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SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
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Annual Brethren Disaster Relief Auction slated
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he 47th annual Brethren Disaster Relief Auction will be held at the Lebanon Valley Expo Center and Fairgrounds, 80 Rocherty Road, Lebanon, on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 27 and 28, beginning at 9 a.m. The auction, in cooperation with the Atlantic Northeast and Southern Districts of the Church of the Brethren, began in 1977 and has provided more than $19 million in disaster relief to victims of natural disasters both in the U.S. and internationally. Funds raised by the auction not only pay for emergency supplies for disaster victims but also support volunteer disaster relief trips throughout the year. In the past few years, funds and volunteers from the auction have helped immediate relief efforts and long-term
cleanup and rebuilding efforts from disasters such as earthquakes in Haiti and tornadoes and floods in Pennsylvania. Separate auctions include the main auction, the children’s auction, the quilt auction, the theme baske t auction, t wo silent auctions, the heifer auction, the coin auction, and pole barn auctions. T he two-day event may have as many as five auctions taking place at once. Children’s activities this year will include the children’s auction, specializing in new items for children to be bid on only by children. A children’s store will offer quality used items at reasonable prices, as well as face painting. A balloon artist will create balloon animals for kids, as well. Also available for youngsters, weather permitting, will be free barrel train rides and pony rides, the latter
Bidders take part in a previous auction.
of which will be offered for a nominal donation. Food is a large part of the auction each year, with options including made-on-site Amish soft pretzels and doughnuts, a
Encore! to present “You Can’t Take It With You” Encore! Home School Productions will present “You Can’t Take It With You,” a new production of a classic play, at 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 27, and Saturday, Sept. 28, as well as at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 29. Performances will take place at the Hershey Area Playhouse, 830 Cherry Drive, Hershey. “You Can’t Take It With You” is a comedic play about the members of the eccentric Sycamore family, who live carefree and follow their passions without worrying about
Ian Riethmiller (left) and Paul Meo prepare for Encore! Home School
See Encore! pg 3 Productions’ performances of “You Can’t Take It With You.”
cafeteria, food stands, breakfast, and a chicken potpie dinner. Other components of the auction include an area for arts and crafts and a farmers market with fresh produce and baked goods,
including homemade pies. To find out more about the auction, visit www.brethren auction.org, call 717-823-2745, or pick up an auction booklet at many local retailers.
CASA posts movie showing C o u r t A p p o i n te d S p e c i a l Advocates (CASA) of Lancaster and Lebanon Counties will host a family movie day at Penn Cinema, 541 Airport Road, Lititz, on Saturday, Oct. 12. The event will feature the newly released family adventure film “The Wild Robot,” which has a PG rating. Doors will open at 12:15 p.m., and the movie will begin at 12:30 p.m. and run for an hour and 42 minutes. Produced by DreamWorks Animation, “The Wild Robot” is an
animated science fiction survival film based on the book series of the same name by Peter Brown. The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot, Rozzum Unit 7134, that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling. The movie showing is free and open to the community, but space See CASA pg 2
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