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APRIL 16, 2025
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXI • NO 50
End Ascension Lutheran will celebrate Southern Tracksters growing by leaps greening project and bounds
BY GEORGE DEIBEL
BY GEORGE DEIBEL
coordinator for Interfaith Partners for the Chesapeake, will talk about “Sacred Waters of the Chesapeake.” Alex Cooper of Lancaster Clean Water Partners will deliver a presentation on “Stream Delisting,” and Matthew Carlson, an associate pastor of Akron Mennonite Church and coordinator for Creation Justice Ministries, will also give an address. Weather permitting, there will be outdoor hands-on activities and
On your mark, S.E.T., go! The Southern End Tracksters are in the starting blocks, preparing to start a third season. The Tracksters are an Amateur Athletic Association (AAU) track and field team operated by Solanco High School head coach Jen McDowell. It is made up of athletes ages 4 through 18 from the Solanco, Penn Manor, and Lampeter-Strasburg school districts. “We have started this camaraderie in the Southern End,” said McDowell. “That was the whole idea of the Southern End Tracksters. To get other people involved. Track is one of those unique sports. We’ve got rivals, but not like you do in a lot of other sports. We are there to support and guide each other. My kids are learning from some of the Penn Manor coaches. Penn Manor kids are learning from us. We’re seeing it pay off already at the high school level.” There is no cost to join the Southern End Tracksters program, but participants must pay to join the AAU and pay an entry fee for meets. Athletes can pay for a uniform or borrow one. Anyone interested in joining the Tracksters can
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Volunteers work on a greening project at Ascension Lutheran Church.
birdhouses and a kestrel box in conjunction with the greening efforts. “Our goal is to reduce the green desert we were mowing and be better stewards of the land in our possession,” Miller said. “We worked closely with Interfaith Partners for the Chesapeake and Lancaster Clean Water Partners.” The Community Environmental Event will run from 1 to 3 p.m. and feature three speakers. Mike Hudson, the Lancaster
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Remittance of mown grass began in March 2024, with planthonda Miller noted the ing completed in October of that land on which Ascension year. Waxwing EcoWorks served Lutheran Church is located as contractor. Stroud Water offers all kinds of possibilities. Research Center assisted with a She and her fellow congregants Department of Conservation and are doing their best to fulfill Natural Resources (DCNR) grant that potential in a responsible to place 120 tree seedlings along manner. Ascension Lutheran’s eastern On Sunday, April 27, the church property border as a buffer for will celebrate the completion of a P68, a stream that runs through project designed to benefit the an adjoining field. environment and The project will host a comincluded an approxmunity event in imately 700-square“It’s amazing what foot west wall of the afternoon. places of faith A formal Blessing wet sedge meadow, of the Greening have done to help a 1 , 5 0 0 - s q u a r e Project will take fo o t p a r k i n g l o t place at 9 a.m. the environment.” pollinator garden, a as part of the 1,000-square-foot Sunday worship winter interest at the church, which is located welcoming garden, and a variety at 600 E. Penn Grant Road, of native trees and shrubs for a Willow Street. parking lot island. The community and anyone Miller, who spearheaded the who has been involved with the project, said the goal was to add on-site work is invited to attend. beautiful, native, semiformal garMiller said the ceremony signifies dens for community enjoyment, the completion of a National Fish education, and wildlife support; and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) create a naturalistic style plantCrescendo Grant Stewardship ing that doesn’t require continGreening program to reduce uous wood mulching; and foster mowing and storm water runoff congregation engagement and and provide a pollinator pathway. education. Seventy-seven native shrubs and As part of his Eagle Scout projtrees and approximately 2,000 ect in the spring of 2024, curnative plants were placed in rent Lampeter-Strasburg High newly created beds. School senior Riley Kurau placed
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