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Elizabethtown JULY 31, 2019

IN THIS ISSUE: GRACE CHAPEL WILL HOST EVANGELIST page 10

SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954

VOL LX • NO 30

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Chester and Berks Counties • 91st annual Old Fiddler’s Picnic, Hibernia Park, Coatesville Saturday, Aug. 10 • Town Tours and Village Walks, tour of the village of Sadsburyville - Thursday, Aug. 15 • Free Third Saturdays at the Berks County Heritage Center, Reading - Saturday, Aug. 17

Bible2School Receives Donation pg 7

Bookworm Frolic Scheduled pg 6

Forever Changed Business Collaborates With Brittany’s Hope To Build Houses By Chelsea Peifer

As Elizabethtown resident Naomi Fredlund anticipated the five-year anniversary of her company, Life Changes Realty Group, she envisioned a celebration that could somehow involve

all of the business’s clients. One agent suggested doing a larger-scale version of the pay-it-forward program that Life Changes operates, and Fredlund loved the idea. Through pay-it-forward, Life Changes real estate agents donate a

Dauphin and Lebanon Counties • Mount Gretna Art Show, downtown Mount Gretna Saturday, Aug. 17, and Sunday, Aug. 18 • “Picasso: A Life in Print,” Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg - through Sunday, Sept. 22 • The Pennsylvania Make It With Wool contest, Farm Show Complex, Harrisburg - Saturday, Oct. 5 Lancaster County • Chiques Challenge, Columbia River Park - Saturday, Aug. 10

• Richard Oehme Memorial Golf Tournament, Overlook Golf Course, Lancaster - Saturday, Sept. 21 York County • The Penn State Master Gardeners of York County’s Butterfly Buzz, Hanover Junction Station, Seven Valleys - Saturday, Aug. 17 • Shrewsbury Flower Show, Shrewsbury Assembly of God Saturday, Aug. 24, and Sunday, Aug. 25 • Yorkfest Fine Arts Festival, downtown York - Saturday, Aug. 24, and Sunday, Aug. 25

In May, a group from Elizabethtown College and the community traveled with Elizabethtown-based nonprofit Brittany’s Hope to Vietnam to help build a new house (right photo) to replace a collapsing mud house for a family in need.

portion of their commission earned when a deal is closed to the charity of the client’s choice. According to Fredlund, that has led to more than $350,000 being donated to various charities thus far. A fundraising endeavor independent of pay-it-forward, however, would be new for the company. When it came to selecting a recipient, Fredlund immediately thought of Brittany’s Hope, an Elizabethtown-based nonprofit that aims to help orphaned and at-risk children through See Brittany’s Hope pg 7

Elizabethtown resident Naomi Fredlund (right) got to meet Miss Lieu (left) during a May trip to Vietnam with Brittany’s Hope. Fredlund and her company helped to raise nearly $15,000 to build homes for families in need in Vietnam through Brittany’s Hope, including one for Miss Lieu and her children.

Local Group Awards Scholarship A Place To Call Home The Elizabeth Hughes Society has awarded its Women for Women Scholarship to Valerie Belmont. Belmont has been a resident of Elizabethtown for 22 years. She and her husband have five children, and the family has participated in many Elizabethtown community activities. Belmont has volunteered for Girls Confidence Conference, the Arm of Hope fundraiser, and Elizabethtown Community Housing and Outreach Services (ECHOS), and she has assisted in settling refugees from the Congo and Kenya in Elizabethtown and has lectured on health care to visiting Chinese students. Belmont is currently employed as a nurse at UPMC Pinnacle in Lititz. She is pursuing a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) at Cedarville University

By Chelsea Peifer

The transformations in recent years at Our Home of Hope, a personal care home for 30 residents in Columbia, are as numerous as the hands that have helped to make them possible. After the main living area was painted and new pictures were hung on the walls, one resident told board president

Valerie Belmont (left) was named the recipient of the Elizabeth Hughes Society’s Women for Women Scholarship. Offering congratulations was Ann Fetter, a member of the scholarship committee. School of Nursing in the Family Nurse Practitioner program in Cedarville, Ohio. See Scholarship pg 6

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• Elizabethtown Fair, Elizabethtown Fairgrounds - Monday, Aug. 19, through Saturday, Aug. 24

Families Welcome Fresh Air Children pg 4

Mable Hershey that now it feels like walking into a hotel. “It’s like having a new home. They’re just in awe,” Mable shared. Mable and her husband, John, stepped in to help establish the home as a nonprofit organization in 2017 when it was on the brink of being shut down. Administrator Roxanne Simonson, who has been operating the home at 223-225 Cherry St. since 2001, reached out to the Hersheys in 2014 about the home’s dire situation. The See Our Home Of Hope pg 2

The community is invited to see the renovations, additions, and changes at Our Home of Hope, a personal care home for 30 residents in Columbia, during open houses from 2 to 4 p.m. on Sundays, Aug. 4, 11, and 18.

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