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Manheim Central /townlively

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

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SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954

VOL LXI • NO 8

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Berks and Chester Counties •STEPS Resource Fair, Lionville Middle School, Exton - March 7 •Irish Breakfast Buffet, Historic Joanna Furnace Iron Works, Geigertown - March 21 •Elverson Antique Show, Twin Valley High School, Elverson March 28 and 29 Greater Hershey Area •The Federated Women’s Club of Hershey and the Hershey Lions Club’s pork and sauerkraut dinner, Grace United Methodist Church, Hummelstown - March 1 •Spring Garden Workshops, Lebanon Valley Agricultural Center, Lebanon - March 4 and 11 •Central Pennsylvania Handbell Festival, Lebanon Area Evangelical Free Church, Jonestown March 14 Lancaster County

LCCTC Hosts Skills Competition pg 12

DSAA Invites Community To New Programs

By Chelsea Peifer

Humankind Water sells bottled water, organic tea, and lemonade with a greater purpose in mind: funding clean water projects for people around the world. “We exist to get people clean drinking water,” stated Meg Foltz. She serves as vice president of marketing for Humankind and as director of missions for the kindHuman Foundation, the nonprofit organization set up in conjunction with the company specifically to provide wells or water filtration or rain catchment systems to communities where people desperately need it. One hundred percent of net profits from Humankind sales goes toward funding clean water projects. Foltz explained that every bottle of Humankind Water that is purchased See kindHuman Foundation pg 3

By Chelsea Peifer

People are invited to learn more about the life-changing work being funded by Humankind at the kindHuman Foundation “Made For This” fundraisers at SUPPLY in Manheim on March 13 and at Merion Tribute House in Philadelphia on March 12. The kindHuman Foundation funds clean water projects for people in need around the world.

Donegal Substance Abuse Alliance (DSAA) executive director Stacy Emminger and assistant director Lexi Mercado want people to know that DSAA is open and available for them. “ We’re open to everybody,” said Emminger. “We consider ourselves a community recovery center, and when we have these programs we want people in recovery to come, but we also want people in the community to come. Our goal is to bring people together.” In 2014, Emminger’s son, Anthony Perez, died of a heroin overdose at age 23. Emminger and other Donegal-area residents who saw and experienced the negative impact of heroin and opioid See DSAA Programs pg 4

Ruhl’s UMC To Offer Rapho Township Schoolhouse 21st Annual Indoor Yard Sale To Undergo Renovations By Chelsea Peifer

•Purimshpiel, Congregation Shaarai Shomayim, Lancaster March 8 •Junior League of Lancaster’s Run4Luck, Lancaster Country Day School, Lancaster - March 14 York County •Guinston Presbyterian Arts and Crafts Festival, Chanceford Community Building, Brogue March 7

Tree Seedling Sale Planned pg 3

“Made For This” Fundraising Events To Support kindHuman Foundation

The community is invited to shop for treasures at an indoor yard sale at Ruhl’s United Methodist Church in Manheim from 7 to 11 a.m. on March 7. Food and beverages will also be available to purchase.

•York Saint Patrick’s Day Parade, downtown York - March 14

By Chelsea Peifer

•Dance MS, a Zumbathon event, Manchester Township Building Rec Hall, York - March 21

On Saturday, March 7, the community is invited to attend the 21st annual Ruhl’s United Methodist Church (UMC)

indoor yard sale from 7 to 11 a.m. in the fellowship hall of the church, located at 4810 Elizabethtown Road, Manheim. Plenty of free parking is available, and the church is See Yard Sale pg 13

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•Strasburg Fire Company’s spring donation and consignment sale, Strasburg - Feb. 28 and 29

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The one-room schoolhouse located across the road from Erisman Mennonite Church, 8 S. Erisman Road, Manheim, is about to undergo interior and exterior renovations. On Sunday, March 8, the community is invited to a drop-in open house from 3 to 5 p.m. to tour the building as it is now and view plans for its future. Refreshments will be provided. See Schoolhouse pg 2

Erisman Mennonite Church, represented by (from left) Marlin Martin, Rich Nolt, and Dennis Nissley, invites the community to an open house from 3 to 5 p.m. on March 8 to see the 1884 schoolhouse owned by the church before renovations begin. The schoolhouse belongs to the church but served as Lincoln School from 1884 to 1951.

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