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‘Protecting’ Barclay Square Keeping Structures Out of the Park

On the cover: Rails to Trails members Susan Wolfe, Howard Glessner and Bob Anibaldi (see page 5 for story)

Photo by Courtney Katherine Photography

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By S. Thomas Curry of Hometown magazine

unny days are here and community activities in Barclay Square are soon to start.

The Memorial Day ceremony is usually the first community-sponsored event that attracts a gathering of people.

This to be followed by the town’s major events, including the Groundhog Festival, the Church in the Park, concerts in the Park, and Relay for Life activities.

All of the events have been thoughtfully planned to take advantage of the spacious lawn and walks, the shade of trees, and the beauty of the many flowering plants. Many events use the Memorial Bandstand for staging and promotion.

For years, community and organization leaders have protected the “Square,” giving consideration to its value as green space and as a site for demonstrating community The first structure to be built in the Public Park was a wood bandstand on the northwest corner near the Pantall Hotel. It was built in 1911 for band concerts and public speaking. Large crowds would overflow spirit. onto Mahoning Street.

Many articles appearing in Hometown magazine through the years have pointed Public Square possibly be put to better use out that Rev. David Barclay designated the by building “a fine public school building” Building a Public School in Barclay Square plot for “public use forin the center of it?

Park ‘Unthinkable’ ever.” In the early 19th century, the PresbyThe young editor of the Punxsutawney In the decade of the 1880s Punxterian denomination of Rev. Barclay would Spirit, W. O. Smith, saw the advantages of sutawney’s population had grown from 675 worship in their church located in the center the idea. “It would be a beautiful location,” in the 1880 census to nearly 2,700 by 1890. of the square. he wrote in his November 2, 1887 issue.

The area had seen the introduction of minAs the village moved into more prosper“The grounds around it would answer the ing, the railroads, new industry and comous times, there were many double purpose of a park and discussions about how to a campus for the children to use the land beyond its disport themselves upon,” he wide-open space of dirt, claimed. And he added to his wild grass, mud and ponds. vision — the building might The editor of the Punxbe made large enough for a sutawney Plaindealer in City Hall, too. In his effort 1869 spoke out against the to promote the construction abuse of the spot. of the schoolhouse he would He had stated, “Nothing offer “There is no place on perhaps adds more to the earth too fine or too sacred beauty of a town than its for a public school house.”

Public Square.” One misThere was little public supuse he pointed out was the port for the idea. The editor sight of “roads” that had heard the objections. “Rob historic public park was transformed from barren land into a landscaped “rebeen permitted to develop Punxsutawney’s sort” with shrubbery, flowers, and a wide-open lawn area with concrete sidewalks from 1902 us of our Park?” people across the grounds, “sub- to 1904. People would experience tranquil moments in their new beauty spot. (Post card would say. “Build a school jecting to all the inconven- image courtesy of Punxsutawney Area Historical & Genealogical Society) house in front of the stores ience of a highway that and hotels that surround the merce. The need for a larger schoolhouse in land which should be sacred to the square?” Unthinkable, was the outcry.

Punxsutawney became apparent. From distown...the property of all alike.” (July 15, The needed public school would eventucussions there emerged an idea: Could the 1869, Punxsutawney Plaindealer) - Continued on page 4

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‘Back in the Day, I became a preserver’

By Judy Freed for Hometown magazine id I just say that? Am I old enough to say that? Isn’t that something that my parents always said?

My first thought, after looking at the shelves in my husband’s office, was the same one that I had when I peered into the hall closet. I had finally realized that I am a preserver. I looked it up in the dictionary. I save things from ruin.

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and sports. They were on the gridiron and the basketball court, jumping on trampolines, running races, learning languages, singing in the choir and playing in the band. Even I won an occasional award.

The scrapbook grew thicker; soon another one was purchased, and then another.

In the meantime, along came my Kodak Brownie camera with black and white film that you had to take to the drugstore to be developed.

Among the photos from “back in the days” were two from the 1940s of the Freed’s in their childhood and school years, playing in the safe environs of their backyards. (Submitted photo)

It began in the 1960s when I discovered that all of the memories from elementary and junior high school were spilling out of desk drawers and something had to be done as soon as possible. The first scrapbook was purchased, and thus began a tradition that has lasted over fifty years.

This was combined with my sincere motto, “I will need this someday.”

High school brought infatuation to this shy freshman. Upperclassmen were my idols. They were photographed, and their pictures appeared in the local newspaper.

I clipped several of the articles and carefully placed them in my scrapbook.

By the time we became seniors, many of my classmates had excelled in academics

Marriage and the birth of two children opened up new horizons, and baby books were filled to the brim with all of the important information that parents dote upon: First tooth, first step, first words, and school experiences.

And the cycle started all over again.

Their artwork went from the refrigerator into binders.

A cubbyhole in the basement was transformed into a darkroom in the 1970s.

When our boys were old enough, their father taught them how to develop their own film. If at first they didn’t succeed, they could try and try again.

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For many years, Memorial Day services have been held in Barclay Square at the stone Memorial Bandstand erected in 1932. Crowds of spectators would enjoy the ceremony from the spacious green open area surrounding it. (Photo 1960s courtesy S. Thomas Curry)

‘Protecting’ Barclay Continued from page 2 ally be built in 1890 on East Mahoning Street east of the East End Bridge. The school building was originally called the East End Building. In 1913, school officials named it the Mary A. Wilson School to honor the popular teacher who had died in 1908.

Setting the Standard for a ‘Public Square’

In the late 19th century, village improvement groups had a vision of a more landscaped space with planned walkways, trees and attractive shrubs and flowers.

By the late 1890s, a fence was erected and trees planted around its perimeter. Public subscriptions were being sought to make improvements. Ideas such as a flower bed, a summer cottage or an ornamental fountain had been offered for the center of the park.

A statue of Rev. Barclay was considered for the a more picturesque park that was emerging in the minds of the people.

Most notable was the transformation of the

public gift made their pleas to the town’s citizens. “We should show our appreciation,” they spoke, “by keeping it up, by refraining from throwing paper or other refuse material on it, and by declining to spit on the sidewalks. Men who sit on the benches should have sufficient energy to eject tobacco-laden saliva beyond the limits of the walk ...”

Among the first violations in the park were two reported in June 1904. One of the offenses was crawling under the shrubbery and going to sleep and the other was for spitting tobacco juice over the cement walk.

(June 22, 1904, Punxsutawney Spirit)

Erecting the wooden Bandstand

The first physical structure to be built in the new eye-pleasing natural spot was a wood bandstand that was built in 1911 on the northwest corner of the park near the Pantall Hotel. The 16-foot, octagonal shaped bandstand was requested by the Citizens Band for concerts and public speakers.

There were objections to the request. People claimed the location would create congestion from people standing on the heavily traveled Mahoning Street. Enjoying the popular town band concerts, the grass and shrubbery of the park would be destroyed by the throngs of people. These concerned citizens suggested the bandstand be The stone Memorial Bandstand remains the focal point of the park’s open space. built on “the Barclay Square continues as “the prettiest feature of this town” through the voices of residents since 1904, who have been the park’s “space protectors,” preventing the plaza,” opposite valued area from being overtaken by proposed buildings. (Photo by Thomas Curry) the park on Mahoning Street, in land into a beautiful park from 1901 particular in front of M. A. Quarry’s store through 1904 when the Punxsutawney Iron (where is now the Eagles’ Lodge). Others Company underwrote the $12,000 cost to thought the center of the park would be a change the barren land into what was called more favored location to accommodate the a “resort of pride for the beginning of the expected crowds for many events.

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The wood bandstand was dedicated in July Looking forward to their future park, res1911 and continued in use until 1925. Over idents saw the last circus to pitch tent in the many years it had fallen into a disgraceful, park in August 1901. A new fence, new unsightly condition and was condemned as sidewalks, flower beds, shrubbery, trees and “defacing the park.” The old wooden strucbenches changed the appearance, a sight ture was removed in 1932. that for years has set the standard for what the Memorial Bandstand Punxsutawney people desired for their The familiar Memorial Bandstand of our “Public Square.” time, of native stone and designed by Shortly after the completed work, in May Punx’y native and architect John Zeedick, 1904 several ordinances were adopted to was built in the summer of 1932 at a cost of govern the use and care of the new park.

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Punx’y’s Rails to Trails Constantly Improving Keeping Mahoning Shadow Going for the Community

By Susan Wolfe, Allie Shields Butch Prushnock, Keith Shields, Chuck for Hometown magazine Fanus, and Mike Roberts are board members he Mahoning Shadow Trail, a 15-mile emeritus. All were instrumental in making the span of reclaimed railroad bed, is a Mahoning Shadow Trail a reality. Marianne tremendous asset to our community.

