TheBurgGreater Harrisburg’s Community Newspaper November 2011

Distributed in Dauphin, Cumberland, York, Lancaster and Perry counties. Free.

Contents

In the Burg 4 City Hall 5 Vote! Street Corners 7 Around Town

9 Community Corner Comeback on 6th? p. 7 10 ShutterBurg 11 Past Tense 12 Doing Good Burg Biz 13 Face of Business 14 New Business 15 From the Ground Up

On the links, p. 13 Good Eats 16 Taste of the Town 21 Home Cooking Special Supplement Centerfold: 2nd Annual Harrisburg Book Festival Culture Club 23 Creator 24 City Cinema Family affair, p. 16 25 Burg Books 26 Happenings Home & Family 28 Hall Pass 29 Wags & Whiskers 30 Family History

Sports & Bodies Book festival! (special supplement) 31 Great Outdoors 32 Women's Health 33 Family Health This month’s cover: 34 One More Thing … “Capitol–Fulton” by Matthew LeVier

TheBurg 3 In the Burg City Hall Takeover: State Bankruptcy Filed 1 Parking Fee Votes for Control by City Council Raised; 3 to Go TheBurg Greater Harrisburg’s Community Newspaper arrisburg's days managing its The Harrisburg City Council last month Lot and garage operators will chip own affairs appear numbered, as voted to file for Chapter 9 municipal more into the city’s coffers after the General & Letters H TheBurg Gov. Tom Corbett last month signed bankruptcy, despite opposition from Harrisburg Council last month voted 1103 N. Front St. legislation that likely will put large the mayor, the county and the state. to hike the parking tax. Harrisburg, PA 17102 portions of city operations under The 4-3 council vote directed The council voted unanimously to www.theburgnews.com control of a court-appointed receiver. attorney Mark D. Schwartz to submit increase the tax charged per parking Editorial: 717-602-4300 The state legislature voted a bankruptcy petition to the U.S. transaction from 15 to 20 percent. Ad Sales: 717-350-0428 overwhelmingly to pass SB1151, Bankruptcy Court of the Middle The tax likely will be passed on to Publishers which gives Harrisburg one last District of Pennsylvania. consumers, effectively increasing the Editor: Peter Durantine chance, until mid-month, to agree on “We’re beyond hemorrhaging,” price to park in lots and garages. [email protected] a financial recovery package before said Councilwoman Euguenia Smith. The increase should raise about Corbett petitions the Commonwealth “We need major surgery. We should’ve $100,000 for the indebted city, said Advertising Executive: Court for appointment of a receiver. been filing bankruptcy in 2010.” Councilwoman Susan Brown-Wilson. Angela Durantine [email protected] An acccord among city officials seems The administration opposed the Harrisburg is considering three improbable as a City Council majority filing, saying the vote violated city other parking rate increases, none of Co-Editor/Creative Director: has rejected versions of a recovery procedure because the bankruptcy which had passed at press time. Lawrance Binda plan three times and now has filed for resolution was not reviewed and The first would raise the cost to [email protected] municipal bankruptcy. approved by the mayor's office. park at meters from $1.50 to $2 per Staff & Contributors A receiver likely will implement Dauphin County and the state hour downtown and $1 to $1.50 per Advertising Sales: a plan for Harrisburg based upon the also filed motions with the court to hour in most other metered areas. Joe Vandall state's original Act 47 plan for the city. dismiss the petition. Earlier this year, Also, meter hours would be extended [email protected] That plan relied upon asset sales, the state voted to prohibit third class to Saturdays and for three hours to 8 Mark Shade including the sale or long-term lease cities from filing Chapter 9 through p.m. on weekdays. Another proposal [email protected] of the city's parking garages, to retire 2012, a move designed to prevent would increase the residential parking Reporters: much of the $310 million debt tied to Harrisburg from taking this action. permit fee from $15 to $50 per year, T.W. Burger the city incinerator. It also advised an 8 A hearing on the validity of the the first hike in 27 years. [email protected] percent property tax increase to help bankruptcy petition is scheduled for A third proposal would place Sylvia Grove offset recurring budget deficits. Nov. 23. parking meters in the emerging [email protected] The receiver would set nearly all Federal Bankruptcy Judge Mary Midtown business and arts district. Ruth Hoover-Seitz policy that has financial implications, France has encouraged all sides to It envisions 88 meters along N. 3rd [email protected] including possibly re-opening union seek mediation not litigation, which Street north of Verbeke Street, as well Stephanie Kalina-Metzger contracts. The city's elected officials they said they would do. as on adjacent blocks of Reily Street. [email protected] would be largely sidelined, with the Harrisburg is some $310 million Carol Maravic mayor and council president as two in debt after backing bonds issued by [email protected] members of a four-member board the Harrisburg Authority for repeated Harrisburg Factions M. Diane McCormick advising the receiver. upgrades to the city incinerator. The [email protected] The takeover could be stayed if authority later defaulted on those All Lawyered Up the bankruptcy petition is allowed to bonds. Harrisburg also has chronic Lori Myers [email protected] go forward. annual budget deficits. Harrisburg last month hired two separate outside attorneys to Mike Walsh represent each side in the ongoing [email protected] feud between the mayor and City Pamela Waters Council over municipal bankruptcy. By a 4–3 vote, the council acted Columnists: Cooking: Rosemary Ruggieri Baer first, hiring Mark D. Schwartz, an [email protected] SHELLY attorney based in Bryn Mawr, Pa., to carry out the bankruptcy filing and Cooking: Sara Goulet C O M M U N I C A T I O N S [email protected] represent it before the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. Schwartz is charging $300 Local History: Jason Wilson [email protected] per hour, plus expenses. His rate could be recalculated to $525 an Cinema: Kevyn Knox Media Relations and [email protected] hour if he is successful in benefiting Strategic Communications the city financially, according to his Sports & Fitness: Laura Spurgeon [email protected] engagement letter. 717-724-1681 In response to the bankruptcy Outdoors: Kermit Henning filing, the Thompson administration [email protected] 227 Pine Street, Suite 200 hired the Pittsburgh-based law firm Pets: Todd Rubey of Tucker Arensberg, led by attorneys [email protected] Harrisburg, PA 17101 Kenneth Lee and Beverly Mann. They Pets: Kristen Zellner will charge $200 per hour for their [email protected] Peter J. Shelly, President services. —Lawrance Binda

