Press And Journal 07/20/2016

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 2016

VOLUME 126 - NO. 29

14 PAGES

DEVELOPMENT MOVES AHEAD ALONG ROUTE 230

75 CENTS

Crematory vote to be held July 26

Zoning board deliberated already

By Dan Miller

Read the Press And Journal’s editorial about the hearing on page B4.

Press And Journal Staff

The next key step in the controversy over whether a crematory should be allowed in the borough of Middletown will take place Tuesday, July 26.

The Middletown Zoning Hearing Board will vote on whether former borough zoning officer Jeff Miller acted properly when in June 2015 he granted a permit approving the crematory as an allowed accessory use

Press And Journal Photo by Eric Wise

Construction crews have been busy in July starting construction of a new retail building at the Westporte Centre in Middletown that may be used for one to five retail tenants next to Wells Fargo, depending on the occupant’s space needs.

7,500 feet added at Westporte; hotel details being finalized

By Eric Wise

Press And Journal Staff

Linden Centre plans

A local developer is moving forward with two commercial projects along Route 230 that will add a hotel and other new businesses near Harrisburg International Airport.

A retail building offering 7,500 square feet will be available to new tenants at the Westporte Center by the beginning of September, said Marisa Benjamin, who handles marketing and leasing for Towne Retail, the company owned by Jim Nardo that is developing the site.

The new building, on the east side of the site between Wells Fargo bank and Nissley Street in Middletown, would provide room for up to five tenants with 1,500 square feet each, or combining them for a larger space.

On the opposite end of the Westporte, a new sports bar is preparing for its opening.

“The Hop Yard is finalizing some details to prepare for opening, but at this time, they do not have a date set

Press And Journal Photos by Eric Wise

Joe Caretti, one of the owners of the Hop Yard, cooks a batch of barbecue sauce using one of the restaurant’s six original barbecue sauce recipes.

The owners of Hop Yard, a restaurant that soon will open in the Westporte Center in Middletown, want people to enjoy eating the restaurant’s food where everything is made from scratch.

“I am not interested in premade bar food,” said June Caretti, who owns the restaurant with her husband, Joe. The Lower Swatara Twp. couple have been working on perfecting the recipes for at least a year, she said.

She said that “from scratch” means that food will be prepared on site, not purchased premade or frozen. Salad dressings, barbecue sauces and sides are all made to the Carettis’ recipes. They loved having friends visit for sampling the recipes for the restaurant, Caretti said.

By Dan Miller

Press And Journal Staff

Hop Yard occupies the east end of Westporte Centre, where the shopping plaza borders the site that will become the new Middletown Amtrak Station. It will open after the state finishes its license approval. They bought the liquor license of the former Mansion House, a locally renowned restaurant and tavern that was destroyed by a fire in 2010. They previously owned an Italian restaurant in Lancaster County that they sold.

Caretti said she’s excited about the opportunities in the growing community around Middletown. The Hop Yard probably will attract diners from Penn State Harrisburg’s students, faculty and staff, she said.

“I graduated from that campus,” she said.

Now, a few years later, “there are a few more (restaurant) options, but not too many.”

Please See HOP YARD, Page A6

Please See HICKS, Page A6

Hop Yard restaurant to open soon, will feature barbecue, sauce, beer Press And Journal Staff

Hicks receives probation for Youth Club theft, pays back $8,000 A Middletown woman who almost two years ago was arrested and charged with stealing more than $10,400 from the Middletown Youth Club has been sentenced to three years of probation.

Elizabeth A. Hicks, 33, Hicks of the 400 block of Aspen Street, on July 5 pleaded guilty in Dauphin County Court to one count each of theft by unlawful taking, theft by failure to make required disposition of funds, and access device fraud.

She was sentenced to 36 months of county probation and to pay $350 in costs and fines by President Judge Richard A. Lewis.

Hicks pleaded guilty in exchange for all three of the felony counts against her being downgraded to misdemeanors, according to records on file at the county courthouse.

Even as misdemeanors, Hicks faced up to 15 years in prison and up to $30,000 in fines, according to the case file.

Middletown Youth Club is a nonprofit organization that supports youth sports activities in Middletown. Among activities that the club supports is the CFA Youth Football League in Middletown.

The original criminal complaint alleged that Hicks stole more than $10,400 from the club. But prosecutors could only document that she stole a little more than $8,000, said Deputy District Attorney Stephen McLendon.

Hicks already repaid all but $1,728.08 of this amount by the time she pleaded and was sentenced. As part of her sentence she was ordered to pay the remaining $1,728.08 as restitution, and this amount has been paid by Hicks, according to online court records. At this point, Hicks owes no more money to the club, McLendon said.

Hicks was arrested in October 2014 following a two-month investigation by Middletown police after police were contacted about Hicks

by Christopher Hughes, then president of the Middletown Youth Club.

Please See 230, Page A6

By Eric Wise

to the main Fager-Finkenbinder Funeral Home at 208 N. Union St. Opponents contend that the crematory should not be allowed in a densely populated residential area, and that the crematory will Please See Crematory, Page A6

Streetscape project keeps moving south; Brown to Ann streets next step after Union repaving wraps up

By Dan Miller

Press And Journal Staff

Middletown’s downtown streetscape project is to be completed by mid-October, and once this week’s repaving of Union Street from Spring to Brown streets is done, all the remaining work will be focused on the stretch from Brown Street to Ann Street.

Union Street from Spring to Brown is closed to traffic all this week until 6 p.m.

Friday, July 22, so that the road can be repaved as part of the streetscape.

A ban on parking on both sides of Union from Spring to Brown remains in effect

until this stretch of Union Street is reopened to traffic on July 22.

Signs have been put up directing motorists to the free parking that is available behind the Municipal Building at 60 W. Emaus St. A large sign has also been put up at the square at Main and Union streets, telling people that downtown businesses remain open throughout the streetscape.

These signs will remain in place until the streetscape is done in mid-October, Borough Manager Ken Klinepeter told the Press And Journal.

Once this repaving of Union Street is completed, there should be no more need

to close any part of Union from Spring to Brown, as the streetscape for this section of the downtown will be finished, Klinepeter said.

New street trees will be planted, but this will be one of the last things to be done as part of the streetscape, Klinepeter said.

Otherwise, the remaining streetscape work is now focused on Union and Brown streets, which is still closed as crews with streetscape contractor Flyway Excavating continue installing bumpouts on all four corners of the intersection.

Once this work is done, Flyway will Please See STREETSCAPE, Page A2

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NEWS Don’t forget: Meeting on future of Elks Theatre will be held Thursday A special meeting for residents to give input on the future of the Elks Theatre will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 21, by Middletown Borough Council, in the MCSO Building next to the Municipal Building at 60 W. Emaus St. The theater was closed for life-safety related renovations in April 2015 and has not reopened.

Since August 2015, a proposal to reopen the theater has been before the Middletown Industrial and Commercial Development Authority, which owns it.

The proposal from Friends of the Elks Theatre, a nonprofit group, says about $500,000 is needed to reopen the theater not just for movies but as a performing arts venue for live theatre, concerts, comedy acts and such.

Mayor James H. Curry says he supports reopening the theater but that the price tag is likely much higher, due to dilapidated conditions. The Friends group has pledged to help with fundraising and getting grants.

Borough consultants say the authority will not have money for the theater until the end of 2016 when reimbursements related to the downtown streetscape come from Dauphin County.

Authority Chairman and Councilor Ian Reddinger proposed the authority sell the theater to the Friends group for $1. He opposes using public money, saying it makes more sense for a private investor to convert the space to a new use such as luxury condominiums or storefronts.

However, the Friends group does not want to own the theater, but instead is requesting to lease it from the borough for 10 years.

— Dan Miller

public notices in this week’s press and journal: LONDONDERRY TWP.: Public Hearing/Liquor License

DAUPHIN COUNTY: ESG Public Meeting; Tax Claim Bureau Notice

LETTERS OF TESTAMENTARY: Gallagher

FOREIGN REGISTRATION NOTICE: Corporation Service Company

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Crews continue streetscape work at the southeast corner of South Union and Brown streets on Friday, July 15.

ATTENTION: Middletown Borough Residents

Union St. FROM Spring St. TO Brown St. will be closed Tuesday, July 19 THROUGH Friday, July 22 DUE TO MILLING AND PAVING

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Grenade found in Pringles can wasn’t a threat

By Dan Miller Press And Journal

More than 125 residents of Interfaith Apartments on Mill Street in Middletown were evacuated Tuesday night, July 12, after a grenade was found in one of the apartments.

The grenade was determined to be an inert training device and was safely disposed of by a bomb squad with the Pennsylvania State Police, Middletown Police Chief John Bey told the Press And Journal.

The grenade was found in a can of Pringles potato chips that had been left in the apartment of a former Interfaith resident who had moved out. He is now living in a nursing home in the midstate and receiving hospice care.

The device, referred to as a “pineapple grenade” in a borough police report, was found in the can by an Interfaith maintenance man cleaning out the apartment who immediately called 9-1-1. Borough police were dispatched at 8:26 p.m. and arrived at the scene at 8:28 p.m.

A photo of the grenade taken by bor-

ough police was sent to state police, who responded with their bomb squad.

Police also evacuated the eight-story apartment building and blocked off traffic access to the surrounding area.

Interfaith has 135 residents living in 125 apartments, said Mary Martz, who has been manager of the complex for 16 years. This is the first time in her memory that the entire complex has ever had to be evacuated.

“I’ve been in this business for 30 years and I have never heard of anything like this happening,” Martz said. “It gave me a few gray hairs, I can tell you that.”

All but 10 percent of the residents are 62 years of age and older. About 60 percent have to use a walker to some degree, Martz said. Others are in wheelchairs. The oldest resident is 97.

“It was scary at first,” said Margaret Mesaric, who has lived at Interfaith for two years. There was a loud knock on her door, and when she answered a borough police officer told her she had to get out right away. “‘This is serious,’” she recalls the police officer telling her.

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Interfaith Apartments Nothing like this had ever happened before since she had been at Interfaith.

Some kid had pulled a fire alarm by accident once, but no one had to evacuate.

A staging area for the residents was set up in the Amtrak park and ride lot across Mill Street. The Moose Club next to the lot was also opened up by two club employees who were working late. Residents were invited to go into the club if they needed to sit down or to get some water. Some residents went into the club while others preferred to wait outside, police said.

“They were good people over there,” another resident, Helen Wells, said of the Moose. Wells has lived at Interfaith for 12 years.

Things could have been much worse.

It was a pleasant summer night, with temperatures in the 70s.

“It’s good it wasn’t raining because we would have been drenched,” Mesaric said.

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Martz said the residents fared well, under the circumstances.

“No one was afraid,” she said. “They were just curious” because a lot of them didn’t know why they were being evacuated, Martz added. She and the residents are thankful to the police, the firefighters, and the people from the Moose for how they handled the situation.

“It went very smoothly,” and everyone seemed to know what to do, as if they had drilled for it ahead of time, Martz said.

The grenade was described as being made of metal, with a blue top and a pin through the handle. Bey said the device was found to be inert — not capable of exploding — and had likely been a training prop that the man living in the apartment had collected as a souvenir.

Police do not know how or when the man came to be in possession of the grenade, or how long it had been in the apartment, Bey said.

Residents of Interfaith told the Press And Journal that the man was known for going to Saturday’s Market. He would come back with his walker filled with all kinds of items he had purchased at the market.

Martz, the manager, offered another explanation. The former resident, known as “Gus,” had been in the Air Force and had gotten a Purple Heart

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— indicating he had been wounded in combat. Born in 1929, Gus was too young for World War II but he might have served in the Korean War. Martz said she doesn’t know for certain. The man has no local family, which is why after several months it was left to the maintenance man to clean out Gus’s apartment. No one else was available to do it, Martz said.

Cleaning out the apartment took a lot of time because Gus was “a hoarder,” Martz said. Ten years worth of stuff had accumulated, since Gus lived here from 2005 until late 2015.

Martz believes the grenade may somehow be related to Gus’s combat injury, but she has no way of knowing for certain. There are some militaryrelated documents that were taken out of the apartment that may also provide some clues, but no one has been able to go through all of this yet.

The man also had cartridges and shotgun shells that were found in a closet by a bomb-detecting dog provided by Harrisburg police. Police determine these not to be a hazard.

Five borough police officers, including Bey, were involved in the incident and were assisted by borough fire and emergency personnel.

Besides the state police bomb squad and Harrisburg police, Middletown police were also assisted at the scene by police from Steelton, Highspire,

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This “pineapple grenade” found at Interfaith Apartments on Mill Street turned out to be a training device.

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Police remained at the scene until 11:28 p.m. The grenade was taken away by state police and Bey said he does not know what they will do with it.

“I’m sure they have a whole stash of those things,” Bey said of the state police bomb squad.

Lower Dauphin grad a National Merit Scholar A Hummelstown student who attended Lower Dauphin High school was recently selected as a National Merit Scholar.

Logan B. Buffington, whose likely career field is medicine, was selected for the National Merit Messiah College Scholarship.

According to the school district website, Buffington is the son of John and Lisa Buffington. He was a four-year member of the band and was trumpet section leader his junior year. He was a four-year member of Class Council, the BIG Club, and Volunteen. He was a three-year member of the National Science Honor Society and the Young Republicans.

Buffington was a two-year member of the National Honor Society, the National English Honor Society and the Latin Honor Society.

He participated in the Healthcare Career Exploration Program at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center and College of Medicine and hopes to become a doctor after graduation.

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The 800 win- Buffington ners of National Merit Scholarships financed by colleges and universities announced Monday, July 18, join about 3,000 other college-sponsored award recipients who were announced in June.

Officials of each sponsor college selected their scholarship winners from among the finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program who will attend their institution.

College-sponsored awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution.

Middletown Historical Society schedules events The Middletown Area Historical Society has a number of events scheduled all the way into January 2017.

Here are several coming up.

