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Lancaster Farm Sanctuary Has A New Home By Francine Fulton
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Sweet Pea Plants Virtual Garden By Ann Mead Ash
More than 10 years ago, Stephanie Paige Cole, founder of Sweet Pea Project, an organization that offers comfort and support to families that have experienced the death of a baby, and her board members began holding a Sisters and Brothers
Picnic for children who had a sibling who was lost during pregnancy or infancy. This year’s event was to be held on Saturday, June 6, at Dutch Wonderland. When the picnic was canceled due to COVID-19 restrictions, Cole wanted to re-create a part of the picnic in time for Mother’s Day, which was held on May 10.
Partnership Provides Mental Health Information By Ann Mead Ash
The Samaritan Counseling Center’s TeenHope website page presents some sobering statistics about youths in Lancaster County. Nearly 30% of teenagers say they feel sad or depressed most days. Almost 16% have seriously
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considered attempting suicide, and more than 9% of students have attempted suicide. Gretchen Gaudioso, client and family advocate with Mental Health America Lancaster County (MHALC), has been visiting schools for some time, working to educate students about mental health issues. TeenHope addresses mental health issues by offering screening programs for depression, anxiety, and suicide risk to area middle and high school students. Since the beginning of the fall 2019 semester, MHALC and TeenHope See TeenHope pg 3
Sweet Pea Project, an organization that offers comfort and support to families that have experienced the death of a baby, has created a virtual flower garden that mothers and other family members may use to honor the child they lost. Although the virtual garden was created for Mother’s Day, it will be available into the future for those who would like to dedicate a flower to their child.
Gretchen Gaudioso (front), client and family advocate with Mental Health America Lancaster County (MHALC), educates students about mental health issues. MHALC recently began working with TeenHope, which addresses mental health issues by offering screening programs for depression, anxiety, and suicide risk to area middle and high school students.
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Yoga and tours of the Lancaster Farm Sanctuary will resume at the site’s new location in Mount Joy when Lancaster County moves into the green phase. The programs are currently being offered virtually on the site’s Facebook page.
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In order to better accommodate its current group of rescued cows, sheep, goats, pigs and other farmed animals, as well as to provide space for even more animals in need, the Lancaster Farm Sanctuary recently relocated to a larger facility.
The nonprofit sanctuary, founded in the summer of 2017 by Sarah Salluzzo and Jonina Turzi, was previously located at 558 Milton Grove Road South in Elizabethtown. The sanctuary’s new address is 1871 Milton Grove Road, Mount Joy. Although the new location is only 2 miles away from the previous farm, the new property has much more pasture space. “The previous farm was about 5 acres but only 3 was habitable, because there was a creek and wetlands,” explained board member Sara Petrosky. “The new farm is almost 18 acres, and almost all of it is pasture.” The Lancaster Farm Sanctuary, which was opened in the summer The biggest benefit of the new loca- of 2017 in Elizabethtown by Jonina Turzi and Sarah Salluzzo tion is that the sanctuary will not have (not shown), recently moved to a larger location in Mount Joy. to turn down as many requests by area police, humane workers and others who are seeking neighbors,” Petrosky noted. “(The new location) will enable us to take in a lot more animals so we don’t help for farmed animals in life-or-death situations. “We have people asking almost daily, ‘Can you take have to say no so often.” in this animal?’ A lot of times the requests are by the She noted that when an animal first comes to the farm, police. We also get calls from good Samaritans or it is examined by a veterinarian before it is allowed to See Lancaster Farm Sanctuary pg 2