2009-10-22 00:07:00
JENNIFER TODD
They went from thinking pink to seeing green.Lots of it.Two weeks ago, members of the Conestoga Valley High School girls' volleyball team, who had been working to raise money for cancer, discovered that the $170 they collected so far was missing."They were very disap......
2009-10-13 06:04:00
JAMES BUESCHER
Conestoga Township will uphold a ban against rock climbing along its portion of the abandoned low-grade Enola rail line.Township supervisors told residents of the decision at their meeting last Tuesday after two unidentified visitors commented about the ban along the line, which is being c......
2009-09-09 06:06:00
JAMES BUESCHER
Conestoga Township has banned hunting along its portion of the Enola low-grade rail line, which is being converted into a 23-mile recreational rail trail."The game warden has told us that this isn't a good place to hunt. I think we should just take his recommendation," Superv......
2009-08-11 09:33:00
JANE HOLAHAN
The ninth annual Clare House Jazz Fest will have a different look this year, moving into the brand-new Lancaster Marriott at Penn Square.The fundraiser is Friday, from 6 to 10:30 p.m."We are going to be in the Commonwealth Ballroom, on the second floor of the Marriott," sa......
2009-08-05 09:13:00
CLAUDIA W. ESBENSHADE
Signature cocktails have become a way for business owners to attract consumers and "brand" a drink that might reflect the message of their business goals or the feel of the establishment.Fig of Lancaster, a local advertising publication, recently debuted its Fig cocktail at a lau......
2009-08-05 09:13:00
JOEL SCHREINER
On a sun-splashed afternoon in mid-June, more than 1,700 high school football players from all parts of the country participated in a one-day, non-contact camp at Lafayette College.But it wasn't a beefy offensive lineman, speedy running back or quarterback throwing darts to lanky recei......
2009-08-05 08:04:00
CIVIA KATZ
Manheim Central High School's Barons football team is just as formidable off the field as on.The Barons took on a challenge to raise funds with an impromptu car wash Saturday for the cash-strapped Panthers of Pine Ridge High School in Volusia County, Fla.Barons Coach Mike Willia......
2009-08-04 10:03:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
Greg Lefever still remembers when "the light bulb went on in a big way."It was when then-Bank of Lancaster County official Lefever was working on his company's fundraising for the yearly United Way campaign, and he asked people in his department a question.How many of ......
2009-07-30 09:21:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Lancaster filmmaker Mark Myers is bringing hurricane-devastated Haiti into American churches.Myers, owner of S.R. Film & Video in Salunga, spent a week in Haiti shooting a fundraising film for Brethren Relief Ministries. His film shows the efforts being made to help the people recover ......
2009-07-29 10:01:00
DIANA MARTIN
Tyler Chapman and his kindergarten classmates smiled for a photo Monday at T.J. Rockwell's restaurant in Elizabethtown."French fries!" the Bainbridge Elementary School children yelled at their camera-wielding parents before returning to fried food and a game of tag.Kin......
2009-07-27 00:06:00
DAN RORABAUGH
With the Schreiber Pediatric Rehab Center Rubber Duckie Race taking place there every year, the Conestoga River is used to 25,000 rubber duckies floating downstream on the last Sunday of July.But Santa Claus? That was new this year.Lancaster County Central Park was filled with early......
2009-07-24 10:01:00
LARRY ALEXANDER and DIANA MARTIN
One hopes to raise money to fight homelessness for single mothers with children, while the other hopes to be able to help rebuild an Alaskan town devastated by recent flooding and a crushing ice jam.Both will try to make those wishes come true when they take part in Dream Ride Lancaster on......
2009-07-21 10:01:00
STEPHANIE WEAVER
As Anne Hohenwarter helped her son prepare for his deployment to Iraq this month, she wanted to do everything possible to make sure he would be protected.While talking with other parents, Hohenwarter learned of a helmet-upgrade kit from Operation Helmet, a donation-based organization....
2009-07-14 00:01:00
SUSAN JURGELSKI
As a young child, Rachel King heard stories about orphans in Ukraine who were living in abandoned cars.She listened to her grandparents, who have been involved in the Eastern European country through the Christian mission agency, SEND International, tell woeful tales about children with no......
2009-07-09 19:52:00
STEPHANIE WEAVER
Correction — The contact information for Tina Hoffert listed in the story below, posted on LancasterOnline on Thursday, was incorrect. Hoffert can be reached about donations and team registration at 917-9447. Tournament organizers have decid......
2009-06-21 00:12:00
MANDY STOLTZFUS
Caleb Walker is a young man with dreams for his future. Meanwhile, he battles brain cancer. "I wouldn't wish away my cancer because of what it has taught me," said the 18-year-old Caleb who, despite his diagnosis, lives life with courage and a positive attitude. To he......
2009-06-18 00:17:00
STEPHANIE WEAVER
WXPN hopes its growing listener base in the county will feel the love today — the love of music and of giving.The noncommercial, member-supported radio service of University of Pennsylvania, which is the nationally recognized leader in Triple A — adult album alternative —......
2009-06-17 00:16:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
A group of Civil War re-enactors will take a march back in time to help preserve a local historical site.On June 27-28, James Meisenbach and Neil Hobbins, both of Columbia, and about a dozen of their friends will assume the personas of Company H of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Militia f......
2009-06-13 00:21:00
DIANA MARTIN
When Laurie Salimbeni attended her first Relay for Life four years ago, it held a special meaning for her.She had been diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer only a week earlier.At the time she was nervous, unsure about how her own encounter with cancer would turn out.But thi......
2009-06-11 10:25:00
DAN RORABAUGH
A lot has changed for Todd Hitz since receiving Hershey Medical Center's first bone marrow transplant 13 years ago. Treatments led to heart trouble and open heart surgery in 2004, forcing the Mount Joy resident and his wife, Krissy, to move into a single-story house because of the condition......
2009-06-09 05:00:00
SUSAN JURGELSKI
Cheryl Yerkes and her family have a sense of humor about breast cancer. They've named their team for the Relay for Life — an annual 24-hour walk/run American Cancer Society benefit to celebrate survivorship and raise money for research — "Team Boobie." And befo......
2009-06-08 10:25:00
KATY HOPKINS
Toting a red wagon half full of books, mother-daughter pair Alicia and Olivia DeSantis carefully combed the selection at the Friends of the Lancaster Public Library Used Book Sale this morning. "It's like a treasure hunt," Alicia DeSantis said. "We're a whole family of re......
2009-06-04 00:58:00
STEPHANIE WEAVER
It's time for the annual Country Gourmet Gala and Music Festival, but this year the fundraiser is packing more punch.Now in its fifth year, the festival, sponsored by Historical Society of Salisbury Township, will feature several new food vendors while offering entertainment for all ag......
2009-06-01 00:01:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Historic figures will once again come to life and walk among the living when Lancaster Cemetery presents its seventh annual Victorian Day on June 7.Ladies in hoop-skirt dresses, men in high hats and frock coats, Civil War soldiers in full battle uniforms — all will be present.......
2009-05-30 01:26:00
LORI VAN INGEN
Two hundred and fifty people took a tour of Mexico, Peru, Italy, France, Japan, Greece, Colombia and the Dominican Republic — and they didn't even have to get on an airplane.They were able to make their visit right here in Lancaster city, by sampling ethnic cuisine in the "T......
