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EPC Golf Outing To Aid Good Samaritan Services Now more than ever, thanks to jobs and wages lost while the stay-at-home order was in place, resources for people experiencing homelessness or at risk of losing their homes are in demand. Thankfully, Good Samaritan Services (GSS), which serves individuals and families in Lancaster and Chester counties who have poverty-related needs, is prepared to help. “ We provide a wide spectrum of services that are customizable to each individual or family at whatever place they are at in their journey to stability,” said Shadoe Settle, GSS development and communications coordinator. “Our services are always expanding. Right now, we provide emergency shelter, residential housing, and housing support services to men, women, and families in
Lancaster and Chester counties. Serving men is a new ability in Lancaster County, and we are very excited about it.” Although the need for the services provided by GSS has increased, the organization has been able to keep the lives of its existing participants stable, thanks to support from the community. “Our ability to provide support and guidance during this time enabled all of our participants to remain in their housing, pay their bills, and continue life as normally as possible during such an abnormal time,” Settle said. As with other organizations, the delivery of services had to change, requiring flexibility from both the GSS team members and participants. GSS continued to provide emergency shelter and residential housing services while maintaining state-issued safety requirements and conducting cautious intakes
for new clients. GSS family resource coordinators met with participants via Zoom, FaceTime, WhatsApp, and other virtual-meeting software to provide housing support services. The financial impact of COVID-19 will be felt for a long time to come, and GSS expects the need for its services to increase, Settle said. The nonprofit organization depends on donations and fundraisers to operate. One such fundraiser is the golf outing hosted by Engle Printing & Publishing Co., Inc. (EPC). “Our partnership with EPC and their willingness to organize such a wonderful event has been an incredible blessing, financially and relationally,” Settle remarked. “This is one of our biggest fundraisers of the year, and it has continued to provide funds needed to perform all of our services.” See EPC Golf Outing pg 3
Food Truck Event To Replace Tomato Festival
Rotary Club Of Lancaster Supports CARE
performances by country music bands, and the ubiquitous tomato sandwiches made with the For more than a half-century, thousands of famous Jet Star variety. Even when the organizpeople have flocked to the western edge of Lan- ers changed from a civic group to a fire company, caster County for the annual Washington Boro the festival essentially remained unchanged. Tomato Festival. The event has looked similar Until COVID-19. from year to year, featuring carnival games, For the first time, the Tomato Festival will be suspended. In its place, the Blue Rock Fire Rescue support group will host a food truck event. Rather than occur on two Saturdays as the festival does, the food truck event will be held on consecutive days. Vendors will be ready for business on Friday, July 17, from 3 to 7 p.m. and on Saturday, July 18, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. “We do not feel comfortable with big crowds gathering and playing games,” Blue Rock Fire Rescue support group member Dick Schock commented on the change. “A lot of people are doing The Blue Rock Fire Rescue support group has suspended the annual Washington Boro Tomato Festival in favor of a food See Food Truck Event pg 6 truck event on July 17 and 18.
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When COVID-19 restrictions threatened a Central American Relief Effort (CARE) project funded by the Rotary Club of Lancaster, the club board held an emergency meeting and came through with the extra funds needed to complete the effort. The club had been asked to help fund a move of 1,000 chair and desk sets from the Penn Manor School District construction site. The furniture was headed for schools in a poverty-stricken area of rural Honduras where they would
replace wooden benches. Malcolm MacDougall, co-chair of World Community Service with Rotary Club of Lancaster, said that around the end of See Rotary Club pg 3
Professional movers loaded desk and chair sets donated by Penn Manor School District (right photo) into containers headed for Honduras (left photo) on June 8. The effort, which was hampered by COVID-19 restrictions, was a project of Central American Relief Effort made possible by a grant from the Rotary Club of Lancaster.
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