Good morning, Lancaster County. Mostly sunny and hot today, with a high near 93 and a 50% chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2 p.m. First, a produce company, a golf course in Millersville, and 120 golfers who raised more than $6,100 for mental-health work.
In today's Lancaster Local:
A Lancaster produce company's fifth annual golf scramble raised more than $6,100 for mental health
The Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire opens its season Saturday at Mount Hope Estate
A summer-long musical plays its final show Sunday afternoon in Lititz — pay what you want
Columbia kids can explore a police cruiser Wednesday and a garbage truck Thursday
COMMUNITY NEWS
One hundred and twenty golfers, one course in Millersville, and $6,100 for a cause nobody puts on a flyer.
Kegel's Produce is a family-owned wholesale produce distributor in Lancaster — the kind of company most people never think about, because its whole job is that the lettuce shows up on time.
Earlier this month, Kegel's Produce's fifth annual Fresh Is Best Scramble drew 120 golfers to Crossgates Golf Club in Millersville. Kegel's reported Tuesday that the event raised more than $6,100 for Mental Health America of Lancaster County to expand mental-health awareness and support local programs.
Five years in, the scramble has become the kind of thing that only keeps going because people keep showing up for it — golfers, sponsors, volunteers, and a county mental-health organization that co-hosts it. None of that is glamorous. It's a foursome, a scorecard, and a check at the end.
The company's note thanked the sponsors, the golfers and the volunteers, and ended with the company's slogan: Fresh is Best.
EVENTS
Two things today, then a week that ends with a Renaissance faire and a funk orchestra.
🎭 Servant Stage: Youth Companies Showcase — Lancaster Alliance Church, 210 Pitney Road, Lancaster, PA 17601. Tonight, Monday, August 10, 7–8 p.m. Pay what you will. Students from the Teen, Apprentice and Junior Companies have been studying musical theatre together for the past three months, and this is where they show what came of it — acting, singing and dance, one hour, no ticket price.
🩺 Free Health Screenings — Lancaster Public Library lobby, 151 North Queen Street, Lancaster, PA 17603. Today, Monday, August 10, 9 a.m.–1 p.m. Free. Walk in, get checked, walk out.
🐕 Paws 2 Read — Lititz Public Library, Storytime Room, 651 Kissel Hill Road, Lititz, PA 17543. Tuesday, August 11, 1–2:30 p.m., and Thursday, August 13, 6–7:30 p.m. Children bring a favorite book and read it aloud to therapy-trained dogs, which listen better than most adults. All 12 fifteen-minute sessions were full as of Friday; check the library calendar for cancellations.
🚔 Pops with Cops — Locust Street Park Gazebo, Columbia, PA 17512. Wednesday, August 12, 10:30–11:30 a.m. Free, registration required and it closes at 9:30 that morning. Columbia officers talk with children about police work and let them explore a cruiser. An anonymous sponsor donated the freeze pops. For children with an adult who stays — no drop-offs.
🍲 Read It and Eat: A Cookbook Club — Lancaster Public Library, Community Room, 151 North Queen Street, Lancaster, PA 17603. Wednesday, August 12, 6–7:30 p.m. Free. Adults. The month's cookbook sits at the Lancaster City Branch circulation desk. You pick a recipe, add your name to the signup sheet, and the staff will photocopy it for you free. Then you cook it and bring it. That's the whole club.
🚛 Touch a Garbage Truck with Penn Waste — Locust Street Park, Columbia, PA 17512. Thursday, August 13, 10–11 a.m. Free. Penn Waste parks a garbage truck in the park and lets children explore the truck and take photos inside. There is no version of this that a four-year-old does not consider the highlight of the summer. Registration closes at 10 a.m. Children must attend with an engaged adult; no drop-offs.
✍️ Write Now Lancaster — Lancaster Public Library, Community Room, 151 North Queen Street, Lancaster, PA 17603. Thursday, August 13, 6–8 p.m. Free. Two hours set aside for people who write to actually write. Adults; walk-ins welcome.
🎭 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat — closing weekend — Warwick High School, 302 West Orange Street, Lititz, PA 17543. Friday, August 14 at 7 p.m.; Saturday, August 15 at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.; final show Sunday, August 16 at 3 p.m. Pay what you will. The Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice one — country hoedowns, rock-and-roll showstoppers, a coat you can see from the back row. It opened June 5 and Sunday afternoon is the last of it. You can donate at the door by cash, check or card, or not at all.
🎪 Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire — opening weekend — Mount Hope Estate, 2775 Lebanon Road, Manheim, PA 17545. Saturday, August 15 and Sunday, August 16. Gates at 11 a.m., grounds close at 8 p.m. Rain or shine. The Faire opens its season this weekend and then runs Saturdays and Sundays into late October. Tickets are online-only and date-specific; none are sold at the gate. Opening-weekend admission is $38.95 for ages 12 and older and $21.95 for children ages 5–11, including service fees. Children 4 and younger are free.
🎺 Long's Park Summer Music Series: Ghost Funk Orchestra — Long's Park Amphitheater, 1441 Harrisburg Pike, Lancaster, PA 17601. Sunday, August 16, 7:30 p.m. Free. The New York outfit closes out your weekend outdoors. Bring a blanket or a chair; there are food trucks at every concert. It runs rain or shine — only lightning stops it.
Monday, August 10 — Mostly sunny and hot, with a high near 93 and a 50% chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2 p.m. Monday night turns partly cloudy, with a low around 70 and a 40% chance of storms before 11 p.m. The morning is the safer window for anything outdoors.
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