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MARCH 27, 2024
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXXIV • NO 4
Women to count on in an emergency Connecting to the
BY FRANCINE FULTON
See Emergency workers pg 5 Leah DiPietro, Cali Camuti, Ashley Hrybenko and Madison Rohrbach.
community: EPC at 70
BY CATHY MOLITORIS
Over the past seven decades, Engle Printing & Publishing Co., Inc. (EPC) has grown from one couple producing one paper to a company that employs 150 people, distributes 16 community newspapers and multiple specialty publications to close to 200,000 people, and provides printing services for numerous clients. Although the scope of the business has changed, one thing has remained constant: community. “We want to make that connection to our local merchants and to our community members,” said Charlie Engle, company president. As EPC marks 70 years in business this year, Charlie and his daughter Jocelyn Engle looked back on what started in 1954 in the basement of Alvin and Pauline Engle’s Mount Joy home. “My dad bought his own little press and put it in our basement,” Charlie said of Alvin. “He was working full time in the printing business, but he always wanted to do his own thing.” In 1959, EPC purchased its first community publication, the Merchandiser, and by 1960, Alvin had quit his day job to See EPC pg 2
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t was a typical Friday night for the ambulance crew at Keystone Valley Fire Department (KVFD) on March 15. What was notable, however, was that those who answered the calls for emergency assistance were all women. “On Friday, March 15, Keystone Valley had an all-female staff on the ambulance for a full 24 hours,” said Leah DiPietro, a career EMT at KVFD. “It wasn’t planned. It just happened and it happened during Women’s History Month. It is rare for there to be a good amount of women in a single fire house.” “Females make up 31% of EMS providers,” added KVFD chief Brian Gathercole. “One-third of our staff is made up of females. They have a passion to serve our community and a desire to make this world a better place.” Women who ser ve in the department include the following: Stephanie Klingler and Michelle Kreger, members of the board of directors; Karen Reynolds, membership secretary; Tina Myers and Tammy Guiney, associate members; Alyssa DeMarco, fire captain; Corin Diem, fire police officer; and Dani Tribbett and Brooke Davis, junior firefighters. In addition to DiPietro, other EMTs at the fire company are Cali Camuti, Alissa Casto, Sophie Eberly, Karly Emmert, Rebecca Fries, Ashley Hrybenko, Alexandra Kilheffer, Madison R auscher, Madison Rohrbach and Sydney Stewart. Crew members who worked on March 15 were (counterclockwise, from left) Michelle Kreger, Karly Emmert,