Conestoga Valley townlively.com
MAY 22, 2024
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LX • NO 22
Everything lunch lady Bonnie Eberly serves comes with a side of love BY JEFF FALK
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here are nicknames and handles and pet names. Bonnie Eberly wears hers like a badge of honor. Eberly is a lunch lady. Personally, and professionally, she embodies everything that is positive and pure about the scholastic term of endearment. “I am proud to be a lunch lady,” said Eberly. “I’m proud of what I do because I know there is value
in what I do. In my mind, the lunch lady is the person in school you can count on, who is loving and compassionate. If you have a problem, you go to the lunch lady.” At Smoketown Elementar y School, Eberly’s official title is child nutrition manager. She’s been a lunch lady for 35 years, ever since her youngest child first went off to school. The first 13 years were dedicated to the Manheim Township School District, and the last 22 years she has spent in the Conestoga Valley School District.
BY JEFF FALK
What makes Occupational Development Center of Lancaster’s (ODC) Food Truck Fest so popular? A. Its festive, family-friendly atmosphere B. Its wide assortment of delicious dishes C. Manheim Township and its surrounding communities’ generous nature D. All of the above
If you guessed D, you’re correct. Another ODC Food Truck Fest, the sixth, is right around the corner. And there are no reasons to believe that this one will be any less successful than the first five. “I can’t think of anything CLOSED Memorial more fun than eating,” said Ken Day, May 27 CLOSED Mueller, ODC’s public relations CLOSED Memorial CLOSED Memorial Lunch lady Bonnie Eberly serves a meal at Smoketown Elementary School. Day, Day, and development manager. Memorial FURNITURE WATER CONDITIONING APPLIANCE HEATING & May COOLING 27 May 27 Day, MayFood 27 As the head lunch lady at across the board. We do every- is coming to anCLOSED end. When the “(The Truck Fest is)HEATING just FURNITURE WATER CONDITIONING APPLIANCE HEATING & COOLING Memorial FURNITURE WATER CONDITIONING APPLIANCE & COOLING Day, FURNITURE WATERa CONDITIONING APPLIANCE HEATING & COOLING Smoketown Elementary, Eberly thing - sweeping , mopping , school year concludes early in very exciting time. Once you SAVE UP May TO 27 oversees a kitchen staff of five. wiping noses,” said Eberly, a June,$she will retire after 35 SAVE getSAVE there, the UP TOvibe is so cool that UP TO Beau SAVEHEATING UP CONDITIONING APPLIANCE &$COOLING $ TO In addition to preparing and resident of Manheim Township. FURNITURE years ofWATER service. you’re going to want to hang BeauBe 1,500 1,500 $ on Floor Model POWER Beau POWER 1,500 on Floor Model ser ving breakfast and lunch “Whatever it takes to serve our “It’ ll be bittersweet,” said POW out. People are coming and on Floor Model Dining Groups! Groups! RECLINER on Floor Model DiningDining Groups! POWER RECL RECLINE almost every day, Eberly and her students, we do it. We really do Eberly of her retirement. “I’ve checking out foods maybe they SAVE UP TO Dining Groups! RECLINER $ IN-STOCK DINING GROUPS $ DINING IN-STOCK GROUPS $ staff order, receive, and store make a difference in IN-STOCK kids’ lives done for a long time. I DINING never had before. If you come, $ thisGROUPS In-Stock 99 IN-STOCK DINING GROUPS In-Stock In-Stock $ SPECIAL Beau In-Stock SPECIAL 999999 SPECIAL food and adhere to government every day. I’ve had children tell enjoy the women I work with. you’re going to bumpSPECIAL into any on Floor Model POWER nutrition guidelines. me stories of their home life. The I’m looking forward to slowing number of people you know. Dining Groups! RECLINER They also perform duties that lunch ladies are the keepers of down. It’s been challenging. It’s There’s stuff for the kids to do. IN-STOCK DINING GROUPS $ can’t be found in a job description. secrets.” been fulfilling. It’s rewarding We’re In-Stock bike friendly, we’re pet SPECIAL “Our duties are pretty much Eberly’s time as a lunch lady working with the students and friendly, we’re family friendly.
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