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wo adorable groundhogs. The second day of February. Two predictions. Two functions. Acorn Acres Wildlife Rehabilitation will celebrate Groundhog Day with a pair of parties. The organization’s “chief chuck,” Elliott, will make his official prognostication during a get-together on Monday, Feb. 2, at Conestoga House & Gardens, 1608 Marietta Ave., Lancaster. The festivities will run from 9 to 11 a.m. It is a ticketed event, but there is no charge for admission. Event tickets and tickets for parking are available by going to www.acornacreswr.com and clicking on the Programs/Events tab. The deadline to register is Saturday, Jan. 31, at noon. There are only 30 tickets for parking available. An overflow lot will be located at the Grace Baptist Church lot entrance off Marietta Avenue. There will not be a shuttle bus. “It’s just like a meet-and-greet,” said Betsy Shank, Acorn Acres’ founder and executive director. “There will be photo ops with groundhogs, and bagels, cream cheese, and coffee will be provided.” Elliott will make his official prognostication at 10 a.m. Two identical bowls with the same snack placed in each will be put in front of the red-brown See Groundhog Day pg 2
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Troy L andis noted that Immerse International serves two major purposes. “One is the housing, mostly for international students, who are here studying, and they mostly do not study here in this English program,” said Landis, the director of education for the organization that is located at 321 Manor Ave., Millersville.
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“Mostly they are students at Millersville (University) or HACC or (people who are) working locally.” “Then there’s the intensive English language program. That is for international students who came just to study, and they need a little more English before they can get to university, or local immigrant and refugee folks who settled International director of here and are looking to get to Immerse education Troy Landis stands in front of the See Immerse pg 5 Millersville International House.
Millersville Borough is going through a phase. Its plan to renovate Freedom Memorial Park was finalized last year, and the first part of the work is underway. “It was a long process that our park commission went through in order to get ourselves prepared to start going after some grant funding in order to make some improvements to the park,” borough manager Rebecca DeSantis-Randall said. “Our park commission went through the process of working with a consultant to do some visioning, and we did some public outreach to figure out what sort of vision we had for the park going forward.” The tempo of the task will depend on money. Once plans were finalized, the borough began seeking grant funding to bring the project to fruition. The borough recently learned it had been awarded a $75,000 grant from the Department of Community and Economic Development’s Greenway Trails and Recreation grant program. Then the borough was notified it had been granted $373,200 from the Community Conservation Partnerships Program administered by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR). “We’re very grateful for that,” said DeSantis-Randall. Phase one of the six-phase process involves focusing on accessibility improvements to See Park pg 8
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