2009-05-27 11:00:00
KATY HOPKINS
"Sheer generosity" — and a lot of sheared hair — highlighted "Operation Baldy" on Tuesday at Manheim Township High School. Eleven teachers donated their heads to be shaved in "Baldy," a fundraising effort for fellow teacher Brian Earley's daughter, ......
2009-05-12 05:00:00
SUSAN JURGELSKI
As their 5-month-old daughter Colleen lay in a hospital crib, tethered to machines, Burt and Sue Goodrich faced the cruel prospect that she might not live beyond her first year. Even if she did, doctors doled out a dire prognosis: She most likely would never walk or talk, and she'd ......
2009-05-11 10:00:00
ROXANNE TODD
Eastern Lancaster County Library Director Donna Brice has a plan to promote motorcycle safety while raising money for 10 participating county libraries. She's coordinating the first Motorcycle Poker Run Fundraiser for motorcycles, motorized scooters and trikes on Saturday. Registration......
2009-05-10 00:09:00
JON RUTTER
Saving Mother Nature can be hard, tedious work. Scott and Gloria Smith are already hiking up their sleeves. He's the president and CEO of Fulton Financial Corp. She's a biologist and organic gardener. Both are nature lovers volunteering to help the Lancaster County Con......
2009-05-06 09:26:00
ROXANNE TODD
The tables will be full of books when the Friends of the Quarryville Library open the doors for their Spring Book Sale with a special preview event on Wednesday, May 13, from 6 to 8 p.m. Admission is $3 per family for those who like to be early birds. Admission to the sale itself is free....
2009-04-30 00:56:00
LORI VAN INGEN
What goes around comes around, according to Rabbi Walter Homolka, a professor at Abraham Geiger College in Potsdam, Germany.Homolka, who helped establish the first rabbinical school in Germany since the Holocaust, was the keynote speaker for Women of Reform Judaism's fundraising dinner......
2009-04-29 00:23:00
MADELYN PENNINO
Hempfield spirit wear will be available for purchase online by mid-June in a venture designed to bring additional revenue to the school district.The school district and Philadelphia-based University Promos, in an agreement reached with the help of Market Street Sports Group, are teaming up......
2009-03-28 01:12:00
JENNIFER TODD
Some admit they don't have much to spare, but they're willing to give all they've got for a good cause. Nearly 100 local police and firefighters will shave their heads today to raise money for children's cancer research. Annie Bailey's Irish Pub, 28 E. King St., will host the event, which ......
2009-03-23 10:20:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Reservoir Park, on the Lancaster City's east side, was once a swinging place — and it will be again. As many as a dozen glider swings graced the park from the 1920s through the 1960s. One of those has been acquired and will be restored and returned to the park. It may also serve as a ......
2009-03-19 00:15:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Paradise Leaman Place Fire Company has one more house to protect, but this one was built by the firefighters themselves, with help from the community.The fire company is constructing a two-story home at Black Horse Road and Farm View Drive, which it plans to sell as a fundraiser.&qu......
2009-03-18 00:57:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
The exquisite world of the Fabergé Egg is coming to Lancaster County.Russian-born jewelry designer Ilya Abelsky will display some 800 of his dazzling, miniature jeweled Fabergé-style eggs Thursday and Friday at Koser Jewelers in Mount Joy.In showing his unique, handcra......
2009-03-17 01:01:00
JENNIFER TODD
REVIEW: TheaterIt doesn't take long to warm up to Lily Tomlin.Whether she's portraying one of her well-known "Laugh-In" characters or recalling a dreaded "island" incident from first grade, her show makes you ......
2009-03-14 00:40:00
MELANIE HERR
A pair of black flats and a canvas bag full of sheet music sits on the front pew — both reminders that Beatrice Siegel is practicing for this week's service. The diminutive woman makes her way down the aisle, cane in hand, and takes her seat at the brand new organ at St. John's Center ...
2009-03-10 01:07:00
MICHAEL YODER
What was supposed to be a lively fundraiser for the Bart Township Fire Company turned tragic Saturday when one of its members collapsed and died of a heart attack.John G. Lawrence, 52, of Bart, died while working traffic detail during the fire company's 45th annual Mud Sale, which drew......
2009-03-04 01:18:00
PATRICK BURNS
The Lancaster Barnstormers are pitching a new Web-based path by which charities, youth groups, churches and other nonprofits can score funds.The Barnstormers' latest fundraising plan could yield up to $4.50 for each ticket sold in a charity's name for games at Clipper Magazine Stad......
2009-03-04 00:45:00
EARLE CORNELIUS
Lititz resident Ruth Roulston's love affair with tennis began 30 years ago when her husband, Gary, asked her to help him test tennis equipment for Spalding Sporting Goods. York's Hank Merges saw the sport as a way to reach kids.Both used tennis as a way to help their communities....
2009-02-26 11:03:00
CHAD UMBLE
Truckloads of Samoas, Tagalongs, Do-si-dos, Trefoils and Thin Mints are arriving in Lancaster County this week, capping more than a month of order-taking by local Girl Scouts. Have belt-tightening consumers here cut back on the waist-expanding treats? Not really. While some parts of t......
2009-02-24 00:46:00
LORI VAN INGEN
Manor Ridge Lions Club and West Lancaster Fire Company hope the economy isn't going to affect people's tastes for fasnachts.The two nonprofit organizations are holding their 23rd Fasnacht Drive-Thru sale today, a day known as Fasnacht Day in Lancaster County and Shrove Tuesday or M......
2009-02-19 00:32:00
MADELYN PENNINO
Over the last 15 years, John McDonald has come to consider volunteering a community responsibility.And it's that sense of responsibility that earned him the Lancaster Sertoma Club's Sertoman of the Year award.McDonald received the honor Feb. 6 at the club's weekly meetin......
2009-02-17 01:01:00
LORI VAN INGEN
To stay afloat in today's economy, many nonprofit organizations are feeling a need to get creative.In response, Rock Ford Foundation's board of trustees has decided to ditch its pricey annual fundraising gala in favor of two less-expensive events, according to Sam Slaymaker, execut......
2009-02-04 18:31:00
LINDA ESPENSHADE
It's a bra, it's an owl, and it's a fundraiser.This 36 C underwire bra, decorated by Shirley Jackson of Lancaster, is one of several artistic bras local women created to support a breast cancer charity.Jackson, who is a 10-year breast cancer survivor, calls it: Endangere......
2009-02-04 00:20:00
MADELYN PENNINO
Losing their children to cancer hasn't stopped Jamie Eager and Kim Mease from continuing to fight the disease — in fact, they are striking back.Nine-year-old Brandon Loose, son of Eager and Craig Loose, died in October from neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer that affects the sympa......
2009-01-26 17:50:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
The last thing Michael D. Mitchell said before dying in September was, "Don't let them forget me."On Sunday night, many of the actors who worked with him during his tenure as artistic director at the Fulton Theatre remembered him in the best way possible.A sold-out ben......
2009-01-20 00:44:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
When Fulton Theatre artistic director Michael Mitchell died last year, it was impossible for many of his protégés to return to Lancaster for his memorial service.Now a cabaret-style benefit performance in New York City will pay tribute not only to Mitchell's decade at the......
2009-01-14 02:37:00
EARLE CORNELIUS
For Penn State sophomore Stephanie Milliken, a summer rainstorm has become a January brainstorm.Milliken, a 2007 Manheim Township graduate and member of the school's tennis team, was working at Racquet Club West last summer when a storm forced Bent Creek Country Club to move a charity ......
