Manheim Central MAY 22, 2024
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXV • NO 17
Remembering their sacrifice
Mt. Hope will mark 55th birthday with picnic, one-day give
BY CATHY MOLITORIS
music at the Memorial Day event, and Craig Fisher, the VFW Post 5956
BY CATHY MOLITORIS
Mt. Hope Nazarene Retirement Community is turning 55, and you’re invited to the party. The nonprofit will host an old- fashioned outdoor picnic from 4:30 to 7 p.m. on Saturday, June 1. It will take place at 3026 Mt. Hope Home Road, Manheim, and will be held rain or shine. “We are thrilled again to host an old-fashioned picnic and birthday celebration outside on our campus,” said Kris Wilson, director of advancement at Mt. Hope. “Mt. Hope invites everyone to attend this fun gathering. Everyone from our residents, team members to board members, local businesses and churches, family and friends and neighbors to Mt. Hope are excited to get together for a wonderful time of fellowship and delicious grilled picnic foods.” The meal will include a choice of grilled cheeseburgers or hot dogs with all the fixings, Mt. Hope’s baked beans and coleslaw, potato chips, cookies and assorted drinks. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own lawn chairs, blankets and favorite yard games. Musical enter-
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hile many Americans mark Memorial Day with a day off of work, a trip to the pool or a family cookout, the holiday means something deeper. It is a day to honor members of America’s military service who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. That’s the message members of the Manheim Veterans of Foreign Wars Cyrus R. Peters Memorial Post 5956 and its Auxiliary want to convey. The group will organize a parade and hold a memorial service to remember and honor our nation’s fallen on Monday, May 27. T he parade will be g in at Manheim’s Veterans Memorial Park by the Manheim Central High School football stadium at 10 a.m. It will process down High Street to the Square, north on Main Street, and then east on Gramby Street back to the park. After the parade, there will be a service at the new Manheim Veterans Memorial that will include a guest speaker, recitations and music by the Manheim Central High School band as well as a local piper band. The ceremony will conclude with the playing of taps. Lt. Col. Matthew R. Emerson, commander of the 1st Battalion, 107th Field Artillery Regiment from the Pennsylvania National Guard’s 28th Infantry Division, will be the guest speaker. A
Pennsylvania native and a graduate of Shippensburg University, Emerson served on active duty before joining the Guard and has deployed on missions overseas. To honor contributions from members of the community and to help keep history alive, a different fallen hero from Manheim is highlighted during every ceremony. This year, Pvt. 1st Class Irvin W. Barto Jr. will be honored. Irvin was killed in action on Feb. 9, 1945, while serving with a U.S. Army tank destroyer unit in Germany. When selecting the veteran to recognize, VFW members do extensive research. William King, who is the parade marshal and a retired U.S. Army first sergeant, learned that Irvin was one of seven Barto brothers to serve during World War II and the only one who did not return home. He is buried at the Luxembourg American Cemetery in Hamm, Luxembourg. King said that in the early years of the war, Irvin was employed at the local asbestos factory and probably could have avoided military service because he worked in an essential industry. “But Irvin followed in the footsteps of his five older brothers,” King stated. “I believe that he enlisted out of a sense of duty to his country.” Although Memorial Day pays tribute to the men and women who died serving in the U.S. armed forces, Craig Fisher, commander of VFW Post 5956 and a Gus Person (left), who will lead the piper group providing some of the
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