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FEBRUARY 26, 2025
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XL • NO 47
Hempfield student will speak at Student Television Network convention BY GEORGE DEIBEL
H
empfield High School has built a reputation for developing quality communicators. Junior Izzy Heisey is the latest to earn the chance to show what she can do on a national stage. Izzy will be one of 25 presenters and hosts from across the country at the Student Television Network (STN) Convention, which will run from Saturday, March 1, to Tuesday, March 4, in Tampa, Fla. Izzy will speak during the closing ceremonies. She will not get her script until moments before her presentation because she could be announcing the STN award winners, and that information must remain confidential until the announcement. “We will get a practice script,” Izzy said. “They want you to make
it how you would sound and what you would say.” Fifteen Hempfield High students will attend the conference. “At STN, there are all kinds of competitions you can enter,” Izzy said. “I’m doing a broadcasting segment with a group of students from our school. Another group of students from my class is doing the music video competition.” Izzy earned the invitation to speak at the convention by excelling in an audition. The prompt was, “Pretend you’re doing an opening speech for STN.” Having attended last year’s conference, Izzy’s experience paid off. “I remember how much energy everyone had,” she said. “It was filled with a lot of excitement, so me and my friend Ace Brown auditioned together. We made a script, filmed, and edited it, then submitted it. We tried to make it fun with edits and transitions.” See Izzy pg 5 Hempfield High School junior Izzy Heisey will present at the Student Television Network convention.
BY GEORGE DEIBEL
If you are 58 years old or older and enjoy staying active, the Lanco Senior Softball league is looking for you. Men and women within a 100mile radius of Lancaster city who are interested in playing can contact league president Dave Dean at 610-334-1124 or email treasurer Dave Zerbe at dzerbe@ comcast.net. “We are looking for players,” said Zerbe, who resides in
Strasburg. “Anybody interested in playing should call or email and give us your contact information so we can follow up with you. But if there are people who can’t play anymore, but would like to help coach, we’d be interested in those people.” Each team has a coach and an assistant coach, and some serve as league officers and board members. Lanco Senior Softball, which star ted in 1990, cur rently has about 200 players divided See Softball pg 2
The Bible with a twist BY GEORGE DEIBEL
Wife-and-husband duo Dorothy and Phil Smith of Salunga will have the first show they’ve written performed by an official theater organization for the first time when the Promise Players perform its spring musical in March. The Smiths and their son, C.J., teamed to pen “Muddled Memories: A Bible Journey,” a family-friendly, staged musical with a lighthearted look at Bible memories with something seriously muddled in the middle, including a monkey, an emu, and
Dorothy and Phil Smith are the writers and directors of the Promise
See Musical pg 3 Players’ spring musical.
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Lanco Senior Softball league seeks players