December 2, 2025 • 30 mins
“Step into the magic of the holiday season at the 7th Annual Lower Paxton Christkindlmarkt on Saturday, December 13th in Linglestown. This free, family-friendly German Christmas market features live entertainment, authentic food, loads of vendors and of course, Santa.” Lower Paxton Christkindlmarkt - Dec 13 2025
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, I'm Sylvia and Austin. This is Insight, a presentation
of iHeartMedia where we really do care about our local
communities and all our listeners who live here. You know,
when I was contemplating, which are the many troublesome and
crazy issues that we're going to talk about that are
going on in the world these days, I thought, Eh,
I don't know. I kept thinking about my realize, Nah,
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who needs to hear more of that stuff? We all
need to hear about some good stuff, some really fun stuff,
stuff that tastes good, stuff that smells good, and more
important than anything else, something that actually makes you feel good,
you know, some Christmas stuff. And then I remember hearing
about our free family family during Christmas parking in lingos Sown.
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A lot of people told me that this community eve
then has really things going on that you wouldn't find
anywhere else, and that they could actually feel the want
of Christmas spirit while they're there. Were there, Well, that's
all I needed to hear. So I reached out to
the gentleman who has been the actual event manager the
Lower Paxston Chris Kindall Market in Linglestown since a bandgan
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about seven years ago with us is John Hanks no
relation to Tom Right.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
John very distantly not to share the time for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Though, okay, and don't have any of his money either,
do yet exactly? Well, John grew up in our area
and he's had his own business it's called Make It
Happened To Events for about twenty five years. He's also
real involved in a lot of organizations in our local community.
And he told me that his goal in life is
all he's been to create a sense of community and
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all that he does, which you know me, that really
warms my heart. Well, John, we have a lot to
chat about, and boy, I'll tell you why I'm so
excited about this. Let's begin with what it is, or
actually what I've been alluding to for the last couple
of minutes. It's the seventh annual Lower Paxxston Chris pink
Kringle Market on Saturday thirteenth. That's only a week away
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from Penttal four and roll Linglestown. First of all, I
need a little bit of background. Tell us about how,
when and why you guys decided to establish the Lower
Pakistan Community Foundations, Because isn't Chris Krinville Market under it?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah? Absolutely so thanks for having us and letting me
talk about one of my passion projects. The Lower Paxton
Christiana Market, as you said, is a project of the
Lower Paxton Community Foundation. Most people know Lower Paxton as Lingostown,
Colonial Park, Paxtonia area, but they don't realize that it's
the fourteenth largest municipality in the state that includes Philadelphia, Pittsburgh,
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all those. It's bigger than Harrisburg. It's bigger than the
City of York. It's a really big place. And our
roots go back to two events. In twenty fifteen, the
village of Linglestown celebrated it's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
and two ladies, Polymurph and Pam Jones decided to put
on a party. College's original idea was for a picnic,
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and it grew to a two day long celebration, and
I connected with them and my business partner, Chris London
and with Make It Happen Emments, and we helped them
develop this program that was so much fun. We had
a parade, we had a concert, we had all kinds
of great activities and really brought a sense to Linglestown.
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Two years later, the township was celebrating it's two hundred
and fiftieth, and the supervisors then asked us to step
in and the four of us work on celebrating the
anniversary of the township. And that was a day long
event over at Coon excuse me over George Park off
a NYE Road, and we started with a parade and
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ended up with fireworks in the evening. Really had such
a great sense of community and old fashioned getting together.
Neighbors see each other, old friends getting together, new people
meeting one another, and we thought, how do we keep
this going? So we started a Lower Paxton Community Foundation
to facilitate this. We do a number of projects, but
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the one that most people know us for is, as
you mentioned, the Christkindel Market and thanks for hitting the
name right. We hear all kinds of pronunciations for it.
It's basically German for outdoor Christmas market. Everyone knows the
German schotcraft to profess, but they also hopefully know them
for the family or family christkinder Market.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Well, why Germany do we have a lot of citizens
from German? They are German in our area?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
We do, you know. You can see it from the
last names, you can see it from the food that
we eat in our restaurants. You can see it from
the sunny dinners that people put on the table. We
were working with a cater or a few years ago.
When we were first started. I said, can you please,
you know, do some German food for our food court area.
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She said, I don't know, let me do some research.
Call me back. About an hour later, she said, I
looked at all these recipes. This is just the food
that grandma made for Sunday dinner.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
No kidding? Is that cool?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Well?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I wanted to ask. We know it's in Linglestown, but
exactly where in Linglestown?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Yeah? Great question if you're familiar with the village. There's
two roundabouts, two traffic circles. We closed down Littlestown Road
in between those traffic circles. The heart of this event
really is an outdoor craft show, and we have a
vendor committee that works on inviting people. We started off
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about thirty five people this year. Excuse me the origin
the first year. This year we're going to be about
one hundred and forty craft vendors.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
And then they have people waiting in line that want
to be vendors. You're turning people away?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
We do. We have so many I mean we're sold out.
The exhibitor committee reinvites the folks in January and they
train and see a few spots to include new people
as well. Some of the things that we hear and
we try and make sure there's always the old fan
favorites are there, but then there's new things as well
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to see.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Well, it's really surprising. If you'll allow me, because I
don't want anybody yelling at you, I'll do it. I
was looking on your site and there's really cool things
that you don't even know what they are. As far
as your craft enders, the Crazy Cork Lady, Fleece Intrigues,
Drew's wish, Granny's Christmas. I gotta check that one out.
