Welcome back, friends.
May sunshine find your smile this week. It’s a beautiful time to be outside touching some grass. This week someone introduced me to a novel concept…’forest’ can also be seen as ‘for rest’. I recently popped out for a quick hike at the Windolph Landing Nature Preserve. Such a treat. I hope your May is full of flowers.
-Ed
This week’s cover photo is by my buddy and Lanco Hunts partner, Mike Porto. Mike and I have collaborated on the two previous editions of the Lanco Hunts scavenger hunt for Lancaster County. We’ve cooked up a fun 3rd edition with over 60 winners and $2,650 in prizes. Find the full details below and if your business has ANY filter needs consider Mike your guy. He’s full of passion, gives back thru teaching, and loves Lancaster and oh yeah filters.
Have a Lancaster local business that pours into the communty & have an interest in partnering with the Loop?
LANCO HUNTS PRESENTS:
DON’T FORGET YOUR MOTHER’S DAY
Today is Tuesday and in five quick days it’ll be Mother’s Day.
Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms in the Loop!
In celebration of Mother’s Day this year, Mike and I are excited to launch the next round of Lanco Hunts.
This Saturday, May 9th, from 10am to 4pm you are invited to participate in the “Don’t Forget Your Mother’s Day” scavenger hunt.
Together with our title sponsor, PCI Auctions, we’ve built out a very exciting next round to support five local businesses and give you chances to win a part of…
…over $2,650 in prizes!
There will be over 60 individual winners of gift cards to the below Lancaster businesses.
Additionally, four grand prize winners will each receive a gift card for $250 if they uncover the 5th mystery local business. Be one of the first four people to arrive at the 5th business after collecting all of the clues and you’ll immediately win!
Here’s how it works:
Visit all 4 of the local businesses listed below for a chance to win the grand prize.
Just want to enter 1 or 2 raffles? …visit any of the businesses below.
The more businesses you visit, the more raffles you’ll enter.
To win the grand prize, you must visit all 4 to uncover the 5th mystery location.
At each business you’ll scan a QR code and answer a riddle.
Enter your response and if correct you’ll receive a clue towards the 5th location.
At each location, a correct answer will also enter you in a raffle to receive a gift card from that business.
The raffle winners at each of the four locations below will be announced Tuesday 5/12 in the newsletter and via email.
Be one of the first 4 people to the mystery business to win a grand prize.
The four businesses where you’ll find clues:
Central Market Flowers @ 258 N Queen Street Lancaster, PA
six $25 gift cards
Nouvelle Nails @ 608 Richmond Drive, Suite 102 Lancaster, PA
twenty $25 gift cards
Brent L. Miller Jewelers @ 1600 Manheim Pike Lancaster, PA
five $100 gift cards
The PotteryWorks @ 16 West Orange Street Lancaster, PA
twenty $25 gift cards
5th Mystery Business @ Will you uncover it?
four $250 gift cards (keep it or have a wonderful Mother’s Day gift)
Visit each store beginning at 10 am and until 4 pm this Saturday May 9th.
Grab your mom or a friend and head to any of the four businesses for a quick and easy chance to win a gift card there.
Or pack some snacks and energy drinks and hit all four to hopefully claim one of the 4 grand prizes at the final 5th mystery business location.
Find more details, follow along, & play on socials Lancaster Loop & Lanco Hunts
We’ll have some special prizes as well for anyone who tags us over on social.
Full details can also be found on the Lanco Hunts website.
Many thanks to Jared @ PCI Auctions for celebrating Lancaster local businesses and pouring back into his and our beautiful county!
The 5Ws of Lancaster
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Featured Events
May 6 Lancaster’s Backyard Corn Hole League @ Binns Park 5-9p food trucks plus brews by Rural City toss the bags switcholio format
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May 9 11th Annual Open Streets by Lanc Rec @ N & S Water St 11-3p food trucks, arts & crafts, live music and obstacle courses. One-mile of vendors and activities & neighbors’ in community - walk, bike, blade, skate there
Plan Ahead
May 12 LMS 30th Annual Golf Tournament @ Meadia Heights Golf 7-1p or 1230-7p prizes and singles, doubles, or foursome welcome
submit your events and/or have them featured
Today - Tuesday May 5th
Lit 903 @ Pocket Books 6-7p explore 3 Toni Morrison books & receive a copy of On Morrison ongoing seminar
Margaritas @ basically everywhere…frozen or on the rocks?
