Columbia/Hellam/Wrightsville MARCH 27, 2024
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXV • NO 4
Murder and mystery abound in “Little Shop of Horrors”
Connecting to the community: EPC at 70
BY CATHY MOLITORIS
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f you come to see “Little Shop of Horrors” at Eastern York High School, be prepared to laugh while also taking home an important lesson. “I think the message of this show is that you don’t need to change yourself for people to like you,” said Lillian Cichocki, a senior who plays Seymour in
BY CATHY MOLITORIS
Over the past seven decades, Engle Printing & Publishing Co., Inc. (EPC) has grown from one couple producing one paper to a company that employs 150 people, distributes 16 community newspapers and multiple specialty publications to close to 200,000 people, and provides printing services for numerous clients. Although the scope of the business has changed, one thing has remained constant: community. “We want to make that connection to our local merchants and to our community members,” said Charlie Engle, company president. As EPC marks 70 years in business this year, Charlie and his daughter Jocelyn Engle looked back on what started in 1954 in the basement of Alvin and Pauline Engle’s Mount Joy home. “My dad bought his own little press and put it in our basement,” Charlie said of Alvin. “He was working full time in the printing business, but he always wanted to do his own thing.” In 1959, EPC purchased its first community publication, the Merchandiser, and by 1960, Alvin had quit his day job to
the show. “Sometimes, what you were looking for was right in front of you the entire time, and if you waste too much time trying to fix the world around you, you become blind to what you could have had all along and miss your chance. Even if life is hard, the best thing you can do is keep being yourself no matter what.” The Eastern York Broadway Knights will present “Little Shop of Horrors” at 7 p.m. from Thursday, April 4, through Saturday, April 6, with an additional performance at 2:30 p.m. on April 6. Set in rundown place called Skid Row, the musical follows See “Little Shop of Horrors” pg 4 Inviting people to see “Little Shop of Horrors” are (from left) Caris Rolph, Lillian Cichocki and Corbett Hilt.
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