WITNESSED ( Seen and Heard )
The DOT Team participated in Elizabethtown's annual Arts in the Park event as a food vendor on Saturday May 10. The team served up tasty hamburger barbecue sandwiches, lemonade, snack bags, and home-made cookies, brownies and muffins to hungry patrons. Unfortunately the cool, cloudy weather kept larger crowds away, but the experience was deemed a success nonetheless as our DOT volunteers enjoyed the fellowship with one another as well as the community exposure. Several customers picked up our Welcome Brochures and asked questions about our church. The team hopes to participate in similar events in the future to support our surrounding communities.
We have noted an obituary for the elderly Middletown woman from whose estate we had received the beautifully framed large cut from a Witness Tree limb. Her name was Elner G. Overdeer, and while there was no actual connection to Donegal, she was a DAR member and very actively interested in history. We have appreciated being given this memento of our very famous tree. It is believed to have been from a large limb that came down in the 1960’s. You can see it in the large gold frame in the breezeway.
From Judy Weidman, we have received a large colorful oil painting of Donegal, done some time ago by a Mr. Cosgrove, a friend of the Weidmans. It has been reframed by the Donegal Society and will be hung in the Conference Room. Our thanks for this beautiful gift.
A letter in the Elizabethtown Chronicle by Mitch Forry is a very well-reasoned summary questioning the proposed new Intermediate Elementary School under consideration by the Elizabethtown Area School District. He considers the necessity for a new structure, some facilities, and the exorbitant cost, to be prohibitive.
Our congratulations to Kira Labagh, the recipient of the Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities Award. Kira recently graduated from West Chester University.
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Last Edited on
04/24/2009