Elizabethtown townlively.com
JANUARY 3, 2024
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXIV • NO 47
Don’t distract the dog! Service animal etiquette shared BY ANN MEAD ASH
Cost estimates approached half a million dollars for renovation and demolition required to make the building habitable, but Kime was able to work with volunteers to get much of the work done for free. The building has a long histor y in Elizabethtown, including serving as a hotel in the 1800s. In 1922, the Elizabethtown Moose Lodge voted to purchase the hotel, having
It started with a Facebook post that alerted readers as to what to do if approached by a lone dog in a service vest. The post advised following the dog because the canine’s person might be in trouble. While the advice seemed reasonable, suspicion of such posts alerted this feature writer to seek an opinion from the staff of United Disabilities Services (UDS) service dog program. Puppy coordinator Kristy Conrad confirmed that the advice is good. “If a service dog is separated from their person, that should be a reason for concern,” she stated. “If (the dog) turns around to take you, you should follow because the person could be in trouble,” added service dog program manager Lori Breece. These answers led to discussion of general service dog etiquette that respects the dog’s owner or handler - things we should all be aware of when we see a dog working in public. UDS service dogs wear colored vests to alert others to the dog’s working status. According to Conrad, UDS’ service dogs and service dogs in training wear red vests, while ambassador dogs wear blue and facility dogs wear purple. Often service dog vests are printed with words admonishing members of the public not to pet the dog or to ask before interacting. “It should be standard to ask the handler, ‘May I pet your dog?’”
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Jeff Kime displays photos of how the building looked inside before The Marriage Hub moved in.
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few weeks, the pandemic shut ever ything down. Once work could begin on the building, the cost of materials had skyrocketed. So, the nonprofit pivoted. “The good thing was more housing had opened up locally. More people opened their homes as Airbnbs during the pandemic, and a few new hotels opened, so we decided just to renovate the building and run our ministry out of it,” Kime stated.
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hey say God works in my s ter io u s way s , a nd that’s certainly true when it comes to T he E lizabeth, 18 N. Market St., Elizabethtown. When The Marriage Hub bought the building, the former home of the Elizabethtown Moose Lodge, the nonprofit’s leadership had specific plans for the space. “ We work with couples in
crisis at The Marriage Hub, and we offer three-day marriage retreats,” explained executive director Jeff Kime. “We had been struggling to find housing for our couples, who come from all over, so when we purchased this building, we planned to convert it into a boutique hotel with three floors of rooms, conference rooms and offices.” Their timing wasn’t perfect. It was early 2020, and within a
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