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Locust Street Park Offers Outdoor Recreation Opportunities
A gazebo added by the Columbia Lions Club and Rotary Club is a feature of Locust Street Park.
FIA Provides Medical Care, Food
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Friends In Action (FIA) International, a nonprofit organization located in Middletown, recently partnered with pastors in Bolivia to provide COVID-19 relief to indigenous people groups. Aid has included medical care, medical supplies and food. FIA uses infrastructure projects as a platform to share the Gospel with unreached indigenous people groups. Recent projects aided residents of the hundreds of tiny villages along the coasts
of the Amazon River, which are especially vulnerable to COVID-19. For most of the villagers, their town hospital has only 35 beds and one ventilator and is a multipleday journey by boat and on foot. Additionally, some villagers travel two days from their remote locations to find medicines such as acetaminophen. FIA’s field leaders, Donna and Gary Ferch, reported that close to 90% of FIA’s co-workers in the area have contracted the virus. See FIA pg 2
Friends In Action International recently partnered with pastors in Bolivia to provide COVID-19 relief to indigenous people groups. Donations are sought and will be used to provide medical treatment and food supplies.
Schreiber Rubber Duckie Race Moves Online Center Receives Matching Grant According to Dan Fink, director of marketing and public relations for the Schreiber Center for Pediatric Development, 625 Community Way, Lancaster, this is just the second time that Schreiber has received a $250,000 matching grant in its 84-year history, and both times it has come from the Donald B. and Dorothy L. Stabler Foundation. “This one comes at a critical moment for us as we work to navigate a COVID-19 world,” Fink
remarked. “Like many nonprofits, we’re facing a challenging period in the next 12 months.” See Schreiber pg 6
Schreiber’s 32nd annual Rubber Duckie Race will be virtual for the first time in its history. Souvenir duckies with a “Choose Your Own Adventure” theme will accompany ticket sales, which will end on Sept. 12. Ticket proceeds will be matched by a grant from the Stabler Foundation.
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“The Returned Soldier” statue, depicting a World War I American soldier, is located at the Fifth and Locust streets entrance to Locust Street Park.
Local residents are invited to enjoy the outdoors this summer by visiting Locust Street Park in Columbia. Although it is legally considered private land owned by the Old Columbia Public Grounds Company (OCPGC), the park is open to the public, contingent to an organized group providing sufficient liability insurance and signing a lease agreement for its event. The park is open from dawn to dusk each day and is not to be used as game lands. The concept for the Old Columbia Public Grounds Company was established in 1788 when Samuel Wright, the town founder, wanted to create a lasting benefit for the citizens of the new town. For this purpose, Wright designated an area on the banks of the Susquehanna River that would be important to business as it provided access to the ferry, the shad batteries and the receivers of lumber and produce. The ground was available for use free of charge by everyone interested in river transportation up See Locust Street Park pg 4
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