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AUGUST 14, 2024
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXI • NO 15
Club donates toys for kids at medical centers
ions District 14-D recently executive director. assembled 160 Jared Boxes After hearing about the projfor distribution to children ect, Lions District 14-D decided and youths in the local area. to make Jared Boxes its service The Jared Box Project was project for this year. District govinspired by a kindergarten boy ernor-elect Deb Keeports chaired named Jared from State College. the project. She recruited fellow Jared had an Lions Club members incurable brain Deb Bagnoli, global stem tumor and Lions District 14-D services chair, and a dream to bring Betty - Jo Bowers, decided to make smiles to the childhood cancer faces of other coordinator, to help Jared Boxes its sick children. lead this effort service project for her Jared noticed with a primary goal this year. that the other to aid children in children waiting Lebanon and Lanfor appointments caster hospitals. seemed frightened and sad, so he On June 4, members of Lions asked his mom if he could share Club District 14-D gathered to the toys from his backpack with assemble the boxes at the Willow the other kids. To honor Jared Street Lions Club Community after his death, classmates at Center. Tables were lined with Our Lady of Victory School and supplies, with items for girls on Cindy Kolarik founded the Jared one side of the room and items Box Project. Kolarik serves as for boys on the other side. The
Lions Club members (back, from left) Betty-Jo Bowers, Deb Bagnoli, and Deb Keeports presented Jared Boxes to medical care providers from Penn State Health.
volunteers lined the boxes with glittery tissue paper and a variety of items. The items included in the
boxes for elementary children were Uno and Old Maid cards which were Jared’s favorite toys - socks, water bottles, coloring
books, crayons, colored pencils, and squishy toys. The boxes also included activity sheets and a personalized, handwritten note See Lions Club pg 3
Comfort and inspiration BY ANN MEAD ASH
“Today is the day we officially take off our hard hats,” said Herman Bontrager to applause. Bontrager, board chair of the Clinic for Special Children and chair of the Keeping the Promise Building Hope capital campaign, was addressing the gathering at the June 20 ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house held at the new Clinic for Special Children, recently completed at 20 Community Lane, Gordonville. Bontrager welcomed the group A ribbon cutting and open house was held at the new Clinic for
BY JEFF FALK
Kids love to discover. Kids love to be independent. Kids love to think. Kids love Sky Bridge. The High Foundation Sky Bridge, designed and fabricated by Luckey Climbers, is the Lancaster Science Factory’s latest hands-on exhibit for young learners. It represents the best kind of ingenuity, the kind that inspires
others to be creative. “More than learning, it’s about inspiring children,” said Amanda Bakay, the Lancaster Science Factory’s director of programs and communications. “When they see it and get inside of it, they start to realize they could create something like this one day. It sparks an idea like, ‘What did someone have to do to think this thing up?’” Part jungle gym, part science
See Clinic pg 4 Special Children in Gordonville on June 20.
See Sky Bridge pg 2
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