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For the seventh consecutive year, Redner’s would like to welcome your family to the Redner’s Family Expo. It continues to be important for our family of employee-owners to have a positive impact within their local community through fair business practices and support of the many philan-thropic organizations with whom we currently partner.

The importance of giving back to the local community continues through Redner’s involvement in many organizations such as Toys for Tots, the American Cancer Society, Berks Encore, the Greater Reading Food Bank, Crime Alert Berks County and the support of local sports teams like the Fightin Phils and the Royals.

Economically it has been a difficult couple of years for many of you and Redner’s has continued to offer the highest possible value for your grocery needs. Redner’s offers not only name brand products at savings but several lines of value added products such as Redner’s own products, Essential Everyday, Shoppers Value, Wild Harvest organics, baby Basics and Equaline Health and Beauty Care. With Redner’s continued growth and increased buying power, programs like the 5/$19.95 and 3/$9.99 meat and deli sales continue weekly to help you save more. The Pump Perks fuel savings program has also continued with additional savings being offered during the Pumped Up Pump Perks program through 11/23/13.

Healthy meal choices are an important part of any family and Meredith Mensinger, RD, LDN, our Registered Dietician, continues to help offer a healthier lifestyle for your family. Proper nutrition is important to all ages and Meredith is available to answer your questions at the Expo, on-line or by mail or phone.

Both days will be filled with entertainment, including magic, theater, puppets, clowns, hands on science activities, and a mobile game station. A second stage was added for YogiDance, Thunderbolts Production Unit, and Yocum Institute Theatre Ensemble. New entertainment includes Gobo the Clown, a puppet show presented by Puppen Meister Productions and the music of Stephanie Grace, a local singer/songwriter originally from Douglassville, making her mark in country music.” Activities and information for everyone in the family including food, healthcare, travel, home and finance are all available.

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Saturday, November 2nd11:00 YogiDance Yoga-based exercise program for kids11:30 Puppen Meister Productions Puppet Show11:30 About Families Diaper Derby12:00 Yocum Institute Theatre Ensemble Holiday Show12:30 About Families Diaper Derby1:00 Gobo the Clown Magic Show1:30 Puppen Meister Productions Puppet Show1:30 About Families Diaper Derby2:00 Yocum Institute Theatre Ensemble Holiday Show2:30 About Families Diaper Derby3:00 Gobo the Clown Magic Show3:30 Puppen Meister Productions Puppet ShowAll Day Berks County Sheriff’s Office ID ME Identification ProgramAll Day Penn State Berks Chemical Society Hands on Science Activi-tiesAll Day Play ParkAll Day Games 2U Rolling Game Station

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Families throughout Berks County, the Lehigh Valley and southeastern Pennsylvania are already making plans to attend the 2013 Redner’s Markets Family Expo Nov. 2 and 3 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days at the Greater Read-ing Expo Center, 2525 N. 12th St., Reading.

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“We’re very excited for this year’s Expo. More than 100 sponsors and exhibitors have already signed up to be there, showcasing products and services for babies, tod-dlers, tweens, teens and adults. There will be lots of entertainment, costumed characters, prizes and an inflatable Play Park for the little ones (and to give Mom and Dad a chance to

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Dairy, Chiquita, Fresh Express, Voortmann Cook-ies, Ocean Spray, Bimbo Bakeries USA, Turkey Hill Dairy, Dreamfields Pasta and Reser’s Fine Foods. No-one goes home hungry from the Redner’s Markets Family Expo!

Once again this year, visitors can enter for a chance to win a year’s worth of free groceries from Redner’s Warehouse Markets (a $2,600 value).

Both days will be filled with entertainment, in-cluding magic, theater, puppets, clowns, hands on science activities, and a mobile game station.

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year, so there will be more opportunities to see one of the acts,” Schaeffer added. “In terms of entertain-ment, we have YogiDance, Thunderbolts Production Unit, and Yocum Institute Theatre Ensemble.”

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“We’re very excited this year to feature the music of Stephanie Grace,” said Schaeffer “She is a local singer/songwriter origi-nally from Douglassville, making her mark in coun-try music.”

Grace will perform at the expo on Sunday, Nov. 3 at 2:30 p.m.

