Elizabethtown townlively.com
OCTOBER 4, 2023
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXIV • NO 34
A weekend of family fun BY CATHY MOLITORIS
Elizabethtown is the place to be for two fun events on Friday, Oct. 13, and Sunday, Oct. 15. For October’s 2nd Friday, the theme will be “Friday the 13th Hocus Pocus,” and the festivities will feature a variety of family-friendly activities from 4 to 8 p.m., said Clint Gibble of LIV-Etown. “The Sanderson Sisters will return this year for a meet-and-greet, and there will be a
free scavenger hunt - The Spells of E-Town,” he said. “Everyone that completes the hunt will be entered into a drawing for $150 in gift cards to downtown Elizabethtown businesses, and everyone gets a candy prize, provided by The Candy Unicornium candy shop located off the square.” Scavenger hunt sheets will be available until 7 p.m. to give participants a chance to complete them. Downtown businesses, including See Fun pg 3
Members of Girl Scout Troop 71686 (from left) Eleni Brehm, Emily Addams, Valerie Hall and Brianna Thatcher recently earned their Silver Award.
Girl Scouts earn Silver Award BY CATHY MOLITORIS
s members of a local swim team, friends Eleni Brehm, Valerie Hall, Emily Addams and Brianna Thatcher observed a recurring problem. People using Willowood Swim Club on Bainbridge Street in Elizabethtown weren’t doing their best to help the environment. “ We noticed that Willowood had no recycling bins, and all the recyclables went into the trash,” Brianna recalled. All four girls are members of Cadette Girl Scout Troop 71686, so they decided to take action to solve the problem and earn their Silver Award in the process. “For our project, we made a butterfly garden at Willowood Swim Club to replace the rose bushes close to the public bathroom,” said Valerie, who is the daughter of
“Doing the Silver Award was great because we made something that’s going to last for a long time.” The Girl Scouts began working on the project in April and completed it in August. In addition to selling bricks and creating the garden, the girls came up with a way to involve younger members of the swim club. “We held a rock painting activity after swim practice one day to
teach kids about recycling, plants and pollinators,” shared Eleni, the daughter of Matthew and Christine Brehm of Elizabethtown. “We put the painted rocks in the garden for decoration.” The project challenged the girls to push outside their comfort zones and ask people to buy bricks, and it took a physical effort as well to create the garden space. It was all worth it in the end, Emily said, noting, “To me, the most fun part about the project was planting the flowers and watching them grow.” Troop leader Christine Hall was impressed with the girls’ dedication to the project and their desire to earn the Silver Award, which is the highest award Girl Scouts in sixth, seventh and eighth grades can earn. “I am very proud of the girls,” she commented. “This was a big project that they worked on all summer long. I think they were all stretched
The Sanderson Sisters (from left) - played by Krissy Franceski, Abby Huber and Amy McEvoy - will scare up some fun at Friday the 13th Hocus Pocus.
Join author Tess Gerritsen at Council of Friends event BY CATHY MOLITORIS
W hen she was a child, Tess Gerritsen couldn’t resist a good mystery book. “The first mystery novels I read were Nancy Drew books,” recalled the New York Times bestselling author of more than 30 novels. “I remember thinking, ‘I want to do that. I want to tell those kinds of stories.’” Becoming an author wasn’t a straight course for Gerritsen, who will headline the Council of Friends of Public Libraries’ fall author event at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 9.
“Being from a practical AsianAmerican family, my parents wanted me to do something more traditional for a career,” she said. She graduated from Stanford University and went to medical school, eventually becoming a doctor. Her desire for storytelling never faltered, however, and when she was on maternity leave after the birth of her first son, she wrote her first novel, “Call After Midnight.” It was published in 1987, and by her third book, “Harvest,” Gerritsen made her New York Times bestseller debut in 1996. She had started following her See Author pg 4 R100308
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Jeremy and Christine Hall of Mount Joy. “ We fundraised by selling bricks that you could put your family or swimmer’s name on. We then used the money to get recycling bins for the pool, because we realized that a lot of people bring cans to the pool.”
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