Lampeter-Strasburg FEBRUARY 2, 2022
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LVIII • NO 39
It’s Fun To Stay At The Lampeter-Strasburg YMCA
The Lampeter-Strasburg YMCA facility offers a wide range of activities for people of all ages. BY COURTNEY MENGEL
ounded in 1844 in London, the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), also known as the Y, serves the community by offering programs that are intended to help people build healthy spirits, minds, and bodies. By instilling Christian ideas in its programs, the YMCA strives to develop and practice the principles of faith, hope, love, honesty, respect, and responsibility. Located at 800 Village Road, Lancaster, the Lampeter-Strasburg YMCA branch opened in 2007. “We don’t like to really see ourselves as a ‘gym and swim,’” said executive director Rick Wagner. “We want to be a pillar of the community, so we like to offer community-based programming.” The Lampeter-Strasburg YMCA offers programs such as swim lessons, summer camp, youth
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stated Wagner. The Lampeter-Strasburg YMCA as some new events in the works. On Saturday, April 2, there will be a Splish-Splash Easter Egg Bash where participants will hunt for Easter eggs in the pool, and Healthy Kids Day will return on Saturday, April 30. More details on these events will come soon. “If you want to feel welcome, if you want no judgments, if you want that community aspect where you’re not just coming to a gym but you’re coming to a family, then come here,” noted Wagner. “The YMCA is here not just for membership but any type of communitybased relationship or communitybased need.” For more information about the Lampeter-Strasburg YMCA, visit www.rosesymca.org or call 717-464-4000.
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In March of 2016, Carol Heth was on a bus heading to New York City when inspiration struck. Having participated in an outdoor farm-to-table dinner, Carol thought she could take the idea one step further. “I said, ‘How about if we do a dinner in the field on our property and at the same time, we help some people who are going through health hardships?’” she recalled. By April of 2016, Carol had rounded up a team to help bring her vision to life. By June, the group had three potential beneficiaries of the dinner and by the fall, the first meal was held. “I wasn’t sure how it was going to go or what we’d be able to do to help the recipients, and I thought it was a once-anddone thing, but it wasn’t,” she stated. Having raised more than $5,600 for each of the first year’s beneficiaries, Carol knew she was onto something. Seven years later, the nonprofit Lancaster County Field of Hope has not only held annual dinners See Hope pg 5
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and adult basketball, diabetes pre- said he wants to build community vention, personal training, adult partnerships and be viewed as an volleyball, CPR and first aid train- organization on which the commuing, e-sports, and more. In addition, nity can rely. Wagner explained that the Y was the Y does not turn people away based on ability to pay. It offers able to gain much of its membership back faster financial assistance than anticipated in for those who are unable to afford “ W e w a n t t o b e part due to the a p i l l a r o f t h e merger of the Lanmembership rates. “ We have such a c o m m u n i t y , s o caster Family YMCA great diversity,” w e l i k e t o o f f e r and the YMCA of noted Wagner. “We community-based York and York County. The two have people of differ- programming.” entities merged into ent ages, races, and a single YMCA assobackgrounds. It’s like a community inside of a building, ciation, now known as the YMCA of the Roses, on Dec. 1, 2021. The which is really nice.” Due to COVID-19, the Lampeter- grand opening of Village Park on Strasburg YMCA was closed during April 10, 2021 offered the branch part of 2020. Since reopening, the a little boost, too. “I kind of think branch has welcomed back 80% of of it as free advertising because so its members and wants that number many families pass by our building to grow. Moving forward, Wagner on their way to sports practices,”
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