TheBurgGreater Harrisburg’s Community Newspaper January 2011

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Gallery Blu • (717) 234-3009 • ww.galleryblu.org Contents West Shore Farmers In the Burg Market & 4 City Hall 5 State Street Shoppes Street Corners 6 Around Town Happy Birthday, 3rd in The Burg, p. 7 DJ’s smoke shack 10 City Folks Catering For all oCCasions 11 Doing Good 717-554-7220 12 ShutterBurg Zooks soft PretZels Burg Biz Pretzels, drinks 717-602-5162 13 From the Ground Up shugar’s south street steaks Good Eats Cheesesteaks, hoagies, WraPs, rotisserie 717-602-5162 15 Chef’s Kitchen They go where you don’t, p. 8 16 Treats & Sweets Peggy’s silver sPoon gourmet Foods, giFt Boxes Culture Club 717-761-2860; [email protected] 17 Creator 18 Arts & Crafts sensenig Poultry all natural Farm Fresh turkey & Poultry 19 City Cinema 717-975-3385 20 Happenings D&s ProDuce Home & Family homegroWn Fruits & vegetaBles Bronto poets, p. 22 717-357-3552 22 Young Burgers 23 Wags & Whiskers uPstairs at the market

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TheBurg 3 In the Burg City Hall

It’s Official: Harrisburg Deemed City Changes Trash TheBurg Greater Harrisburg’s Community Newspaper “Distressed,” Enters Act 47 Program Collection Days General & Letters TheBurg arrisburg last month was Harrisburg is saddled with an Starting Jan. 1, Harrisburg will 1103 N. Front St. Hdeclared a “distressed overwhelming debt load of about change its weekly trash collection Harrisburg, PA 17102 municipality,” meaning the city will $288 million due to upgrades, many schedule, dividing pick-up by www.theburgnews.com enter the state’s Act 47 program to botched, over more than a decade neighborhood, the city said. The Editorial: 717-602-4300 help it formulate a comprehensive to the city’s incinerator. In addition new schedule is as follows: Ad Sales: 717-350-0428 plan to manage its financial crisis. to defaulting on several scheduled • Tuesday: Downtown/Allison Hill Austin Burke, secretary of the bond payments, the city has begun Publishers • Wednesday: Midtown/Uptown Editor: Peter Durantine state Department of Community to have problems meeting general • Thursday: North Side/Bellevue [email protected] and Economic Development (DCED), fund obligations, such as paying • Friday: South Side/Paxton South issued his decision following two employees and vendors. Advertising Executive: hearings on the city’s application to Harrisburg is the 20th city to The change was made to Angela Durantine enter the program. enter the Act 47 program since it maximize fuel efficiency, consolidate [email protected] trucks, facilitate route management, “This determination will bring was launched in 1987. To date, the Co-Editor/Creative Director: objectivity and financial expertise to program has had very mixed results, establish clear boundaries for Lawrance Binda a city that desperately needs a path as most cities, once accepted into collection and eliminate the need [email protected] to fiscal recovery,” Burke said. Act 47, have found it difficult to exit. to change the schedule on eight Burke has until mid-January “Act 47, if it’s all by itself, will holidays, said Public Works Director Staff & Contributors to appoint an Act 47 coordinator, not help this city,” said Neil Grover Ernie Hoch. T.W. Burger who then will have 90 days to draft of Debt Watch Harrisburg, a local There will be no scheduled [email protected] a comprehensive financial recovery taxpayer group. “It does not have collections on Mondays, except on Sylvia Grove plan. The City Council would have to the ability to deal with both the some holiday weeks. Mondays will [email protected] approve many elements of the plan, incinerator debt and the structural be reserved for leaf collection, bulk Ruth Hoover-Seitz which also must pass muster with debt. Our problem does not fit its collection, special weekend event [email protected] DCED. parameters.” support collection, city clean-ups Stephanie Kalina-Metzger “This is an important first step Grover has been outspoken that and holiday-week collections. [email protected] on the city’s road to fiscal recovery,” he believes the city also must file for “The steps we are taking Rick Kearns Mayor Linda Thompson said in a Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy, a will make Harrisburg’s trash and [email protected] statement. “There will be difficult move that temporarily would freeze recycling collections more efficient,” Tara Leo Auchey choices to be made by the city’s several lawsuits filed against the city said Hoch. [email protected] leaders as we craft a comprehensive by its creditors. In addition, it would Carol Maravic long-term recovery plan. But we strengthen the city’s hand as it seeks [email protected] have an opportunity to become some relief from creditors, he’s said. Mayor, Council Butt M. Diane McCormick the model for comeback cities, The decision to enter [email protected] and it is my intention to seize that bankruptcy lies exclusively with the Heads on Budget Lori Myers opportunity.” City Council. The City Council spent much of [email protected] December grappling with the Joe Vandall 2011 budget, with more than half- [email protected] a-dozen hearings dedicated to Mike Walsh drafting a spending plan. [email protected] The tough task was made even Columnists: more difficult after a $4.4 million Cooking: Rosemary Ruggieri Baer error cropped up in Mayor Linda [email protected] Shelly Thompson’s proposed $56.4 million Cooking: Sara Goulet plan. To close the gap, Thompson [email protected] C O M M U N I C A T I O N S suggested selling land under four Local History: Jason Wilson municipal parking garages. [email protected] Several council members balked Cinema: Kevyn Knox Media Relations and at the proposal. Councilwoman [email protected] Susan Brown-Wilson wanted a 10 Sports & Fitness: Laura Spurgeon Strategic Communications percent expense reduction across [email protected] all departments. Other members Outdoors: Kermit Henning 717-724-1681 favored selling or leasing the garage [email protected] property or selling tax liens. Pets: Todd Rubey 227 Pine Street, Suite 200 At press time, the council had [email protected] not yet passed the 2011 budget. Pets: Kristen Zellner Harrisburg, PA 17101 If Thompson vetoes the [email protected] Council’s plan, which is possible, the budget reverts to 2010 levels. Peter J. Shelly, President —All articles by Lawrance Binda

4 TheBurg State Street

Inaugural Slated, Farm Show Gallops Tax Rate the Same Papenfuse Runs Parade Deleted into Harrisburg in Dauphin County for County Seat

he New Year brings in a new Thousands of animals, competitions For the sixth straight year, Dauphin Businessman Eric Tadministration as Tom Corbett and delicious food will be among County residents will pay the same Papenfuse (left), and Jim Cawley are sworn in as the many attractions at the 2011 county tax in 2011. owner of Midtown governor and lieutenant governor. Pennsylvania Farm Show, Jan. 8-15 Last month, county Scholar Bookstore Festivities kick off at 4 p.m., at the state Farm Show Complex and commissioners passed a $226 in Harrisburg, Monday, Jan. 17, with a family Expo Center, 2300 N. Cameron St., million budget, which keeps the tax has announced program at Whitaker Center, Harrisburg. rate unchanged at a rate of 6.876 his candidacy for showcasing the state’s performing The eight-day event features mills. Therefore, a homeowner with Dauphin County arts, with a focus on sharing the arts 6,000 animals, 10,000 competitive property assessed at $100,000 commissioner. and culture with children. exhibits and 290 commercial would incur a $687 county tax. Papenfuse, 39, the first person ”I’m honored to have been exhibitors. Started in 1917, although, In addition to a county tax, to officially declare, will run as a chosen to serve the commonwealth early on, it was not always an annual most property owners pay local and Democrat for the three-person as governor,” Corbett said. event, the Farm Show is the largest school property taxes. board. He said he is emphasizing Corbett will attend Mass at the indoor agricultural exhibition in the The budget includes $167 three issues in his campaign: Cathedral Parish of St. Patrick, 212 United States. million of general fund spending, holding down taxes, creating jobs State Street, at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, It’s designed to showcase the which covers most costs of running and ending wasteful spending. Jan. 18, before he is sworn in at relationship between the state’s the county on a day-to-day basis. Papenfuse previously ran 11:30 a.m. on the plaza outside the 63,000 farms and its 12.5 million The county’s general fund unsuccessfully for Harrisburg City East Wing of the Capitol. residents. budget is about 1.7 percent higher Council and has served on the The events are free and open Some of the new attractions than in 2010. It includes a 2 percent Harrisburg Authority. to the public. Unlike previous include celebrity teams competing pay raise for county employees, but This year, county and municipal inaugurals, there will be no parade in a draft horse team driving none for elected officials. primaries will be held May 17. around the Capitol. The Inaugural contest on Tuesday, Jan. 11, and Committee did not want to burden “Agricadabra,” an educational the city, struggling with finances, agricultural magic show, offered with the expense, a spokeswoman each day for kids of all ages. said. The Farm Show runs 8 a.m. The Inaugural Ball is scheduled to 9 p.m. daily. Admission is free for 7:30 p.m. at the state Farm Show and parking is $10. For a complete Complex. The cost is $150 per schedule of events, visit www. person. farmshow.state.pa.us.

Winter Break

With the second phase of the renovation and restoration of South Capitol Park along N. 3rd Street now completed, a state official said the third and final phase, which will focus on the area of the park from the Pine Street steps to the Capitol’s south driveway, as well as the east end of the park along N. 4th Street, is scheduled to begin in April.

TheBurg 5 Street Corners Around Town

The Fabric of Community Neighborhood groups help sew together the city.

