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Shippensburg Borough Council members said Tuesday they are excited to approve a plan by Community CARES, a homeless shelter in Carlisle, to use the former Episcopal Home as a family emergency shelter home.
Executive Director Beth Kempf proposed using the former Episcopal Home located at 206 E. Burd St. as a family emergency shelter to the board.
“Community CARES (previously Carlisle C.A.R.E.S.) wishes to utilize the former Episcopal Home with the permission of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania in partnership with them for the purpose of providing a shelter for families,” she said. “As an alternative, what we’ve been doing is hoteling families. We work with several agencies in the Shippensburg area, as well as throughout Cumberland County. During COVID, our model that we’ve been using of utilizing church floors to shelter people has no longer been functioning and not safe. This facility would provide a safe location to keep families separated from one another,
A well-known Lancaster priest died Tuesday after a battle with COVID-19.
The Rev. Stephen Casey, who retired from St. Edwardâs Episcopal Church in 2018, was taken off life support Tuesday morning. According to a letter from Bishop Audrey C. Scanlan, Casey also served at St. Johnâs Episcopal Church in Lancaster and at All Saintsâ Episcopal Church in Hershey.
A post on St. Johnâs Facebook page Tuesday said that Casey would âtransition from this earthly life to the next,â and invited its community in join together in prayer.
In a 2018 interview to LNP | LancasterOnline prior to his final sermon at St. Edwardâs, Casey, who previously lived in England and Scotland, laughed at the irony of his Pennsylvania assignment.