Press And Journal 07/27/2016

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Mayor wants to cut council to 7 members With 2 openings, Curry says it’s perfect time to stop using ward system, increase efficiency

By Dan Miller

Press And Journal Staff

Middletown Night Out keeps getting bigger as it aims to unite community

By Eric Wise

Press And Journal Staff

Residents will come together from 6 to 9 p.m. Aug. 2 for Middletown Night Out, an annual event that has blossomed in recent years as it attracts larger and larger crowds to celebrate community unity while encouraging a strong rapport between neighbors and police.

Middletown’s celebration at Hoffer Park joins the town with more than 16,000 communities in the United States that hold a National Night Out, an event that began in 1981 to allow the community to meet local police officers.

All events are free. This year will feature bouncy houses and slides, facepainting, a clown on stilts and pony rides for kids.

The Hershey’s Kissmobile will be on site, handing out candy.

Other sponsors offering displays will include Zoo America, the Air National Guard and pet therapy providers. The Middletown Hummelstown Railroad, a short walk from Hoffer Park, will offer free rides.

Community groups Rux will offer a variety of performances and displays, including local Boy Scouts, local Girl Scouts, Capital Area Extreme Cheerleading (formerly Raider Extreme) and Sharon’s School of Dance.

The highlight of Middletown Night Out for many attendees is the free food sponsored by the community’s restaurants, businesses and organizations.

This year, Alfred’s Victorian and the Brownstone Cafe will both offer signature soups during the Night Out. The American Legion will serve more than 1,000 hamburgers and hot dogs, Prince Edwin’s Spring Creek Lodge will serve barbecue sliders and fries.

Middletown’s police patrolman Gary Rux said he has more than 60 volunteers lined up, not including all the people attending on behalf of sponsoring organizations, local churches and businesses.

Bigger and bigger

Rux has expanded the Middletown event to include more activities and to feature other emergency responders. This year includes Lower Swatara Police, Penn State Harrisburg Campus Police, Pennsylvania State Police and the Dauphin County sheriff.

“I had a different vision,” said Rux, who took over the event from patrolman Mark Please See NIGHT, Page A8

Middletown Mayor James H. Curry III wants to act now to reduce the size of council from nine to seven as well as get rid of the wards in favor of at-large representation.

But he may not have the votes, based upon a poll of current councilors.

Curry said if the reduction is done now, then council would not have to fill two seats that are vacant. Councilor Robert Louer Sr. resigned effective July 1, creating a vacancy for the First Ward. Council on July 19 accepted the resignation of Ed Shull, meaning it has to fill a seat for the Third Ward.

To Curry, the two open seats mean it is the perfect time to reduce the size

of council from nine to seven, as this would mean no current councilors would lose their seats. Curry said the council is too large for a town the size of Middletown, with 8,900 residents.

He said the system of requiring that three people on council be elected to represent each of the three wards is outdated. In a time when people have cellphones, email and Facebook, you no longer need to have someone living in your own neighborhood to represent you, the mayor contends.

At-large councilors would serve the entire borough without restrictions on where they live.

Support is scattered

But the seven-member council is split on the issue. Council President Ben

Kapenstein told the Press And Journal he agrees with Curry and is in favor of reducing the size of council and getting rid of the wards now — a change that council can make at any time by passing an ordinance.

The change is supported by Council Vice President Damon Suglia and by First Ward Councilor Dawn Knull.

However, three other councilors — Anne Einhorn, Diana McGlone and Ian Reddinger — oppose making the change now, although all three say the idea is worth further study.

Reddinger said he favors the idea, but wants more input to see how his residents from the Second Ward feel.

“If most of the Second Ward said no, Please See MAYOR, Page A8

4 interview to fill seat that could be eliminated Borough Council publicly interviewed four residents from Middletown’s First Ward who are interested in replacing Robert Louer Sr. on July 19.

Council is expected to pick one of the applicants to fill the vacant seat during council’s next meeting Aug. 3 — unless council moves forward with a proposal by Mayor James H. Curry III to reduce the size of council (see related article).

Six First Ward residents applied, and four were interviewed July 19: Richard Jefferies, Rachelle Reid, David Scully, and Cathy Winter. Tom Strohm and Sean Vaccarino were unable to attend.

Council also set the timetable for filling a second empty seat — the one representing the Third Ward vacated by the resignation of Ed Shull. Council accepted Shull’s resignation July 19.

Interested Third Ward residents have until Aug. 1 to apply to the borough to fill Shull's seat. Council plans to fill the seat during its Aug. 16 meeting.

— Dan Miller

NEW ACTOR FOR ELKS

Tattered Flag owners want to partner and reopen theater

By Dan Miller

Press And Journal Staff

Tattered Flag — the partnership converting the Elks Building in downtown Middletown into a combined brewery/distillery/ brew pub — now also wants to partner with the nonprofit group Friends of the Elks Theatre to reopen the theater, which has been closed since April 2015.

That announcement came from Mike Dalton with the Friends group during a meeting held by Middletown Borough Council in the MCSO Building on Thursday, July 21, to get input from residents on what they want done with the theater.

What came through loud and clear is that residents want the Elks Theatre reopened, not just as a theater but as a multifunctioning venue that would also host concerts, comedians, plays and the like.

No one spoke in support of Press And Journal Photo by Dan Miller Councilor Ian Reddinger’s proMiddletown residents look around the Elks Theatre on Thursday night during a tour of the structure as posal that the borough sell the part of a meeting to get public input on its future.

Elks Theatre to the Friends group for $1 — an idea that the Friends remains how to make that happen. the Elks Theatre that emerged during the meeting group says it is not interested in pursuing.

Estimates of how much money will be needed to — although no one came forward with any big Reddinger also previously suggested the best reopen the theater now range from the $370,000 oversized checks or presented a definitive plan future use of the theater would be to be converted proposal submitted to the borough by the Friends for how the money would be raised. into luxury condominiums or retail stores by of the Elks group, to new estimates running close Tattered Flag has received a $1.5 million loan private investors. No one spoke in support of to $1.3 million that were presented to council from the borough toward the brewery/distillery/ that idea either. during Thursday night’s meeting. brew pub, including $400,000 to purchase all of About 40 residents attended the meeting, which The Friends of the Elks proposal is actually the Elks Building from the borough except for started with a brief tour of the theater which is more like $500,000, when the cost of redoing the Elks Theatre. The remaining $1.1 million is just down the block from the MCSO on West restrooms is added in. Friends of the Elks has going toward converting the Elks Building space Emaus Street. proposed operating the theater and leasing it into the combined brewery/distillery/brew pub.

Several speakers noted that the Elks Theatre is from the borough for 10 years. The group says the second oldest continuously operating movie the borough should continue to own the theater.

‘Out of the blue’ theater in the United States, and for that reason The Friends group is looking to the borough to The offer from Tattered Flag to enter into a partalone should be preserved as a theater. invest the money to reopen the theater, although nership came “out of the blue” within 24 hours the group has pledged to assist with fundraising of the theater meeting taking place, said Dalton. and seeking grants.

How can it be done?

Members of the Tattered Flag partnership could Tattered Flag partnering with the Friends group So with the question of what people want to see Please See ELKS, Page A4 done with the theater apparently settled, the issue was one of several new possibilities for reopening

Route 230/Swatara Creek bridge project won’t be finished until 2017, PennDOT says

By Eric Wise

Press And Journal Staff

The reconstruction of the bridge that carries Route 230 over Swatara Creek from Middletown into Londonderry Township will take longer than expected, PennDOT officials have said.

“The Route 230 bridge project over the Swatara Creek will not wrap up in October as originally scheduled,” said Greg Penny, PennDOT spokesman. “It is likely to run into at least late spring of next year.”

Construction crews began demolition for the first phase of the project late in 2015, closing the 75-year-old

bridge’s eastbound and pedestrian lanes.

The crumbling decking and rusted girders were removed and replaced on the eastbound lanes. A 2015 inspection of the old bridge rated both the decking and substructure of the bridge as 4 of 10, or “poor,” indicating a structurally deficient bridge.

The project was first delayed by having the bridge beams fabricated and delivered, Penny said.

“It could be that there is so much bridge work going on, that the fabricators are having trouble keeping up with demand and making their deliveries on time,” he said.

Additional delays occurred in tech-

nical aspects of project, concerning “tolerance issues with the beams and issues with the proposed deck grades,” Penny said.

Construction has proceeded to where the concrete for the bridge decking was poured July 20, Penny said. The concrete must cure and PennDOT must complete the moving of underground utility lines before construction moves to Phase 2.

At that point, demolition will begin at the end of August or beginning of September of the westbound lanes on the remaining old section Press And Journal Photo by Eric Wise of the bridge.

“Swatara Creek Road will remain The reconstruction of the bridge that carries Route 230 over Swatara Creek from closed until the bridge is restored to Middletown into Londonderry Township won’t be completed until next spring, two lanes next year,” Penny said. according to PennDOT.

Quick

NEWS Daytime burglaries hit Lower Swatara Twp.

By Eric Wise

Press And Journal Staff

Police have in custody a person of interest who might have been involved with recent daytime burglaries in Lower Swatara Township.

Those incidents could be related to similar crimes in Lower Paxton Township.

Someone entered Ramos a home in the 700 block of Fulling Mill Road sometime between 10:30 a.m. and 10:30 p.m. Sunday, July 24. The front door was forced open, the door frame was cracked and the home was ransacked. A laptop computer, a trumpet and a chest containing a record collection were stolen, said Robert Appleby, Lower Swatara Township police detective. On Wednesday, July 20, someone entered a home in the 700 block of Balls Lane, off North Union Street a little more than a mile away. They entered through an open door and took an Xbox One game system, controller and game.

Appleby said it’s too early to know whether the burglaries are related, but Lower Swatara is interested in speaking to Manuel Alexis Ramos, who faces charges for 40 burglaries dating to 2013.

Lower Paxton Township police reported that Ramos was charged with six burglaries from July 15 to 22 in the township. He turned himself in July 25 and is being held on $200,000 bail in Dauphin County Prison.

Appleby reminded residents to be vigilant about keeping doors and windows locked, and to report unusual activity.

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Londonderry Township sewer deal could speed two developments, but cost residents thousands

By Eric Wise

Press And Journal Staff

Londonderry Township officials are closing in on an agreement with Suez to bring public sewer to Route 230, which would allow movement on two developments that could more than double the township’s housing.

It also could mean many residents will be required to connect to new utility lines and spend thousands in doing so.

“We are working out details to Suez providing sewer service,” said Steve Letavic, township manager. He hopes that this agreement will be ready for consideration by the township supervisors by October.

The township’s Act 537 Plan, for present and future wastewater treatment filed with the state Department of Environmental Protection, calls for public sewer lines along Route 230. “(Londonderry’s) Act 537 plan calls

for mandatory connection to any home located within 150 feet of a public sewer line,” Letavic said.

Existing homes will pay $5,000 to $6,000 in a tap-in fee to connect to the new sewer lines, township engineers have estimated. Homeowners would also pay to disconnect onlot sewage disposal and to connect to the sewer mains, costs that may vary greatly depending on the nature of the property itself.

“Water will be coming from Pan American Water to serve Lytle and along Route 230,” Letavic said. “That 16-inch water line will be ready and available by the end of the year,” he said.

The township would not require any mandatory connections to the public water lines under current township ordinances, he said. When the water line is brought along Route 230, the township will work with the Londonderry Fire Company to ensure

hydrants are installed to provide adequate protection for properties adjacent to the road.

These utilities could breathe new life into plans to develop the 1,600-home Lytle Farms traditional neighborhood development and the 900-home School Heights Village. Public sewer and water lines from Route 230 also eventually will connect to Londonderry Elementary School, Letavic said.

“The developments cannot go forward without utility services,” Letavic said. Developers first proposed Lytle Farms and School Heights Village in 2009.

The addition of 2,500 homes and as many as 7,500 new residents will change the face of the township, which now has about 5,200 residents, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

The township’s current 2,060 households are about 25 percent mobile homes and nearly 75 percent singlefamily homes, with a small minority

of multifamily homes like duplexes, townhouses and apartments, according to the same source.

While Suez, the sewer and water utility for Middletown, will provide public sewerage treatment for a sizable portion of the township, Derry Township Municipal Authority will provide sewage treatment services to the old Londonderry Estates development located off Steinruck Road. The township’s Act 537 plan prioritizes Londonderry Estates as the first area to receive public sewer. Many Londonderry Estates homes — about 25 percent of the 46 homes — have failing onlot sewage treatment, township officials estimated in 2015.

Derry Township Municipal Authority currently provides sewage treatment to 13 Londonderry Township properties.

George Desmond, developer for the Lytle Farms project, did not respond to requests for comment.

Turnpike tolls to rise 6 percent in ’17 The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission approved July 19 a six percent toll increase for both E-ZPass and cash customers.

The increase is set to take effect at 12:01 a.m. Jan. 8, 2017.

As a result of the measure, the most common toll for a passenger vehicle will increase next year from $1.16 to $1.23 for E-ZPass customers and from $1.80 to $1.95 for cash customers.

The most common toll for a Class-5 vehicle — a prevalent tractor-trailer class — will increase from $9.59 to $10.17 for E-ZPass and from $13.60 to $14.45 for cash.

PTC Chairman Sean Logan said this toll increase — like other annual increases since 2009 — is necessary to pay back the borrowing required to meet the PTC’s funding obligations: rebuilding and widening the Pennsylvania Turnpike system and providing funding to the commonwealth to support public transportation.

“Last fall, the PA Turnpike observed our 75th anniversary; while that is a great accolade, it means that parts of our system have outlived their design life and are in dire need of replacement,” he said in a press release.

“Revenues from this increase will fund a newly approved, 10-year spending plan which invests more than $5.77 billion in our system in the coming decade — a large part of which will

support ongoing total reconstruction and widening projects.”

Commissioners also ordered a systemwide reassessment of all turnpike improvement projects in both the design and construction phases to confirm that the best decisions are being made on capital expenditures.

Logan said that the commission has been pondering such a measure for some time.

According to the press release, the PTC continues to focus on cost-cutting measures to mitigate future increases.

It implemented a strategic plan with renewed emphasis on controlling operating-expense growth; it has held the line on operating costs; and it has reduced headcount by 8 percent in the last decade — and by 20 percent in the fare-collection department in the same time because of E-ZPass usage.

Logan asked executive staff to evaluate the need for a hiring freeze during the current fiscal year.

“While we will continue to mitigate toll increases through boosted efficiencies, we have no option but to increase tolls annually moving ahead,” said Turnpike CEO Mark Compton. “Right now, traffic and revenue predictions estimate increases of up to 6 percent per year will be necessary until 2044.”

During the last nine years, the PTC has provided $5.2 billion to PennDOT, of which $2.25 billion has supported

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As a result of a transportation law enacted in 2013, the turnpike commission’s funding obligation to PennDOT will drop from $450 million a year to $50 million a year beginning in Fiscal Year 2023, according to the press release.

More than 77 percent of transactions on the 552-mile Pennsylvania Turnpike are paid via E-ZPass. The Pennsylvania Turnpike manages 1.7 million E-ZPass accounts with 2.7 million PTC-issued transponders in circulation.

Motorists can buy E-ZPass at www.paturnpike.com or by calling 1-877-PENN-PASS. The E-ZPass GoPak is offered at nearly 500 retailers, including most Pennsylvania AAA offices and at stores in these chains: Acme, Giant Eagle and GetGo, GIANT Food Stores, Karns Quality Foods, Kuhn’s Markets, Martin’s Food Markets, Walmart, Wegmans in central and eastern Pennsylvania and Sunoco A-Plus stores at turnpike service plazas.

It costs $38 to open an E-ZPass autoreplenishment account using a credit/ debit card; the cost includes a $35 toll balance plus a $3 annual service fee.

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A meeting will be held sometime in August between Dauphin County, Middletown and Lower Swatara Township regarding a possible regional police effort involving the two municipalities.

The meeting was announced toward the end of the July 20 public meeting of the Lower Swatara Township board of commissioners by Tom Mehaffie, board president.

