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Go Fund Me Page Started for Pocono Nursing Home

HAMILTON TOWNSHIP — A nursing home in the Poconos is trying to help some of its residents upgrade their TVs, using a fairly new online fundraising site. S...
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HAMILTON TOWNSHIP -- A nursing home in the Poconos is trying to help some of its residents upgrade their TVs, using a fairly new online fundraising site.

Some out of date televisions are creating a buzz at Pleasant Valley Manor in Snydersville. Right now, more than 150 residents who live there have the option of providing their own or borrowing something in need of an upgrade.

"People that do not have the funds to purchase one, we do have a number of TVs that have been donated over the years but most of those are the old style TVs," said resident accounts manager Jeff Rinker.

Dolores Klingel of Stroudsburg says when she moved in, her family helped her upgrade to this nice flat screen.

"That's mine, my son got it for me when I came here because there was a little 13 inch and I said I don't think I can watch that," said resident Dolores Klingel of Stroudsburg.

Julia Lack of Saylorsburg has one of the older box TVs and doesn't even turn it on.

Jeff Rinker, who is in charge of resident accounts at the nursing home, noticed more than half of the residents have this old TV problem and started a Go Fund Me page to raise about $5,000 for about 40 to 50 new TVs.

"I'd love it, at least I'd watch it, now I don't watch it," said Lack.

The folks at Pleasant Valley Manor say they got the idea to start the Go Fund Me account actually from some other people here in the Poconos who were going through some tough times.

"I thought about the Eric Frein lookalike gentleman here in the Poconos which they raised I believe $24,000 for a car for him, so I figured why not give it a shot for the residents," said Rinker.

These seniors say Go Fund Me isn't something they're too familiar with.

""I don't even know what they mean by online," said Lack.

But residents hope this new way of fundraising helps them get a much-needed upgrade.

"I hope it works, and that some people can get a new TV or maybe all of them," said resident Peter Wagner of Mount Pocono.

Click here to go to the Pleasant Valley Manor's Go Fund Me account.

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