Peter Durantine hat makes Harrisburg thrive, group with a mission “to engage the communicator so Wwhat holds it together, what the community through initiatives everyone is informed,” said provides some sense of order designed to spur Midtown’s progress Mitch Smith. through its 11.4 square miles? It’s as a vibrant, clean, safe and diverse About 250 neighbors the many neighborhoods, which urban community.” participate in the 3-year- often operate like small villages, FOM’s initiatives include old group. Five volunteers each with its own business district. clean-up days on weekends, crime “carry the load,” he said, As defined, the city is comprised prevention measures, such as but, for special events, of 18 neighborhoods, most of which distributing safety whistles, block more than 100 residents are well-known, such as Allison Hill, parties and other events that bring have helped out. Midtown, Downtown and Uptown. neighbors together. A website keeps For many Some neighborhoods are part residents informed of events. neighborhood groups, of larger neighborhoods: Engleton is The group has more than 200 including Engleton’s, part of Midtown, Riverside is part of members, some of whom once lived street parking is an Jane Allis, head of Capitol Area Neighbors, in front Uptown and Mount Pleasant is part in Midtown, but now live outside evergreen concern. of a rare sight: empty parking spaces downtown. of Allison Hill. Other neighborhoods the city, though most members, like No group is more are unto themselves, like Bellevue Don Barnett, the president of FOM’s identified with the issue than Capitol though the Weed and Seed and Park and Shipoke. board, live in the neighborhood. Area Neighbors. Unlike most cities, Residents Association organizes While the neighborhoods, Barnett, in fact, had been living many Harrisburg residents live right events, particularly for children. like pieces of a puzzle, form the in the suburbs before moving to in the dense downtown. So, CAN has “My feeling is we need to work city as a whole, it is the residents Capitol Heights, one of many smaller waged battle after battle over who with the young people,” Kehler said. in these areas who have formed neighborhoods that comprise the should have access to street spaces “They have a lot of energy and, if associations by which to create, Midtown area. “One of the reasons I and at what cost. we can tap into that energy, it can promote and support that picked Midtown was being able to CAN has weighed in on many benefit the community.” fellowship of community within walk to work,” he said. debates, such as city proposals to Despite the ups and downs their neighborhoods. As a group, FOM supported boost parking fees and efforts by the neighborhood has experienced “I think I represent a lot of the locating the new U.S. courthouse developers to get waivers from off- since the 1950s, Kehler is happy people my age who are looking for near Midtown’s outskirts at 6th and street parking rules. where he lives. “As long as we a place in the city that is a strong Reily streets, which is expected “Parking has always been respect one another and that community,” said Devan Drabik, a to generate significant economic an issue,” said Jane Allis, CAN’s respect is mutual, your home is 24-year-old Midtown resident. activity for Midtown businesses. president. where you make it,” he said. Drabik serves on the board of As a neighborhood group, FOM Across town on South Allison Friends of Midtown, a neighborhood “is a great way for people who come Hill, there are two groups, the to Midtown Residents Association, organized by Susquehanna Art to become the Community Action Commission, For immediately and the Weed and Seed program Identifies New Home Sale Ultimate Urban Experience connected.” overseen by the YWCA. Susquehanna Art Museum, which, Within Peter Kehler, a 78-year-old after 10 years, closed its downtown Midtown is retired truck driver, has lived near Harrisburg location at 3rd and the smaller the corner of 16th and Hunter • Historical beauty Market streets last month, has neighborhood streets on South Allison Hill since identified a potential site in the w/modern amenities of Engleton. 1957. He’s team chair on Weed and • Steps to Capitol, city for its new home, according to Its association, Seed and wears several hats on the Stephen A. Moore, the museum’s Midtown, Downtown Engleton Residents Association, among them board president. • Fully updated Community secretary and treasurer. Moore expects to announce the • 4 bedrooms, Group, is strongly “When we moved here in 1957, location this month. The museum is active, with a the homes were all owned by elderly including master seeking 15,000- to 20,000-square- website that people,” he said, noting as those feet of space—triple what it had in bedroom suite serves as a sort of owners passed away their children • Hardwood floors, the nine-story Kunkel Building at town crier, with did not take the homes. They had 301 Market St.—for exhibits, retail, high ceilings, new notices about moved to the suburbs. preservation and classrooms. kitchen crime, city hall Today, the neighborhood is For now, the museum has • Private courtyard actions and local mostly transient. More people rent temporarily set up in Strawberry events. instead of own, which makes it a Contact: (717) 379-3041 Square. The State Museum is “We try to be struggle for a community to flourish, showing some of the museum’s art.

6 TheBurg Around Town Heart of the Historic District!

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TheBurg 7 Around Town

Hot Coffee, a Warm Blanket Bethesda Mission takes its calling to the streets.

T.W. Burger Mission. Every Friday a straight face. “I said yes, but where figures emerge out of the inky and Saturday night, they didn’t put anything in it.” darkness and greet Beardsley by starting around 9 It is November, with winter name; behind the courthouse, sort p.m., Karl Beardsley stalking near. In Harrisburg, the of a “homeless central” downtown; barrels through homeless are legion, 650 or beside St. Patrick’s Church on State Harrisburg’s streets more, some in shelters, or living Street; and in the area around and alleys, into in borrowed space with friends, the train and bus station. some very dark a night here, a night there, or Behind the courthouse, places that most sleeping in cars, under bridges, in perhaps 20 homeless people city residents have stairwells. A lucky percentage find gathered for coffee or hot chocolate, never seen, looking real shelter with food and stability. milling around, talking to the for the homeless Bethesda Mission is the largest and volunteers and one another. and the simply best-known shelter in the area. One of the homeless men poor who need, Beardsley and his rotating started an argument with a well, stuff—as in a crew of volunteer helpers woman whose arms were filled blanket and some provide what they can. with things from the van. He On a cold night, homeless men gather around the washcloths, some The food, coffee, the material seemed angry at how much she Bethesda Mission van in a downtown alley. soap, a toothbrush, things come from Bethesda had taken, though he took easily socks, a warm Mission on Reily Street. The as much. He accused her of having ehind the Dauphin knit hat, a cup of mission gets those things from a gun, but no gun is in evidence. BCounty Courthouse, the coffee, company, a prayer. donations from churches, One of the older vans that homeless clustered around A woven wicker basket sat on businesses and individuals. The Beardsley drove has a bullet hole the big Sprinter van. the truck’s dash. In it were a copy of company and prayer Beardsley in the front passenger door. He “Do you have any coats left? the Bible, six leather-bound editions and crew provide on the spot. was a little coy about how it got Do you have any shoes? My feet of the New Testament and Psalms, Members from as many as there, but he said he likes to tell are freezing. Do you have any more a booklet titled “Touched by The half-a-dozen churches rotate new volunteers that it happened blankets? Do you have sweatpants? Fire,” and another titled “Where weekend volunteer duty helping while volunteers were handing Somebody stole my sweatpants. to Go When You Need Help.” out with packing the van and out sandwiches at a stop. They steal anything. They would “Somebody asked me distributing the goods. Barbara Bell belongs to the steal ME if they could….” once if that was the collection On the way to the stop, four Thomas Road Baptist Church in The van belongs to Bethesda basket,” Beardsley said, keeping women and two men share the Lynchburg, Va., Jerry Falwell’s old rear seats of the Sprinter with church. She drove up to visit her bags of clothes, socks, some sisters in the area and volunteer 1100 N 3rd St shoes and a stack of blankets for a weekend in the mobile Harrisburg, PA 17102 and bedspreads that reaches mission. It was also her second thehodgepodgery.com the tops of the van windows. time ministering to the homeless. Tue, Thu, Fri, Sat: 11-7 On the first sharp turn— She rooted around in the by- Beardsley drives as though he now totally disorganized pile of were piloting an ambulance—the donated goods, looking for a pair of A Unique mountain of blankets avalanches shoes for Elsie, the woman whose The HoPo’s onto one of the women, feet were freezing. Elsie wore thong boutique and the group explodes into sandals and a pair of thin socks. All The HoPo got CLASS! laughter and good-natured the shoes were gone. Bell removed New for kidding. It’s like a Sunday school her own and gave them to Elsie. Workshops gift giving hayride in fast-forward. “They fit like they was made for for a But the hilarity is me,” Elsie said. “But I can’t take….” & Local tempered by reality. “Yes, you can,” Bell said, New Year! artisan “This is my second time,” and spent the remainder of the said Barb Gruver, who lives in the evening running around in her shop Carlisle area. “It makes your heart socks. One of the other volunteers ache. What can you do? We only asked if her feet were cold. We thank YOU have so much stuff to give them.” “What feet? I can’t feel for Supporting The van makes four regular them at all,” she said. “But I can Local Indie Arts! stops, not always in the same order; buy myself more shoes.” under the Mulberry Street Bridge, Mention this ad, get 10% off regular priced items w/purchases of $30 or more.

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Typically, we show century-old images in our “Then and Now” feature. But, this month, our “then” photo is just months old, when a once-beautiful Victorian building at the corner of Mulberry and Crescent streets in Allison Hill was deemed too dilapidated to save and razed by the city. Fortunately, several other historic buildings, now boarded up, just up Derry Street are slated to be rehabbed.

TheBurg 9 City Folks

A View from the Inside Bill Cluck finally got a seat at the table. What happens now?

Peter Durantine body he has questioned regarding it by the Authority, city unknown, though Cluck strongly relentlessly is an and county made him a formidable suspects it will. impressive political feat, inquisitor who often shared his “I think, at the end of the day, the question may be why knowledge of what was going on you’re going to find this thing is a private citizen with a with City Council. actionable,” he said. “This should respected law practice “He was also, at times, the only have been investigated by law would bother entering a citizen at my public hearings while enforcement five years ago.” maelstrom that brings no I was chair of Public Works” in 2008- A big question is whether Reed compensation and little 09, said Councilwoman Patty Kim, will cooperate in the investigation. thanks. who nominated Cluck and J. Marc Cluck believes he will. “I would think “I’ve been civic-minded Kurowski to the Authority. “[Mr. he would want to be cooperative,” from my days at Penn Cluck] was constantly raising good Cluck said. “I would think he would State—I was a student questions.” want to clear his reputation.” activist up there,” he said. Cluck followed the actions For Reed, there is “no mystery” “When I see narcissistic and decisions by the Harrisburg how the Authority got into such Inside the henhouse: Bill Cluck seated in the people more interested Authority, Kim said, noting that, financial straits. The first contractor conference room at the Harrisburg Authority. in having political power “he had researched the deals and to retrofit the incinerator had bid too than in getting things contracts made during the [former low to finish the job, and the cost of or years, William Cluck was done, then I get involved.” Mayor Stephen] Reed administration subsequent work mushroomed, he Fa thorn in the city’s side. He Cluck was raised in Philadelphia’s and waved red flags.” said in an interview. appeared at meetings of the suburbs, graduated Penn State, Kim said she chose Cluck The former mayor will, though, Harrisburg Authority that typically where he was president of the because, “I believed he would add cooperate with the auditors. “If they lacked public attendance and student government, and earned his a lot of working knowledge and have questions I can answer, then questioned things—many things. law degree at Temple University. incinerator history to the board. I certainly I will answer them,” he said. As the city’s incinerator He went to work for can confidently say that he has done Cluck also expects local problems grew from bad to worse, Philadelphia-based Saul Ewing in that since being on the board.” professionals involved in the Cluck questioned the city’s and 1987. In 1991, the firm sent him to City Council not only wanted financing and retrofitting to Dauphin County’s actions to the Harrisburg to open an office. The a way out of the financial hole, but cooperate, if only to save their point where he was dismissed by firm named him special counsel in also an understanding of how the reputations. Cluck is not willing to officials as a trouble-maker, a gadfly. 1999, and, a year later, he opened his Authority, city and county dug it say there was corruption—though But what he was trying to private practice. so deep. That’s one task Cluck has he acknowledges the audit may do was raise alarms about the Cluck became aware of the helped the Authority take on—and show otherwise. Authority’s borrowing of tens of Authority’s unorthodox financing it has not been easy. What he suspects, after culling millions of dollars on a facility practices from his position at Saul Last May, the Authority was through Authority files, is there was already mired in $100 million in Ewing. He represented one of the about to start a forensic audit of “professional neglect.” Things were debt. As Cluck found, though, firm’s clients, a waste hauler, with past practices—to see how the done for expediency because Reed no one seemed interested in litigation against the Authority. incinerator became such a debacle wanted to resolve the incinerator’s understanding what was going on. This gave him a general and whether matters were handled operational problems quickly and To a great extent, Cluck believed understanding that the incinerator fairly, properly and legally. return it to profitability, he said. that the way things were done was was “an iffy proposition,” with a Then, out of nowhere, the One thing Cluck is certain financially and legally questionable. history of troubles that would state Supreme Court nullified the the audit will show is gross He is an attorney who practices require significant upgrades, he board, throwing Cluck and his incompetence. environmental, energy and land law said. Also, he typically was the only fellow members off. Mayor Linda “As I watch this, I get more and from his home in Shipoke. member of the public present at Thompson re-appointed Cluck, but, more angry,” he said. “Corruption As the Authority struggles Authority meetings. due to political wrangling between is too strong a word—it’s just to settle the incinerator’s $288 “Having certain knowledge her and the City Council, a new unbelievable.” million debt, the once-derided made me more informed than the board wasn’t seated for months. City Council also is interested in gadfly now serves on its board, average citizen about what was Therefore, movement on an audit the audit. Kim said it’s necessary. a mayoral appointment insisted going on,” he said. “I saw the city was only recently resumed. “The city got burned with some upon by the City Council. To many, building a financial house of cards Cluck said the audit will bad deals by attorneys who weren’t Cluck has already proven his value, because of the incinerator, and no allow the Authority to “establish looking out for our citizens,” she recently ensuring that a $3.8 million one was paying attention.” credibility” when it begins to said. “I believe that a forensic audit Authority windfall was transferred Cluck’s comprehension of the negotiate with creditors to reduce should be conducted while the to the city to help balance last year’s legal issues swirling around the its liabilities. Whether the audit Harrisburg Authority continues to municipal budget. incinerator and the many actions uncovers legal wrongdoing is find ways to pull itself out of debt.” While Cluck’s ascension to a

10 TheBurg Doing Good

Pedaling for a Purpose Bike ride to raise awareness of disabilities.

