Columbia/Hellam/Wrightsville
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MAY 4, 2022
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXIII • NO 11
Who Is Ready FORE Some Golf? Previously known as Good Sam Shelter, GSS has been operating According to Homeless Shelters since June 1999. By 2002, GSS purDirectory, there are an estimated chased its first property in 950 homeless individuals in Lan- Phoenixville, where it was able to caster and Chester counties. It provide five people at a time with costs Good Samaritan Services emergency housing. Currently, GSS (GSS) $35 to provide a night of owns 14 properties, totaling 100 shelter, two meals, supplies, and beds and over 30,000 square feet. compassionate care to an individu- GSS came to the Lancaster County al. That is about one-third the cost area in 2011 when it opened an emergency shelter in Ephrata, of a hotel per night. which provides housing for women and children. GSS provides a full continuum of care to individuals and families that are experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness. Some of the services offered by GSS include eviction prevention, case management services, emergency shelter, transitional housing, affordable housing, and permanent housing services across Lancaster and Chester counties. The organization’s end goal is to empower people to feel Representatives from Good Samaritan confident and capable Services look forward to one of its enough to maintain their main fundraisers, which will help own safe and stable housing. address homelessness in Lancaster and BY COURTNEY MENGEL
Kreutz Creek Cemetery board members (from left) Mike Kondor, Betty Eaton, Joyce Dusman and Ned Haines
Kreutz Creek Cemetery Seeks Volunteers BY CATHY MOLITORIS
ocated northwest of Hallam along Pleasant Valley Road, Kreutz Creek Cemetery is home to gravesites dating back to the 18th century, including the graves of hundreds of military veterans. It’s managed by a nonprofit association in Hellam Township, and the association is seeking new volunteer members for its board of directors to serve as managers and caretakers of the property. At one time, the board included nine active
existed, he said, adding, “We don’t want this cemetery to fall into the same category as the other ones that have gone away.” For Kondor, the cemetery has a personal connection. His son was killed in action in 2004 in Iraq while serving in the Army and is buried on the grounds. “I decided I would volunteer with the cemetery,” he said of his involvement, which began in 2005. “It’s important to me that veterans’ resting places are taken care of.” Cemetery board president Ned Haines has been volunteering with the cemetery for almost 25 years, taking over for his father, who was also a volunteer. “My dad, my mom, and just recently my older sister are buried there,” he said. “My grandmother and grandfather are buried there, and my wife and I own a plot there. Family is the strongest draw for me to continue to volunteer.”
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE Horn Farm To Hold Plant Sale . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
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Visit Columbia on Saturday, May 7, for a taste of history - literally. The “Shifter Showdown” will be part of this year’s Columbia Railroad Day and will feature local restaurants competing to create the best sandwich. The showdown will take place at 1 p.m. on the deck of the Columbia Crossing River Trails Center, 41 Walnut St. “The shifter is a sandwich that features white bread,
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volunteers, but now only four members remain on the board, and all are age 70 or older. “In a lot of parts of the state, these small cemeteries are facing the issues we are,” said Mike Kondor, cemetery superintendent. “The people managing them having gotten older, and in some cases, the last person has died, and no one is left to care for the cemetery.” When that happens, the cemetery either becomes the township’s responsibility or in some cases, it’s closed and covered up as though it never