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Lighthouse Mission opens at new site By Mandy Mahan mmahan@thepaperofwabash.com Lighthouse Mission Thrift Store opened at its new location on Monday, June 21 at 9 a.m. Customers lines up outside the doors waiting to explore the aisles. Lighthouse Mission Director, Jenny Ritzema told The Paper of Wabash County that it feels good to be open after a long process of moving locations. “We are so excited,” she said. “We are a little bit nervous this morning, but very excited. The community, already, has been donating so much stuff, so we have already been able to fill the store, and we still have tons of donations back there to keep filling so we are thrilled with that. “The process has been crazy, but that’s okay. We still have stuff in our other building, but we have a few weeks to kind of deal with with all that, so we are just thrilled to be down here and be open.” The new location will also house the FISH Food Pantry, 85 Hope Medical Center and Advantage Housing. “We were saying this morning how excited we are that this place will be such a better place to help the community because of our location, of course, and having the other agencies with us, and just that I think we will be seen more down here and I think people will realize, ‘Hey, that’s that place that could maybe help me,’ so I’m hoping that they will come in to be helped whether it’s clothes, or food, or whatever they need.” Lighthouse Mission is located at 123 West Canal Street and is open Monday- Lighthouse Mission workers check out the first customer at the new location on Monday, June 21. Photo by Mandy Mahan. Saturday from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
FUN AT THE LAGRO PARADE
SARAH ROE
Roann woman turned 101 May 7 By Mandy Mahan mmahan@thepaperofwabash.com
“I don’t feel like I’m that old,” said Sarah Roe, Roann resident who turned 101 years old on May 7. “I thought 80 would be a good age to live to. Every year, I think that will be it, but then another year comes.” Roe lives by herself at her home in Roann, with help from a home healthcare worker and her daughter who lives just down the road and is a call away, as well as her other daughter. Sarah was born and raised in Swayzee. As a girl, Sarah enjoyed climbing trees. “We had wild cherry trees and we figured out that we could peel the bark off and roll it up into a ball, it was that thin,” she said. “So, we’d sit up there and roll up a lot of balls.” She remembers the struggles of growing up in the Great Depression. Growing up on a farm, she said they weren’t hit as hard as other families, but that it was still hard to get
There were smiles galore Saturday afternoon from Lagro Good Old Day parade participants and viewers. Photos by Joseph Slacian
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