Imagine and hanging. That's funny. JB's imaginarium just for pausing.
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Who's Laura's piece of Earth? You know what? Most of
these things I have no clue what they are. But
that's the thing about your markets. You can find so
many unique and wonderful things. It's Christmas as gifts, how
about it?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
It is absolutely and thank you for not putting me
on the on the spot to forget people do that
let me yell at me, you know, so what we say,
is every a juried event. If people aren't familiar, basically
means is you have to apply to be part of
this festival. And what the committee looks at is are
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these handcrafted items the people that make it? Are they
the ones actually selling it? So it's not brokers, it's
not wholesalers. Those people are great, but that's not what
we're looking for here. We want the hand crafted items.
I always say their high end, not necessarily expensive, but
really well made stuff. And you need you're not going
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to find this in a in a typical store exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Is like the good old days when you find things
that were unique and somebody took time to make them,
and that's important. You know one thing I know that
you're in central Pennsylvania. Boy, do we love our food.
Let's take a look at some of the German food vendors.
You have out the revolutionary hot sauce, pies and fries,
chocolate moonshine, what the heck is that? Wild meat, sweet cradellos,
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cake and baked shops. Do you have a favorite, John.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Oh, boy, it's it's tough to pick a favorite. We
you know, among the food, Can I give you a
few that are that have been with us for years.
Frank Tamassak, he's a local guy. He and his daughter
make their own sausage. Greg Schumann is a third generation concessionaire.
He's got multiple teams and people probably see them all
over the mid State throughout the year. Chef Tony a
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local guy, so many different ones, and then we bring
people in. We have a strudal guy that comes in
from Philadelphia. We have an Italian baker that comes down
from the northeast. It's a lot emphasis on German food,
but we also have the normal festival favorites as well
and the local restaurants. One of the things that we
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try and do is promote the vendors that are in
the village, so you have those great restaurants as well.
And of course it's kind of the spiritual headquarters of
this event all year as Saint Thomas roasters, Jeff and
his team there. It's so amazing.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I like to talk about the entertainment. One of the things,
as they said, you're not gonna find it anywhere else,
is that you have a living Nativity scene. Tell us
about that.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
That's pretty Yeah, it's so interesting the way we describe
this festival is. We are open to everyone and we
encourage everyone to come, but it is a Christmas market.
We're celebrating Christmases as well as the holiday season. And
the most visible point of that is about a dozen
different community churches go together and provide a living Nativity.
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They take terms in presenting the story and everyone's walking
to come and see that. There's no pressure. They're just
there presenting, presenting that Nativity and showing that, you know,
is what is the heart of the season. But we
emphasize why everyone's walking.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I know you have a lot of music going on,
dance and things like that. You have a couple dozen
live performances. Tell us about that.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yeah, that's been one of the interesting things that's grown
is we started off with a main stage and have
grown to now three stages as well as sort of
a small stage at the bus drop where we operate
free shuttles. We'll probably get into that. But we have churches,
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we have individual performers. We have what I call the
impop band traditional German band. It comes in from reading.
We have schools, we have the third stages. Really interesting.
You're probably aware of this, but a lot of people
may not have heard of the Joy to the Bird
charity of the album that's been going on. Yes, so
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they Raymond Teach. So all of the artists on the
Joy to the Bird stage behind Anders Insurance. They're on
the Joy to the Berg album either this year or
in past years.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Oh that's great. They are wonderful. You know. I'm thrilled
that you have things for kids because it is a
family venue because usually it's face painting and all that stuff.
But you have some really cool stuff going on for kids.
Talk to us about that.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Oh, we're so lucky. We team up with two different organizations.
FNEM Trust they're the sponsor for our Tinder World and
then the German honor students from CDEs High School. They
come and they help. Kids can come in. Everything is free.
They can do crafts, they can do games. We have
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entertainment there including the Imaginary Friend Puppets, the Whitaker Center,
Wild Van. We have Matthew Dodd performing kids songs just there,
singing and storytelling. So it's it's we really go out
of our way to make sure that the kids have
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a great time.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
And you also have Santa and Missus Claus. I got
a question, this is the real Santa.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yes, of course, it's we have Santa and Missus clause.
It's it's so fun to see the kids. Another school group,
the Linglestown Middle School Honor Society. They are the they
are the elves helping out Santa and Missus. We had
a really really cool thing last year. I was walking
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with Missus Claws and getting her to her spot, and
a little girl came. She was dressed up as Missus
Claws and she said she came specifically because we're one
of the few places that have both Mister and Missus Claus.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Oh isn't that really How did you have a lot
of stories? Well, you know what I want. You say,
big events like this, I always think of what I
call the two p's, p and parking. So where am
I going to park? And it's I understand it's free,
and where am my therapy? And you also have shuttle
buses through right?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah? Absolutely. The shuttle buses are provided by our friends
at aurorer Bus. They'll operate from two different locations from
New Hope Church. New Hope is that the intersection of
lock Willow Road, which is right there by the American
Legion and our main sponsor in Hornings Hardware another sponsor
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and Colodia Club Roads that's New Hope Church. And then
the second location is out at Central Golf and High
School out out Linglestown Road. People can park there wait
for the bus. We have multiple buses running constantly. They'll
bring them in and then drop them right by the
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square for free, and then they can walk walk half
a block and get over to the festival. Those that
don't want to take the bus, there's handicapped parking at
Hoover's Funeral Home right across the street from the from
the bus stop, as well as all along there's multiple businesses,
schools and churches all along Mountain Road that's marked for
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free parking.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
What about the p and where can you get a pay?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yes? All right, you always want to make sure. So
we have two different locations set up with porta potties
right on this square and then down at Enders Insurance
in the annex area right right by the near the
food court area. I will say right by the near
the food court area.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Well, I always want to talk about your sponsors and
can you tell me that the Legion Linglestown Legion is
your is it what they're fourth here to be the
presenting sponsor.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Oh, we're still We're lucky to have our friends at
the Legion. They're the primary sponsor. They have been with
us since nearly the beginning and they are absolutely fantastic.
