Restart Training Center Ministry (RTCM) is commemorating 10 years of changing lives.

The RTCM annual fall banquet will be held Tuesday, Oct. 7, at the Shady Maple Banquet Center, 129 Toddy Drive, East Earl. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m.; the buffet fellowship meal will be held at 6:15.

Conrad Fisher will provide music, beginning at 5:30 p.m. Fisher, from Juniata County, is a singer and songwriter who owns Ragamuffin Hall in McCoysville, where he works as a studio musician and engineer.

RTCM founder and executive director Jaime Santiago will be the featured speaker. Five Restart program graduates will share their testimonies.

Table sponsorships and individual tickets are on sale at http://www.restartministry.org/events/fb. The early registration deadline for discounted tickets is Wednesday, Sept. 10.

There will be door prizes, and guests will be able to buy tickets for chances to win items.

There are four levels of sponsorship opportunities for businesses, with a deadline of Friday, Aug. 15. BB's Grocery Outlet, El's Door Sales, and Fisher Brothers Exteriors have supported RTCM since its inception, and 360 Hunting Blinds is a major donor.

Proceeds will benefit RTCM, a residential recovery support program for men. RTCM purchased a building in Ronks for $1.35 million on June 20 and moved there from its home in East Lampeter it had been leasing since 2015.

"I think the banquet is going to be emotional," said Jaime, who is eager to share the answer to a question he is often asked. "People say, 'Jaime, why do you do this?' Well, Jaime was a person who suffered trauma growing up as a child, and Jaime was a person who suffered from life-control issues and problems, and someone helped me get better. Someone helped me get where I am today. So for me, it's just paying forward, loving on someone, helping him heal and get better, just like someone did for me. You can't do life alone. You need help."

Jaime said he will also ask a question of his own. "Can we all work together to keep helping people, like Jaime or whoever their names are out there, and the wives, the children, the siblings, the parents, nephews and nieces connected to them that really want that loved one to get better?" he said.

Jaime and his wife, Pam, are often invited to RTCM graduates' celebrations. "Going to a wedding, to a baby shower, things like that, is a payday for us because they're doing life like they're supposed to. It's just amazing," he said.

Pam, who is RTCM's office manager, bookkeeper, and events director, is hoping for a full house. "I want to sell out," she said. "(The banquet hall) can only hold 450 people. I hope we sell that out. And I'm appealing to businesses, people who want to sponsor tables, to bring people to come, hear the graduates' stories and the success over the last 10 years. And to celebrate our new building."