Peter Durantine Nonetheless, he’s now stops along the way to promote the long excursion, Terry is training mounting a grueling, 1,800-mile awareness by meeting with media. when the weather is good, riding bicycle journey in order to raise “I may look handicapped, but his Raleigh racer, which he keeps in awareness of those with disabilities. I don’t have any pain,” said Susan, a room in their apartment. On cold, “There are all sorts of disabilities moving about their Chestnut Street damp days he rides a stationary bike you can’t see,” he said, noting his apartment in her electric wheelchair. in the apartment building’s exercise arthritic limps and citing those “He has pain all the time.” room. who suffer from mental disabilities. The accident that had put Terry Long-distance bicycling is not “People who are disabled are not in a wheelchair was a fall from a new to him, he said. Fifteen years just confined to wheelchairs.” three-story building while doing ago, he set out for the West Coast, Terry’s wife, Susan, an activist construction. He also suffers from but somewhere in Colorado his who is permanently confined migraines. He showed a bottle of bicycle broke down, and he ran out to a wheelchair because of a Aleve, the over-the-counter pain of money to fix it. “I made it half-way congenital condition, runs a medication, when asked how he across the United States,” he said. program, “Infobility: Inform and treats his arthritis. To ensure Terry has the Empower People with Disabilities.” Susan was born with resources to complete his six-week It’s designed to enlighten the non- arthrogryposis, a rare disorder journey, headlined as “Pedaling disabled and teach the disabled how characterized by multiple joint for a Purpose: Across America for Terry Shaffer, atop the bike he’ll ride to meet their particular challenges. contractures—known as “hooked Disability Awareness,” the Shaffers through six states and Washington D.C. Infobility is organizing Terry’s trek joints”—and muscle weakness. are trying to raise funds to help through six states—Pennsylvania, She has a master’s degree in cover the estimated $3,100 in costs, erry Shaffer once was confined Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Rehabilitation Counseling from which will cover lodging, food, Tto a wheelchair for 18 months, South Carolina, Georgia—and Hofstra University. bicycle maintenance and gas. following an accident, and he has Washington, D.C. Susan, traveling The bicycle journey her For more on sponsoring or arthritis through more than 90 in a van that accommodates her husband will make in June is contributing to Terry’s bike journey, percent of his body. wheelchair, will meet Terry at various intended to educate people visit www.terryonwheels.blogspot. about physical disabilities and com or contact Susan Schaffer at 717- promote greater integration of the 412-4145. disabled into MLK Day: Day Off, mainstream on Walnut Street will honor the society, as Day of Service life and legacy of King, featuring well as bring speaker Craig Dietz, a triathlon awareness Instead of taking off for the Dr. swimmer and avid outdoorsman to an under- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Jan. who was born without limbs. used skilled 17, spend it offering your help on Audience members are workforce. one of 27 needed projects across the encouraged to bring a non- Accord- region that the Central Pennsylvania perishable food item to the event to ing to U.S. MLK Day of Service Committee has donate to the Central Pennsylvania Department lined up for the holiday. Food Bank. of Labor Volunteers are needed to paint Most of the day, though, is figures, rooms, visit nursing homes or lend devoted to volunteers giving back 53 million a hand at shelters, among other to the community in such projects Americans activities. as building shelves at Bethesda have disabili- This is the 25th year of MLK Mission, gathering books for a book ties, yet the Day of Service, but the ninth year in drive, and donating arts and crafts unemploy- which the day has been celebrated supplies for the Boys and Girls Club. ment rate for with community projects manned The day of service reminds us of them in 2010 by volunteers. the inspiration and contributions of was 58 per- “Every year, we have more King, but it also gives volunteers the cent higher volunteers and more people [to satisfaction of having contributed to than the serve],” said Lourdes Swarts, one of the community. non-disabled the organizers and president of the population. Pennsylvania Family Coalition. To sign-up to volunteer, or make a tax- To At 2 p.m. on Jan. 17, a free deductible donation for the event, visit prepare for performance at the Forum Building www.centralpamlkday.org.

TheBurg 11 San Francisco’s ShutterBurg DAVID BERKELEY, … a Month in Pictures CD & Book Release party, Sunday, 1/30 More January Events! • Brad Yoder, 1/21 • John Francis, 1/22 • Moviate presents...Olafur Arnalds, 1/28

Midtown Scholar Bookstore-Café 1302 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg • 717-236-1680 Hours: Tue-Sat 9-9, Sun 12-7

*Great Used Books * Art Gallery * Acoustic Music * Dec. 8: Fran Harris, right, executive director of the *Fair-trade Coffees, Teas & Espressos* Heinz-Menaker Senior Center on 4th Street, talks Dec. 9: Al and Charlotte Nelson were among to Lorelee Isbell from Dixon University Center, one those who attended the holiday party at of the Leadership Harrisburg Area board members Mitrani at Home. A portion of the proceeds who were serving seniors a holiday dinner. was donated to Channels Food Rescue.

510 NORTH 3RD STREET, Harrisburg

Contact Susan Schreckengaust 717-979-7167

1st floor space available FOR LEASE or entire building Dec. 12: Masjid Hadee, a new mosque of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, opened in the available FOR SALE. former Lakeside Lutheran Church, which closed Dec. 12: Rich, Sydney, Bentley and Trina Available 2011. last year because of a dwindling congregation. Gribble relax at The Civic Club after the annual 1st floor has 3-4 large rooms Historic Harrisburg Candelight House Tour. Their house was part of this year’s event. (for office or retail), private bath, small kitchen with sink, refrigerator and dishwasher, security entrance.

Dec. 15: Engleton Community Group held its holiday fest at Gallery Blu. Among the partiers: Branka Lukic and Steph and Ammon Perry. Dec. 17: Artfully painted fabric and eerie lighting transformed the Historic Harrisburg Center at JanGroh Collective’s “La Cage after Party.”

Dec. 18: The International Kwanzaa Festival was held at the State Museum. Left, Nataki McNeal Bhatti, Tru Poet, Sankofa the Poet and Dennise L. Hill performed in “If This Art Could Talk,” directed by Katie Wigdahl. Right, Imani EduTainers African Drum & Dance Company entertained the crowd.

12 TheBurg Burg Biz From the Ground Up

Sacred Space to Living Space Church facilities eyed for rooming houses.

Peter Durantine & Lawrance Binda neighborhood. providing 33 parking spaces. Café Perking The building and adjacent The zoning board, though, had property, an area of land at 920 N. a number of concerns, including in Olde Uptown 17th St. to be used for parking, are density, parking and recreational owned by the Catholic Diocese of space, issues also raised in a letter Olde Harrisburg, according to Dauphin to the board from the downtown Uptown County property records. group, Capitol Area Neighbors. residents Skynet is expected soon to buy The board asked Skynet to soon will get Rooming house ahead? The convent the properties. It bought another return and present cases for both what many building at N. 2nd and Liberty streets. adjacent property, 900 N. 17th St., a special exception and a variance, have long from the diocese in October. a higher standard that requires desired: Harrisburg company is seeking According to Skynet, some the company to demonstrate a real to turn two Catholic church A rooms actually will be apartments, hardship. It also wants proof that coffeehouse smack-dab in their facilities into rooming houses, while others will share kitchens and the Harrisburg Parking Authority has revitalizing neighborhood. one on Allison Hill and the other baths. The average patron’s stay is pledged spaces in its South Street Last year, WCI Partners bought downtown. about eight months, said Joshua garage for residents. the old corner grocery (above) at The city’s Zoning Hearing Juffe, Skynet’s president. The century-old convent is Muench and Green streets, and the Board last month approved Skynet Skynet had less luck with a owned by Mercy House, according developer now plans to open an Property Management’s request proposal to turn a downtown to county property records. The run- 800-square-foot café there, with a to turn the former Lourdeshouse Catholic convent into a 39-unit down building currently houses just one-bedroom apartment on the Maternity Home at 1611 Boas St. rooming house. eight nuns. second floor. into a 21-unit rooming house. The company was seeking Skynet wishes to buy the But don’t hurry over just yet. Skynet sought a special a special exception for the property and renovate it. The WCI still must get a variance for that exception to convert the 5,166-square-foot building at rooming house would feature use from the city’s Zoning Hearing 3,119-square-foot home, built 603–605 N. 2nd St., as the area efficiency and one-bedroom Board, an item that probably will be around 1900, from institutional is not zoned for that use. It also apartments, as well as rooms with on the board’s February agenda. The use to multi-unit residential, which sought relief of the requirement of shared kitchens and baths, at rents company also must renovate the does not conform to zoning in that of $90 to $150 per week. building and find an operator. Since July 2009, Skynet has “There’s a lot of support in the bought seven properties throughout community for a project like this,” New Biz: Grand Openings Harrisburg, according to the county. said Dave Butcher, WCI president.

Sita’s Kitchen: Sita Nhek gets ready to serve two of her specialties—beef stew noodle soup and chicken Changing Hands: November Property Sales kabob—at her new eatery in the Bigelow Dr., 30: B. Higgins to G. Neff, $88,000 N. Front St., 1525, #310: Riverview Manor Associates Broad Street Market’s stone building. LP to R.L. Pauletta, $54,900 Bigelow Dr., 31: B. Higgins to G. Neff, $88,000 Sita’s pan-Asian menu features cuisine N. Front St., 1525, #411: Riverview Manor Associates both from Japan, including sushi, Briggs St., 1925: M. & N. Godfrey to C. Forney, $77,000 LP to A. Hoffman, $164,900 and her home region of southeast Crescent St., 222: P. McDaniels to Z. Chadwick, N. Front St., 2843: J. Tillery & L. Pierce to M. & A. Asia. Try one of her Phnom Penh-style $57,000 Saracino, $299,000 noodle soups, named for the capital of Croyden Rd., 2994: PA Deals LLC to J. Wertz and M. Norwood St., 926: Fannie Mae to R. Escate, $38,000 Cambodia, where she was born. Sita’s Clarke, $37,850 Peffer St., 234: Stardog Investors LLC to WCI Partners Kitchen is open during regular Market Forster St., 1718: PA Deals LLC to D. Thurbon, $39,900 LP, $115,000 hours. 717-512-0865 Green St., 1406: N. Whitmore to J.D. Leaman, $50,000 Reily St., 109: K.L. Anderson to C. Love & S. Kehler, $139,900 The Candle Bakery: For Dinnie Market St., 335: Governor Hotel Partnership to and Rocky Flood, a candle Riverview Manor Associates LP, $1,615,000 Reily St., 111: K.L. Anderson to B. Kelly, $137,900 shouldn’t just smell like strawberry Market St., 1855: Bruce Alan Homes Inc. to M. Miller, Rumson Dr., 345: C. Hetzko to M. Vega, $96,900 $100,000 shortcake, it should look like one, Rumson Dr., 2941: R. & J.M. Houseal to C. Thorp, too. The Candle Bakery, newly N. 2nd St., 2023: 44 Cameron Street Associates LP to $75,000 WCI Partners LP, $157,500 opened in the Broad Street Market, Swatara St., 2134: D. Fry to M. Lalmohamed, $70,500 offers hand-poured soy candles N. 2nd St., 2337: R. Little to S. Miller, $158,000 Wiconisco St., 505: T. Bui & N. Nguyen to Divine Nest that look like all kinds of baked N. 2nd St., 2921: R. Martin to J.A. Hartzler & K. Werley, LLC, $132,500 goods and sweets. Hours are Wed., $300,000 Wiconisco St., 531: Quadrant Residential Capital II LLC 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Thurs. and Fri., 7 N. 3rd St., 3205: T. & M. Asman to G. Geedy, $110,000 to Toomey Investment Group LLC, $35,000 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sat., 7 a.m.-4 p.m. N. Front St., 1015: Absecon Holdings Inc. to R. Source: Dauphin County, City of Harrisburg, property sales www.soycandlebakery.com Dishong, $158,000 greater than $30,000. Data is deemed to be accurate.