We Loening, F and M Trust their sponsoring Kinderworld. And
then our five main sponsors, Anders Insurance that we mentioned, Hoffman, Ford,
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Earl and Todd and the gang over there. They sponsored
the main stage. McNaughton Holmes sponsors the Santa and Missus
Claus Experience, NY's Landscaping. Bill Bailey and his family and
team sponsor the clock stage. And then roar Bus is
our shutter sponsor for this year. And then we have
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another twenty sum sponsors you can find all.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
I'm sorry, Jary, I had a hard time. Were you
doing this on the telephone because somebody heard her back
and can't walk and it's going outside, and we taped
this a little bit earlier. But I'm sorry for interrupting you.
You were saying what we have.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
So many other sponsors as well.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Okay, you mentioned somebody that's one of the most wonderful
and generous men in our community, and that's still Horning.
Horning's Hardware. Yes, I mean he's just such an amazing man.
And he's one of those guys that does step and
doesn't tell anybody about it. He's just a good guy.
A lot of your local businesses are also supporting you
in like Mud Queen Pottery, the Eagle Hotel, Saint Thomas,
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Roaster's Coffeehouse, and one of my favorite treasures from home consignments,
Shelley's has nice stuff. And on your website you have
your local businesses and a link so you can click
to their websites, which I think is really cool.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
It is cool, it's it really helps to you know,
you can't do something like this without with how many
people support. We'll have eighty volunteers there on on Saturday
helping out so many people. So many.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Do you still need you still need volunteers.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
We always can use volunteers, okay, And then they can
find that on the website and still sign up.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
There's a I believe there's a form there and you
don't have to be there all day. You can take
a couple of hours here and a couple hours there.
And what I've always been a supportive of is young
kids like teenagers, because once they volunteer, you know they
whine and what once they volunteer with this a community event,
a nonprofit, you can't keep them away from it because
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they love it. Right.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Oh, it's amazing. We have the Central Dolphin football team
comes on Friday and spends two or three hours helping
us set up.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
See what I mean? I love this. This is total community. Well,
if you want to support financially in other ways, you
have something called the Gingerbread Club Membership.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
What is that? Oh, that's so important. So the Gingerbread
is an opportunity for individuals to sponsor. It's one hundred
dollars sponsorship. You get two different things, three different things.
One the satisfaction of helping put on a great community project.
Two you get a handmade ornament that will help you
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remember in Three the thing that people really appreciate, you'll
get VIP parking right near the festival, as do all
the volunteers. That's one of the great things about volunteering.
Volunteer for two hours and you can have special parking
available for you.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
That's awesome. Well, I want to ask you something else.
You've been doing this through seven years. It keeps getting
bigger and bigger and bigger. What do you think has
been your biggest challenge over the year since it's gotten bigger.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Success always brings its own challenges, right, the bigger the
numbers get, the more people you get. It's been very
interesting saying talking about financing. A lot of people say, well,
what do you do with all the money you make
from this event? And I have to remind them, you know,
you came in for free, you rode the shuttle bus
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for free, you use the porta potties for free. It's
very expensive to put something on like this, and that's
been one of the things. So you know, just doing
the same thing from year to year gets more expensive
each each time.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Well, I know you have a lot of events that
go on throughout the year, like Heroes Grove. I was
there for the first one of those, and a lot
my friends are involved with that. Tell us about something
going on called an Independence weekend family celebration where you
give this special award to somebody.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Oh, this is such an amazing event and really something
that I appreciate. So those of us old enough remember
the by Centennial back in nineteen seventy six, and I
think as we're getting closer to twenty twenty six, we're
seeing more and more because we're fifty years later, so
this economy is being called America two fifty. And we
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started this event four years ago with the idea that
unlike most communities who are trying to put something together
from scratch right now, we're going to have a running start.
So we'll be celebrating our fifth anniversary of the Independence
Weekend this coming year. It's another great event with a
different set of people. So the veterans groups and military
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groups in the area have been so helpful, churches and
other community groups, and this one opens up a little wider,
so we're celebrating not only from Lower Paxton, but as
you mentioned, it's the Dolphin County Heroes Growth, which if
people aren't familiar, Dolphin County's got a really interesting situation.
Our Veterans Memorial isn't just stones or pavers. It's an
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Amphitheater Amphitheater where we can do it amazing program celebrating veterans,
and we have scouts there and we have some music
and entertainment. That's the first thing that happens, and then
we have a small festival where we can take those
young kids and we can take those veterans and put
them together. I always say, I'm not going to be
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here in twenty seventy six for the America three hundred,
but I'm hoping that some of these kids that we
have at these programs will be inspired to put on
that America three hundred event and they'll be able to say,
I met a World War Two veteran, I met a
Korean veteran, I met someone from all these different eras,
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and they'll be able to tell that history as eyewitnesses
when they get older.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Well, you know, it's funny, it takes till you what
I don't know, this is different ages for different people.
