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NOVEMBER 30, 2022
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXXII • NO 40
Gap Town Clock Lions Club To Present Christmas Bazaar from local vendors, food items and an opportunity for children to visit The Gap Town Clock Lions Club with Santa. About 20 crafters and artisans will will hold its annual Christmas bazaar at the Gap Fire Hall on Sat- be featured, selling items such as urday, Dec. 3, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. jewelry, woodcrafts and home décor. The event will feature shopping Home-based business vendors, including Mary Kay cosmetics and Norwex cleaning, will also offer items for sale. “We will have hot lunches to purchase - soup and sandwiches - along with doughnuts and coffee,” said club president Steve Wenrich. Visitors will also have an opportunity to win gift baskets, and Santa Claus will be on hand and available for photos. The club has also recently started collecting plastic items as part of a recycling program offered through Trex, which allows communities to earn free benches. Attendees are encouraged to bring plastic items to Children will be able to visit with Santa the bazaar. BY FRANCINE FULTON
Eagle Scout Completes Project At Gap Church BY FRANCINE FULTON
yler Remphrey, a member of Atglen Boy Scout Troop 20, recently used his computer savvy to complete his Eagle Scout service project. Tyler created a digital map of the graveyard at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Compass, located in Gap. Using a database that he created, the church leaders can now search the name and location of graves in the cemetery. Tyler said the project was a good way to put his computer skills to use. “I have done a lot of computer stuff throughout my life, and my Scoutmaster, (Cory Peters), thought this project would be perfect for me,” he said. He began his project by visiting the church, which has a graveyard
make the map and give the church guidance on how to use the software.” Tyler created a Google Doc and an instructional video for each job that the church needed. He also ran two in-person sessions to help teach people at the church how to use the program. “I gave them a framework and guidance on how to use the system I made, and they filled in the information (about the graves),” he said, noting the graveyard has nearly 3,000 graves. A team of fellow Scouts helped the church by visiting the graveyard several times and collecting information about some of the graves. The Scouts put the information into a binder so the church’s cemetery group could put the details into the database.
As shopping for gifts ramps up this holiday season, students and faculty from Octorara Area Career and Technical Education Programs (OACTEP) are asking the community to purchase an extra gift for a child in need, which will be distributed by the Chester County branch of Marine Toys for Tots.
See Eagle Scout pg 3
See Toys For Tots pg 12
Octorara Students Promoting Online Toys For Tots Drive BY FRANCINE FULTON
See Christmas Bazaar pg 6
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that dates back to the 1700s and is still used today. For years, the church kept several large paper maps and filing cabinets of papers with information on most of the graves. “They have a lot of old (graves), including pre-Revolutionary War ones,” said Tyler. “I started by asking what information they would need and how they wanted it to look, and I did research on how I could make what they wanted a reality.” Since the church has limited funds, Tyler found a suitable program on QGIS (Quantum Geographic Information System), a free service. “It’s an open source, so people post information about it. It is a way to visualize data,” he said. “I had to teach myself how to use the program and
Claus at the Gap Town Clock Lions Club Christmas bazaar.
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Eagle Scout Tyler Remphrey (left) was honored by state Rep. Dan Williams.