Monday, July 25: A free presentation starts at 7 p.m. featuring “Beginning Genealogy” with Joann Matinchek Cain. Learn how to find your family history. This presentation will be held on the second floor of the Middletown Public Library, 20 N. Catherine St. Elevator access is available. Additional parking is available at the municipal parking lot behind borough hall.

Monday, Aug. 22: A free presentation starts at 7 p.m., featuring “Another Piece of Middletown History.” This presentation will be held at the Historical Society Museum, 29 E. Main St.

Saturday, Nov. 19: The fourth annual Pre-Turkey Bazaar and Soup Sale will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the MCSO Building, 60 W. Emaus St. For more information, contact Jenny Miller at 574-6716.

Saturday, Dec. 10: The Middletown Holiday Home Tour will be held from 1 to 8 p.m. The Home Tour Committee is looking for a few more homes to add to this year’s tour. Contact Carole Shanaman at 930-0931 for more information about the tour or for putting your house on the tour.

Saturday, Dec. 10: The second annual Holiday Tea will be held at the museum from 2 to 4 p.m. This is the same day as the Holiday Home Tour.

Contact Shanaman for details.

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reopen Brown and Union and move south to Mill and Union streets. The intersection will be closed so Flyway can install bumpouts on all four corners and do sidewalk work, Klinepeter said.

Then, in the last phase of the streetscape, work will move further south to South Union and Ann streets,

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The intersection of Union and Ann will be closed so Flyway can install bumpouts and do associated sidewalk improvements on both corners on the north side. A bumpout will also be installed on the southwest corner.

Plans show no bumpout on the southeast corner, but sidewalk and curb there will be made handicapped-accessible.

Also, the concrete island now in the middle of the intersection of Union and Ann will be taken out, Klinepeter said.

The borough gets weekly updates on the streetscape from Flyway and from project consulting engineers HRG. Flyway was to finish the streetscape by mid-September, but the contractor will be seeking a change order from the borough that moves the anticipated completion back a month, to midOctober, Klinepeter said.

Flyway is citing as reason for the delay changes to the project that have been ordered in recent months by the Middletown Industrial and Commercial Development Authority, Klinepeter said.

Flyway’s contract is with the authority and the authority continues to manage the project and be responsible for paying bills to the contractor. The original contract was $2.7 million, but change orders likely have bumped up the total to closer to $3 million.

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Developer makes case for North Union project

By Eric Wise

Press And Journal Staff

The land just south of the Route 283 eastbound ramp along North Union Street is not suitable for any type of residential use, an attorney told Lower Swatara Township’s zoning hearing board July 14 during the first day of what promises to be a lengthy hearing.

“There is no feasible way for it to be developed or used in accordance with the (residential suburban) zoning,” said David Tshudy of Pepper Hamilton, who represents property owners interested in bringing a commercial development to the 15.5-acre tract.

“It will improve adjacent properties.”

In Lee Dickerson’s plan, there would be a sit-down restaurant and a retail store along North Union Street, on the southern edge of Route 283. Traffic would enter using a new private road, Lee Drive, to reach these buildings and a second retail store behind the first.

Dickerson Street would lead to an office building and a 79-room hotel as the property stretches toward Swatara Creek along the highway.

After five witnesses talked for about 2 1/2 hours, Randall C. Breon, chairman of the zoning board, announced the hearing would continue at 6 p.m.

Sept. 8. Tschudy had several additional witnesses he planned to question at the time. Those opposed to allowing the variances needed for commercial development will speak when the hearing continues, after Tschudy finishes making the case for his clients.

The hearing afforded the opportunity for the 40 residents who attended to join as a party to the hearing if they are directly affected by the proposed variances. Owners of seven properties, including three individuals and four married couples, joined, mostly in opposition to commercial development.

The application asks the zoning hearing board to grant a variance that would allow commercial development on the site, and it requests a second variance to allow the commercial development to cover more than 30 percent of the

site with impervious surfaces like buildings and parking lots.

Dickerson developed the plan for the site, which includes the remnants of a multi-generation family farm that was largely taken for the construction of Route 283 in the early 1970s. His sons co-own two parcels of land. Dickerson has an option to buy a tract he will use to bring public water and sewer, as well as natural gas lines, to the site.

Two other property owners would be expected to sell their properties and have their homes razed to make way for the commercial development.

Traffic and noise?

While the area on the opposite side of the highway has been zoned for commercial or industrial use for decades, the development of the area, particularly by FedEx, has increased the noise, light pollution and traffic that reduce the quality of life in the existing homes on the site.

“You gotta have a TV or something on to not hear the beeping from FedEx,” Lee Dickerson said. He talked about how traffic, with both vehicles and pedestrians, increased over the past decade. “At least 43,000 vehicles a day go past my house.”

He has paid for a traffic study, and an expert will be called later in the hearing to describe it, he said.

Ann Korb, who lives in a home on Condran Drive and is part of the application, bemoaned the large amount of traffic noise in her home. She also noted she fears her property value has been dragged down, especially because of the homes nearby.

“Our properties have dilapidated properties nearby,” she said.

Fritz Lee Dickerson IV, who prefers to be called Bubba, described the problems he has living so close to the traffic light at the North Union Street and Route 283 interchange, including noise, dust, light pollution, fumes and heavy traffic.

“Basically, it sucks,” he said. “It’s all kind of random noise.”

He said it would be nearly impossible

to sell his house for someone else to use as a home, and he estimated traffic has doubled in the past 10 years.

Township criticized

Lee Dickerson explained that as an experienced residential developer, he knows that the land is unsuitable for development as a residential neighborhood. In addition to the problems of being near a highway, developing the site with homes would not provide enough money to bring water and sewer to the area as commercial development does, and builders would be reluctant to build new homes on the site using wells and septic tanks, even if the site could pass the required tests.

He sharply criticized the township’s lack of attention to his neighborhood.

“Unfortunately, I have to do Lower Swatara’s job to provide water and sewer,” Lee Dickerson said. “We haven’t had any improvement except cable in 50 years (along that section of North Union Street).”

Lee Dickerson disputed some of the objections raised during the hearing.

First, he said that although he said the property is unsuitable for residential use because of the commercial properties on the opposite side of Route 283, his commercial development is not comparable, as people enjoying a dinner at a restaurant or staying at the hotel will not create the type of traffic noise as FedEx. While several objected to the proposed development’s contribution to traffic on North Union Street, Lee Dickerson dismissed their concerns.

“This traffic is coming off 283 and back on it,” he said. “People are not going to a restaurant and hotel and then going down North Union (Street) on a tour of Middletown.”

Discussions continue

Dickerson applied in the fall of 2015 for a zoning change to commercial highway that was ultimately recommended for approval by the Lower Swatara planning commission by a 3-1 vote. The township commissioners

Lower Swatara Twp. Police News Following is a compilation of reports from the Lower Swatara Twp. Police Department. Please be aware all those charged/cited are presumed innocent unless proven otherwise in a court of law.

Cash stolen in burglary Several hundred dollars in cash and a checkbook were reported stolen during a burglary at a business in the 2000 block of Spring Garden Drive.

Police report the incident at Allied Steel took place some time between July 5 and 6. Investigators said $435 in cash and a checkbook were stolen from a desk in the business’s financial office. The money and book were in a locked desk that had been forced open, police added.

Police are asking anyone with information about the burglary to contact them at 717-939-0463.

Vandalism Police are asking the public for help to solve an act of vandalism at a construction site in the 1000 block of Stonebridge Drive.

Investigators said someone drove a vehicle into a building some time on July 9-11, leaving tire tracks on the structure’s new floor. An estimate of damage was not reported to police.

The contractor working at the site contacted the owner about the incident.

Police are asking anyone with information about the vandalism to contact them at 717-939-0463.

Cited public drunkenness Ashley M. Moyers, 33, of the 100 block of East Water Street, Middle-

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town, has been cited for public drunkenness following an incident at 12:48 a.m. July 11 in the first block of Nissley Drive, police report.

Police were called to investigate a domestic disturbance, and Moyers was questioned by police. The accused had an odor of alcohol on her breath and a

breath sample analyzed with a portable Breathalyzer showed the presence of alcohol, police said.

Moyers was taken into custody after arguing with police and taken to the Dauphin County Judicial Center, where she was held for several hours then released.

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Jay E. Stauffer, 79, of Middletown entered into eternal rest on Sunday, July 10, 2016, suddenly at his home.

Jay was born on December 16, 1936 in Middletown and was the son of the late Oscar and Catherine Epler Stauffer.

He was a carpenter for Union Brotherhood of Carpenters, and a member of Middletown Moose Lodge 410, and the NRA. He enjoyed hunting and fishing, trapping and the outdoors.

In addition to his parents, Jay was preceded in death by a son J. E. Stauffer Jr., and four siblings.

Jay is survived by his three children Neil E. Stauffer and his wife Tammy Lee of Elizabethtown, Karen L. Trader and her husband Jason of West Virginia, and Bret M. Stauffer of Middletown; three grandchildren Jason M. Stauffer of South Carolina,

Charlotte Layman of West Virginia, and Deacon Stauffer of Middletown; and six siblings Gladys Kern of Elizabethtown, Louise Ebersole of Virginia, Nancy Polk of Maryland, Mary Ann Barto of Elizabethtown, Patsy Yocum of Middletown, and Kenneth Stauffer of Hummelstown.

A memorial service will be held on July 30, 2016 at 11 a.m. at Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, 75 E. High St., Elizabethtown, PA 17022, with the Rev. Albert Domines officiating.

Burial will be at the convenience of the family.

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

Wayne Walters Jr. Wayne R. Walters Jr., 58, of Middletown, entered into eternal rest suddenly on Friday, July 15, 2016, at his home.

A memorial service will be held on Wednesday July 20, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. at the Matinchek Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Inc., 260 E. Main St., Middletown, PA 17057.

Visitation will be from 6 p.m. until the time of the service on Wednesday at the funeral home.

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One of the concerns raised by planning commissioners during the hearing was that a zoning change should not be considered until the township’s steering committee had finished its work on the comprehensive land-use plan, which was ongoing at the time. The steering committee completed its work in June, sending the comprehensive plan to the planning commission with the recommendation that the Dickerson property be changed to commercial highway zoning. The draft update to the comprehensive plan must be reviewed by the planning commission and then will be considered for adoption by the township commissioners.

Peter Henninger, an attorney representing the township commissioners, cross-examined witnesses during the hearing. He noted that despite the township planning commission recommendation to change the zoning to commercial highway, the Dauphin County planning commission had written that it recommended the township add no land for commercial development until the township’s undeveloped land in commercial zones is developed.

More than 100 acres of land on the west side of North Union Street near the Dickerson properties is undeveloped and zoned for commercial use.

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Summer Bingo Bash for fire company

Londonderry Fire Company, 2655 Foxianna Road, Middletown, is sponsoring a Summer Bingo Bash on Friday, July 29.

Doors open at 5 p.m., and bingo starts at 7 p.m. Only 140 tickets are available.

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

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The Fuzzy Few Carnival will be held in August

The 53rd annual Fuzzy Few Carnival will be held starting at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 1-6 at Hummelstown Boro Park. Enjoy food, games, exciting new rides, and free nightly entertainment.

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Music in the vineyards will be held July 23

Nissley Vineyards, 140 Vintage Drive, Bainbridge, is sponsoring a lawn concert on Saturday, July 23, from 7:30 to 10 p.m., featuring Nightwind (classic light rock). Bring a lawn chair/blanket. No babies, children or people under the legal drinking age of 21.

For more information, call 426-3514 or visit www.nissleywine.com.

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Summer reading, more scheduled for library

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

At 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 27, featured will be the Middletown Library Olympics.

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Stu Huggens will perform on the deck at Sunset Bar & Grill, 2601 Sunset Drive, Middletown, at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 21.

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

Featured will be amusement rides, horseback rides nightly, homemade food, games and nightly entertainment. There will be a gigantic grand finale fireworks show at closing Saturday night.

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The centerpiece of the Hop Yard’s kitchen might be the meat smoker, which will be used for brisket and a variety of other dishes. The Carettis developed six of their own barbecue sauces: Texas tomato, sweet molasses, hot habanero, bourbon brown sugar, Alabama white and Eastern North Carolina.

“We’ve been working on this for years,” she said.

“We just got everything perfected in the last few months (for the barbecue sauces),” she said. They have been so focused on the gearing up to open the restaurant that they did not enter barbecue contests or sell the sauces before.

From the smoker, they will serve brisket, pork, wings and smoked whole chicken. Other menu items include certified angus burgers and grilled chicken. Accompanying these items will be the Hop Yard’s own flatbreads, coleslaw and several choices in their recipes of macaroni and cheese.

Coretti said the sauces are all gluten free, dressings and barbecue sauces are gluten free.

What’s in a name?

Hops, the ingredient that gives beer its bitterness or zest, are grown in a hop garden or hop yard, with the latter being the more common term in the United States.

“We have a selection of craft beers, so the Hop Yard was fitting,” Caretti said.

When Hop Yard opens, it will feature 24 beers on tap, with a rotation that will stay fresh because there is “always something new” when it comes to beer, Caretti said.

At times, that will include local brew Troegs and other local breweries available from the Hop Yard’s suppliers.

Raiders land at Hop Yard

Middletown Area High School’s Blue Raiders football team got their own special introduction to some of the dishes to be served as the Hop Yard, a restaurant that will soon open at the west end the Westporte Centre.

“It was a coach and player appreciation lunch,” said June Caretti. “I thought it was a good way to pitch in.”

The Carettis invited the team and coaches for a meal Thursday, July 14, on the house before the team embarked on training camp for the upcoming season both to encourage the players and to thank coaches and volunteers.

The team enjoyed a big spread of pork and beef brisket sandwiches, chicken wings, beans, mac and cheese

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to open,” Benjamin said (see related story).

The Westporte Centre is now home to Wells Fargo, Rent-A-Center, the Middletown Post Office and Family Dollar. This shopping area has grown to the east toward Ann Street on part of the site of the former AP Green warehouse. Middletown’s new passenger

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Top, Middletown Blue Raiders football players enjoy food at the Hop Yard on Thursday. Above, June Caretti, one of the owners, and Marcus Sprecher, the Hop Yard front of the house manager, have been working to get the restaurant ready for its opening, as soon as possible after the state issues its approval for a liquor license. Above right, the exterior of the Hop Yard. and cornbread.

