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Hannah (left) and Emily Reiter focused their projects around mental health.
Brynn Young’s project included placing six metal drop boxes for book donations around Lancaster County.
Three L-S Girl Scouts Earn Gold Awards
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t’s a twin thing. Hannah and Emily Reiter, twin sisters who recently graduated from Lampeter-Strasburg (L-S) High School, were recently awarded Gold Awards, the highest
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possible honor available to Girl Scouts. Gold Awards are earned by high school girls who tackle pressing issues and lead projects that create meaningful, lasting change in their communities and beyond. Both twins completed projects
centered around mental health, and both were implemented at the Willow Street campus of the Lancaster County Career and Technology Center (LCCTC), where both students partially attended. Emily’s project focused on creating practical and easily accessible
brochures centered on student mental health and well-being, including test anxiety, growth mindset, mindfulness and coping strategies. It was titled “Mind M a t t e r s : To o l s fo r S t u d e n t Well-Being.” Hannah’s project was centered
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In the area of equal rights, our country has made great strides. But the process continues; there is still much work to be done. The brand-new Stevens & Smith Center sheds a wider, more colorful light on the issues of equality. “The center explores the ongoing struggle to expand freedom, equality and democracy in America,” said Jason Traverse, the director of marketing and communications for the Stevens & Smith Center. “Through the stories of Stevens, Smith and countless others, visitors are invited to
consider how ordinary and extraordinary people alike have worked to advance these ideals, and how that work continues in America today. “What makes the center special is that it doesn’t simply present history as something that happened long ago,” continued Traverse. “It asks visitors to consider how the questions that defined Stevens’ and Smith’s lives - questions about citizenship, equality, justice and democracy - continue to shape our lives today.” Recently, the Thaddeus Stevens & Lydia Hamilton Smith Center for History and Democracy opened its Visitors take in an exhibit at the doors at 13-15 E. Vine St., Lancaster, to visitors. Thaddeus Stevens & Lydia Hamilton
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