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EXPLORE AN ENGAGING LIFESTYLE AT SYCAMORE SPRINGS. Construction is well underway in the newest neighborhood of Sycamore Springs! New homes are going fast in this award-winning community as Garden Spot Village continues to raise the bar in 55 and over living. Visit to explore the abundant opportunities awaiting you at Sycamore Springs!

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Garden Spot Village, 433 S. Kinzer Ave, New Holland, PA, 17557. 717.355.6000. A non-profit, fee-for-service community. Monthly fee includes repairs and maintenance of residence and furnished appliances, electric, heat, air conditioning, water, sewer, property taxes, garbage and trash disposal, lawn care, snow removal, security, use of common facilities, social, educational, cultural and recreational events. The following are available for a fee: telephone service, cable TV, dining options, personal care, skilled nursing, memory support, adult day services, at home care services, housekeeping, laundry and a hair and nail salon. Fees and services are subject to change. Minimum age requirement 55.

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Explore the abundant opportunities you have to live with purpose in community at Garden Spot Village.

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WAYS TO LEARN MORE: • Attend a virtual Look & Learn • Take a virtual tour at: gardenspotvillage.org/village-virtual-tour • Read Destination Magazine online at: destination.gardenspotvillage.org • Watch videos on our YouTube channel • Like our Facebook page

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Deciding on your next move? At Garden Spot Village, our two-tiered approach to building community lets you take the next steps on your journey at your own pace. If Garden Spot Village feels like a good fit, you can, with no obligation, become a future resident!

When you submit an application and the $150 application fee, you receive the following: • Security in knowing that your finances will carry you through retirement at Garden Spot Village • Weekly event emails • Invitations to future resident-only events like behind-the-scenes kitchen tours, financial, real estate and downsizing seminars, and more • Invitations to Christmas events • Dining discount • Opportunity to request complimentary tickets for shows at the Fulton Theatre • Complimentary subscription to Destination Garden Spot Village magazine • Invitations to select resident-only trips • Invitations to join Travel with Purpose trips in the U.S. and abroad • Opportunity to book guest rooms at Garden Spot Village to experience life in your future community

Read about Jane & Ernie's journey to Garden Spot Village on page 42.

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When you are ready to move to Garden Spot Village, give us a call. We’ll help you take the next step to the Radar Screen, where you choose your housing preference and join the community of people looking forward to calling Garden Spot Village home.

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CONTENTS 14 FIRST WORD 16 GET TO KNOW THE NEIGHBORHOOD

18 SYCAMORE SPRINGS Bob and Rosey Hess moved to Sycamore Springs in June 2020. They are thankful for the mix of community and privacy this newest neighborhood offers.

22 ON THE CLOCK 24 MEET YOUR NEIGHBOR 36 GIVING 38 NEW POSSIBILITIES 42 LOOKING FORWARD 48 TEAM SPOTLIGHT 51 THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF HUGO & VAL 58 CHEF'S DELIGHT 60 ON THE ROAD 62 COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT 68 VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHTS

40 MEADOW VIEW: LIVING RESILIENTLY Meadow View, Garden Spot’s newest innovative community, offers resilient living for people with dementia.

70 SOCIALLY SPEAKING 72 OPPORTUNITY CALENDAR

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64 EXPANDING WELLNESS Recognizing the need for new opportunities to pursue wellness, Garden Spot Village expanded the Gardens North exercise room to create an exercise suite with individual spaces for people to work out.

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21 IT'S A GREAT TIME TO SELL YOUR HOUSE Carol Lehman, Hostetter Realty, offers a quick analysis of the 2020 real estate market and explains why 2020 is a great time to sell your home.

26 GARDEN SPOT FIRE RESCUE: ALWAYS ON THE JOB Similar to many of the other nearly 2,300 volunteer fire companies in Pennsylvania, Garden Spot Fire Rescue can easily be taken for granted until you need it.

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MEET OUR TIME-GIVING MICRO-COMMUNITIES At Garden Spot Village, opportunities to live with purpose in community encourage people to give freely of their time and expertise to those around them.

44 INNOVATING TO CREATE COMMUNITY In the midst of a stay-at-home order, Garden Spot Village residents and team members used innovation to transform the way everyone experienced community.

66 REMIXING FALL FESTIVAL The Fall Festival planning team created Harvest Week: a resident and staff-only harvest celebration that includes the most-loved parts of Fall Festival spread out over the course of a week.

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FIRST WORD A LETTER FROM THE CMO

The Time Givers—what a cool theme for this issue of our magazine. The top three priorities that baby boomers lean into during retirement have consistently been 1) travel 2) spend time with family and 3) volunteer—in other words, to purposefully give their time to help others and make a difference in their community and around the world. It’s no wonder that Garden Spot Village has been so popular because our culture is founded upon service and the enrichment of lives.

When we set out to identify the Garden Spot Experience in 2016, we engaged several consultants to come alongside us and help with the initiative. One of the things that amazed the consultants was the consistent culture among the leadership, the staff and the residents. Garden Spot is one harmonious community. There are a lot of different roles—yet the mission, values and pervasive culture are the same whether someone lives here or works here.

Though life looks different now, it never stopped at Garden Spot Village. The most common sentiment among residents during the COVID-19 lockdown was, “I am so glad I live at Garden Spot Village. I can’t imagine living on my own in our old house!”

The word “inconvenient” doesn’t even begin to describe the effect the pandemic has had on people’s lives, but it has been far less inconvenient at Garden Spot Village.

Time Givers, those who willingly serve others with worthy causes, are the bedrock of our community. While many people sat home not knowing what to do with themselves, those at Garden Spot Village accepted and delivered groceries, created mask kits, sewed masks and washable gowns, screened employees coming to work and more.

As employees, we served. We set up relationships with local groceries for online ordering and delivery; we created a ton of online content to stay in shape, stay informed and be entertained; we delivered meals and groceries; we went door-todoor just to say hello; and if someone wasn’t feeling well or went to the hospital or had a COVID test, the social work team had their back.

As one person said, “When I worked I had people. People to help me do things.

When I retired I lost all my people, until I moved to Garden Spot.” In a healthy community, Time Givers keep things going, live with purpose, and make a difference. In this issue, you’ll discover how residents and staff give of their time to enrich the lives of others as well as themselves. Take a little time, lean in and read through these stories—they may spark some new ideas as you think about your life and time at Garden Spot Village.

Enthusiastically,

Scott Miller| Brand Editor & Chief Marketing Officer

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BRAND EDITOR & CMO | SCOTT MILLER EDITOR & STORYTELLER | JUANITA FOX WRITERS | RACHEL HUNGERFORD, ART PETROSEMOLO VISUAL DIRECTOR & DESIGNER | BRANDON ADAMS PHOTOGRAPHY | THE PREMISE STUDIO: JEREMY HESS, THE GSC CREATIVE TEAM: GAVIN SAUDER, BRANDON ADAMS COVER AND MAIN ARTICLE ILLUSTRATOR | TYLER LE HUGO & VAL ILLUSTRATOR | ANDREW LYTLE PLEASE SEND COMMENTS OR ARTICLE SUGGESTIONS TO: INFO@GARDENSPOTVILLAGE.ORG PLEASE SEND ADDRESS CHANGES TO : CCREEK@GARDENSPOTVILLAGE.ORG PUBLISHED BY: GARDEN SPOT COMMUNITIES VIEW ONLINE: DESTINATION.GARDENSPOTVILLAGE.ORG Sustainably printed to reflect Garden Spot Communities' commitment to environmental stewardship.

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GET TO KNOW THE NEIGHBORHOOD B Corporations are businesses that endeavor to use business for good. With rigorous social, environmental and transparency standards, they strive to make a more positive impact for everyone—and a few are just 25 minutes away in Lancaster City! To learn more about B Corporations and find other options in Lancaster, visit bcorporation.net.

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Founded in 2011, Upohar serves a variety of vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free foods from around the world.

They also have a stand at the Lancaster Central Market, Christina’s Criollo, which serves Puerto Rican food, and a catering company, Global Flavors Catering, which serves vegan, vegetarian, and non-vegetarian food. Additionally, they operate a food truck for parties and public events.

Prince Street Café operates under Commons Company of Lancaster. Located across the street from the Fulton Theatre, the café offers made-to-order espresso drinks, soup and sandwiches at a fast-casual pace. Be sure to check out their scrumptious dessert case featuring muffins, cookies, and more. They also sell whole coffee beans from Necessary Coffee.

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Fig Industries exists to create meaningful marketing and unique branding for local small businesses. Fig Lancaster is just one of the company's magazines that showcases local businesses, restaurants and entertainment with modern, eye-catching design. The Fig team strives to put relationships first by creating camaraderie with their partners—including Garden Spot Village! Check out Fig magazine’s latest issue at figlancaster.com.

The Stroopie Company, established in 2008, has garnered fame for their Dutch Stroopwafels, or “Stroopies”—cinnamon waffle cookies with a layer of caramel on the inside. They do their part to support refugees in Lancaster City, providing social support and employment. You can purchase Stroopies at their production site, Lancaster Sweet Shoppe, but they are also sold at locations in Lancaster County, York, Philadelphia, and beyond—even on Amazon! Their company website sells Stroopie variety packs and gift baskets.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW PERSONAL CARE Do you desire to live with opportunity? With an apartment suite in Mountain View, you can pursue the things that matter most to you—whether that's family, relationships, painting or gardening. By sharing the responsibilities of your daily routine with others, you can focus on living your best life.

To learn more or schedule a visit, call 717.355.6272.

MEADOW VIEW MEMORY SUPPORT Do you desire to live resiliently? At Meadow View you can do just that. With innovation and stateof-the-art technology, Meadow View offers opportunities for people with dementia to live resiliently, maintain their dignity and live with purpose in community.

To learn more or schedule a tour, call 717.355.6268.

ADULT DAY SERVICES Do you desire to engage in community? Adult Day Services at Garden Spot Village provides community and social interaction in a secure, protective environment throughout the day. In addition, you can take advantage of all of the amenities at Garden Spot.

To learn more or schedule a one-day, no-charge trial, call 717.355.6226.

GARDEN SPOT VILLAGE AT HOME Do you desire to maintain your independence? Garden Spot Village at Home can help you do just that. Our compassionate team members can help with grocery shopping, personal care, companionship, transportation to appointments, meal prep and light housekeeping.

To learn more call 717.355.6031 or visit gardenspotvillageathome.org.

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SYCAMORE SPRINGS A READY COMMUNITY

In mid-June, Bob and Rosey Hess moved into their home at Sycamore Springs. They were one of the first families to move to the newest expansion of the Sycamore Springs neighborhood.

A JOURNEY TO SYCAMORE SPRINGS “When we discovered Sycamore Springs and realized it was truly a 55 and over community, we decided to take a look,” Bob says. “We really liked Phase 1 of the community, but when we realized Phase 2 was coming in a few short years, we decided to wait.”

accustomed to making decisions and being the one in charge.

He posed tough questions to the sales team. Each time, Megan Bennett, sales director, took time to dialogue with the Hesses and answer their questions the best way she could. In moving to Sycamore Springs, Bob has had to relinquish a bit of his control, but in the end he knows it is the right decision.

Although Rosey knew that a retirement community was somewhere she wanted to live, Bob was a little more hesitant.