Rustic decor

Although the Hop Yard is a brand new restaurant for Middletown, some items from its decor look aged, and for good reason.

The brick used for the walls was reclaimed from a wall torn down in train station will be built on the majority of the AP Green warehouse site, which had previously been the home of Middletown Car Works, where rail cars and boilers were manufactured.

The current excavation west of the Westporte Centre is taking place on Amtrak property. It is being improved for stormwater and for paving a parking lot.

Two additional sites for new buildings are available at Westporte, between the strip mall and Route 230. Plans call for buildings of about 7,000 and

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result in noise, light and air pollution and will lower the value of surrounding properties. Signs dot the streets of Middletown with slogans such as “Middletown toddlers and Finkenbinder toxins don’t mix” and “No human incineration in Middletown.”

In February, five opponents of the crematory filed an appeal of Miller’s permit with the zoning board. The board met four times on the case and heard more than 10 hours of public testimony before the hearing concluded on May 26.

Tuesday’s meeting, to be held at 6:30 p.m. in council chambers at the Municipal Building, 60 W. Emaus St., will not include public deliberation by the board. Chairman Jack Still and

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board member Don Graham met in an unadvertised closed-door session on the morning of July 13 to discuss the issue and complete deliberations. Tom Germak is the third board member, but he recused himself from participating in the vote.

As a result, the July 26 meeting is likely to be brief — in contrast to earlier proceedings — as all the board is expected to do is vote in public and announce the decision. A written version of the decision will come in the days to follow, Still told the Press And Journal.

Zoning boards as a quasi-judicial body are allowed to deliberate behind closed doors for any reason but are not required to do so. Asked why the board chose to deliberate in private, Still emailed the following statement to the Press And Journal: “A zoning hearing board in Pennsylvania is a quasi-judicial body. Some matters before a zoning hearing board may be charged with emotion that courts recognized deliberations of a zoning hearing board in executive session is desirable.”

Attorneys for Fager-Finkenbinder say that the board should reject the appeal as untimely, because it was filed seven and a half months after Miller’s permit was issued in June 2015.

An appeal must be filed within 30 days of a permit being issued, unless the appellants can prove they were not aware of the permit having been issued, according to the state Municipalities Planning Code, the lawyers for Fager-Finkenbinder say.

Not an end to controversy?

Regardless of how the zoning board decides on July 26, it is unlikely to end the controversy over the crematory that has been raging throughout Middletown for nearly a year now.

Either side — Fager-Finkenbinder

September 2015 from a building in Lancaster that was once home to the old J.A. Sprenger Excelsior Brewery in Lancaster.

A barn provided the wood used for some of the walls at the Hop Yard, Caretti said. Another 100-year-old barn’s beams provided the wood for the restaurant’s table tops.

“We try to recycle as much as possible,” she said.

In addition to the brick and wood section of walls, the restaurant features a unique paint scheme, thanks to artist Justin Lorenzen of Elizabethtown.

Overall, she said they intended to keep the restaurant low-key, with some entertainment. They plan to hold acoustic nights, a few karaoke nights and trivia games.

The Hop Yard will be open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. on weeknights and 11 a.m. to midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. It will be closed Tuesdays.

A crew of about 30 employees will work at the Hop Yard.

The Hop Yard’s website is still under development, but it does have a page on Facebook. Search for The Hop Yard.

He is no longer affiliated with the organization.

Hicks became treasurer of the Youth Club in 2013. Hughes told police that Hicks had been writing checks from the club account to her place of employment, Smith’s Gas Mart convenience store in Highspire, according to the criminal complaint.

Police said that Hughes was alerted to the situation by Sumil Dixit, owner of the Gas Mart, who wanted to know why “so much money” from checks drawn on the Youth Club account was going to his business. Hughes and Dixit then put together that Hicks was both treasurer of the Youth Club and manager of the gas station, police said.

Middletown police said Dixit told them that he believed that Hicks was stealing from his business, according to the criminal complaint. Dixit told police he was experiencing “a large deficit in his profits” from the gas station, so much that Dixit told police he was having to put “large sums of funds” into his business to keep it afloat.

Police said Dixit believed that Hicks was using money from the club to cover the deficit at the station.

The criminal complaint alleged that $12,000 had been taken from the Youth Club, but police at the time could only document theft totaling a combined $10,428.08 based upon seven separate transactions — four withdrawals from a Members 1st Federal Credit Union ATM, and three checks written to the gas station in Highspire.

Hicks was removed as treasurer of the Youth Club in September 2014, one month before her arrest.

Hughes at the time of Hicks’ arrest told the Press And Journal that the club had already made several changes to try and prevent inside theft from occurring again. These included requiring two signatures on all checks, the club getting rid of its ATM debit card, all money raised by the club being counted by two board members, requiring documentation of all funds raised from fund-raising events, requiring the treasurer submit more detailed amounting, and increasing auditing requirements.

The club was also looking into having its treasurer bonded, as well as having all board members bonded as well.

The Youth Club is “pleased” with the outcome, said Brent Walko, its current president. Hicks has returned the money that she stole, and the club has been made whole financially, he said.

“She never personally profited from it,” Walko said. “She was doing it to help someone else. She just went about it the wrong way.”

4,000 square foot in this future phase of the project.

In addition to the progress at Westporte, Towne Retail is moving forward with its plans for development of the Linden Centre, formerly called the Jamesway Plaza, in the 1500 block of the West Harrisburg Pike in Lower Swatara Township.

“It will be a mix between restaurants, retail, possibly a bank or office building,” Benjamin said.

“We are finalizing some details pertaining to construction and design (of

the Comfort Inn and Suites), so we are unable to disclose a timeline to the public,” Benjamin said.

Towne Retail’s plans for the development of the Linden Centre include seven new buildings (in addition to the hotel), plus expansion of retail space attached to the Sharp Shopper building at the rear of the site, which is also home to a nail salon and Verizon Wireless.

Construction of one retail building will proceed as the hotel is built, Benjamin said. This building, labeled

Building E on the plans, will have 5,000 total feet of retail space that may be divided based on the needs of the tenants.

In constructing the new buildings on the site, the old plaza behind CVS will be demolished, Benjamin said.

There is only one tenant left in the plaza. Doug Hoover with Olmsted Plaza Barber Shop said he has been there for 55 years and he’s waiting to hear more about when the development starts to decide what he will do with his business.

or the crematory opponents — could appeal to Dauphin County Court.

Yet another possibility is that the zoning board could deadlock in a 1-1 tie because only two of the board’s three members are hearing the case.

Borough council had not appointed an alternate to the board.

In the event of a tie, the result would be to deny the application filed by the appellants, according to Lyndsay Kensinger, spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development.

And even if neither party appeals the board’s decision to county court, Fager-Finkenbinder still has to get approval for an air quality permit to develop and operate the crematory from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

DEP is continuing to review FagerFinkenbinder’s air quality permit application, which the funeral home filed with the state agency in October 2015.

If DEP approves the air quality permit, Fager-Finkenbinder would still need to submit building plans to Middletown in order to obtain a building permit from the borough to construct the crematory.

lawyers for Fager-Finkenbinder that the opponents should have known of Miller’s permit being issued from the articles that were published in the newspaper and online, lawyers for the opponents say.

Moreover, Pennsylvania courts have allowed someone to challenge a zoning permit nearly a year after it was issued, if the neighboring landowner can show that he or she did not have notice of a change of use, lawyers for the appellants say.

Even if the appeal is timely, lawyers for Fager-Finkenbinder say that the board should uphold Miller’s permit because the crematory is “a proper accessory use to an existing permitted funeral home.”

Lawyers for the appellants counter that a funeral home is only allowed in a residential district in Middletown by special exception, and that the zoning ordinance does not permit adding an accessory use like a crematory to any use that is only allowed by special exception.

The converted garage that FagerFinkenbinder wants to use as the crematory behind the funeral home is a non-conforming use that cannot be converted into another non-conforming use, lawyers for the opponents say.

to four cremations a week, each one taking about two hours to complete.

Most cremations will be done during normal business hours, unless an exception is necessary to accommodate the unique needs of a specific family.

The crematory would receive bodies from the four other funeral homes in the area that are owned by Finkenbinder and his wife, lawyers for Finkenbinder said. The crematory would not accept bodies from funeral homes not affiliated with the chain, Finkenbinder said.

Receiving bodies from the four other funeral homes supports the opponents’ argument that the crematory will not be an accessory use but “a second principal business” on the property, lawyers for the opponents say. The ordinance prohibits more than one principal use per lot in the R-2 residential district, they say.

Allowing the crematory in a residential district also contradicts a “general prohibition” against incineration that applies to all zoning districts in the borough, lawyers for the opponents say.

These lawyers go on to say that a more appropriate location for the Fager-Finkenbinder crematory would be in the borough’s commercial C-2 district, where “mortuary and undertaking establishments” are allowed by right, and where multiple principal uses are allowed side by side on the same parcel.

However, Travis Finkenbinder has said repeatedly — in statements to the media and in testifying before the board — that the crematory needs to be at the funeral home in order to satisfy the wishes of grieving families that the funeral home have “total control” over a deceased body at all times.

Lawyers for Finkenbinder add that most of the cremation systems sold

by Matthews International Environmental Solutions, the company to provide the equipment for the FagerFinkenbinder crematory, are installed “in funeral homes, not in separate stand-alone crematory businesses.”

Who knew what when?

In September 2015, owner Travis Finkenbinder held an open house at the funeral home during which he told neighbors about the proposed crematory, lawyers for Fager-Finkenbinder say.

Starting in October 2015, several articles about the crematory and the zoning permit began to appear in the Patriot-News and PennLive, lawyers for the funeral home said. The PatriotNews was the same newspaper that the borough used to publish its legal ads.

However, lawyers for the appellants point out that two members of borough council — Dawn Knull and Diana McGlone — testified before the zoning board that they knew nothing about the crematory until mid- to late January.

This undermines the argument of the

Health and property values

Lawyers for the funeral home say the opponents’ arguments that the crematory will lead to adverse health impacts and lower property values are unfounded.

Emissions from the crematory will be no greater than those of a typical home furnace or hot water heater, and the noise outside when the crematory is operating will be “a little louder” than an air conditioner, they said.

The crematory will “exceed” Pennsylvania regulatory requirements for crematories that are “more stringent” than any other state in the nation, the funeral home lawyers said.

The system to be installed at the funeral home typically supports two

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Twilight team aiming for playoff spot

Middletown football Middletown squad sweeps double-header vs. McAlisterville to keep hopes alive schedule released

By Larry Etter

Press And Journal Staff

Middletown’s baseball team claimed victory in both games of an East Shore Twilight League double-header with visiting McAlisterville on Saturday, July 16, and kept its league playoff hopes alive in the process.

Team manager Adrian Huber said his team was within range of the league leaders.

“We have three games remaining and picked up some points today,” he said, referring to the point system used for the postseason.“The top four teams make the playoffs.”

The team came out of the weekend in second place in the men’s baseball league with its 11th and 12th wins of the season. McAlisterville is in last place.

The team had 24 points with a 12-9 record coming out of the weekend but lost at home 3-1 on Monday night to Lawnton, leaving it at 24 points.

According to its website, the seven teams in the league are Hummelstown, Lawnton, Linglestown, Middletown, McAlisterville, Penbrook and Perry County. League play opens in midMay and concludes with four-team playoffs beginning the last week of July. Semifinals and finals are both five-game series.

The Middletown Area High School football team will kick off its regular season on the road on Sept. 2 when it visits Lower Dauphin.

The Blue Raiders will play two scrimmages prior to that, on Aug. 20 and Aug. 26.

The first home game is Sept. 9 vs.

Northern.

The annual homecoming game will be Oct. 22 when the team hosts the Boiling Springs Bubblers.

The Blue Raiders are coming off a 7-4 season in 2015, including a 5-2 record in the Mid-Penn Capital Conference. Coach Brett Myers will lead the team again in 2016.

The team will not play back-toback home or road games.

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The team is scheduled to play firstplace Linglestown tonight, July 20, at 6 p.m. at home, then travel to Lawnton to wrap up the regular season at 6 p.m Thursday, July 21.

Playing in 90 degree weather on Saturday at Middletown Area High School, the team took the first game 5-3 and then rallied past McAlisterville to claim a 6-5 victory in game two.

Andrew Clark picked up the pitching win in the opening game and Tyler Johnston won game two. Middletown grad Zach Sims earned saves in both contests.

Middletown 5, McAlisterville 3

Clark gave up a two-out single and walk in the top of the opening frame but came away unscathed, getting a fly out to right to end the early threat.

Brandon Popp’s leadoff single in the bottom of the first inning led to a 1-0 lead for Middletown. Popp, another MAHS grad, went to second on Dillon Hippensteel’s fielder’s choice and stole third to set up the go-ahead run.

Popp stole home on a well-executed double steal for the run.

With neither team able to crack the other’s defense, that 1-0 lead held up through the second, third and fourth innings. Middletown threatened in the second inning when Chuck Kline

singled and Popp walked. But both were left stranded. The Middletown defense turned a 6-4-3 double play in the top of the third but the home team was set down in order in the home half. In the bottom of the fourth frame, Louis Hile led off with a single and Tyler Auerbeck followed with a double to left to put the first two batters in scoring position. But, with one out, Hile was caught in a rundown trying to score and the threat died with a fly ball to center for the third out.

After Clark had a 1-2-3 fifth inning, the Brewers finally broke through with a pair of runs in the home half to jump up to a 3-0 lead. Hippensteel’s leadoff single was followed by a one-out walk by Ethan Kell. A fielder’s choice ground ball by Ryan Trafecanty that the visitors failed to turn into an out left everyone safe and loaded the bases for the home team.With Hile at the plate, a low pitch in the dirt allowed Hippensteel to score from third for one run and Hile’s sacrifice fly knocked in Kell for the other run.

