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SELLERSVILLEÂ â It will be about a year before anyone can move into the yet-to-be-built Sellersville Senior Apartments, but there s already a list of people interested in moving into the three-story, 50-unit affordable rental building for persons 55 and older.lle There ll be more applicants than there are apartments because there s a great need for affordable housing, Dan McKee, president and CEO of Grace Inspired Ministries, said following a ceremonial groundbreaking June 22.
Grace Inspired Ministries was formed in 2017 through the affiliation of the Lutheran Community at Telford and The Community at Rockhill. Sellersville Senior Apartments, which is being done with development partner LNWA (Leon N. Weiner Associates), will be a separate residential living campus under the Grace Inspired Ministries umbrella, McKee said.
Grace Inspired Ministries Announces Groundbreaking Plans for Affordable Housing Aimed at Seniors
Sellersville Senior Apartments will bring much needed affordable and supportive housing to the area.
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TELFORD, Pa., April 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Grace Inspired Ministries (GIM), along with development partner LNWA (Leon N. Weiner Associates, Inc.), announce plans for the formal groundbreaking this spring for Sellersville Senior Apartments. This new venture is an affordable rental community, comprised of 50 apartments, eight of which will be dedicated as supportive housing. The Residences will be built to the highest energy efficiency standards utilizing the Department of Energy Zero Energy Ready program.
With each mention of his Army hero brother Kenny’s name, the corners of Denny Worman’s mouth turn up and a twinkle settles in his eyes. Round-faced, barrel-chested, and with butcher-thick hands, he softens with each mention of his older brother by two years.
Now age 71, Denny stands outside their childhood home at 133 S. Main St., in South Perkasie, remembering days as a sunny as the current one, days before that dark day in May 1967, when he returned home from school to see a pastor and military personnel at his home delivering a family the worst news. He looks toward the large yard beside the house and remembers the football games he and Kenny played with neighborhood friends for, as he recalled, “the championship of the world.” He lifts the bill of his Penn State baseball cap, looks at the house, and remembers when he and Kenny were in high school in the mid-1960s and their parents went on vacation for two weeks.
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It s still a bit chilly today, but, again, it will be quite sunny. Expect the high to hit about 46 degrees. A warm-up starts Tuesday.
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