Fall Fun Around Town

One of the best times of year to be a Yorker is FALL! Living in a farming community means a lot of options for fall festivals, hay rides, pumpkin and apple picking and so much more. SMART magazine, a great publication for residents in SouthCentral Pa., put together a comprehensive list of fall activities in and around our community. If you subscribe to Smart magazine you can find this list is in their September/October 2012 issue, pg. 28-29.

• Barefoot Farms- 6621 Bluebird Lane, Dover Township
• Pick your own pumpkin patch, hayrides, a straw fort, ice-cream shop,apple dumplings and apple cider.
• 10am-Dusk Mon, Tues, Thursday, Friday. Saturday's (9-5pm) starting Sept. 29th-Oct. 30th.
• Hayrides $3, Free for kids under 3
• Brown's Orchards and Family Farms- 8892 Susquehanna Trail South, Springfield Township
• Hayrides, pumpkin and apple picking. 
• Sept.29th Kids Fall Day with games and crafts, facepainting and scarecrow making.
• Oct. 20th Pumpkin Day
• Check out their website for more information. www.brownsorchards.com

• Flinchbaugh's Orchard and Farm Market- 110 Ducktown Rd., Hellam Township
• Pick your own pumpkids, corn maze
• FALL FEST- October 6th and 9th featuring pumpkin bowling, pumpkin painting, wagon rides, face painting and more. (activites are al a carte) 
• For more information visit www.flinchbaughsorchard.com

• Halloween In the Park, Codorus State Park- 2600 Smith Station Rd., North Codorus Township
• Friends of Codorus State Park sponsors family fun nights featuring trick-or-treating, hayrides, kids games, food vendors and more.
• October 26th and 27th 6-10pm. 
• $10 donation per car/benefits Codorus State Park
• For more information visit www.halloweenpark.org

• Maize Quest Adventure Farm- 2885 New Park Road, Fawn Township
• Corn, rope, fence, bamboo, turf, straw bale and tile mazes as well as pumpkin pucking, slide and wagon rides.
• 10am-4pm Sept. 26th, Oct. 1 to 4,8 and Nov. 5 and 6; 10am-10pm, Firdays and Saturdays through Nov. 10; 1 to 7pm. Sundays through Nov. 11th.
• Admission $10 for13+, $8 for kids 2-12.
• For more information visit. www.mazefunpark.com

• Markets at Shrewsbury- 12025 Susqehanna Trail, Shrewsbury Township
• Children's straw adventure maize, scavenger hunt, pumpkin painting and scarecrow making, Harvest Fest will be 10am to 4pm Oct. 13th
• For more information visit www.marketsatshrewsbury.com

• Stauffers of Kissel Hill- 3949 Carlisle Road (Dover) and 4450 Lincoln Highway (Hellam)
• Fall Festival 11am-3pm September 29th to 30th and October 6th-7th.
• FREE, some activities require a fee (the pumpkins for painting) and scarecrow making is $12.99 with a portion of the proceeds going towards the Children's Miracle Network.
• Pumpkin bowling, face-painting, straw maze and corn box. The Hellam location will offer FREE hayrides.
• For more information visit http://www.skh.com/locations/york-county/east-york/

Family Day at York Heritage Trust

Third Annual Family Day

April 28 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Agricultural & Industrial Museum and Colonial Complex

New for 2012, Family Day has expanded to the Colonial Complex. Join the Trust for a day of educational, entertaining, and fun family activities at both the Agricultural & Industrial Museum and Colonial Complex. At the Agricultural & Industrial Museum activities will include airplane making, a grain activity station, a full G scale model railroad display, dance workshops by the York Swing Dance Club, and musical stories from performer Matt Dodd, focusing on the historic canal era.

At the Colonial Complex try your hand at rope making, explore the four square garden with members from the Mason & Dixon Herb Unit, learn about historic clocks, clock making and gear systems with the York Time Institute, and enjoy special tours of the complex buildings with programs featuring colonial children’s life and the early founding of Pennsylvania. Be sure to check out downtown York while completing a York Murals scavenger hunt. For more information and detailed information on all of the day’s events please visit the Trust website.

History Lover?