But as you get older, you really appreciate that kind
of stuff and you're a lot of times you're sorry
you didn't listen your own family, and then you find out,
oh my gosh, my grandfather or my dad or my
mom they did this. It's really when you're at twenty five, you.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Know that that's the great thing about America, right, it's
these citizen heroes.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
That that that answer the call when it's when it
goes out, that serve and you know, we've got an
entire new generation of veterans now right.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
The first Golf War was over twenty years ago.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Oh, it's hard to believe. It's hard to believe. And
I know you're involved because of your dad out at
the view. What is it called you were telling me
about it.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
The Veterans Group, Yeah, the World War Two round Table,
which is the great group. They participate in the July event.
As a matter of fact, they're moving to Linglestown. They've
been in Humblestown for many years. They are moving this month.
They're the basically the first Thursday of each month and
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they're gonna be a at our friends, the American Legion
in Lyndalstown right there on Mountain Road. It's a great
opportunity to hear from these, not only the veterans, but
in December, there's going to be two Holocaust survivors. We've
had Rosie the Riveter, We've had all time, Japanese Internment,
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We've had all tons of people that were involved in
World War Two and you get to hear their stories.
Plus the organization is capturing it on video and they
put it on their website.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
I think that's fantastic. Oh, that's so wonderful because we've really,
unless you well, the people that saw the real hell
of war they don't like talking about it. But I
think this is a place for this roundtable you can
share things, and it's not really like a place to
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how could you say it? Maybe some people as an
opportunity to open up because people there that saw what
you saw. But you'll learn an awful lot or I
wish that was part of the curriculum in schools, and
not only because you learn about history, because you and
I were talking that. When we were in school, it
was memorized, memorized, memorized. Take the test. I forgot about
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it right.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Right, right. But you know, we had we had a
World War Two veteran. He was a Navy CB. He
arrived on Okinawa right before the end of the war
and he was our featured veteran this year. He sat
in a tent during the festival and there was a
line the whole time to see earth. I think he's
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just such a such an amazing guy, and people really
appreciated hearing from him.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
And they're also humble, how about it?
Speaker 2 (24:47):
They are, And you know it's it's a great opportunity.
I mean, you know, a kid coming today can be
talking about a World War two veteran when they've been
when the war is a ndred years old, when the
war's one hundred and fifty years passed.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
We are John. At the top of the program, I
mentioned that creating a sense of community is really important.
You how does the Lower Paxston Chris Kringle Market do that.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I think it's two different ways. One from a branding
point of view, we're trying to make sure that people
whether you're from if you're in Lower Paxton, whether you're
from Pakistonia, from Colonial Park, from Union Deposit, from Lingostown,
that you feel part of that community. But more importantly,
they're welcoming people from other communities, right because we don't
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want to say, hey, here's the boundary and only these
people can come. We are at events in Susquehanna Township,
in Swatara Township, in Dairy Township, across the river. That
river that some people are afraid to cross, is really
easy to get back and forth. And you know, it's
an opportunity for for one of our largest communities in
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the region to welcome people from everywhere and celebrate community
and family during the holidays.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Well, you know, as I said earlier too, that people
I haven't been there yet. I don't know why. I
lived in Lingostown for a while, but you actually do
feel the spirit of Christmas because all these wonderful there's
a lot of feeling. There's a lot of heart. It's families,
it's people who've been through, like our veterans. It's learning
from so many things, the Santa Claus. It's wonderful. So
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I think, I just I'm just amazed. I can hardly
wait to go.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Oh you're still right Slovia. It's amazing to see people
meeting and greeting each other. A few years ago, I
was at the infratent and I was just saying to people,
thanks for coming, thanks for coming to this gentleman walked
by and I said, you know, thanks, thanks for coming
out this cold Saturday morning, and he said, where else
would I be? Everyone I know is here.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Oh see what I mean. That's what I mean. It's wonderful.
I can hardly wait. And like I said, my friends
have been asking me about and something's always come up.
I was out of town where didn't feel what was
tied up with something else that you can bet that
I'm going to be there. His name is John Hanks.
He's the event manager of the Lower Packs in Kris
Kringle Marketing in Lingalistown, And I'll tell you what he
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guarantees that this free seventh annual Lower Packs and Chris
Kringle market is it's running on Saturday, December thirteenth from
ten goal four and Lingalistown is going to be the
favorite part of your holiday season. And it's on Raider
Shine too, isn't John.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Absolutely, we are always there and we hope everyone can
join us and really enjoy the spirit of the holidays.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Hey, John, By the way, most important information we have
to know we're going to find all kinds of stuff
is your website. Where is it?
Speaker 2 (27:57):
You got two ways you can do LP Chris Market
or we've made it easy LPCKM dot com.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Okay. And also that I saw when I was on
your neat website you can join the mailing list and
you can be one of the first people in the
area to find out what's going on with everything. How
about it.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Absolutely, it's a year long it's a year long effort.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Absolutely, John, Thanks so much. And you know, by the way,
and I'm gonna try this because I had four years
of German and high school and all I know is
like how do you get to the library. But let
me say, is this right? Furnicker Rynoxton means Merry Christmas?
Did I say that right?
Speaker 2 (28:41):
That? Does it all right? John?