Grace has shared the stage with notable acts such as Easton Corbin,

John Michael Montgom-ery, Taylor Swift, Josh Turner and American Idol winner Scotty McCreery. She has written more than 70 songs, released four sin-gles to radio and cracked the Top 50 on the Music Row Country Breakout Chart with “Hey There” in Nov. 2012. With musical influences spanning from Miranda Lambert, LeAnn Rimes, The Band Perry, Adele and Colbie Caillat, Grace credits her contin-ued success to her support-ive family and friends.

And for the (very) little ones, the About Families Diaper Derby offers a chance to crawl around a bit – for prizes – while the adults in the crowd cheer the little crawlers on to vic-tory!

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A vibrant force on the scene, Stephanie Grace is ready to stake her claim in country music with elec-trifying vocals, genuinely sweet songs, and an exu-berantly fresh personality that is mixed with a dose of attitude, charisma and charm. This 16-year-old is making her dreams come true with determination and vision and not letting anything stand in her way.

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With her roots laid down in Douglassville, PA, Stephanie has always been around country music.

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performer as she graced the stage with notable acts already including Taylor Swift, Easton Corbin, Gloriana, Josh Turner, John Michael Montgom-ery, Scotty McCreery, and Bucky Covington. This shy-ness went away after her first grade talent show per-formance of What Dreams Are Made Of (from the Lizzie McGuire movie). “When I told my mom I wanted to sing in this tal-ent show, she couldn’t believe it. I surprised the entire school when I got up there to sing. I loved the adrenaline rush I felt on stage and that’s when I knew I wanted to do this for the rest of my life.”

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ule traveling, performing, songwriting and visiting ra-dio stations, this vivacious girl is still focused on her education first and fore-most. As a junior at Agora Cyber Charter School, she is no stranger to the dif-ficulties of balancing her personal life with a music career. “Cyber School is very new to me, but I think it will make traveling and focusing on my music a lot easier. Education is super important to me and I’m glad we found a method that works with my sched-ule!”

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The Animal Rescue League of Berks County will be one of the many exhibitors at this year’s Redner’s Family Expo.

The history of the Ani-mal Rescue dates back to July 7, 1952, when Mary Archer, a Berks County socialite and lifelong ac-tivist for animal welfare, founded the Animal Res-cue League because of her concern for the humane treatment of animals in Berks County.

Miss Archer was the first president of the Berks County League of Women Voters, the first female member of the Na-tional Committee of the Democratic Party, and the first female member

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She was born into a prominent Reading fam-ily and never married. She used much of her family’s wealth to help others.

Animals always played a vital role in Miss Archer’s life, especially during her many years with the Berks County Humane Society. As a result of continuous struggles over management policies, she left the Hu-mane Society and started the Animal Rescue League on 10-acres of her Flying Hills farm near what would become the junction of Routes 724 and the Mor-gantown Expressway.

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rectors was established. The league was operated through memberships and donations. Adoptions were arranged on a home-to-home basis from an of-fice in Reading until the kennels were opened in Cumru Township in 1953. Sixteen dogs and four cats were the first animals to be sheltered in the new ken-nels. Miss Archer donated $15,000 to build the new ARL quarters which in-cluded an entrance hall, two office areas, 32 ken-nels, a cat room, and a kitchen area.

Miss Archer was the first president, a position she held until her death on May 28, 1963, at age 82.

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continued to operate.In April of 1957, the

league petitioned the City of Reading to ban the sale of dyed baby Easter animals, and on December 18, 1958, the ban became law. The league also was a leader in launching the era of kennel inspections.

The ARL began as a “no kill” shelter, but in time there were more aban-doned animals who need-ed shelter than there was room.

After humane eutha-nasia was introduced, the shelter population almost doubled, from 400 ani-mals per year to 845, with adoptions almost tripling, according to Mary Jane Jacoby, who was a friend

of Miss Archer and a char-ter member of the shelter. Jane also was an auxiliary member and has continued to be active with the league. She presently is serving on the board of directors.

During Harry Brown, the ARL’s Executive Di-rector’s 20-year tenure, the Animal Rescue League has grown into a modern ani-mal shelter with kennels that can accommodate 60 dogs and 60 cats.

