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DECEMBER 7, 2022
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LVIII • NO 50
Indoor Dining Community Members Invited Inside To Free Meal
ion Lutheran Church, 18 Quarry Road, Leola, has been holding a community meal on the third Friday of each month beginning at 5:55 p.m. for more than 20 years. With the onset of COVID-19, church members switched to a takeout format but did not miss distributing meals. Now, the church is once again offering indoor dining, with the next meal to be served on Friday, Dec. 16. “The doors open at 5:30 p.m.,” said organizer Patty Williams, who noted that attendees gather in the church vestibule before moving to the dining room to get coffee or tea and be seated. “At 5:55 p.m. there’s a prayer,” explained Williams, who added that the menu is then announced and people get in line to receive their food cafeteria style. Meals include a main dish, such as macaroni and cheese, meatballs, chicken strips, potpie, beef barbecue, or Amish wedding casserole,
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which mixes meats and sides associated with Thanksgiving. Side dishes are usually green beans, applesauce or fruit, and a dessert is included. In addition, the group sometimes receives bread from Panera, which is handed out with bottles of water. Zion Lutheran partners with Salem Evangelical Reformed Church, Hellers, and volunteers from that church cook and distribute the meal every other month. Currently, about 150 meals are served monthly. “We deliver 80 meals (a month),” explained Williams. Rod Smith takes flyers to Nathan Village, a nearby apartment complex, to put in doors prior to each meal, and Tara and Don Fausnaught deliver 65 meals to Nathan Village Apartments and another 20 to Zook’s Motel. Pat Kohler creates a prayer card to go with the meals. In addition to the monthly meal, volunteers prepare and deliver 90 meals to Grace Lutheran Church in Lancaster four times per year, during months that have five Wednesdays.
A Fresh Take On The Christmas Story
Paradise Eatery Closes Doors BY ANN MEAD ASH
Interactive Nativity Scheduled BY ANN MEAD ASH
Behind the creativity in presenting the 2022 Journey to Bethlehem event at Woodcrest Retreat, is an enduring goal to keep the tale fresh, while acknowledging its unwavering truth. “It’s the Christmas story,” said Adam Fox, See Woodcrest pg 4
Zion Lutheran Church members prepare monthly community meals, which were distributed drive-through fashion for the last two years. Atttendees are now invited to eat in the church fellowship hall once again.
Appreciating The Memories
Tina Edgell (left) and Kim Nichols in the bar of the Revere Tavern, which recently closed after nearly 60 years in business
Tina Cosgrove Edgell cannot remember a time when her parents, James and Kathy Cosgrove, did not own the Revere Tavern in Paradise. The Cosgroves purchased the property at 3063 Lincoln Highway with a man named Buzz Myers when Tina was just a child nearly 60 years ago. “It was just this bar and one dining room,” recalled Tina. “When Buzz wanted out, my dad bought his part.” In the early 1970s, an employee
named Betty Hottenstein was looking forward to her son returning from serving in Vietnam, and she asked the Cosgroves if he could work in the restaurant. “Ray Hottenstein came to work for my parents and helped to develop the business,” said Tina, who noted that the expansion included adding the banquet room and, in the 1990s, the hotel and theater located behind the restaurant, along with the suites located next door. Ray eventually went on to own the Olde Greenfield Inn. See Revere Tavern pg 2
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• Corner of Rt. 30 & 340 (behind Tom’s Station) • Rt. 772 Next to Sheetz At Rt. 272 Brownstown
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See Zion Lutheran pg 6
INSIDE THIS ISSUE CVEF Grants Fund Projects . . . . . . . . . .3 Offering Support
House Of Worship . . . . . . .9 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . .10
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