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FEBRUARY 5, 2025
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXXIII • NO 1
TVHS Mini-THON Club to offer Babysitting Night BY FRANCINE FULTON
Building on the success of their Christmas program, members of the Twin Valley High School (TVHS) Mini-THON Club will hold a Valentine’s Day Babysitting Night on Friday, Feb. 14, from 5 to 8 p.m. in the TVHS cafeteria. Parents will be able to have a night out while their children
take part in games and crafts, watch a movie and enjoy snacks and beverages. A pizza dinner will also be provided. Ashley Siv, who is the club overall and was selected for the 2024-25 Mini-THON Ambassadors program, said that the attendees enjoyed the previous Babysitting Night held on Dec. 13, 2024. “Our last Babysitting Night See Babysitting pg 4
Girl Scouts offering cookies for sale recently at the Morgantown Lowe’s included Alexis Price (left) and Oakley Bamford.
BY FRANCINE FULTON
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or those who crave Girl Scout Cookies, the wait is over. Cookie sales began on Jan. 24 and will run through mid-March. L o c a l l y, p e o p l e c a n f i n d Girl Scouts selling cookies on weekends at area businesses. Booth locations include Lowe’s, 340 Crossings Blvd., Elverson; Walmart, 100 Crossings Blvd., Elverson; AJ’s Family Pizzeria, 204 Crossings Blvd., Elverson; Boyer’s Food Market, 200 W. First
St., Birdsboro; and Italian Delite, 113 E. Main St., Birdsboro. Alexis Price and Oakley Bamford, members of Junior Troop 1465, which meets at Robeson Elementary Center and at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Birdsboro, were busy on a recent Sunday at the cookie booth located inside Lowe’s Home Improvement in the Morgantown Crossings shopping center, along with their “cookie moms,” Katie Price and Macall Bamford, respectively. The booth was open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. with Scouts from different troops
working in two-hour shifts. Katie noted that this is the last year that Scouts will sell Toast-Yay! cookies. The cookies, which were introduced in 2021, are shaped like French toast and dipped in icing and bear the Girl Scout trefoil symbol. Other cookie varieties include Adventurefuls, which are brownielike cookies with a caramelflavored cream; Trefoils, which are shortbread cookies; Lemonades, which are shortbread cookies with a lemon-f lavored icing; and Caramel deLites, which are
Foodraisers to feature homemade favorites BY FRANCINE FULTON
Volunteers with the Hay Creek Valley Historical Association (HCVHA) will once again present their monthly “foodraisers” for 2025 at Historic Joanna Furnace. T he first event will be a Valentine’s lasagna dinner on Thursday, Feb. 13. For the takeout meal, there will be a choice of homemade meat lasagna, cheese lasagna or gluten-free meat lasagna. The dinner will include a pan of lasagna and salad, as well as bread for the
non-gluten-free dinners. All the dinners will be sold cold with heating instructions included. Lasagna dinners will include a homemade chocolate dessert. “We will have chocolate-covered pretzels,” said Mark Zerr, HCVHA executive director. “We will also be selling fresh, homemade chocolate-covered strawberries on the day of pickup.” Strawberries will also be available on first-come, first-saved basis. “At each of our foodraisers, we will always have extra food items for sale,” Zerr noted. “The See Foodraisers pg 6
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Winter is sweeter with Girl Scout Cookies
Youngsters enjoyed a holiday craft at December’s Babysitting Night.