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APRIL 2, 2025
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXI • NO 49
Guild eager to teach about the benefits of herbs BY GEORGE DEIBEL
The Conestoga Herb Guild will hold six events during the remainder of the year that are open to the public. On Wednesday, April 9, John Wallace, a retired Millersville University professor, will deliver a presentation called “The Good,
the Bad, and the Ugly of Gardening Insects: Managing the Mob.” The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Millersville VFW, 219 Walnut Hill Road. C lub memb er Mar y Ann Steinhauer said Wallace will speak about the beneficial bugs in gardens and why gardeners should want them around. He See Herb guild pg 2
Members of Marticville Middle School’s Aevidum Club
Marticville Middle School students are looking out for their peers A total of 21 students from Marticville Middle School and Penn Manor High School attended the fifth annual Aevidum Live Conference, which was held at the Delta Hotel in Allentown on Feb. 27. The interactive event is dedicated to mental health advocacy and awareness. Out of more than 300 clubs nationwide, Penn Manor School District’s Aevidum clubs were honored as the Club of the Year, a recognition of their dedication to fostering mental health awareness and support within their schools and community, Croft said. The adviser noted Penn Manor received the honor because of its outreach events and how students have stayed in Aevidum year after year. She said the group’s friendto-friend training is empirically supported by Penn State University research. “It shows that what we’re doing is saving lives and
working for kids,” Croft said. In the 22 years since the Aevidum Club was founded, it has grown to include clubs in Ohio, Missouri, Texas, Maryland, and Delaware. Croft said there are 40 club members at Marticville, 20 at Manor Middle School, and 50 at Penn Manor High School. Marticville’s club meets approximately 28 times during the school year. Members visit the district’s elementary schools to tell sixth-graders about Aevidum. “I think it’s important for students to be involved because I see so many students struggling with an anxiety, with PTSD, with ADHD, with all of these things that were definitely a problem when I was growing up, but it was not OK to talk about it,” said Croft, who is a member of the national Aevidum board of directors. “So we want to shatter that stigma so kids can get
Mother-and-daughter team Emily Kauffman (left) and Jodie Combs at last year’s Herb Fest
Families will dig Fossil Safari BY GEORGE DEIBEL
Families can channel their inner archaeologist at a Fossil Safari sponsored by the Lancaster County Fossil and Mineral Club (LCFMC). The educational event will be held Saturday, April 5, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Trinity Reformed United Church of Christ, 450 W. Main St., Mountville. There is no fee for admission. Preregistration is required. Children must be accompanied by an adult. For more
information or to register, email LCFMC@LancasterCountyFossil AndMineralClub.org. LCFMC, which was founded by Catherine and Chris Haefner, held its first Fossil Safari on a Thursday night last November and will hold this one on a weekend due to popular demand. “It was well received,” said Sue Garrett, who is one of the event organizers. “The kids absolutely loved it.” The Fossil Safari will feature a variety of fossils collected by Sue and her husband, Chuck,
See Aevidum pg 5
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Students helping students. That’s the impetus for the Aevidum Club. The Aevidum Club was created in 2003 by students at Cocalico who had lost a friend to suicide, Marticville Middle School club adviser Danielle Croft said. “They didn’t know if they could talk about it or how to talk about it,” she said. “Out of that tragedy came Aevidum.” Croft stated, “It’s a club where peers get training on how to support their peers. By no means are we teaching them to be therapists or psychologists or counselors but to recognize the signs and symptoms in their peers and help them seek help to the 988 crisis helpline, a psychologist or counselor, or our SAP (Student Assistant Program) team here at Marticville.”
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