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Donegal OCTOBER 7, 2020

SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954

VOL LXI • NO 38

Mount Joy Rotary To Offer Free Shredding Event BY FRANCINE FULTON

BY FRANCINE FULTON

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he Rotary Club of Mount Joy invites community members to keep their identities safe by bringing their personal papers to its fourth annual shredding event on Saturday, Oct. 24, at the Milanof-Schock Library, 1184 Anderson Ferry Road, Mount Joy. The service is free, but cash donations for the Mount Joy Borough Christmas tree lights and ornament fund will be received at the event. This year’s shredding event, postponed from April, has been adjusted because of COVID-19. Everyone is being asked not to place their shreddable items in plastic totes or boxes that need to be returned. “To maintain safe social distancing, (attendees should) put papers for shredding into disposable paper or cardboard containers and place them into their car’s trunk or truck’s back storage area,” explained event chairman Ron Carpenter. “The Rotary volunteers will remove your items from the storage compartment to take to the shredding vehicle (from Tri-State Shredding). It will be impractical to return containers this year.” Items that should be shredded include bank statements, copies of birth certificates, canceled and voided checks and credit card bills. “Once you are finished with your personal, private papers, you need to shred them because identity theft is a real possibility,” advised Rotary public relations director Barbara Basile, who is also the library director. “(This includes) loan documents, old tax (returns), paperwork from an

Participants will experience life as it was in the early 1800s when Rivertown Theatre Productions presents Columbia’s Haunted Lantern Tour, themed “Authentic Illusions.” The annual event will take place on Friday, Oct. 16; Sunday, Oct. 18; Friday, Oct. 23; and Saturday, Oct. 24. Tours will run every half hour beginning at 6:30 p.m., with the final tour stepping off at 9:30 p.m. on Oct. 16, 23 and 24 and 8 p.m. on Oct. 18. Returning to directing the tour again this year are Sara Mimnall and Rebecca Wright, who noted that the event was expanded to two weekends in 2020. “Last year, we had 300 to 350 and we sold out and we had to turn people away,” Wright explained. “That’s why we expanded it. We expect up to 500 people this year.” Due to COVID-19, safety precautions will be in place. “It will be a See Lantern Tour pg 2

The Rotary Club of Mount Joy will host a free shredding event on Oct. 24 at the Milanof-Schock Library in Mount Joy.

INSIDE THIS ISSUE estate and passports that are out of date.” Hosting a free shredding event for the community is just one activity of the Mounty Joy Rotary Club. The club developed and maintains Rotary Park in Mount Joy and conducts a Student of the Month program. It also operates a fundraising fry wagon, which offers homemade french fries, as well as hot dogs. In May, club members distributed free food from the fry wagon in the community, also collecting donations for the Mount Joy Food Bank. “We do a lot of volunteer work

and support both local and international causes,” Basile pointed out, noting that the club helped fund the library’s new roof and recently made a donation to the Rainbow’s End Youth Center for student backpacks. The club meets on Tuesdays at 12:15 p.m. at The Gathering Place, 6 Pine St., Mount Joy. An alternate meeting is offered at 5 p.m. on Thursdays at Twisted Bine, 93 E. Main St., Mount Joy. “We share a meal together, we have a lot of conversation and we talk about upcoming events,” said Basile. “ We frequently have a speaker. A past speaker was about

diversification in business to cope with the COVID crisis.” The club currently has between 25 and 40 active members. “Those who want to belong to a civic organization are encouraged to join our club,” Basile said. “(Members) are dedicated to making Mount Joy the best it possibly can be.” For more information about the club or any of its projects, readers may visit www.facebook.com/mountjoyrotary or www.mountjoyrotary.org. Those interested in becoming a club member should contact Greg Sallade at 717-648-0510.

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