Gala to bring Hope Inspire Love’s work out of darkness and into light
BY JEFF FALK
Hope Inspire Love takes both a realistic and an optimistic approach to its work. The human trafficking-fighting local nonprofit also takes its fun seriously.
Hope Inspire Love’s upcoming event is a mixture of style and substance, of business and play and of joy and caution.
“When people dress in formal attire, they feel elegant,” said Amy Thurston, Hope Inspire Love’s CEO and co-founder. “They’re meeting people who have similar beliefs. They’re excited. They feel beautiful. But they’re seeing that their support has purpose; it’s supporting the work we do. It’s a night of beauty while also bringing hope. They’ll be hearing hard stories, but the beauty outweighs them.”
Hope Inspire Love’s third
annual gala and awards ceremony - the organization’s largest fundraiser - will be conducted on Friday, April 11, at Eden Resort, 222 Eden Road, Lancaster. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m., and the festivities will begin with a silent auction and an hors d’oeuvres hour.
A keynote speaker who has been directly affected by human trafficking will deliver an address to the gathering, and a full-course dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m.
Liz Ackerman, executive director of the Northern Lancaster County Chamber of Commerce, will serve as the master of ceremonies for the event, which will also feature music and an interactive live art experience.
The deadline for purchasing tickets at www.hopeinspirelove .org is Thursday, April 10.
“It’s an evening for people to celebrate the work that Hope
BY GEORGE DEIBEL
The 29th annual Lancaster-Lebanon IU13 Education Conference will be held Thursday, June 12, at Conestoga Valley High School, 2110 Horseshoe Road, Lancaster.
“We want people to be aware of what we offer, but we also want to give them evidence-based practices to use with students,” said Chanda Telleen, who is an associate program director and supervisor of the training and consultation team for the
IU13. “People are coming to our conference as a way to enhance their professional learning. We have presenters from our partner PaTTAN (Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network). We have presenters from institutes of higher education. We have practitioners presenting. We try to expose our audience to the latest evidence-based practices to support our students.”
Registration and a continental breakfast will run from 7:45 to 8:30 a.m., followed by a welcome
BY JEFF FALK
At the heart of the matter, it’s children helping children. Bethany Christian Services (BCS) simply serves as the mediator, the facilitator.
Appropriately enough, the organization’s upcoming event is being called Walk in Love.
“Kids are the motivation for what we do,” said Elaine Shenk, who’s been BCS’ director of family strengthening and empowerment for five years. “We want to protect children in our community. Everything we do at Bethany Christian Services revolves around children and family. We want families to come out, have fun and enjoy spending time together, being together as a family.”
Bethany Christian Services of Central Pennsylvania is conducting its inaugural Walk in
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Members of the Hope Inspire Love team address the attendees at last year’s gala.
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Inspire Love does,” said Thurston. “People get a chance to learn about our existing programs. The gala is an opportunity to come out, become more aware and understand how they can become involved.”
Organizers of Hope Inspire Love are hoping to make $100,000 through the fundraiser, about $15,000 more than it raised last year.
“We want to be able to expand our restorative services,” said Thurston. “We want to be able to meet people’s needs. We don’t want to have to say to people, ‘We can’t serve you.’ We want to be able to say yes. We want to make sure it’s a long-term, not a short-term, fix.”
other smaller fundraising events throughout the year. Hope Inspire Love’s mission is also funded through private and business donations, church charity and grants.
“To me, it’s about fostering healthy relationships and growing,” said Thurston. “It’s important for businesses to know who we are. We’re trying to help people navigate healthy relationships. We’re trying to meet people where they are and walk with them on their journeys.”
Concert to feature college musicians
Lancaster Church of the Brethren, 1601 Sunset Ave., Lancaster, will showcase student musicians from Elizabethtown College in its Starlight Tea Concert Series on Saturday, April 5, at 7 p.m.
The students, who were chosen by audition, will represent multiple majors. Their instruments include the violin, piano, clarinet, marimba, flute, and voice.
