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November 2012 TheBurgGreater Harrisburg’s Community Newspaper November 2012 Distributed in Dauphin, Cumberland, York, Lancaster and Perry counties. Free. An American Brasserie 717 213 • 4002 1829 North Front Street, Harrisburg CharsRestaurant.com Contents In the Burg 5 City Hall 6 Vote! Street Corners 8 Around Town 10 Past Tense 11 City View 12 Doing Good 13 Community Corner 14 ShutterBurg Burg Biz 15 Shop Window 16 From the Ground Up Good Eats 17 Taste of the Town 18 Home Cooking Special Supplement Centerfold: 3rd Annual Harrisburg Book Festival Culture Club 23 Burg Books 24 Happenings 26 Musical Notes Sports & Bodies 28 Great Outdoors 30 Finish Line This month’s cover: “Looking West Across the Susquehanna " by Jonathan Frazier. To see the painting or for more information, visit Gallery@Second, 608 N. 2nd St., Harrisburg. www. galleryatsecond.com TheBurg 3 TheBurg Greater Harrisburg’s Community Newspaper General & Letters TheBurg 1103 N. Front St. Harrisburg, PA 17102 www.theburgnews.com Editorial: 717-602-4300 Ad Sales: 717-350-0428 Publishers Editor: Peter Durantine [email protected] Advertising Executive: Angela Durantine [email protected] Co-Editor/Creative Director: Lawrance Binda [email protected] Staff & Contributors Advertising Sales: Andrea Black [email protected] Reporters: T.W. Burger [email protected] Sylvia Grove [email protected] Ruth Hoover-Seitz [email protected] Stephanie Kalina-Metzger [email protected] Carol Maravic [email protected] M. Diane McCormick [email protected] Lori Myers [email protected] Barbara Trainin Blank Mike Walsh [email protected] Pamela Waters Columnists: Cinema: Kevyn Knox [email protected] Cooking: Rosemary Ruggieri Baer [email protected] Wine: Steve Juliana [email protected] Local History: Jason Wilson [email protected] Outdoors: Kermit Henning [email protected] Pets: Kristen Zellner [email protected] Gardening: Jim Stanton [email protected] 4 TheBurg In the Burg City Hall Council Votes to Hike EIT Rate to double to 2 percent for 2013. Lawrance Binda he Harrisburg City Council last which remain confidential. Finalist Named for Parking System Tmonth reversed course, agreeing Lynch previously told council to a temporary hike in the resident members that the increase would A New York-based financial company the selection of Harrisburg First. earned income tax rate. show labor unions and creditors has been selected as the bidder for Proceeds of the long-term lease The council voted 5-2 to raise that the council is willing to make Harrisburg's most valuable asset—its will go to pay down some of the the EIT by 1 percent for one year hard choices to help retire the city's parking system. estimated $340 million that Harrisburg after several council members, who enormous debts, helping to convince Receiver William Lynch last month owes after backing bonds used for previously had opposed the hike, them to do the same. He also said announced that his office will enter repeated upgrades, some botched, to switched positions. a bankruptcy judge would look into negotiations for a long-term the city incinerator. Council President Wanda Williams favorably upon the move, in case lease of the system with Harrisburg Another chunk of that debt will be said she reluctantly changed her mind Harrisburg takes that step. First LLC, an arm of the multinational settled with the sale of the incinerator because the city desperately needs Several council members said the investment services firm Guggenheim itself. Lynch's office currently is the money. sunset provision would let them, a Partners. negotiating with the Lancaster County "Where do the resources come year from now, judge for themselves Lynch said he expects talks to Solid Waste Management Authority, from to continue services, to pay if their action helped prompt other conclude and a deal to be signed by which was selected as the finalist to employees?" asked Williams. stakeholders to make concessions. year-end. purchase the troubled facility. The city is expected to run out Councilwoman Patty Kim said Former receiver David Unkovic Harrisburg's parking system of cash next month, which may the receiver's office promised two put the system up for bid in February, consists of 10 parking garages located necessitate a bridge loan or sale important items: to not ask for an EIT originally receiving interest from downtown and one on City Island with of delinquent tax liens to make it increase extension after one year and a dozen companies. That list was a total of 7,813 spaces. It also includes through the end of the year. The EIT to request no more tax hikes for city whittled down in several stages until several surface parking lots. hike, from 1 percent to 2 percent, will residents. take effect Jan. 1. Council members Susan Brown- The council's change of heart Wilson and Brad Koplinski voted no to came after three meetings between the increase. members and receiver William