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Alternative Gift Fair Announced

In its 15th year of celebrating and encouraging charitable giving, Gifts That Give Hope Lancaster’s annual gift fair will take place on Sunday, Dec. 11. The event will be held at the Farm and Home Center, 1383 Arcadia Road, Lancaster, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. While at the gift fair, shoppers will be able to engage with each of this year’s 45 nonprofit organizations to best choose which ones they would like to support by purchasing gifts for loved ones on their holiday gift list. Shoppers will also be able to enjoy food and beverages from local eateries and food trucks and peruse fair trade goods, social enterprises, and businesses offering environmentally friendly and ethically sourced gifts.

This year’s nonprofit participants include Aarons Acres, Big Picture Soccer, Blackbirds Environmental Justice, Benchmark Program, Clare House, Church World Service, Connection Ubuntu, Heifer International, Good Samaritan Services, Habitat for Humanity, Feed My Starving Children, Music for Everyone, Medan Initiative, Outreach Paraguay, Rafiki Africa Foundation, Thriving Villages International, Reach Out and Read Lancaster, Mental Health America, Safe Families for Children, SWAN, The Potter’s House, Wittel Farm Growing Project, Lifecycles, Walking Forward Together, Heeding God’s Call, Nurse Family Partnership, Hope Walks, Sisters’ Hope Foundation, The Blessing Foundation, Horizon: Empower the Orphaned, Brittany’s Hope, The Period Project, The Common Wheel, Central PA Animal Alliance Hounds of Prison Education (HOPE), Refugee Strong, The Edible Classroom, Lancaster Farm Sanctuary, 2 Seconds or Less, Live Like Libby, Lancaster County Food Hub, Chyatee Foundation, Ukraine War Refugee Aid Fund, and World Bicycle Relief. Marketplace vendors will include Revolution Jewelry, CHYATEE: Conscious Living Begins Here, My Peruvian Treasures, Hope Inspire Love, North Star Initiative, Binding Love Scarves, Girl Crush, Friendship heART Gallery, Empowered Goods, Chestnut Ridge Honey, and The Get Stuff Done Book Club.

In addition to the shopping opportunities, there will be a Human Rights Day scavenger hunt taking place throughout the day for interested participants of all ages to take part in to learn about the respective nonprofits in the area that are working to address various articles of the Declaration.

Father Christmas will be present all day for pictures, visits, and interactive story reading. Father Christmas will introduce a variety of children’s authors who will be on-site to offer activities, book readings and signings, and the opportunity to purchase books.

Food will be available for purchase throughout the day from Lancaster food establishments, including Stroopies, Homage: Cuisine of the West African Diaspora, WalkO-Taco, The Cookie Sale to Combat World Hunger, pHresKoo Haitian Lemonade Food Truck, Gourmet Julie’s Way, Isabelle Cuisine: West African and Fusion Fare, Power Broths, and Character Coffee Cart.

Gifts That Give Hope Lancaster is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote charitable, alternative giving through an annual gift fair that offers the opportunity to purchase holiday gifts in support of charitable causes and meaningful gift giving. To learn more, contact Jennifer Oehme Knepper at 717-201-9157 or lancastergiftfair@gmail.com.

EPA frompg 3 source pollution from agriculture, stormwater, and acid mine drainage. To qualify for the federal dollars, the water body must be impaired and have an approved plan to make it unimpaired. Portions of the Pequea Creek Watershed began appearing on the state’s list of impaired waters in 1996, 1998, and 2000, due to excessive nutrient and sediment loading.

Within the 153-squaremile Pequea Creek watershed, Section 319 funding will be used to keep soils and nutrients on the land instead of in the water with practices such as cover crops, no-till agriculture, nutrient management, animal waste management, riparian buffers, streambank fencing, streambank stabilization, and reducing legacy sediment.

Gish explained that contributors to the plan included representatives of local government, leaders from the Amish community and other area residents. The plan aligns with Lancaster’s Countywide Action Plan and Pennsylvania’s Chesapeake Bay watershed implementation plan, noted Harry Campbell, CBF science policy and advocacy director in Pennsylvania. Funding for development of the plan was provided by the Richard King Mellon Foundation.

Sens. Bob Casey and Ben Cardin had earlier secured $2.18 million for the Pequea plan. It was the first time in a decade that senators were able to request funds for specific projects in annual appropriations bills.

Gish and Caitlin Glagola, CBF watershed coordinator in Pennsylvania, are now developing new watershed restoration plans for the Upper Conestoga River in Lancaster, Berks, and Chester counties, as well as Marsh Creek in Centre County.

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Community Day Planned

Grace Point Church in Paradise will host Paradise Township Community Day on Friday, Aug. 5, at 6:30 p.m. The event will be held in Paradise Park, 6 London Vale Road, Paradise.

Community Day will feature fireworks, ice cream, bounce houses, live reptiles from Forgotten Friend Reptile Sanctuary, balloons by Mr. Balloony, and a visit by Sneakers the Clown. The community is invited to attend.