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Library Friends plan spring tea

BY FRANCINE FULTON

The Friends of the Moores Memorial Library will present a “Welcome Spring” tea party on Saturday, April 20, from 2 to 4 p.m. The event, which will be held at a new location this year, will take place at Christiana Fire Company, 214 S. Bridge St., Christiana.

The tea was traditionally held in February, but this year, organizers have changed the time and location of the event. “Since we changed the month, we changed the venue, and instead of having a guest speaker, we have decided to go with a garden theme,” said Friends member Jeannette Kolb.

The last tea hosted by the Friends was held in 2020, and the theme was “Alice in Wonderland.” Previous themes have include “Downton Abbey” and “Gone With

the Wind.” “We had it in February 2020, and then in March, we went on lockdown, so we have not had this event since COVID,” noted Joan Esworthy, Friends president. Afternoon tea fare will be featured at the event, including scones with lemon curd, assorted

“We have decided to go with a garden theme.”

tea cakes and a variety of teas. “We will have sweets and savories. The theme is ‘Welcome Spring,’ so we will be decorating the tables for spring,” Esworthy said. “Since there is no guest speaker this year, the women (can) chat.”

“We will also have several photo op backgrounds like a garden bench where attendees can take

their photo,” Kolb added.

Attendees are encourage to wear tea attire, which includes hats or fascinators, which are decorative headpieces that are attached to the head with a hair clip or comb. A limited number of fascinators will be available for purchase at the event.

There will also be an opportunity for guests to win door prizes. “Door prizes will be gift certificates for our (May) plant sale and the Read Moore Book Store, books, a garden basket and a John Esworthy painting,” Kolb noted.

All proceeds from the tea will benefit the library.

A fee will be charged per person. For more information or to reserve a ticket, call the library at 610-593-6683. Tickets are also available for purchase at the library, 9 W. Slokom Ave., Christiana. Cash, check or Venmo will be

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ChesCo Search Dogs seek to find the lost or the missing

BY FRANCINE FULTON

Members of the ChesCo Search Dogs team never know when they will get the call. Whether it be to search for a lost hiker or a missing child, the dogs and their handlers are ready to be dispatched wherever they are needed.

ChesCo Search Dogs is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization dedicated to training and providing trained K-9 teams to help find missing and lost persons and to detect human remains. ChesCo Search Dogs has more than 20 K-9s and their handlers in various stages of training who provide free ground search services to locate lost or missing

persons in Chester County and throughout eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and northern Delaware.

“A lot of times the person is missing but not lost, and there

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Bingo!

BY ANN MEAD ASH

Bethany Miller, adult advocate with The Factory Ministries, cannot contain her enthusiasm when she talks about the monthly bingo event she organizes for Factory participants. “It’s a great opportunity to watch a participant win, yell out, ‘Bingo!’ and then go up to select from a great array of prizes,” said Miller, who added that participants love the event so much, they often line up outside the door before it starts.

Bingo is held monthly at The Factory, 3293 Lincoln Highway

East, Paradise. The event is normally held from 1 to 3 p.m. on the fourth Thursday of each month, but in April, it will be held on Thursday, April 18.

“We typically have 50 to 70 people that come to bingo,” noted Miller. “(Participants) are surrounded by people.”

Miller explained that bingo helps bolster a participant’s relational resources. “We believe there are six primary resources, and we try to walk alongside our participants (to enhance these),” said Miller, who explained that when working with clients, she uses a set of six dominoes

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Organizers of the event include Friends members (from left) Toady Kennel, Karen Woods, Joan Esworthy, Kate Valentino and Jeannette Kolb.

Keith Studnick and his dog, Hunter

A gift of grace

BY ANN MEAD ASH

On a Saturday in July of 2020, Tim Rogers learned online that his brother-inlaw, Justo Smoker, had been arrested for the kidnapping of Linda Stoltzfoos, a young Amish woman abducted

in Bird-in-Hand and later murdered.