Guidash handled all the secretarial duties for The trail was initially intended as a many years. Volunteers who work tirelessly traffic-free recreational area for walkers, runthroughout the year include Jack Sisk, Jack ners, cyclists, and cross-country skiers. BeSmelko, Jim and Helen Glatt, Gary and Vera cause of its quiet, natural setting, the trail is a Duck, and Dave Depp. Sheriff Carl Gotwald’s place where you Orange Patrol can go to clear your has helped with head. In recent heavy work such years, the Mahonas clearing daning Shadow Trail gerous trees has served as the from the sides of site of many events the trail.

Of to raise money for course, officers charities. Several and board memlocal photograbers recruit famphers have used its ily members and unspoiled beauty as friends to help the background for with trail projfamily and wedects ding portraits.

Jefferson Many PAHS sen- The Mahoning Shadow Trail offers the best the outdoors can County is techniin a quiet, natural setting, and a site to raise money for iors have designed offer cally the owner many charitable events. (Photo by Bill Anderson) projects that not of the trail, but only complete their graduation requirements, the Punxsutawney Area Rails-to-Trails Assobut also enhance the trail with improvemens. ciation maintains the trail and does its best to Interest in developing a trail began in this “police” activity on the trail. The two biggest area in the fall of 1994. After ten years of red issues that the association encounters are vantape, legal wrangling, and grant writing, the dalism and the effects of stormy weather. The trail opened in the spring of 2004. However, at abandoned railroad beds were once very popthe end of May, a severe storm caused the Maular with ATV riders, but the use of motorized honing Creek to over-run its banks, and large vehicles is now restricted on the crushed limeareas of the trail were left rutted and rockstone surface of the trail in order to provide strewn. FEMA granted funding for trail resafety for pedestrians and cyclists. Some pairs, but a flood also damaged much of that renegade riders have by-passed the gates and work in September 2004. Today, the nearly ripped up the trail surface. The more ambi10-year-old trail is in need of repair to its tious of the vandals have actually destroyed drainage system and its worn surface. gates by ramming them with vehicles having The association officers are President Matt off-road capabilities. After a storm, the trail is Taladay, Vice-president Nick Gianvito, Treaslittered with branches or, even worse, fallen urer Tony Bofinger, and Secretary Susan trees. If a culvert is blocked by debris, ruts apWolfe. Board members include the maintepear where the surface has washed away. The nance committee of Howard Glessner, Bob board members who maintain the trail say that Anibaldi, and Art Foien. Amy Taladay holds it is a work in progress and that the work never the position of event and publicity coordinator. ends.

Dan McGinley, the newest board member, Hometown magazine’s cover this month will coordinate the capital campaign sched- Continued on page 10 uled for later this year. Dave Osikowicz,

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‘Protecting’ Barclay Continued from page 4 $2500. It was financed by public subscriptions and the consolidation of several community funds. (See Hometown, October 2004) Before it was built, the regular Friday evening band concerts were performed in the center of the “oval” grass area of the park in a temporary “structure,” built large enough to accommodate a band of 50 pieces.

Even then, there were some objections to the stone bandstand’s placement in the center of the park and marring that eyefilling, wide-open green space. Residents were urged, again, to offer “kindly treatment” in their civic responsibility in using the park. “Prove that you appreciate what is being done by treating the grass and shrubbery with consideration.”

To this day, the unique, stone Punxsutawney memorial bandstand is the only permanent structure in the park, accepted with community pride for its beauty and purpose. The Groundhog Festival Committee enhanced it in 1999 when it introduced a much-needed canopy over the bandstand to protect the performers and their equipment from the weather and to provide improved sound to the audience.

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In the 1940s, a borough council member proposed to build a municipal building in the center of the park to replace the outdated and impractical borough building located on Torrence Street. By replacing the bandstand, the plan was for a building that would include a balcony where bands would play and speakers could address their audiences.

This building would include a rotunda in which the names of the veterans of all wars would be placed. Those rotunda doors would open to various borough offices. On the second floor would be the council chamber, large enough to serve as an auditorium.

In the basement would be kept fire equipment that included fire trucks. A ramp would run from the Union Street side for the trucks to exit.

The municipal building would include cells for “Punxsutawney’s few who misbehave.” In the building, too, would be drinking fountains and rest rooms for the public.

The concept of a new municipal building in the park, proposed in April 1946, did not materialize. Objections were strong.

Women in various clubs were energetic and forceful in their “letters to the editor” in opposition. Said one in a letter titled “Nightmare: Barclay Square was meant for a beauty spot for the residents and visitors of

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Another project for a building to be erected in Barclay Square became public knowledge after a council meeting in early April 1960. The headlines made it known “NEW PUBLIC COMFORT STATION WILL BE BUILT IN THIS CITy.” The story reported “it will be constructed in Barclay Square here this summer.” Council had unanimously approved a project sponsored by the local chapter of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, commonly called Jaycees.

It was to be built on the northwest corner of the park, where once was located the wood, octagonal bandstand. The “comfort

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John Zeedick, who had also designed the 1932-era stone bandstand, put together the plans for the proposed 23-foot public restroom. It would be “tamper-proof,” have electric heat for winter comfort, and electric hand driers to eliminate paper waste and littering. Included in the plan was a marble groundhog “large enough to add attractiveness, not to deface the scenic beauty,” supporters stated.

The general public was taken by surprise with the announcement of the approval of the public restroom. Criticism of the idea led to calling the project the “Park John.”

The pages of the Spirit were filled with letters objecting to council’s quick action. One writer exclaimed, “Barclay Square, like the Groundhog, is a tradition in Punxsutawney.

But now Barclay Square is to be despoiled, by the erection of a public toilet.”

A week after the announcement council met again with an overflowing crowd in the second-floor council chambers in the old municipal building on Torrence Street.

Council bowed to the protests and halted the construction plan.

We all have our own memories of the “dressing up” of Barclay Square and the activities. Thanks to “protectors of the space” from generations past, the park today remains a place of comfort and joy in a natural setting.

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In particular, members of the Baptist Church on Union Street were vigorously opposed. Besides hiding their church building, located directly behind the park, they didn’t want fire equipment “snorting around” when worship services were in progress, they wrote.

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By PRIDE The Hamilton and Pleasant Valley mines chased a large amount of adjoining coal lands. for Hometown magazine were owned by the Hamilton Coal Company.

They established their principal office for The Soldier Run and Sprague mines were Pennsylvania in Reynoldsville and their main t was July 1873 when the first railroad car owned by Powers, Brown & Co., which Waloffice at Buffalo, New york. In doing so, they of the Allegheny Valley Railway rolled ston Brown held an interest. In 1887, the firm became the largest soft coal operators in the into Reynoldsville. As the railroad was of Bell, Lewis & yates, which had operated world at that time. The Reynoldsville Letter, a being built, speculators were in the mines in the DuBois area, was incorporated as column in the Punxsutawney Spirit, reported Reynoldsville area purchasing options on coal in June of 1888 that lands. Upon the arrival Bell, Lewis & yates of the first car, the Diwere putting down test amond Mine — loholes all over the councated on the Sandy try, and they were makLick Creek just north ing a new opening near of Reynoldsville — the old Sprague mine. had been opened and The Bell, Lewis & was ready to ship the yates Company confirst coal from the trolled practically all area. Other mines the coal in the quickly followed. PanReynoldsville and coast Mine and WashWinslow township ington Mine opened area. near the Pancoast flag Bell, Lewis & yates station on the AlCoal Mining Company legheny Valley RailIt was the presence of the railroad, which provided the means of transporting coal to market, that enabled way. Hamilton Mine mines to be developed. Stations, such as this in Reynoldsville, were busy places. (Photo from the col- opened a new mine, the Big Soldier Run Mine, and the first Soldier lection of S.J. Sharp.) adjacent to the Sprague Run Mine were Bell, Lewis & yates Coal Mining Company.

Mine, two miles above Prescottville in 1890. opened above town. The next openings were They bought out the interests of the mining There they installed a newly developed wire the Sprague mine, at Rathmel, and the Pleascompanies in Winslow Township and purrope haulage system and had four entries side ant Valley Mine east of town.

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This group of mines were collectively referred to as the Reynoldsville mines which were operated by the Bell, Lewis and Yates Coal Mining Company.

Lucius Waterman Robinson, who was the superintendent of the Bell, Lewis and Yates Coal Mining Company’s Rochester mine, later became the president of the Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Company. (Map from the 100th Anniversary Publication of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal & Iron Company.)

by side. The full mining capacity was 8,000 tons of coal per day. It had the largest capacity of any soft coal mine in the world. The opening of the Big Soldier Run Mine was a magnificent success for the Bell, Lewis & yates Coal Mining Company and, in a way, was the beginning of the end for the earlier mines.

As early as December 1891, the Volunteer, a Reynoldsville newspaper, was reporting that the Pleasant Valley Mine would soon be a thing of the past. The coal mining industry in - Continued on page 14

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lation that was taking over our household.

I was going to get organized, once and for all.