TheBurg 13 From the Ground Up

Hurry Up and Wait Courthouse to start in 2013, finish in 2016.

Lawrance Binda foot courthouse on the mostly Savannah’s Owners vacant site at the edge of Grocery/Restaurant Midtown. When completed, Sited for Cameron St. Plan New Venture the courthouse will house seven or eight courtrooms and Work The about 260 employees. should owners of The current federal begin in Savannah’s courthouse, located spring on a On Hanna, downtown, does not meet restaurant just north requirements for security and and of I-83, are is tight on space. grocery preparing Ehrenwerth last month Restaurant/store site store on A nightclub is planned to open a The site of the new federal courthouse at updated the City Council on at Cameron and Herr. an empty for this warehouse off restaurant 6th and Reily streets. the project, saying that land lot near Cameron Street. and bar acquisition, land appraisals Cameron down the and other preparations will arrisburg’s new federal and Herr streets after the project block from eat up the next two years. Currently, courthouse at 6th and Reily won city Zoning Board approval last their gentlemen’s club. H GSA is in the process of buying out streets is on track, but it’s a very month. Last month, owners Philip the nine homeowners and one slow track, still years away from The two-story, 2,290-square- Dobson and Joshua Kessler received business that occupy the 4.5-acre being started, according to a federal foot building at 1125 N. Cameron approval from the Harrisburg Zoning site. official overseeing the project. St. will be a restaurant and grocery Hearing Board on the last part of Council members queried The building likely won’t break store on the first floor with storage the project, a 425-foot sign rising Ehrenwerth on a number of issues, ground until 2013 and won’t open on the second, said Mark Saber, who 120 feet high and visible from the including homeowner buyouts, its doors until 2016, said David is managing the project for Martha interstate. minority contracting and employee Ehrenwerth, mid-Atlantic regional Camacho. Dobson and Kessler are parking. He said GSA would pay fair- administrator for the federal General The board approved a variance converting an old, 14,000-square- market value for the land that needs Services Administration (GSA). for the structure to be built in a 100- foot warehouse at 801 S. 10th St. to be acquired and would help Moreover, these dates are year floodplain, after the project’s into what Dobson described as residents move. The project should best-case estimates, as Congress architect, Richard Gribble, showed a cross between a nightclub and generate 475-500 construction jobs, still must appropriate most of the how construction would employ the brew pub, featuring live music and with about one-quarter of contracts money for the project, estimated at latest materials in flood-proofing a variety of local micro-brews. The reserved for small and minority $130-$135 million. So far, only $26 technology to protect the building. venue will be called the Rockville businesses, he said. million has been approved. Saber said the restaurant would Entertainment Complex. Parking appeared to be a “We have enough funds to start offer a variety of chicken dishes, Dobson expects the facility to stickier issue, as only about half the process,” he said. “We will get from fried to rotisserie, and the open in a year. He said much work the needed spaces are expected a request into the fiscal year 2013 grocery would sell mostly dry goods needs to be done to transform the to be built on site. Another 150 or budget to begin construction.” and some fresh items. warehouse for its new use. so spaces would have to be found In April, after a years-long nearby, within a block or two, search, GSA announced that it Ehrenwerth said. would build the 260,000-square- About $500,000 will be reserved for Railroad Bridge Is Falling Down courthouse art, he said, Demolition of an abandoned, adding that 83-year-old railroad bridge across Councilman Cameron and Paxton streets Kelly prepares a $2.8-million project to Summerford widen the intersection this spring. will help lead The old Reading Railroad bridge a committee once served a steel mill. When that will finished, the intersection will have commission two through-traffic lanes on each approach along with a left turn artwork lane. Curbs and sidewalks will be for the built and a traffic signal installed. courthouse. Work should be finished in July.

14 TheBurg Good Eats Chef ’s Kitchen

Serving Harrisburg Another eatery planned, Nick Laus adds to his menu of restaurants.

Peter Durantine of Café Fresco, with two In 2005, Laus opened a second something.” Harrisburg locations, plans Café Fresco on N. 2nd Street that That includes Laus himself, who another city eatery. he likes to bill as “urban café by day constantly studies the restaurant He has taken lease of and metropolitan gourmet by night.” business by visiting high-end the former Zephyr Express Indeed, Café Fresco transforms into restaurants in major metropolitan location, 231 North St., a sophisticated restaurant that rivals areas. “If you think you know it all, where he intends soon big city venues, serving American- you’re going to fail,” he said. to open a neighborhood Asian fusion dishes. As he prepares to open his bistro with upscale home The 51-year-old Laus believes next restaurant, at North and cooking. He’s still working Harrisburg needs, if not demands, Green streets, he continues to think out the details, but said fine dining and real nightclubs. He forward and upward, though he he expects to serve lunch opened Level 2, above Café Fresco still owns the pizza shop where it all and dinner. The soft- downtown, three years ago for started. The irony is Laus never had spoken restaurateur also adults 30 and older, with a dress dreams of being a restaurateur. is considering nightclub code that invites people to appear “I think I just wanted to be Nick Laus, in the stylish dining area of Café Fresco, ventures in Lancaster stylishly for the occasion. successful,” he said, amazed at his his restaurant and bar in downtown Harrisburg. and Philadelphia, where “We’re trying to educate people,” success. “When we came here, we he used to visit four- and said Laus, who dresses with flair. were so poor. estaurateur Nick Laus’ trajectory five-star restaurants “You can always teach somebody “I pinch myself sometimes, too.” Ras a businessman follows that before deciding Harrisburg needed of many successful American something similar. immigrants—he arrived in the He started slow, going from Harrisburg area at age 5 from Peru. pizza to subs, opening the South Poor, his family struggled for years. Philly Sub Shop on Paxton Street. His stepfather opened a pizza Then, a few years later and a few shop on Derry Street in Swatara blocks down the street, he moved Township that he later inherited. to salads, soups and sandwiches And thus began a local empire that at Café Fresco, across from the continues today as Laus, the owner Harrisburg Mall.

New Owner Plans Clarks Valley Road in Middle Paxton Township and a partner, according to Reopen Club 1400 to county property records. A man named Richard Kushner, lub 1400, at N. 3rd and Calder of the same Middle Paxton address, Cstreets, is on the verge of re- was arrested in June in Upper Allen opening under new ownership. Township on charges of alleged The re-named Howard’s Club possession of marijuana, possession 1400 will be owned by Harrisburg of drug paraphernalia, tampering businessman Howard E. Hoffman with evidence and institutional under the trade name 1400 N. 3rd vandalism, according to Cumberland Enterprises, which just formed Dec. County courts. The case still is being 20, according to state records. adjudicated. Hoffman now is trying to While an owner of the building, purchase a liquor license from Violet Kushner is not listed as an owner of Kanoff, former owner of the defunct the business. Violet’s on Walnut. The state Liquor Control Board Club 1400 was closed most of must approve the liquor license 2010 after the death of its owner. transfer. It has two public meetings It had been the site of violent this month, Jan. 12 and Jan. 26, at incidents over the years, including 10 a.m. in its building at Forster and the shooting of a bouncer in 2009. Capital streets. At press time, it was In September, the building sold not clear when the Club 1400 license in a Dauphin County sheriff’s sale to would be on the board’s agenda. Richard Kushner of the 1800-block of —Lawrance Binda TheBurg 15 Treats & Sweets

Kids, Cookies & Cold Making no-bake treats may be the perfect winter activity.

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16 TheBurg Culture Club Creator

Living the Artistic Life Painting, drawing, music—it’s all part of Jonathan Frazier’s creative fabric.

Lori Myers eventually graduated to quick succession. Anyone who has canvases in the series. Cape Cod has paintbrushes. In middle enjoyed the Historic Harrisburg been another inspirational locale, school, he loved drawing Association holiday home tours will and one of his paintings gained trucks and later his work see Frazier’s pen and ink renderings international notice when featured stood out in art classes. of the homes in the program. He in an ad in Fine Art Connoisseur His parents (his father’s an also had done a painting depicting magazine. avid photographer) were the USS Susquehanna, for which he Frazier doesn’t consider his pleased with their son’s received a civilian medal by the U.S. art to be much different from the talent. Navy. music he performs. Both creative “I never felt the need to For the past dozen years, the efforts involve texture, shape, form, play football,” Frazier said. ‘Burg has been the setting for many improvisation—and Frazier loves “By the end of high school, of Frazier’s paintings and drawings. them both. I was drawing figures, still His art has been synonymous with “With other jobs I’ve had, I’ve As artists have through the ages, Jonathan Frazier lifes, landscapes—using much of Harrisburg’s skyline, from a known what time it was,” Frazier seeks inspiration in nature. watercolor and colored view of Italian Lake to Front Street. mused. “I don’t feel that way now. pencils.” His watercolors of the state Capitol Now, time seems to fly by.” onathan Frazier is what you’d In his senior year, Frazier have been commissioned as gifts, Jexpect an artist and musician attended Harrisburg Arts Magnet and Frazier gets many requests by to be: casual, comfortable, with an School then went to study at the midstate homeowners to draw their Harrisburg Region easy smile and that just-got-up- Maryland Institute, College of Art, residences. in-the-morning tousled hair. He’s before going to Kutztown University. “Pen and ink drawings of to Host State Games soft-spoken, unassuming, but give In what might be viewed as an buildings are easy and marketable,” The National Congress of State him a paintbrush, a guitar, a Native unusual next step for an artist, Frazier said. “Being an artist is tough. American flute or a keyboard, and Games is bringing the biennial State Frazier signed up for a four-year Art is expensive to make.” Games of America to the Harrisburg he’s a creative whirlwind. stint with the Air Force, working as With that in mind, Frazier, Born in Hagerstown, Md., and region. a medical technician, doing blood also a member of The Seven Lively The Olympic-style sports event, raised in Dillsburg, Frazier now work and gazing into microscopes Artists, ventured out to Virginia. He calls Wormleysburg home. He slated for late July and early August at Andrews Air Force Base. But his gathered inspiration while driving of 2013, attracts 10,000 athletes and frequents the Midtown Scholar artistic side was not ignored. along Skyline Drive, delighting in Bookstore and, amid the bookstore’s features competition between top “I was good at math and its hills and valleys. “I was drawn medal winners from the 31 State “artsy” setting, sips his favorite hot science,” he said. “Going into the Air to the vibrant colors I saw there,” tea—ginger tumeric—works on a Games across the nation. Force seemed like a good thing to he said. “There was so much visual Event organizers anticipate sketch or a painting, connects with do at the time. Near the end of my information.” friends on his laptop computer or more than 30 different sports will be enlistment, they had me paint a He painted what he saw in those hosted at a variety of venues located simply people-watches to gather mural in the break room.” hills and valleys, but colored them in inspiration. in Harrisburg and Hershey, including After Frazier left military service lively reds, greens and blues. Several at Metro Bank Park, the Farm Show There’s much that’s inspiring on an honorable discharge in 1998, landscapes of that region have about this 30-something artist Complex, Hersheypark Stadium he returned to the Harrisburg area been completed and Frazier earned and the Giant Center. One highlight whose paintings, drawings, determined to support himself accolades for exhibitions at Lebanon and music have taken center will be the Olympic-style opening through his art and music. As if Valley College and at an art center in ceremonies, when athletes parade in stage—from Midtown’s Gallery he willed it, work came in fairly Frederick, Md. He plans a total of 20 Blu and the Art Association for his under their home state banners. art, to Camp Hill’s Crimson Frog Coffeehouse and the Governor’s Residence for his music. “I’m doing what I should be doing,” Frazier said. “I’m constantly challenged and …a portal into the artist world energized.” Frazier knew early on • high quality art prints what he “should be doing.” • established and emerging artists In what he describes as “Ghost Train” • owned by local artist Stacey Martin his “pre-verbal” childhood Check website for • contact Stacey for a photo session stage, he chose to draw with latest updates! or commissioned charcoal drawing magic markers first before he Please visit us at www.thepostandlintel.com

TheBurg 17 Arts & Crafts

What’s Lost Is Now Found Liz Laribee re-thinks, re-shapes our throw-aways.

