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MAY 31, 2023
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
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Free fun for the whole family geared toward school-age kids.” The festival will be held at the “This is a free event that’s fun for Marietta Community House, the whole family,” said Danielle 264 W. Market St., on Saturday, States, who is organizing the Marietta June 3, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. It Community House Children’s Festival will include a variety of events and with Audrey Kushner Pombo. “It’s activities, said Pombo. “We will have live music from Nick DiSanto, a one-man band,” she stated, adding that magicians Mr. Sneakers and Alex Iverson will present a magic show at 1 p.m. Pony rides will be offered by Chateau Ponies, and additional activities will include a bounce house and face painting. Free food and drinks will be available as well. A variety of games, including a bean bag toss, cornhole and a fishing game, will be featured, with prizes. As States explained, the Children’s Festival Games, including a bean bag toss, will be was created by Marietta featured at the Marietta Community House BY CATHY MOLITORIS
The Milanof-Schock Library, represented by executive director Joseph McIlhenny (back, center), received the donation of a bench from the Mount Joy Lions Club, represented by (back, from left) Brian Blumenschein, Gerry Wagner, (front) Jean Nelson and president Harry Goehring.
Lions Club donates bench
Children’s Festival. BY CATHY MOLITORIS
hen you sit on a new bench outside the Milanof-Schock Library, you are enjoying the fruits of a community effort. The bench has been donated by the Mount Joy Lions Club and was made from recycled plastic collected by the club. It’s the seventh such bench placed in the Mount Joy community, said Maria Wassell, former president of the club. “We wanted to have an ecology project for our club to work on, and so this is something we had seen as a project,” Wassell explained, noting that the club began collecting plastic in August of 2019. “ We have about 10 places throughout the community where we collect plastic bags, and since we started, we have collected 9,500 pounds. It takes 500 pounds to make one
‘We serve,’ so the whole idea is whatever we do, we try to serve the community,” she stated. Organizations supported by the club include the Milanof-Schock Library and Rainbow’s End Youth Services. The club also provides scholarships to Donegal High School and Lancaster County Career & Technology Center seniors. The bench at the Milanof-Schock Library is located in the new patio area, and Wassell emphasized that it’s the result of a true community project. “We put a plaque on the back of the benches to let people know that this is a project from the Mount Joy Lions Club and the community,” she said, “because it’s the community members who have been supporting us and donating all the plastic to make the bench possible.”
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Lasagna Love delivers kindness BY CATHY MOLITORIS
There’s something comforting about a lasagna. That’s the message behind Lasagna Love, an international organization that began in 2020 during the height of the pandemic, recruiting volunteers to make and deliver lasagnas to people in need. Sandi Mauer, coordinator of Lasagna Love for Lancaster County, said the organization is looking for volunteers, as well as people who would like to receive a lasagna. “We are here to help anyone in
need, and there’s no judgment whatsoever,” Mauer stated. “The goal of the program is to feed families, spread kindness and strengthen communities.” Mauer began volunteering with Lasagna Love last summer, and she soon found out that the county coordinator for the program didn’t live locally. She stepped up to organize efforts in the area, and lasagnas are currently delivered throughout Lancaster County by Lasagna Love volunteers. “People can sign up for a lasagna See Lasagna pg 3
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bench.” The club has partnered with Trex, the company that creates the benches and supplies collection containers for the plastic. “We can earn two benches per year,” Wassell noted. “If it were by the pound, we would have earned many more benches, but we’re limited by how many we can earn at a time.” Collection bins are located throughout Mount Joy, she said, at local businesses and churches, including Jim Roberts West Main Auto and St. Mark’s United Methodist Church. Benches have been placed by the club at Trinity Lutheran Church, by the administration building for Donegal School District and at Little Chiques Park, among other locations. Collecting the plastic and donating the benches fits in nicely with the Lions Club’s mission, Wassell said. “The Lions’ slogan is