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MAY 21, 2025
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXI • NO 22
CrossNet to offer summertime lunches BY ANN MEAD ASH
to participate in the pilgrimage. “You don’t have to be a member (of UVC), just be a veteran,” pointed out Mike, who noted that the number of veterans taking part in the traditional journey has dwindled. Area veterans who wish to participate in the pilgrimage are asked to call Lemar Martin at 717-669-0517. “We like to know ahead of time to schedule color guard and a firing squad,” explained Mike.
In 2024, Amy Marburger, food and nutrition manager for CrossNet Ministries, predicted that the organization’s summer lunch program would provide a noontime meal each summer weekday for 240 EL ANCO School District students. Her forecast was almost a bullseye. “We did roughly 240 a day,” stated Marburger. “We (served) 12,800 lunches last summer.” This year, when the program starts on Monday, June 2, lunches will be available at two locations on Mondays and Thursdays. Lunches, which are for people ages 1 to 21 living within the ELANCO area, are offered to individuals who receive free and reduced-cost meals during the school year. Lunches may be picked up at the CrossNet Youth Center, 110 W. Franklin St., New Holland, from 11 a.m. to noon. Lunches at Pine Grove Church, 1194 Reading Road, Bowmansville, may be picked up from 11:30 a.m. to noon. Marburger is asking for parents to sign up students who will participate by Monday, May 26, so she can have enough lunches prepared for the first day of the program. Although new sign-ups are accepted all
See UVC pg 10
See CrossNet Ministries pg 7
Preparing for the 103rd annual Memorial Day Pilgrimage are (from left) Ron Folker, Mike Martin, Alan Noll and Lemar Martin.
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Memorial Day Pilgrimage to continue BY ANN MEAD ASH
“W
e decorate 19 cemeteries, and we shoot over 12,” shared United Veterans Council (UVC) of New Holland member Mike Martin, one of the organizers of the annual Memorial Day Pilgrimage. With the help of area Boy Scout troop members, UVC will plant flags on the graves of more than 1,600 veterans
on Saturday, May 24. The caretaker of each of the cemeteries to receive flags coordinates the decorating efforts. On Monday, May 26, the Ceremonial Units of the UVC of New Holland will conduct the 103rd annual pilgrimage to cemeteries in eastern Lancaster County. Units will form at 6:30 a.m. at the American Legion, 35 S. Hoover Ave., New Holland, and will leave at 6:45 a.m. to conduct services
at 12 area cemeteries, followed by a brief ceremony at the Veterans Memorial in the New Holland Community Memorial Park in the 400 block of Jackson Street. All area veterans are invited to participate in the ceremonies. Members of the UVC would like to see younger veterans get involved in helping to preserve the tradition of the pilgrimage. UVC is open to new members, but membership is not necessary
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