4 TheBurg Vote!

Election Amid Crisis With city in turmoil, 6 vie for 3 Council seats.

n Nov. 8, Harrisburg residents will go communications, skills she used during Answer to our question: I will work with Magisterial District Judge, Harrisburg Oto the polls to elect three members of the Gulf War. After serving her time in the state officials and any organization/agency 2nd Ward 2nd Pct., 9th Ward 3rd Pct., 9th the City Council, a vote that will take place military, Reid raised a family. She worked with the hope that they also have the best Ward 4th Pct., 9th Ward 5th Pct. & 13th Ward during a tumultuous time in city history. with the U.S. Postal Service during the interests of the city and its residents in Democrat Six candidates are vying for anthrax crisis and later changed careers to mind. … Harrisburg’s residents deserve George A. Zozos (I), S. 25th St. three seats on the City Council—three work in retail banking. She now works at leadership that can unify and protect the Republican the state Treasury as a fiscal examiner. interests of the city and an administration Democrats and three Republicans. George A. Zozos (I), S. 25th St. Below, we present the candidates for that can be trusted to work for the benefit Answer to our question: It is not my desire to the general election, as well as brief bios of all citizens of this city. have the state take control of our city, but, Magisterial District Judge, Harrisburg and responses to a question that we asked if this is the case, once elected I will work 8th, 9th Ward 1st Pct. & 9th Ward 2nd Pct. each one: With the state likely to take control with all to move the city forward. Democrat of the city, would you work with the state? Other Harrisburg Offices Harrisburg City Treasurer Marsha C. Stewart (I), Briggs St. Republicans Democrats Democrat No Republican running Allen Bair, Crescent St. Susan Brown-Wilson (I), Wiconisco St. John R. Campbell, Boas St. Bair worked at Bethlehem No Republican running Magisterial District Judge, Harrisburg Brown-Wilson is a lifelong Steel for 30 years before 10th Ward 1st Pct., 10th Ward 3rd Pct., 10th resident of Harrisburg, a retiring. He now works as a Harrisburg School Director, 4 Year Term Ward 4th Pct. & 14th Ward 1975 graduate of the public slot machine technician at (Vote for not more than five) Democrat school system and a 1979 Hollywood Casino at Penn Democrat Barbara W. Pianka (I), N. 2nd St. graduate of East Stroudsburg National Race Course. He is Arlene Burno (I), N. 5th St. University, where she earned a Republican a lifelong resident of the city, graduated Wayne L. Henry (I), N. 2nd St. Barbara W. Pianka (I), N. 2nd St. degree in political science. She has worked from John Harris High School and has been Destini Hodges, Zarker St. for IBM for 31 years, where she currently married for 41 years. works as a manager in distribution and Rhonda E. Mays, Herr St. logistics. She has studied IBM Management Answer to our question: City Council has Jennifer L. Training and School Project Management left us with no choice but to work with the state and do so in a manner that the Smallwood, and various other management courses. Bigelow Dr. Brown-Wilson has consistently opposed citizens of Harrisburg are protected as the state’s Act 47 solution to Harrisburg’s much as possible. … So, it will be our duty School Director, financial crisis and voted to declare to make sure that we are not forgotten in 2 Year Term the process. municipal bankruptcy last month. Democrat At press time, we had not received a Brendan J. response to our question from Susan Michael Bretz, S. 18th St. Murray, North St. Brown-Wilson. Bretz moved to the city a No Republican few years ago. He works as a running Brad J. Koplinski (I), Sassafras St. director of sales for a major A councilman since 2008, hotel chain. He wants to Koplinski, 41, worked for the transfer many of the oversight Department of Justice’s Civil principles that he carries out Rights Division and Internal every day into a position on City Council. Revenue Service’s Office of Bretz plans to work with the city and state Chief Counsel in Washington, officials to ensure that accountability and D.C. He also was a policy analyst for the access are signatures of government and state Auditor General. He has been a leader education in Harrisburg. of the council faction that has opposed the Answer to our question: Yes, I would work state’s Act 47 plan, as well as the mayor’s with the state to get the city back to where revisions. Last month, he took the lead in it belongs—to the citizens of Harrisburg. moving to file for municipal bankruptcy. Answer to our question: The question Ruth Cruz, Fulton St. should be, will the state work with the city? Before moving to the city To this point, I would say that the answer is seven years ago, Cruz no. The state should allow the bankruptcy worked in youth affairs proceedings to continue and allow every for the governor of Puerto stakeholder to come to the table and work Rico. Bilingual in English out a fair and equitable global solution and Spanish, Cruz earned with shared pain from all parties. a master’s degree in criminal justice, a bachelor’s degree in social science and Sandra R. Reid, Liberty St. political science and an associate’s degree Reid, 42, graduated from in secretarial science from top Puerto the city’s public schools and Rican universities. She is a mobile therapist served in the Navy, earning for T.W. Ponessa & Associates and works top secret clearance in radio extensively with at-risk youth.