“I kept setting up self-made roadblocks,” he says. “It had to be the right house on the right property, and when we first visited, the ‘right house’ wasn’t available. Amazingly, during a tour, we learned the ‘right house’ might become available, so we inquired.”

“I may not have felt settled with all of the questions and answers, like how the community is really going to feel, but I figure that many good people can’t be wrong. I’m OK with it now,” Bob says.

The idea of not owning the property where he lived challenged Bob’s past experiences. As the president of Faddis Concrete and responsible for 400 employees, Bob is

In the end, the timing was right. Their home sold, even in the midst of a global pandemic. They also began to realize the value of community in times of crisis.

“Our impression of Garden Spot Village is that it is on the cutting edge of retirement communities and it’s a space where we can openly live what we believe,” Bob reflects.

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A COMMUNITY TO CONNECT WITH The idea of privacy in community appealed to Bob and Rosey. “The concept of Sycamore Springs definitely encouraged me to move ten years earlier than I had originally thought I would,” Bob says.

“I’m in the time of life where I want to slow down a little bit and slow down my responsibilities,” he explains. “I want to put my energy towards work rather than maintaining a large property. Moving to Garden Spot allowed me to do that.”

Bob and Rosey enjoy camping in their RV. Living at Garden Spot makes it easy for them to head out whenever they want—without worrying about maintaining their yard and their house.

One of the things Bob and Rosey enjoy most about camping is the sense of community they feel when they walk through the campground. “We experience that feeling of community when we walk through our new neighborhood at Sycamore Springs,” Bob says. “We all have a common interest and are available to each other.”

Because Bob and Rosey enjoy working outside, they secured a plot in the community gardens and talked extensively with Scott Ruth, campus services director, about the landscaping planned for their home. Having choice and input on the landscaping was very important to them. And for Bob, it made the move easier.

The model home at Sycamore Springs allows prospective residents to experience the craftsmanship and design of the community.

A READY COMMUNITY Families will be moving into the newest expansion of Sycamore Springs through spring 2021, says Sales Director Megan Bennett. The neighborhood, which includes 50 single-family homes spread across four commons, includes modified floor plans ranging from 1,300 to 2,000 square feet.

Although some of the options for customization are becoming limited, Megan says, “new residents can still choose flooring and appliances.”

Floor plan options are also limited, with just 16 homes still available.

Moving to Sycamore Springs in 2020 was a good choice for Bob and Rosey.

“Whenever we talked with people who moved to Garden Spot Village they always said, ‘Our only regret is that we didn’t move sooner,’” Bob says. “We are glad we moved when we did.”

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SELL YOUR HOUSE The real estate market in Pennsylvania was booming in early 2020. “By far, January and February 2020 were the busiest start to the year I experienced for the last 18 years,” says Carol Lehman of Hostetter Realty in New Holland.

It all came to a screeching halt in mid-March when real estate was included in the list of nonessential business industries that closed because of the coronavirus.

Carol says, “We came to a complete halt with all faceto-face contact. For 61 days we could not have any person-to-person physical contact with clients.”

Hostetter Realty’s photographer received a waiver and was able to continue capturing 3-D tours of homes even though Carol and her partner, Greg Hostetter, couldn’t meet with clients in person. This allowed Carol and Greg to work virtually, listing homes.

“When the market opened on May 19, we had a surge of buyers, even more than we experienced in January and February,” Carol says. “And we are continuing with a very strong seller’s market. As long as there is a lack of inventory,

we will see this market remain extremely strong for the foreseeable future. This really benefits future residents coming into Garden Spot Village because they will get the most value out of their home.”

Carol cites record low interest rates as one of the driving forces for the strong real estate market. Low interest rates incentivize buyers to invest in real estate. This key factor, along with low inventory, is providing an excellent seller’s market.

If you are interested in learning more about immediate opportunities to move to Garden Spot Village through the newest neighborhood expansion at Sycamore Springs, contact Kelly Sweigart, sales associate, at 717.355.6000 or visit sycamoresprings.org to explore the site plan.

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ohn and Jeanne Bomberger attended Messiah College in the late 1970s, married in 1981 and settled in southern Lancaster County. In 1985, they purchased a property on South Hess Street in Quarryville and used it as the “shop” for John’s electrical contracting business.

Jeanne says, “We renovated the building and invested tons of sweat equity. I’m a farm girl so I was used to hard work; John and I worked very closely together.

We started Cash & Carry Electrical Supply, Inc., from scratch in February 1986.

We didn’t really advertise. Customers naturally came to us because someone told them we would probably have what they needed.”

“We were always the little fish in the big pond, but we had some manufacturer representatives who were really gracious,” Jeanne explains. “We also had a great core of customers and developed a local following.” Jeanne and John sold electrical supplies in a pre-big-box-home-center world. Their focus on supplying small and medium-sized contractors and carrying quality lines paid off. Over the years they built a lighting showroom, additional warehouse space and other buildings on the property. They expanded to a second location in Juniata County in 2004. Business was booming.

In 1987, John was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis; he managed his symptoms and remained very active in running the business until 2016. Their son, Eric, stepped in to help Jeanne lead the business when John was no longer able to work. They sold the second location in 2014.

Through some intensive work with North Group Consultants, John and Jeanne transitioned the ownership of Cash & Carry to Eric and Jeanne. In May 2017, when John moved to Summerfielde, a skilled nursing household at Garden Spot Village, Jeanne began to prepare for her own move to Garden Spot Village. She moved into a Village Square apartment in April 2019.

“This is the freest life I have ever lived,” Jeanne says. “It is great to be able to come home and just be able to spend quality time with John.”

“When I moved in,” she continues, “I already knew people because I was eating in the Harvest Table with John several times a week. Garden Spot is such a friendly and welcoming community.”

“I’m always advocating a move to a retirement community with my friends and family,” she says. “I ask, ‘What is your plan?’ ‘Where will you move?’ It was very freeing to move here and not have the responsibilities of homeownership.”

Today Jeanne and Eric lead a team of 12 employees who help them with the ins and outs of running a successful electrical supply business. Jeanne works fulltime, commuting daily from New Holland to Quarryville.

Jeanne Bomberger and her son, Eric, own and manage Cash & Carry Electrical Supply, Inc., in Quarryville.

Cash & Carry continues to expand its customer base, carries quality lines at competitive prices and caters to small and mid-sized contractors. “We serve people who wouldn’t have the buying power to command a good price for their electrical supplies from a larger electrical distributor,” Jeanne says. “We have a unique niche in the Amish community and serve businesses like UltraGlow Electric, which is affiliated with Lancaster County-based B&D Builders, the company that recently moved and renovated the well-known Star Barn.”

John and Jeanne’s move to Garden Spot has made traveling to visit their daughter Leah and her family in the Netherlands, easier for Jeanne as well. Jeanne says, “I feel very fortunate to be here. I couldn’t travel before. And I didn’t meet my granddaughter until she was two. Traveling is now a possibility for me.”

Jeanne adds, “The positive spiritual atmosphere is also really important for me. It’s an essence in the fiber of the community. I really appreciate the people who live here.”

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ERIC AND TINE MACKAY: Recognizing Opportunity When It Knocks

“Whenever we talked with residents at various retirement communities, everyone said they waited too long to move,” says Eric MacKay. Eric, 63, and Tine, 59, made the move to Garden Spot Village a little sooner than anticipated. Their first choice in Village Square Apartments became available more quickly than they expected. But in the end, the timing was right.

The apartment was exactly what they wanted. Eric says, “We asked ourselves, ‘What would keep us in our house?’ Our answer was, ‘Nothing.’”

They officially moved into their new home on April 16, 2020, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. With the help of marketing staff, they self-quarantined for 14 days before meeting their neighbors.

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AN ACTIVE COMMUNITY Several years ago, Eric and Tine helped Tine’s mother as she moved to Brethren Village. In the process of finding the right community for Tine’s mom, they visited a number of local retirement communities. They began to see the communities through the filter of whether or not these communities would be a good fit for them someday.

Hagar Scott, a Garden Spot Village resident since December 2012, is a family friend who highly recommended Garden Spot.

As Eric and Tine considered the opportunities for medical care, the reputation of the community and the active lifestyle offered, as well as Hagar’s personal recommendation, Garden Spot felt like the perfect fit.

“We liked everything about Garden Spot Village,” Tine says.

A MOBILE LIFESTYLE Throughout the 25 years Eric served with the U.S. Navy in active and reserve duty, the couple moved frequently. They enjoyed stops in Connecticut, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Texas, Italy and Scotland. They settled in Lancaster County in 2006 and began to call the community their home.

Before retiring, Eric most recently worked for Demme Learning, a small company in Lititz that provides math and spelling curricula for homeschooling families.

Tine most recently worked as a laboratory technician with a geneticist from the University of Pennsylvania who studies macular degeneration in the Lancaster County Amish community. “It was one of the most fascinating jobs I’ve had,” she says.

Lancaster County is the closest they have been to family since they married, Tine says. With Eric’s brother living near Philadelphia and some of Tine’s cousins in south Jersey, the location feels right.

ABOVE Eric and Tine MacKay’s new home in Village Square Apartments is filled with family heirlooms and memories.

A DESIRE TO TRAVEL As members of the Harrisburg Scottish Country Dance Society, Eric and Tine travel all over North America dancing socially. Tine is a world-renowned dance teacher and dance deviser.

Three years ago they rented a canal boat in England and absolutely loved it. They had arranged to do another trip in summer 2020, but needed to cancel it because of the pandemic. Both are hopeful they can reschedule for 2021.

The MacKays have also done two riverboat cruises in Europe with Uniworld River Cruises and another trip is on their wish list for sometime in the next few years.

Until then, they will enjoy their new home at Garden Spot Village—the perfect location where they can lock and leave when it’s time to head off on their next adventure.

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GARDEN SPOT FIRE RESCUE:

ALWAYS ON THE JOB Story by Art Petrosemolo, Sycamore Springs resident since December 2016. Photos by Kirk Neidermyer.

The Main Street location of Garden Spot Fire Rescue (GSFR) New Holland is right around the corner from Garden Spot Village. Many drive by the fire station daily with very little understanding of its important role in the safety of our community. Similar to many of the other nearly 2,300 volunteer fire companies in Pennsylvania, GSFR can easily be taken for granted until you need it.

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But talk to someone who has experienced GSFR’s professional help and you’ll appreciate that even though you may not know these firefighters, they know Garden Spot Village well and are ready to help, and often do.

The Garden Spot Village community is GSFR’s largest customer in its first response—or “first due”—district.

The community has high-rise structures as well as freestanding residences and community buildings spread across a 104-acre campus. Garden Spot’s apartment complex, built in the late 1990s, was the first building in the area with more than three f loors, which prompted the then Liberty Fire Company to acquire its first ladder truck.

Garden Spot Village is the largest contributor to GSFR’s $1 million plus budget. Garden Spot CEO Steve Lindsey says, “It’s money well spent. GSFR volunteers train countless hours for any emergency, and part of that training involves them coming to Garden Spot Village to ensure that they have a good working knowledge of the buildings, the layouts and the systems.”

Steve continues, “It is not uncommon on a summer evening to have multiple trucks and dozens of emergency personnel on the campus for a training exercise. This has proved to be beneficial on numerous occasions whether the situation was a broken sprinkler pipe on a winter evening or a fire in a cottage. They not only resolved the emergency, but they also stayed on the scene both to assist with cleanup of the area impacted and to comfort the residents who were affected.”

