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FEBRUARY 24, 2021
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXXVI • NO 47
Hempfield Graduate Plans Kenyan Project ne conversation can change your life. In November 2019, Eric Slaugh flew to California to visit his brother. During the flight, Slaugh chatted with his seatmates, one of whom was on her way to Las Vegas to raise money for Sirua Aulo Academy in the Kapune region of Kenya. A dependable source of potable water was one of the specific needs for the school. The cause struck a chord. Prior to graduating from Hempfield High School in 2011, Slaugh had started the Society for Environmental Advocates club at his school. He earned a degree in chemical and environmental engineering from Clarkson University and then backpacked through part of Africa for two months. Slaugh eventually moved to Seattle, where he works on water and environmental issues. One of his projects involves the remediation of a site where a laundromat discharged chemicals into the soil. The chemicals then leached into groundwater, and Slaugh’s team
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will work with regulatory agencies to decide how to treat the water so it can safely enter a nearby river. Similar concepts will be part of the well-building project that Slaugh has signed on to direct at Sirua Aulo Academy. He and a team of experts from the United States and Kenya have designed a well and pipelines that will provide water to the 300 students and staff members at the academy as well as the 3,000 people who live in the surrounding Maasai community. Engineers Without Borders provides support when needed, and Slaugh’s fundraising efforts are under the auspices of Seattle-based Village Volunteers. “We will break ground when we have the money,” Slaugh shared, noting that the project needs at least $24,000 for drilling the well and putting in a pump. The construction of pipelines to the school and to the public access site, as well as a storage tank at the school and a taphouse at the access site, will have additional costs. Solar panels will also need to be purchased and installed to keep the pump operational. See Hempfield Graduate pg 6
Siloam Ethiopia Schedules Curbside Meal BY ANN MEAD ASH
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When Anne Marie McAlester became executive director of Hope Within Ministries in October 2019, she started thinking about changing the sign outside the Elizabethtown organization. “I felt it didn’t communicate everything we are about,” she said. So last fall, she applied for a community awareness grant through Hershey Medical Center and received funding for a new sign. The sign, at 4748 East Harrisburg Pike, now reads “Hope Within Community Health, Counseling & Dental Center.” See Hope Within pg 3
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Eric Slaugh (left)while backpacking in Africa.
The Siloam Ethiopia clinic in Harar, Ethiopia, is in need of a blood chemistry machine. “The blood chemistry machine will check hemoglobin count, cholesterol, blood sugar, and liver function,” explained Wegayhu Ketema, one of the founders of the clinic. Ketema went on to explain that the in-depth blood analysis provided by the machine can help detect deficiencies and hidden diseases among the poor
and homeless the free clinic serves. To start raising the $25,000 that is needed to purchase the machine, Ketema’s church, Ethiopian Evangelical Church in Lancaster, 175 Church St., Landisville, will offer a curbside Ethiopian meal by donation from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday, March 6. The menu will include doro wat, which is a spicy chicken stew; misir wat, which is a spicy pink lentil; atikilt wat, which includes spicy cabbage, carrot; and potato; and kik alicha, a dish with See Siloam Ethiopia pg 7
A patient is treated at Siloam Ethiopia, a free clinic in Harar, Ethiopia. An Ethiopian meal fundraiser will be held on March 6 at Ethiopian Evangelical Church, Landisville, to help purchase a blood chemistry machine for the clinic.
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