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JUNE 17-23, 2021
Paw Prints on the Canal Gets tails wagging
By KERI LINDENMUTH After a hiatus in 2020, Paw Prints on the Canal made its much-anticipated return to Canal Park on June 13. Hundreds of dogs and their humans packed the park to browse vendors, meet fellow rescues, and strut their stuff in the Sharp Dressed Pet Contest. The popular event has grown tremendously over the past 12 years. It started with only 35 vendors, but has since increased to over 170. Attendees came from across the Lehigh Valley and the East Coast, with some coming
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East Allen Township Receives $520,000 in Funding from American Rescue Plan
from as far south as South Carolina. “It was good to be back!” said Candi Lynn, organizer of the event. She praised her fellow volunteers, dubbed Team Paw Prints, for their dedication and commitment to ensuring everyone had a good time. She also thanked the fire police, fire department, and police department for their help. As always, the stars of the event were the many rescue animals who were given second chances thanks to local shelters and volunteers.
By KERI LINDENMUTH East Allen Township supervisors are exploring ways they can give over $520,000 in federal funding back to local taxpayers. In round two of the American Rescue Plan, the township received $520,938 as a stimulus payment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Township manager Brent Green said this funding is more than the amount the township received during the first round of stimulus payments. East Allen will receive half of the funding later this month and the remaining some time in 2022. However, it can only be allocated toward specific uses. Infrastructure projects, for example, said Green, are very limited. However, Supervisor Roger Unangst has one use he hopes the federal government will allow: a tax credit. “This is supposed to be helping our residents,” he told supervisors during their meeting on June 9. It was the residents of the township who struggled during the past year, he said: losing jobs, working from home, homeschooling children, and falling ill. He would like to see this money go back to them in some way. Green said he is exploring the
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Looking by Back Ed Pany Kohl-a-daal series Part 2
This street sign recognizes Heinrich Kohl, a farmer and soldier during the Revolutionary War. Photo courtesy of Larry Oberly. Today, we are visiting the Hein- Rosbrugh, who would serve as rich Kohl farm on Indian Trail chaplain for the militia. The Road, one mile north of Kreider- early militia men were Scotchsville. The year is 1775. There is Irish from the Craig settlement much concern in the Kohl farm - named Hayes, Horner, Boyd, house! Slowly, the dark clouds of Clyde, Lattimore and Brown. war covered the colonies when Soon many German farmers the first shots of the American would join the militia. The most Revolution were fired. How will notable was John Siegfried, who it affect the Kohl family, Hein- would become a close friend rich, Christina and their seven Continued on page 3 children? Local militias were being orga80th Year, Issue No. 24 nized. One of the first units was organized in the Craig Scotch- www.homenewspa.com Irish settlement near Weaversville, which became Allen Township, now East Allen Township. A meeting was held in the Presbyterian church, by the Rev. John
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