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An aerial view of the hospital, photo courtesy of Larry Oberly In today’s column, Mr. Scott The Allentown Osteopathic Haff, great-grandson of Dr. Hospital was aware of Haff’s Charles Haff, this writer and Lar- problems and made a proposal to ry Oberly look back to the sad Haff and the community to conclosing of the Haff Hospital. tinue the operation of the hospiThe year is 1960. After much tal. study, Dr. Haff had concerns Dr. Haff offered to sell the hosabout the future of the hospital. pital to Northampton. Anthony One morning, a group of officials Billera, George Schisler and Stanfrom the state welfare department ley Smith co-chaired a committee came to inspect the hospital. The to raise funds. After much discushospital had to make major reno- sion, Allentown Osteopathic purvations to conform with the new chased the hospital for $250,000. state standards. Since this was a On Jan. 31, 1962, Allentown private hospital, Dr. Haff did not Osteopathic assumed ownerhave the financial resources to ship and changed the name to make the improvements. Northampton Medical Center. Dr. Haff did not want to see Dr. Haff opened a new office Northampton lose the hospital, Continued on page 2 but could the hospital survive?
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Sharon Williams celebrates her 80th Birthday with a ‘pet’ parade of 82 pups By SAVANNAH BROWN On Sunday, October 15, local East Allen Township resident Sharon Williams celebrated her 80th birthday at the Monocacy Dog Park by petting a whopping 82 pups that came to see her. Pooches of all sizes lined the walkway leading to the dog park with their pawrents in tow, patiently waiting for their chance to meet Sharon. Sharon’s daughter Krista Saunders conveyed that her mom has been battling Alzheimer’s disease and that the last five years have been tough. However, one thing that Sharon will never forget is her love for animals, which is why Krista decided that a “pet” parade would be the perfect present. About a year ago, Krista saw the idea on Facebook and immediately thought of her mom.
Sharon Williams and her daughter Krista Saunders “I thought it was such a sweet idea and absolutely had to do this for my mom because one of the things that brings her the
most joy is dogs, so I thought it would be perfect!” Krista shared. Continued on page 6
Lehigh Township Supervisors discuss 2024 Budget and capital improvement plans By SAVANNAH BROWN The Lehigh Township Board of Supervisors met Tuesday, October 10 with discussions regarding the 2024 budget, capital improvement plans, planning related items, payments for the maintenance building, and ordinance amendments. First, Township Manager Alice Rehrig provided a breakdown of the biggest adjustments to the 2024 budget and capital improvement plans. Due to big ticket items for the police department such as police vehicles and office costs, Police
Chief Scott Fogel has requested to alternate between the two costs and split them in half to allow funds for each. Since the Public Works Department is also in need of some large pieces of equipment that are quite costly, another adjustment Rehrig suggested was to rent equipment instead of purchasing new when the current equipment such as the paver and roller reach the end of their service life due to dramatically rising costs. Additionally, to offset estimated costs being higher in some years, Rehrig plans to try to level
the capital improvement plans to allocate the funds more evenly throughout upcoming annual budgets. Vice Chairman Cynthia Miller also asked about the capital improvement plan for recreation Continued on page 4
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