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Entertainment

  • Visit ‘The Secret Garden’ in Lancaster this week

    Hauntingly beautiful musical, great story, appealing to the whole family, professional-quality production. That’s how director Eric Grace describes the musical, “The Secret Garden,” now playing at Bundy Auditorium on the campus of the University of South Carolina Lancaster.
    The Community Playhouse of Lancaster County production first came to Lancaster under Grace’s direction in 2006, and returned this year when details couldn’t be finalized on “Beauty and the Beast.”

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  • Arts Scene: Kennedy quotes reflect our mission

    If you want to celebrate the tremendous lifetime accomplishments of highly acclaimed performance artists, one of the best programs to watch is the annual Kennedy Center Honors, which was televised Dec. 22.
    The Kennedy Center Honors have been awarded annually since 1978 by the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

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  • Sunny Side Up: Sun City residents help out during holidays

    Sun City Carolina Lakes is in high gear with benefits and missions galore. Individual clubs and organizations within the greater community host numerous events for charity.
    The Volunteers and Helping Hands of Sun City held their regular cell phone and gift card collection in September to benefit Safe Passage. Safe Passage is a women’s shelter in York and Lancaster counties for victims of domestic violence, sexual trauma and child abuse.  

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  • Two area homes on annual Christmas Tour Sunday

    Many homeowners across the county are getting into the spirit of the season this week by decking their halls with Christmas cheer.
    However, a few of them are already finished trimming the trees. Now they are opening their doors to get everyone in the holiday mood for a good cause.  
    The Lancaster Garden Club’s 25th annual Christmas Tour of Homes, from 3 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4, features two homes in the Indian Land area.

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  • Visit downtown Lancaster for holiday fun

    Things are about to get busy in historic downtown Lancaster with several events planned for the upcoming months.
    It all starts Monday, Oct. 31. Make plans now to bring your little ghosts and goblins to historic downtown Lancaster from 6 to 8 a.m. for the city of Lancaster’s annual Boo Fun Fest.

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  • Plan a party that will wake the dead

    If you are planning to throw a Halloween party, pull out all the scary stops by turning your home into a delightfully haunted place where anything can, and will, happen. The environment doesn’t have to be very formal. Just transform your castle into a place where spooky fun tops the menu. Here are a few tips:
    • Cut a coffin shape from a piece on plywood to use as a serving table top. Saw horses covered by a tablecloth can be used as the base.
    • Use Halloween cookie cutters such as bats, cats and witches to cut out sandwiches in fun shapes.

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  • Rituals link Halloween to harvest

    From Transylvania County, N.C., to Eek, Alaska, Halloween is the third largest party day in the United States, behind New Year’s Eve and Super Bowl Sunday.
    But a day of frivolity isn’t what the Irish Celts had in mind more than 2,000 years ago, when they decided to start the new year on Nov. 1.
    The first day of November marked the end of the summer harvest (representing life), and the beginning of the dark cold winter months (representing death).

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  • Halloween Hauntings

    Here's a look at upcoming fall events across Lancaster County and beyond. From haunted junk yards and trails to trunk or treats and fall festivals, there is plenty to choose from.
    Friday
    ILES fall festival
    Indian Land Elementary School will hold its first fall festival from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28. All are welcome to come in costume.
    In honor of ILES coach Mike Kersey, who died Oct. 6, admission will be free.

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  • One Day Getaways

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  • Arts Scene: Partners, volunteers plant seeds of success

    What a summer – and how quickly fall has arrived!
    Thank you, friends, family, business associates and members for the many ways you have welcomed me as the new executive director of the Lancaster County Council of the Arts.  
    For me, being able to come to work in the beautiful, historic Springs House every day, in the middle of a community I love with access to a beautiful grand piano on the first floor, life is good.

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