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Bart donates fire engine

6/26/2015

 
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    When it came time to sell their 25-year-old pumper, Bart Township's volunteer firefighters had just two bids.
    One, from a private collector, was for $3,000.
    The second was lower. Much lower.
    But the cause is a good one and that's the offer the local volunteers took, donating their engine to a needy fire company in Tennessee.
    But the Rutledge, Tennessee, company will have to pay a nominal amount, $1, to get the 1990 Ford E-1 pumper.
    The Bart firefighters have replaced the Ford with a new Pierce pumper that went into service earlier this month.


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Solanco's Relay for Life prepares for its 13th year

6/26/2015

 
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      Organizers are putting the final touches on the 13th annual Solanco Relay for Life.
      The event will be held in Quarryville's Memorial Park from 4 p.m. on Friday, June 26, through noon on Saturday, June 27.
      By this past Friday morning, 15 teams had signed up to participate, team captain Karen Keefer said. While that's one more team than participated in 2014, the total number of people scheduled to take part has declined.
      "We're scheduled to have 96 this year and it was 126 last year," Keefer said.



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Photo gallery:  Bob Bard race, Saturday, June 20

6/23/2015

 
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Two toddlers seem to talk about their trips as they get ready to be wheeled along the route of the Bob Bard race on Saturday morning, June 20. Click read more for photo gallery.

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Creating a new tradition

6/19/2015

 
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    Saturday's softball tournament was the start of what Neil Uniacke hopes will be an annual event.
    "I hope this becomes a tradition," he said Saturday morning as the first New Hope Softball Tournament got underway on the upper and lower fields at Quarryville's Memorial Park. "I want to keep this alive."
    Until 15 years ago, adult softball leagues were common in the Southern End. The leagues played on park fields, like the ones in Quarryville, and on private diamonds.



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Vendor sale will benefit firefighters

6/19/2015

 
PictureQuarryville Fire Chief Joel Neff, Ladies Auxiliary members Lori Singles and Danielle Worrell, and Auxiliary President Cindy Sheets stand behind a table holding some of the items vendors will be selling on Saturday, June 27.
    They won't be selling anything, but members of Quarryville Fire Company's Ladies Auxiliary hope their fundraiser will bring in needed revenue for the volunteer firefighters.
    Instead, the people who will be selling items at the fundraiser will pay to use the fire station at 217 E. State St.
    "The vendors will pay to rent space," explained organizer Danielle Worrell.
    Those vendors will be selling products ranging from jewelry and candles to health supplies and household goods.
    Vendors who have already signed up sell Avon, Herbalife, ItWorks, Mary Kay, Tupperware, Jewelry in Candles, and other items.
    "We expect to have between 15 and 20 vendors at the show," Worrell said. Some of the vendors will be selling items at the show while others will take orders for items to be delivered later. Most will have free samples available.
    Many of the vendors are local, she added.


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Found and never claimed

6/18/2015

 
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    There are shoes, insulated lunch boxes, sneakers, gym clothes, books, jewelry, eyeglasses, and coats.
    Lots of coats.
    Each of Solanco's two middle schools has tables full of coats left behind when the last students went home for the summer on Wednesday, June 10.
    Now school officials have put out the lost and never-claimed items so owners or their parents can retrieve them.
    A few of the items are easy to identify, including a camo insulated lunchbox found at Smith.



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Photo gallery:  Solanco's class of 2015 

6/16/2015

 
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Under clear skies, 271 members of Solanco High School’s Class of 2015 graduated on Tuesday evening, June 9. This was the first graduation in four years to be held outdoors. For the past three years, threatening weather moved the ceremony indoors.

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Mary Marietta helps her home township

6/15/2015

 
    Although she has lived all over the world, Fulton Township is home.
    That's why, after moving back several years ago, Mary Murray Marietta wanted to do something for her community.
    "A year ago, she called us and asked if she could make a donation to the township," said supervisor and roadmaster Mike Church.
    She decided to give the township a donation to help the road crew buy a new mower.
    The tractor-mounted mower takes a beating, hitting debris and rocks hidden in the tall roadside grass. Fulton had planned to replace the mower next year, but officials didn't realize they would have help paying for it.
    Such donations are nearly unheard of, Church said.
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14th Annual Moonlite Cruisers

6/15/2015

 
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    Drivers brought their cars, trucks, and hotrods to the 14th annual Moonlite Cruisers gathering in Quarryville's Memorial Park on Saturday, June 6.
    Restorers, builders, and spectators walked through the lines of vehicles, listened to 50's rock and roll, and visited with other aficionados.


