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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2021 • VOLUME LV, NO. 45 • READ THE DIGITAL EDITION ON THE WEB:
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Ephrata Boys’ & Girls’ Swim Teams Win Section Championships
Week 4 Winners Announced! ON PAGE B1
In This Week’s Issue: Section A
Do You Know...? Page 4A
Student Spotlight Hinkletown Mennonite School Andy Coronado Ephrata Mennonite School Cole Martin Biblical Message ............. 14A Births.................................... 15A Crossword Puzzle......... 12A “Happy Birthday”.......... 15A Obituaries ............................3A Professor Beam’s “Deitsch Eck”................... 10A Things To Do ................... 12A
Under the direction of Coach Mickey Molchany, both the Ephrata High School girls’ and boys’ swim teams won their Section Titles at a Saturday,
January 30 trimeet against Elizabethtown and Conestoga Valley. This is a first for Ephrata to have the boys and girls win the section in the same year.
The boys are backtoback Section champions, and the girls have won the Section four times in the past five years.
Shopping News Photo by Donald Reese Both teams continued Friday and Saturday, their success at the February 5 and 6. The LancasterLebanon League Ephrata boys’ team placed (Continued On Page 2A) Swim Championships on
Industrious Locals Take Snowmen To Incredible New Heights
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FOR OUR WEEKLY FEATURE:
HOMETOWN HEROES This week featuring:
BOWMANSVILLE FIRE COMPANY The recent heavy snowstorm that dropped almost a foot of wet snow on our area provided a golden opportunity to create snowmen of various sizes
and styles. We start off with the Stauffers of Akron who built the colossal snowman (shown in the right photo) complete with a snow top hat that entailed climbing
the creation to place it. It features potatoes for eyes and the traditional carrot nose, but no mouth or arms, so it could not wave or smile at those driving
Shopping News Photo by Donald Reese by. The snowman utilized reach the epic proportions nothing but good old that reach the rooftop. Just fashioned human hands to when we thought we had build it and countless small found the biggest snowman snowballs were added to (Continued On Page 6A)
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