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FEBRUARY 19, 2025
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXXIII • NO 3
Wyebrook Baptist Church welcomes new pastor BY FRANCINE FULTON
Members of the Hopewell Quilters include (from left) Amanda Shugar, Kate Pugliese, Beth Shugar and Lee Norman.
Hopewell Quilters offer Sewing Circle
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s part of their ongoing effort to promote needle ar ts, members of the Hopewell Quilters, a group of volunteers who demonstrate quilting at Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site in Elverson, have partnered with the E xe ter Communi t y L ibrar y to hold a Sewing Circle. The gathering is held at the library on the second Saturday of each month from 10 a.m. to noon. Each session includes a demonstration on a specific topic, followed by a time during which attendees can work on
their own sewing projects. Participants also have an opportunity to practice the art of quilting. The first Sewing Circle session was held in January, and the topic was fleece blankets presented by Becky Hughes of the Hopewell Quilters. Hughes’ mother, Beth Shugar, presented February’s topic, which was embroidery and cross-stitch. The topic for the next scheduled meeting on March 8 will be quilting. The partnership came about after the Hughes and the Hopewell Quilters presented two programs at the library, “The History of Quilting” and “How to Quilt a Potholder.”
“Becky had done a couple of independent programs with the library,” explained Shugar. “Then, we talked to them about needing a place to do a Sewing Circle, and we worked it out. Becky usually does a 15-minute presentation on the topic, and then we all have independent projects to work on - sewing, crocheting, knitting, cross-stitch and quilting.” For the February program, Shugar talked about the history of embroidery, which traces back thousands of years. “The French word for embroidery is ‘broderie,’ which means ‘to embellish,’” she noted. “In the 18th century, it became part of a young’s woman’s See Sewing Circle pg 6
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After attending Wyebrook Baptist Church in Elverson fo r fo u r y e a r s , where he also taught Sunday school and led the Awana teen group, K enneth Miller was recently named the church’s new pastor. The church held a retirement service and luncheon Pastor Kenneth Miller for outgoing pastor J. Perry Stewart on Dec. 15, 2024, Miller. “There was a church plant and Miller’s first service as the we were attending in Philadelphia, and there was a revival service. I new pastor was held on Jan. 5. Miller graduated in 2022 from felt the Lord convicting me that I Cairn University in Langhorne, wasn’t serving Him; I was serving where he majored in computer myself. Right then, I decided I science and minored in Bible. “I needed to focus on ministry.” Miller and his wife, Karmen, wanted to get a job in the computer science field. I was thinking wanted to find a local Baptist about money and success,” said church to attend that could help See Pastor pg 5
Honey Brook library to reopen for March programming BY FRANCINE FULTON
A fter being closed since December for a major renovation project, the Honey Brook Community Library will reopen for its March programming, including story times, book clubs and craft and sewing activities. March will also mark the beginning of the library’s new opening hours, which will change from 11 to 10 a.m.
Librar y director Jennifer Spade has remained working at the library in a makeshift office during the construction. While the library was closed to in-person visits, curbside pickup was offered on select days and hours, subject to the construction schedule. “We closed the first week of December, but throughout this time, holds (reserved books) were still coming in and my staff has See Library pg 3
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