Continued from page 3 Seventeen albums and scrapbooks were ents, we discovered a plethora of albums torn apart, one by one. It was then that I filled with generations of relatives while asked myself, “What was I thinking?” I emptying their homes. The well-worn alprobably wasn’t the first person to carebums took their places on our shelves. fully preserve personalized napkins and Having spent well over twenty-five matchbooks from weddings, was I? years in community service, my husband As we reminisced, we found ourselves and I accumulated saying, “Back in minutes from meetthe day,” over and ings, newsletters, over to each other. old letterheads, Our children were proclamations, taught cursive church photos, auto writing. “Whatrallye instructions, ever happened to and numerous pamthat?” we wonphlets, just to name dered.

They a few of the items. played games outThis was about the side and with nutime that the plastic merous pets over totes were purthe years; there chased. We found were no cellthat we could stack phones to occupy two or three on top their time. We of each other in the didn’t worry basement. One was about terrorists. designated “AnyNot having the thing Groundhog,” heart to throw while another held As common with many “preservers,” there are to be everything away, yet more albums. found pictures of people who are not always identified. and the thought When we ran out of Judy located one to be shared with readers, with hopes that our children would identify the individuals. The only one would room, the under- someone rent a that is identified in the photo above is the older woman the-bed containers in the middle next to the young child. She was Helen dumpster when made an appear- Stear whose family had Stear’s Store near the Margiotti we were gone, I Bridge. She asks, “Where were they going ‘back in the knew I had to ance.

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Rails to Trails Continued from page 5 highlights Bob’s and Howard’s routine spring maintenance. Over the summer, Bob, Howard, and other volunteers will be on call to deal with storm damage. In the fall, the association’s leaf vacuum, two leaf blowers, and rakes will be used to remove leaves from the trail surface.

“April 20 was our last official cleanup day,” says Susan Wolfe, “but we encourage everyone in the community to perform maintenance whenever they see the need. We really appreciate people clearing the trail of litter while walking,” she added. “It’s nice to know that they care about the trail as much as we (the board members) do.”

The Punxsutawney Area Rails-to-Trails Association deals with other important issues.

Many organizations and individuals file requests to use the trail for events. The board does its best to accommodate these requests and resolve conflicts. For example, scheduling an event in early spring when the trail surface is still soft leads to even more maintenance to smooth out ruts. Allowing fund-raisers several weekends a month can result in “too much of a good thing.” These organized activities not only end up competing for donations and becoming too commonplace, but also impede recreational users’ enjoyment of the trail. The board asks for compromise and understanding when fielding

these requests.

Dance. The Mahoning Shadow Shuffle is alThe association also asks that Mahoning ways scheduled on the second Saturday of Shadow Trail users exercise common sense October. It consists of a half-marathon, a 10and courtesy when on the trail. Trail etiquette k, a 5-k, and a one-mile Fun-Run. Forms for suggestions are posted on signs fastened to the this year’s Shuffle (Saturday, October 12) can gates. be accessed on the Major complaints Chamber of Cominvolve pet-owners merce website. who do not keep The Groundhog their animals on Day Dance is held leashes or do not on a Friday or Satclean their pets’ urday night close to waste from the trail.

Phil’s big day. The The board asks Eagles Club has users to think of the graciously hosted trail as a two-lane this event for many highway. years. The 2014 Traffic should event is scheduled keep to the right to for Friday, January allow for oncoming 31, and will feature traffic and passing the classic-rock on the left. Trail engroup “Down-totrances should not the-Wire.” be blocked, nor Maintaining a should people park safe and debris-free their bikes or trail is a priority for strollers directly on the Punxsutawney the trail.

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Although the trail’s website is not yet up and running, there are several ways for the public to keep up with trail news and events or to contact the association. The Punxsutawney Area Rails-to-Trails Association holds regularly scheduled meetings the second Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. in the Punxsutawney Area Community Center. All interested residents and trail-users are encouraged to attend these meetings.

Correspondence and donations can be sent to the Punxsutawney Area Rails-to-Trails Association, P.O. Box 16, Punxsutawney, PA 15767. The trail has an e-mail account, mahoningshadow@hotmail.com, and the Punxsutawney Chamber of Commerce website contains trail forms and information. The board also places FyI’s and advertisements in the Punxsutawney Spirit.

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By PRIDE for Hometown magazine pring. It is time to throw off winter’s dregs and get ready to enjoy the outdoors. It is also time to clean-up and fix-up your home and property so when summer arrives you will be ready for grilling on the deck, camping in the back yard, and maybe even setting up a swimming pool for summer fun. you can do this with confidence if you check with your borough code enforcement officer or your township secretary to make sure you are within the rules regarding maintenance and improvements to your property.

Boroughs and townships are the units of local government responsible for health, safety and welfare. These units of government are charged with establishing codes which protect their residents.

These codes have been developed for health and safety reasons. For example, back in the 1800’s cholera was a dreaded disease which killed many people. When it was discovered that hog wastes getting into the water supply was a source of cholera bacteria, codes prohibiting residents from keeping hogs within boroughs were enacted. The result was a significant reduction in deaths from cholera in the community.

Today, with several centuries of experience, local government has a number of health, safety and welfare codes on the books. There are codes regarding lawn and property maintenance. Most boroughs have a six-inch rule for grass, weeds and vegetation. Keeping the grass cut does more than provide a neat looking lawn. It keeps down pests including gnats, mosquitoes, flies, fleas, ticks, spiders, snakes and other unwanted creatures which live in high vegetation. Keeping these creatures from your yard helps keep you and your neighbor healthier by preventing illnesses humans can get from these creatures. As a further precaution you may wish to apply a good quality pest control formula. Just be sure it is one that is

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If you live in an area which requires sidewalks, you must also comply with the codes regarding trees and shrubs protruding into the sidewalk area. The reason for keeping sidewalks area clear of vegetation is simple— safety for those using the sidewalk, and if pedestrians are able to stay on the sidewalk, they won’t be walking in your yard or in the street.

Codes that address the disposal of trash require each resident to have the services of a licensed refuse collector. Refuse and trash strewn about a property attracts vermin including rats, mice, skunks, as well as feral cats and stray dogs.

These animals bring with them some of the same pests that tall vegetation houses—flies, fleas and ticks.

And where there is an accumulation of garbage there are flies and the strong, unpleasant odor which accompanies rotting garbage. Each borough and township maintains a list of licensed refuse collectors from which homeowners may choose. One word of warning is that placing your trash in another’s trash bin is considered “theft of services” and may lead to prosecution.

Another code on the books in many boroughs is one restricting the use of household furniture as outside furniture. The materials used in constructing indoor furniture provide attractive resting places for feral cats and nesting places for rats and mice and places where mites, fleas and ticks nest. It is best to use indoor furniture indoors and outdoor furniture outdoors, by doing so you will avoid any citations.

Planning to improve your home, add a deck or a swimming pool to the back yard this summer? Be aware that these may also be a public safety hazard. Codes give the safety guidelines for installing these improvements. Making sure your improvements meet the necessary safety requirements to protect you, your visitors and your neighbors.

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Back in the Day Continued from page 8 high school classes, autograph books from junior high, letters from overseas penpals, photos and obituaries of deceased family members and friends — along with some pictures of their tombstones — and love letters, postcards and World War II letters from several relatives.

I was fascinated with several ladies and gentlemen that were “dressed to the nines” in numerous photos and imagined myself sitting beside them in their classy black vehicles. Where were they going, back in the day? And, more importantly, who were they?

Living with a family of both amateur and professional photographers, I was overwhelmed with the number of duplicate prints we owned. The living room floor became a workstation.

After sorting, stacking, and labeling at least a thousand photos, I addressed envelopes to over fifty classmates, friends and relatives. They were going to receive a piece of their past, whether they wanted it or not!

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Coincidentally, it was during this same time period that the United States Postal Service announced that they would be discontinuing Saturday mail service. I figured that this was the least we could do to help them with their deficit. They welcomed my husband with open arms every time he appeared at their door.

If I were to offer any advice, it would be: Gather every photo and important memento in your house. Place them in a location where you will see them every day from every angle. This will inspire you to clean up that space. Then, sit down with your family before it’s too late, as it was in my case. Identify the people in your photographs along with approximate years that they were taken. Make photocopies of newspaper articles immediately, lest they turn yellow with age and rip easily.

It took three months to finish the project.

New albums are on the shelves, sporting big labels, and each one tells a story from beginning to end. There are no regrets so far. It gave us a chance to relive both the happy and sad times. The best part was receiving letters, e-mails and phone calls from many of the recipients of our mass mailing.

I knew I would need that stuff someday.

And what, you might ask, was I going to do with all of the empty binders? They are currently being recycled and will see new life with fabric covers, cut and glued by yours truly. The plan is that they will be dropped off on doorsteps to unsuspecting people under darkness of night.

Oh, and by the way, they recently announced that Saturday mail service is back on. you’re welcome.

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• the Punx’y groundhog club will hold its second Annual Community yard Sale at Gobblers Knob on Saturday June 15 - rain or shine! Cost for a 20-foot x 20-foot space is $20. Set up time is 9 to 11 a.m. The yard sale runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Tables can be rented for $5 each.) Deadline to sign up is June 1.

