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St. Peter’s Is Raising Dough for Orphans BY JEFF FALK
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ob Courtois’ personal specialty is his peanut butter cookies. But he also bakes a scrumptious white chocolate cranberry cookie that can postpone a diet. Bob’s wife, Patti Courtois, is the publicity coordinator for St. Peter’s Church’s upcoming fundraiser. “Bob’s peanut butter cookies are his best,” said Patti. “He’ll top them with a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup or a Buckeye. His recipe is a family recipe, and it’s been handed down. He always says his special ingredient is love.” Bob’s peanut butter and white chocolate cranberry flavors will be just two of an assortment of cookies baked with love available at this year’s
edition of St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church’s annual Cookie Walk. The community event and holiday fundraiser will take place in the church’s Family Life Center at 10 Delp Road, Lancaster, from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Dec. 13. The holiday cookies can be mixed or matched and taken home in small or large containers, and the cookies will be made available for sale on a cash-only basis. All proceeds from the event will benefit orphans at Busoka Lutheran Church in Tanzania, St. Peter’s companion congregation in Africa. “You have to be able to close the lids on the boxes,” said Patti. “One of the (Tanzania Mission Committee) members will talk about why we’re there. It’s kind of a coming together of community members and Volunteers Raegan Geesey (left) and Maddy See Cookie Walk pg 8 Miller help out at last year’s Cookie Walk.
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CoJoMotion Recital at LMS Is Wish Come True
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BY JEFF FALK
Give a kid a stage and she or he will perform for a day. Teach a kid to dance and she or he will perform for a lifetime. Give a dancer a cause for which to perform and you’ve got “A Season for Wishes.” “You focus on teaching proper dance and proper technique, but also how to perform,” said Lisa Kalinowski, the founder and artistic director of Lititz Academy of Dance. “We liken it to dancing from the inside out and dancing with your heart, and that can be a process. When you do it, it becomes so much
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See “A Season for Wishes” pg 2 performance at Lancaster Mennonite School.
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Positive, Affirming Movements Are Coming From Now I Can BY JEFF FALK
Without hope, there is nothing. Services that provide hope where there once was none or little can be life changing. Now I Can Foundation deals in the business of hope. “Only God can make miracles happen,” said Allison Ebersole, Now I Can’s executive director. “But we’re helping make miracles happen, and we’re giving families hope. The sooner we can (start working with) kids, the better chance we have of making a change.” Located at 100 W. Millport Road, Lititz, Now I Can Foundation Northeast aims to provide hope to families with children disabled by disorders like cerebral palsy, spina bifida and other gross motor delays and genetic conditions. The results don’t lie. “Some of our patients come in not walking. Some leave walking. Some leave running,” said Ebersole. “I love being able to see the change that the therapists can make. I like being able to connect with families. I love when moms cry, because that was me with my daughter. They’re tears of happiness. Until you live it, you can’t understand it. I’ve been in a similar boat for 16 years.” The secret to the Now I Can Foundation’s success is the relatively basic concept of intensive physical therapy. It’s similar to regular physical therapy, only ramped up a few intensity notches. At Now I Can, pediatric patients condense 57 hours of physical therapy into a three-week period, something like four hours a day, See Now I Can pg 3 Luxury Vinyl Plank Carpet Area Rugs Remnants Vinyl Tile
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