Lawrance Binda

o you need coasters made from salvaged from their shipwreck. The result Ddiscarded bathroom tiles? At a young age, she began was a show How about a large sculpture making handcrafts from objects called assembled from construction debris other people might consider junk, “Functional fished out of a trash bin on Green imagining new uses for them. Fixedness,” a Street? Earrings made from old Small-scale usuable and wearable psychological Scrabble pieces, from archaic foreign art remains a large part of her term that currency, from used hymnals? work today, and you may find her describes Of course you do! Then just selling her creations at craft shows when a reach out to Liz Laribee, Harrisburg’s throughout the area, as she did last person master of recycled, repurposed month at the JanGroh Collective’s cannot crafts and art. after-party following 3rd in The Burg. imagine an “Every art venture I’ve done has But then, just a year ago, she object as been to take waste and turn it into took another step, expanding anything art,” she said. into larger-scale work almost by other than its Laribee’s choice of artistic media accident. She noticed that Midtown current use. may be environmentally sound, Cinema had art pieces displayed in “I liked Art after dark: Liz Laribee at her booth last month at JanGroh but it’s driven as much by practical its lobby, and she inquired about a that title Collective’s La Cage after Party at Historic Harrisburg Center. economics as social awareness. show there. because I was Simply put: art supplies can be Soon after, she saw an old rethinking expensive—dumpster diving isn’t. dresser that was being tossed out the function of these objects,” showing at Garden Fresh Market “I’m interested in subverting and thought the drawers would explained Laribee, who ended up & Deli, Harrisburg’s new organic the traditional art form because make great canvases. Meanwhile, selling all the pieces in her show. market in Midtown that quickly I’m broke and because I like the near her home in Olde Uptown, Since then, she has exhibited at is becoming a place for artists to aesthetic,” she said. dumpsters overflowed with Midtown Scholar Bookstore, where congregate. The 26-year-old Messiah College construction debris and discarded she also works as a barista, and at St. “I value the redemptive part of graduate seems well suited for a objects as entire blocks of old Stephen’s Mission Gallery. She has making things anew,” she said. “I like dedication of turning trash into houses were being renovated. also taught recycled art and creative to leave things better than I found artistic treasure. The daughter of an “I realized I could take these writing at Danzante Community Art them.” Episcopal priest, Laribee’s favorite things and integrate their existing Center in Harrisburg. movie growing up was “Swiss Family architecture into my work,” she said. This month, she again Want to see examples of Liz’s Robinson,” a tale of castaways who “It was like incorporating a piece of demonstrates her talent for larger- work? Check out her blog at http:// build an island home out of items Harrisburg history into my art.” scale art. She has several pieces bottomdrawerdesigns.blogspot.com.

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18 TheBurg City Cinema

Best in Cinema of 2010 Kevyn revisits his old friend, the Top 10 list.

Kevyn Knox he old year is at an end and will send a chill of dread up your R. Whatever the case, the film is 10. Since deadlines is deadlines Ta new one just begun, which spine and right into your cerebral brilliantly acted by Michelle Williams (as they say?), I have yet to screen means it is time for that old annual cortex, not to leave for a long time. and Ryan Gosling. several films that could very well critic’s chestnut that we see each 4. Shutter Island. Filmed as if he were 8. Enter the Void. Shot in a P.O.V. style, make this list; films such as the and every year around this time— making a Hitchcock movie, master this film takes us inside the head Coen Bros’ “True Grit” or Sofia the Top 10 list. Well, since it is that director Martin Scorsese unleashes and eyes of its lead character. French Coppola’s “Somewhere.” So instead time after all, I suppose I should give a film that, though it may be quite provocateur Gaspar Noe has created of squeezing on a film that will you mine. obvious in its inevitable conclusion, a brand new world of electric neon eventually end up as a runner-up 1. The Social Network. The most is a fun (almost giddily so) ride into and perverse desire—and all while (“White Material” or “Carlos” or timely of any movie released in 2010, the deep, dark secrets of one man’s adapting “The Tibetan Book of the “Never Let Me Go”), I will leave this visionary director David Fincher and mad mind. Dead” into his own twisted fashion. spot blank, awaiting the insertion of a film to be named later. screenwriter extraordinaire Aaron 5. I Am Love. Part frenetic opera, part 9. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Director Sorkin have concocted a briskly archetypical Greek tragedy, part Edgar Wright has created the most paced, semi-linear, partially accurate Kevyn Knox is a film glorious platform for one of the surprisingly enjoyable film of the critic + historian. His biopic of Facebook co-founder most daring women working in film year, based on a graphic novel and Mark Zuckerberg that never stops reviews can be read at today, Tilda Swinton, “I Am Love” styled as if we were inside a world of thecinematheque.com. amazing with its fluid camerawork, is a visual masterstroke of cinema. video games. And then there is the which seems both unobtrusive and It weaves its intricately simple lovely Ramona Flowers. shockingly noticeable, and its fast- story through both modern man’s paced, almost screwball comedy-like bourgeois sensibility and feverish screenplay. lore of 1950s and ‘60s arthouse 2. Black Swan. What can really be cinema. said about this maddening dive into 6. Winter’s Bone. Coined as “Ozark the proverbial rabbit hole? It just Noir,” I was mesmerized by the manages to become curiouser and brutally stunning visions of this film curiouser with every twist and turn and equally stunning performance that director Darren Aronofsky puts of Jennifer Lawrence. into his take on the world of not just dance, but of ultimate artistic desire 7. Blue Valentine. At first glance, to achieve perfection—at any cost. the MPAA inexplicably handed this gorgeous, yet brutally honest, 3. The Killer Inside Me. The film stars depiction of a relationship both Casey Affleck in one of the most coming together and falling apart easily chilling performances I have the dreaded NC-17 rating, but seen in a long time. This adaptation have since relinquished it to an of Jim Thompson’s pulp-like novel

La Cage after Party: The JanGroh Collective held a party+art show last month following 3rd in The Burg. Organizers Reina Wooden and J.D. Anwar Khan (left) gave party-goers a visual feast with their costumes and performances. Below, performance art was a big part of the evening.