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Tim and his daughter, Megan Shertzer, who was the only other family member at home, were reeling from the shock of the news when the doorbell rang. “My first thought was that I didn’t want to go to the door,” recalled Tim. Waiting on the front step was an Amish neighbor who had heard the news and brought her family along with flowers and vegetables from her garden. The woman had been the teacher in the Nickel Mines Schoolhouse on the day of that tragedy in 2008. “She said, ‘I want you to know that there’s hope and God will take care of you,’” Tim reported. “We could see the tears in her eyes, and they were in mine too,” he noted, adding, “(That she would be) the person at the door offering what she offered,” recalled Tim. “It was simple, but the gift of presence in that space was really powerful.”

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That day was the beginning of a journey that would show the Rogers family the depth of grace to be offered by the family members of Linda Stoltzfoos and the greater community. Those experiences would lead both Tim and Megan to begin journaling - recording events as well as their emotional reactions and the questions the situation forced them to examine. The result of those writings is “Beechdale Road,” a self-published book that represents Tim and Megan’s goal to share with others the hope and mercy they found in the aftermath of a terrible crime. Because Stoltzfoos was an aide to children with special needs in a one-room schoolhouse, part of the proceeds from the sale of “Beechdale Road” will help support Amish special education in Lancaster County.

For Megan, the crime committed by someone she knew and cared for

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Studnick emphasized that the team only goes out to search when requested by a law enforcement agency. “It could be anyone who has jurisdiction, local police, state police, a state game warden or federal park ranger. We can’t go out for families,” he said, noting that the team had 22 calls in 2023, with three this year to date.

not trying to run away. Police dogs are looking for people who may not want to be found.”

Unlike Yoda, a policetrained Belgian Malinois that helped to take down Cavalcante, ChesCo Search Dogs are trained not to bite for their own safety. “We are looking for kids on the spectrum or elderly people with dementia or Alzheimer’s, and you don’t know how the person will react when the dog finds them,” Studnick pointed out.

Past assignments have included searching for youngsters with autism, elderly residents with dementia or Alzheimer’s or hikers lost in the woods. The teams are also involved with finding those who are deceased, including those people who have died by suicide.

However, the team does not get involved in finding escaped criminals. For example, they were not part of the search for Danelo Cavalcante, who escaped from the Chester County Prison and was hiding for nearly two weeks in the Chester County terrain before being captured by law enforcement. “We do not (get involved with) criminal activity. We did not search for Cavalcante,” Studnick stated. “We are looking for people who are

He explained that when a call comes for the group to provide assistance, it goes through the Pennsylvania Search and Rescue Council. “They give us a location to meet and our chief, Craig Snyder, will send out a call asking who has a ground team available and (provide) the nature of the call and location,” noted Studnick.

searches. My dog fell into a hole in the woods and got lame for a few weeks,” said Studnick, adding that Hunter is a Live Find Dog. “Hunter will look (at the beginning stages of the search). If it’s a week later, then they will send a HRD - human remains detection - dog, formerly known as a cadaver dog.”

community by finding that missing person, hopefully alive, and getting them home,” Studnick stated.

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On a recent search, the team was dispatched to find a missing male in his 20s in Centralia, which is a two-hour drive for the volunteers. The searchers were warned of the danger of the situation because of the town’s underground fires that could open holes in the terrain. As it turns out, the man, who failed to provide his family with his location, was found safely with friends.

“A lot of our dogs get injured in training or during

He noted that different dogs on the team have their own strengths. “Hunter is awesome in cold weather,” Studnick stated. “But if it is too hot for him to work, we have some short-haired dogs that do well in the summer and can’t stand the winter. Pennsylvania has such diverse weather, and it works out that we have people with heavier-coated dogs and others that are much more suited to summer conditions.”

Ultimately, he added, the searchers hope to find the lost or missing person alive. “You want to help the

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brought her face-to-face with questions she never anticipated having to answer. “(Justo) was a fun uncle,” she recalled. “One of the biggest things I have wrestled with is what to do when someone has done such a horrific, evil thing when that’s not who you know them

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to be.” Megan pointed to memories of an uncle she knew to be silly, safe, funny, caring, and supportive. “What do you do with that when we often want to define people as good or bad?” she asked. “What do you do when they’re both?” What Megan learned through the experience is that “we are all both good and bad.” “It’s easy to forget that because then it affects us and it’s about us and not just those bad people out there who do bad things. It was a battle for me to learn (that).”

