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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXIV • NO 28
At Lititz Public Library, knitting’s not a solitary pursuit as needed, but we don’t teach.” The Lititz Library Knitters are or the Lititz Library Knitters, currently made up of about 20 to 25 knitting is much more than a mostly local women. The members way to pass time. It is an art, a create mainly clothing items - hats, craft, an avenue for creation. And scarves, sweaters and shawls - but for the club’s members, the act of also dish cloths, afghans, children’s knitting is more enjoyable when toys and bazaar items. “It’s a way to meet shared. The Lititz Library “We really enjoy like-minded people. Knitters meet three meeting with one We really have all levels of expertise,” said times a month at the Lititz Public Library, another. There is a Elliott. “At the meeton the first and third sense of community. ings, we always start Mondays from 10 a.m. The knitting brings with introductions if there’s someone new, to noon and on the us together.” just to make them last Tuesday from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Not only are the meetings feel welcomed. Then we go around very informal, but they also serve as the room and each person will talk a form of support for knitters and about what they’re working on or display a finished product. We want their knitting endeavors. “The goal is to promote knitting everyone to feel like what they’re and other fiber manipulative arts,” working on is valuable. I do modersaid Barbara Elliott, who serves as ate the meeting in that respect, and the Lititz Library Knitters’ modera- I try to have some tidbit of informator and spokesperson. “But we also tion about knitting. Pretty much want to promote fellowship and the everyone has a couple of things sharing of ideas. We help each other going.”
BY JEFF FALK
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Elements of fellowship are woven into the Lititz Library Knitters.
While it can also be performed by a machine, knitting is the act of using two needles to interloop fibers or yarn into rows to create a finished product.
Elliott’s grandmother gave her a pair of knitting needles when Elliott was a child. “Besides that, I’m selftaught,” she said. “I’ve studied through books, talking with other
knitters and word of mouth. I’ve been involved in fiber arts always. I was knitting sweaters in high school. If it’s something you like to do, you find time to do it.” See Lititz knitters pg 6
BY ADRIAN ESCHENWALD
Lancaster County’s annual 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb will be held on Sunday, Sept. 17, at the Barnstormers’ stadium, 650 N. Prince St., Lancaster. Registration will begin at 8 a.m., followed by the stair climb at 9 a.m. Participants will be required to pay a set cost to sign up, and registration will also be available online at www.lancasterstair climb.org until Friday, Sept. 15. Once the memorial service begins, participants will begin a procession up the steps of the stadium.
Arts & Culture Series seeks to broaden horizons BY JEFF FALK
They will circle the stadium five times, making the distance of the climb equivalent to the 110 stories of the World Trade Center. During the climb, each participant will carry an image or the badge of a first responder who was killed while responding to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Every year, many first responders travel to the Barnstormers’ stadium to participate in the event. Firefighters often choose to don their full set of equipment for the climb, carrying the same type of heavy gear that their fallen comrades did See Stair climb pg 3
What a mundane existence it would be if everything were the same. Not only is variety the spice of life, but also diversity makes the world go round. In association with Lancaster Bible College, the Trust Performing Arts Center’s ninth Arts & Culture Series is marked by diversity and variety and uniqueness. The Trust Performing Arts Center recently unveiled its 2023-24 events for the spirited Arts & Culture Series. The 14 performances See Arts & Culture pg 5
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