Jonathan Swab, Carol Gerloch, Rusty Geesey, David Deitrich Riverview School studies eye care by Dorcas Knorr For the past two years the fourth grade sections of the Riverview and Maytown schools of the Donegal School district have been studying eye health and safety under the direction of Mrs. Dorcas Knorr, the school nurse. The program is sponsored by the Lancaster Co. Blind Association with the coop- eration of the Marietta Lions Club which picks up the tab for supplies, materials, and prises for the poster contest. The special guest for today’s program was Mr. Hennig from Manheim and his ‘‘seeing eye’’dog, Konia. , SMITH WATER C \. Tr 807 West Main Street WANT TO SAVE MONEY??? CALL ME BEFORE YOU BUY A WATER SOFTENER AMMON SMITH 653-1159 ONDITIONING 0. Mount Joy Autiques Awd Ant In Marietta 1. The Union House Gallery 3. Lily 220 W. FRONT -— 426-2278 Original Water Colors — Folk Art 2. The Mack Brewery 139 E. MARKET - 426-1458 Old and New Country Wares 6. White Swan Tavern Antiques 14 E. FRONT — 426-2189 Clocks, Furniture and Accompaniments 8. Henry & Jane 234 E. MARKET — 426-2201 Dolls, Toys, Antiques & Studio The winners of the poster contest were as follows: Ist prize ($5.00), David Deitrich; 2nd prize ($4.00), Rusty Geesey;) 3rd prize ($3.00), Carol Gerloch; and honorable mention ($1.00), Jonathan Swab. Mr. Art Zuch presented the awards. FOGIE’S CAFE 42 E. FRONT ST., > MARIETTA A 3 BITES % SA YY [0111 Tod 2 | 5S = crac faa" - Antiques Schlosser 7. Se HTLR 17 W. MARKET — 426-1472 4. Collectibles By Emme C. Reynolds BIDDLE ST. — 426-3927 Antiques and Primitives 9. The Oliver House 104 E. FRONT — 426-3796 Fine Antiques, Crystal and China “The Parlor” 328 E. MARKET — 426-1270 Antiques and Gifts Nieman | Nature in by Ralph Miller Can you imagine anyone growing up in an area bounded only by brick, concrete, asphalt, glass and steel, with the nearest greenery, an oasis of grass and trees several miles away, seldom to be visited, and the only wildlife consis- ting of flies, cockroaches, dirty pigeons, a few house sparrows, and rats in the darker places? Where one has to stretch his head and neck upward for the sight of a small patch of occasion- al blue sky and to see a gull and hear its refreshing cry! Essentially, this is life for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers. Actually, there is more of nature’s varieties to be seen by those who seek and look, as attested to in books written by several distinguished naturalists on natural life in and around New York. How much more fortunate are we who live here in these natural surroundings of lawns, shrubs and trees, of field, orchards and small woods, of small streams, of the river and its bordering hills. Nature’s gifts are so lavish that we too tend to overlook many of them or pay scant attention to them. Any boy or girl growing up in this area can under- take a study of any number of natural history subjects in a veritable laboratory sur- rounding him or her, whe- ther it be tracing the growth of frogs from egg to tadpole to adult, of butterflies and moths from egg through caterpillar, pupa and then adult, or from eggs to fledgling nestlings to adult birds, to name a few. Flowers, plants, shrubs and trees are profuse in number May 28, 1975 your own backyard and could provide a lifetime of work. There is still room for study on the mammals in the area, and as for fish, they always seem to get a front. In form somewhat like a cardinal, these are crest- ed, brown birds with a broad band of yellow on the end of the tail. In succeeding proportionately smaller amount weeks, we saw a band of of attention. Insects? Where does one begin? For those a little further in life, there is much pleasure to be had, as well as a form of education, in seeing and enjoying what we have. Some are aware of this and prominent among the plea- sures enjoyed apparently is that of watching birds, for quite a few people around Marietta give occasional time to it. For any others who might wish to indulge in this peaceable and pleasant pasttime, an inex- pensive bird guide will greatly increase their enjoy- ment, for there is a certain satisfaction to be derived from being able to identify some new bird, or even an old one whose name was not known before. The Susquehanna River valley is part of the great migration route for birds on the east coast. And here on Fairview Avenue we are fortunate to have sufficient lawns with trees and shrubs to attract some of the migrating birds as well as to induce a few resident birds to nest. In late March, our usual residents, consisting of blue jays, cardinals, grackles, white-throated sparrows, juncos and others, were unexepectedly joined in the evening hours by a cedar waxwing in the tall pyrocan- thus by the library window. The following day we saw 12 to 15 of these handsome birds in one of the maples in’ four or five of these birds about on the trees. Then, on the 10th of May, we found one of the cedar waxwings lying in the middle of the lawn badly wounded about the head with the right top half of its skull exposed, possibly mauled by a cat. It survived for 24 hours in a box filled with dry grass, water, and seed, but its ultimate death was a fore- gone conclusion. Since then we have seen no more waxwings. In early March, the woodpeckers were arriving or passing through, inclu- ding the downy and hairy woodpeckers, yellow-bellied sapsuckers, and flickers, the last of three or four of which have apparently decided to make their home in this vicinity. At the same time, a number of golden-crowned kinglets and ruby-crowned kinglets spent some weeks here and in a rather rare occurrence, the ruby- crowned kinglet was in song on several occasions. Its song is mellow and flute-like and its warble is intricate in design. The song is so loud that one expects to see a large bird instead of a diminutive four-inch bird, almost half of which is tail. And if one doesn’t move too quickly, the kinglet will flit from branch to branch, moving closer each time until it is within three or four feet of the observer’s head, as if it decided to look you over too. (To be continued) Triangle Realty, Inc., 1576 Lititz Pike, Lancaster, announces the association of Robert E. Hoffer. Mr. Hoffer is a licensed Real Estate Salesman and is actively engaged in the sale of Residential Real Estate. He is a graduate of Donegal High School and the Dale Carnegie Sales Course where he was awarded the Human Relation Award. Bob’s hobbies include basketball, tennis, and golf. He is a member of St. Mark’s United Methodist Church where he serves as stewart. Bob is a Realtor Associate with the Greater Lancaster Board of Realtors and received Real Estate train- ing from Penn State Univer- sity, Continuing Education, on the York Campus.
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