Helping Our Communities
It is like they say, "We're all in this together." The GPLT board would like to thank all those first responders, medical personnel and supply chain workers who have been helping the rest of us as we navigate through this pandemic. We know that there are others of you who have been sharing your skills, time and financial resources to help out as well and we thank you.
Our board has been active in helping the communities we are a part of. As many of you, our board members have made donations to local food banks, supported local farmers in buying food grown locally and supported restaurants and business by ordering takeout or having deliveries made to our homes.
As the City Engineer for the City of Lawrenceville, board member Dennis Billew has been working to help keep the city services operating.
Our avid outdoors man, board member Dale Higdon, has actively continued his volunteer work at the Mill Creek Nature Center with maintenance and trash removal. There has been an increase in visitors to the nature area and a corresponding increase in trash left at the cans along the trail. He has also been removing some of the trees that recent storms toppled in areas that would be a problem for visitors.
Board member, Elmer Nash, is supporting his fellow worshipers by teaching an adult Bible study class online.
GPLT's newest board member, Terry Dempsey, has been involved with fund-raising efforts for two national charities - one healthcare and the other for wounded veterans & widowed families. He has also been working to piece together his depleted team for his local voting precinct.
GPLT Executive Director, Carol Hassell, and Board President, Rebecca Spitler, are using their sewing skills to make masks.
As the coronavirus pandemic exploded, Carol eagerly responded to a call from a local hospital for help in sewing masks to protect some of its healthcare workers. Just three weeks beforehand, an ER nurse there had saved her husband’s life, performing chest compression during a cardiac crisis. Since then Carol has continued sewing masks for other hospitals, doctors’ offices and friends and community members, particularly those in high risk categories.