TheBurgGreater Harrisburg’s Community Newspaper September 2009
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TheBurg 3 In the Burg The First Word
General & Letters TheBurg P.O. Box 676 Harrisburg, PA 17108-0676 Summer’s Gone. www.theburgnews.com Letters Editorial: 717-602-4300 Long Live Autumn Ad Sales: 717-350-0428 I just wanted you to know how Every summer, my family took one much I really enjoy your publication. week of vacation. We packed up I look forward to seeing it every the Mercury sedan and headed to a Principals month at Alvaro’s. The feature you rented house on the Jersey shore. Editor: Peter Durantine did on them was very well done For some reason, our beach [email protected] (“The Baker Man Is Back,” August, vacation always fell the week before 2009, p. 7). Labor Day. Perhaps that’s why this Advertising Executive: Not only is your publication time of year always evokes a bit of Angela Durantine entertaining to read, but very nostalgia in me. To this day, come [email protected] informative on things that matter Labor Day weekend, I can almost to locals, who now include the feel the summer end, like I’m back Art Director: Lawrance Binda Amoroses, as we moved from York in the car getting my last glimpse [email protected] to Harrisburg about six weeks ago. I of sand and ocean—knowing that look forward to future editions. a new school year was about to Abraham Amorós descend right upon me. Staff & Contributors Harrisburg Unlike other seasons, summer Sales Associate: Jill Miller doesn’t fade away gradually. Instead, [email protected] Reading TheBurg made me feel the door slams shut behind it over a more connected to other people single weekend. Associate: Rebecca LeFever Today, I don’t see the end of [email protected] in the Harrisburg area. I enjoyed the information and reading the summer as quite the tragedy I did Reporter: M. Diane McCormick accounts of people’s passion for as a kid. Despite my annual pique of [email protected] what they do, especially “The Baker nostalgia, I actually welcome cooler Man Is Back.” Thank you. days and crisp nights. September Reporter: Carol Maravic has some of the finest weather of [email protected] Miriam Wege the year, and it’s a great time to be Hummelstown out of the house, enjoying all that Reporter: Rick Kearns the Harrisburg area has to offer. [email protected] We welcome all letters to TheBurg. The three-day Kipona festival Reporter: Mike Walsh We reserve the right to edit letters for is a definite highlight of the month, space and grammar. [email protected] as are Gallery Walk, the county Jazz Festival and Fort Hunter Day. But Cooking: Rosemary Ruggieri Baer please don’t hesitate to explore Cover: Dusk over the Susquehanna [email protected] beyond these major events. On River, Harrisburg Cinema: Kevyn Knox almost any day or night, you’ll kevynknox@thecinematheque. discover something great to do. com To help you decide, we’ve greatly expanded our “Happenings” Sports & Fitness: Laura Spurgeon pages, which now includes many [email protected] more venues and events. Use it as Pride Festival of Central PA your guide—then get out and enjoy Outdoors: Kermit Henning your city! [email protected] “One World, One Goal, Equality for All” —Lawrance Binda Pets: Todd Rubey [email protected] September 6, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Game Boards: Erik Arneson Benefi t Brunch at Liquid 891 [email protected] Harrisburg Local History: Jason Wilson September 19, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Burger Burn at Sam’s Club Harrisburg
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4 TheBurg City Hall
Intersection Upgrade Harrisburg Snags Program to Begin 2010 All Star Game
Harrisburg will undertake a major Harrisburg will host the 2010 All Star intersection upgrade program this Game of the Eastern Professional fall to improve safety for pedestrians Baseball League. and students. All Star Game activities will take The project features the place July 13 and 14 at Metro Bank installation of four flashing warning Park on City Island. lights and “School Zone” signs The ballpark is halfway through approaching the intersection at 6th a major renovation. The second and Division streets, as well as 34 phase of upgrades and expansion DuraTherm crosswalks at various will begin this month for completion school intersections, according in April. to the city. DuraTherm crosswalks Details for All Star week are improve safety by making them still being put together and will be more noticeable to oncoming be released in the coming months, drivers through patterns and colors. said Mayor Stephen Reed. Reed DuraTherm crosswalks will be added that there will be special installed near the following schools: opportunities for the public to • Foose School (1301 Sycamore St.) participate in events and meet the Eastern League all stars. • Shimmel School (548 S. 17th St.) This year’s All Star Game was • Holy Family School (555 S. 25th St.) in Trenton, N.J., and was hosted by the Trenton Thunder, the New York • Marshall School /Harrisburg High Yankees AA team. School (John Harris Campus) • Bishop McDevitt High School (2200 Market St.) Firefighters Wanted • Camp Curtain Sch. (2900 N. 6th St.) • Hamilton School (1701 N. 6th St.) Harrisburg is seeking a few good • Ben Franklin Sch. (1205 N. 6th St.) firefighters, accepting applications until Sept. 14. • Lincoln School (1601 State St.) The position offers a starting The project, estimated at salary of $21,000, which will be $287,500, is funded by a U.S. increased to $47,557 after the Department of Transportation grant. completion of a 12-week training The design was jointly coordinated program. Applicants must submit and funded by the city and the an application to be considered. school district for an additional No resumes will be accepted. $15,500. Applications must be accompanied by a processing fee of $30. Applicants also must undergo a civil service test and other screening processes. Did you know … All applications must be returned in person … The Susquehanna River gets its name by the applicant, or from the Susquehannock Indians, who applicant’s designee, to the city’s Bureau of Human had several settlements in the area? Resources no later than 2 … The sprawling Farm Show complex p.m. on Sept. 14. was built, in part, to create construction For additional information, call the work during the Depression? Bureau of Human … The Liquor Control Board building Resources at 717-255- on Forster Street sits on a site previously 6475 or go to www. harrisburgpa.gov/ occupied by a brewery? Resident/Public_Safety/ Fire_Bureau.html.
TheBurg 5 State Street
More Streets Fixed State Awards Grant Due to Low Bids for Chesapeake Bay Additional area roads will be built, The local office of the Chesapeake repaired and paved because bids Bay Foundation, 614 N. Front St., came in lower than expected under received a $14.9 million state grant projects funded by federal stimulus to help farmers better manage crop money, the state has announced. fields throughout the bay watershed “The combination of in Pennsylvania. competition in the marketplace The money would go toward and the easing of costs for materials reducing nutrient runoff into has produced bids that have been, streams that flow into the bay. on average, 11 percent below The funds are part of $355 million estimates,” Gov. Ed Rendell said. in loans and grants for 111 green The additional projects include: infrastructure, drinking water and • Harrisburg, street paving, $2.1 wastewater projects in 47 counties million announced recently by the state using federal stimulus funds. • Hampden Township, Carlisle Pike For more information, visit resurfacing between Route 581 and www.pennvest.state.pa.us. To track Salem Church Road, $1.7 million the state’s investment of federal • North Middletown Township, Route stimulus funding, please visit the 641 resurfacing, from Route 11 to website, www.recovery.pa.gov. Route 465, $803,000 • South Middletown Township and Carlisle, Route 74 resurfacing, Rail Meeting Slated between Route 641 and Forge Road, $800,000 PennDOT will conduct a public meeting on its draft intercity • Carroll Township and Dillsburg, passenger and freight rail plan, Route 15 resurfacing, from Golf 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Sept. 15, at HACC’s Course Road to the Cumberland C. Ted Lick Wildwood Conference County line, $3.6 million. Center, One HACC Dr., Harrisburg The state plans to spend about The plan will detail how $1 billion for road and bridge Pennsylvania intends to offer more projects using federal stimulus frequent and timely passenger funds. As of late July, PennDOT had rail service and increase its use of instructed contractors to begin work the freight rail system for goods on 178 such projects, worth about movement. It also will help decide $420 million. upon the most needed projects.
The stairway entrance to Capitol Park at Walnut and 3rd streets has been restored and is now open. Work on the first phase of the park’s renovation continues along Walnut Street, where construction crews are building a retaining wall and installing a sidewalk.
6 TheBurg Burg Biz New Business
A Dream Come True 3 friends combine talents, ambitions to launch Sprama Design Supplier Symposium TheBurg Staff Slated for Radisson
hen they left the world of they sketch on paper the design Sprama’s name comes from the The Supplier Diversity Symposium, Wcorporate design, the owner- the client seeks. The do-it-yourself combination of the words “spirit” designed to connect area businesses trio of Sprama Design (pronounced client can use the sketch as a guide. and “drama,” which the women said with opportunities for new business, spra`ma—but more on this later) not The third stage is comprehensive is what design is all about. The spirit is scheduled for Sept. 23 at the only wanted to pursue their creative service for the client who wants the is not only in the work, but working Radisson Penn Harris, 1150 Camp and business instincts. They wanted designers to do the work. one-on-one with clients, Ashly said. Hill Bypass in Camp Hill. to pursue a shared lifelong dream. “Each of these stages caters to a “You build relationships with The event, conducted by the “When the three of us sat down certain income,” Josephine said. clients,” she said. “You want to be Harrisburg Regional Chamber of and discussed our wildest dream, it The three stages provide checks able to help them the best you can.” Commerce, will take place 7:30 a.m.- was the same,” 32-year-old Harmony and balances, so the client is clear on Sprama Design, 308 N. 2nd St., 11:30 a.m. The focus is to identify Boore said. what they want and what they get. www.sprama.com, 717-238-1001 and locate diverse vendors in the Boore sat with her partners, The three designers each bring region and to connect them with Josephine Stoltzfus and Ashly Tagle, a specific talent to the firm: companies that understand the who jointly founded the firm in May, Josephine, 27, has degrees value of diverse supplier chains. and said, “It was a dream each of us in multi-media and industrial ES3 Expands Locally The symposium is open to had since we were little girls.” design and does kitchen and bath certification providers, diversity ES3 is adding a 705,000-square-foot Working at drafting tables in a work. Harmony’s psycho physics professionals, prime contractors, tower to its existing 790,000-square- makeshift studio before the Sept. degree provides design science for grant and contract managers, foot warehousing and distribution 13 grand opening of their storefront creating a space that evokes the procurement and purchasing facility in Conewago Township in gallery along 2nd Street, the appropriate atmosphere. Ashly, 28, professionals, project managers and York County. women said they approach design with her degrees in marketing and small businesses. The expansion will add 650 assignments with a “distinct three- communication and interior design, Registration costs $40, and jobs, according to the state, which stage program.” specializes in historic design. sponsorship opportunities are estimates the project at $200 The first stage is consultation. “Being creative people, we can available. To register, visit www. million. The state kicked in $2.9 They meet with a client in the space do any realm for any client,” Ashly HarrisburgRegionalChamber.org or million in incentives to entice the designated for design and discuss said. call 717-232-4099. company to make the investment. dreams, possibilities and options. The lesser known realm is For sponsorship information, New Hampshire-based The client has the option of Sprama psycho physics—the study of contact the Harrisburg Regional ES3 provides warehousing and either doing the design for them or sensory and perception in design. Chamber’s Lindsay Marthouse at distribution services to the grocery instructing them how to do it. “Do you ever go into a 717-213-5044 or at lmarthouse@ industry. It’s based on what a client can restaurant that has this fabulous hbgrc.org. afford, whether $100 or $1,000, vibe? That’s psycho-physics,” Harmony said. “The client has the Harmony said. Area Gets Chipotle ability to determine how much and What prompted their decision Chipotle Mexican how little we can help them.” to start the firm was more than just Grill has brought Second stage is research, a shared dream. Their talents formed its organic burritos rendering and design, in which a complement. “We recognized that and tacos to the the three of us made each other Harrisburg area, stronger,” Josephine said. opening its first While the women will work local restaurant last in a studio and offices at the back month at the Colonial of their 2nd Street location, the Commons Shopping storefront is for a gallery that will Center in Lower feature the art works of women who Paxton Township. are stay-at-home mothers. Chipotle has “There are many stay-at-home built a reputation for mothers out there who are excited using high-quality, about this,” Harmony said, noting the organic ingredients Pub notice: Pints Bar & Grill, a haven for Pittsburgh Sprama Design founders, Harmony gallery is open also to men who are and for supporting Steelers fans, opened earlier this summer at 25 S. 4th St., Boore, Ashly Tagle and Josephine unsung artists. sustainable farming former location of Tara Station. Hours: 4 p.m. to 2 a.m., Stoltzfus, look over a project. methods. Mon.-Sat.; noon to 2 a.m., Sun. 717-233-0975.
TheBurg 7 The Face of Business
Harrisburg Looks East Music in Midtown K&H Supermarket brings Asian food Stage on Herr: a comfortable new venue to increasingly diverse, sophisticated area. to relax and listen to great music.