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Thanks again so much. Don't forget that you can catch
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I'm Sylvia Lost. This has been Inside. Thanks so much
for listening. See you next week.
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Hi, I'm Sylvia and Austin. This is Insight, a presentation
of iHeartMedia where we really do care about our local
communities and all our listeners who live here. You know,
when I was contemplating, which are the many troublesome and
crazy issues that we're going to talk about that are
going on in the world these days, I thought, Eh,
I don't know. I kept thinking about my realize, Nah,
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who needs to hear more of that stuff? We all
need to hear about some good stuff, some really fun stuff,
stuff that tastes good, stuff that smells good, and more
important than anything else, something that actually makes you feel good,
you know, some Christmas stuff. And then I remember hearing
about our free family family during Christmas parking in lingos Sown.
(00:43):
A lot of people told me that this community eve
then has really things going on that you wouldn't find
anywhere else, and that they could actually feel the want
of Christmas spirit while they're there. Were there, Well, that's
all I needed to hear. So I reached out to
the gentleman who has been the actual event manager the
Lower Paxston Chris Kindall Market in Linglestown since a bandgan
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about seven years ago with us is John Hanks no
relation to Tom Right.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
John very distantly not to share the time for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Though, okay, and don't have any of his money either,
do yet exactly? Well, John grew up in our area
and he's had his own business it's called Make It
Happened To Events for about twenty five years. He's also
real involved in a lot of organizations in our local community.
And he told me that his goal in life is
all he's been to create a sense of community and
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all that he does, which you know me, that really
warms my heart. Well, John, we have a lot to
chat about, and boy, I'll tell you why I'm so
excited about this. Let's begin with what it is, or
actually what I've been alluding to for the last couple
of minutes. It's the seventh annual Lower Paxxston Chris pink
Kringle Market on Saturday thirteenth. That's only a week away
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from Penttal four and roll Linglestown. First of all, I
need a little bit of background. Tell us about how,
when and why you guys decided to establish the Lower
Pakistan Community Foundations, Because isn't Chris Krinville Market under it?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah? Absolutely so thanks for having us and letting me
talk about one of my passion projects. The Lower Paxton
Christiana Market, as you said, is a project of the
Lower Paxton Community Foundation. Most people know Lower Paxton as Lingostown,
Colonial Park, Paxtonia area, but they don't realize that it's
the fourteenth largest municipality in the state that includes Philadelphia, Pittsburgh,
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all those. It's bigger than Harrisburg. It's bigger than the
City of York. It's a really big place. And our
roots go back to two events. In twenty fifteen, the
village of Linglestown celebrated it's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
and two ladies, Polymurph and Pam Jones decided to put
on a party. College's original idea was for a picnic,
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and it grew to a two day long celebration, and
I connected with them and my business partner, Chris London
and with Make It Happen Emments, and we helped them
develop this program that was so much fun. We had
a parade, we had a concert, we had all kinds
of great activities and really brought a sense to Linglestown.
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Two years later, the township was celebrating it's two hundred
and fiftieth, and the supervisors then asked us to step
in and the four of us work on celebrating the
anniversary of the township. And that was a day long
event over at Coon excuse me over George Park off
a NYE Road, and we started with a parade and
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ended up with fireworks in the evening. Really had such
a great sense of community and old fashioned getting together.
Neighbors see each other, old friends getting together, new people
meeting one another, and we thought, how do we keep
this going? So we started a Lower Paxton Community Foundation
to facilitate this. We do a number of projects, but
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the one that most people know us for is, as
you mentioned, the Christkindel Market and thanks for hitting the
name right. We hear all kinds of pronunciations for it.
It's basically German for outdoor Christmas market. Everyone knows the
German schotcraft to profess, but they also hopefully know them
for the family or family christkinder Market.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Well, why Germany do we have a lot of citizens
from German? They are German in our area?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
We do, you know. You can see it from the
last names, you can see it from the food that
we eat in our restaurants. You can see it from
the sunny dinners that people put on the table. We
were working with a cater or a few years ago.
When we were first started. I said, can you please,
you know, do some German food for our food court area.
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She said, I don't know, let me do some research.
Call me back. About an hour later, she said, I
looked at all these recipes. This is just the food
that grandma made for Sunday dinner.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
No kidding? Is that cool?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Well?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I wanted to ask. We know it's in Linglestown, but
exactly where in Linglestown?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Yeah? Great question if you're familiar with the village. There's
two roundabouts, two traffic circles. We closed down Littlestown Road
in between those traffic circles. The heart of this event
really is an outdoor craft show, and we have a
vendor committee that works on inviting people. We started off
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about thirty five people this year. Excuse me the origin
the first year. This year we're going to be about
one hundred and forty craft vendors.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
And then they have people waiting in line that want
to be vendors. You're turning people away?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
We do. We have so many I mean we're sold out.
The exhibitor committee reinvites the folks in January and they
train and see a few spots to include new people
as well. Some of the things that we hear and
we try and make sure there's always the old fan
favorites are there, but then there's new things as well
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to see.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Well, it's really surprising. If you'll allow me, because I
don't want anybody yelling at you, I'll do it. I
was looking on your site and there's really cool things
that you don't even know what they are. As far
as your craft enders, the Crazy Cork Lady, Fleece Intrigues,
Drew's wish, Granny's Christmas. I gotta check that one out.
Imagine and hanging. That's funny. JB's imaginarium just for pausing.