But that 3-0 lead did not last long.

McAlisterville, keyed by four singles, scored three runs in the top of the sixth to tie the score at 3 and put the pressure on the home team. Sims came on in relief of Clark with one out and ended the rally with a pair of strikeouts.

The Middletown side answered the

challenge by plating a pair of runs in the bottom of the sixth to get back into the lead. Marcus Gray led off the inning with a double to left and moved to third when Popp was safe on an error. Gray scored on Hippensteel’s sacrifice bunt and Popp raced home on Huber’s clutch single that gave the home team a 5-3 lead.

Sims sat down the visitors in order in the top of the seventh to lock down the victory.

Middletown 6, McAlisterville 5

In game two, the visitors got off to a good start against Johnston, scoring two runs off three hits and an error to grab the early 2-0 advantage. But the Middletown side answered right away, thanks to the big bat of Kell, a Middletown grad who plays college baseball at Penn State-Harrisburg.

With Hippensteel and Huber on base via a bunt single and base hit, Kell drove a first-pitch fastball over the fence in left field for a three-run homer that jettisoned the Middletown team into the lead.

The Brewers plated two more runs in the bottom of the second inning on an RBI single by Hippensteel that drove in Gray, and a fielder’s choice ground ball by Kell that brought in Popp after Huber was hit by a pitch

to load the bases.

The home team cruised along with the 5-2 advantage until the visitors rallied with three runs to tie the score at 5-5 in the top of the fourth frame.A walk, two singles, a double and sac fly accounted for the tying runs.

But, once again, Middletown responded and eked out a single run in the home half of the fourth which turned out to be the game winner.

After getting hit by a pitch for the second time, Huber stole second and went to third on an error.Trafecanty beat out a throw to first for an infield single that allowed Huber to score the go-ahead run.

Johnston gave up a leadoff single to start the fifth inning, but fielded a pop up bunt and doubled off the runner at first for two outs. A flyout to shallow right ended the inning for the visitors.

The Middletown side had one base runner in the bottom of the fifth and McAlisterville also had one on in the top of the sixth, but neither team scored. After the Brewers went down in order in the bottom of the sixth, Sims again came on in relief with the game on the line.

Sims, a Shippensburg University player, got two quick outs on a strikeout and pop up and closed out the victory with a groundout with a runner on first following an error.

Youth softball team works hard off field to raise funds to play in Indiana tournament A local team of 13 area girls will be off to Indiana next week to take part in a national slowpitch softball tournament.

The trip wouldn’t have happened, however, without a lot of hard work by the players on the team, all of whom are 12 years old or younger.

The goal was to raise $13,000 — or $1,000 per girl — to travel to the 2016 Brownsburg Midwest Invitational in Brownsburg near Indianapolis, which will be played July 29-31. Thanks to chicken barbecues, car washes, bake sales, sub sales, discount card sales, candle sales and other events, the team reached its goal.

The players are Lavina Balliet, Hailey Herneisey, Hayley Bartholomew, Amiyah Humes, Serina Gurm, Lacey Zimmerman, Rylee Hartwick, Heaven Crane, Camila Martinez, Addyson Snyder, Elizabeth Kirkland, Madelyn Holland and Alexsys Smith.

“With the help of business and people in the community and all these fundraisers, we’re able to get where we

need to be,” said Pam Zimmerman, one of the assistant coaches.

The girls played on various rec teams earlier in the summer but came together to form the South Central Girls Softball 12U “Athletics” team. Michael Varner is the head coach and there are three other assistants, Teresa Varner, Jen Herneisey and Mark Smith.

Seven girls are from the Lower Swatara/Middletown area, three from Dillsburg and one each from the Palmyra, Londonderry and Akron areas.

According to the Brownsburg website, it’s one of the “premier girls slowpitch tournaments on the summer circuit in the Midwest.” Even though the girls are all 12 and younger, they will play in the 13 and under age group in Indiana.

The team is practicing four days a week to get ready for next week.

Some of the girls have played together before with success. Five players were on the 2014 10 and under team that won the Duncannon, States and Cedar Cliff tournaments.

Top, Hayley Bartholomew catches and Addyson Snyder bats while coach Mike Varner watches at a recent practice. Above, Alexsys Smith and Lavina Balliet watch the ball. Left, players talk during a recent practice.

Players watch the pitch at a recent practice.

Photos courtesy of Jonie Buggy

The boys of summer

Photos by Don Graham

Above, Eric Belles pitches for the American Legion Teen “A” team at Oak Hills last Wednesday. The action included a close play at first base, right.

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Tom Czyzyk and Greg Czyzyk of Scranton prepare potato pancakes.

he Slavic American Festival was held Sunday, July 17, at St. Ann Byzantine Catholic Church on Locust Lane in Harrisburg.

Festival-goers were able to take part in raffles, buy ethnic foods, visit an East European gift shop, play bingo and watch polka events.

There also were games for children.

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Hanna Weisbach of Middletown helps Marion Kruba of Duncannon at the baked goods table.

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23 Years Ago From The Middletown Journal Files

From The Wednesday, July 21, 1993 Edition Of The Press And Journal ‘Model’ Student Shoots For Career In World Of Fashion New York: If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.

If that’s true, 17-year-old Jaime Rishar should be well on her way to anywhere.

Not quite a year after attending a model search, the Middletown teenager, who once gave little thought to modeling, has been photographed for magazines around the world and now has her sights on TV commercials and more.

It started in August 1992 when the Middletown Area High School senior went to Harrisburg for a meeting with Manhattan Model Search, which in turn offered her the chance to attend a convention to meet modeling agencies from New York, Miami and Japan.

In December she found her agency, Company Management, based in New York.

“I thought about modeling, but I didn’t think I would ever do it. I thought I was too small,” the 5 foot, 5 inch teenager says. “Even when I got my agency, I still didn’t think I’d do anything.”

One of the first things she did was have her long hair cropped short at the insistence of her agency. Afterward, she spent time “testing,” having different photographs taken, and assembling a portfolio.

“Once that happened, I just started getting work,” Jaime remembers.

She appeared first in “Interview” magazine, and went on to do work for other publications, including July issues of “Mademoiselle,” “Allure,” “Vogue” and “Seventeen.”

“Her agency said they have 66 models, and she was the only one who’s gone this far this fast and had no prior experience,” proud mom Deena Rishar points out. “They’ve all had some modeling background where Jaime has never modeled, ever.”

New Playground Taking Shape In Lower Swatara If all goes as planned, a five-acre piece of ground in Lower Swatara Township will be transformed into a new playground/recreational area, ready for use by spring 1994.

Township Commissioner Ron McAlpine said the piece of land was acquired through an ordinance, which requires developers to pay the Township a fee for each lot developed. That fee, currently at $600 per lot, is set aside for

23 YEARS AGO - Outdoing Themselves – Pelletier TaeKwonDo competed June 12 in an open karate tournament at the Trinity High School. Pelletier expected to win a “few trophies,” but walked away with 37. development of recreational areas, said Township Manager Dr. David Clouser. However, in lieu of payment of the fee, developers may contribute land equal in value to the fee amount, Dr. Clouser added.

The developer of the Old Reliance Farms development did just that, paying a portion of assessed fees with a five-acre piece of land located within the development, McAlpine said. Assisting the Township in transforming those five acres into a recreational/ playground area is the Old Reliance Farms Civic Association.

The Association, formed in 1987, approached the Township this spring and offered $3,000 of its own money toward the purchase of playground equipment, said Dale Meese, Association spokesman.

The Township will kick in another $7,000 to purchase equipment costing $10,000, said Clouser, adding that the $7,000 will come from the Townships recreation fund.

Clouser commented that several things have to happen, though, to bring it all together. “It’s not as simple as going to the grocery store and buying something,” he said. The equipment

and its installation must meet state and federal safety guidelines, McAlpine noted.

The equipment will be similar to the modular playground equipment currently in use at Market Street Extended, according to McAlpine. And, if all goes as planned, McAlpine expects the equipment to be installed this fall and ready for use next spring.

Council Hopes To Transform Old Wilson St. Rail Property Like dealing with a recurring headache, Elizabethtown Council turned once again at its recent caucus session to a topic that has plagued it for several years: what to do about the old railroad station property on Wilson Street.

“I think it could be made into an attractive site if we could acquire the property from Amtrak,” Councilman Meade Bierly declared. “It really has great potential, but I wouldn’t be willing to spend money on it unless we can get possession of the property or at least get a long-term lease on it.”

But even that cautionary note failed to stem the tide of hope that Council lavished on the concept of developing the old railroad station into an attrac-

tive community facility. All agreed, however, on the need to pursue the matter more aggressively in an effort to persuade Amtrak to turn the property over to the Borough.

It was finally agreed to seek the aid of Congressman George Gekas to solicit his help in the effort to get Amtrak to give permanent or long-term temporary rights for the property to the Borough. And Council also appealed to local citizens for proposals on how to make the best use of the property when and if it’s acquired.

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PUC to hold “SmartHearings” on 717 area code HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission will hold two “Smart Hearings” Aug. 9 to gather public comment on plans to address the predicted exhaustion of telephone numbers in the 717 area code service area.

They will be held at 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. in the Commonwealth Keystone Building, Hearing Room 1, 400 North St., Harrisburg.

The 717 area code is predicted to exhaust the supply of telephone numbers in 2018. The telecommunications industry’s recommended solution is to “overlay” a new area code throughout the existing 717 area code, which would require all customers to dial 10 digits for every call. An alternative would be to geographically “split” the current 717 area code, which would require approximately half of the region’s residents and businesses to receive a new area code.

The hearings will be broadcast live on the PUC website and will enable residents throughout the 717 area code region – which covers all or part of 16 counties in central Pennsylvania – to see and hear the testimony being offered without the need to attend the hearings in person.

Witnesses will be able to offer their comments by telephone, from their homes or other locations, to be in-

cluded in the live Internet stream and considered as part of the commission’s review. In-person testimony at the Harrisburg hearing site also will be included.

Individuals wishing to testify at the hearings by telephone must contact the PUC’s Office of Administrative Law Judge at 717-787-1399 and provide contact information no later than Tuesday, Aug. 2. Attendance in person requires no prior action. Simply show up and sign in.

The commission is seeking comments on the relief alternatives that have been submitted, and also is open to suggestions regarding any other potential alternatives. The commission also is seeking comments on the implementation schedule for any proposed area code relief plan.

If you plan to comment, the PUC suggests preparing what you are going to say beforehand. Even though it is not required, you may want to write out your statement, which can be read.

Bring copies, if you are attending an in-person hearing. If you have a written statement you would like to give to the judge as evidence, bring two copies for the court reporter and several copies for the other participants. Also, plan to be questioned. Parties in the case may want to ask you a question to clarify something you said.

Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful accepting applications for community improvement grants Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful recently announced it is accepting applications for the 25 Grants in 25 Days Program that will award 25 grants of up to $1,000 for community improvement projects, including planting natives, restoring habitats, restoring parks, cleaning up rivers and communities, providing recycling opportunities at special events and more.

The award program is open to taxexempt groups across the state; applications will be accepted through 5 p.m. Aug. 15.

Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful will announce a new award every day for 25 days via social media from Sept.

1-25. Accepted projects require a 50 percent match and must be completed

by April 30, 2017.

This project is funded by Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful, with partial

support from the Richard King Mellon Foundation.

Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful is also still accepting applications for its 2016 Fresh Paint Days Program, developed in partnership with Behr Paints and The Home Depot. Applications are due July 31. Grants of paint and painting supplies are available to community groups to renew a community structure in need of beautification.

For inspiration, additional requirements and an application for both these programs, visit www.keeppabeautiful. org and click on Grants and Awards.

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When government wants to do something, it must let citizens know.

Now that right is being threatened - by proposals to do away with Now that right is being threatened - by proposals to do away with the requirement to run public notices in your local newspaper. the requirement to run public notices in your local newspaper.

Instead, they would be buried away on some obscure government website.

Instead, they would be buried away on some obscure government website.

That means you'd never know what your local government was up to.

That means you'd never know what your local government was up to.

And what you don't know can hurt you.

And what you don't know can hurt you.

Help stop any legislation that takes public notices out of the newspaper.

Help stop any legislation that takes public notices out of the newspaper.

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Deliberations on crematory should have been public

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The Middletown Zoning Hearing Board plans to meet Tuesday, July 26, and vote on whether a proposed crematory in the borough will be allowed to move forward.

But despite all the opposition to the proposal, don’t expect a long, drawn-out fight that night at 6:30 p.m. before the vote is taken.

In fact, it could be a very short session.

As you can read about on the front page of Press And Journal Photo by Dan Miller today’s Press And A crowd gathers in council chambers before the first night of Journal, deliberations testimony regarding the crematory before Middletown's zoning are finished on the hearing board on April 27. proposed crematory behind Fager-Finkenbinder Funeral Home on North Union Street. Chairman Jack Still and board member Don Graham met on the morning of July 13 and talked about the issue (the third member is Tom Germak, who recused himself from participating). The two couldn’t officially vote July 13. That must be done in public. But the deliberations were private, without public knowledge of them happening until they were over.

Still said in an emailed statement to the Press And Journal when asked about the issue: “A zoning hearing board in Pennsylvania is a quasi-judicial body. Some matters before a zoning hearing board may be charged with emotion that courts recognized deliberations of a ZHB in executive session is desirable.”

He is right. Unfortunately for the public, this is all quite permissible under Pennsylvania law.

The zoning hearing board is a quasi-judicial body, according to Melissa Melewsky, the media law counsel for the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association. That status allows it to deliberate in private, closed session, much like judges do. But it’s certainly not a requirement that they do so.

In this case, we don’t believe the board’s private deliberations were in the public’s best interest. On an issue as divisive as this has been and promises to be, the public should have been privy to the discussions of the board.

The borough is facing several big issues at the moment — what to do with the Elks Theatre, how parking and other codes should be enforced — but the only issue on which you can find dozens of signs in residents’ yards is on the crematory. Opposition to it is that strong.