Contact Katie Donald of the Groundhog Club at 814-938-7700x3 or at events@ punxsutawney.com. • the Salvation Army in Punxsutawney has launched its annual Red Shield Fundraising Campaign. Letters have been sent to local businesses and individuals seeking donations. The funds raised during this campaign help to provide programs and services to those in need during the late spring, summer and early fall months. The Salvation Army offers several different programs to help

area residents who have fallen on hard times. Captains Keith and Katie Jache are available to speak to any group or person who needs more information.

Telephone 938-5530. • Punxsutawney theatre Arts guild presents "You're a good Man, charlie Brown" - Charles M. Schulz's worldfamous comic strip comes to life on stage as the Punxsutawney Theatre Arts Guild presents "you're a Good Man, Charlie Brown," the revised version of the 1967 classic Broadway musical.

Show time is 7:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, June 19 to 22, at the auditorium of the Punxsutawney Area Middle School. Tickets will be sold at the door. Following their week in Punxsutawney, the cast and crew move to the Sawmill Theater in Cook Forest where - Continued on page 25

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(814) 938-7140 • 1-800-585-5303 TTY/TDD #711 Can you identify the machinery in this picture? It is a postcard that was mailed from Reynoldsville to New Jersey. It is believed it is part of the mine tipple at the Big Soldier Run Mine. If you know what this machinery is and how it was used, PRIDE-Coal Memorial would appreciate your information. Send your identification of the machinery and a description of its use to PRIDE - Coal Memorial, P.O. Box 298, Punxsutawney, PA, 15767

Big Run Soldier Mine Continued from page 7 the Reynoldsville area was changing. All the coal that could be mined, by going in on the level from the opening, was taken out, and it was becoming necessary to go down a shaft or down a slope to reach the deeper coal.

“The Diamond, Old Soldier Run, Old Hamilton and Pleasant Valley will have their epitaphs written in the rill of mineral water running down the hillsides from the drains which were constructed while they were being worked. They have furnished a great deal of good coal and given employment to a great many willing hands; but they have all been, we have been told, the scene of tragedies which brought death to the miner and undying sorrow to his family and friends,” the Volunteer lamented.

Before a year had passed the Reynoldsville Star reported in their October 19, 1892 issue that, “A cave in of some of the old rooms in

hiring men to work in the new mine at Big Soldier Run. A miner who came from Brockport mines said that word had been sent to that place that all Italians and Polanders that wanted work could get it at Reynoldsville.

Other men stated they knew for a positive fact that Italians had been hired to work in the Big Soldier Run Mine since the first of the year.

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According to the Reynoldsville Star, the miners faced “a pitiable plight with wolf of want standing grinning at the door of poverty, and the cold winds of winter sighing dismal dirges over the graves of hope.”

The Bell, Lewis & yates Coal Mining Company claimed that shutting down these mines was caused by a lack of orders for coal, but the men thought the move was aimed at their organizing. They held a meeting and appointed a committee to meet with Mr. S.B. Elliott, the mine superintendent. Mr. Elliott stood firm that the reason for the lack of work was a lack of orders and that the company was not

Sprague mine when one of the miners, by a blow from his pick, opened a way for the water to drain from the Sprague mine. Within seconds a flood started as the pressure of the water pushed through and enlarged the opening. The flood water inundated the Big Soldier Run Mine. An alarm was given and the men ran to escape without waiting to get their dinner buckets or coats. Some of the men waded water up to their knees. Mine props, powder kegs, dinner buckets, coats and anything that floated were carried along on the water as it made a mad rush to escape from the mine. Fast action kept this flood from being a death trap to many of the miners.

The Sprague Mine Tipple was officially abandoned in January 1897. The tipple was torn down and the railroad tracks were taken up. The last work at the Sprague Mine was to

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Telling family stories

By Sharon Randall, SHNS for Hometown magazine n a recent road trip with my sister and two cousins, we took turns telling old stories about our family, especially our grandmother. If I had to choose just one story to remember her by, this would be it.

Her husband was a man of many callings, including that of a Baptist preacher. Occasionally he would share the pulpit with a visiting pastor, invite him home to supper and even offer to put him up overnight.

This never set well with her. She had 12 children — a lot of mouths to feed and beds to make without adding one more.

Nevertheless, she did her best to welcome them — all of them, save for one, who apparently overstayed his welcome.

I don’t know the man’s name. Maybe Gomer. If it was ever part of the story, it has long since been forgotten. But this much I well remember: At breakfast one Saturday morning, the aforementioned houseguest dared to make an untoward remark about my grandmother’s biscuits. That was bad. But then he had the gall to say he wanted her to do his laundry and to starch and iron the shirt he planned to preach in the following day.

A hush fell over the table. The baby stopped crying. The clock stopped ticking. The dogs stopped scratching their fleas.

My grandfather later recalled feeling a chill crawl up his spine, causing the hair to bristle on the back of his neck as he waited, he said, for all hell to break loose.

Much to his surprise, his wife merely smiled and told their guest she’d be happy to oblige.

Which she was, extremely so.

The next day at church, she sat front row and center to hear the poor man preach, and tried her best not to laugh as he danced red-faced around the pulpit, pulling at his collar and hitching up his pants — thanks to the peach fuzz she had sprinkled in the neck of his shirt and the crotch of his undershorts.

I can summarize that story in one sentence: My grandmother did not abide ill manners or condescension, and she found instructive ways to make it clear to anyone daring to doubt her.

The sentence is true. But the story is a far truer telling of who she was, her nature and how her family remembers her.

Stories tell us who we are. They record all the pieces that we sometimes leave out. But it takes a lot of stories to convey the whole of a personality. And it takes a lot of time to tell and retell them, to commit them to memory before they are lost.

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I grew up in a time and place in which storytelling was as much a part of everyday life as TV and texting are today.

My children, like all children, loved stories, especially stories about things they’d done that they had no business doing and managed not to get killed.

Their children love stories, too. They listen, not just with their ears, but with their whole bodies, growing quiet and still as a cat watching a gopher hole, hanging on every detail.

I wish you could see them.

I hope someday, years from now, my children and their children and their children’s grandchildren will tell a few stories about me.

Maybe they will tell the one about how, when I was 4, I hid my Aunt Hazel’s crutches and refused to give them back.

Or how, when my kids were little, I’d use tweezers to pull the fortunes out of their fortune cookies and replace them with more specific predictions aimed at putting the fear of God in their little daredevil souls.

Or about my persistent, annoying tendencies to try to get in the wrong car, and ask too many questions and embarrass my family and friends in print.

We don’t get to choose the stories that are told about us. The best we can hope for is that someone will know enough and remember enough and care enough to keep telling them.

And maybe, if we’re lucky, they will tell them with a smile.

(Sharon Randall can be contacted at P.O. Box 777394, Henderson NV 89077, or at www.sharonrandall.com.)

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Music and lyrics of this award-winning family show are by Clark M. Gesner with additional dialogue by Michael Mayer, and additional music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa.

This two-act musical follows an average and challenging day in the lives of Charlie Brown, his younger sister Sally, their friends, Linus and Lucy Van Pelt, the Beethoven-loving Schroeder, and, of course, the irrepressible dog, Snoopy.

Through dialogue and song, the six navigate their way through philosophies, adventures, and friendships to discover how to find the simplicity and happiness of life.

Just as the cartoon has done for decades, the show recaptures the little joys of childhood while allowing the audience to embrace some of the things that make adulthood so enjoyable.

All of the familiar props and settings from the cartoon are skillfully integrated into the pacing of the show: Snoopy's doghouse, Schroeder's piano, Linus' blanket, Lucy's psychiatry booth, the school bus,

and the dreaded kite-eating tree.

Veteran Guild director Jef Dinsmore and his cast and crew believe that "you're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" creates "a wonderful sense of nostalgia by reminding theater-goers of all ages of the beauty that comes when we open our hearts to happiness, friendship, simplicity, and love."

Five familiar PTAG performers and a talented newcomer are already busy memorizing lines and learning the songs. The cast includes Doug Fye as Charlie Brown, Jessica Suntheimer as Sally Brown.

Kathy S. Dinsmore is Snoopy; Jessica Schidlmeier is Lucy Van Pelt.

Rounding out the ensemble are Timothy Lee Cooper as Linus Van Pelt and Jef Dinsmore as Schroeder.

Adding their expertise to the show are Jef Dinsmore, dramatic director; Kathy S. Dinsmore, vocal director; Matt Dinsmore, stage manager; Karen Rummell and Sandy Winger, pianists; Ilona Ball and Debra Dinsmore, production assistants; and Terry Studebaker, crew technician.

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Big Run Soldier Mine Continued from page 14 draw, or take out, the pillars of coal which had been left to support the roof. The company was taking this coal through the hill and out the rope haulage system at the Big Soldier Run Mine. Pick miners, at the Sprague Mine, were getting 40 cents per ton for drawing pillars while the machine miners got 25 cents for the same work. Most of the work was being done by the machine men, the pick men were only getting about one day of work a week.

