Lights, Camera, Action: Snapshots of Your Chamber on the Move!

October - 3rd Annual Harvest Hunt

November 3rd - Membership Mixer at Unique Upscale Resale

November 20th - Decorating the Circle

Fiddlestix Mercantile’s entry for the Harvest Hunt pumpkin decorating contest secured their first place tie with Aero Energy in the business decorating division.

October 22nd - 15th Annual Harvest Day Festival & Parade

Unique Upscale Resale was the perfect place for some early Christmas shopping!

November 26th - Annual Tree Lighting

Volunteers, including incoming board member Jimmy Akinrosotu (Jimmy Akinrosotu Farmers Insurance Agency) and students from CVSD, decorate the New Oxford Circle for the holidays.

Event attendees enjoyed browsing vendor booths, eating delicious food and watching the parade.

Cub served hot cocoa and cookies to the community at this beloved event.

December 7th - Membership Mixer at Elite Therapy Solutions

Remembering Bryn Jarusewski

New Oxford suddenly lost a beloved member of its community on December 17, 2022 with the passing of Bryn Ann Jarusewski. Many will recognize Bryn from the New Oxford Library, where she has served as the branch manager since 2021. Bryn was a 2010 graduate of Big Springs High School. She earned her associate degree from Penn State University and recently graduated summa cum laude from Clarion University. She planned on starting her Master’s of Science in library science for local and archival studies in the honors program at Penn West Clarion. Before coming to New Oxford, she was the assistant director at the John Graham Public Library in Newville.

The Chamber is deeply saddened by Bryn’s passing. Bryn’s passion for the New Oxford Library and her belief in the importance of early learning was evident in Bryn’s dedication to her library patrons. She was also active in the Chamber, regularly attending events and even hosting the June 2022 mixer at the New Oxford Library. Bryn was a joy to be around, always welcoming, smiling and quick with jokes. She will be missed deeply by her friends at the Chamber and in the New Oxford community.

Our staff and board is grateful to have had the chance to get to know Bryn over the last year and a half. We extend our deepest sympathies to Bryn’s family, friends and coworkers during this difficult time.

The Adams County Library System’s Board of Trustees, library staff and friends of the New Oxford branch plan to create an endowment that will continue the work Bryn began at the library with the Early Reader Collection. Bryn pioneered the color-coded system that indicates the reading level of the book which has been very well received by parents. If you would like to contribute toward her endowment, please make a donation online at www.adamslibrary.org/support-library/ support-library or send your donation to the ACLS at 140 Baltimore St. Gettysburg, PA 17325. If you have any questions, please contact Erica Duffy at ericad@adamslibrary.org or (717) 334-0136.