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Elizabethtown townlively.com

JANUARY 5, 2022

SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954

VOL LXII • NO 47

Changing The World, One Horse - And One Human - At A Time BY CATHY MOLITORIS

In a pasture off Union School Road in Mount Joy, horses and humans are healing. Lone Oak Animal-Assisted Therapeutic and Educational Services provides equine therapy to people, while also helping horses that have been abused as they work on their recovery. The

organization is the vision of Heather Girvin, a lifelong horsewoman who is also a social services professional and associate professor at Millersville University. She started Lone Oak as a pilot program in 2020, confident that matching people who were hurting with rescued horses could have vast benefits for both the humans and the equines. See Changing pg 2

Tony Gibble (left) and Abby Huber are part of the driving force behind LIV-ETown.

Creating Community In E-Town for a Grinch meet-and-greet, live music, cookie decorating stations and more. All of the events organized by LIV-ETown are free to the community. Tony said LIV-ETown has been an opportunity to learn about individuals and businesses in the community who have special talents to share. W hen planning activities for October’s Second Friday, for example, he learned of a local “pirate family,” who are members of a pirate league, and he enlisted them to help with a pirate-themed Octoberfest event. That same family came in clutch when the person GEARS had recruited to play Santa fell ill and couldn’t greet children at a December event. It turned out one of the pirates moonlighted as Santa. That organic community support is just what LIV-ETown is all about, Tony said.

Coming off a successful 5K at Millersville University in November, Katie Sandoe, executive director of Girls on the Run (GOTR) Lancaster, and Jen West, program director, are excited about the 2022 season. “We are looking ahead to spring,” said West. “We are excited to be back to a 10-week season in person.”

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Therapist Abbie Wilson (left) and Lone Oak founder Heather Girvin with horses Naya (far left) and Sammie

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“Local Interactive Vitality” is the mission of LIV-ETown, a community organization focused on enhancing Elizabethtown with events and activities. LIV-ETown formed in May of 2021 as the brainchild of Tony and Clint Gibble, owners of The Tatted Toy Guys and The Candy Unicornium. “Clint and I came up with the concept of LIV-ETown initially as a way to give back to the community, but it has really evolved since then,” Tony said. Soon after the group was formed, Abby Huber came on board. Her business, Charlamay’s Trinkets and Treasures, and another local business, Frugal Finds, along with community members Amy McEvoy and Heather Watts, make up the core of the group. But Tony is quick to point out that LIV-ETown is for everyone.

“We’re spearheading events, and anyone can build off of them,” he stated. “This is meant to be something for everyone to participate in, from businesses to community members.” One of the first initiatives of the group was to focus on Second Friday in town. LIV-ETown started a monthly scavenger hunt at local businesses. Abby noted that the scavenger hunt adds an interactive component to Second Friday, one of the goals of LIV-ETown. “It’s a way to encourage the community to become part of the night,” she remarked. “People love that this is something to do with their family downtown.” LIV-ETown held a strawberry social in July, collected food for Christmas boxes and organized Merry Grinchmas E-Town in December. The latter event drew an estimated 3,000 people downtown

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