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Local Students Raise Funds for CHOP BY FRANCINE FULTON
While many youngsters take part in community service projects through school, church or Scouting, four local students - Nora and Natalie Winchester, Harper Hume Stoltzfus and Ariadne Gaudiello - organized a fundraiser on their own, raising $250 for the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) by holding a sale of lemonade and homemade bracelets. Harper and Nora, age 11, and Natalie, age 8, are students in the Selling lemonade and homemade bracelets are (from left) Nora Winchester, R121780
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Eat a Meal in the Dark Lions Schedule Annual Fundraiser BY ANN MEAD ASH
Paradise Township Lions Club member and organizer of the upcoming Dinner in the Dark fundraiser Bill Dodds knows the history of the club’s dedication to helping individuals who are blind or vision impaired. “At the Lions International convention in 1925, Helen Keller challenged the Lions to be “knights for the blind in the crusade against darkness,’” said Dodds. “The Lions took that challenge.” Dodds is carr ying on that effort by overseeing the details for the club’s annual Dinner in the Dark, which will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 15, at White Chimneys, 5117 Lincoln Highway, Gap. Doors will open at 6 p.m. when the silent auction begins, and dinner will be served at 7 p.m. In addition to the meal, there will be presentations by VisionCorps, which will receive the profits from the dinner. On the menu for the event will be baked chicken, roast beef and gravy, red skin potatoes, baby carrots, string beans, rolls and butter, and a tossed salad. Dessert will feature pumpkin and apple pies and chocolate cake. Beverages, which will be lemonade, coffee, beer, and wine, will all be included in the ticket. However, it is not the food but how it is eaten that makes Dinner in the Dark a unique experience. With the goal of helping attendees to understand different levels of vision impairment, individuals may choose from different implements that simulate conditions that degenerate vision and introduce the wearer to the impact of that and See Fundraiser pg 2
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