2009-01-03 00:29:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Meet one man with passion for local event ••• Ted Burkhart started preparing for New Year's Day in September, but he was asleep on the couch at midnight when the ball dropped and the rose ascended.For Burkhart, the ......
2009-01-02 11:00:00
LIZ NAVRATIL
Not all of the 50 or so people gathered in the Back Page restaurant, in Leola Thursday night had met each other. But that didn't matter, because they had one thing in common: Penn State football. Members of the Penn State Alumni Association's Lancaster chapter gathered to watch the......
2009-01-02 07:00:00
SUSAN JURGELSKI
Hairstylists may be among the first to know. If a woman is being abused, she may confide in her stylist. It's not surprising. "Once a client is comfortable with you, and you've established trust, they tell you pretty much everything," says Marlin Morgan, director of ......
2009-01-02 00:24:00
CARLA DI FONZO
The crew at Papa Joe's Pizza in Quarryville knows how to ring in the new year.As an act of charity and goodwill, pizza shop employees worked the first day of 2009 for free on Thursday, collecting more than $1,600 in profits to be donated to the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank.&qu......
2009-01-02 00:03:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
They came by car, by truck and by horse and buggy. Some even came by foot-powered scooters, all descending on the Kinzer Fire Company with one goal in mind; to start 2009 with a little good luck.And, of course, some pork and sauerkraut.The 28th annual Kinzer Fire Company pork-and-sa......
2008-12-30 10:05:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
Elmer Stoltzfus has been a volunteer with Kinzer Fire Company for a good 30 years. And almost every one of those years, the rural eastern Lancaster County fire company has hosted a New Year's Day tradition. In Lititz, more than 100 volunteers at the Lititz Church of the Brethen a......
2008-12-19 00:58:00
KIM O’BRIEN
Andrew Nolt's Little League coaches gave him the nickname "Bull" for his willpower on the baseball diamond.The name stuck through high school — as did Nolt's determination, even as he faced a rare bone cancer that claimed his life this fall.Now, a scholarship......
2008-12-12 12:20:00
SUSAN JURGELSKI
Three holiday cheers to people with arthritis who have walked in water —with bells on — making spirits bright at the Arthritis Foundation. Earlier this week, participants in the foundation's aquatic program at Mennonite Home Communities donned wrist-band bells, Santa hats and......
2008-12-03 01:24:00
KEVIN FREEMAN, Assistant Sports
They are going to play a hockey game at Giant Center Saturday that all the participants wish they never had to play.Yes, that sounds weird. Police officers from Pennsylvania and neighboring states will join former members of the Hershey Bears to play a game that, in a perfect world, wouldn......
2008-11-30 16:01:00
LINDA ESPENSHADE
Not only will the Jingle Bell Run/Walk will raise money for a cure for arthritis, but the 5K also offers a cure for people who are out of shape.It cures excuses like: "I don't want to run;" "I'm too busy;" "I'm too tired;" "I'm too old;&qu......
2008-11-29 00:42:00
PATRICK BURNS
Holiday purists this time of year love to expound on how Black Friday is the ultimate distortion of the true meaning of Christmas.But the East Cocalico Lions Club has devised a "double-reverse exploitation" strategy that twists Black Friday commercialism back into line with the t......
2008-11-28 00:04:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Already the most poverty-ridden Indian reservation in the United States, Pine Ridge, in South Dakota, didn't need a paralyzing blizzard.But that's what residents got about two weeks ago, leaving many without adequate clothes, food supplies or electricity — assuming they were ......
2008-11-25 08:12:00
JOAN KERN
Artist Tammy Teets once had a pet tarantula, Zena. As a Lampeter-Strasburg High School student, she was allowed to do another project rather than dissect a frog. She even took home two frogs. At the Philadelphia Zoo, which she visits often, she likes to hang out with the orangutan, Tula....
2008-11-03 00:59:00
TOM KNAPP
He provided the bowls. She found a way to fill them.Empty Bowls, a first-time event in Lancaster but an ongoing tradition in other cities, is a creative way to raise money to fight hunger.Kevin Lehman, a potter with a workshop and studio at 560 S. Prince St., organized a First Frida......
2008-10-27 10:58:00
JANE HOLAHAN
Garrison Keillor brought the news from Lake Wobegon to a sold-out audience at the Fulton Opera House Sunday night, proving once again that nobody tells a story or captures the truths about human nature better than that Prairie Home Companion guy. Keillor did not bring his cast and musicians fro......
2008-10-20 00:03:00
JENNIFER TODD
Beautiful fall weather provided the backdrop for hundreds of walkers who took to city streets Sunday afternoon to fight hunger.The 36th annual Crop Walk kicked off at Clipper Magazine Stadium, where walkers returned after their treks for a Third World-style meal.The Rev. Alexander V......
2008-10-18 00:59:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Chances are you wouldn't reward yourself after a hard day's work with a flimsy plate of rice and beans.However, that's what millions of people around the world do every day, the Rev. Alexander Veronis said."There are people who work all day in fields, then walk for ......
2008-10-14 00:41:00
LORI VAN INGEN
Be on the lookout — Silver Foxes are on the loose. They can kick up their heels to do the can-can and swivel their hips to do a hula, all while raising money for the Alzheimer's Association.These Silver Foxes are the in-house dance troupe at Pleasant View Retirement Community in ......
2008-10-11 01:31:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
Libby Rannels could have had her 11th birthday party anywhere.And she could have cleaned up on gifts.But this year, her birthday's going to the dogs. The East Lampeter fifth-grader decided to hold her birthday party at Sunday's 19th annual Tailwagger's Trot to benefit th......
2008-10-05 00:20:00
SUZANNE CASSIDY
Forget the Dow Jones index. If you want to get a sense of how the looming recession may be affecting the lives of ordinary Americans living here in Lancaster County, you may wish to consider the Buckskin Cheesecake Index. Last year, Conestoga Valley School District's Junior Buckskin ch......
2008-09-29 00:51:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Local businessman Chet Beiler called on some political star power Sunday night, enlisting former Gov. Tom Ridge to help raise tens of thousands of dollars for the Manheim Republican's auditor general campaign.However, Ridge told the Intelligencer Journal in a one-on-one interview that ......
2008-09-29 00:45:00
MICHAEL YODER
Finding the resources necessary to help an autistic child can prove taxing — just ask Elaine Tirado.The East Petersburg resident and mother of an autistic child searched everywhere to get information to help her son, Ethan, cope with Asperger's syndrome, a high-functioning form o......
2008-09-29 00:32:00
TOM KNAPP
Shawn O'Connell had a look of fierce concentration on his face as the massive wheels of his forklift churned up great gouts of mud and water and he threaded a bucket handle with several tons of machinery.Pouring rain may have turned the 12th annual ABC Construction Rodeo into a swampy ......
2008-09-24 00:46:00
JENNIFER TODD
To some, it's simply a really cool pink fire truck.But to four firefighters from the Southwest and the thousands of people they've met during their cross-country trek, it's something much greater."It's a memorial, it's inspiring, it's a symbol of hope &h......
2008-09-19 11:18:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
The first clue that it wasn't a book was the size of the object Phil Schwartz had in his hands. The second was the guy's picture on the cover ... a cooler-than-Pennsylvania-in-winter photo of someone named Elvis. He sang and he acted, but Elvis Presley wasn't particularly known......