After Tim and Megan each discovered that the other was recording events and feelings, they began sharing their writings with each other. They discussed working together on a project in an open-ended manner. “It was never, ‘We are going to write a book and this is how we’re going to do it, and it will be done by this time,’” said Megan.

One day Tim told a therapist who was helping the family deal with the situation about the understanding he and his family had received

in the wake of the tragedy. “I shared a vignette of a moment that had happened with the Amish community,” recalled Tim. “(The therapist said), ‘That is so powerful; you need to write this down.’” That conversation led to Tim and Megan beginning to put their writings into order. “We thought there was enough that could be helpful to put out to people,” said Tim. “The story for us is the grace of the Amish community and the mercy they offered to us in the middle of such a terrible tragedy. It was such a gift to us,” he said.

“Beechdale Road” is available at the Gordonville Book Store and all Good’s Store locations. More information about the book, including upcoming speaking engagements, may be found at www .beechdaleroad.com.

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Tim Rogers (left) and his daughter, Megan Shertzer, are the authors of the book “Beechdale Road,” the story of how they received grace in the wake of Linda Stoltzfoos’ murder.

Submitted by Leona Baker, Historical Society of Salisbury Township

In March’s “From the Attic” column, Faye Mummau related stories about her mother’s household activities. This month, the Historical Society of Salisbury Township highlights the kitchen tools in its collection.

Some kitchen tools go back to the early 1900s and were still in popular use in the 1950s. As new tools gradually entered the kitchen, those from grandmother’s era were hung on the walls, sold or thrown away.

Many utensils such as potato mashers and cheese graters would have been used almost daily in the early 20th-century kitchen. When electricity in the home became more common, the new time-saving equipment was fast replacing the old, labor-intensive ways. Not all items, in fact, were at first considered a real improvement. The electric mixer may have mashed potatoes with a flick of the switch, but using that old hand-held potato masher was quieter and much quicker to clean. A busy mother often found that mashing potatoes was an opportunity to vent frustrations of the day when toddlers and their siblings clamored for attention while she tried to have dinner ready by 6 o’clock. And, yes, most households sat down to dinner together at that hour.

The old scales may not have shown the weight down to the 0.001th degree, but it was close enough for the average cook. All you had to do was place the object on the flat plate on top and the weight was instantly viewable.

Vitamins had been discovered in 1913 and well researched in the next 25 years. The importance of Vitamin C for a healthy immune system was stressed by scientists in the 1930s and 1940s. The tomato was found to have high levels of Vitamin C.

One item in the historical society’s collection is a bushel basket, meant for carrying large amounts of fresh food at one time, including tomatoes. The frugal cook could buy vegetables by the bushel and preserve them for winter months.

The “modern” homemaker made sure that her preserved tomato supply offered at least three servings a week for each member of her family from November to June. For a family of four, that meant canning over 100 quart jars of tomatoes in some form, whether they were whole, cubed or made into sauce.

Adding beans, peas, limas, corn and carrots provided enough of those vegetables that could be served once or twice a week. That’s a lot of preserving! And all this was done in the heat

of summer, with no air conditioning.

As electricity became more common in the home, electric refrigerators replaced ice boxes. “Freezer lockers” were often available at the local store and prepared vegetables or fruits could be stored in the rented boxes, which were usually 24 by 30 by 15 inches in size. The homemaker prepared her winter supply of fruits and vegetables and then trundled them to the freezer building. As winter progressed, a family member would make a trip to the locker for a week’s menu supply.

In Salisbury Township, Byler’s Market in Gap had freezer lockers rooms well into the 1970s. By that time, enough homes in the township had home freezer chests that the community one was no longer necessary.

Those who have their grandmother’s kitchen utensils in their home, whether they use them or just display them, should take a moment to remember the many hands that prepared meals for loved ones using those uten -

Utensils (left photo) and an old-fashioned scale (right photo) were commonly used in the kitchen.