GSFR’s commitment shows up in ways people don’t realize, explains Lindsey. “Their Insurance Services Office rating, which assesses how well equipped they are to put out fires in their community, is excellent. A large portion of that score comes from the staffing levels, the hours of training and the newness of the equipment available. The insurers then use the score to set insurance rates and that makes your home less risky, and therefore less expensive to insure, which has resulted in real savings to all of us in New Holland, including Garden Spot Village.”

New Holland’s original volunteer company—the Liberty Fire Company—dates back to 1897. It merged with the Blue Ball Fire Company—just four miles away—in 2013, in order to be more effective and efficient in covering the three municipalities. Their capabilities include structure fire calls, vehicle accident calls and assisting the New Holland Ambulance Association as needed for the area’s 13,000 residents and 6,000 properties.

Daryl Groff has served as director of development for GSFR for the past two years. Figures compiled for the company’s three stations—two in New Holland and a third in Blue Ball—show that in 2019, volunteers made a total of 446 calls, including 63 for vehicles, saving property valued at more than $5 million.

Daryl handles fundraising for GSFR and coordinates business development. He works with local businesses to ensure they are aware of exactly how the volunteers protect local businesses by fighting fires and responding to accident calls in the community. He also seeks their investments.

The majority of the $1 million plus GSFR budget comes from individual donations, annual business investments, grants and support from the municipalities. The three municipalities served have a replacement fund to anticipate their largest expense—equipment. GSFR will replace three large fire engines—one for each facility—within the next two years.

Besides responding to emergency calls in its coverage area, the GSFR team runs a number of outreach programs, including fire safety training for Eastern Lancaster County public, private and parochial schools and training for staff at local businesses and day care centers.

One of the new programs that had been planned for 2020 but was postponed until 2021 was a junior firefighter camp for 11 to 14-year-old children. Says Chief Darryl Keiser, “Our goal is to introduce campers to firefighting as a community service. We will expose them to many of the skills necessary to fight fires and perform rescues and to keep themselves safe while helping others.”

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the merger. He succeeded Chief Larry Martin in 2017. Chief Martin, along with a visionary planning committee, oversaw the merger transition in 2013-2014.

“Intensive training for our volunteers always has been a hallmark of our company,” says Chief Keiser. “For 2019, our volunteers logged 3,000 hours of training for vehicle and building rescues and to fight fires.”

Chief Keiser is excited about the expanded opportunities for training at a new fire safety training site on nearby Welsh Mountain that was donated to Lancaster County by a local citizen and is now leased by GSFR. It includes a large building that is being prepared to house in-depth training for both industrial and residential rescues and firefighting.

“It’s also where we’ll hold our junior firefighters camp,” Chief Keiser says, “and it’s a site we can make use of 12 months a year to be better prepared to serve our communities. We are inviting neighboring volunteer companies to train there too,” the chief stressed. “We want to be well-trained and ready for any emergency today and into the future. Training is something we all take seriously, dating back to our founding more than a century ago.”

THE GARDEN SPOT VILLAGE—GARDEN SPOT FIRE RESCUE CONNECTION The Garden Spot Village—Garden Spot Fire Rescue connection goes both ways. GSFR’s development director, Daryl Groff, who was a resource for this story, serves on the Garden Spot Communities Board of Directors.

Two Garden Spot residents and a member of the Garden Spot Village staff serve as GSFR volunteers and are impressed with the level of training by the volunteer company. They enjoy being part of a group that gives back in such a major way to the communities of New Holland Borough and large portions of Earl and East Earl townships.

Garden Spot Village resident Larry Knepper joined the Liberty Fire Company in 1978 and served as a volunteer for 39 years, including 19 years as the company treasurer and 15 years on the fire police. Now 80, he has retired from an active role at GSFR but remains a company member. Larry says, “Our volunteers were always well trained and we were blessed with strong chiefs and management dedicated to serving our communities.”

Dick Johnson moved to Garden Spot Village in November 2015. He had served as a volunteer firefighter with his hometown company north of New York City, in Brewster, New York. Dick serves as a social member of GSFR and is active in fire prevention training at area schools from preschool through high school. “We even work with Plain Sect schools,” Dick says, “and I am fortunate to have Amish and Mennonite volunteer firefighters with me when I do that.

Students and their teachers are very receptive to learning about fire safety.”

Allison Cuthie, Garden Spot’s associate director of development, has been a GSFR member since 2017 and is active in planning their yearly awards ceremony. She was also part of their 2018 LaFrance engine anniversary celebration.

Although not trained to fight fires and make active calls, Allison says, “I’d really like to learn to drive one of the trucks, but that hasn’t happened yet!”

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GARDEN SPOT FIRE RESCUE

COMMUNITY IS AT OUR CORE

With three stations in greater New Holland, Garden Spot Fire Rescue 39 is a community of more than 150 men and women who work together to serve their neighbors. In 2019, Garden Spot Fire Rescue logged more than 450 fire calls in addition to 632 company hours of service and nearly 2,400 company personnel hours, plus more than 3,000 training hours.

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MICROCOMMUNITIES MEET OUR TIME-GIVING

At Garden Spot Village, opportunities to live with purpose in community are everywhere.

This abundance encourages people to freely give their time and expertise to those around them. From the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program to the Community Church to the Archive Team, people at Garden Spot generously share their time, talents and energy.

Each of these micro-communities is the result of a resident or two or three asking, “How can we…?” and then going out and making it happen. The following pages explore these micro-communities that are filled with people who are sharing their expertise and impacting others at Garden Spot and around the world.

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Volunteer Income Tax Assistance

Archive Group

Between the beginning of February and the beginning of April, hundreds of people file into the Gardens South Conference Room with their tax documents.

Completing a tax return can be unsettling and a little overwhelming, but Duane Tice and his cocoordinators Bill Hunter and Don Aldrich, along with their team of greeters and tax preparers, make filing a tax return as quick and as painless as possible.

A retired history teacher, Ken Wendel is fascinated with history and how companies and organizations evolve.

When Ken moved to Garden Spot in November 2003, he brought along his interest in history. He casually asked at a Cottage Council meeting, “Where can I find the history of the community?”

The team provides free tax return preparation through the IRS-sponsored Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, supported locally through United Way of Lancaster County. This national program is available to anyone who earns less than $62,000 per year.

Duane Tice, a Garden Spot Village resident since April 2008, says the IRS started VITA to help people comply with the federal law that compels every eligible person to file a tax return. United Way of Lancaster County supports 17 VITA locations around the county including Garden Spot Village. Garden Spot volunteers began offering tax assistance through VITA 17 years ago.

Duane and the other volunteers truly make a difference for the people they serve by creating relationships and a sense of welcome. Duane shared that people travel from Gap, Intercourse and the City of Lancaster, even though they have options closer to their homes, because they appreciate the volunteers and atmosphere at Garden Spot Village.

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Before he knew it, Garden Spot had found a room for him, and the administrative team delivered boxes and boxes of newspaper clippings, minutes and other history. He spent the next 14 years sorting through the articles and documents and creating the framework and organization for the Archive Room.

In doing so, he created a space where the memories and history of Garden Spot can be preserved and accessed for years to come.

Now, a team of residents helps Ken. Ann Gross coordinates veterans’ records. Dorothy Winegardner takes care of retired nurses’ records. Chick Wenzel helps residents record their life stories. Pat Frankel and Darlene Smith do reporting, indexing, filing, photography and more. Mike Lanyon files Garden Spot publications and meeting minutes, compiles life records of residents and maintains the computer system.

Located on the ground floor of Gardens West, the Archive Room has volumes of history. Information can be referenced quickly through the card catalog as well as a listing in a binder or a computer program.

The room is available by appointment for anyone who wants to learn more about the history of Garden Spot and the people who have lived here.

Computer User Group

The Community Church

On the fourth Thursday of each month, 12 to 15 people gather in the Gardens West Conference Room to talk about computers and emerging software and technology.

In 2009, residents of the Garden Spot Village community began to talk about what would be involved in creating a church. Their vision was to create a multidenominational church with regular leadership by Garden Spot Village chaplains but also significant leadership and participation

by Garden Spot Village residents. Plus, they wanted to find ways to formally engage their local community through attendance and acts of service.

Mike Lanyon, a Garden Spot Village resident since August 2004, moderates the Computer Users Group, a mix of individuals ranging from retired information technology professionals, to people who simply want to know how to better use their devices to those who are just curious about computers.

Dale Leathead established the Computer Club in late 1997. At that time six people met regularly in his home to talk about computers. Over the next ten years, the club evolved into the Computer Users Group, because it is not a formal club with dues or registration fees.

Mike says, “It’s an informal setting where people can come and talk about computers. I always ask if people have something they want to learn and if so, I’ll create a PowerPoint presentation to help explain the topic at the next meeting. Other times people will bring questions about their computers or even their smartphones.”

Attendees are always encouraged to bring a friend to the next meeting. “We try to make it a low-key time,” Mike says. “We are just a group of people who like to get together and try to learn something new.”

The social and educational aspect of the Computer Users Group keeps people returning to connect and learn each month.

Over the past decade, the Community Church has become a vibrant part of Garden Spot. Members have hosted Vacation Bible School for children in the New Holland community and supported local outreach initiatives. They have warmly welcomed people who live in New Holland and future residents who choose to attend and become part of the church family before moving to Garden Spot.

Drawing from a number of protestant traditions, the church offers a theological statement of core values, core beliefs and adult baptism.

The congregation gives generously to missions and supports members who choose to serve on short-term mission assignments. People who attend can choose to be full members; associate members who also hold membership at another local church; or partners who attend and support the ministry of the church without full membership.

Following the format of a traditional church service, the congregation meets on Sundays at 10am in the Garden Spot Village Chapel, averaging between 185 and 200 attendees.

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Apartment Council

Cottage Council

In March 1997, a group of residents formed a council to represent residents and interact with Garden Spot administration. As the community grew, an Apartment Council and Cottage Council evolved to represent the different parts of the community.

“Our goal is to be relevant to the independent living residents in cottages, in carriage homes and at Sycamore Springs,” says Tom Peck, a Garden Spot Village resident since December 2015. Tom serves as the president for the Cottage Council at Garden Spot Village.

Don Robbins, the current Apartment Council president and a Garden Spot resident since November 2016, says the 12-member council meets twice a month—on the first and second Mondays. During their first meeting of the month, they set the agenda for the public meeting, which is held a week later.

With bylaws and procedures similar to those of the Apartment Council, the Cottage Council serves as an integral part of the community. “We are the eyes, ears and voice of the cottage residents. We want to serve as the liaison between residents and administration,” Tom says.

Don says, “Within the Apartment Council we have smaller committees who work on specific projects. For example, we have a nominating committee that helps to recruit new representatives.” Any resident may serve on the Apartment Council. The only qualifications for nominees is that they must live at Garden Spot for one year before serving and they agree to serve for three years.

The council shares areas of concern with Garden Spot administration, including questions about upgrades, fire code requirements and other issues that affect the general community. In addition, the Apartment Council always invites a non-administration team member to attend the public session each month.

“One of the neat things about Garden Spot,” Don says, “is that we have two councils—one for the apartments and one for the cottages. Our experiences are different, so each council offers a different perspective for administration.”

