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Their Jan 21, 7-9PM Music 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 Sports & Bodies LIBERTY PRIMITIVES & COUNTRY GIFTS 24 Great Outdoors ITEMS HANDMADE & UNIQUELY PRIMITIVE 25 Family Health 717-737-7147 26 Move It! ART & SOUL GALLERY Ladies of the gridiron, p. 26 ORIGINAL FINE ART; LOCAL ARTISTS, LOCAL SCENES 717-761-1270 Hours: Tuesday, 8a–3p Friday 8a–7p; Saturday 8a–2p This month’s cover: 900 Market Street, Lemoyne, Pa. “Year in Review” www.westshorefarmersmarket.com 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.