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SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LVII • NO 39
Most Rewarding GOTR Bestows Ellen Award, Seeks Coaches BY ANN MEAD ASH
hen Cara Scudner’s young cousin asked her to help with the Girls on Track team she had joined at Sacred Heart in Lancaster in 2013, Scudner was prepared. Having taken 5:30 a.m. jaunts with Back on My Feet - a running program for members of the homeless community - during her last year of college, Scudner signed on as assistant coach. Following the end of that season, Scudner contacted Jen West, Girls on the Run (GOTR) Lancaster program director, to ask where the program might use her as a coach. Since then, Scudner, who is a competitive adult figure skater with the Red Rose Figure Skating Club, has coached 17 seasons with GOTR, including stints at Fritz and Nitrauer elementary schools and even organizing a community team made up of girls from public, private, and homeschool situations in
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Leola during 2020. Scudner also set up a decorated 5K course for participants who lived near her home when GOTR’s spring 2020 event was canceled. In June of 2021, Scudner was presented with the Ellen Award, which is named for Ellen McCabe, who was West’s stepmother. GOTR coaches can be nominated by fellow coaches, parents, and girls who make up the GOTR teams, among others. Scudner was nominated by parents and participants, with several lauding her positive outlook, caring attitude, availability to the girls, and passion to help them develop self-confidence. Scudner sees coaching as an opportunity to give back while reaping satisfaction from the participants’ accomplishments. “The most rewarding thing is seeing the girls gain confidence and seeing how much they change over the season,” said Scudner, who added that everything about coaching is fun, but
that the culminating 5K, which the girls run at the end of the season, is “magical.” The winner of the Ellen Award receives a special bracelet and $500 to donate to the nonprofit of her choice. Scudner chose Patients R Waiting, an organization focused on eliminating health disparities by increasing diversity in medicine. While Scudner organized a community GOTR team at a church near her home during COVID-19 restrictions, the organization is returning to meeting at many Lancaster schools for the fall season. The program will culminate on Saturday, Nov. 6, with a 5K at Millersville University, 40 Dilworth Road, Millersville, at 8:30 a.m. About 20 teams and as many as 400 participants are expected for the fall season, but West would like to see more girls be able to take part in the spring of 2022. To increase the number of participants, more volunteer coaches are needed. “Many See GOTR pg 7
Honoring Stan
Celebrating 21 Years Of Art
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
BY ANN MEAD ASH
A Concert In The Grove . .3
BY ANN MEAD ASH
“I think Stan Deen was a remarkable man in the way he encouraged and helped other people,” said Dale Bradley of Inspiring Films. “He defined his life with that.” Dale has moved to Lancaster to make “Brave the Dark,” the story of the late Garden Spot High School (GSHS) teacher Stan Deen and the troubled young man he took in during the 1980s, Nate Busko, now Nate Deen. “But there are lots of men and women like that, so this is an everyman story,” continued Dale, who See Stan pg 4
Organizers of the annual Landis Woods Outdoor Fine Art Show include (from left) John Beaumont, Lisa Madenspacher, Paris Llanso, Roy Baldwin, and Irene Miller.
Former Manheim Township supervisor and former Pennsylvania state Rep. Roy Baldwin remembers when Boettcher House Museum in Landis Woods became a township facility in 1996. “We had three objectives for the museum,” recalled Baldwin, who listed preserving natural history, renting the facility, and holding events. In 1999, one of those events, an annual art show, kicked off. “I promoted that because I had good relationships with local artists,” said Baldwin, who mentioned Lisa Madenspacher,
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