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APRIL 7, 2021
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXII • NO 8
Bringing Shakespeare To Life hakespeare may have written his plays 400 years ago, but his work is more relevant than ever, said Laura Howell. “You cannot go a day without hearing something relating to Shakespeare,” noted Howell, the executive artistic director of The People’s Shakespeare Project. Believing in the relevance of the writer, Howell created ShakesPeers,
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a high school Shakespeare festival, last year. This year’s event was held virtually on March 22 and featured 16 students from Elizabethtown Area High School, Linden Hall, J.P. McCaskey High School, and The Stone Independent School. Student participants enjoyed a comedy workshop while teachers met with Howell to discuss and share teaching techniques for Shakespeare. The festival also featured an intensive monologue workshop as well as an opportunity for students to perform for professional acting coaches. The event concluded with participants performing monologues and scenes from Shakespeare comedies. Howell said the festival had been something she wanted to do for years, ever since she served as a teacher and theater director at Lancaster Country Day School in the early 2000s. She realized her students responded positively to Shakespeare when they had the chance to read his works out loud. See Shakespeare pg 7
Students participate in a stage combat lesson during last year’s ShakesPeers festival.
LCHS Dives Blessings Of Hope Slates iCare Event Into “The Little Mermaid” BY ANN MEAD ASH
When Tracy Wagner, director of the Lancaster Catholic High School (LCHS) musical, looked into securing the rights for a spring show that the school would be able to stream, she did not know that her choice of Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” would be met with intense student enthusiasm. See LCHS pg 5
Volunteers collect and pack food items at Blessings of Hope, a wholesale food bank in Leola.
In February, when parts of Texas were hit by a fluke snowstorm, Aaron Fisher and David Lapp, CEOs of Blessings of Hope (BOH), a wholesale food bank located on Becker Road in Leola, decided to send Fisher to the greater Dallas-Fort Worth area with a tractor-trailer load of food and water through their Hands of Hope program. Although Fisher thought he would only be gone a
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few days, over the next two weeks, 12 tractortrailer loads of food boxes containing fruit, vegetables, milk, yogurt, and other food items, along with skids of water, traveled from Leola to Texas. Fisher remained in the Lone Star State to oversee distribution. “Food and water was what they needed,” recalled Fisher, who added that trailers went to Houston and Austin as well. “They had no electric or water, so water was in high demand.”
INSIDE THIS ISSUE Second Blue Skies Fundraiser Scheduled . . . .2
One Book One School Builds Community . . . . . .6
LHF To Open Site For The Season . . . . . . . . . . .7
House Of Worship . . . . . . .8
Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . .8
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