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The Cottage Council strives to be as inclusive as possible, doing their best to incorporate members from each neighborhood at Garden Spot Village in the nominations each year. “We have a great team of people that is active in the community,” Tom says.

“We are all part of the same culture that makes up Garden Spot Village.”

Both councils participate in the Pennsylvania Alliance of Retirement Community Residents (PARCR), an organization of residents who live in not-for-profit retirement communities and are involved in the governance of their communities. But the Cottage Council’s primary goal is to remain focused on Garden Spot Village residents and address their concerns.

Tom says, “I encourage council members to be listening, to be talking with their neighbors, to hear what they are saying and to ask, ‘What can be done?’”

International Fellowship In early 2019, Bill and Hilda Bradney, Garden Spot Village residents since November 2016, began to work with the Garden Spot chaplains to identify residents who had served internationally in long-term missions.

They discovered a group of people who had lived and served from two to 50 years in countries like China, Japan, Costa Rica, Burma, Chile, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Nepal and more.

They invited this new micro-community of individuals and couples to join them for lunch. It was the beginning of a new group of friends and colleagues who understand each other’s life experiences on a very personal level. Twenty-four people participate in the lunches, with 15 to 20 people attending any given lunch. They meet six times a year, on the months alternate to the chaplains’ meeting for retired clergy.

Elizabeth Givens, a Garden Spot Village resident since October 2018, assists Hilda with coordinating lunches.

“The purpose of our group is to encourage each other, enjoy fellowship and share our experiences around a certain topic,” Hilda explains. “So we have lunch together. We take turns hosting in our homes and people bring different foods to share. Some of the topics we have discussed include adjusting to transition, what life lessons the people we served taught us, and how we have experienced supernatural protection,” she adds.

The Time Givers at Garden Spot Village give their time and expertise to make Garden Spot Village and the world around them a better place. Through volunteering, serving, connecting and simply experiencing life together, Time Givers share their experiences with others and enhance the abundant opportunities people have to live with purpose in community at Garden Spot Village.

“We all look forward to our times together,” Hilda says.

“I think this gathering fills a personal need in those who have lived long term in diverse cultures. We are able to share and relate to our unique experiences from a different worldview.”

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GIVING

INVESTING IN THE NEXT GENERATION Betsy Sautter teaches secondary math and coaches the robotics team at Delaware County Christian School in Newtown Square.

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AS A SECONDARY MATH TEACHER AT DELAWARE COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL, BETSY SAUTTER INVESTS IN THE NEXT GENERATION BY TEACHING ALGEBRA AND CALCULUS TO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AT THE SCHOOL'S NEWTOWN SQUARE CAMPUS. SHE FINDS MEANINGFUL WAYS TO CONNECT WITH HER STUDENTS, WHICH INCLUDES SERVING AS AN ASSISTANT COACH FOR THE SCHOOL’S ROBOTICS TEAM.

“As long as I’m able to teach and as long as there is a place for me, I will keep teaching,” Betsy says. “I am flexible and willing to serve as needed,” she adds.

Being flexible and willing to serve is how Betsy became involved in the robotics team. Her first involvement was to clean up and organize after the students completed their weekly practices. She noticed bits and parts of the robots on the floor and simply picked them up.

SPECIAL THANK YOU TO DELAWARE COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOR PROVIDING PHOTOS.

When a group of girls joined the robotics team, Betsy stepped in to help the male coach chaperone the Saturday competitions. She now works with the team three days a week. For Betsy, participating with the team was about forming relationships with the students.

“I’m certainly not an expert in robotics, but I can encourage and serve as a catalyst. I can ask the right questions to stimulate their thinking. Plus, these are kids. Sometimes they just need someone to talk to,” Betsy says. “It’s my philosophy for life—I am willing to fill in and serve, as needed.”

As a teacher at a small private school, Betsy won’t receive a pension. Instead, she saves for retirement and invests in the ways that will best benefit her.

When Betsy attended a financial seminar hosted by Garden Spot Village’s Development Team in June 2019, she learned about charitable gift annuities.

A charitable gift annuity allows a donor to give an irrevocable gift—cash, securities or other assets—to benefit Garden Spot Village and receive an

initial tax benefit when they establish the annuity with a fixed stream of income for life. Garden Spot Village partners with Everence, a financial services organization, to manage the annuity. Everence invests the donation, makes annuity payments to the donor for life, and distributes the balance of the gift to Garden Spot Village on the donor’s death.

The American Council on Gift Annuities establishes the payout rate for charitable gift annuities. The rates fluctuate over time and vary based on the donor’s age upon opening. Garden Spot Village offers a minimum $10,000 annuity.

Because rates are locked in for the donor’s lifetime but increase by age, some donors choose to establish a series of annuities over several years to take advantage of increasing payments.

“I’m a math person and using a charitable gift annuity for Garden Spot Village as a retirement investment just made sense to me,” Betsy recalls. As a future resident, she looks forward to living at Garden Spot Village. It made sense to Betsy to invest in something she believes in—her future home.

“In the case of a charitable gift annuity, the organization issuing the gift annuity takes a risk and I take a risk,” Betsy says. “I’m risking the investment of my money and they are risking the length of time they will need to pay me a monthly income.”

“The end result is that both Garden Spot Village and I win,” she adds, “I have a monthly income and Garden Spot will receive whatever is left.”

READ MORE: gardenspotvillage.org/charitable-giving | everence.com

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FRED & KATHY KNOLL: “This feels like coming home.”

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Spot Village,” Kathy Knoll says. Fred and Kathy Knoll plan to move into a new construction, single-family home at Sycamore Springs in spring 2021.

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The Knolls have lived in their circa 1870 stone farmhouse in Mohnton, Pennsylvania, since 1979. Renovating the home and caring for the surrounding 3.25 acres has been an act of love, especially since Fred retired in 2005 from his career as a polymerization operator for a local chemical company.

Fred and Kathy have known for a long time that they wanted to move to Garden Spot Village. Kathy’s nana, Estelle Plank, lived at Garden Spot from 1996 to 2001 and Kathy’s mother, Margaret Hartranft, moved here when her father passed away in 2005.

“We always said we would move to Garden Spot,” Kathy says.

“We’ve been future residents for a long time.”

“We always imagined we would move to an apartment, like my nana and mother did,” Kathy remembers. “But I always wondered how we were going to downsize from our farmhouse to an apartment.”

“When we attended the Business Expo in April 2018,” Fred explains, “I spotted the banners advertising Sycamore Springs.

I said to Kathy, ‘I think this is something you would like—we wouldn’t need to worry about downsizing as much.’”

And the rest is history. Fred and Kathy worked with Kelly Sweigart, sales associate, to identify the type of home they wanted.

When floor plans became available in April 2019, they quickly chose a house and began to plan their move to Garden Spot.

“It feels like we are coming home,” Kathy says. Kathy’s grandparents lived in New Holland for many years. Her memories of New Holland include family gatherings, trips to the New Holland Farmers Fair and concerts in the park.

Kathy worked as a pediatric critical care in-home nurse in Berks County. She also worked briefly as a nurse in a variety of retirement communities. “When I was a private duty nurse, I also worked in some retirement communities. I’ve been to Phoebe and The Highlands, and we have a cousin at The Heritage. They are all very nice,” Kathy says.

“It’s not New Holland, though,” she explains. “At Sycamore Springs we can walk to Main Street, the park, the pool, the library. It’s just a perfect, perfect area.”

“When I go someplace, I have a feeling about whether or not it would work out. I didn’t feel at home at the other places we visited,” Kathy says. “This feels like coming home. Nana loved it and my mom loved it. My mother grew to be such a strong woman here. It was wonderful.”

ABOVE Fred and Kathy Knoll enjoy a walk along the path at Sycamore Springs, the newest neighborhood at Garden Spot Village.

Fred and Kathy are excited about creating new routines in their new community. “I’m looking forward to doing more traveling,” Fred says. “We can’t leave our current home for a couple of weeks without a lot of outdoor work piling up. Plus, because we won’t need to spend the time maintaining our home, we will have free time to travel.”

They also look forward to taking advantage of the Wellness Center, using the pool and participating in exercise classes. When they are settled, they hope to find new opportunities to volunteer—at Garden Spot and in the greater New Holland community.

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MEADOW VIEW LIVING RESILIENTLY

This fall, Meadow View will welcome its first residents home. Years of dreaming and planning are finally complete: the 40,000-square-foot state-of-the-art memory support building is finally ready for residents. Meadow View offers two innovative households with 40 memory support suites and two independent living apartments.

PERSON-CENTERED PERSPECTIVE Throughout the design and building process, Melody Karick, director of Meadow View, maintained a personcentered perspective.

“We want to empower people to live their best lives and help them to rebuild their purpose. We want to provide opportunities for them to live resiliently,” Melody says.

This desire is evident throughout Meadow View. Using recent research on ways that people with dementia can live resiliently, the team included interior design elements to improve space recognition. For example, each suite has a unique front door and doorknob, and the two households have different color schemes. These simple touches can often help people with dementia subconsciously recognize spaces that are familiar.

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EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES Emerging technology such as wellness bracelets alert team members to resident movement, which can help reduce falls. In addition, the wellness bracelets track how frequently residents are drinking, which helps determine their risk for dehydration. The bracelets also allow residents to move freely throughout the households while enhancing their safety and security.

Circadian lighting throughout the households is designed to help residents have more restful sleep and increase daytime wakefulness.

Melody has always wanted to find a way to keep families together, especially when a spouse receives a dementia diagnosis. Meadow View’s independent living apartments allow that to happen. Spouses can remain together, even

if only one of them needs memory support care. The two apartments include a kitchen, living area, bedroom and bathroom and are attached to a memory support suite. “The suite encourages a healthy marriage, provides independent living for the spouse without dementia, and allows the healthcare team to take on the responsibility of caring for the person living with dementia,” Melody says.

ENGAGED LIVING Meadow View’s Resilient Living Aides help to keep residents engaged. The Town Square includes a beauty salon/ barbershop, bistro, chapel/theater, general store, fitness room and more.

Melody says, “We want to insert purposeful activity into people’s lives wherever we can.”

Meadow View also includes five outdoor courtyards, sensory gardens and walking paths. Outdoor activities in the main courtyard include an interactive splash pad, beach area, toolshed, sensory gardens and so much more. Social gatherings including a book club, prayer group, sewing club, craft club and memory café provide opportunities to connect and build community.

To learn more about Meadow View and the opportunities residents have to live resiliently in community, call 717.355.6000.

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Jane Huston & ErnieWerstler Pursuing Adventure Through Service

HOMETOWN: Ernie, Boyertown, PA; Jane, Johnstown, PA FAVORITE THING TO DO TOGETHER: Exploring God’s good earth and taking road trips CAREERS: Ernie, finance, sales and school administration; Jane, graphic design CURRENT HOMETOWN: Reamstown, Pennsylvania FAMILY: Two sons, three grandchildren LOOKING FORWARD TO: Aging with confidence and purpose in Garden Spot Village’s dynamic community

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eing involved in the trail care community is a natural outgrowth of our

enjoyment of walking and backpacking in Penn’s Woods. I can’t tell you

the number of times we’ve come to a vista or a waterfall and I think, ‘How can anyone say there isn’t a God? So much beauty.’ ” – Ernie Werstler Ernie Werstler and Jane Huston look forward to moving into their newly constructed home at Sycamore Springs in spring 2021. They will bring with them a lifetime of adventure and service.

