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Liz Esbenshade Walks Away From Successful Driving Career
Find Your America250 Adventure
BY JEFF FALK
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here are many similarities and differences between bus driving and driving a regular vehicle. Liz Esbenshade knows some things about driving a bus. She’s sort of an expert. “When you’re driving a bus, you have to think about your turns,” said Esbenshade. “You have to be careful that you don’t sideswipe anyone. I feel safer in my bus than I do in a car because you’re sitting higher up and you have all those mirrors. When I started, I wasn’t worried about driving, I was worried about what the kids were doing. You can’t see everything, but you can see quite a bit.” Esbenshade recently retired from a 46-year career as a bus driver in the Eastern Lancaster County (ELANCO) School District. It was quite a run, complete with deferential relationships, dependability and safety. “I just felt it was long enough and I wanted to do other things,” said Esbenshade, a 76-year-old resident of New Holland. “For the most part, I really enjoyed the kids, and I really enjoyed driving
Bus driver Liz Esbenshade
See Liz Esbenshade pg 6
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Friendship Celebrates America in Church BY JEFF FALK
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Friendship Church: A United Methodist Congregation makes a point to celebrate many of the morals and standards upon which this country was founded. Some of those principles and ideals are similar to the ones promoted by the church. “ The goal was to honor and celebrate the Founding Fathers and other historical characters who had an impact on our nation’s 250 years,”
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said Anita Focht, the organist and traditional music leader at Friendship Church. “The program was a worship experience and incorporated patriotic hymns, prayers, a litany, messages from the past, patriotic anthems and the reading of the Declaration of Independence.” The patriotic program to which Focht is referring was officially titled “An Afternoon of Words and Music Celebrat- Jeff Shirk (left), dressed as Theodore Roosevelt; ing the Semiquincentennial of Sarah Voran (center), dressed as Nellie Bly; and the United States of America David Kling, dressed as Benjamin Franklin, were some of the performers involved with
See Friendship Church pg 3 Friendship Church’s patriotic presentation.
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Fostering Pets a Chance to Be Part of the Journey BY ANN MEAD ASH
Anne Hendricks, outreach coordinator with All 4 Paws Rescue, a nonprofit, fosterbased, all-breed organization located in Malvern, is familiar with the most common excuse potential pet foster parents give. “They all say, ‘I could never foster because I would want to adopt them all,’” noted Hendricks, who has fostered more than 100 dogs over nine years. “We have all foster-failed at least once,” she added, referring to a foster dog she knew she would be keeping within the first 24 hours of fostering her. According to Kisha Reinmiller, site director for Pennsylvania SPCA Lancaster Center, many who foster do become adoptive pet parents. “ We are always recruiting new fosters,” she shared. “A lot of them adopt for the first time.” Both organizations reported that becoming a foster parent for an animal is not complicated. The Lancaster Center application can be found online at www.pspca .org, and the All 4 Paws application is at www.all4pawsrescue .com. Representatives of both organizations noted that the foster application is similar to the adoption application. “We process (the applications), and then we reach out,” said Reinmiller. Hendricks pointed out that for potential fosters who already have pets, contacting the applicant’s vet is a crucial step. “We talk to the vet to be sure (the applicant’s) pets have been well taken care of,” she stated. See Fostering pg 2
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