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FEBRUARY 5, 2025
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Trivia host on quest to find out how much you know BY GEORGE DEIBEL
“The Trivia Guy” is on a mission to find out how much you know. Nicholas Gallagher hosts a weekly trivia game at the Sugar Bowl in Millersville, 9 Normal Ave.
The trivia game is called “How Much Do You Know?” and is held each Monday starting at 7 p.m. “You just show up, you grab a team sheet and a pen, you just have fun,” Gallagher said. “Each week, it’s a themed game. ... Then the top team in each game See Trivia pg 2
Kelly Dennis (left), Bruce Heydt (center), and Sharon McIlhenney are leading mental health support groups at Millersville Community Church.
Church to hold mental health support groups BY GEORGE DEIBEL
So we’re kind of branching out because we found there’s a great deal of interest, both within our own church and from members of the community.” Family Grace will meet from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Mondays starting Feb. 24, Redefine Grace will gather from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays starting Feb. 25, and Living Grace will meet from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesdays beginning Feb. 26. All three options are 10-week programs. Dennis has a Master of Science in clinical psychology from Millersville University, is licensed as a professional counselor, and is a member of the American Counseling Association and a Diplomat with the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies.
Region’s top high school musicians take part in festival BY GEORGE DEIBEL
Lampeter-Strasburg (L -S) High School hosted some of the area’s top high school musicians during the District 7 South Band Festival on Jan. 24 and 25. Musicians and band directors representing 38 schools in Lancaster, York, and Adams counties participated in the two-day festival, which culminated with a concert on Saturday afternoon, led by guest conductor Tonya
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Mitchell-Spradlin, a director of wind band studies and assistant professor of music at Penn State University. L-S band director Larry Royer, who has been teaching for 31 years, the last 22 also as band director, said the school has hosted the district orchestra in 2019 and all-state groups, but this is the first time it has hosted the District 7 South Band Festival. “It’s always a good thing to do,” See Festival pg 5
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illersville Community C hurch is providing safe spaces to work on one’s mental health through its Empowered by Grace ministry. “Empowered by Grace is kind of the umbrella name for the mental health care ministries Kelly Dennis was inspired to begin,” said Bruce Heydt, one of the team leaders. Dennis, the coordinator of the church’s mental health management team, first developed Living Grace, a program for adults who are struggling. “We started holding mental health support groups about three years ago,” Dennis said. “ We ’ve done five groups of
Living Grace. Then we decided there was such a call for it, we wanted to start a ministry that would include education and information and reduce the stigma that goes along with mental health.” That is the impetus for two more programs, Redefine Grace, for 16- to 23-year-olds who are struggling, and Family Grace, for caregivers, loved ones, and friends of those who are struggling. “We’re branching out now,” Heydt said. “The difference is Living Grace is for adults. Redefine Grace is for teens and youth. I think the issues those two groups deal with are kind of the same, but the triggers are a little different. Peer pressure probably has a lot more to do with the teens.
Nicholas Gallagher is the host of a weekly trivia game in Millersville.