“The county wants to sit down and talk with us and Middletown about regionalization,” Mehaffie said. He emphasized that no decisions would be made during the meeting. “They just want to sit down and talk.”

Middletown Mayor James H. Curry III told the Press And Journal he knows of the meeting and plans to attend, although he said that to his knowledge no date had been set.

A study done for county commissioners in 2015 concluded that municipalities throughout Dauphin County — including Middletown and Lower Swatara — would save money by regionalizing police services.

However, commissioners have said that the municipalities must decide for themselves whether to combine police services and that this will not be imposed upon them by the county.

Like Mehaffie, Curry cautioned that no decisions will be made at the August meeting. The county is involved because it has studied the issue, he said.

The previous borough council under President Chris McNamara tried to hold discussions with Lower Swatara toward combining police services, but nothing solid emerged from the effort.

Curry attended public meetings that the county held in 2015 to unveil results of the study, but the mayor said the upcoming meeting would be the first time he sits down with representatives of Lower Swatara or any other municipality to discuss the issue.

Police manpower is a continuing challenge in Middletown, the mayor said.

“My only goal is the safety of the residents,” Curry said. “If I can increase the police presence and save borough residents tax money then that is something I would strongly consider.”

It also makes sense to meet now, as both Lower Swatara and Middletown are in the early stages of putting together their respective general fund budgets for 2017, the mayor noted.

But he’s also aware that regionalizing police is a hot-button issue over which people have strong feelings.

“People should not be getting up in arms about this” just because the two municipalities want to sit down and talk, Curry said.

Efforts to nail down the county’s involvement in the meeting were directed to Commissioner Mike Pries, co-chairman along with District Attorney Ed Marsico of a committee that the county has established regarding police regionalization.

Pries did not respond personally. Instead, the Press And Journal received an email from county spokeswoman Amy Richards that reads: “At the request of local officials, a discussion between Middletown and Lower Swatara

Foundation will raise funds for school programs The school board has appointed a board of trustees of a new nonprofit foundation to help raise funds to support Middletown Area School District programs.

Officers of the new Middletown Area Blue Raider Foundation are Joseph S. Swartz, president; John Ponnett, vice president; Earl Bright III, treasurer; Joette Swartz, secretary; and Linda Mehaffie, executive director.

Other trustees are Lee Bloes, Brian Keating, Adrianne Kihm, Earl Bright IV, Zach Matinchek, Mike Corradi, Mel Fager, David Franklin, Lori Suski, Matt Tunnell and Reggie Williams.

Representing district teachers will be Linda Eppley, Justin Smith and Stacey Miller. Hayli Akakpo-Martin and Aiden Sessa are student representatives.

Suski, the district superintendent, is an ex-officio non-voting member. The student representatives are also non-voting.

The school board decided to create the foundation this year to support programs that do not get funded through the traditional budget process, which is supported mostly through local tax dollars. It is in the process of obtaining legal status as a nonprofit organization.

The foundation will be independent and legally separate from the school district and the school board, Suski said.

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Consolidation talks return

Mehaffie, along with commissioners Jon Wilt, Michael Davies, Lady Springer and Todd Truntz, had previously denied reports that Middletown was preparing a proposal to provide police services for the township in May. The Press And Journal confirmed that two borough employees worked on the proposal, at least until the proposal became public knowledge.

“Jon Wilt contacted the borough to get a proposal specifically for contract for police services in Lower Swatara,” said Richard Brandt, former police chief in Lower Swatara Township. “I spoke to the borough employees who worked on the proposal.”

Prior to the link to Middletown, Lower Swatara confirmed talks with Swatara Township, according to Mehaffie and former Commissioner Nick DiFrancesco.

Patrolman Steve Sassani retired in the summer of 2015, and the township did not act to replace him, despite having money in the budget to replace him, Brandt said.

“We were ready to hire someone immediately to replace Steve,” said Brandt, who retired July 1 as Lower Swatara police chief. “Mehaffie did not want to replace him.”

“Swatara already had the package put together,” Brandt said. “It was nearly a done deal by the fall of 2015, but they never took into account how badly we are paid.”

Brandt said that on paper, initial savings would have been about $200,000.

However, an escalation clause might have erased that the following year. In addition, the legal costs of wrangling through two disparate police association contracts to merge Lower Swatara into the larger force in Swatara Township would cut into the savings.

Officers affected

The treatment of the police and the stress it has created have taken a toll on Lower Swatara officers, Brandt said.

“This is the lowest I have seen (morale) in the entire 28 years I was with the department, thanks to the situation the commissioners have created for the entire township,” Brandt said.

Since Sassani retired, Officers Justin Dinger and Joseph Smith, who had been two of five officers hired in 2012, both left the department for other jobs.

The township was down three patrolmen from last year and knew they were losing Brandt to retirement when the commissioners decided to move forward with hiring two new officers in May, after five months of public questions at every public meeting.

The vacancies and injuries to two officers created a need for overtime, and Detective Ryan Gartland has been ordered to return to patrol.

Brandt said the department was fortunate due to the timing of the officers’ injuries because Jon Miller, school resource officer, was available for patrol shifts during the summer months.

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Borough Police Chief John Bey said he knew nothing about the meeting.

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Obituaries

In Memory of John Novak

John Novak, 92, of Lititz, Pa., passed away on Thursday, July 21, 2016.

He was the son of the late John Novak Sr. and Hilda Mae Lesser Novak.

Mr. Novak is survived by his three daughters, Marie, wife of Terry Ebersole of Lancaster, Pa., Clare Novak of Chester Springs, Pa., and Jackie Stouffer of Tampa, Fla., as well as two grandchildren, Dr. Kristie Berkstresser, wife of Kyle Berkstresser, and Adam Ebersole, all of Lancaster, Pa. He was preceded in death by Rita Shrader Novak, his wife, who passed away in 2005, as well as his sisters, Janice, and LeAnn Novak Yaworski (Steve Yaworski Baker, Fla).

John was born April 15, 1924 in Freeland, Pa., served in the Army Air Corp during World War II as a hydraulics specialist and aircraft mechanic, attaining the rank of Staff Sergeant. He continued his career working at the Olmsted Air Force Base in Middletown, Pa. and then at the Defense General Supply in Richmond, Va. John extended his love of aircraft as an avid hobbyist: building, collecting and flying model airplanes competitively. His extensive interests included railroads, photography, fishing, history and reading.

Mr. Novak will be laid to rest at Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, Annville, Pa. on Wednesday, July 27, 2016 at 11:30 a.m. Those wishing

to attend please meet at the funeral home on Lititz Pike by 10:15 a.m. to process to the cemetery. The best memorial is to choose a fine day with a light breeze and remember, “It’s a good day for flying.”

In lieu of flowers please support Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, 1700 Hawk Mountain Rd., Kempton, PA 19529, or Disabled Veterans at donate. dvnf.org.

Arrangements by Charles F. Snyder Jr. Funeral Home & Crematory, Lititz.

To send an online condolence, please visit SnyderFuneralHome.com.

Ruth Wagner Ruth K. Brinser Wagner, 101, formerly from Lancaster, has spent the last 20+ years as a resident of Frey Village Retirement Community in Middletown. She has been welcomed home by the Lord on Friday, July 22, 2016.

Ruth was born on 06-05-1915 to the late Josiah and Mary (King) Brinser in rural Middletown and married her adoring husband John “Fred” Wagner, also born in Middletown, who has been patiently waiting for her to join him since 1996.

She spent much of her life as a shoe clerk at Garvin’s Department Store in Lancaster, and her whole life loving and spoiling her nieces and nephews and all their children.

In addition to her parents and husband, she is preceded in death by five siblings.

Ruth is survived by three nieces, Dolly Messick Baum, wife of Clair of Elizabethtown, Patricia Rudy Miller, wife of Paul of Harrisburg, and Donna Kaylor Moore, wife of William of Elizabethtown; and one nephew Jay E. Epler and his wife Wilma of Middletown. In addition, Ruth has 12 grandnieces and nephews, 19 greatgrandnieces and nephews, and nine great-great-grandnieces and nephews.

She and “Fred” were devoted members of the Trinity E. C. Church of Lancaster until moving to Frey Village in the 1990s. She will be missed by a former longtime neighbor who loved her as “Wag,” and many, many other people whose lives she has touched on her journey through life.

A tribute to Ruth’s life will be held

on Thursday, July 28, 2016 at 11 a.m. at the Matinchek Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Inc., 260 East Main St., Middletown, PA 17057, with the Rev. Donald Walters officiating. There will be a viewing from 10 a.m. until the hour of the service on Thursday.

Interment will be at Hillsdale Cemetery, Middletown.

Condolences may be sent online to www.matinchekfuneralhome.com.

From The Middletown Journal Files

Glenn Deighton Jr.

Glenn “Butch” H. Deighton Jr. was born on August 23, 1947 to Glenn H. Deighton Sr. and Geraldine G. Krotser in Pennsylvania. Glenn was formerly from Royalton. He passed away peacefully on July 6, 2016 at the age of 68 in Ogden, Utah surrounded by his loving children, grandchildren, and many friends.

He graduated from M.S. Hershey Jr.-Sr. High School in 1965 with certification in Machine Shop. He was enlisted in the United States Army from 1968 to 1970.

He was preceded in death by both his parents of Layton, Utah.

He is survived by his sister Judith (Tom) Oxenford of Royalton; niece Lucy (Tony) Kepp, and nephew Gib Morrissey, all of Pennsylvania; daughters Lorrie (Randy) Palmer, Krista (Chris) Hill, and Rashell Deighton, all of Utah; sons Jeremy Deighton, and Chris (Cameo) Deighton, both of Utah, and Anthony Deighton of Colorado. Butch is also survived by nine grandchildren and four and a half

great-grandchildren, not to mention all these kids you’ve adopted along your life journey, who will have the best guardian angel ever.

A private celebration of life for close family and friends was held on July 16, 2016.

Beatrice Myers

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Beatrice Mary Myers, 94, of Middletown, passed away on Friday, July 15, 2016, at Frey Village.

Born in Okehampton, Devon, England, she was the daughter of the late J. T. Perry Oliver and Murial (Treleaven) Oliver. She was married over 40 years to George N. Myers who died in 2002.

While in England, Mary worked as a legal secretary for over 20 years.

She cherished her family and friends, and lived a good life. She loved the Lord and was a member of the First Church of God in Middletown, the Middletown Women’s Club, and the British Wives Association.

In addition to her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by her siblings, Thomas Peter Oliver and Muriel Jean Eyer.

Mary is survived by her nephews, Peter and John Eyer, and a niece Susan Gardner.

A funeral service was held on Thursday, July 21, 2016 at 11 a.m. at the First Church of God, 245 West High St., Middletown, PA 17057. Viewing was from 9:30 a.m. until the time of the service.

Interment was in Middletown Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the church.

Arrangements are entrusted to Fager-Finkenbinder Funeral Home & Crematory, Inc., Middletown.

Memories and condolences may be shared at www.fager-finkenbinder. com.

Sandra Chortanoff, 71, of Harrisburg, entered into eternal rest on Thursday, July 21, 2016, at Arden Courts Memory Care Community, Harrisburg.

She was born on April 13, 1945 on the West Side of Steelton and was the loving daughter of the late Kiril Chortanoff and Victoria (Myers) Miller.

Sandra was a 1963 graduate of Central Dauphin High School. She retired from Nationwide Insurance Co. as a claims adjuster from 1965-2005.

Some of her activities she enjoyed included, Cat of Nine Tales Book Club, Nationwide Old Timers Club, and C.H.U.M.S 55+ of Harrisburg.

In addition to her parents, Sandra was preceded in death by a sister, Donna (Vogt) Simpson and a brother, Robert Vogt.

Sandra was survived by three brothers, Karl Chortanoff Jr. and his wife Theresa of Rutherford, Anthony Chortanoff and his wife Betsy of Steelton, and John Chortanoff of Rutherford; sister, Debra Hoerner and her husband Brian of Rutherford; several nieces, nephews and cousins; and many great and great-great-nieces and nephews.

A tribute to Sandra’s life was held on Tuesday, July 26, 2016 at 2 p.m. at Matinchek Funeral Home and Cremations Services, Inc., 260 East Main St., Middletown, PA 17057, with the Rev. Richard Creamer officiating. There was a visitation from 1 p.m. until the hour of the service on Tuesday.

Online condolences can be sent to www.matinchekfuneralhome.com.

Cynthia Neil

Edward Craig On July 25, 2016, Edward E. Craig joined his loving wife, Judith Craig of over 50 years, in eternal bliss.

He was born on July 13, 1941 in Carlisle to the late Edward Craig and the late Virginia Long.

Edward and Judith were high school sweethearts who went on to have two children, the light of his eye, a daughter, Terri L. Ellison, and a son who shared a special birthday with him, Edward E. Craig Jr., both of his children who are still in Middletown.

Over the years his family continued to grow to a daughter-in-law, Jill Craig, four grandchildren, Jennifer L. Heisey (spouse: Douglas Heisey), Rodney L. Craig, Heather M. Ellison, Amanda J. Ellison, and three great-grandchildren.

He not only leaves his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, he is also survived by a brother Robert Craig and his wife Gail of Lewisberry, a sister Vicki Eshleman of Halifax, and lots of nieces and nephews. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by a sister, Phyllis Craig.

He retired from the maintenance department of the Patriot News after 37 ½ years. Edward was a member of the Lower Swatara Twp. Fire Co., a member of the Dauphin County Fire Police Association, PA Fire Police Association, and was a Captain and Lieutenant of the Middletown Fire Police. He enjoyed his retirement by going back to work making coffee and socializing at Turkey Hill for 10 years.

He was an active congressional member of the Royalton United Methodist Church. He graduated from William Penn High School.

He was a man who lived and loved, especially breakfast. He was always on the go and would’ve given anyone the shirt off his back if they needed it. He will be greatly missed by more

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than just his family, but his community.

A tribute to Edward’s life will be held on Saturday, July 30, 2016 at 10:30 a.m. at the Matinchek Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Inc., 260 East Main St., Middletown, PA 17057, with the Rev. Richard Creamer and Rev. Willie Carabalo, co-officiating.

There will be a viewing from 8:30 a.m. until the hour of the service at the funeral home.

Interment will be at Woodlawn Memorial Gardens, Harrisburg.

Memorial contributions may be made in his name to Carolyn Croxton Slane Hospice Residence, 1701 Linglestown Rd., Harrisburg, PA 17110.

Condolences may be sent online at www.matinchekfuneralhome.com.

Cynthia “Cyndi” Neil, as she was known to her many friends and family, 73, of Hummelstown, entered into rest on Thursday, July 21, 2016, at home.

A short memorial service was held for Cyndi on Monday, July 25, 2016 at 11 a.m. at the Matinchek Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Middletown, Pa., with the Rev. John Shiery officiating. There was a visitation from 10 a.m. until the hour of the service on Monday.

In lieu of flowers and per Cyndi’s wishes, memorial donations may be made to the Humane Society or ASPCA of your choice.

For full obituary and to send condolences please visit www.matinchekfuneralhome.com.

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23 YEARS AGO - Tomatoes Anyone? – After this summer job, both Brian Flower and Matt Lanza will be dreaming of killer tomatoes. With over 100 half-bushel baskets on their first picking at the Red Hill Farm of Ernest Retherford, it’s bound to be a bountiful year for the red fruit.

The boys will return to Elizabethtown Area High School as juniors after their summer harvest, but not until the cucumbers, zucchini, corn and watermelon find their way to market.

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With the Steelton row home fire two weeks ago, affecting 24 local families, and the floods in the Midwest this summer, touching thousands of people half a country away, those questions have been on the sympathizing lips of many who can’t bear to imagine what they’d do.

Fortunately, the Red Cross makes a point of sympathizing and doing, aiding victims of fires and floods while teaching others to help themselves.

“We offer support, emotional as well as other, concrete help,” reports Annette Floyd, executive director of the 76-year-old Middletown Chapter of the American Red Cross.

The best place to start is at the beginning, so the Red Cross volunteers tackle a disaster step by step, she notes.

“We’re notified and the dispatch team is on the scene as immediately as possible,” Floyd says, explaining that Middletown’s newly trained 16-member disaster team is on call 24 hours.