Ernie, a retired school business manager, and Jane, a retired graphic designer, continue to share their experience and skills with local organizations.

They serve as trail maintainers with the Mid State Trail (MST) Association and Keystone Trails Association (KTA). Each spring and fall they spend a week maintaining the 7-mile stretch they oversee along the 327-mile MST. Pennsylvania’s longest, most remote and rugged trail, the MST stretches from the Great Eastern Trail in Maryland to the Crystal Hills Trail in New York State.

Jane and Ernie’s portion of the MST runs from the historic Hairy John State Forest Picnic Area just off Highway 45 to R. B. Winter State Park near Highway 192. Using chainsaws, brushwhackers and limb loppers, they trim limbs, remove fallen trees, cut back mountain laurel and wild blueberry bushes, and paint blazes, keeping the

trail open and in good repair so that hikers can follow it easily and safely.

Jane says, “We have so many stories about bears and rattlesnakes; they really keep the adventure interesting!”

In addition, Jane and Ernie help with several annual KTA spring, summer and fall trail care weekends and with KTA’s Trail Challenge—a 25k/50k trail run. “KTA trail care weekends include daily trail assignments and nightly campfires where community and memories are built,” Jane adds.

KTA, a volunteer-directed public service organization, is a federation of membership organizations and individuals dedicated to providing, preserving, protecting and promoting recreational hiking trails and opportunities in Pennsylvania. KTA also represents and advocates the interests and concerns of the Pennsylvania hiking community.

“The Keystone Trails Association is an umbrella for hiking trails across the Commonwealth,” Ernie explains. “The association has an office in Mechanicsburg and interacts with the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources in Harrisburg.”

Jane and Ernie also volunteer with Bunyaad Rugs, a fair trade rug company based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. They help greet customers and sort and flip rugs for customers in the company’s showroom. Ernie has helped with Rug Events, scheduled around the United States and Canada.

They also offer informal leadership to the Ephrata Cloister Toastmasters Club, a group they have participated in as members for 22 years.

As they anticipate their move to New Holland, Ernie says, “I look forward to not worrying about yard maintenance, snow removal and what the next house project is going to be.”

Jane adds, “We look forward to connecting with new volunteer opportunities as well as exploring a brand new community—at Garden Spot and in New Holland.”

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INNOVATING TO CREATE COMMUNITY In March 2020, life changed abruptly. With guidance from local, state and national government, Garden Spot Village closed parts of the campus to visitors in mid-March.

A few short days later, when Governor Wolf placed Lancaster County under a stay-athome order, the entire campus closed to visitors. For ten weeks, movement was restricted everywhere—at Garden Spot and around Lancaster County.

The resulting innovations transformed the way Garden Spot Village residents experienced community during those weeks.

FOOD CONNECTS PEOPLE On a typical day, Garden Spot Village restaurants welcome members of the local business community as well as family and friends of residents and team members. The result is a bustling restaurant business, often dubbed “the best kept secret of New Holland” because of the quality, variety and affordability of food choices.

When social distancing protocols, along with pickup and delivery services became necessary, the dining services team found ways to meet the needs of residents.

Some of the innovations included brightly colored footprints on the floor of the Harvest Table to mark social distancing spaces, a call center where residents could place orders for pickup or delivery, video cooking demonstrations, bags filled with produce and more!

Special events like Cooped Up Chicken BBQ and special menus for Easter, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day helped keep residents and team members engaged.

Christy Turner, dining services director, and her team found ways to reassign staff when the Terrace Dining Room closed and traffic waned at the Refresh Coffee Bar. Team members were thankful for opportunities to continue to work, even though that work wasn’t exactly what they were hired to do.

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In addition, the dining services team plays an instrumental role in the Swipe Out Hunger community meal that residents serve each month at the CrossNet Youth Ministries Youth Center. On average, 150 people participated in the event. Beginning in March, that number doubled. CrossNet quickly introduced a monthly drive-up meal opportunity and has been distributing an average of 350 meals a month. Garden Spot continued to contribute the bulk of the food needed each month, even though residents couldn’t be physically present to connect with the community.

“Food has always been my passion,” Christy explains.

“It gives me an opportunity to connect and build relationships with those around me.”

TECHNOLOGY CONNECTS PEOPLE The Garden Spot Village social workers served as frontline liaisons between family members and residents. They kept an eye on mental health throughout campus and helped to facilitate Zoom and FaceTime video chats between residents and their family members.

Although Zoom can’t replace a face-to-face visit, it does help to create personal connections and keep people engaged in relationships.

“Zoom is here to stay,” says Sherilyn Lapp, director of social services. “Closing the campus compelled the social service team to take some steps toward using technology to connect people. As stressful as the adjustment was, it provided some really neat opportunities for growth. We will continue to draw on what we’ve learned to enrich communication with residents and families moving forward.”

“While I prefer to visit people in their homes, it’s much better to pick up the phone or an iPad and have an immediate conversation rather than putting off making a connection,” she adds.

In addition, the social services team helped connect residents to telemedicine opportunities. Apps and video chats connected residents to medical doctors in addition to psychiatrists, psychologists and counselors.

The social services team connected one-on-one with residents through visits to drop off succulents. Wellness reminders were included, but the main purpose of the project was to provide an opportunity for friendly conversation and connection.

EVENTS CONNECT PEOPLE The life enrichment team lives the part of our mission statement that says, “enrich the lives.” In a normal world, they engage people by planning trips and events and by providing oversight for the micro-communities throughout campus.

So, what do you do when everything you have planned is canceled? You start fresh.

Colleen Musselman, life enrichment director, and her team stepped up to find new ways to keep people engaged.

Instead of showing movies in the theater, Veronica Gingerich, life enrichment assistant, partnered with the information technology department to air the movies on the closed-circuit TV channel. Instead of hosting concerts in the chapel, Colleen lined up performers for the Wagon Concert series—open air concerts throughout the community.

Jen Miller, life enrichment assistant, connected people to virtual tours they could find online and, with the help of the creative team, filmed an instructional video to accompany virtual reality glasses that were available in the Garden Spot Village library.

Colleen also helped mobilize volunteers to fill requests from the healthcare services team for masks and reusable medical gowns. Colleen, Veronica and Jen assisted with grocery delivery, encouraging a team of regular volunteers who delivered groceries from Shady Maple and September Farm and general merchandise from Good’s Store to residents’ doorsteps.

The life enrichment team also hosted a virtual prom and graduation for team members who were unable to attend their own proms and graduations. “We wanted to honor the team members and provide an experience for residents where they could feel connected to the team members and their accomplishments. Although the weather didn’t cooperate and we needed to host the event in the Chapel, it was really meaningful for everyone,” Colleen says.

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STORIES CONNECT PEOPLE Recognizing the value of keeping people emotionally connected, the creative services team started a weekly video update called “Connected.” The series evolved over time but started by letting people know what was happening behind the scenes on campus.

SERVICE CONNECTS PEOPLE “We always said, ‘Wouldn’t it be nice if we could do delivery from Linden?’ Quite suddenly, the coronavirus hit and we needed to figure out how to make it happen quickly,” says Deborah Fast, director of volunteer services.

The team established a video studio in the theater and quickly set to work producing upwards of five videos a week.

The volunteer services team worked with Shady Maple to have wholesale orders delivered to Garden Spot Village.

They also ramped up orders with Best of Lancaster County, a local company that distributes milk from local dairies and ready-made foods from local companies.

Volunteers pick and pack the orders plus provide delivery. Deborah reports that delivery from Linden was very well received, with more than 120 orders placed on some days. In many cases, the purchase—from order to delivery—happens in less than 60 minutes.

Gavin Sauder, videographer, helped Chaplain Chet Yoder produce a series of video meditations, while wellness created a series of video exercise classes. Dining services chefs created a series of cooking demonstrations and CEO Steve Lindsey prepared a video greeting for residents.

Gavin also helped life enrichment, volunteer services and social services connect with residents through instructional and inspirational videos.

All of the videos were posted on a resident-only website and on CATIE, the on-campus communication network, which helped residents find them quickly.

“Having the space to set up a studio allowed us to quickly respond to requests for video messaging,” Gavin says. “We typically use a mobile studio, which means we spend more time setting up and tearing down than we do filming.

Being able to walk into the studio a few minutes before we needed to film saved time for us and for the person who was being filmed.”

In addition, the creative services team found ways to establish Garden Spot as a unique community even in the midst of a stay-at-home order. Establishing a “we are grateful” campaign for social media helped to keep the focus of external messaging on community connections. In addition, the online and print “Life Is Different” campaign allowed the team to acknowledge that life doesn’t feel quite the way it used to, but people continue to live in amazing and vibrant ways in the Garden Spot community.

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Volunteer services also helped to coordinate individual order delivery from Shady Maple, as well as deliveries from Good’s Store and September Farm. These local businesses were valuable partners. Shady Maple, for example, provided access to their curbside pickup, adapted it for Garden Spot Village, and ramped it up to meet the demands of hundreds of people. Deborah says, “They have worked really, really hard to serve the Garden Spot Village community.”

Because grocery orders from Shady Maple need to be placed online, volunteer services developed a team of residents who were available to help their neighbors place those online orders.

Many volunteer opportunities ceased temporarily in March 2020, which allowed volunteers to help within new capacities. Deborah says, “Lots of volunteers want to deliver groceries. It’s a really tangible way to help others.

And it’s so clear how you are helping people.”

The healthcare services team was thankful for the support of residents in independent living. Residents regularly dropped off N95 masks they had in storage, a team of residents made 1,000 washable masks for healthcare residents and another team of residents made 400 reusable gowns. The healthcare services team also found creative ways to source personal protective equipment, working together to find solutions with new and established vendors.

In partnership with Social Services, the healthcare services team helped to facilitate Zoom calls and FaceTime conversations for residents.

CHALLENGES UNITE PEOPLE When life gets hard, people unite. And in the case of Garden Spot Village’s healthcare services team, they innovate!

Lora Gomboc, director of healthcare services for Garden Spot Communities, says the coronavirus pandemic elevated the importance of infection control, which challenged them to think more carefully about things like proper handwashing, mask wearing and more. But it also challenged them to think about new technologies; in the middle of a pandemic, they welcomed ideas for how to make infection control easier.

Alliances with other retirement and long-term care communities as well as connections to industry organizations like LeadingAge and LeadingAge PA offered sound advice and guidance and helped the team think through all of the implications of state and federal mandates.

At Maple Farm, they set up video conferences for physical, occupational and speech therapy, which allowed residents to continue their path to healing.

They also found ways to incorporate telemedicine for residents and introduced technology they could use if they had an outbreak so they could cohort residents and quickly implement isolation rooms.

Gary Heinrich served as interim nursing home administrator from mid-April through July 2020. He says, “I’m amazed by the incredible peace and calm throughout the skilled nursing households. It feels like I’m walking into someone’s living room. In a time where family wasn’t allowed to visit, staff stepped in and became family for residents and each other.”

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Garden Spot Village wasn’t totally new to Jeannine Perry when she saw an open position for an infection preventionist.

