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SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXXV • NO 26
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FALL-WINTER 2019
BENEFIT YARD SALE
Bethany Evangelical Congregational Church of Creswell will hold a yard sale at Living Hope Community Church, 2823 Columbia Ave., Lancaster, on Saturday, Sept. 7, from 7 a.m. to noon. Proceeds will benefit the Conestoga Food Bank, which assists families in need. Donations of cash will be accepted and will be used to purchase needed items. The yard sale will feature more than 30 vendors. Food will be available to purchase. For more details, readers may call 717-872-5720. GOLF EVENT
Council 17028 of the Knights of Columbus, will hold its inaugural golf outing on Friday, Sept. 20. The event will take place at Four Seasons Golf Club, 949 Church St., Landisville. The community is invited to support the event by becoming a patron or a hole sponsor or by golfing or offering any form of donation. The council helps support the church as well as the surrounding community through ongoing programs, charitable works and monetary donations. For more information, readers may contact Mike Kirkham at 717-371-0611. CHILDHOOD ENRICHMENT
Mountville Church of the Brethren, 60 Clay St., is offering Tots ’n Tunes, a free program for preschool children and their caregivers. It will be held on Mondays from 9:30 to 11 a.m. from Sept. 9 to Nov. 25, except Oct. 14 and Nov. 11. The program will include free play as well as a music class and time for parachute play. Adults should feel free to bring appropriate snacks for their children. No preregistration is necessary. For more information, readers may visit www.mountvillecob.org.
Club Plans Fall Coin Show pg 4
Festival To Feature Live Music pg 5
Celebrating Faith, Friendship, And Family By Dayna M. Reidenouer
“Celebrating Faith, Friendship, and Family” is the theme of the gala that Faith Friendship Ministries will host on Thursday, Oct. 10, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at the Star Barn, 1 Hollinger Lane, Elizabethtown. “Our goal is to educate the community on who we are and what we do,” said executive director Gwen Didden. Faith Friendship Ministries operates the personal care home Faith Friendship Villa, 128 W. Main St., Mountville, where 74 people live. “We are probably Lancaster’s bestkept housing secret,” Didden asserted. “On one hand, I’m glad, because that means we’re good neighbors (and not drawing a lot of negative attention). This is a spiritual community that provides housing. Our family members just happen to be low-income and have a
mental health diagnosis.” Faith Friendship Villa fits in the continuum between group home and nursing home. All of the family members - as residents are called - have limited incomes, and many have some kind of mental health challenge. Both men and women live at the villa, and their ages range between 32 and 90, with the average age in the mid-50s. “These are people who have the desire to have a fulfilled life,” Didden said. Care directors at the villa serve as case managers, working to get newcomers qualified to receive the government assistance for which they fit the criteria. The goal is to get their lives stable as soon as possible, so Faith Friendship Villa accepts individuals without the ability to pay. For qualified individuals, the home is reimbursed only $37 per day per person. See Faith Friendship Villa pg 7
Picnicking With A Purpose A total of 1,000 pounds of tomatoes was harvested during the second week of August at Homefields Care Farm, a nonprofit community-supported agriculture (CSA) program that provides employment and training for disabled individuals. Located on a 23-acre organic farm at 150 Letort Road, Millersville, Homefields grows more than 300 varieties of produce. Arguably, though, the greatest product that comes out of Homefields Care Farm cannot be quantified. “Homefields uses agriculture … for therapeutic value,” said board vice president Allison Hawthorne. She elaborated on the benefits of working on the farm: plenty of sunshine and Vitamin D, opportunities for working independently, the pride of watching something flourish, and See Homefields Care Farm pg 6
“Celebrating Faith, Friendship, and Family,” Faith Friendship Villa’s first signature event, will be held at The Star Barn in Elizabethtown on Oct. 10. The event will raise awareness of and support for the personal care home located in Mountville.
Rockin’ Recovery With Collaborative Event By Dayna M. Reidenouer
By Dayna M. Reidenouer
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Preparing to prune flats of baby bok choy at Homefields Care Farm in Millersville are (from left) lead farmhand Emily Bishop, supervisor Elizabeth Swope, volunteer Ben Harsh, and home care assistant Ambar Escobar. The seventh annual Picnic in the Fields event on Sept. 22 will support the farm.
“It just made more sense,” Recovery Day Lancaster organizer Scott Theurer said about the merging of the Lancaster County Recovery Alliance event with 521 Club’s Recovery Rocks event. “It’s for the same thing. We do together what we couldn’t do apart.” Last year, the two events took place in September several weeks apart, as September is recognized as National Recovery Month. The organizers of both events recognized that they attracted many of the same people, so they opted to join forces. The 521 Club, which is a sober club, is now a co-presenter of the new Recovery Day Lancaster/ Recovery Rocks. See Recovery Day pg 3
Individuals who are helping to organize and promote the new Recovery Day Lancaster/Recovery Rocks event that will be held in Lancaster’s Buchanan Park on Sept. 21 are (front, from left) Scott Theurer, Matt Supplee, (back) Jacqueline Delue, James Severson, Matt Bohlen, Amy Marenick, Chris Glover, Paul Bechhold, and Michaela Quain.
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