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APRIL 26, 2023
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXXIII • NO 8
Ladies invited to benefit tea, auction BY FRANCINE FULTON
“Like a traditional tea, tiered plates will hold the tea sandwiches and desserts. It’s all fancy and girly,” said Jennie Straub, executive director, when describing the 13th annual Ladies’ Tea and Auction that is being hosted by Pregnancy Resources at Cornerstone. The event will take place on Saturday, May 6, at Linville Hill Elementary School,
295 S. Kinzer Road, Paradise, Registration will open at 9:30 a.m., and activities will begin at 10 a.m. All proceeds will benefit the center, which educates and supports women facing unplanned pregnancies. “We will give an update on what we do as a ministry and the new things that are happening at the ministry,” said Straub. “Then, we will go into a traditional ladies’ high tea.” See Benefit tea pg 8
Members of Team Seas, which took first place and will advance to the state competition, are (from left) Andrew Mitman, Jack Bierlein and Jack McGinnis.
Octorara students score high marks at STEM competition BY FRANCINE FULTON
everal Octorara students scored high marks for their ingenuity and creativity at the Chester County STEM design challenge held at the Chester County Intermediate Unit in Downingtown, including one fifth-grade team, which will advance to the state competition. As part of the annual challenge, held this year on March 31, students were asked to solve the following problem: “Major environmental issues, including climate change and pollution are currently facing our world. Your team is being tasked to research environmental issues, identify one that your team would like to address, and create a solution to that issue. Build a prototype out of K’Nex that supports your solution.” “They give (the students) the
“They all have to do the presentation, (and) they all have to help with the building. It is a team approach.” Gray explained that students created a prototype, which they rebuilt at the competition. “When they get to the challenge, they have to rebuild their project in two hours from scratch. They bring the
materials with them and re-create their design, and then they have a presentation to a panel of judges,” she said. Gray noted that all student team members work on problem solving together. “I coach them, but it is their idea,” she stated. “They all have to do the presentation, (and) they all have to help with the building. It is a team approach. There is not necessarily a leader. They collaborate throughout the whole process.” One fifth-grade team from OIS, called Team Seas, created the Ocean Olympian, a vehicle that can travel on land and in water to eliminate plastic and other waste found in the ocean. Students Jack Bierlein, Jack McGinnis and Andrew Mitman placed first in the fourth- and fifthgrade division and will move on to the state level in Harrisburg on Friday, May 12.
Displaying auction items are committee members (from left) Kristi Martin, Hillary Prickett, Beth Mellinger and Grace Frey.
The gift of life Atglen man receives new heart BY FRANCINE FULTON
In November of 2022, Community Courier readers were introduced to Nicholas Madrigale of Atglen, who was in need of a heart transplant. Today, Madrigale, who turned 32 on April 19, not only has a new heart, but he is also home recuperating with his family. “I am sore and not as strong physically, but I have moments when I (realize) I never felt this good before,” he said. The surgery took place at the University of Pennsylvania in
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Philadelphia, where Madrigale had been a patient for 95 days waiting for a donor heart. “In December 2022 they did a heart catheterization. They noted that my levels were not stable enough to go home, and they implanted an Impella heart pump,” he explained. “I was hooked up to a machine that assisted my heart in pumping. You cannot leave the hospital with that.” He received his new heart on April 1. “The organ procurement center called me on Saturday morning at 2 a.m. and told me it would happen that day. I went in (for See Gift of life pg 2
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