So why not let residents continue to be a part of the process and make the discussion public?

We aren’t suggesting anything untoward happened during the deliberation. However, it would have benefited the community to hear the reasoning of the two members in the discussion.

As defenders of the First Amendment, the right to public records and open meetings, we believe that the public always should have the right to be involved and that all meetings should be open unless there is a good reason otherwise. That usually involves personnel or negotiations.

Unfortunately, this zoning board goes into closed session with regularity to discuss even mundane matters, because it can. It probably never crossed the members’ minds to handle the crematory discussion any other way. We doubt any public body, if given the opportunity, would reject the chance to deliberate and discuss tough issues in private, so that there is less of a chance to be pilloried by the public.

So let’s be clear: This is a failure of Pennsylvania law, not of the zoning board. The board isn’t doing anything wrong, because it does not need a reason to go into closed session. We live in a state that allows such private deliberations to happen. Few other states do.

The public will get to hear the board’s reasoning eventually. It has to issue a written statement within about a month of the meeting. But that’s not the same as hearing the discussions firsthand.

There is little chance the laws will change, and that’s a shame for us and all Pennsylvanians.

Just because a zoning board can deliberate in private doesn’t mean it should.

CONTACTOFFICIALS

President Barack Obama, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. 20500. 202-456-1111 or 202-456-1414. www. whitehouse.gov.

U.S. Senate Sen. Pat Toomey, 248 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20510, 202-2244254. www.toomey.senate.gov.

Sen. Bob Casey, 393 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20510, 202- 2246324 or 866-802-2833. www.casey.senate. gov.

U.S. House Rep. Lou Barletta, 115 Cannon HOB, Washington, D.C. 20515. 202-225-6511 or 855-241-5144. barletta.house.gov.

Rep. Charlie Dent, 2211 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20515,

202-225-6411. dent.house.gov.

Governor Gov. Tom Wolf, 508 Main Capitol Building Harrisburg, PA 17120. 717-787-2500. www. governor.pa.gov.

State Legislature Rep. John D. Payne, 416 Irvis Office Building, P.O. Box 202106, Harrisburg, PA 17120-2106.

717-787-2684. jpayne106@pahousegop.com.

Rep. David S. Hickernell, 43A East Wing, P.O. Box 202098, Harrisburg, PA 17120-2098.

717-783-2076. dhickern@pahousegop.com.

Sen. Mike Folmer, Senate Box 203048, Harrisburg, PA 17120-3048. Room: 337 Main Capitol. 717-787-5708 or 877-222-1897.

Middletown Borough Mayor James H. Curry III, 463 N. Union St. Middletown, PA 17057. 610-533-4751. jameshcurryiii@gmail.com.

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The frantic calls from Middletown-area residents to 911 have been alarmingly high in the past year.

Often the panicked call is not reported as “a suspected drug overdose.” Instead, it is logged as a “cardiac arrest,” an “unresponsive person,” or a loved one “not breathing.” The repeated culprit is a light white powder. The hundreds of medical emergencies it has generated in Middletown and beyond in the past year alone turn a spotlight on two shocking truths: the next heroin fix may be a user’s last, and despite this fatal possibility, the heroin epidemic rages on, taking most users in the prime of their lives.

The loss of so many young lives in Middletown and throughout the county has forced police, the district attorney, and the coroner to repeatedly warn the public about the Russian roulette that is injecting, smoking or snorting substances cut with any number of unknown toxins.

A recent rash of deaths underscores that heroin users have no idea what they are getting in each bag of heroin they buy, how much will be too much, or how hard it will be to stop this toxic habit once it starts. When the heroin “switch” turns on, it doesn’t just turn off with one good-faith flip.

Dauphin County is attacking this high-stakes scourge in multiple ways, and it can’t happen soon enough. Drug overdoses take the lives of seven Pennsylvanians a day, on average.

In each strategy we are pursuing, we are matching the aggressive nature of our enemy and venturing right into the dark heart of the action. Our newly launched strategies revolve around these five key actions: 1. Immediate intervention: Two new “mobile case managers’’ are being hired and soon will

be on call 24/7 to respond to the scene of an overdose, whether it is the hospital emergency room, a bar, a home or anywhere else in the county. The goal is to guide, support and encourage overdose survivors to voluntarily enter inpatient treatment starting at that critical moment, rather than letting them leave a hospital and return to their addiction.

2. Follow up with overdose survivors: For those we do not see at the time of their overdose, we will be mobilizing county-trained, certified recovery specialists.

3. Narcan training: We are training probation officers, county staff, and the community to administer the overdose reversal drug, naloxone — which goes by the brand name Narcan — to reverse overdoses. Thanks to the district attorney’s leadership, nearly all police departments in the county are now carrying naloxone.

(Narcan, which can be either inhaled or injected, blocks the effects of opioids on the brain and restores breathing within two to eight minutes without harming other vital organs.)

Additionally, we will be making Narcan available to friends and families of people suffering from the disease of addiction and training them in its use. Narcan is also available at all CVS pharmacies without a prescription.

4. Continuing treatment for those released from prison: We are ensuring that once inmates are released, they are continually in a treatment program to continue the progress they made behind bars. Additionally, the county is expanding the availability of medication-assisted treatments for opioid addiction that stabilize

What, if anything, should be done to Middletown's square?

Steve Martin: Basically, all that needs done is keep it maintained. Pull the weeds, plant some flowers and keep it cleaned up. Way more traffic goes thru here than downtown in a day. If that $ was spent, some of it shoulda been used here.

Joanna Matincheck Cain: A feasibility study needs to be done to see if making it a roundabout would work. If not, new lights need to be installed that uses real-time traffic movement. Either way, the aesthetics need to be improved, so that it looks more inviting.

But, this needs to take place after we finish downtown and the Elks.

Stacey Kropp: Roundabouts are ok, but just as dangerous with idiot drivers. Was in Michigan recently. Had to sit for 10 min trying to get off a highway that had a roundabout instead of a red light at the end.

Not too thrilled after that trip Mike Sprenkle: good example look at Linglestown Square it’s actually Circle but good idea to put a big water found in the middle the goldfish or even to throw pennies in to make a wish and you greedy little officials could take out all the change that’s thrown in there and use it for your own doing who knows sky’s the limit Ron Fleck: I'd like to see a left turn light onto N union from 230 like the left turn onto S Union. Also a fountain project on one of the corners Jeanette Wills: Remember when there use

to be a “round about” but we always called it “the square” Can’t tell from the pic if it is still a “round about” Peter Matesevac: Pave it nicely and maybe take those seldom used park areas and make them turning lanes.

Robert Fudge Fallinger: Nothing it works ..Dont try to fix it..

Pat Boyer: Make it pedestrian friendly.

Charlotte Gingrich: Needs a new look like downtown!

Dave Drake: Needs a total refurb. Make it safe for pedestrian traffic. Make it inviting to locals and visitors alike. Make it modern with a taste of historical flavor.

Michael A Dalton: I feel we need to finish projects that are already started (downtown & Elks). As a landscape designer I feel that our square is not the best looking. While it can get by with being maintained more often it ultimately does need a remodel. Every planter bed is a different size and shape and the mass of the two on the south side are not helping with the maintenance issues. I would suggest smaller, raised planter beds and somehow get the main areas to be level which may require some ramps or steps placed in on the south side. Place some benches and or tables like E-town has with some nice shade trees to soften the square some. Attempt to work with 7-11 to possible remodel that structure to fit in more. thats just a start :)

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the patient and curb cravings, including methadone, buphrenorphine (suboxone), and vivitrol. Vivitrol, or long-acting naltrexone is not an opiate, rather it is an opiate blocker and can also be used to treat alcohol dependence.

These medications show great promise when partnered with clinically appropriate drug and alcohol treatment.

5. Reduced waiting period for treatment: Not just in Dauphin County, but statewide, there is a long waiting list for treatment, especially for detox beds. Fortunately, providers such as Gaudenzia Common Ground are increasing bed capacity, making slow incremental progress.

We are working directly with emergency room doctors at hospitals such as Pinnacle Health to ensure immediate access to treatment.

Education remains a vital tool in our efforts.

We have held multiple town hall meetings, talking to more than 200 concerned citizens.

Drug and alcohol counselors are also now located in every middle school and high school in the county. With each of these actions, we hope to chip away at the stigma of addiction.

Our message is simple: If you suffer from the disease of addiction, you are not weak, or stupid. You need help.

Treatment works. You can get better. We urge those in need to let the county be the bridge to treatment for you or your loved one. The county phone number is 717-635-2254. We can even help you navigate your insurance for substance abuse help. In the heroin war, there is no magic “fix.” But, in Dauphin County, trained and caring helpers wait for you at every point in the journey toward recovery, ready to help you take on the enemy.

Jeff Haste (left), Mike Pries (center) and George Hartwick III are Dauphin County's commissioners.

National Night Out a great opportunity The events of the last two weeks have probably left you worried and concerned about the future of our wonderful republic.

We have gone beyond left vs. right politics. Black vs. white racial divisions. We have arrived at a point where communities are at odds with the very department that serves and protects them. These various divisions within the United States generally run deep and are heavily exposed to the rest of the world by the media.

I believe there are communities that have community/police issues that must be addressed by the leadership of that community.

However, here in Middletown we are fortunate that our police department has a strong and positive relationship within every facet of the community. We are on the cusp of celebrating that very special relationship.

National Night Out has been held annually since 1984, and this year it will be held beginning at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 2 in Hoffer Park. National Night Out is a great event that promotes and celebrates that partnership between law enforcement and the community.

Our leaders understand that value. Vice President Joe Biden, speaking on National Night Out, recently said that this is a “chance to bring neighborhoods together with the men and women who protect them.” That solemn partnership works to create a friendly, safe and better place for all Middletown citizens.

There will fun, free food, and fellowship.

Come out and thank our officers for a job well done and celebrate the bond between the Middletown Police Department and the community they proudly serve and protect.

Diana McGlone represents the Third Ward on the Middletown Borough Council.

Reach her by email at dmcglone@middletownborough.com

LESNERI Rally around our police instead of tearing them down Words cannot express the sorrow and shock we feel for our brothers and sisters in Dallas on July 7. The officers who lost their lives will be remembered for their courage, bravery and dedicated service to the Dallas community. We join the entire country in mourning the senseless loss of their lives.

What happened in Dallas could happen in any small or large, rural or urban community across the country. The question is not why did it happen but how do we stop it from happening again. Law enforcement does not feel much support most days, and perhaps that is the nature of the job, but let’s not make today one of those days. Now, more than ever, we need to rally around our brave men and women in uniform, instead of looking for ways to tear them apart.

We must keep in mind that most law enforcement officers are dedicated public servants who

do an exceptional job. By way of example, a recent MSNBC article noted, “While police shootings and allegations of misconduct draw warranted scrutiny, government and independent statistics suggest those incidents do not comprise the daily work of most officers. ...

In any given year, roughly 99.1 percent of officers are not accused of any misconduct, let alone convicted of it.”

When incidents occur involving questionable interactions between law enforcement and the public, we must allow time for the systems and processes we have in place to properly investigate, report and take appropriate actions, rather than engaging in a dangerous rush to judgement that only serves to cause more injury, division and heartbreak. Every citizen, even law enforcement officers, must be given due process and presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Conversations need to start on how to improve relationships between law enforcement and the communities they serve. These conver-

sations must happen at the local, state and national level.

These conversations must address training, education and jobs within our depressed communities, thereby improving the quality of life for the citizens living within these communities and all communities across this country. These improvements would not only reduce crime but would create an environment where law enforcement and the community could find ways to improve the mutual trust and respect that is missing today.

These conversations must also address education, training, equipment, screening, manpower and community policing programs for law enforcement agencies. These tools will assist and improve the quality of policing we can provide and our communities deserve.

The time to stand shoulder to shoulder is now — not tomorrow, next week or next year.

Les Neri is president of the Pennsylvania State Lodge, Fraternal Order of Police.

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READERVIEW Middletown starting to turn corner

I have lived most of my life residing in Middletown but now am a resident of Susquehanna Township for the past two years. I have always loved the town I spent most of my life in, and I for one am so happy to finally see progress being made to help restore the face of the town in trying to bring back business to a town that needs it.

What mystifies me is why people are so reluctant to change to help improve the look of the town and to attract business. There are many things needed to bring back this town. The downtown is a start. The square looks bad, and this is where you enter this great town that has so much promise.

There are ways to improve the façade. Look at Hummelstown and Linglestown Square. I think they need to delete the four planters and remove and replace with a circle in the middle of the square with something decorative in the middle like a fountain or lighting or bring in the Victorian trellis like what I believe was supposed to be put in the downtown area. Something needs to be done to improve the square.

People need to be patient. Be positive and promote the rebuilding of Middletown. This town has so much to offer and is a safe town. Let things progress and move ahead.

Show your support and not be so negative on progress.

The only downside to living in Middletown is the real estate taxes, which are preventing people or growth from coming in. Somehow this needs a closer look to see what can be done.

Let’s make it easier for businesses to want to come here. We should welcome business with open arms.

The town needs stores. I would like to see Dunkin’ Donuts, which would do well with Penn State being here. Penn State is a big part of this town, so accept it that we are becoming a college town.

So let’s be thankful that there is a business coming like the brewery and support all businesses and keep them here.

In the next couple of years, we will see a difference in this town.

There are all new schools, sports is turning the corner and there is progress being made. Let’s support the borough council and all who are involved in making Middletown a model town.

I believe in giving back to a town that I have always been a part of.

Jeff Benson, Harrisburg

MIKEFOLMER

Much accomplished in legislative session While there are still a few remaining days in the 2015-2016 legislative session, I’m pleased with the progress on a number of my legislative initiatives.

Medical cannabis (Senate Bill 3) was enacted into law after nearly three years of effort. Regulations are being drafted to implement Act 16 of 2016.

I was pleased to work with Sen. Judy Schwank and Rep. Russ Diamond to bring industrial hemp to Pennsylvania.