TheBurg Staff TheBurg Staff
arge fish swim in tanks in the utside, the corner stone is Lseafood section, and the produce Oembossed with the Star of department offers a varied selection David and a Hebrew date, testifying of vegetables, from Chinese celery to the building’s former incarnation to okra. At K&H Supermarket, there as the city’s Jewish Community are aisles of items not sold by your Center. Today, after extensive and average American grocer. impressive renovations, this part of Yet, while K&H may cater to the Midtown Arts Center is a place Southeast Asian tastes, it appears to get a drink and listen to live music to have something for everyone, performances. attracting non-Asians as well as the Shoppers come from around “It’s a neighborhood bar,” said The intimate Stage on Herr attracts Harrisburg area’s Asian community. central Pennsylvania to buy K&H’s John Traynor, one of MAC’s owners both local and national acts. Rachel Koppenhaver of hard-to-find Asian goods. who poured drinks one afternoon Hummelstown, who was browsing in the spaciously comfortable Stage saxophonist Tim Warfield, who has through the store one morning, “I like the vegetables, the fish on Herr, located on quiet Herr Street, so far played here three times since said she comes in because its offers and the meat,” said Diane Nguyen, just around the corner from MAC’s the venue opened in late spring, “something different.” an American of Vietnamese heritage. 3rd Street entrance. called it “state of the art.” Located in the recently opened “Some of their vegetables, they Local art works cover its walls. “The sound has been Asia Mall at 1030 S. 13th St., K&H don’t have in an American store.” The bar is long. The corner stage impeccable,” said Warfield, who is is owned by Hoa Duc Dam, who is Nguyen, who has a hair salon has a piano and mikes set up for performing there again on Sept. 10. Chinese, and his Vietnamese wife, on Derry Street, shops there every musicians—professional as well as Traynor said the bar offers Hong Van Li. They have two children, week. “You have to go every week aspiring. Every Wednesday is open- homemade Bloody Marys, generous seven-year-old Danny and three- because Asians cook fresh foods,” mike night for anyone who has a drinks and beer at $3. Stage on Herr year-old Katie. she said song to sing or play. has no TVs or cheap bar food—it’s K and H represent the first Higashi said the 21,000-square- Formerly the Hebrew Gym, all about the music and the people, letters in Katie’s and Hoa’s name. foot store carries all international Stage on Herr is 3,500-square-feet he said. And people in the Midtown The store had operated along brands, including between 400 and with soaring ceilings. On a balcony neighborhood gather there. Cameron Street for about four years 500 different types of seasonings across the room is a sound-mixing “It’s just a really nice crowd before moving to Asia Mall. Van Li’s and spices. system operated by engineers at we’re getting in here,” Traynor said. brother-in-law, Minh Higashi, works “College students who are every performance. Stage on Herr, corner of Herr and in the store, as well as helps translate learning gourmet foods come “It’s probably the most Susquehanna streets, 717-441-7506; for the Dams. here to learn the names of the professionally set up audio stage in open seven days a week, 4 p.m. to For the Asian community, K&H seasonings,” Higashi said, noting central Pennsylvania,” Traynor said. 2 a.m. www.harrisburgarts.com/ appears to meet their demand. area Asian restaurants also shop It’s a valid boast. Jazz there because of the wide selection. stageonherr.html. The store also boasts a lunch- to-go counter. A hungry customer can take home a roasted duck, BBQ chicken or squid. The store is open 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. As a couple, the Dams said they put in 13-hour days, more sometimes. Though they are entrepreneurs, their goal is to give their children something to build on. “Nobody likes to run a grocery store,” said Higashi, who puts in 16- hour days, traveling to Philadelphia and New York to pick up inventory. “We do it for the next generation.” TD AMERITRADE recently opened up a new branch downtown, located at 114 N. 2nd St. TD AMERITRADE offers investment tools, services, K&H Supermarket Inc., 1030 S. 13th St. guidance and support. The Harrisburg office is open 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. K&H owners stand in front of their Open 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. Monday through Friday. For more information, call 717-730-3305 or very fresh, very popular seafood. 717-238-8686. visit www.tdameritrade.com. 8 TheBurg From the Ground Up
Buyers: Protect Yourselves Never—ever—forgo a home inspection.
Ray Davis
hen I purchased my first experience of the “how and why” of that is in need of attention are just a major defects—not to identify minor Whome in 1980, buyer’s agents, house maintenance. An inspector couple of examples. or cosmetic items that were visible seller’s Property Disclosures and can help a new home buyer The key to a successful house when they previously visited the house inspectors did not exist. In understand why proper grading inspection is understanding the house. those days, “buyer beware” was may help prevent a wet basement or information the inspector conveys. Conversely, it is important for good advice. Times have changed. understand the benefits of regularly Buyers should always attend sellers to remember that a seller The early 1990s brought buyer servicing a heating/cooling system. their inspection, which should be who is unwilling to address major protection in a number of ways. 3. To get answers to questions about interactive between the inspector defects risks not only losing a buyer, I remember the first time I asked the feasibility of making major and buyer. Buyers should ask but also then has a responsibility to a seller to complete a Property improvements to the house in the questions and not rely on a written disclose the defects to future buyers. Disclosure. It was almost as if I were future. Many house inspectors are or emailed report alone. Home inspections protect accusing him of not being honest. very knowledgeable in construction Upon completion of the everyone! Today, it’s the law. There is no and remodeling and are very happy inspection, the buyer and buyer’s requirement, however, that buyers to offer advice about things like agent should review the report, Ray Davis is a real have a house inspection, unless adding central air conditioning to identify major defects (if any) and, estate salesperson required by the lender offering an existing heating system, adding a if necessary, approach the seller’s with RE/MAX Realty a particular type of financing bathroom, etc. agent with a written request to contingent upon satisfactory address the buyer’s major concerns. Associates, Inc. He has inspections. 4. To prioritize items that are aging Typically, if the seller is not willing or lived in Harrisburg Below are five reasons why and will need attention in the future. able to meet the buyers request, the since 1986 and has buyers should make an offer to Inspectors can usually estimate buyer may accept the property as-is been a realtor for 17 purchase real estate contingent the age of a home’s components or terminate the agreement. years. [email protected] upon a home inspection. and help a buyer anticipate how It is important for buyers to much life a certain item might 1. To gather information and to understand that the main purpose have remaining. For example, a of a house inspection is to identify gain an understanding of the home water heater may be operating well they are buying. Many buyers are now, but may be near the end of not familiar with the mechanical its life. This information can help a operation of a house, and a house homeowner to budget for future inspector is able to explain the repair or replacement of items that New Energy Era technical aspects, pros and cons are aging. of a house, such as the type of construction, type of heat and how 5. To identify major defects in need it operates, etc. of immediate attention. Identifying items that are unsafe or in need of 2. To gain an understanding of the immediate repair or replacement maintenance aspects of the house. may be the most important role a First-time home buyers, in particular, house inspection plays. A roof that often have limited knowledge and needs to be replaced and plumbing
Hair Salon and Day Spa The solar panels are up and running high atop HACC’s Campus Square Building in Midtown. The 42-kilowatt photovoltaic ~ Hair ~ Nails ~ Skin ~ system was installed by GreenWorks Development and augments a geothermal heating and cooling system for the 3800 Walnut Street 717-545-1333 75,000-square-foot commercial and educational center. Funding Harrisburg, PA 17109 www.zsuzsannas.com for the $281,000 solar electric system was provided by the PA Energy Development Authority.
TheBurg 9 From the Ground Up
Building Razed; Hazard Mitigation Changing Hands: HACC Will Expand Meeting Slated July Property Sales
he city has razed the former Dauphin County residents are N. 3rd St., 3018, Raquel C. Aviles from Timothy Hoffman St., 3242, Hancock Investments LLC TDomestic Linen building in invited to attend a public meeting Straub: $83,500 from KCS Investment Associates LLC: $69,999 Midtown, a site now designated for on flooding, ice storms, wildfires, N. 4th St., 1719, John Blymier Jr. from Morris Hudson St., 1215, Alisha N. Powers from Jason future expansion of Harrisburg Area and other hazards addressed in the Munsen Jr. & Linda Luebbering: $149,900 A. Marks: $129,000 Community College. county’s Hazard Mitigation Plan. N. 4th St., 2703, Kyle Shenk from Eileen Scott: Hudson St., 1221, Megan Hogeman from After being cleared, the site, The county will host two public $94,900 Andria White: $126,000 located on Reily Street between N. meetings on the plan. The first N. 5th St., 1704, Stephanie Simmons from Hummel St., 230, Juan A. Romero from 4th and N. 5th streets, will be turned meeting will be held at 7 p.m. on Gregory Norman: $133,000 Wachovia Bank NA: $15,000 over to HACC for future use. The site Sept. 2 at the Northern Dauphin N. 5th St., 1719, PA Deals LLC from Richard Kensington St., 2142, Carlton M. Smith from is just a block away from HACC’s Human Services Center, 295 State Slabonik: $41,000; Robert Cieszynski from PA Elizabeth Ducre: $79,900 Deals LLC: $51,000 rapidly growing Midtown campus. Drive in Elizabethville. A second Kensington St., 2205, Eric & Nicole Anderson The demolition was funded meeting will be held at 7 p.m. N. 5th St., 1948, PA Deals LLC from Nhung from Deutsche Bank National Trust: $30,000 Thi Nguyen & Dinh Van Trinh: $33,000; Curtis through about $832,000 in federal on Sept. 10 at the Lower Swatara Kensington St., 2319, Alex G. Ginting from Evans from PA Deals LLC: $43,000 and state grants, according to the Township Municipal Building, 1499 Lam Quoc Thai: $48,000 N. 5th St., 2317, Mary L. Lewis from RHR Real city. HACC also invested $125,000. Spring Garden Drive in Middletown. Lexington St., 2642, PA Deals LLC from Mamie Estate Investments LLC: $102,000 Mayor Stephen Reed said the The plan is designed to Chism: $35,000; Mark 836 Properties LLC from site, formerly a heavy commercial reduce or eliminate future losses N. 6th St., 2466, JWT Investors LLC from Walter PA Deals LLC: $45,675 & Robert Weatherly: $10,000 dry cleaning facility, was difficult due to natural, manmade, and Market St., 1639, Evangelical Methodist to redevelop privately. Therefore, technological hazards. It identifies N. 6th St., 3148, Trisha R. Malehorn from John Church from Aniema Udofa: $34,000 & Kathleen Kush: $65,000 the Harrisburg Redevelopment areas of risk, such as flooding, and Mercer St., 2450, North America Prop. Invmts. Authority negotiated donation defines cost-effective avenues to N. 18th St., 713, Rob Lawson from Joyce from Stephen & Shara Coughlin: $42,000 Enos: $27,000; MJE Properties LLC from Rob agreements between the former reduce those risks, according to the Muench St., 202, PA Deals LLC from Deutsche Lawson: $34,500 owner of the building and HACC. county. Bank National Trust: $44,000; Kevin & The authority took temporary title “The public can address what S. 14th St., 119, Grace Mora from Members 1st Lawrence Martin from PA Deals LLC: $60,000 Federal Credit Union: $5,000 to the property, is overseeing the projects are most important to them North St., 1720, Scott A. Warfel from demolition and environmental and what steps they would like to S. 14th St., 314, Teak Properties LLC from NationStar Mortgage LLC: $28,065 Sandra & John Reichwein: $78,000 clean-up and then will transfer the see taken in their communities,” said Park St., 1810, Foreclosure Division LLC property to HACC. Commissioner George Hartwick S. 15th St., 16, Craig Peters from Warren from Troy L. Key: $20,000; Papa Investment “The demolition and site- III. “We also hope to hear ideas to Woolfolk: $33,000 Properties LLC from Foreclosure Division LLC: $22,000 clearing efforts will allow for the improve the plan.” S. 27th St., 707, Lemoyne Land Corp. Inc. from further revitalization of that part of The plan is also on the county Carole R. Phillips: $45,000 Park St., 1822, Israel Colon from Beal Bank SSB: $12,000 the city,” said Reed. website at www.dauphincounty.org. Balm St., 51, Renew Estates LLC from KDR Investments LLP: $22,500 Paxton St., 1622, Skye Holdings LLC from LaSalle Bank NA Trustee: $33,000 Boas St., 231, Christopher M. Harris from Ruth Miller and Kenneth Myers Jr.: $169,900 Paxton St., 1632, Sambath T. Rivera from Wells Fargo Bank NA: $26,000 Boas St., 1614, Joseph & Natalie Bream from Jeannine Huey: $123,000 Penn St., 1618, Jeffrey A. Tran from Luis H. Lopez: $128,000 Camp St., 525, PA Deals LLC from Deutsche Bank National Trust: $25,500 Reel St., 2430, Steven Toomey from Bank of New York Mellon Trustee: $33,000; Star REI LLC Camp St., 645, KMABC Investment Properties from Steven Toomey: $33,000 Inc. from Philip Dobson: $30,000 Reily St., 216, Alex Manning Enterprises LLC Crescent St., 246, Ebodio Nunez Hernandez from Patrick Redrick: $218,000 from Esfrain Cuevas: $24,000 Reily St., 218, Alex Manning Enterprises LLC Geary St., 621, H&R Real Estate LLC from KDR from Patrick Redrick: $218,000 Investments LLP: $21,000 Rolleston St., 1221, Sambath Riviera from U.S. Green St., 1226, Wayne J. Weidig from Byron Bank NA Trustee: $26,900 Kaster and Allison Curtin: $126,500 Swatara St., 1256, TLONZE Inc. from Mohieldin Green St., 1708, Mark W. Stevens from John & B. Hagmusa: $7,500 Patricia Yoder: $140,000 Sycamore St., 1817, Patrice Peterson from Green St., 1941, Ronald Boston Jr. from WCI Sean Mateer and Jeremy Tombs: $105,000 Partners LP: $219,000 Tuscarora St., 121, Ravinder Dhatt from Craig Work again is underway at the Harrisburg Transportation Center. Green St., 2340, Ernest & Kathleen Woolever Ernst: $178,250 This round of upgrades includes paving, masonry, painting and from Jason & Cheryl Guinn: $185,000 Verbeke St., 222, Instant Financial Solutions drainage work, as well as improvements to the bus canopies and Hale Ave., 445, JAK Investment Properties LLC LLC from James & Jane Askins: $31,850 train sheds (above). Funding comes from the state Department from Dale R. Ibberson: $48,000 of Community and Economic Development, the federal Hamilton St., 228, Andrew Enders from Scott Source: Dauphin County, property sales for Transportation Administration and the Harrisburg Redevelopment Hendrickson: $160,000 Authority. Ganflec Architects and Engineers designed the project Harrisburg. All data is deemed to be accurate. and Pyramid Construction Management is managing it. 10 TheBurg Street Corners Around Town
A Lifetime of Service For Al Baker, employing the disabled is his latest mission.
