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FALL • 2019 your arborcreek ...something for everyone! Seniors Ready for Their Final Seasons NO INSURANCE? NO PROBLEM OUR DENTAL SAVINGS PLAN HAS YOU COVERED. NO INSURANCE CLAIM FORMS NO YEARLY MAXIMUMS NO DEDUCTABLES REQUEST A BROCHURE WESTFIELD RIPLEY NORTH EAST HARBORCREEK 426 ERIE FINDLEY LAKE 86 BELLE VALLEY 89 VOTED BEST Den�st & Dental Office 7 Years in a Row Connect With Us Call Today! 90 East Main St. North East, PA 16428 (814)725-4700 NorthEastDentalArts.com your arborcreek magazine FALL • 2019 — Volume 4 • Number 3 “Another great summer is in the books for Harborcreek Township Harborcreek Township. Little League baseball 5601 Buffalo Road and softball teams added excitement to the Harborcreek, PA 16421 CONTENT parks, The Whitford Park Summer Concert 814-899-3171 Series filled the air with great music, the www.harborcreektownship.org In The Community ...................2-11 Harborcreek Community Concert added Community Calendar .............. 12-13 fantastic tunes, amazing fireworks, and HC Normal Business Hours: Spirit, and a wonderful day of Keep it in the Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm Development Update .................. 14 Creek on August 17th – it was a great summer Closed Weekends and Holidays Fire Departments ...................... 16 for all.” “Keep it in the Creek” ................ 17 And as the Fall season approaches – it’s time to Supervisors: catch a Little Gridders game at Community Park Historical Society .................. 20-21 or a Huskies game at the high school. It’s also a Tim May, Joe Peck, Dean Pepicello Husky Happenings ................. 22-26 great time to enjoy the changing of the leaves in Connie Cruz - Zoning Administrator our over 950 acres of parkland with a family hike – or catch the steelhead at Shorewood Park as Shelley Hull - Board Secretary they begin their spawning habits in 12 Mile Creek. Steve Seidler - Comptroller Local Government Offices: Dave Eades - IT As always – please consider supporting our Brian Benovic - EMA District Justice Lisa R. Ferrick fantastic advertisers in yourHarborcreek. Krista Arnold - Code Enforcement and 3921 Buffalo Road We continue to appreciate their support of Erie, PA 16510 Harborcreek’s Official Magazine. Parks Coordinator Michelle Hannold - Receptionist/Roads 814-451-6516 Enjoy the season, Secretary State Representative Harborcreek Township... Wayne Boyd - Operations Manager Curt Sonney - 4th District Something for Everyone District Office Tim, Joe, and Dean The Road & Parks Crew: K-Mart Plaza Mike Bean Mike Harrington 4457 Buffalo Road Interested in advertising in “your Dave Zellefrow Bryer Sonney Erie, PA 16510 Harborcreek” magazine and reaching Kurt Heidecker Steve Brainard 814-897-2080 over 17,000 residents of Harborcreek Isaac Dombrowski Ray Beer Township? John Pearson Tom Berlin State Senator Dan Laughlin Please contact Stacey Stranko at Greg Rzodkiewicz Ted Harmle 1314 Griswold Plaza [email protected] Steve Salow Doug Doerr Erie, PA 16501 or call: 814-636-4419 Nick Taccone Jason Moczulski 814-453-2515 Would you like to contribute content to Don Erbin “yourHarborcreek” magazine? Please Harborcreeek Township Sewer Auth. forward information and pictures (if 814-899-9191 applicable) to YourHarborcreek@ Brian McNamara, HTSA Manager harborcreektownship.org or call 814-899-3171. Harborcreek Township Harborcreeek Township Tax Collector Pam Brink maintains full editorial rights and will 5601 Buffalo Road include content when content room is Harborcreek, PA 16421 available. 814-899-0818 Tuesday-Friday, 9:30-1pm and 2-5pm MAGAZINE DEADLINE: Harborcreek Senior Center/AARP The next deadline to submit content to Chapter be considered for “yourHarborcreek” Located in lower level of HC magazine is November 4, 2019. Municipal Building — Hours - Monday & Wednesday — 12:30pm to 4:30pm Photo credits in this issue of “your Monthly meetings normally held the first Harborcreek”, all or in part, courtesy of Tuesday of each month @ 1:00pm. Please John D. Fox Photography and Kevin Soles. call 814-899-3171 to confirm. 