Jeannine’s grandparents had moved to Garden Spot in 2007 and she had spent some time on campus visiting them. But the position wasn’t on her radar until a former coworker mentioned the opening and encouraged her to go after it. Jeannine was looking for a new challenge after her two sons were in college, so she decided to apply for the full-time position.

She joined the Garden Spot team in September 2019, and quickly got to know the community once she started. “I enjoyed the friendliness of everyone here,” she says. “I felt welcomed from day one.”

As an infection preventionist, Jeannine works with others in Skilled Nursing to develop an infection control plan. She strives for faithful antibiotic stewardship—carefully assessing each resident’s situation in order to use antibiotics judiciously. She also reviews and adjusts Garden Spot’s infection control policies on the basis of internal departmental guidelines as well as external state and federal regulations.

In Spring 2020, the reach of her work expanded across campus as information about COVID-19 constantly changed. Jeannine worked closely with other departments to develop Garden Spot’s response plan. Policies had to be created and others revised to reflect that information. She had to evaluate updates from the CDC and the Pennsylvania Department of Health and create a balance between strict mandates and more flexible recommendations. She compared Garden Spot’s policies with those of other facilities and talked to peers in other long-term care positions for support and expertise. She’s grateful that she can stay in touch with others who understand the ins and outs of the healthcare domain.

Jeannine cites her two aunts as inspiration for pursuing a career in healthcare. “They were my heroes growing up,” she says.

In the midst of high school, she worked as a nursing assistant after some encouragement from her mother. She received her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Messiah College in Mechanicsburg. After gaining some perspective from her college nursing clinicals, she realized that she liked the hands-on care best—she liked being able to build long-term relationships with her residents.

Before coming to Garden Spot, she was employed at a Lancaster County long-term care facility for 25 years, working as a charge nurse and assisting in home care. For the last ten years in that position, she worked specifically in infection prevention and risk management.

Jeannine’s husband works for Capital Blue Cross as a data analyst. She has two sons: one graduated with a degree in film and the other is studying medical lab science, both at Stevenson University near Baltimore, Maryland.

The Perrys live in the Hempfield area and attend Crossroads Brethren in Christ Church in Mount Joy. During their sons’ school years, Jeannine and her husband were presidents of the Hempfield Band Booster Club. They also led a 4-H club, Puppies with a Purpose, which prepares puppies for seeingeye training. Three of the seven puppies that the Perrys trained now work with seeing-impaired individuals. Jeannine says these leadership positions gave her experience and confidence for her current position.

Her job can certainly be a juggling act at times. But Jeannine keeps her focus on the main goal: serving others.

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• His name was Rolihlahla, but on the first day of school his teacher gave him the name Nelson • He loved to study and became a lawyer • He fought for equal rights for everyone in South Africa • He organized peaceful protests but went to jail for many years • In 1990, South Africa’s President F.W. de Klerk freed Mandela and together they worked to end apartheid • Mandela became the president of South Africa in 1994 TO LEARN MORE ABOUT NELSON MANDELA, VISIT THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC KIDS WEBPAGE: GSC.GL/6SDOVQCF7M

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2. Nelson Mandela said, “It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.” What do you think he meant?

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CHEF'S DELIGHT

A delicious combination of flavors makes this recipe with dressed-up grits a perfect autumn treat.

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Pumpkin, Chipotle, and White Cheddar Grits with Bacon and Shrimp SERVES FOUR - SIX

For the Grits

For the Shrimp and Garnish

3 cups chicken broth

Âź cup raw pumpkin seeds

1 cup canned solid-pack

2 pounds shrimp

pumpkin puree 2 to 3 canned chipotle chiles in adobo sauce, finely chopped 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup stone-ground grits 2 tablespoons unsalted butter 6 oz shredded white cheddar cheese Ground black pepper, to taste Bring water or chicken broth, pumpkin, chiles, salt and black pepper to a BOIL. Slowly ADD the grits in a steady stream, stirring constantly. REDUCE heat to medium-low. COOK, stirring often, 15-20 minutes or until thickened. STIR in butter and cheese, COVER and LET STAND while browning the shrimp.

(10-12 count per bag), peeled and deveined, tails left intact 12 slices of bacon, halved horizontally

TOAST the pumpkin seeds in a

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nonstick skillet 3-5 minutes or until lightly browned in places. The seeds will begin to pop and have a toasted aroma. TRANSFER to a plate.

WRAP each shrimp in half a slice of bacon and SECURE with a toothpick. COOK the shrimp in the nonstick skillet you used for the seeds, turning frequently until the bacon is nicely browned on all sides and the shrimp is cooked through.

SERVE the shrimp over the grits.

GARNISH with toasted pumpkin seeds.

Note: If you're nervous about overcooking the shrimp, you can parcook the bacon and then wrap and cook the shrimp.

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Doreen Jacoby, a Garden Spot Village resident since June 2017, is no

stranger to travel. She traveled a lot in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

In 2010, she went to Germany to explore the life and times of Martin

Luther and to see The Passion Play at Oberammergau. Most recently,

Doreen went on a Hawaiian island tour, expecting to visit four islands: Maui, the Big Island, Kauai, and Oahu.

She planned the vacation with a friend—both women had Hawaii on their bucket lists. They arrived in Honolulu on March 12 and had a wonderful week seeing two of the islands. Unfortunately, the trip was cut short because of COVID-19 travel restrictions.

In spite of the challenges—including a 17-hour journey just to get to Hawaii—Doreen and her friend still had a great time. They saw plenty of wildlife—sea turtles, whales, coral reefs—and even got to hold some seahorses at a seahorse farm! They did as the locals do: ate Hawaiian shaved ice and Hawaiian sweetbread, danced the hula and played percussion instruments to Tahitian music. They visited a black volcanic sand beach, a living history farm, and the Polynesian Cultural Center. They also visited the USS Arizona Memorial, which marks the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. Doreen’s father served in the Navy during World War II near the Philippines, so the monument was a special spot for her. At the end of each day, Doreen and her friend relaxed in one of the many ocean- or bayfront hotels spread across the islands, sitting on their balcony and enjoying the sunset. Although she wasn’t able to experience the full trip, Doreen still brought back souvenirs of black volcanic sand, a coffee bean from the Kona Coffee Living History Farm, and

a kukui nut necklace. When the trip ended, Doreen traveled back to her home at Sycamore Springs.

Garden Spot wasn’t entirely new to Doreen before she moved here. A friend’s parents moved to Garden Spot Village when it was fairly new, and Doreen went with her friend to visit. She liked what she saw. Later in life, when she heard about the new Sycamore Springs neighborhood, she excitedly picked out her floor plan.

“There was such a nice culture; I knew I would be comfortable here,” she says.

Doreen likes the convenience of Sycamore Springs—being close to amenities, having neighbors and friends—but she also enjoys the independence. She has two dogs, Mitzi and Kosmo, and appreciates having her own space, especially her porch.

“It’s a great place if you like your freedom,” she says. “I tell friends all the time, ‘You have to come and see what an active adult community this is.’”

As far as her future travel plans go, Doreen says her bucket list is getting shorter as the years go on. Nevertheless, she would still like to visit the Panama Canal and take a girls’ trip to the South to see Charleston, Savannah, and the antebellum plantation regions.

Doreen has two grown married daughters—one in Pittsburgh, one in West Chester—and four grandchildren, in grades 3, 4, and 10 and secondyear college. Living in Sycamore Springs makes travel simple, whether it’s driving out to see her family or traveling across the world.

“All I have to do is lock my door, let someone know, and leave,” Doreen says.

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If you are looking for a worry-free getaway, Refreshing Mountain Retreat and Adventure Center has you covered. Located in northern Lancaster County on 100+ acres of woodland, Refreshing Mountain has private cabin getaways, escape rooms, ziplines, obstacle courses, horseback rides and climbing walls, to name just a few of the activities offered at their property.

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Marlin and Sharon Harnish founded Refreshing Mountain 36 years ago as a place for couples to come and be refreshed by a retreat atmosphere.

Now the center receives visitors of all ages. “We get individuals and families, grandparents who participate in activities with their grandkids and others who watch the younger kids while the others are on a ropes course,” says Phil True, the center’s Fun Scheduler.

The center’s name comes from Acts 3:19—“Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord.” Marlin and Sharon based their vision on the last portion of the verse.

“At the heart, we exist to provide a refreshing experience for people,” says Phil. “We highly value family, and we want to provide a space where family and friends can come together and be refreshed. For someone coming for the day or someone coming for

the weekend or a week, with or without a large group, our hope is that the Lord meets them where they are.”

Refreshing Mountain’s most frequent visitors are day groups and people from the local community. “A lot of people find us online for our ziplines,” Phil says.

The center typically sees lots of retreat groups from New York and Philadelphia during the summer, but due to recent world events the center has temporarily moved to hosting smaller groups such as families, providing them a worry-free environment. Phil notes many families have enjoyed a space of respite after a long few months stuck at home.

Some groups come to the center for a Christian retreat, but not all visitors are people of faith. “Many are just looking for something fun to do,” Phil says. “In many ways, our heart is to have everyone experience Jesus in practical ways while they are here. It’s definitely a ministry for us to that extent.”

The staff doesn’t want to limit people if they aren’t stereotypical adventurers.

Refreshing Mountain exists to give people memorable experiences, whether that means trying many different activities or simply renting a cabin and staying the weekend.

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EXPANDING WELLNESS MOVING SPACES TO STAY FIT

When the Wood Shop announced plans to consolidate and improve their space in 2019, it started a rolling shuffle of spaces in the west and north wings in the basement of the Garden Apartments. In the north wing, it created the opportunity to relocate the Wellness Center and create a more functional space.

For years, the Gardens North Wellness Center was a large rectangular room with neutral walls and brown carpet, housing exercise equipment available for team members and residents to use as they had time.

The new Wellness Center includes the same equipment, nestled into four distinct areas. “The bright colors on the walls and the vibrant carpet create a brand new atmosphere—it’s invigorating,” says Wellness Instructor Joanne Ashcroft.

Steve Muller, chief operating officer, mobilized facility services and others to refresh the space slated for the exercise equipment. “We were careful to reuse the very popular Keiser equipment. We eliminated equipment that was no longer used and purchased some new pieces, including a CyberCycle.”

“The refresh also legitimizes the space as a second Wellness Center,” Steve adds.

The Wellness team incorporated inspirational quotes and posters throughout the space to keep people engaged and inspired as they exercise.

The space is dedicated to a set of seven Keiser exercise machines. Joanne notes that people tend to use all seven machines while they exercise, simply because they offer a well-rounded workout.

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technology of the Keiser equipment makes it a safer alternative to traditional weight machines and it’s easy to add and subtract weight.”

“The new center really offers something for every fitness level,” Joanne adds.

A CyberCycle offers new technology to help users exercise four aspects of wellness: physical, cognitive, social and emotional. The physical movement on the bike helps people stay fit. Virtual tours help people engage and games keep people striving for their next best experience. For social and emotional engagement, users can choose to “ride” virtually with other cyclists in regional wellness centers and participate in friendly online competition.

In the past, the exercise room was an unstaffed row of machines. The new Wellness Center is currently staffed.

Because of the restrictions due to COVID-19, the new area offers appointments for individuals and couples. The appointments allow residents to use the equipment safely without masks, and team members carefully disinfect equipment between uses. In addition, Joanne says, “When someone makes an appointment to come to exercise, they are more likely to exercise! They have that accountability. Plus, because we have a limited number of appointments available, they value the time that they have to exercise.”

