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The Southern End of Lancaster County has an art show it can call its own. The Lancaster County Fine Arts & Craft Show will be held rain or shine Saturday, Oct. 11, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Kreider Building at the Solanco Fairgrounds, 172 S. Lime St., Quarryville. Admission and parking are free. The facility is handicapped-accessible. There will be food trucks selling french fries, sandwiches, and pretzels. Proceeds will benefit the operation and maintenance of the Lancaster County Art Association (LCAA), which Lancaster County Art Association gallery director is located at 149 Precision Ave., Strasburg. Carol Hess (left) and publicity chair Patricia Keller There will be 38 exhibiting artists representing show one of the works in the group’s gallery in
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Sarah Short loves autumn. That’s one of the reasons she and her mom, Mary Martz, help organize a huge event at their church. Lampeter United Methodist Church (UMC) will hold its fifth annual Community Fall Festival on Saturday, Oct. 18, from noon to 3 p.m. at the church, 1101 Village Road, Lancaster. Everything is free. The festival will be held rain or shine. It is planned for outdoors but will be moved inside if the weather is poor. “It’s a fun fall activity,” Martz said. It’s just a fun, fun day just to be with the community. Easy family fun.” There will be hot dogs, snacks donated by Herr’s, coffee, hot chocolate, apple cider, and popcorn. There will be a bounce house and barrel train rides. “We will have folks from the congregation at each station for the children,” said Martz, who is the co-chair of the church’s children’s ministry. “We will have more than 30 volunteers that help us.” There will also be a variety of games for kids, including pumpkin ring toss, sack races, autumn bingo, pumpkin bean bag, apple toss, football toss, basket toss, goldfish ping pong, and pumpkin golf. “We will have a prize table,” Martz said. “When children come into the event, they get a stamp card with all the games listed. When they go to the game, they get a stamp. They don’t have to have this all stamped. They can have no stamps, they can have one stamp, whatever. They turn
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ampeter- Strasburg (L-S) High School is celebrating homecoming this week. The homecoming king will be crowned at halftime of the powderpuff game on Thursday, Oct. 9. The game will start at 7 p.m. The 2025 homecoming queen will be crowned at halftime of the varsity football game against Elco on Friday, Oct. 10. Kickoff will be at 7 p.m. The dance will be on Saturday, Oct. 11, with the theme “Midnight Garden.” Homecoming king candidates are Carlos Berrios, Keegan Curtis, Peter Fiorello, Lampeter-Strasburg High School homecoming court members (front, from Cole Lopez, Chase Messinger, left) Brooke Hess, Remy Colosi, Audrey Wieand, Adriana Cedeño, Amelia Knarr, Alex Salaki, Shrey Singh, and Addison Boyd, Julia Knapp, Maddie Frego, (back) Carlos Berrios, Cole Lopez, Peter Fiorello, Alex Salaki, Shrey Singh, Keegan Curtis, Mitchell Swarr, and Chase Mitchell Swarr. Carlos Berrios is the son Messinger of Jose Berrios and Sara Musser- team, a violin player in the L-S Keegan Curtis is the son of Berrios. He is the secretary general orchestra, a member of the morn- Jeremy and Sherri Curtis. Keegan of the Lampeter-Strasburg Model ing announcements team, a Link is a football team captain and a United Nations (UN), alternate Crew leader, and a member of High member of the boys’ lacrosse team, captain of the L -S Quiz Bowl School Heroes. Model UN, Ski and Snowboard
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