Wrightsdale Baptist Church, 310 Little Britain Rd. South, will host Colossal Coaster World Vacation Bible School July 14-18. The school will be held from 6:30 to 9 p.m. daily with a closing program and community block party Friday, July 19. The school is open to children through 12th grade. For more information, call the church office at 548-2305.
Solanco Bible Church, 166 Oak Bottom Rd., Quarryville, will host Vacation Bible School from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. July 15-19. There will be classes for children age four through 18. For more information, call 786-7299. Little Britain Presbyterian Church, 255 Little Britain Church Rd., will host Son West Roundup Vacation Bible School from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. July 15-19. The school is open to children from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. To register, call 548-2266. Mt. Eden Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1241 May Post Office Rd., will host Hay Day Vacation Bible School from 6:30 to 8 p.m. July 26-28. The school will have classes for children age three through sixth grade. For more information, call 786-7565. The world has been coming to Quarryville Elementary School this summer. Guest readers have been sharing their experiences, and their stories, from Cambodia to Alaska and India to Ethiopia as part of Solanco School District's summer reading program. The guests come to the school at 11:20 every morning to share stories about their travels
and read a story from the country they visited. That's just part of the Read Around the World program, said coordinator Robin Ball. The restaurant at the corner of Rt. 272 and Chestnut Level Rd. will be open for breakfast later this month. The new owner will also be serving lunch and dinner, with traditional comfort food favorites such as meatloaf, liver and onions, and shepherd's pie on the menu. There will also be barbecued pork brisket and chicken every day, with ribs added to the menu on weekends. Having a home for his barbecue catering service is what got Rich Tipton back into the restaurant business after 14 years with Verizon. He will open RD's American Grill later this month. He learned to teach at an elementary school. Now Brian Booher will be helping the teachers at Quarryville Elementary School reach their students. Booher, 38, was named principal of the school effective July 1. He replaces James O'Brien, who retired at the end of the school year. The new principal came to Solanco in 2011, hired to be the assistant principal of both Swift and Smith middle schools. In 2012, he was assigned to Swift as the assistant principal after the district named one principal, Paul Gladfelter, to cover both schools. After graduating from college, he worked in administration at the college level. He was employed by several colleges, including Marietta College and Drexel University. At those schools, he recruited students and helped them with financial aid. William Mankin is back on Quarryville's borough council. Mankin, 68, was appointed July 1 to fill the unexpired term of former council member John Riddell. Riddell resigned June 7. Following his appointment, Mankin was assigned to borough council's building, police, and personnel committees. The personnel committee has the most immediate challenge, he said. "Right now, we have to make sure there is a smooth transition to a new borough manager," he said. Borough Manager Alfred Drayovitch Jr. has announced he will retire early next year. The faculty of Solanco High School has announced the names of students earning honor roll distinction for the fourth marking period of the 2012-13 school year. Janelle Krantz, a 2009 graduate of Solanco High School, was named to the first team at large performer for the Capital One Academic All-American Division II recently for her performance with Slippery Rock University's tennis team.
Krantz, who graduated from Slippery Rock earlier this year, received the honor a year after she was named to the Academic All-American second team. A four-year starter on Slippery Rock's tennis team. She maintained a 4.0 grade point average as a therapeutic recreation major. The driver of a compact SUV was killed in a single-vehicle collision on Rt. 472 in Lower Oxford Township, Chester County, on Thursday, July 4. April Marie Boyd, 23, was pronounced dead at the scene of the 4:20 a.m. collision, state police reported. She was driving north approaching Jackson School Rd. when her 2006 Chevrolet Equinox swerved across the road, ran up a steep embankment, and hit two large trees. The SUV then came back down the embankment and rolled onto its side. Boyd was not wearing a seat belt, state police said. State police also reported the following incidents in the Southern End: Bart Township Fire Co.