Joanne notes she’s had a lot of questions from residents who are learning to use the machines for the first time and team members staffing the space offer a new level of safety.

In the future, the new Wellness Center will be added to Virtuagym, an app and software currently in use in the main Wellness Center in Village Square, which helps people keep track of their exercise goals.

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REMIXING FALL FESTIVAL

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Although the Fall Festival has transformed into Harvest Week, the piece that remains unchanged is community.

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“In a Town Meeting in mid-March, Chaplain Chet Yoder referred to the conditions surrounding the coronavirus as ‘an opportunity to do things differently, to change it up to fit our new circumstance.’ Time after time, I’ve come back to that comment and reminded myself of that truth,” says Allison Cuthie, associate director of development.

Allison, who leads the planning of many development events—from the marathon to the golf tournament to the fall festival—sees the opportunity to do things differently and incorporates change to fit our new circumstance nearly every day.

The Fall Festival, which historically has been the largest fundraiser for the Garden Spot Village Benevolent Fund, also brings the largest number of people to Garden Spot.

It’s a draw for residents’ families and friends plus the greater New Holland community. But planning for an event that brings hundreds of people to Garden Spot Village in the middle of a pandemic just didn’t make sense, Allison says. So, the Fall Festival was canceled.

Allison and her planning team—comprised of residents and staff— recognized that the Fall Festival was about community—not just fundraising. They went back to the drawing board to create something new to fit the circumstance. They created Harvest Week: a resident and staffonly harvest celebration. It includes the most-loved parts of Fall Festival spread out over the course of a week. The longer timeframe creates space and time for residents and staff to enjoy the activities without worrying about large groups of people.

Bill Hunter, a Garden Spot Village resident since December 2016, serves on the planning team with Allison. Bill says, “I’m glad the committee decided to hold a weeklong festival rather than canceling it totally. We discussed simply canceling it since we cannot include the public. But we recognized that the event is about more than raising funds for the Benevolent Fund; it gives our community something to look forward to and do together.”

Activities planned for the week include the annual apple pie contest, a month-long shoppable Country Store display, a gift basket silent auction, a two-day Country Store in the Chapel, a chicken BBQ and apple dumpling sale, a pork roast and a scarecrow-making contest, as well as food trucks and fair exhibits.

Through the brainstorming process, Allison was able to explore new ideas, such as an online auction. Although the team discarded the idea of an online auction for 2020, Allison says, “I’ve done the research and now have a viable option for the future.”

Allison continues, “I’m looking forward to seeing new events that our committee designs for the weeklong event. It will be a nice opportunity to experiment with some new activities and see what we can do for future years as well.”

In some ways, Allison says, starting over and approaching the event differently “has provided new energy for the future.”

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FRAN RAPP: Sharing a Passion for the Arts There is no greater love than this, that a man should give his life to save another. Make me willing, Lord, at least to help my brother. “It’s a good motto to live by,” says Fran Rapp, a Garden Spot Village resident since August 2011.

Fran certainly embodies this idea. He’s involved in a variety of organizations throughout Garden Spot, all of which impact the community—from the handbell choir to the Wellness Adventures committee.

The arts hold a special place in Fran’s heart, especially music and drama. In his high school and college years, he participated in community theater and sang in several music groups. At Garden Spot, he’s the assistant director for Village Voices, he helps with Musical Memories and he’s a member of the Lighter Side Players. He started the handbell choir with bells borrowed from St. James United Church of Christ, and he jumpstarted the Variety Show, the resident talent show that occurs every three years. He’s also a member of three choral groups: Village Voices, the Gap Men’s Chorus, and the church choir at St. Stephens Reformed Church in New Holland.

He’s no stranger to hosting either. Fran has hosted many New Holland Summer Arts events, as well as different Garden Spot Village chapel events. In 2017, he even hosted guests from Longvic, France, New Holland’s twin city.

Fran also participates in the Cottage Council, drives the Jolly Trolley, helps to serve the community meal, leads the silent auction, delivers mail to his neighbors, and works as a finish line manager for the annual half marathon.

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Internationally, Fran participated in a Garden Spot Village mission trip to Honduras. Outside of Garden Spot, he helps at the polls during elections.

“I go crazy if I just sit still,” Fran says. “I work more now than when I worked full-time.”

Before coming to Garden Spot, Fran worked as an elementary school teacher for 35 years in Methacton School District. Even as a teacher, he was actively involved in his local community, especially his school and his church.

One of his notable efforts was an annual mission trip to Appalachia with teenagers from his church. Even as the initial group of boys graduated and moved away, Fran kept leading the trip for 10 to 12 years after the first expedition.

The rest of Fran’s family is involved in service too. His two grown daughters are both nurses, one an operating room nurse and the other a school nurse. Fran’s wife, Sally, heads the quilters group at Garden Spot and leads the making of Celebration of Life quilts. She also rings handbells in the ensemble that her husband started.

Fran and Sally originally looked for a retirement community in the Philadelphia area but came to Garden Spot after a recommendation from church friends. Fran says, “We loved what we saw at Garden Spot, and the rest is history!”

Diane Clarke drives the Jolly Trolley and serve people through volunteering at Garden Spot Village.

DIANE CLARKE: Spreading Joy Through Volunteering “There is an ad that says ‘America runs on Dunkin’.’ Well, Garden Spot Village runs on volunteers, under the expert guidance of the volunteer department,” says Diane Clarke, a Garden Spot Village resident since 2013.

Diane is one of those people who helps Garden Spot Village run smoothly. She is a member of the Crafts Club, volunteers at the Linden Store and Share & Care, drives the Jolly Trolley, calls bingo for Mountain View residents, writes letters to New Holland Elementary School students for the pen pal program, serves on the Cottage Council and the activities committee, and helps wherever needed with her joyful, lighthearted spirit.

Of all her volunteer work, she enjoys driving the Jolly Trolley the most. “The hardest part of driving the Trolley is being jolly for two hours,” Diane says with a laugh.

“But it’s a great way to meet new residents, and they’re so appreciative that it’s rewarding in the end.”

She’s also honored to have been elected to the Cottage Council in January 2020. “I look forward to being a liaison between the residents and the administration,” she says.

Her interest in volunteering began with the Crafts Club and the Linden Store, and one thing led to another as time went on. Diane is proud to serve in one of the largest volunteer programs of any retirement community in the area.

Originally from Drexel Hill in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Diane worked as a medical secretary at Bryn Mawr Hospital for 12 years. She started teaching night school while working at the hospital. Then she taught full time for 33 years at a private business school, teaching medical and computer subjects for the medical secretary program.

Diane’s husband, John, also drives the Jolly Trolley at Garden Spot. They are the only husband and wife driving team. They have two married daughters, both living in New York—one in Tarrytown and one on Grand Island.

Before John and Diane moved here, a group of their friends from Grace Chapel Church in Havertown decided to move to the same retirement community. After visiting many communities, they were drawn to Garden Spot’s spiritual emphasis and its warm, welcoming atmosphere.

The accessibility, convenience, and landscaping of the property appealed to them as well. And their neighbors at Garden Spot—new acquaintances and old friends—made them feel at home right away.

“For our time of life, there is no place we’d rather be living,” Diane says.

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S O C I A L LY S P E A K I N G

The community library at Garden Spot Village offers an expansive collection of fiction, nonfiction, audiobooks and more for residents and team members to enjoy.

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LIBRARY COMMITTEE In most communities the library is a quiet space where patrons whisper as they choose the next bestseller to read.

At Garden Spot Village, the library can be quiet, but it is also a place where people gather to play games, visit with friends and experience new worlds.

In addition, laughter and conversation are welcome at the Garden Spot Village library! The small tables scattered throughout the room offer a great spot to meet, a popular place to play card games and a space to create community.

When the Garden Spot Village library was established in 1996, it consisted of two bookcases filled with donated books and a magazine rack. Today, bookcases surround the second floor room, which looks down into the Apartment Suites Lobby.

Readers can find a wide selection of fiction, nonfiction, history, biographies, mysteries and more, thanks to a large wooden sign posted above each section.

Audiobooks and large-print books add diversity to the library’s offerings.

Residents and team members also appreciate the set of computers and the document magnifier.

Recently, RLPS Architects, an architectural partner of Garden Spot Village, donated eight sets of cardboard virtual reality glasses. The glasses empower people to travel in virtual reality to anywhere in the world, with the help of an app on their smart phone.

With the oversight of Anne Knepley, a Garden Spot Village resident since January 2011 and a retired librarian with a master’s degree in library science, a team of 23 volunteers keeps the Garden Spot Village library running smoothly. Each volunteer accepts a different responsibility. Each day of the week a different volunteer shelves the books; other volunteers “read the shelves” to make sure books are in order, process the books (book pocket and card, spine designation), and enter books into the library's database to create a card catalog.

These are just some of the tasks performed by library volunteers.

Anne says, “The volunteers are very interested in the library and they enjoy what they are doing.” Demand for the library was high when other public libraries closed in mid-March. “The amount of book cards in our little wooden box—I have never seen that many books out in circulation in the last nine years! People are using the library at a record pace.”

The library accepts donations of books from residents and team members.

Volunteers sort the donations to determine which books will work in the library, which can be sold to raise funds to purchase new books and which can be donated to the Mountain View library or to local booksellers such as Mennonite Central Committee’s Booksavers.

READ MORE: booksavers.org

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THINGS TO SEE & DO Schedule is subject to change. For current listings, visit gardenspotvillage.org/events or contact Resident Services at 717.355.6000.

19 GSV AFTER WORK WEBINAR

Join us for this virtual evening event where you will learn more about life at Garden Spot Village. Visit gsvlookandlearn.org for details and registration.

For the public, especially 50+.

October

February

5-10 HARVEST WEEK

17 GSV AFTER WORK WEBINAR

A remix of the traditional Fall Festival, a resident-only Harvest Week will include a wide range of daily events.

For residents only.

17 SATURDAY EVENING CONCERT SERIES

Join us for this virtual evening event where you will learn more about life at Garden Spot Village. Visit gsvlookandlearn.org for details and registration.

For the public, especially 50+.

The Schwandt Family Chamber Ensemble will perform.

20 SATURDAY EVENING CONCERT SERIES

November

For residents and the public.

For residents only.

18 LOOK & LEARN WEBINAR

A virtual event to learn more about life at Garden Spot Village. Visit gsvlookandlearn.org for details and registration. For the public, especially 50+.

December 9 LIVE NATIVITY

Residents and staff will portray biblical scenes.

For residents only.

19 SATURDAY EVENING CONCERT SERIES

Enjoy Christmas with Brenten Megee. Brenten is a local singer and a graduate from West Chester University.

John McDonald will perform.

March 12 LOOK & LEARN

A luncheon to learn more about life at Garden Spot Village.

Visit gsvlookandlearn.org for details and registration.

For the public, especially 50+.

20 SATURDAY EVENING CONCERT SERIES Stu Sacks and friends will perform.

For residents and the public.

23 GSV AFTER WORK WEBINAR

Join us for this virtual evening event where you will learn more about life at Garden Spot Village. Visit gsvlookandlearn.org for details and registration.

For residents only.

For the public, especially 50+.

January

26 KIDS 1/2 MARATHON

For the public, especially 50+.

