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The Lancaster County Veterans Breakfast Club will meet on Saturday, July 21. The group meets on the third Saturday of each month at 8 a.m. at the Bird-in-Hand Family Restaurant, 2760 Old Philadelphia Pike, Bird-in-Hand. The club is open to all veterans and their spouses. Since the club’s formation, inspired by the Gettysburg veterans club, the Lancaster club has more than doubled in size and has outgrown three other venues. New members are welcome. For more information, call Bill Terry at 717-435-6095. SKY HIGHLIGHTS
will meet on Wednesday, July 11, at 6:30 p.m. at Lititz Public Library, 651 Kissel Hill Road, Lititz. The program is free and open to the public. The group will discuss the star that vanished and view Rob Webb’s video of the sky highlights during June. Tom Lugar will present a review of visible deep-sky objects. The meeting will finish with information about the opposition of Mars, which will occur when the Earth makes its closest approach to Mars. People may view Mars through a telescope at that time. The club also holds monthly observing sessions. For more information about AELC, visit www.aelc.us.
By Ann Mead Ash
Simon Ababou, fitness director with the Lititz recCenter, is happy to see participation in the organization’s annual adult triathlon growing. “Last year, we had 172 (participants), and we had 10 teams,” said Ababou, who recalled that in 2017 triathlon organizers focused on encouraging more teams to sign up. This year’s triathlon, for people age 16 and older, will be held on Sunday, Aug. 5, with the race beginning at 8 a.m. at the rec center, 301 W. Maple St., Lititz. According to Ababou, participants will be staged by age group. “Teams can be two or three,” explained Ababou. “We can have one swimmer and (the other) can bike and run or teams can have three (participants).”
Ababou noted that families, co-workers, groups of church members, or workout buddies can all make up teams. For 2018, Ababou would like to see even more teams take part in the event. As in the past, participants will swim 300 meters in the outdoor pool, bike 15.8 miles through the farmland surrounding Lititz, and run 3.1 miles in Lititz. This year’s courses will be the same as before, with the bike portion taking competitors toward Manheim, including the hill on Lexington Road, and then looping back around to the Lititz recCenter. The running course will include Spruce Street and the shaded streets near Moravian Manor and will finish at the Lititz recCenter. Food and beverages will be available for competitors at the conclusion of the triathlon. See 2018 Triathlon pg 7
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Participants in the 2018 Lititz recCenter triathlon will have the opportunity to swim, bike, and run as individuals or as part of a team. This year’s event will be held on Aug. 5 beginning at 8 a.m. at the rec center.
A Support System For Families By Ann Mead Ash
GUEST SPEAKER
The Lancaster Civil War Round Table will host speaker Brian Blake on Thursday, July 12, at 6:30 p.m. at the Lititz Public Library, 651 Kissel Hill Road. Blake, a speaker at museums and roundtables throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, will present “George Pickett, Patriot or Criminal.” Blake has been a volunteer at the Gettysburg National Military Park for more than 15 years and is a member of the York Civil War Roundtable. The program is free and open to the public. For more information, readers may call Micky at 717-940-7411.
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Children who visited Family Farm Days on June 12, 13, and 14 at Oregon Dairy got the chance to enjoy rides and games while learning about Pennsylvania agriculture and meeting local dairy royalty. By Ann Mead Ash
Michelle Walton, Lancaster County 4-H volunteer, has given her time to as many as four Family Farm Days events, but she was amazed at the number of
people who attended on the first day of the three-day event this year. “The line to get on the shuttle is back to the chicken barbecue,” said an astonished Walton that day. In the past, an estimated 10,000 to See Farm Days pg 4
There is a saying that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Maryanne O’Neill and Emmie Romberger, who are both staff members with Safe Families for Children, a program of Bethany Christian Services (BCS), believe this expression to be true. Safe Families is a ministry that helps parents experiencing a crisis by providing a Christian host family to care for their children until they can be reunited. “We are the preventative service, which saves funds,” explained Romberger, who added that the central Pennsylvania chapter has a 97 percent return-to-family rate. According to O’Neill, the program is much less costly than utilizing the foster care system. To help raise funds to support the work of Safe Families, BCS will hold a golf tournament on Wednesday, Sept. 26, at Foxchase Golf Club, 300 Stevens Road, See Safe Families pg 2
Baby “Clark” was born while his mother was incarcerated. Bethany Christian Services’ Safe Families for Children program was able to provide Clark with a host home until his mother was released to care for him. The program is one of many that will be supported by the organization’s annual golf tournament on Sept. 26.
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