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SERVING OUR COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
REACHING MORE THAN 17,060 HOMES
VOL LXII • NO 26
Supporting Girls and Women With Dignity BY CAT SHANNON
400 families a week, so we have a great need to fill in helping our neighbors in need,” she said. CCS Building Group is the contractor trusted with overseeing the work. “This project involves a combination of level one and level two alterations,” said David Carrera, the project manager for CCS Building Group. “Level two alterations are a reconfiguration of an existing facility into a kind of new use and purpose. Here, the existing building was Lancaster EMS and is now being converted to a local food pantry and clothing, distribution kind of facility. There’s a complete alteration of the
Sarah Zeitler wants to get people talking about some of life’s most basic necessities while making sure everyone has access to them. The Lancaster woman is the local face of I Support the Girls, a national nonprofit that collects bras, underwear and feminine hygiene products for girls and women in need. What began for Zeitler as a simple search for a place to donate gently used bras has grown into a mission she calls both energizing and deeply personal. “I’m very focused on changing the conversation,” says Zeitler, who has two teenage daughters, ages 14 and 16. “Why don’t we talk about pads and tampons? ... I tell my girls, ‘You don’t have to be embarrassed by this topic.’ I want to help people who don’t have access to products most of us take for granted.” Zeitler discovered I Support the Girls in late 2024. When she realized Lancaster no longer had an active chapter, she quickly stepped up. The hyperlocal aspect drew her in. “I like that the bras you’re giving are not going to women in another state,” she said. “ They’re going right back to local women. I also wanted to be sure these bras were going to women in need who were going to use them.” I Support the Girls began 10 years ago when founder Dana Marlowe started the organization in the Washington, D.C., area. From one donated bra, the organization has grown to more
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See Dignity pg 8
ONLINE FALL EVENT CALENDAR Loft Community Partnership officials (from left) Tom Keller, Joy Olcott, Jenna Graeff, and Matt Olcott and CCS Building Group representatives David Carrera and Bill Koch Sr. are involved with the renovation project.
Loft Community Partnership Will Rise to New Heights
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enovations that will help serve generations. That’s how Loft Community Partnership (LCP) officials view the construction project that will soon get underway at its future home at 100 E. Charlotte St., Millersville. On Oct. 9, LCP started a capital campaign to pay for those improvements. Having raised $800,000 to purchase the building, the nonprofit is looking to generate an additional $1.2 million to fund the renovations.
CCS Building Group is slated to begin the project on Monday, Oct. 27, with a goal of completing the work in January 2026. LCP is seeking to raise the money by that time and move into the facility in February. Go to www.loftcp.org to contribute to the capital campaign. The 10,000-square-foot building is approximately three times the size of LCP’s current space, located in Jefferson Hall at 164 W. Cottage Ave., Millersville. LCP capital campaign chair Joy Olcott said the project factors in the cost of the renovations and equipment. “We’re feeding over
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