2008-09-12 00:02:00
TOM KNAPP
One end of the Elizabethtown fairgrounds will turn into a giant parking lot this Saturday for the Elizabethtown Lions Club seventh annual "Car Cruise" auto show.The other end of the grounds will be a time-warp to the 1940s and the American home front during World War II.&q......
2008-09-07 00:04:00
ANNE KOENIG
A "Canines for a Cure" walk to benefit the American Cancer Society will be held Saturday, Sept. 20, at the Rapho Township Community Park, South Strickler Road, Mount Joy. Sponsored by Captain Morgan's Cancer Crusaders — the top fundraising team for Lancaster Relay for Life f......
2008-09-06 01:02:00
LORI VAN INGEN
Kennedy Jet Kulish, a sixth-grader at Hambright Elementary School, is a seasoned professional volunteer.When she was just 6 years old, Kennedy began raising funds for needy children through "Kisses for Kaeden," the nonprofit organization she founded when it was discovered her bab......
2008-08-19 00:57:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
State police are investigating the theft of $350 and other items Sunday from a Bible camp fundraiser in Bowmansville.The cash, a laptop computer and 90 unopened pints of Turkey Hill iced tea were taken from a lodge at Greenview Bible Camp on Fivepointville Road in Brecknock Township, state......
2008-08-17 00:03:00
MEGAN HART
When 17-year-old Eric Umble approached him about conducting an orchestra concert for charity, Peter Brye took him seriously. Brye conducts the Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra and is the adult orchestra's alternate conductor. He had known the Umble family for several years. "He......
2008-08-01 02:09:00
STEPHANIE WEAVER
A hundred years ago, buying a house was as easy as ordering a toaster from a catalog.At least that was the case with John and Anna Wiegand's Campmeeting cottage in 1905.The Wiegands ordered a $125 mail-order kit from Sears. It arrived by train and a mule-powered flatbed wagon, a......
2008-07-29 21:29:00
CAROLE DECK
Sal and Kelli Davi believe business owners should support their community. And they aren't alone.The owners of Roma Pizza in New Holland are among 17 area restaurant owners who plan to participate in "Tasty Tuesdays," a new plan to raise money for the New Holland Recreation C......
2008-07-23 10:36:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
Eight-year-old Mary Katharine Roda is a lot smaller than the 10-foot-tall duck standing near her last week in downtown Lancaster. But a shyly-smiling Mary Katharine is as much of an example as the big duck for a Lancaster center known for ducks, and for helping children. Mary Katharine is ......
2008-07-19 01:14:00
JOHN WALK
With the sky darkening above them, hundreds of people gathered Friday night at Solanco Fairgrounds in Quarryville to share light permeating from the glow of candles in paper bags called luminaria. As Pastor Michael Wilson of Chestnut Presbyterian Church led everyone in prayer, the moment marked......
2008-07-19 01:13:00
KIM O’BRIEN
Although Tracy Ruth has never been diagnosed with lymphoma, the disease has touched her life. Last year, Ruth's older brother, Robert Bauman, was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of the immune system. "It really hit home. He is the only brother that I have," Ru......
2008-07-12 00:44:00
JEFF YOUNG
While the hardcore NFL fan is counting the days until his favorite team reports to training camp, it's safe to say the players regard that fast-approaching day just a little differently.Then there's a guy like Kris Wilson, who understands exactly where most of his NFL brethren are ......
2008-06-30 00:02:00
MICHAEL YODER
Joyce Jones knows the anguish of spending a Christmas without any presents to give to her children.Many years ago, the public affairs officer for the Lancaster County detachment of the Marine Corps League was a single mother with not much money to spare during the holidays. Jones broke dow......
2008-06-27 10:17:00
LIZ NAVRATIL
Caitlin Billiter fell in love with a new county canine that's capturing both criminals and hearts. For two months, the 10-year-old Nitrauer Elementary student has been raising money for Ruger, who serves as the Manheim Township Police Department's first canine officer. Caitlin and her frie......
2008-06-23 17:31:00
LEXI MILLER, 19
What do you get when you combine one foundation, six tennis pros and more than 300 supporters in 24 hours? This is no riddle; it's Lindsay's Hope Hit for Hope, a 24-hour tennis marathon being held at Bent Creek Country Club.The event kicks off at 6 p.m. Friday and runs through......
2008-06-22 00:04:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
Talan Evans is pretty much the typical 2-year-old boy — running, yelling, learning to form words and swinging toys around inside his family's Leola home, much to his mother's amused consternation. One would never think of him as a young boy who's endured multiple operations &m......
2008-06-18 10:20:00
JACK BRUBAKER
The United Way of Lancaster County's 2007 fund-raising campaign has had two unusual outcomes. • For the first time in 15 years, the United Way collected less money than the year before. • At the same time, the United Way increased its collections in the workplace from the yea......
2008-06-12 00:02:00
P.J. REILLY
Everybody's got buddies.Men. Women. Kids.We all have people around us to whom we are not related but with whom we share common interests.They're our buddies.Hunting buddies are a special brand of buddy, since hunting is not without its perils.You carry a......
2008-06-08 00:15:00
MARTY CRISP
Fourteen-year-old Jimmy Dreer ran three miles and walked another four during the 15th anniversary celebration of Lancaster Relay for Life Saturday. The remarkable thing about the Conestoga Valley freshman's mileage is that Dreer, one of this year's honorary event chairs, couldn't ha......
2008-06-07 01:47:00
STEPHANIE WEAVER
Olivia McCrery was a typical 10-year-old girl.The Hambright Elementary School fifth-grader loved singing and dancing, often pretending she was superstar Hannah Montana.She adored "High School Musical" and loved to participate in soccer and cheerleading."She was......
2008-06-07 01:40:00
KIM O’BRIEN
It was barely three weeks ago when Jacy Good, 21, was critically injured in a traffic wreck that killed her parents, Jay R. and Jean Good of Lititz.On May 18, the family was driving home from Jacy's graduation at Muhlenberg College when a truck struck their vehicle on Route 222 in Berk......
2008-06-05 01:54:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Special Olympics of Lancaster County is looking for a few good ideas. Fundraising ideas, that is.Part of an international organization that sponsors games for disabled people ages 6 through adult, the local program suffered a setback when it lost its largest fundraising event.Kickin......
2008-06-03 10:48:00
SUSAN JURGELSKI
It wasn't like him. Not Chazz, an employee you could count on like clockwork. He didn't call, and he didn't tell any of his co-workers where he was. For four days in April — for the first time in 20 years — 43-year-old server Charles "Chazz" Cattel......
2008-06-03 10:30:00
STEPHEN ZOOK
Chet Andes' family had to face a monumental challenge the last two years. So he decided to honor them by creating a new one to take on himself. In 2006 and 2007, Andes' grandfather, great-grandfather, and then his mother, were all diagnosed with different forms of cancer. He came up with the id......
2008-06-03 00:29:00
KIM O’BRIEN
Cyclist Chet Andes is taking his family's battle against cancer from Denver to Denver — that is, Denver, Colo., to Denver, Pa.In 2006, cancer was diagnosed in Andes' great-grandfather, grandfather and mother, Veronica Andes. To honor his family's fight against the disease......
2008-05-31 01:08:00
CHAD UMBLE
The script for this weekend's Children's Miracle Network telethon runs 105 pages and describes minute by minute the interviews, check presentations and taped segments that will air during the 13-hour broadcast on WGAL-TV. But Jennifer Groff, who coordinates the event that benefits Penn ......
