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wedNesdAY, MAY 11, 2022 • VoluMe lVII, No. 5 • reAd THe dIGITAl edITIoN oN THe weB:
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Hinkletown Mennonite School Students Participate In Servathon Trip
Section A
Do You Know...? Page 11A
Pieces From The Past Featuring The Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley Page 2A Spring Photography Contest Winners Page 9A Biblical Message ............. 14A Births.................................... 15A Crossword Puzzle......... 12A “Happy Birthday”.......... 15A Obituaries ............................3A Professor Beam’s “Deitsch Eck”......................8A Things To Do ................... 11A
Section B
“Where’s Oakley?” Contest Page 1B
The camera clicked just as an 8th grader burst out laughing, reacting to a classmate’s comment as they shoveled mulch around a tree planted at Greenview Bible Camp in Five pointville, as part of the Hinkletown Mennonite School (HMS) Servathon trip. Some of their class
mates weeded in another area, while the rest of their class stacked firewood on the other side of the camp. Shown in the photo, clockwise from top left, are: second grade students packed school kits at MCC’s Material Resource Center, Ephrata; third graders, including Eleena Chuprin
and Skyler Weaver, planted flowers and mulched flower beds with REAL Life Community Services, Den ver; eighth graders, in cluding Kai Umble, Andy Coronado and Jon Trego, helped with mulching and other outdoors summer preparations at Greenview Bible Camp, Fivepointville;
Shopping News Photo by Donald Reese and sixth grade students summer camps, while split and stacked firewood second graders packed and mulched flower beds at school kits at MCC’s Woodcrest Retreat, Ephrata. Material Resource Center. And at the REAL Life At the nearby Woodcrest Community Services in Retreat, sixth graders spent Denver, third graders the day splitting and brightened up the youth stacking firewood and center by planting flowers. mulching in preparation for (Continued On Page 4A)
Ephrata Fire Company Annual Awards Recognition Banquet
Student Spotlight Cocalico High School Student Lititz Christian School Student
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Featuring NEW puzzles each week through June 8th and a
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The Ephrata Fire Com pany held their annual awards banquet on Saturday, April 30. Awards were presented to the following volunteers by State Rep resentative David Zimm erman from the PA House of
Representatives: Paul Miley (50 years), Jim Kiefer (45 years), Mike Kiefer (25 years), Kyle Hackman (15 years), Dick Digiamberdini (15 years), William Rockey (10 years), Brendon Rennix (10 years), Nicholas Gon
zalez (10 years), Ralph Dissinger (10 years), Jeulina Nolt (5 years), Mike Merlinger (5 years), Susan Witmer (5 years) and Kayleigh Hildebrand (5 years).
Shopping News Photo by Donald Reese Shown in the photo, from left to right, are (front) Ralph Dissinger, Kayleigh Hildebrand, Jeulina Nolt, Susan Witmer, Dick Di giamberdini; (back) Bren
don Rennix, Paul Miley, Mike Kiefer, Jim Kiefer, Mike Merlinger and State Representative David Zimmerman.