Elizabethtown townlively.com
MAY 22, 2024
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXV • NO 15
Rolling along for Brittany’s Hope
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BY CATHY MOLITORIS
Day with a parade hosted by the American Legion and Auxiliary Post 197. The parade will form at Bainbridge Elementary School, 416 N. Second St., at 8:30 a.m. and will step off at 9 a.m. It will proceed south on Second Street to Bainbridge Cemetery, where a short program will take place.
Hop on your bike for a ride through the countryside on Sunday, June 30, and you can help or phaned and at-risk children. The third annual Biking for Br ittany event will benefit Brittany’s Hope, an organization that helps families adopt children with special needs. Biking for Brittany will feature two ride options: a metric century ride of 62 miles and a metric half-century ride of 31 miles. Rolling starts will take place every 15 minutes between 7:30 and 9 a.m. at the Star Barn at Stone Gables Estate, 1 Hollinger Lane, Elizabethtown. “Biking for Brittany begins and ends at the Star Barn,” said Dana Myers, director of charitable giving for Brittany’s Hope. “Cyclists will ride along the beautiful water fronts and through the rolling hills and picturesque landscape of Elizabethtown, Hershey and surrounding counties. Biking for Brittany is not timed, so you can enjoy the ride the way you want to ride.” Because the ride is noncompetitive, organizers wanted to add a new feature this
See Poppies pg 3
See Brittany’s Hope pg 4
Isaac Jensen
Juliette Poling
Colton Stoutzenberger
Cheyenne Dupler
Elijah Brake Bailey
Gretchen Rank
Braylin McConnell
Lily Dougherty
Poppies on parade BY CATHY MOLITORIS
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artificial poppies that are handcrafted by veterans, with all proceeds benefiting patients at the Lebanon VA Medical Center. The top sellers will be crowned the poppy king and queen at the Bainbridge Memorial Day events on Monday, May 27. Bainbridge will mark Memorial
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ince 1920, the poppy has been the memorial flower of the American Legion. After World War I, poppies flourished in Europe, thriving in lime-rich soil littered with rubble from the war. After Lt. Col. John
McCrae wrote the wartime poem “In Flanders Fields,” the poppy became the symbol of the blood shed by soldiers in war as well as the people who continue to fight for our freedom. Throughout Bainbridge, elementar y school students have been working hard to sell
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