Schreiber Stories

Around Schreiber, we have a shorthand for talking about Tina Edgell and Patty Watson.

Tina and Patty. Or sometimes Patty and Tina. It may as well be PattyTina.

For most of the past 20 years, Tina and Patty have been reliable Schreiber volunteers. It's not a stretch to say they are among the most dedicated of all of our amazing volunteers, and that's saying something.

We wanted to take the time this week, during National Volunteer Week, to tell the Schreiber community about their support of Schreiber.

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Some of you probably already know that what we call Schreiber today has been around since 1936. In those 82 years, we have gone by several different names: The Society for Crippled Children and Adults, the National Easter Seals Society and, starting in 1994, Schreiber Pediatric Rehab Center of Lancaster County.

Now, we are excited to tell you about our new name and introduce our new logo.

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In July, when we kicked off another season of selling tickets for this year's 30th Annual Rubber Duckie Race & Festival, we did so with some anxiety.

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The Extraordinary Give is less than two months away. Remember, this is the day of online giving organized by the Lancaster County Community Foundation to support participating central Pennsylvania nonprofits. The past few years, thanks to your generous support, we have been fortunate to finish among the top 10 nonprofits in terms of dollars raised and donations received. And that money has helped us provide services for kids like Shelby Stroman and Kami Appleby. With your help, we can do that again this year. Here's the plan.

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Schreiberpalooza is our annual night of live music and dancing to raise money for the children of Schreiber. There are lots of reason to support the event, to be held Saturday, Sept. 9. Over the next week, we will list the five best reasons.

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A little more than two years ago, Laurie Fellenbaum's idea to help Schreiber started out as a classrom conversation about empathy and acceptance. Today, that idea is teaching those values and a whole lot more.

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Schreiber Pediatric will need your support when Park City Center and the Lancaster Hempfield Rotary offer the 2016 Shop for a Cause Expo Saturday, April 16.

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Our fun and creative therapists have come up with a way to connect therapy for the kids with the buzz surrounding the latest Star Wars movie. Star Wars Week will be Jan. 25-29 here at the Center and will include a bunch of fun stuff throughout the week. I'll let OT Bernie Hershey explain how the structured activites they have in mind will help meet kiddoes therapy goals.

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The basic idea of the 2015 Extraordinary Give is for nonprofits to activate donors, one at a time, to go online during the Give and make a donation. However, our business supporters can play a role in the day -- and we hope you will.

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This year's Extraordinary Give, presented by the Lancaster County Community Foundation, is coming up on Friday, November 20, just a few weeks away. And we have something BIG planned that most definitely requires your help.

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July 1 marks the official start of tickets sales for the 2015 Rubber Duckie Race. As you might have already heard by now, the date of the race this year is Sunday, Sept. 13, but there's a lot of other new stuff happening around this year's race. This year's theme is Beach Party Duckies, so get the new collectible ducks now! Here are five things to know about our 27th Annual Rubber Duckie Race.

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I've written before about the support we receive from Lancaster County students. But I wanted to tell you about three new generous student groups who are doing some remarkable work on behalf of Schreiber.

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