Manheim Central OCTOBER 9, 2019
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LX • NO 40
REGISTRATION OPEN
The fifth annual Manheim Santa Run and Walk 5K will be held on Saturday, Dec. 7, beginning at 8:30 a.m. The Manheim Lions Club has announced that registration is now open. Families and friends are encouraged to share the holiday spirit by joining other Santas as they run or walk through the streets of Manheim. Information is available at www.manheimlions.org. To register, visit www.runsignup.com. MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
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HEALTH SCREENING
The Manheim Lions Club will hold an Omega Health Screening performed by Quest Diagnostics on Saturday, Nov. 2, from 7 to 9:30 a.m. at St. Paul’s United Church of Christ, 50 N. Main St., Manheim. There is a cost for the screening, which includes testing for anemia, diabetes, heart disease, gout, and liver and kidney diseases. Optional tests can be added, including PSA (prostate-specific antigen - males), TSH (thyroid-stimulating hormone), and Vitamin D. Individuals must not eat or drink for 10 hours before testing, but they may have water and medication. To preregister, call 800-776-6342. TECHNOLOGY HELP
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will be available to offer free technology help from 8:45 to 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 10, at the school, 400 E. Adele Ave., Manheim. Community members may bring their devices to learn something new, fix something small, or explore the device. Park on Adele Avenue and enter through the main office doors. Anyone with questions may contact Zac Bauermaster at 717-664-8400 or bauermasterz@ manheimcentral.org. UPCOMING MEETING
Lancaster Christian Women’s Club will host a luncheon at noon on Wednesday, Nov. 6, at Bent Creek Country Club, 620 Bent Creek Drive, Lititz. Author Elaine Miller will speak on “From the Basement of Despair to the Penthouse of Peace.” The cost for the luncheon is all-inclusive. All women are invited. For reservations, call Pat at 717-951-0773.
Very loving, sweet, and always having fun - that’s how Jacquelyn Sauder Iannello describes her older sister Megan Sauder Ralston. With two and a half years between them in age, the sisters - who are the youngest daughters of John and Bonita Sauder of Lititz - grew up doing nearly everything together and had a friendship that strengthened into adulthood. Megan graduated from Lancaster Mennonite High School and went on to play Division I field hockey at Virginia Commonwealth University and earn a Master of Teaching in 2011. She taught first-grade in the Washington, D.C., area and married the love of her life, John Ralston, in 2013. In 2016, after finding a small lump in her breast about six months after giving birth to her son, Bryce, Megan - who was living in Charlottesville, Va., at the time and had no family history of breast cancer - made an OB-GYN appointment and was told by two doctors that the lump was a blocked milk duct. “She was nursing at the time, and the doctors said it was going to go away,” said Jacquelyn. “She was misdiagnosed.” Megan’s pain continued to increase to the point of being unable to lift her son. She returned to the doctor weeks later and was directed to a breast care clinic where she had a See Thrive And Grit pg 12
Sisters Jacquelyn Sauder Iannello (middle) and Megan Sauder Ralston (right) started Thrive and Grit to create awareness of breast cancer in women under age 40, donate toward research, and support others. Megan was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 30, just nine months after giving birth to her son, Bryce (left), and passed away in 2018 at age 31.
Thrive and Grit is just one of many area organizations supporting the fight against breast cancer. Here’s a sampling of some of the other local groups that are fighting back against the disease and supporting breast cancer patients and survivors: Diana’s Dreamers: Determined to Defeat Breast Cancer Established in honor of Diana Denenberg Durand, this endowment has been set up through the Millersville University Foundation to fund a national campaign to raise awareness among college-age women and men about breast cancer and breast health in general. www.millersville.edu/nursing/ breast-cancer-awareness-program/ dianas-dreamers.php Feel Your Boobies Leigh Hurst founded this nonprofit organization in 2004 after she See Local Groups pg 3
Spaghetti Dinner To Support Mission Team Salem UMC Will Host Big Giveaway By Chelsea Peifer
By Chelsea Peifer
Ruhl’s United Methodist Church (UMC) will host an all-you-caneat spaghetti dinner fundraiser on Saturday, Oct. 19, at the church, located at 4810 Elizabethtown Road, Manheim. The menu will include spaghetti with meat sauce or meatless sauce, salad, garlic bread, applesauce, homemade desserts, and beverages. The meal will be served from 4 to 7 p.m. or until the food is sold out. Separate prices for admission have been set for adults and for children ages 4 to 10. Children age 3 and under
Salem United Methodist Church (UMC), 140 N. Penn St., Manheim, will host its fourth annual Big Giveaway on Wednesday, Oct. 16, from 4 to 6 p.m. Anyone in the community is invited to browse a selection of coats, shoes, hats, and children’s books and take what they need. Shoes and coats will be available in a variety of sizes for infants through adults. Salem UMC member Karen Potter, who organizes
A team from Ruhl’s United Methodist Church (UMC) in Manheim, including (front, from left) Gail Ruhl, Susan Tucker, Bev Snavely, (back) Don Miller, Morgan Winters, John Renninger, Jenny Kinter, and Tom Kinter, traveled to Clendenin, W. Va., in July to assist with ongoing flood relief efforts. To raise funds for a service trip in summer 2020, Ruhl’s UMC will host an all-you-can-eat See Dinner pg 4 spaghetti dinner on Oct. 19 at the church.
the event along with the members of the church’s Wrestling With Grace Sunday school class and the Salem Family Ministries committee, said that the items are donated by members of the See Salem UMC pg 4
Members of Salem United Methodist Church in Manheim, including (from left) Karen Potter, Lisa Palmquist, and pastor John Laughlin, invite the community to the church’s Big Giveaway on Oct. 16. Free coats, shoes, hats, and children’s books will be available for anyone in need.
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The Isbell Family from Savannah, Tenn., will be in concert at Mount Pleasant Brethren in Christ Church, 1756 Mount Pleasant Road, Mount Joy, on Sunday, Oct. 13, at 6 p.m. Call 717-653-1284.
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