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DECEMBER 18, 2024
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LX • NO 52
Collaborative artwork CHS students complete turnpike plaza mural BY ANN MEAD ASH
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n Dec. 4, a gathering of about 50, including Cocalico High School (CHS) students, teachers, and administrators, and representatives of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) and the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PA Turnpike), gathered at the Bowmansville Service Plaza to celebrate the installation of a new mural. The mural was created by CHS students based on a partnership between PCA, PA Turnpike, and the South Central PaARTners at Millersville University. The mural is a project of Art Sparks, which provides an artist to complete a 20-day residency with students who collaborate on creating a piece of artwork for a nearby service plaza. West Reading ar tist Mike Miller, himself a L ancaster County native, whose parents live in Gap, collaborated with the
A section of the mural created by Cocalico High School students under the direction of artist Michael Miller that was installed at the Bowmansville Service Plaza on the Pennsylvania Turnpike
Cocalico High School student Michael Zepp spoke at the installation of a new mural at the Bowmansville Service Plaza on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
students to brainstorm, develop, draw, and ultimately install the screen-printed mural in the travel plaza. Miller worked with a dozen students under the instruction of Sandra McCarthy, CHS art
with the South Central PaARTners, Miller and the students collaborated to design the mural. “(Miller asked students), ‘What is it about your area that you love so much?’” she explained.
department chair, and Caleb Smith, CHS art teacher. The mural uses a traditional quilt pattern as the background, but it also features symbols associated with local heritage,
including a pretzel, a covered bridge, the Fulton Theatre, and the familiar green dragon that is symbolic of the Ephrata farmers market. According to Julie Pyle Childs, interim program manager
See CHS pg 3
A friend indeed
Local woman is on the move for missions
BY ANN MEAD ASH
Mention holding a yard sale to most 11-year-old boys, and it is likely the response will be a typical preteen eyeroll. That is not the case with New Holland Elementary School sixth-grade student Jake Delvisco. In early November, when Jake learned that his friend Chad Heagey was burned in an accident, he encouraged his mom, April, to donate to the GoFundMe page that had been set up to help cover medical expenses. But even after April donated, Jake still felt called to do more. Londyn Hummer (left) and Jaxon Delvisco (center) helped Jake Delvisco
BY ANN MEAD ASH
When Theresa Newell of New Holland returned home from a trip to Hilton Head, S.C., in August, she was hoping to spend a day catching up - unpacking and reading her mail. But God had other plans for the busy grandmother. In Newell’s email was an invitation to Lausanne 4, which was to be held in Seoul, South Korea, from Sept. 22 to 28. Newell was at the original Lausanne meeting in Switzerland in 1974. “Billy
See Friend pg 9 when he held a yard sale to raise funds for a friend’s medical expenses.
Graham and John Stott put a blanket call to Christian leaders,” recalled Newell. “The motto is ‘The Whole Church taking the Whole Gospel to the Whole World.’” The Lausanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism, with which Newell is connected, was one of the first networks to form following the initial event. Newell reported that “Let the Church declare and display Christ together” was the title of Lausanne 4. The seven-day event attracted about 5,000 invited church leaders. “We were in this See Journey pg 5
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