A Pottstown area doctor traveled to Belize with a group of nursing students and staff from Cedar Crest College to provide needed care to impoverished residents.

Dr. Sandra Leh, assistant professor of nursing at Cedar Crest, said the trip was meant to develop awareness to alternative health care delivery. Students went door-to-door looking for those who were in need of medical treatment and set up makeshift clinics to provide services.

The team treated about 150 people and provided much needed medicine to the communities they visited. For a full story on the effort, check out WFMZ's report.

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The King Buffet in the Wal-Mart shopping center has reopened. The restaurant had to close in late April after a pickup smashed through the front windows and into the serving area, injuring about 16 adults and children.

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The Friends of Conrad Weiser Homestead a hoping a draft management plan will take them one step closer to administering the historic buildings at the site.

The homestead's funding was cut this year by the Pa. Historical and Museum Commission which is suffering under a strained budget. The homestead was one of six sites that will have its visitor services reduced once the new state budget is passed.

The grounds at the Heidelberg site will remain open to the public and maintained by the state under the current plan, but the buildings will be closed and the artifacts housed there likely moved.

The homestead's friends association want to pay a part-time custodial guide that would keep the buildings open to the public part-time but is waiting on approval from the Historical and Museum Commission. The group presented its draft management agreement to the state commission July 23.