2020 Silent Samaritan Program - 5

Kim Lemon
Emcee

Kim Lemon has been an integral part of
the award-winning News 8 team since 1979.
She currently anchors News 8 at 5 p.m. and
News 8 at 6 p.m.
She was born and raised in Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, and grew-up watching WGAL.
Kim graduated from Manheim Township
High School and attended the Kenya Science
Teachers' College in Nairobi. She earned a
B.S. in Speech Communications and Theatre
from Clarion University. Kim was named a
Distinguished Alumni of Manheim Township High School in 2000.
Kim was hired by WGAL in 1979 to replace television pioneer
Marijane Landis as the "Sunday Night Weather Girl." Nine months into
her career as a reporter, she was asked to audition as the co-host for PM
Magazine, a nationally syndicated show. She was hired, and as a young
woman, traveled the world as WGAL's first PM Magazine co-host.
In 1985, she moved full-time into the news department as the 6 p.m.
news anchor. She has been anchoring News 8 at 6 since 1985.
Kim was been awarded more than a dozen Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards,
including Outstanding Achievement as a Host, and numerous Associated
Press Awards.
The readers of Lancaster County Magazine have named her Best Local
News Anchor for the past 26 consecutive years.
Kim has served as an adjunct professor at Elizabethtown College in the
Department of Communications.
Kim works on year-long fundraising efforts for the Children's Miracle
Network and sponsors the Spirit of the Hummingbird Program award for
the Hershey Medical Center. She serves on the Board of Directors on the
National MS Society and Aaron's Acres. Kim also founded the Susquehanna Valley Lewy Body Dementia Support Group.
Kim has two grown girls. Her husband, John MacIver, was diagnosed
with early onset dementia. She is his caregiver and advocate.
Kim is an avid reader, cyclist and caretaker of a French Bulldog named
Ramy.
You can e-mail Kim at klemon@hearst.com.

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