The Adamstown Area Library will present The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, a Mastermind Group facilitated by Steve Goble, founding partner of the John Maxwell Team and the Goble Group, on Wednesdays, Feb. 1 through March 21, from 6:45 to 7:45 p.m. at the Adamstown Area Library.

The cost of $250 includes 10th Anniversary book, "The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership." Send an e-mail to steve@influencingleadership.com or call 682-3198. Only 10 seats are available and pre-registration is required.

Thirty percent of sales will go to the Adamstown Area Library, which is located at N. Reading Road/Route 272, Adamstown.

Four Denver adults have been displaced from their home after a vehicle collided into it Saturday morning.

According to the State Police at Bowmansville, Scott Gassenmeyer, 19, of West Chester, was traveling on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in the eastbound lane shortly after 1 a.m. when he lost control of his vehicle and left the roadway, traveling down an embankment and striking a house in the 1300 block of Douglas Drive, which is approximately 100 feet south of the turnpike.

After striking the home, police say Gassenmeyer left the area but was located back at the accident scene at approximately 3:30 a.m. The crash involved minor injuries and charges against Gassenmeyer are pending.

American Red Cross volunteers are assisting the residents of the home. The Red Cross assisted the family with food and shelter and will follow-up to determine any additional disaster needs.

A financial gift to the Red Cross supports the lifesaving mission of the American Red Cross in the community, across the country and around the world. Call (800) RED-CROSS or (800) 257-7575 (Spanish). Contributions may be sent to the American Red Cross, P.O. Box 4624, Lancaster, PA 17604. Internet users can make a secure online contribution by visiting redcross.org or sqvalleyredcross.org.

By: KIMBERLY MARSELAS Review Correspondent, Staff Writer

A pre-K program that serves children in the Cocalico School district is thriving despite the threat of state budget cuts, parents and educators told school board members Monday night.

Pre-K Counts, which serves 30 four-year-olds at Reamstown Elementary School, is in its fifth year of delivering school readiness training to children with special needs, including those from low-income families.

Children from across the district attend morning or afternoon sessions five days a week, focusing on letter and number recognition, learning through play and developing social skills.

"It was a great opportunity for us to assess and see if (our son) would be ready for kindergarten," said Dolly Youndt, who spoke at the board’s meeting with son Evan, 4, on her hip. "He’s learned much more than we expected."

Youndt said her son was born 12 weeks premature and, because of his August birthday, will be considered a young kindergartner. But he’s already become familiar with riding a school bus and can spot and sound out the alphabet.

Mother Keri Diem also credited the program with helping her daughter Payton, now 5, master computer and iPad skills.

Students at Reamstown Elementary School prepare for a fundraiser in Kole Trupe's memory featuring a silent auction. (Photos by Preston Whitcraft)Students at Reamstown Elementary School prepare for a fundraiser in Kole Trupe's memory featuring a silent auction. (Photos by Preston Whitcraft)

Reamstown Elementary School and the STAR (Serving Together at Reamstown) Club hosted a spaghetti dinner and silent auction on Jan. 20 to raise funds to purchase a headstone in Kole Trupe’s memory and also pay for miscellaneous family expenses.

Trupe was a student at Reamstown Elementary School. He passed away Sept. 8, 2011 in an accident as a result of the September flooding.

At Morphy Auctions’ first sale of the year, slated for Feb. 9 through 11, more than 2,000 lots of antique toys, trains, advertising and rare superhero comics will go across the action block, attesting once again that Morphys is fast becoming one of the big players in the antique auction business. The business recently expanded their facilities, adding additional parking, display and staging areas, offices, a large auction gallery and lots more.

"We are unique in the auction business," said Mike Landis, an employee who spends his time preparing and displaying items for upcoming sales. According to Landis, his company provides a number of services that separate them from other auction houses. "Every sale we have has a catalog so when items are consigned here, they are professionally photographed in-house for that particular sales catalog, available to potential bidders and distributed through their extensive mailing list."

Two studios and three full-time photographers are kept busy accomplishing this arduous task.

By: MICHELLE REIFF Review Staff mreiff.eph@lnpnews.com, Staff Writer

East Cocalico Township will soon be part of a feasibility study for the establishment of a sustainable water management program.

This opportunity was approved following a presentation by Cory Rathman, senior project manager for the township’s land planning engineers, Becker Engineering, at a Jan. 18 supervisors meeting. Through a grant from the Lancaster County Clean Water Consortium, Rathman is helping to organize seminars in which representatives from the University of Maryland help municipalities, counties and cities to establish such programs.

"They will evaluate the current and future cost associated with your storm water management program, looking at operation and maintenance, capitol improvements and regulatory compliance," said Rathman, who is a member of the consortium’s steering committee.

