http://www.ephratareview.com/ en-us Copyright 1995-2004 Lancaster Newspapers Newspapers webmaster@ephratareview.com 30 http://www.ephratareview.com/pages/news/local/4/224553 Editor,Ephrata Review,I want to commend you for the Ephrata Review's complete and thorough coverage of the " Big Read" project. It really kept us informed.It may be of interest to your readers to know how the " Big Read" came to Ephrata. Penny Talbert, the director of community servi... http://www.ephratareview.com/pages/news/local/4/224552 Editor,Ephrata Review,I have run the Ephrata Firecracker for most of the past 25 years, as well as hundreds of races throughout the country. I have always enjoyed coming " home" to see my family and friends at this 4th of the July tradition. I am also always happy to see people like Terry... http://www.ephratareview.com/pages/news/local/4/224550 Editor,Ephrata Review,The White Nights Festival and food were most delightful and delicious.I very much enjoyed the music and dancing.Most of all I was impressed with the fact these people from a foreign country spoke English. I could communicate with them.I also enjoye... http://www.ephratareview.com/pages/news/local/4/224549 Editor,Ephrata Review,Eighteen Ephrata High School students and world language teachers Jennifer Cain and Lori Warfel recently returned from a three-week GAPP (German-American Partnership Program) trip to Germany. After an eventful 9-hour overnight plane ride and a bus ride from Frankfur... http://www.ephratareview.com/pages/news/local/4/222211 Editor,Ephrata Review,.500So it is a .89 mill increase in school taxes this year!Question: With all the construction that has occurred in the school district in the last few years, one would think the taxes would remain about even or " call" for a very small increase. Why is this la... http://www.ephratareview.com/pages/news/local/4/222209 Editor,Ephrata Review,.500Judgment comes to the House of God first. God is calling his church to prayer and repentance. Our heavenly father is a loving and merciful god and because of his intense love for his church and the unrepentant. He has overextended his mercy by withholding his ju... http://www.ephratareview.com/pages/news/local/4/222210 Editor,Ephrata Review,.500This letter is for the person who took my granddaughter's bicycle from the bike rodeo at Hope Preschool on Wednesday, May 14. She is 4 years old.I thought it had to be a mistake, but the bicycle was not returned. Whoever took the bicycle had to take my gra... http://www.ephratareview.com/pages/news/local/4/222207 Editor,Ephrata Review,I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who helped make this year's NALC " Stamp Out Hunger" food drive held on May 10th another success.This marks the 16th year the National Association of Letter Carriers has coordinated the efforts of your local u... http://www.ephratareview.com/pages/news/local/4/222206 Editor,Ephrata Review,Memorial Day is a legal church and state holiday held in memory of the dead servicemen and women of all wars. The men and women of our congregation who served in the U.S. military service are honored by their military service for God and country.Bless the patr... http://www.ephratareview.com/pages/news/local/4/221851 Editor,Ephrata Review,.500Its time right now to stop both wars in Afghanistan, and in Iraq. Enough is enough. President Bush needs to stop as too many American people, getting killed and spending all our money to buy more big guns to murder more people in both wars.What about us ve... http://www.ephratareview.com/pages/news/local/4/221850 Editor,Ephrata Review,.500Will Christians ever get enough of condemning the world?What should it matter to Christians, if a business has a logo that looks like a two-tailed mermaid, or a woman with her legs spread? If you don't like it, don't spend your money there. Christians find... http://www.ephratareview.com/pages/news/local/4/221849 Editor,Ephrata Review,.500May 18, 2008 marked the third anniversary of the first meeting between East Cocalico Township officials and representatives of Benderson Development on their proposed Cocalico Commons shopping center. The proposed center will have nearly a half million square fe... http://www.ephratareview.com/pages/news/local/4/221848 Editor,Ephrata Review,A couple of recent letters to the editor -- one about local fowl policy, the other regarding larger political change -- reminded me that many US citizens have lost confidence in our federal, state and local governments. The levels of bureaucracy we've built and pay ... http://www.ephratareview.com/pages/news/local/4/221448 Editor,Ephrata Review,Change, change, change. That's what we hear from those who are seeking to be president.I heard one say the jobs lost in the steel industry in the last 25 years will be coming back. Really? I heard one say " I will answer the phone at three A.M. I would too. ... http://www.ephratareview.com/pages/news/local/4/221447 Editor,Ephrata Review,.800I am astounded that the Ephrata Review had the audacity to place a picture of a mother duck and her ducklings of the cover of the May 7 issue of the Review in light of what is occurring in Ephrata Borough.Haven't you been paying attention to the issue r... http://www.ephratareview.com/pages/news/local/4/221446 Editor,Ephrata Review,Hollywood's fascination with the Buddhists has spread to Representative Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Pelosi has been pestering China to stop harassing the Buddhists of Tibet, mainly the Dalai Lama.We have an acute energy prob... http://www.ephratareview.com/pages/news/local/4/221445 Editor,Ephrata Review,It is the head leader, Larry Sohn Jr. of Angels Among Us Ministry. We have been in the paper before letting you know we are here to help hurting youth and adults around Lancaster and Berks Counties.I wanted to let you know our upcoming vents and where we can b... http://www.ephratareview.com/pages/news/local/4/221444 Editor,Ephrata Review,When the Ephrata Public Library was honored with The Big Read grant, we hoped for the cooperation from the community. Having The Ephrata Review publish a chapter each week of the Leo Tolstoy novella, " The Death of Ivan Illyich" is community cooperation at its best. http://www.ephratareview.com/pages/news/local/4/221441 This is an open letter to the young man who drives a small blue truck that backed into me, looked me straight in the eyes and drove off on the late morning of Tuesday, May 13, 2008 on 322 west. Do you feel good about yourself? Are you not at all ashamed of the fact that you hit an innocen... http://www.ephratareview.com/pages/news/local/4/221442 Editor,Ephrata Review,In the book of Amos Chapter 8 verse 11, God speaks of a famine not for bread or water but of hearing the word's of God.After what we have seen from pastor Jeremiah Wright, no words could be truer.That's why God sent us 66 books so man wouldn't need to te...