2008-05-31 01:07:00
LAURA FREEMAN
The Schreiber Center is holding its inaugural Fun Drive and Car Show on Sunday. These new fundraisers are going on in concert with an old favorite —the center's 26th Annual Softball Weekend. The fun drive is a vehicular scavenger hunt that will begin at 1 p.m. at the Schreiber Center, 625......
2008-05-29 00:40:00
STEPHANIE WEAVER
When Melissa Leighty's husband died unexpectedly in March, she did not know how she would provide for her family.Frank Abbandando died of a heart attack, leaving behind Leighty and their children Anastasia, 10, and Dylan, 7.Friends and staff from her children's school, Hambr......
2008-05-27 00:28:00
JOHN WALK
The Lancaster Relay for Life will mark its 15th anniversary next month when hundreds of people will participate in the event geared toward fighting cancer.While the goal for the number of teams is 185, there are only 155 teams scheduled to participate, according to relay staff partner Brec......
2008-05-26 00:05:00
STEPHANIE WEAVER
Maverick, Iceman and Goose are returning to the big screen to honor the memory of 2003 Manheim Township graduate Shawn Keller.On May 27, Penn Cinema will host a benefit screening of "Top Gun" to raise funds for the Shawn D. Keller Scholarship Fund. The fundraiser will begin at 7 ......
2008-05-25 00:06:00
SUZANNE CASSIDY
The Chinese Bible Church of Lancaster may be a world away from China, but it has embraced the cause of people in China's Sichuan province who suffered through a devastating earthquake May 12. The earthquake's toll was wrenching, and enormous. According to estimates late last week, more than 60,......
2008-05-24 00:44:00
KIM O’BRIEN
When Garden Spot High School graduate Andrew "Bull" Nolt's ankle began to bother him during his senior basketball season, he played through the pain.But when that pain lingered into springtime baseball season, an exam and a bone biopsy revealed alarming news. Nolt had Ewing&#......
2008-05-18 00:04:00
STAFF
The Lancaster Sertoma Club held its 55th annual chicken barbecue Saturday in Long's Park. Volunteers cooked the chicken, packaged it into meal boxes and distributed it to customers driving through the park. The event is the club's largest fundraiser and holds the record for the world's l...
2008-05-15 11:00:00
LIZ NAVRATIL
For 55 years, people have been lining up to get their barbecued chicken with special Sertoma sauce, Herr's potato chips, and Turkey Hill iced tea. On Saturday, they'll have the opportunity to do it all over again. The Sertoma Club of Lancaster will hold its 55th annual chicken barbecue, wi......
2008-05-12 07:03:00
SUSAN JURGELSKI
Every beaded bling bracelet Lancaster 10-year-old Grace Bamford strings brims with potential. For children in need, her bracelets, which she calls "gracelets," are strings of good luck. In April, Grace's gracelets went on sale at Living Light Gallery, 150 N. Prince St., La......
2008-05-12 00:15:00
TOM KNAPP
Horns started blowing a little after 1 p.m. Sunday, blasting across the parking lot at Burle Business Park.By 1:20 or so, it was a cacophony that continued with such tireless joy, you knew there were children — or at least some very enthusiastic and kid-friendly truck drivers —......
2008-05-09 02:01:00
TOM KNAPP
Somewhere buried in the roar of truck engines and belching diesel is the sound of children's laughter.Just listen as more than 400 trucks drive by Sunday in a massive motorized parade of support for the 19th annual Mother's Day truck convoy, which raises funds for Make-a-Wish Found......
2008-05-06 02:11:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
Tibet may seem a million miles away, but this weekend, it'll be in the local spotlight.Before Mary Ellen Francescani became an intensive care unit nurse at Lancaster Regional Medical Center, when she was fresh out of college, she toured Tibet with her best friend. It was 1993, and she ......
2008-05-06 02:05:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
The third Saturday in May is approaching, and in Lancaster County that means just one thing: the 55th annual Sertoma Club of Lancaster chicken barbecue.The barbecue, hailed as the world's largest by "The Guinness Book of World Records," will be held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. May......
2008-05-06 01:07:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Police charged a Mount Joy woman Monday with stealing $472 in fundraiser money meant for an Elizabethtown elementary school.Jennifer M. Sheaffer, 36, allegedly sold hundreds of tickets for barbecue chicken dinners but failed to turn in all the proceeds, police said.Members of a pare......
2008-05-05 00:39:00
PATRICK BURNS
Sunday's car-show fundraiser for the Lancaster Museum of Art featured Ferraris, Porsches, a Bentley, a Rolls Royce and a Lamborghini.And those cars were in the parking lot outside the 11th annual "Artistry in Motion" event at Bridge Acres Stable, 1470 Hunsicker Road.On......
2008-04-30 14:33:00
MARY BETH SCHWEIGERT
With the ink on his college diploma still damp, Rich Heiden found himself watching the sun set into the Pacific Ocean. But an alarming thought soon clouded the sunset's beauty. Rich was 2,500 miles from home, with $1.86 in his pocket. He'd ridden his motorcycle across the c......
2008-04-29 10:58:00
SUSAN JURGELSKI
Mikeisha Gant would rather be lifting her voice in song, not struggling to lift her head from her pillow, oxygen tubes jutting from her nostrils. But the blood disease she has battled since birth doesn't give her a choice. Mikeisha, 23, has sickle cell anemia, a roller-coaster illne......
2008-04-28 17:50:00
TOM KNAPP
Motors revved. Exhaust fumes belched. Bass-heavy stereos blasted.On Sunday, Millersville University's attention was less on the library and more on the parking lot.The university hosted Show It Off 2008, the fifth annual car show organized by the University Activities Board and ......
2008-04-25 01:12:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Lancaster Public Library is gearing up for its huge spring book sale in the Overlook Activities Center in Overlook Park set for next week.More than 200,000 books will be for sale at the three-day fundraiser that is visited annually by more than 6,000 readers."We have some reall......
2008-04-24 11:20:00
BERNARD HARRIS
For a decade, the Lancaster YWCA has proclaimed that the winner of its annual Race Against Racism will be humanity. This Saturday, in recognition of the race's 10th running, humanity will be on display. In addition to sponsor-run tents and displays, the this year's event will inclu......
2008-04-22 14:57:00
SUSAN JURGELSKI
Wendy Hammer remembers a hot day in Chicago, when her sister-in-law, Theresa Hammer, decided it was time to lose the wig. Theresa, who battled breast cancer for two decades, had gone through a bout of chemo and was attending the wedding rehearsal party for her son. "She said, '......
2008-04-19 01:49:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Let the bidding begin.The Landis Valley Associates' annual Old-Fashioned Benefit Auction invites one and all to bid on a wide array of unique items donated by local families and businesses."We have some really nice things that run everywhere from reproduction furniture and ......
2008-04-18 01:28:00
MADELYN PENNINO
A group of Millersville University students are willing to get "buzzed" to raise money for a local child with a rare skin disease.Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity will hold an event Monday they call "Buzz-A-Chi" to benefit 9-year-old Ian Swarr of Washington Boro, who has epi......
2008-04-15 00:33:00
LORI VAN INGEN
Brett Buckwalter says he is grateful for Aaron's Acres.When his family moved back to Reinholds three years ago from New York, they looked for summer activities for their son Colin.Colin, 14, has cerebral palsy, and it was difficult to find a summer camp for him.Buckwalter......