Similarly, the Lancaster County Chapter works with a larger disaster action team that is divided into zones, according to Jennifer Brown, manager of public affairs and financial development. Like in Middletown, the disaster team members are dispatched by the fire chief. Fires are the most prevalent disaster handled by the Lancaster Chapter, Brown explains.

On the scene, Red Cross personnel interview people involved to find out what they need and begin working on the big items while remembering the little things. For example, “comfort kits,” personal care packages with toothbrushes, razors and so forth, are distributed immediately while arrangements are made for housing and meals if necessary.

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“The corn is really putting out now,” proclaimed Jeannie Retherford of Red Hill Farms on Route 441 in Londonderry Township. “It’s doing really well this year and the tomatoes are just coming in.”

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The Retherfords usually begin planting in May, staggering crops throughout the season and finishing cabbage and pumpkins in October. Although June was rather dry in our area, there was plenty of spring rain to nurture germinating plants, Retherford said.

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not attend the meeting, and details of the proposed arrangement were not presented.

But Dalton said Tattered Flag is interested in “teaming up” with Friends of the Elks to “co-operate” the theater. Tattered Flag is looking to the theater as a venue for live concerts and entertainment that could be done in conjunction with the brewery/distillery operation next door, Dalton said.

He read a statement from Tattered Flag partner Ben Ramsey saying that A.P. Williams, a construction company, could go through the theater and provide “the true costs” of what it will take to reopen the theater as a multifunctioning entertainment venue. A.P. Williams is the company doing the renovations in the rest of the Elks Building for the Tattered Flag project.

Another of the Tattered Flag partners, Pat Devlin, afterward told the Press And Journal that it would be “mutually beneficial” for Tattered Flag and Friends of the Elks to work together.

What happens to the theater “absolutely” impacts Tattered Flag, he said.

“That building is attached to us. If it goes unused for PUBLIC NOTICES

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Lower Swatara Township Zoning Hearing Board will hold a Public Hearing at the request of the property owner Sovran Acquisition LTP for a variance from the provisions of the Lower Swatara Township Code of Ordinances, as amended, as follows: a variance from Chapter 27 Zoning, Part 10. Industrial Park District (I-P) § 27-1005.4(A) – Setback Requirements, §27-1005.6 – Internal Building Setback Requirements, §27-1005.9.A (2) & (3) – Landscaping Requirements, §27-1005.9.B – Landscaping Requirements and §27-1006.A. (1) – Off-Street Parking Requirements. The subject property is located at 3271 Fulling Mill Road, Middletown, PA 17057, Tax Parcel No. 36-007-010. The property is located in the Industrial Park (I-P) District.

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long periods of time and ends up causing a problem for our building, that’s an issue obviously,” Devlin added. “We just want to see something good happen to it, however we can help and however we can be involved.”

But no decisions can be made until A.P. Williams does a walk through and can nail down “the real cost” of what it would take to reopen the theater, Devlin said.

Ex-operator speaks

Council also heard a presentation from Jonathan Crist, an attorney living in Conewago Township who operated the Elks Theatre from February 1986 to October 2005.

Crist read about council holding the theater meeting, and reached out to Council President Ben Kapenstein, who invited Crist to submit a proposal.Crist offered to lease the theater from the borough and operate it, if the theater can be property restored. He estimated the job at $1.26 million, with construction costs totaling $840,000 and the rest for engineering and equipment.

Crist and a partner own two downtown movie theaters in Pennsylvania; one the Roxy Theatre in Northampton near Allentown, and the Grand Theatre in East Greenville in Montgomery County.

Contrary to the view expressed a few weeks ago by Reddinger, a single-screen movie theater is still viable in today’s economy, Crist told the Press And Journal in a phone interview after the meeting. The key is booking films that suit your audience.

“We’re doing it in both places,” he said, referring to the Roxy and to the Grand Theatre. “We are running ‘Finding Dory’ three bucks a head in Northampton.

We will put 6,000 people through there in a week.”

Crist said he’s not interested in buying the Elks Theatre and he’s not in a position to help the borough come up with the nearly $1.3 million to reopen the theater.

Getting the money

Grants are out there to cover most if not all the cost, but it could take years to come up with the money unless the borough is fortunate enough to get one grant to pay for the whole thing.

As for justifying tax dol-

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lars, money spent to reopen the Elks Theatre should be viewed in the context of a broader strategy.

“It’s never going to make any money,” Crist said of the theater alone. “You are trying to save the downtown.

If you expect it to serve a profit — forget about it.”

The theaters in Northampton and in East Greenville are about all there is to attract people to those respective downtowns, Crist said.

The prospects would seem better in Middletown, where the downtown already has Alfred’s Victorian, the Brownstone Cafe, and now Tattered Flag.

If council needed a jumpstart to help raise money to reopen the theater, the best offer of the night came from Phil Bennett, a singer and entertainer who lives on Ann Street.

Bennett said he would give a free concert, with all the money raised going to the theater.

Bennett then gave council and the audience a taste of what’s to come by delivering an on-the-spot a cappella rendition of “I Get Misty.”

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Other speakers expressed a can-do attitude that anything is possible.

“Obviously we have some passion in this room. Passion is what it takes,” said Chris Davis, who lives in the first block of North Union Street diagonally across from the Elks. “The borough and the community need to work together. Wouldn’t this be a great story if we could pull this off?”

“To me it’s obvious now.

Everybody seems to be on the same page. They want the Elks Theatre,” Council President Ben Kapenstein said after the meeting.

“Council seems to want it, the public seems to want it, now it’s about how we deliver it. … We need to find a way to protect the taxpayers

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as much as possible, and to make sure that every dollar that is spent is spent in a good way and that we are not over-spending and spending beyond our means.”

Taking on debt is one possible way for helping to pay for the Elks Theatre project, Kapenstein said. Since leasing the water and sewer systems to Suez in 2014, the borough remains debt free except for repaying a $1.5 million loan to Dauphin County for the streetscape, and the loan is being repaid not by tax dollars but through the borough’s liquid fuels allocation from the state, Kapenstein said.

Taking out debt means that the cost of reopening the theater would be borne not just by today’s residents but by “future generations,” he said.

Reddinger after the meeting acknowledged reopening the theater is what the town wants. But as much of the money as possible should be cobbled together through grants and fundraisers.

The borough as long as it owns the building is obligated to spend whatever is necessary to make sure that the building is safe and habitable for any future use, Reddinger said. Any tax dollars on the theater beyond that should be subject to results of a voter referendum, he added.

Council Vice President Damon Suglia said his position against using tax dollars to reopen the theater had softened in light of the overwhelming sentiment expressed during the meeting.

“But if we do have to spend tax dollars we have to find a way to supplement that” with alternative funding sources, Suglia said.

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Police said they confiscated several prescription drugs including oxycodone, clonazepam and ciproflaxacin when Wilbourn was searched.

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My goodness! It is already time to close the book on July? Not fair.

This summer is flying by. Next month school begins and there seems to be way too much fun stuff left to do!

I hope you are all keeping cool and enjoying these last few days of July.

Please feel free to email me your news to share. We want to hear about your trips, recipes, ideas and of course, new babies, birthdays and anniversaries.

Have a wonderful week!

U.S. History Quiz Answers further down in the column.

1. Who did Abraham Lincoln defeat in the 1860 presidential election?

2. Who was the first female Supreme Court justice?

3. Which state was the first to elect a woman to Congress?

4. What was the name of Benjamin Franklin’s magazine?

5. Where was the first successful settlement by the English?

Birthdays Happy belated birthday to Kay Turns. She celebrated her birthday on July 20. I hope it was festive, Kay! Hey, Ed Arnold of Lower Swatara!

Happy cake day to you on Wednesday, July 27. I hope it is wonderful.

Troy Yost of Swatara marks his happy birthday on Thursday, July 28. May the day be filled with all kinds of joy for you on your day, Troy!

Hayley Kern of Lower Swatara turns 17 on Thursday, July 28. If you see her around, give her a huge happy birthday smile and shout!

Kobe Brown of Lower Swatara will hear the birthday song on Thursday, July 28, as he celebrates cake day no.

15. Enjoy!

Happy birthday wishes are sent to Michelle P. Sabol of Middletown on Friday, July 29. Lots of cool breezes sent to you with a ray of sunshine, too!

Priscilla Arias of Swatara celebrates her frosty-filled day on Saturday, July 30. Hoping your weekend is more than fine!

Joe Klock of Lower Swatara will hit birthday no. 22. What a wonderful number! Best wishes to you for the best birthday yet on Saturday, July 30 Joe. Brianna Jones of Middletown celebrates her last teen birthday on Saturday, July 30, as she turns 19.

Have a great day!

Happy 75th birthday to Frank Linn of Lower Swatara. Frank observes this big-deal birthday on Saturday, July 30.

Congrats to you!

Torin Bayhart of Lower Swatara turns a decade old on July 30. Enjoy those double digits on your special Saturday cake day, Torin!

Happy birthday to Jessica Arnold of Lower Swatara, who celebrates her snappy-happy birthday on Sunday, July 31. I hope all kinds of good things happen for you on your day!

Hey, Sue Lawruk of Lower Swatara — there will be much singing for your birthday on Monday, Aug. 1. I hope

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the day is just how you like it! Happy birthday!

Jordan Carr of Middletown will have 14 candles on his cake on Monday, Aug. 1. Best wishes to you for a high-five day!

If you see David Alcock out and about Lower Swatara, please wish him a very nice beep honk-honk day because he turns sweet 16 on Tuesday, Aug. 2. Be safe!

Karen Guenther of Lower Swatara celebrates her cool-parade day on Tuesday, Aug. 2. Many wishes for lots of blessings are sent your way Karen!

Brunch buffet Attention, ladies! Come out to The Crafty Creations brunch buffet at Spring Garden Conference Center on Spring Garden Drive in Lower Swatara. Hershey Area Women’s Connection, affiliated with Christian Women’s Clubs of America invite you to come at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 10.

The feature is creations by Meredith Judge of Palmyra with “Burlap and Bows,” and the music is by Victoria Spangler, soprano soloist from Middletown. The speaker is Leigh Grimm from Sewell, New Jersey. She will share her story as a widowed mother of three whose Olympic dreams were shattered by an injury, “Jewish Girl Tied Up in Spanks.”

Call Edna, 717 652-0997, or Winnie, 717 533-4715, to make your reservations or email: hersheyawc@verizon. net. The dateline is Aug. 5.

Anniversary Best wishes for a very happy 66th wedding anniversary to Marlin and Grace Heisey of Lower Swatara.

They celebrate on Thursday, July 28.

Congrats!

Township meeting The Lower Swatara Township Board of Commissioners will meet at the municipal building on Spring Garden Drive in Lower Swatara at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Aug. 3.

Shop For free It is that time again! God’s Clothes Closet is open from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, Aug. 6. All are invited to shop for free at Evangelical United Methodist Church, 157 E. Water St., Middletown. A large selection of clothing: sweaters, shirts, jeans, slacks, dresses, coats, hats, shoes (for summer and winter) and linens and blankets will be available. We have something for everybody! Call 717 944-6181 for more information.

Law school dean’s list Marc Prokopchak of Middletown has been named to the Widener University Commonwealth Law School (in Chester) dean’s list for the 2016 spring semester.

Widener President’s List The following students were named

to the Widener University (in Chester) president’s list for the 2016 spring semester: Hummelstown: Emma Irving Elizabethtown: Emily Swope Lebanon Valley ambassadors Lebanon Valley College, Annville, has announced students chosen to be ambassadors. They welcome prospective students and their families to the school, providing a tour and information. Local ambassadors are: Hummelstown: Elaine Gross, Lower Dauphin grad, pursuing a bachelor of science in early childhood education and special education.

Terrence Habiyaremye, Central Dauphin East grad, pursuing a bachelor of science in biology.

RIT dean’s list The following local students have been named to the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, dean’s list for the 2016 spring semester: Elizabethtown: Daniel Schwab, studying industrial design.

Hummelstown: Drew Flickinger, studying electrical engineering; Zoe Gomer, studying industrial design; Timothy Torres, studying media design.

Tufts dean’s list Kabir Singh of Hummelstown was named to the spring 2016 dean’s list at Tufts University of Medford, Massachusetts. Kabir is a member of the Class of 2017.

Seton Hall dean’s list Congratulations to Dagen Hughes of Lower Swatara for being named to the dean’s list at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey, for the 2016 spring semester. Dagen just completed his freshman year and is a communications major.

Rensselaer dean’s list The following students were named to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, dean’s list for the 2016 spring semester: Hummelstown: Carlos Avalos, aeronautical engineering, Benjamin Montgomery, mechanical engineering, Anke Wang, biology St. Joseph’s dean’s list The following students were named to Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, dean’s list for the 2016 spring semester: Middletown: Megan Hartwell, biology Hummelstown: Sarah Suminski, English, Arianna Flynn, marketing Quiz answers 1. Stephen A. Douglas 2. Sandra Day O’Connor 3. Montana 4. Poor Richard’s Almanac 5. Jamestown, Virginia

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Couple celebrate golden anniversary Frank and Mary Snavely of Middletown will be celebrating their 50th anniversary on July 30, 2016.

They were married on July 30, 1966 at St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Middletown.

They are the parents of Ty Snavely of Middletown and Sally Snavely Newell of Lancaster. They also have five grandchildren.

McDaniel dean’s list The following students were named to the 2016 spring semester highest honors dean’s list at McDaniel College. Westminster, Maryland: Rachel G. Engle of Elizabethtown; Devin Loxley Timms of Hummelstown and Greysen Smith Brockbank of Newville.

Roger Williams dean’s list Joshua Fejfar of Hummelstown has been named to the 2016 spring semester dean’s list at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island.

Quote of the Week “What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.”

— Timothy Keller, author Question of the Week How do you meet new people, make friends?

“I don’t have a certain way that I meet people, it just happens! However, I do love meeting new people and hearing their life story!” Amy Rhodes, Hummelstown.

“I go to Bible study, church and Christian events.” LeeAnn Hocker, NOLA. “I try to be friendly and approachable.

I usually meet people in the grocery store!” Connie Leese, Hummelstown.

“When I am at the bank I feel like I am Norm from ‘Cheers.’ They are so friendly there! (Members 1st, Derry Street)” Tim Boltz, Lower Paxton.

“At my gym or at my church. I look for common interests and then approach the person ... then things happen naturally.” Cameron Mitchell, Hershey.

“Talk to them and try to get to know them better. And be kind.” Julien Hollenbach, 7, Campbelltown.

Proverb for the Week A man with knowledge uses words with restraint, and a man of understanding is even-tempered (17:27).

Wednesday, July 27, 2016 -A-5

Elizabethtown’s Polites part of Mini-THON leadership Elizabethtown Area High School senior Megan Polites has been selected to the 2016-2017 Mini-THON Student Leadership Council.

The Mini-THON Student Leadership Council, comprised of a select group of student leaders, provides feedback and input to the Four Diamonds staff on the Mini-THON program. Polites is the first student from EAHS to serve in this capacity.

Modeled after Penn State University’s THON initiative, Mini-THONs are events sponsored by schools all across the commonwealth and surrounding states to raise money for pediatric cancer research. EAHS’s Mini-THON, a 12-hour dance marathon, is held each spring and has raised more than $140,000 combined the last two years for the Four Diamonds Fund.

As a council member, Polites will join a team of high school students from around the region that will meet with Four Diamonds staff to provide recommendations on program elements and assist in developing solutions for program challenges. She will also serve as an advocate for Four Diamonds and Mini-THON and representatives of the more than 70,000 students participating in Mini-THON every year.

“Megan exemplifies the leadership and character of the Mini-THON program and has proven to be a role model for her peers,” said Alek Tomazin, associate director of Four Diamonds. “Her outstanding management, organizational skills, and commitment to community service make her an ideal representative for Four Diamonds and our mission to conquer childhood cancer.”

Megan Polites In addition to her role with the leadership council, Polites will serves as EAHS’s student executive director for this school year’s 2016-2017 MiniTHON program. In this capacity, she will oversee a team of approximately 25 of her classmates who will coordinate Elizabethtown’s 2016-2017 Mini-THON, which is scheduled for March 10-11, 2017.

