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Help The Fight Revamps Benefit Event By Dayna M. Reidenouer
For the past 10 years, Lynda Charles, founder and president of Help The Fight, a breast cancer charity, has spent late summer preparing for the organization’s annual benefit banquet and auction, which is regularly held at Spooky Nook Sports in October. This year has been a bit different. Charles noted that the board of directors carefully considered the implications of hosting the event and decided that the wisest course of action was to suspend the banquet even though its cancellation will have an economic impact on Help The Fight. “We’ve built a good support team over the years, and we just aren’t willing to put anyone in jeopardy,” Charles said. She noted that even though the venue offered extra precautions beyond the standards required by the CDC, guests with altered immune systems and those undergoing cancer treatment might not feel safe at the event.
Additionally, attendance at the event would have been capped at 250, a significant decrease from the 600 people who participated in the 2019 affair. Proceeds from the banquet and auction are used to support individuals living with breast cancer. Help The Fight has provided funds to buy groceries and tires, pay rent and mortgages, and cover day care fees and medical bills. The Internal Revenue Service caps the support at $500 per client per calendar year, but clients may reapply each year. In 2019, Help The Fight assisted nearly 200 individuals. It is on track to aid a similar number of people this year. “The requests are coming just as they have any other year. We like to keep a certain amount in our accounts (so that) no one gets turned down,” Charles commented. “We like to keep a cushion in case something like this happens.” “Something like this” includes the loss of several smaller fundraisers that had been scheduled since March, as well as the signature October event. See Help The Fight pg 2
Help The Fight patient coordinator Susie Dailey (left) and founder/president Lynda Charles are collecting items for an online auction in October.
Twelve-year-old Lauren Cohen of East Petersburg has never known a world in which Sept. 11 is just another day. The preteenager has always understood 9/11 as the day when 343 firefighters died in the attacks on the World Trade Center. The event has a personal meaning for Lauren, as her father, Mark Cohen of East Petersburg, has been an active firefighter ever since he became eligible at age 16. “Firefighting is a big part of my life,” Lauren said. “My dad is a big role model for me. I want to be a firefighter just like him.” Thus, when Lauren considered what good deed to do for her bat mitzvah - a religious ceremony marking the matriculation of Jewish youths into adulthood at age 13 - she immediately turned to the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF), which, since See 9/11 Stair Climb pg 8
Lauren Cohen holds helmets that will be given away in a fundraiser as part of the Lancaster 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb on Sept. 13.
The Quarryville Library, 357 Buck Road, Quarryville, will host its first virtual Read-a-Thon on Saturday, Aug. 22, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The event will be streamed on the library’s Facebook page via Facebook Live, and it will be viewable at https://quarryville library.org/virtual-programming/ afterward. Community members are invited to enjoy the show and donate to the library as they are able. “The need is great. Due to health and safety restrictions, all planned fundraisers for the library were canceled this year,” said youth services coordinator Sharon Roche. “Nearly all initiatives of our Friends group have also been temporarily postponed to protect vulnerable members from risk. Our passport office, a critical source of funding, has been inactive for months and is only now reopening for
limited appointments.” The Read-a-Thon will be a virtual celebration of literacy within the Southern End. Roche has gathered authors and readers spanning a variety of ages and genres to engage and inspire viewers. Notable authors who are slated to perform during the event include A.S. King, winner of the Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature and the Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction; Sandy Asher, winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Children’s Literature; Susan Mull, local activist, poet, and teacher; Lindsay Bandy, youth librarian at Manheim Public Library and soon-to-be-published YA author; JP Robinson, local author, educator, and frequent Quarryville Library collaborator; Carol A. Park, local independent fantasy author; and Christina Groff See Quarryville Library pg 2
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