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BANKRUPTCY 14th Annual EPC Golf Outing Will Benefit Good Samaritan Services
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As always, May is FREE ICE CREAM MONTH We start with: • 6,000 Geraniums • 2,000 Hanging Baskets Saturday, Starting at $9.00 May 8th & 15th • Washington Boro Tomato Plants plus 49 more! • 20 Pepper Varieties • 14,000 Potted Bike or Hike Proven Winner & Other Plants Enola Rail Trail e th • Fruit & Vegetable Plants, Shrubs, & Trees before your visit! • Sweet Potato Plants
BY COURTNEY MENGEL
In 2002, Good Samaritan Services (GSS) purchased its first property in Phoenixville, where it was able to serve five people at a time. Nineteen years later, GSS has acquired 13 different properties and can serve 200 people every day. GSS came to the Lancaster County area in 2011 after opening an emergency shelter in Ephrata, which provides housing for women and children. GSS provides a full continuum of care to individuals and families experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness. Some of the services offered by GSS include eviction prevention, emergency shelter, traditional 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 maintain their own safe and stable housing. “Our organization is unique in that we can help people with stable housing regardless of where they are in their journey,” stated GSS development and communications coordinator Shadoe Caprell. “A lot of times, people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness can’t receive assistance from agencies unless they reach the definition of homeless-
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So many fun unities rt o p op for your child this summer!
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Morning & Afternoon Camps run June & July
• Variety of Technology Camps for students entering grades 3-12
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• Camps held in the Department of Applied Engineering, Safety & Technology at Millersville University • Breanne’s Homegrown Produce • Homegrown Hot House Tomatoes • Sweet Potatoes • Lanc. Co. Raw Honey
2277 River Road, Washington Boro (1 mile S. of Rt. 999) 717-872-4842 www.funksriverviewgreenhouse.com
ness. We can fill in the cracks.” Since July 2020, GSS has served nearly 400 men, women, and children through its emergency shelter, residential housing, On hand at the 2020 EPC Golf Outing during a donation from and housing support pro- $3,000 presenting sponsor Alwine Security to GSS were (from grams; provided nearly left) EPC representatives Lauren Hillegas, Jeremy Engle, and $90,000 in rental assis- Jocelyn Engle; Alwine Security owner Jamie Alwine; Nate Hoftance, including 18 eviction fer, CEO of GSS; and Derek Sanders and Matt Rhoads of Alwine. preventions; and helped 53 To date, the EPC Golf Outing has individuals and families successfully and participants will have chances complete their programs and find to win prizes throughout the golf raised more than $100,000 for charity. Preregistration is required and can course. One hundred percent of the stable housing. be completed up to 48 hours before “I get to meet individuals in our proceeds will go to GSS. “With COVID, people have been the event. For more information shelter and hear their stories,” said Caprell. “They’re all such wonderful, hit really hard this past year, so about the EPC Golf Outing, to register beautiful people. There’s such a stig- there are many people in need of to play, or to sponsor the event, visit ma that comes with homelessness, the services that GSS offers,” noted www.epcgolfouting.com. To learn but it’s so far from the truth. Anyone EPC marketing director Lauren Hille- about the services GSS offers in Lancan become homeless at the drop of gas. “You could be helping a family caster and Chester counties, visit www.goodsamservices.org. member or your neighbor.” a dime.” Caprell said one of the biggest Ninety-seven percent of GSS’ funding comes from community reasons to attend the event is that Annual Plant donations and fundraisers such as events such as the EPC Golf Outing the annual Engle Printing & Publish- are important to the funding of Sale Slated ing Co., Inc. (EPC) Golf Outing. The GSS. “This event can help hunTown and Country Garden 14th annual EPC Golf Outing will dreds and hundreds of people and Club of Lancaster will hold its take place on Friday, June 11, at provide them with a safe place to 15th annual plant sale on SaturCrossgates Golf Club, 1 Crossland call home,” she emphasized. day, May 8, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Pass, Millersville, with tee times at 7 “Your donation and participation at Pavilion 1 at Manheim Towna.m. and 1:30 p.m. Meals, bever- will make a direct impact on the ship Community Park, 209 Petersburg Road, Lancaster. A ages, and snacks will be provided, community.” variety of herbs, annuals, vegetable starter plants, houseplants, and unique perennials from members’ gardens will be available for purchase. There will also be a selection of Mother’s Day gifts. A “green” elephant table with gently used garden equipment, books, pots, and other items will be featured. All proceeds benefit the club’s Horticulture Scholarship Fund. The sale is open to the public. Attendees are asked to practice Staff from both GSS and EPC volunteer at the Golf social distancing and wear a mask. Outing every year.
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