Elizabethtown Inside This Week’s townlively.com
AUGUST 21, 2024
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXV • NO 28
Find resources and information at the 55 & Up Expo BY CATHY MOLITORIS
When state Rep. Tom Jones hosts the 55 & Up Expo on Tuesday, Sept. 10, he wants it to be an opportunity for people
to explore state-related services, programs and resources available in the community. The free expo will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. at Hope Community Church, 1806 Harrisburg Ave., Mount Joy. See Expo pg 2
Kevin Schafer (left), Dixie Kaley (center) and Jim Gibble in the one-room schoolhouse of the Elizabethtown Historical Society with a donation from the Rotary Club of Elizabethtown
Work continues on renovating historical society building
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lizabethtown Historical Society recently issued an SOS - and the community responded. The “SOS” in question refers to the Save Our Little Red Schoolhouse preservation campaign launched by the historical society last fall. It’s part of a five-year, $100,000 capital campaign to renovate and update the building at 57 S. Poplar St., which features a one-room schoolhouse that dates to 1860. “The community response to this fundraiser was incredible,” said Dixie Kaley, historical society curator. “We started fundraising
in October, and by Christmastime, I had all the money for the schoolhouse project. I was shocked at the generosity.” The schoolhouse portion of the capital campaign includes replacing all of the original windows in the structure and installing all new shutters as well as replacing a boot on the roof and repairing wall damage caused by rain. Althoug h K aley hoped to repair the existing windows, the frames were so deteriorated, they couldn’t be saved. Instead, the society installed windows that look like the original four-pane style as well as shutters that were reproduced and handmade to
look like the original shutters. The work was completed by Jim Gibble of Creekside Construction in Manheim, and it was financially supported by a variety of individual donors, including Barry and Barbara Shaw and Yvonne Kauffman. Members of the Rotary Club of Elizabethtown also presented the historical society with a check for $5,000 toward the renovations. Rotarian Kevin Schafer picked up a fundraising flyer about the schoolhouse project at a local business in Elizabethtown and pitched the donation idea to the club. “ They have so much good
Wrapping women in love BY CATHY MOLITORIS
As a nurse practitioner in the cancer unit of a local hospital, Bainbridge resident Kimberly Dodson saw firsthand how the disease affected families beyond their health. “As I took care of patients, they would say things like, ‘I can’t afford my chemo. I have to decide, do I take my chemo or do I pay for food for my kids?’ They had to made decisions that they should not have to make,” Dodson recalled. Inspired to help, Dodson formed the Teal Blanket Fund,
a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that raises money to help women with gynecological cancer. T he nonprofit formed in March of 2020 after Dodson and other volunteers organized a bingo in 2019 to raise money for patients. The event was so well-received that the group decided to create a formal organization and host regular fundraisers. The nonprofit’s name comes from the color associated with fighting ovarian cancer, teal, and the goal of the organization. “One of our patients said, See Love pg 8
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State Rep. Tom Jones (second from right) with representatives from Susquehanna Service Dogs at last year’s Senior Expo