Join Ms. Rita and Hershey Library friends (and Friends) for a unique fundraiser. 20% of your ticket purchase goes directly to the Friends of the Hershey Public Library to ensure that you enjoy more great programs in the year ahead. Please register to access a link to the watch party.

Presented by Librarians from Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, this workshop will teach participants to look beyond sensational news headlines, and strategies to recognize a potentially poor study or overinflated reporting of results by a news source. This program is made possible by a grant from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. If you need a laptop and/or hotspot to participate in this program you can check them out at the library. Please register for the program prior to requesting the laptop and/or hotspot.

Join us to discuss One Book One Community's selection, Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick. In Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper, sixty-nine-year-old Arthur Pepper lives a simple life. He gets out of bed at precisely 7:30 a.m., just as he did when his wife, Miriam, was alive. He dresses in the same gray slacks and mustard sweater vest, waters his fern, Frederica, and heads out to his garden. But on the one-year anniversary of Miriam’s death, something changes. Please register online to receive a link to Zoom. 

Join Mike Jesberger as he walks us through the Spanish Influenza in the Philadelphia Region from 1917-1918. He will share the impact this illness had on the region, how they dealt with it and lessons learned. Mr. Jeserger is an independent military historian who specializes in the American Revolution and Civil War time periods. He is renowned for his depth and breadth of knowledge, as well as his engaging and passionate presentation style, whether providing formal lectures, living history presentations or tours of historic sites in the Tri-State area. Please register online for this Friends Adult Program.

HHS Theatre is proud to present Anastasia: The Musical, streaming March 19 and 20 @ 7:30 pm. This dazzling show transports its audience from the twilight of the Russian Empire to the euphoria of Paris in the 1920s, as a brave young woman sets out to discover the mystery of her past. Pursued by a ruthless Soviet officer determined to silence her, Anya enlists the aid of a dashing con man and a lovable ex-aristocrat. Together, they embark on an epic adventure to help her find home, love and family.

Nearly 100 HHS students have been working tirelessly since early December to create this journey to the past. The DTSD school community can witness the end production by purchasing streaming passes via BookTix at https://hersheyhs.booktix.com/ for the streaming performances on March 19 and 20 at 7:30 p.m. The cost is only $15 per household stream. This family-friendly show, filled with gorgeous music—both familiar and new—is appropriate for all ages.

Join the next free educational event presented by Hershey Area All Things Diversity on Wednesday, March 24, 2021 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Register online for the virtual event, “Supporting Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth.”

The speaker, Amy Keisling, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 30 years of experience working with individuals, couples and families. She will explore assumptions and reactions to gender identity, gender expression, and sexual identity; help viewers to understand the broad spectrum of gender-diversity and accepted best practices in gender-affirming care; and talk about the two most important actions that can affirm gender-diverse people, regardless of your relationship to them. Ms. Keisling will also share information about the Gender Health Clinic at Penn State Health.

This program will be a virtual event livestreamed on the Derry Township YouTube channel.

Hershey Area All Things Diversity is a free series of programs to create awareness and promote acceptance and inclusion in our community. It is coordinated by Derry Township, The Hershey Story Museum, Derry Township School District, Milton Hershey School, The Hershey Company, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey Entertainment & Resorts, and Hershey Trust Company.

Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical Center will host NJM Insurance Group’s virtual Share the Keys safe-driving orientation for students and parents at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 23. The 45-minute, research-based, data-driven program is designed to reduce teen-driver crash risks through increased parental involvement. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for U.S. teens, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is why the hospital’s trauma services team is offering the educational session. Register for the free webinar at https://bit.ly/HSsharethekeys

Cocoa Packs is excited to announce that they will once again be a distribution site for round 5 of the USDA Food Boxes. Those in need may stop by our drive thru on Mondays & Wednesdays anytime from 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. at Spring Creek Church 335 East Areba Ave in Hershey through April 28th. Please contact Christine Drexler at cocoapacks@gmail.com