2008-04-14 18:23:00
CARLA DI FONZO
You weren't seeing things on Sunday — Imperial Stormtroopers, the armored bad guys from the "Star Wars" movies, were out and about in the afternoon, walking the streets of Lancaster.But in this particular case, they happened to be the good guys, among the 1,000 particip......
2008-04-06 00:19:00
TOM ARNOLD
What better way to spend some quality family time than by taking in a basketball game. Not just any basketball game, but a game between the world-famous Harlem Wizards and a team fielded by the McCaskey Athletic Booster Club. "This is one of the ways we can give back to the community ......
2008-03-28 00:58:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Instructors at a Mountville gym will be teaching a self-defense class next week to benefit the Lancaster County Sheriff's Office.The three-hour class on "learning how to survive" will be held April 5 at Lancaster Family Martial Arts Center, 3706 Hempland Road, instructor Ken ......
2008-03-24 10:25:00
DIANE BITTING
The word "carnival" conjures up thoughts of rides, games and food, and a place for community residents to mix and mingle. The PTO at Elizabethtown's Mill Road Elementary School has taken the "car" in "carnival" and created an event featuring just that: cars ......
2008-03-18 10:53:00
MICHAEL C. UPTON
An average Saturday evening for a teenager probably includes video games, cell phone texting, singing and dancing. In that sense, Saturday night was a typical weekend evening for 194 students from Garden Spot, Cocalico and Ephrata high schools. However, add in the fact that those students ......
2008-03-05 01:13:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Quilt lovers looking forward to the Pennsylvania Relief Sale in Harrisburg in April can get a sneak peek this week of what's to come.Mennonite Central Committee will host the Quilt Preview Show this week at MCC's Material Resource Center, 517 W. Trout Run Road, Ephrata.The s......
2008-02-29 10:18:00
SUSAN JURGELSKI
Gourmet benefit
Make a bid to benefit the Water Street Medical/Dental Clinic. The Living Waters Dinner Auction will be held Sunday, March 30, at Symposium Mediterranean Restaurant, 125 S. Centerville Road, Lancaster. A silent auction will kick off at 4 p.m., and a sev......
2008-02-26 10:57:00
SUSAN JURGELSKI
Lindsay Weierbach was an active Lancaster fifth-grader, chasing soccer balls and preteen dreams. But when she was diagnosed with a frightening autoimmune disease affecting mostly adults, her youth was interrupted. Ironically, it all started with a cold-weather soccer match, when her hands ......
2008-02-13 11:50:00
JOAN KERN
The students at Locust Grove Mennonite School are on a cleaning streak. Kylee took out the trash. Kelly cleaned the litter box. Molly brushed the dog. Erika cleaned the attic. Ten-year-old Faith Dinger and her seven-year-old brother, Chad, washed windows for their mom. ......
2008-02-11 11:20:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
John Graybill had a small smile on his face Saturday afternoon as he walked through the shiny inside of the Bart Township Fire Hall, past an equally shiny red fire truck that had just arrived the night before. "That's a lot of breakfasts and sales right there," he said, pointing t......
2008-02-07 01:52:00
TOM KNAPP
Lancaster Literary Guild has booked 20 authors to make Lancaster Book Festival an event to remember.The event, which organizers hope will be the first in an annual series, will run from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 12 at the Lancaster campus of Harrisburg Area Community College, 1641 Old Phil......
2008-01-21 11:15:00
SUSAN JURGELSKI
It's blacker outside than a canine's nose — and a biting 15 degrees — but the phone rings, jarring Patti and Allen Means from their warm bed. Round-the-clock calls for help are all in a day's work for the Meanses, who know crime and crisis often occur on the night shift.......
2008-01-10 12:14:00
JENNA SPINELLE
Lancaster-based Hope International has helped fight worldwide poverty since 1997. On Friday night, you can meet the people who are working on the front lines of those battles in 14 different countries — including Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Hope Inter......
2008-01-02 01:48:00
P.J. REILLY
Bob Holmes of Bowmansville found himself in a unique position Tuesday.He was alone waiting for some pork and sauerkraut in the parking lot of Upper Leacock Fire Company.Normally, the fire company's lot is overflowing New Year's Day with hungry patrons looking for some good f......
2007-12-30 00:06:00
DENNIS LARISON
At first glance, it looks like a formula to increase sales by tapping into people's charitable impulses. Buy a jar of jam and a dollar goes to support an orphan in Africa. Sales should soar. Talk awhile with Keith Walker and Kurt Yordy — who early this month launched the Web......
2007-12-29 00:42:00
JENNIFER TODD
Members of Kinzer Fire Company got a head start Friday in preparing their annual New Year's Day meal.Jumping the gun a little, you might ask?Hardly. If you were expecting 2,000 guests, it's a good bet you would have to get ready a few days in advance.After all, we'......
2007-12-28 11:34:00
JENNA SPINELLE
Start off 2008 with a traditional helping of pork and sauerkraut at one of several dinners planned throughout the county. According to local lore, a helping of sauerkraut on New Year's Day assures a year of good luck. All dinners will be held Tuesday. Details are as follows:
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2007-12-25 00:03:00
MICHAEL YODER
The spirit of giving during the Christmas season could be seen Monday morning stretching along the sidewalk of North Price Street.A record number of recipients and volunteers turned out for the 21st annual Lancaster County Project for the Needy holiday dinner distribution. More than 1,000 ......
2007-12-22 02:13:00
MADELYN PENNINO
Some Conestoga Valley High School students were rewarded with a pizza party Friday a few hours before the start of their holiday break.They were members of three classes contributing the most money during a school contest that raised more than $10,000 for the Lancaster chapter of the Make-......
2007-12-07 02:53:00
MADELYN PENNINO
If you're looking for some fast-paced holiday entertainment this weekend, head to Millersville University for the second annual "Glorious Sounds of the Season" concert.The show will feature nearly 400 Millersville students, most of them music majors, and 12 music professors w......
2007-12-05 10:41:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
In the days leading up to Christmas, it has warmed the holidays for thousands of people in Lancaster County in recent years. But due to the illness of its founding pastor and another top church official, Lancaster's Mission of Hope Church has announced it has to cancel its "Coats for K......
2007-11-27 00:50:00
TOM KNAPP
Live music and holiday shopping are already a good match.Add extended shopping hours, a good cause and more than 20 music venue, and you've got Music Friday, a new event organizers hope will bring consumers downtown.Music For Everyone, a local not-for-profit group supporting mus......
2007-11-26 01:29:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Leaders of an association of charities are wondering if state Sen. Gibson E. Armstrong is deliberately holding up a bill they believe would help nonprofits raise money, but the senator says that's not the case.The bill, House Bill 169, would boost by thousands of dollars the maximum pa......
2007-11-22 00:01:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
Thirty-one years of "Trees Galore!" is a lot of trees.Originally, the Lancaster Museum of Art fundraiser consisted of artists sending in their own spins on the image of a Christmas tree. When that became a little redundant, artists began submitting their takes on trees throughout......
2007-11-21 01:17:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Mary DeLauro said she loves it when her students exceed her expectations — especially in the generosity department.The Lampeter-Strasburg High School teacher said she spent one class talking about the Great Depression, relating the topic to the children who live on an Indian reservat......
2007-11-18 00:06:00
MARYALICE BITTS
ThanksGivin' Back is a lively benefit bash that has put the fun into fundraising for the past five years. "It's been called the best party of the year," said Dave Costarella, frontman and founder of local funk/rock/swing band D.C. & Co., and the creative force behind the e......
