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For almost 20 years, members of the Abraham C. Treichler Lodge 682 have held a Holiday Breakfast with Santa as a way to give back to the community. This year’s event will take place on Saturday, Dec. 13, from 7 to 11 a.m. in the Brossman Ballroom of the Freemasons Cultural Center, 1 Masonic Drive, Elizabethtown. The meal will feature all-you-can-eat pancakes with a variety of toppings; sausage; and coffee, juice or water. “The men make the food,” said Dennis O’Connor, current senior warden and past Members of the Abraham C. Treichler Lodge 682 prepare a See Pancakes pg 2 pancake breakfast.
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coordinator. GEARS has organized the parade since 2017. “All of the groups entered in this year’s parade are excited to share their floats and bring guests a boost of holiday spirit,” Norman remarked. “You can expect to see See Parade pg 9
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et into the Christmas spirit at the Elizabethtown Holid ay Parade presented by M A R S Wr i g le y. The parade will take place on Saturday, Dec. 6. It will kick off at 4 p.m. from the corner of College Avenue and South M a r k e t S t re e t . T h e ro u t e w i l l run north along A previous year’s Elizabethtown Holiday Parade Market Street from College Avenue local emergency services and unicyclers, as well as an appearance by to Hummelstown Street. Local organizations, businesses Santa Claus. With a theme of Holiday Traand churches will join the Elizabethtown middle and high school bands ditions, the parade promises to in the parade. Additional entries will bring a festive atmosphere, said include dance performance groups, Karrie Norman, GEARS program
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Where Faith Will Fuel Skills for Life BY CAT SHANNON
The story of Catalyst Ministries is the story of God at work. The nonprofit’s founders, Patrick and Gina McNally, credit their faith with laying the foundation for their vision to bring a skills-based learning center to Elizabethtown. Their stor y starts in New Hampshire, where Patrick served as the director of a Christian camp and retreat. He realized the need for a Christian retreat center for people in the tri-state area, and he launched Catalyst Ministries in 2003. Headquartered in New York with a mission to reach children, youth and families with the life-changing truth of Jesus, the organization acquired a 110-acre property north of New York City, where the McNallys planned to create the retreat center. “Our family of 10 was living on Long Island at that time, so we would travel two hours to our camp on the weekends to run the father/son, daddy/daughter and family retreats throughout the summer season,” Gina said. “It was a very fun and fruitful time in the rustic outdoors.” They met roadblocks that prevented them from building a full-fledged retreat center, so that part of their vision never became a reality. God, however, did not give up on the McNallys’ plans. “Through a long and very interesting, ‘only-God’ series of events, we moved to Elizabethtown in 2019, and following that we sold our New York camp property,” Patrick shared. “As we prayed about what God was leading us to next, we had a new vision on how we could have a life-changing impact on children, youth and families in the E-town area.” See Faith pg 5
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