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Who's Laura's piece of Earth? You know what? Most of
these things I have no clue what they are. But
that's the thing about your markets. You can find so
many unique and wonderful things. It's Christmas as gifts, how
about it?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
It is absolutely and thank you for not putting me
on the on the spot to forget people do that
let me yell at me, you know, so what we say,
is every a juried event. If people aren't familiar, basically
means is you have to apply to be part of
this festival. And what the committee looks at is are
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these handcrafted items the people that make it? Are they
the ones actually selling it? So it's not brokers, it's
not wholesalers. Those people are great, but that's not what
we're looking for here. We want the hand crafted items.
I always say their high end, not necessarily expensive, but
really well made stuff. And you need you're not going
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to find this in a in a typical store exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Is like the good old days when you find things
that were unique and somebody took time to make them,
and that's important. You know one thing I know that
you're in central Pennsylvania. Boy, do we love our food.
Let's take a look at some of the German food vendors.
You have out the revolutionary hot sauce, pies and fries,
chocolate moonshine, what the heck is that? Wild meat, sweet cradellos,
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cake and baked shops. Do you have a favorite, John.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Oh, boy, it's it's tough to pick a favorite. We
you know, among the food, Can I give you a
few that are that have been with us for years.
Frank Tamassak, he's a local guy. He and his daughter
make their own sausage. Greg Schumann is a third generation concessionaire.
He's got multiple teams and people probably see them all
over the mid State throughout the year. Chef Tony a
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local guy, so many different ones, and then we bring
people in. We have a strudal guy that comes in
from Philadelphia. We have an Italian baker that comes down
from the northeast. It's a lot emphasis on German food,
but we also have the normal festival favorites as well
and the local restaurants. One of the things that we
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try and do is promote the vendors that are in
the village, so you have those great restaurants as well.
And of course it's kind of the spiritual headquarters of
this event all year as Saint Thomas roasters, Jeff and
his team there. It's so amazing.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I like to talk about the entertainment. One of the things,
as they said, you're not gonna find it anywhere else,
is that you have a living Nativity scene. Tell us
about that.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
That's pretty Yeah, it's so interesting the way we describe
this festival is. We are open to everyone and we
encourage everyone to come, but it is a Christmas market.
We're celebrating Christmases as well as the holiday season. And
the most visible point of that is about a dozen
different community churches go together and provide a living Nativity.
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They take terms in presenting the story and everyone's walking
to come and see that. There's no pressure. They're just
there presenting, presenting that Nativity and showing that, you know,
is what is the heart of the season. But we
emphasize why everyone's walking.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I know you have a lot of music going on,
dance and things like that. You have a couple dozen
live performances. Tell us about that.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yeah, that's been one of the interesting things that's grown
is we started off with a main stage and have
grown to now three stages as well as sort of
a small stage at the bus drop where we operate
free shuttles. We'll probably get into that. But we have churches,
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we have individual performers. We have what I call the
impop band traditional German band. It comes in from reading.
We have schools, we have the third stages. Really interesting.
You're probably aware of this, but a lot of people
may not have heard of the Joy to the Bird
charity of the album that's been going on. Yes, so
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they Raymond Teach. So all of the artists on the
Joy to the Bird stage behind Anders Insurance. They're on
the Joy to the Berg album either this year or
in past years.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Oh that's great. They are wonderful. You know. I'm thrilled
that you have things for kids because it is a
family venue because usually it's face painting and all that stuff.
But you have some really cool stuff going on for kids.
Talk to us about that.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Oh, we're so lucky. We team up with two different organizations.
FNEM Trust they're the sponsor for our Tinder World and
then the German honor students from CDEs High School. They
come and they help. Kids can come in. Everything is free.
They can do crafts, they can do games. We have
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entertainment there including the Imaginary Friend Puppets, the Whitaker Center,
Wild Van. We have Matthew Dodd performing kids songs just there,
singing and storytelling. So it's it's we really go out
of our way to make sure that the kids have
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a great time.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
And you also have Santa and Missus Claus. I got
a question, this is the real Santa.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yes, of course, it's we have Santa and Missus clause.
It's it's so fun to see the kids. Another school group,
the Linglestown Middle School Honor Society. They are the they
are the elves helping out Santa and Missus. We had
a really really cool thing last year. I was walking
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with Missus Claws and getting her to her spot, and
a little girl came. She was dressed up as Missus
Claws and she said she came specifically because we're one
of the few places that have both Mister and Missus Claus.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Oh isn't that really How did you have a lot
of stories? Well, you know what I want. You say,
big events like this, I always think of what I
call the two p's, p and parking. So where am
I going to park? And it's I understand it's free,
and where am my therapy? And you also have shuttle
buses through right?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah? Absolutely. The shuttle buses are provided by our friends
at aurorer Bus. They'll operate from two different locations from
New Hope Church. New Hope is that the intersection of
lock Willow Road, which is right there by the American
Legion and our main sponsor in Hornings Hardware another sponsor
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and Colodia Club Roads that's New Hope Church. And then
the second location is out at Central Golf and High
School out out Linglestown Road. People can park there wait
for the bus. We have multiple buses running constantly. They'll
bring them in and then drop them right by the
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square for free, and then they can walk walk half
a block and get over to the festival. Those that
don't want to take the bus, there's handicapped parking at
Hoover's Funeral Home right across the street from the from
the bus stop, as well as all along there's multiple businesses,
schools and churches all along Mountain Road that's marked for
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free parking.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
What about the p and where can you get a pay?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yes? All right, you always want to make sure. So
we have two different locations set up with porta potties
right on this square and then down at Enders Insurance
in the annex area right right by the near the
food court area. I will say right by the near
the food court area.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Well, I always want to talk about your sponsors and
can you tell me that the Legion Linglestown Legion is
your is it what they're fourth here to be the
presenting sponsor.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Oh, we're still We're lucky to have our friends at
the Legion. They're the primary sponsor. They have been with
us since nearly the beginning and they are absolutely fantastic.
