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JUNE 12, 2024
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXV • NO 14
Clair Clawser continues to lead his best life BY JEFF FALK
Book provides meaning, perspective to unimaginable
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ife isn’t easy; it’s full of pitfalls and setbacks and heartache. But few things, if anything, can compare to the pain brought on by the loss of a child. Since losing her 10-year-old daughter Libby two years ago, Brooke Carlock’s life has been consumed by grief. She has tried everything to cope with it - to somehow manage it - including authoring a book, “Grief Sucks (But Your Life Doesn’t Have To).” “It was awful. It’s the most awful thing that can happen to anyone,” said Carlock, a resident
of Elizabethtown and an eighthgrade English/language arts teacher at War wick Middle School. “It’s the call you never want to get. You know it could happen to you, but you never think it will. What I was looking for was someone to tell me what to do. But there are no instructions for grief.” Carlock self-published her book at the beginning of April. The 133-page publication, her first, took four months to write. For Carlock, a published freelance writer, the book evolved from a blog designed to handle her grief. “I always wanted to write a
book, but never had anything I was super motivated to write about,” said Carlock. “It was much easier to write than I thought it would be. It was therapeutic. I just kind of put everything I was going through out there. I’m not really anyone special. I’m just an average, everyday person putting it out there and being honest. I think that’s what people respond to.” A fifth-grader at John R . Bonfield Elementary School in Lititz, Libby Shannon Miller was a joy for everyone to be around. But she was the apple of her mother’s eye. The date was Feb. 9, 2022, and
Music will liven summer Sunday nights at Long’s Park BY JEFF FALK
Long’s Park has a history with music in Lancaster. It’s a history of culture. It’s a history of diversity. It’s a history of symbiosis. It’s a history that continues to evolve. The 62nd season of the Long’s Park Amphitheater Foundation’s (LPAF) Summer Music Series is upon us. More than bigger and
better, this Summer Music Series is as varied as ever. “What we’re trying to do is bring diversity in genre and people from different areas of the world to Lancaster,” said Kristin Chronister, LPAF’s president-elect. “I think rather than top ourselves each year, we’re looking for high-end music we haven’t showcased in a while. We’re looking for different themes in order to bring different kinds of
See Grief book pg 5
See Summer music pg 2
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Brooke Carlock (left) lost her daughter, Libby Shannon Miller, to an automobile accident in February of 2022.
How do you encapsulate the meaning of a man’s life in 500 words? Clair Clawser has always led an active, colorful existence, filling the natural lulls with adventure, work and energy. It continues to be a life well-lived, a complete and rewarding life. If indeed Clawser has any regrets at all, it’s that he’s begin- Clair Clawser displays some of the projects ning to slow down. that continue to occupy his time. “Who wants to sit around and hamlet due west of Brickerville. watch TV all day?” said Clawser. After working the majority of “I have an active mind and an his adult life as a printer and a active body. I’m always thinking materials handler, Clawser retired about what’s next. I’m up for in 2016 and now devotes his anything. I’m active because I’m energies to his many interests, pursuits and curiosities, as well as able to do so much.” The 78-year-old Clawser is a a part-time summer job at Dutch resident of Poplar Grove, a small Wonderland as a ride operator.