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APRIL 9, 2025
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXI • NO 51
Yard sale will aid mission in Peru BY GEORGE DEIBEL
Middle Octorara Presbyterian Church will hold its spring yard sale on Saturday, April 19, from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 1199 Valley Road, Quarryville. There will be bargains both inside the church and in front of
the building. Items donated by church members will be available for purchase inside, including books, home décor, kitchen supplies, holiday items, tools, games, toys, baby seats, and clothing. Spaces outside will be rented See Yard sale pg 7
Solanco High School FFA officers (front, from left) Emmy Rineer, Madison Aaron, Claire Graybeal, Kaylee Appel, Zoey Miller, (back) Trent Eberly, Brayden Lundvall, and Logan O’Donnell, along with adviser Kayla Stauffer
Dan Henry (left) and Deb Hoover, co-organizers of Middle Octorara Presbyterian Church’s spring yard sale
BY GEORGE DEIBEL
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olanco High School’s FFA club wanted to try something different, so the group decided on a fundraiser that will appeal to its members and the whole community. The inaugural Solanco FFA Tractor Pull hosted by the Solanco Fair Association will be held Saturday, April 12, at the Solanco Fairgrounds, Park Avenue, Quarryville. Registration will begin at
8 a.m., and the pulls will start at 10 a.m. There is a hooking fee for anyone planning to pull, but there is no cost for spectators.Trophies will be awarded to the winners. Tractors will compete by weight class in two categories: antique (before 1960) and modern (1960 to 1980). “We were trying to think of different fundraisers to do that we hadn’t done before because the community was showing us they
were getting bored of the same fundraisers every single year,” said club president Kaylee Appel. “We are doing this to give some variety. We were coming up with different ideas, stuff our members would be interested in, but also things our community would be interested in. We kept going back to the (Solanco) Fair, where everybody crowds around the tractor pulls, and people really like watching that. We decided to do a tractor pull with the FFA and
Quarryville will offer a chance to hang with your Peeps BY GEORGE DEIBEL
Quarryville Borough will give people a chance to decipher the phrase that pays in Peeps. Peeps in the Park will be held Saturday, April 12, from 9 a.m. to sunset in Huffnagle Park, 20 Oak Lane, Quarryville. Twenty-three colorful wooden Peeps will be hidden in the park. Each Peep will have a letter on it. Participants will be tasked to
find all the Peeps, keep track of the letters, and unscramble the letters to form a spring-themed phrase. Participants should email the phrase to assistant borough manager Michelle Evans at evansm@quarryvilleborough .com, and all correct answers will be entered into a drawing for a Peeps-themed prize pack. “It’s just a fun family thing to do in the spring weather,” Evans said. “We’re trying to
See FFA pg 2
See Quarryville pg 3
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