We Loening, F and M Trust their sponsoring Kinderworld. And
then our five main sponsors, Anders Insurance that we mentioned, Hoffman, Ford,
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Earl and Todd and the gang over there. They sponsored
the main stage. McNaughton Holmes sponsors the Santa and Missus
Claus Experience, NY's Landscaping. Bill Bailey and his family and
team sponsor the clock stage. And then roar Bus is
our shutter sponsor for this year. And then we have
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another twenty sum sponsors you can find all.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
I'm sorry, Jary, I had a hard time. Were you
doing this on the telephone because somebody heard her back
and can't walk and it's going outside, and we taped
this a little bit earlier. But I'm sorry for interrupting you.
You were saying what we have.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
So many other sponsors as well.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Okay, you mentioned somebody that's one of the most wonderful
and generous men in our community, and that's still Horning.
Horning's Hardware. Yes, I mean he's just such an amazing man.
And he's one of those guys that does step and
doesn't tell anybody about it. He's just a good guy.
A lot of your local businesses are also supporting you
in like Mud Queen Pottery, the Eagle Hotel, Saint Thomas,
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Roaster's Coffeehouse, and one of my favorite treasures from home consignments,
Shelley's has nice stuff. And on your website you have
your local businesses and a link so you can click
to their websites, which I think is really cool.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
It is cool, it's it really helps to you know,
you can't do something like this without with how many
people support. We'll have eighty volunteers there on on Saturday
helping out so many people. So many.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Do you still need you still need volunteers.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
We always can use volunteers, okay, And then they can
find that on the website and still sign up.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
There's a I believe there's a form there and you
don't have to be there all day. You can take
a couple of hours here and a couple hours there.
And what I've always been a supportive of is young
kids like teenagers, because once they volunteer, you know they
whine and what once they volunteer with this a community event,
a nonprofit, you can't keep them away from it because
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they love it. Right.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Oh, it's amazing. We have the Central Dolphin football team
comes on Friday and spends two or three hours helping
us set up.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
See what I mean? I love this. This is total community. Well,
if you want to support financially in other ways, you
have something called the Gingerbread Club Membership.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
What is that? Oh, that's so important. So the Gingerbread
is an opportunity for individuals to sponsor. It's one hundred
dollars sponsorship. You get two different things, three different things.
One the satisfaction of helping put on a great community project.
Two you get a handmade ornament that will help you
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remember in Three the thing that people really appreciate, you'll
get VIP parking right near the festival, as do all
the volunteers. That's one of the great things about volunteering.
Volunteer for two hours and you can have special parking
available for you.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
That's awesome. Well, I want to ask you something else.
You've been doing this through seven years. It keeps getting
bigger and bigger and bigger. What do you think has
been your biggest challenge over the year since it's gotten bigger.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Success always brings its own challenges, right, the bigger the
numbers get, the more people you get. It's been very
interesting saying talking about financing. A lot of people say, well,
what do you do with all the money you make
from this event? And I have to remind them, you know,
you came in for free, you rode the shuttle bus
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for free, you use the porta potties for free. It's
very expensive to put something on like this, and that's
been one of the things. So you know, just doing
the same thing from year to year gets more expensive
each each time.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Well, I know you have a lot of events that
go on throughout the year, like Heroes Grove. I was
there for the first one of those, and a lot
my friends are involved with that. Tell us about something
going on called an Independence weekend family celebration where you
give this special award to somebody.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Oh, this is such an amazing event and really something
that I appreciate. So those of us old enough remember
the by Centennial back in nineteen seventy six, and I
think as we're getting closer to twenty twenty six, we're
seeing more and more because we're fifty years later, so
this economy is being called America two fifty. And we
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started this event four years ago with the idea that
unlike most communities who are trying to put something together
from scratch right now, we're going to have a running start.
So we'll be celebrating our fifth anniversary of the Independence
Weekend this coming year. It's another great event with a
different set of people. So the veterans groups and military
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groups in the area have been so helpful, churches and
other community groups, and this one opens up a little wider,
so we're celebrating not only from Lower Paxton, but as
you mentioned, it's the Dolphin County Heroes Growth, which if
people aren't familiar, Dolphin County's got a really interesting situation.
Our Veterans Memorial isn't just stones or pavers. It's an
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Amphitheater Amphitheater where we can do it amazing program celebrating veterans,
and we have scouts there and we have some music
and entertainment. That's the first thing that happens, and then
we have a small festival where we can take those
young kids and we can take those veterans and put
them together. I always say, I'm not going to be
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here in twenty seventy six for the America three hundred,
but I'm hoping that some of these kids that we
have at these programs will be inspired to put on
that America three hundred event and they'll be able to say,
I met a World War Two veteran, I met a
Korean veteran, I met someone from all these different eras,
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and they'll be able to tell that history as eyewitnesses
when they get older.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Well, you know, it's funny, it takes till you what
I don't know, this is different ages for different people.
