Showing Respect. Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, rallied her fanbase and the Nation every time she performed her signature song R E S P E C T. It had special meaning to her, as it does to Community Homes. Respect is one of our core values and the topic for this edition of Charlie’s…
Coal Miner’s Daughter selected as Community Homes April Resident of the Month. Dottie Readler was born in 1935 into a life of sharing and caring. She is child number 13 of 15 in the family of Coal Miner Freas and Ruth Smith, a busy household to say the least, in the small town of Wapwollopen,…
One Hundredth Birthday brings feelings of hope and joy. It was one of those “you had to be there” moments….a special gathering in the Community Room of Poplar Terrace, one of the six senior apartment buildings owned and operated by Community Homes of Lebanon County The occasion – One hundred-year-old Irene Wike, surrounded by friends…
Local First Responders introduced to Life Emergency Access File for senior residents Community Homes of Lebanon County, a local leader in providing safe, affordable housing for senior citizens. The Resident Services staff assist elderly and disabled residents living in their affordable housing communities to identify, locate, and acquire the services necessary to remain self-sufficient. The…
Compassion at the heart of all we do. We take a close look at another of our Core Values this time – Compassion. The Miriam Webster dictionary gives us a nice concise definition – “Compassion is the sympathetic consciousness of other’s distress together with a desire to alleviate it.” At Community Homes we are focused…
It often begins with Hope. I love the word hope. It is one of our Core Values. According to the Miriam-Webster dictionary, “Hope, in general definition, means a desire for things to change for the better, and to want that better situation very much.” In the case of Community Homes and its pursuit of increasing…
In our last Charlie’s Corner blog, we elaborated on one of our Core Values – Truth. This time we turn our attention to another of our Core Values – Responsibility. It is a good and important value, and at Community Homes we live up to our responsibility in several important ways. When a new resident…
Core Value Truth If you are at all familiar with Community Homes, you know our organization is driven by its core values, the root beliefs and behaviors that we operate from, in all aspects of our existence. We are guided by our carefully conceived core values – Truth, Responsibility, Hope, Respect, Compassion, Fairness, and Safety.…
Wenger Foundation supports Community Homes Campaign The Wenger Foundation was founded in 1996 with a mission to support religious, educational, and community services programs through corporate contributions from Wengers of Myerstown, as well as individual contributions, and fund solicitations for special events, most notably the Annual Praise Dinner. The Community Homes Capital Campaign is the…
With a welcome assist from two CVS pharmacists, Sitora Muhamedora and Kianna Sebrell, over 50 residents of Tulpehocken Terrace, Myerstown, plus Community Homes staff members Charlie Rush (CEO), Tammy Miller (Executive Administrative Assistant), Jane Keller (Director of Resident Services), and Charlotte McNamara (Site Administrator), received Covid-19 vaccine shots on Sunday, January 31st. Despite bad weather…
