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Winter homeless shelter Room in the Inn has opened its seasonal doors at 1113 Woodland Drive in Elizabethtown.

The shelter offers meals, shelter, and support for those in need.

“Room in the Inn is a homeless shelter open to anyone that can follow the rules from December 1, 2024, to February 28, 2025,” said Radcliff Council Member Terry Owens during the most recent Radcliff City Council meeting. “The night shelter’s open seven days a week and is run by all volunteers like yourself, like myself because I’m there.”

Multiple opportunities are available for anybody interested in volunteering their time to the shelter.

“If you like to cook, you like to sing, you have time to spend a social hour with someone, that is the thing to do,” Owens said. “There’s no heavy commitment. You can do it one time. You can do it for two hours. You can do it for 30 minutes. You may like to play board games. You want to talk with them before they go down for the night at 10.”

For more information, or to find the link to apply to volunteer, visit the Room in the Inn Hardin County KY Facebook page.

Area factories are teaming up to carry on one of Quicksie and The Wolf’s favorite traditions as the 33rd-annual Quicksie Toy Factory rolls out next week.

“We ask local factories to put up a box in their break room or somewhere in the factory and ask them to ask their employees to bring in new toys and put them in the box, and then we come in on Quicksie Toy Factory Day and we stop by all the factories and pick up all the toys, and we take them to Helping Hand of Hope and they distribute them for Christmas for less fortunate children,” said Quicksie Marketing Executive, and long-time Quicksie Toy Factory organizer, Jennifer Meyers. 

If you don’t work at one of the participating factories but would still like to participate, the more the merrier.

“They can drop off their new toys here at the station at 233 West Dixie Avenue, Elizabethtown, Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., and the deadline is Tuesday at 9 a.m.,” Meyers said.

Meyers will accompany the toy sled, provided by Coleman Allied, as it goes to make its collections next week.

“We have 11 factories participating this year,” Meyers said. “We have actually three new factories that have never participated before, so that’s exciting and it’s growing.”

Contact Quicksie and The Wolf for more information.

Hardin County Government is advising county employees to take precautionary measures after a data breach was detected.

According to the county’s IT department, the county learned in September that a county employee’s email was being used to send unauthorized spam emails. The county’s investigation found that the email had been accessed in July and was periodically accessed between August 1 and September 26. The contents of the mailbox were found to have been downloaded during that time.

According to a release from the IT department, the county determined data accessed in the breach includes employee names, addresses, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, dates of birth, and information related to healthcare and insurance coverage. The county has notified all employees believed to have been included in the emails along with appropriate state and federal agencies.

The county is urging potentially impacted individuals to take precautionary steps to protect their personal information including monitoring account statements and credit reports. Any suspicious activity should be reported immediately to the county’s toll-free assistance line. More information on the breach and resources available for impacted employees can be found on the county’s website.