March 2008

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Joyce Shutt and Watershed Alliance Presidents to Receive Peacemaker Awards

Each year the Interfaith Center for Peace and Justice gives two Peacemaker Awards to recognize local residents who have made a significant contribution to the pursuit of peace, justice, or environmental sustainability. For 2008, The Reverend Joyce Shutt will receive the Lifetime of Peacemaking Award, while the Peacemaker of the Year Award for 2008 is awarded jointly to the four past and present presidents of the Watershed Alliance of Adams County. The ceremony will be held on Monday, April 7, at 7 p.m., in the Eisenhower Room at the Adams County Library. The public is invited. Refreshments will be served.

The Reverend Joyce Shutt is pastor emeritus of the Fairfield Mennonite Church and has been the convener of the local chapter of the Pennsylvania Prison Society for the past eight years. She is one of the founders of Fairfield Mennonite’s International Gift Festival, an annual event that features fair trade craft items from poorer countries throughout the world. Recently she has helped to establish the Community Re-Entry Coalition, a task force affiliated with Healthy Adams County, the goal of which is to prepare offenders to re-enter society successfully after time spent in prison. She is the author of Steps to Hope (Herald Press, 1990), a book which draws on the Beatitudes and the Twelve Steps Program to offer hope to families affected by alcohol and drug abuse.

Robert Robinson, Patrick Naugle, Charles Skopic, and Mark Berg are receiving the Peacemaker of the Year Award for 2008 for their work with the Watershed Alliance of Adams County. The Watershed Alliance, founded in 1999, is a non-profit organization which promotes better understanding of the complex watershed issues affecting Adams County and encourages water management and land use practices that will promote a sustainable watershed resource in Adams County. The Alliance has been involved in restoration of the Conewago Creek stream banks as well as water quality monitoring in the Conewago Creek, Rock Creek, and Middle Creek watersheds. Most recently, the Alliance has been conducting a groundwater evaluation on a portion of the Conewago Watershed to determine the availability of groundwater, and to determine the impacts of increased impervious surfaces on groundwater resources.

Each Peacemaker Award consists of a plaque and a donation of $150 worth of books in the recipient’s name to the Adams County Library. Nominations are invited for next year’s awards; please leave messages at (717) 334-0752.

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