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Lancaster Mennonite Historical Volunteer for the Bookworm Frolic! Society is grateful to these For over thirty years, this four-day outdoor sale has inspired book- generous business supporters. lovers and has given new life to more than 40,000 books a year. Have a Please support them! great time with friends and support a Mennonite church organization. Gold Sponsor Needed Immediately Needed during the Frolic (August 15-18, 2012) Good Books Volunteer Coordinator. Spend 8–15 1VCMJTIFSTPGi5IF(MPCBM hours per month helping to recruit k# Setting up tables and covering Mennonite History Series” individuals and community, youth and them with plastic XXX(PPE#PPLTDPN Sunday school groups to help with the k# Setting out books August event. Contact Peggy Erb at (717) k# Parking cars Silver Sponsors 393-9745 or [email protected]. k# Running cash registers or counting books as people check out Four Seasons Produce, Inc. Book Sorters. Help to sort books for i(SPXJOH*EFBT  the sale. Sortings are scheduled each k# Making or selling food k# Keeping tables organized 1SPEVDJOH&YDFMMFODFw 97".8#7"#.8�%5.#6&1"&51$?#$2.&%"77"V# XXXGTQSPEVDFDPN .8�%5.#>8(%51$?#&-&"+":V#.8&,7"1# as books sell 47"1$?#&-&"+":V#.8&#.8+%1#6&1"&51$?# k# Covering tables in the evening Landis Homes $2.&%"77"V#$"1#$.#7.8&%#.+9&5#)?#%&E(&5.Q# k# Drying and folding plastic i4FSWJOH0OF"OPUIFSw Contact David Sauder at (717) 393-9745 k# Cleaning up XXXMBOEJTIPNFTPSH or [email protected]. Contact Peggy Erb at (717) 393-9745. The Good Cooking Store (BEHFUTBOEXBSFTDPPLJOHDMBTTFT Old News XXX(PPE$PPLJOH4UPSFDPN Volunteers Arlene Hurst and Partners Sheri Flemming (right), as well as Roy Boylan and Kara Lindley Elite Mailing Services (not pictured), are scanning and Executive Printing Co., Inc. indexing Lancaster newspapers Hershey Advisors, P.C. from the late 1800s for records Lancaster Mennonite School of deaths, marriages and Mast Electric, Inc. anniversaries. The information MennoMedia will be digitized for use by family Sign-A-Rama Lancaster history researchers at the LMHS The Old Country Store library. TCW Computer Systems, Inc. -BODBTUFS.FOOPOJUF)JTUPSJDBM4PDJFUZtXXXMNITPSH