The Garden Spot Village Kids 1/2 Marathon challenges kids to run 12 miles at their own pace and finish the last mile together! New this year, young runners can sign up for just a one-mile fun run. Visit gardenspotvillage.run for more details and to register. For the public, ages 5-12.

16 SATURDAY EVENING CONCERT SERIES

27 GARDEN SPOT VILLAGE 1/2 MARATHON & 10K

12 LOOK & LEARN

A luncheon to learn more about life at Garden Spot Village.

Visit gsvlookandlearn.org for details and registration.

Susquehanna Slide Express will perform.

For residents and the public.

Race Day is one of the best days at Garden Spot Village!

Join us as we host more than 1,000 runners from around the world. The Garden Spot Village 1/2 Marathon & 10K course winds through rolling farmland. Visit gardenspotvillage.run for more information.

For residents and the public.

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SATURDAY MARCH 27, 2021 EXPERIENCE THE THRILL OF RUNNING IN BEAUTIFUL LANCASTER COUNTY, PA! CAN'T MAKE IT IN PERSON?

RUN THE RACE VIRTUALLY! EXPO AND PASTA DINNER FRIDAY, MARCH 26 REGISTER ONLINE AT

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Garden Spot Village's Swipe Out Hunger Campaign funds a monthly community meal at CrossNet Youth Center, New Holland.

SINCE MARCH 2017, volunteers served more than 6,500 meals to members of our community. In March 2020, the community meal temporarily transitioned to a drive-thru style meal with the support of CrossNet Ministries. Each month, volunteers serve hundreds of meals prepared and provided by Garden Spot Village.

To learn more call 717.355.6000

CrossNet Ministries offers programs in the area of Youth, Food & Nutrition, Social Services and Community.

Our desire is to empower those who are underresourced and see lives changed by Jesus Christ!

We have many opportunities to get involved!

OFFERING HELP & HOPE TO THE ELANCO COMMUNITY 717.355.2454 office@elancocross.org 123 W Franklin Street New Holland, PA 17557

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16 GRAYBILL RD | LEOLA, PA 17540 5 MILES WEST OF GARDEN SPOT VILLAGE; OFF ROUTE 23

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It’s all about CHOICES! Stop in and see your options: Styles, Fabrics, Finishes and Firmness

NEED A LIFT? Lift chairs in petite, medium and average size.

Find comfort and accessibility in one!

KUMME ESSE! (PA Dutch for come and eat)

Dining room sets vary in color, wood, style and size.

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Compassionately serving our local community.

We are

a locally owned and operated funeral home offering traditional services, cremation options and advance funeral planning.

145 WEST MAIN STREET, NEW HOLLAND, PA • 717.354.0444 • GROFFECKENROTH.COM R. Fred Groff, III, Supervisor

Visit our two other Locations: Beck Funeral Home, Inc. 315 EAST MAIN STREET NEW HOLLAND, PA 717.354.2227 BECKFUNERAL.COM Sven E. Miller, Supervisor

Loren E. Bender, Supervisor Branch location of Groff-High-Eckenroth Funeral Home, Inc.

R. Fred Groff, III

209 EAST MAIN STREET TERRE HILL, PA 717.445.5122

Loren E. Bender

C. Stanley Eckenroth Home for Funerals

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• Locally owned & operated • 43rd Anniversary 1977—2020 • Consumer Cellular & TracFone • Knowledgeable friendly staff • Afternoon & evening service calls

Introducing Stephanie Berg Stephens, DMD, FAGD Building on Loeffler-Pitt Dental Associates legacy of dental excellence, Dr. Stephens considers it her honor and privilege to provide New Holland and the surrounding communities the best that modern dentistry has to offer! Dr. Stephens is a proud graduate of Rutgers University & the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine.

Recently, she earned her fellowship in the Academy of General Dentistry — an honor achieved by only 6% of general dentists!

CALL RALPH, STEVE OR CHRIS TODAY!

717.354.2200

ALWAYS WELCOMING NEW PATIENTS! Experience the difference!

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331 E. Main Street • New Holland

Look and Learn You’re Invited to

at GARDEN SPOT VILLAGE

LET US HELP YOU WITH: Business Law — Business Formation Business Sales & Acquisitions Real Estate — Property Settlements Wills, Living Wills, Powers of Attorney & Trusts Estate Administration — Adoption Tax Law & Tax Planning — 1031 Exchanges Title Insurance

717.656.6717

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November 18, January 12, January 19*, February 17*, March 17, March 23* Join our resident tour guides for lunch and learn firsthand about the welcoming way of life at Garden Spot Village. Visit gsvlookandlearn.org to find out more and to register. Seating is limited.

For the public 50+. gsvlookandlearn.org

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717.355.6500 *GSV After Work Virtually at 5:30pm

YOUR TRUSTED

HOMETOWN

PHARMACY

Offering free delivery for all Garden Spot residents

NOW SCHEDULING FLU AND SHINGLES VACCINATIONS 149 E Main Street • New Holland, PA 17557 • 717.355.9300 • stauffersdrugstore.com

CSA Tech Solutions windows • mac • linux FAITHFULLY SERVING 18+ YEARS!

IF YOU ARE READING THIS, SO ARE YOUR POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS! Call Kristy for details at 717.355.6057

Virus Removal Remote Support Onsite Support Backup & Transfer 357 W. Main Street • New Holland, PA 17557 www.csanow.com • cody@csanow.com

717.354.4272

Theraflex Massage A Unique Approach to Physical, Emotional and Therapeutic Health

Ruth Carey-Hench, LPN, LMT Massage, hot packs & ultrasound for Garden Spot Village residents & employees, every other Monday morning & Wednesdays in Gardens South Lower Level. $50 per hour.

BY APPOINTMENT ONLY 717.615.3126 | Sessions are paid at time of service | Cash & Check Only

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Because good oral health starts with quality dental care from a highly-qualified and experienced team committed to providing the absolute best in treatment, skill and judgment. • Located in New Holland convenient to Garden Spot Village • Easily accessible, off-street parking

Laura Sheaffer Harkin, DMD Third Generation Family Dentistry Callfor an appointment today!

(717) 354-4081

507 W. Broad St. I New Holland, PA 17557

www.DrHarkin.com

MORE EPISODES COMING SOON! This podcast explores what it means to retire with purpose, live to your full potential and explore abundant opportunities to live with purpose in community.

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Allen Wessel

IRT-4395D-A

Financial Advisor

www.edwardjones.com

Member SIPC

201 East Main St New Holland, PA 17557 717-354-4879

VOTED #1 EYECARE CENTER FOR 18 YEARS

Taking Your Sight Seriously WE OFFER: Comprehensive Eye Care | Cataract Surgery | Glaucoma Care and Management

LASIK/PRK (Free Evaluations) | Diabetic Eye Care | Neuro-Ophthalmology Macular Degeneration | Dry Eye Syndrome | Glasses and Contacts

Opening this Fall

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Welcoming

DR. ZACHARY LANDIS, M.D. CORNEAL SPECIALIST

Visit our ofďŹ ce in New Holland!

654 East Main Street | For an Appointment Call 717.397.4724 WWW.EYEASSOCIATESLANCASTER.COM New Patients Welcome! Accepting Most Insurances.

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Petal Perfect Flowers Flowers • Special Occasions Celebration of Life • Gift Baskets Walk-Ins Welcome

Yoder’s Country Market offers many conveniences all under one roof!

We offer a Full-Service Grocery Store, Pharmacy, Dry-Cleaning, Digital Photo Lab, H2O to Go, Gift Shop & Petal Perfect Flower Shop.

LOCATED IN YODER’S MALL 12 South Tower Road | New Holland, PA

717.354.2430 petalperfectflowers.com

- Store Hours Monday-Saturday: 7am-9pm, Sunday: 8am-5pm

Join Us for Sunday Brunch 10am-2pm - Restaurant & Buffet Hours Monday-Saturday: 6am-7pm Sunday: 10am-2pm

Our Banquet Facilities accommodate 20-800 people.

Yoder’s Fuel Island & Car Wash

Save 10¢ to 30¢ per Gallon of Gas when you use your Gold Card at Yoder’s Country Market.

14 South Tower Road | New Holland, PA

YODERSCOUNTRYMARKET.COM

717.354.4748

We Deliver Locally

• How can I get a fair return in today’s volatile market?

• Is Roth Conversion a good idea for me?

• Are my affairs in order if something were to happen to me or my spouse?

• Am I paying more income tax than necessary?

• Are all my beneficiaries and legal documents current and in order?

• Are there things I should do to simplify my estate for my spouse and my heirs?

Helping people make financial decisions for more than 30 years.

Call 215.830.1450 to learn more!

Securities and advisory services offered through LPL Financial, a Registered Investment Advisor. Member FINRA/SIPC

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gifts to enhance your lifestyle Discover quality gifts, accessories and personal care items.

Popular products include FITKICKS sling bags and footwear for men and women. Personal care items offer an opportunity to pamper yourself or someone you love. Proceeds support the Garden Spot Village Benevolent Fund. gardenspotvillage.org/shopping

Family Owned & Operated

NEW & USED SCOOTERS AND POWER WHEELCHAIRS ROLLATORS, LIFTS, BATTERIES AND ACCESSORIES VISIT OUR REPAIR SHOP AT GARDEN SPOT VILLAGE Gardens South Lower Level.

Every other Tuesday, 1 pm-3 pm. Call for an appointment.

STOP BY OUR SHOWROOM FOR A LARGE SELECTION

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Thrift Store

Gifts with a Story

Explore our ever-changing selection of lightly used furniture, housewares, jewelry and home decor. This one-of-a-kind collection represents the unique products you will discover when you shop with us. Proceeds support the Garden Spot Village Benevolent Fund. gardenspotvillage.org/shopping

LoriWillwerth,CTC • 717.682.5723 • L.Willwerth@cruiseplanners.com • cpdestinationtravel.com CALL TODAY for the best land and cruise packages available and ask for special all-inclusive rates!

Your hometown full service travel agency, located right here in New Holland.

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The Community Church at Garden Spot Village WEEKLY SERVICE SUNDAY, 10AM

MEADOW VIEW, a new, state-of-the-art memory support building at Garden Spot Village, offers opportunities for people with dementia to live resiliently. At Meadow View people find purpose-filled days and opportunities to engage with community. To learn more or schedule a tour, call 717.355.6000.

Live Resiliently

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ABUNDANT OPPORTUNITIES

Looking for opportunities to learn and grow in a community that welcomes new ideas and innovation? Garden Spot Communities welcomes people who desire to make a difference wherever they are!

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F O LLOW G A R D EN S P O T V I LL AG E O N LI N E

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Girls on the Run is an afterschool program like no other! Over the course of 10 weeks, girls have fun, make ma friends, increase physical activity levels and learn important life skills they can use at home, at school and with friends.

Why it Matters IT’S FUN. Girls who were the least active at the start of the program increased their physical activity by more than 40%.

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97% of participants said they learned critical skills to manage emotions, resolve conflict, help others or make intentional decisions.

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IT’S EFFECTIVE.

www.gotrlancaster.org

24/7 On-Demand Online Urgent Care See a doctor without stepping foot in a doctor’s office.

WellSpan.org/OUC

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Attorneys Linda Kling, Patrick Deibler, and Ashley A. Glick

Welcoming Ashley A. Glick, Esq.

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