Conestoga Valley townlively.com
AUGUST 30, 2023
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LIX • NO 36
Fundraising tradition to continue Fairmount to hold 34th auction and chicken barbecue BY ANN MEAD ASH
n 2020, Fairmount held its annual fundraising auction online to protect its residents and the general public from COVID-19. In 2021, the event moved from Fairmount to New Covenant Mennonite Church, 529 E. Farmersville Road, New Holland, where it will be held again this year on Saturday, Sept. 9. “New Covenant is a good fit in many ways,” said Carol Swailes, Fairmount public relations coordinator. New Covenant offers enough space for the variety of activities associated with the event, including food, auctions, children’s activities, and more. This year’s fundraiser, which benefits the Sharing Fund to aid Fairmount residents who have exhausted their finances, will kick off with a 6:30 a.m. breakfast including homemade doughnuts, stuffed French toast, eggs, and bacon. A flea market will open at 6:30 a.m. as well, and auction registration will
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Helicopter rides and chicken barbecue will all be part of Fairmount’s annual Sharing Fund fundraiser.
begin at 8 a.m. The silent auction, which will include Dining for Dollars meals donated by Fairmount staff and other donors, will open at 9 a.m.
Other items to be auctioned during the day will include theme baskets at 9:30 a.m., about 30 quilts at 10 a.m., and specialty items at 11:40 a.m. and
noon. Lawn furniture and plants will be sold at 12:30 p.m., and a special auction for children to participate in will be held at 1:45 p.m.
As in the past, a Burkholder tractor will go over the block, as well as a miniature quilt consisting of 468 pieces, made in Ireland by See Fairmount pg 7
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“For the Girl” scheduled in New Holland BY ANN MEAD ASH
Ashton Brooke Gill will be featured at the For the Girl Conference at the New Holland Church of the Nazarene.
Last spring, Megan Feveryear helped bring the “Clothed in Dignity” conference for women to the New Holland Church of the Nazarene. Now, Feveryear and a couple of well-known female musicians are planning a second conference, dubbed “For the Girl,” at the church, and Feveryear is brimming with excitement about the event. “We will try to wake up all these women super early and kick-start it with a time of worship with Cami Shrock,” said Feveryear, who noted that Shrock
is originally from New Holland, but later moved to Indianapolis and is now a CCM recording artist. For the Girl, which is open to women of all ages, will be held at the New Holland Church of the Nazarene, 428 Ranck Road, New Holland, on Saturday, Oct. 14, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Doors will open at 9:30 a.m. There is a cost to attend the conference for all registered participants, with an added fee for an optional lunch. According to Feveryear, worship with Shrock will be followed by Feveryear’s own presentation to the
College president to retire Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences (PA College) has announced that president Mary Grace Simcox will retire as of Dec. 31. Simcox is the first and only president of the college, and she was responsible for evolving the school from a degree-granting institute to an accredited college. She joined what is now PA College in 1997 as the dean of nursing for Lancaster Institute for Health Education (LIHE). Seven months later, she stepped into an interim role overseeing all of LIHE’s programs, and the position became permanent in 1998. Working with a small group of staff members and faculty, Simcox
led the evolution of LIHE to become the Lancaster General College of Nursing and Health Sciences in 2001. In the years that followed, Simcox oversaw the addition of bachelor’s and graduate degree programs, building expansions, and a name change. She also led the college’s transition to its current campus in Lancaster, and with it, a change in philosophy that puts the learner at the center of the educational experience. Part of that transformation included adding The Center for Excellence in Practice, which is the college’s simulation center. The center includes more than 20,000 square feet of immersive, interdisciplinary, and hyper-realistic
See For the Girl pg 2
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