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As many as 250 church members, community members, business leaders, government officials and individuals who have been directly and indirectly affected by human trafficking are expected to attend.
“I love people, and I love relationships,” said Thurston. “I love seeing people connecting around their tables. What gets me choked up is how many people come out. I love seeing people who support the why.”
Located at 1380 Harrisburg Pike, Lancaster, Hope Inspire Love was founded in 2017 when Thurston’s husband, Steve, witnessed an incident of human trafficking. Today, Hope Inspire Love is operated by a staff of six employees and supported by over 100 volunteers.
“We’ve been able to expand our services beyond Lancaster County,” said Thurston. “We’ve been able to expand our team. We’ve been able to do more prevention education. We’ve been able to match survivors with mentors. That’s why we get to celebrate.”
The concert choir will begin with a piece written by Canadian composer Eleanor Daley. Other works for voice will include selections from the classic musical “West Side Story,” along with arias and art songs. Also included will be instrumental works by Francis Poulenc, Aaron Copland,
The soloists are Isabelle Bright, Connor Deah, Zachary Deah, Brynn Donoff, Ryley Douglass, Hannah Fletcher, Emily Harrell, Helen Hostetter, Lila Hughes, Gabriella Lozada, Aaron Oliver, Olivia Pituch, and Gia Solito. The piano accompanists are Audrey Bower, Mary Ellen DeWitt, Anne Gross, and Debra Ronning.
Admission is free, and a freewill offering will be received. Tea and cookies will be served following the concert. For more information, contact planning committee chair Giny Mackey at 717-201-8450.
Breakfast event to celebrate Easter
Faith United Methodist Church, 1290 Fruitville Pike, Lititz, will host its annual Breakfast with the Easter Bunny on Saturday, April 5, from 8 to 10:30 a.m. A hot breakfast will be available to enjoy in the dining room or to carry out.
Breakfast will include pancakes and sausage with various top -
pings. A gluten-free option will be offered. The breakfast is available by donation.
The Easter Bunny will be on-site for egg hunts at 8:30, 9:30, and 10:30 a.m., as well as for photos. For more details, call 717-5600321. Information about the church is available at www.faithumc.us.
Students to launch record
Hope Inspire Love also conducts a Freedom Walk to help raise funds and awareness about human trafficking, in addition to
“We love to be able to tell the survivors that the community did this,” added Thurston. “This isn’t about Hope Inspire Love; it’s about all of us working together. It takes all of us. We all have a part to play.”
The Mix Kidz invites fans to attend a record release party to celebrate the launch of the group’s “Songs for Justice Youth Edition, Volume I.” The event will take place on Wednesday, April 9, at The Mix, 520 North St., Lancaster. The doors will open at 5 p.m. The event will include music from the new album, as well as exclusive merchandise, copies of a limited-edition vinyl
record, and giveaways.
The first edition of “Songs for Justice Youth Edition” is a compilation of original music, poetry, and art created by the students at the Mix. Guided by Alexander Colon of the Ripple Hub and Ripple Creators, and Sir Dominique Jordan, the record debuts original songs and spoken word. To purchase tickets, visit https:// bit.ly/41uByvi.
Concert to feature organ music
First Reformed Church, 40 E. Orange St., Lancaster, will present a concert, “Majesty of the Organ,” on First Friday, April 4, at 8 p.m.
Doors will open at 7:30 p.m. The 30-minute program will feature organist Ken Krause. The program
will include “Trumpet Voluntary” by Henry Huron and “Suite for Organ” by Charles John Stanley. The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, call the church office at 717-397-5149.
Walk in Love
Love, a children’s walk/run and family festival, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 17, at Lancaster Bible College (LBC), 901 Eden Road, Lancaster. The event is designed to raise funds and awareness for families in central Pennsylvania dealing with poverty, homelessness and health issues.
In addition to the children’s 1-mile walk/run and a toddler toddle, Walk in Love will feature food trucks, carnival-style games, a vendors’ market and resource tables.
