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MAY 25, 2022
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LVIX • NO 4
A Basket In One Disc Golf Club Plans Tournament BY ANN MEAD ASH
A student uses a new appliance in a Life Skills class.
PMEF Awards Spring Grants he Penn Manor Education Foundation has awarded more than $37,000 in grants to teachers, counselors and social workers to support Penn Manor students and their families for spring 2022. The grant awards are in addition to the more than $40,000 in Venture Grants
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awarded to Penn Manor teachers in the fall of 2021. This latest round of grants includes $18,679 in teacher Venture Grants and $18,951 in Strong & Healthy Families grants. A list of grants is available at https:// pennmanoredfoundation.org/ tax-credits-grants/recent-projects/.
The Strong & Healthy grants include $7,000 to support the TeenHope program, which provides mental health screenings for all Penn Manor seventh- and ninth-graders to identify those who may be struggling. A $5,000 grant is being used to purchase uniforms, tools, supplies and certification fees for students who attend Lancaster County Career & Technology Center programs. A $3,500 grant is helping students pay for Advanced Placement exam fees, and a $1,951 grant is funding a portion of the tuition cost for students to attend dual-enrollment college-credit classes. Students are identified for this assistance based on their family incomes. A $1,500 grant is funding a Literacy Outreach program that will distribute free children’s books in the Manor Heights, Brunswick Farms, Willow Run and
Pheasant Ridge neighborhoods, in conjunction with the Lancaster Library Bookmobile. The teacher Venture Grants include several that support the arts. Grants totaling more than $2,500 will fund easels and digital cameras for high school art classes, and a $3,520 grant will pay for a new kiln at Pequea Elementary School. Two grants totaling more than $1,300 will support an effort to teach Life Skills students how to purchase and cook healthy foods by providing grocery gift cards and a griddle, a blender and an air fryer for use in class. Other grants will fund “surf seats,” exercise balls and other alternative seating options for elementary students; school gardening instruction; a language translator; and detailed anatomical models for high school biology classes. See PMEF pg 5
Students participate in Edible Classroom lessons at Conestoga Elementary.
See Disc Golf pg 2
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Penn Manor students and their teacher attended an Aevidum conference.
When Wesley Moyer moved to Lancaster County several years ago, he had a special reason to look for a place to live in Akron. Moyer specifically chose the borough because he likes Lloyd H. Roland Memorial Park, 221 N. 11th St., Akron. Moyer’s connection to the park is not simply due to an affinity for the outdoors, but rather is tied to his interest in disc golf, a sport he first discovered at summer camp in Pottstown as a teenager. “I got more serious (about disc golf) when I came here,” said Moyer, who is now the secretary of the 75-member Lancaster County Disc Golf Club (LCDGC). He also volunteers to help maintain the disc golf course at Akron - a 27-basket course with holes in the open, in the pine forest, and mixed between fairways and woods. Maintenance ranges from
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