Georgetown, July 1: 8:01 p.m., medical assist, Quarry Rd., Bart Township; four volunteers were in service 20 minutes. July 3: 3:34 p.m., medical assist, Vintage Rd., Sadsbury Township; two volunteers were in service 15 minutes. July 4: 2:28 a.m., medical assist, Georgetown Rd., Bart Township; two volunteers were in service 24 minutes. Bart Township roadmaster Ned Trout hoses mud off Street Rd. in Colerain Township Friday morning, June 28, as Bart crew member Troy Grumelli watches for traffic. Storms Thursday night flooded and closed several roads in the township and sent mud and rocks onto additional roads. June set records for rainfall in Philadelphia and Wilmington, Del. Quarryville Borough’s sewage treatment plant recorded 5.9 inches of rain during the month. In southern Colerain Township, Lloyd Kreider’s rain gauge measured just over 15 inches of rainfall for the month. More rain is predicted through Thursday, July 4.
Two people were hurt when a car hit a horse-drawn carriage on Beaver Valley Pike (Rt. 222) south of Otsu Rd., Strasburg Township, at 5:22 p.m. on June 29, Trooper Nelson Renno reported. According to the trooper, the buggy's driver, Samuel S. King, 18, of Ronks, and his passenger, Subilla S. King, 42, of Ronks, were taken to Lancaster General
Hospital for treatment of their injuries. King was driving north when a northbound car driven by Theodore W. Burton, 26, of Strasburg, tried to pass the carriage. Burton's car clipped one of the carriage's rear wheels, causing the collision. Bart Township Fire Co.
Georgetown June 23: 8:18 a.m., medical assist, Skyview Dr., Bart Township; two volunteers were in service 24 minutes. June 24: 7:35 a.m., medical assist, Lamparter Rd., Bart Township; two volunteers were in service 16 minutes. 2:51 p.m., fire police assist Robert Fulton, King Pen Rd. at Nottingham Rd., Little Britain Township; four volunteers were in service two hours and six minutes. June 25: 3:45 p.m., CO alarm, 30 Furnace Rd., Bart Township; 12 volunteers were in service six minutes. 5:39 p.m., spill control, Georgetown Rd. at Noble Rd., Bart Township; 19 volunteers were in service 28 minutes. The Solanco School District is working on several building projects that will improve security, make buildings more energy efficient, and provide additional classroom space. One of the more pressing is changing the entrance to Quarryville Elementary School.
"We're looking at options," said Dr. Martin J. Hudacs, superintendent of the Solanco School District. Little Britain resident Alana Sanchez imagined what the inside of a barn looked like. Then she translated that vision to paper, first in pencil and in ink. Now it will grace the cover of the annual Solanco Fair Book. Sanchez will have to depend on the good will of neighbors to see her work published, however. She and her family are moving to Florida later this week. They will live near Orlando, where her father has been transferred. Ben Brinton's day starts early. Typically, the 23-year-old farmer gets up between 3:30 and 4 every morning. But before he can head to the family farm on Riverview Rd., he hooks himself up to a dialysis machine that cleanses his blood. "I always do it at the start of the day, six days a week," he said. "Normally, I skip Sundays." The process takes three and a half hours from the time Brinton hooks the machine to veins in his left arm. He connects the dialysis machine to an access point know as a fistula. The fistula was created with a surgical procedure that connects an artery to a vein and creates a permanent connection for dialysis.
Leslie McRobbie, advisor to Solanco High School's Class of 2013, left, class officer Jillian Eberly, librarian Emily Dawley, and class president Tyler McCardell, attended the presentation of the class's gift to the school.
Most school libraries typically include computers and shelves of books to help students read and research, but the Solanco High School Library will have a new area this coming school year. The recently graduated Class of 2013 has donated $600 to fund a Library Reading Lounge at the high school. Librarian Emily Dawley said that she sees “a lot of kids who enjoy the library as a peaceful escape from the hustle and bustle of the ordinary school day. It will be nice to have a place for our students to relax, put their feet up, and just soak in their surroundings.” The annual Relay for Life of Solanco raise $59,707 as walkers and runners circled Quarryville's Memorial Park Friday night and Saturday. This year's goal was $62,000. Earlier showers moved out, leaving hot and humid weather behind. The top fundraising team was Kirby Smith Believers. That team brought in $14,362 for the American Cancer Society. The top individual fundraiser was Dottie Moser, who collected $5,422.
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