Pat Carroll efore he took up the cause Baker left the Army. program for the Classes Help to Get, Bof people with disabilities, Al A West Virginia native, the cigar- Pennsylvania Baker’s job was chief of staff, U.S. loving Baker was commissioned Department of Keep Kids in Shape Command, Berlin Brigade. Before regular army as the distinguished Motor Vehicles, a that, he headed the United Nations military graduate from Marshall public interface To teach and promote healthier Truce Supervision Organization, University. He and his wife, Joan, once legendary lifestyles in youth, PinnacleHealth monitoring Arab-Israeli borders proprietress of RAE’s Tobacco Shop for rudeness, is offering nine weekly classes for during the bloody Lebanon conflict in Strawberry Square, moved to located in the children ages six to 14 starting on of the 1980s. Before that, he lived Harrisburg in 1995. dank basement of Sept. 8 in the Brady Building of the Al Baker and worked with villagers in the What Baker brings to the the old PennDOT Harrisburg Hospital Campus, 205 S. mountains of Vietnam, a lone handicapped population of building. Front St. American on his third tour of active Pennsylvania, with its 70 percent Then the DMV contracted a KidShape classes require a duty in that war and already one of unemployment rate, is an oversized photo license program through parent or guardian to attend. Kids the most decorated soldiers in the personality and a lifelong habit of PIBH. “Those people function really will learn to choose healthy foods U.S. Army. putting up a good fight. well, even though they’re disabled,” and engage in an active lifestyle that Today, the retired colonel is “Wherever we have a contract Baker said. “Anybody who has is designed to help them feel good president and CEO of Pennsylvania for people with disabilities to do gotten a driver’s license will tell you about themselves. No physician Industries for the Blind and work, they generally do it better that it’s the best place in the world referral or health insurance is Handicapped, a non-profit at 1007 than people without disabilities,” to get a license because the people required. Call 727-231-8900. N. Front St. It was created to win Baker said. are courteous and nice. That’s work contracts for people with Take call centers, for example. something we’re very proud of.” disabilities. Pennsylvania Industries They are traditionally tedious His agency has won national has 76 member agencies that workplaces where employees sit at honors, receiving the American Church Work employ its people, including most computer terminals and spend all Business Award for Best Overall of the regional Associations for day listening to complaints from Company in the nation with fewer Retarded Citizens. customers about bad products than 100 employees. It was a finalist “Baker was able to do things and worse service. The turnover of three years in a row for a Stevie that were almost impossible, that workers is rapid among the able- Award for Best Corporate Social other people could only dream bodied, even in India. Responsibility Program, and has about, real miracles,” an American “For people with disabilities, been named one of the Best Places who served with Baker, Herman the turnover is very low,” Baker said. to Work in Pennsylvania. Baker Kafura, told an interviewer when “It’s like your first job at 15, when regularly sends all of his office staff you got your into the field to see the effects of first paycheck. It their work, “to take all the selfishness didn’t come from out of the organization and make it mom or dad, selfless, because that’s what we do.” and nobody can Every summer, he brings them tell them what together with organizations and to do with that individuals from across the state money. It’s theirs who are recognized for helping by the sweat of people help themselves. Brightening their brow. And the evening are stars you probably that feeling of never knew were here. Danny euphoria lasts. Glover, Harry Belafonte and Jose That’s one Feliciano have all slipped into town advantage with over the past few years for small fees A worker removes years of stain and people with and less press coverage, just to help varnish from one of the doors of Pine disabilities. Once the cause of the disabled. Street Presbyterian Church, where they learn a job, When Feliciano was here, he renovations have included re-pointing they stay put.” said, in between serenades, “I really the stone work and repairing and A major enjoyed my visit with the awardees, painting the wood trim. Inside the success for and the entire evening was inspiring. 149-year-old building, the 32 stained- disabled workers So many folks benefit from what you glass windows, removed last October was the licensing all are able to do together.” and sent to a restorer, have returned. For more, visit www.pinestreet.org.
TheBurg 11 Around Town
A New Start for a Small Town Little Lemoyne reimagines, reinvents itself. Hineline Named CEO Pat Carroll for Area Youth Ballet
Market Street is Lemoyne’s focus Alan Hineline has been named the for the first part of the renovation, new chief executive officer for the which is due to begin this month. Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Between State and North Third where he previously served as streets, the improvements will resident choreographer. include sidewalks, brick crosswalks In his role of CEO, Hineline will and ornamental street lights. supervise the day-to-day operations Market is a small part of of CPYB’s administrative staff and act Lemoyne’s retail, however. Business as liaison with the board of directors. goes south on Third Street to During his tenure as Lemoyne Sleeper, Kauffman’s Tea choreographer, Hineline created Shop and the German Deli. And it numerous ballets, including goes west to the State Street Plaza, “Cinderella,” “The Legend of Sleepy the very busy West Shore Farmers’ Hollow,” “Coppélia,” “Adieu Waltzes,” Market and West Shore Plaza—and “The Adventures of Sneaky Pete” to probably the most popular beer and “The Wolf and de l’innocence,” distributor in the area, Glenn Miller’s. among many others. Balaban thinks even more His body of work also can be Market Street in Lemoyne, where a major streetscape upgrade is on tap. business will be coming to his town, seen in the repertories of Ballet especially since the borough broke Philippines, American Ballet Theatre t took a stunning black eye for Cumberland has been decades in with its dry history last spring and Studio Company, Pennsylvania ILemoyne to look in the mirror and growing good retail components voted to allow beer and liquor at Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, Dayton Ballet, re-imagine itself. —Coakley’s, Oxford Hall, the second- licensed establishments. Kansas City Ballet, The Juilliard “One of the big buildings here run West Shore Theatre, Dingeldein “Susquehanna Bank is closing, Dance Ensemble, Sacramento Ballet, on Market Street partially burned Bakery and the recently deceased at Third and Market streets, where Alabama Ballet, Ballet Concierto down,” said Jim Balaban, president of Avatar’s Natural Foods. Hardee’s used to be,” he said. “That de Cuba and Utah Regional Ballet, the Lemoyne Business Association. In the 1990s, even dowdy old would be a great location for a among many others. “It sat there looking decrepit and Camp Hill woke up. Allen Holmes fine dining restaurant. Convenient, The Central Pennsylvania Youth terrible for a long time. It became bought the abandoned Post plenty of parking. And that could be Ballet can be found online at known as ‘The Burnt-Out Building.’ Office building on Market Street the ground zero where everything www.cpyb.org. A group of us got sick and tired of and moved his bike shop in, the just sort of radiates from there.” seeing it and having our town be Cornerstone Café opened to take known as the place with ‘The Burnt- advantage of the new coffee shop Out Building.’” culture and antique dealer David That was in 2004. Five years Cordier bought the landmark Park Art later, the eyesore’s down, a new borough building and renovated it retail building is up and leased, and for a mix of retail uses. Balaban sees Lemoyne, a borough of Now that block or two of Market about 4,000 residents just across the Street in Camp Hill has two fine Susquehanna River from Harrisburg, dining restaurants—Matt Black’s starting a 10-year or even 20-year Confit and 2201 in the Borough— journey to a new downtown. and a lively Lebanese place with A successful face lift takes that belly dancers. Cornerstone Café is long. And small towns on the West packed most of the day every day. Shore from Shiremanstown to tiny But Thieblemont said Lemoyne West Fairview are increasingly can do even better. willing to begin the process. “What Lemoyne has that we “It really started in New don’t have is a true business area Cumberland, with the revitalization with a boulevard, a wide street. of that one- or two-block area by Lemoyne has a lot of possibilities New murals were recently unveiled at Reservoir Park, located on the archways of the park’s water retainers. The mural project was a the old movie theater,” said Lou if they get their act together. They collaborative effort between the BARAK Voices of Youth Mural Program Thieblemont, mayor of Camp Hill. have five or six times the businesses and the city’s Department of Parks and Recreation. Voices of Youth Mural Now it has a friendly, we have, and they’re very interested Program is an artistic series designed to reach out to at-risk youth while welcoming center of town, but New in getting more.” enriching the city. For more on BARAK, visit www.barakdrama.org.
12 TheBurg Doing Good
Salvation Army: a Critical Community Link
Feeding the poor, fighting violence are among current efforts. Firefighters Raise Major John Griner Funds for MDA he Salvation Army is much Army, I was able to keep food on the It includes field trips, creative arts, “Please fill the boot!” Tmore than bell ringers and Red table.” educational programs, and other Harrisburg firefighters have Kettles at Christmas and white Another beneficiary wrote, “I life-building experiences. been making that request of drivers clothing donation boxes scattered was a participant of The Salvation Why do The Salvation Army staff idling at busy intersections to raise throughout our communities. We Army’s Super Cupboard Program. and volunteers invest so much in money for the Muscular Dystrophy serve the Harrisburg region with I learned much more than just the community? It’s their mission Assocation. programs that, literally, as our slogan cooking. I learned to be more self- and passion. For many, the desire to Donations get placed in the says, “Do the Most Good.” As the sufficient and to prepare nutritious help others is driven by their love for boots and are turned over to the economy has slid, our demand for meals. Words can’t explain my God; for others it is simply a love and MDA. The campaign will end after programs and services has risen—65 thanks towards this program.” concern for people in need and the Labor Day. percent in the last year. A second priority in the current knowledge that they can, in some For more information, visit How are we meeting this environment focuses on the rising small way, make change possible www.mda.org or call the Harrisburg unprecedented increase? Simply violence among Harrisburg youth. in the lives of others. Whatever District Office at 717-540-4316. put, we keep adapting our resources Our response to this need is a the reason, those who have joined to meet present and emerging highly successful program for at-risk hands with The Salvation Army are needs. I’d like to focus on two teens named “Bridging the Gap.” committed to caring for others. Bethesda Mission current priorities. This eight-week program addresses Wondering how you can Hosts Block Party First, we feed people. The the emerging needs of youth help? To learn about the variety of Salvation Army’s “Hot Breakfast between the ages of 10 and 18 and financial-giving opportunities, call Bethesda Mission will hold a Labor Program” serves up to 125 nutritious is designed to accommodate a small Kirt Barden, 717-233-6755; for youth Day Celebration Block Party on meals daily, Monday through group format. program volunteer opportunities, Monday, Sept. 7, 2 to 5 p.m. Friday, to anyone coming into the The Army partners with area Jenny Gallagher Blom, 717-233- The event will take place in front Midtown Harrisburg facility at 1122 churches, elementary, secondary 6755; for Family Services, Trinette of the Men’s Shelter, located at 611 Green St. It isn’t a cheap breakfast. and high schools to offer 10 satellite Ream, 717-233-6755. Reily Street, Harrisburg. It’s a free breakfast. In addition, the locations. Using a curriculum The party will feature music, Emergency/Disaster Services office targeted to their needs, Harrisburg Major John Griner is speakers, free food, a moon bounce, located across the street provides youth develop a healthy self- Area Coordinator for the games, prizes, pony rides, clowns, food baskets; vouchers to Salvation awareness, and they learn self- Harrisburg Capital City face painting and more. Army Thrift Stores for clothing, sufficiency, alternatives to violence, Region. He has served Reily Street will be closed furniture and other household better communication skills, job The Salvation Army for 25 between 6th and 7th streets items; and referrals to other helping readiness and other life skills that years. throughout the day. organizations in the community. will help them make proper choices. For further information, please In case of a fire, flood or other Results are important. Out of the For more information, visit contact Ken Ross at 717-257-4442, community disaster, the Army’s youth enrolled in BTG, 95 percent www.salvationarmyharrisburg.org. ext. 223 from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Emergency Mobile Canteen is ready did not receive any new charges weekdays. with food and beverages for victims while attending the program. and first responders. The Army’s Community Center Our programs help real people. Program focuses on the needs One of our beneficiaries said, “I fell of school-age children for safe, on hard times after recovering from engaging after-school activities. The cancer. My income wasn’t enough program provides after-school care, for my child and me to get by, and I recreation, tutoring and homework became desperate, depressed and help, as well as nutritious meals fearful. Because of The Salvation and snacks through the Army’s partnership with the Pennsylvania Food Bank’s Kid’s Café program. Supervised by the program director, volunteers from local colleges make these after-school hours a productive time for the participants. With the end of the school year, we roll right into our Summer Youth Harrisburg Mayor Stephen Reed recently cut the ribbon to open the new Enrichment Program, providing a Susquehanna Harbor Safe Haven, a semi-permanent housing facility for professional staff whose passion the chronically homeless and disadvantaged, located at 1805 N. 12th St. A line forms for the Salvation Army’s is a positive investment in youth. The facility consists of 25 units of permanent housing for homeless people hot breakfast program, held weekdays. suffering from a mental disability or recovering from dependence. TheBurg 13 Past Tense
Making of the Modern City City Beautiful movement sparked effort to modernize, improve Harrisburg.
