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IN THIS ISSUE: DCA EVENT TO FEATURE HUCKABEE page 6

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954

VOL LXI • NO 8

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Berks and Chester Counties •STEPS Resource Fair, Lionville Middle School, Exton - March 7 •Irish Breakfast Buffet, Historic Joanna Furnace Iron Works, Geigertown - March 21 •Elverson Antique Show, Twin Valley High School, Elverson March 28 and 29 Greater Hershey Area •The Federated Women’s Club of Hershey and the Hershey Lions Club’s pork and sauerkraut dinner, Grace United Methodist Church, Hummelstown - March 1 •Spring Garden Workshops, Lebanon Valley Agricultural Center, Lebanon - March 4 and 11 •Central Pennsylvania Handbell Festival, Lebanon Area Evangelical Free Church, Jonestown March 14 Lancaster County

•Purimshpiel, Congregation Shaarai Shomayim, Lancaster March 8 •Junior League of Lancaster’s Run4Luck, Lancaster Country Day School, Lancaster - March 14 York County •Guinston Presbyterian Arts and Crafts Festival, Chanceford Community Building, Brogue March 7 •York Saint Patrick’s Day Parade, downtown York - March 14

Annual Tree Seedling Sale Planned pg 10

Rebuilding, Restoring, And Renewing Lives

By Chelsea Peifer

By Chelsea Peifer

Donegal Substance Abuse Alliance (DSAA) executive director Stacy Emminger and assistant director Lexi Mercado want people to know that DSAA is open and available for them. “We’re open to everybody,” said Emminger. “We consider ourselves a community recovery center, and when we have these programs we want people in recovery to come, but we also want people in the community to come. Our goal is to bring people together.” In 2014, Emminger’s son, Anthony Perez, died of a heroin overdose at age 23. Emminger and other Donegal-area

Jubilee Ministries might be most familiar to people who have driven by or shopped at its stores in Annville, Lebanon, Manheim, Myerstown, and Palmyra, but there is a lot more going on behind the scenes of the bustling thrift stores as the organization aims to fulfill its mission to rebuild, restore, and renew lives. Income from the stores, which sell a wide variety of quality used clothing, furniture, electronics, and housewares, support what chief executive officer Ryan Newswanger listed as Jubilee’s three core avenues of outreach: a prison chaplaincy ministry, a prison after-care program, and

DSAA stands for Donegal Substance Abuse Alliance and now also goes by Delivering Supportive Approaches to Addiction. Executive director Stacy Emminger (above left) and assistant director Lexi Mercado (above right) encourage the public to check out the programs held at the community recovery center in Mount Joy.

See DSAA pg 8

“Made For This” Events To Support kindHuman Foundation By Chelsea Peifer

Humankind Water sells bottled water, organic tea, and lemonade with a greater purpose in mind: funding clean water projects for people around the world. “We exist to get people clean

drinking water,” stated Meg Foltz. She serves as vice president of marketing for Humankind and as director of missions for the kindHuman Foundation, the nonprofit organization set up in conjunction with the company specifically to provide wells or water filtration See Humankind pg 9

People are invited to learn more about the life-changing work being funded by Humankind at the kindHuman Foundation “Made For This” fundraisers at SUPPLY in Manheim on March 13 and at Merion Tribute House in Philadelphia on March 12. The kindHuman Foundation funds clean water projects for people in need around the world.

See Jubilee pg 9

Rapho Township Schoolhouse To Undergo Renovations By Chelsea Peifer

The one-room schoolhouse located across the road from Erisman Mennonite Church, 8 S. Erisman Road, Manheim, is about to undergo interior and exterior renovations. On Sunday,

March 8, the community is invited to a drop-in open house from 3 to 5 p.m. to tour the building as it is now and view plans for its future. Refreshments will be provided. Built in 1884, the schoolhouse originally served as Lincoln School for See Schoolhouse pg 2

Erisman Mennonite Church, represented by (from left) Marlin Martin, Rich Nolt, and Dennis Nissley, invites the community to an open house from 3 to 5 p.m. on March 8 to see the 1884 schoolhouse owned by the church before renovations begin. The schoolhouse belongs to the church but served as Lincoln School from 1884 to 1951.

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•Dance MS, a Zumbathon event, Manchester Township Building Rec Hall, York - March 21

Vegetable Garden Class Scheduled pg 2

DSAA Invites Community To New Programs

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•Strasburg Fire Company’s spring donation and consignment sale, Strasburg - Feb. 28 and 29

LCCTC Hosts Skills Competition pg 3


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