LOWER PROVIDENCE — The future of the former St. Gabriel’s Hall may be uncertain, but for now the rich farmland on the sprawling Pawlings Road property in Audubon will be
Lancaster County natives and well-known gardeners Verna and Viola Mueller have given up rototilling their 5,000 square feet of growing space in Willow Street, but itâs the only gardening concession theyâve made to their octogenarian status.
The twin sisters, 88, grew up on a farm in Providence Township, south of Refton. They started planting flowers and vegetables in the corners of the familyâs farm garden â where, they explained â the horse couldnât plow (they said they learned from their mistakes).
At ages 5 or 6, the twins remember, they had already started to sell what they raised at their parentsâ market stand at Lancaster cityâs Southern Market.
CONESTOGA VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT
Conestoga Valley School District Board of Directors will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, May 10, at the administration center, 2110 Horseshoe Road. Among the agenda items:
- Commentary on district activity: (a) superintendentâs comments; (b) board comments.
- Public/ professional/ staff input: Public comments.
- Action/ discussion items: (a) review change orders for the new Gerald G. Huesken Middle School; (b) Buckskin Boosters Activities Alliance update; (c) review of food service budget; (d) review of proposed final budget and projections; (e) review of Lancaster County Academy budget; (f) policy review of (i) residency/ right to education, (ii) child rearing, (iii) energy management and conservation, (iv) contracted services and (v) lunch accounts; (g) banking request for proposal update.
Roadblocks were temporarily put in place so the buggies could easily access the cemetery.
The funeral concluded in under an hour.
Justo Smoker, now 35, of Providence Township, kidnapped and killed Stoltzfoos in June 2020.
He was arrested three weeks after she disappeared.
Her body was located at Smoker’s former place of work in Gap the week before her funeral, after thousands of people put in thousands of hours searching for her.
He remains in Lancaster County Prison after being denied bail.