2007-11-17 02:09:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
Local fraternal groups and charities are rallying for legislation that could help them raise more funds through small games of chance.At a press conference scheduled for Tuesday, representatives of such organizations will ask the public and state Sen. Gibson E. Armstrong to support legisla......
2007-11-10 01:36:00
MICHAEL YODER
Matthew Colip has seen the United States from a perspective few people ever experience.He has slept in the desert in Utah, spent a night in a teepee in Colorado and passed over the 11,312-foot Monarch Pass of the Continental Divide using only the power of his two legs, all in the name of c......
2007-11-08 00:01:00
CLAUDIA ESBENSHADE
The women of today don't take enough time for themselves, according to Ann Duvall and Sue Waterfield.Duvall and Waterfield are the inspiration behind the Woman 2 Woman event taking place Sunday at the YWCA.The event, filled with more than 30 wellness workshops, will allow women ......
2007-11-02 03:35:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
An $11,000 fine levied against a Strasburg midwife for delivering babies without a state license has been thrown out by a Pennsylvania appeals court — at least for now."I'm pleased the court granted the stay for the $11,000 fine," midwife Diane Goslin said Thursday. &qu......
2007-11-02 03:09:00
BRIAN WALLACE
A member of the "Little Rock Nine" will be in Lancaster this month to participate in a daylong symposium on race relations at McCaskey High School.Terrence Roberts was 15 when he and eight other black students defied segregationists and enrolled in the formerly all-white Little R......
2007-10-29 01:05:00
P.J. REILLY
Sharon Cree isn't really sure why Paige's owners purposely broke the young female beagle's left rear leg."Maybe she didn't hunt the way they wanted, and they gave her a good kick, who knows?" said the retired teacher from Dauphin.Paige's leg eventually ......
2007-10-29 01:00:00
MICHAEL YODER
The kitchen of Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church of Lancaster can take on the life of a comedy club in the run-up to the annual Greek Food Bazaar, complete with jokes and laughs.Nena Valavanes, chairwoman of the pastries committee, is considered the resident comedian, bantering with the d......
2007-10-27 00:39:00
JAMES BUESCHER
For most teens, high school can be a fun but pressure-filled experience. For many gay and lesbian teens, however, the experience may not be so much fun.As a way of helping gay young people to not feel so alone, Unitarian Universalist Church of Lancaster, in partnership with the Harrisburg-......
2007-10-26 01:12:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Getting people to scream has become a big business.The Haunted House Association estimates that Halloween attractions in the United States annually generate between $300 million and $500 million in ticket sales.Those who look forward to October for all its spooky amusements say they......
2007-10-26 00:02:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
If your dog narrowly escaped the humiliation of a canine costume contest so far this Halloween season, he should be afraid — very afraid.Another chance to win big bucks at your dog's expense comes this weekend — sponsored this time by the Furry Friends Network, a nonprofit ......
2007-10-21 00:09:00
HELEN COLWELL ADAMS
This Friday, Erik Ewing will watch the teenagers in his youth group at Chiques United Methodist Church drop their cell phones, iPods and video games into a big cardboard box. Then he'll duct-tape the box closed and hide it in the church — after adding his own gadgets to the pile. The......
2007-10-21 00:08:00
JON RUTTER
Caroline Steinman Nunan spotted leopards, elephants, zebras and other wildlife on a recent trip to Namibia. "That was all fabulous nature," she reflected. "A country of deserts and sand dunes. And animals." Mrs. Nunan has traveled far to see the world's untamed beau......
2007-10-19 02:42:00
JAMES BUESCHER
For Marietta Restoration Associates member Rich Kushner, celebrating Oktoberfest in Marietta is more than a way to honor Lancaster County's German heritage.It's a way for residents' party dollars to "wind up doing so much good for our community.""It's an evening of entertainment, gr......
2007-10-18 11:41:00
JANE HOLAHAN
The numbers are daunting. Each day, approximately 16,000 children around the world die from hunger-related causes. And 852 million people remain perpetually hungry throughout their lives. But another number offers some hope. In the last 35 years, Lancaster County has raised $3.9 ......
2007-10-18 03:16:00
JEFF HAWKES
Latin music blasted from the nightclub's speakers, and dance instructor Oscar Restrepo, swiveling smoothly, called out a cadence.Four middle-aged couples on the dance floor stepped and turned to the up-tempo beat.Rick Calderon had opened his Rumbha nightclub, next to Hotel Bruns......
2007-10-18 02:10:00
REBECCA J. RITZEL
During his four decades in politics, Sen. Arlen Specter has uttered many daring lines.He has chastised judicial witnesses, staunchly defended the single-bullet theory and, most recently, rebuked an attorney general.Clearly, Pennsylvania's senior senator can throw a verbal punch,......
2007-10-13 00:47:00
LORI VAN INGEN
No matter what poor choices we have made or what self-destructive behaviors we have demonstrated, God's purpose for our lives is still there and we can still follow that plan, according to the Rev. Phil Hernandez, who will be speaking at a Teen Challenge fundraising banquet on Thursday....
2007-10-12 01:55:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
One thing about Sunday's 18th Annual Tailwagger's Trot — it's all about the dogs.The big event that benefits Humane League of Lancaster County has the same fun events as previous years, but is concentrated in one location rather than two this time to boost the festivities......
2007-10-12 01:18:00
MICHAEL YODER
Earl and Dona Moyer have been a fixture at the Manheim Community Farm Show for decades, having toiled over hot vats of frying oil for almost 40 years.The Manheim couple have volunteered at the french fry stand since the late 1960s. They've run it since 1977, turning it into one of the ......
2007-10-10 11:00:00
ROXANNE TODD
The Friends of the Quarryville Library Fall Book Sale is one event where the early bird gets the worm. For a $3 fee, shoppers can browse and buy books at the library — at 357 Buck Road, Quarryville — from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 17. All other patrons can visit the boo......
2007-10-05 02:32:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
Good art, good deals and a good cause will merge at next Friday's 2nd Annual Art Auction for Compeer Lancaster.If you don't know the ins and outs of art auctions, here's the deal: Local artists donate their work to be auctioned and proceeds benefit a worthy cause. Fabulous deal......
2007-10-05 02:24:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Penn Cinema moviegoers might see some familiar faces on the big screen the weekend of Oct. 19.Familiar as in, "Hey, isn't that our neighbor?"Between star-studded film previews, the theater will air one- to three-minute trailers promoting Manheim Township schools and the foundation t......
2007-10-03 21:37:00
CAROLE DECK
The capital campaign to raise $10 million for the New Holland Recreation Center is still $1.9 million short of its goal.According to director of development Daryl Groff, the remaining funds will be raised through community fundraising efforts.And the first of those fundraisers will ......
2007-09-28 00:46:00
MADELYN PENNINO
Elizabethtown College senior Gina Gallagher has known many people who don't have enough to eat or a place to sleep.Gallagher, 21, who is studying occupational therapy, said she hopes to heighten awareness of homelessness and raise money through a school project that she also hopes will......
2007-09-20 01:05:00
LORI VAN INGEN
Looking for a good book to read over the winter? Looking for something to read to your children? Or just looking for a good deal?Then check out Lancaster Public Library's 53rd annual Harvest Used Book Sale, set for Monday through Wednesday at Overlook Activities Center.The book sale......
