Pequea Valley townlively.com
JUNE 12, 2024
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LX • NO 25
Spreading the health BY ANN MEAD ASH
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ince its inception, the Welsh Mountain Health Center (now Union Community Care), 584 Springville Road, New Holland, has sought to reach members of the community with needed health care. Starting in April, the new Union Community Care Mobile Care Team is continuing toward that goal by bringing health care literally to the doorsteps of members of the Plain community from as near as East Earl and Morgantown to Quarryville and Mount Joy. The team, made up of medical provider Janine Muir and medical assistant Heather Par mer, jour ne ys out each Wednesday to homes in specific areas based on a list of requests Parmer has compiled. A circuit of visits is completed ever y eight weeks. In addition to the aforementioned locations, the unit visits homes in Ephrata, Lititz, Terre Hill, New Holland,
Coatesville, Honey Brook, Narvon, Parkesburg, Gap, and Kinzers. Muir noted that Union has responded to the fact that t ra n s p o r t at i o n i s a k no w n barrier to care and that while telehealth can help, mobile units bring providers directly to those in need. “I think our administration has amazing idea generators, but it’s also listening to the community,” she pointed out, adding that providing mobile care enhances the Plain Healthy program that was already in place. “ The Mobile Care Team is working to implement the Plain Healthy program, that serves the Plain population in Lancaster County,” said Muir, noting that the program includes administering vaccines and performing well child checks, as well as making house calls. According to Parmer, members of the Plain community contact her through a special number. Parmer coordinates the best
Janine Muir (left) and Heather Parmer make up the Mobile Care Team that works to implement
See Union Community Care pg 4 Union Community Care’s Plain Healthy program.
Dehydration collaboration
Powering The Factory
Local nonprofits pool their resources to feed the world BY JEFF FALK
World hunger isn’t a food shortage problem. World hunger is a logistical difficulty, a supply problem. Working together, a pair of local nonprofit organizations have come up with a solution that is making a real difference in addressing the global problem. The key to their successful solution is an innovative approach to the process of food dehydration. “The problem isn’t that the world doesn’t have enough food;
it’s the distribution,” said Jeremy Frith, the CEO of Barnabas Aid, an international nonprofit headquartered in Lancaster. “We’re trying to address that problem. It’s a distribution issue, but it’s also an educational issue. We need a change of mindset. We have so much food and people don’t think about it, and when it goes into landfills, it creates problems. That food could be feeding somebody.” Near the end of 2022, Barnabas Aid, which is located at 80 Abbeyville Road, Lancaster,
See The Factory Ministries pg 8 volunteers Marie Glass, Laurent Pelletier, and Lauren Watkins.
See Blessings of Hope pg 3
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“Any given day we are open, there are between four and 20 volunteers needed to just do what we do,” said Shira Zimmerman, senior director of programs, with The Factory Ministries. According to Zimmerman, the ministry, located at 3293 Lincoln Highway East, Paradise, is fueled by volunteer power. “The volunteers are not just valuable,” noted Zimmerman. “We can’t do what we do without volunteers.” W hat the ministr y does is connect those in need in the Pequea Valley community with Working at The Factory are (from left) Shira Zimmerman and
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