Jason Wilson
hen Pennsylvania’s first state programs, such as parks, recreation and the recommended WCapitol burned in February of areas, paved streets and sewer and establishment of a park north 1897, a debate began in Harrisburg water filtration systems. of the city (today’s Italian Lake that was to have far-reaching effects. Dock included lantern-slide Park), which largely silenced The first issue was whether or not images in her lecture showing other opposition. to rebuild the old Capitol—largely a cities that had implemented similar After the completion debate for state officials. The second programs and urged Harrisburg to of the new Capitol in issue was what could be done to do the same. Soon, 60 citizens had 1906, the state took a far- improve the city itself, and this raised $5,000, and the Harrisburg reaching, progressive view debate would be headed by some of League of Municipal Improvements of its grounds around the Harrisburg’s leading citizens. was created. The League proposed building. Beginning in In 1897, the city had few paved that a citywide beautification 1911, the commonwealth streets, no sewage system and no campaign be adopted. started buying property in The Forum building nears completion, 1930. water filtration. The banks of the Harrisburg was also fortunate the city’s 8th ward, just east (courtesy: Pennsylvania State Archives) Susquehanna were used primarily as to have as a resident, J. Horace of the Capitol building. The the city dump. To leading resident McFarland. McFarland was born commonwealth acquired Education Building in 1934; and Mira Lloyd Dock, this situation was in Juniata County, but lived the 25 acres of additional ground and the Finance Building in 1939. The unnecessary, unacceptable and, majority of his life in Harrisburg. began to raze the structures. The final piece of Brunner’s plan was most of all, dangerous. Diseases In 1878, he established the state then hired New York architect the Capitol’s East Wing expansion, such as typhoid and dysentery were Mount Pleasant Press, which Arnold Brunner to design a series of completed in 1987. still common due to the filth. published numerous seed and buildings that would complement The vestiges and extent of Mira Dock was born in 1853 to horticultural catalogs, and the the Capitol building. Brunner’s these initial progressive-era reforms a wealthy Harrisburg family. Unlike wealth from his company allowed preliminary sketches included four can be seen throughout modern many women of the time, she was him to examine civic improvements buildings and a bridge arranged Harrisburg. When residents walk college-educated, and this infused throughout the nation. symmetrically along the east/west along the riverfront, attend a her civic activism. On December 20, By 1904, McFarland became axes of the Capitol’s north and concert at Italian Lake, a ballgame 1900, shortly after it was learned president of the American Civic south wings. In 1920, construction on City Island or casually stroll that a new multi-million dollar Association, and this role allowed began on the South Office Building through Capitol Park, they can thank state Capitol would be built, Dock him to influence political decisions and, despite Brunner’s death in Dock, McFarland and Brunner for delivered a speech to the Harrisburg on a national level, including 1925, the North Office Building knowing that natural environments Board of Trade, titled “The City protecting Niagara Falls from was completed by his associates, are just as necessary as built ones. Beautiful.” This lecture advocated increased development and William Gehron and Syndey Ross, in Jason L. Wilson is a research changing the physical landscape of advocating a national park system. 1928. Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial historian for the Capitol Preservation Harrisburg through civic building The election of Progressive Bridge was finished in 1930; the Committee. Mayor Vance C. McCormick further aided Harrisburg’s progressive reforms. Loans were quickly approved, and the city earnestly Then and Now Courtesy: Library of Congress began to clean up. A sewer system was installed, roadways were paved and a dam was built across the Susquehanna with a filtration plant to follow. Though there was some resistance at first to this campaign of spending, the fear of disease and epidemics from the horrid conditions were a strong motivator for change. Once the campaign began, it became self-perpetuating, Federal Square, at N. 3rd and Walnut streets, has been the site of Harrisburg’s with recreational facilities, especially central post office since 1882, when this Renaissance Revival-style building (left) was completed. Deemed obsolete by the 1960s, it was razed and replaced with the improvements to Reservoir Park Mira Lloyd Dock (courtesy: Penn. DEP) current 11-story building (right), which also houses other federal offices.
14 TheBurg Good Eats Chef ’s Kitchen
The Neighborhood Restaurant Civitas fuses food and community in a uniquely American way. Webb, “Ace of Cakes” TheBurg Staff at Blue & Gray Gala dedication to family restaurants such as Roy’s at 15th U.S. Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia will be and community. and Sansom streets, where Hawaiian the keynote speaker at the National His corner fusion is served. Civil War Museum’s 3rd annual Blue restaurant is inside a “That’s where I got the high-end & Gray Gala on Friday, Oct. 2. gray-painted, early- bug,” Payne said. Webb’s achievements include 20th century building Payne and his wife, Linda, combat Marine in Vietnam, attorney, that has turrets and moved to Harrisburg a few years former U.S. Navy Secretary, Emmy- cone-shaped roofs. It ago for a slower-paced lifestyle. He award winning journalist, film-maker stands along a section worked at the Sheraton downtown and author of nine books. He’s also a of 2nd Street lined as a line cook supervisor and the passionate proponent of battlefield with trees and other banquet chef. He also was executive preservation. old stately homes. chef at Camp Hill’s 2201 In the Boro. The Gala also will feature Duff Looking out of He “fell in love” with cooking Goldman of the Food Network’s Ace the dining room’s long ago. After 20 years, he’s of Cakes. He uses blowtorches and The staff of Civitas, in front of their new Midtown large window, still buying books, studying and chain saws to create masterpieces. restaurant. Back from left: Jemine Roberson, John Payne nodded. “This experimenting with different foods Proceeds from this black tie Payne Sr., Eric Payne, Kandis Scott and John Payne III; restaurant is going and recipes. optional fundraiser benefit the seated: Sheena Hicks and Heidi Haupt. to thrive off this “It’s the art part of it that I like museum’s operations, educational community,” he said. the most,” he said. “It’s the creating.” programs and exhibits. Tickets are or John Payne, restaurant owner The restaurant opened in June $125 per person. To reserve, call and chef, deciding on a name for F in a location that has seen other Civitas, 1530 N. 2nd St. Open Tues.-Fri., 717-260-1861, ext.1108. his Midtown establishment proved well-regarded dining rooms such as 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.; For more information about difficult. He toyed with House of the Bayou come … and go. Before Sat., 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.; the National Civil War Museum, visit Payne, but only toyed. He then held Civitas opened, the restaurant was Sun., 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. 717-236-1122. www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org. a contest. the high-end Table 15, which closed Neighborhood resident Rebecca weeks after it opened. Krasevic suggested Civitas, which Table 15 may have been too is Latin for “community.” The name ambitious in an economic downturn, immediately struck a chord with but Payne is approaching his menu Payne, an easy going man with a big with fine dining—such as roasted smile. That’s exactly what he wanted: tomato soup with bleu cheese and a restaurant name that reflected his cumin or Asian barbecue chicken with garlic mash—at moderate prices. His menu is American fusion, which, he said, “actually gives you the ability to have anything on your menu.” Keeping with the family/ community theme, Payne’s son, 23-year-old John Payne III, is the kitchen’s sous chef or under chef. “Cooking is in our blood,” the younger Payne said. “It’s our favorite thing to do.” Payne came to cooking quite by accident. As a barber in Philadelphia, he sought extra money at a pizza joint where sandwich-making sparked his culinary interest. From there, he moved up Philadelphia’s restaurant A lovely presentation at Civitas. chain, learning gourmet skills at
TheBurg 15 Coffee Corner From the Orchard
To the Soul of the Bean Cool Days, Juicy Apples First stop on our journey: Indian coffees. Raw, sauce or pie, it’s all delicious.
Ambreen Esmail Stephanie Pomraning
Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier because it’s harvested and aged he kids head back to school, winter months, making those spaces than a thousand kisses, sweeter far during the monsoon season in India. Tfootball takes over TV and the too warm or too cold. If you are than muscatel wine! It’s one of the top-rated coffee beans cool, crisp evenings of early autumn storing apples somewhere other —“Coffee Cantata,” J.S. Bach in the world. Poor marketing or just return. September also is the start of than a refrigerator, keep a close eye or centuries the coffee bean has plain ignorance has kept Indian apple season, and if you take a short on the temperature, making sure it Ffascinated people worldwide, coffee beans underestimated and drive outside of Harrisburg, you’ll remains close to 35 degrees. whether it’s the business of coffee, largely unknown. find 40 acres of apples that are just While an apple a day probably the cultivation of it or the little thing Chain coffee houses and the beginning to be picked. won’t keep the doctor completely inside called caffeine. The bean has non-specialty coffee industry At Strite’s Orchard Farm Market away, there is much to be said for been at the center of much research, seem to always bend towards the and Bakery, the earliest varieties the health benefits of eating fresh speculations and even legends. In all better know Colombian and vastly have morphed from beautiful spring apples. Leaving the skin on will this, though, we have yet to discover produced Brazilian or Sumatra blossom to sweet, juicy fall fruit. provide the most nutritional value the “soul of the bean.” coffee beans for their blends, mostly These apples are available already as it provides both soluable and Personally, I’ve been fascinated because they are widely available picked, or you can pick your own if insoluable fibers. Soluable fiber by the bean. Over the years, I’ve and roast consistently at all levels. you want to enjoy the fresh fall air. helps prevent cholesterol build- done my part in researching and In contrast, an Indian Monsoon is Gala, a variety known for its up, and insoluable fiber aids in understanding the character of the a sensitive bean, and its flavors are sweet flavor and attractive yellow digestion. The high-fiber content coffee bean. However, the difference best explored when roasted at a full pink skin, arrives first, followed by also allows the fruit’s natural sugar has been that I am more interested city or maybe a Vienna roast. The members of the McIntosh family to be released slowly into the body, in the heart and culture of the bean Indian coffees are very flavorful and including McIntosh, Macoun and helping to maintain steady blood rather than the science. full-bodied, thus requiring extreme Empire. These apples boast a crisper sugar levels. Character comes from within, care in cultivation and roasting. bite, deep red skin and bright white Along with the early varieties and, if you look deep into the heart Indian coffee has its roots and flesh. They are ideal for baking. of apples, the on-site cider press of a coffee bean, you will find the heritage from African beans. Like Jonathan and Jonagold are also at Strites’ begins operating early character. Each coffee bean carries most beans in the world today, earlier varieties. The Jonathan apple in September to provide freshly within its soul the history and African beans arrived in Asia during has the unique characteristic of pressed cider throughout the culture of where it was grown and the 1600s through traveling scholars making pinkish applesauce because summer, fall and winter seasons. cultivated and, since the coffee and pilgrims. Just like the Indian of its dark red skin. The flavor, which Each batch of cider is unique, since bean has traveled many lands, it has culture, the coffee beans of India is a perfect balance of sweet and the combination of apples used is evolved much. are filled with mystique and spicy tart, makes this apple a wonderful always different. The ratio of sweet- The flavor of the bean always undertones. You can almost taste all-purpose apple. The Jonagold, to-tart apples is approximately 50- reflects the character of its the rain in the Monsoon Malabar, a hybrid variety of Jonathan and 50, but the exact varieties per batch background. I will take you through the sweet cinnamon in the Mysore Golden Delicious, offers a unique are dependent upon which types of a cultural journey, along with the Nugget and an aftertaste of tea in tangy, but honey-like, sweet flavor apples are being harvested at the understanding of coffee, so you will the Indian Peaberry. The region’s rich with firm flesh. These are excellent time of pressing. Other happenings learn to make a connection with soil and culture have participated fresh-eating or cooking apples. in September include the Fall Farm the soul of the bean. That ultimately in creating one of the world’s most Smokehouse apples, which have a Festival and Pick Your Own Apples. will help you better appreciate your perfect-tasting cups of coffee. The beautiful greenish yellow skin, are a Some of the other varieties of daily cup of java. Indian beans are also low in acidity very flavorful variety that originated apples grown at Strites’ include Red We will explore one region and make an excellent espresso. right here in Pennsylvania. The flesh and Golden Delicious, Cortland, every other month starting, this You cannot learn all about the is firm, and the taste slightly tart and Stayman Winesap and Fuji. These are month, with Indian coffee beans: the bean in just one sitting. It takes an spicy, making it ideal for cooking. later crops that become available Monsoon Malabar, Indian Mysore experienced palate and passion to When it comes to storing from the end of September to Nugget and the Indian Peaberry. understand the culture and soul apples, keep in mind that some the end of October. Please visit I picked these particular beans of the bean. So, shall we begin the varieties keep better than others. our website at stritesorchard.com because the Monsoon Malabar is journey? Thick-skinned apples store better for updates on what apples are than thin-skinned ones. Keep them available, along with Pick Your Own the most popular on my bean list at Ambreen Esmail is a the café and also because I am asked in a cool, dark place—preferably dates and other special events. coffee artisan and café the crisper drawer in your curious questions about it. owner. Her café, Café di Stephanie Pomraning “Earthy” and “nutty” best refrigerator—in a plastic bag with writes from Strites’ Orchard Luna, is now located at some ventilation holes. Storing in describe the Monsoon. It is bold 1004 N. 3rd St. For more Farm Market and Bakery, and has an after-bite, giving you a basement, root cellar, garage or located off Rte. 322 information, visit unheated porch may be fine, but the extra thrust that appeals to www.cafediluna.com. between Harrisburg and coffee drinkers. It’s called “Monsoon” temperatures may vary during the Hershey.
