Not only do Pennsylvania's Job's Daughters raise money for HIKE, they also have the opportunities to present grants when the recipients are from their state. Eight year-old twin girls, Sarah and Megan Dodson (below), each received a check for $4,000 for new hearing aids.

For the third consecutive year, a Pennsylvania Job's Daughter has been presented the prestigious Supreme HIKE award, an honor given at the annual Supreme Session of the International Order of Job's Daughters. This year's award was earned by Kimberly Detwiler, a Past Honored Queen, from Bethel 14, Quarryville, Lancaster County, for her efforts in leading Pennsylvania's members in their fund-raising activities for HIKE.

The special honor is awarded to a Job's Daughter who individually has raised the most money internationally for the organization's philanthropic project, the HIKE Fund, Inc. HIKE is the Hearing Impaired Kids Endowment (click here for a related story) that was created in 1985 as the philanthropic project of the International Order of Job's Daughters. It assists youth from birth through the age of 20 by awarding grants to purchase hearing assistance devices. Recipients of the grants need not be related to a member of Job's Daughters.

Pennsylvania Job's Daughters are very proud to be the only state organization to have received this award since its first presentation in 1997 and hope that the supportive Family of Freemasonry is equally proud of them.