shakespeare. A search for the meaning of life will take center stage in the production of Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” at Solanco High School, 585 Solanco Road, Quarryville. The play will be presented at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, Nov. 21, 22, and 23, in the school’s auditorium. A free performance for senior citizens will begin at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 20.
W hen Shakespeare wrote the tragedy “Hamlet,” Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were relatively minor characters. Stoppard’s play inverts the story, bringing the two characters to the forefront. According to cast members and director John Biles, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are college friends of Hamlet’s who are sent to spy on Hamlet by his uncle, Claudius. Their instructions are to bring Hamlet to England for what they do not realize are nefarious reasons, but Hamlet double-crosses them. “Basically think ‘The Lion King,’” said Maria Eden, who was cast as Rosencrantz. See Solanco Play pg 5
Solanco High School thespians, including (from left) Maria Eden, Elliot Spangler, and Emily Herr, will present “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” on Nov. 21 to 23. Senior citizens may attend an afternoon performance on Nov. 20 free of charge.
SLCHS Produces 2020 Calendar Holiday Bazaar Will Support By Dayna M. Reidenouer Sanctuary Updates Pictures and memories are essentially all that remain of the stone house that Smedley Lamborn built on his family’s property around the year 1850. Located on the Martic Township bank of Muddy Creek, the house was destroyed in the 1960s by order of Philadelphia Electric Company to make way for the Muddy Run peak-hour backup electric project. “We took the doors and the Sue Lamborn (right) and Linda and Stan White windows with us,” said South- display the 2020 calendar page featuring a ern Lancaster County Historical drawing of the Lamborn family’s former home. Society (SLCHS) member Sue The calendar is produced by the Southern Lamborn, who married into the Lancaster County Historical Society and family. Sue and her husband, on sale now. George, who has since died, “Now in the summer when you’re lived in the house for five years. “I fell in love with that house,” Sue remarked. “I running the air conditioner and the ceiling fans during peak hours, think of really liked that house.” See 2020 Calendar pg 5
By Dayna M. Reidenouer
“It had been many years since this had a facelift,” finance chair Charlie Eggers commented as he looked around the unfurnished sanctuary at Mount Nebo United Methodist Church (UMC), 673 Martic Heights Drive, Pequea. The vast room had been built circa 1832 and boasted a tin ceiling and tin-covered walls. While updates had been made over the years, it had been several decades since the carpet had been replaced, and the paint was starting to show its age. The facility also lacked air conditioning. Thus, the congregation hosted a capital campaign, moved the worship services into the fellowship center that was built in See Holiday Bazaar pg 4
Mount Nebo United Methodist Church members (from left) Deb Drexel, Charlie Eggers, and Heather Fellenbaum invite the public to attend a holiday bazaar on Nov. 16. Proceeds will support renovations being made to the sanctuary.
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