TOURS

Mount Gretna on tour
Get your tickets now.

Tickets for the 24th annual Mount Gretna Tour of Homes and Cottages, set for 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 2, go on sale next week.

Tickets are $15 in advance; $20 on tour day, at the Mount Gretna Post Office and Playhouse.

Tickets are on sale at Stauffers of Kissel Hill stores; Lynden Gallery, Elizabethtown; Reifsnyder's Piano Co. and Yale Electric Supply, Lancaster; Tiger's Eye Fashion Accessories, Lititz; and Shaub's Dry Cleaners, Manheim.

Advance tickets are also available at www.gretnamusic.org, or by calling 361-1508.

Proceeds benefit Music at Gretna, a chamber music and jazz festival.

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ENTERTAINING

Light up your life
Make entertaining outdoors on summer evenings complete with soft, flickering candlelight.

Forget citronella tins.

Dramatic alternatives include the 55-inch-tall Tour de Lumiere centerpiece, which holds 18 glass cups with votives, and the 4-inch-tall terra-cotta Pots de Landes, which hold floral-scented candles.

The Tour de Lumiere sells for $238, and pots sell for $40 each.

Go to quelobjet.com.

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TRENDS

Totally bamboo
How about a green sink?

Totally Bamboo is unveiling the market's first all-bamboo vessel sink for homes and businesses.

 The sink is the newest in a long line of increasingly popular eco-friendly, environmentally sustainable bamboo products made by the company.

Totally Bamboo vessel sinks come in a variety of shapes and sizes, in two-tone and honey-colored versions.