16 TheBurg Home Cooking
Rosemary’s Cucina Get Stuffed! Two favorites for the end of summer: Rosemary’s mushrooms and Mary’s tomatoes.
Rosemary Ruggieri Baer
s we approach the end of the moment, she made some fresh Stir in 2 tablespoons of chopped 1/3 cup of extra virgin olive oil, 1 Asummer with its wonderful marinara to cover the eggplants fresh parsley, 1/4 cup of chopped beaten egg, and salt and pepper to harvest of fresh vegetables, I am and their filling. She would gently ham, 2 tablespoons of grated taste. reminded of some of my father’s place the filled eggplants, covered Parmesan, and salt and pepper to Fill the tomatoes generously favorite dishes that kept my dear with sauce and grated cheese, into taste. Mix well. with the rice mixture and place in a mother cooking in a hot, non-air a baking dish, cover with foil, and Lightly oil the bottom of a baking pan. Place the tops back on conditioned kitchen. When I was bake for a very long time to meld shallow, oven-proof baking dish, the tomatoes. Bake at 350 degrees young, it wasn’t always possible to the flavors and soften the eggplant and place the mushrooms, cut side for 45 to 60 minutes until the skins get fresh eggplant, zucchini or real shells. It was hot work for a summer up, in a single layer. Gently spoon start to crinkle. tomatoes at any other time of year afternoon, but my father relished it. I some filling into each mushroom You can eat these as a light, except late summer. So, when that don’t think he got it more than once cap, mounding slightly. Drizzle the meatless summer dish with a green time of year rolled around, my father a year. mushrooms with olive oil and cover salad and good Italian rolls. You will always asked for his favorite: stuffed I don’t know why Italians like loosely with foil. Bake in a pre- thank Mary for this recipe as I do. eggplant. to stuff summer vegetables, but heated, 375-degree oven for about Add a lovely wine to both of the Now, my mother was always they do. I love stuffed peppers. They 30 minutes. When finished, sprinkle above, and you will relish the lovely ready and willing to cook Pop are wonderful with ground beef, with a little more fresh minced languid days of Indian summer. anything he wanted and at any time. sausage or rice and gorgonzola parsley—and enjoy. But as great as her love of providing cheese. At the end of summer, it is culinary pleasure was, she dreaded nice to mix green, red and yellow Mary’s Tomatoes Rosemary Ruggieri making stuffed eggplant. It required peppers for this dish. I also have a My friend Mary is an extraordinary Baer, a first generation finding specimens that were just wonderful stuffed zucchini recipe Italian cook. Her homemade I t a l i a n - A m e r i c a n , grew up in Harrisburg ripe enough, but not turning soft that calls for ground sausage, cappeletti and gnocchi are to die and brown. She would scrub and breadcrumbs and parmesan cheese. and has spent her life for. Last year, she brought us some perfecting her mother’s dry them, and scoop the creamy It would beguile even those among wonderful stuffed tomatoes that country cooking. flesh away from the dark purple us who find the ever-plentiful were different from the breadcrumb- skins very carefully, so not to break summer zucchini watery, bland and and-cheese version I usually make. the eggplant shell. She would chop tasteless. These dishes are hearty I hope she won’t mind that I share the flesh and sauté it gently in some enough to serve as a main course. this recipe with you. olive oil with some minced onion. I would like to share with Cut the tops off 6 large or 8 Then she would do the same you two of my favorite stuffed medium ripe tomatoes and save with ground beef, browning it in a vegetable recipes. The first is stuffed them. Remove skillet. She boiled fresh, white rice to mushrooms. While not strictly the tomato seeds mix with the eggplant and ground a summertime dish, it seemed and chop the beef and spooned the mixture into appropriate to include here. They pulp. (Remove the the eggplant shells. She wasn’t done are wonderful as a side dish or a first tomato flesh with yet! Next came the tomato sauce. course with grilled steak or chicken. a small spoon, If no pasta sauce was on hand at I had one guest ask if there were any being careful not more out there in the kitchen after to pierce the skin). finishing a whole plate. Cook 2 packages of Rosemary’s Mushrooms boil-in-the-bag Reach your community Gently clean 12 large white rice and place with an ad in TheBurg. mushrooms. Remove the stalks in a bowl when and finely chop them. In a medium cool. Mix in the Contact skillet, sauté 1 crushed garlic clove chopped tomato Angela at 717-350-0428 or and 1 chopped medium onion in 3 pulp, 1 cup of [email protected] tablespoons of olive oil for about 5 grated Parmesan minutes. or Locatelli or Jill at 717-571-9146 Stir in a 3/4 cup of fresh cheese, 4 cloves [email protected] breadcrumbs (your leftover Italian of grated garlic, bread works here), and fry for 2 or 3 1 tablespoon of minutes until the crumbs are crisp. chopped parsley,
TheBurg 17 Culture Club Creator
A Lively Artist, 50 Years Later Earl Blust still heads group of local landscape painters.
Peter Durantine with women and take 50 Years of Art,” “these artists were bought a bear for his wife. He met them on trips.” American scene painters recording his wife while working homicide. He has painted the forests, hills, streams, fields and She’s a fingerprint and crime scene most of his life. A buildings around the region.” expert with the forensics division of teacher at John Over the years, there were many the police department. Harris High School, more than just seven artists, and “I bumped into Joyce at the Dorothea Ilgen today the group continues—Blust Xerox machine and she said ‘I think Shaffer, encouraged is still involved—with 14 members, you’re really just a big teddy bear,’” his artistic pursuit and, under the same name. he said. “My first gift to her was a as a member of the “I don’t know how it would Boyds Bear.” Royal Society of Art, sound—the fourteen lively artists,” Lamb said the idea for the teddy recommended him for he said. bear mystery series evolved after a fellowship, which he In his early years, Blust studied his agent suggested writing a “cozy Earl Blust, at work on a landscape in his studio. received and holds to under such painters as the abstract mystery.” A cozy, Lamb explained, this day. expressionist Franz Kline. Blust has clean language and does not “She was a neat prefers to paint in impressionist contain graphic violence or sex. n a studio attached to an old lady—still is; she lives in Florida and style. The colors and composition of “I was living a cozy,” he said. “I farmhouse located in the country, I is 97,” he said. his Chesapeake Bay scenes of fishing live in the Shenandoah Valley of just south of the city, Earl Blust Blust was born in Penbrook. villages he has visited capture the Virginia and was surrounded by always retreats with palette and He said his family’s arrival in coastal life and culture beautifully. about 600 teddy bears at the time.” canvas to finish the landscapes he Harrisburg dates to at least 1890. His For aspiring artists, Blust’s In October 2004, he submitted has been painting. Often, he returns grandfather and great-grandfather advice is this: “Keep painting. The a proposal with sample chapters from the Chesapeake Bay and New were doctors; his father worked for more you paint, the better you are that his agent took to Berkley Books. England. the Pennsylvania Railroad. going to be.” His agent told him not to expect “I like to be outside in nature After graduating Philadelphia an answer from the publisher for —en plein air, they call it in French, College of the Arts (now University a month or so. That afternoon, the ‘in the open air,’” explained the gray, of the Arts) in 1954, he worked in art publisher called and asked if he bespectacled, 77-year-old painter, departments at various Harrisburg could write a series of books, using who relaxed one quiet, sun-dappled Burg Books advertising firms until landing teddy bears as part of the plot. summer afternoon, sitting in his employment with the late Charley At previous book signings held wood-paneled living room. etired Oceanside, Krone, who did art for publishers at Boyds Bear Country, hundreds of The house, nestled against Calif., homicide and corporations. R Lamb’s fans attended and waited a verdant wood on tree-shaded detective turned cozy At the time, Krone, also a in line for a chance to meet the property bordered by the burbling mystery author John founding member of the Seven popular author. Yellow Breeches Creek, is a fitting J. Lamb (left) will be at Lively Artists, operated out of his The premise of his latest book place for an artist. Blust has lived Boyds Bear Country in New Cumberland basement. He again features retired San Francisco here more than four decades. It’s Gettysburg, Sept. 5, to later built an office and studio PD homicide inspector, Bradley where he and his late wife, Joan, launch the latest book in his teddy on the bluff that overlooks the Lyon, and his wife, Ashleigh, a raised five children. bear mystery series. Susquehanna River, at the west end teddy bear artist. The couple travel The small, modest studio, softly Lamb, who also served as of the Interstate 83 bridge. (For more to their hometown, located in the lit by an afternoon sun, was added hostage negotiator, said that, after on Krone, visit www.pagallery.com.) Shenandoah Valley, to organize a to the house nine years ago. It’s an his retirement, he was offered a job Blust remained with Krone for teddy bear show. When they arrive, addition to an addition built some teaching crime scene analysis and 35 years, and they painted together they hear of an apparent, accidental 60 years ago to the farmhouse that behavioral profiling for a private as members of the Seven Lively death of a local farmer—but the dates to around the year 1800. security firm. In 1999, he followed Artists, a group that has contributed clues begin to convince the Lyons Blust is among the founders his wife’s advice to pursue his dream significantly to the region’s art that the death was a homicide. of a group of Harrisburg-area of becoming a writer and published community. In fact, the Cumberland painters who, in the 1950s, formed “San Diego Specters.” Lamb will sign books from 10 a.m. County Historical Society organized the “Seven Lively Artists,” men who This is the fourth time Lamb to 4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 5, at Boyds an exhibit of more than 50 works by started out touring the region and chose Boyds Bear Country to launch Bear Country, 75 Cunningham Rd., the artists in 2006. (For more on the then the country, painting the a national book tour, this time for Gettysburg. Visit www.johnjlamb.net group, visit sevenlivelyartists.com.) landscapes and scenes of America. his latest edition in the series, “The or Boyds Bear Country at “For the most part,” wrote Yes, he acknowledged, men, not Treacherous Teddy.” www.boydsbearcountry.com. independent historian Jean Woods women. “This was back in the 1950s,” Lamb said he first became in the book, “Seven Lively Artists: —Jeffrey B. Roth Blust chuckled. “You didn’t carouse aware of Boyds Bears when he 18 TheBurg City Cinema
“500 Days”: a Tad Too Precious Also, check out a Mumblecore film.
