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Hometown Heroes: Feeding Pequea Valley

BY ANN MEAD ASH

Kerri Burns, food market director at The Factory Ministries, remembers when the organization decided to set up drive-through food distribution for clients during the first days of the COVID-19 shutdown in March. “I thought, ‘We can do this for a couple of weeks,’” recalled Burns. “I didn’t think we would do it long term.”

Burns was able to discontinue the regular drivethrough service at the end of October. A scaled-back, needsbased distribution was held in November, and the new Factory Market opened Dec. 8. Shoppers at the market will use Factory Bucks they have earned by taking classes and completing other actions.

During the many months that food was distributed to car trunks, six or seven volunteers arrived at The Factory on Tuesday mornings and Thursday evenings to pack and distribute. “People got about 65 pounds of food in a bag,” said Burns of the operation, which also involved frozen meat, lunch meat, and more. “We gave out breakfast foods and sometimes snack cakes or hot chocolate. It’s not always a typical food bag.” According to Burns, the number of families receiving food more than tripled from 50 families a week to 160 families per week since March. “There have been no boundaries and no questions,” said Burns.

As she talked, Burns showed her humility, breaking into tears as she credited volunteers, local businesses,

Kerri Burns, food market director at The Factory Ministries, has been overseeing drive-through food distribution since March. As of early December, The Factory Market is open for clients.

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and community members with stocking the pantry and distributing the food since the pandemic began. “The real heroes are the volunteers I have had working for months who come faithfully every Tuesday and Thursday,” said Burns, who went on to mention volunteers who pick up food daily at local convenience and grocery stores or donate milk. She stressed the community response to Food Friday collections and the support of area businesses that stepped up to help. “It’s amazing,” she said.

Burns began life in Ohio, where her parents owned a bowling alley. She attended the University of Akron, where she received her certificate in interpreting for the deaf, learning in her senior year that she was hard of hearing. She moved to Lancaster County about 25 years ago and served in the educational field as a Title 1 tutor at Salisbury Elementary. About four years ago, she and her son, Brady, began volunteering in The Factory food pantry during the summer. In October 2019, a friend mentioned that The Factory was in need of a food pantry director. Burns interviewed with Shira Zimmerman, director of community resources, and was offered the position. “I thought I would like working here, but I didn’t know I would love it,” said Burns. “The day I got the call that I was hired here, I thought, ‘I am all in.’ It was definitely the right choice.”

Readers who would like to learn more about The Factory and its mission may visit https://thefactoryministries .com.

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Cuthie, a resident of Mount Gretna, is well-known in New Holland as the originator of the Hometown Heroes banner program and for her work with Visions.

Readers who would like more information about the GSV race may visit https://gsv.run. Individuals with questions may call 717355-6000.

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Lancaster resident Nate Luvice is only 22 years old, but he is already concerned about the legacy he will leave. “I want to be sure that I leave my mark in this community,” said Luvice. “When people talk about me, they will say that (I) made a change.”

Luvice is a full-time mentor and student services coordinator with Bench Mark, a program located on East Liberty Street in Lancaster city that focuses on giving opportunities to under-served youths through weightlifting. Luvice’s history with the program began seven years ago when he heard Bench Mark founder Will Kiefer speak at Phoenix Academy. Luvice noted that he specifically remembered Kiefer saying he wanted “to give back.” “That sounded strange to me,” said Luvice. “(In my experience), it (was) not usual for someone to want to help you with nothing in return.”

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that during that time period, he was in and out of jail, but Kiefer never gave up on him.

In 2016, Luvice made a decision. “I was shot in the stomach, and I lost four liters of blood,” said Luvice, who still carries a bullet in his lower spine. “I knew it was time to change.” Early one morning while still in the hospital, Luvice reached out to Kiefer. “I said, ‘I really need your help. Now it’s time,’” recalled Luvice. Kiefer, who was on a mission trip to Honduras, wrote back that he would visit Luvice upon his return. “I thought he wouldn’t come. I thought I blew it,” said Luvice, “but sure enough he came to my house when I was recovering.” Since then, Luvice has turned to Kiefer without reservation. “He has been a father figure and mentor,” said Luvice, who noted the hardest part of adjusting was letting go of friends who were not supportive of the changes he was making for himself and for his two children.

A little over a year ago, Kiefer offered Luvice a chance to become a mentor through a curriculum that developed into the Student Leadership Program, which helps build leaders in the community. “I started seeing that I could build a connection with kids because I look like them and I talk like them,” said Luvice. “I really enjoyed knowing I was involved (in their lives) when they would tell me they got a good grade on a test or they were helping their mom with something.”

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Will Kiefer (left), founder of Bench Mark, and Nate Luvice (right), mentor at Bench Mark, are offering opportunities to at-risk youths in Lancaster.

degrees from where he was to where he is now,” said Kiefer. “I have never seen anyone else give up what he had to give up to get there.”

Luvice agreed, noting that he has no fear of the future. “I am not afraid to move forward,” he said. “The mentors all build each other up.”

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