While the 12-hour dance marathon isn’t held until spring, the EAHS’s Mini-THON committee hosts numerous events throughout the year to support the fundraising. The first two events are upcoming with a Rita’s Night set for 6 to 10 p.m. Aug. 2 and a car wash slated for noon to 4 p.m.

Aug. 6 at the Fulton Bank in the Kmart parking lot.

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-Fuzzy Few Carnival, Hummelstown Boro Park - 6:30 pm Live music featuring Stealing The Covers -Lower Swatara Fire Co. - 7:30 pm -Red Rose Rebekah Lodge #586 - 1 pm -Londonderry Twp. Supervisors - 7 pm -Lower Dauphin School Board - 7 pm

TUESDAY

-M-town Library Board - 6 pm -Triune Odd Fellow #307 - 7:30 pm -Dauphin County Board of Assessment Appeals - 8:30 am -Highspire Planning Commission - 7 pm

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-M-town Library: Storytime/Craft - 10:30 am Tales With T.A.I.L.S. - 6 pm -Fuzzy Few Carnival, Hummelstown Boro Park - 6:30 pm One Price Ride Night; and featuring DJ

-Sons of Am. Legion - 5 pm

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-M-town Kiwanis - 6 pm -M-town Am. Legion Board - 7 pm -Lower Swatara Fire Co. Aux. - 7:30 pm

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-BINGO, Londonderry Fire Co. Doors Open - Noon; First Game - 2 pm

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-Red Rose Rebekah Lodge #586 - 1 pm -Alzheimer’s Support Group, @ Frey Village - 6:30 pm -Londonderry Twp. Planning Commission - 7 pm

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-M-town Kiwanis - 6 pm -M-town Am. Legion - 7 pm -Dauphin County District Ag Committee - 2 pm -Lower Swatara Twp. - Authority - 7 pm -Lower Dauphin School Board - 7 pm -Mtown School Board - 7 pm

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-M-town Alumni Assoc. - 8 pm -ABWA, Olmsted Chapter - 6 pm -Triune Odd Fellow #307 - 7:30 pm -M-town Area School District: Academic Affairs Committee - 6:30 pm Personnel Committee - 7:30 pm Finance Committee - 8 pm -Highspire Boro Council - 7 pm -M-town Library: Storytime/Craft - 10:30 am -Dauphin County Board of Assessment Appeals - 8:30 am

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-Triune Odd Fellow #307 - 7:30 pm -MASD Finance Committee - 6 pm -Highspire Boro Council - 7 pm -Royalton Boro: Boro Authority - 5 pm Planning Commission - 7 pm -Dauphin County Board of Assessment Appeals - 8:30 am -Londonderry Twp. Supervisors - 7 pm

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-BINGO, Lower Swatara Fire Hall - 7 pm -M-town Youth Club Board Mtg. - 7 pm; General Mtg. - 8 pm -M-town Am. Legion Aux. - 7 pm -Dauphin County Prison Board - 1:30 pm DC Board of Commissioners - 10 am -Lower Swatara Twp. Commissioners - 7 pm -Royalton Boro Council - 7 pm -M-town Library: Summer ProgramWOW! Wednesday - 2 pm -Fuzzy Few Carnival, Hummelstown Boro Park - 6:30 pm featuring New Direction

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-BINGO, Lower Swatara Fire Hall - 7 pm -Wesley Gold - 11 am-1 pm -M-town Elks Lodge at Am. Legion - 7 pm -M-town Boro Industrial/Commercial Development Authority - 6 pm -M-town Library: Summer Program WOW! Wednesday - Noon

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-Lower Swatara Twp. Commissioners - 7 pm -Dauphin County: Board of Commissioners - 10 am

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-Londonderry Fire Co. - 8 pm -Londonderry Senior Citizens - 1 pm -M-town Boro Authority - 7:30 pm -Dauphin County Conservation District - 7 pm -Summer Music Series, Sunset Bar & Grill featuring Jeffrey J. Walker - 7 pm -M-town Library: Family Yoga - 11 am LEGO® Junior Maker Club - 6:30 pm

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-Fuzzy Few Carnival, Hummelstown Boro Park - 6:30 pm One Price Ride Night; and featuring Laredo -Lower Swatara Lions - 6:30 pm -Walk-In Immunization Clinic at Woodlayne Court, 149 Wilson St., M-town - 9:30-11:30 am -M-town Women’s Club - 6:30 pm -M-town Area School District: Athletics/Activities Committee - 6:30 pm Operations Committee - 7 pm -Londonderry Twp. Parks/Rec Board - 7 pm -M-town Library: Family Yoga - 11 am LEGO® Junior Maker Club - 6:30 pm -Summer Music Series, Sunset Bar & Grill featuring Jeffrey J. Walker - 7 pm

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-Londonderry Senior Citizens - 1 pm -Highspire Boro Authority - 7 pm -Steelton-Highspire School Board - 6:30 pm -Dauphin County Board of Assessment Appeals - 8:30 am

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-BINGO, Lower Swatara Fire Hall - 7 pm -Dauphin County: Board of Commissioners - 10 am -M-town Boro Planning Commission - 7 pm

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-Lower Swatara Lions - 6:30 pm -Elizabethtown Fair, Ride For One Price - 2-6 pm Pedal Power Tractor Pull - 6:30 pm Sheep Herding Demo - 7:15 pm

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-M-town Library: Wine, Wheels and Beer Festival/Car Show - 10 am-3 pm -Music in the Vineyards, Nissley Vineyards, Bainbridge featuring Blue Moon Big Band - 7:30 pm -Community Day @Steelton-Highspire High School Noon-3 pm For info 717-541-9521 or 717-739-4604 -Fuzzy Few Carnival, Hummelstown Boro Park - 6:30 pm featuring Pentagon -Peach Festival @Strites - 10 am-2 pm

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-Music in the Vineyards, Nissley Vineyards, Bainbridge featuring Fabulous Cheeze Brothers & Sisters - 7:30 pm

-Franz Schubert Concert, @ St. Peters Lutheran Church - 8 pm featuring Jordan R Markham & Daniel Dorty

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-Music in the Vineyards, Nissley Vineyards, Bainbridge featuring The Maxwell Project - 7:30 pm

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-BINGO, Lower Swatara Fire Hall - 7 pm -Dauphin County: Board of Commissioners - 10 am -Susquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority - 8 am

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-BINGO BLAST, @Hummelstown Chemical Fire Co. Doors Open - 5 pm; Games - 7 pm -Chicken BBQ, @Londondery Fire Co. - 10 am-2 pm -M-town Library: PA Author Q & A - 1 pm -Elizabethtown Fair, Horseshoe Pitch - 10 am Baby/Toddler Parade - 10:20 am Pet Show - 12:30 pm Hay Bale Throwing Contest - 2 pm Frog Jumping Contest - 4 pm Fireworks - 10:45 pm

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-Elizabethtown Fair, Ride For One Price - 2-6 pm Fighting Dragons Martial Arts - 7:30 pm

-Summer Music Series, @Sunset Bar & Grill featuring Jeffrey J. Walker - 7 pm

-Elizabethtown Fair, Senior Day, King/Queen Announced - 11:45 am Ride For One Price - 2-6 pm Sale of Champions - 6 pm

-Dauphin County Board of Assessment Appeals - 8:30 am

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CATRA offers children Peach Festival chance to read to animals August 6 • 10am-2pm Capital Area Therapeutic Riding Association is playing host to an inaugural Summer Reading Program at its facility at 168 Station Road in Grantville.

The program called Paws-N-Read at Noah’s Nook is a free program for readers of all ages and abilities.

Inspired by shelter programs, children can come to a farm and read to dogs, pigs, rabbits, goats and various other farm animals.

The program is an idea Shirley Nolt, co-founder of CATRA, has been considering for years. Children come to

Backpack giveaway

It’s hard to think about school during these days of 90-plus degree heat and hanging out in the swimming pool --but the start of classes is just a little more than a month away.

Toward that end, 250 backpacks filled with pencils, paper, a pencil box, folders, glue and more will be given away to Middletown area families from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, July 30, at the Verizon store at 1577 W. Harrisburg Pike (Route 230) in Lower Swatara Twp. The event is part of a national backpack giveaway campaign by TCC, the largest Verizon authorized retailer in the United States, and A Wireless.

Any of the 250 backpacks that are not given away on July 30 will be donated to local schools.

the farm to read to the animals without being criticized.

Not only does the program encourage children to continue to read over the summer break, it also promotes human and animal interaction. Animals find the sound of the children’s voice very comforting, Nolt said.

Children may read to smaller animals in Noah’s Nook or join larger animals in or near their pastures To sign up for a reading session, go to catra.net or search for CATRA on Facebook. Session times vary and will be offered through the end of the summer. Contact Julie Toth, program coordinator, at 717-991-2020 with questions.

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Borough website should get upgrades, improvements soon

By Dan Miller

Press And Journal Staff

The Borough of Middletown could have an improved website before the end of August, as a result of borough council on July 19 awarding a contract to a web development firm.

Council voted 4-0 with Ian Reddinger abstaining to award the contract to Strawberry Box Media, a Middletownbased firm led by current and former students of Penn State Harrisburg.

The contract calls for Strawberry Box to develop a new website within 30 days of the signing of a final contract

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I would vote on their behalf, even though I feel it is a smart move,” Reddinger said.

Einhorn and McGlone both favor putting the issue on the ballot as a referendums, although that could not be done until 2017.

The council can’t take a final vote on a change to its makeup at its next meeting, which is Aug. 3. A council member at the Aug. 3 meeting would have to make a motion to draft a proposal. The soonest a vote could take place would be its meeting after that.

Shouldn’t be a ‘whim’

Curry brought up the issue during council’s July 19 meeting and said that he had discussed reducing the size of council and getting rid of the wards with Solicitor Adam Santucci and with “every council member” at one time or another.

But McGlone afterward told the Press And Journal the first she had heard of it was when Curry brought it up at the meeting.

“We have no legal opinion. The solicitor wasn’t even there (during the July 19 meeting), there’s been no background done no research done,” McGlone said. “You cannot continue to demand motions or actions without any thought process behind it.”

with the borough, at a cost of $3,956.

In addition, Strawberry Box is to provide 12 months worth of maintenance of the site at a cost of $350 a month, or $4,200 a year.

The borough has been without an up-to-date website since about midDecember 2015, when several key staff members with borough management resigned before the new council leadership took over in January.

The website contains outdated information. The homepage highlights the schedule for picking up Christmas trees and the most recent press release is from May 2015. The council meet-

ing schedule is for 2015 and the most recent council meeting agenda is for Jan. 16, 2016.

The borough was posting weekly police activity blotters, but the most recent is from the first few weeks of December, just before the staff exodus.

The borough does appear to be making an effort to post minutes of recent council meetings on the website.

Minutes have been posted on the site through the May 17, 2016 meeting.

Strawberry Box has developed a working version of a borough website that was shown to the council during a recent presentation.

“What if the most talented people are in the Second Ward? You are really limiting what choices you have because you are forcing a choice in a ward simply because you have to.”

their representation because they have no representation.”

Mayor James H. Curry III “You need to chart a course of action and plan for these things and do the proper research and analysis, so when you do come out we have the facts, we have the statistics to back it up that council should do this,” McGlone said.

“It’s a lengthy process, not something that can occur on a whim, because you don’t know all the ramifications that could follow.”

Council’s seventh member, longtime mayor and now First Ward Councilor Robert Reid, said during the July 19 meeting that the ward system has served residents well for generations and he sees no reason for change.

Reid also contended that getting rid of the wards would essentially disenfranchise residents of the First Ward.

“When you say we are going to select from at large, then you have everyone coming from one end of the town,” Reid said. “People in this end of the town are not going to be happy with

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The contract calls for the borough website to include a community calendar and sections devoted to news, government and council information, administration, codes, and maps about zoning and to promote local businesses.

The borough police department would have its own section of the website, as would public works. There would also be a section with information about borough employment opportunities with the capability for people to apply for jobs online.

The contract includes a section regarding “future proposed projects,”

including people being able to pay their electric and trash bills on line. But this would require a separate agreement and pricing that is not included in the contract that was awarded by council on July 19.

Council considered one other proposal that was submitted by Greg Yoder Graphic Design from Lancaster.

The contract would have charged $6,000 to develop and launch the website.

Maintenance would be in addition at a rate of $75 per hour, plus another $20 a month for a website hosting solution recommended by Yoder.

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Laudenslager four years ago. Rux reached out and got more of the community involved, which has resulted in crowds topping 3,000 people, compared with the crowds of around 500 about 10 years ago.

Rux called Laudenslager “instrumental” in seeing the event through every year, although he has other duties that require a lot of his time.

Despite several stories of communities in conflict with police that have received a lot of news coverage this

News & happenings for Middletown and surrounding areas.

Peach Festival to be held at Strites Orchard

Everything will be just peachy at Strites Orchard when it plays host to its Peach Festival from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6. There will be peach picking, wagon rides, kids activities, face painting, concessions and more.

For more information, visit www.stritesorchard.com.

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‘We are far too big’

Curry did come to the July 19 meeting with statistics to support his contention that Middletown has too many elected officials for a town its size, compared to other area municipalities.

For example, Hummelstown has about 2,500 people and is served by a five-member council, Curry said. Londonderry Township has about 5,200 people and is governed by five elected officials, Lower Swatara Township has five board members for about 8,200 residents, Elizabethtown Borough has six elected officials for a town of about 11,000, and just seven elected officials govern Swatara Township, which has about 23,000 residents.

Derry Township, home of one of the biggest tourist attractions in the state if not the entire country, has just five supervisors to govern almost 25,000 residents, Curry said. Even the state capital of Harrisburg with nearly 50,000 people only needs seven councilors, the mayor added.

“We are far too big,” Curry said of the nine-member council. “I think it adds to the length of meetings. It’s difficult to have 10 people (nine councilors plus the mayor) giving their opinions. I think we could be much more efficient with less people.”

This wasn’t the first time in recent months that Curry has pushed for a smaller council. Earlier this year in arguing for getting rid of the Middletown Industrial and Commercial Development Authority, Curry said that with nine members council has enough people to handle economic development issues — if all nine councilors would pull their weight.

As for the wards, besides his contention that they are outdated, Curry said that the current system makes it harder to fill council vacancies, and to get people elected to the council in general.

The number of people truly interested in serving on council from throughout the entire town is probably no more than about 50, Curry said.

“You are limiting your talent pool when you say we have two vacancies and we have to take them from the First or Third Ward,” both of which have been “decimated” by a loss of residents since the 2011 flooding, Curry said during the July 19 meeting. “What if the most talented people are in the Second Ward? You are really limiting what choices you have because you are forcing a choice in a ward simply because you have to.”

Knull lent support to Curry’s contention regarding a loss of population in the First Ward.

“We have lost seven to eight blocks if not more” not just from the flooding but from properties acquired by Harrisburg International Airport through HIA’s noise abatement program, Knull said. That’s “at least 60 people we’ve lost.”

Moreover, Knull said that she responds to the concerns of all borough residents, regardless of whether they live in the First Ward.

“If I am going to work for the entire community, then why not let the entire community make a vote for me?”

Knull asked.

Suglia, in comments after the meeting, told the Press And Journal that the ward system creates artificial boundaries that “further divide the town.”

“We are all equal in this town,” he said. “Not one person is better than another due to income level or social status. We are all one and we are all here to achieve a common goal of moving forward. The way to do that is to make us one town, not three separate wards. We were elected by the people to make these types of changes.”

Suglia also found it ironic that Reid

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Live music from Walker at Sunset Grill

Jeffrey J. Walker will perform on the deck at Sunset Bar & Grill, 2601 Sunset Drive, Middletown, at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 28.

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Ebenezer UMC Peach Festival is Aug. 13 below the tracks,” she said. “I resent that. I resent that from the bottom of my heart and if I hear anybody say it I will tell them publicly, because I pay taxes to this town, I keep my property up to speed, and I don’t think that the First Ward would get the proper representation if you eliminated the wards.”

