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JUNE 4, 2025
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXII • NO 5
LCHRA Is Eager To Learn What the Survey Says BY GEORGE DEIBEL
U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker and art competition winner Gianna Fasano
Artwork Will Increase Awareness of Trio
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he main objective of Gianna Fasano’s painting was to draw attention to three women she felt had been overlooked by history. The Lampeter-Strasburg (L-S) senior could not have envisioned that her work will be displayed in a location traveled by some of the most powerful people in the world. Gianna’s piece, titled “American Heritage,” won the 2025 Congressional Art Competition for high school students in Pennsylvania’s 11th Congressional District, Rep. Lloyd Smucker announced. Gianna’s creation will appear in the 43rd annual Congressional Art Exhibition and will be shown for a year in the Cannon Tunnel, a
pedestrian walkway between the Cannon House Office Building and the U.S. Capitol building that is traversed by members of congress and the public. “I was honestly really surprised (to win),” Gianna said. “I remember being kind of speechless because they called my work, and I couldn’t believe it. I was really happy, and I’m super proud that such an important piece gets to be hung in the Capitol for a year.” Gianna’s prize-winning portrait, crafted with acrylic paint in a graphic style, features trailblazers Maria Tallchief, Susan La Flesche Picotte, and Wilma Pearl Mankiller on fictional covers of American Heritage, a real history magazine. L-S art teacher Scott Cantrell
said American Heritage was commonly collected by high schools in the 1960s. When the school library needed to make room for more current publications, Cantrell brought approximately 350 issues of American Heritage to his classroom. Gianna saw the magazine, and it inspired her painting. Tallchief was the first major prima ballerina in America. La Flesche Picotte was the first Native American to earn a medical degree, and Mankiller served as the first female chief of the Cherokee nation. Cantrell said, “(The painting) was about our American history. It wasn’t just a pretty picture. It had history. It had context. It had background. It had a point
Lancaster County Housing and Redevelopment Authority (LCHRA) executive director Justin Eby
municipalities, across business sectors. Our ideal would be for all county residents to fill the survey out. We know that’s not possible, but we’re trying to push it as widely as we can.” County residents can go to https://lchra.com to complete the survey, which will be available until approximately Thursday, Aug. 21. The questionnaire See LCHRA pg 7
Partnership Seeks To Assist Local Nonprofits
BY GEORGE DEIBEL
A Quarryville couple is putting their money where their hearts are. The husband and wife, who reside in the Quarryville Presbyterian Retirement Community and wish to remain anonymous, started a philanthropy partnership called Putting Others First (POF) on May 13, 2024. “We’re all for building POF into something that’s recognizable in the community, but it’s irrelevant who we are,” Mr. POF explained.
The couple, who are each in their early 80s, brought two other individuals into the fold to form a four-person organization. “They were chosen because they are a generation younger,” said Mrs. POF. “We want to pass the idea on.” Mr. POF added, “We are firm believers in giving back, as the old term goes, and we don’t want to die with a huge bank account. We’d rather put it to other uses. So we put this group together, not only to help us now, but to keep it going.” Putting Others First is not
See Artwork pg 2
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The Lancaster County Housing and Redevelopment Authority (LCHRA) is requesting the public’s assistance to help the organization best serve people experiencing housing insecurity. As the lead agency of the Lancaster County Homelessness Coalition (LCHC), the LCHRA held a virtual meeting with stakeholders on May 21 to kick off the public participation portion of a county-wide initiative, the Lancaster County Housing and Homelessness Strategic Plan. Lancaster County residents can play their part by completing a survey. “We want to get new data about best practices around homeless response and affordable housing and figure out what the needs are,” said Jocelynn Naples, director of communications, development, and special projects for the LCHRA. “We want broad participation across
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