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APRIL 10, 2024
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXXIV • NO 6
ChesCo Search Dogs seek to find the lost or the missing BY FRANCINE FULTON
Organizers of the event include Friends members (from left) Toady Kennel, Karen Woods, Joan Esworthy, Kate Valentino and Jeannette Kolb.
Library Friends plan spring tea
BY FRANCINE FULTON
“We have decided to go with a garden theme.” tea cakes and a variety of teas. “We will have sweets and savories. The theme is ‘Welcome Spring,’ so we will be decorating the tables for spring,” Esworthy said. “Since there is no guest speaker this year, the women (can) chat.” “We will also have several photo op backgrounds like a garden bench where attendees can take
their photo,” Kolb added. Attendees are encourage to wear tea attire, which includes hats or fascinators, which are decorative headpieces that are attached to the head with a hair clip or comb. A limited number of fascinators will be available for purchase at the event. There will also be an opportunity for guests to win door prizes. “Door prizes will be gift certificates for our (May) plant sale and the Read Moore Book Store, books, a garden basket and a John Esworthy painting,” Kolb noted. All proceeds from the tea will benefit the library. A fee will be charged per person. For more information or to reserve a ticket, call the library at 610-593-6683. Tickets are also available for purchase at the library, 9 W. Slokom Ave., Christiana. Cash, check or Venmo will be See Spring tea pg 2
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Bingo! BY ANN MEAD ASH
Bethany Miller, adult advocate with The Factory Ministries, cannot contain her enthusiasm when she talks about the monthly bingo event she organizes for Factory participants. “It’s a great opportunity to watch a participant win, yell out, ‘Bingo!’ and then go up to select from a great array of prizes,” said Miller, who added that participants love the event so much, they often line up outside the door before it starts. Bingo is held monthly at The Factory, 3293 Lincoln Highway
East, Paradise. The event is normally held from 1 to 3 p.m. on the fourth Thursday of each month, but in April, it will be held on Thursday, April 18. “We typically have 50 to 70 people that come to bingo,” noted Miller. “(Participants) are surrounded by people.” Miller explained that bingo helps bolster a participant’s relational resources. “We believe there are six primary resources, and we try to walk alongside our participants (to enhance these),” said Miller, who explained that when working with clients, she uses a set of six dominoes See Bingo pg 8
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he Friends of the Moores Memorial Library will present a “Welcome Spring” tea party on Saturday, April 20, from 2 to 4 p.m. The event, which will be held at a new location this year, will take place at Christiana Fire Company, 214 S. Bridge St., Christiana. The tea was traditionally held in February, but this year, organizers have changed the time and location of the event. “Since we changed the month, we changed the venue, and instead of having a guest speaker, we have decided to go with a garden theme,” said Friends member Jeannette Kolb. The last tea hosted by the Friends was held in 2020, and the theme was “Alice in Wonderland.” Previous themes have include “Downton Abbey” and “Gone With
the Wind.” “We had it in February 2020, and then in March, we went on lockdown, so we have not had this event since COVID,” noted Joan Esworthy, Friends president. Afternoon tea fare will be featured at the event, including scones with lemon curd, assorted
Memb ers o f the ChesCo Search Dogs team never know when they will get the call. Whether it be to search for a lost hiker or a missing child, the dogs and their handlers are ready to be dispatched wherever they are needed. ChesCo Search Dogs is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization dedicated to training and providing trained K-9 teams to help Keith Studnick and his dog, Hunter find missing and lost persons and to detect human persons in Chester County and remains. ChesCo Search Dogs has throughout eastern Pennsylvamore than 20 K-9s and their han- nia, New Jersey and northern dlers in various stages of training Delaware. who provide free ground search “A lot of times the person is services to locate lost or missing missing but not lost, and there