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Elizabeth Hughes Society Awards Annual Scholarship The Elizabeth Hughes Society has awarded the Women for Women Scholarship to Amy Shorner-Johnson. The society awarded her $1,000 toward completing a two-year spiritual direction training program at Kairos at the Parish Resource Center. Shorner-Johnson is a graduate of Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tenn., and McAfee School of Theology at Mercer University in Atlanta. She currently is the chaplain and director of religious life at Elizabethtown College, where she provides mentoring, counseling and spiritual guidance for students on campus. She has also played a key role in the development of interfaith service projects recognized by the Interfaith Youth Core, and she organized an
Amy Shorner-Johnson (far left) received a $1,000 Women for Women Scholarship from Elizabeth Hughes Society award committee members (continuing from left) Marsha Williams, Ann Fetter, and Carol Hunter.
annual civil rights interfaith service and leadership trips to historical sites associated with the Civil Rights Movement. Shorner-Johnson volunteers as a teacher and nursery coordinator at her church, and she serves as conveyor of the Lancaster Interfaith Coalition in Lancaster County. She and her husband live in Elizabethtown and have two young children. The Women for Women Scholarship was established in memory of Esther Winters, who was an Elizabeth Hughes member. The society learned that Winters returned to school as an adult to become a pharmacist and therefore established the scholarship to provide assistance or encouragement for eligible women to return to school for a degree, to obtain or renew a license, or to become certified in an occupation. This year, two women completed
the application process. A committee reviewed the applications, which included letters of recommendation and an essay by the applicant, and selected ShornerJohnson as the recipient. “All of the applicants were very worthy and faced many obstacles to reaching their educational goals. They were all very deserving, but we had to select one award winner,” said chairperson Marilyn Muston. The other committee members are Sandi Bush, Ann Fetter, Carol Hunter, and Marsha Williams. The Elizabeth Hughes Society awards the Women for Women Scholarship each year. Information for next year’s scholarship will be announced in April 2021. The society also awards an annual scholarship to a graduating senior at Elizabethtown Area High School.
UDS Service Dogs Program Plans First Golf Outing Treating The Troops By Dayna M. Reidenouer
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UDS Service Dogs will host its first golf outing on Friday, Aug. 28, at Meadia Heights Golf Club, 402 Golf Road, Lancaster. Program manager Lori
Breece hopes it will become an annual event. “We have been trying to find a signature event that can bring in strong revenue for our program and get the community engaged,” Breece remarked. Landis Communities offered pointers in planning the event. Volunteers met with representatives of golf courses around Lancaster County to see who would want to partner with UDS Service Dogs, and Meadia Heights was the most eager. The Aug. 28 date was scheduled in August 2019. Breece said that when the shutdown occurred, she was afraid that the outing might have to be postponed or canceled, but final planning for the event is going strong. See UDS Service Dogs pg 3
While the celebration of Independence Day on July 4 may have made Americans think back to the moment in Philadelphia in 1776 when the Founding Fathers declared citizens of the 13 colonies free from English rule, owners of several Lancaster County bed-and-breakfasts were thinking of those serving overseas. At least four local innkeepers joined in an Independence Day initiative that sent cookies, socks, banana bread, and toothpaste to members of the U.S. military deployed overseas in an effort dubbed “Inn Support of Our Troops.” Rebecca Gallagher of the Historic Smithton Inn, 900 W. Main St., Ephrata, said she jumped at the chance to take part in the project, noting that “veterans are a soft spot for me.” Rebecca, who owns the inn with her husband, Dave, served as co-chair of the committee that built Veterans Plaza in Ephrata with the Winters Leadership Memorial statue as the centerpiece. After completion of the project, the group held a lecture series that gave area veterans a chance to share their stories. Each Veterans Day for a decade, the inn has See Troops pg 2
Pam and Dallas Fritz, who own B.F. Hiestand House Bed & Breakfast in Marietta, sent these peanut butter oatmeal cookies and a variety of other treats to a service member as part of an effort called Inn Support of Our Troops.
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UDS Service Dogs (from left) Gibson, Henry, and Kirby were matched with clients in June and have begun team training in preparation for providing assistance to people with physical or intellectual disabilities. The organization will host its first golf outing on Aug. 28 at Meadia Heights Golf Club to raise funds to support the program.
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