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AUGUST 9, 2023
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXXIX • NO 18
Fundraiser will benefit field hockey booster club team camps, offseason leagues at Spooky Nook and team bonding he Hempfield Field Hockey activities such as the banquet at the Booster Club will host its end of the season. In July, the playannual barbecue fundraiser on ers on the team traveled to Penn Saturday, Aug. 19, at the Hempfield State University for a summer recCenter, 950 Church St., training camp. The barbecue serves as the field Landisville. The event will be held hockey team’s largest annual from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. fundraiser. It was Meals will be previously held at able to purchase for a set price, and “ W e a r e l o o k i n g Stauffers of Kissel they will include forward to continuing Hill in Rohrerstown; chicken from to grow and develop this will be the first Peters’ Barbecue, a as a team throughout year that the booster club is holding baked potato, a the season.” the event at Hemproll, applesauce field recCenter. and a drink. Cash The members of the booster club and check payment will be preferred, but electronic payment and coaches of the field hockey options will also be available on the team seek to make the program an extension of its players’ high school day of the fundraiser. The proceeds from the barbecue experience by teaching them skills will directly support the field hock- that will serve them in other areas. ey team by assisting with equip- As field hockey players, students ment costs and allowing the coach- have a chance to learn teamwork es to purchase meals for players and communication skills and gain when they travel for away games experience in overcoming obstacles. during the season. The funds will The high school players also work also be used to cover the cost of with younger players in the offseason
BY ADRIAN ESCHENWALD
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See Field hockey pg 3
Members of the field hockey team help run last year’s barbecue fundraiser.
Landisville resident selected as GOTR Coach of the Year
BY JEFF FALK
Children experience more healthy and happy development when surrounded by caring family members and positive role models. Ready to help provide children with these supportive people is COBYS Family Services. Headquartered at 1417 Oregon Road, Leola, COBYS provides a wide variety of support services for children in need in Lancaster County and surrounding counties. But what COBYS is really all about is giving all childeren a chance to grow into
well-adjusted adults. “We know that those support systems - families, biological or chosen - get you through life,” said Anne Stokes, the director of development and communications for COBYS, “so you can have kids who can relate to others and forge lifelong relationships. It’s the key to a successful way. We don’t want to give up on them. Kids are now coming into care with layers and layers of trauma.” With three locations in Lancaster and one in Lebanon County, COBYS approaches its mission through See COBYS pg 2
BY ADRIAN ESCHENWALD
Jessica Nealon presents a check to Brad Peterson, executive director of Power Packs Project.
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In May, Girls on the Run (GOTR) Lancaster continued its annual tradition of presenting the Ellen Shining Light Coach of the Year award to a coach within the program. This year, the award was given to Jessica Nealon of Landisville, who has been coaching since 2017. Every year, students, coaches and community members nominate a coach for the award. Each nominee is then invited to a banquet at Lancaster Country Club to be honored, and the previous year’s award See GOTR coach pg 4
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