The pick men held a meeting and voted to ask the company for a reduction from 40 to 30 cents for pick miners and to give them more work. It had been the intention of the Company to let the pick men in the Sprague Mine look for work elsewhere. But, knowing it

would be only temporary until the mine closed, decided to honor the pick men’s request and gave them more work at 30 cents per ton, just five cents more than the work could be done with the machines. Coal had been shipped from the Sprague Mine for about sixteen years, when on Saturday, January 27 the last car was loaded.

However, that was not the last news about the Sprague Mine. On a Monday morning, in July 1897, Irvin Winslow had quite an exciting ride, which was not marked on the schedule. Irvin, a car dropper at Big Soldier Run Mine had started from the tipple with a 60,000 pound capacity gondola. As it neared the scales he began tightening the brake, and in doing so broke the chain, which left him powerless to slow the speed of the car, and as the grade was quite steep from there to the Sprague mine junction, its momentum in-

creased with each revolution of the wheels.

Luckily the track was clear as the car dashed through the split switches at a ‘John Gilpin’ pace. To jump off would have been suicidal; to stay on seemed little better. However, he chose the latter and came out unscathed.

A dinkey engine, which was working at the coke ovens, started in pursuit of the runaway, whistling for the crossing, but it was not equal to the task of catching the flying gondola. On past Prescottville, the old coke ovens and the company store it sped in its mad flight, not slacking its speed until the sharp curves near the old foundry caused it to slow and eventually stop within a few rods of the Main street crossing. The dinkey then caught it by the rear end and yanked it back to where it belonged.

The Reynoldsville mines were operated by the Bell, Lewis and yates Coal Mining Company until the Rochester & Pittsburg Coal & Iron

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(Editor’s Note: The resources used in the preparation of this article are available the Punxsutawney Memorial Library, The Punxsutawney Spirit at accesspadr.org, The Heritage Newspaper Collection of the Library of Congress, the Reynoldsville Public Library and the Punxsutawney Area Historical and Genealogical Society. Pictures are as attributed. This article has been prepared by PRIDE – Punxsutawney Revitalization: Investing, Developing, Enhancing.

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That nonselective pesticide we so often reach for to deal with a problem was never made to detect the difference between a good bug and a bad one. And pesticides are effective at what they were made to do. yet when only about 3 percent of all bugs and insects are even considered pests (the ones that do actual damage to our plants), why then do we so often choose to take such an aggressive path without regard to the consequences?

Like people, insect pests have a preferred diet. They eat what they like and leave the rest. So why then treat everything in the yard or garden? With acknowledgement to the desire to nip it in the bud, our zone of treatment is typically much larger than necessary. In this case, the consequence or reaction is that the nonselective pesticides are also making contact with the good bugs. Those are the ones that Mother Nature put here to fight the bad ones on our behalf. But when the good guys are killed off, there’s no one left to fight the true pests. Even worse, with no natural predators, the bugs you really wanted to kill evolve to resist the deadly effects and come back, more prolific than ever.

My preferred method to dealing with an evolving problem is to proactively address it as early as possible, and with the most benign options first. Start with creating a biodiverse garden and landscape by planting lots of native flowering plants and shrubs. These naturally attract beneficial bugs, and it’s a great way to have them around when the pests arrive.

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Another option is to place certain decoy plants among the plants you want to protect. Known as companion planting, the purpose of adding these plants is to attract, repel or confuse pest insects from attacking your preferred plants. Companion planting is used most frequently in vegetable gardens. One example is planting dill around cucumber plants. The scent of the dill is thought to repel cucumber beetles from being attracted to cucumber, so placing the two together is a natural form of pest control. There are many combinations, and some work better than others. Every situation is unique.

It’s fun to experiment with the many combinations. If you care to explore this topic further, you’ll find plenty of information online and in books.

My next line of defense is a good offense. The primary game plan is a daily (or as often as possible), early morning visit to the garden — hot cup of coffee in one hand and cup of soapy water in the other. As I stroll through the garden, I inspect the plants and leaves. Any pests found hanging around get a gentle tap into the cup of soapy water. The key is frequent visits. It’s good for you and the best way to prevent a problem from getting worse.

The end result of taking the greenest approaches first is a garden teeming with life and the satisfaction of knowing nothing you did will harm a single unintended visitor. Mother Nature is allowed to work her magic before your eyes, and all is well in the garden — a very satisfying reward indeed.

(Joe Lamp’l, host of “Growing a Greener World” on PBS, is a Master Gardener and author. For more information visit www.joegardener.com.)

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Society of Land“They can be scape Architects chat height (such reflects that deas a coffee table), mand. Among taller like a dinoutdoor design ing table, or even features expected bar height. Manto be most popular Fire pits have become upscale, made to match any patio fur- ufacturers of this year, 95.8 per- niture with such features as automatic ignition and a propane patio furniture altank hidden in a pull-out drawer. (SHNS photo courtesy cent of survey re- Scripps Networks Interactive) most all are comspondents rated ing out with fire fireplaces and fire pits highly. The only featables, too.” ture that ranked higher: Backyard grills.

Green Acres added high-end fire furniture — “It’s a social center,” said Buzz Homsy of mostly priced $1,000 to $4,000 from such California Backyard. “People don’t want to makers as Outdoor Concepts and Oriflamme. spend all their time at the patio table or dining It was an instant hit. area. (But) people want to stay outside, espeThe Home Depot also has seen a surge in fire cially in good weather.” pits, particularly in the west. Among its best Last year, Homsy’s Sacramento-based comsellers: Hampton Bay’s wood-burning Colpany sold more than 500 high-end fire pits and lette fire pit ($149). other fire features, mostly from Agio Interna“It’s definitely a rising trend,” said Stacey tional and California-based OW Lee, and Spillman, Home Depot’s national merchant priced $500 and up. for patio and pool. “We see customers buy “Primarily, there’s more interest in early simple basins in multiples for outdoor parties. spring and late fall. They’re a way to extend But we’re seeing more interest in fire pit tayour outdoor season. you can enjoy a crisp bles with room for drinks or fire pit chat sites evening outdoors,” Homsy said. with matching chairs.

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Distracted driving can be very dangerous. Diverting one’s attention from the road for mere seconds can have serious, and potentially fatal, consequences.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have found distracted driving kills more than 15 people each day while injuring more than 1,200. Any activity that takes attention away from driving is considered a distraction.

These include taking your hands off the wheel, daydreaming or engaging in any behavior that takes your eyes off of the road. Certain activities are known distractions, and understanding which habits can be dangerous and making strides to correct behaviors can help save lives, prevent injuries and reduce accident-related expenses.

A study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute indicates 80 percent of crashes and 65 percent of near-crashes in the United States involve some form of driver distraction. That is perhaps in part because drivers are not aware just how distracting some the following behaviors truly are.

Using mobile phones Leading the list of the top distractions behind the wheel are mobile phones. Phones now do more than just place calls, and drivers often cannot pull away from their phones, even when driving. According to the California Department of Motor Vehicles, studies have shown that driving performance is lowered and the level of distraction is higher for drivers who are heavily engaged in cell phone conversations.

The use of a hands-free device does not lower distraction levels. The percentage of vehicle crashes and near-crashes attributed to dialing is nearly identical to the number associated with talking or listening.

Accident rates have increased thanks to texting, which involves a person taking his or her hands and eyes off of the road. A 2009 study

by Car and Driver magazine compared the dangers of texting while driving to the effects of driving drunk to see which would be more dangerous under the same conditions. Measuring the time it takes to brake after being alerted by a red light to stop, the reaction time was recorded when the driver was legally drunk, reading an email and sending a text. Texting easily elicited the slowest response time.

Ironically, in January 2011, Texas man

Chance Bothe drove off of a cliff after texting that he had to stop texting or risk dying in a car accident. Bothe survived but sustained significant injuries and had to be revived from death three times.

Moving objects Whether there’s a pet bouncing in the front seat or children being boisterous in the back, passengers and items moving around the car are significant distractions. Turning around to look at the kids or to reach for a ball that may be rolling around on the floor of the car can take a person’s eyes off the road. If something really is important and needs to be addressed, it is much safer to pull over and take care of it before getting back on the road.

Daydreaming Many people will admit to daydreaming behind the wheel or looking at a person or object outside of the car for too long. Perhaps they’re checking out a house in a new neighborhood or thought they saw someone they knew on the street corner. It can be easy to veer into the direction your eyes are focused, causing an accident. In addition to trying to stay focused on the road, some drivers prefer the help of lane departure warning systems.

Eating Those who haven’t quite mastered walking and chewing gum at the same time may want to avoid eating while driving. The majority of foods require a person’s hands to be taken off of the wheel and their eyes to be diverted from the road. Reaching in the back seat to share some French fries with the kids is also distracting.

Try to eat meals before getting in the car. For those who must snack while en route, take a moment to pull over at a rest area and spend 10 minutes snacking there before resuming the trip.