Community Calendar

April 10. Kacie’s Cause Support Group

Parkesburg Baptist Church

103 West St., Parkesburg, 7 to 8 p.m.

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April 11. Narcotics Anonymous

IMPACT Church

101 E. First Ave., Parkesburg, 5 p.m.

April 14. Church Service, Free Meal

New Beginnings Church of the Cross

1 Penn Ave, Christiana. Sunday morning worship will take place at 10 a.m. and then attendees may enjoy a free smorgasbord-style meal. The church is located between Newport Avenue and Pine Street, two blocks from the light at Route 41 and Pine Creek Drive. www.facebook.com/NewBeginningsCross

April 20. Spring Craft Show

Limeville Church

5783 Limeville Road, Gap, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Featured

will be vendors displaying and selling their products. Limeville Church will also sell hot dogs, with proceeds going towards Limeville’s Blessings Store and the church’s children’s ministries. Those who are in reserving a table for should visit www.limevillechurch.org and click on the “Craft Show” tab for more information and to fill out the registration form.

April 20. Knight at the Races Fundraiser

Our Lady of Consolation Church

Schneider Parish Center, 2995 Cemetery Road, Parkesburg. Doors will open at 6 p.m.; the first event will begin at 7 p.m. The admission fee includes dinner and beverages. For more information, call event organizer Tom Henderson at 610-304-6546.

The Community Calendar is a weekly feature of the Community Courier. Submit your meting or event for consideration in writing at least two weeks prior to the event. Email submissions to ffulton@engleonline.com. For more information, call 800-800-1833, ext. 6018.

Workshop to focus on native plants

Penn State Extension will host a Choose Native Mini-Workshop live webinar on Tuesday, April 16, at 6 p.m. The mini workshop will focus on replacing invasive species with those native to Pennsylvania in landscapes and water gardens. Landscaping and water gardening activities often lead to the unintended introduction and spread of invasive plant species to natural lands and waterways. Once established, invasive species can degrade natural habitats by outcompeting native species for space, light, and nutrients. Invasive species can impact the food web

by altering the plant community and decreasing the diversity of plants available for food sources, habitat, and shelter. The workshop will introduce participants to native species options and creative ways to include native species in landscapes and aquatic designs. This mini-workshop is hosted by Pennsylvania Sea Grant and Penn State Extension with a special guest presentation by Native Creations Landscaping Services. The event is offered at no charge through funding from the Richard King Mellon Foundation and the Great Lakes Commission.

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Diaper drive posted

To help support the Maternal and Child Health Consortium’s diaper drive, state Sen. Carolyn Comitta has a collection box for donated diapers and other baby supplies in the atrium at her West Chester District office, 17 E. Gay St. The office is open on Mondays to Fridays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Diapers can also be dropped off at the Maternal and Child Health Consortium’s Coatesville location, 1001 E. Lincoln Highway, Suite 104. The collection will end on Friday, April 12. Donations of new diapers of all sizes will be accepted. Community members may also donate other new baby supplies, like wipes, onesies, bottles, bibs, burp cloths, hats and socks, and bath supplies.

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to provide a visual explanation. “We use these to explain the primary resources and how they are interconnected,” she said, setting up dominoes labeled relational, emotional, financial, spiritual, physical, and intellectual. “I stand them up and explain that when we lose one of these resources, the rest fall down behind them.” Miller noted that the members of The Factory advocacy team are tasked with learning which of those resources is lacking and coming alongside the client to rebuild. “When we bolster one, the rest tend to be bolstered behind it,” she pointed out.

Bingo, which Miller believes has been held at The Factory for more than three years, has been successful in helping participants to build relational resources. “Some (participants) have started to come as a group and bring their own snacks,” she noted, adding that many of the participants are socially isolated. “Bingo gives them an opportunity to meet other people and leave their homes (for a while).”

Miller continued,

“Meeting with people and forming relationships is very powerful and can help an individual in a lot of ways.”

In addition to meeting with other participants, Miller lines up representatives of local organizations to make presentations. “We try to have at least one community service provider there to talk about the services that they offer,” she said, adding that the Naaman Center; Oak Street Health, located in the city of Lancaster; and Crisis Intervention have all had representatives in attendance. Miller noted that Jesse Bills, pastor of

Pequea Evangelical Congregational (E.C.) Church, is often there to help out.