What Brings You Here? @ Neighbor’s Comm Center 7-830p share your personal story & foster community
Yoga in the Park @ East Lampeter Park 6-7p 6-week session thru June 9 bring a mat
Plant & Seed Giveaway by Lanc City @ Crispus Attucks 11-1p and 5/6 11-1p @ Tec Centro free local veggies & fruits or grow your greens
Wednesday May 6th
LNP Job Fair @ Lanc Conv Ctr 11-2p over 70 employers and free 1-hour parking
Time for Three @ Trust Ctr 730-930p trio of vocal, violin, & double bass
Storytime & a craft @ The Felted Fox 1030-12p or a Mother’s Day kids craft on the 9th 1230-2p 7+ fabric decoupage
Thursday May 7th
Music Trivioke @ Southern Market 7-9p starts with trivia, ends with karaoke drink discounts & gift card winners
National Day of Prayer Ride @ Lancaster Municipal Park 845a motorcycles support first responders
Learn how to Fish @ Flory Park 530-730p BYOR or rods provided
Feast of the Senses @ Touchstone Foundation annual fundraising event & auction to support youth mental health see, taste, hear, smell, feel
Friday May 8th
Danny & The Brass Tacks @ Lititz Shirt Factory 8-10p NYC Jazz Swing lipsitz in lititz
DIY flower bar @ Interiors Home 11-3p tmrw too take-home Mother’s Day cards while sipping lavender garden spritzes
Green Gifts for Mom @ Second Chance Plants 9-6p & Sat/Sun 1,000 varieties of plants
Charlie in the Question Mark! @ West Art 730-930p Lancaster native plays americana and folk
Watercolor w/Jo @ West Art 3-4p drop in no exp needed explore the magic of playful creation
Herb & Garden Faire @ Landis Valley 10-3p tmrw as well from bonsai to growing great tomatoes to grafting apple trees
Saturday May 9th
Barks & Brews @ Stoudtburg Village 12-6p vendors, craft beer, food, and rescue pups bring your own pup
Bud Break Festival @ Nissley Winery 12-6p live music, 5k, drinks, vendors, & food trucks, & ‘the waltz’ 5k
Eat an Invasive Plant @ Env Center Classroom 1-230p bites for balance with a taste testing
Make Candles & Drink Cocktails @ Allure Beauty Lounge 1-330p or 5-730p take it home
Wet Felted Cross Body Purse @ PA Guild of Craftsmen 12-4p make it then wear it
Paint a Pot for Mom @ Stauffer’s 9-11a paint then plant a free flower
Sunnyside Guide Hikes by Lanc Convsy & PES 10-12p 2 miles ages 10+ future space for the environmental center
Yoga on a Farm with Z @ Wandering Oaken’s Farm Qville 930-1030 or chair yoga 11-1145a first class free
Paint a Pot @ Perfect Pots kids paint a custom pot for mom
Treasure Island @ Fulton 11a matinee family friendly & last show of the run
Dead Mom Club @ Pocket Books 11-1230p find community make mini bouquets and bring a framed photo of your mom
Magical World of Mushrooms @ Clark Preserve 1-3p 10+ 1-mile hike finding shrooms plz don’t eat
Highland Cow Festival @ Weavers Orchard in Morgantown 10-3p no walk-ins grab tix early meet baby charlie
Sunday May 10th
Moms Play Free Day @ Laserdome any pass free for all moms
Mother’s Day Brunch @ Providence Place 1130a or 1p join celebrate with elders
Tea Cup Planter @ Gallery Grow 12-4p Mother’s Day present
Puff & Poet Open Mic @ Hempfield Apoth w/Circumstantial Saint 6-9p join poets, spoken word artists & book lovers - showcase your work or recite a fav book excerpt
Mother’s Day Brunch @ Annie Bailey’s 11a buffet w/Bloody Mary bar and mimosa bar
Mother’s Day Train & Brunch @ Strasburg RR 11a or 12p rides 45 min brunch in America’s oldest operating all-wood dining railcar
Crafts & Drafts @ Mad Chef 1-3p and/or optional brunch 11-2p kids make a coaster whilst mom eats & drinks a bev
Monday May 11th
Earth’s Greatest Enemy @ Zoetropolis 7-9p doc film makes case for US military as world’s largest polluter
Line Dancing Improver Class @ Huesken School 6-730p learn new steps
CONTRIBUTE TO THE LOOP
All your support goes directly towards keeping the Lancaster Loop alive and well.