TheBurg 19 Happenings

Museums & Art Spaces The Stage Door

3rd Street Studio Gallerie Thirteen Midtown Cinema Allenberry Resort Inn and Playhouse 1725 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg 13 E. Main St., Mechanicsburg 250 Reily St., Harrisburg 1559 Boiling Springs Rd., Boiling Springs 717-385-3315; www.3rdstreetstudio.org 717-591-6940; www.gallerie13.com www.midtowncinema.com 717-258-3211; allenberry.com Works by Carolyn Pio and Lawrence Charles January exhibits: “Winter Blues” group Artwork by local artists. No shows scheduled for January. Miller; reception: Jan. 21, 6–8 p.m. show and “New Artists” group show. Midtown Scholar/Yellow Wall Gallery Broadway Classics Productions Antique Auto Museum at Hershey Gallery@Second 1302 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg Harrisburg Mall, 3501 Paxton St., Harrisburg 161 Museum Dr., Hershey 608 N. 2nd St., Harrisburg 717-236-1680; www.midtownscholar.com 877-717-7969; broadwayclassicspa.com 717-566-7100; www.aacamuseum.org galleryatsecond.com “Communion,” paintings by Keith Pomeroy, “Greater Tuna,” Jan. 21–Feb. 27 “From Roads to Rails,” a custom Artwork of Edward E. Jonason and through Jan. 16. train display, through Jan. 2. Robert Reynolds, through January. Fishing Creek Playhouse & Dinner Theatre “Sewn Stories,” works by Beth Rice. Reception: 450 Fishing Creek Rd., Etters “Ash & Maple Marvels, Wood-Bodied Jan. 21, 7–9 p.m. Gallery at Walnut Place 877-998-7469; fishingcreekplayhouse.com Cars 1910–1953,” through Jan. 31. 413 Walnut St., Harrisburg/717-233-0487 National Civil War Museum “The Odd Couple,” Jan. 7–23 “Two-Wheeled Treasures from the Dennis Exhibiting regional artists in a unique gallery One Lincoln Circle at Reservoir, Harrisburg Carpenter Collection,” motorcycles from setting; artists’ reception: Jan. 21, 5–8 p.m. 717-260-1861; nationalcivilwarmuseum.org Harrisburg Comedy Zone the 1930s to the 1970s, through May. 110 Limekiln Rd., New Cumberland “1861,” the first in a series of exhibits “Stainless Steel, 1967 Lincoln Continental Gallery Blu 717-920-3627; harrisburgcomedyzone.com recognizing the sesquicentennial of the Civil Convertible,” through September. 1633 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg War; opening reception, Jan. 25, 5:30 p.m. B.T., Jan. 7–8; Steve Burr, Jan. 14–15; Rich Vos, 717-234-3009; www.galleryblu.org Jan. 21–22; Derrick Cameron, Jan. 28–29 Art Association of Harrisburg “War on the Homefront,” through March 13. “I Hear What You’re Seeing: Artists and 21 N. Front St., Harrisburg Their Music”; closing reception: Jan. 21. Harrisburg Shakespeare Festival 717-236-1432; www.artassocofhbg.com Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art 3rd Floor, Strawberry Square, Harrisburg 176 Water Company Rd., Millersburg Invitational exhibit, featuring artists Barbara Garden Fresh Market & Deli 717-238-4111; www.gamutplays.org 717-692-3699; www.nedsmithcenter.org Dombach, Richard Hamwi, Michael C Layser 1300 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg “The Sunshine Boys,” Jan. 14–22 and Nicky Schleider, through Jan. 6. 717-994-8552 “Moments in Time,” art using natural elements by Andy Goldsworthy, through Jan. 8. “Figuratively Speaking,” Winter Works by Liz Laribee, Kinsey Rice Hershey Area Playhouse Membership Exhibition, Jan. 14–Feb. and Beth Rice, through January. “Gone for the Day: Ned Smith and the Sand Hill Road at Cherry Drive, Hershey 10; reception, Jan. 14, 5–8 p.m. Pennsylvania Game Commission,” Jan. 8–Aug. 717-838-8164; hersheyareaplayhouse.com Harsco Science Center 13. No shows scheduled for January. Café di Luna Whitaker Center, 222 Market St., Harrisburg 1004 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg 717-214-ARTS; www.whitakercenter.org Rose Lehrman Arts Center Hershey Theatre 717-695-9449; cafediluna.com One HACC Drive, Harrisburg “The Eyes Have It …,” through January. 15 E. Caracas Ave., Hershey www.hacc.edu/RoseLehrmanArtsCenter Local artists featured monthly in 717-534-3405; www.hersheytheatre.com a comfortable café setting. HMAC/Stage on Herr “Mata Ortiz: Pottery in the Casas Grandes “Behavioral Problems,” Ron White tour, Jan. 28 1110 N. 3rd St./268 Herr St., Harrisburg Tradition,” the collection of Carl and Holly Cornerstone Coffeehouse 717-441-7506; www.harrisburgarts.com Socolow, Jan. 12–Feb. 4; demonstration, “Beyond the Footlights: Hershey Theatre 2133 Market St., Camp Hill lecture and reception, Jan. 20. Apollo Awards Grand Stage Cabaret,” Jan. 29 Works by various local and regional artists. www.thecornerstonecoffeehouse.com The State Museum of Pennsylvania HMAC/Stage on Herr January Artist of the Month: Emily The Mantis Collective 300 North St., Harrisburg 1110 N. 3rd St./268 Herr St., Harrisburg Truckenmiller (photography). 1306 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg 717-787-4980; www.statemuseumpa.org 717-441-7506; www.harrisburgarts.com [email protected] Cygnet Studios/Conewago Coffeehouse “Voices of the Revolution,” an exhibit Soul Comedy Café, Jan. 9 Drawings and paintings by Susan Lowe, 336 S. Market St., Elizabethtown commemorating the Civil Rights movement through Jan. 16. 717-367-6140; conewagocoffee.com through woodcuts, poetry and more. Open Stage of Harrisburg Photography by Lynn Rossi, Jan. 21–Feb. 13; 223 Walnut St., Harrisburg January Artist of the Month: Jay Gerber, “Wood on Glass: The Lumber Industry reception: Jan. 21, 8–10 p.m. 717-214-ARTS; www.openstagehbg.com acrylic & mixed media painting. Photographs of William T. Clarke,” the story of lumbering and its transformation of northern No shows scheduled for January. Pennsylvania circa 1900, through May 1. Oyster Mill Playhouse 3rd in The Burg: Jan. 21 1001 Oyster Mill Road, Camp Hill 717-737-6768; www.oystermill.com Forty years ago, Lawrence Charles Miller, At the Cinema “Steel Magnolias,” Jan. 14–30 then a very young man, unexpectedly met acclaimed surrealist Salvador Dali Moviate Film Co-Op Popcorn Hat Players at the Gamut at a party. Now an artist in his own right, 1106 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg 3rd Floor, Strawberry Square, Harrisburg www.moviate.org 717-238-4111; www.gamutplays.org Miller has added his own touches to a photograph of Dali that he took that Jan. 5: Frederico Fellini’s “I, Vitelloni” feature “The Frog Prince,” Jan. 26–Feb. 12 evening (right). You can buy a signed film on 16mm film, 8 p.m. Rose Lehrman Arts Center print at 3rd Street Studio, 1725 N. 3rd Jan. 12: “Herschell Gordon Lewis—The One HACC Drive, Harrisburg Godfather of Gore” documentary, with St., during this month’s 3rd in The Burg, www.hacc.edu/RoseLehrmanArtsCenter which celebrates its 1-year anniversary phone-in introduction by Lewis, 8 p.m. Nancy Fancy and Other Story Books, Jan. 22 on Jan. 21. You also can visit many other Jan. 19: Animator Martha Colburn, in-person galleries, restaurants and venues at the with live pianist accompaniment, 8 p.m. monthly event featuring art, music and Theatre Harrisburg Jan. 22: Filmmaker Brian Lonano in-person, Whitaker Center, Harrisburg more at venues around Harrisburg. For presenting his short films, 8 p.m. 717-214-ARTS; www.theatreharrisburg.com more information, see our back cover or visit www.3rdinTheBurg.com. Jan. 28: Olafur Arnalds plays live indie/ No shows scheduled for January. electronic chamber music at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 1302 N. 3rd St., 7:30 p.m.

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Live Music around Harrisburg

Appalachian Brewing Co./Abbey Bar Cygnet Studios/Conewago Coffeehouse Mangia Qui/Suba 50 N. Cameron St., Harrisburg 336 S. Market St., Elizabethtown 272 North St., Harrisburg Other Highlights 717-221-1083; www.abcbrew.com 717-367-6140; conewagocoffee.com 717-233-7358; www.mangiaqui.com Jan. 1: Penguin Plunge. The Humane Society Jan. 7: The Thrives w/The Shackeltons & The Jan. 21: Michael Sweigard Jan. 7: The Big Bottom Blues of Harrisburg Area will hold its 14th annual Sketties Jan. 28: Super Dance Party w/ Jan. 8: Nina Scarcia Penguin Plunge. Participants plunge into Jan. 8: The Illuminati w/Mountain Road & The Kyle Sloka-Frey & Seth Thomas Jan. 14: Creekside Soul the icy Susquehanna River (or stand in the Hawkeyes Jan. 29: Mike Rydock Jan. 15: Jeff Calvin and The Converse Allstars “Chicken Coop”) to raise funds for homeless Jan. 13: Mark Ballas Acoustic/Gallery Show Jan. 21: TBA pets. Registration starts at 10 a.m.; the event Jan. 14: Juggling Suns Dragonfly Club/Spy Club Jan. 22: The Humblers takes place at noon. More information at Jan. 15: The Greatest Funeral Ever 234 N. 2nd St., Harrisburg Jan. 28: TBA www.humanesocietyhbg.org. Jan. 20: Eilen Jewell w/Rebecca Miller dragonflyclub.com Jan. 29: Batida! Jan. 21: Surprise Show! See website for details Jan. 7: Lancaster First Friday. Lancaster Jan. 22: A City Undone Jan. 22: Jessica Jellen Yellow Day w/Shine & Midtown Scholar Bookstore-Café highlights its arts and gallery community in The Junkies and Megan & The Wheelmen 1302 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg this city-wide event. lancasterarts.com H. Ric Luhrs Performing Arts Center Jan. 28: Cabinet w/Mike Miz & Whistle Pigs 717-236-1680; www.midtownscholar.com Shippensburg University, Shippensburg Jan. 20: Friends of Midtown Annual Meeting Jan. 29: Windchill CD Release 717-477-SHOW; www.luhrscenter.com Jan. 21: Brad Yoder & Social. The meeting gives Midtown Jan. 22: John Francis residents an opportunity to meet each other Carley’s Ristorante and Piano Bar Jan. 22: “Click Clack Moo” (Theatreworks USA) Jan. 28: Olafur Arnalds (Moviate-sponsored) and the FOM executive board. Members and 204 Locust St., Harrisburg Jan. 27: Kulu Mele African American Dance non-members welcome. Stage on Herr, 268 717-909-9191; www.carleysristorante.com Ensemble Morgan’s Place Herr St., 7–9 p.m. www.friendsofmidtown.org Jan. 5: Mark Zangrilli 4425 N. Front St., Harrisburg Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra Jan. 6: Giovanni Traino 717-234-8103; www.morgans-place.com The Forum (5th and Walnut Sts.), Harrisburg Jan. 7: Noel Gevers 717-545-5527; harrisburgsymphony.org Please contact the venue. Jan. 8: Ted Ansel Readings, Classes, Etc. Jan. 12: Andrew Bargh Jan. 15–16: “Catch a Rising Star” Stock’s on 2nd Jan. 13: Noel Gevers Jan. 29–30: “Simply Swingin’” Art Association of Harrisburg 211 N. 2nd St., Harrisburg Jan. 14: Anthony Haubert 21 N. Front St., Harrisburg 717-233-6699; www.stocksonsecond.com Jan. 15: Giovanni Traino Hershey Theatre 717-236-1432; www.artassocofhbg.com Jan. 19: Chelsea Caroline 15 E. Caracas Ave., Hershey Jan. 8: Don Johnson Project Band Jan. 30: “Artistic Creation in the Italian Jan. 20: Ted Ansel 717-534-3405; www.hersheytheatre.com Jan. 15: Funktion Renaissance,” a lecture by art historian Robin Jan. 21: Giovanni Traino Jan. 22: Cruise Control Jan. 8: B.B. King O’Bryan, 2 p.m. Jan. 22: Noel Gevers Jan. 29: Shea Quinn and Steve Swisher Jan. 26: Mark Zangrilli Hilton Harrisburg and Towers The HodgePodgery Jan. 27: Giovanni Traino The Susquehanna Folk Music Society 1 N. 2nd St., Harrisburg 1100 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg Jan. 28: Anthony Haubert www.sfmsfolk.org (check website for location) 717-236-0150; www.thehodgepodgery.com Jan. 29: Ted Ansel Tues.–Sat.: Solo jazz piano in the bar Jan. 15: Bill Staines Every Tuesday, Open Mic Night Jan. 14: “Close to the Heart Charm,” 6:30– Jan. 22: Winter Coffee House, featuring local HMAC/Stage on Herr 8:30 p.m. and regional performers Ceolta’s Irish Pub 1110 N. 3rd St./268 Herr St., Harrisburg Jan. 21: “Stained Glass Charm Make & Take” Jan. 29: Four musicians in one concert: Kevin 310 N. 2nd St., Harrisburg 717-441-7506; www.harrisburgarts.com 5–10 p.m. Neidig, Henry Koretzky, Ken Gehret & Bruce 717-233-3202; www.ceoltasirishpub.com Jan 23: “Boudoir Shoot,” 12–6 p.m. Jan. 1: D&M w/Wild Rompit Campbell Jan. 29: “Groovin’ Granny Square Crochet,” Please contact the venue. Jan. 6: Mike Banks & Friends 2–5 p.m. Jan. 7: Royal Benson w/River Rat Jenkins & TuesdayBluesday Char’s Bella Mundo Betty Poison Der Maennerchor, 221 North St., Harrisburg Midtown Scholar Bookstore-Café 540 Race St., Harrisburg Jan. 8: Arctic Death w/Driving Vegas www.tuesdaybluesday.com 1302 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg 717-213-4002; www.charsbellamundo.com Jan. 13: Harpeth Rising w/When Worlds Jan. 4: The Dark Matter Trio 717-236-1680; midtownscholar.com Collide Ensemble “Jazz Wednesdays,” with special wine menu Jan. 11: Blue Elephant Jan. 14: Colebrook Road w/Chester River Jan. 22: Book signing by local essayists, Jan. 18: The Cornlickers Runoff including Curtis Smith, 7 p.m. Clover Lane Coffeehouse Jan. 25: Boss Guitar w/Robert Frahm & Bobby Jan. 15: Jo Henley w/The Swaines& JT & the 1280 Clover Lane, Harrisburg Brewer Jan. 23: “Fight ‘til the Last Gasp,” a production Mildheat 717-564-4761; www.harrisburguu.org of Shakespearean fight scenes, from Gamut’s Jan. 16: Dan Navarro Whitaker Center Stage Door series, 7 p.m. Jan. 11: Andrew Bellanca w/Jim Haas Jan. 20: Adam Blessing 222 Market St., Harrisburg Jan. 21: Cuddle Magic w/Zach Bailey 717-214-ARTS; www.whitakercenter.org The Susquehanna Folk Music Society Cornerstone Coffeehouse Jan. 22: Innavibe w/ Kilego Vert www.sfmsfolk.org (check website for location) 2133 Market Street, Camp Hill Jan. 28: Corty Byron Band w/Hexbelt Jan. 21: Caroline Herring www.thecornerstonecoffeehouse.com Jan. 29: Gleason’s Drift w/CASE 150 & Fallen Jan. 22: Ching-Yun Hu Jan. 9: Israeli dance workshops, 1:30 p.m., 3 Troubadours p.m. & 6:30 p.m. Jan. 2: Mitch and Lee Jan. 30: Jason Myles Goss w/Dietrich Strause Jan. 7: Maria Wilson Every Wednesday: Open Mic Night Jan. 8: Soji Jan. 9: Paul Zavinsky Hollywood Casino at Penn National Jan. 14: Seasons 777 Hollywood Blvd., Grantville Jan. 15: Darin Rex 877-565-2112; www.hcpn.com Jan. 16: Joy and Paul Thiessen Jan. 21: Thomas Long Jan. 1: Dueling Pianos & Cazhmeire Jan. 22: Jeff Calvia Jan. 7: Goodfoot Jan. 23: Kevin Kline Jan. 8: Bunchafunk Jan. 28: Antonio Andrade Jan. 14: Luv Gods Jan. 29: Nick Lindsay Jan. 15: Beginnings & Honeypump Jan. 30: Andrew Bellanca and Friends Jan. 21: Uptown Jan. 22: Maxwell Project Jan. 28: M80s Jan. 29: Grumpy Old Men

