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Christmas at Joanna:
Celebrating a Victorian holiday
BY FRANCINE FULTON
Each year, Christmas at Joanna highlights a particular year when the furnace was in operation. Visitors to the 2024 event will learn more about the site’s Victorian holiday celebration of 1874, including its traditions and décor, and will experience music and period dancing. Also featured throughout the weekend will be a menu of food items, a live Nativity, a Christmas craft market and holiday music.
The 24th annual Christmas at Joanna event will be presented by the Hay Creek Valley Historical Association (HCVHA) at Historic Joanna Furnace, 1250 Furnace Road, Geigertown, on Friday, Dec. 6, from 5 to 9 p.m. and on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 7 and 8, from 4 to 9 p.m.
The entire Joanna Furnace site will be transformed for the occasion, inviting visitors to experience a 19th-century holiday. The Joanna Furnace mule stable will be transformed into the parlor of the Victorian mansion of ironmaster L. Heber Smith and his wife, Ella Jane Grubb Smith. The home will be lit with candles and include a freshly cut Christmas tree.
Smith family re-enactors will be busy in the kitchen making cookies and holiday treats, while
others will be in the decorated parlor playing games and reminiscing about past Christmases by the fireplace. Guests are invited to interact with family
members to learn more about the family and life in the iron furnace community.
“Christmas 1874 was a grand time for the Smiths and the
residents of the Joanna Furnace community,” said HCVHA executive director Mark Zerr. “Joanna Furnace was in its heyday during this time. They employed over
Run101 benefits
Best Buddies Club
BY FRANCINE FULTON
The Owen J. Roberts (OJR) Bubble Run101, which benefits the OJR High School Best Buddies Club, took place on Nov. 9 at OJR High School. The community event, which was open to the public, featured a 5K race and 1-mile walk.
This is the 10th annual OJR fundraising run and walk, which has a different theme each year. In keeping with this year’s theme, bubbles filled the air as participants made their way along the course, which began in Wildcat Stadium and traveled throughout the school campus. “Bubble marshals” were in charge of blowing bubbles at the runners and walkers as they passed.
Among those who took part in the 5K were members of RUN101 running clubs that are offered at each of the OJR School District elementary schools - West Vincent, East Vincent, East Coventry, North Coventry and French Creek. Run 101 is an after-school activity that promotes the sport of distance running to students in grades four through six.
Re-enactors Gary Kurtz of Elverson and Marcia Cook-Love of Birdsboro will be in the ironmaster’s parlor during the event to talk about the holiday traditions of the Smith family.
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Dec. 1. Breakfast With Santa Geigertown Fire Company 3433 Hay Creek Road, Robeson Township, 7 to 11 a.m. www.facebook.com/ geigertownfirecompany
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Tel Hai Camp to host annual Thanksgiving Turkey Bowl
BY FRANCINE FULTON
“Burn calories, not your turkey” is the theme of the 33rd annual Turkey Bowl to be held on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 28, at Tel Hai Camp & Retreat in Honey Brook. The event will feature a 5K cross-country race that will take participants through the camp and around the lake. The event
Participants in last year’s event included (from left)
Lucy D’Amico of Honey Brook, Katie Rementer of Morgantown and Alyssa Swatski of Denver.
will also include a 1-mile children’s fun run.
This year’s event will begin with registration and race packet pickup from 7:45 to 9:20 a.m. in the camp’s dining hall. The fun run, which is open to children age 12 and under, will begin at 9:10 a.m. Parents may run alongside their child in the fun run at no charge. The 5K race will follow at 9:40 a.m.
Children who complete the fun run will receive a finisher’s medal.
First-place trophies will be awarded to the overall female and male runners of the 5K, and medals will be given to the top three finishers in various age groups.
Proceeds from the event are used to benefit Tel Hai Camp & Retreat, a nonprofit Christian camp located on a 150-acre facility. The camp is a long-standing member of the Christian Camp & Conference Association. Information about Tel Hai Camp
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BANGOR EPISCOPAL-FOUNDED 1722. 4 mi. W of Morgantown on Rt. 23 in Churchtown. Sunday Holy Eucharist at 10am. All are welcome. Handicap accessible. Parking lot adjacent to the church off Water Street. For additional info., www.bangorepiscopal.org
Dec. 7. Breakfast With Santa Presented by the Twin Valley High School Mini-THON Club
Twin Valley High School 4897 Twin Valley Road, Elverson, 9 a.m. A buffet-style breakfast will be served where children may meet and take photos with Santa and enjoy holiday crafts. A link to register is available at www.facebook.com/twin .valley.313.
Dec. 10. Ornament Craft
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Bubble Run101
“There were so many participants, volunteers and family members from around the local area (at this year’s event),” said Meg Wrubel, who is co-adviser of the Best Buddies Club along with Megan Harpold. “We had approximately 140 runners and walkers participate in the event, over 75 volunteers and many other family members to cheer on the students.” The event was designed to raise money for the OJR High School Best Buddies Club, which has a goal of “promoting social inclusion amongst students with disabilities and typically developing students.”
As part of the program, club members are paired with students with disabilities, who then enjoy social activities both at school and in the community. Students and their buddies take part in an annual bowling party and a holiday shopping trip followed by lunch.
A Match Party, featuring pizza and icebreaker games, is held at the beginning of the school year to mark the start of the program. “At the party, the buddies are ‘matched’ in a one-onone social pair,” said Wrubel.
