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SUMMER RESOURCE SHARE:

Looking for summer opportunities for your child or teen? We came across these programs and wanted to share them with our community!

🎵 Music Camps – Music For Everyone
🔬 STEM Camps – Bright Side Opportunities Center
🍪 Girl Scout Camp – Girl Explore
🎾 Tennis Camps – ACES
🎨 Visual & Commercial Arts Camp – LCTC
⚽ Low-Cost Sports Camps – Lancaster Rec
💪 Empowerment Day Camp (Girls Ages 9–14) – YWCA Lancaster

Most programs are free or low-cost, with opportunities in music, STEM, arts, sports, leadership, and personal development.

📌 For more information:
• Music For Everyone: musicforeveryone.org
• Bright Side Opportunities Center: brightsideopportunities.org
• ACES Tennis: tenniscentral.org
• Lancaster Recreation Commission: lancasterrec.org
• YWCA Lancaster Empowerment Day Camp: [email protected]

Please note: The Mix is not affiliated with these programs—we’re simply sharing resources that may be helpful to Lancaster-area families.

Feel free to share with a family looking for summer opportunities!

Youth Inspired. Future Driven:

Over the weekend, students from across our community showed up ready to learn, engage, and take real steps toward understanding how money works and how to make it work for them.

Through our Financial Literacy Student Workshop, participants explored topics like budgeting, saving, credit, and long-term financial planning. This wasn’t just information. It was real conversation, real questions, and real connections to their everyday lives and future goals.

The energy in the room was undeniable. Students leaned in, stayed engaged, and took ownership of their learning, building not just knowledge, but confidence they can carry forward.

We’re grateful for every student who showed up and made this experience meaningful.

A special thank you to our partners and sponsors who helped make it all possible: Lancaster -PA- Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Fulton Bank, S&T Bank, and The LINK Foundation. Your investment in our youth continues to create real, lasting impact.

This work happens because people choose to show up. It’s a powerful reminder of what’s possible when community, partnership, and opportunity come together.

FINAL SPEAKER. LASTING IMPACT.

We’re excited to welcome Jerry Johnson as the final featured guest of this year’s Mix Speaker Series, presented by Sam & Dena Lombardo.

A Lancaster native, 5-time Hall of Fame inductee, former professional basketball player, coach, and entrepreneur, Jerry Johnson’s journey reflects leadership, perseverance, and purpose both on and off the court.

From J.P. McCaskey High School to competing professionally across Europe, and now creating opportunities for young people here in Lancaster. Jerry continues to inspire the next generation through mentorship, sports, and community impact.

Join us to hear more about his journey, lessons through leadership and athletics, and the impact he continues making in our community!

📅 Thursday, May 21
📍 The Mix | 520 North Street
🕓 Doors Open: 4:00 PM | 🎤 Speaker Begins: 4:30 PM

Free entry. No tickets required. Light refreshments provided.

Mother’s Day:

Today, we celebrate the women who love deeply, lead faithfully, encourage endlessly, and help shape the lives of our youth every single day.

To the mothers, grandmothers, mentors, caregivers, aunties, guardians, and women who continue showing up with strength, compassion, and care, thank you!

Your impact reaches farther than you may ever realize, and our communities are stronger because of you.

Happy Mother’s Day from all of us at The Mix.