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OCTOBER 23, 2024
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Ironville UMC slates upcoming bazaar
Ironville United Methodist Church members (front, from left) Marge Osborne, Judy Zimmerman, Sylvia Michener, Nancy Frey, Mary Louise Klein, (back) Bob Osborne, Jeff Engroff, Kathy Dinkel, Jean Witmer and Anne Gantz
interesting holiday craft that will be available to purchase at the upcoming bazaar. In addition to crafts, this year’s event will feature more than 15 vendors. Each vendor w i l l s h o w c a s e a va r i e t y o f unique items such as antiques, knitted clothing , tree ornaments, handmade aprons, hand-painted ornaments, jewelr y, toys, crafts, and dream catchers. The Christmas Bazaar will incorporate a silent auction to feature items such as a set of china, an original oil painting, a Christmas wreath, a framed Christmas song sheet, a picnic basket, and various other items that guests may bid on. The church will highlight a
collection of unique goods and traditional holiday items in a room reserved for a white elephant gift exchange. All available items have been donated by members of Ironville UMC and Newtown UMC. A separate room in Ironville UMC will contain children’s crafts and toys available to purchase. A variety of refreshments will be available to purchase during the event, including hot dogs, beef barbecue sandwiches, chicken corn soup, homemade apple dumplings, cakes, pies, and other baked goods. Hot and cold beverages will also be available to purchase. Ironville UMC pastor Jeff Eng roff invites community members to shop, enjoy
h o m e m a d e fo o d a n d m e e t members of both Ironville UMC and New town UMC as they shop at the Christmas Bazaar. Many congregation members have participated in the annual tradition for more than four decades, and the bazaar features new vendors every year. Proceeds from the Christmas Bazaar will benefit Ironville UMC ’s capital improvement fund. The church hosts week ly worship ser vices at 10:30 a.m. on Sundays, and each service is livestreamed on the church’s YouTube channel, @IronvilleUMC. For more information, call the church office at 717-684-8072 or visit https:// ironvilleumc.org.
BY ADRIAN ESCHENWALD
Of all the holidays traditionally celebrated around the world, Halloween is one of the most unique - and most peculiar - celebrations of the year. When autumn ushers in the start of the holiday season, many people first think of Thanksgiving turkeys and Christmas gifts as the colder months approach. But Halloween, a day that one might regard as the delinquent younger sibling in the family of holidays, has a long history of odd customs that set it apart from Yuletide and Easter, and residents of Lancaster County have added their own traditions to the mix over many years. Halloween originated as All Hallows’ Eve, taking place before the annual Christian celebration of All Hallows’ Day on Nov. 1. The evening signifies the beginning of Allhallowtide, a time of year when Christians honor saints, martyrs and departed souls who are yet on their journey to heaven. All Hallows’ Day has been observed for more than a thousand years, but the Halloween we know in modern times is the product of various cultures and traditions picked up through the centuries. Similarly to Christmas, All Hallows’ Eve adopted many customs that historians attribute to Celtic societies, including the Gaelic festival Samhain. Samhain marked the beginning of winter in the ancient Gaelic calendar, and its rituals involved offering food, drinks and crops to wayward spirits and wandering souls who may arrive at the door. By the 16th century, Scottish celebrators practiced “guising,” the See Halloween pg 5
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he holiday season is approaching quickly, and many community members are excited participate in the Lancaster County tradition of holiday bazaar shopping. Ironville United Methodist C hurch (UMC), 4020 Holly Drive, Columbia, is gearing up for its annual Christmas Bazaar, which it will host from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 2. Members of the Willing Hearts, a community outreach committee at Ironville UMC, and congregational members of both Ironville UMC and Newtown UMC have been working hard since Februar y to craft crocheted items, wooden snowmen, gift card boxes, assorted tre e or nament s , and o ther
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