According to Miller, volunteers, including individuals and groups of employees from area businesses, are needed to help set up and hold the monthly events. “I am always in need of help running bingo,” said Miller.

Small, new prize items in the $10 to $15 value range are also sought. “All our prizes come from donations by individuals in the community,” said Miller, who mentioned that gift cards, coloring books for adults, markers, home décor, items for

pets, and kitchen items are good prizes.

According to Miller, the program has encouraged positive results in participants. “They really look forward to it,” she said. “They call to make sure they have the date right, and they invite friends and family.” Miller has been thrilled to see the program so well received. “I love that people enjoy and feel safe coming to bingo,” she said. “It’s a joy to have people there.”

Readers who have questions about bingo at The Factory may email bethany@thefactory ministries.com or call 717-847-6739.

Participants in The Factory Ministries program watch their bingo cards carefully (left photo) as Megan Shertzer calls numbers (right photo).

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Freedom Life Church to present film

Freedom Life Church will show a film adaptation of the best-selling book, “Letter to the American Church” written by Eric Metaxas, on Sunday, April 14, at 6 p.m.

Senior pastor Sam Masteller said that he hopes to fill the 400-seat auditorium of the church at 447 Noble Road, Christiana.

Following the one-hour showing, Pastor David Engelhardt of Kings’ Church in New York

and a board member of TPUSA Faith, will be live at Freedom Life to share commentary. Engelhardt appears in the “Letter to the American Church” documentary.

Admission is free and the community is invited to attend. FL Kids will offer children’s church during the screening for youths in fifth grade and younger.

For more information, email info@freedom.life or call 610-593-5959.

MAPLE GROVE MENNONITE CHURCH: 549 Swan Rd., Atglen. 610-593-6658, Lead Pastor: Mike Clemmer, Music Minister: Matt Chambers. Sunday School 9am, Sunday Worship 10am, Children’s Church, Nursery. Youth Group Wed., 7pm. Christian Preschool. Visit us online at: www.maplegrovemc.com

MIDDLE OCTORARA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: 1199 Valley Road Quarryville. Sunday Services: Sunday School 9 AM; Blended Worship 10:30 AM. 717-786-3402 Visit us online at www.middleoctorara.org

MT. VERNON CHRISTIAN CHURCH: Growing Deeper, Reaching Farther. 1 Lighthouse Dr, Kirkwood. Pastor Tony Murrin. Sunday School- all ages 9am, Worship 10:00am. Handicap Access. Phone: 717-529-4102. Visit us online at mtvernonchristianchurch.com

PARKESBURG BAPTIST CHURCH: 103 West St., (next to Parkesburg Library & Minich Park). 610-857-9135 or Email: info@parkesburgbaptist.org. Pastor: Rev. Mary C. Lewis. Sunday Worship 10:30 am - Nursery Care & Jr. Church provided.

PARKESBURG WORD OF FAITH CHURCH Sunday Service 10 am & Wednesday prayer at 7:30 pm - at 501 Lenover Rd., Parkesburg, PA 19365. Call 610-593-2277 www.parkesburgwordoffaith.org

SANDY HILL COMMUNITY CHURCH : 420 S. Sandy Hill Rd., Coatesville 610-857-3959; www.sandyhill.net. Sunday service: 10:15am; Bible teaching, music; Children’s classes, staffed nursery; Adult classes, 9:15am, Youth Min., Sundays, 5:30-7:30pm. Small Groups. A Friendly, Christ-centered church. Preschool: Enrolling-2 1/2-5 years, 610-857-1922

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The Parkesburg Grocery Outlet, 110 W. First Ave., Parkesburg, opened its doors on March 28.

Festivities included live music, giveaways and a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Grocery Outlet offers a full range of products, including fresh produce, meat, deli and dairy items, along with a wide assortment of natural and organic choices. Grocery Outlet also carries a large selection of beer and wine, health and beauty care products and seasonal items.

The Parkesburg Grocery Outlet is locally owned and operated by Valerie and Mark Baker. The store is open every day from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. To learn more, visit www.facebook.com/ ParkesburgGroceryOutlet.

Store owners Valerie and Mark Baker