To date, spaying and neutering are the only real methods of control over the vast number of unwanted dogs and cats. In 1959, the league was one of the few shelters in the United States to have a compulsory spaying/neutering adoption policy. The league also joined with the Humane Society of the United States to iden-tify dog dealers and private kennels that continued ani-

mal abuse practices.Because of the large

number of laboratory ani-mal dealers in the state, the league also lead the way in encouraging a stronger Pennsylvania Dog Law. State Sen. Gus Yatron in-troduced a stronger Dog Law bill that became law on Dec. 22, 1965. On Aug. 24, 1966, President Lyn-don B. Johnson signed into law the Laboratory Animal Welfare Act to increase protection for laboratory animals.

Through its humane ed-ucation programs and ani-mal cruelty investigations by three state-certified humane and animal con-trol officers, the crusading spirit of Miss Archer lives on today in the Animal Rescue League.

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Dairy Princess Jessica Duncan will attend the Fam-ily Expo to promote milk products and the fairy indus-try in Berks County.

Jessica was crowned the 2013-14 Berks County Dairy Princess at the Mohrsville Church of the Brethren re-cently.

This coming year, Jes-sica will be traveling around Berks County promoting the Dairy Industry and the healthy benefits of eating dairy products. She was crowned by the outgoing Princess, Kayci Johns. She will have help promoting with Danica Rhoads who will serve as the Berks Coun-ty Li’l Miss Dairy Princess. Danica was crowned by outgoing Li’l Miss Brooke

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Puppen Meister Pro-ductions will be bringing a country show jamboree to the Redner’s Family Expo. Set to perform both days throughout the day, the show is set to enter-tain.

After spending several years in the retail busi-ness, Ernest M. Wachter opened a candle manu-facturing business in the early 70’s . Business was very good for a few years until the “wave” of novel-ties had passed and Er-nest sold the business.

His interests turned to glass and soon, he started engraving glassware and selling at craft shows up and down the east coast. A couple of years into engraving, Ernest met a

German Glassblower and became interested in hot glass. After some experi-menting, he began making figurines and ornaments in hot glass the “German” way.

One Christmas while selling glassware and Ger-man toys among which were marionettes, Ernest talked with a puppeteer friend about marionettes and they decided to put a small show together. To-gether, they bought their first marionettes and modi-fied them to form a “cir-cus” show. With six pup-pets, they put together a small 15 minute show. The seed was planted.

Ernest continued to make additional mari-onettes using a variety of

materials, the show grew and the duo now had a 30-minute show with 14 marionettes.

They soon found out they needed a new stage, and Ernest built an indoor stage. It too went through some changes until the present stage.

Puppen Meister Produc-tions now have both an in-door and an outdoor stage. Over the years, they have added games to the circus and marionette sales. The Circus ran for 7 years until 2006.

It was time for a new show and Ernest decid-ed that Puppen Meister needed a new show and through some discussion with friends, he decided on a Country show.

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This year, the Yo-cum Institute for Arts Education Teen Theater Ensemble of Wyomiss-ing will be making their return to the Redner’s Markets Family Expo.

The Yocum Institute for Arts Education, for-mally the Institute of Arts, has been serving the community for over 75 years.

In 2009, the institute was renamed to honor long-time donor, board member and community philanthropist, James H. Yocum, whose main fo-cus was education.

Quality instruction and access to the arts are

the top priorities of this institute; this is accom-plished through their in-novative programs and the expansion of part-nerships to widen the impact and benefits of the arts in throughout community.

Their mission: “Mak-ing the Arts Make a Dif-ference.”

Through this mis-sion, the institute has increased the number of people served by means of private instruction, on-site classes, exhibits, productions, integrated arts summer camps and outreach programs from to more than 14,000 peo-

ple as of 2010.The Redner’s Fam-

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The institute offers classes in the visual arts, dance, music and the-ater.

Originally established in 1934 by Chest Wittell as the Wyomissing INsti-tute of Fine Arts, the In-stitute opened its doors with three music stu-dents. Under Lila Lerch, the first managing direc-tor, the institute grew to over 300 students and has been expanding ever since. An arts-based

pre-school and kinder-garten were added and the institute became li-censed by the state.

In January 2008, the institute became one of 13 national sites to offer Neighborhood Bridges, a program integrated into the classroom cur-riculum to build literacy through the arts.

The institute is also home to the Yocum Gallery which serves as a venue for exhibits and performances, the Berks Art Alliance and “Art Goes to School.”

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