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Biblical Message 14A

Births 15A

Crossword Puzzle 12A

“Happy Birthday” 15A

Obituaries 3A

Professor Beam’s

“Deitsch Eck” 10A

Things To Do 12A

Gehmans

Mennonite School

Chloe Martin

Garden Spot High School

Grace McCarty

The following students achieved Honor Roll for the second marking period at Ephrata High School.

Grade 9

Sohrab Ahmadi, Jocelyn

Baionno, Mackenzie Baker, Laila Barnhart, Lucas Bedoya, Breelyn Beyer, Sam­ antha Bickel, Hailey Bonn­ eau, Cole Boyer, Elliot Boyer, Katie Brass, Timothy Breckbill, Collin Brosnan, Austin Bryant, Jacob Buck­ walter, Sophie Burkey, Bruce Burkholder, Neil Burkholder, Leah Caldwell, Warren Carter, Jeremiah

Cassidy, Rylee Cicero, Shire Ciran, Haleigh Cline, Faith Conlin, Joslyn Copeland, Jordan Crabbe, Gabrielle

DeGothseir, Drew DiCicco, Katlyn Diirner, Madisyn

Doom, Nadia Drobot, Aidan Dull, Seth Eby, Shelby

Eitnier, Vittoria Faccio, Makenzie Finefrock, Andy Flores, Rebecca Foard, Elijah Foulks, Madelyn Gangaway, Ethan Garman, Keira Gibbons, Augusta

Good, Ellie Grande, Noah

Gray, Erik Guzman Moreno, Darien Harnish, Jayla

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Hinkletown Mennonite School (HMS) middle school students will present “Charlotte’s Web” on Friday, February 24 and Saturday, February 25 at the school campus. The whole family will enjoy this classic story of friendship and care based on the book from E.B. White. Charlotte the spider, Wilbur the pig, Fern the little girl, and the other farm animals show the growth and power of friendship, as they work together to save Wilbur. Performances include a dinner theater at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, February 24 (tickets required), followed by two performances on Saturday, February 25 at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. Tickets are available at www.hinkletownschool. org.

Shown in the photo, from left to right, are Riley Ament ­ grade 6, Fern; Lily Zimm­ erman ­ grade 7, Charlotte; and Eve Martin ­ grade 7, Wilbur.

Middle school students are growing in their friendships through the production as well. Riley Ament (grade 6) plays Fern and while she has been in productions at Servant Stage, Cavod Academy, and EPAC, she’s “especially excited for this [production] to be with friends and classmates.” Lily Zimm­ erman (grade 7) plays Charlotte and agrees that friendship is a key for this show, “Since Eve (playing Wilbur) is my real friend, it is fun being characters together.”

All HMS middle school students are involved in making this production possible. “We like to call our annual play a ‘big group project’ for our nearly 70 middle school students in grades 6 to 8,” shares Jeremy Horning, Middle School Coordinator and teacher. “Learning the theater production process is important, especially realizing that everyone has a God­given gift and can contribute. Every middle school student is involved, whether they are hanging up

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