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MARCH 5, 2025
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXI • NO 11
Pequea Valley girls’ basketball enjoys the experience despite district defeat BY GEORGE DEIBEL
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laying in the Giant Center was likely a once-in-a-lifetime experience for the seniors on the Pequea Valley girls’ basketball team. The underclassmen have already set their sights on returning. The second-seeded Braves (22-3) could not overcome a slow start and fell 53-36 to top-seeded Trinity in the PIAA District III Class 3A championship game on Feb. 26 in Hershey. It was the Braves’ first-ever appearance in the district title game and an experience they won’t soon forget. “I think it was great,” Pequea Valley coach Jason McDonald said. “You feel bad for the seniors because it’s the only trip they’re going to make here unless we get to the state finals. As far as everyone else, they want to come back.
The Braves players and coaches with their second-place medals
Photo by Cheri Sine
They got to experience it all. My Senior guard Katie Stoltzfus challenge to them is, ‘What are said, “We’d never played in the you going to do in the offseason Giant Center before, so coming to get back here?’” here means a lot to us. We had
great support from our school wanted to do it with any other and the students. It was cool to team.” make history, and this was the The Braves were ultimately team to do it. I wouldn’t have undone by a rocky start. Trinity
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Before Pequea Valley High School (PVHS) juniors and seniors entered the school gymnasium where the third annual First Choice Career Fair, featuring representatives from 55 local businesses, was held on Feb. 7, they were given specific instructions from school principal John Trovato. “Representatives from these companies are excited to meet you,” Trovato told the students. “I know there are a lot of things in life you cannot control, but you can Pequea Valley High School students attended the third annual First
It feels good to take part in a food drive or drop off a bag of groceries at your local food pantry, but how do you know if what you donated was really helpful? We asked Amy Marburger, food and nutrition manager of the CrossNet Ministries, and Kerri Burns, market director at The Factory Ministries, to talk about donations that are especially appreciated and those that are a little harder to distribute. CrossNet’s food pantry serves close to 200 local families monthly,
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and Burns said that more than 35 families per week shop at The Factory Market. Marburger stated that all in-date items are welcome, but that donations that fall into the personal care items category are often the most appreciated. Marburger listed shampoo, conditioner, body wash, dish detergent, laundry detergent, hand soap, paper towels, and facial tissues among those items that are not donated as often. Over at The Factory, Burns said that she would add plastic silverware and toilet paper to the list, along with canned See Food pantry pg 9
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