Diamond’s bill reached the governor’s desk to be signed into law.

Act 15 of 2016 (my Senate Bill 644) gives the Independent Fiscal Office 20 days to calculate the impact of proposed state collective bargaining agreements before they’re signed: salaries, health care, pension, and other benefit costs. While the governor has the authority to negotiate contracts covering thousands of state employees, both the General Assembly and the public at large will now have more information on the impact of these agreements.

Act 90 of 2015 (my Senate Bill 442) requires “Paid for with Pennsylvania taxpayer dollars” for Commonwealth advertising, including television, radio and print ads (other than classified ads).

Sen. David Argall and I were successful in getting a vote on the provisions of Senate Bill 76 to eliminate school property taxes. Like other advocates, we were disappointed falling one vote short but will continue to fight for these much needed and long overdue reforms – hopefully partnering with the governor.

I was also pleased to team with Sen. Randy Vulakovich to modernize the Civil Service Commission. Act 69 of 2016 will allow both the commission and counties to make better use of technology, expand the pool of candidates to fill positions, and permit the posting of actual job openings (rather than generic job classifications).

I’m hopeful a number of my bills passed by the Senate will be considered by the House before the end of Session, including: Senate Bill 316 (openness and transparency for solesource/no-bid and emergency state

contracts) and Senate Bill 356 (local tax filing requirements).

Some of the provisions of my “Voters’ Choice Act” (Senate Bill 495) were incorporated into a court order leveling the playing field for independent and minor party candidates. While I would have preferred a legislative solution, I’m glad the issue of ballot access has been addressed.

My efforts to restrict interest rate management agreements —“swaps” (Senate Bill 342) – and reform asset forfeitures by law enforcement (Senate Bill 869) have spurred discussions among interested parties, and I hope these efforts will shortly produce consensus.

In working to forge agreement on issues, I’ve been pleased to work with both Senate and House colleagues. The biggest challenge facing the General Assembly has been — and continues to be — the financial woes of Pennsylvania’s public pensions. I have supported a number of measures to stem the sea of red ink drowning these systems, which are losing $10 million a day and nearly $3 billion a year.

In the interim, Sen. Patrick Stefano

and I introduced Senate 408 and Rep. Kristen Phillips Hill introduced House Bill 1084 as small steps to control costs by removing future nonpublic employees of the Pennsylvania School Boards Association from eligibility for public pensions. Hopefully, one of these measures will become law as both are supported by PSBA. Squeezing every penny out of each tax dollar has been an ongoing goal for me, and I’m pleased the Senate State Government Committee, which I chair, has moved a number of measures to help taxpayers, including: • House Bill 153: reduce the size of the House by constitutional amendment.

• House Bill 826: require fiscal notes for gubernatorial executive orders.

• House Bill 1205: provide additional data to the Independent Fiscal Office.

• House Bill 1618: make the inspector general independent from the governor.

• Senate Bill 9: require proof of residence for public benefits.

• Senate Bill 413: consolidate administrative law judges.

• Senate Bill 488: reduce size of the House and Senate by constitutional

amendment.

• Senate Bill 500/501: enact “paycheck protection” by both Constitutional amendment and law.

• SR 138: study state board and commission members’ salaries and benefits.

• SR 215: study best private/public practices in leasing properties.

The State Government Committee has also held a number of hearings looking at commonwealth spending, including: • Analyzing the Pennsylvania Department of State budget.

• Assessing gubernatorial executive orders.

• Consolidating administrative law judges.

• Evaluating the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission.

I look forward to continuing and expanding these efforts in the months and years ahead.

Mike Folmer is a Republican member of the Pennsylvania Senate whose 48th District includes Middletown.

His Capitol office telephone number is 717-787-5708.

ROBERTBRADLEY Fossil fuel divestment is fool’s errand; even colleges saying ‘no’ Green activists are getting schooled in fossil fuel divestment. Despite environmentalists’ best efforts, New Yo r k U n i v e r s i t y and the University of Cambridge just rejected pleas to stop investing in fossil fuels.

The green push for institutions to scrap all oil, natural gas, and coal investments is several years old.

Campaigners insist that starving fossil fuel producers of capital will leave energy in the ground, save the climate, and thus rescue the Earth.

But carbon rationing via investor revolt against fossil fuels is both intellectually and politically misplaced. It is incontrovertible that our modern way of life depends on mineral energies.

Fossil fuels are the stock of energy that is portable and storable, quite unlike the diluted flow of energy that comes from solar or wind. Chemistry and physics cannot be changed by altering a few high-profile investment portfolios.

What could change is the health of our nation’s colleges. Any largescale divestment effort would be

JOHNPAYNE THE CAPITOL REPORT Parx Casino working to save retired racehorses As chairman of the House Gaming Oversight Committee, I have the opportunity to visit casinos in other parts of Pennsylvania to learn about their operations and special programs, as well as discuss changes to our gaming laws that could help keep all of our casinos competitive with other states.

During a recent trip to the Parx Casino near Philadelphia, the committee learned about an important program called Turning for Home, which is run by the Pennsylvania Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association. Like Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course, the Parx Casino operates a live thoroughbred race track.

TFH was the first “year-round” racetrack equine retirement program and its mission is “to provide an alternative to auction and slaughter for Parx Racing’s thoroughbred racehorses when their careers have ended” They work to find new homes and careers for retired racehorses.

In 2007, federal legislation was enacted that resulted in the closure of all equine slaughterhouses in the United States.

Unfortunately, horses are still sent to slaughterhouses in Canada and Mexico. Every year, approximately 150,000 horses are exported to slaughter.

In 2008, the TFH program welcomed its first horse, Maneuverable, an 8-year-old bay gelding, which retired from an impressive racing career with just a slight injury to a hind leg.

Maneuverable was adopted by a local veterinarian as a foxhunter.

Maneuverable was the first of 1,788 retiring Parx Racing-based horses that was given the opportunity to have a second career after racing through the program.

TFH is nationally recognized and a great nonprofit effort to ensure no horse is left behind. Penn National Racing operates a similar program called New Start for Horses.

Senior center gets grant

The Pennsylvania Department of Aging recently announced recipients of the 2015-16 Senior Community Center grants, which total over $2 million from the Pennsylvania Lottery to be distributed to 43 senior community centers across the Commonwealth.

The Rutherford House, which is located in Swatara Township, was one of the 43 recipients of this grant.

It received an award of $55,230.

The grant awards help senior community centers to modernize facilities, encourage technology improvements, enhance innovative programming, attract new members, build on successful practices and meet the needs of their participants.

Congratulations to the Rutherford House and all of its members on this award.

John D. Payne is a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives whose 106th District includes Middletown. Email him at jpayne106@pahousegop.com. His Capitol office telephone number is 717-787-2684.

enormously expensive for college endowments — and have next-to-no effect on the intended target. It’s no surprise that more than 99 percent of the world’s colleges and universities are taking a pass.

One of the divestment movement’s main assumptions goes as follows: if only we left fossil fuels in the ground, the need for these resources would disappear. Such thinking, however, ignores the essential role oil and gas play in powering our nation.

The United States gets more than 80 percent of its energy from fossil fuels.

The average American motorist uses more than 440 gallons of gasoline each year.

And last year, the United States used more than 27 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

There’s a simple reason why fossil fuels remain America's default energy source: They're reliable, affordable and abundant. This isn’t true of renewables like wind and solar, which is why these technologies accounted for only 5 percent of U.S. electricity in 2015 despite $176 billion of subsidies for wind power alone.

Fortunately, the fossil fuel divestment movement has not harmed producers.

A recent study by the University of Chicago’s Daniel R. Fischel found

“no evidence of any discernible impact on the companies being targeted by the policy.” As UCLA economist Ivo Welch has written, “Individual divestments...have never succeeded in getting companies or countries to change.”

So much for faux activism.

On the other hand, the fossil fuel divestment campaign will do considerable financial harm to institutions that comply with the protesters’ demands.

A recent study from Arizona State University’s Carey School of Business finds that the costs associated with divesting from energy firms would be substantial. Over the next 20 years, a typical large institution could lose $7 billion by deliberately excluding fossil fuel investments from its portfolio.

A similar analysis by Caltech economist Bradford Cornell finds that the endowments of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and New York University would lose a total of $195 million for each year that they remain divested.

That’s a prohibitive price to pay for feel-good, misplaced symbolism. It’s not hard to see why dozens of leading colleges and universities — including

SOUNDOFF • “One commissioner says that the county offered $100,000 to help merge Middletown and Lower Swatara Police. Another says that it is a downright lie that there were even talks about merging, I'm confused, who do I believe? I think I remember that there were talks with Swatara that were originally denied as well, yet found out later to be very true.”

• “As I sit here watching the breaking news of the Dallas Police Officers shot and killed, I am overcome with anger at the treatment and handling of my local police department. If you aren't angry then you aren't paying attention. Get involved. They need and deserve all the support we can give them. Don't think it won't ever happen here. I'm sure Dallas wasn't expecting it either.”

• “I think the Elks Theatre should be restored, people

are not going to just come to downtown to eat. They need something else to do, like go to a movie either before or after dinner, especially since there are no stores anymore to shop at and nothing else to do in downtown.”

• “Good thing that Lower Swatara forces its police department down to MINIMUM MANPOWER on holidays. Common sense and common practice with NORMAL police departments put extra officers on the street. Yep, they don't want to spend the extra money so when a lot of people are out celebrating, drinking in excess, shooting fireworks off at all hours of the night, and just being loud there may not be an officer available to handle your calls. Please know that the police are being forced to the minimum to save money.”

• “We have to come to a crossroads in American History. It is not about race, democrat or republican, or even what gender you ‘identify’ with. This country is fastly losing its place as a world superpower. We are falling from the graces of what our forefathers tried to create. We have become a nation of lazy, self-entitled, overly offended people. We are so politically correct anymore that this country cannot face the music.

We let people in from countries that absolutely hate America. We give tax breaks and welfare to people who have come to this country as an immigrant and have contributed nothing to our country. We are so caught up in our own world that half the people don't have a single clue as to what is coming and coming fast to this country. We have people who live in poverty that can't afford to legitimately feed their families even after working a full time job and yet we hand out money to people who are too lazy to get up and get a job. Not all that long ago, cell phones and Internet were things unheard of. Now we give it free to people

MIT, Brown, and Stanford — have said “no” to divestment activists.

Even administrators at Swarthmore, where the divestment movement originated, have refused to indulge its campus activists on this issue.

Institutions are rebelling about fossil fuel divestment. That activists are

willing to harm their own colleges and universities to accomplish their deplorable goal is discouraging indeed.

Robert L. Bradley Jr. is the founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy Research.

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because they can't live without it. Why do we drive through Section 8 housing projects and see brand new luxury cars parked out front? Why do we stand in line and watch people pay for food with access cards and turn around and buy cigarettes and lottery tickets with cash? Why do criminals get weak sentences and then we act like it’s a huge surprise when they go out and commit even further crimes? Why is it a big deal to show your ID to prove that you are who you say you are when voting? Why do people in power who are absolutely dead wrong and caught red-handed get away with murder? The truth is that this country has slowly built itself upon lies, deceit, and debt. We have lost all credibility in our attempts to ‘police the world.’ The middle class is diminishing and there is truth to the old saying that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It's a shame that this country has every opportunity to make itself such a great place, a powerful nation, and a nation united and yet we falter because we have created a society who feels like things should be provided rather than earned. Wake up America, the path we are going down will only destroy a once great nation. Empires have mostly never survived for more than 250 years. History speaks for itself. Do the math, 1776-2016 is 240 years, we have about 10 years left unless we get our act together.”

• “I wonder if the commissioners truly know or appreciate what the officers of the township really do on a day to day basis. They have a job most don't want nor could handle and to know that the people who are in charge don't even support them has to be difficult. Imagine coming into a job trying to make the community better a place and doing the best you can do but leadership does not acknowledge the great job and achievements of their officers enough so to not publicly recognize a chief who dedicated 34 years of his life to serving the community or withholding accommodations from the very officers who earned it.

Leadership who makes the officers jobs harder in an already tough enough job by failing to provide safe or efficient means to do their jobs. Driving 12 year old cars or ones with well over 130,000 miles shows the mindset of the current leadership. Failing to replace officers who have since retired or left and forcing the department to an ultimate low of 1/3 of the amount of officers it originally had. Making these officers do their job with their hands behind their backs not only hurts the police but the citizens who rely on them to provide their safety or to bring them justice. The events in Dallas

go to show just how fragile the relationship between the public and the police can be. Not supporting them as a leadership is disgusting and disgraceful. Lower Swatara police have built and earned a relationship built on trust with its community.”

• “If certain people wouldn't be committing so many crimes, they wouldn't be so easily suspected as criminals. Statistics will bear me out on this. You know, If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck and looks like a duck it's probably a duck.”

• “Previously merely annoying, Eddie the Ex-pat is now undeniably reprehensible. He takes every opportunity to mock and criticize our country, but now that there's trouble in paradise, the big crybaby complains about the minimal aid from the mean ole U.S. of A. following the earthquake in his adopted Ecuador.

Hopefully the new editor or whoever has the authority will consider axing Eddie's column. Let him brag about his idyllic life to his family and friends back home in an annual Christmas newsletter like everyone else.”

• “Officer Young for chief, he's a cop’s cop!”

• “Clever word play, I actually liked it, touché!”

• “Every family has its traitor! But you'll expect them

to be there for you after they chew you up and spit you out right? Don't fall for false hope.”

• “I HAVE TO SAY I GET VERY ANGERY WHEN I SEE ARTICLES IN THE PAPER THAT TALK ABOUT PARKING IN THE BOROUGH OF MIDDLETOWN. THE COUNCILACTS LIKE THIS IS A NEW ISSUE?? REALLY ARE YOU GUYS KIDDING ME? THE AMTRACK LOT IS JUST THAT, NOT MIDDLETOWN’S. SO OF COURSE IT IS GOING TO HAVE CARS PARKED IN IT WITH NON-RESIDENTS!! LET’S GET ALL THE COMMERCIAL VEHICLES, SCHOOL BUSES AND BOAT TRAILERS, CAMPERS AND MOTORHOMES OFF OUR STREETS AND SEE HOW MANY MORE OPEN PARKING SPACES WE GET!!