Reading Glancing at an advertisement, updating a Facebook status or reading a book are all activities that should be avoided when driving.

Even pouring over a traffic map or consulting the digital display of a GPS system can be distracting.

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By Tim Grant of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette iguring out how much to tip service providers can be a tricky endeavor, fraught with a good share of mathematics and emotions. you might slip the limo driver an extra $20 bill to show appreciation for a ride from the airport, or demonstrate utter distain for bad food and poor service at a restaurant by leaving two single pennies.

And it seems almost any establishment where coffee or pastries are served has a tip jar on the counter. Tips are the only thing that makes it economically worthwhile to deliver pizzas, and budgeting the tip into the

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“People tip to reward behavior,” said April Masini, an etiquette expert based in Naples, Fla., who writes an advice column called ‘Ask April.’ “If you like the way your hairdresser or delivery boy treated you or the way he or she served you, giving a tip shows your gratitude.”

Then, there are fear-based tippers, she said. These people tip because “they’re afraid (that) if they don’t, the waiter will spit in their soup or that their date will they’re think cheap or that the impression they’re leaving will be less than they want it to be.”

Stellar service or not, tips are more or less expected. Many service workers are paid minimum wage — or less in the restaurant

industry — and they rely on tips to feed their families and put themselves through college.

Servers at a sit-down restaurant who wait on diners hand and foot expect to receive a tip ranging from 15 percent to 20 percent of the meal’s cost. For truly exceptional service, diners are generally expected to tip more. Unless the service is well below standards, some etiquette experts say it is poor taste to go below 15 percent. “you really have to look at how the people you are tipping are making your life more pleasant and less stressful,” said Thomas Farley, a New york-based etiquette expert known as “Mister Manners.” “When you examine it that way, it’s certainly worth a dollar here or there.”

Sometimes the service is so appalling, the server does not deserve a tip, he said. But you don’t ever want to just walk out of the restaurant without tipping.

Instead, explain yourself to the server and have a talk with the manager. Farley does not recommend ever leaving two pennies on the table to make a statement.

“That is a form of revenge,” he said. “It is mean-spirited and obnoxious. It’s also a coward’s way out.”

Federal law allows restaurants to pay servers who receive tips a minimum wage of $2.13 an hour.

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A gratuity is sometimes added to the bill when large parties — generally eight or more people — are being served. If the restaurant charges a gratuity in the 20 percent range, diners should not feel compelled to leave a tip unless the service was above and beyond the call of duty.

Some pizza stores have begun to charge a delivery fee in respond to drivers getting shortchanged on tips. A $1 tip for pizza delivery was acceptable back in the 1980s, but the cost of living — especially gas prices — has gone up since then. The minimum tip now should be $3 or 15 percent if the order is for $20 or more, the experts say.

Paul Brazina, dean of the school of business at La Salle University in Philadelphia, said different parts of the world take different attitudes toward tipping.

In the U.S., he said, tipping is the primary way in which service staff is compensated.

In Europe, it is a different story. Servers receive their payment from the restaurants and tips are a modest thank-you for good service.

“It is considered demeaning to leave a big tip in Europe because they are already getting fair compensation,” Brazina said. “They actually look at it as someone who doesn’t understand good etiquette. It shows the wait staff you don’t consider them professional.”

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fire features Continued from page 19

tually build the fire, but you still have the great look of the flames.�

When shopping for fire features, first decide what you want — easy flame or heat? Woodburning pits put out more warmth.

For wood-burning pits, “you’ve got to get one large enough to actually build a fire,�

Spillman said. “you absolutely have to have a cover or spark screen and a poker to move wood around. Look for proper ventilation — holes to allow the fire to burn. A good pit is not just a chunk of metal. And you want a sturdy stand — it is fire. you don’t want it crashing down.�

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Massie said of the gas models. “yes, but it’s not like a heater. you’re really getting it for the ambiance. Most of the heat is going straight up.�

In these gas-powered fires, the flames burn through “logs� (much like a gas fireplace), lava rock or glass. “The glass is really beautiful,� Glassman said. “The fake logs used to be the only option, but now you can get fire glass in all different colors. It really gets the drama going on.

It takes the flames to a whole another realm.�

Fire features raged through the last International Builders Show in Las Vegas. “At the show (designer) home, there were outdoor fire pits, fireplaces, fire pots,� said Leslie Wheeler of the Hearth, Patio and Barbecue Association. “There was something at the front door, the balcony off the master bed-

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Like barbecue grills, fire features start simple; a portable metal fire pot — something to carry to the beach or use at a tailgate party — starts at under $50. “There’s something for every pocketbook,�

Wheeler said. “For under $100 or $200, you can get wood-burning fire pits that you can pick up and move anywhere. Or you can have a fire pit in a coffee table or barbecue island, or create something built-in with natural gas.�

Glassman sees interest in fire as a natural complement to water. “It’s the whole idea of natural elements and materials — water, fire, earth,� he said. “People want a combination of fire and water.�

For a Sacramento-area home, Glassman & Associates recently completed a “fire fountain.� Accented by sculpture, a center fire bowl is surrounded by cascading water. The effect: Instant drama.

As part of this same fiery trend, outdoor fireplaces also are growing rapidly in popularity.

People have outdoor kitchens; now, they want outdoor living rooms.

Fire pits aren’t for everyone, Glassman noted. A fireplace with a screen for protection might be a better option. “If you have little kids, stay away from fire pits,� Glassman said. “They have a tendency to put their hands in it. A fireplace is safer.�

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Eagle Riders Annual “Burrow Thunder” will be held Saturday, July 6. Registration 9 to 11:30 a.m. at The Punxsutawney Eagles Club #1231. $15 per driver, $10 per passenger. Bike Show from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Awards will be given for first $100; second $50; and third $25.00. Ride begins promptly at noon from the Eagles with the following stops at Indiana County’s Link to Aging and Disability Resources hosted a Care- the Eagles Clubs in giver Tea for those who provide care to the elderly and to disabled individ- Clarion, New Bethleuals. The event was held at Aging Services, Inc. on May 2. (l. to r.) Cinda hem, Ford City, Indiana Wakin (Regional Link Coordinator), Linda Pasonetti (Core Partner for Cenand back to Punx’y. ter for Independent Living of South Central PA), Rhonda Jones (Indiana County Link Coordinator) Rich Pinskey (Core Partner Accessibilites), Amy Upon returning there Simon, R.N., and Attorney Mike Clark. (Submitted photo) will be food and entertainment provided by “Against The Grain.” All proceeds to benefit special olympics. Rain or Shine.

All street legal motorcycles and vehicles Continued from page 13 welcome. For more information call Denny Knox 814-590-0727 or Bill they will stage six more shows at 8 p.m.

Pearce 814-249-1532. on June 27 to 29 and July 4 to 6. For (Punxsutawney.com is maintained by ticket information about the Sawmill, the Chamber of Commerce for the comcall (814) 927-5275. munity. Any area business or organiza• PRiDE will be hosting an Arts & tion is invited to become a member of the crafts indoor Mart on Friday and SatChamber of Commerce for as little as urday July 5 & 6 during Groundhog Fes$75 for the year.

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Make sunscreen part of your daily routine

by Bryan Brasher, SHNS for Hometown magazine unscreen every day helps keep skin cancer away A few months ago, my wife discovered a spot on my back that looked a little different from all of the others.

It was shaped like a circle and a little bigger than a pencil eraser, with jagged, irregular edges. The outsides of it were red, but the center was almost solid black.

If you look up the symptoms for moles that might indicate skin cancer, you’ll find almost the same description I just provided. So I visited a dermatologist.

He removed the mole, and thankfully lab tests revealed two weeks later that it was not cancerous. It was actually an “atypical nevus,� a benign mole that is harmless despite its physical similarities to a deadly form of skin cancer known as melanoma.

It was a long two weeks waiting for those results — both because the information about

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skin cancer available on the Internet these days is terrifying and because I know I haven’t always done what I should to protect myself from the sun’s cancer-causing rays during a life lived mostly outdoors.

How about you?

On sunny days this spring, have you paused five minutes to apply one of the many brands of sunscreen on the market?

Or did you decide to chance it, thinking the worst will never happen to you?

Next time you’re faced with that decision, think about this: According to the Skin Cancer Foundation, skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States with more than 3.5 million cases diagnosed each year. The total cases of breast cancer, lung cancer and colon cancer combined don’t equal that number.

One in five Americans will develop skin cancer in their lifetime, and many of those will be diagnosed with melanoma — the absolute worst of the worst.

Between 1970 and 2009, cases of melanoma in the United States increased by 800 percent in young women and 400 percent in young men. That stat is no doubt related to our country’s increased interest in new-age tanning beds and old-fashioned sun worshipping.

An estimated 76,690 new cases of invasive melanoma will be diagnosed this year. Those cases will account for an estimated 9,480 deaths.

If big numbers don’t catch your eye, how about a little one: One person dies from melanoma in the U.S. every 57 minutes.

