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MARCH 20, 2024
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LX • NO 46
Connecting to the community: EPC at 70 BY CATHY MOLITORIS
Over the past seven decades, Engle Printing & Publishing Co., Inc. (EPC) has grown from one couple producing one paper to a company that employs 150 people, distributes 16 community newspapers and multiple specialty publications to close to 200,000 people, and provides printing services for numerous clients. Although the scope of
the business has changed, one thing has remained constant: community. “We want to make that connection to our local merchants and to our community members,” said Charlie Engle, company president. As EPC marks 70 years in business this year, Charlie and his daughter Jocelyn Engle looked back on what started in 1954 in the basement of Alvin and See EPC pg 5
Mike Hudson (left), Rhonda Miller (center) and Ascension Lutheran Church pastor Maureen Seifried
Ascension Lutheran Church kicks off greening project
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ast spring, members of A scension Lutheran Church, 600 E. Penn Grant Road, Willow Street, applied for a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. The grant provides funding for various programs that promote environmental sustainability, and the church hoped it would provide the necessary resources for a greening project conceived by congregation member Rhonda Miller. After receiving the grant in June 2023, Miller began the process of finding a contractor to complete the project, and
Ascension Lutheran officially partnered with Waxwing EcoWorks Co. last November. The church and its contractor are breaking ground for the project on Wednesday, March 20. “Some time ago, I had this idea about making our property more sustainable as a way for us to be better stewards of the land in our possession,” Miller said. “We hope this is a launching point for other things we’d like to do.” The goal of Miller’s project is to make several improvements to Ascension Lutheran’s property, which will include conservational landscaping, enhancing native meadows and strengthening
nearby wildlife habitats. The project will also involve remediating the mowed lawn and transforming parts of the property into areas that are rife with native plants, which Miller hopes will become a haven for pollinators and migrating birds. In addition to making Ascension Lutheran Church a wildlife-friendly zone, the greening project’s secondary goal is to reduce the amount of stormwater runoff that enters a creek near the church’s property. Miller has partnered with Stroud Water Research Center to plant an abundance of trees and shrubs on the borders of the church’s property to See Greening project pg 7
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Pauline and Alvin Engle in 1967
Fighting food insecurity in Lancaster County and beyond BY ADRIAN ESCHENWALD
The ninth annual Lancaster County Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) MobilePack event will be held on Friday through Sunday, April 5 through 7, at Willow Street Mennonite Church, 399 E. Penn Grant Road. During designated shifts on each day of the event, members of the community will gather to pack thousands of meals to help combat food insecurity
around the globe. Children from kindergarten to 12th grade and adult volunteers may sign up for a specific twohour shift to pack food items. Packing shifts vary on each day, and student-to-adult ratios have been assigned to groups of volunteers to ensure the safety and efficiency of the event. Tasks that may be completed sitting down will be available as needed. Individuals who register for a shift are encouraged to make a
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