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SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXI • NO 42
Students display projects at Egyptian Fair BY GEORGE DEIBEL
to everybody.” Swift students walk around wift Middle School’s annual to evaluate their classmates’ Egyptian Fair is as much projects and then vote for their about the process as it is favorites. The top five groups about the project. present their works to Clermont This year, sixth-grade students fifth-graders at the end of the gathered in the school’s great hall school day. Jan. 13 to display their projects That marks the end of a process for family members, classmates, that begins after Thanksgiving, and fourth-graders runs throughout from adjacent ClerDe ce m b e r, t h e n mont Elementary. resumes after the “We learned how holiday break. “This is the to work together culmination of Miller said the hard work S o lanco School better as a team the kids do,” said District chose and cooperating.” Eg ypt as one of Swift social studies teacher Ben Miller, the topics used who coordinates each year to teach the project with Literacy Enrich- state-mand ate d sk ills s uch ment Across Disciplines (LEAD) as compiling research. “(The teacher Susan Dawson. “We do students) are lear ning how a research project. The kids also to find sources, learning how create an object that has some- to cite sources, and coming thing to do with Egypt. And we up with research questions have a tri-fold board, a science that will require big , beefy fair-type board, the kids create. a n s w e r s i n s t e a d o f a o n e This is their chance to show it off word yes or no,” said Miller.
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Swift Middle School sixth-graders (from left) Cassidy Grumbling, Brinley Vaughan, and Palmer Haga show
CAPLC promotes economic opportunity for all BY JEFF FALK
There are a great many Lancaster County nonprofits seeking to fulfill basic needs. But there’s so much more to life than bare necessities. Not only does Community Action Partnership of Lancaster County (CAPLC) want its clients to survive, but the nonprofit also wants them to thrive. “ T h e re a re fo l k s i n o u r
community who are living with low incomes,” said Kristy Aurand, who’s been CAPLC’s chief development officer for eight years. “When any one group of people do better, we all do better. Every person has value, and we’re all members of the same community. We get to do this work, and we hope that everyone sees this work as important, not just the people receiving our services. Lancaster County is a strong See CAPLC pg 7
Region’s top high school musicians take part in festival BY GEORGE DEIBEL
Lampeter-Strasburg (L-S) High School hosted some of the area’s top high school musicians during the District 7 South Band Festival on Jan. 24 and 25. Musicians and band directors representing 38 schools in Lancaster, York, and Adams counties participated in the two-day festival, which culminated with a concert on Saturday afternoon, led by guest conductor Tonya M i tche l l - S prad l i n , a
High school musicians rehearse during the District 7 South Band
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See Egyptian Fair pg 5 their project at the Egyptian Fair.