WAKE UP COUNCIL MEMBERS AND SEE THE SOLUTION RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOUR NOSE.” • “There is no crematory at the funeral home as of July 6. Stopped to check on some family business and no one was there, same situation on the 7th. I assume they lost and have closed up shop.”

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Church

Ebenezer United Methodist Church

Middletown Ebenezer United Methodist Church is a prayer time “Partners in Prayer” and Childcare, 890 Ebenezer Road, that meets the first Monday of each Middletown, invites everyone to join month at 7 p.m. Through scripture, us for worship on Sunday mornings led song, and meditation we experience

by Pastor Brad Gilbert. Our services the joy of God’s presence. Have a are relaxed and casual. We offer a favorite board game? “Game Night” traditional service at 8:45 a.m. and a is every third Monday at 6:30 p.m. contemporary service at 10:45 a.m. At We also offer a variety of other groups 10 a.m., between services, there is a including Bible studies. variety of Christian education classes For additional information please for all ages. contact the church office at 939-0766 There are several things happening at or e-mail us at ebenezerumc890@ Ebenezer and all are welcome. There comcast.net.

St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church

Middletown St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran to the Middletown Area Interfaith Church is located at Spring and Union Food Pantry located at 201 Wyoming streets, (121 N. Spring St.), Middle- Street, Royalton. Individuals may also town. We are a Reconciling In Christ take items directly to the food pantry, Church. which is open Tuesdays and Fridays, Please join us for worship. Our wor- from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The Comship times are: Wednesday morning at munity Action Commission office is 10 a.m., Saturday evening, 5 p.m., and open Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Sunday morning worship is at 9 a.m., at the same location. through Sunday, September 4. Our Church and Community Events: Sunday worship service is broadcast Wed., July 20: 10 a.m., Holy Comat 11a.m. on WMSS 91.1FM. Our munion - Chapel; 3 p.m., Frey Village Saturday service is a casual traditional Holy Communion. service. This service usually is 45 Sat., July 23: 5 p.m., Holy Comminutes in length. Please enter the munion. church through the parking lot door.

Sun., July 24: Pentecost10; 9 a.m., The first Sunday of each month is Holy Communion.

Food Pantry Sunday. Needed items Mon., July 25: 4:30 p.m., Community are syrup, pancake mix, cake mixes, Dinner at Church of God; 6:30 to 8:15 frostings, white noodles (not whole p.m., VBS begins tonight through grain), puddings – especially choco- Friday, July 29, inclusive. late, gelatins, ketchup, mustard, mayo, Tues., July 26: 6:30 p.m. to 8:15 vinegar, pickles, olives, barbecue p.m., VBS. sauces, any condiments, vegetable Visit our website at www.stpeor canola oils, and always toiletries. tersmiddletown.org.

These are items not consistently Scripture for July 24: Gen 18:20-32; purchased or available at Central PA Ps 138; Col 2: 6-15 [16-19]; Luke Food Bank. Items collected are taken 11:1-13.

Evangelical United Methodist Church Middletown

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

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

The ministries scheduled at Evangelical United Methodist Church for July 20-26 are always open to everyone.

Wed., July 20: 9 a.m. to noon and 6 to 8:30 p.m., Clothing may be dropped off for God’s Clothes Closet; 6 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous Book Study.

Thurs., July 21: 9 a.m. to noon and 6 to 8:30 p.m., Clothing may be dropped off for God’s Clothes Closet.

Sun., July 24: 9 a.m., Sunday Church school with classes for all ages. Adult Sunday school devotional leader for July: Bill Harris; 10:15 a.m., Worship service. The worship center is handicap and wheelchair accessible. Greeters: Ethel Angeloff, Joey Underdonk,

Charlene Walters. Nursery helpers: Deb Lidle, Joyce Moyer. The altar flowers are given in memory of parents Jean and Harold Martin presented by son David and family.

Mon., July 25: 9 a.m. to noon and 6 to 8:30 p.m., Clothing may be dropped off for God’s Clothes Closet.

Tues., July 26: 2 p.m., Prayer Shawl Ministry.

God’s Clothes Closet will be open this year on August 6 from 8 a.m. until noon at Evangelical United Methodist Church, 157 E. Water St., Middletown.

We are looking for gently used clothing (no rips or stains) for men, women, teens and children, as well as shoes, coats, linens and blankets. If you have any of these items you no longer will use, please keep us in mind. For more information, call Mary Woods at 9446574 or Louise Morgan at 944-6518.

We will receive donations the following dates and times: July 17, 24, and 31 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.; July 18, 20, 21, 25, 27, 28 and August 1 and 3 from 9:00 a.m. to noon and 6 to 8 p.m.

Calvary Orthodox Presbyterian Church

Middletown Calvary Orthodox Presbyterian Confession of Faith and its Larger and Church will be holding its Vacation Shorter Catechisms as clearly teaching Bible School from Monday, July 25 what Scripture teaches. If we believe through Wednesday July 27, from 6-8 the Gospel of Christ, then by trusting p.m. (best to come by 5:30 on Monday in his death and resurrection for sinto register and by 5:45 the other days ners we can and will be forgiven and because school will begin at 6 sharp), saved from God’s wrath. Please join and a Community Picnic on Friday, us each Sunday to hear the Gospel.

Our services are at 10:15 a.m. and July 29 at 6:30 p.m. free food and 6 p.m. We are located at the corner friendship for all! If it is raining we will hold the picnic downstairs in the of Spruce and Emaus streets here in Middletown. We have a fellowship church building. meal following the 10:15 a.m. morning Calvary Church has been a part of service on the first Sunday of every the Middletown Borough community month, free to all who come. We since 1936. It has been our privilege to also have Sunday school classes for proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ all ages at 9 a.m., and a Bible Study all these years and to do so knowing each Wednesday at 7 p.m. We are now the good news has never changed in studying the Gospel of Luke. over 2000 years. We firmly hold to the Feel free to contact us with questions Apostles Creed and the Westminster at 944-5835.

Presbyterian Congregation of Middletown Middletown

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

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

Please join us for worship and communion at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, July 24. Our sanctuary is air-conditioned and handicapped accessible, and there are also hearing devices for anyone wanting to use one. Nursery is available during the service, as well as Bible Listening bags for children to utilize during the service. Do join us.

Thurs., July 21: 1:30 p.m., Worship Committee meeting.

10 Spruce Street • 944-5835

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

Middletown

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

New Beginnings Church invites you to worship with us each Sunday at 10:30 a.m. Nursery and children’s church is provided. Our congregation meets at Riverside Chapel, 630 S. Union St., next to the Rescue Fire Company. Sunday School for all ages is at 9 a.m. We are handicap accessible via ramp at back door. Youth Fellowship is from 5 to 7 p.m. For additional church information call 944-9595. For

New Beginnings Church at the Riverside Chapel

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

Pastor BRITT STROHECKER Everyone Is Welcome!

Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church 329 Market Street, Middletown

Pastor C. VICTORIA BROWN, M.Div. • 215-280-0798 Church School - 10 am •Worship Service - 11 am

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

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

Phone 939-0766

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

Presbyterian Congregation of Middletown Union & Water Sts., Middletown • 944-4322 Church School - 9:15 am • Worship - 10:30 am

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

REV. DR. J. RICHARD ECKERT, Pastor

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

BRAD GILBERT, Pastor

Seven Sorrows BVM Parish

Evangelical United Methodist Church

REV. TED KEATING, JR., Pastor

www.ebenezerumc.net

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

Geyers United Methodist Church

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

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

Wesley United Methodist Church 64 Ann Street, Middletown

1605 South Geyers Church Road, Middletown 944-6426

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

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

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

PASTOR STEVAN ATANASOFF

Mon., July 25: 6:30 p.m., Labyrinth walk at Mateer’s.

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

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

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

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

New Beginnings Church

CHURCH DIRECTORY Calvary Orthodox Presbyterian Church

GENEALOGY

Phone 944-6242

security purposes our back and side doors will be locked every Sunday morning at 10:30 a.m. at the start of worship. The only door for entry after that will be the front door.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nursery: Dana Rhine, Evette Graham. July ushers: Dana and Jeff Rhine, Lisa Fiedler, and Rick Pennington. Greeter for July: Evette Ash. Children’s Church leaders for July 24: Pam Eberly, Julia Juan.

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

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

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

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

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Column No. 858/July 20, 2016

Johann Friedrich Schollenberger From Germany To Pa.

Frederich Shollenberger, known also as Johann Friedrich Schollenberger was born 18 March 1703 in Albig, Germany, son of Dietrich Schollenberger and Christine Messenkopf. The town of Albig is near Alzey, Mainz, and Essenheim, where the church book originated that contained the information concerning births, etc.

Frederich arrived in Philadelphia on 3 September 1742 aboard the ship “Loyal Judith” where Frederich’s age listed as 40 years. The “Loyal Judith” sailed from Rotterdam, Holland via Cowes, England. Frederich’s sister Maria Magdalena Schollenberger traveled on the “Loyal Judith” with her husband Dietrich Hoppach brother to Frederich’s wife Anna Katherina on 13 January 1747, Frederich obtained a land warrant (#178 Pa. Bureau of Land Records) for 100 acres in New Maxatawny Township, then Philadelphia County, which subsequently became Albany and later Greenwich Twp., Berks Co., Pa. The original property grew to 210 acres and lies in Klinesville, which is to the East of Lenhartsville, Berks Co., Pa. The adjoining properties were owned by George Shellenberger, Gerrard Shollenberger, Simon Metzgar, G. Michael Rienhart, Daniel L. Kemp, and Ulrich Waggoner. He appeared in the Greenwich Twp., Berks Co. tax lists for years 1756 and 1759. Frederich Shollenberger was naturalized in the province of Pennsylvania, Greenwich, Twp., Berks Co., Pa. (Pa. Archives, Series II, Vol. II, p. 447). Frederich’s death and burial information has not yet been confirmed, but it is believed he died and was buried after 1768 in Berks Co., Pa. Frederich lived and farmed in Greenwich Twp., Berks Co., Pa. Frederich married Anna Katherina Hoppach on 11 January1729, and she was daughter of Jacob Hoppach and Christina ________). Anna Katherina was born on 29 March 1701 in Albig, Germany.

All their children were born in Albig Germany: (1) Johann Dieter Schollenberger was born 24 September 1729, died 20 July 1732 in Albig, Germany; (2) Johann Gerhard Schollenberger was born 1 September 1731, died 14 July 1732 in Albig, Germany; (3) Johann Gerhard Schollenberger (2nd) was born 21 April 1733, died 2 May 1777 in Greenwich Twp., Berks Co., Pa. His occupation was a farmer. He married Maria Christine Seifert, daughter of Peter Seifert and Susanna_______. Maria Christine was born in 1739 in Lynn Twp., Northampton Co., Pa., and died about 1787 in Greenwich Twp., Berks Co., Pa. Gerhard and Maria had nine children; (4) Johann Heinrich Schollenberger, also known as Heinrich Schollenberger was born 30 January 1735, died in Colebrookdale, Berks Co., Pa. Heinrich is found on the Greenwich tax list of 1767-1768, and moved to Colebrookdale between 1776 and 1784. He was listed with Lorentz and Garret aka Gerhardt in the Naturalization of Foreign Protestants at Philadelphia, in the September-October session of 1765, Berks Co., Pa. Heinrich married Maria Eva Catherine________ in Ontelaunee Twp., Berks Co., Pa., she died in New Berlinville, Berks Co., Pa. They had two children. He is last found on the 1790 and 1800 census of Lurgan Twp., Franklin Co., Pa., died in 1785 presumably in Northumberland Co., Pa. where he bought land in 1770, and moved his family. His occupation was a weaver. He married to Elizabeth Mertz (daughter of John/Jacob Martz and Margaret____________) about 1763 in Ontelaunee Twp., Berks Co., Pa. Ten Children are recorded in this marriage. Elizabeth is said to have married to Michael Bleyler after Lorentz died, according to her burial record; she is shown to be the wife of L. Schollenberer, and wife to Michael Bleyler; (5) Ann Elizabeth Schollenberger was born 14 August 1737 in Albig, Germany, a twin to Lorentz; (6) Maria Magdalena Schollenberger was born 7 December 1739 Albig, Germany. There is no further information regarding either Anna Elizabeth or Maria Magdalena; (7) Jacob Schollenberger, was born about 1743 in Berks County, Pa, died August 18, 1778, Greenwich, Berks Co., Pa. He married to Maria Eva Leiby (daughter of John Jacob Leiby Sr. and Dorothea Keller) in Greenwich Twp., Berks Co., Pa. Maria Eva was born about 1750 and died in 1848 in Greenwich Twp., Berks Co., Pa. Jacob’s occupation was that of a farmer. They had five children. Catherine; John George; Anna Margaret; Christina; and Magdalena.

They were baptized in the Dunkels Reformed Church.

Katherine F. Shollenberger Of Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, Pa. Katherine (Kate) Shollenberger is a direct descendant of Frederick and Ann Catherine (Hoppoch) Shollenberger through their fifth child, Lorenz and Elizabeth Mertz. Lorentz’s first born son Jacob, J. was born about 1766 in Ontelaunee Twp., Berks Co., Pa. and also died there. He married Magdalena Faust.

Thomas Shollenberger (Katherine’s grandfather) was the 4th child of Jacob J. and Magdalena. He was born on June 24, 1804 in Ontelaunee Twp., Berks Co. and married Susanna Staudt (1811-1899 of the same place) on 12 April 1829 in Ontelaunee Twp., Berks Co., Pa. He was a farmer and a tailor. Thomas died 8 August 1859 in Windsor Twp., Berks Co., Pa. Thomas’s 5th child, Frederick S. Shollenberger was born in 1840, Berks Co. Frederick and his brother Peter both had settled in Pine Grove Twp., Schuylkill Co., Pa. about 1868.

