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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LX • NO 39
Cornerstone to present 10th annual Walk for Life BY FRANCINE FULTON
Health has held a Walk for Life event, featuring a 5K walk, a For the past nine years , flag football tournament and Cor nerstone Re pro ductive children’s activities that took See Cornerstone pg 6
Paradise Lions Club members present funds raised at the Dinner in the Dark to VisionCorps representatives.
Eye-opening experience Lions Club plans seventh Dinner in the Dark
BY ANN MEAD ASH
Participants in last year’s event walked at the park in Gap. This year, the walk has been moved to New Holland.
A quilt lover’s paradise BY ANN MEAD ASH
Dinner in the Dark gives attendees a chance to experience dining with vision limitations.
will learn about the work of VisionCorps, and part of that presentation will be education about vision loss and how different vision impairment issues impact
people in their daily lives. At each table, diners will have the opportunity to experience eating with vision limitations by choosing from items they can
Sally Mittelstadt, a member of the Garden Spot Village (GSV) Quilt Club and an organizer of the first Quilt Fest, is excited to invite quilt lovers from around the area to GSV. “It’s free and open to the public,” said Mittelstadt. “Come for the day,” she encouraged. Quilt Fest will be held on Saturday, Sept. 28, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at GSV, 433 S. Kinzer Ave., New Holland. A variety of quilts will be on display, with some available for purchase. The display will include the Victor
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Weaver Quilt on loan from the New Holland Area Historical Society and eight antique quilts made prior to 1900. There will also be a quilting demonstration, which will include quilt piecing, hand quilting, and comforter knotting, in the Village Park. Two presentations by local art historian Gloria Mast will be given in the chapel, and GSV’s stores and eateries will be open. Grab-and-go meals will be offered to eat on the porch, and plenty of on-site parking will be available for visitors. Mast’s first presentation will be given at 10 a.m., and it will See Quilt Fest pg 9
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nita Fieldsa wants Pequea Valley-area businesses and residents to know more about the annual Paradise Lions Club Dinner in the Dark. She recalls the first time the Bank of Bird-in-Hand, where she works, reserved a table at the event. “The first year we had four people, and it was so much fun,” she noted. Last year, more bank employees attended. “The staff (members who attended) said it brought them together on a whole different level,” noted Fieldsa. “It’s a good team-building activity.” T he Paradise Lions C lub’s seventh Dinner in the Dark will give attendees a unique opportunity to eat a meal with limited or no vision. This year’s dinner will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 9, at 6 p.m. at White Chimneys, 5117 Lincoln Highway, Gap. In addition to the meal, there will be presentations by VisionCorps, which will benefit from the dinner. A silent auction, which will feature up to 35 items, will be held during the reception. During the dinner, attendees