Lynch. Brown-Wilson said she did not To urge support, Lynch provided trust the receiver's promises, adding members with certain assurances, that the estimated $5.1 million raised by the hike would not be enough to balance Harrisburg's budget, which this year is expected to have a shortfall Holiday Welcome of more than $12 million. MID Put on Hold A planned Midtown Improvement District has been placed on indefinite hold after the cost of hiring off-duty police officers rose excessively. In September, Harrisburg Mayor Linda Thompson revised a proposed agreement to hire off-duty city police, upping the per-hour cost from $35.45 to $46.27. The expense was too great to ask Midtown property owners to foot, said MID organizer Eric Papenfuse. Papenfuse said the concept might be revived after next year's mayoral primary, once it is clearer who will be the city's next leader. The Harrisburg High School band, color squad and cheerleaders will march again this year at In addition, a separate group may the annual Holiday Parade, slated to step off be formed early next year to apply for on Saturday, Nov. 17 at noon. Bands, floats, Elm Street designation for Midtown, balloons and, of course, St. Nick, will make a which would make the area eligible loop starting on City Island and up Market Street before proceeding down N. 2nd and to receive funding for neighborhood Front streets back to City Island. improvement and revival. TheBurg 5 Vote! A Fight for the 15th Teplitz, McNally stress differences in state Senate battle. Lawrance Binda for supporting school providing greater funding to reduce members of the large crowd asking vouchers and privately class size and boost early education, a about issues that included the state's sponsored charter hot issue in Harrisburg as kindergarten troubled voter ID law and women's schools, a charge he was nearly eliminated this school reproductive rights. repeated throughout year before the state restored some Teplitz said he opposed voter ID, the hour-long event. funding cuts. while McNally said he supported it as "You're using Moderator Alan Kennedy-Shaffer long as measures were taken to ensure [campaign] money then turned the debate to Harrisburg everyone has the proper identification from organizations issues, asking about the state's rocky to vote. that support relationship with its capital city. "Let's all take personal privatization of schools Teplitz said he opposed repeated responsibility so that all our then saying the moves by Piccola to intervene in neighbors have ID so that they are not opposite," said Teplitz. city affairs, which led to a 10-year disenfranchised," McNally said. "For you now to begin takeover of the city school district and, An audience member questioned Democrat Rob Teplitz makes a point during his debate with to Etch-a-Sketch your currently, to state receivership of the the candidates on the subject of Republican John McNally as both men seek to fill the open seat way through the fall city. funding for Planned Parenthood, for the 15th state Senate district. campaign doesn't do "It's unfortunate that the senator providing perhaps the sharpest a service to anyone in we have now has not played a distinction between the candidates. this community." constructive role," he said. "My job McNally called himself ducation. Family planning. The After some prodding, McNally as senator would be to bring all the "unapologetically pro-life," saying he state's hand in running Harrisburg. E said that he does support vouchers, parties together. Every option must be would like to ban all abortions, even in These are among the issues that but denied Teplitz's claim that he on the table." the case of rape or incest. divide state Senate candidates Rob wants to gut public education. McNally was more supportive of "We have too many abortions Teplitz and John McNally, giving voters "I am for increasing funding for the state's interventions. already," he said, adding that he a clear choice on Nov. 6. basic education," said McNally. "This "You have to get all the people to opposed public funding of abortion. Teplitz and McNally, competing to campaign is about getting to the the table, and I believe [receiver] Gen. Teplitz accused McNally of replace retiring legislator Jeff Piccola truth, about integrity. I have not said I Lynch can do that," he said. purposely confusing the issues of for the 15th Senate district, found will cut education." In a rare moment of agreement, family planning and abortion, as state few points of agreement during a McNally added that he supported both candidates said they expected funding of abortion already is illegal in candidate's debate held last month other school reforms, including creditor concessions and possibly Pennsylvania. at Midtown Scholar Bookstore and creating a county-wide system of restitution to result from a final deal to "We need to support women sponsored by Harrisburg Hope.
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