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MAY 4, 2022
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXX • NO 13
Who Is Ready FORE Some Golf? Shelter, GSS has been operating since June 1999. By 2002, GSS purchased According to Homeless Shelters its first property in Phoenixville, Directory, there are an estimated 950 where it was able to provide five peohomeless individuals in Lancaster ple at a time with emergency housing. and Chester counties. It costs Good Currently, GSS owns 14 properties, Samaritan Services (GSS) $35 to pro- totaling 100 beds and over 30,000 vide a night of shelter, two meals, square feet. GSS came to the Lancaster supplies, and compassionate care to County area in 2011 when it opened an individual. That is about one-third an emergency shelter in Ephrata, which provides housing for women the cost of a hotel per night. Previously known as Good Sam and children. GSS provides a full continuum of care to individuals and families that are experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness. Some of the services offered by GSS include eviction prevention, case management services, emergency shelter, transitional housing, affordable housing, and permanent housing services across Lancaster and Chester counties. The organization’s end goal is to empower people to feel confident and capable enough to Representatives from Good Samaritan Services maintain their own safe and stable housing. look forward to one of its main fundraisers, BY COURTNEY MENGEL
Volunteers Beautify Birdsboro BY FRANCINE FULTON
o coincide with Earth Day, a group of about 100 volunteers spent the day on April 23 painting, weeding, picking up trash and taking part in other cleanup activities as part of Beautify Birdsboro! The effort is presented annually by the
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Birdsboro Parks and Recreation Department. Volunteers included local Girl Scout and Cub Scout troops, members of the Mission Trip Birdsboro ministry, employees of Arkema and members of the Birdsboro American Legion. Also participating were students from Kelly Hillman’s
Volunteers with Beautify Birdsboro! planted flowers at the Birdsboro Community Memorial Center.
third-grade class at Daniel Boone Area Intermediate Center, nicknamed the Kindness Squad. “(Volunteers) cleaned up trash, swept sidewalks, mulched and planted flowers in all four of our parks,” said Parks and Recreation board member Christen Thompson. The parks are Rustic Park, Main Bird Park, Vest Pocket Park and Lincoln Park. Congregation members from St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church provided lunch to all the volunteers. Volunteers cleaned out St. Mark’s community garden beds and planted vegetables. In Rustic Park, Beautify Birdsboro! volunteers picked up trash along the trails and the banks of Hay Creek. Other volunteers mulched and then planted flowers around the signs of the Birdsboro Industrial Park, St. Mark’s and the Birdsboro Community Memorial Center. Other worksites included the Boone Area Library, Texas Field and borough hall. “We also had volunteers do graffiti abatement and painted a few areas that needed a touch-up,” said Thompson.
which will help address homelessness in Lancaster and Chester counties.
Open House To Highlight Restored Pipe Organ, Welkinweir Garden
INSIDE THIS ISSUE Little Free Library Installed At American Legion . . . . .4 Community Calendar . . . .5 Church To Host Beach Volleyball . . . . . . . .7
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The Welkinweir estate, which is home to the Green Valley Watershed Association (GVWA), will be the site of an open house on Saturday, May 7, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event will feature organ music performed on the site’s fully restored 1928 Skinner pipe organ.
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See Beautify Birdsboro! pg 3
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Beautify Birdsboro! volunteers spent the day on April 23 cleaning up trash in local parks.
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