“We’re hoping it’s going to be very celebratory,” said Shenk. “People are worth celebrating, and I get excited to see people lean on each other and cheering each other on. I’m picturing joy and lots of smiles. I think it’s going to be a fun celebration.”
To register for Walk in Love, go to www.bethany.org/centralpa/walk or call 717-598-9971. The deadline to register is Friday, May 2, but late registrations will be accepted.
“I’m looking forward to meeting new people, seeing old friends and seeing it all come together,” said Shenk. “I just picture a mighty, wonderful moment of energy. We’re hoping to make it an annual event. We would love to continue to grow this event as a hallmark event for Bethany Christian Services. We really want it to be a family-centered event.”
“(The idea for Walk in Love) came from a big brainstorming time,” Shenk continued. “That’s what we really want to do as Christians, walk in love, love our neighbors as ourselves and God. It just got a lot of support as we talked about it. People should always come first, and they should take care of each other. We say, ‘Who is my neighbor?’ We all belong to each other.”
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Central Pennsylvania children and youths ages 5 to 18 are eligible to participate in the 1-mile walk/ run, and they are asked to obtain financial sponsorships from family members and friends. A 1-mile course will be created around the parking lot of LBC’s Horst Athletic Center. Prizes will be awarded by age categories.
hoping to raise $15,000. The funds will go toward sustainability of BCS programs like Safe Families for Children.
“(Safe Families for Children is) an amazing ministry started in 2003 for children all over the United States and here in Lancaster, Dauphin and York counties,” said Shenk. “It’s not foster care. It’s not changing custody. It’s providing parents support until they get back on their feet. So many families are facing really tough things. It’s a ministry, and churches get host families together. It’s not really our staff doing it.”
Headquartered in Grand Rapids, Mich., BCS was established in Lancaster in 1984. Since then, BCS has opened additional central Pennsylvania branch offices in Harrisburg, York, State College, Reading and Mohnton.
BCS, which provides adoption, foster care, counseling services, pregnancy support and family strengthening programs, employs 12 workers at its Lancaster office at 1681 Crown Ave., Suite 201, Lancaster. BCS is funded through
Flea market, Eggstravaganza planned
The Upper Leacock Township War Memorial Association (ULTWMA) will host its last monthly indoor flea market of the season, along with an Eggstravaganza, on Saturday, April 5. The flea market will be held in the Veterans’ Hall of the War Memorial Building, 54 W. Main St., Leola, from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
More than 37 vendors will offer items such as crafts, toys, health care products, Hot Wheels products, colored glass items, puzzles, train items, collectibles, books, antiques, seasonal arrangements, tools, team sports items, and traditional flea market bargains. Refreshments will also be available for
Program to focus on obtaining a drone pilot certificate
Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) invites the community to a Drone Orientation on Wednesday, April 9, from 6 to 7 p.m. at EMU at Lancaster, 100 W. Millport Road, Lititz.
John Sibole will speak about the requirements and process to earn a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Part 107 Remote Pilot
Certificate, a commercial drone credential. Sibole has more than 50 years of professional aviation experience, including service as an FAA inspector.
The program is free of charge, but preregistration is required. For more information and to register, visit www.emu.edu/lancaster/ events.
government grants, private donors and fundraisers.
“Our mission is to extend the love and compassion of Jesus Christ by protecting children, empowering youth and strengthening families through quality social services,” said Shenk. “We’re very pro-people. We want to make a difference by walking through life with people.”
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There is no admission charge. Parking is available at the rear of the building. Proceeds will support the maintenance of the War Memorial Building. For more information and to rent a table at the flea market, contact ULTWMA at 717656-6154 or ultwma@ gmail.com.
Pilot Club will hold fashion show fundraiser
BY GEORGE DEIBEL
Fashion trends are always changing, but helping people never goes out of style for the Pilot Club of Lancaster.
