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FEBRUARY 15, 2023
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
The Business Of Baking BY CATHY MOLITORIS
riday mornings are particularly sweet at Elizabethtown Area High School. That’s the day the E-town Bakers deliver their homemade muffins to teachers and staff throughout the building. The E-town Bakers are members of Rebecca Booth’s Life Skills class at the high school. For 10 years, Booth has been guiding students in running the business, which not only offers breakfast for its customers, but also provides learning experiences for its employees. “This is a student-run business, and I’m just the facilitator,” Booth said. “The students do everything.” The bakers shop for muffin ingredients on Tuesdays and bake the treats on Thursdays. They prepare their muffins in the food lab and kitchen they share with the Family and Consumer Science classes. “We oversee the students in the kitchen, but they are doing the measuring and the baking,” Booth stated, noting that her teaching assistants - Angie Horn and Melisa Musser - supervise as well. The class members take a food safety class with the Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13, and they display their certificates on their delivery carts to indicate they’ve had the training, Booth noted. Each week, the E-town Bakers prepare blueberry muffins and a rotating feature muffin, which they select from a large recipe book in the classroom. Each customer also receives coffee, tea or juice. “We make about eight dozen muffins a week,” Booth commented, noting that the bakers get to eat a muffin of their choice, and leftovers are shared with the building’s custodians. There are currently 10 students in the class, and they deliver to 85 customers each week. The students bill the customers monthly. “On the first Friday of the month, they
It’s A Bird! It’s A Plane! It’s A Bowler! BY CATHY MOLITORIS
Calling all superheroes - and their moms. GEARS will hold its annual Mother/Son Super Hero Bowling event on Saturday, March 4, from 1 to 3 p.m. at Clearview Lanes, 1990 W. Main St., Mount Joy. Preregistration is required and limited on a firstcome, first served-basis. The registration deadline is Sunday, Feb. 26. “This is a fun and unique event, and it’s a really good opportunity for mothers and sons to bond,” said Erin Thomas, GEARS administrative assistant. “Sometimes, mothers and sons get left out, since we do things like our Daddy/Daughter Dance. This is a way to include them.” Thomas noted that people come dressed up in a variety of superhero costumes. “We’ve had people who go all out and get their makeup done,” she stated. See Bowler pg 9
The E-town Bakers are (from left) Ben Yoder, Mark Kimmich, Sharief McMullen, Steven Mort, Payton Kraft, Ted Clark, Gabe Rosenberger-Jean, Angela Sager, Bennett Hynicker and Christopher Moore.
way for them to say hello, to interact and to meet new people.” The program has been so well received at Elizabethtown, it’s prompted other districts to consider similar classes, Booth said, adding that she’s seen so many benefits for her students. “Since I typically have these students for four years, it’s been great to see how they grow and evolve over those four years,” she shared. “Some wouldn’t even knock on the doors when they first started, because they were too nervous, but they end up growing in their leadership through this.”
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collect the money and total it up, lessons and talk about unit price which is a huge life skill to work and cost comparison,” she explained. “We talk on,” Booth comabout budgeting and mented. The bakers are a self-sustaining “We oversee the how they need to spend within our business, with any extra proceeds used s t u d e n t s i n t h e means. … Even just to help fund oppor- kitchen, but they knocking on doors, tunities for commu- a r e d o i n g t h e saying hello, greeting and talking to nity learning such as trips to the Fulton m e a s u r i n g a n d the teachers they deliver to is a life Theatre in Lancaster. the baking.” skill. It’s really Booth remarked great, because these that the E-town Bakers are learning much more students spend most of their day than how to make muffins. “When with me, and they don’t see a lot we grocery shop, we teach mini of other teachers, so this is a nice
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