The pillars have been repaired and repointed.
The patios now have foundations, most of the new benches are in place, and the plantings have been mulched. Quarryville Elementary School hosted a family engagement night to help students and parents focus on the importance of homework. The Title 1 Homework Treasure Hunt began after school on Monday, October 21, with Quarryville students doing their homework in the library. Quarryville teachers and Solanco High School National Honor Society students were on hand to provide assistance and answer questions from the younger students. Songs by Diana Ross. Autobiographies from Dwight D. Eisenhower and George Burns. Vinyl records and eight-track tapes, perfect for the player mounted under the dash of a vintage Edsel. There's even a coffee table book about the Kennedy years that carries President John Fitzgerald Kennedy's signature. These are just some of the items the Friends of the Quarryville Library will be selling at their annual fall sale. Someone stole about 600 feet of copper cable from between several utility poles in the 1400 block of Slate Hill Rd., Drumore Township, between September 13 and 24, Trooper Anthony L. Holloway reported.
State police also reported the following incidents in the Southern End: Quarryville Borough is running out of room.
It does not have enough space in its maintenance garage to keep all of its equipment inside. Applying lessons learned from their inaugural run, organizers hope to attract more runners to Union Presbyterian Church's second annual Run A Good Race. They have hired professional timers because they were told that would attract more runners, organizer Lori Kelley said. "We had 152 people last year," she said. "We would like to see 300 this year." The race began as a way to draw younger people to the church. "This is a family event. We will have music, refreshments, and other activities," Kelley said."We started it as a way to get people here and they really enjoyed it." For the third time in as many years, the Southern End Community Association is looking for a new director.
Glenn Koehler, SECA's executive director since November, 2011, left in August. The parting was amicable, said April Pierson, president of SECA's board of directors. Five days a week, Solanco's elementary schools make sure their students have enough to eat. The Solanco Food Bank handles the weekends with its SWEEP program. The food bank began the school year providing weekend meals for 231 students from Solanco's four elementary schools. The food bank also packs 19 meals for pupils who attend Martic Elementary School in the Penn Manor School District. Bart Township Fire Co.,
Georgetown Sept. 1: 3:28 p.m., medical assist, White Oak Rd. at Georgetown Rd., Paradise Township; three volunteers were in service 15 minutes. Sept. 2: 2:26 p.m., medical assist, Valley Rd., Bart Township; two volunteers were in service one hour and 37 minutes. Sept. 3: 7:52 p.m., medical assist, Noble Rd., Bart Township; two volunteers were in service 13 minutes. Two people were charged with assault following an incident in the 1100 block of Slate Hill Rd., Drumore Township, at 11:45 p.m. on August 22, Trooper Aaron Davis reported.
According to the trooper, A 19-year-old boy and a 17-year-old boy, both from Quarryville, tried to smash a mailbox. The property owner retrieved the bat and followed the teens, damaging their vehicle with the ball bat, the trooper said. When the work began last year, organizers expected repairs to the granite pillars at Quarryville's Memorial Park would cost about $6,000. That estimate was low. "We're close to $25,000 now," said Joanne Black, chair of the Quarryville Lions Club committee that's overseeing the work. The two granite pillars and the patios around them were in much worse condition than originally thought. Owners brought their dogs to the SECA Pool in Quarryville on Saturday, September 7, for an end-of-season fundraiser.
Ken Work won't be wearing a police uniform and a pistol this week. Instead, he'll be dressed in a new uniform - a dark shirt and khaki pants. That will mark his transition to the position of borough manager. He will still be the police chief, a position he has held for a dozen years, but he will not be going on patrol. Work was appointed borough manager last month. He replaces Alfred Drayovitch Jr., who retired August 30. For the past month, Drayovitch has been helping Work make the transition. Many of the toughest tasks have already been completed, but the custodial staff at Quarryville Elementary School is still busy prepping for the start of the school year. "The last week is better than a month ago," custodian Carl Cross said. "We're just pulling everything together." A month ago, Cross and his co-workers cleaned a majority of the rooms in just 11 days. The job was more challenging this year because Quarryville Elementary hosted summer school classes. During summer school, they were able to clean the rooms in the D wing, which houses specialty classes such as ESOL and speech. It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it.
Just who will be hauling sludge from Quarryville's sewage treatment plant will now be determined by the borough's engineer and council. Two forms of sludge remain after sewage is treated - liquid sludge and solid sludge. Quarryville Borough Manager Alfred Drayovitch Jr. is retiring sooner than expected. Earlier this year, Drayovitch told borough council he would retire January 31, 2014. On Monday night, August 5, he moved that date up to the end of the month. "I had planned to be able to do a month of transition [with the new borough manager] and I thought it would take longer," Drayovitch said. "When council made its decision [on a new manager], I moved the date up. There are trout streams, golf courses, and beaches I need to see." In five years, the congregation of Quarryville Baptist Church has moved from in-home meetings to a church of its own. Earlier this summer, the congregation moved into its own building, a former daycare center on Solanco Rd. in East Drumore Township. Between the in-home meetings and the new church, the congregation met in another church's building on Quarryville's E. State St., in the SECA Center, and at Black Rock Retreat. The members also met, for a couple of weeks, in the Next Gen Senior Center. "We secured this property on June 15 and held our first service here a week later," said Matthew Hodge, who helps his father, Craig, pastor the congregation. Members of the congregation have been working to alter the building for its new purpose. Each year, a special offering is taken at the start of the Gap Relief Sale. While sale proceeds support the work of the Mennonite Central Committee, the offering goes to a specific MCC project. This year's Friday night giving will support the MCC's Global Family program. The program helps support children's programs worldwide, said Brittany Sensenig, a communications associate with MCC's east coast office. "The program connects with partners that help run schools and orphanages," she said. "We provide resources, including funding, food, and educational training." MCC also provides bags of school supplies, including pencils, erasers, a ruler, and paper. Quarryville Fire Company volunteers worked with Charlie's Chicken and Ferguson & Hassler SuperMarket on Thursday and Friday to prepare and sell nearly 5,000 chicken meals. The event is one of the fire company's largest
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