Curry then tried to say he didn’t mean to suggest that the First Ward doesn’t have as much to offer as the rest of the town — but that the ward system in general makes it harder to attract the best candidates for council, regardless of where they live.

“You limit your talent is what I said.

Maybe all the talented people are in the First Ward,” the mayor said.

Another option

Press And Journal Photos by Dan Miller

Mayor James H. Curry III (top picture) and Rachelle Reid (above), who applied for an open council seat, had differing opinions about the ward system at the council’s July 19 meeting. said there is no problem with the ward system — noting that the former mayor felt it necessary to wage a write-in campaign to give First Ward voters a choice beyond the two candidates who were on the ballot.

“He’s a perfect example of why there shouldn’t be any wards,” Suglia said.

‘Like a slap in the face’

McGlone lashed out at Curry during the meeting for bringing up the issue on a night when four people from the First Ward had shown up to be interviewed to fill Louer’s seat. Six First Ward residents applied in all, but two were unable to make the meeting.

“If I had known that this s--- was going to occur right before these people who have volunteered their time to step up to serve this council that this was going to occur now, I would not have come and been the fifth person to make a quorum,” McGlone said. “If you want to do something like this that’s fine (but) this is not the time to do it.”

One of the six applicants seeking Louer’s seat — David Scully — called Curry’s comments “elitist.”

“I took real offense to the comment that maybe some wards have more talent than others. It seemed to be a swipe at the First Ward,” Scully said.

“Maybe you (Curry) want people you and your friends from your neighborhood to run the town.”

“It’s like a slap in my face,” said Rachelle Reid, another First Ward applicant seeking to replace Louer.

She said many residents in the First Ward don’t use computers or cellphones or social media but still prefer “to walk right up to my front door and knock on it” if they have a concern.

“You’re going to have to let the residents make that choice” and let voters decide in a ballot referendum whether they want to keep the wards or go with an at-large system.

Curry’s comments also touched a nerve with Kay Wealand, a lifelong resident of the First Ward.

“We have always been considered the trash of Middletown because we live

year, Rux said Middletown’s bonds with the police run deep.

“It’s always been a community giving their all for the police,” he said.

“Everyone has been willing to volunteer. I like to think they do it for their community.”

Rux said Middletown’s officers are approachable, and events like this allow people from the community “to get to know them a little better.”

Dauphin County represented

This year, Middletown and Penn State Harrisburg Campus police will team

Kapenstein during the meeting offered a third option — keep the three wards but reduce council to seven members. Two councilors would come from each of two wards, but the ward with the largest population would have three councilors, Kapenstein said.

As the numbers stand, that would mean three councilors from the Second Ward — which Kapenstein represents — as the Second Ward is the largest of the three wards with 41 percent of the borough’s population, as of U.S. Census data that was used by the state to set House and Senate districts throughout Pennsylvania in 2012.

The First Ward has about 31 percent of the borough population; the Third Ward is now the smallest with about 28 percent of residents.

However, Kapenstein in speaking to the Press And Journal after the July 19 meeting said he would favor passing an ordinance now to get rid of the wards and to reduce the size of council.

He said that most residents he has heard from since the issue surfaced are in favor of making the change.

“The more people on council, the harder it is to get things done,” he said.

He believes waiting for a referendum will take too long, in that even if voters opt for a change in 2017 it will be 2019 before it goes into effect.

“Right now is the perfect time because nobody would get taken off,” he added.

Einhorn said while she is open to the idea that change may be needed, she pointed to the six people from the First Ward applying for Louer’s seat.

“When you’ve got six people who are willing to serve on council then I don’t see where we have a complaint about not being able to fill seats,” she said.

She also doesn’t think that reducing council by two members will make things more efficient, because in Einhorn’s view the longer meetings don’t have to do with the size of council.

Instead, it has to do with residents being given more of a voice than they had over the past four years under the council led by former President Chris McNamara, Einhorn said.

Moreover, the new council is “probably more concerned with details” than the former council was, also adding to the length of meetings, Einhorn said.

“We want to know everything about an issue before we vote on it. If that’s what it takes to deal with the issues we inherited that are pretty complicated, then that’s what it takes,” she said.

up to present an interactive simulation of driving under the influence.

The Dauphin County Sheriff’s Office will be represented by one unit, including a police dog.

A State Police captain and trooper will introduce the community to the workings of Pennsylvania State Police Tactical Mounted Unit, in which troopers on horses perform police duties.

One unit will represent Lower Swatara Twp. Police, who are a familiar sight in Middletown because the departments support each other through mutual aid agreements.

If you didn’t get enough at Strites Orchard (see above), Ebenezer United Methodist Church, 890 Ebenezer Road, Middletown will host a Peach Festival Fundraiser from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 13.

Come enjoy fellowship and food.

Menu includes sliced peaches, ice cream, sandwiches and more available for purchase.

For more information, call 717939-0766.

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Summer Reading Program is at library

The Middletown Library is sponsoring the Summer Reading 2016 Program. Visit the library at 20 N. Catherine St. for weekly programs each Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday through August.

At 2 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 3, featured will be Grins & Grins at the MCSO. •••••

Summer Bingo Bash slated at fire company

This is a hot one. Londonderry Fire Company, 2655 Foxianna Road, Middletown, is sponsoring a Summer Bingo Bash on Friday, July 29. Doors open at 5 p.m.; bingo starts at 7 p.m.

Only 140 tickets are available, so get yours now.

For tickets, contact Mike O’Donnell at 717-576-8649 or the firehouse at 717-944-2175.

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Volunteer Fire Company Carnival is this week

The Grantville Volunteer Fire Company is sponsoring its 68th annual carnival on July 27, 28, 29 and 30 starting at 6 p.m. daily at the Grantville VFC Carnival Grounds, 251 Firehouse Road.

Enjoy amusement rides, horseback rides nightly, homemade food, games and nightly entertainment.

There will be a gigantic grand finale fireworks show at closing Saturday night.

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Bingo blast in Hummelstown on July 30

Hummelstown Chemical Fire Company, 249 E. Main St., Hummelstown, is sponsoring a Bingo Blast at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 30. Doors open at 5 p.m.

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Music in the vineyards — if you are old enough

Nissley Vineyards, 140 Vintage Drive, Bainbridge, is sponsoring a lawn concert from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Saturday, July 30, featuring Uptown Band (rich variety, Motown to present). Bring a lawn chair/blanket. No babies, children or people under the legal drinking age of 21.

For more information, call 4263514 or visit www.nissleywine. com.

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The 53rd annual Fuzzy Few Carnival coming up

The 53rd annual Fuzzy Few Carnival will be held Aug. 1-6 starting at 6:30 p.m. at Hummelstown Boro Park.

Enjoy food, games, exciting new rides, and free nightly entertainment.

Sports

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2016

For the love of the game

Middletown makes playoffs, starts tonight The Middletown team made the East Shore Twilight League playoffs and will play its first game at 5:45 p.m. today, July 27, in Hummelstown.

The team finished with a 13-11 record for 26 points, third place in the seven-team league. Hummelstown also finished with 26 points.

Middletown lost its next-tolast game on Wednesday, July 20. Visiting Linglestown, the top team in the league with 35 points, won 6-5. But Thursday, the team traveled to Lawnton and registered a 5-0 shutout victory.

The semifinals are a bestof-three. Middletown hosts the second game at 5:45 p.m. Thursday, July 28. If needed, a third game will be played at 5:45 p.m. Friday at Hummelstown.

The finals are a five-game series. Penbrook and Perry County, both with 24 points, are playing a play-in game to see who takes on LInglestown in the other series.

Older Twilight League players have to balance work, family with baseball

By Gabe Mink

For the Press And Journal

At a time when people will follow their phones to catch the latest fad, there are still places where people pursue things that have stood the test of time — things like the game of baseball.

The East Shore Twilight League offers this opportunity to players to pursue their passion.

These players’ dedication to the game and to their team does not come from the promise of a paycheck. It comes from a lifelong passion for the game of baseball, a passion that every player holds, no matter their age, background or family life.

According to Adrian Huber, who has been the Middletown team manager for eight years, the ages of the players on the team can vary.

“There are four (players) that are freshman in college. One or two are seniors in college. The majority of the team is just out of college. Then there’s three or four of us that are 30, 33. One of them is 41” he said.

The 41-year-old player is Arturo Figueroa, who is the oldest player on the team. Figueroa had a career as a semi-pro baseball player in Puerto Rico and Germany in the early 1990s before his journeys brought him here to Middletown.

His son, Tito, who is 17, is one of the youngest players on the team. He was invited by his brother in Steelton to come up from Orlando.

“In Orlando, there was nothing like the Twilight League,” he said. “I fell in love with this league and said ‘I gotta move.’”

“It took two or three months and I was already here.”

Figueroa said that he’s been extremely fortunate that his employers in the past have been willing to help him so his work schedule doesn’t conflict

Team roster

According to the league’s website, the Middletown roster is Corey Auerbeck, Ty l e r A u e r b e c k , M e l i d o Castro, Andrew Clark, Phil Donner, Roberto Escalet, Arturo Figueroa, Tito Figueroa, Victor Guiterrez, Tyler Heckard, Cody Henry, Louis Hile, Dillon Hippensteel, Adrian Huber, Tyler Johnston, Ethan Kell, Chuck Kline, Brian Mostek, Greg Pickel, Steve Pickel, Brandon Popp, Ryan Popp, Braedon Thomas, Gio Torres, Ryan Trafecanty and Zach Whitman.

Arturo Figueroa swings at a pitch Wednesday, July 20, vs. Linglestown at the high school field. He is the oldest player on the Middletown team at age 41. His 17-year-old son is also on the squad. with his love of baseball. He says when he switched jobs from Harrisburg to Allentown, “one of my conversations was when the season starts I have to leave early, because I play baseball.”

Figueroa said.

And that’s how he views himself.

“This is who I am. I am a worker, and a father. But when I see myself, I am a baseball player” he said.

For Huber, that passion started as a child.

“I grew up playing baseball my entire

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life. I helped coach baseball for my nephew, and baseball has just been in my blood.” Huber said.

But Huber recognizes that carrying that passion from childhood into adulthood “takes a lot of commitment to want to come play a baseball game then go into work” he said. And no one on the team recognizes that more than Zach Whitman.

Whitman, 28, is the Middletown teams “ace” pitcher. He’s been working the nightshift for FedEx for the past five years.

“You do what you have to do to pay the bills,” he said.

Whitman started playing baseball at a young age. “Pretty much since I was able to walk, I’ve been throwing a ball” he said.

He began in the Middletown youth league and played all the way into college.

“It was always a dream to make it to the Major Leagues like every baseball player.” he said.

He landed a baseball scholarship to Georgia Southwestern State University. He started in the Twilight League in 2005 as a junior in high school.

Whitman agreed that being an older player in the league offers a different perspective and the opportunity to teach.

“I love baseball,” Whitman said.

“That’s why I keep playing it. Teaching the younger guys things that they think they know, it’s nice when you’re a little bit older because the players actually take it in and they seem like they listen to you” he said.

And spreading his knowledge and passion for the game is what brings him back each season.

“I’ll play till my arm falls off. That’s just how I am,” he said.

One of the youngest players on the team, Zach Sims, 19, has started three

Above, Middletown pitcher Zach Witman fires a pitch We d n e s d a y, July 20, vs.

Linglestown as Ryan Tr a f e c a n t y p re p a re s to catch it at the high school field in Middletown.

Witman is the t e a m ’s a c e pitcher but is one of the older players on the team at age 28. Left, Adrian Huber ducks out of the way of a pitch July 20 during the game vs.

Linglestown.

Huber has been the team’s manager for eight years.

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Photos by Gabe Mink for the Press And Journal

Middletown soccer, volleyball, field hockey schedules announced Fall sports are just around the corner, and more Middletown teams have released their schedules for the upcoming seasons.

Here is a look at boys and girls varsity soccer as well as volleyball and field hockey.

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SOCCER - BOYS VARSITY V JV 08/23* Susquehannock H 4:00 pm 4:00 pm Tri-Scrimmage Susquehannock & Shippensburg 08/30* Penn Manor A 4:00 pm 4:00 pm 09/02 Harrisburg H 10:00 am 11:30 am 09/06 Trinity A 6:30 pm 5:00 pm 09/08 East Pennsboro H 7:00 pm 5:30 pm 09/10 Bishop McDevitt A 10:00 am 11:30 am 09/13 West Perry H 7:00 pm 5:30 pm 09/15 Camp Hill A 6:30 pm 5:30 pm 09/19 Big Spring H 7:00 pm 5:30 pm 09/20 Milton Hershey A 4:00 pm 5:30 pm 09/22 Susquehanna Twp. H 6:30 pm 5:30 pm 09/24 Trinity H 10:00 am 11:30 am 09/27 East Pennsboro A 6:30 pm 5:00 pm 09/29 Bishop McDevitt H 7:00 pm 5:30 pm 10/01 James Buchanan A 11:30 am 10:00 am 10/04 West Perry Senior A 7:00 pm 5:30 pm 10/06 Camp Hill H 7:00 pm 5:00 pm 10/11 Milton Hershey H 7:00 pm 5:30 pm 10/13 Susquehanna Twp. A 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 10/15 Red Land A 10:00 am -* Scrimmage

SOCCER - GIRLS VARSITY/JV

V JV 08/20* Kennard-Dale A 10:00 am 10:00 am Tri-Scrimmage/Kennard-Dale & Carlisle 08/31* Boiling Springs A 4:00 pm 4:00 pm 09/02 S usquehannock H 4:00 pm 5:30 pm 09/06* Trinity H 7:00 pm 5:30 pm 09/08 East Pennsboro A 6:30 pm 5:00 pm 09/10 Bishop McDevitt H 10:00 am 11:30 am 09/13 West Perry A 7:30 pm 6:00 pm 09/15 Camp Hill H 7:00 pm 5:30 pm 09/17 Shippensburg A 10:00 am -Greencastle Tournament 09/17 G reencastle-Antrim A 2:00 pm -Greencastle Tournament 09/20 Milton Hershey H 7:00 pm 5:30 pm 09/22 Susquehanna Twp. A 6:30 pm 5:00 pm 09/24 Trinity A 10:00 am 11:30 am 09/26 Eastern Lebanon Co. H 7:00 pm 5:30 pm 09/27 East Pennsboro H 7:00 pm 5:30 pm 09/29 Bishop McDevitt A 3:45 pm 5:15 pm 10/04 West Perry H 7:00 pm 5:30 pm 10/06 C amp Hill A 4:00 pm 5:30 pm 10/11 Milton Hershey A 4:00 pm 5:30 pm 10/13 Susquehanna Twp. H 7:00 pm 5:30 pm * Scrimmage VOLLEYBALL - GIRLS VARSITY/JV

V JV 08/24* Shippensburg H 4:00 pm 4:00 pm 08/31 * Boiling Springs A 5:00 pm 5:00 pm 09/03 Big Spring A 10:00 am - Varsity Tournament 09/06 Lower Dauphin H 7:00 pm 6:00 pm 09/08 Steelton-Highspire A 5:00 pm 6:15 pm 09/12 Trinity A 7:00 pm 6:00 pm 09/13 Harrisburg A 7:00 pm 6:00 pm

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games as a pitcher this season. He had been playing baseball for Shippensburg University until an injury forced him off the mound midway through the season.

“I tore my meniscus and ended up having to stay home for the summer,” Sims said. “I had to get surgery in May, and ended up playing twilight.”

This has been his first year playing for the league and he has found that it’s a different level of competition on the field.

“A lot of them [the players] do have families, they work full time. For them to take three hours out of their day to go to the field to play baseball, it’s a different type of passion for the game.”

Sims said. “It’s relatable because I’ve always loved the game the way those guys do. The twilight team is there to

win and I love that attitude and that mindset.”.

The East Shore Twilight League was founded as a nonprofit baseball league in 1975. The league is made up of seven teams from the surrounding municipalities: Hummelstown, Lawnton, Linglestown, Middletown, McAlisterville, Penbrook and Perry County. The league has to come up with their own funds to finance the teams throughout the season.

