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Township, volunteers build run-in shed

7/31/2015

 
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    The need became apparent during last winter's frigid weather, when horses had only blankets to protect them while they were tethered at the Little Britain Township building.
    Before those temperatures return, those horses will have shelter from the weather.
    "It [the idea of building a run-in shed] came up toward the end of winter," said Christine Jackson, Little Britain's zoning officer. "The Amish came to me and said they were having trouble blanketing their horses to keep them warm."


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Church youth swing into action

7/31/2015

 
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    SECA needed new swings for its playground.
    Wrightsdale Baptist Church had the materials and the people to install them.
    The need and the solution came together on Thursday morning, July 23, when youth from the church installed new swings at the playground. Members of the church's Youth Leadership Academy also refurbished a toddler's swing set and cleaned graffiti from playground equipment.
    Brad Thorne, director of Wrightsdale's Family Ministries, saw the need when he visited the SECA playground several weeks ago.


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Solanco Fair must replace food committee co-chairs

7/28/2015

 
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    The co-chairs of Solanco Fair Association's food committee have resigned.
    Jacob Gicker, who has worked with the committee for more than 40 years, had to give up the post because he is no longer able to do the work. His co-chair Anna Mary Glick, will resign her position at the end of 2015.
    "My food safety certificate runs out in January and I don't intend to renew it," she said last week. "I handed in my resignation two years ago, and now it's going to take effect."
    Now the fair association has to find at least one person to take over the committee's leadership.



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Friends plan fundraiser for Scheetz survivors

7/27/2015

 
    Friends are planning a fundraiser to help two girls whose mother and sister were killed on June 11.
    "We wanted to get something together for Lisa's side of the family," said Michelle Reeves.
    Reeves, other family friends, and family members will host the fundraiser at the Lancaster County Sportsman Club, Hilldale Rd., Holtwood. The fundraiser will be start at 7 p.m. on Friday, July 31. Admission to the fundraiser is $20 per person for anyone 21 years old or older.

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A close look at an aging bridge

7/24/2015

 
    For more than 40 years, the two-section concrete bridge carried the main road between Oxford and Quarryville.
    Bypassed when Rt. 472 was built in the mid-1960s, the bridge now carries Black Rock Rd. over the West Branch of the Octoraro Creek. Colerain township took over the bridge and Black Rock Rd. after the state gave up the road.

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Firefighters brave heat for fundraiser

7/23/2015

 
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    Quarryville's volunteer firefighters are used to working in the heat, battling building fires and burning brush.
    But two days a year they know they'll spend even more hours facing flames they don't want to extinguish.
    "We start at 6 a.m. and get done just before 3 [in the afternoon]," firefighter James P. Herr said. "We like to have the first chickens on the grill by 6:45 [a.m.]."
    That's what it takes to help out at the annual chicken barbecue fundraiser.



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Kids sent relief supplies to Nepal

7/21/2015

 
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    Given this year's Vacation Bible School theme, the mission project seemed only natural.
    "Our Vacation Bible School this year was Everest, which is in Nepal," said coordinator Lisa Jarabak. "
    We decided the earthquake relief effort in Nepal would be a great mission project for this week."
    The children packed 56 health kits and got them ready to send to Nepal through the United Methodist Committee on Relief.
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New teachers filling vacancies at Solanco 

7/17/2015

 
    More than half of Solanco School District's 19 teaching vacancies have been filled.
    "We had nine retirements, nine resignations, and one person move from teaching to become an assistant principal," said Dr. Brian Bliss, the district's superintendent.
    Many of the resignations were travel-related, he said. One teacher had been commuting from near Hanover and found a job closer to home. Another moved to Arizona. Several went with spouses who had been transferred.


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Tiny tributary stream comes out of hiding

7/17/2015

 
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    A tiny tributary to the Big Beaver Creek is out in the open after hiding from view for about 40 years.
    The creek, which comes off the low grade rail trail on the east side of Quarryville, is now visible until it ducks into another set of pipes to go under Valley Rd. (Rt. 372).
    Deciding to remove the improvised pipes that concealed the creek was easy, said property owner Howard E. Groff Jr.



