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Edwards, a Pequea Valley student, was recently named as Student of the Quarter in the Octorara Area Career and Technical Education program.
equea Valley resident Alex Edwards was recently named Student of the Quarter in the Octorara Area Career and Technical Education program. Edwards, a culinary arts student, splits time between her native school of Pequea Valley and her technical school of Octorara. “I’ll wake up, and I’ll get a bus straight to Octorara,” she said. “I have three periods there, two of them being the culinary program, and then the third one is a (health) class. Then I’ll get a bus back around 11; come back; and go to my fifth period, lunch and then sixth and seventh period.” After Edwards missed out on an opportunity at the Lancaster County Career and Technology Center, she found out that the window was still open to do culinary classwork at nearby Octorara. She jumped at the opportunity. “We have a mix on the academic side of things,” said Mark Peticca, who directs Octorara’s Career and Technical Education (CTE) program. “We have 12 wonderful programs ... Pequea Valley reached See Culinary pg 2
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PV Rock Band Program Receives New Guitars BY LOGAN MOYER
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Ackerman applied for and received
See Rock Band pg 9 new guitars from Music for Everyone.
At PA CareerLink, Lancaster County Goes to Work BY JEFF FALK
On average, Americans spend 15 years and three months of their natural lives working, a total of some 90,000 hours. For some people, a job is work. For some individuals, employment is a career. PA CareerLink L ancaster County caters to both groups of people and helps individuals to navigate this critical portion of their lives. “It depends on the individual,” said Chris Roggenbaum, who’s been the site administrator at PA CareerLink Lancaster County for three years. “Some people may say they have a job. For me, my job is part of my career. It’s part of my path. Some people are looking for jobs. A lot of times, people put their identities into whether they have a job or a career.” An arm of the L ancaster County Workforce Development Board, PA CareerLink Lancaster County, which is located at 1046 Manheim Pike, Lancaster, is a job center that provides locals opportunities to improve t h e m s e l ve s f i n a n c i a l l y, to enhance their lives and to selfactualize. PA CareerLink Lancaster County’s hours of operation are Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Wednesdays from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. “A lot of people come to us thinking we’re the unemployment office, but we are not,” said Roggenbaum. “Our goal is to get individuals back to work See CareerLink pg 8
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Pequea Valley music teacher Jim Ackerman’s Rock Band program has grown into four unique bands at both the high school and middle school levels. Started in 2021, the program has grown from being strictly an afterschool program to now receiving class time, along with the typical after-school club format.
With that growth, which now includes 21 students, new equipment was deemed to be necessary. For the second time, Ackerman was recently awarded a grant from Music for Everyone, which has allowed the program to obtain new guitars. “As they’ve grown, we needed more instruments and better ones, higher-quality things,” Ackerman said. “They’re playing
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