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MARCH 6, 2024

SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954

Parkesburg Lions Club sets bench dedication, Easter events BY FRANCINE FULTON

All things chocolate BY FRANCINE FULTON

For people who love chocolate (and who doesn’t?), Oxford United Methodist Church (OUMC), will present its ninth annual Chocolate Festival on Saturday, March 9, from 1 to 3 p.m. The event will include chocolate tastings and a baking contest. “People can join us as a baker or a taster,” said Patty Reese, event chairperson. During the Chocolate Festival, which is being presented by

Women of Faith (formerly the Oxford United Methodist Women), visitors will pay a fee and receive five tickets. Each ticket will allow that person to select a chocolate treat to enjoy. Additional tickets may be purchased for a nominal fee. “(Attendees) will get a free takeout container and that enables them to go around and collect their chocolate,” said Reese, noting that no outside containers will be permitted. For the baking contest, each See Chocolate Festival pg 4

Organizers are looking forward to the Chocolate Festival at Oxford United Methodist Church.

Prom showcase planned at Octorara BY FRANCINE FULTON

Lion Helen Leibig and the Easter Bunny at last year’s Breakfast with the Easter Bunny event

member and a past member of the Parkesburg Library Board. The Lions Club also provided a “Buddy Bench” at Octorara Elementar y School, which is available for students who are in need of friends or playmates. Other benches were placed in memory of Joann Carmen, who was the office manager of the

Parkesburg VFW, and Thaddeus “Bud” Wilde, director of the Wilde Funeral Home. Wilde was a past president of the Parkesburg Lions Club and was very active in the community. The community is welcome to donate plastics for the bench program. Items such as grocery bags, bread bags and dry cleaning

The Girls Run the World Club (GRTW) at the Octorara Junior-Senior High School will hold its annual Dress to Express Positive Prom Showcase on Friday, March 8. During the event, students will be able to view some of the prom dresses that are available for “purchase” from Kacie’s Kloset in exchange for donations of nonperishable food items for the Octorara Area Food Cupboard. The showcase will be held

in the high school auditorium during lunch from 10:27 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. In years past, the showcase featured a runway fashion show, but this year, students will be able to view a display of various garments during their scheduled lunch periods. The show is being organized by Tina O’Connor, GRTW adviser, a licensed professional counselor from Experience Positive Therapy in Parkesburg; her intern, Lindsay Corkery, a master’s student at West Chester University; Octorara See Prom showcase pg 8

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he Parkesburg Lions Club has set several special events in March - a community bench dedication and Easter activities. A community bench dedication to honor the late Charlie Scott will take place on Saturday, March 9, at 11 a.m. The bench will be placed at Dyer’s Deli, located at 5739 W. Lincoln Highway, Parkesburg. All are welcome. “Charlie passed away in December. He was a lifelong resident of Parkesburg and longtime member of the Parkesburg Lions Club,” noted Robin McKenna, Lions Club president. “The brief dedication will take place on what would have been Charlie’s birthday.” Scott served in the U.S. Army from 1952 to 1954 and was stationed in Germany. He was later employed in the maintenance department at the former ServiStar Warehouse in Parkesburg, He was a member of the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd Church in Coatesville and was a former member of the Keystone Masonic Lodge 569 F. & A.M. of Parkesburg. As a member the Parkesburg Lions Club, he served as a Lion Tamer, which is the person responsible for keeping the club’s property and equipment in order. The Parkesburg Lions Club has been collecting plastics to earn free benches as part of a recycling program offered by the Trex Company. The Lions Club placed its first bench in the community at the bus stop near the Parkesburg Library, 105 West St. It was dedicated to the late Jim Norton, a longtime Lions Club

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