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Emerging Businesses Overcome Obstacles Operating a business is a strenuous venture in the best of circumstances, and with the current economic climate, local entrepreneurs are being strained and stretched even more. But that has not stopped some tenacious Lancaster County residents from pushing forward with new or expanding businesses. LaundrE-town on Market in Elizabethtown is one such emerging endeavor. After more than a year of renovation and progress, the fully renovated, modern laundromat was slated for an April 1 grand opening, but state mandated closures
postponed the final stages of completion. The essential business eventually opened successfully on May 1. “ We started construction sometime around September of 2019 and faced many challenges,” explained company president Gretchen Rothstein. “Fast forward to March 20 when the stay-at-home order began, we were just about at completion.” Boasting 10 front load washers, including two extra-capacity units, 10 gas-powered dryers, complimentary Wi-Fi, a television, and change and vending machines, the startup hopes to meet a need for downtown Elizabethtown in a fresh, state-of-the-art facility.
LaundrE-town on Market, shown before (top photo) and after (bottom photo) extensive renovations to its location, postponed its opening from April 1 to May 1.
Preventing Scams In The Time Of Coronavirus Tests, treatments, and cures for the novel coronavirus are advertised online and even by text or phone call, but those products may only leave buyers with less money and no good outcomes. “Fraudsters prey on public fears during times like these,” said Master Trooper Kelly Osborne, community service and public information officer with Troop J - Lancaster of the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP). She added that scammers often target seniors, and worry about contracting COVID-19 may cause people to make decisions they would not make in other circumstances. Osborne noted that recent scams that have surfaced involve the economic stimulus, claims about products marketed as coronavirus treatments, or the promise of services related to the virus in an attempt to distract someone in order to commit theft or another property crime. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has published a long list of frauds that have sprung up around COVID-19 and
good strategies for avoiding them at www.justice.gov/coronavirus/combattingfraud. “Families can help (loved ones) see that the scammers are there en force and that coronavirus is now a new trigger to alarm potential scam targets,” Osborne said. “Warn them to get any information about ‘medical breakthroughs’ from either
Pennsylvania State Police Master Trooper Kelly Osborne has provided information about how to avoid scams related to COVID-19.
See Preventing Scams pg 10
future. Such offerings may include a “wash, dry, and fold service.” See Businesses pg 2
Tied House, which was slated to open in May on East Main Street in Lititz, has adjusted its plans and will consider opening with a limited to-go menu.
COBYS Celebrates 40 Years Of Service way to do them.” One of the video appearances was made by When COBYS Family Services held its 40th Glen Faus of Manheim, who served as director of anniversary banquet celebration at Middle Creek COBYS from 1980 to 2001. Faus was in the audiChurch of the Brethren on March 12, most of the ence at the event. Also honored at the banquet presentations were made by video. “We didn’t do were Dennis and Ann Saylor of Manheim, who, as that because of COVID-19,” said Anne Stokes, resource parents for COBYS, have provided foster director of development for COBYS, who was the care for 116 children over more than three program’s master of ceremonies with executive decades. Stokes noted that the large gathering director Mark Cunningham. “It was just an easier included close to 600 meals at two separate seatings. “We do a meal at noon and the same thing in the evening,” said Stokes. COBYS was founded in 1980 by the Atlantic Northeast District of the Church of the Brethren, with one caseworker and one executive director placing teenagers in foster homes. In its 40-year history, the organization has served more than COBYS Family Services celebrated 40 years in the Lancaster 60,000 people in a variety of setarea at a banquet on March 12. The numbers being held up tings. Recalling that in the past represent the more than 60,000 unique points of service By Ann Mead Ash
COBYS has provided over four decades to children, adults, and families in the area.
See COBYS pg 3
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