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Solanco High School Ariya Jutanugarn turns An education crisis
celebrates its prom three-shot deficit into looms in Puerto Rico
in style with classic four-shot lead at U.S. as large numbers of
roadsters and smiles. Women’s Open. schools are closing.
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FUNDRAISING

United
Way
cuts back
on grants
Leaders hope new strategy
will reverse donation slump
JEFF HAWKES
JHAWKES@LNPNEWS.COM

The United Way of Lancaster County,

mired in a yearslong fundraising slump,
has reduced grants to multiagency
projects it hopes will create bold social
change.
With annual contributions falling by
$1.9 million since 2011, the agency last
ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO month awarded a third fewer grants com-
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy talks to campaign workers in Los Angeles minutes before he was shot early June 5, 1968. At his pared to three years ago.
side are his wife, Ethel, and his California campaign manager, Jesse Unruh, speaker of the California Assembly. After mak- But agency leaders say they think the
ing a short speech, Kennedy left the platform and was shot in an adjacent room. decline will reverse when more donors

STATE OF
see how United Way partnerships are at-
tacking poverty and other hard-to-solve
R F K A S S A S S I N AT I O N

problems.
After receiving 21 funding proposals, the
United Way last month awarded grants
totaling nearly $2.2 million to 10 mul-
tiagency partnerships. The three-year

MOURNING
grants ranged from $55,000 to $300,000 a
year, but could be less if fundraising con-
tinues to sag.
In 2015, the last time the United Way
awarded three-year grants, more than
UNITED WAY, page A6

Robert Kennedy’s death on June 6, 1968, MANOR TOWNSHIP

adds fuel to the fire of already explosive year 1968 Flash floods
This is the second part
EARLE CORNELIUS he joked that “Mayor (Sam) Yorty
ECORNELIUS@LNPNEWS.COM
has just sent me a message that
of an occasional series
that will explore some strand more

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we’ve been here too long already.” of the events that
s he strode to the podi-
um at the Ambassador
Hotel in Los Angeles
With one more wave to the crowd,
he said, “My thanks to all of you, and
now it’s on to Chicago, and let’s win
marked it as one of the
most tumultuous years
in U.S. history.
than a dozen
at midnight on June 4, there.” Man hospitalized, bridge
1968, Sen. Robert Ken- At that moment, millions of view- Living
nedy was on an election high. ers turned off their TV sets. Rick Read about the photos buckles after deluge of rain
He had just won the California Gray was among them. Gray, who of mourners who lined
Democratic presidential primary was between his second and third AD CRABLE
the railroad tracks ACRABLE@LNPNEWS.COM
and the state’s full complement of year at Dickinson School of Law and during RFK’s final
delegates. His uphill battle to wrest would later become a three-term journey; speculation Flash floods in Manor Township early
the nomination from Sen. Eugene mayor of Lancaster city, had been about whether he Saturday morning resulted in rescues
McCarthy and Vice President Hu- campaigning for Kennedy. would have won from vehicles and homes and damaged an
bert Humphrey was gaining mo- He said the middle Kennedy broth- the Democratic apartment complex and a bridge.
mentum. er had a way of relating to people. presidential Multiple residents in an area of Manor
It had been an especially long day “He was charismatic. It was a natu- nomination; and a Township west of Millersville recorded 4.5
for the candidates, due in part to de- ral thing.” review of a Netflix inches of rain during the storm. An official
lays caused by glitches in new elec- Kennedy’s speech — which aired af- docuseries. Page B1 gauge in Mountville recorded 3.8 inches.
tronic voting machines. ter 3 a.m. Eastern time — concluded That incredible amount within a couple
As Kennedy finished his remarks, RFK, page A4 hours was possible because of a near-re-
cord amount of water vapor in the atmo-
sphere for this time of year and almost no
wind, which allowed thunderstorms to
It was just halfway through the year, and we just got numbed remain almost stationary for 90 minutes
by the second assassination. The nation really did go into a state in spots, said Eric Horst, a Millersville
University meteorologist.
of mourning. This is the second assasination. When will it end? “These storms were moving at a snail’s
— John McWilliams, retired Penn State history professor who taught a course on the 1960s pace, so if it did move over your neighbor-
hood, it dwelled,” Horst said.
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