2007-09-16 00:11:00
MARIA COOLE
Before there was the Clinic for Special Children, before the post-and-beam building rose out of a Strasburg cornfield, before the high-tech laboratory, the dedicated staff and the annual auction, there was Susie Miller's kitchen table. While watching the quilts being sold Saturday at the cl......
2007-09-16 00:03:00
PATRICIA POIST
It's been one tough summer for Lindsee Simpson, of Mohnton. Since birth, the 16-year-old junior at Garden Spot High School has suffered from cystic fibrosis, a life-threatening, genetic disease that disrupts respiratory and digestive functions. In addition, this past July she had surge......
2007-09-08 12:15:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
Jim Way is hearing the comments all the time these days when he goes into his nearby Turkey Hill or is otherwise out and about in the Landisville/Salunga area. The work to restore a pair of World War II clocks in his area is now in the home stretch, and "it seems like people are always tel......
2007-09-04 00:41:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
Amazing things happen at Hospice of Lancaster County's annual Labor Day auction in Lampeter.On Monday, at the 23rd annual sale, a regular sheet cake sold for more than $1,500. A man bought an autographed baseball for an exorbitant amount of money, then gave it back to the auctioneer to......
2007-08-27 00:32:00
LORI VAN INGEN
Fundraising walks for the American Diabetes Association mean "a great deal" to Jerry Reuter.The walks give him hope that the money raised may, in the longrun, find a cure for diabetes, a disease Reuter of Elizabethtown is familiar with.In 2001, Reuter, then 64 years old, w......
2007-08-24 01:14:00
MICHAEL YODER
The Republican Committee of Lancaster County rallied its support behind Rick Santorum's re-election bid last year.This year, Santorum is returning the favor to the GOP candidates for county commissioner.The former Pennsylvania senator plans to attend a fundraising event for comm......
2007-08-23 01:00:00
MICHAEL YODER
Besides scholastic pursuits, the Franklin & Marshall student body is encouraged to help make Lancaster a better place to live.And when the freshman class makes its way to campus this weekend, at least one group will be working to combat homelessness in the county.F&M junior ......
2007-08-21 12:02:00
SUSAN JURGELSKI
Judy Byler has been robbed. Not of replaceable things. Twenty-five years ago, multiple sclerosis took her most precious possession: her health. "(MS) takes so much," 59-year-old Byler says. "It just steals your life." But through an annual fundraising event to......
2007-08-20 00:41:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Keith Huot of Towson, Md., scooped out a spoonful of ice cream while standing under a tree next to his 63-year-old father, Bob Huot of Red Lion.The brightness of their cycling jerseys contrasted sharply with the slate-colored skies and steady rain falling over Greenfield Industrial Park Su......
2007-08-19 00:12:00
JIM HERSH
If you're a sports fan, the Hospice of Lancaster County's Labor Day Auction will have something for you. There are helmets or footballs autographed by Penn State players and coaches, members of the Super Bowl-winning Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints' quarterback-running......
2007-08-13 00:22:00
KIM O'BRIEN
When Ashley Gibble, 24, wanted to raise awareness about amyotrophic lateral sclerosis — more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease — she turned to Lancaster's Clipper Magazine Stadium.The stadium hosted Sunday's Iron Horse benefit concert, held in honor of Ashley G......
2007-08-12 00:00:00
Staff Report
Tourists, Amish schoolteachers, Mennonite pastors and book dealers — but perhaps not Secret Service agents — will converge on Route 30 East for the 26th Bookworm Frolic Aug. 15-18. Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society hosts this big used-book sale annually on its grounds at the in......
2007-08-11 01:01:00
RACHEL FETROW
Ashley Gibble, 24, is the brains behind the Iron Horse Benefit Concert, a show staged to raise money for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig's Disease.The concert will feature six local, family friendly bands at Clipper Magazine Stadium. The music will begin at 3 p.m. Sunday, with ......
2007-08-09 00:44:00
BRIAN WALLACE
John Weber's recent trip taught him how bountiful and diverse America is — and how a person's legs can feel like wooden boards.His wife, Janet, says she learned how much she covets the comfort of a familiar bed and a home-cooked meal.The Webers, both 62, returned to th......
2007-07-30 17:56:00
KIM O'BRIEN
Hanover native Karen Bureau's opera career has led her from one stage to the next in Europe — but she never expected to end up back in another Hannover.Hannover, Germany, that is."I had an audition for 'La Forza del Destino' that happened to be at the Hannover......
2007-07-28 00:02:00
JAMES BUESCHER
Gary McMullen is on a mission to raise awareness of the social services his ministry offers in Lancaster County's southern end."Social services are very weak in the southern end, which is a real shame," McMullen, board chairman of New Hope Community Life Ministry, said. "......
2007-07-27 00:18:00
RACHEL FETROW
Lancaster County cyclists have raised more than $1 million for local charities through their participation in Dream Ride Lancaster.Dream Ride Projects, a Lancaster-based organization that promotes bicycling as a vehicle to achieve health and well-being, will hold its 12th annual Dream Ride......
2007-07-20 02:13:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
It won't be just any night.Fulton Theatre is planning a triple celebration Sept. 6 that promises an all-new venue for first-of-its-kind dining before a first-time-ever collaboration on the Fulton Opera House stage."West Side Story," Leonard Bernstein's classic musi......
2007-07-06 12:26:00
LAURA KNOWLES
In the market for a set of antique Wilbur chocolate molds? Or perhaps a 4-foot-tall carved bear or a handmade quilt? Surely you're hungry for some chicken barbecue? That's what organizers of the annual Coleman Memorial Chapel fundraiser are hoping. This year's chicken barbec......
2007-07-06 00:04:00
STAFF REPORT
On Sunday, Twin Brook Winery will wrap up a three-day Big Bang Barbecue Weekend with "Wheels in the Vineyard," featuring a classic car "Cruise-in," from noon until 5 p.m.Music — acoustic guitar, rock, blues and folk — will be provided from 2-5 p.m. by Twin B......
2007-07-01 00:08:00
HELEN COLWELL ADAMS
Pastor Russ Hobbs has bats in his belfry. And the colony of brown bats that has taken up residence in the steeple of Coleman Memorial Chapel makes "a heckuva mess," said Hobbs. It's not just the steeple. Coleman Chapel, on Furnace Hills Pike in Elizabeth Township, is 133 year......
2007-06-30 01:44:00
CARLA DI FONZO
When Ephrata resident Kevin Carvell was a boy growing up in the '80s, he was an avid fan of the "Transformers" cartoon and the Hasbro line of toys.Now Carvell is all grown up and runs Flashpoint Studios, an independent marketing and production company that has consulted on fi......
2007-06-29 02:49:00
RACHEL FETROW
Nineteen Lancaster County firefighters have died in the line of duty since 1870.On June 18, Charleston, S.C., lost nearly half that number, when nine firefighters were killed battling a warehouse fire.Neffsville Fire Company, 200 E. Oregon Road, will host a benefit breakfast from 8 ......
2007-06-27 12:25:00
MEAGAN INGERSON
On one side of the Lititz Community Center, there's a shining new fitness center featuring large windows and treadmills with built-in TVs. On the other side, there's hanging wiring awaiting light fixtures and the screech of drills. This is the final phase of the center's $1.9 m......
2007-06-22 12:22:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
Tucked away in Nottingham is 50 acres of splendor called Camp Oak Hill. "Most of the people in this area don't even know it exists," said MaryEllen Edwards of a camp that's been there for 60 years. She and her husband, Chris, are the new directors. This Saturday they are opening the s......