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Antique tractor is back on the farm

7/15/2015

 
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    From the side, it looks like a Peerless steam tractor. The front of the boiler and the rear water tanks say it's an Emerson Britingham.
    Thats the result of a consolidation of the steam tractor industry in the early years of the 20th century.
    This tractor, a 50 horsepower model that came out of the factory in Waynesboro 98 years ago, looks as if it had been built weeks ago.
    Fresh from a two-year-long rebuilding at the hands of its owners, the A. Dale Herr family, and a restorer, the tractor has been steamed up several times in the past month. This past Saturday, it moved on its own power, but was not entirely up to form.



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Yard sales raise $3,000 for Solanco Food Bank

7/14/2015

 
    Faith Booth found several foam crosses while she was shopping at Mt. Hope United Methodist Church's yard sale on Saturday morning, July 11.
    Booth, who is four, plans to use the crosses to make gifts for others.
    She was one of a number of shoppers who came to the sale.
    Funds raised through the sale will go to the Solanco Food Bank. That's the most recent mission undertaken by churches who formed the SOULanco Mission ConneXion a year and a half ago.


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Driver charged after tractor trailer damages bridge

7/13/2015

 
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    The Ross Fording Rd. bridge over the East Branch of the Octoraro Creek, Sadsbury Township, was closed Wednesday afternoon, July 1, after a tractor trailer ran into it.

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Ducks to miss the fair

7/10/2015

 
    Baby ducks won't be sliding into a tiny pond at the 2015 Solanco Fair.
    Most years, the iconic Powl Feed exhibit enthralls tiny fair visitors and their parents.
    But ducks, like other fowl, have been banned from the state's fairs in an attempt to keep Avian flu from spreading through the commonwealth.
    The fair's timing is part of the issue, Sam Powl said.
    "It comes during migratory fowl season," Powl said, "just when those birds fly south from Canada."

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Quarryville fire equipment too heavy for 1933 station

7/10/2015

 
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    The floor in Quarryville Fire Company's aging station is no longer strong enough to support the firefighters' two pumpers.
    There are three different ways to fix the problem, said Carl Cross, chairman of the fire company's board of directors.
    The volunteers can have reinforcements welded to the steel beams that support the main floor. They can have more steel beams installed. Or they can build additional engine bays onto the south end of the fire station.



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SECA summer camps off to a slow start

7/7/2015

 
    The Southern End Community Association's summer programs are getting off to a slow start.
    So far, swimming lessons at the SECA pool have been the most popular program.
    "The pre-registrations for the swimming lessons were down, but it seems parents are waiting until the last minute to sign up," said SECA director Nicole Luecker. "On Monday, we had 12 people sign up for the rest of the week. When we started the week [on Monday] we had all kinds of vacancies. By Tuesday, we were full."

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Helping players improve their skills

7/7/2015

 
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    "The camp has really been fun," Tyler Burger said last Wednesday morning. "I was having trouble with putting a spin on the ball and my release.
    “I got to work on my ball handling and how to put rotation on the ball and put an arc on it."
    In three days, Burger and 95 other campers learned new basketball skills and polished the ones they already had.
    The young players participated in the camp run by Solanco boys basketball coach Scott Long and girls basketball coach Chad McDowell.


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Internship gives Solanco graduate a look at police work

7/5/2015

 
    Kyle Munro didn't miss a day of school during his last semester at Solanco High School.
    But what he learned during the three hours before he headed off to class in his final semester at Solanco reinforced his decision about how he will spend much of his adult life.
    Munro will go to Lebanon Valley College in August where he will begin studying criminal justice.

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Quarryville honors Hometown Heroes

7/3/2015

 
    The first of 106 Hometown Hero banners began appearing on Quarryville's E. 4th St. last week.    
    By the time the work is done, the banners will hang on utility poles on 4th St., East and West State St., S. Church St., S. Hess St., and S. Lime St. There will also be a few on Park Ave.

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Quarryville girl dances in "The Wizard of Oz"

7/1/2015

 
    At home, Maya Torres likes to swim, play soccer, builds with Legos, and solve crossword puzzles.
    Three days a week, the Quarryville resident heads to Lancaster and takes on her other persona, playing characters in Fulton Opera House's staging of The Wizard of Oz.

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