About 86 percent of all melanomas are caused by exposure to ultraviolet radiation — and while it’s true the disease has a 92 percent cure rate, up from 49 percent during the 1950s, the treatment is a lot more grueling than the method of prevention.

Some experts believe it only takes one bad sunburn to greatly increase your chances of developing skin cancer.

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Tattoo removal expert has a warning: ‘Just don’t do it!’

by Cynthia H. Craft Sacramento Bee et’s say you are living in the moment, feeling giddy — a little tipsy, maybe — and you decide to go for it. you decide to get that tattoo.

Dr. Suzanne Kilmer has a warning for you: Think twice before acting. Not only do you face five times the risk of contracting hepatitis C, chances are you’ll change your mind about whether you like your tattoo before you reach middle age.

Kilmer, 55, a clinical professor at University of California, Davis, has seen tattoo-regret galore.

“Most people come in and say, ‘It was something I did while I was young, and I’ve outgrown it,’ “ Kilmer said.

The founder of the Laser & Skin Surgery Center of Northern California, she’s removed upward of 20,000 of the inky images.

That’s no small accomplishment, and Kilmer is no ordinary dermatologist.

She’s a world-renowned, pre-eminent expert in the field of laser tattoo removal and laser skin care.

To this day, Harvard University mentors who first worked with Kilmer as a fellow in the 1990s describe her as a pioneer in tattoo removal — and a force who has helped chart the future of the field.

“She actually had a hand in the very early development of lasers for tattoo removal,” said Dr. R. Rox Anderson, professor of dermatology at Harvard.

Kilmer also is known for creating a world-class laser center that does groundbreaking research for U.S. Food and Drug Administration clinical trials and as the only woman to have headed the American Society for Lasers in Surgery and Medicine.

But in the realm of tattoo removal, Kilmer’s work has opened up possibilities for better and faster results — key in a nation filled with people obsessed with etching on their outermost organ.

Removal is difficult, lengthy and painful. Think hot bacon grease spattered on the skin. Think the sting of a stretched rubber band smacking you from up close.

Imagine paying $150 to $1,000 for the multiple appointments to obliterate a tattoo.

People “have no idea how hard it is to get it off,” Kilmer said of tattoo dye.

Among those who find themselves at her east Sacramento clinic are job seekers, career professionals and parents of young kids who seek to erase stigma, Kilmer said. There are former gang members and people with what’s termed “traumatic tattoos” identifying them, for example, as former prisoners of war.

Brittany Costarella, 38, was in the laser chair one recent day, trying to rid her midriff of a winged, haloed red heart. It

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“Oh, my gosh, if people knew how painful it is to get it off,” Costarella said.

“It feels like piercing hot oil. Not a hot oil droplet, but deep heat under the skin.”

Lasers deliver hot, powerful pulses through the upper skin to a deeper layer where a tattoo artist has embedded pigment.

When the laser beam hits a particle of ink, its force fractures the pigment. Immune system cells then move in to clean up the mayhem, which the body’s lymphatic system clears away.

Some tattoos leave “ghosts” behind that simply will never disappear even after several rounds of the laser beam.

Melissa Leal, 30, a doctoral student in Native American studies at UC Davis, was undergoing her ninth removal appointment one sunny April afternoon.

As Leal’s hand was zapped, she looked away, grimaced and practiced deep breathing.

“What she’s feeling is the heat breaking up the ink dye,” Kilmer said. “Usually, if it hurts, it means it’s working.”

About a dozen laser technology professionals crowded a hallway while awaiting the West Coast’s first demonstration of a new, state-of-the-art picosecond machine.

That one-of-a-kind device delivers laser pulses at the rate of one-trillionth of a second, as opposed to a nanosecond machine, the industry standard, which pulses at the slower one-billionth of a second.

The new machine in the corner of the room was built by a colleague at Kilmer’s request. A previous picosecond model she’d tested at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories 20 years ago was the improbable size of a small barn.

“It took (18 years) to figure out the science of sizing it down,” Kilmer said.

Even under Kilmer’s supervision, tattoo removal can be a challenge. For each tattoo, each patient is diagnosed, charted, treated, educated and observed by Kilmer with the utmost attention to skin type and pigment of tattoo ink.

Several patients and colleagues said that one of the qualities they appreciated most in Kilmer was her carefully conservative approach to laser skin care.

Richard Cumings, 35, recalled that two decades earlier, she had removed for free a gang tattoo from his cheek when he was a juvenile in custody for robbery.

Since then, he’s worked hard at making better choices, he said.

“I changed my life,” Cumings said. “I broke the cycle. That’s what I needed to do.”

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Fatal punch to soccer ref is no freak occurrence

by Kristen Stewart Salt Lake Tribute he fatal punching of a Utah soccer referee has stunned and saddened many, but it was no freak occurrence, say medical experts who warn a single jolt to the head can kill.

“Assaults happen every day in our country, and an assault to the head or neck can cause serious injury, including death,” said University of Utah neuropsychologist Angela Eastvold. “The number of deaths is small. But it’s always a possibility, especially if the victim has any vulnerability in the brain, and there’s no way of knowing that up front.” years ago falls, especially among the elderly, surpassed car crashes as the leading cause of traumatic brain injury. Experts credit safety improvements and better engineering of roads.

Eastvold works with survivors of traumatic brain injury (TBI), tracking their cognitive deficits and behavioral changes.

She sees lives ended and disrupted by the neurological consequences of accidental falls, car crashes, suicide attempts and violence.

Any injury to the head, mild to severe, can disable someone; injuries to the neck can cause paralysis, she said. “The whole spectrum of injury involves the whole spectrum of possibilities.”

Assaults are more commonly faulted than team sports injuries, such as “having your bell rung” on the football field, which has gotten a lot of attention in recent years.

Nationally, assaults account for 10 percent of traumatic brain injuries. In 2011, the FBI reported 728 homicides by hand, fist and feet.

And, unlike accidents, bar-room brawls and playground scuffles are 100 percent preventable.

Ricardo Portillo, a volunteer soccer referee, was removed from life support in Utah on Saturday after spending nearly a week in a coma triggered by injuries sustained when a 17-year-old player assaulted him during a game.

Witnesses told police the teenage goalie, enraged by a call, punched Portillo in the side of the head while Portillo was noting the penalty in a notebook.

Officers found him lying on the ground in the fetal position complaining of pain in his face and back. He was conscious, but nauseated and had spit up a small amount of blood.

Later, in the hospital, his brain swelled and his condition deteriorated.

Whether Portillo was hit once, or several times, isn’t clear from witness accounts.

But it might not matter.

In the summer of 2011, a Utah man died in a Las Vegas casino after being punched once in the head by another tourist. The attacker was convicted of involuntary manslaughter.

One punch thrown by a drunk outside a bowling alley in San Diego was enough to knock a 31-year-old former Marine unconscious in February 2003. He fell to the ground and his head hit the pavement. Two

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In February 2012, a 10-year-old girl in California died from injuries sustained in a fist-fight with an 11-year-old girl.

Prolonged fight scenes in movies where the hero walks away bruised, but unbroken, aren’t realistic, said Paul Barker, retired police officer and defense expert who teaches tae kwon do at Champion Karate West in Provo, Utah. “People are naive to the risk.”

When Barker’s students compete, they wear protective head gear with a face cage, gloves and guards for the chest, mouth and groin.

Hits to the face and certain hits to the head are off limits, such as reverse jab using the hand opposite your forward foot, he said. “That’s very powerful and could kill someone instantly.”

Barker teaches his students to avoid conflict and warns against punching someone in the temple, the thinnest, most fractureprone part of the skull.

But doctors say a blow to any part of the head can injure underlying blood vessels.

“It could be a bruise or torn blood vessel or combination of both,” said Schmidt, describing how pressure builds as blood builds up inside the skull, in severe cases strangling and starving the organ of adequate blood flow. “you get a vicious cycle. The higher the pressure, the more normal blood flow is compromised, which in turn causes more brain damage, which in turn causes more brain swelling,” he said.

People bang their head all the time, and it’s designed to withstand a little of that.

“It obviously takes some force to cause damage...but it’s a little unpredictable. If somebody is on blood thinners, it may take less to get significant bleeding to start,” Schmidt said. “Sometimes it just comes down to bad luck. The right injury in exactly the right place may be worse for one person than for somebody else.”

Symptoms from a head injury can surface immediately or last days, weeks or longer.

Recovery may be slower among older adults, young children and teens. Those who have had a concussion in the past are also at risk of having another one. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say you should seek medical attention if you have: — Lost consciousness.

— A headache that gets worse and does not go away.

— Weakness, numbness or decreased coordination.

— Repeated vomiting or nausea.

— Slurred speech or drowsiness.

— One pupil larger than the other.

— Convulsions or seizures.

— Unusual behavior; you are confused, restless, or agitated.

(Reach Salt Lake Tribune reporter Kirsten Stewart at kstewart@sltrib.com.

