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Demonstrators prepare an Italian delicacy at last year’s L’Italia Festival.
means to be Italian will take place The street festival is free to from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, attend, and everyone is welcome. Sept. 19, downtown on East Main “It’s vibrant, it’s festive, it’s fun,” Street, between Cedar Street and said Latura. “Italian culture is Cherry Lane. bubbly, gregarious, and you want
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Reverend Jennifer Matson turns a firearm into a weapon of peace.
In Lititz, peace is an event. “There is no true peace without justice,” said Jeanine Strom Boyer, outreach and relationship ministry coordinator for Lititz Church of the Brethren (LCOB) and an organizer of the upcoming PeaceFest. “When there is conflict or disagreement, we work together to be reconciled and find a resolution. In matters in which we are not of the same mind, we seek to live with forbearance toward one another. We believe that war only brings destruction
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and death. In times of war, as in all times, we work to serve the needs of people and to work for peace in nonviolent ways.” From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 19, the LCOB, which is located at 300 W. Orange St., Lititz, will host the inaugural PeaceFest: Forging Peace and Cultivating Justice. The event, which is a collaboration of a handful of local Church of the Brethren congregations - including ones in Lancaster, Elizabethtown, Mountville and York - will advocate for the concept
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25 Years of Remembrance Lancaster County’s annual 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb will be held on Sunday, Sept. 13, at Penn Medicine Park, 650 N. Prince St., Lancaster. Registration will begin at 8 a.m., followed by the stair climb at 9 a.m. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the fall of the World Trade Center towers. Once the memorial service begins, participants will begin a procession up the steps of the ballpark. They will circle it five times, making the distance of the climb equivalent to the 110 stories of the World Trade Center. “We’re just trying to carry on the motto that people developed back then to never forget,” said Scott Yuill, a member of the East Petersburg Fire Company. “The way we can keep the memories there is to have this once a year.” Participants will be required to pay a set cost to sign up. Online registration has closed, but participants can register on the morning of the event. Every year, many first responders travel to the ballpark to participate in the event, which had 335 climbers last year. Many firefighters elect to wear their full set of equipment for the climb to emulate the way their 343 fallen brothers did to rescue those trapped in the twin towers. “A lot of them do,” Yuill said. “Some of them don’t, but we also have EMS personnel and police that will climb, and we also have members of the public that will participate.” In the past, the event has drawn first responders from all over the county, as well as states like New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Maryland. Similar memorial events are
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or one day in the middle of September, everyone in Lititz is Italian. “For me, (Italian culture is) special because so much of what I experience is this love of family, community, being joyful together, and it’s usually around food,” said Justina Latura, one of the organizers of L’Italia Festival. “There’s always food. There’s so much food, and pride and love in the food. The culture is tied to eating, and all the food is made with love. “It’s very similar to the food culture we’re so proud of in Lancaster,” continued Latura. “I feel like it’s an easy comparison. Tradition is so important in Italian culture, and it’s important in Lancaster as well.” In a very short time, L’Italia Festival has taken its place alongside all of the great events that Lititz hosts. This year’s edition of the annual celebration of what it
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