Frederick and Elizabeth Snyder (1840-1903) Shollenberger. Frederick died on 5 October 1908 at Deer Lake, Schuylkill Co. He was buried at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Pine Grove, Schuylkill Co., Pa. Their seventh child, Katherine, was born on 4 May 1870 in Pine Grove, Schuylkill Co., Pa. Kate, as she was called, married my 2xgreat-uncle George Zimmerman, son of Martin and Lucy (Trumb) Zimmerman. He was born 30 October 1866 in Pine Grove Twp., Schuylkill Co., Pa. and was baptized at St. Peter Lutheran Church on 19 September 1867. George and Kate married on 4 January 1896 at St. Peter Lutheran Church, Pine Grove, Schuykill Co., Pa. Kate and George continued in next week’s column #859

Shollenberger/Zimmerman Query

Is there any Shollenberger descendants that would have family pictures of Frederick and Elizabeth Snyder Shollenberger of Pine Grove Twp., Schuylkill Co., Pa. and their daughter Katherine and husband George Zimmerman? Kate and George Zimmerman lived in Pine Grove, Tremont, and Reading. They’re buried in Berks Co. Sharman Meck Carroll, P. O. Box 72413, Thorndale, PA 19372-1035

Genealogy Conference

Set For Saturday, September 24, 2016 Southern Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Society and York County Heritage Trust are jointly sponsoring a genealogy conference on Saturday, September 24, 2016 at the York County Heritage Trust, 250 East Market Street, York.

“Mustering Up Your Family History.”

The keynote speaker will be Hershner, author of “Letters from Home: The Civil War Correspondence of a York County Family.”

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Hello, folks! Did you know that 47 years ago, on July 20, 1969, American Neil Armstrong, 240,000 miles from Earth, spoke these words to more than a billion people listening at home?

“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”

Stepping off the lunar landing module Eagle, Armstrong became the first human to walk on the moon. He later explained that the quote was slightly garbled by the microphone. This is what he really said, “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”

I think that makes more sense, but it’s not how history remembers it!

Speaking of history, here is another quiz with the answers further down in the column: 1. What was the famous message Armstrong radioed to Mission Control in Houston when the spacecraft touched down on the moon?

2. Who was the second man to walk on the moon?

3. Which president made the special appeal to send astronauts to the moon?

4. Apollo number ___ was the first to land on the moon?

5. What were you doing on July 20, 1969?

Have a wonderful week, and stay cool, cool, cool! Also, please don’t be shy and let me know your news to share.

Saturday, July 23. Best wishes to you as you turn sweet 16. Be safe!

Mason Zeigler of Middletown hits No. 12 on Saturday, July 23. Hope your day is full of fun, right to the tippy-top, Mason! Happy birthday.

Kourtnee Wise of Middletown marks cake day No. 15 on Monday, July 25. May your birthday be filled with bling and sparkles!

Best wishes and many smiles are sent to Sterling Gray of Lower Swatara on July 25. This guy turns 15 on Monday.

Have a wonderful birthday week!

Happy confetti-popping day to Mark Fulton of Lower Swatara. I hope your Monday, July 25, is very cool!

Elizabeth Chavey of Lower Swatara will hear the birthday song on July 25.

May it be a marvelous sound to your ears on Monday!

Here is a shout-out to Isaiah Rogers Keeney of Middletown. Happy 12th just-spiffy birthday to you on Monday, July 25. Enjoy the entire week.

Marissa Romberger of Lower Swatara turns 12 on Tuesday, July 26.

May your day be filled with sparkles and glitter as you celebrate you!

Nathan Witmer of Lower Swatara celebrates his totally special 15th cake and ice cream day on Tuesday, July 26. Yay for you, Nathan!

Best wishes to Rob Rineer of Lower Swatara on Tuesday, July 26. Hoping this is the best birthday for you yet, Rob.

Birthdays Happy frosty-filled day to Tracey Bechtel of Lower Swatara. Her party day is Wednesday, July 20. Sending you smiles and laughs, Tracey!

Happy sweet 16 cake day to Billy Muller of Royalton. His beep honkhonk day is Wednesday, July 20. Be safe, Billy!

Best wishes for a fantastic birthday to Colin Bollana of Bainbridge. His confetti-popping day is Thursday, July 21. I hope it is just how you like it, Colin!

Happy 19th birthday to Luke Coughlin of Lower Swatara. His last teener birthday is Thursday, July 21. Wow, Luke! That went by fast. Enjoy!

If you see Joan Nissley out and about Lower Swatara on Thursday, July 21, be sure to give her your brightest smile as you wish her a very happy birthday.

Happy 14th balloon-flying day to Timothy Wagner of Lower Swatara.

He observes his birthday on Thursday, July 21. Have a blast all week, Tim! Happy quarter-of-a-century birthday to Kyle Koncar as he celebrates on Friday, July 22. Many good wishes for a fantastic future are sent to you, Kyle.

Best wishes for a terrific 25th birthday to Kehley Jo Cimino on Friday, July 22. I hope all your dreams are coming true, Kehley! Enjoy this very special birthday weekend.

Sarah Matincheck of Middletown celebrates her beep-beep-honk day on

Anniversaries Happy anniversary to Bill and Barb Dagenhart of Lower Swatara. They celebrate 18 years of wedded bliss on Thursday, July 21. Enjoy!

Bill and Doris Dixson of Lower Swatara exchanged vows on July 24, 1954. Happy 62nd anniversary to you both. Congratulations!

Happy 35th jade anniversary to Bob and Becky Wierman of Lower Swatara. I hope your Monday, July 25, heart day is very special. Congrats!

Dale and Julie Reigle of Lower Swatara mark their 35th anniversary on Monday, July 25, too. The gift is jade and the day is perfect for a romantic candlelight dinner. Enjoy!

Best wishes for a romantic heartsand-flowers day to Ed and Mary Hawk of Lower Swatara. They celebrate 46 years together on Monday, July 25. Wow, congrats and enjoy!

Delaware Valley grads The following students graduated from Delaware Valley University in Doylestown in May: Middletown: Lia Schmittel, animal science, bachelor of science.

Elizabethtown: Charity Hess, biology, bachelor of science.

Hummelstown: Noah Gesford, animal science, bachelor of science; James Norris, biology, bachelor of science.

Runners, walkers to raise money for victim services Harrisburg-area runners and walkers are invited to register for the annual run/walk slated for 8 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, to benefit the Victim/ Witness Assistance Program of Dauphin County.

This county program provides victims and witnesses with emergency shelter, food, transportation and other basic necessities.

“Without the necessary funding, we would no longer be capable of offer-

ing these services free of charge to our clients,” said Amy Rosenberry, executive director of the program.

Registration will begin at 7 a.m. at the carousel pavilion on Harrisburg’s City Island, followed by a welcome ceremony at 8 a.m.

The 5 kilometer race (about 3.1 miles) and one-mile fun walk will begin at 8:30 a.m. Participants who register in advance will receive a free Dri-Fit shirt. Registration for costs $25.

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Lafayette grads The following students graduated from Lafayette College in Easton recently: Hummelstown: Alexandra Schaller, anthropology and sociology dobro slovo, bachelor of arts.

Harrisburg: Austin Bashline, chemical engineering with honors in chemical and biomolecular engineering, bachelor of science.

Ithaca grads The following students graduated from Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York in May: Hummelstown: Micaela Metz, Robert Hummel Quiz answers 1. “The Eagle has landed.”

2. Buzz Aldrin 3. John F. Kennedy 4. 11 5. Share what you were doing on that day, weren’t born yet? Find someone who was, ask them what they were doing and how they felt about it.

Findlay dean’s list Larissa Holmes, of Hummelstown, was named to the spring 2016 dean’s list at the University of Findlay in Findlay, Ohio.

Ithaca dean’s list The following students were named to Ithaca College (Ithaca, New York) dean’s list for the 2016 spring semester: Hummelstown: Dante Marrocco, Kathryn Montgomery Elizabethtown: Justin Madar Quote of the Week “Life with God is the grandest adventure of all.” — Mary Carver, writer, speaker and recovering perfectionist.

Question of the Week What is a super thing to do on your birthday?

“Go to Hershey Park for the day!”

Isaiah Rogers Keeney, 12 on Monday, Middletown.

“My favorite thing to do is go out to eat with my family at my favorite restaurant.” Mindi Rhodes, 10, Hummelstown.

“Give me a beer and let me sit on the deck!” Colin Bollana, celebrates on Thursday, Bainbridge.

“Good food, with good family and then chill out.” Dave Leese, Hummelstown.

“Buy several cupcakes from the new Park City cupcake shop and quarter them. Share!” Greta Norland, Hershey.

“Having a candlelight dinner and receiving a special present, one that I always wanted!” Sue Plocinski, New Cumberland.

Proverb for the Week A man of perverse heart does not prosper; he whose tongue is deceitful falls into trouble (17:20).

Protect baby's skin from sun exposure Some babies are being exposed to the sun’s damaging ultraviolet rays in the first six months of life, when their skin is most vulnerable. In fact, a research team at the University of Miami found that as many as one-third of local parents actively increased their infant’s sun exposure each day, believing mistakenly that it would build their babies’ tolerance to the sun’s rays.

As a result, 12 percent of the parents reported that their babies’ skin had tanned before they were 6 months old, and 3 percent said their infants had been sunburned.

“Sun exposure can be extremely dangerous for babies due to their thin skin and relative lack of melanin — the skin pigment that provides some sun protection,” says Deborah S. Sarnoff, MD, senior vice president of The Skin Cancer Foundation. “All of the sun damage we receive as children adds up and greatly increases skin cancer risk later in life. That’s why it’s so important that parents make sun protection a priority early in life.”

The Skin Cancer Foundation wants parents and caregivers to know that skin cancer is highly preventable, and offers the following tips to help keep babies and toddlers sun-safe this summer and all year long:

Seek Shade. Avoid direct sun exposure during peak sun hours, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. On walks, keep to the shady side of the street and use the sun shield on your stroller.

Cover Up. Keep your baby covered up with a brimmed hat and lightweight clothing that fully covers the arms and legs. For added protection, look for special clothing marked with an ultraviolet protection factor (UPF) of 30 or more, which means the clothing will only allow 1/30th of the sun’s UV rays to reach the skin.

Be Careful in the Car. While glass screens out most UVB rays, the chief cause of sunburn, UVA rays can penetrate windows. Like UVB rays, UVA rays damage DNA and can lead to skin cancer. By law, front windshields are treated to filter out most UVA, but side and rear windows generally aren’t.

Consider buying a UV shield, which you can hang over any window that allows sunlight to reach the child’s car seat. Another option is to install professional protective window film.

Start sunscreen at 6 months. Since infants’ skin is so sensitive, it’s best to keep newborns out of the sun rather than use sunscreen. Beginning at 6 months of age, it’s time to introduce daily sunscreen use. Choose a broad-

The Penn State Extension of Dauphin County 4-H Clubs will hold its annual 4-H Fair from Aug. 11-13 at the Farm Show Complex, Harrisburg.

This fair is open to the public from noon to 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 11; 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 12; and 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 13.

For more information, contact Penn State Extension of Dauphin County at 717-921-8803. The 4-H Fair is an exhibition of 4-H Animal, Family Living, and Opportunities Projects.

Animals will be available for petting and 4-H members and leaders will be available to answer questions.

The Large Animal Clover Competition will be held Saturday around 6:30 p.m. The fair will conclude with the Large Animal Clover competition and awards ceremony.

Thursday, Aug. 11 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.: Project Check-in Noon: Poultry Judging of live birds

followed by Showmanship 1 p.m.; Family Living Judging — North Barn, 4-H Opportunities Judging — North Barn 2 p.m.: Poultry Skillathon — Small Arena or Poultry Showmanship, pending Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture decision on exhibition of poultry 3 p.m.: Pet and Small Animal Judging — Small Arena 5:15 p.m.: Opening Ceremony 5:30 p.m.: Dairy Cattle Judging and showmanship (cows in milk released after show) — Small Arena 6 p.m.: Dairy Goat Judging and showmanship — Small Arena 6 p.m.: Market Animal Weigh-in Friday, Aug. 12 8 a.m.: Horse Judging, English classes followed by Western classes 9 a.m.: Rabbit and Cavy Judging — Small Arena

Noon: Rabbit and Cavy Showmanship — Small Arena 1 p.m.: Family Living and 4-H Opportunities Clover 5:30 p.m.: Small Animal Clover and then Ice Cream Social — Game Fun Saturday, Aug. 13 8 a.m.: Swine Judging and Showmanship — Small Arena 10 a.m.: Sheep Judging and Showmanship — Small Arena 1 p.m.: Beef/Dairy Beef Judging and Showmanship — Small Arena 3:30 p.m.: Market/Meat Breeding Goat Judging and showmanship — Small Arena 6 p.m.: Auction of a Chain Saw Bench from Brian Wilson, with Large Animal Clover to immediately follow the auction and Clover Awards follow.

Penn State Extension Office answers gardening questions Dear EditorP ...A Penn State Extension-Dauphin County Master Gardeners will be available to answer gardening questions at the Penn State Extension-Dauphin County Office.

The public is invited to call with gardening questions or bring in samples of plants or insects from their gardens for analysis and/or diagnosis. All insects brought into the Dauphin County Office must be dead and must be in a container, preferably with isopropyl alcohol, due to the bed bug problem.

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Toddlers move around a lot, so you may need to get creative with your sunscreen application routine. Sunscreen sticks work well for the face and hands, since toddlers are less likely to rub the product into their eyes. Sprays are another good option. Make sure to apply the sunscreen evenly and liberally all over your baby’s exposed skin.

For the face, apply into your hands, then apply to your baby’s face.

Use Sunscreen Properly. Use sunscreen on all exposed areas not covered by clothing, such as the back of the hands, face, ears and neck. Apply sunscreen 30 minutes before going out and reapply it every two hours or more frequently if you take your baby into the pool or if he or she is sweating.

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