Lampeter-Strasburg SERVING OUR COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025
REACHING MORE THAN 9,190 HOMES
VOL LXII • NO 20
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Strasburg Groups Will Join Forces for Bingo BY GEORGE DEIBEL
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Strasburg Community Park volunteers and the Strasburg Fire Company are once again teaming up for a fundraiser. Bingo, Baskets and Beef BBQ night will be held Saturday, Oct. 4, at the Strasburg Fire Hall, 203 W. Franklin St. This will be the fourth time the two organizations will join forces to generate funds
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for both nonprofit groups. Doors will open at 4:30 p.m. “Both the park and fire company rely on donations from the community to operate,” said Barb Rathbone-Frank, Strasburg Community Park board member and bingo chairperson. Fire company member Mike Lockard stated that the fire company will be making and serving beef barbecue sandwiches and
Strasburg Fire Company member Mike Lockard (left) and Strasburg Community Park bingo chair Barb Rathbone-Frank are helping to See Bingo pg 2 organize a bingo fundraiser.
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The .918 Club will provide just the “types” of things that interest people who enjoy letterpress printing. The 12th annual Lancaster Printers Fair will be held Saturday, Sept. 20, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Willow Street Fire Company, 2901 Willow Street Pike. There will be no admission charge and plenty of free parking. The event will be held rain or shine. Go to www.lancaster printersfair.org for additional information. There will be 21 vendors from all over the East Coast, .918 Club president Kenneth Kulakowsky said. “They’re going to have a variety of equipment, supplies, and printed materials, and demonstrations all involved around print making,” he added. Hot dogs, Turkey Hill drinks, and Herr’s potato chips will be sold. “There’s going to be a lot of old equipment that’s going to be available for sale and supplies that we’re selling out of our overages,” said Kulakowsky. “We got a lot of donations, and after we get doubles and triples and so forth, we try to get it into the hands of hobby printers who would like to continue on with the printing process.” Visitors will have the opportunity to learn about the craft. “If they have if they want to find out what print making and letterpress printing is about, this is the place they should go,” Kulakowsky said. “There are multiple approaches of the same process. And you always say it’s not your See Printers Fair pg 4
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our teen L ampeter-Strasburg (L-S) High School students will vie for the title of West Lampeter Fair Queen during a contest on the fair’s opening night. The candidates, chosen as representatives of the school’s extracurricular clubs, will compete in two rounds of questions before judges select five finalists for a final round. Interviews will be conducted earlier in the day. The winner and alternate will be crowned by 2024 West Lampeter Fair West Lampeter Fair Queen candidates, (front, from left) Tessa McNamee, Elizabeth Queen Ava Immel, who Shiffer, Rylee Diller, Avary Weiler, Addison Deckman, Lily Jannone, (back) Brooke became the 2025 PA State Rubincam, Maya Coon, Leah Altobello, Carla Mann, Marianne Gomez-Marquez, Fair Queen, and 2024 Kaylee Martin, Annie Kirumba, and Julianna Fry alternate Mackenzie Westerlund. proceeding to the fairgrounds via by freshman Jalen Coon, the son Both Ava and Mackenzie are 2025 Village Road. The competition will of Lynette and Jasen Coon of start at 7:30 p.m. Lancaster. Leah represents the L-S graduates. Leah Altobello, a junior, is the National Art Honor Society, a club The event will begin Wednesday, Sept. 24, with a parade departing daughter of Jodi and Ken Altobello formed last year to celebrate the from the high school at 7 p.m. and of Lancaster. She will be escorted achievements of student artists.
Lancaster Printers Fair Set for Sept. 20
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