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Ephrata High School Students Excel At Science Fair
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Makeover Pages 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 18A for more events, including: • Bowmansville Fire Company Chicken Pie or Oyster Pie Dinner • Schoeneck Fire Company All You Can Eat Seafood Night • Zion’s U.C.C. Church Beef Pot Pie Dinner • Gehmans Mennonite School Chicken BBQ, Bake Sale & Yard Sale
SATURDAY, APRIL 9 Clay Elementary School will hold their Annual Spelling Bee at 6:00 p.m. Food stand opens at 5:00 p.m. Admission is free. There are six different age/grade categories. This is a community event sponsored by the Clay Elementary PTO.
Shopping News Photo by Donald Reese The following Ephrata High School students received a Superior rating at the Ephrata High School Science Fair held on Saturday, February 6. Shown in the photo, from left to right, are (first row) Kiersten Miller, Anna Brubaker, Carly Snyder, Sarah Johnson, Samantha Borry; (second row) Molly Kamide, Callie Dydo, Faith Dalavai, Kennedy Root, Jordan Welsh, Chelsea Brubaker, Amber Dietrich; (third row) Jeremy Reiff, Dylan Fritz, Philip Wenger, Nic Wiest, Ellis Vogt, Grace Fertenbaugh, Micah Martin; and (fourth row) Pierce Martin, Dustin Fisher, Nicole Eberly, Abby Burkholder, Eliza Mull, Brianne Balmer, Sean O’Hanlon. Missing from the photo is Lauren Moyer and Annie Vogt.
Adamstown Library Programs
The following events are happ ening at the Adamstown Area Library, 3000 North Reading Road, Route 272, Adamstown. To register for any of the events, call the library at 7174844200. • Family Place Parent-Child
Workshops – The second series of five-week workshops continues every Thursday evening and Fri day morning through April 29. All workshops will be held at Peace United Church of Christ, 37 East Swartzville Road. (Route 897), Denver. Dates and times of each workshop are as follows: Thurs days, April 7, 14, 21 and 28 from 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m.; and Fri days, April 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. Family Place™ is a center for
early childhood information, par ent education, early literacy, socialization and family support. Each Family Place™ workshop session features art, blocks, books, puzzles, a storytime, puppets and more! Since an integral part of the project is the collaboration be tween community agencies and the library, there will be resource people from the community on hand to informally answer parent ing questions and concerns. It is recommended that parents and
children try to attend all five morning or evening sessions. Funding for the Adamstown Area Library’s Family Place™ is made possible by a Library Serv ices and Technology Act (LSTA) grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as admin istered by Pennsylvania Depart ment of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Wolf, Gover (Continued On Page 2A)
Quilters Work Diligently For Fairmount Homes Benefit Auction
WEDNESDAYS, APRIL 13 & 20 Martindale Fire Company will hold a Donation and Baked Goods Sale at 6:30 p.m. (inside & outside). Kitchen opens at 5:00 p.m. For more information, call 7174457100 or 717445 9905.
SATURDAY, APRIL 16 The Akron Fire Company, 1229 Main Street, Akron, will hold a Chicken BBQ, from 10:00 a.m. until sold out. Halves and dinners will be sold. There is a cost. For more information, call 7178591351.
SATURDAY, APRIL 16 Fivepointville Fire Company, 1087 Dry Tavern Road, Route 897, Denver, will hold an All You Can Eat Breakfast Buffet, from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. There is a cost.
Shopping News Photo by Donald Reese Over 200 quilters helped over three days at Fairmount Homes to completely quilt 12 tops and they made great progress on three more, which will be finished by Fairmount resident quilters in the near future. They had a lot of community people helping and all the quilts are being made for Fairmount’s Annual Benefit Auction, which will be held on Saturday, September 10. Lunch and snacks were prepared for the quilters by the wives of Fairmount’s Board members. Shown quilting, from left to right, are Edna Stoltzfus, Alverta Martin, Martha Engel, Gladys Martin, Anna Wenger and Martha Beyer.