Lampeter-Strasburg townlively.com
JULY 19, 2023
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LX • NO 11
Annual blood drive will be held in memory of L-S graduate he third annual blood drive to honor Lampeter-Strasburg (L-S) High School alumnus Ryan Smith will be held on Wednesday, Aug. 9, at First Presbyterian Church, 101 S. Decatur St., Strasburg. The date of the event has been selected to coincide with what would have been Ryan’s 24th birthday, and the drive will occur from 1 to 6 p.m. Ryan graduated from L-S in 2018 and attended East Stroudsburg University to study exercise science. He was an avid basketball player in both high school and college; Ryan received the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference East Freshman of the Year Award in 2019. In August 2019, Ryan was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. He
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passed away at the age of 21 in March 2021 after battling the disease for 19 months. The first blood drive was held in August 2021. Ryan’s mother, Kim, partnered with the American Red
“One thing we feel very strongly about is trying to support the community, because it supported us so much through our journey.” Cross to plan the event after being connected with the organization by Heather Reynolds. Reynolds and Kim were both members of local community outreach group Mitzvah Moms.
While Ryan was receiving treatment, members of the community raised over $10,000 to help the Smith family cover medical expenses. After Ryan’s death, Kim decided to use the remaining funds to both honor Ryan’s memory and give back to the community by creating the Ryan N. Smith RelentlesS Fund through the Lancaster County Community Foundation. The RelentlesS Fund has been used for a variety of community projects over the past few years. Last August, the fund enabled the construction of the RelentlesS Basketball Court at Hans Herr Elementary School. The court was created by renovating the former court, which had fallen into disrepair. It is adorned with the number
BY JEFF FALK
There’s ancient history. There’s modern history. And then there’s living history. At Landis Valley Village and Farm Museum, history is alive and thriving. A Pennsylvania German heritage site situated at 2451 Kissel Hill Road, Lancaster, Landis Valley Village and Farm Museum is an exploratory learning tool and a portal to the locale’s past. Among its highlights are its interactive nature, craft
Ryan Smith and his mother, Kim
Mennonite Life will offer Fraktur art workshop
Landis Valley Village and Farm Museum reinvents history
BY ADRIAN ESCHENWALD
demonstrations and volunteers dressed in period garb. “George and Henry Landis envisioned Landis Valley being a Williamsburg in central Pennsylvania,” said Timothy Essig, a museum educator at Landis Valley Village and Farm Museum. “They envisioned this living history museum of Pennsylvania Dutch in southcentral Pennsylvania. Living history is a reenactment of a previous time period. When you come to Landis Valley and you see these different living
Mennonite Life, 2215 Millstream Road, Lancaster, will offer a workshop on Friday, July 28, from 1 to 4 p.m. The class will be hosted by Emily Smucker-Beidler, a resident of Centerville and an art teacher at Landisville Primary Center. Smucker-Beidler will explain how to create art pieces in the early American fraktur style, as well as delve into the history of the art form. Preregistration for the workshop is required and must be
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completed by Tuesday, July 25, at https://mennonitelife.org/events. When Swiss-German immigrants first came to Pennsylvania, they didn’t bring much; often the settlers only had a few items, such as birth certificates and family Bibles. Although they didn’t have any physical mementos from their homeland, they remembered it fondly and regularly created what became known as fraktur art pieces. The word fraktur means fractured writing, and it referred to a specific type of embellished font. The term See Fraktur art pg 2
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A fraktur bird art piece by Emily Smucker-Beidler
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