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Ministry expands kids' food program to summer months

6/12/2015

 
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    The final weekend food bags went home on Friday afternoon, June 5.
    But the end of the school year doesn't mean the end of Solanco Food Bank's supplemental program for kids.
    Beginning July 1, the program will make food available to families whose children participated in the SWEEP program during the school year.
    SWEEP, the Solanco Week End Eating Program, got its start six years ago when the food bank teamed up with Quarryville Elementary School to provide weekend meals for 20 students. For the school year that ends this week, the program provided weekend meals for 286 children.


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Solanco School District to offer counseling in wake of homicides

6/12/2015

 
    The Solanco School District will open the high school, 585 Solanco Rd., from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday, June 12, to offer counseling to students and teachers following the murder of an East Drumore woman and her daughter.

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A mother and daughter killed in East Drumore Township

6/11/2015

 
    Two females are dead and a third remains in critical condition following an incident in East Drumore Township early this morning.
    The unidentified suspect is in custody.
    Pennsylvania State Troopers Todd McCurdy and Aaron Dykes were dispatched at 2:20 a.m. on June 11 to 877 Spring Valley Road, East Drumore, for a reported injured female. That victim, a 15-year-old female, was transported to Lancaster General Hospital, where she is in critical, but stable, condition. And later transferred to Hershey Medical Center.
    Two additional females, a 44-year-old woman and her 16-year-old daughter, were found dead in the basement of the home.
    It is believed that the suspect is known to the victims and police stated that there are no public safety concerns at this time.
    The Lancaster County District Attorney's Office and the Lancaster County Coroner representative were notified. This case is under investigation by the Pennsylvania State Police Troop J Major Case Investigative Team.

Getting rid of unneeded drugs

6/9/2015

 
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    One minute, they're nearly priceless.
    The next, they're worthless and hard to get rid of.
    That's something Dennis Hess wants to change.
    "I started this following Betsy's death," he said last week.
    Betsy Hess died of pancreatic cancer on May 25, 2014, leaving behind her husband of 50 years, two children, six grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, an extended family, and bottles of unused prescription drugs.


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Contractor fixing Fulton Birthplace

6/8/2015

 
    A state contractor began work last week to repair the Robert Fulton Birthplace and adjacent buildings.
    The work is being done on the exterior of the birthplace, the adjacent garden shed, and a former corn crib, and two buildings across Rt. 222 - a former granary and a warehouse.
    The contract bids were opened in February. KLA Roofing and Construction submitted the lowest of six bids at $76,674.51. The bid prices ranged up to $104,996.
    The work includes repairing rotten wood on the buildings' doors and windows, repointing stone basement walls, and exterior painting.

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Bard run adds 10k

6/5/2015

 
PictureRunners from Bob Bard 5k in 2013.
    Walkers and runners will have a choice of two distances at the fourth annual Bob Bard 5K later this month.
    The event, dubbed a 5K when it started in 2012, has added a 10K route to this year's event.
    "We wanted to add something new this year," said Adrienne Wilk. "We did not want the race to get stagnant and we wanted to attract more runners."
    Wilk, Bard's eldest daughter, had been the race's primary organizer since its inception.
    The 10K will use all of the 5K route.
  "When they get to Scotland Rd., the 10K will go out Conowingo Rd. to just past Church Rd., turn around and come back to rejoin the 5K," Wilk said.


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Retiring for a life of traveling and adventure

6/5/2015

 
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    Solanco School District. This is Dottie. How may I help you?
    That's how Dottie Boas has answered the phone, dozens of time a day, for nearly 30 years.
    Beginning next month, there will be another voice on that phone.
    Boas is retiring to a life of travel.
    She already has five trips planned. She will be going to Jamaica in July, Peru in September, Florida in October, Italy next spring, and India in 2017.
    "I'm going to far away, exotic places," Boas said as she explained her retirement plans. "There's a whole lot of world out there and I want to see it."
    That will be a change from her working life, spent almost entirely manning the main desk in Solanco's administration building.

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The sweet sound of summer

6/2/2015

 
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    Later this month, the Chestnut Level Presbyterian Church will host its third hymn sing and ice cream social.
    The first was held half a decade ago.
    "After the first one, we said 'that was really nice and we should do it again'," said Eric Welchans, the congregation's director of musical ministry.
    It took several years to turn that thought into action. The second hymn sing was held in 2014.
    "It's grown every year," Welchans said.
    Last year's audience of about 180 people came from more than a dozen congregations.


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