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MARCH 22, 2023
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Troop PA-3125 posts craft show The craft show will feature a mix of vendors and crafters, who On Saturday, April 1, American will sell a variety of items, many of Heritage Girls Troop PA-3125 will which will be spring or Easter hold a craft show at the Solanco themed. Items such as spring Fairgrounds, Park Avenue, décor, Easter baskets, jewelry, Quarryville. The event will be held wreaths and wooden crafts will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Kreider sold at the event, and all proceeds will benefit Troop PA-3125. The Building and will be free to attend. troop will operate a booth to offer informational materials to attendees, and food will be available to purchase from the Fry Shack food truck. The event will also include a prize drawing for multiple items donated by participating crafters and local businesses. The Pioneers and Patriots groups of Troop PA-3125, which together comprise the girls in the troop between the ages of 12 and 16, are organizing the event with the help of volunteer Troop PA-3125 includes members from areas Danielle Worrell. Worrell, across the county, including school districts whose daughter is a memsuch as Penn Manor and Solanco. Through ber of Troop PA-3125, BY ADRIAN ESCHENWALD
Radwa Matar (left) and her husband, Mohamed Ibrahim
A piece of home BY ADRIAN ESCHENWALD
n Feb. 27, Radwa Matar of Millersville officially opened the doors to Koshary Station, located at 4 S. Prince St., Millersville. The restaurant serves traditional dishes from Matar’s native country of Egypt and marks the beginning of a new chapter in her career in the food industry. The restaurant’s main dish is koshary, a popular Middle Eastern street food that consists of pasta, rice, lentils, chickpeas, spiced tomato sauce and caramelized onions. Matar had tossed around the idea of starting her own restaurant and serving traditional cuisine from her home country since she first came to Lancaster in 2006. She gained experience while working in catering and commercial kitchens and worked in the cafeteria for Hempfield School District for several years while she lived in
restaurant after leaving her position in a school cafeteria last year. “It’s been my plan for a while,” Matar said. “I was looking for the right place for a restaurant. It was a gift to find something so close to where I live.” Although the task of starting one’s own business is daunting, Matar said that she is confident that she has the skills she needs to ensure Koshary Station’s success. In addition to working in restaurants and cafeterias, Matar used to participate in Taste of the World in Lancaster city, where she and other Middle Eastern women would gather to prepare and serve dishes from their native countries. “I gained so much experience in the industry. You get to know how a business is run and how to work with food,” said Matar. “I used to serve over 300 children a day when I worked in a cafeteria and learned so much about serving people.”
the program, the girls take camping trips and participate in enrichment activities.
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“Shrek The Musical” celebrates our differences BY CATHY MOLITORIS
“This show is about acceptance,” said Landon Hunsicker, describing “Shrek The Musical.” “Shrek is an ogre, and everyone assumes he’s mean, but the show gives him the opportunity to show what’s inside him and help him connect with the other characters.” “Shrek The Musical” will be performed by Encore! Home School Productions at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 31, and Saturday, April 1, and at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 2. It will be performed at The Junction Center,
1875 Junction Road, Manheim. “The cast has worked really hard on this show,” noted Landon, who portrays Donkey. “ We started rehearsing in November. It’s a really fun show, and it’s different than the movie version of ‘Shrek.’ It adds to that original story.” “Shrek The Musical” tells the story of the title character, Shrek, portrayed by Seth Snyder, who becomes an unlikely hero as he takes a journey to rescue the feisty Princess Fiona, played by Emily Norcott as an adult, Grace Richey as a teen and Cambria Brinton as a
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West Lancaster. Part of Matar’s vision of the restaurant was born from her struggles with acclimating to a different culture and missing her hometown and family, most of whom still live there. She also noticed that few, if any, restaurants in the area offer specifically Egyptian food. Matar still visits her family in Egypt every two years, and regular video calls with family members allow her to stay connected with them, but being able to offer a part of her culture to the community has also helped her to abate feelings of homesickness. Matar’s husband, Mohamed Ibrahim, came to the United States in 2000 and found work as a machine operator for Kellogg’s. He returned to Egypt, where he and Matar were married, and the couple moved to Lancaster together. Matar and Ibrahim moved to Millersville three years ago. Matar finally decided to realize her dream of opening a