TheBurg 21 Home & Family Young Burgers

Ode to a Dino It’s Jurassic rhyme time for father and son.

Jamal A. Jones With experience writing radio received their first shipment of creating the book with his son was commercials and penning lyrics for the finished books in April 2010. the real reward. his band, Sgrignoli began crafting To support the project, Michael “Spending time is a blessing,” he poems for their project as Ethan and Ethan do book signings and said. started drawing pictures of the pre- engagements where Michael speaks historic creatures. to schools and other organizations “The Fossil” “Ethan illustrated the dinosaurs about the book and the creative by Michael and Ethan Sgrignoli as he wanted in terms of colors process. and appearance,” Sgrignoli said. “I was charmed,” said Carrie There were many dinosaurs that you Although the project was a Wissler-Thomas, of her first could say were docile. children’s book, Michael wanted impressions of the book. Thankfully a lot of them were “Dinorific Poetry” to maintain its Wissler-Thomas is executive turned into a fossil. scientific integrity. “It was for Ethan’s director of the Art Association Studying these rocks can give us enjoyment, but I didn’t want to of Harrisburg, which hosted two loads of information dumb it down. Kids can absorb a lot.” signing events for “Dinorific Poetry.” all about the dinosaurs and even The book is a learning tool for “The drawings are very colorful Earth’s creation. kids and parents. Sgrignoli includes and whimsical,” Thomas said, “The facts about the dinosaurs within poems are wonderful; Michael has Now we know some dinosaurs had The Sgrignolis, with their poetic muses. each poem. Complete with phonetic done a lot of research.” lovely feathers sprouting— spellings of the dinosaur names, Sgrignoli hopes that their years ago some scientists were skeptical and doubting. lending his passion for writing neither child nor adult need to feel experience influences Ethan to Everyday discoveries are made and with a need of interesting books intimidated by reading the book. explore interesting ideas that B keep us learning to read as bedtime stories, Michael Sgrignoli feels it’s beneficial for he may have in the future. That helping us to answer all those Sgrignoli and his son, Ethan, went to parents to share “Dinorific Poetry” sentiment was echoed by P.J. questions that were burning. work. The product is a collaboration with their children. Heyman, owner of the Village called, “Dinorific Poetry: Stories of “It’s about dedicating time away Artisans Gallery in Boiling Springs. Evidence from fossils says a meteor Ancient Animals Created by a Father from the hustle and bustle of life,” “This should inspire other came crashing. and Son.” said Sgrignoli. “It forces you to stay parents to grab the bull by the horns Yucatan Peninsula is where it did Michael, of Middletown, in communication.” and try it themselves,” Heyman said. the smashing. thought it would be exciting to Sgrignoli and his son began Despite the success of the People thought that this was surely “time capsule” the relationship writing and illustrating in the fall project, Sgrignoli gives the why most life was ended. between him and Ethan, now 10. of 2008. After self-publishing, they impression that the process of Sunlight was obscured and on it most of Earth depended. Did it cause the dinosaurs to vanish? Some don’t buy it. Now another theory claims volcanoes changed the climate. Where should we be looking for a theory that’s colossal? Right back where we started from: the all-important fossil.

Hearing Scheduled on School Closings The Harrisburg School District will hold a public hearing on Jan. 10 at 5 p.m. to receive public comment on the closure of the William Penn campus and Steele School. The meeting will be held in the first floor boardroom of the Administration Building, 2101 N. Front St., Building 2.

22 TheBurg Wags & Whiskers

A Campaign for Animals Humane Society expands as needs grow. Peter Durantine

Last February, the society launched a $2.8 million shelter expansion fundraising campaign to build a 6,000-foot addition to the Grayson facility. Since then, the Humane Society has raised more than $800,000 in donations from local and national supporters, businesses and foundations, which has allowed the organization to construct the first phase of the project—an animal Aaah! Kittens by the handful are available at the care area inside the existing Humane Society of the Harrisburg Area shelter. facility. In October, the society cut the he Humane Society of the Harrisburg ribbon on new dog kennels, cat kennels, a TArea has come a long way since its cat play room and retail area. In addition, inception in 1911 in the parking lot of the new systems for ventilation and sprinklers Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex—and were installed. • later, a small, two-car garage with storage The construction helped alleviate Class A Wireless Midtown Harrisburg space on Grayson Road in Swatara crowding, but the society still needs to Boost Mobile & Virgin Mobile Products Township. build a two-story addition, which would include another animal area and space • Phones & Accessories Although the Grayson facility later Open: for counseling programs. Therefore, it is 1312 N. 3rd St. • Pre-Paid/Monthly Plans expanded into a building with room for Harrisburg, Pa. M-F 7a-7p • Convenience Store Items animals and staff, growth in demand for its seeking donations to meet its $2.8 million 717-238-9990 Sat 9a-7p services and its own limits on euthanasia fundraising goal. imposed four years ago have squeezed an “We are absolutely grateful for the already crowded shelter. support we have received thus far in the Each year, the society cares for campaign,” Hitz said. “The community Collegiate, NFL, NHL, MLB thousands of homeless pets and helps has really stepped up and shown that countless people in need through HSHA is not just an animal shelter, but the Lights and Novelties programs like adoption, low-cost clinics, community’s animal shelter.” Annie B’s, Too education, cruelty investigation and a pet To contribute online to the Humane Society food bank. of the Harrisburg Area’s shelter expansion Lights Repaired As the only Humane Society serving fundraiser, visit www.humanesocietyhbg. the region (though there are other Mention this ad and receive 15% off! org/capital-campaign. The shelter is located organizations offering rescue shelters), at 7790 Grayson Rd., Harrisburg. Phone: 717- the society is also under contractual West Shore Farmer’s Market • 900 Market St., Ste. 12 564-3320. obligations with area municipalities. Lemoyne, PA 17043 • Tele: 717-761-1169 Because of the increased demand for services, the facility is no longer able to accommodate this growth, abrams & weakley society officials said. No space exists to expand general store for animals vital community programs, and pets are housed in the lobby, conference room and hallways. Celebrating 25 Years! “They’re in every nook and cranny of our building,” said Kelly Hitz, the society’s 3963 N. 6th Street 717-232-3963 director of public relations. Harrisburg, Pa. abramsandweakley.com

TheBurg 23 Sports & Bodies Great Outdoors

Quack Addicts Fowl fans foster success with nesting boxes.

Kermit G. Henning after for their meat and their ornate above water. These types of habitats feathers, plus a severe loss of habitat, are disappearing rapidly, but, luckily, wood duck populations decreased artificial nest boxes are readily used to alarmingly low numbers. By the by the birds as replacements. end of the 19th century, woodies Wood ducks breed across most had virtually disappeared from their of central and eastern United States natural range. and southeastern Canada; they The 1918 Federal Migratory winter in southern Georgia and Bird Treaty Act put an end to southwest Texas. They are already market gunning (mass shooting paired up in January and are actively he wood duck is considered by of birds for sale) and unregulated seeking nesting sites when they Tmany to be North America’s most hunting, and populations slowly return to the breeding grounds in colorful waterfowl species. started to recover. Wood ducks still early spring—as early as February With their distinctive, faced decreasing habitat, but the or March. Boxes should be placed multicolored, iridescent plumage, invention of the artificial nesting box well before this to assure they are male wood ducks put other ducks in the 1930s cleared the last hurdle available when the nesting-minded A local family is hard at work building a to shame. Today, it is one of the in their recovery. birds return and start looking. The nesting box for the wood duck. most common ducks breeding in Wood ducks are one of the few wood duck is one of the few birds the United States, but this has not species of ducks that nest in trees, in that will produce two broods every the success has been tremendous. always been the case. Much sought natural, pre-formed cavities near or year, so getting an early start is Woodies seek out these boxes when paramount. natural cavities are scarce. While wood Rough-cut, 1-inch thick wood, ducks readily accept such as pine or spruce, is ideal. It’s Daily B lue Horse D enim artificial boxes, proper inexpensive, lightweight, takes Specials! measurements the weather well and provides a Tacos, In 2011, Embrace Yourself and placement are rough surface that helps the newly in the New Year important. Commercial hatched chicks to climb out of burritos, the box. Finished boxes should be fajitas, Friday, Jan. 21 nesting boxes are available, but making mounted on a metal pole over water pizza, Is Customer your own is easy and or as close to water as possible. A subs, Appreciation Day. rewarding. Plans are metal baffle on the pole will keep sandwiches Buy 1, Get 1 50% Off available from the out predators such as raccoons and snakes. If mounted over water, the burgers, Denim Jeans. Pennsylvania Game Commission or the bottom of the box should be at least strombolis, Mon-Sun, 9:30am - 9pm Mon./Tues.: Closed Wed./Thu.: 11a.m.-5 p.m. Internet. 4 feet above the water. calzones 712 S. Cameron St. Fri.: 11 a.m.-7 p.m. One local group is Boxes should be cleaned out Harrisburg Sat.: 11a.m.-4 p.m. after nesting is finished to remove Groceries Tel. 233-2210/233-2230 doing more than its part on site 1006 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg to provide boxes and any parasites, egg fragments and Fax 233-1181 717-315-1662 help the wood ducks droppings. This can be done in the recover. winter and will let you see how The Susquehanna successful the nesting has been. 3rd Street Studio River Waterfowler’s It’s very rewarding to know that you 1725 N. 3rd Street have actually impacted the future Harrisburg, PA 17102 Association has been building and erecting of this most beautiful bird. Building nest boxes on local and placing nest boxes for wood lakes, ponds and ducks actually does work. If you Pottery Classes marshes for more than know a likely nesting spot, put up a 30 years. It also provides few boxes and see for yourself. We will work with your schedule. fully assembled boxes Contact us for more information. or pre-cut kits to its Kermit G. Henning, members and other host of abc27 Outdoors TV, is a BrBring Your Group groups that erect them for Classes and Workshops in likely habitats. More member of the than 2,000 boxes have Outdoor Writers Visit us on the web: www.3rdstreetstudio.org been placed to date, and Association of Or call Lessa at: 717-385-3315 or 717-635-9208 America.

