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JUNE 19, 2024
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXXVI • NO 50
Guard and dance teams honored at championships
he Freedom Independent Guard and Dance teams were honored at the Tournament Indoor Association All-Chapter Championships in Wildwood, N.J. The novice guard,
Prospective members are invited to connect with the organization during the Hummelstown Fireman’s Carnival. for people ages 10 to 22, took the gold, becoming the 2024 independent novice champions, and the junior guard, for those ages 7 to 15, placed second. The dance team, consisting of youths and young adults ages 10 to 22,
The junior guard placed second.
placed fifth and was promoted to Regional A Class after only its second competition of the season. The previous Saturday, the teams competed at the Chapter 6 competition, and all three groups won first place and brought home a gold medal.
Freedom Independent Guard and Dance is a nonprofit youth organization consisting of students from Elizabethtown Area, Middletown, Lower Dauphin, and Steelton-Highspire school d i s t r i c t s ; Da u p h i n C o u n t y Technical School; and HACC,
The novice guard placed first at the All-Chapter Championships.
Central Pennsylvania’s Community College. Two instructors lead the program. Members of the organization will be at the Hummelstown
Fireman’s Carnival from Monday to Saturday, June 17 to June 22, running the bake wheel and the games. They will present an exhibition in front of the bandstand See Teams pg 2
At its meeting on May 20, the Lower Dauphin school board met 12 eighth-graders who will complete their entire middle school career having earned distinguished honor roll every marking period. T h e s t u d e n t s a re C a ra h Burton, Levi Dickinson, Chelsea Gula, Owen Hess, Lorelei Hoffer, Seylah Hoke, Abigail Irwin, Adysyn Matincheck, Michael Sather, Meredith Taylor, Jordyn White and Isabel Zulli. Carah, the daughter of Paul and Suz anne B ur ton, is a
member of the field hockey team and girls’ lacrosse team. L e v i , t he s on o f A n ge l a and Matthew Dickinson, is a member of the cross-country team and participates in the middle school’s spring musicals and in the orchestra, jazz band and chorus. He is active in his church and its youth group and is a member of Boy Scouts. Chelsea, the daughter of Jim and Amy Gula, is a member of the soccer, basketball and cross-country teams and plays cello in the school orchestra.
Lectures, classes, concerts and more highlight Pennsylvania Chautauqua BY CATHY MOLITORIS
Lectures, concerts, children’s programs and more will be part of the Pennsylvania Chautauqua happening this summer in Mount Gretna. Chautauqua, an Iroquois word with several meanings, began in the late 1800s as an adult education movement designed to bring programs and lectures to rural areas, said Sue Hostetter, chair of the PA Chautauqua Summer Programs Committee. The program was created by
Sunday school teacher Lewis Miller and John Heyl Vincent to train teachers and educate the middle classes, Hostetter explained, adding, “The Sunday school here is not what most of us think of today. It was an actual school that met on Sundays for children who worked the other six days of the week.” At the turn of the 20th century, there were more than 200 Chautauquas across the country, with some traveling and some settled in one place. Mount get hands-on with critters Gretna’s Chautauqua is one of People during a Pennsylvania Chautauqua about 15 that remain, she said. program featuring Ryan “The Bug See Chautauqua pg 2 Man” Bridge.
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