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The Butler County Farm Bureau Women's Committee will sponsor a bus trip to Bedford County Sept. 17.
The trip will include a tour and lunch at Bedford Springs Hotel and visits to Hebrew's Coffee Company, Founders Crossing, the National Museum of the American Coverlet and Fishers Country Store.
Abus will depart at 6:30 a.m. from Cranberry Mall, behind King's Restaurant, in Cranberry Township and at 7 a.m. from Moraine Pointe Plaza.
Cost is $74 per person. For reservations, send a check payable to Butler County Farm Bureau to Evelyn Minteer, 362 North Road, Butler, PA16001-8539, by Aug. 17.
EVANS CITY — The preschool of Westminster Presbyterian Church, 330 E. Main St., is accepting registration for the 2007-2008 school year.Classes are open to children ages 3 to 5. Waiting lists will be available for full classes.For schedules, costs or to enroll, call 724-538-8188.
JEFFERSON TWP — Concordia Lutheran Ministries will host its annual summer festival from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday behind the Lund Care Center on Marwood Road.The festival will feature a summer menu, musical entertainment and 3 p.m. worship service led by the Rev. Dr. Albert Collver, executive pastoral assistant for Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, World Relief and Human Care.The event is open to the community.
Butler County Parks and Recreation Department will host a program on toys, presented by Playthings Etc., at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Masonic Shelter at Alameda Park.
The following family reunions are planned:<B>The Ewing family</B> will gather for a reunion at 5 p.m. Aug. 4 at Slate Lick Presbyterian Church, 106 Brown Road, Freeport.Participants should take their own table service and one or more covered dishes to share for a potluck supper. For details, call 724-282-6929.<B>The Easley-Denny family</B> will hold a reunion at noon Sunday in the Rotary Shelter at Butler Memorial Park.The event will include a Chinese auction, bingo and games for children. Participants should take a dish to share.<B>The Marburger family reunion </B>will be held at 1 p.m. Aug. 12 at Marburger Dairy, Mars-Evans City Road.Participants should take their own table service, a covered dish to share and bingo prizes valued at about $2 or less.<B>The 96th Barger family reunion</B> will be held Aug. 11 at the Pine Township Municipal Building, 545 Barkeyville Road, Pine Township.Doors will open at 3 p.m. A covered dish dinner will be held at 5:30 p.m., followed by a white elephant auction.Descendants of Christopher S. Barger and Hannah Eleanor Miller Barger are invited to attend.