Now Accepting Apprentice Program Applications

Are you a junior or senior in high school and enjoy history? The York County Heritage Trust’s Museum Apprentice Program provides students who have completed the 10^th grade or requirements thereof a unique and exciting opportunity. Museum apprentices work with the Trust’s programming staff as they design and install an exhibit and organize a special educational program. As they complete their projects, participants will be introduced to the public history field and discover the challenges of working in a museum.

Most importantly, the Museum apprentices get to have fun with history. The museum apprentice program is a great way to meet new people and try new things such as baking in an 18^th century bake oven. Students will also enjoy a field trip to a local historical site.

*Please note that this is a competitive program with limited space available.

**The Museum Apprentice Program is sponsored by the York County Heritage Trust's Auxiliary.

2012 Museum Apprentice Syllabus

2012 Museum Apprentice Application

For more information contact Patrick Bochy, museum educator, at 717-848-1587 ext. 304 or at pbochy@yorkheritage.org.

Where to Meet the Easter Bunny

It is that time of year again, time to meet the Easter Bunny! We have him tracked down to a few locations, but don't forget to check your township newsletters, church bulletins and preschool/school newsletters for other places to find him!

Galleria Mall- The Easter Bunny arrived March 17th and will be there until April 7th. His hours are M-Sa 10am-9pm and Sunday 11am-5pm. I'm assuming you can "meet" him for free but their main concern is selling pictures. (Package information is available by clicking on "Galleria Mall")

West Manchester Mall- The Easter Bunny arrived March 24th and will be there until April 7th and he is there at 10am every day. *PET PHOTOS are held April 1st from 5-6pm*

Brown's Orchards and Farm Market- The Easter Bunny will be available for March 31st, April 1st and April 7th from 11am-1pm. The cost is $3/per person to have muffins with the Easter Bunny. (Bring your camera, there is no mention of an onsite photographer!)

The Markets at Shrewsbury- Saturday April 7th there will be an egg hunt for children under the age of 10, beginning at 10am sharp! You must pre-register.

York City's 37th Annual Egg Hunt- Children 8 and under are invited this Saturday March 31st to the annual Easter Egg Hunt at Kiwanis Lake/Farquhar Park. (For more information, and rain date, click on the event name).

Hoppy Easter!

Ebates

I just added a link, look to the right of this post, to my new best friend Ebates. I'm sure everyone besides me is already using this site, but as a very impressed newcomer I wanted to share. Start doing all of your online shopping by starting off at the Ebates site, find the store that you want to shop from their long, long list, and click through to the website. Every store will give you cash back, just for clicking through Ebates, I got 6% back from Kohl's, 6% from Macy's and 8% from Shoes.com. So just for my everyday purchases I am going to get a check for $12 at the end of the month.

Sure it's not a ton of money, but every little bit counts! I just wanted to pass along my new found favorite website, I hope you can save a few dollars too!

Click on the link to your right or here to find out more!

EBATES

Summer Camps

Summer camps have just started releasing their dates for the summer of 2012; I will update this post as they come rolling my way!

DreamWrights

York College and York Country Day School

York Little Theater

Kidz Camp

York City Ice Arena

Christian School of York

Jewish Community Center Camps

Camp Spirit (YMCA of York)

Camp Cann-Edi-On (YWCA)

Ski Roundtop Summer Camps

Shank's Mare (bigger kids)

Make sure you check your Spring/Summer township mailings/newsletters for summer camps, church bulletins for VBS camps and post any other camps on my Facebook page so we don't miss them! Thanks!

York Symphony Orchestra Family Concert

Next Saturday, March 3rd, at 10:00am the York Symphony Orchestra is presenting a family concert entitled The Composer is Dead, with text by Lemony Snicket. The show features a murder mystery about Bach, Mozart and Beethoven and will feature not only the YSO but DreamWrights and the Greater York Dance Company. After the performance kids will be able to take advantage of the "Instrument Petting Zoo" and get an up-close and personal look at some of the instruments they just saw on stage. Tickets are $8 for the show and petting zoo, keep this fun family activity in mind for next weekend, it's a great way to introduce kids to classical music!

http://www.strandcapitol.org/currentseason/calendar/view.asp?id=4484