Since the late 1950s, when she graduated from college, Kathy Potier of Lancaster has spent many hours continuing her education.
She has been bolstering her intellectual wellness for decades by taking classes â even ones offered across the country and across the pond.
âIâve always been doing something to learn something new,â Potier, a resident of the Homestead Village retirement community, says. âAlways. I canât imagine why anyone would not want to do that. . Itâs fun.â
For many years, Potier, who turned 85 in January, has taken classes ranging from architecture to womenâs history through Quest for Learning. The program has been offering continuing education to Lancaster County seniors for more than four decades.
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It may have started off as a joke, but the $8,400 that Bret Levy and James Medina raised for Lancaster County Food Hub off of a workplace bet will have positive implications for needy families in the area.
Now the two Lancaster General Hospital emergency room doctors are trying to reach $10,000 on their Facebook fundraiser.
Levy and Medina were stunned when they raised nearly four times their initial goal of $350 in just six hours â all for a cause that began as a gag to have Levy cut his beard into a distinctive âmonkey tailâ design if they surpassed their fundraising target.