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IN THIS ISSUE: ANNUAL LENTEN FISH FRY SET page 4
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
Tree Seedling Sale Planned pg 2
LCCTC Hosts Skills Competition pg 2
“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 or rain catchment systems to communities where people desperately need it. One hundred percent of net profits from Humankind sales goes toward funding clean water projects. Foltz explained that every bottle of Humankind Water that is purchased helps make it possible to get clean
water to one person for 100 days. “Similarly, every gallon of our lemonade and tea that is sold gets 50 gallons of clean drinking water to people in need,” Foltz noted. Based in Manheim, Humankind is actively involved in projects in Uganda and the Dominican Republic and has worked in Malawi, Tanzania, India, and Haiti in the past. Humankind has also provided clean water as part of disaster relief efforts in locations including Nepal, Texas, and Flint, Mich. “While our focus is primarily in meeting international needs, we are more than happy to help locally as needed,” commented Foltz. For the past four years, the kindHuman Foundation has hosted a fundraising event for the public, but this year organizers have upped the ante and are hosting not one, but two See Humankind pg 4
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.
DSAA Invites Community To New Programs Rapho Township Schoolhouse To Undergo Renovations Donegal Substance Abuse
•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
By Chelsea Peifer
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 See DSAA pg 2
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
DSAA stands for Donegal Substance Abuse Alliance and now also goes by Delivering Supportive Approaches to Addiction. Executive director Stacy Emminger (top photo, left) and assistant director Lexi Mercado (top photo, right) encourage the public to check out the programs held at the community recovery center in Mount Joy.
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 students in grades one through eight. Manheim resident Melvin Eby, a lifelong member of Erisman Mennonite Church, attended Lincoln School from See Schoolhouse pg 3
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
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•Strasburg Fire Company’s spring donation and consignment sale, Strasburg - Feb. 28 and 29
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