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The Lancaster County Council on Aging is pulling its services out of the Heath Springs Senior Center, after a failed working relationship with the site's afternoon overseers.

But starting in 2008, Heath Springs seniors are welcome at the Kershaw Satellite Senior Center for daily meals served at noon and other council on aging programing they participated in at the Heath Springs center.

The Kershaw center's staff will also deliver meals to Heath Springs homes and provide transportation to the center, which is about five miles from the Heath Springs Senior Center.

The staff and students of Buford High School used this year's Arbor Day celebration to remember the life of one of their own.

The school held its annual Arbor Day Celebration on Thursday morning and a red maple tree was planted in the courtyard in memory of Bobby Whited.

Whited, a Buford High senior, died in a car accident in 2004.

Christmas may not come for some local needy children whose names haven't been taken off Lancaster Christian Services angel trees.

Program volunteer Brenda Campbell said there are 77 names left on the tree at the Church of Lancaster on Craig Farm Road in the youth building. But when the program allows people who missed the September deadline to fill out applications on Dec. 12. between 200 and 300 more are expected to be added. The applications may be filled out between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. at the church on that day.

The Ward Faulkenberry Memorial Christmas Basket Fund has brought in almost $1,000 since the drive began Nov. 19.

The fund, sponsored by the local American Red Cross, collects donations that are used to buy $25 food vouchers that are given to less fortunate families in Lancaster County.

Recipients can use those vouchers at local grocery stores.

As of Wednesday afternoon, $880 had been donated to the fund, now in its 48th year.