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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2018 • VOLUME LII, NO. 42 • READ THE FULL ISSUE ON THE WEB:
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Akron Lions Celebrate 25 Years Serving Spaghetti Dinners
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t r a e e H lif ! .. .e n j o y i n g Around Town Also see our complete calendar of events in The Bulletin Board, in this section!
Look in this week’s Things To Do section beginning on page 15A for more events, including: • Farmersville Fire Company Community Sale • West Earl Fire Company All You Can Eat Breakfast • Garden Spot Fire Rescue Yard Sale & Soup Sale
THURSDAY, JANUARY 25 Garden Spot Village, 433 South Kinzer Avenue, New Holland, will host a Paint Party at 6:30 p.m. There is a cost. For more info. or to register, call 717355-6500.
It is no secret that most of the activities of the Akron Lions Club center around its largest annual fundraiser, the grilled cheeseburger stand at the Ephrata Fair. The origins of the annual Spaghetti Dinner held at noon on the last Sunday in January is no different. After the fair in 1993, it was discovered that the butcher providing the Lions with ground beef had prepared more than
was loaded on the final Saturday pickup. Under the direction of the then-Club President Lion James Abshire, members met to resolve the issue. Lion Kay “Mac” McEllhenney came up with the idea of holding a spaghetti dinner. The ground beef was frozen and held for the January fundraiser. Mac convinced the club that he could procure an old family recipe that would be a definite
Shopping News Photo by Donald Reese culinary winner with Akron area plows could clear the streets and residents. The allure of the now- fire hall parking lot for access to famous “secret sauce” had begun. the building. Mac would hear However, the fundraising event none of it and contacted fellow almost stalled before it got started. Lion Ervin Hoover, who agreed to A few days earlier the weather have his snow plow operators at turned bitterly cold and it snowed enough for the Akron Borough his North Seventh Street nursery manager to ask the Lions to cancel business help clear the streets and the event because he could not parking lot so the event could go (Continued On Page 5A) guarantee that municipal snow
LLMEA High School County Orchestra Members
FRIDAY, JANUARY 26 The Ephrata Swim Team will hold a Bingo at the Ephrata recCenter. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Bingo starts at 7:00 p.m. There is a cost. For more info. or tickets, call 717-733-3402.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 28 Adamstown Community Days will sponsor a Cash Bingo at the Comfort Inn, 2017 North Reading Road. Doors open at 1:00 p.m. Games begin at 2:00 p.m. There is a cost. For more info., call 484-256-0851.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 30 Landis Homes, 1001 East Oregon Road, Lititz, will hold a Memory Loss Support Group, at 7:00 p.m. in the Warwick Room of The Heritage. The public is invited. For more info., call 717-581-3939.
Shopping News Photo by Donald Reese The following students earned membership to the Lancaster-Lebanon Music Educators Association (LLMEA) High School County Orchestra through a rigorous audition process. Shown in the photo, from left to right, are (front) Lily Moore, Sarah Pereverzoff, Olivia Schmid, Jacob Gordon; (back) Magdalena Fogarty-Harnish, Olivia Gordon, Bryce Babyak, Jamie Chon and Owen Gockley.