The club currently has 215 members, many of whom volunteered during the recent run/walk. “Students
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were also stationed along the course to guide runners and to blow some bubbles along their path,” Wrubel noted.
Runners make their way around the high school track during the start of the 5K.
Other OJR high school clubs and athletic organizations that volunteered at the Bubble Run101 included the LEO Club, the wrestling team and the National Honor Society. Also providing support during the event were the OJR security team, various OJR administrators and teachers, Goodwill Ambulance and Ridge Fire Company. Members of the OJR NJROTC Color Guard provided the flag salute, and OJR High School junior Kathleen Verbosh provided an a cappella version of the national anthem.
Attendees were also able to enjoy a photo booth provided by ROG Orthodontics and yard games, including cornhole. DJ Jojo Lorman offered music to motivate the runners and walkers, who were also given free water and snacks.
The Keystone Running Store in Pottstown provided first-, secondand third-place medals for the 5K winners. To view the list of 5K winners, visit www.runsignup.com/Race/PA/ Pottstown/OJRRun101OJRSTRONG5K and select “Results.”
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200 people at the furnace itself.”
Outside the community, the United States was in the post-Civil War era. “We are doing 1874 this year. It’s election year, and Republican President Ulysses S. Grant just won his second term,” noted Zerr. “It’s post-Civil War, and our country is in the reconstruction phase. Things were starting to boom leading up to the Industrial Age.”
The site’s historic buildings will be open throughout the event. “We will have demonstrations in our casting house and a live blacksmithing demonstration,” Zerr pointed out. “Our office store will be open to purchase unique items, including our aluminum-cast star, which is made right here at Joanna Furnace.”
The site will be illuminated by more than 1,000 luminarias, which will light the furnace walkways. “Boy Scout Troop 543 of Plowville organizes, sets up and lights up the luminarias,” Zerr stated, adding that each building will be illuminated inside by lamps or candles to re-cre-
ate an 1870s atmosphere.
Local musicians will perform on an outside stage in front of a large bonfire. The Belsnickel, a fur-clad Christmas figure who rewards well-behaved children, will make an appearance at the bonfire to visit with children and give out treats.
The bonfire and placement of luminarias will take place if the local burn ban has been lifted.
Victorian dancing will also take place at the event in a large, heated tent. The Hay Creek Valley Gold Band will perform various old-time music while the Hay Creek Dancers will entertain visitors with period dances. Guests will also be invited to step onto the dance floor and participate.
Homemade foods will be available, including sausage sandwiches, hot dogs, hamburgers, pork and sauerkraut with mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, a pork barbecue macaroni bowl, soups, chili, homemade “Furnace” fries, hot chocolate, hot mulled cider and coffee. Freshly made kettle corn and roasted nuts
will also be available to purchase.
The Christmas Craft Market will offer holiday gifts and home decorating items. “We have about 35 craft vendors selling their wares in an outside market and two heated tents,” said Zerr.
John Wysolmerski of Birdsboro will portray the Belsnickel and reward children with a holiday treat.
Also featured will be traditional wagon rides; a Kids’ Santa Craft Workshop, where children can make a holiday craft or have their face painted inside a heated tent; and a Christmas light maze, which is located on the mansion grounds. A vintage train display will be in operation in the mechanical technology building.
Visitors will also have an opportunity to win gift baskets with certificates donated by area businesses and vendors at the Christmas market.
An admission fee will be
Turkey Bowl
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& Retreat is available at at www.face book.com/TelHaiCampRetreat.
To register for the Turkey Bowl,
visit www.telhaicamp.org/events/ turkey-bowl-run. Registration and a course map is also available by visiting www.runsignup.com, choosing “Find a Race” and then selecting “33rd Annual 5K Turkey Bowl Race.” Event T-shirts will be available on race day while supplies last.
The camp is located along Beaver Dam Road, 1.5 miles east of Route 10. The GPS address is 31 Lasso Drive, Honey Brook. There will
be free parking and rest room facilities available. Parking will be located in the field by the lake on the north side of Beaver Dam Road.
For more information, visit the previously mentioned website or contact Gregory at 610-273-3969 or bruce@telhaicamp.org. Those who would like to volunteer on event day are asked to contact Gregory for more information.
charged for adults. Children age 12 and under will be admitted free. There will be free on-site parking. All proceeds will benefit the HCVHA, which supports the restoration and preservation of Historic Joanna Furnace, as well as the Tri-County Heritage Library.
For additional information, visit www.haycreek.org or www.face book.com/historicjoannafurnace or call 610-286-0388.
Nominations
sought for heater giveaway
An individual or family in need in Pennsylvania will receive a new heating system this winter during the Gift of Warmth Annual Heater Giveaway sponsored by Andreas Plumbing, Heating & Air Conditioning.
Each winter, millions of people in the United States face life challenges and cannot afford to heat their homes or replace failing heating systems. Not having an operational heating system poses a significant safety concern during the extreme cold.
Community members are invited to nominate someone to win a heater. People may write a short essay or make a short video nominating anyone who is experiencing tough financial times, an illness in the family and multiple medical bills, or a job loss. A senior on a fixed income, a U.S. veteran, or a single parent caring for children are also eligible. A nominee must be a legal adult, a Pennsylvania resident, and a homeowner. People may not nominate themselves. A winner will be selected and notified on or before Monday, Dec. 9.
For more information and to submit a nomination by Sunday, Dec. 1, visit https:// andreasplumbing.com/gift-of -warmth/. Details are also available by calling 610-377-5261.