Group hopes to start creative-reuse center in Lancaster

LANCASTER COUNTY

A midstate nonprofit is working to begin a place that provides a constructive use for the area's cast-off materials.

The effort to begin Lancaster Creative Reuse is being led by Andrea Stoner Leaman, a Lancaster County native who is earning her master's degree in social work at Temple University.

Creative-reuse centers - about 60 exist nationwide - collect items such as factory seconds, wallpaper samples, discarded decorations from events and surplus supplies, then sell or give away the items.

"The general idea is for a store that builds on the exploding interest in crafting and reuse, as well as Lancaster County's thriftiness and thriving art …