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AUGUST 16, 2023

SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954

VOL LX • NO 16

The embrace of the community BY ADRIAN ESCHENWALD

The Penn Manor Marching Unit

Marching down the road not taken BY ADRIAN ESCHENWALD

he Penn Manor Marching Unit (PMMU) Booster Club will host a barbecue fundraiser on Saturday, Aug. 19, at Stauffers of Kissel Hill, 301 Rohrerstown Road, Lancaster. Meals will be available to purchase for a set cost, and they will include a half-chicken from Nolt’s Chicken BBQ , a baked potato, applesauce, a roll and a drink. Meals will be available at 10 a.m. While the deadline for preorders has passed, there will be a limited number of meals available for purchase that day. Walk-ins will be accepted until 2 p.m. or until supplies run out. Those who have preordered dinners must pick them up by 1 p.m. The booster club has organized the annual event for several years, and it functions as one of PMMU’s largest fundraisers. Last year, the barbecue meals were sold out within 30 minutes, prompting the organizers to increase their supply

This year, PMMU will participate in conferences through USBands, a national organization that coordinates competitive marching band events. The marching band will travel to various conferences throughout eastern and central Pennsylvania. The theme of this year’s show is “The Road Not Taken,” which is derived from the eponymous poem by Robert Frost. The show will focus on the subject of diverging paths in both a literal and figurative sense. The members of the marching band are currently preparing for the season at summer band camp, which takes place Monday through Friday each week from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. “The kids put in so much work for the show,” said Brian Pursel, president of the booster club. “It’s really amazing to see a diverse group of students with different backgrounds and personalities mesh for a common cause.” For more information, visit https://pmmu.org.

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for this year’s sale. PMMU’s booster required for each piece that the club frequently hosts a variety of band uses for a show. The money other fundraisers in addition to the raised by the booster club is also chicken barbecue, including sub used to compensate PMMU’s sales, a candy sale on Valentine’s music instructors, drill writers and Day, whoopie pie sales and bingo instrument technicians. Although the marching band has nights at schools in the Penn Manor access to certain resources through School District. The booster club will host another Penn Manor High School’s music department, many of fundraiser on Sunday, its operating costs Aug. 27, at Painting With a Twist, 124 S. “It’s really amazing are funded solely Centerville Road, t o s e e a d i v e r s e through the booster Lancaster. The event group of students club’s efforts. Expenswill be held from 2 to w i t h d i f f e r e n t es crop up for many 4 p.m. To register, b a c k g r o u n d s a n d miscellaneous needs, visit https://tinyurl personalities mesh including uniform dry .com/pmmupainting. f o r a c o m m o n cleaning, food and lodging for distant The funds raised cause.” shows and mainteby the booster nance on the trailers club’s events make up the majority of its budget; the that the band uses to transport its rest of its resources are supple- equipment. PMMU is currently preparing for mented by charging fees for student activities. One of PMMU’s a busy 2023-24 season, which will largest regular expenses is paying entail 10 football game perforfor music licensing, which is mances and six band competitions.

It has been six months since Radwa Matar of Millersville officially opened the doors to Koshary Station, 4 S. Prince St., Millersville. The restaurant, which serves traditional dishes from Matar’s native country of Egypt, is the culmination of her many years of experience in the food industry and her desire to share a piece of her culture with the local community. Matar moved to West Lancaster in 2006 after her husband, Mohamed Ibrahim took a job as a machine operator for Kellogg’s. Matar began working in the cafeteria for Hempfield School District, as well as local commercial kitchens and catering services, where she gained valuable insight on different aspects of the culinary world. Although she enjoyed her work, Matar developed and held onto a vision to open a restaurant of her own someday and share a piece of Egypt with her new community. Last year, she left her position in a school cafeteria to realize her dream. The road to opening Koshary Station wasn’t an easy one. Not only did Matar need to apply what she had learned from years in the industry, but she also had to become familiar with the logistics of operating her own business. During her time working in a school cafeteria, Matar learned how to organize a stock room and a walk-in cooler, keep track of expiration dates and shipment times and ensure the entire kitchen remained clean. Matar also served over 300 children a day, which she credited with teaching her how to regularly interact

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