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JULY 2, 2025
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXII • NO 9
Foundation Provides Families With a Chance To Feel Normal
LCWG Is Made Up of a Bunch of Do-Gooders
BY GEORGE DEIBEL
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A local Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) boys’ basketball program is playing its cards right. With teams mostly made up of players from LancasterLebanon League schools, the Lancaster Aces are entering the summer on a heater. At the East Coast Super Regional Showdown in King of
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Prussia on May 24 to 25, the Aces’ 16U team finished first and the 17U team placed second. Both squads will participate in the AAU World Championship on Thursday, July 3, to Sunday, July 6, at ESPN Wide World of Sports in Orlando. “ The 17-under team did that last year for the first time, and the boys really loved it,” said Abby Tillie, who operates the Lancaster Lancaster Aces players Hayden Martin Aces with her husband, Darren. (left), Julien Severino (middle), and See Lancaster Aces pg 4 Elijah Robinson Jr. Photo by George Deibel
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ynn Walker was worried. In 2013, after her son Caleb had undergone his third brain surgery, a friend sent the family away for an extended weekend trip to Ocean City, N.J. Caleb had been gone for more than two hours on a beach bike expedition, and Lynn was getting anxious. “Caleb comes bursting through the door and says, ‘I know what I’m going to do! I’m going to start a foundation!’” Lynn recalled. Caleb explained that while biking by the ocean he had felt normal for the first time in four years. “He said, ‘When you get away from everything else, you get to feel normal. This is what I want to give people,’” said Lynn. For the last 11 years, the organization Caleb formed, A Week Away Foundation, has been providing
families with weeklong vacations. “Our mission is to provide respite weeks for families that are battling a life-threatening illness, thereby enabling them to come back refreshed from some time away so they can re-engage and continue to fight their disease,” said Lynn, who is the director of the registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit. There are no age limitations for people going on the trip, which is for a patient diagnosed by a medical doctor and undergoing treatment, as well as family members and friends who Lynn Walker is the director of A Week Away have been caring for the Foundation. Photo by George Deibel area, which is made up of Adams, patient since the diagnosis. The site of the respites must be Berks, Bucks, Chester, Cumberdrivable and within a 500-mile land, Delaware, Dauphin, Frankradius of A Week Away’s coverage lin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lehigh,
BY JEFF FALK
Good is universal, timeless and objective. Because it mirrors God, good is good. The Lancaster County Women for Good (LCWG) group knows some things about the concept of doing good. It’s part of the all-volunteer organization’s mission, purpose and reason for existing. “We use that word a lot, ‘good,’” said Anna Horst, the chairperson of the five-member board that oversees LCWG’s operations. “It’s in our name. I think it’s safe to say our connections and providing nonprofits with resources is part of the good we aim to do. I think there are a number of nonprofits in Lancaster County who have amazing missions. They’re real people trying to help real people. They are problems that a majority of us would agree need to be solved. Maybe we need to be more clear by what we mean by ‘good.’” LCWG, which does not operate from a physical office or building, conducts more than 15 membership events each year, including one on the second Wednesday of each month, at various locations throughout the county. Those events revolve around the process of providing grants generated through membership dues and social fundraisers to local nonprofits. “We have a shared purpose to benefit others outside of our group,” said Horst, a resident of Lititz. “The mission is a unifying thing. The women of the group are generous and genuinely curious. It’s special to get together with a group of See LCWG pg 8
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