24 TheBurg Family Health

What’s the Right Formula? It may be a question of bacteria.

Dr. Deepa Sekhar new parent attempting to food for infants through six months It is both exciting and humbling Fitness Fundraiser: Achoose the best infant formula of age, and breast-fed infants to consider that the bacteria in at the local grocery store can be typically have a majority of probiotic your gut may be a factor in disease- Work(out) for Hope easily overwhelmed. bacteria in their digestive systems. prevention. In fact, the report by the There are myriad products Formula manufacturers have Academy stressed that the current Absolute Wellness Group plans a fun listing benefits for growth, brain added prebiotics and probiotics to lack of evidence does not mean day of exercise, all for a good cause. development and the immune their products to mimic breast milk. that probiotics and prebiotics will The fitness studio, 1519 N. system. Some recent ingredients Studies on the use of probiotics not ultimately prove to have health 3rd St., will hold a group fitness advertised in infant formulas are have reported some evidence to benefits. The Academy continues fundraiser on Jan. 22 to support probiotics and prebiotics. support their use in preventing to support breast-feeding as the Bridge of Hope, Harrisburg Area, an Probiotics, which mean “for intestinal infections in premature preferred source of nutrition for organization dedicated to helping life,” are types of “good” or “friendly” infants. The use of probiotics may infants through six months of age. homeless moms and their children. bacteria that may offer beneficial also shorten the duration of diarrhea Breast-versus-bottle-feeding is a Participants will take part in health effects. Prebiotics are associated with viral gastroenteritis. personal decision, but if parents 30-minute group fitness classes, ingredients that can promote the There is also evidence to suggest opt not to breast-feed, the choice noon to 8 p.m. Interested in forming growth of probiotic bacteria. probiotics may prevent diarrhea of the best formula, including those or joining a team? Contact Brenda You may be familiar with associated with taking antibiotics. containing probiotics or prebiotics, Hoover at 717-525-7037 or Brenda@ products such as Dannon Activa However, probiotics should not be should be discussed with the baby’s absolutewellnessgroup.com. yogurt, Stonyfield Farm yogurt and given to children who are seriously doctor. Kefir—all of which claim to contain or chronically ill without checking probiotics. For infant formulas, Good with their pediatrician or specialist. Start Natural Cultures advertises The addition of probiotics the addition of a probiotic. Enfamil and prebiotics to powdered infant Premium Lipil with Triple Health formulas appears safe. Makers of Guard and Similac Advance with infant formulas in the United States Early Shield both contain prebiotics. must comply with strict regulations I have many a confused new to ensure product safety. However, mother in my office asking, “Does according to the American Academy Dr. Deepa Sekhar is a my baby need this?” In November, of Pediatrics, evidence is insufficient pediatrician the American Academy of Pediatrics to prove that adding probiotics or at the Milton released a report attempting to prebiotics prevents disease. Thus, S. Hershey address this question. there is no official recommendation Medical Center. At birth, a baby’s stomach and for their use in formulas. intestines are sterile, but, within a couple of days, they become populated with bacteria. By adulthood, there are more than 500 different bacterial species in the adult digestive tract. These bacteria play key roles in the body’s ability to resist disease. Though a major factor in developing a disease is an individual’s genetic makeup, increasing evidence suggests the occurrence of certain diseases may be related to interference with the early development of natural bacteria in a baby’s digestive system. Some of these diseases include asthma, eczema, allergies, multiple sclerosis, Type 1 diabetes and inflammatory bowel disease. Breast milk contains a number 10% off for early lawn care and of prebiotics and also may contain landscaping contracts for 2011 probiotic bacteria. It is the preferred www.CandElawncare.com

TheBurg 25 Move It!

Bam! She Sure Can Hit! It’s full-contact for Harrisburg’s female football team.

Laura Spurgeon But as the Assault I’ve coached have typically played were named to the WFA National begins workouts for its for several years by the time that I Conference All-Star teams. fourth season—eyeing a get them,” he said. “People call this Last year’s team ranked fifth division title, no less—the a contact sport, but it‘s not. It’s a in the WFA in team offense with an team is ready to move collision sport.” average of 382 yards per game and beyond the incredulity, The Assault is part of the 14th in team defense. Quarterback and show the midstate Women’s Football Alliance, a Rachel Fischer finished among the that women can not only mammoth 62-team league with league’s elite, completing 45 of play real football, they can members across the United States 105 passes for 894 yards and 11 hit—and win. and Mexico. In the past, women’s touchdowns (she rushed for another “I knew it would be teams were fragmented among five TDs). Wide receiver Cori Young intense, but it doesn’t even multiple leagues, but, with recent snagged 20 receptions for 557 yards come close to the other consolidation, the WFA hopes and eight TDs. Running back Jen sports I played in high to thicken the talent pool and Robertson added 756 yards (a 6.4 school and college,” said resources to move the sport forward. average) and seven touchdowns. lineman Christine Ross, a The Assault play home games This year’s team, which Harrisburg Assault linebacker Jodi Pritchard takes 26-year-old teacher in the at East Pennsboro High School for McKay said is still accepting new down a Baltimore Burn fullback in action last year. Harrisburg School District. $5 a ticket; their season runs April players, has a roster that is 30 he women—mothers, students, “I knew nothing except through June. The players pay percent rookies. During January, Tbusinesswomen, athletes—have the basics of football and was pretty for their own equipment, travel, the coaching staff will conduct learned to answer the questions clueless during our pre-season lodging and meals, and they pay classroom sessions designed to patiently, and with a smile. classrooms. I stepped on the field fees to cover officiating crews and educate players on the sport’s “Yes, full pads and helmets. Not on the first day of practice praying I other costs. It’s not cheap, but the fundamentals and nuances, flags.” wouldn’t look like a complete idiot. WFA is not a bubblegum league. “something they wouldn’t have “It’s 11-on-11, just like the men.” “I figured out soon enough that It has divisions and conferences, learned from watching football on “No, we don’t wear lingerie and I needed to hit harder than I was a competitive playoff system and, TV,” McKay said. Contact drills begin heels.” being hit,” she said. yes, a national championship game in February. “Seriously, we hit pretty hard.” First-year Head Coach A.J. every summer in Las Vegas. The Though he admits he’s just as The veteran players on the McKay, a coach with Northern High games generally follow NCAA and green as some of his players when it Keystone Assault, Harrisburg’s only School’s freshman team, wasn’t sure NFL rules, and the officiating crews comes to women’s football, McKay is women’s full-contact football team, what to expect when he decided to are certified and legit—they throw genuine in his admiration for those are used to explaining themselves help out with the Assault this year. real flags for real penalties. who have committed their time, and their game. “The boys and young men that Many players are willing to money and energy to crashing what pony up their own cash or find local has always been a boys’ club. sponsors. As any football player— “These women have a passion male or female—will attest, the rush for this that is so very awesome Street Snap is like nothing else, and worth it. to see,” he said. “The more I’m At game time, “There’s one thing on associated with them, the more my mind, and that’s cracking the respect I have for them and what first girl that gets in my way during they are doing. I’m very proud to be kickoff and making my way to the a part of this.” ball,” Ross said. “Bruises are trophies.” McKay, who initially signed For more information, email Info@ on as linebacker coach over the keystoneassault.com, and visit www. summer, stepped in when former keystoneassault.com and www. Assault Head Coach Tim Smart—a wfafootball.com. veteran with years of experience leading women’s teams—took a Laura Spurgeon is position with the rival D.C. Divas. a certified personal McKay inherits a team that trainer and group finished last season 6-2, tied with fitness director at perennial division champ, the Gold’s Gym, Camp Hill. Baltimore Burn. The Assault missed She can be reached at the national playoffs by a razor-thin [email protected]. tiebreaker, and a dozen players Ice cave: Front Street under the Rockville Bridge

26 TheBurg HMACharrisburg midtown arts center

268 Herr Street www.harrisburgarts.com

January Schedule

• Jan. 1: D&M w/Wild Rompit • Jan. 20: Adam Blessing • Jan. 6: Mike Banks & Friends • Jan. 21: Cuddle Magic w/Zach • Jan. 7: Royal Benson w/River Rat Bailey Jenkins & Betty Poison • Jan. 22: Innavibe w/ Kilego Vert • Jan. 8: Arctic Death w/Driving Vegas • Jan. 28: Corty Byron Band w/ • Jan. 9: Soul Comedy Café Hexbelt • Jan. 13: Harpeth Rising w/ When • Jan. 29: Gleason’s Drift w/CASE 150 Worlds Collide Ensemble & Fallen Troubadours • Jan. 14: Colebrook Road w/Chester • Jan. 30: Jason Myles Goss w/ River Runoff Dietrich Strause • Jan. 15: Jo Henley w/The Swaines & • Every Monday: Karaoke JT & the Mildheat • Every Wednesday: Open Mic • Jan. 16: Dan Navarro Solo Show w/Mike Banks

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pinnaclehealth.org/osteoporosis 3rdinTheBurg Friday, January 21 arT, Music & More … The Third Friday oF each MonTh in harrisburg

Gallery@Second • 608 N 2nd St • 717-233-2498 • galleryatsecond.com • Featured artists: Edward Jonasen & Robert Reynolds. Plus visit “The Upstairs Gallery” showcasing over 200 pieces of artwork. Food and drink served, 6-9p.

Gallery Blu • 1633 N 3rd St • 717-234-3009 • galleryblu.org • Closing reception: ”I Hear What You’re Seeing: Artists and their Music.” Entertainment by Jonathan Frazier and Eric Leitzel, 7-9p.

3rd Street Studio • 1725 N 3rd St • 717-385-3315 • 3rdstreetstudio.org • Featured artists: Lawrence Charles Miller (oils) and Carolyn S. Pio (watercolors).

Gallery at Walnut Place • 413 Walnut St • 717-233-0487 • Exhibiting regional artists in a unique gallery setting. Reception open to public, 5-8p.

Mangia Qui • 272 North St • 717-233-7358 • Paintings by Elide Hower & Joanne Landis. Featured cocktail: Count Diablo.

Open Stage of Harrisburg • 223 Walnut St (street level of Walnut St. Garage) • 717-232-1505 • openstagehbg.com • JAZZ ON COURT presents “Jazz & Poetry”. Poet Rick Kearns w/musicians Tom Witmer, Patrick Murphy and Keith Mohler. $10 advance, $12 door. 6-8p.

Midtown Cinema • 250 Reily St • 717-909-6566 • Movie triva, prizes & free popcorn, 7:30p.

Nonna’s • 263 Reily St • 717-232-6150 • nonnasdeli.com • Featuring 5 cheese jumbo ravioli with sundried tomato pesto, 5–9p.

Midtown Scholar Bookstore • 1302 N 3rd St • 717-236-1680 • midtownscholar.com • Noon: the science of coffee (cupping). 2 pm: sample mint teas. 6-9 pm: Yellow Wall Gallery reception for “Sewn Stories,” works by Beth Rice. 7-9 pm: music by Pittsburgh’s Brad Yoder. Sat. 1/22, 8 pm: John Francis in concert. Gallery@Second at Gallery Walnut Pl. Gallery Blu Gallery 3rd Street Studio

Mangia Qui Open Stage Midtown Cinema Nonna’s Deli-Sioso Midtown Scholar For More inFo & a prinTable Map: www.3rdinTheburg.coM