Lampeter-Strasburg AUGUST 13, 2025
SERVING OUR COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
REACHING MORE THAN 9,190 HOMES
VOL LXII • NO 15
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Restart Training Center Ministry (RTCM) is commemorating 10 years of changing lives. The RTCM annual fall banquet will be held Tuesday, Oct. 7, at the Shady Maple Banquet Center, 129 Toddy Drive, East Earl. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m.; the buffet fellowship meal will be held at 6:15. Conrad Fisher will provide music, beginning at 5:30 p.m. Fisher, from Juniata County, is a singer and songwriter who owns Ragamuffin Hall in McCoysville, where he works as a studio musician and engineer. Restart Training Center Ministry representatives
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Historic Rock Ford, 881 Rockford Road, Lancaster, has announced the next two speakers who will be part of the annual lecture series. On Sunday, Aug. 17, historian Peter Glogovsky will present “A Landscape of ‘Incalculable Advantage’: How the Lime Industry Shaped Everyday Life in 18th and 19th Century Southeastern Pennsylvania.” The talk will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Langmuir Education Room located on the first floor of the Rock Ford Barn. Tickets may be purchased at www.historicrockford.org/ special-events or at the door. Curator Sarah Alberico said the Snyder Gallery will be open from 5 to 6 p.m. so that attendees can visit Historic Rock Ford’s focus exhibit, “1825: Lafayette in Lancaster.” Glogovsky, who grew up in Bucks County, is a historian and museum professional who has earned a Master of Arts degree in museum studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program and his Bachelor of Arts in art history and anthropology from Franklin & Marshall College. “This presentation argues that the trade has left a lasting legacy that can be seen and felt today in many communities,” Glogovsky said. Glogovsky noted that his lecture will start by asking the audience to reflect on “what comes to mind when you think about limestone, lime, and lime burning?” A contemporary painting of a lime burner and lime kiln will be used to generate discussion. “The See Rock Ford pg 5
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im K ann is helping to make sure her late husband Jeff Landis’ legacy lives on. While working as the Lampeter-Strasburg (L-S) School District transportation director, Landis spent more than two decades planning the annual middle school trip to Cape Henlopen State Park in southern Delaware. “Jeff did a lot of work with student trips,” Kann said. “That was his pas- Lampeter-Strasburg middle-schoolers on this year’s trip to Cape Henlopen sion, planning experiences for made the trip to Cape Henlopen the annual outing to Delaware. “It is a fantastic program for in June before passing away that kids.” L andis was diagnosed with December. Kann retired from kids,” said Kann. “It was his pasesophageal cancer in 2022. He teaching in 2022 but still helps with sion, and it was really important