Fashion trends are always changing, but helping people never goes out of style for the Pilot Club of Lancaster.

The Pilot Club will hold its annual Derby Day Fashion Show & Luncheon on Saturday, April 5, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Palm Court at DoubleTree Resort, 2400 Willow Street Pike, Lancaster.

Mainstream Boutique will bring the latest fashions, which will be worn by volunteer models. The luncheon will include soup and salad, bread and butter, dessert, coffee, and iced tea.

There is a cost to attend. For more information or to purchase tickets, contact the group on Facebook by searching for "Pilot Club of Lancaster."

Entertainment will be provided by Adriano, a one-man band playing an organ and singing songs performed by Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and others.

There will be chances to win items and a hat contest for ladies. "Wear your most outlandish Derby hat to win a prize," Pilot Club president Kelly Osborne said.

All proceeds will benefit the organization's community service projects, said Osborne.

The Pilot Club was chartered in Lancaster in 1947. "We are a nonprofit community service club," Osborne said. "We're similar to the Rotary Club or the Lions Club. Our motto is 'Friendship and Service.'"

The group launched the local Meals on Wheels program in 1967. Meals on Wheels grew to become a separate nonprofit, but the Pilot Club still makes monetary donations, and some members volunteer to deliver meals.

All men and women are welcome to join the Pilot Club. The Lancaster chapter's membership currently consists of 37 women.

The Pilot Club meets at 5:30 p.m. on the second Wednesday of each month at Lancaster Tennis & Yacht Club, 2615 Columbia Ave., Lancaster. Guests are welcome to attend to see how the club operates, Osborne said.

The Pilot Club's signature community service initiative is Project Lifesaver of Lancaster County, a group near and dear to Osborne.

Project Lifesaver is a search-and-rescue program for people who wander away from home due to a cognitive issue such as dementia or autism, Osborne said.

West Hempfield Police Department was the first department to embrace the program when it began in 2012. Since then, Project Lifesaver has added 22 police departments as full or associate members to become a countywide organization that includes Lancaster County Emergency Management Agency (LEMA) and Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) Troop J Lancaster.

Osborne, who retired from her job as a state trooper in January of 2023, had never heard of Project Lifesaver until 2019. Her father, Courtney, who had dementia, wandered away from an assisted living facility in Lancaster Township in October of 2019 and was found dead.

Serendipitously, days earlier, a sheriff from New Jersey had called Osborne to notify the PSP a Project Lifesaver client was visiting Lancaster County. When Osborne returned the message, she said she got chills.

"I knew right then and there it was my mission to search for information on Project Lifesaver and bring it to Troop J Lancaster as a tribute to my dad," she said.

Osborne connected with the Pilot Club in 2019, joined two years later, and is now finishing the first year of a two-year term as the group's president. She acquired funding and cut through red tape to bring Project Lifesaver to Troop J.

The Pilot Club helps fund the purchase of equipment and training of police officers and handles client enrollment and battery maintenance.

LEMA and police agencies maintain search-and-rescue equipment, keep officers proficient with the training, and do the search-and-rescue missions when needed.

"We count on this money to continue to fund Project Lifesaver of Lancaster County to purchase transmitters and equipment for our police departments," Osborne said.

Here's how Project Lifesaver works: Families who have loved ones with a cognitive condition and fear that person could get lost may contact Cathy Cieslinski of the Pilot Club at 717-572-2682 or go to http://www.pilotcluboflancaster.org.

The Pilot Club fits clients with a transmitter on either an ankle or a wrist. There is a specific frequency assigned to each transmitter. Should the client go missing, the caregiver is instructed to call 911, and then trained personnel go out with a receiver in search of the missing person. "It's archaic technology but tried and true," Osborne said. She added that Project Lifesaver has reduced search-and-rescue time from an average of about nine hours to an average of 30 minutes or less.

There is a cost associated with each transmitter and the equipment that goes with it, but the Pilot Club provides scholarship opportunities for those in need so that no one is turned away.