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SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
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Being a local resource Gift card program helps area agencies BY ANN MEAD ASH
Debbie Hollinger to support HOME International, which prohen shoppers enter vides group homes for girls in Welcome Home Thrift India. “Customers can purchase & More, located in a gift card to be given to help t h e I r o n S p i r e C o m p l e x a t someone in need.” 2800 N. Reading Road, Suite 430, According to Alisha, who runs Adamstown, they certainly notice the “thrift-tique” with her husthe carefully created furniture band, Don, the Welcome Home displays directly Initiative program ahead. However, has grown out if they gaze to the “We want to give of local missions left, they will notice and other organian area that is not a hand up, not just z ations working a handout.” filled with gently together to benefit used merchandise. t h e co m m u n i t y. Instead, they will “ Welcome Home encounter an op p or tuni t y, Thrift & More has always been a through the Welcome Home resource for local organizations Initiative, to help folks who are that need items for clients,” said working to meet needs and thrive Alisha. “If Good Samaritan in right here in Lancaster and Berks. Ephrata needed something, they “Our Welcome Home Initiative would call and ask,” noted Alisha, is introduced to people here,” who has been asked to pick out said Alisha Wambolt, manager children’s clothing and interview of Welcome Home, a thrift store outfits. “That’s hard (to pick out that was originally known as someone else’s outfit), because Second Street and founded by for a job interview, you want to
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Members of the staff of Welcome Home Thrift & More in Adamstown gather in the Welcome Home Initiative display area where shoppers may purchase gift cards for local individuals in need.
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Second Veterans Expo planned
Rewarding work BY ANN MEAD ASH
BY ANN MEAD ASH
The leadership team of The Potter’s House is looking forward to the future. Many of the staff members are new this year, but director of discipleship Rob Weatherholtz has been involved with the organization since 2005, and in 2013, founder Lloyd Hoover asked Weatherholtz to join the organization’s board. “It was an under taking to bring this to fruition,” said Weatherholtz of the growth of Potter’s House leadership staff members include (from left) the organization, which now The Robert Schoonover, Rob Weatherholtz, Janelle Horst, Steve Steel,
This is the second year that the Ephrata Lions Club has organized a Veterans Expo on Veterans Day weekend. For 2024, the club has partnered with the Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus of Lancaster - Santa Marie Assembly 915 to provide dinners for attendees. “That’s a complimentary plated meal for veterans,” said Lions Club representative Steve Montpetit, who is helping to plan the event. As with last year’s expo, more
See The Potter’s House pg 2 and Jeannette Scott.
than 20 veteran artisans and veteran-owned businesses will be present along with a number of nonprofit organizations that support veterans. The Ephrata Lions Club Veterans Expo will be held in the ballroom at the American Legion Post 429, 300 Cocalico St., Ephrata, on Sunday, Nov. 10, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Lions have lined up a variety of vendors to set up displays at the event. “We will have woodworking and a couple of jewelry (makers),” said Montpetit, who added that a coffee company See Ephrata Lions Club pg 5
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