League play opens in mid-May and concludes with four-team playoffs beginning the last week of July.

“We are not sponsored by the town or the school itself. We are funded by the individuals on the team and then by going out and getting sponsorships from businesses in the area.” Huber said. “On top of that we do all kinds of different fundraisers, from March Madness pools to college bowl pools.”

Photos by Gabe Mink, for the Press And Journal

Above, Ryan Trafecanty throws back to the pitcher during the July 20 game vs. Linglestown. Above right, Louis Hile swings. Center, Chuck Kline goes for second. Center right, Tito Figueroa runs the bases.

Bottom center, Marcus Gray pops one up. Bottom right, Greg Pickel and Tyler Heckard share a laugh.

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Operation Code R.E.D., for Refrigerated Enforcement Detail, most recently held a blitz June 28, inspecting 140 commercial vehicles and large trucks at 13 locations across Pennsylvania. State police troopers stopped the vehicles at checkpoints,

where food sanitarians inspected carriers to ensure that food was kept at safe temperatures and that cargo areas were sanitary.

“When we have opportunities to work together, Pennsylvanians are safer for it, and through Code R.E.D, we can provide greater consumer protection across a vital link in the food supply chain,” said Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding. “We not only regulate, but we educate, so drivers can better understand the regulations of

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tions throughout the year. Troopers then contact food sanitarians who correct the issues.

“Cooperation between agencies is important in initiatives like this one to keep the citizens of Pennsylvania safe,” said Maj. Edward Hoke, Director, Bureau of Patrol, Pennsylvania State Police. “This detail ensures that food shipments are sanitary and safe, especially during the warm summer months.”

Code R.E.D. inspections began in April 2013 and have occurred regularly since then. For more information, including food safety inspection reports, visit www.eatsafepa.com. Code R.E.D. inspection results are available by calling the department’s Bureau of Food Safety and Laboratory Services at 1-866-366-3723.

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The inspections are particularly important in warmer months, when long transport times, warm weather, and full sunlight can tax refrigeration units.

As with inspections of food establishments like restaurants, cafeteria kitchens and home processors, most problems were corrected on-site.

No citations were issued June 28, although multiple products were discarded due to being outside of acceptable temperature parameters.

One warning letter was issued to an out-of-state company clarifying Pennsylvania food code and reasons for product disposal.

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County no longer accepting glass recycling Due to rising disposal costs, starting Aug. 1 glass will no longer be accepted at Dauphin County’s 10 drop-off sites: • Conewago Township Municipal Building, 3279 Old Hershey Road, Elizabethtown • Dauphin County Recycling Center 1625 S. Cameron St., Harrisburg • Gratz Borough Community Center, 125 N. Center St., Gratz • Halifax Borough (by Deppen Park), Route 225, quarter-mile outside borough • Harrisburg City, Uptown Shopping Plaza parking lot (7th and Division streets) • Highspire Borough, Lumber and Broad streets (behind mini-mall) • Lykens Borough, Boxers Parking Lot • Millersburg Borough, Front Street and Keystone Road • Washington Township/Elizabethville Borough, Lykens Valley Plaza, parking lot • Williamstown Borough/Williams Township, Williamstown Borough Municipal Building “Unfortunately, recyclers are refusing to accept recycled glass because there is no demand,’’ Commissioner Mike Pries, who oversees the county’s Department of Solid Waste Management and Recycling, said in a press release.

“We have been paying around $1,200 a month to dispose of glass, and that

is not an expense taxpayers should shoulder.’’

Pries said if demand for glass returns, the county would again accept it, but for now bins will be used for plastics.

The county’s move comes on the heels of Harrisburg’s decision last year to stop collecting glass because of the cost. Other cities, such as Charleston, West Virginia; Greenville, South Carolina; Marietta, Georgia; and Baton Rouge, Louisiana have also stopped collecting recycled glass.

The decision will not impact municipalities that have their own recycling programs that collect glass.

“We are committed to recycling, but we cannot afford to pay thousands of dollars to dispose of materials for which there is no demand,’’ said commission Chairman Jeff Haste. “In March, we had to restrict electronics recycling to county residents only to ensure we would not start collecting so much that we would have to start paying to get rid of items.’’

Commissioner George P. Hartwick, III said the board doesn’t like having to restrict any recycling.

“We will continue to monitor the recycling markets,’’ Hartwick said. “If demand for glass returns, we will resume collection at our drop-off sites.’’

For more information about the recycling programs, call 717-982-6772 or visitwww.DauphinCounty.org.

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Column No. 859/July 27, 2016

Katherine F. Shollenberger Of Pine Grove, Schuylkill Co., Part II

In Schuylkill County1910 Federal Census - I found George and Kate living in Tremont, Schuylkill Co. George was 43 and Kate was 39. It listed that Kate had two children, only one child was listed, Elnora May Zimmerman born August 1898.They did have a second child a daughter Norma May, she died in infancy n/c.

George and Kate left Schuylkill Co., and went to live in Reading City, Berks Co., Pa. In the Reading City directory of 1917, George and Kate were living at 925 North 12th St. Their daughter, Eleanor May Zimmerman, married Dr. Albert N. Seidel. On their marriage application, Albert was 50 years old, born in Bloomington, Ill. He lived at 824 North 10th St., Reading, Pa. His parent’s were Jacob and Catherine (Fettherhof), birthplace of his father was from Albany, Berks Co., and mother was Schuylkill Co., Pa. Elnora’s parents and her husband all died in 1945 within months of each other.

Reading Eagle Newspaper- 27 January 1945 George Zimmerman, 78, died late last night at his home at 925 North 12th St. He was a native of Pine Grove, a son of the late Martin and Louisa (Trumb) Zimmerman and was a member of the Lutheran church. Surviving is his widow Kate (Schollenberger) Zimmerman, one daughter, Elnora, wife of Albert N. Seidel of Reading, four sisters and one brother. The Rev. William A. Fluck will officiate. Interment will be at Laureldale Cemetery in charge Gibson Funeral Home.

Reading Eagle Newspaper-July 2, 1945 Kate (Schollenberger) Zimmerman, 75, of 925 North 12th St., mother-in-law of Dr. A.N. Seidel, who died Thursday and whose burial will take place at 2 o’clock this afternoon, died last night in the evening in St. Joseph’s Hospital.

She was the widow of George Zimmerman, who died on January 23 of this year. A daughter of the late Frederick and Elizabeth (Snyder) Schollenberger, she was born in Pine Grove, Schuylkill Co. and was a member of St. Luke’s Lutheran Church.

Surviving are one daughter, Eleanor, widow of Dr. Albert N. Seidel; two brothers, Frank and Ralph, of Pine Grove, and one sister, Mrs. Ellen Boyer, of Lebanon. Services will be strictly private from the Gibson Funeral Home.

Burial will be at Laureldale Cemetery, the Rev E. R. Diebert, officiating.

The Reading Eagle- June 29, 1945 Dr. Albert Newton Seidel Died in Hospital Practiced Medicine Here More Than Half Century.

Dr. Albert Newton Seidel, 78, of 824 North 10th St., physician, naturalist and churchman, died at 11:30 o’clock last night in St. Joseph‘s Hospital. Doctor Siedel was admitted to the hospital last Saturday. A practitioner for more than half a century, Doctor Seidel first practiced medicine in Lenhartsville on April 1, 1891, during the horse and buggy days. For nine years he served the residents of Northern Berks and for the past 45 years he had his offices on North 10th Street. He celebrated his golden anniversary as a practicing physician on April 1941.

Doctor Seidel was born in Bloomington, Ill., the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Seidel. His parents were natives of Albany Twp. and left Berks to make their home in Illinois. When Albert was three years of age, his mother died and his father and four children came back to Albany Twp. The children attended the township school for five months of the year, and Albert helped on the farms, in that section for nine years until he entered Keystone Normal School, now called State Teachers College, and Kutztown.

Following his graduation, he taught school in Albany for four terms and one in Ontelaunee. During his teaching career he started his study of medicine under the preceptorship of the late Dr. Cyrus Wanner, Kutztown.He later entered the University of Vermont and the University of Maryland. He completed his medical education by graduating from the Medico-Chirurgical College of Medicine, Philadelphia, in early spring of 1891.

On his 13-acre tract in Albany Twp. are all kinds of wild plants and on numerous occasions Doctor Seidel entertained groups on natures-study tours over the land. Every species of birds found on the Blue Mountains can be seen on the Seidel tract, being attracted there by the food and shelter.

Doctor Seidel was an active member of St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, Tenth and Windsor Streets. He is also connected with the Lenhartsville P.O.S. of A. and the Independent Order of Americans.

He is the father of one son and a daughter, Miles A. Seidel, of West Reading, associated with Wyomissing Development Company, and Elda, wife of J.S. McCurdy, principal of the schools of Matawan, N.J. His two brothers also practiced medicine and Dr. Urban D. Seidel maintains an office in Akron, Ohio and the other, Dr. F. W. Seidel, passed away in 1940.

Services are scheduled for 2 o’clock Monday afternoon in St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, Tenth and Windsor Streets, where the body will lie in state from 11:30 a.m. The Rev. Elmer R. Deibert, pastor of the church in which Doctor Seidel was an active worker, will officiate. Burial, in charge of the Gibson Funeral Home, will be made privately in Alsace Cemetery.

Death Notice-Reading Eagle-Saturday Nov. 23, 1974 Kline - Nov. 22nd, Mrs. Eleanor M. nee Zimmerman, widow of Rev. William H. Kline, age 78-3-1. Funeral will be held at 2:00 p.m. at Trexler & Hook Funeral Home, Topton, Berks Co., Pa. I found buried on her parents plot in Laureldale Cemetery, Berks Co., Pa.

Hepler Family Reunion Set August 13, 2016

Hepler Family Reunion, Saturday August 13, 2016. There will a Memorial Service at grave of Revolutionary War soldier, Casper Hepler: 10 a.m., Zion Cemetery, Pitman, Pa. An annual event dating from 1921, reunion then convenes at the Mahantongo Fire Company; Dinner at 12 p.m. Reservations, $16. (Ages 7-12, $7.; under 7 free). Deadline; August, 8, contact Mae Ann Rehrer, 1771 Amity Park Road, Birdsboro, PA. 19508, phone: 610-582-6914. “Brown Baggers” welcome.

Activities: genealogy, socializing, entertainment, call of states, and awards. Additional information: Tom Hepler, 856-866-1348 or the.himself@comcast.net.

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Calvary Orthodox Presbyterian Church Calvary Orthodox Presbyterian Church will hold its Community Picnic on Friday, July 29 at 6:30 p.m. with free food and friendship for all!

If it is raining we will hold the picnic downstairs in the church building.

Calvary Church has been a part of the Middletown Borough community since 1936. It has been our privilege to proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ all these years and to do so knowing the good news has never changed in over 2000 years. We firmly hold to the Apostles Creed and the Westminster Confession of Faith and its Larger and Shorter Catechisms as clearly teaching what Scripture teaches. If we believe

of the season.

The chorale’s mission is to enrich lives and communities through the transcendent power of choral singing to reflect and evoke the wealth and beauty of human experience, and one of the primary qualifications is a love of choral singing as a way of expressing and communicating ideas and emotions.

The chorale has received critical acclaim for its work, including the Margaret Hillis Achievement Award for Excellence, the highest award of the national choral association, Chorus America. Most recently, the chorale was named a finalist in the community chorus division of the American Prize

the Gospel of Christ, then by trusting in his death and resurrection for sinners we can and will be forgiven and saved from God’s wrath. Please join us each Sunday to hear the Gospel.

Our services are at 10:15 a.m. and 6 p.m. We are located at the corner of Spruce and Emaus streets here in Middletown. We have a fellowship meal following the 10:15 a.m. morning service on the first Sunday of every month, free to all who come. We also have Sunday school classes for all ages at 9 a.m., and a Bible Study each Wednesday at 7 p.m. We are now studying the Gospel of Luke.

Feel free to contact us with questions at 944-5835.

Evangelical United Methodist Church Middletown

Welcome all! May God’s light shine upon us as we gather to worship. May the brilliance of His light and His wisdom fill us. May it be as a lamp to our feet and a light to our path.

Evangelical Church meets on the corner of Spruce and Water streets at 157 E. Water St., Middletown, south of Main St., behind the Turkey Hill convenience store.

The ministries scheduled at Evangelical United Methodist Church for July 27-Aug. 2 are always open to everyone.

Wed., July 27: 9 a.m. to noon and 6 to 8:30 p.m., Clothing may be dropped off for God’s Clothes Closet; 6 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous Book Study.

Thurs., July 28: 9 a.m. to noon and 6 to 8:30 p.m., Clothing may be dropped off for God’s Clothes Closet.

Sun., July 31: 9 a.m., Sunday Church school with classes for all ages. Adult Sunday school devotional leader for July: Bill Harris; 10:15 a.m., Worship service. The worship center is handicap and wheelchair accessible.

Greeters: Bill and Delores Mortimore, Gloria Clouser. Nursery helpers: Deb Lidle, Joyce Moyer. The altar flowers are given in memory of wife and mother Rae Alexander presented by husband John and family.

Mon., Aug. 1: 9 a.m. to noon and 6 to 8:30 p.m., Clothing may be dropped off for God’s Clothes Closet.

Tues., Aug. 2: 2 p.m., Prayer Shawl Ministry.

God’s Clothes Closet will be open this year on August 6 from 8 a.m. until noon at Evangelical United Methodist Church, 157 E. Water St., Middletown. We are looking for gently used clothing (no rips or stains) for men, women, teens and children, as well as shoes, coats, linens and blankets.

If you have any of these items you no longer will use, please keep us in mind. For more information, call Mary Woods at 944-6574 or Louise Morgan at 944-6518. We will receive donations the following dates and times: July 27 and 28: August 1 and 3 from 9:00 a.m. to noon and 6 to 8 p.m.

New Beginnings Church Middletown

We are an independent body of believers offering God’s invitation for a new beginning to all who seek it. We exist to meet the spiritual, emotional and physical needs of all people through faith in Jesus Christ. We are a Safe Sanctuary congregation. Our church steeple bell tolls four times at the beginning of worship, one for the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit and you.

New Beginnings Church invites you to worship with us each Sunday at 10:30 a.m. Nursery and children’s church is provided. Our congregation meets at Riverside Chapel, 630 S. Union St., next to the Rescue Fire Company. Sunday School for all ages is at 9 a.m. We are handicap accessible via ramp at back door. Youth Fellowship is from 5 to 7 p.m. For additional church information call 944-9595. For security purposes our back and side doors will be locked every Sunday morning at 10:30 a.m. at the start of worship. The only door for entry after that will be the front door.

Wednesdays: Craft Group, 1 p.m.; Choir rehearsals, 6:30 p.m.; Praise Band rehearsals, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday evenings Pastor Britt’s Bible study begins at 6 p.m., followed

by Round Table discussion; Sociable Seniors group meets the 1st and 3rd Monday of every month from 1 to 3 p.m.; Blanket making is the 2nd Thursday of every month at 9 a.m.

We clean the Middletown Food Bank the 3rd Saturday every other month.

Everyone is welcome to participate in these important areas of our church life.

Pastor Britt writes a daily devotional on Facebook page, “One Way, One Truth, One Life.” We invite all to read it.

Nursery: Dana Rhine, Evette Graham. July ushers: Dana and Jeff Rhine, Lisa Fiedler, and Rick Pennington. Greeter for July: Evette Ash. Children’s Church leaders for July 31: April Leister, Terry O’Donnell.

Susquehanna Chorale announces final auditions for 2016-2017 season The national award-winning Susquehanna Chorale, under the direction of artistic director Linda L. Tedford, has limited openings for its 2016-17 season and invites interested adults to audition.

Auditions will be held on Monday, Aug. 15 at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 212 Cocoa Ave., Hershey, by appointment.

This season will feature a performance of Faure’s Requiem in November with the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra.

The chorale’s Christmas concerts will feature “Fantasia on Christmas Carols” by Ralph Vaughan Williams, as well as traditional carols and songs

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2015 competition.

Rehearsals are held weekly on Monday evenings in Hershey, from September to early May. Regular season concerts are held in December and early May. Additional requirements are available at the chorale’s website or through the office.

