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Quote for today… “Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.” – Michelle Hodkin

• Operation Christmas Child is a worldwide children’s project of Samaritan’s Purse that works to fill shoe boxes with school supplies, toys, necessity items and notes of encouragement that are then distributed to needy children worldwide. Locally the effort is being coordinated by Dan and Kim Blank of Marietta. – MyDonegalNews

• York deer hunters want to know about “chronic waste disease” – York Daily Record

• Clinton leaves – maybe now the US will get a foreign policy – Lawyer Herald

This is a screen capture of a Facebook post Brian Goshaw made on Nov. 1 regarding Weis Markets. – SOURCE: LancasterOnLine

• Dispute about a service animal at Weis – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• Where is the blue rock? – a column in today’s Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• Jack McLean and Dick Hughes will present “Vietnam in Context: The Healing Continues” at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Millersville University. They will discuss lessons learned from the Vietnam War and their work with survivor groups at the free event, which will be held in the Lehr Room of the Bolger Conference Center in Gordinier Hall. McLean is author of “Loon: A Marine Story,” the memoir about his life from a civilian to enlisted Marine at Parris Island to combat veteran in Vietnam to the first Vietnam veteran to graduate from Harvard. He will discuss the tumultuous political times of the late 1960s and the effect those events had on the average Marine fighting in Vietnam.Hughes has been working to heal the wounds of Vietnam for more than 40 years, beginning with his Shoeshine Boys Project in Saigon and Da Nang that provided assistance to some 2,500 homeless Vietnamese street children by helping them find food and shelter. More recently, Hughes is leading the nonprofit organization Loose Cannons Inc., a group dedicated to bringing awareness to the health effects of Agent Orange. Joining them will be Keitha R. Beamer, clinical nurse specialist from the Addiction Recovery Unit at Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Beamer will discuss ways U.S. military personnel and their families can obtain mental health services and discuss her work in the addiction recovery unit. For more information, contact Jeffrey Wimer at jwimer@millersville.edu. – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era