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APRIL 9, 2025
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXI • NO 16
Gala to bring Hope Inspire Love’s work out of darkness and into light BY JEFF FALK
Hope Inspire Love takes both a realistic and an optimistic approach to its work. The human trafficking-fighting local nonprofit also takes its fun seriously.
Hope Inspire Love’s upcoming event is a mixture of style and substance, of business and play and of joy and caution. “When people dress in formal attire, they feel elegant,” said Amy Thurston, Hope Inspire See Hope Inspire Love pg 2
Members of the Hope Inspire Love team address the attendees at last year’s gala.
Local event is about kids and for kids
BY GEORGE DEIBEL
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ike golfers who win the Masters Tournament and the green jackets tailored for them, Good Samaritan Services (Good Sam) and Engle Printing & Publishing Co., Inc. (EPC) are ideally suited for one another. The two community-minded organizations are once again linking up for the 18th annual EPC Golf Outing benefiting
Good Samaritan Services. The charity event will be held Friday, June 6, at Crossgates Golf Club, 1 Crossland Pass, Millersville. There will be two sessions of golf. The first will tee off at 7:30 a.m., and the second will start at 1:30 p.m. A light breakfast and a chicken barbecue lunch will be served to the morning groups; the afternoon groups will receive a light café lunch and a chicken barbecue meal for dinner. The
BY JEFF FALK
deadline to register is Friday, May 23. Go to https://epcgolf outing.com for more information and to register. Individuals or businesses that wish to sponsor the event or provide prizes can visit the aforementioned website or email EPC marketing and communications director Dan Silva at marketing@ engleonline.com. “We want to be involved with the communities we serve,” said
At the heart of the matter, it’s children helping children. Bethany Christian Services (BCS) simply serves as the mediator, the facilitator. Appropriately enough, the organization’s upcoming event is being called Walk in Love. “Kids are the motivation for what we do,” said Elaine Shenk, who’s been BCS’ director of family strengthening and empowerment for five years. “We want to protect children
in our community. Everything we do at Bethany Christian Services revolves around children and family. We want families to come out, have fun and enjoy spending time together, being together as a family.” Bethany Christian Services of Central Pennsylvania is conducting its inaugural Walk in Love, a children’s walk/run and family festival, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 17, at Lancaster Bible College (LBC), 901 Eden Road, Lancaster. The event is designed to raise funds
See EPC Golf Outing pg 5
See Walk in Love pg 9
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Rachel Shelley (left), director of marketing for Good Samaritan Services; Dan Silva (middle), Engle Printing & Publishing Co., Inc. (EPC) marketing and communications director; and Jocelyn Engle, EPC publisher