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FEBRUARY 2, 2022
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXII • NO 50
Fire And Ice For Everyone n 2021, to keep visitors and residents safe, Lititz canceled its Fire & Ice Festival and instead held the Lititz Ice Walk, which extended the event from a single weekend to several days and focused especially on the ice sculptures lining the streets. For 2022, the town will host what executive director of Venture Lititz Rebecca Branle calls a hybrid event. “A lot of people enjoyed taking their time (to view the ice sculptures) and coming back a few times (in 2021),” she said. This year, the Fire & Ice Festival will officially run from Friday, Feb. 18, to Monday, Feb. 28, and encompass a number of activities, including a ticketed preview party, a Kids Funderland, a sweet treats punch card, and a scavenger hunt. The launch party, called Winter’s Coolest Night Out, will be held on Thursday, Feb. 17, at 6 p.m. at Collusion Tap Works, 5 Juniper Lane, Lititz. It will include a live ice carving outside The Lititz Shirt Factory building where the Tap Works is located. “It will be a really fun,
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light appetizers. More than 60 ice sculptures will be on display throughout the event. Among this year’s creations will be a unicorn and a kangaroo. The Nittany Lion will make a return appearance. “There will be something really beautiful in front of Lititz Mutual (on North Broad Street),” noted Branle. See Fire And Ice pg 3
The Lititz Fire & Ice Festival will be held for 11 days in February.
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In October of 2021, Risa Paskoff, executive director of Aaron’s Acres, was informed that the Manheim Community Pool, where Aaron’s Acres has held its summer camp, would not reopen in the spring. “In 30 days, we researched about 30 community pools,” said Paskoff. “Our team was amazing. We had to find a place.” When a relative of a board member
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FBI Returns Stolen Guns To Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum
David Blackburn (left) and Jennifer Hall Royer display guns that were returned to the Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum by the FBI.
It is highly unusual for feature writers to take photos of people wearing masks and holding guns, but that is exactly what happened following the Dec. 17, 2021, return of two pistols that had been stolen from the Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum, 2451 Kissel Hill Road, Lancaster, in December of 1969. Museum curator Jennifer Hall Royer first learned that the guns had been recovered when she was contacted by the FBI about three years ago. The two Civil War-era firearms were returned to Royer and site administrator David Blackburn two months ago following a press conference at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia. The guns were recovered after the thief, Gavin Thomas of Montgomery County, sold a number of See Landis Valley Museum pg 4
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interactive carving brought to us by Luthercare, the sponsor of the event,” said Branle, who noted that the sculpture will remain after the party. The party will also feature Lancaster-based fusion band the Inca Campers. “Every demographic will have fun with that (music),” noted Branle, who added that the ticket price will include a drink and
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