Morgantown/Honey Brook townlively.com
JANUARY 22, 2025
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXXII • NO 51
Local student wins Fosters open hearts, homes Chester County art contest to adoptable pets BY FRANCINE FULTON
BY FRANCINE FULTON
See Local student pg 5
Anna Zerbe (front, left) is congratulated by Chester County Sheriff Kevin D. Dykes (back, left). Anna was accompanied to the sheriff’s office by her sister, Elizabeth (front, right), and her parents, Jonathan and Jennifer Zerbe.
Boone Area Library announces new programming BY FRANCINE FULTON
While Boone Area Library in Birdsboro offers story time for children, activities for teenagers, book clubs and special events like Teen Movie Night, it has now added a new offering for adults, called Coffee and Conversations. The group meets on the second Friday of each month from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. The first session of the new program, led by Amber Hamel,
the library’s youth program coordinator, was held on Jan. 10. She noted that each gathering will feature coffee and snacks, as well as an activity and a time for discussion. “Each one will be different,” she said. “Next month we will do collaging, and I have us signed up for an AI speaker who will talk about AI technology. We are also signed up to go bird watching in French Creek State Park in April.” See Boone Area Library pg 4
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“I
think it has been an amazing experience for me and the kids,” said K r i s t i n I n m a n o f E l ve rs on when describing her experience fostering cats for the Animal Rescue League of Berks County (ARL). “It is a great learning experience, a great way to find empathy and lear n how to care for something. It fills our hearts.” As part of the ARL foster program, individuals and families provide a temporary home for rescued animals until the cats or dogs can find their forever homes. The foster program not only frees up space at the shelter, but also provides individualized care to animals in need. “Come summer and spring, the shelters are so crowded a n d a re o ve r f l o w i n g ( w i t h adoptable animals). It is not an ideal environment for animals. If you have it in your heart to foster, it is great for any animal who gets to be in a foster home Josie (left), Kristin (center) and Garrett Inman and their “foster fail,” over a shelter,” Inman said, Fiddler adding that fostering is also a way to determine if the family is ready for a pet. “If you think you might want an animal - a cat or dog - fostering is way to learn if you are really up for the responsibility.” Inman and her two children, Garrett and Josie, are currently fostering Tiny, an 11-year-old cat that was brought to the ARL when her owner was no longer able to care for her. “She is considered a senior cat, but I think cats, especially indoor cats, can live 18 to 20 years,” Inman noted. “A lot of people want kittens, so it is hard for older cats to get adopted.” She said that Tiny would make Tiny, currently in foster care with the Inman family of Elverson, is
winner of a student art competition presented by the Chester Anna Zerbe, a third-grader at County Sheriff’s Office. As part the Honey Brook Elementary of the contest, themed “Law Center, was recently named the Enforcement in the Community,”