He stated that after doing this, the organization will come up with a feasibility study, discuss the findings and offer financing recommendations on how to meet storm water needs moving forward.

"From the planning perspective it gives the township an opportunity to get a good analysis of how much you’re spending, not just from the public works but through engineers, capitol improvements you may have and fixes you may have to do on the fly," said Rathman. He feels this will be a good opportunity to obtain information in preparation for possible upcoming state regulations while offering an alternative to the township having to guess how much storm water funding will cost.

By: TODD RUTH Review Sports Editor truth.eph@lnpnews.com, Staff Writer

With time winding down Saturday at Conestoga Valley and trailing Pequea Valley’s Drew Jackson by a 3-2 score, Ephrata’s Chad Lammer tried desperately to finish off the bout with one final takedown which would have given him the win and ultimately the gold medal at 138 pounds.

He, and the Ephrata coaching staff thought he had it. Unfortunately, the referee didn’t agree.

Lammer’s late takedown attempt at the edge of the circle was denied and the Ephrata senior’s outstanding run in the L-L League Tournament fell just short of gold.

"It wasn’t just at the end," Ephrata Coach josh Clair lamented when asked about the final seconds of the match. "There were a couple times in scramble situations, which is Chad’s strength, we thought that he was in position for the takedown but obviously he didn’t get the call. There was just some hesitation by the official and any time there is any hesitation it’s never going to turn out the way you want it to."

By: TODD RUTH Review Sports Editor truth.eph@lnpnews.com, Staff Writer

Ephrata played a solid defensive game Monday night, holding visiting Hempfield to just 49 points.

Defense wasn’t the problem.

Offensively, the Mounts continued their season-long struggle and it was the difference in 49-28 loss to the Black Knights.

Already playing without leading scorer Brian Neff (injured shoulder) for the second-straight game, the Mounts shot just 11-of-48 (23 percent) from the field and watched a winnable game turn into a 21-point loss.

"This is one of the years you catch Hempfield on a down year, and they are still 9-7 or whatever, but without Brian, we have even less scoring," Ephrata Coach Jason Coletti said. "We don’t just need one guy to step up and get that 14 or 15 points. We needed two or three guys to do it."

"We missed some shots, and a lot of them were layups," he continued. "Missing those layups just kill you because it ends their run and we are not chasing them every time. But when we shoot and miss and they rebound and go… It adds up as you go along. We’ll just keep working and hopefully some day we’ll put the ball in the basket."

By: TODD RUTH Review Sports Editor truth.eph@lnpnews.com, Staff Writer

More often than not, overall depth wins out in swimming. And that certainly was the case Tuesday afternoon with the Section Two title on the line in the boys’ meet held at the Ephrata Recreation Center.

Visiting Conestoga Valley had its share of first-place finishes, but scored additional points with seconds and thirds which proved to be the difference in the end as the Buckskins captured the Section Two championship with a 102-68 victory.

"They were without a doubt the deeper team, and that is what wins duel meets," Cocalico Coach Matt Woods said of the Buckskins. "Events they won, they followed with seconds and thirds, events we won we didn’t and that’s the difference. My boys swam well, we had a lot of best times, they were just better tonight."

CV took six of the 11 events contested with Chad Alshouse and Conor Chastain leading the way with two wins each. Alshouse captured the 200 free (1:59.81) and 100 fly (58.74) while Chastain was a winner in the 50 free (23.93) and 100 free (53.01). The Buckskins also picked up two key relay wins which helped pave the way to the section clinching victory.

Ephrata's Josh Ruth eyes up the target in recent rifle action. (Photo by Les Martzall)Ephrata's Josh Ruth eyes up the target in recent rifle action. (Photo by Les Martzall)

The Ephrata High School rifle team set a school record last Thursday in a 498-468 victory over Conestoga Valley.

The Mounts’ 498 total was a new record as Josh Ruth, Brody Hoshour and Nate Lapp all turned in perfect scores of 100 while Jordan Crills and Ryan Fritz shot a pair of 99s.

Tuesday afternoon, Ephrata (6-3) continued its winning ways with a 494-488 victory at home vs. Garden Spot. Four Ephrata shooters turned in scores of 99 to lead the way. They included Pat Rehm, Fritz, Hoshour and Will Young. Ruth rounded out the top five with a 98.

On Jan. 17, the Mounts added a 494-487 victory over host Elizabethtown.

In that one, Lapp, Ruth, Hoshour and Fritz all had 99s while Crills followed with a 98 for the victorious Mounts.

Recently, Coach John Rupp said the team has a nice mix of youth and experience, not to mention depth with a roster of 21. Ephrata has had more than 10 total shooters count scores in its nine matches this season.