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JUNE 7, 2023
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LX • NO 7
Making friends through film n 2018, Hempfield High School (HHS) teacher Matt Binder and Chris Schwalm from Cedar Crest High School were discussing ideas for new media programs in the area. Local schools typically only have one media or journalism teacher per district, so the two brainstormed how they could find a way to unite students across the region. Binder, who teaches CommTech at HHS, wanted to create an event that would stray from a typical film contest that focuses on students’ competition with each other. “Usually in our field, contests pit school against school. But when students get to college, they’ll need to learn how to work with people who aren’t their friends,” Binder said. Binder and Schwalm came up with the idea to host a film festival for students and partnered with Elizabethtown College, which agreed to have the event on its campus. The first contest was held in
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the spring of 2019 and returned last year after taking a break due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Students returned to Elizabethtown College on May 22 for this year’s event, which included middle school and high school students from Hempfield, Solanco, Cedar Crest, Donegal, Eastern York and Waynesboro school districts. Upon arriving at the college, the students were divided into groups with kids from different schools and were assigned a prompt that they needed to use to make a video. Certain students in each group were assigned roles such as director or editor. For the first portion of the day, the groups dispersed across the campus to come up with an idea and find a location to film. While the director and other group members shot the footage, the editors got to tour Elizabethtown College’s communications facility, which includes a radio station, an editing room and television studio. Once the director and company were done filming, they handed the See Film festival pg 2
Lancaster Community Market will feature local bands and vendors The Lancaster Community Market will return to the area on Saturday, June 10, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event will take place at 311 Stanley K. Tanger Drive, Lancaster, located by the guest service area of the Tanger Outlets, and it will include live entertainment, kids activities and local vendors and nonprofit organizations. Live music for the Lancaster Community Market will be provided by gospel musician Chuck Mock and local outfit Small Town Troubadours, a rock band based in Quarryville. Small
Town Troubadours’ members include high school students from the Solanco and Hempfield school districts. Multiple local vendors will sell a variety of items during the event, including homemade jewelry, handpoured candles, wreaths, dog treats and accessories and bath products. Lancaster-based author Chas Williamson will have books available for purchase and signing. Food and beverages will be available to purchase from a slew of food trucks, such as G’s Concessions, Brotherly Love Scratch Kitchen, Under the Bridge Cider, Joe’s Fish Sandwiches and Kona Ice of Lancaster. See Community Market pg 9
Student’s artwork to be featured in national exhibition BY ADRIAN ESCHENWALD
Anika Hodgdon’s painting “Reader’s Quiet Reflection” will be featured in an exhibition at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
A painting by Solanco High School senior Anika Hodgdon has been accepted into the 42nd annual Congressional Art Exhibition in Washington, D.C. Hodgdon’s pastel piece “Reader’s Quiet Reflection” will be recognized during a reception at the Capitol, among artwork from students across the country. Hodgdon will travel to Washington, D.C., for the opening reception of the exhibition and an awards ceremony in June. The artists featured
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in the exhibition will tour the Capitol, and their work will be hung in the Cannon Tunnel for the next year. Hodgdon’s work will represent the 11th Congressional District of Pennsylvania among over 400 pieces from districts across the country. “Reader’s Quiet Reflection” took Hodgdon four months to complete and depicts her with the book “Emma” by Jane Austen. Hodgdon said her teacher Candace Rakers encouraged her to portray something she loved in the painting. See Student artist pg 7
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