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MAY 8, 2024
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXXIV • NO 10
Youngsters learn about equine therapy during library story time BY FRANCINE FULTON
Octorara to present OABEST Expo
BY FRANCINE FULTON
on the newly created OABEST Expo Instagram page. “We will be doing something with a robot. We might be racing CO2 cars,” noted Gavin Boyer, a student in the Engineering and Drafting Technology program, explaining that CO2 cars are miniature race cars that are propelled by a carbon dioxide cartridge. “We are running a milkshake truck alongside a petting zoo,” added Daniel Rowe, a student in the Animal and Plant Science Technology program. Home Security and Protective Service Academy students will be organizing the displays by local first responders, and students in the Child Care Education program will present children’s crafts and pages for kids to color. Also featured will be a dunk tank, where district administrators will volunteer to get dunked. For the yard sale, residents of the Octorara Area School District
See Equine therapy pg 10
Full gallop - 5K plus 10K scheduled BY ANN MEAD ASH
When Aaron Stoltzfus, one of the organizers of the initial White Horse Gallop and Community Day in 2023, was asked about the success of the event, he said the good weather was a factor. “I thought it went well,” reported Stoltzfus, who noted that 193 runners - twice as many as organizers hoped for - had taken part. This year, organizers have added a 10K and a number of new activities to the event. The
See OABEST pg 7
second White Horse Gallop will be held on Saturday, May 25. Registration at the fire station, 111 White Horse Road, Gap, will open at 7 a.m. The 10K will begin at 8:15 a.m., and the 5K race will start at 8:30 a.m. In addition to the races, a state police officer and a doctor from Lancaster General Hospital will be on site. The White Horse EMS Team will offer attendees the opportunity to learn and practice CPR during the event. Organizers plan to have the smoke trailer, a bounce house, See White Horse Gallop pg 4
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petting zoo, crafters and vendors, food tr ucks, first responder displays and live entertainment, as well as student performances and demonstrations, are just some of that activities that will be featured during the annual Octorara Agriculture, Business, Environmental Science & Technology (OABEST) Expo. The event, which is designed to showcase the best of Octorara, will take place on Saturday, May 18, from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on the school grounds at Octorara Junior- Senior High School, 228 Highland Road, Atglen. Members of the Octorara Area Career and Technical Education Programs (OACTEP) student advisory board are helping to organize the event along with Mark Peticca, Octorara’s director of career and technical education. Peticca noted that between
1,000 and 1,500 people attend the event over the course of the day. “It’s open to the entire community,” he said. “We will have a Kids Zone, where they will have a lot of activities like an (inflatable) ax throwing station, and a community yard sale. We will have more than 60 vendors coming this year, including (people) representing their companies, arts and crafts vendors and a lot of food vendors.” Each area of study in the OACTEP will be represented at the event, including Business, Marketing and Entrepreneurship; Graphic Design and Illustration; Culinary; Home Security and Protective Service Academy; Diversified Occupations’ Woodworking Technology; and Child Care Education. “We will have a lathe, and we will be making crosses and cutting boards,” noted Johan Torres, a student in the Woodworking Technology program. Photos of the cutting boards can be found
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Students from the Octorara Area Career and Technical Education Programs are planning the event.
Moores Memorial Library recently took its story time program on the road by holding the event at WaterGap Stables in Christiana. T he stor y time featured all the traditional elements, including a book reading by library director Trish Vandenbosch, followed by a craft. But this time, instead of sitting in the library c h i l d r e n ’s r o o m Christi Scott has taught Gambler how to encircled by books, “shake hands.” the youngsters were surrounded nonprofit organization offers by open pastures with roaming animal-assisted therapy to people of all ages, including veterans. horses that reside at the farm. For the first half-hour of They also met Gambler, a miniature therapy horse that story time, children were able to is part of WaterGap Stables’ brush Gambler and spend time Hooves 4 Healing program. The with him. Vandenbosch then