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FEBRAURY 14, 2024
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LX • NO 8
Knit one ... crochet 400 BY ANN MEAD ASH
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Members of the group that crochets blankets and bibs for Union Community Care include (from left) Sue Martin, Dawn Kaczor, Dawn Ranck-Hower, Eileen Ranck, and Mary Shuot.
Worship 3:16 his battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Given a 3% chance to live, Brubacher found that his faith, family, and friends, along with a brief brush with death, guided him on his journey. “We felt we needed some music as well,” said Liptock of forming 3:16 for that presentation. Since the initial event, a praise and worship night, featuring 3:16, special guest singers and songwriters, and testimonies from area businesspeople and others, has been held about every six weeks. The next worship night See Worship 3:16 pg 2
“The overall long-term objective is to give people in these fields the opportunity to stay in their fields,” said Jennifer T. Rummel, executive director with Greystone Manor Therapeutic Riding Center (GMTRC) stables, of the new Heroes and Horses program, an unmounted equine-assisted intervention for frontline workers and first responders first held in October of 2023. GMTRC pro gram director Steph Fleck reported that the free six-week program, which meets for two consecutive hours each Hospital social worker Brittany Hershey at Greystone Manor See GMTRC pg 4 waterproof flooring***
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The band called 3:16, organized by Joe Liptock, music director and worship leader at Mount Zion United Methodist C hurch, 753 Mount Zion Road, Narvon, has interesting beginnings. “It started two years (ago) in April when we did the Ray Brubacher event,” recalled Liptock, who noted that the five band members also serve on the church worship team. A t the event , B r ubacher told the inspirational story of
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Horses helping heroes
Musicians band together for special events BY ANN MEAD ASH
bout five years ago, when Erica Shirk moved from Pennsylvania to Oregon, pastor Dawn Ranck-Hower of New Holland Mennonite Church (NHMC), 18 Wester n Ave., contacted Shirk’s daughter, Hilda, to ask what Erica had been doing for Union Community Care on New Holland Avenue in Lancaster. “Erica would make crafts for them,” explained Ranck-Hower, an avid crocheter who soon learned that Union Community Care was in need of afghans. Ranck-Hower explained that the afghans are given to babies of immigrants who do not have a family member or friend here to make a handcrafted blanket for their baby. Ranck-Hower quickly connected with a few other crocheters at church, who then invited their family members to help out. The group’s first year making afghans for Union was 2021. More than 400 handmade items were created in 2023 and delivered in early
2024. Ranck-Hower reported that 223 afghans, 24 quilts, and 155 bibs were crocheted or knitted. “The year before that, we did about 200 afghans,” she said. The goal for the coming year is to donate at least 350 items. Ranck-Hower referred to the group of fiber arts aficionados as “a family affair,” noting that three family units are involved and that members have met together as a group only twice. Ranck-Hower has involved her sister Eileen Ranck and her mother, Rosanna Ranck, who makes baby bibs as well as afghans. Sue Martin and her mother, Mary Shuot, are also involved, as are Dawn Kaczor and her family members, which include her daughter, Elsa Lantz, who lives in Colorado; mother, Valetta Kaczor; and sister, Carla Kaczor, both of whom live in the Souderton area. “Sue and Dawn are usually crocheting during church,” said Ranck-Hower, who is not bothered by attendees who crochet during her sermons because she