Warwick townlively.com
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXIV • NO 39
Warwick Community Hub aims to fight the good financial fight difficulties,” said Warwick Community Hub’s executive director, Steve f people don’t ask for help, their Jeffrey. “Sometimes people in our plights can go unnoticed. But community don’t want to raise that doesn’t mean the need their hands. They don’t want to ask for help. I think we all try to be doesn’t exist. The Warwick Community Hub good neighbors, but sometimes we has identified an economic need in don’t see the need, and the need is the local community. Now the all around us.” Founded in 2020, faith-based nonprofWarwick Community it is working to fill “ O u r g o a l i s t o Hub has already that need. A group of three continue to build encountered semiconcerned volunteers r e l a t i o n s h i p s s o h o m e l e s s n e s s , and two social work- p e o p l e c a n f i n d employees who ride their bikes to work ers, the Warwick support.” out of necessity, Community Hub has compromised nutriset its sights on battling poverty in Warwick tion and a lack of affordable Township. The Warwick Commu- housing in Warwick Township. nity Hub has been performing According to the Warwick School many of its good deeds from a sim- District, 36% of its students qualify ple meeting room inside Lititz for the United States Department Mennonite Church, 165 Front St., of Agriculture’s free and reducedcost meal program. Lititz. “Some families are one paycheck “The families and people we are able to support know they’re facing away from falling behind,” said BY JEFF FALK
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Nightingale scholarship will aid Stephanie Grambau’s pursuit of her calling BY JEFF FALK
Scholarships can be both motivation and rewards. Stephanie Grambau worked hard to earn her scholarship. Now that scholarship will help support her continued hard work. A 53-year-old resident of Manheim Township with a Lititz address, Grambau was recently awarded a prestigious Nightingale scholarship to be used in her pursuit of a Master of Science in the field of nursing.
Grambau attends Millersville University’s Wehrheim School of Nursing, where she is studying to become a family nurse practitioner. Grambau was awarded the $6,000 Nightingale scholarship following a stringent application process that took into consideration her gradepoint average, volunteer experience and letters of reference. She formally accepted the scholarship at the end of October at the 34th annual Nightingale Awards Gala at the Sheraton Harrisburg Hotel in Harrisburg. See Nightingale scholarship pg 2
Members of Warwick Community Hub administrative team are (from left) executive director Steve Jeffrey, resource coordinator Charis Pankratz and operations coordinator Shawna Billek.
Coats for Kids will warm hearts BY JEFF FALK
Salvation Army Lancaster volunteer Joseph Molloy sorts donations for Coats for Kids.
If indeed we do take our coats for granted, it may somehow be related to a belief that everyone should own one. Salvation Army Lancaster has taken that belief and transformed it into a goal. At 131 S. Queen St., Lancaster, the Salvation Army is giving away coats, lots of coats, coats with sale tags still on them - along with gloves and hats and scarves - all in an effort to weather the coming cold months. This initiative is being referred to as Coats for Kids, and the aim is to make sure every child in Lancaster County has a brand-new coat this winter. See Coats for Kids pg 2
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See Community Hub pg 3