Manheim Township townlively.com
MARCH 12, 2025
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SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
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It’s engaging entertainment, Newcomers and Neighbors: while, it’s hard to tell it’s competitive collaboration, After a the difference it’s Mini-Golf Madness BY JEFF FALK
Lancaster County is a warm, inviting and friendly place. Newcomers and Neighbors of Lancaster aims to epitomize that welcoming spirit. Throughout its six decades,
BY JEFF FALK
See Newcomers and Neighbors pg 3
Some members of Newcomers and Neighbors engage in a local service project. A participant lines up a putt at last year’s Mini-Golf Madness.
Forrester. “I loved coming in and seeing what they came up with. (The hole designs) were all so colorful and fun. And I liked talking to the younger students. It’s a community-building event.” As part of the competition, students from nine MTHS social and academic clubs design, build and decorate their mini golf holes during a creativity challenge on Friday, March 21, at Landis Run Intermediate School. The teams of four to six club members have five hours to create the finished products using only provided materials and their imaginations. Monetary prizes, which are being sponsored by Raymond James financial services and can be applied to club activities, will
be awarded for the first-, secondand third-place hole designs based on a vote of the participants. “(The members of the clubs) are doing it as a team,” said Forrester. “We want to see collaboration and teamwork. These high school students are so well-spoken and polite. It’s just nice to see their ideas come together.” MTHS extracurricular activities clubs committed to compete in Mini-Golf Madness include Aevidum, Class of 2026, Disc Golf Club, Interact, Lion’s Leo Club, the chess team, the tech and engineering club, UNICEF Club and Tri-M Music Honor Society. MTHS sponsors nearly 40 academic, social, service and special interest clubs.
Discover Lancaster shares county’s blessings with everyone BY JEFF FALK
Lancaster County is rich in resources, culture and things to do, and in Lancaster County, tourism is big business. Discover Lancaster takes a proactive approach to drawing visitors to Lancaster County. Its work is designed to maximize and unlock the locale’s full potential and make the area a destination. “We pack a mighty punch for
the size we are,” said Joel Cliff, who’s been Discover Lancaster’s director of communications and advocacy for 17 years. “We have a very robust and vibrant tourism community. We want to share it with as many people as we can. Lancaster County has a great tradition of hospitality.” Situated at 501 Greenfield Road, Lancaster, Discover Lancaster is the official destination marketing organization of the county. In 2023, 10 million
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ini-Golf Madness is back. The Manheim Township Education Foundation (MTEF) is ready to take another swing at creativity, community involvement and sparking the interests of students. “We really didn’t know what to expect,” said MTEF board member Katie Forrester of last year’s inaugural event. “It was our first year, and we were kind of like, ‘We’ll try it.’ It really was more successful than we could’ve hoped for. Everyone looked very engaged, and not just the kids. The adults were having fun too. Everyone told us how wonderful the event was.” “So many things worked well, and we wanted to keep them in place,” said Forrester. “We just added a couple of extra things.” Hoping to build off the momentum of 2024, MTEF is staging its second annual Mini-Golf Madness event on Saturday, March 22, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Landis Run Intermediate School, 25 Blue Streak Blvd., Lancaster. The free community event presents residents with an opportunity to play nine miniature golf holes designed and built by members of extracurricular activity clubs at Manheim Township High School (MTHS). The Mini-Golf Madness holes will be set up in the Landis Run Intermediate School’s gymnasium. There will be other family-friendly activities offered in the lobby and cafeteria, along with information on MTEF’s recent work and mission. “(Last year) I loved seeing the student collaboration,” said
the social group has stayed true to its original assimilation mission of turning newcomers into neighbors. But Newcomers and Neighbors of Lancaster has evolved into so much more. “It is a fabulous group of women,” s aid Sue B olton,