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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
DSAA Seeks Donations For Care Kits
The public is invited to donate personal care items to the Donegal Substance Abuse Alliance, which will distribute them in care kits to people living in recovery houses throughout Lancaster County.
One of life’s greatest tragedies is when a parent loses a child. But some grieving parents have been able to transform their heartbreak into positive efforts to benefit the community. Such is the case with Stacy Emminger, executive director of the Donegal Substance Abuse Alliance (DSAA), which supports those in recovery and provides assistance to families that have a loved one with addiction issues. Emminger lost her son, Anthony Perez, to an overdose when he was 23. The family decided to form DSAA after learning that other local parents were dealing the same issues. DSAA began by offering family support groups that met at the Sheetz Reception Center in Mount Joy. Emminger later became a certified family recovery specialist, and the facility opened its own office in 2015.
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FIA Invites Public To Get Creative Friends In Action International (FIA) is looking for individuals to transform a variety of supplies into items to be sold at a fundraiser event on Saturday, Oct. 3. The event was inspired by the HGTV show “Flea Market Flip.” A local nonprofit, FIA uses infrastructure projects in remote locations of the globe as a platform to share the Gospel with unreached indigenous people groups. Interested readers are invited to visit FIA’s Middletown headquarters, located at 3950 E. Harrisburg Pike, by appointment to select free supplies. They may browse items left over from construction projects as well as donated yard
sale items. These supplies include chairs, tables, bicycles, small furniture, books, mechanical items, and household items. With materials secured, participants can work at home using their eye for style and some elbow grease to turn these leftovers into something new. While the television show challenges participants to turn trash into treasure to compete for a cash prize, the FIA version will instead ask participants to donate their finished creations to sell in support See FIA pg 3
Friends In Action International will host a fundraiser inspired by the HGTV show “Flea Market Flip” on Saturday, Oct. 3.
Alexis Mercado from the Donegal SubIn 2019, DSAA relocated stance Abuse Alliance displays the to a new and larger space bags that the public is invited to fill at 78 E. Main St., Mount with personal care items. DSAA had string bags emblaJoy. After being approached by Rick Kastner, executive director of zoned with its logo and began fillthe Lancaster County Drug and ing them with items from its inAlcohol Commission, DSAA became house supply of hygiene products. affiliated with the agency. “We Also included in the bags is inforwork one-on-one with families,” mation about DSAA and its Emminger said. “We guide them services. The public is invited to particithrough steps they can take to guide their loved ones to get some pate in the effort by donating items help. We also offer support groups for the bags such as body wash, and refer (people) to treatment toothpaste and toothbrushes, shampoo, deodorant, razors, centers.” DSAA’s latest effort is to provide shaving cream and dental floss. care kits to those who have recently Alcohol-based mouthwash and completed an addiction treatment hand sanitizers will not be acceptprogram and are residing in recov- ed. Also needed are stamps, pens ery houses. “Our outreach coordi- and writing tablets, puzzle books, nator has been connecting with all snacks, inspirational books and the recovery houses in (Lancaster) vouchers for food or haircuts. An County to see what their needs outdoor donation bin is located on are,” said Emminger. “Even though the front porch at DSAA. Those not local to the area are our focus is the Elizabethtown, Mount Joy and Marietta area, we invited to order items for donation or sponsor a bag for a set fee. “You are a county organization.”
It comes as no surprise that we continue to face many of the challenges we have experienced over the past six months. Who hasn’t used the word “uncertainty” more times than they can count? Despite this uncertainty, we have worked hard to keep our families and community safe while providing positive, creative ways to reinforce that we are in this together. We encourage you to continue sharing your stories and connecting with us on social media so we can go on spreading all the good we see in this world.
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