Twitter: @kirstendstewart) (Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, www.scrippsnews.com.)

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‘Care guides’ help patients follow doctor’s orders

by Maura Lerner Scripps Howard News Service r. Richard Adair insisted that they spell it out clearly when the jobs were first posted: No experience required.

The idea was to hire people with no medical background, give them two weeks of training, and send them off to clinics to start seeing patients.

Five years later, these so-called “care guides” are fixtures at more than two dozen Allina Health clinics in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, and groups around the country are calling to find out how the concept works.

The guides are part of a fast-growing, and hotly debated, trend in medicine: Putting people with minimal (if any) medical expertise on the front lines — with titles like patient navigator or coach — to help improve care, and rein in the costs, of patients with chronic illnesses.

The Allina program, which began as a pilot project in 2008, may raise some eyebrows: Most of the care guides are in their early 20s, some in their first jobs out of college.

But new research, which Adair and a colleague will present this week, shows that the care guides have been able to influence patients in ways that doctors alone could not — helping people to quit smoking, get their blood sugar under control, and make other small victories in the daily battle with chronic illness.

One of the frustrations with traditional office visits, Adair said, is that the doctor’s message often evaporates when the patient gets home. “you can just tell sometimes that you’re not getting through to the patient,” he said.

“They’ll give you the old bobblehead response, but they’re not going to do it.”

For people with chronic illness, such as diabetes or heart failure, skipping a medication or ignoring their diet can be particularly dangerous.

But it happens all the time, he said. “I thought, ‘what could we do differently?’?”

Hiring more doctors or nurses, he knew, would be prohibitively expensive.

The care guides were his answer. With a $6 million grant from the Robina Foundation in Minneapolis, Allina hired a dozen of them, at the rate of $16 an hour, and set them up in cubicles in clinic waiting rooms. Their job: Meet with struggling patients, go over their doctors’ instructions in detail, and see whether they could help them make progress.

Betsy Snyder, 23, never wears a white coat on the job. She wouldn’t want her patients to get the wrong idea.

“I try to explain that I’m a different type of clinic employee,” said Snyder, who’s been a care guide at the Abbott Northwestern General Medicine clinic in Minneapolis since December.

When she started, Snyder, who graduated from Macalester College in St. Paul last May, went through a two-week medical boot camp. That included three days of classwork (in “disease basics” and electronic medical records) and shadowing doctors, nurses and others around the clinic.

There’s even a one-page “scope of practice”

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that spells out what they can and can’t do.

It’s OK to give educational handouts, talk about controlling blood pressure and help people shop for medications. But “no medical advice.” If a clinical question comes up, they have to check with a nurse or doctor.

“That part, of not overstepping their boundaries, is important,” Adair said. “We just hammer them on that one.”

One day last week, Snyder met with Bob Bourke, 80, who has diabetes and kidney disease.

“So let’s go over how you’re doing with your goals here,” she said. Checking his electronic medical record, she noted that a recent diabetes test was outside the normal range (“It’s a little bit high”). How was he doing with his medications? At one point, Bourke wondered aloud whether a new drug might interact with his old one, and she deflected the question. “yeah, I don’t know so much about the interactions,” she said. “But if you had a problem, we could certainly talk to [the] doctor.”

Bourke says working with Snyder has given him a better grasp on his condition. “you know, the doctor is always busy, the nurse is always busy,” he said. But Snyder has more time to explain things. “That’s

what’s good about talking to Betsy,” he said.

Sometimes, Adair said, patients reveal things to care guides that they won’t admit to a doctor or nurse. In one case, an elderly patient had high blood pressure, and Adair was struggling to get it under control. “I changed prescriptions, I added doses,” he said, but nothing worked. A care guide discovered the truth. “He wasn’t taking his medicine, but he would never tell us,” Adair said. The care guide, a woman, persuaded the man to start taking the pills, and his blood pressure fell to normal.

“There was something about her ability to get through to him,” Adair said.

(Contact Minneapolis Star Tribune reporter Maura Lerner at Maura.Lerner@startribune.com.)

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The ‘new anchor Inn is new, once again’

(Editor’s Note: ‘From Our Past,’ researched by S. Thomas Curry, features items of interest from past editions of Punxsutawney and area newspapers.)

May 11, 1892 — An Italian band with two violins and a harp discoursed music on our streets yesterday for several hours. It was good. The kids gathered around them like flies around a molasses barrel, and the older people all assumed a listening attitude and drank in the sweet, harmonious sounds with eager ears. And when they played a jig the whole town danced. That is, their nerves were keeping time with the music, and many could not restrain their legs. What a dreary old world this would be if it were not for music. (Punxsutawney Spirit) May 15, 1895 — Harvey Bowers, groceryman at the corner of South Gilpen (sic) and Race streets, combines business with pleasure on his bicycle. Mr. Bowers lives in the East End and the other day he was seen going passed our News office [on West Mahoning St.] with a little wagon attached to his wheel in which he was hauling a sack of flour. At another time he went up street with one of his children in the wagon. We believe there is not another wheelman in the State who can run a delivery wagon with the aid of his wheel as can Mr. Bowers. (Punxsutawney News) May 18, 1887 — The sun causes the splinters on the sidewalks to stand up like quills on the fretful porcupine, and it keeps the small boy pretty busy picking the “slivers” out of his feet. (Valley News) May 21, 1902 — The drinking fountain, “for man and beast,” donated to the borough by the Village Improvement Association, arrived the other day and is now being put in place on Gilpen (sic) street, near Fink’s store. It is bronze color. This fountain will certainly prove a blessing.

(Punxsutawney News) May 25, 1871 — DECORATION DAy. - Next Tuesday, the 30th, will be celebrated throughout the United States by scattering floral offerings to the memories of the fallen heroes [of the Civil War]. Much of the partisan prejudice has died away and it is said the present occasion will be celebrated with more than usual eclat by all parties. How will it be observed in Punxsutawney? (Punxsutawney Plaindealer) [Note: Decoration Day is now Memorial Day, celebrated officially as a national holiday on the last Monday in May to honor the memory of all members of the armed forces who died in wars.]

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Fourth Generation Continutes the Legacy

family took some time in deciding what they would do for the future, and after much consideration decided to rebuild and reopen the restaurant and banquet facility. or nearly 90 years the Longo-Setree At this time, the fourth generation of the family operated a business on HarLongo-Setree Family, in the persons of mony Road, Route 310 near the Elk their son Matt and daughter-in-law Mandy, Run section of Punxsutawney. It had become involved in operating the New began as a multifunctional roadhouse, Anchor Inn. which provided gas, The new facility has groceries, restaurant, the feel of an upscale lodging and a variety of Italian restaurant and other services on the provides a variety of east side of the road. seating options, includThrough the years, the ing booths and tables in business evolved into a the main dining room, a popular and welldeck for alfresco dining known restaurant speduring the warmer cializing in months, a private meetItalian-American food. ing room, and a large Today, the “New Anbanquet facility which chor Inn is new again,” may be used by groups according to Amanda for formal or informal ‘Mandy’ Setree, a gatherings. member of the fourth The menu features generation to work in many of the traditional the family business.

New Anchor Inn items In 1925, Charles and new Mediterranean Longo, an immigrant items designed to suit from Sicily began his the tastes of diners business with a small looking for lower fat roadhouse on the east natural foods. side of the road. Charlie “We are featuring Longo, through his more grilled items inpractical and frugal apcluding vegetables,” proach to business, said Mandy, “and for saved enough to expand those seeking a quick the business. In 1939, lunch we offer a soup he purchased the land and salad bar daily.” on the west side of the Charles Longo found road where he conPunxsutawney a good structed the first “New place for his business Anchor Inn” which and a good place to live. opened in 1941. His His daughter Rose and original plan was to her husband Chuck Sebuild a bigger and bettree continued his traditer roadhouse offering tion. Their son and food, lodging and enterdaughter-in-law, Dave tainment in the form of and Vickie Setree, are a dance hall. The projsupporting their son ect was bigger than his Matt and daughter-inbudget, so he eliminated the lodging, and The New Anchor Inn is designed to blend the traditional with the new, while meeting the dining needs law, Mandy, as they the public. A variety of accommodations are available. (Clockwise from top left) A view of the en- continue the business opened the New An- of trance and service area of the restaurant; the deck where customers may dine alfresco; ladies enchor Inn as a restaurant joying dinner with their group in the meeting room, and the new booths in the dining room. The traditions, and they are with a bar and dance background is part of the new décor in the dining room at the New Anchor Inn. In addition to these introducing their grandhall. In the 1970’s options, the New Anchor Inn has a banquet room available for larger groups such as business meet- sons to the intricacies of ings, wedding receptions, family reunions, holiday parties and other special events. pizza making. In a few dance halls were no years the New Anchor Inn may become longer patronized, so the facility was conrestaurant and continued the family tradinew once again as another generation takes verted to a restaurant, lounge and banquet tion of serving Italian-American food and charge of the family business. facility. operating the banquet facility.

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