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wedNesdAY, APrIl 10, 2019 • VoluMe lIII, No. 52 • reAd THe dIGITAl edITIoN oN THe weB:
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The Addams Family Musical Set To Take Stage At Ephrata High School
2019 Spring Car & Truck Guide
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Do You Know...? Page 4A
“Where In The World” April Winner Page 10A Easter Dining & Gifts Page 13A Biblical Message ............. 18A Births.................................... 19A Crossword Puzzle......... 14A “Happy Birthday”.......... 19A Obituaries ............................3A Professor Beam’s “Deitsch Eck”................... 16A Things To Do ................... 13A
The Addams Family Musical - School Edition is a musical comedy based on the Charles Addams cartoons now adapted to the stage. It tells of a young girl, Wednesday Addams, who has fallen for a “normal guy” from Ohio.
He is the most un-Addamssounding person one could be. To make matters worse, she has invited his family to their home for dinner. In one fateful, hilarious night, secrets are disclosed, relationships are tested and the Addams family must
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face the one horrible thing they’ve managed to avoid for generations: change. The Ephrata High School theater will hold this musical on Thursday, April 11 at 7:00 p.m., Friday, April 12 at 7:00 p.m. and Saturday, April 13 at 7:00
Shopping News Photo by Donald Reese p.m. The box office opens at 5:30 p.m. on show nights. Cash or check payment only. There is a cost. All seats are reserved. Shown in the photo (clockwise from bottom
left) are Carly Ludwig (Wednesday), Brett Devlin (Uncle Fester), Cody Emrey (Gomez), Maya Burdick (Mortica), Emma Grande (Grandma) and Riley Martin (Pugsley).
Sue Fisher Finds Her “Cloister Connections”
Student Spotlight Cocalico High School Zoe Smith Lititz Christian School Margaret Coughlin
April 14, 2019
Terre Hill Plans Special Flashlight Egg Hunt
The Terre Hill Days Committee wants to announce a brand new event to share. They will be holding a special Flashlight Egg Hunt at the Terre Hill Park for ages 11 and older at 8:00 p.m. on Good Friday, April 19.
Shopping News Photo by Donald Reese Shown in the photo, from left to right, are John Styer, Noah Keckler and Daniel Styer as they prepare for egg hunt fun. This event is a fundraiser for the Terre Hill Park new building project.
Currently there is a big hole in the ground behind the basketball courts where the new building will be built and they’re on a mission to raise enough money to start construction this (Continued On Page 2A)
In a recent “Chronicon,” which is the newsletter of the Ephrata Cloister Associates, Sue Fisher shared her family connection to Cathrina and Benjamin Gorgas. The Gorgases were Householders who are buried in God’s Acre (Cloister cemetery). “I have always bragged, with a facetious sort of pride, that I am the result of nine generations of pure Lancaster County breeding. Most of the branches of my family tree - Hacker, Martin, Brubaker, Cox, Witwer, Dohner - put down roots in Lancaster County in the early 1700s and settled
Shopping News Photo by Donald Reese within a close radius. I’m sure my ancestors’ paths crossed frequently, and I bet my family tree looks more like a convoluted web than an array of distinct branches. As a guide at this site, I am sometimes asked if I’m connected to the Cloister. Well, I would tell questioning visitors, my father was born in a house across the street, and my aunt went to school at the Academy. In the mid-1800s, my great-great-uncle from Lincoln sold lumber and lime to the church members for a building project…but that was about it. Flimsy,
yes, but sometimes enough to evoke an oooh or an awww from the visitors who thought that any connection to this site was pretty cool. Well, just this summer I found a better answer. I indeed have a deeper, genetic connection to the Ephrata Cloister. A blood connection. Through Family Search, I discovered that my 5X great-grandfather is Benjamin Gorgas, a Householder who is buried in God’s Acre with his wife Cathrina. Had I not been (Continued On Page 2A)