The Pilot Club will hold its annual Derby Day Fashion Show & Luncheon on Saturday, April 5, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Palm Court at DoubleTree Resort, 2400 Willow Street Pike, Lancaster.
Mainstream Boutique will bring the latest fashions, which will be worn by volunteer models. The luncheon will include soup and salad, bread and butter, dessert, coffee, and iced tea.
There is a cost to attend. For more information or to purchase tickets, contact the group on Facebook by searching for “Pilot Club of Lancaster.”
program in 1967. Meals on Wheels grew to become a separate nonprofit, but the Pilot Club still makes monetary donations, and some members volunteer to deliver meals.
All men and women are welcome to join the Pilot Club. The Lancaster chapter’s membership currently consists of 37 women.
The Pilot Club meets at 5:30 p.m. on the second Wednesday of each month at Lancaster Tennis & Yacht Club, 2615 Columbia Ave., Lancaster. Guests are welcome to attend to see how the club operates, Osborne said.
The Pilot Club’s signature community service initiative is Project Lifesaver of Lancaster County, a group near and dear to Osborne.
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Entertainment will be provided by Adriano, a one-man band playing an organ and singing songs performed by Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and others. There will be chances to win items and a hat contest for ladies. “Wear your most outlandish Derby hat to win a prize,” Pilot Club president Kelly Osborne said. All proceeds will benefit the organization’s community service projects, said Osborne.
The Pilot Club was chartered in Lancaster in 1947. “We are a nonprofit community service club,” Osborne said. “We’re similar to the Rotary Club or the Lions Club. Our motto is ‘Friendship and Service.’”
The group launched the local Meals on Wheels
Project Lifesaver is a search-and-rescue program for people who wander away from home due to a cognitive issue such as dementia or autism, Osborne said.
West Hempfield Police Department was the first department to embrace the program when it began in 2012. Since then, Project Lifesaver has added 22 police departments as full or associate members to become a countywide organization that includes Lancaster County Emergency Management Agency (LEMA) and Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) Troop J Lancaster.
Osborne, who retired from her job as a state trooper in January of 2023, had never heard of Project Lifesaver until 2019. Her father, Courtney, who had dementia, wandered away from an assisted living facility in Lancaster Township in October of 2019 and was
found dead.
Serendipitously, days earlier, a sheriff from New Jersey had called Osborne to notify the PSP a Project Lifesaver client was visiting Lancaster County. When Osborne returned the message, she said she got chills.
“I knew right then and there it was my mission to search for information on Project Lifesaver and bring it to Troop J Lancaster as a tribute to my dad,” she said.
Osborne connected with the Pilot Club in 2019, joined two years later, and is now finishing the first year of a two-year term as the group’s president. She acquired funding and cut through red tape to bring Project Lifesaver to Troop J.
The Pilot Club helps fund the purchase of equipment and training of police officers and handles client enrollment and battery maintenance.
LEMA and police agencies maintain search-and-rescue equipment, keep officers proficient with the training, and do the search-and-rescue missions when needed.
“We count on this money to continue to fund Project Lifesaver of Lancaster
County to purchase transmitters and equipment for our police departments,” Osborne said.
Here’s how Project Lifesaver works: Families who have loved ones with a cognitive condition and fear that person could get lost may contact Cathy Cieslinski of the Pilot Club at 717-572-2682 or go to www.pilotclubof lancaster.org.
The Pilot Club fits clients with a transmitter on either an ankle or a wrist. There is a specific frequency assigned to each transmitter. Should the client go missing, the caregiver is instructed to call 911, and then trained personnel go out with a receiver in search of the missing person. “It’s archaic technology but tried and true,” Osborne said. She added that Project Lifesaver has reduced search-and-rescue time from an average of about nine hours to an average of 30 minutes or less.
There is a cost associated with each transmitter and the equipment that goes with it, but the Pilot Club provides scholarship opportunities for those in need so that no one is turned away.
