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WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 2025 • VOLUME LX, NO. 4 • READ THE DIGITAL EDITION ON THE WEB: SNEWS.COM
In This Week’s Issue:
New Holland Historical Society To Unveil New Band Museum
Section A
Do You Know...? Page 2A National Nurses Week Pages 8A-10A
Student Spotlight Ephrata High School Sara Baker Lititz Area Mennonite School Ellie Goss Biblical Message ............. 14A Births.................................... 15A Crossword Puzzle......... 12A “Happy Birthday”.......... 15A Obituaries ............................3A Professor Beam’s “Deitsch Eck”......................4A Things To Do ................... 11A
Section B
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The New Holland His torical Society is busy pre paring for a dropin event and presentation on the first floor of the museum in the Steve Loewen Community Room,
museum items are, Fred Hughes, band director; Brian Frankhouser, board member (holding band museum founder Art Futer’s violin); John Zimmerman, President
where the New Holland Band’s historical collection will be transferred. Shown in the photo, from left to right, with a few pieces of arriving band
Shopping News Photo by Donald Reese An exhibit will document of the band (holding a 1930s instrument made by the the Band’s creation in 1829 King Instrument Company) and trace its existence to and Mike Ressler, board today using instruments, chairman. (Continued On Page 2A)
Arbor Day Tree Planting Event Looks To The Future LOOK FOR OUR
FAMILY PAGE on the back page of B Section! 26TH ANNUAL
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IN THIS ISSUE!
An Arbor Day Tree Planting event was held at the new Tree Bank on East Trout Run Road recently. Council members, Mainspring and members of the community gathered to plant five trees. These trees
will have a chance to grow healthy with a strong root system, then be transplanted in a year or two to a location on Main Street in downtown Ephrata. The idea was to start planning for the future need for a downtown tree
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at Christmastime, as it is getting harder each year to find someone willing to donate a tree. Shown in the photo, from left to right, are (kneeling) Chandra Mast, Shade Tree
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Shopping News Photo by Donald Reese Commission chairperson and Braden Martin, Troop 73 Boy Scout volunteer; (back) Tim Barr, Ephrata Borough Council Third Ward; Linda Martin, Ephrata
Borough Council Vice President; Alex Mast, Shade Tree Commission member; Greg Martin; and Rich Kwiatkowski, Shade Tree Commission member.
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