4 In The Community Safety Town - A Wrap Up Fischer, Isabella DiSanti-Hooks, Gabriella Kaiser, Emily Wilke, Mariska Habursky, Elyse Baumann, Taylor Vickey, Alexis Jenkins, Mila Beerson, Gabby Licata, Lexa Maloney, Kayleigh Kosko, and Ava DeAngelo. Special Safety Town Thanks Harborcreek Township would like to take a moment to sincerely thank Liz Brown for her dedication to Safety Town over the past 8 years. This was Mrs. Brown’s last year as the “Mayor” of Safety Town and she will be greatly missed. Along with numerous volunteers Safety Town 2018 including several members of her own family, Liz took the idea of Safety Town and created a program for incoming Harbor Creek kindergartners that taught them not only about bus safety, but also 40 soon to be Harbor Creek Kindergartners and 19 helpers recently Stranger Danger, Just Say No, and fire and water safety. Along participated in Safety Town at Klein School. Led by Safety Town with the over 300 children who have graduated from Safety Town, Coordinator Liz Brown, the children learned 9-1-1 Safety from Vicky Harborcreek Township salutes Mrs. Brown for her dedication to Peters, were visited by Harborcreek and Fairfield Fire Departments Safety Town, the children of Harborcreek, and the entire Harborcreek to learn about Fire Safety, and got a great bus ride and were taught Community. school bus safety by the Harbor Creek Bus Garage (STA). In addition to all those great topics, the “residents” of Safety Town were taught throughout the entire week about Stranger Danger, traffic safety, Whitford Park Wading Pool Update and “Just Say No” by Lawrence Park Township Police. Harborcreek Township Supervisors, heeding advice from the Township Township would like to congratulate all the graduates and thank all Solicitor, closed the Whitford Park wading pool on July 24th until those that were involved in another successful year of Safety Town further notice after an event was reported that an individual may including Nylene Baney-Partsch / Allstate Agency who helped sponsor have come in contact with a circulation drain in the pool. this year’s program. While safety is of course the number 1 objective in all our parks This year’s volunteers were Emma Bablak, Samantha Bryan, Mia it is important to clarify much of the misinformation perpetrated Sanders, Abigail Still, Addy Mikolajewski, Maggie Szklenski, Parker by social and broadcast media reports. The “drain” in question is Nguyen, Caleb Peterson, Tessa Ward, Annie Harmon, Helene Rerko, not the main gravity pool drain at the bottom of the wading pool, Gwen Heyer, Austin Nowakowski, Dallas Oleksy, Emma Lang, Brody but rather a small filter on the side of the pool meant to circulate the water to prevent contamination, as directed by the Erie County Department of Health. It plays an important function, serving to keep the water clean. We are currently consulting with attorneys and building inspectors regarding the State and Federal laws for wading pools. If we can reasonably make adjustments to the pool to be compliant with any and all laws without creating some sort of additional potential hazards then that is what we hope to do. If that isn’t possible, if the entire pool must be re-built or the fix for the drain creates some sort of additional hazard, the pool will not be reopened. Make no mistake, safety will always come first. But we also have to be honest in the fact that nothing is ever foolproof in a public park. There isn’t a piece of playground equipment around that is 100% “safe” 100% of the time. Township residents and taxpayers are at great financial risk. We are currently left with no choice but to close a decades old landmark for all of us, our kids, and our grandkids. Generations of HC kids have splashed in that wading pool for decades and the decision to close it for the time being was not made lightly. But in today’s society when people choose to use social media and erroneous broadcast reports to make their point, we are left with absolutely no alternative but to shut things down. The risk to Harborcreek Township specifically, our management team, and taxpayers and residents is far too great. It’s the sad reality but it’s the truth and unfortunately a new reality that we all have to face. We will pass along an update and future plans once we get more information from inspectors. 5 Did you know impervious surface in developed areas increases stormwater runoff by forty-five percent? Stormwater runoff contributes to erosion and pollution of our local waterways and blocks the recharge of groundwater. It can be reduced by installing best management practices (BMPs) in developed areas. These best management practices include: rain barrels, rain gardens, and pervious pavement. More information can be found at the Erie County Planning Department webpage (eriecountypa.gov/planning/ms4) and Facebook page (facebook.com/ErieCountyPlanning)” Understanding Stormwater Runoff Stormwater runoff is rain water or snow-melt that flows over the surface of the ground. The main cause of stormwater runoff is impervious surface such as roofs and roads. Impervious surfaces disrupt the water cycle by blocking rain water from soaking into the ground. This blockage forces rain water to flow over the surface, picking up pollutants along the way. Most stormwater runoff carries pollutants directly into local streams and lakes! In addition, dumping unnatural materials, such as paint and grease, on the road, sidewalk or stormwater drains contaminates both the stormwater