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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXIV • NO 29
At UZRC, car enthusiasts will show off their rides
Visitors to United Zion Retirement Communty’s Rock’n Car and Motorcycle Cruise may view a wide variety of vehicles. BY JEFF FALK
Some folks inject a lot of time, effort and money into their motor vehicles. Given how much they’ve put into them, you can’t really blame them for wanting to show off their investments. Those will be the people displaying their prized vehicular possessions
Participants in the Freedom Walk seek to raise awareness of human trafficking.
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undraisers couldn’t generate financial resources without generous donors, and nonprofits couldn’t perform their philanthropic work without fundraisers. Four months after presenting its Hope for Freedom Gala, Hope.Inspire.Love. will conduct the second of its two yearly fundraisers, Freedom Walk, on Saturday, Oct. 7, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Musser Park, 135 N. Lime St., Lancaster. Hope.Inspire.Love is in its eighth year of battling human trafficking
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and sexual exploitation, and the event is designed to raise money for the fight against human trafficking and to raise the awareness of its effects. “Fundraising is vital. It’s the glue,” said Hope.Inspire.Love CEO and president Amy Thurston, who founded the organization with her husband, Steve. “Nonprofits rely on the community. We need their support financially. The survivors know the community is behind their healing, and we’re in the backyard of the community. I literally am sitting here every day thinking, ‘We could do so much if we had more funding.’”
The Freedom Walk is a 2-mile walk carried out silently through the streets of Lancaster city, beginning and ending in Musser Park. In 2022, the walk raised $20,000 for the mission of Hope.Inspire.Love., and this year, Thurston is hoping to raise that and $5,000 more. “We walk on the sidewalk, in single file, in silence,” said Thurston. “There’s something bold about silence. Actions don’t need words. That’s why we do it.” “It’s a next step for people to learn about our organization,” Thurston continued. “People are
Building connections and giving back BY CATHY MOLITORIS
Great things happen when women on a mission get together. Lancaster County Women for Good formed last year with the goal of raising money for local nonprofits. So far, the group has donated more than $23,000, with 284 women contributing to the effort. Most recently, the organization presented a check for $7,000 to Arch Street Center at Lancaster County Women for Good’s quarterly Gather & Grant meeting. Located in
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Lancaster, Arch Street Center provides support and services for adults living with mental illness. Lancaster County Women for Good began as an outreach of Grapevine, a social giving platform that brings people together for philanthropic work. “Grapevine initiated a bunch of groups in different areas of the country and from that point handed it over to local leadership,” said founding member Anna Horst. She’s joined by the local leadership team of group host Joelle Terranova and See Connections pg 2
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Hope.Inspire.Love. talks the talk, walks the walk BY JEFF FALK
when United Zion Retirement Community (UZRC) hosts its annual Rock’n Car and Motorcycle Cruise on Saturday, Sept. 23, from 3 to 7 p.m. on its campus at 722 Furnace Hills Pike, Lititz. All proceeds from the event will go toward UZRC’s benevolent fund. “It’s almost like showing off your newborn baby,” said Esther Keyser,
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