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SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
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Celebrating Marietta with history, cars and dogs through the Musselman-Vesta Iron Furnace Center, which tells the arietta played a major role history of the timber, iron and in the pig iron industry, railroad industries in the area and that history will be through displays, artifacts and an spotlighted at the 18th annual HO-scale diorama of the iron furPig Iron Fest. This year’s festival, nace. Participants will also be able to be held on Saturday, Sept. 30, to visit the Donegal and Marietta will offer three events in one, No. 1 furnaces, weather permitcombining the Pig Iron Fest with ting. The shuttle will take visitors a car show and Dog Fest. The by the historical homes of Henry main location of the festivities Watts and Henry Musselman, both iron masters of the will be Community Bible Church, 331 “It’s going to be a mid-1800s, before returning to the Anderson Ferry Road, Marietta, from 9 a.m. fun day with so church grounds. many things to do.” The car show porto 3 p.m. tion of the event is “For the Pig Iron Fest, we wanted to get as many open to all makes and models of cars local restoration people involved as and motorcycles. Registration will we could,” said Gary Schatz, a mem- begin at 8 a.m. on the day of the ber of the Donegal Rotary Club, which event, and trophies will be awarded is organizing the event. “We have at approximately 2 p.m. Two food trucks - Spud Muffin and people who have a lot of experience with the history of this area.” Lenny Kurtz Concessions - will be on-site Droege will conduct walking tours of for the festival, Tim Rinard will the Marietta Iron Furnace Park. provide musical entertainment “We’ll be running a shuttle from the throughout the day and Steve Bailey church to the furnace area,” Schatz will set up a photo display. A Kids noted. Droege will lead visitors Zone will feature pumpkin painting,
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The Pig Iron Fest will feature hayrides and tours of the Musselman-Vesta Iron Furnace Center.
hayrides and other activities. “We’ll have Miss Jan from the Milanof-Schock Library there, and she’ll be doing story readings,” Schatz said. “The kids’ activities are
always very popular.” The Dog Fest portion of the festivities will highlight furry friends, with ribbons awarded to every registered dog. “Dog Fest is
a fundraiser for local rescues,” Schatz shared, explaining that the second annual event was rained out in May, so organizers decided to add it to the Pig Iron festivities. See Marietta pg 4
BY FRANCINE FULTON
Members of a local Girl Scout troop recently completed their Silver Award project at Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary (SSBVM) Catholic School in Middletown. Students will be able to enjoy the Scouts’ work for years to come. The Scouts, led by troop leader Kay Livelsberger and mentor Angela Waner, SSBVM principal, installed five drums for the younger students to play with and painted multiplication tables in the outdoor recess lot.
Scouts who completed the project were Gwen Hoover and Kaylee Meisinger, students at Elizabethtown Area Middle School, and Trinity Garcia, Ava Livelsberger and Meadow May, students at Donegal Junior High School. The girls are members of Troop 71686, which meets at Conoy Brethren in Christ Church, Elizabethtown. “The Girl Scouts did a great job. The drums are in our preschool Play Lab,” noted Mindy Kennedy, SSBVM director of development, explaining that the Play Lab is an outdoor classroom used in early See Girl Scouts pg 7
Racing across America BY CATHY MOLITORIS
The drums were installed by Girl Scouts (front to back) Kaylee Meisinger, Trinity Garcia, Meadow May, Ava Livelsberger and Gwen Hoover.
In a little over a week this summer, Jim Roberts covered more than 5,000 miles across the country in his 2008 C6 Corvette, made new friends, ate his fair share of gas-station food and raised money for the PA Breast Cancer Coalition. It’s the 14th year Roberts has participated in One Lap of America, an event that brings together car enthusiasts from around the country to compete on racetracks nationwide. Over the years, Roberts has raised just under $50,000 for the charity through participation in the event.
The competition began at the Tire Rack facility in South Bend, Ind., Roberts explained, noting that Tire Rack is the national sponsor of One Lap of America. There, Roberts competed in the wet skid pad event, which turned out to be his best contest this year. “I had a tremendous start to the week, finishing seventh overall out of 84 competitors, and second in class, in that event,” he recalled. “The really neat thing is that I was the fastest American brand car since the top six were all German cars with the first place being a Porsche GT3.” From South Bend, the group See Racing pg 2
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