the Sanctuary at Haafsville<\/a> fears will radically change how and if it survives.<\/p>\nFrom the affectionate, athletic, to those, recovering and ready to roam. In 16 years, The Sanctuary at Haafsville has rescued nearly 20,000 dogs and cats.<\/p>\n
“A lot of dogs I get from Act Philly,” said shelter manager Jayne Anne Bissell. Act Philly is a kill shelter, according to Bissell.<\/p>\n
Even on a gloomy day, the canine bright spot is easy to see.<\/p>\n
“This is vital,” said Bissell of its impact on getting dogs adopted.<\/p>\n
“We’ve been planting for the past 5 years, calm quiet, a lot of nature,” she described.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bissel says thousands of dogs a year, many highly reactive, are walked along the seven acres of trails.<\/p>\n
“They are going to go right along here,” she showed.<\/p>\n
Added traffic lanes, feet from the trail and a roundabout, biting well into their 7-acre Upper Macungie Township property.<\/p>\n
Part of PennDOT’s preliminary interchange plans at nearby Adams Road. A 500-million-dollar multi-phase I-78 project.<\/p>\n
As it stands now, Bissell says the impact would extend beyond the trail, and doesn’t think the sanctuary would survive as the impact extends beyond the trail.<\/p>\n
“Not only do we help that many animals a year, but it also helps a lot of our volunteers. A lot of people come here when they’re stressed out or maybe they’re having some mental health issues, and animals give people a place to unwind,” she explained.<\/p>\n
Bissel says human nor hound could unwind next to constant semi’s driving within feet.<\/p>\n
PennDOT says the plan isn’t set in stone.<\/p>\n
“Typically, if your property is directly impacted, meaning It’s going to have either a partial or full acquisition. You will have more involvement in the process,” said PennDOT’s Ron Young.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As for The Sanctuary, which has spent hundreds of thousands of donor dollars transforming the property, its future now appears on endangered ground.<\/p>\n
“If you’re shut down or greatly impacted, where does that leave shelter dogs?” 69 News reporter Bo Koltnow asked Bissell.<\/p>\n
“They are going to be out of luck,” she said.<\/p>\n
PennDOT says the timeline, if everything goes smooth, is set to start in 2030 and take five to six years to complete, while stressing plans can change.<\/p>\n
A public open house set at Fogelsville Elementary School will take place on Wednesday night, from 6 to 8.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Public comments will be taken through June 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPPER MACUNGIE TWP., Pa. – A long-time animal shelter in Lehigh County says its future is in question…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,433],"class_list":["post-185676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-lehigh-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}