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DECEMBER 11, 2024
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
LSRC’s generosity supports hungry county residents BY JEFF FALK
When it comes to laughs, Drew Beekler is a standup guy BY JEFF FALK
Drew Beekler doesn’t want you to laugh at him; he wants you to laugh with yourself. “I think the key to being funny is to talk about something weird in the world or odd,” said Beekler. “There’s a place for everyone, and if you’ve thought that, you’re probably not alone. You can present things in a funny way, but you can also point out absurd things. Humor tends to come from a place of frustration. It can be super dark, or I just don’t like the back of a guy’s head. Everyone has thousands and thousands of thoughts a day. You can talk about them, and people can relate to them.” A 2006 graduate of Manheim Township High School, Beekler is funny by nature; humor is one of his talents. But he is a budding standup comedian because
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he has fine-tuned and honed those skills. “At the end of the day, I think we should just be having fun and laughing at the things we do,” said Beekler. “You might think you’re alone with things, but you’re really not. Shared experiences, in general, are very See Drew Beekler pg 2
CDC helps kids comprehend reading in different ways BY JEFF FALK
Meals on Wheels Lancaster executive director Feleen Nancarvis shows off the new delivery van, which was partly funded through a donation from the Lancaster Sunrise Rotary Club.
and distributes the much-needed food to up to 450 local residents. “We’re so excited about the van. It’s critical to our operations,” said Feleen Nancarvis, executive director of Meals on Wheels Lancaster. “The new van replaces one that had a lot of deficiencies as far as keeping hot food hot and cold food cold. It was also
limited in the number of meals it could carry. Now we can fit as many meals in the new van as we want and maintain the quality of the food when it arrives at our clients.” “After a couple of years of hard work, when we saw that van, it was an amazing feeling,” said Beth Mack, an LSRC board
Dyslexia is something that we might not fully understand. Dyslexia may be something we don’t talk enough about. Dyslexia might be more prevalent than we realize. It’s a learning disorder that Children’s Dyslexia Center (CDC) of Lancaster can help manage and, in some instances, even overcome. “ W hat ever yone needs to understand is that (dyslexia is) neurological, it runs in families
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and it affects language processing,” said Heather Brown, who’s been CDC of Lancaster’s director for 10 years. “What it’s not is reading backwards. It’s about how kids process language, how the brain processes language. Words and sentences look the same, but it’s daunting to read. Students work so hard to get through paragraphs that by the end of them they don’t remember the meaning. You have to break the reading code. We teach kids how to break that code, so it frees the brain up.” See Dyslexia pg 6
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t’s an incredible act of kindness. It’s a well-thought-out distribution of donations. It’s providing a needed resource to a deserving nonprofit. But it’s also just one example of what Lancaster Sunrise Rotary Club (LSRC) does. The local service club sometimes makes extraordinary acts of empathy seem routine. R e c e n t l y, L S R C d o n a t e d $70,000 to help Meals on Wheels Lancaster purchase a new delivery van. “If you want to know anything about Rotary, it’s service above self,” said Bill Weik, an LSRC board member. “I think our club does a great job of taking that to the next level and doing what we do. As an organization, we do a lot of good for a lot of people who are impacted positively. Sometimes it’s not a big project but a small one. We make sure the things slipping through the cracks get some light.” In the middle of November, the 2024 Chevrolet City Express cargo van that LSRC helped fund was officially donated to Meals on Wheels Lancaster. Through an annual fundraiser, LSRC raised $70,000 of the $76,000 required to purchase the cargo van, which is equipped with refrigeration and heating units that allow for safe transportation of food to residents in need across Lancaster County. Mondays through Fridays, Meals on Wheels Lancaster prepares hot meals and cold meals in its Columbia Avenue kitchen
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