The chorale is Ensemble-in-Residence at Messiah College. The Chorale is funded, in part, by the Cultural Enrichment Fund, the capital region’s united arts fund.

For more information or to schedule an audition, contact the Susquehanna Chorale Office at 717-533-7859 or sc@susquehannachorale.org.

Men’s Group meets every Thursday morning at 6 a.m. for prayer. Community men invited.

Our “Prayer and Veggie Garden” is started. Wooden pickets inscribed for the fence are being sold for a cost in memory of, honor of, or family name. Contact Michelle Strohecker at 717-982-5068.

Our Sunday worship service is broadcast on the MAHS radio station, WMSS 91.1 FM at 3 p.m. every Sunday afternoon. Listen on the radio or the Internet at www.pennlive.com/ wmss/audio. Check us out on our website at www.newbeginningschurchmiddletownpa.com.

Pastor Britt’s parting words each Sunday: “Nothing in this world is more important than the love of Jesus Christ!” We invite you to come and experience this love.

Middletown

Ebenezer United Methodist Church and Childcare, 890 Ebenezer Road, Middletown, invites everyone to join us for worship on Sunday mornings led

by Pastor Brad Gilbert. Our services are relaxed and casual. We offer a traditional service at 8:45 a.m. and a contemporary service at 10:45 a.m. At 10 a.m., between services, there is a variety of Christian education classes for all ages.

There are several things happening at Ebenezer and all are welcome. There

is a prayer time “Partners in Prayer” that meets the first Monday of each month at 7 p.m. Through scripture, song, and meditation we experience the joy of God’s presence. Have a favorite board game? “Game Night” is every third Monday at 6:30 p.m.

We also offer a variety of other groups including Bible studies.

For additional information please contact the church office at 939-0766 or e-mail us at ebenezerumc890@ comcast.net.

Presbyterian Congregation of Middletown Middletown

The Presbyterian Congregation is located at the corner of Union and Water streets in downtown Middletown. We are a body of Christian people who reach out to others by sharing God’s Word, love, and fellowship. Warm greetings to one and all as we seek to grow closer to our Lord Jesus Christ.

Church School is completed for the summer. Adult Forum will resume on Sept. 18, the week after we worship and dine at Indian Echo Caverns. Have a renewing and beautiful summer.

Please join us for worship and communion at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, July 31. Our sanctuary is air-conditioned and handicapped accessible, and there are also hearing devices for anyone wanting to use one. Nursery is available during the service, as well as Bible Listening bags for children to

utilize during the service. Do join us.

Wed., July 27: 7 p.m., Hymn Sing at Mt. Gretna Tabernacle (featuring Darrell Woomer).

Our electronic newsletter can be accessed anytime: (1) Search for the website by typing in pcmdt.org or Presbyterian Congregation of Middletown; (2) The “home page” opens with a photo of our church bell tower; (3) Go to the upper right hand corner of the website and click on “resources”; (4) The new page opens with options: click on “newsletter.” (These are PDF files, should open with Adobe Acrobat).

The Parish Nurse is available by calling the church office at 717-944-4322.

For further information, see our Website www.pcmdt.org, visit our Facebook page www.facebook.com/ Presbyterian Congregation, or call the office.

St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church

Middletown St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran munity Action Commission office is Church is located at Spring and Union open Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. streets, (121 N. Spring St.), Middle- at the same location.

Church and Community Events: town. We are a Reconciling In Christ Wed., July 27: 10 a.m., Holy CommuChurch.

Please join us for worship. Our wor- nion-Chapel; 6:30 to 8:15 p.m., VBS. Thurs., July 28: 6:30 to 8:15 p.m., ship times are: Wednesday morning at 10 a.m., Saturday evening, 5 p.m., and VBS. Fri., July 29: 6:30 to 8:15 p.m., VBS. Sunday morning worship is at 9 a.m., Sat., July 30: 5 p.m., Service of the through Sunday, September 4. Our Sunday worship service is broadcast Word.

Sun., July 31: Pentecost11; 9 a.m., at 11a.m. on WMSS 91.1FM. Our Saturday service is a casual traditional Holy Communion (T).

Mon., Aug. 1: 2 p.m., Holy Comservice. This service usually is 45 minutes in length. Please enter the munion at Middletown Home.

Tues., Aug. 2: 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., church through the parking lot door.

The first Sunday of each month is American Red Cross Babysitting Class Food Pantry Sunday. Needed items at Zion in Hummelstown; 6 to 9 p.m., are syrup, pancake mix, cake mixes, National Night Out at Hoffer Park.

Visit our website at www.stpefrostings, white noodles (not whole grain), puddings – especially choco- tersmiddletown.org.

Scripture for July 31: Eccl 1:2, 12late, gelatins, ketchup, mustard, mayo, vinegar, pickles, olives, barbecue 14, 2:18-23; Ps 49:1-12; Col 3:1-11; sauces, any condiments, vegetable Luke 12:13-21. or canola oils, and always toiletries.

These are items not consistently purchased or available at Central PA Please, Put Litter Food Bank. Items collected are taken In Its Place to the Middletown Area Interfaith Food Pantry located at 201 Wyoming Street, Royalton. Individuals may also take items directly to the food pantry, which is open Tuesdays and Fridays, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The Com-

CHURCH DIRECTORY Calvary Orthodox Presbyterian Church 10 Spruce Street • 944-5835

Sunday School - 9 am • Morning Worship 10:15 am Evening Worship - 6 pm www.calvaryopc.com

New Beginnings Church at the Riverside Chapel

630 South Union St., Middletown • 388-1641 Sunday School - 9 am • Worship Service - 10:30 am

Pastor BRITT STROHECKER Everyone Is Welcome!

Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church 329 Market Street, Middletown

Presbyterian Congregation of Middletown

Church School - 10 am •Worship Service - 11 am

Church School - 9:15 am • Worship - 10:30 am

Pastor C. VICTORIA BROWN, M.Div. • 215-280-0798

Ebenezer United Methodist Church "Love God, Love People, Make Disciples"

890 Ebenezer Road, Middletown (Corner of 441 & Ebenezer Road)

Phone 939-0766

Sunday Worship: Traditional - 8:45 am • Contemporary - 10:45 am Christian Education (All Ages) - 10 am Christian Child Care - 985-1650

Union & Water Sts., Middletown • 944-4322

St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church Spring & Union Sts., Middletown Church Office 944-4651

REV. DR. J. RICHARD ECKERT, Pastor

Saturday Worship With Spoken Liturgy - 5 pm Summer Worship Schedule Thru Sept. 4 Worship Service - 9 am • No Sunday School Worship Broadcast on 91.1 FM - 11 am Kierch Sundays - September 6

BRAD GILBERT, Pastor

Seven Sorrows BVM Parish

Evangelical United Methodist Church

REV. TED KEATING, JR., Pastor

www.ebenezerumc.net

Spruce & Water Sts., Middletown REV. LEE ELLENBERGER, Pastor Sunday School (all ages) - 9 am Sunday Worship - 10:15 am

Geyers United Methodist Church

280 North Race St., Middletown Parish Office 944-3133

Saturday Evening Vigil - 5:30 pm Sunday Masses - 8:00 am, 10:30 am & 6:00 pm Confessions: Saturday - 7:30-7:50 am, 4:30-5:15 pm

Wesley United Methodist Church 64 Ann Street, Middletown

1605 South Geyers Church Road, Middletown 944-6426

PASTOR NAYLO HOPKINS PASTOR JAMES LYLES, Youth Pastor, 10xBetter

Worship - 9 am - Followed by Coffee Fellowship Sunday School - 10:30 am

Sunday Worship - 9:15 am Small Groups - 10:30 am

PASTOR STEVAN ATANASOFF

Phone 944-6242

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J.C.WATTS & CHARLESMITCHELL

Can Tattered Flag Pennsylvania should build on corrections reform success be the start of something big?

The Tattered Flag is now open on Fridays and Saturdays, and it has had some big crowds lined up to get in the doors.

We don’t want to put too much pressure on Pat Devlin, Matt Fritz, Tony DeLellis and Ben Ramsay, the gentlemen who are opening it. However, the importance goes past just the money invested in this ambitious and momentous endeavor.

The surface importance is clear: There is about $1.5 million in borough money tied up in the brewery and still, along with about $1 million of their own money. It is transforming the look of the southwest corner of Union and Emaus streets in downtown Middletown, just as the intersection around it is being upgraded as well with new streets, sidewalks, curbing, street and traffic lights and the restoration of the famed town clock.

The Tattered Flag has the potential to draw hundreds upon hundreds of people to our area who would not have visited here otherwise.

All those points are all important. But there is more.

When the Tattered Flag is fully open, consider what else will have to be discussed. These are the very issues that will occupy Middletown for the foreseeable future.

1. The Elks Theatre: OK, this issue is already on the front-burner, especially after last Thursday.

But imagine when a beautiful, successful (we hope) place to get a drink and eat exists right next door. Will that only intensify the call to restore the theater as an important part of downtown?

The Tattered Flag owners upped the ante last week by saying they wanted to partner with the nonprofit group Friends of the Elks Theatre to reopen the theater.

2. Parking: The parking issue will play an increased role in the coming months as the borough takes a closer look at its rules governing it. With more people likely to come to the Tattered Flag, it will make establishing of rules — and enforcement — even more important.

3. Vacant storefronts: There are some along Union Street that visitors to the Tattered Flag will have a good view of when they come and go. It’s not something anyone wants to see.

But we wonder if a successful Tattered Flag will have coattails enough to strengthen the area around it as well.

4. Penn State Harrisburg: We imagine — in fact, we hope — that students (of drinking age, of course), faculty and staff will make their way to this new jewel of downtown Middletown.

However, that could lead to even more uneasiness between the longtime residents of Middletown and what many of them consider interlopers and troublemakers: the students. They will have a very good reason to come to the downtown on a Friday or Saturday night. This will be made even easier once a bridge is added from the campus toward Emaus Street, and Emaus Street is extended.

We are excited for the full opening of the Tattered Flag. We think its potential, as an integral building block is very high. Certainly its failure would be a devastating blow not only to the four men who are deeply invested in it, but the borough as well — a blow not only financially, but from a morale standpoint.

What will the area around Emaus and Union look like in three years? We would love to see no vacant storefronts, and a thriving and bustling pedestrian area anchored by the Tattered Flag, the Elks Theatre, the Brownstone Cafe and the many other existing businesses.

You play a key role in all of this. Support local businesses.

We hope this is the start of a transformation.

MICHAELJAMES BARTON

Energy bill would unleash job growth The U.S. economy created a paltry 38,000 jobs in May — a mere quarter the number economists predicted.

Fortunately, the House of Representatives just approved a legislative amendment that could pick up the slack.

The provision, attached to a comprehensive energy bill, streamlines the regulatory approval channels for new natural gas pipelines and export terminals. While America is in the midst of a historic gas production boon, the infrastructure required to transport and sell that energy hasn’t kept pace.

The House’s common sense provision would help close that gap. Energy producers could finally build necessary infrastructure. The economic benefits would be profound.

Thanks to new technologies like hydraulic fracturing, U.S. energy developers have tapped into previously unreachable gas reserves. Domestic production has jumped 50 percent over the last decade and is on pace to grow another 50 percent in the coming decades.

This rapid expansion has already worked wonders for an economy mired in near zero growth for eight years. Natural gas production increases have created high-quality jobs, fueled billions in growth, and provided businesses with cheap energy.

There’s now so much gas, in fact, that domestic supply outstrips domestic demand.

Americans will only consume about a quarter of the gas produced over the near future.

Foreign markets are eager to buy the excess.

And new foreign sales would generate new jobs right here at home. But there’s not enough infrastructure to enable this exchange because of regulatory uncertainty.

Regulatory delays have slowed pipeline construction. The total miles of domestic gas pipelines actually fell 2 percent between 2009 and 2015. This spring, the Texas firm Kinder Morgan surrendered to the regulatory bureaucracy and shuttered a $3 billion pipeline project in New England. The much-hyped

Constitution pipeline connecting Pennsylvania gas production sites to New York consumers has been similarly smothered to death in government approval channels.

Worse still, when the gas does eventually get to the coasts, there aren’t enough terminals to actually sell it abroad.

A federal law enacted in the 1930s — a time when a domestic gas surplus was about as imaginable as a smart phone — dictates that federal regulators must approve every new gas export terminal. Consequently, dozens of terminal proposals have been stuck in regulatory limbo for years.

The House’s energy amendment attacks these problems. It requires the Department of Energy to expedite the permitting process for new pipelines and to speed up its evaluations of new terminal applications. In other words, do their job and justify their decisions.

These reforms would transform the economy.

Natural gas exports would accelerate gas industry expansion and generate profound benefits for working Americans. A fully operational gas export sector would create 450,000 new jobs over the next two decades.

Arguably the single most important task for American policymakers is creating more footholds into the middle class. Millions of Americans feel trapped in low-wage, unstable work and locked out of the American dream.

They’re desperate for solid jobs that can serve as the cornerstone of a family.

These new natural gas positions fit that description. They’d be reliable and well-paid, with an average wage clocking in $50,000 higher than the average of the overall economy.

Passing the House’s natural gas amendment into law is a clear win-win. Lawmakers should ensure it’s in a bill that lands on the president’s desk.

Michael James Barton is the Founder of Hyatt Solutions and speaks around the country on energy and energy security matters. He previously served as the deputy director of Middle East policy at the Pentagon.

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As lifelong conservatives, we’re proud to call ourselves tough on crime and to support lengthy prison terms for dangerous felons.

But after a long, taxpayerfunded era of mass incarceration, it’s time we face some hard facts: Our bloated, hugely expensive criminal-justice system has produced disappointing results.

A growing number of states have recognized this fact and responded with smart reforms that improve public safety, contain corrections costs and ensure more offenders become taxpayers instead of tax burdens. Many other states have followed a similar path, substituting smart-on-crime thinking for the lock-’em-up policies of yesteryear.

Guided by data and input from across the criminal-justice spectrum, these states are enacting reforms that reduce crime, control costs and help offenders turn their lives around. Pennsylvania is poised to build on this momentum.

Last year, Pennsylvania’s prison population experienced its biggest one-year decline in 40 years, a major success story. This was the result of a 2012 law that focused on prioritizing state prison for violent offenders and improving the parole process. Savings resulted and were reinvested in smarter policing and alternatives to incarceration for low-level offenders.

While this is a major achievement, more work needs to be done. The Keystone State still has the highest incarceration rate in the Northeast. And the cost of doing nothing about it — literally and figuratively — is too high.

Pennsylvania’s incarceration rate climbed 20 percent between 2004 and 2014, with the total correctional population, which includes both state prisons and county jails, jumping by 17 percent. By comparison, neighboring states New York and New Jersey saw their incarceration rates drop by 20 percent and 21 percent, respectively, in that time.

Spending for corrections in Pennsylvania during this period rose to $2.1 billion from $1.5 billion, a 40 percent increase. And costs continue to rise. The state Department of Corrections has requested $2.4 billion in state funding for the fiscal year that began this month.

These are startling numbers. Clearly, it is time to build on the progress of the last few years.

We have a blueprint to do that.

Starting in 2011, following a nearly 30 percent rise in the prison population over the previous 10 years, former Gov. Tom Corbett and the Legislature embarked on “justice reinvestment” in Pennsylvania. This data-driven approach analyzes hundreds of thousands of records across the criminal-justice system to discover trends, identify inefficiencies and develop legislative fixes. The goal is to cut corrections spending and reinvest funds in programs that can reduce recidivism and improve public safety — that is, to reduce prison spending and reduce crime at the same time.

Enacted in 2012, this approach helped decrease the prison population to 49,914 from 51,184 by the end of 2015. This produced almost $13 million in savings, $4 million of which was reinvested in public-safety en-

What needs to be done to improve Middletown’s business climate?

