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Ten months into the coronavirus pandemic, it’s likely that children and families are grieving the loss of loved ones more than ever.
One local foundation is hoping to step up to offer help for such needs, something that it did over a decade ago.
The Drew Michael Taylor Foundation, located in Shippensburg, provides grief education and support groups for kids and adults. Randy and Marcie Taylor started the foundation after the tragic death of their three-year-old son in 2006.
Following his death, Randy and Marcie were able to attend grief support sessions, but they could not find any nearby for their daughter, who was six at the time.
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This year’s Pennsylvania Farm show will be quite a change for many who have made the event a tradition in the past.
This year’s event will be virtual due to the coronavirus pandemic, and for two prominent people that contribute to the event, both from Waynesboro, it will be an adjustment.
Gerry Reichard, special adviser to the Friends of the Pennsylvania Farm Show Foundation, and Harrison Frantz, livestock show manager, have been regulars there. Reichard has been involved for 20 years and went as a visitor before then, and Frantz has attended every year since 1989.
“In my mind, the new year doesn’t truly kick off until you’ve been at the Pennsylvania farm show,” Frantz said.
Schools around the county have had to make plenty of adjustments this year due to the pandemic.
From the way teachers operate to ways students interact, this year has been very different for most schools.
For the Franklin County Career and Technology Center, that’s an understatement.
The vocational school has been online for the past few weeks, and will be at least until the new semester starts in January.
The school focuses on hands-on career development, in fields revolving around anything from manufacturing to sales to transportation to health.
When the school decided to go online, the question became how do you transition from hands-on to virtual learning?
Put extra effort into applications
Don t treat the application as an afterthought. The shutdown gives you more time on your hands, so use that time to make your application special. Get help from teachers, go the extra mile and research what that prospective college looks for and apply for as many scholarships as you can to make the process easier.
“This is the one time that you have extra time to look at schools,” Chastulik said. “Because when you’re in school all day for 8 hours, you’re not necessarily on the computer, but now you can get away with doing extra stuff on the side while you’re doing your schoolwork.”
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Two recent Chambersburg Area Senior High School graduates are doing what they can to help out the students that come after them.
Kelton Chastulik, CASHS Class of 2017, and Katelyn Jones, CASHS Class of 2020, started their “Chambersburg to College” podcast this fall, hoping to help current high school students navigate the college admissions process.
But this isn’t just advice that you’d find on a college admissions pamphlet.
They want to tell personal stories about the college experience and try to help students that need it, as many in Chambersburg do, especially during the pandemic.
The idea of the podcast came from their work with the book “Savage Inequalities” by Jonathan Kozol, which focuses on education access. Through that work and conversations with teachers, they felt that in this area, and during the pandemic, that many students would lose valuable opportunities to learn about and enter higher education.