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Marietta Community House To Host Veterans Day Event BY CATHY MOLITORIS
The Marietta Community House was created to honor the memory of Lt. Benjamin Hiestand, who died at age 19 during World War I. To highlight that history and recognize other veterans and community members, the organization will hold a program on Sunday, Nov. 13, beginning at 2 p.m. at the house,
264 W. Market St., Marietta. The event will begin in the studio located behind the main building. “We’ll have a singer who will sing patriotic songs,” said Nancy Kulman, board secretary. “Charles Shireman from American Legion Post 466 will speak about the Hometown Heroes banners around town as well as a mural of veterans that was just completed at the Legion.” See Veterans pg 5
Rose Kidd took a mission trip to Uganda and Kenya over the summer.
Rose Kidd with some of the residents of Jesus Hobbs House of Hope
Sharing Love On The Other Side Of The World BY CATHY MOLITORIS
hen she was a student at Manheim Central High School, Rose Kidd took her first mission trip. She visited an orphanage in Mexico, and her love for travel and helping others was born. Kidd, now 67 and a Mount Joy resident, took a mission trip to Uganda
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and Kenya in July and August of this past summer, helping at Gem Village near Kampala and at Jesus Hobbs House of Hope School and Children’s Home near Nairobi. The experience left her with a renewed appreciation for creature comforts, a revitalized love for service and a strong desire to do it all again. “Everyone should travel to a Third-World country,” Kidd said. “It really puts things in perspective.” Kidd learned about Gem Village through a friend. “I thought, ‘This is such an amazing place,’” she recalled of the organization that provides a home for disabled and special needs children. “Their vision is inspiring.” She traveled to the 88-acre village and spent time with the children, who range in age from preschoolers through highschoolers. “I mostly fed the children and played with the kids,” she said. The organization
Rose Kidd with a child at Gem Village
provides housing, school and opportunities for worship. Plans are in the works to expand the assisted living programming to children who age out of care at age 18 and to bring a doctor to work at the on-site clinic, which will also be open to members of the surrounding community. Kidd also traveled to Jesus Hobbs House of Hope after learning about the organization through a former pastor at her church, Grace Community Fellowship in Manheim. The organization offers a home to 17 children who have been orphaned or who have been sent to the home by social services. As she did at her first stop, Kidd spent time playing with the children and learning about the organization’s mission. Although the circumstances surrounding the lives of the residents of both locations may be grim, Kidd emphasized that joy was abundant. “You could tell the children in both places were loved,” she said. “You could tell that they had experienced the love of God.”
Thanks to the dogged determination of the library director and the continued support of the community, Milanof-Schock Library will unveil a courtyard in the spring of 2023, and you’re invited to purchase an engraved Library Legacy Brick for the project. Library director Joseph McIlhenney joined the staff in March of 2021, and he saw an opportunity to create a courtyard in front of the
See Love pg 2
See Brick pg 3
Inviting people to a Veterans Day ceremony are (from left) Karen Sullivan, Nancy Kulman, Vivian Carroll and Joe Clark.
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