Our Mother of Perpetual Help (OMPH) School celebrated special theme days during Catholic Schools Week in early February. One of those themes, Celebrating Our Community, led the students to give back to the Ephrata community by choosing organizations needing their help by way of donations. OMPH School

9 to the communities’ senior residents! Pick up a packet, bring out your artistic side and return beautiful colored pictures to the library so they can pass them along to their valued friends. All ages.

• Story Challenge – All month. Read the story on the window next to the wheelchair ramp. Tell the circulation desk staff the answer to the question for a prize.

• Farm I SPY Window Game – Stop in at the library to “spy with your little eye” all the fun things on the window. List of items changes weekly. When you finish, come inside to chose Good Samaritan and the OMPH Parish Food Bank. OMPH School families donated paper products and cleaning supplies for Good Samaritan to use at their many facilities.

Donations were presented to Good Samaritan representative, Brittany Torres, by OMPH Principal Mrs. Snyder and OMPH students.

9 receive your congratulatory sticker.

• Historic Hero Scavenger Hunt ­ All month. Every week children can search for a different hero’s picture. Pick up a flyer at the circulation desk with biographical info, start your search, and tell the staff where you saw the picture to receive a prize.

• Springtime Bingo –Now through Wednesday, May 31. Children’s Early Literacy Bingo (ages 3­9) and Self Care Bingo (ages 10­18). Pick up a Bingo sheet in the library and return by Wednesday, May 31 to claim your prize.

The Food Bank was in need of specific items that had been depleted over the past few months. The donations were sorted and delivered to the Food Bank by members of the fifth grade class, along with their teacher, Miss Boyd, and OMPH Food Bank representative, Mrs. Dreihaup, who also teaches at the school.

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Friendly Circle Meeting

The Friendly Circle held its first meeting of 2023 on Tuesday, March 14 at Akron Community Church. President John Rice welcomed everyone.

Shirley Pierce and Christine Burkholder greeted 60 members to the meeting. The theme song “The More We Get Together” was sung followed by “The Pledge of Allegiance” and “God Bless America,” along with “How Great Thou Art,” and to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day they sang “My Wild Irish Rose” with Gladys Horvath accompanying on the piano.

He was a member of Martindale Mennonite Church (Weaverland Conference) and was employed as a mechanic.

In addition to his parents, he is survived by his siblings: Arlin, husband of Sarah Hurst of Denver; Daryl, husband of Marlene Hurst of Carlisle; Linda Hurst of Ephrata; Jerry, husband of Carla Hurst of Ephrata; Conrad, husband of Katrina Hurst of Denver; Lonnie, husband of Heidi Hurst of Elliottsburg; Randal, husband of Sara Hurst of Ephrata; Janette, Maria, & Charlene Hurst of Ephrata. Also surviving are his paternal grandparents: Paul and Anna Mary Hurst, of Ephrata, and his maternal grandparents:

A funeral service will be held on Thursday, March 23, 2023 at 9:30 AM at Martindale Mennonite Church, 905 Martindale Road, Ephrata, PA 17522 with Bishop Amos G. Martin officiating. A viewing will be held on Wednesday, March 22, 2023 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM and from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at Martindale Fellowship Center, 352 Martindale Road, Ephrata, PA 17522. Kindly omit flowers.

C. Stanley Eckenroth Home for Funerals in Terre Hill is entrusted with the funeral arrangements.

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The devotional leader for March was Pastor Sandy Gideon from St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Adamstown, and St. John’s Center Lutheran Church in East Earl. Pastor Jim Sandy read some of what Rachel Held Evans wrote in her book “Searching For Sundays” ­ Faith isn’t just meant to be believed, it’s meant to be lived, and shared in community, Christianity isn’t a kingdom for the worthy—it’s a kingdom for the hungry, the broken, and the imperfect. Pastor Sandy also talked about “hands” telling them that Jesus did not have to “touch” but He did. With his Holy hands He healed the man with leprosy, a 12­year­old girl and many people in Capernaum, a blind man outside of Bethsadia and a few people in Nazareth, plus more. All things you do with your hands ­ crochet, make quilts, cook, bake, dial phone, hugs to let others know you care ­ Jesus

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After their delicious meal they were entertained by “Moyer’s One Man Band.”

Lee Moyer presents positive, upbeat musical programs. The show features historical commentary about the music, composers and current events of the times. His program also includes sing a longs, vocal and trumpet solos, from the past 100 years. Moyer concentrated on St. Patrick’s Day for The Friendly Circle event. He sang, played and held sing a longs for songs such as “You’re Irish and You Are Loveable,” “Peggy

O’Neal,” “Sweet Rosie

O’Grady,” “Clancy

Lowered the Boom,” “My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean,” “Peg of My Heart,”

“McNamara’s Band,”

“When Irish Eyes Are Smiling” and “I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy.”

After their entertainment Libby Rupp read the minutes from December

2022 meeting and also gave the treasurers report.

Pat Bunting led the singing of seven January birthdays, eight February birthdays and five March birthdays, and three February anniversaries: Jerry and Sandra Butzer, 54 years; Gerald and Mary Ann Reinhold, 53 years; and Jack and Doris Smith, 32 years.

The Gerhart’s reported receiving one sympathy card and asked members to notify them if they know of any members hospitalized or deceased.

The trip committee has a trip planned for 2023 to Totem Pole Playhouse to see “Million Dollar Quartet” on Thursday, August 10, 2023 with lunch at Hickory Bridge Restaurant. Anyone interested in joining The Friendly Circle on this trip please contact Linda at 717733­4414 for more information.

The meeting was adjourned with the singing of the “Doxology.”

Anyone interested in joining “The Friendly Circle,” please call Sandy at 717­733­9503.

The next board meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 5, 8:00 a.m. at New Cloister Restaurant in Ephrata. The regular club meeting will be held at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, April 11 at Akron Community Church, 613 Main Street, Akron.