holidays

  • Holidays: Making the best of your time at home

    Holidays: Making the best of your time at home

    The holiday season: some look forward to it, while others dread it. For many, it can be a time of fun family gatherings, love and cheer. However, many people experience stress, fear and toxic situations when they are home for the holidays, often because of critical and malicious relatives. A harmful family situation is not

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  • Lancaster recycles Christmas trees

    Lancaster recycles Christmas trees

    • News
    • January 26, 2012

    Lancaster County is going green this month by encouraging residents to dispose of their Christmas trees by recycling them at the Lancaster County Central Park mulching site. There is no cost for dropping off Christmas trees to be ground into mulch, however, there is a suggested donation of $1 to help cover the operations of

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  • December abounds with winter fun

    December abounds with winter fun

    There are a lot of great activities ranging from ice-skating to light shows to get yourself in the holiday spirit this year. As exam time approaches at Elizabethtown College, students tend to feel more and more stressed. However, with these ideas to get your mind off the books, you can definitely relieve some stress for

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  • Black Friday causes shoppers to stress

    Black Friday is a time for people to tent out in front of stores, like Best Buy, for eight hours in hopes of getting 30 percent off items like iPads. It is a marketing invention used to delude people into thinking they are getting the best deals on the hottest items. People become animalistic over,

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  • Holidays at Etown welcome all

    Holidays at Etown welcome all

    One of the definitions for Thanksgiving on dictionary.com is “a public celebration in acknowledgement of divine favor or kindness”. Generally, we think of Thanksgiving as a holiday where we give thanks for what we are grateful for in our lives. Although Thanksgiving is typically thought of as an American holiday, many other countries around the

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  • Thanksgiving: the forgotten holiday?

    Thanksgiving: the forgotten holiday?

    Within the past week, I’ve heard Christmas music on the radio, I’ve seen advertisements for “A Christmas Story” across campus and noticed an alarmingly high amount of Facebook statuses notifying me that “so-and-so is going Christmas shopping— CAN’T WAIT!!” I absolutely love the Christmas season: I love the spirit of the season, the decorations, the

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