Church plans spaghetti dinner
St. Anthony of Padua Church will host a spaghetti dinner on Sunday, April 6, from noon to 3 p.m. in the cafeteria at Resurrection
Catholic School, 521 E. Orange St., Lancaster. The meal will include spaghetti and meatballs, rolls, desserts, and drinks. There will be giveaway drawings for baskets of goodies, two grocery certificates, and dinner certificates.
The fee for the meal will be discounted for children ages 6 to 12. Kids age 5 and under may eat for free.
The dinner will raise funds for the ongoing restoration of the church’s lower level. Parking for the event will be available around the
school yard and across from the church.
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Pilot Club of Lancaster president Kelly Osborne shows a tool used to search for missing people who have cognitive conditions.
and opening remarks. Participants should bring confirmation of registration. Room assignments and the conference day agenda will be available.
At 8:40 a.m., keynote speaker Nikole Hollins-Sims will deliver her presentation, “A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes - Building Belonging From Birth On.”
Hollins-Sims is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and educational consultant specializing in equity and positive behavior interventions. She is the senior consultant for Hollins-Sims Consultation and has held roles such as technical assistance coordinator for the Midwest Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) Network and special assistant to the secretary of education at the Pennsylvania Department of Education. A Pennsylvania-certified school psychologist, she has researched family-school partnerships, particularly involving caregivers of children with incarcerated parents. She is the lead author of “Creating Equitable Practices in PBIS.”
There will be sessions for participants to break into smaller groups during the morning and afternoon. Participants should preregister for one morning session (10 a.m. to noon) and one afternoon session
(1 to 3 p.m.).
“We do have specific presentations that we think might be interesting to a specific group,” Telleen said. “We have certain sessions that we think might be interesting to nurses or to parents.”
The final activity will run from 3 to 3:30 p.m., when attendees will be able to complete evaluations and visit sponsors’ tables.
“The conference is open to everyone. From parents to superintendents, we invite you to come,” said Telleen. “We invite teachers, special education teachers, and administrators to come to our conference. We have a wide range of topics.”
Go to www.iu13.org/ event/education-conference to register. Preregistration is required for both morning and afternoon breakout sessions, but not the keynote speech. The registration deadline is Friday, May 23.
“We want people to register early and get the early-bird discount,” said Telleen. “We want to get as many people there as possible, but space is limited to approximately 400 people. We’d like to get our registration in as early as possible.”
Telleen said the IU13 is thankful for support from vendors and business sponsors. The conference will also serve as a recruitment tool. “We are high -
lighting some students,”
Telleen said. “There are some interns who will be at our conference. This is another opportunity for us to attract young people to the field of education and specifically working with students with disabilities.”
She noted the importance of interesting young people in teaching to address teacher shortages.
The IU13 supports students with disabilities from birth to graduation and beyond, Telleen said. “We work with families. We work with our 22 member districts to provide training and technical assistance and special programming for students with disabilities,” she added.
There is a wide variety of programs that offer
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Collectibles
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Pets
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Sporting Goods
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Miscellaneous
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SERVICES RENDERED
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SPINELLO HOME IMPROVEMENTS
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Trimming/Planting Small Tree and Shrub Removal
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Manheim Township School District
April and May Manheim Township School Board Meeting Dates
The public is welcome to all School Board meetings. Agendas for each meeting will be posted on the district website, www. mtwp.net. Each meeting has at least one public comment section at the end of the agenda. Please contact Mrs. Marshall, 717-735-1730, for additional information.
All Board Meetings are held at 7:00 p.m. at the District Office located at: 450A Candlewyck Road, Lancaster, PA:
April 10, 2025 Work Session
April 17, 2025 Voting Meeting
May 8, 2025 Work Session
May 15, 2025 Voting Meeting
The Manheim Township School District (MTSD) Board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Caroline Pate-Hefty as the district’s next Superintendent of Schools, effective July 1, 2025. The Board officially approved her appointment during its regular meeting on March 20, 2025. Dr. PateHefty will lead MTSD under a five-year contract, ensuring continuity and stability as the district continues its commitment to academic excellence and student success.