But as you get older, you really appreciate that kind
of stuff and you're a lot of times you're sorry
you didn't listen your own family, and then you find out,
oh my gosh, my grandfather or my dad or my
mom they did this. It's really when you're at twenty five, you.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Know that that's the great thing about America, right, it's
these citizen heroes.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
That that that answer the call when it's when it
goes out, that serve and you know, we've got an
entire new generation of veterans now right.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
The first Golf War was over twenty years ago.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Oh, it's hard to believe. It's hard to believe. And
I know you're involved because of your dad out at
the view. What is it called you were telling me
about it.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
The Veterans Group, Yeah, the World War Two round Table,
which is the great group. They participate in the July event.
As a matter of fact, they're moving to Linglestown. They've
been in Humblestown for many years. They are moving this month.
They're the basically the first Thursday of each month and
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they're gonna be a at our friends, the American Legion
in Lyndalstown right there on Mountain Road. It's a great
opportunity to hear from these, not only the veterans, but
in December, there's going to be two Holocaust survivors. We've
had Rosie the Riveter, We've had all time, Japanese Internment,
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We've had all tons of people that were involved in
World War Two and you get to hear their stories.
Plus the organization is capturing it on video and they
put it on their website.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
I think that's fantastic. Oh, that's so wonderful because we've really,
unless you well, the people that saw the real hell
of war they don't like talking about it. But I
think this is a place for this roundtable you can
share things, and it's not really like a place to
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how could you say it? Maybe some people as an
opportunity to open up because people there that saw what
you saw. But you'll learn an awful lot or I
wish that was part of the curriculum in schools, and
not only because you learn about history, because you and
I were talking that. When we were in school, it
was memorized, memorized, memorized. Take the test. I forgot about
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it right.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Right, right. But you know, we had we had a
World War Two veteran. He was a Navy CB. He
arrived on Okinawa right before the end of the war
and he was our featured veteran this year. He sat
in a tent during the festival and there was a
line the whole time to see earth. I think he's
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just such a such an amazing guy, and people really
appreciated hearing from him.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
And they're also humble, how about it?
Speaker 2 (24:47):
They are, And you know it's it's a great opportunity.
I mean, you know, a kid coming today can be
talking about a World War two veteran when they've been
when the war is a ndred years old, when the
war's one hundred and fifty years passed.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
We are John. At the top of the program, I
mentioned that creating a sense of community is really important.
You how does the Lower Paxston Chris Kringle Market do that.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I think it's two different ways. One from a branding
point of view, we're trying to make sure that people
whether you're from if you're in Lower Paxton, whether you're
from Pakistonia, from Colonial Park, from Union Deposit, from Lingostown,
that you feel part of that community. But more importantly,
they're welcoming people from other communities, right because we don't
(25:39):
want to say, hey, here's the boundary and only these
people can come. We are at events in Susquehanna Township,
in Swatara Township, in Dairy Township, across the river. That
river that some people are afraid to cross, is really
easy to get back and forth. And you know, it's
an opportunity for for one of our largest communities in
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the region to welcome people from everywhere and celebrate community
and family during the holidays.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Well, you know, as I said earlier too, that people
I haven't been there yet. I don't know why. I
lived in Lingostown for a while, but you actually do
feel the spirit of Christmas because all these wonderful there's
a lot of feeling. There's a lot of heart. It's families,
it's people who've been through, like our veterans. It's learning
from so many things, the Santa Claus. It's wonderful. So
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I think, I just I'm just amazed. I can hardly
wait to go.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Oh you're still right Slovia. It's amazing to see people
meeting and greeting each other. A few years ago, I
was at the infratent and I was just saying to people,
thanks for coming, thanks for coming to this gentleman walked
by and I said, you know, thanks, thanks for coming
out this cold Saturday morning, and he said, where else
would I be? Everyone I know is here.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Oh see what I mean. That's what I mean. It's wonderful.
I can hardly wait. And like I said, my friends
have been asking me about and something's always come up.
I was out of town where didn't feel what was
tied up with something else that you can bet that
I'm going to be there. His name is John Hanks.
He's the event manager of the Lower Packs in Kris
Kringle Marketing in Lingalistown, And I'll tell you what he
(27:26):
guarantees that this free seventh annual Lower Packs and Chris
Kringle market is it's running on Saturday, December thirteenth from
ten goal four and Lingalistown is going to be the
favorite part of your holiday season. And it's on Raider
Shine too, isn't John.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Absolutely, we are always there and we hope everyone can
join us and really enjoy the spirit of the holidays.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Hey, John, By the way, most important information we have
to know we're going to find all kinds of stuff
is your website. Where is it?
Speaker 2 (27:57):
You got two ways you can do LP Chris Market
or we've made it easy LPCKM dot com.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Okay. And also that I saw when I was on
your neat website you can join the mailing list and
you can be one of the first people in the
area to find out what's going on with everything. How
about it.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Absolutely, it's a year long it's a year long effort.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Absolutely, John, Thanks so much. And you know, by the way,
and I'm gonna try this because I had four years
of German and high school and all I know is
like how do you get to the library. But let
me say, is this right? Furnicker Rynoxton means Merry Christmas?
Did I say that right?
Speaker 2 (28:41):
That? Does it all right? John?
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Thanks again so much. Don't forget that you can catch
Inside on our tenniheart stations or anytime on your favorite podcast.
I'm Sylvia Lost. This has been Inside. Thanks so much
for listening. See you next week.
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Sylvia Moss. Each week on Insight, we address and try
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