Community

Miniature boat races, visiting bike riders, duck feeders and preparations for the Fourth of July candles filled a calm June 2015 evening in Lititz Springs Park.

Lancaster Bible College’s free “Women in the Word” study, focused on wisdom from Proverbs, met Tuesday mornings from September 13 to November 15, 2016.

Best-selling author Joyce Meyer returned to the Giant Center for a free conference August 25-27, 2016, and asked attendees to donate diapers, wipes and formula for a Harrisburg nonprofit.

The 11th annual Lititz Summer Showcase brought youth soccer teams from as far as California to Lititz and Manheim-area fields on July 30-31, 2016, with college coaches scouting.

The 9th annual Lancaster AMBUCS Golf Tournament, set for May 18, 2015 at Four Seasons Golf Course in Landisville, raised money for the Occupational Development Center.

Twin lambs born overnight during a bitter February 2015 cold snap at Green Meadow Farm, a nonprofit therapeutic riding farm, were named Elsa and Anna after the sisters in Disney’s “Frozen.”

In November 2015, the Pet Pantry of Lancaster County, which had grown from feeding pets for 18 families to 301, saw donation bins run low before the Extraordinary Give and asked the community for pet food and supplies.

In spring 2015, the nonprofit exchange organization Horizons du Monde sought 15 Lititz- and Manheim-area host families for teenagers from Spain visiting in July, after hosting a group of French students that spring.

In October 2015, the Pennsylvania VFW began offering free VA benefits appointments with a service officer on Mondays at Lititz VFW Post 1463, so veterans and surviving spouses could get help with claims closer to home.

A column from a warm, then rainy, December Sunday in Lititz Springs Park, with duck-feeding families, missionary grandparents awaiting a grandson, a tattered flag over the caboose and a double rainbow over the closing Wilbur Chocolate factory.

Neshaminy High School’s boys bowling team edged top-seeded Hempfield 235-223 in the deciding Baker game to win its first Pennsylvania state team championship at Dutch Lanes in Ephrata in March 2015.

In a December 2015 column, LititzDailyNews.com asked why a town that celebrates chocolate, crafts and independence has no community New Year’s Eve event, and imagined a Wilbur Bud drop, a rising Moravian star and a “New Year’s Rocking Lititz Eve.”