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SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXI • NO 29
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ECHOS Marks Fourth Year, Receives Funding
Leigh Ann Farling (left), social services director, and Deb Jones, executive director, celebrated the fourth anniversary of Elizabethtown Community Housing & Outreach Services (ECHOS) on July 1.
Elizabethtown Community Housing & Outreach Services (ECHOS) celebrated its fourth anniversary on July 1 and also announced it is a first-time recipient of funding from the PPL Foundation. The PPL Foundation funds are dedicated to strengthening the services offered through ECHOS’ Enrichment Services at Community Place on Washington, where clients have access to an array of resources designed to improve soft skills, engagement, and community participation. The ECHOS team works with clients, side-by-side, to provide individualized and intensive, solution focused care. The PPL Foundation’s support helps ensure the continuation of services, community education, and client assistance. Through the PPL Foundation funds, PPL Corporation and PPL Electric seek to partner with ECHOS to create stability among northwest Lancaster County residents.
ECHOS traces its roots to an emergency winter shelter that began in 2015. From this effort, ECHOS has become a full-time social services agency, serving the most vulnerable community members and addressing the community’s unique needs. Since its inception, ECHOS has served more than 2,000 individuals. Specifically, ECHOS provided more than 2,245 hours of individualized counseling last fiscal year, totaling a value of $143,712 free to its clients. ECHOS thanked the original community leaders who spearheaded the formation of ECHOS. In response to the local need witnessed during the first shelter season, Jane Cavender, Peggy McFarland, Rick Basom, Jan WellsDavis, and Deb Jones joined forces to request seed money, establishing ECHOS in 2016 with Elizabethtown College as its fiscal agent. Now, ECHOS is financially independent and has See ECHOS pg 2
Parade, Ceremony Honor Mohr FIA Provides Medical Care, Food On 100th Birthday ETN
Harold Arthur Mohr Sr. of Bainbridge celebrated his 100th birthday on July 21. He was honored on this date with a parade past his home and a ceremony recognizing his service in the military. The parade, organized by Harold’s church, Word of Life Chapel, included approximately 30 cars and big rigs, numerous fire trucks and police cars, and 20 motorcycles. Harold sat by the curb, smiling, waving, and greeting participants. See 100th Birthday pg 2
Friends In Action (FIA) International, a nonprofit organization located in Middletown, recently partnered with pastors in Bolivia to provide COVID-19 relief to indigenous people groups. Aid has included medical care, medical supplies and food. FIA uses infrastructure projects as a platform to share the Gospel with unreached indigenous people groups. Recent projects aided residents of the hundreds of tiny villages along the
coasts of the Amazon River, which are especially vulnerable to COVID-19. For most of the villagers, their town hospital has only 35 beds and one ventilator and is a multiple-day journey by boat and on foot. Additionally, some villagers travel two days from their remote locations to find medicines such as acetaminophen. FIA’s field leaders, Donna and Gary Ferch, reported that close to 90% of FIA’s co-workers in the area have contracted the virus. See FIA pg 5
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Harold Arthur Mohr Sr. (front) celebrated his 100th birthday on July 21. He was honored with a parade past his home in Bainbridge and a ceremony recognizing his military service.
Friends In Action International recently partnered with pastors in Bolivia to provide COVID-19 relief to indigenous people groups. Donations are sought and will be used to provide medical treatment and food supplies.
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