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APRIL 30, 2025
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXI • NO 19
Grand finale Alumni concert planned at PVHS BY ANN MEAD ASH
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Pequea Valley High School past and present music department staff members (from left) Mark Williams, Nathan Bankert, and Peter Jarjisian will each direct at the final concert to be held in the school auditorium.
few years ago, Nathan Bankert, current music teacher at Pequea Valley High School (PVHS), contacted Mark Williams, who served as PVHS music teacher from the 1970s until 2014. “I realized this is the last year on this stage,” recalled Nathan. “I said, ‘I have to do something.’” The PVHS stage and much of the building will be torn down after the fall 2025 move into the newly constructed high school and middle school located adjacent to the current building. “ There have been so many years of excellent singing on that stage,” noted Nathan. “We’ve got to bring people back together to sing on that special stage one more time.” Together with Williams, Nathan began a Facebook group called the Pequea Valley Choral Alumni A ssociation, with the goal of gathering past
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“It’s our 15th anniversary, and we wanted to make it special,” said Jennie Straub, executive director of Cornerstone Reproductive Health, when announcing that this year’s Ladies Tea and Auction on Saturday, May 3, will take place at a new venue - the Barn at Paradise Station, 312 Paradise Lane, Ronks. “We are partnering with the owners, who are supporters of the ministry. It is very elegant. The way they restored it is gorgeous.”
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She added that the event will also begin a half hour earlier than in previous years. Registration and auction browsing will open at 8:30 a.m., and activities will begin at 9:30 a.m. “The lower level (of the barn) is where we will hold the auction,” Straub noted. “The tea and food will be on the upper level.” All proceeds will benefit the ce nte r, for me r l y k now n a s Pregnancy Resources at Cornerstone, which educates and supports women facing unplanned pregnancies. “All proceeds go
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graduates together for one “final big sing.” “It seemed like people were really excited about getting together and singing together, so that’s what this is,” said Nathan. The final concert in the PVHS auditorium, 4033 E. Newport Road, Kinzers, will take place on Saturday, May 10, at 4 p.m. The public is welcome to attend. A freewill offering will be received to offset costs. Performers at the 90-minute concert will include more than 180 PVHS alumni - coming from as far west as Arizona and as far east as Maine - and members of the current PVHS Chamber Singers. The alumni who will be performing will have opportunities to practice the music individually and as a group prior to the event. Nathan noted that the selections will present the singers with plenty of challenges with regard to levels of difficulty. “Some of the music is tough,” he stated. “These aren’t simple little pieces.”