Columbia/Hellam/Wrightsville
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MAY 18, 2022
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXIII • NO 13
Feline Fine In Columbia BY CATHY MOLITORIS
hen Tammy Jalbert became executive director of the Columbia Animal Shelter in 2019, she had a five-year plan. It included expanding the shelter’s low-cost wellness clinic and hiring a full-time vet. It didn’t take that long to reach her goals. “Even with the pandemic, we were able to achieve this in fewer than five years,” said Jalbert, noting that the organization recently hired Dr. Lindsay McMenemy as a full-time veterinarian. “The local community not only needs this, but there’s a nationwide basic need for low-cost vet services.” Jalbert noted that across the country, there is a shortage of qualified veterinarians. “We are so lucky to have found Lindsay and to be working with her,” she said. “If we can offer low-cost services, we can meet our goal of keeping pets in people’s homes. So many people are facing challenges with paying for vet care and pet care and everything their pets need.”
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McMenemy was hired in March, and her arrival allowed the clinic to expand from just a few days a month of services to full-time care. “We are not a hospital, but we can do minor sick visits, minor surgeries like spay or neuter and give vaccines,” Jalbert noted. With the new veterinarian, the shelter - currently home to 70 cats and a handful of dogs - is expanding its humane education initiatives as well, having partnered with the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine’s Shelter Medicine Program. “Our goal is to get into local schools and teach (students) things like pet responsibility, the importance of spaying and neutering, dogbite prevention and things like that,” Jalbert said, noting that she also hopes to bring school groups in for tours of the shelter. The shelter has also set up a book nook at Columbia Public Library and will host a reading program at the library in August to further spread its message of responsible pet ownership. See Feline pg 5
5K Will Benefit Cemetery
BY CATHY MOLITORIS
Many people find success by thinking bigger. For Jim Flowers, it’s all about thinking smaller. Flowers, who lives in Marietta, has been creating scale replicas of the façades of local buildings for the past few years. He typically works in a scale of one inch to one foot and completes the façades in painstaking detail, including bricks, shingles, stones and shutters. Beginning in 1995, Jim operated Flowers in the Kitchen, an Elizabethtown-based restaurant, with See Details pg 2
On Saturday, May 28, you can take in a sweeping view of Columbia, get some exercise and raise money for a local nonprofit at the same time. The Friends of Mount Bethel Cemetery will hold the Mount Bethel Cemetery Memorial 5K, with registration beginning at 7:30 a.m. in the gym of Columbia High School, 901 Ironville Pike. The race will kick off at 8:30 a.m. The event is named as a nod to the holiday it precedes as well as to memorialize those interred at the cemetery, where gravesites date to Charles Leader tests the course he designed for the Mount Bethel Cemetery Memorial 5K.
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Lindsay McMenemy (left) and Tammy Jalbert, holding Albert and Remy, respectively
