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Academic All Stars Excel On And Off The Field At Cocalico
Around Town Also see our complete calendar of events in The Bulletin Board, in this section!
Look in this week’s Things To Do section beginning on page 12A for more events, including: • Akron Fire Company All You Can Eat Breakfast • Garden Spot Fire Rescue Yard Sale & Soup Sale • Ephrata American Legion Bingo
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2 Garden Spot Village, 433 South Kinzer Avenue, New Holland, will host the Living With Loss Support Group, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. The program is free and open to the public. For more information, call Jenny Snyder at 7173556259.
Shown in the photo, from left to right, are (front) Clay Weaver, Josh Hoover, Danny Engle, Collin Hall and Chase Ochs; (back) Brianna Burkholder, Caroline Baum, Abigail Wenger, Ning
Bucolo, Jason Calkins, Summer Haldeman, Grant Mellinger and Taylor Hornberger. Not pictured are Max McCormack and Emma Sandherr. These students partici pated in a fall sport at Cocalico
Shopping News Photo by Donald Reese High School and received “All season or for their entire high Academic” status. It varies from school career, allowing only one sport to sport as to the criteria for athlete per sport per school and/or earning this honor, such as selected by the coaches in the LL (Continued On Page 2A) carrying a specific GPA for the
Ephrata VFW Reunites Family With Brother’s Remains
SATURDAY, JANUARY 5 Bluegrass Music will be held at the Reinholds Fire Company, 138 West Main Street, Reinholds, featuring “Remington Ryde.” Doors open at 5:00 p.m. Music starts at 6:00 p.m. There is a donation cost. For more information, call 610 5730797.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 6 The Baron Stiegel Lions Club of Clay and Elizabeth Townships will hold a “Buffet Breakfast and Sub Sale” from 7:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Brickerville Fire Hall, located on Hopeland Road at Route 322. There is a cost. For more information, call Stan at 7178757736 or Cindy at 7179406927.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9 Weaverland Anabaptist Faith Community Church will host a Community Meal at 5:30 p.m. in the fellowship hall. For more information, call the church at 7174456348.
On Wednesday, November 21, a gentleman came to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post in Ephrata and spoke to an employee. He told him that he lives nearby but had been working at a construction site in Delaware. At this construction
site, he found what looked like remains in an urn. He knew these remains did not belong there and read the plaque which included emblems from the United States Navy and the U.S.S. Saratoga. When he returned home to
Shopping News Photo by Donald Reese Ephrata, he decided to bring did some research and found the remains to the VFW. These Comrade Pruitt’s obituary. He had remains were of Gulf War passed away in 1996 and was from Veteran Ronald Lee Pruitt, who Delaware. Post Quartermaster died in 1996. VFW Post 3376 Amy MacKenzie contacted the (Continued On Page 2A) Commander Dwayne MacKenzie
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