Katie Hoffer: We need to appeal to the college. We are the largest Penn State campus and r here is nothing for them. We need small coffee shops, a college book store, a comic book store, restaurants, THE ELKS. David Eakin: Make all commercial buildings (includes apartments) comply with current building codes; it will drive out all the slumlords. Sell off, renovate/lease, or demolish the old/abandoned storefronts on Union St. Create a large, convenient, safe parking area where most of the businesses are within walking distance (it can also double for food truck events). Promote more cultural events (see the schedules of all the other "college towns" and Mt. Gretna around us; maybe using secondary school venues if not the PS campus. Do some networking with desirable national chain restaurant reps (Chipotle, Red Robin, Chili's, 5 Guys, etc.) to see what qualities drive them to a specific geographic location. The two grocery stores seem to be doing well — maybe expand that to include satellite specialty food stores/ services or a scheduled farmer;s market.

Angie Cruz Garcia: Some great ideas. I would love to at least see some clean and up to code food trucks here. Def get rid of the slumlords.

Daniel Ruzansky: How do you address the business climate when the residential climate

is so negative - particularly as utility rates are ridiculously high, and home owners are less than 50% of the (eligible) voting population, and tax rates higher than surrounding areas.

The additions of the Tattered Flag (haven't tried it yet) and Black Horse (not impressed in the slightest) seems to be anomalous. Just revealed was that Guido's is up for sale. More businesses have vacated or been forced out of business than have started anew. The Elk's not operating is a major blow, and the way things are going, it seems it might not reopen at any near time - if at all.

Look around at all the houses up for sale.

If I could put mine up and move out without the major loss, I would.

I really do not see a lot for this town to offer over what it has, or had.

Rex Rothrock: I have been saying this for years...no movie theater, brewery or coffee shop can bring back downtown middletown any more than it will for steelton, highspire or harrisburg.

Peter Matesevac: The town isn’t responsible for creating businesses, but they’re sure good at discouraging them. High property taxes, an electric scheme that should be illegal, terrible roads.......this isn’t rocket science.

Jim L Fultz: Think “college town” then proceed. “Build it and they will come”.

Will the vice presidential selections of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have any bearing on which candidate you support?

Daniel Ruzansky: It doesn't change the fact that one's a lying crook and the other is a lying bigot, and neither are, in my opinion, worth the liquid to spit upon.

Peter Matesevac: I would still vote against Hillary if Trump selected Daffy Duck as his running mate.

Marianne Mills-Gallo: Not really but it's nice to see a counterbalance chosen for a

VP for Trump!

Thomas Meise: No only choice this election is third party Shirley Finley-Elston: no..

Steve Martin: No Jim L Fultz: No Holly Pilsitz: No Leah Bell: No Jenny Miller: No

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hancements. These included victims’ services, more effective policing procedures, probation improvements and local reentry strategies for former inmates.

In the end, the commonwealth’s commitment to improving our criminal-justice system not only saved taxpayer dollars, but also made lasting improvements in the lives of those impacted by crime.

These changes stemmed from reforms focused primarily on parole. A new Justice Reinvestment Initiative, spearheaded by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf and a bipartisan group of legislators, including Republican House Speaker Mike Turzai and Republican Senate President Joe Scarnati, will focus on the front end of the system, including sentencing and pretrial policy.

As in 2012, Pennsylvania’s new initiative will be assisted by The Council of State Governments Justice Center, a nonprofit, nonpartisan group that has helped more than 20 states — including North Carolina, Ohio and West Virginia — turn their struggling criminal-justice systems around.

Pennsylvania has a great opportunity to embrace research-driven, results-oriented solutions that reduce recidivism, improve public safety and save taxpayer dollars. That’s what we mean by being smart — and right — on crime.

J.C. Watts(left), a former congressman from Oklahoma, is president and CEO of Feed the Children. Charles Mitchell (right) is president and CEO of the Commonwealth Foundation, a free-market think tank based in Harrisburg that focuses on public policy in Pennsylvania.

JOHNPAYNE CAPITOL REPORT Fantasy sports need regulations The House Gaming Oversight Committee, which I chair, passed legislation to protect the consumers of daily fantasy sports online gaming by requiring fantasy sports contest providers to be licensed and regulated.

The intent behind this legislation is not to prohibit or hinder anyone from enjoying daily fantasy sports, but instead to preserve and protect this rapidly growing industry.

Currently, the commonwealth has no law on the books regulating fantasy sports. Many popular fantasy sports contests involve the daily payment of league fees and substantial cash rewards to winning players, so it’s important that the state provide fantasy sports contest participants with the same consumer protections given to casino patrons.

If enacted, this bill would empower the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board to regulate the industry and implement the following needed consumer protections: • Prohibit minors from participating in DFS contests.

• Require confidentiality of a player’s personal and financial information.

• Ensure employees of fantasy sports contest providers do not participate in DFS contests.

• Enforce a participant’s self-exclusion from fantasy contests.

• Require providers and their employees to be adequately trained to refer compulsive and problem fantasy contest participants to the appropriate treatment referral services.

After passing committee, this legislation (House Bill 2150) was combined with other gaming measures, including my interactive gaming bill.

The revised bill was passed by the House and sent to the Senate where it awaits committee consideration.

Concealed carry class Sept. 10

To ensure gun owners know and understand their rights and responsibilities, I am hosting a Concealed Carry Class from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Sept. 10 at the Hummelstown Chemical Fire Company, 249 E. Main St., Hummelstown.

The number of people obtaining concealed carry permits is on the rise. This is an opportunity for both current and prospective permit holders to learn the rights and responsibilities associated with concealed carry.

During the event, attorney Matt Menges will discuss Pennsylvania’s concealed carry laws, and an officer from the Derry Township Police Department will discuss how to safely interact with the police when carrying a firearm.

Seating is limited and registration is required.

Interested residents should contact my Hershey office at 717-534-1323 to make a reservation. The deadline to register is Aug. 29.

John D. Payne is a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives whose 106th District includes Middletown.

Email him at jpayne106@pahousegop.com.

His Capitol office telephone number is 717787-2684.

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It’s no secret the economy is rigged

Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump complain that American workers are suffering from a rigged economy. That’s true and nothing either candidate is promising is likely to change it. The “rigging” means that someone is exercising an economy wide control by dishonest or corrupt means.

If the economy is in trouble, and it is with stagnant labor markets and gross income inequality, then whoever is doing the rigging should be brought to account.

Economists and politicians are the guys who are supposed to be doing this. It is part of the job description for economists to ask “how” and politicians to ask “why.” Neither of these two groups of people are doing their job. The economy is suffering for it; the economists and politicians are not. All industries are involved. The doctors allow the medical and insurance industries to rip off the public and they take their cut. It’s rigged.

Yes, the economy is in trouble.

Well-known conventional facts, like average hourly earnings that are at 1980 levels while at the same time profits have increased from 6 to 12 percent of GDP, leave no room for doubt. The economy is, at best, stumbling along with the middle class dropping by the wayside. The trouble is, the politicians tell us, the economy is rigged.

As if we didn’t know. We know someone is exercising power and command over resources for which they have no legitimate claim. Telling us about this is not enough. Please, tell us why the 1 percent have power and why are they allowed to continue to use it.

The exercise of economic and political power, rigging if you will, is seldom if ever limited to a single aspect or flaw in the economy. The economy is rigged across the board and they all know it. They just refuse to be serious about it. Some economists cite economic change factors such as globalization, automation and the consequent productivity increases as one cause. Others cite control over government activities such as deregulation and tax policies. And finally, though economists do not often take note, illegal activity such as failure to enforce the law, favoritism and monopoly. All are specific costs to working people.

Globalization and automation are seen as the natural workings

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of the market. But the market can only exist where the government provides the economic infrastructure and all the other protections and subsidies necessary for capital and labor institutions to survive and prosper.

Workers share of the productivity gains are not getting to them.

GE paid no taxes for years and in the same fashion suppressed wages. They all did it. Somebody rigged the distribution. Somebody crushed labor. Somebody set up offshore supply chains.

And somebody financed automation, robotics and intermodal transport.

Only by controlling government regulation could the 1 percent have taken control of our economy and siphoned off virtually the entire increase in output for 30 years. Most of this simply shifted risk and therefore cost from the producer to the consumer. The finance sector was able to seize a third of all profits though it accounts for only 8 percent of GDP. Risk is after all the commodity that finance deals in.

That effectively transferred the income of the working class to the ownership class. The middle class consumers were forced into debt to maintain their standard of living.

But sometimes it was simple theft. The bulk of business criminal activity benefits from a code of silence purchased to ensure that banks are too-big-to-fail and tycoons too-rich-to-jail and corporations become persons. But always someone else is forced to pay and that is the working class.

All of these cases point to a constant, widespread, long-running pressure to transfer income from the poor to the rich. That is the why and the how of rigging an economy. Politicians and economists are defending their share of the rigging.

The “science” of economics has to rid itself of the gun-for-hire business model that is turning university economics departments and think tanks into extensions of whatever ideology has the money.

Politicians have to wean themselves off the flow of Citizens United money for they too are rigging the economy.

If you are not clearly profiting from the rigged economy then you are being robbed blind.

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Paving of Union Street between Spring and Brown streets wrapped up last week as work moved south to the stretch between Brown and Ann streets.

Paul A. Heise, of Mount Gretna, is a professor emeritus of economics at Lebanon Valley College, Annville, and a former economist for the federal government.

SOUNDOFF • “The best thing about having our own police department is knowing that when things go really bad or you’re in distress we always have officers dedicated to us close by. Officer’s who know the township and know us. None of us want to suddenly be in a terrible situation and wonder if somebody is coming to help or save us, that’s why we have our police officers and they have proven themselves true to us for a long, long time, let’s get behind our men in blue they’ve always behind us!

Let’s all come together attend meetings and say okay we’ve had enough!

• “Leave the cop and his K9 alone, you must have better things to do with your time!

• “Every time those terrorist scum-

bags kill a bunch of people the world gets together and prays for the victims and for peace. Well that doesn’t seem to be working, so lets have the world get together and kill all the SOB’s, their families and their sponsors wherever they may be. To hell with Political correctness and collateral damage, rid the world of this cancer.

• “The buzz in the hood is that some residents think Middletown can afford the Elks Theater, they also believe grants will cover the whole cost. They better crawl down off their high horse and do some research on why the borough owns the building to begin with.”

• “I wish Anne Einhorne would stand up for other issues in the borough the way she is fighting for the Elks. Seems to me other then the Elks, she simply

shows up to meetings.”

• “I was so mad when I read that

another police officer left his K-9 in the vehicle and he died from the heat. And all the officer got is a desk job, he should be prosecuted. A K-9 is considered a police officer and he left him die that has got to be a very agonizing way to die. I wish they’d lock that police officer in a hot car.”

• “I sit and watch these new council members week after week making decisions for our town and I wonder how some of them sleep at night. On the left side of the table you have people that ask questions and seem to be really into what is going on and on the right side you have people who seem to just want to spend tax payer’s money with no real solution.

Than at the head of the table you have two people who cannot even speak to each other. They say they all wanted change but in reality they are no better than those before them. I see the same divide occurring and relentless spending occurring. The third ward reps seem like they don’t care and are too busy for the town, one second ward rep just goes along for the ride while the other two try to push through and the one first ward rep asks question upon question while the other one just wants to spend money that this town does not have. Lord, help our little town because we have more political games occurring than in D.C.” • “Please help me understand how 2 years ago when our Mayor stood up to McNamara he was deemed a hero

You may email your Sound Off any time day or night, at our website: www.pressandjournal.com. now that he is standing up to another council member he is deemed a Zero.

I personally did not vote for him but I am glad that he stands up for what he believes in and is not afraid to use his voice unlike some council members.”

• “I wish the entire council could just get along. You can see the divide occurring across the table. You can see and feel the tension in the room. I am glad to see that this council allows residents to voice their concerns and is actually listening to the residents but please be careful because people are seeing and feeling your divide and that is what is wanted by others.”

• “It truly amazes me how people send messages to Sound Off regarding our Mayor because he simply said someone should not vote on an issue. Now when he was standing up to the last council president everyone thought it was great. I really hope that people who were not at the meeting only take the negative talk with a grain of salt because some people just like to stir the pot and watch it boil over.

I really hope that a few bad apples don’t make us loose a good Mayor because this Mayor has done a lot for Middletown.”

• “Last week someone compared the

Mayor to Donald Trump. Why? Are you against him holding your friends to the same standards demanded of Mr. McNamara? You need to ‘get a grip’ on reality. It’s about time elected officials attempt to maintain moral and ethical standards. Keep up the good work, Mayor.”

Sound Off is published as a venue for our readers to express their personal opinions and does not express the opinions of the Press And Journal. Sound Off is published in the Viewpoints sections but is not intended to be read as news reports.

• “I hate seeing the new Council argue but sometimes things need to be said. I’d like to know what the attorney thinks about Anne Einhorn voting on the future of the Elks when her husband is part of the group looking to get control of the theater.”

• “Can we clone Dawn Knull?”

• “No way does it make any sense

to narrow a street. Who’s running this town anyway, that stupid mayor of Harrisburg?”

• “As long as people raise their kids with the prison mentality, eg. ‘Snitches get stitches’ or to turn in a criminal makes one a ‘Rat.’ You will never see an end to crime and violence.”

• “I find it crazy that the Mayor stands up to councilwoman and he is called Trump, but when he did it to the previous council he was called a hero.

I really hope people of Middletown realize all that our Mayor has done and don’t run off a good Mayor.”

• “I wish the second ward council member would stand for more issues with this town like she is standing up for the Elks Theater. Friends of the Elks have had their chance to run the theater and they failed, what has changed?”

• “Why does the Press And Journal only print the Sound Off write ins calling out the Mayor? I have written

several in the past three weeks and they have not been printed? Beginning to understand why local people have quit buying or advertising with them.”

• “Does anybody here know if Kuppy’s sells alcohol? I really enjoy a cold Genny Cream Ale with my pancakes in the morning.”

• “‘Just because a zoning board can deliberate in private doesn’t mean it should.’ Just because the Press And Journal has the right to freedom of Press does not mean that they should.

Just because the Press And Journal can stir the pot does not mean they should.”

• “Two years ago when Mayor Curry was standing up to Chris McNamara and making comments like ‘it is not your dog and pony show’ people applauded him. Now that he is doing the same thing and standing up to a council member and pointing out to others that she does have a vested interest, he is called names and made to be the bad guy. I applaud him for having the courage to speak what he feels. I wish others on council would do the same.”

• “Common sense says you need an ID to vote to prove you live in the right district and to prove you are a U.S. citizen. And all these courts overturning the laws that say you need an ID are so full of it. It’s all political and they say

it’s a burden for the poorer people to get an ID. Well most poor people are on food stamps or assistance and you need an ID for that. The Democrats will do anything to win, no matter how wrong it is and Hillary is a big liar Trump will make this country better. It is getting so bad with the illegal’s coming here that they should put a minefield up at the border. I have no sympathy for anyone coming over illegal. We have the greatest country in the world and we can’t protect our borders, Oh, let me rephrase that, we do not want to protect our borders or our citizens.”

• “THE END IS NEAR.” • “I wonder if the commissioners

would explain to the public why they denied putting security cameras up around the Police Department?

The cameras were around $6,000 to purchase and denied even though approximately $100,000 was returned and not used. A private citizen then offers to pay the $6,000 of their own money and donate the cameras at no cost whatsoever to the township.

Again, this was denied by the Commissioners. Now, could you explain why the commissioners would deny something like this? In the past three weeks, police all across the country have come under attack from snipers to ambushes. Shouldn’t the commissioners protect those who protect us when it costs them nothing?”

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Family and friends come together for Chase

ori Lawyer of Royalton hosted family and friends to a yard sale July 22 to benefit Chase’s Dream, her grandson Chase Tallaricho of York County.

Lawyer and her friends held the sale with clothes, household items, religious items, books and shoes, many of which were donated.

Chase is nonverbal and has been diagnosed with Angelman Syndrome, a neurological and

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developmental disease that is inherited. This disease causes problems with muscle control, body temperature regulation and seizures.

Chase was recently treated for several weeks at Childen’s Hospital of Philadelphia for his condition.

Chase’s Dream supporters will be having a bake and sub sale Sept. 10 at Sharp Shopper in Lower Swatara Twp.