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REACHING MORE THAN 7,160 HOMES
The Lions Are Hard to Miss
Fostering Pets a Chance to Be Part of the Journey
BY LOGAN MOYER
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t’s hard to miss the Paradise Township Lions Club’s bright yellow trailer, especially when it is sitting in your driveway for years on end. Since 2022, the club’s concession trailer lived in Mary Alice High’s driveway and was pulled out anytime the Lions needed to use it. But now, after four years, the trailer finally has a proper home. In September of 2019, the Lions gained permission to purchase the trailer, contingent on a garage being built for it. After years of red tape, the garage has finally been built at Paradise Community Park and is now housing the Lions Club’s trailer, along with other club supplies much of which has lived in Marie Glass’ garage for just as long. “Patience is a virtue,” Glass said. “We just got in two months ago.” The previously all-white trailer was wrapped by a group of veterans
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Even after 90 years, the Lancaster County Art Association (LCAA) is as strong as ever. The LCAA, the oldest art association in Lancaster County, celebrated its 90th birthday at its annual banquet at the DoubleTree Resort in Lancaster in May. The banquet’s keynote speaker was artist Richard Ressel, who shared many of his memories from over the years. He also honored Ken Hoak, an LCAA member since 1950, for his longtime service. “(Richard) gave a wonderful view, just the little tidbits that he knew from the art association, things
Anne Hendricks, outreach coordinator with All 4 Paws Rescue, a nonprofit, fosterbased, all-breed organization located in Malvern, is familiar with the most common excuse potential pet foster parents give. “They all say, ‘I could never foster because I would want to adopt them all,’” noted Hendricks, who has fostered more than 100 dogs over nine years. “We have all foster-failed at least once,” she added, referring to a foster dog she knew she would be keeping within the first 24 hours of fostering her. According to Kisha Reinmiller, site director for Pennsylvania SPCA Lancaster Center, many who foster do become adoptive pet parents. “ We are always recruiting new fosters,” she shared. “A lot of them adopt for the first time.” Both organizations reported that becoming a foster parent for an animal is not complicated. The Lancaster Center application can be found online at www.pspca .org, and the All 4 Paws application is at www.all4pawsrescue .com. Representatives of both organizations noted that the foster application is similar to the adoption application. “We process (the applications), and then we reach out,” said Reinmiller. Hendricks pointed out that for potential fosters who already have pets, contacting the applicant’s vet is a crucial step. “We talk to the vet to be sure (the applicant’s) pets have been well taken care of,” she stated.
See LCAA pg 2
See Pets pg 4
The trailer was purchased in 2019 and was wrapped in 2022 by a group of veterans from Oxford.
in Oxford in 2022, funded by community sponsors. The bright yellow is impossible to miss, an intentional choice that allows the trailer to serve as a billboard for the Paradise Township Lions in the local community.
“Every time we got on the road, we were advertising,” High said. “It does turn some heads going down the road. It’s fun to follow.” The Paradise Township Lions Club has been active in the Pequea Valley community since 1928 and See Trailer pg 6
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