Conestoga Valley townlively.com
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LIX • NO 40
The return of Pack 83 Forgotten Friend to kick off first meeting concerned about safe policies,” Blank reported. Cub Pack 83, rin Blank, committee chair for which is open to boys and girls in Cub Scout Pack 83, has good the greater Conestoga Valley (CV) memories of her children area, did not reinstate activities taking part in Scouting. “My kids once COVID-19 restrictions were learned friendship, leadership, and lifted. “This summer, Boys Troop 83 empathy,” Blank stated. “They and Girls Troop 82, which are older both had a good place to be able to Scouts, realized there weren’t enough Cubs coming get the clumsiness up through the packs of childhood worked out over the years.” “Our goal is to help to bolster our ranks,” In addition to the mentor parents this said Blank. The remedy is to lessons and growth year so that next her children experi- year, they can take open Cub Scout enced, Blank and the pack in more Pack 83 again, with a other parents found exciting directions.” beginning special kickoff event joy in the experience. on Monday, Oct. 2, “We really enjoyed the fun of watching these kids do starting at 6 p.m. at Zion Lutheran crazy stuff and achieve and be Church, 18 Quarry Road, Leola. recognized for their efforts,” she “We are bringing back Forgotten Friend Reptile Sanctuary to our said. The advent of COVID-19 restric- meeting place (for the evening),” tions in 2020 interfered with the said Blank. Forgotten Friend will normal activities of the group. present a program by Jesse “During COVID, the pack shut Rothacker featuring live snakes, down because the leaders were lizards, and turtles. Blank invited BY ANN MEAD ASH
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BY JEFF FALK
Fundraisers couldn’t generate financial resources without generous donors, and nonprofits couldn’t perform their philanthropic work without fundraisers. Four months after presenting its Hope for Freedom Gala, Hope.Inspire.Love. will conduct the second of its two yearly fundraisers, Freedom Walk, on Saturday, Oct. 7, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Musser Park, 135 N. Lime St., Lancaster. Hope.Inspire.Love is in its eighth year of battling human trafficking
A ride to work BY ANN MEAD ASH
and sexual exploitation, and the event is designed to raise money for the fight against human trafficking and to raise the awareness of its effects. “Fundraising is vital. It’s the glue,” said Hope.Inspire.Love CEO and president Amy Thurston, who founded the organization with her husband, Steve. “Nonprofits rely on the community. We need their support financially. The survivors know the community is behind their healing, and we’re in the backyard of the community. I literally am sitting here every day thinking, ‘We could
About 200 individuals with disabilities participate with Lighthouse Vocational Services (LVS), 144 Orlan Road, New Holland. Of those, 150 require transportation from multiple areas of the county from Manheim to south of Quarryville. Organizing all those rides to work is Sandy Miller, transportation coordinator for LVS. The organization provides vocational services for individuals with disabilities. About a year ago, Brian French, LVS director of programs, approached Miller with a request.
See Hope.Inspire.Love. pg 5
See LVS pg 8
Sandy Miller, transportation coordinator with Lighthouse Vocational Services, with a 2020 Nissan Rogue she purchased recently for the organization with a grant from the High Foundation
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Troop 82 Scouts Cheyenne Pedrick (left) and Molli Twigg enjoyed lunch as Cub Scouts in 2019 as two of the first female Cubs in Pennsylvania Dutch Council.