The good news is, I might talk about food a lot, but I also talk how I like to hike a lot. One would hope that balances out?

Recent hikes looking for letterboxes took us around southern York County. We found the lost stamp at Apollo County Park, collected three more around Lake Williams and Lake Redman at Kain and Nixon parks, and hit the rail trail to find a fifth.

That's Hubby and Kiddo (aka Chris and Sarah) pictured along the rail trail, just past the Railroad parking area.

Like a couple of our other park adventures, this marked the first time I'd really gone any distance on the rail trail. It was fun! We still have another letterbox to find, this one near Brillhart Station, so we'll be out along the trail again soon.

Any rail trail hikers/bikers out there? One of our Exchangers is keeping a Rail Trail Journal of his biking experiences - you should check it out!

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Tom Klinedinst of Manchester Township auctions off a toy truck held for display by Butch Landis at Mt. Royal Auction in Dover Township in 2007.

I recently received a news item from freelance writer and friend Barb Krebs about an event coming up next week in southern York County. We'll be running this in Tuesday's Weekly Record edition, but since the event takes place that day, I wanted to get the word out sooner!

Barb writes:

Wehrly’s Auction, on Snyder Road in Codorus Township, near Glen Rock, will hold the fifth annual auction for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 1.

Local bakers will donate cakes and other homemade items that will be auctioned to benefit the Memphis, Tenn.,-based hospital and its work with children who have cancer.

Since the tradition began in 2004, the auction has raised more than $18,000 for St. Jude, auctioneer Scott Wehrly said.

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Well, especially to my loyal readers Bear and Burkey, this one might be even better - sportsman's bingo, with prizes of guns, decoy packages and more.

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It's that time of year again... this just in, not in time for our next Southern York County Weekly Record edition but still yummy:

Indulge your sweet tooth and place your order not for homemade Easter candy from the Women of Grace United Methodist Church.

Hand-dipped creams are available in four flavors; vanilla, chocolate, peanut butter and coconut; or in an assorted box containing all four flavors.

Also available are chocolate-covered peanut clusters and raisin clusters and these, too, can be purchased as an assorted box of both kinds.

All boxes contain approximately a pound of candy and cost $8 each. Orders can be placed by calling the church office at 235-4029 or Jan at 227-9416. Deadline for orders is next Monday, March 3.

Candy pickup is March 15 between 11 a.m. and noon at the church, 472 Plank Road, Shrewsbury Township, just east of I-83.

There are tons of other local places selling Easter candy as well, so if you have a good one to recommend, leave me a comment!

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Mason Gear, 15, of Shrewsbury, takes to the air at Our Place skate park during free skating offered in December by the Shrewsbury Township park.

Bob Russo, park owner, said “We had no heat, no water, no bathrooms, and everything was a mess. But the guys from Bortner came to the rescue. What they did was just short of a miracle.”

Because of that miracle, the competition will still go on Saturday and Sunday. Russo said some of the region's best skaters are expected. "If we had to cancel the competition, I’m not sure we could have gotten them back," was his fear.

The competition happens in three parts. On Saturday, "Newbees," or beginning skaters, and "Wannabees," more experienced skaters, will compete in best trick and skate park run competitions. Sunday, the advanced skaters will take on a multi-part competition that involves every ramp, deck and ledge in the park.

What do you get if you do well? What else? Pictures of presidents in honor of the weekend, Russo said - cash. The first 50 contestants to register also get a free T-shirt.

Interested? It's $10 to get in. Check out ourplace2sk8.com or call 227-3737 to learn more.

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No, it's not going to give you E. coli. In fact, it's some of the best meat I've had - from Godfrey Bros. Meats of the Seven Valleys area.

So how do you get this wonderful meat?

Head to the Stewartstown Lions Club and Eureka Volunteer Fire and Ambulance Company's fourth annual meat bingo Friday at the fire hall, North Main Street in Stewartstown.

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In the southern York County edition of the Weekly Record, we often run items from Eden Mill Nature Center in Pylesville, Md., which offers programs for kids and adults.

Today, I got their weekly news release e-mail from Aimee, a very nice woman who has a very nice (and appropriate, for a nature center) tagline at the end of her note:

*Please consider the environment before you print this email*

I liked that! We go through a lot of paper here at the paper, so it was a nice reminder. Thanks, Aimee!

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It's amazing the number of things we see online about Yorkers doing cool stuff (former Yorkers, too, but we all know once you are one, it's for life).

Here are just a few.

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I talked a couple of weeks ago about the sweet potato dig at the Wellness Farm in Shrewsbury Township.

A pretty cool event, to be sure. And a chance to learn a lot more about a fairly overlooked veggie!

But our stories locally were trumped by this column from a larger "York" newspaper about the Osmans and their farm.

Check it out - it's cool!

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Next in a series of profiles originally published by the Daily Record in 2002, from Census 2000 information.

Welcome to Delta, which had 741 residents and 284 occupied housing units at the time of the census.

Next week, we'll travel just outside the borough to surrounding Peach Bottom Township.

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