When school opens in late August, students, teachers, and parents will be putting the final touches on a celebration to mark the 25th anniversary of Clermont Elementary's opening.
This year, families participating in a local summer food program will also have a chance to grow some of their own produce.
Members of the Bart Township Fire Company have been rallying around a longtime fellow volunteer who is dealing with terminal cancer. They check on him daily, have built a ramp to make it easier to get in his home, installed a hospital bed, and gotten him a motorized scooter. Members of the Quarryville Fire Company are trying to honor the service of members who have died.
Now they have to find them. Quarryville's police chief has a new office. It's a lot smaller than the old one, and doesn't have the blue sailboat wallpaper boarder decor of its predecessor. The chief's former office, 18 feet wide by 20 feet long, is the largest room in borough hall aside from council's meeting chamber. Now repainted, it's being turned into the police department's new squad room. He has plans, Fran Metzler said last week. He will be taking more time to go to the mountain camp he shares with four other men. "I will go up, relax, and take care of what needs to be done [around the camp]," he said. Build a better world will be the theme for this summer's reading program, said Randi Kennedy, the youth services coordinator for the Quarryville Library.
"We will have a city silhouette on a large sheet of paper and the kids can fill it in with the stickers they win in the program," she said. Each child who finishes the program will get a sheet of stickers. Damp weather didn’t keep people home as more than 200 area residents turned out for the annual Memorial Day ceremonies in Quarryville’s Memorial Park.
Raif Groves, a fifth grader from Bart-Colerain Elementary School and Solanco graduate Lt. Col. Jeffrey Riley were the speakers. Click 'Read More' to see photo gallery. The sign in a window of Ray Wimer's garage says it all. Chevy Parking Only. Others will be towed or sold. His most recent restoration project, parked on the lawn facing Quarryville's S. Lime St., has a 'for sale' sign in the windshield. This year, Quarryville's Memorial Day commemoration will include two speakers.
One, Lt. Col. Jeffrey Riley, is a Quarryville native and Solanco High School graduate. The other is a fifth grader at Bart-Colerain Elementary School. Fifth grader Raif Groves will read an essay he wrote for a competition. Using computer code they learned independently, several Solanco High School students helped their classmates generate new games for smart phones, tablets, and computers. The four, among 17 students in Stacy Shelton's advanced graphic animation class at Solanco High, helped others turn ideas into working games. It costs a lot to feed and clothe football players. Last year, to help raise the money for those expenses, the Solanco Football Boosters and the Solanco Midget Football Association staged a carnival in Quarryville. Using funding from two state grants and private donations, the Solanco Fair Association is making several improvements to the Hoffman Building and to the larger show barn.
Clermont Elementary School's wooden replica of Robert Fulton's steamboat was getting old and not aging gracefully.
"It was falling apart and it only had one sliding board. It was more of a playhouse than a playground. We needed something with more bells and whistles," said Katie Neff, president of the school's parent teacher organization. PennDOT will probably not begin fixing a collapsing portion of Pumping Station Rd. until this summer.
Volunteers are working to get the Robert Fulton Birthplace ready for its spring opening. "We took ownership in March and started working right away," said George Stiles, president of the Southern Lancaster County Historical Society. During part of his 22-year career as a U.S. Army combat engineer, David Wadsworth cleared improvised explosive devices from roads in Iraq.
Now retired, Wadsworth is back working the roads, although with a lot less stress. When George Hassler and Ellis Ferguson opened their business on Quarryville's E. State St. in 1916, shoppers brought lists to store and clerks then used those lists to fill the orders. By rights, 2017 should see the third annual Southern End Softball Tournament.
But scheduling problems and weather woes cancelled last year's event, making this the second annual staging of a tournament that debuted in 2015. This year, the Quarryville Library is tweaking its most productive fundraiser.
In addition to the Saturday auction, organizers will be holding a preview sale earlier in the week. "We have enough space. We just have to find a better way to use it," said Mary Brusstar, manager of New Hope Community Closet. That's going to happen next month. Volunteers from New Hope Community Life Ministry's church network will be spending a week reworking the store to make it easier for customers to shop and volunteers to sort donations and stock the shelves. The work will take a week to complete. The store in TownsEdge Shopping Village will close at its regular time on Saturday, February 18, and remain closed until it holds its grand reopening on Saturday, February 25. "We will be covering the windows with paper. We want people to be in for a big surprise when we reopen," Brusstar said. Teens who need help coping with drug and alcohol dependency or other issues have been showing up for the Celebrate Recovery program at Providence Church only to be turned away. by Hannah Pollock
Chronicle intern “It’s a very caring community... and I hope that never changes,” said Jim Kreider reminiscing on a long, Solanco-filled life. Members of Robert Fulton Fire Company's auxiliary have 216 gallons of homemade sauerkraut and more than 1,000 pounds of pork to feed the people who will attend the annual New Year's Day dinner. There was hot coffee, but the donuts didn't make it Saturday morning. Nor did a few volunteers who couldn't get out of their icy driveways.
But about 20 people braved slippery roads to place wreaths on more than half a hundred veterans' graves at the Mt. Eden Lutheran Cemetery early Saturday afternoon, December 17. |
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