MAY 15-21, 2014 Your Local News
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Farmers Market Opening
Road crew kept busy with Winter repairs in Moore Tp.
By BILL HALBFOERSTER The Home News
KEYSTONE PARK at Race & Green Sts. in Bath is the site of the Bath Farmers Market. They will open their spring/summer season this Friday, May 16 from 3 to 7 p.m. The many vendors will have a large assortment of goods for people to purchase. – Home News photos
Bushkill Township hosting An event to honor all veterans Submitted by SUSAN KIRK
Bushkill Township is proud to present a Veterans Remembrance and Flag Retirement Ceremony at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 25. Veterans, both living and deceased, will be remembered together. Gather at the Veteran’s Memorial Flagpole at the recreation fields directly across from the township municipal building at 1114 Bushkill Center Rd. Ample parking and seating are provided. (Rain location is inside Bushkill Township Volunteer Fire Co. social hall behind the municipal building). The featured speaker is Ruth Harton, a Gold Star Mother whose 23-year-old son, Army Cpl. Joshua A. Harton, was killed in combat in Afghanistan on September 18, 2010. The Nazareth Community Band, directed by Ralph E. Brodt III, opens the ceremony
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with a selection of patriotic music, and provides music throughout the program including a special piece remembering The Four Chaplains. The Rev. David Schaeffer, Army Veteran and Pastor of St. John Lutheran Church, Nazareth, offers the invocation. Other participants include the Northampton County Sheriff’s Dept. Honor Guard, former County Veteran’s Director and active veteran advocate Ray Greene leading The Pledge of Allegiance, and Lizzi Brodt singing The National Anthem. Leaders and members of Boy Scout Troops 44 and 74 and Venture Crew are providing the Flag Retirement Ceremony. The program concludes with the Firing Squad Detail of the United States Army Reserve’s 744th Military Police Battalion and Taps played by Randy Baxendale. After the ceremony everyone is invited to stop by a special tent where they will find information provided by a representative of the Veterans Administration, Stars for Our Troops (a special star with thanks to veterans as well as active duty and reserve troops), and greeting cards to sign for delivery to a facility for Veteran’s Day, November 11.
Moore Township’s road crew is working on Smith Gap Road presently, one of 20 miles of gravel roadways in the township’s 100 miles of roads, chairman David Tashner of the Moore Township Board of Supervisors , said this past Tuesday. In addition, they are filling potholes from the ravages of winter and wash-outs from a recent heavy rainfall. They are also doing a spring clean-up of intersections. They will be working on a pipe crossing at Keeler Rd. before the road collapses from a corroded pipe, but first need a permit to do so. In a report on mulch by secretary Richard Gable, he said they’ve gone through eight weeks of mulch from the First Regional Compost Authority in four weeks. It costs $15 a load of compost to be picked up. Every resident in the township can get the mulch they need for their garden work. Subdivisions Under subdivision actions, the supervisors gave conditional final approval of a onelot minor subdivision of Betty (Silfies) Walk and approved her sewage planning module as well as deferring road right-of-way improvements until the rest of the land is developed. One lot is being taken out of the farm. Tashner said it will be graded. Engineer Darrin Heckman is the engineer for the subdivision. Conditional final approval was also given to James Cole, along with deferral of recreation fee because no building is planned at this time on the agricultural property. Surveyor Kenneth Hahn appeared for this plan. Pool Rd. Problem • Elmer Gates, president
of the Concordia Lutheran Church school board, expressed concern about conditions of Pool Rd. to Beersville Rd., where he said it needs widening and repairs. He said the students, parents and staff are at risk. Tashner said it was believed the school wouldn’t be as big as it is, and only small buses would be used to transport students. He also said a swale is on both sides of a post, there is water run-off, and there is a parking problem along the road. Planning Commission member John Becker said PennDOT never wanted a church or school at that loca-
tion, which is along busy Rt. 248, atop a hill. Gates said he doesn’t want to be confrontational and would enjoy working with the township to come up some kind of solution. A resident of that area said everybody knew the shape that Pool Rd. was in. Other Matters • A letter of credit was reduced from $25,604 to $21,143 for phase three of Scenic View Farms on recommendation of township engineer Al Kortze. There is tree planting to do. • Eric Erb was appointed an alternate sewage enforcement officer so that someone is available when the sewage Continued on page 7
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BOROUGH OF BATH’S 13 FT. NORWEGIAN SPRUCE at Monacacy Creek Park was planted on Wednesday, May 7. the tree was donated to the borough from the Unangst family. the tree welcomes residents and visitors to Bath on Rte. 248. -Photo by Fiorella Mirabito
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