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Steps To Success Initiates New Procedures By Ann Mead Ash
Michelle Harbaugh, director of Steps to Success day care in Leola, is ready for morning health checks (top photo). Students at the center spend time on the playground and having picnics during the outside activities that are part of the center’s offerings under COVID-19 restrictions (left photos).
Rotary Club Of Lancaster Supports CARE When COVID-19 restrictions threatened a Central American Relief Effort (CARE) project funded by the Rotary Club of Lancaster, the club board held an emergency meeting and
came through with the extra funds needed to complete the effort. The club had been asked to help fund a move of 1,000 chair and desk sets from the Penn Manor School District construction site. The furniture was
headed for schools in a povertystricken area of rural Honduras where they would replace wooden benches. Malcolm MacDougall, co-chair of World Community Service with Rotary Club of Lancaster, said that around the end of 2019 his committee approached the Rotary Club of Lancaster board with a request for $6,000 to help move the furniture into at least four 40-foot shipping containers and on to Honduras. The contribution of $6,000 was approved, and the date of the move was set for June 8 to accommodate a strict construction schedule. See Rotary Club pg 4
Professional movers loaded desk and chair sets donated by Penn Manor School District (right photo) into containers headed for Honduras (left photo) on June 8. The effort, which was hampered by COVID-19 restrictions, was a project of Central American Relief Effort made possible by a grant from the Rotary Club of Lancaster.
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HMS Plans Golf Tournament By Ann Mead Ash
Hinkletown Mennonite School (HMS) invites community members and friends of the school to take part in its annual benefit golf tournament, which is scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 11. The tournament will be held at French Creek Golf Club, 4500 Conestoga Road, Elverson. Golfers at the 2019 This year’s tournament, which Hinkletown Mennonite was originally scheduled to be held School golf outing enjoyed in June but was delayed due to 18 holes at French Creek COVID-19 restrictions, will use a scramble format to provide fun for Golf Club (top photo). Russ golfers of all ability levels. The Akinin (right photo) hit his tournament will offer lunch at first hole-in-one on Hole 5, 11:30 a.m. prior to a shotgun start a 106-yard par 3 hole with at 12:30 p.m., with the tournaan elevated green, during ment followed by dinner. last year’s French Creek boasts an 18-hole tournament. This year’s championship golf course, outing will be held at French See HMS pg 2 Creek on Aug. 11.
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When Steps to Success, which provides preschool and day care services for children from 6 weeks to 13 years of age at 56 Hillcrest Ave., Leola, reopened on June 15, the more than 20 children who are cared for at the center each day walked into a place that had changed since the day care closed under COVID-19 restrictions in March. Michelle Harbaugh, founder and executive director of the learning center, and her staff had been at the center during the week prior to prepare the classrooms and to prepare for the changes they would deal with. “It took a week before that to prepare classrooms and get staff members oriented,” said Harbaugh, who noted that the staff members had not worked for three months. Families whose children are cared for
at Steps to Success became aware of the differences when they approached the building. “Our health checks are outside in the (building’s) foyer,” said Harbaugh. “We ask the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) questions and check temperatures,” she noted, adding that she is gowned, masked, and gloved to handle those tasks. Next, the children use hand sanitizer before being walked to their classroom, where they wash their hands with soap and water as soon as they enter the room. Masks are a new requirement, but they do not have to be worn outside, while napping, or when eating. “Parents are responsible for bringing and washing masks, and children are wearing them as much as possible,” said Harbaugh, who noted that the youngest children and children with special needs such as autism have the hardest time wearing the masks. “The needs of the child have to be weighed against the safety See Steps To Success pg 2
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