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Pequea Valley Students Explore Careers in Manufacturing
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activity gave the students a electrical, plumbing, engineering chance to practice different man- and design, collaboration and ufacturing-related skills, including problem solving. In addition to
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5004 Horseshoe Pike Honey Brook, PA Jesse Bills recently became a father and the senior pastor at High View Church of God. Photo by George Deibel
Jesse Bills began working on plans to connect with families right around the time he was expanding his own. Bills’ wife, Julia, gave birth to their son, Judah, on Aug. 1, five days after he became the senior pastor at High View Church of God. Bills had previously served at Pequea Evangelical Congregational Church.
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Attempting to open a locked box using a series of clues are students (from left) Jayden Gingher, Miranda Hober and Kathy Jones. Photo by Francine Fulton
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“My wife and I had just felt from the Lord that it was time,” Bills said. “We were at Pequea for four years and just was sensing that it was time. The Lord had kind of released us from there. We wanted to stay in the eastern Lancaster County region but wanted to find just a place that had some more opportunities to reach families and children. When we saw High View was looking for a senior pastor
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iring an outlet, printing T-shirts, solving clues to open a locked box and assembling a bluebird house and a picnic table were just some of the hands-on activities that seventhand eighth-grade students took part in during a program held on Oct. 2 during Manufacturing Week at Pequea Valley Secondary (PVS). During the day, students were guided through various learning sessions designed to test their skills and introduce them to future careers. “Manufacturing Week gives learners a taste for these different careers,” said STEM 8/STEM 8 Advanced teacher Jamiel Smoker. “The goal is to expose them to manufacturing jobs and careers of the future.” Smoker explained that each
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The Friends of the Moores Memorial Library will present their annual fall book sale in the Read Moore Book Store, located in the lower level of the library, 9 W. Slokom Ave., Christiana. Sale hours will be on Thursday, Oct. 16, from noon to 7 p.m.; on Friday, Oct. 17, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and on Saturday, Oct. 18, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. In addition to books, the sale will feature DVDs; puzzles; records; audiobooks; and a selection of small paintings completed by local artist John Esworthy, including one of the Gap Town Clock. A bag sale will be held every day of the sale. Bags will be provided by the library for a set price. “We are going to have pop-up sales each day,” noted Friends secretary Karen Woods. “Each day, we will choose a category. For September, we chose cookbooks.” Books will be sorted in various categories, including fiction and nonfiction. “(Categories will include) military and wars; sports; art; do-it-yourself; gardening; crafts, hobbies and sewing; inspirational and spiritual; and fantasy. There will also be older specially marked books. We also have young adult books and lots and lots of kids’ books,” said Woods. “You name it, we have it.” Woods said that many book lovers look forward to the sale because they enjoy reading actual books versus reading them electronically. “A lot of people read books online, (but then you) miss holding the book and turning the pages,” she said. “It’s an experience.”
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