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The Muhlenberg Township Arts Board has teamed and Muhlenberg Community Library are holding a Holiday Trail of Lights fundraiser.
Stop by the Muhlenberg Community Library Saturday at 5:30 p.m. to get the map of houses with spectacular light displays throughout the township. At each stop, participants will get a friendly welcome, a treat and a playing card for the Holly Jolly Poker Run.
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 4201 Stoudt’s Ferry Bridge Road, has agreed to be a bonus stop. Those who present a nonperishable food item for the local food pantry will get a bonus playing card. Those who donate multiple items to the pantry will get activity books and crayons. Light refreshment will be inside the church.There will be a train display to enjoy along with many raffle items.
The cost to take part in the tour is $25 per carload. Tickets can be purchased online at secure.rec1.com/PA/muhlenberg-township-pa/catalog or at the library, 3612 Kutztown Road, Laureldale. For questions call 610-929-4727 ext 265.
Daniel Boone Homestead will host A Homestead Holiday Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. at the Exeter Township historic site.
Experience Christmas as it was almost 300 years ago. Visitors can learn about English and Pennsylvania German holiday celebrations, listen to the Homestead Carolers, visit with Santa and enjoy Christmas crafts and activities. Tour festively decorated buildings and learn about the Christmas traditions of the families who lived on the property throughout the 18th century.
Volunteers will cook a Christmas meal in the hearth and talk about English Christmas traditions. Parlors will be decorated for the season. The Bertolet Log House will be open for tours, and visitors can learn about its unique architectural history.
There will be holiday crafts and activities for children, including a Christmas scavenger hunt with a holiday treat bag as a reward for completing it. Complimentary hot chocolate and hot wassail will be served in the visitors center.
Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors 65+ and $5 for children ages 6 to 17. Children 5 and under and DBHA members get in free. Please no pets and no smoking. To learn more, visit www.thedanielboonehomestead.org or The Daniel Boone Homestead on Facebook. The event is sponsored and run by The Daniel Boone Homestead Associates.
The Garden Club of Reading will be hosting “Fill Your Boots!” a unique holiday floral design demonstration Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in the Exeter Community Library, 4569 Prestwick Drive, Exeter Township.
Designer Tracy McKay Sabocheck will be sharing tips on mechanics and floral design while creating beautiful holiday arrangements using boots and other seasonal footwear as containers. Attendees are welcome to take notes and photos during the demonstration so they can create with confidence at home. Techniques can be useful with any kind of container, traditional or other using greens and materials found in and outside the home.
Please register by calling 610-406-9431. There is no cost to attend this event.
The PA Dutch Farmers Market of Wyomissing donated $3,410 to the IM ABLE Foundation in support of the Make a Splash with Davy project.
Funds were collected as part of the market’s 12th anniversary celebration.
Dale Longenecker of Noble Group USA, who handles marketing for the Wyomissing business, said that each year the market vendors purchase a raffle prize and donate proceeds from the raffle to a designated fundraiser.
The project supports efforts to build an accessible, inclusive splash pad at the Womelsdorf pool in honor of Davy Craft, who was born with a rare neurological disorder.
The market’s donation will support IM ABLE’s partnership with Make a Splash for Davy which has raised 40% of the $200,000 goal in just three months.
For more information on the Craft family, including how to donate to this project, please visit https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/makeasplashwithdavy.
The Daniel Boone Optimist Club’s Annual Community Tree Lighting will be Sunday from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Amity Community Park. Rain/snow date is Dec. 11.
It will be a fun evening of Santa, holiday lights, hot chocolate, music, and caroling.
The Muhlenberg Community Library will hold its holiday open house Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the library, 3612 Kutztown Road, Laureldale. Live entertainment, interactive programs and crafts for all ages along with refreshments, a “Nutcracker” model train, Santa and basket raffle. Free for all ages.
The Penn State Berks Fluid Discovery Lab will present a “Gallery of Fluid Motion” exhibit in the Freyberger Gallery on the Spring Township campus Monday through Friday from noon to 5 p.m., with a reception to follow from 5 to 7 p.m. on Friday. These events are free and open to the public.
The exhibition will feature a display of the aesthetic and science of modern fluid mechanics to educate people on the connection between art and science. Flow visualization is the process of making the physics of fluid-like gases and liquids visible. The images in the exhibition were selected from Penn State Berks students’ work.
“The exhibit is a visual record of the aesthetic and science of contemporary fluid mechanics, to be shared both with fellow researchers and the general public,” said Azar Eslam-Panah, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State Berks and founder of the college’s Fluid Discovery Lab. “Flow visualization is for everybody: If you have paid attention to the patterns while stirring milk into coffee, stared at the curl of a rising tendril of smoke, or mixed corn starch and water together in the kitchen sink, you have participated in flow visualization.”
For more information, email [email protected].
The Kutztown Community Choir will perform its annual Christmas Choral Concert at 3 p.m. Sunday at Trinity Lutheran Church, 357 W. Main St. The concert includes festive and inspirational holiday favorites. Light refreshments will be offered after the concert.
Theology with a Twist will present “The Hidden History of Christmas Carols” Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Kutztown Tavern, 272 W. Main St. The Rev. Kim Berenotto and Marji Hughes will explore history and traditions behind our favorite holiday songs, and whether those songs actually reflect the Christmas story we know from Scripture.
In addition to the discussion there will be a sing-along. For more information see the Theology with a Twist facebook page or call Maidencreek Church at 610-926-0715.
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