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APRIL 17, 2024
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LX • NO 52
Cornerstone to host Ladies’ Tea and Auction BY FRANCINE FULTON
295 S. Kinzer Road, Paradise. Registration and a preview of the auction items will begin at 9 a.m., followed by the program at 10 a.m. A highlight of the event each year is the table decorations. Individual hostesses volunteer to decorate a table, and they invite their friends to sit at their table. The ladies decorate
Plans are underway for the 14th annual Ladies’ Tea and Auction that will be presented by Cornerstone Reproductive Health (formerly Pregnancy Resources at Cornerstone). The fundraiser will take place on Saturday, May 4, at Linville Hill Elementary School,
See Ladies’ Tea and Auction pg 7
Solanco Neighborhood Ministries’ board of directors invites you to get to know your neighbors at a new fundraiser, A Mile in My Shoes.
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Quarryville. A Mile in My Shoes will kick off with breakfast from 7:45 to 8:30 a.m., followed by a presentation from SNM executive director Teresa Dolan. Dolan will highlight the organization’s many programs that address issues such as food insecurity and offer educational resources to local residents. The presentation will also include testimonials from individuals whom SNM has served through its initiatives before wrapping up at 9:45 a.m. “The fundraiser is a big part, but we realized people don’t know all of what we offer the community,” Dolan said. “The food bank is huge, but we also have so many wraparound services. We thought this would be a good
Through getaways, PA Family Travel Fair brings people together BY JEFF FALK
Sometimes we try too hard. Sometimes we overthink things. Sometimes the answer is right in front of us. The PA Family Travel Fair has a unique way of simplifying things. The lively event focuses on recreation, on Pennsylvania, on family. “Recreation is so important to your well-being,” said Wendy Royal, organizer of the PA Family
Travel Fair and editor of Where & When Pennsylvania. “It’s crucial to your health to check out of your job. It can just be a long weekend. But it’s time with kids too. It’s important for families to spend time together. It’s important to get away and make those memories. You only get 18 summers with your kids.” The sixth edition of the annual PA Family Travel Fair, hosted by Where & When Pennsylvania, will be presented on Saturday,
See Solanco Neighborhood Ministries pg 9
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See Travel Fair pg 8
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Shoes, a new event that seeks to bring the Southern End comhe Southern End encom- munity closer together and to passes a network of business highlight the specific needs of its owners, neighborhoods and farmers that is as rich in friendships as it is fertile soil. Familiar faces “We want to show and deeply rooted bonds serve as people the different the foundation of the many small communities scattered across the ways we fulfill our rolling hills and rural countryside. mission to engage Although residents of the area are more than likely to see their families, meet our neighbors and storefront owners at neighbors’ needs and church and local farm shows, how to give people hope.” many of us are aware of struggles that our neighbors face at home and in their daily lives? Nonprofit organization Solanco members. The fundraiser will be Neighborhood Ministries (SNM) held on Thursday, May 2, at Wesley recently announced A Mile in My Church, 1104 Kirkwood Pike,
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BY ADRIAN ESCHENWALD
Organizers include (from left) Kathy Greig, Jennie Straub, Grace Frey, Beth Mellinger, Courtney Rylee, Hillary Prickett and Olivia Imchen.