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  • HOPE enlists help from churches

    With a surge in the number of families requesting help, HOPE’s executive director pleaded for more volunteers at the organization’s annual meeting.

    Elaine Adkins, director of the charitable organization Helping Other People Effectively, spoke to dozens of representatives from area churches last week, hoping to attract more help for HOPE’s activities, including the distribution of food donations.

    Many people at the meeting signed up for shifts working at HOPE, while others decided to donate to the group on the spot.

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  • Gala brings in $25,000 for arts council

    Lancaster County Council of the Arts director Sam Courtney says the council’s annual fundraiser gala brought in more than $25,000.

    The gala was held Saturday night at the Fairway Room at the Lancaster Golf Club.

    The theme was Mardi Gras Mystique, and many of the 325 people who attended dressed the part, with many wearing masks or feather boas, or even crazier get-ups, with one attendee dressed as a jester.

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  • City to annex land for ALDI store

    The city of Lancaster has moved forward in its attempt to help bring an ALDI grocery store to the area.

    City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to approve final reading of an ordinance to annex about 2.5 acres of land at Old Charlotte Highway and North Park Drive. The land, owned by Gene Melton, is situated near Grinders restaurant and behind Bojangles’.

    ALDI spokeswoman Martha Swaney said the company plans to buy the land from Melton and open by fall.

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  • Fatherhood Project may bring Harlem MagicMasters to town

    The city of Lancaster has been asked to support an event that promises to serve up high-flying dunks and other breathtaking stunts for local spectators.

    The Lancaster Fatherhood Project, which provides services to low-income families, is bringing the Harlem MagicMasters to town next month.

    The MagicMasters, who offer in-game entertainment comparable to the Harlem Globetrotters,  will play against a team of local community members March 12 at Lancaster High School’s gymnasium.

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  • Diamond debut dandy for USCL baseball team

    For the University of South Carolina at Lancaster Lancers’ diamond debut, it was about as good as it gets.

    On a Friday the 13th high-noon showdown at the Lancaster High School baseball field, better known as Doomsday Corner, the Lancers dazzled on a spring-like day.

    The Lancers, facing Prince George’s Community College of Largo, Md., winged the Owls twice -  3-2 in a late-inning thriller and 10-0 in a six-inning blowout.

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  • Longtime, former auto dealer dies at 86

    A man who owned a Lancaster car dealership for almost 40 years died Sunday. He was 86.

    Robert “Sonny” Bowers was well known as the owner and operator of Sonny Bowers Dodge. He owned the business from 1966 until 2003, when he sold the dealership to David McKinney, who still runs the dealership.

    Bowers won the auto company’s Five Star Award 14 times.

    He was also president of the Dodge Dealer Ad Association and spent many years as a member of the board of deacons and Sunday school teacher for First ARP Church.

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  • Car hits tanning salon

    A car slammed through the front of Four Seasons Tanning Salon late Sunday night, causing extensive damage.

    The front end of the car crashed into the front door, then spun around. The rear of the car then crashed through the corner of the building, said Debra Gunn, an employee of the salon on Kershaw-Camden Highway for about four years.

    The driver must have been speeding to have hit the building with such force " twice, Gunn said.

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  • Red Cross hopes to collect 120 pints of blood at drive

    A new age group may now donate blood, and the local American Red Cross hopes they’ll come out to a blood drive at Lancaster High School on Saturday.

    The drive is being sponsored by LHS Civinettes group. It will be held from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the LHS cafeteria.

    LHS students who are 16 may now donate blood with parental consent. Ages 17 and up do not require parental permission. Every donor must weigh at least 110 pounds.

    “We want them (teenagers) to start giving blood,” said Lancaster Red Cross director Gina Amato.

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  • Vandalism shows need for more officers
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  • Mother, son face burglary charges

    A mother and son from Lancaster have been charged with a burglary at Dixie Food Mart.

    Valerie Lynn Dunn, 36, and Ronnie James Dunn, 17, both of 411 Gills Creek Drive, have been charged with second-degree burglary.

    According to a Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office incident report, the store owner reported that someone had taken a briefcase holding cash, tax documents and other items from the store. The store owner said the briefcase was in his office on Feb. 4 and he noticed it missing about noon Feb. 6.

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