Wellness Center aims to keep pets and people together - Reading Eagle

Wellness Center aims to keep pets and people together - Reading Eagle

| The Wellness Center for Pets & Their People established a "mobile pet pantry" with this van to bring more supplies to food pantries in Berks and lower Schuykill counties.

Thursday January 11, 2018 12:01 AM

For about four years, Laurie Rhodes and 10 other volunteers have been a presence at food pantries throughout lower Schuylkill and Berks counties, bringing contributions of food and clothing for people in need, and for their pets.

Rhodes, 57, is a professional pet sitter and founder of the Wellness Center for Pets & Their People. The nonprofit in Strausstown aims to keep pets and struggling people