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AUGUST 24, 2022
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXIII • NO 28
Golf Tournament Will Benefit Iron-Leg BY CATHY MOLITORIS
The second annual Iron-Leg charity golf tournament will be held on Saturday, Sept. 10, at Highlands of Donegal Golf Club, 650 Pinkerton Road, Mount Joy. Registration will begin at 10:30 a.m., and the tournament will kick off with a shotgun start at noon.
The event is an opportunity to raise funds for Iron-Leg Corp., a nonprofit founded in 2020 by Matt Millhouse and Sean Laukhuff to benefit children in central Pennsylvania who need prosthetics. The tournament is also held as a memorial to honor the people who lost their lives in the Sept. 11 attacks. See Golf pg 8
Members of the Rotary Club of Mount Joy, the Kiwanis Club of Norlanco-Rheems and the Mount Joy Lions Club presented gas gift cards to volunteers with Fire Department Mount Joy.
Supporting Local Firefighters arlier this summer, Ron Carper was watching the news and he saw something that inspired him to take action. “Somebody had asked a question, ‘ What can you do to help your community with gas prices being so high?’” he recalled. “One of the ideas someone suggested was to help out your local volunteer firemen. I noticed in the news that a lot of communities are doing this.” Carper, who is a member of the Rotary Club of Mount Joy, decided to spearhead a gas gift card collection for Fire Department Mount Joy.
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“I talked to the chief at the fire department, and I realized that with the number of volunteers they had and the funds our club had, we couldn’t do much by ourselves,” Carper said. So, he reached out to two other civic organizations - the Kiwanis Club of Norlanco-Rheems and the Mount Joy Lions Club - and asked if the groups would like to participate as well. “They were interested immediately,” Carper recalled, noting that Kiwanis member John Gish, Lion Harry Goehring and Rotarian Chris Silvestri also helped coordinate the project. All three groups pooled resources from their fundraising efforts throughout the year, and on Aug. 11, they presented a $50 gas
gift card to each of the 45 members of Fire Department Mount Joy. Although the chief knew about the presentation, it was a surprise to the other volunteers. “They were really excited and very thankful,” Carper noted. “These guys are giving their time and money to do what they do to serve our community, and this was a nice way to give back to them.” Carper said the Rotary Club of Mount Joy has worked with the other civic groups on projects in the past, and this most recent effort has motivated him to continue to collaborate. “ We can help each other out,” he stated. “We can do more all together, working together, than we can by ourselves.”
The Road To Zion BY ANN MEAD ASH
Ian Solodky, who became the part-time pastor at Mount Zion United Methodist Church (UMC), 753 Mount Zion Road, Narvon, on July 17, has a message for area residents. “I want them to know this is a safe place and that we all have had hurts, hang-ups, and habits, but Jesus is the way to get past those,” said Solodky. The invitation is offered based on his personal testimony. “I got here by an act of God,” he explained. “I have no formal education for (pastoring See Zion pg 4
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Supporters of Iron-Leg Corp. gear up for a benefit golf tournament.