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JULY 22, 2020
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXXVI • NO 17
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Ethiopian Meal To Support Food Outreach By Dayna M. Reidenouer
Over the past few years, Landisvillebased Siloam Ethiopia has held fundraisers to build a clinic to provide free medical care in Harar, Ethiopia, and to purchase much-needed laboratory equipment. The proceeds from the fundraising meal on Saturday, Aug. 1, are earmarked for another fundamental need. “We serve the poorest of the poor in the clinic,” said Siloam Ethiopia cofounder Wegayhu Ketema. “We want to give them food to eat.” Ketema reported that COVID-19 has been hitting Ethiopian residents hard. For the people the clinic serves in Harar, life was already difficult. Prior to the pandemic, individuals subsisted on what they could glean on a daily basis. Now, illness and quarantines are putting those small incomes in jeopardy.
“It’s reached the stage where people don’t have food to eat,” Ketema explained. “My goal is to have a soup kitchen under a tree somewhere. If we send the money, the church people will help to cook. We want to provide one meal a day until God does a miracle.” Ketema cares deeply about the people in Harar because she grew up there. Although she began a new full-time nursing job at a rehab hospital in York a few months ago, she recently agreed to pick up some shifts at her previous job in Hershey. Ketema sent the extra income to the medical director of the clinic in Harar so staff members can buy basic grocery staples for their clients. “I had the opportunity to work. They don’t,” Ketema said. “God is good to us.” God’s goodness has been evident throughout Siloam Ethiopia’s history,
Ketema asserted, adding that when she organizes fundraisers, she puts them in the Lord’s hands. The last fundraiser on June 27 - was particularly marvelous, as turnout was greater than anticipated. “We ran out of food last time,” Ketema recalled. “We cooked and ran out of food and ran out of food again.” Typically, Ketema and her husband, Demeke Getahun, do all the cooking for the fundraising meals. Because the previous fundraiser went so well, she has enlisted help, and members of the women’s group at Ethiopian Evangelical Church in Lancaster (EECL) will assist with food preparation. Due to COVID-19 safety measures, the June 27 fundraising meal was presented as a drive-through rather than a buffet dinner. The same method will be employed for the Aug. 1 event. See Ethiopian Meal pg 2
Siloam Ethiopia co-founder Wegayhu Ketema and a team of volunteers will prepare an Ethiopian meal in Landisville on Aug. 1. Proceeds will be used to provide food support to clients of the free medical clinic that Siloam Ethiopia runs in Harar, Ethiopia.
Volunteerism Is A Family Trait For Dietrichs Cruisin’ For Cats Car Show To Benefit
Columbia Animal Shelter
Ville Painters Inc. employees repainted the ceilings and other structures in the lobby of the YWCA Lancaster building on June 26. The service was a gift from siblings Stephen and Wendy Dietrich, whose mother, the late Mary Dietrich, volunteered at the YWCA 50 years ago.
When the late Hempfield High School home economics teacher Mary Dietrich volunteered at the YWCA Lancaster, 110 N. Lime St., Lancaster, from 1967 to 1973, she was usually accompanied by her children, Wendy and Stephen. “She would often bring us along because she didn’t have child care, so we joined the other kids there,” Wendy explained. Mary taught home economics for adults, and the children also tagged along on grocery shopping trips, when Mary helped her clients to maximize their budgets and food stamps. As a young man, Stephen and a friend ran a small painting business during a summer spent visiting an aunt in Arizona. Following graduation from college and a few years working in New York, Stephen returned to Lancaster County in 1988 and opened an exterior painting business in Millersville. He named the venture Ville Painters Inc. and employed college students. Last year, Wendy joined her brother as the director of marketing and community connections for Ville Painters. See YWCA Lancaster pg 2
By Dayna M. Reidenouer
“We were about nine months into our first year when everything changed,” said Tammy Loughlin, executive director of Columbia Animal Shelter, which officially opened to the public on June 1, 2019. Until the stay-at-home order was announced in March 2020, business had been booming at the private shelter that specializes in felines. “Our vision is to help manage the overpopulation of cats in Columbia,” Loughlin said, adding that only residents of the borough may
surrender domesticated cats for rehoming, but anyone may adopt from the shelter. “We have a lot of adopters coming in from far away,” Loughlin said. “We’re excited about the reach we’re starting to get. If ever the shelter is empty, we’ve done our job.” See Cruisin For Cats pg 2
The first Cruisin’ for Cats car show to benefit the Columbia Animal Shelter drew about 50 vehicles last year. Organizers hope to surpass that number at the second annual Cruisin’ for Cats, set for Aug. 1.
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