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APRIL 23, 2025
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
This girl grapples like a champ BY CAT SHANNON
Find your next adventure BY CAT SHANNON
“If you’re looking for a getaway that’s within driving distance of home, this is the perfect place to find it,” said Wendy Royal, organizer of the PA Family Travel Fair. “Come here and see
what’s right in your backyard.” The PA Family Travel Fair will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 3, at Spooky Nook Sports Complex, 75 Champ Blvd., Manheim. The event will feature free entry and free parking. See Family Travel Fair pg 2
Visitors enjoy a booth at last year’s PA Family Travel Fair.
Support the fair with a chicken dinner BY CAT SHANNON
Ivy Carl with a first-place award at a local tournament
independent sport that prepares you in strength and in life.” This was the first time the Optimist tournament - a wellknown event marking its 50th year - was open to all-girls’ teams.
Becoming the first girl to win her weight class in the tournament was an accomplishment she’s proud of, Ivy said, but she said there’s value to be had in losses as well. See Champ pg 5
Each summer, the Elizabethtown Fair provides a week of agriculture-focused, community fun. To support the event, fair organizers will hold the 39th annual Elizabethtown Fair chicken barbecue on Saturday, May 10. The meal will be available for drive-through pickup at the fairgrounds, 900 E. High St., from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The dinner will include a half- chicken, potato chips, applesauce, a roll, dessert and a
drink. A bake sale will be held in conjunction with the barbecue, with proceeds benefiting the fair queen scholarship competition. Cookbooks, titled “Making Memories II,” will be for sale as well. Filled with recipes from local residents, the cookbooks were created to celebrate the 50th Elizabethtown Fair in 2023. The chicken for the barbecue will be donated by Wenger Feeds and prepared by Harvey’s Main Street BBQ. Herr’s will provide potato chips, and Pepperidge Farm will donate the rolls. Swiss See Chicken pg 3
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ou can tell Ivy Carl that she wrestles like a girl, and she’ll take that as a compliment. She’s proven that girls can succeed in a sport traditionally dominated by boys, coming off a very successful season wrestling with Elizabethtown Area School District. This year, Ivy was the first Elizabethtown girl in her weight class to win the Elizabethtown Optimist Junior High Tournament, taking first place in every match in the 103-pound group during the event, held in February. Her end-of-season record was 19-1 for the regular season and 26-6 post season. Ivy began wrestling three years ago, when she joined the Elizabethtown Bears Club (EBC). “I made the competition team my first season and wrestled mostly boys,” she said. “I wrestled with EBC for two years and then tried out for the middle school team my third year.” She credits her EBC coaches with taking a chance on her, giving her the push she needed to continue pursuing the sport she discovered through her brother. “I would wrestle around with my brother, who wrestled on the team I wrestled for,” she recalled. “He started before me. There was a takedown tournament I was asked to try out the day of it. I took third place my first time trying the sport.” Ivy, who is in seventh grade, joined the Elizabethtown Area Middle School team this season. She also wrestles in other clubs to stay conditioned. “I wrestle wherever I can find to keep in competition,” she stated. “I like that wrestling is an
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