Donegal /townlively
OCTOBER 14, 2020
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXI • NO 39
Mount Joy Rotary To Offer Free Shredding Event 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, from 9-11 a.m., 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 “(This includes) loan documents, old tax (returns), paperwork from an estate and passports that are out of date.”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 the 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 collected 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.mount joyrotary.org. Those interested in becoming a club member should contact Greg Sallade at 717-648-0510.
UCEA Breaks Ground At CPOW BY ANN MEAD ASH
Deb Jones, executive director of ECHOS (Elizabethtown Community Housing & Outreach Services), knows that many Elizabethtown and Mount Joy area residents have been waiting for the groundbreaking that occurred at 61 E. Washington St., Elizabethtown, on Sept. 11 at 4 p.m. “It was a longtime dream of community members to have a social services agency here in Elizabethtown,” said Jones. “It was decades.” That dream began to come to fruition in 2018 when United Churches Elizabethtown Area (UCEA) secured the Washington Street property, now known as Community Place on Washington (CPOW). The property formerly was a private school associated with St. Peter Catholic Church. On Sept. 11, ground was broken to expand that building to house a larger Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) compliant winter shelter and enrichment services, including job skills training, career and financial See UCEA pg 4
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The Rotary Club of Mount Joy will host a free shredding event on Oct. 24 at the Milanof-Schock Library in Mount Joy.
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