Kevyn Knox ummer may be ending, but one should be (she is more muse than film from director Andrew Bujalski, the suburban multiplex, but it’s also Sof the most highly anticipated character)—but it is not her alone is also the latest film in the so-called what makes them worth seeing. indie flicks on the circuit this that keeps the movie afloat. Mumblecore film movement. A If you miss its limited release, summer is just getting around What truly keeps the film bare-bones collective of about “Beeswax” will be out on DVD to the Harrisburg area. It is the going is the wonderfully nuanced a half-dozen young filmmakers, later this year. Besides the appropriately titled “(500) Days of performance of Joseph Gordon- Mumblecore, like many new wave aforementioned “Funny Ha Ha,” Summer.” The film, directed by music Levitt as the ultra-infatuated Tom. filmmaking movements before it, other Mumblecore titles include video stalwart Marc Webb, is the Levitt, who is best known for his has stripped clean cinema as we “Hannah Takes the Stairs,” “Mutual story of two twentysomethings, work on the TV sit-com “3rd Rock know it and created something akin Appreciation,” “Dance Party USA,” Tom Hanson and, you guessed it, from the Sun” (but should be to what the “Real World” should have “The Puffy Chair,” “Baghead” and “The Summer Finn, and their tumultuous known for his work in such darkly been, if it had ever been allowed to Guatemalan Handshake.” If only for relationship over a course of, you sublime films as “Mysterious Skin be real. curiosity’s sake, one should seek out guessed it again, 500 days. and Brick”), here goes back to his Starring a mix of non- these films on DVD. Also be sure to Taking a heavy queue from comedic roots. Playing Tom as professional actors and a corps of look for yet another Mumblecore, Woody Allen’s hapless victim of love—as opposed regulars, Mumblecore has thrown “Humpday,” in theatres now. seminal to Summer’s quite jaded outlook on cinema onto its head with its 20 Well, that’s it for this month. I romantic the subject—Gordon-Levitt gives or so films. Perhaps not taking the was unable to discuss what is surely comedy us a character who is not only the multiplexes by storm (nothing one of, if not the, most anticipated “Annie Hall,” inevitable evolutionary outcome of ever blows up here), Mumblecore movie coming out this year— Webb weaves Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Jack is nonetheless a serious change in Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious his film with Lemmon and Woody Allen, but one the way movies are getting made Basterds.” My deadline precludes my no concerns who is also as humanly frail as each these days—at least outside of adding this film to my column this for linear and every one of us. the mainstream. Even indier than month (the screening is just a week storytelling Perhaps the film falters independent, Mumblecore is cinema too late), but I couldn’t leave without whatsoever. when trying to be the fresh, hip at its very core, and “Beeswax” is the at least mentioning my giddy The film opens commodity it so wants to be, latest of the bunch. expectations. Anyway, I digress. See with day 488 and but Gordon-Levitt’s hilarious Director Bujalski, who is usually you next time with a look at QT’s the break-up of Tom and Summer performance, blending honest credited with making the first new film, as well as what is all abuzz (the outcome is never kept a secret) pathos with absurd sit-com bravura, Mumblecore film with 2002’s “Funny at this year’s New York Film Festival. and shunts quickly back to day one, gives this skeleton of a movie its real Ha Ha,” gives us the story of twin only to leap frog to day 112 and flesh and blood—even if it is just a sisters (played by real twins in their Kevyn Knox is a film then back to day eight and so on mask to hide the nothingness inside. film debuts) and the ups and downs critic + historian. His and so on and so on. The film shifts Among other films that may of their lives. What “Beeswax,” and reviews can be read at back and forth and back and forth make their way to the Harrisburg all of Mumblecore, offers is a lot of www.thecinematheque. through the story as if it were a child area, the most alluring may be the talking and very little action. This is com. nervously shuffling in his seat on his least cinematic. “Beeswax,” the third why these films will never make it at first day in school. This trick, though not as innovative as many seem to believe, works to show the instability of Tom and Summer’s relationship. Post-Pride Events Set What does not work for the Pride Festival of Central PA is ready film is the cloying (and quite with several post-Pride fundraisers: annoying) indie movie cutsieness that pervades just about every • Sept. 6, benefit brunch at Liquid scene. Filled to the proverbial brim 891, Harrisburg with rom-com cliche and heavy- • Sept. 19, Burger Burn at Sam’s Club, handed hipsterisms, “(500) Days of Harrisburg Summer” could easily have fallen into complete saccharine overload. • Oct. 1, “… and All That Jazz,” special The stars of film, however, save it. preview show at Club XS The lovely, kewpie-eyed Zooey • Oct. 6, Community Day at Hoss’s, Deschanel as the titular Summer has Hummelstown and Mechanicsburg a disarming charm that manages to overwhelm you—even when her For more, go to Harrisburgpride. acting does not live up to what it org or thecentralvoice.ning.com. TheBurg 19 Happenings
Take an Artsy Amble The Stage Door Museums & Art during Gallery Walk rom Midtown to downtown, Harrisburg Shakespeare Festival Art Association of Harrisburg The State Museum of Pennsylvania art lovers will find plenty of 3rd Floor, Strawberry Square, Harrisburg 21 N. Front St., Harrisburg 300 North St., Harrisburg F 717-238-4111; www.gamutplays.org 717-236-1432; www.artassocofhbg.com 717-787-4980; www.statemuseumpa.org interesting and evocative works to see at the 21st annually Gallery Walk. Auditions for “Richard III.” Sept. 11, 6- 7:30 “Invitational Exhibit,” annual invitational “Art of the State,” juried exhibit featuring p.m.; Sept. 12, 1-3 p.m.; Sept. 14, 3-4:30 p.m. featuring local artists Rachel Blaser, Chet Pennsylvania artists, through Sept. 20. The free event is slated for 11 Auditioners must call the theatre at Davis and Don Weaver, through Sept. 3. “Voices: African American and Latina Women a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 13. 717-238-4111 for an audition appointment. “Fall Membership Show,” an all-media show Share Their Stories of Success,” featuring 50 Most of the city’s numerous featuring the theme “Structures,” Sept. 11- accomplished women, through March 2010. Hershey Area Playhouse galleries and museums will Oct. 15. Reception: Sept. 13, noon-6 p.m. participate. In addition, some places Sand Hill Road at Cherry Drive, Hershey “The Fine Art of Giving,” a selection of artwork 717-838-8164; hersheyareaplayhouse.com given to the museum, through June 2010. not typically associated with art, ArtHouse Lounge Auditions for “The Best Christmas Pageant 217 N. 2nd St., Harrisburg such as churches, restaurants and Susquehanna Art Museum Ever!” Sept. 27 and 28, 7 p.m. 717-236-2550; www.arthouselounge.com private businesses, will open their 301 Market St., Harrisburg Fang Ling Lee, portraitist, Sept. 4, 717-233-8668; www.sqart.org doors, as many contain interesting Live at Rose Lehrman 6-9 p.m., free entertainment. and valuable collections. A popular One HACC Drive, Harrisburg “Ancient Marks: The Sacred Origins of Tattoos 717-231-ROSE; www.liveatroselehrman.org and Body Marking,” through Sept. 13; Bob stop, the Governor’s Residence, Arts at 510 Herr, Abstract Expressionist, Sept. 24-Jan. 24. again will welcome visitors this year. No shows scheduled for this month. 510 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg Gallery Walk was founded in 717-724-0364; www.artsat510.com “Juried Exhibition,” Doshi Gallery, Aug. 6-Sept. Open Stage of Harrisburg 13; Painter Miles Halpern, Sept. 17-Oct. 18. Painter Susan Biebyuck and wood sculptor 1988 by The Art Association of 223 Walnut St., Harrisburg J. Mark Irwin featured. Opening reception, Harrisburg to showcase the city’s 717-214-ARTS; www.openstagehbg.com galleries and artists. Since then, the Sept. 13, coincides with Gallery Walk. No shows scheduled for this month. annual event has grown increasingly Demuth Museum Architect Association popular, drawing large crowds, who Oyster Mill Playhouse 120 East King St., Lancaster can be seen strolling throughout the 1001 Oyster Mill Road, Camp Hill 717-299-9940; www.demuth.org Marks 100 Years 717-737-6768; www.oystermill.com city, making their way from location “Luigi Rist: Master Printmaker,” Sept. 5- to location. “Early One Evening at the Rainbow Bar and Nov. 29. Reception, Sept. 4, 5-8 p.m. The Central Pennsylvania Some galleries have actually Grille,” Aug. 21-Sept. 6. chapter of the American Institute of come into existence in order to Gallery Blu Architects will mark its centennial Popcorn Hat Players at the Gamut 1633 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg this month with an exhibit entitled participate in the self-guided tour, 3rd Floor, Strawberry Square, Harrisburg 717-234-3009; www.galleryblu.org said Carrie Wissler-Thomas, Art 717-238-4111; www.gamutplays.org “The Art of Architecture.” “Reduce/Reuse/Recycle,” with artists Larry The exhibit will feature a display Association president. “Little Red Riding Hood,” Sept. 16-Oct. 3. Robenolt, Gordon Wenzel, Shane Morgan On Gallery Walk day, even the and Elide Hower. Opens Sept. 13 to coincide of drawings by local architects from smallest and newest venues are Theatre Harrisburg with Gallery Walk. Free entertainment. the past century. It will run the week expected to experience record Sunoco Performance Theater, Whitaker Center of Sept. 21 at the Art Association of crowds, Wissler-Thomas said. Many 222 Market St., Harrisburg Harsco Science Center Harrisburg. The exhibit is free and 717-214-ARTS; www.theatreharrisburg.com Whitaker Center, 222 Market St., Harrisburg open to the public. galleries will have live music to 717-214-ARTS; www.whitakercenter.org complement the art, and most will “Mister Roberts,” Sept. 18-20, 23-27. Moreover, local author Ken Frew “Invention at Play,” a hands-on exhibit will discuss his soon-to-be-published offer light refreshments. In all, more Whitaker Center for children, through Sept. 9. than two dozen art locations will Sunoco Performance Theater book, “Building Harrisburg, The participate in this year’s event. 222 Market St., Harrisburg Midtown Scholar/Yellow Wall Gallery Architects and Builders, 1719-1941.” Gallery Walk flyers will be 717-214-ARTS; www.whitakercenter.org 1302 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg The Art Association is located available at each participating site “Labor Day Weekend Comedy Jam,” featuring 717-236-1680; www.midtownscholar.com at 21 N. Front St. in Harrisburg. For on Sept. 13. They also can be located Capone, Deon Cole, Kelly “K Dubb” Walker, “The Real Steel,” prints by Peter Treiber, Sept. more, visit www.aiacentralpa.org or and Turae. Sept. 4, 8 p.m. 13- Nov. 30. Reception: Sept. 13, 1-3 p.m. www.artassocofhbg.com. at the Art Association’s website, Treiber and author Elizabeth Kovach www.artassocofhbg.com. “Whitaker Center’s 10th Anniversary Birthday Bash,” with food, entertainment, prizes and a will sign copies of their book, “Inside look at what has made Whitaker Center what Bethlehem Steel.” it is today. Sept. 9, 6 p.m. National Civil War Museum “Whitaker Center’s 10th Birthday Band Bash,” One Lincoln Circle at featuring the Jellybricks, Tripp McNeeley and Reservoir, Harrisburg Brooks West. Sept. 12, 7:30 p.m. 717-260-1861; “An Evening with David Garrett,” Sept. 18, nationalcivilwarmuseum.org 8 p.m. “Box Car War: Logistics of the “An Afternoon with Garrison Keillor,” Sept. 20, Civil War,” through Sept. 13. 4 p.m., at the Forum. Rose Lehrman Art Gallery “Doc Severinsen & El Ritmo de la Vida,” Sept. One HACC Drive, Harrisburg 22, 7:30 p.m. www.hacc.edu/ “The Wrong He’s Done,” a play written by RoseLehrmanArtsCenter Nathan Lee Gadsden. Sept. 26, 8 p.m. “The Art Faculty at HACC,” an exhibit Gallery Blu, 1633 N. 3rd St., will be one “An Elegant Evening,” the Harrisburg Harp featuring the skills and talent of stop on your Gallery Walk stroll. Orchestra, Sept. 30, 7:30 p.m. the HACC studio art faculty, Sept. 2-25. Reception, Sept. 3, 6-9 p.m.