The Loop will always be 100% free to read while being independently and locally written by a guy with a keyboard who loves Lancaster. Many thanks to all of you -Ed
LANCASTER LOOP URL + IRL
Step # 1 is the “URL”. A weekly orchestrated email for you, by me, to grow us.
Step #2 is the “IRL” (in real life) Neighbors meeting neighbors.
LOOP DINNER CLUB
ROUND 3 on June 4th 630p @ Lancaster City restaurants
Take the quiz, get paired with 5 other Loop readers, receive your restaurant invite the morning of, pay your way and enjoy a meal with neighbors. If the first two dinner clubs hold true, I bet you’ll even make some new friends 🥳 🎉.
Click the pic to be paired with your tablemates!
LOOPERS LEARN MAHJONG: Both of the learning & playing events are wrapped and a big success. Many thanks to Roy of Byler Build for hosting a happy hour before the second learning event.
Due to a scheduling conflict, the first open play of Mahjong is postponed. I’ll have details on the first open play shortly. Details to follow in next week’s newsletter.
LOOPERS LANCO HUNT: Grab a friend and explore a new business and have an adventure in Lancaster. Win some great prizes for one of the moms in your life.
Where’s Wal’Ed’o?
A bit of a stumper this past week. The clue ‘Icarus would have appreciated this place’ was directing you to think of flying at Lancaster Airport which houses Fiorentino's Italian Restaurant.
Congrats to Donna Viera, winner of a gift card to Fiorentino’s. Check your email later today, grab a friend, and watch some planes take off while enjoying a great meal.
Know a local shop you’d love to see featured? If you know a great business, shop, or restaurant reach out to me. Bonus points if you can intro me to the owner! Just forward this email to the owner or GM - I welcome the introduction.
👇 Click the pic to guess this week’s “Where’s Wal’Ed’o?” location 👇
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(📷: me nerdin’ out in my new Waldo inspired hat)
Here’s a clue: The picture provides many hints over my left shoulder. Zoom in and peak around.
As always thanks for staying…in the ‘Loop! -Ed
P.S. Property is brought to you by Jeremy Ganse with RE/Max Smarthub
5 bed | 2 bath with off-street parking, a fenced backyard, and a 7 minute walk to Amtrak
P.P.S You likely know today is Cinco de Mayo, but since you are clearly a person of elite culture who reads all the way to the bottom of emails…here’s an extra bonus fact.
Back in 1862, Mexico was in financial ruin (civil war bills add up), so President Juárez called time-out on their debt payments. Welp…France, Britain, and Spain came to collect. The Brits & Spainards had a chat and negotiated. France & Napoleon (no, not that one…this one was Bonaparte’s nephew, Napoleon III) said “no bueno” and decided to battle seeking to establish the French empire in the Americas, desperately wanting to counter US expansion and gain access to Mexican resources.
In Puebla, 4,500 Mexican soldiers faced off against what was considered one of the finest armies in the world and won. Massive morale victory. France did regroup and took Mexico City, but 5 years later packed up and withdrew, in 1867.
Interestingly, most of Mexico barely celebrates it outside of Puebla these days. We have 1980s beer, wine, and tequila companies to thank for turning it into the margarita holiday we know today.