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In another realm, I was a ball of fire, always full of energy.

Why, I took on all kinds of projects and tasks of all sorts and sizes around our Charlotte Road Camelot.

Now, I get up in the morning with the best intentions of getting our yard in better shape.

No, I don’t mean that blue ribbon, Yard-of-the-Month frenzy.

While I enjoy lookin’ at the pictures, once you win that distinction, you are under pressure and the lawn is under neighborhood microscope.

Barbara Witte

Special to The

Lancaster News

When I learned about the Southwest Florida Honor Flight, I quickly contacted Don Vecoli, founder and organizer.

He and his staff organize the trips for World War II veterans and volunteers to visit the World War II memorial in Washington, D.C., two or three times per year.

A few years ago, when I did some frequent work-related traveling between Springs’ Customer Service Center and their New York office, several of those “real city boys” used to chide me about one of my neighborly tendencies.

For some strange, inexplicable reason, they perceived my inclination of nodding and speaking to people on the street as a “bad habit.”

Folks in midtown New York City, they said, never make eye contact with total strangers.

If you did, you were asking for trouble.

Kaisha Young

For The Lancaster News

One girl is popular and comes from an affluent family. One girl is reserved and comes from a middle class family.

Both give no indications that anything’s wrong, even though they are both harboring heinous secrets.

Both are victims of teen dating violence.

School district youth/peer counselors Deborah Boulware and Sarah Woodring know this tale all too well after hearing it time and time again.

 Lancaster NAACP release

The fellowship hall at Mount Zion AME Zion Church overflowed with attendees of all ages at the first Town Hall Meeting sponsored by the Lancaster Branch of the NAACP on Dec. 12.  

Nearly one hundred people met to present their views on the subject “Crime Watch:  Saving Our Youth.”

 With the holidays and the fun family times along with delicious dinners and deserts that we are destined to eat, I’m going to give you a few extra treats on how to keep your abs and waist line in tip top shape and still enjoy eating your favorite foods. 

Nov. 2, 2013

There’s got to be at least 40 volunteers here.

Some crouching, hammers in hand. The hollow sound of tools banging against the wood echoes. The noise slicing through the autumn air. 

Finally, the progress is visible – it’s tangible.

 If you can’t make it the mountains to choose and cut your Christmas tree there’s no need to worry – Lancaster County has it covered.

Papa John’s Christmas Tree Farm, located at 6980 Flat Creek Road in Kershaw, offers six different varieties of trees customers can choose and cut, including Blue Ice, Carolina Sapphire, Eastern Red Cedar, Leyland Cypress, Virginia Pine and White Pine. 

On Thanksgiving Day, Alex Sims turned 100.

The Van Wyck man credits his long life to hard, but satisfying work on his 225-acre farm at the corner of U.S. 521 and S.C. 5. He bought the land after two stints in the U.S. military.

“It doesn’t matter how much money you make if you like what you’re doing. Keep it up,” said Sims, who cut his own winter firewood with an axe until he was 97. “You have to love your life.”