20 TheBurg Happenings
Events Live Music around Harrisburg
Sept. 4: Harrisburg First Fridays. A group Appalachian Brewing Co./Abbey Bar Mangia Qui/Suba The St. Moritz of city venues open late and feature special 50 N. Cameron St., Harrisburg 272 North St., Harrisburg 714 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg events and entertainment. 717-221-1083; www.abcbrew.com 717-233-7358; www.mangiaqui.com 717-232-9949; www.stmoritzclub.com www.harrisburgarts.com/firstfridays.html Sept. 2: Sunset Reggae Series farewell jam Sept. 4: Smoke the Groove Sept. 5: Charles Lee Sept. 5-7: Kipona Festival. Variety of events, Sept. 4: April Skies w/The Thrives & Kheris Sept. 5: The Sketties Sept. 11: Diane Wilson music, food, arts and rides along Harrisburg’s Sept. 5: Extended Family Internat’l benefit Sept. 11: Blue Elephant Sept. 18: Chyp & Andrea riverfront. Fireworks, Sept. 6. Sept. 9: Cabinet w/Colebrook Road Sept. 12: Creek Side Soul Sept. 25: New Experience www.harrisburgevents.com/Events/Kipona Sept. 11: Evening with Hexbelt Sept. 18: Drake Every Sunday, Oldies Party Sept. 12: Herbie Sept. 19: Margy Finnegan and Guest Sept. 8: Second Tuesdays at the Mansion. Sept. 16: Cabinet w/River Town Revival Sept. 25: Karl Walters Jr. Trio The live music calendar is deemed accurate as “A Conversation with John Harris Jr.” Harris- Sept. 18: The Jellybricks Sept. 26: Batida of press time. Schedules often change. Please Cameron Mansion, 219 S. Front St., Harrisburg. Sept. 19: Cap City Invitational Beerfest check with the venue before attending. 7 p.m. Free. Sept. 23: Cabinet McGrath’s Pub www.dauphincountyhistory.org Sept. 25: J Roddy and The Business 202 Locust St., Harrisburg Sept. 12-13: Dauphin County Jazz Festival. Sept. 26: Pariah Pirhana CD Release Party 717-232-9914; www.mcgrathspub.net Jazz, food and crafts at Fort Hunter Mansion Sept. 30: Cabinet Rolling on the River Sept. 12: Halfway to St. Patrick’s Day Festival and Park, Harrisburg. 1-9:30 p.m. Music starts Every Thursday, Open Mic Night Every Monday, Open Mic Night at 4:30 p.m. $20-$25 for weekend pass. at the Kipona Festival www.forthunter.org Carley’s Ristorante Piano Bar Midtown Arts Center/Stage on Herr 204 Locust St., Harrisburg Sept. 13: Gallery Walk. Harrisburg art venues 1110 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg hat do chili, karate, crafts and 717-909-9191; www.carleysristorante.com hold special hours and offer entertainment 717-412-4342; www.harrisburgarts.com Wbass fishing have in common? and other events. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Sept. 3: Giovanni Traino Sept. 4: Hard Knoxx It must be time again for the annual www.artassocofhbg.com Sept. 4: Ted Ansel Sept. 10: Tim Warfield & Friends Kipona Festival. Sept. 5: Chris Novak Sept. 13: Remembering 9-11. Tolling of the Sept. 11: The Swaines Kipona is a hodgepodge of Sept. 10: Anthony Haubert bell at Pennsylvania National Fire Museum Sept. 12: Garrahan’s Ghost Sept. 11: Wade Preston from “Movin Out” fun things to do on and near the (various times, a.m.). Memorial service at the Sept. 18: Waiting on a Train, Jump the Gun Sept. 12: Noel Gevers Susquehanna River in Harrisburg. Fire Fighters Monument, Front & Verbeke Sept. 19: Hank & Cupcakes Sept. 17: Giovanni Traino streets, 2 p.m. www.pnfm.org Sept. 24: Danny Stobes The three-day festival takes place Sept. 18: Chris Novak Sept. 25: Home Video every year over Labor Day weekend, Sept. 16-20: 41st Annual PA RV & Camping Sept. 19: Noel Gevers Sept. 26: Case 150 Show. America’s largest RV show features Sept. 24: Ted Ansel which falls this year Sept. 5-7. Every Wednesday: Open Mic Night exhibits, speakers, seminars and more. Giant Sept. 25: Anthony Haubert Kipona features something for Center and Hersheypark parking complex. Sept. 26: Chris Novak Midtown Scholar/Famous Reading Cafe everyone. Lovers of arts and crafts Sept. 16-19, 9 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sept. 20, 9 a.m.- 1302 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg flock to the PSECU Artfest. Like some 5 p.m. Adults: $8. www.prvca.org Ceoltas Irish Pub 717-236-1680; www.midtownscholar.com spice in your food? Then you have to 310 N. 2nd St., Harrisburg Sept. 19: Women’s Music Festival. Levitt 717-233-3202; www.ceoltasirishpub.com Live music events begin in October. check out the chili cook-off. There’s Pavilion, Reservoir Park. Noon-9 p.m. a Native American pow-wow, a www.harrisburgevents.com Sept. 4: Sugar Coat Morgan’s Place Sept. 5: Coast is Clear bass fishing contest, a street soccer Sept. 19: Annual Capital City Invitational 4425 N. Front St., Harrisburg Sept. 11: White Bread Band tournament, a karate competition, Beerfest. Beer from more than 20 breweries, 717-234-8103; www.morgans-place.com Sept. 12: Mia Mafia plus live entertainment. Appalachian Brewing a footbag tournament and dragon Sept. 18: Love Haters Sept. 4: Strange Eden Co., 50 N. Cameron St., Harrisburg boat and canoe races. Sept. 19: Ken Shelley Band Sept. 5: South Street www.abcbrew.com Sept. 25: Love Gods Sept. 11: Second Time Thru Kipona also features a wide tickets: roundtabletickets.com Sept. 26: Smooth Like Clyde Sept. 12: Jim Rhoads assortment of rides, music and food. Sept. 20: Fort Hunter Day. Autumn festival Sept. 18: Jewett & Staz The celebration reaches its climax features crafts, games, exhibits, music, farm Char’s Bella Mundo Sept. 19: New Experience on Sunday night with a fireworks animals and more. Fort Hunter Mansion and 540 Race St., Harrisburg Sept. 25: Don Johnson Project display over the river. Park, Harrisburg. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. 717-213-4002; www.charsbellamundo.com Sept. 26: Shea Quinn www.forthunter.org There’s much more to know. “Jazz Wednesdays,” with special wine menu Scott’s Grille Check out www.harrisburgevents. Sept. 22: Monarch Watch. Citizen science 212 Locust St., Harrisburg program teaches volunteers how to catch, tag Clover Lane Coffee House com/Events/Kipona.html. 717-234-7599; www.scottsgrille.com and release monarch butterflies. Fort Hunter 1280 Clover Lane, Harrisburg Park, Harrisburg. 3-6 p.m. 717-564-4761; www.harrisburguu.org Sept. 2: Shea Quinn & Steve Swisher www.dauphincounty.org Sept. 5: Joseph Daub Sept. 18: Buddy Mondlock Sept. 9: Cruise Control Sept. 12: Michael Burton and De Jam Dragonfly Club Sept. 16: Dan Kibler 234 N. 2nd St., Harrisburg Sept. 19: Smooth Like Clyde 866-468-7619; www.dragonflyclub.com Sept. 23: Short Street Sept. 5: Hierosonic, My Inner Animal Sept. 26: Silver Sunday Sept. 6: 4+3 Music Fest Sept. 30: Joseph Daub Sept. 19: Digital Elvis, Mean Tambourines, In Wilderness, An Early Ending Stock’s on 2nd Sept. 26: Trillbass, Braptism 211 N. 2nd St., Harrisburg 717-233-6699; www.stocksonsecond.com Ring the bell: Owner Eric Papenfuse The Fire House Restaurant Sept. 5: Cruise Control opens the beautiful Midtown Scholar 606 N. 2nd St., Harrisburg, 717-234-6064 Sept. 12: Funktion w/ Robin McClellan Bookstore/Famous Reading Cafe on www.thefirehouserestaurant.com Notable events, including the Dauphin Sept. 19: Shea Quinn and Steve Swisher Sept. 13 at its new location, 1302 N. 3rd County Jazz Festival, are planned for “Throwback Saturdays,” barbershop quartets Sept. 26: Hunter Hayes St. The grand opening will feature an Fort Hunter during September. sing tableside art exhibit and book signing (see p. 20).
TheBurg 21 Home & Family Young Burgers
Going for the Gold Big Boys in Training seeks to teach lessons in sports, in life. Students Can Act Up Rebecca LeFever at Theater Classes hether they’re running down of Harrisburg. They were recognized “What we need most to further Area theater groups are offering fall Wthe football field, making a by the Harrisburg City Council reach children and continue to offer classes for school-age children. slam dunk on the basketball court, during a legislative session earlier workshops and events is a place to In Harrisburg, Gamut Theatre or gliding balls down the bowling this summer, in which they were call home,” Johnson said. Group is offering classes for ages lane, kids in downtown Harrisburg thanked for their efforts in changing Right now, members of BBIT 5 through high school seniors. have been given a new opportunity the lives of children. hold meetings in each other’s Classes, held at Gamut’s theater in to get off the street and learn what it BBIT’s first summer camps were homes and utilize facilities within Strawberry Square, begin Sept. 8 means to work together. held in July, and about 70 children Harrisburg to host events. and run an hour every week for 13 At a free bowling event, nine- participated in the free program. “If we want to be available to weeks. To register, call the theater at year-old D’rell Waters ran to the Through sponsors and fundraisers, these kids 24 hours, we have to have 717-238-4111 and ask for Ellie. edge of his lane to throw the ball BBIT has been established as a a place in which we can do that,” In Hershey, classes begin Sept. before running back to his friends to nonprofit organization that is able to Johnson said. 12 at the Hershey Area Playhouse give out high-fives all around. offer children from all backgrounds a With additional events planned Theatre Academy. Classes are “I like sports, mostly because way to get involved. throughout the year, BBIT hopes available for students grades 1-12. they’re tough and there’s so much “We are really stressing the need that word-of-mouth and support Classes take place at the enthusiasm,” Waters said. for change in the community as far from the community will draw more Hershey Area Playhouse at His enthusiasm for as violence,” Martin said. “That’s why children to participate. Country Meadows, located on sportsmanship was triggered by a we continue to do different work “Sometimes you have to get Sand Hill Road at Cherry Drive in group of Rowland School teachers inside of Harrisburg, but will stretch people to come out by offering free Hershey. For more information, who saw a need for Harrisburg’s anywhere we need to in order to food or free activities, and other visit www.HersheyAreaPlayhouse. children to be mentored and trained reach these kids.” times they just come because they com. You also can call 717-497- in how to be responsible members Although he now works as a know it’s something fun,” Johnson 2315 or email TheatreAcademy@ of the community. Nearly six months teacher, Martin has experience as said. “Right now we’re working HersheyAreaPlayhouse.com. ago, due to their dedication to the a delinquency parole officer and on getting the kids involved, and children of the city, Big Boys in uses that to mentor about 10 to 15 hopefully, in the future, we can get Training (BBIT) Athletics began. children. parents involved too.” At the Libraries “We had a vision of going into Along with athletic training, Family Movie the sports arena, but taking that BBIT offers SAT prep, sex education Big Boys in Training, 717-421-5272, Family-friendly movie. Sept. 1, 5:30 p.m. and molding it into mentorship,” and drug and alcohol education to www.bigboysintraining.com. Kline Library (234-3934), 530 S. 29th St. said Andrae Martin, co-founder of children within Harrisburg city. Family Explor-a-Story BBIT. “This organization is about the “As long as we can offer Stories, songs and a craft for the whole family. community and giving kids activities routine activities, [kids] like it and Sept. 5, 1 p.m. Registration required. that they need to keep busy.” get involved,” said Tracye Johnson, Olewine Library (232-7286), 2410 N. Third St. Along with Jamien Harvey who works with BBIT on recruiting Fall Into Stories: Early Fall Storytimes and Andrew Erby, Martin and sponsors and scheduling events. Story times for toddlers and pre-schoolers. members of BBIT have received Beyond athletics, BBIT has Sept. 14-Oct. 16. Check calendar for specific overwhelming support from the city pulled together resources within dates and locations. Registration requested. the city to cultivate a sense of Born to Read—Books for Babies @ MOM responsibility and self-respect in Sept. 17, 1 p.m. Registration begins Sept. 1. these children. Free workshops, Olewine Library (232-7286), 2410 N. Third St. like a Summit event, which will be held Nov. 14 at Goodwin BookRATs Monthly book discussion group, ages 6-10. Memorial Baptist Church, 2247 Sept. 17, 6 p.m. Green St., center on self-esteem and Kline Library (652-9380), 530 S. 29th St. accountability. Children ranging in age from Tales at Twilight Family Storytime eight to 18 are encouraged through Stories, rhymes, music and activities. Sept. 23 and 30, 6 p.m. Friendship Center (652-9380), workshops on such issues as money 5000 Commons Dr., Harrisburg. responsibility, creativity, domestic violence, study skills and how they Nine-year-old D’rell Waters has his eyes Family Movie are valuable people within society. on a strike during a bowling outing Movie and popcorn. Sept. 28, 5 p.m. Olewine held by Big Boys in Training Athletics. Library (232-7286), 2410 N. Third St.
