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October 6, 2006

Amish Community Asks Anabaptist Foundation to Create Fund For Victims of Nickel Mines School Tragedy
BOYERTOWN -- To centralize the growing number of donations for victims of the Nickel Mines school tragedy, the Anabaptist Foundation (www.afweb.org), at the request of the Amish community, has established a fund called Anabaptist Foundation Nickel Mines School Victims Fund. An account set up through the foundation will be administered for medical care, transportation and other support by the Nickel Mines Accountability Committee, a newly formed group of Amish community leaders.

Donations to the fund are tax deductible to the extent provided by law. Checks should be made payable to Anabaptist Foundation Nickel Mines School Victims Fund and will be accepted at a number of area institutions including Bank of Lancaster County; Susquehanna Bancshares; Ephrata National Bank; and National Penn Bancshares’s (Nasdaq: NPBC) banking divisions: HomeTowne Heritage Bank, The Peoples Bank of Oxford, FirstService Bank and National Penn Bank.

Checks also can be mailed directly to:
Anabaptist Foundation Nickel Mines School Victims Fund
c/o HomeTowne Heritage Bank
PO Box 337
Strasburg, PA 17579

Information about the fund is available on the Anabaptist Foundation Web site at www.afweb.org. Information also is available on participating company Web sites including www.nationalpenn.com.

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