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

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.

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.

Member News

Destination Gettysburg Welcomes New Staff Member

Destination Gettysburg recently welcomed Mary Grace Kauffman to their staff. Kauffman is the organization’s new social media and communications manager. She will be in charge of developing content for Destination Gettysburg’s numerous social media channels and assisting with efforts to connect with media. In addition to social media and communications work, Kauffman will also play an integral role in the organization’s blog writing, photography and story-telling.

Prior to joining the Destination Gettysburg staff, Kauffman was a reporter for multiple local newspapers including the Gettysburg Times, Carroll County Times and Frederick News-Post.

BSSF Announces New Additions to Team

Brown Schultz Sheridan & Fritz (BSSF) recently announced new additions to their team.

Matthew R. Harvey, CPA, MSPA has joined BSSF as a senior manager within the BSSF Insurance Practice. Harvey has over eight years of experience providing tax compliance and consulting services to both publicly and privately held corporations with a specialization in insurance taxation. He also has significant expertise in Accounting Standards Codification Topic 740, Statement of Statutory Accounting Principles No. 101 and multistate taxation compliance.

Harvey is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the Insurance Accounting & Systems Association (IASA) and the Insurance Tax Conference (ITC). He earned both his Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Accounting and Finance and his Master of Science degree in Management – Professional Accounting (MSPA) from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He will be working remotely from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He will travel to provide on-site tax compliance and advisory services to BSSF clients.

In addition to Harvey, Jessica A. Elder has also joined BSSF as a Small Business Accounting Services (SBAS) associate. Prior to joining BSSF, she worked at a local credit union. Elder is located in the BSSF office in Hanover.

New Gettysburg Museum to Display Rare Civil War Images

William A. Frassanito, a renowned historian who pioneered the study of Civil War photography, is preparing to share his rare private collection of Gettysburg images with the public for the first time. The special exhibition, entitled “Early Photography at Gettysburg – The Frassanito Collection,” will debut at the Adams County Historical Society’s new museum, Gettysburg Beyond the Battle, opening on April 15th.

Frassanito’s private collection includes rare images of Gettysburg taken both before and after the battle. The new exhibit will include stereographic images of dead soldiers on the battlefield, a series of rare views captured at Devil’s Den in November 1863, one of the first outdoor photographs taken in the town of Gettysburg and the only existing photographic print from the Gettysburg Address ceremonies. The exhibit will also feature some of Frassanito’s biggest discoveries –the moving of a dead “sniper” at Devil’s Den, the location where bodies were photographed en masse at the George Rose Farm and the elusive “Harvest of Death” photographic series.

Located less than one mile from the Gettysburg town square, ACHS’s new complex includes the highly anticipated museum (Gettysburg Beyond the Battle), a large event center, a research room and archives. For more information, visit www.achs-pa.org and follow the Adams County Historical Society at Gettysburg on Facebook and YouTube.