22 TheBurg Hall Pass
Education Revolution In Harrisburg, technology is being used to re-make learning, not just automate it. School District Sets Mark Lamont Student Dress Code f Rip Van Winkle woke up today instruction, is the core business of competitive city needs. What city The Harrisburg school district Iafter a 120-year nap, what schools. That’s exciting for students, students will do at school and home has issued guidelines for student changes would he see? Advances in but also good news for teachers. The this year to accelerate learning and dress in K-8 schools for the new transportation would astonish him. best teachers are those who identify become successful global citizens school year. Guidelines include: He’d barely recognize commerce, themselves as learners and who will be explored in a later column. • No hats, bandanas, headbands or communications, culture and pretty recognize that more responsibility head coverings in the building. much everything else. But if he has to be placed on students for Mark Lamont is an walked into a U.S. classroom, it may their own learning. As technology is educator, author • Outerwear (coats, jackets, feel strangely familiar. examined as a tool for transforming and education policy windbreakers, etc.) may not be worn During the presidential learning—not automating advisor experienced in the building. campaign, Barack Obama instruction—top educators have in transformative • Underwear should not be visible. challenged all U.S. schools to be addressed some K-12 “sacred cows.” school projects around more innovative, to teach the In the United States alone, the world. Based in • Belly buttons must be covered. skills students really need in the millions of dollars have been spent Harrisburg, he has assisted school • No slashed jeans or jeans with 21st century to keep the country on technologies that automate or districts in the Northeast region in holes. school reform. (photo: Paul Emberger) globally competitive. Then, this virtualize traditional schooling. We • No items worn shall bear offensive June, in a speech at Cairo University, hear of “schools of the future,” but, images or messages. he committed to connecting U.S. in some cases, technology is simply students with students in Egypt being implemented to reinforce • Shoes should be safe and must be and other parts of the world. The the functions of schools of the past. Harrisburg Pupil tied. Flip-flops are not permitted. technology is available, and our new Research shows that electronic, or Earns Recognition • Tank tops, midriff tops, muscle president recognized that it’s time to interactive, whiteboards can too shirts and spaghetti straps are not to use it more effectively. often simply reinforce the teacher as Gonzalo Oquendo, a recent be worn. Harrisburg is moving to meet the “sage on the stage,” leaving less graduate of The Nativity School of the challenge. This fall, the school time for students to problem solve, Harrisburg, was one of six students • See-through/sheer and tight/ district’s students will be connecting build team skills and apply new from across the nation featured spandex clothing may not be worn. with students in Cairo through an concepts. Even new Web 2.0 blogs at the closing night of a violence • No chains, keys or long necklaces online program called Connected and wikis are being used in some prevention ceremony, emceed by may be worn/carried outside of Learning Communities, already schools just to list homework. Then MSNBC host Chris Matthews. pockets or shirt. being used by 2.5 million students, students e-mail their responses A personal witness to domestic teachers and parents worldwide. to teachers. It’s the same stuff Rip violence, Oquendo wrote What’s needed today? would have seen on a chalkboard. about his experiences. He was Welcome Students! Educational leaders worldwide no Harrisburg educators are asking one of 55,000 middle longer assume that the industrial themselves how technology can school students model of schooling best serves our best engage students in more nationwide to take students. The traditional model that authentic and reflective learning; part in the “Do the places 25 or 30 students of roughly support students in constructing Write Thing” essay the same age in a series of 45- to understanding; build core skills of contest. After winning 50-minute ‘periods’ with a teacher teamwork and research; develop the regional contest, in a single room—and where much higher order skills of analysis, Oquendo joined of the lesson requires students not evaluation, problem solving and other winners at the to talk to classmates—is failing creativity. These are the skills 21st national “Do the Write many. In our fast-changing world, century workplaces seek, and they Thing” conference in workplaces function differently. They are the skills that cause students to Washington, D.C. are continually evolving and more become more engaged as learners. “Do the Write rapidly than schools can teach the Where to from here? Thing” is an initiative new skills needed. Students have to In Harrisburg, educators are of the nonprofit learn to adapt quickly to demands transforming learning, enabling National Campaign Just in time for the new academic year, workers recently installed a new metal sculpture with the letters “HU” and opportunities. students to do new things never to Stop Violence. Visit www.dtwt.org for outside the Market Street entrance to Harrisburg Worldwide, educators are before imagined or possible—the University. The school’s fall semester began Aug. 28. realizing that learning, not very things an innovative, globally more information. TheBurg 23 Wags & Whiskers
The Great Pet Store Debate
Mom-and-pop or chain? TheBurg Dr. Rubey shares his thoughts. “Pet of the Month”
Todd Rubey, DVM Betsy Clark
am often asked by my clients pages in the Sunday paper, and club there have been any suspicious Little Buddy’s tale began this past Iabout pet stores. Which store benefits can further reduce costs. In behaviors or illnesses. What are Memorial Day. It was late at night, should I go to? Should I shop at today’s economic times, this is hard your guarantees or warranties on on Church Road in Hershey. A car the huge chain stores or go to the to pass up. said animal? These are all legitimate slowed down, tossed something local small store? Should I buy a So why should you frequent questions that any pet store should from the window then sped away. puppy from a pet store? Is (insert your locally owned store? My be able to answer. Two women happened to be in store name here) a reputable number one reason: the one-on- The question of buying a puppy the area and witnessed this event. place with healthy animals and one interaction. It is much more from a pet store comes up all of the As they peered through the evening a clean environment? These are personal and easier to get questions time. Are they from “puppy mills” darkness—they saw him, a tiny ball all thoughtful questions with a answered. The knowledge base is or from local breeders? Are they of white and gray fur, scared but multitude of answers. usually higher. Small store owners healthy and well cared for before alert. The two kind women picked First, let’s discuss the debate have more ability to hand pick the they’re sold? These are all questions I up the little package and contacted of the huge chain stores verses the animals they wish to sell. They offer get asked daily. The important thing a volunteer at Castaway Critters. mom-and-pop, local pet store. I am a much larger variety of choice when to look for is a good warranty and Castaway Critters took in the very much in favor of enhancing the buying a pet. If you are looking for records of a vet check and shots. little guy and saw that he quickly local economy with my business, a specific animal, the local owner The convenience of buying a puppy received the vet care he needed. as opposed to feeding the huge probably has the ability or contact from a pet store is huge. The store Luckily, he was not seriously hurt monster. However, the large stores to find it quickly. Also, the small has the cute, furry, cuddly little ball and soon recovered into an active, do have their advantages. The cost store owner will often barter and of joy sitting in its window, drawing happy kitten. factor, of course, is the biggest negotiate, while the chain store you into the store. It gets a lot of its When he became old enough reason to shop at Petsmart, Petco, prices are set at the home base sales based on impulse buys—this and was ready, it didn’t take long Superpets or any of the other located, well, who knows where? can be dangerous. It is important for the Sellars family of Dauphin department stores. These companies I may sound a little biased to do some research and also be County to arrange to meet him. They buy in bulk and, therefore, can offer toward the mom-and-pop store, absolutely sure that a puppy (or any just couldn’t resist his sweet little lower prices on most items than but that’s because I worked at and pet) is what you need in your life. face and kitten charm. Little Buddy the small local stores. For dry goods managed a small store throughout Perhaps most importantly: do you is now basking in the love and like dog and cat food, toys, fish my college and vet school days. have the time and financial ability to attention of his new adoptive family. tanks and supplies, these stores are Today, I work with many of the local take care of it? It was truly a terrific end to a very hard to beat. In addition, there are stores as an advisor, in addition to Wherever you decide to do your rough start for this little guy. often coupons and advertisement taking care of the animals that they pet shopping, it is important to try When thinking about a new sell. Don’t be afraid to ask about a and establish a good relationship. furry member of your family, please store’s care of the animals. If you Meet the owners and employees remember all the homeless pets just are looking to purchase a specific who work at the store. Ask lots waiting for their chance to be your pet, ask how long it has been in of questions. Don’t be afraid to loving companion for a lifetime. the store, if it’s eating well and if negotiate. Shop around. There are a Visit us at www.castawaycritters.org. lot of options out there. Betsy Clark is the board chairman of Castaway Critters. • Lose up to 2-8 lbs per week • Clinically proven abrams & weakley Todd Rubey, • No diet pills DVM, a veterinarian for • Free personal support general store for animals 12 years, works • Safe & eff ective for the Colonial Park Animal Clinic. He has a Janet Brandenburg 3963 N. 6th St. wife, three kids, one dog, two cats, one tortoise, [email protected] Harrisburg, Pa. 717-816-0167 three snakes and fish. Call Me Today! 717-232-3963 A Health Coach is not a substitute for a physician or a qualifi ed medical practitioner for monitoring those using Medifast® Meals. abramsandweakley.com Consult your physician before starting a weight-loss program. Little Buddy: saved and now safe. 24 TheBurg Sports & Bodies The Great Outdoors
One Tough Bird Mourning doves: a slice of humble pie on the wing.
Kermit G. Henning o you think you’re a good America, with liberal limits for the morning and late afternoon. Pre- Season, Bag Limits Sshooter? You think your wing hunter. They are surely one of the season scouting surely pays off. Look shooting ranks with the best? Have favorites of America’s ammunition for doves where there are fields of Seasons and bag limits for doves you ever tried doves? America’s manufacturers. Being small, fragile grain, low weed fields and pastures and early waterfowl are determined favorite game bird, the diminutive birds, it only takes a very few pellets with fences and high trees for by the U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service mourning dove, is a tough target to down one, yet most hunters are roosting. Doves always go to water and are not set until late summer. indeed, and consistently humbles confounded by how they can escape before roosting. Using decoys can Going by previous seasons, however, even the best shotgunners. a full pattern of shot. More shells are often draw the birds closer for better Pennsylvania will have a three-part Doves are quite common birds, spent on these little rockets than any shots. Make sure you place them split season. found in most every habitat except other bird. To better your odds, there where they will be highly visible to The first season will open on deep woods. They are strong, fast are things you can do to put more passing doves, as high as possible. Tuesday, Sept. 1. Shooting hours for flyers, reaching 55 mph, and their birds in your bag. To increase your odds of success this split are from noon to sunset. wings make a distinctive whistling No matter what gauge shotgun with doves, remember one simple For the second and third splits, sound when taking off and landing. you use, make sure it has an open rule: Sit still. Closing birds will easily shooting hours are one half-hour Light gray-brown plumage above choke. Most shots are taken at 20 spot any movements and flair away before sunrise until sunset. and slightly pinkish feathers below to 30 yards, so improved cylinder or from the gunner before getting Daily bag limits for all seasons identify the dove; they reach a skeet chokes will be a better choice. close enough. As the birds come are 15 per day, 30 in possession. maximum 12 inches and weigh a Shot size should not be bigger than closer, don’t move yourself or your Check the Pennsylvania Game slight 4 to 6 ounces. sizes 7 ½, 8 or 9. Use good premium gun barrel until absolutely ready Commission web site for final dates Mourning doves are the most target loads; they’re definitely worth to take the shot. Wearing camo and bag limits: www.pgc.state.pa.us. frequently hunted species in North the extra cost. An auto-loading clothing and blending in with a tree shotgun gives you three quick shots, line or fence row or even hiding in a Joe Kosack, Penn. Game Commission but any gun you use should be portable blind will definitely help. comfortable to you and fit you well. Don’t be intimidated by these Kermit G. Henning, host The secret to hitting doves is the speedy little rockets. Practice your of abc27 Outdoors TV, same as with any other flying target wing shooting, concentrate on your is a past president and —swing through the bird and keep target, use the proper equipment chairman of the board the gun moving when you pull the and sit still. You’ll be surprised how of the Pennsylvania trigger. Practice days at the sporting many more doves you put in your Outdoor Writers clays course definitely pay off. game bag. And this early season Association and a Doves are primarily seed eaters shooting will help later on when member of the Outdoor Writers and are most active in the early grouse and ringnecks are the quarry. Association of America. The mourning dove: challenging shot.
New Developments on City Island
Visitors may notice a few new things around City Island, as two of its main attractions recently held dedications. At Metro Bank Park, the new boardwalk was dedicated and named the Capital BlueCross Boardwalk. Part of the $41 million upgrade of the park, the boardwalk now is open to the general public (near right). Over at Susquehanna Outfitters, Mayor Stephen Reed cut the ribbon on the expansion of the popular business that specializes in kayak, canoe, and bicycle rentals, as well as guided tours of the Susquehanna River and the riverfront area (far right, with owners Jill Miller and Steve Oliphant).
TheBurg 25 Family Health
I’ll Text You … Be careful how your kids use technology.
Dr. Deepa Sekhar elevision, the Internet and cell exposure. The American Academy these services that the 2009 LG U.S. are younger, and explain your rules Tphones have revolutionized our of Pediatrics recommendation is National Texting Championship was about cell phone use in general and lives. Today, we can easily “TiVo” all that children under two years of age won by a 15-year-old girl from Iowa. text messaging in particular. Text our favorite television programs, not watch any television. However, Parents need to be aware of messages should not have pictures buy clothes without setting foot many parents feel screen media is which television programs their of people who are not clothed or in a store and communicate with important to their child’s intellectual children are watching. In the case doing things they have never seen friends without ever having met development. Despite millions of of a younger child, sit and watch before. face-to-face. As a pediatrician, I find dollars generated from the sale of television shows with them. Ask Though the media revolution I am often concerned both by my “baby videos,” there is no evidence questions about the show and has brought us speed, convenience patients’ savvy use of electronic they have any positive effects on gauge their understanding. TV time and wonderful ways to share and media and their parents’ lack of infants or toddlers. should be strictly limited. It has been communicate, it also brings on a involvement and understanding. In fact, numerous studies reported that 68 percent of children whole new level of responsibility. Studies have found children have demonstrated disturbing eight to18 years old have televisions The same way we would never eight to18 years of age average negative effects of media exposure. in their rooms. As a society, it is want our children to attend a party nearly six-and-half hours of Television violence is one of the important our children learn values without our knowledge, we must be electronic media exposure daily. most extensively researched and life lessons from our good aware of their electronic media use When this is compounded by the areas. For example, a preschooler parenting as opposed to trashy and teach them how to successfully fact that our children are excellent watching two hours of cartoons television shows. navigate this new arena. multitaskers, often using several a day is estimated to view 10,000 Explain to your children that forms of electronic media at once, violent acts yearly. This is especially everything sent via the Internet and Dr. Deepa Sekhar is their exposure increases to more concerning as young children are cell phone can easily be broadcast a pediatrician at the than eight hours daily. very impressionable and cannot to the rest of the world. Teach your Milton S. Hershey Even younger children have easily distinguish fantasy from children to use good judgment in Medical Center. significant electronic media reality. Over 1,000 studies have what they say. Discourage gossiping, demonstrated a link spreading rumors or destroying between media violence another child’s reputation through and aggressive behavior electronic media. Know where your in children. Additionally, children are online and explore RIVERFRONT MANSION alcohol advertising, the websites they are frequenting. Street Snap 2833 NORTH FRONT STREET especially during sports Make it a policy that your children programming, as well must “friend” you on their social as risky sexual behavior networking sites so you can keep depicted on television, an eye on their activities. Keep the influences our children. computer in a public area of the Also, sitting in front of house. Set limits on Internet, cell the TV has long been phone and television time, and stick correlated with inactivity to these limits. Be upfront with your and obesity. children that you will periodically Internet and check their online profiles, e-mails cell phone use pose and cell phones. additional areas of Despite precautionary efforts • Over 2500 sq. ft.; Grand rooms concern. Many teenagers on your part, your children may still • Commanding river views are engaged in platforms encounter or receive inappropriate • Arched French doors, windows such as MySpace or or disturbing media content. If this • Original features, 10-ft. ceilings Facebook. At a young happens, encourage them to discuss • Detached studio for rental income age, children are very it with you. “Sexting,” text messaging • Off street parking for 6+ cars • Zoning allows professional offi ce skilled at e-mailing with explicit sexual content and instant messaging. 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