Garden Spot /townlively
JANUARY 27, 2021
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LVII • NO 6
HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS IN THIS ISSUE!
Recovery Minded: The Potter’s House Of Ruth BY ANN MEAD ASH
Members of the board of trustees of the New Holland Area Historical Society who accepted the donation of a rare chevron door from a local barn include (from left) Don Horning, Scott Martin, and Wilbur Horning.
Rare Chevron Door Donated To Historical Society “I am into barns,” said Lloyd Ziegler, a member of the Pennsylvania Historic Farm Structures organization. “(Members) go around documenting all these old barns because when they’re gone, they’re gone,” added Ziegler. Because of his interest in barns, Ziegler was excited to discover a chevron house door, which had been recycled as a granary entry door in the bank barn of the Zimmerman or Old Wallace Plantation along Route 322 in East Earl. Ziegler sent a photo of the door, which has been donated by the barn’s present owner to the New Holland Area Historical Society, to his friend Greg Huber, an architectural barn historian and author of “The Historic Barns of Southeastern
Pennsylvania: Architecture & Preservation, Built 1750 - 1900.” Huber, who lives in Macungie, wrote back that the chevron door is rare because these doors are only found in southeastern Pennsylvania, and they were only utilized in 18th-century buildings. Huber noted a few examples of these doors, including one at Fort Zeller in Lebanon County, one at the Keim homestead near Oley Valley, and one at the Moravian Gemeinhaus in Bethlehem. He noted that a few others are in existence as well. During a tour of the barn in late August 2020, Ziegler stated that he knew the house that accompanied the barn was built in 1766, but he was not sure that the barn was built the same year. “I have never seen (a barn) where you step up into the granary,” he said. “(Farmers) would
See Recovery Minded pg 2
Angie Jakubowski became the women’s ministry director at The Potter’s House of Ruth Addiction Recovery and Discipleship Ministry in March.
bring grain in here and store it up (at a higher level) to dry, and then they would bring it down here to thresh it,” added Ziegler, who noted that the barn was of unusual design. “There were basic plans, but everybody adapted,” said Ziegler, pointing out logs that were used as beams. “You don’t see that in many barns, but this barn was adapted for tobacco.” Visiting the barn brought back memories for Wilbur Horning, vice chairman of the board of trustees of the New Holland Area Historical Society. “As a younger person, I helped to put tobacco away. That was not a fun job,” said Horning. Ziegler said that the stone farmhouse that fronts Route 322 and was once part of the barn property was originally owned by the Wallace family and was at one time a center
Tiffany Strouse of Reinholds has received funds for supplies for her cochlear implant thanks to a grant from the Travelers Protective Association of America (TPA) Hearing Trust. TPA was founded in 1890 as a fraternal benefit society for traveling salesmen. According to Albert Shoemaker, TPA’s chief administrative officer and head of the Hearing Trust located in St. Charles, Mo., the trust was created in 1975 to
See Chevron Door pg 4
See TPA Grant pg 2
TPA Grant Aids Local Woman BY ANN MEAD ASH
INSIDE THIS ISSUE Business Directory . . . . . .2 Hometown Heroes: GSFR Chief Darryl Keiser . . . . . . . . . . .3 Virtual Class: In-Person Project . . . . . . .7 Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 House Of Worship . . . . . .11 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . .12
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BY ANN MEAD ASH
Angie Jakubowski, women’s ministry director with The Potter’s House of Ruth Addiction Recovery and Discipleship Ministry, is comfortable talking about her background - her childhood in Wormleysburg, her degrees from Elizabethtown College, and the intervention organizations she founded - but Angie’s face lights up when she is asked about the ministry she began leading in March. “ We can house seven students, and we accepted our first student in July,” said Angie. “We are a four-phase program, and everything is Christ-centered and biblically based,” she added, noting that the first two phases are structured and focused on recovery, including biblical 12-step meetings and curriculum.
Angie holds a bachelors degree in addictions and behavioral counseling and a master’s degree in strategic leadership. She has served as a family interventionist with Restorative Interventions, which she founded in New Cumberland. She was also a mobile crisis counselor for Schuylkill County and with Lebanon Youth Advocacy, and she worked for Teen Challenge.