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The Home News Meals on Wheels to host Mayors for Meals Day
Meals On Wheels of Northampton County has announced that it will hold Mayors For Meals Day as a part of its March for Meals campaign. Mayors Desiree DeNicola of Nazareth, Luke Duignan of Tatamy, Thomas Reenock of Northampton and Donald Wunderler of Bath will participate in the event to show their support for the community’s homebound and hungry seniors. Meals On Wheels of
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Northampton County’s Mayors For Meals Day event on Wednesday, March 20th, will start at 9:45 a.m. and will include: a tour of the Meals On Wheels facility at 4240 Fritch Drive in Bethlehem; Mayors helping to put together cold bag dinners and delivering meals to seniors in our community. “We are excited about having the Mayors participate in Continued on page 7
Bath Borough Council passes Parking law over questioning By BILL HALBFOERSTER The Home News
Questions were raised over what is included and what was excluded, and then Bath Borough Council on Monday night approved the new parking ordinance that amends the zoning ordinance. Its purpose, said members of Council, is to promote present and incoming small businesses. Asked what prompted the ordinance in the first place, Council president Robert Fields said no one prompted it. Council just wants to provide parking for small businesses. Jared Heckman said if they are concerned about creating parking, he doesn’t see
anything resolved. On 2-hour parking signs, Councilwoman Jennifer George said if they are violated by people parking 24 hours, the borough should be called about the situation. Councilwoman Carol Bear-Heckman said Council is looking at ways to enforce the limit more, noting that Colonial Regional Police issue many parking tickets, but they have other issues with which to deal. Another comment was that they want more parking that is workable. “Ten years ago there was a plan. What happened to that?” one person asked. Council has been working on the content of the ordinance and gone over
it at least five times, Solicitor Blake Marles said. Fields said he sees at least six parking spaces available on Main St. every day. He added that in the past there were businesses all long Main St. and people found parking space. Nowadays, people don’t want to walk, they want to park in front of the business. Roger Rehrig had issues with how the ordinance is written and how it affected his properties at Northampton & Walnut Sts. and on S. Walnut St. He also came up with different scenarios on what businesses there may Continued on page 15
Students collect record number of pennies for patients By Alice Wanamaker The Home News
For the fifth year in a row the students at Northampton’s Borough Elementary school collected pennies for patients of Leukemia and Lymphoma and once again broke the previous year’s record. The penny drive ran from January 14 to February 4 at the school with students dropping their pennies in buckets placed around the building. The students, faculty and staff at the school all participated in the Student Council organized event and raised $6,731.83 for the LeuBATH LIONS Kyle Grube and Melissa Brown were among the club members who had a drive for the Bath Area Food Bank on Friday and Saturday at Ahart’s Market in Bath. With the public’s generosity, $345 was received, along with more than 400 lbs. of non-perishable food. (Story on Page 7.) – Home News photo
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by Pam Leiche from the LLS, School Board member Jean Rundle and Mayor Reenock in congratulating the students. Leiche left the students with a message of hope, “Pennies will lead to dollars, dollars will lead to cures,” she said after accepting the check from Student Council members. Within the school a competition was held between grades to see who could collect the most. While it was close, first grade took home that honor and won a pizza party by collecting $1,125.44 just $6.20 more than kindergarten.
kemia and Lymphoma Society. They topped last year’s collection of $6,513 and brought the five year total donation to $26,095.09. Student Council advisor Gary Pierzga helped the students organize the penny drive. In his presentation he thanked borough police Chief Ron Morey who helped move the pennies from the school to the bank. He also thanked the KNBT staff who counted all of the pennies. “We kept them pretty busy,” he said of both groups. Pierzga was joined
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