TheBurg 5 Vote!

County Seats Up for Grabs 3 incumbents, 1 challenger vie for Dauphin County commissioner.

hat will Dauphin County do about and advertising for Coca-Cola brands. Services. From 2006 to 2010, he was a Register of Wills and Clerk of the Orphans’ Wtaxes, roads, the ongoing financial She is currently a project manager for MD Derry Township Supervisor, serving as Court crisis in Harrisburg? Builders. chairman of that board his last two years Democrat Those issues loom large as four in office. Rogette Harris, Lower Paxton Township candidates—three incumbents and one Republican challenger—compete for three seats for Other Dauphin County Offices Harris works for the Democratic Caucus in the county commissioner. The winners will Jeff Haste (I), Middle Paxton Township state House of Representatives researching have a major say in the direction of the District Attorney and writing legislation. She owns a marketing county, as they’ll be in office for the next Appointed to a board consulting firm. She has a degree in political science from the University of Pittsburgh and four years. Here are the candidates for the vacancy in 2002, Haste was Democrat elected to a full, four-year master degrees in public administration and Nov. 8 general election: Phil Zulli, South Hanover Township term in November 2003 business from Strayer University. and re-elected in 2007. He Zulli practices criminal, personal injury Democrat Republican became chairman in 2004 and motor carrier law. Admitted to the George P. Hartwick III (I), Harrisburg and again in 2008. Prior, Haste served Pennsylvania and Ohio bars in 1986, he Jean Marfizo King, Lower Paxton Township as director of government relations and earned his law degree at the University of Dayton. King, the daughter of a former register, Jane Now in his second term as business development for the engineering Marfizo, was a sales and project manager commissioner, Hartwick was firm, Herbert, Rowland and Grubic. He Republican for Tyco Electronics for eight years. She also first elected in November served one year as a state representative in taught English in Japan for a year. She has 2003, having served two the General Assembly. From 1988 to 1996, Ed Marsico (I), Lower Paxton Township a political science degree from Fairfield terms as mayor of Steelton he served as the county’s administrator, First elected in 1999, Marsico is seeking University and studied for an MBA at Northeastern University. Borough. He was the youngest mayor ever chief clerk and personnel director. He a fourth term as district attorney. He first elected in Pennsylvania, at the age of 24, at joined the DA’s office in 1988. He received his also worked at the state departments of Recorder of Deeds the time of his mayoral election. Transportation and State, state Senate and undergraduate degree from the University the Republican State Committee. of Notre Dame and his law degree from the Democrat Wendy Jackson-Dowe, Susquehanna Dickinson School of Law. Eboni E. Bryant, Harrisburg Township Mike Pries (I), Hershey Sheriff Bryant has served as the state Department A graduate of Central Dauphin of Public Welfare’s housing director and Pries was appointed to the the equal opportunity officer for the state East, Jackson-Dowe attended board in August 2010 to fill a Democrat Fisk University and Tennessee Department of Revenue. She has a degree board vacancy and selected Charles Jeffrey Goble, Derry Township in biology from Virginia Union University, a State University in Nashville, as vice chairman. Prior to his After 20 years in the FBI, Goble worked master’s degree in public health from Walden where she earned a degree appointment, Pries served University and has begun studies toward a in mechanical engineering. as director of the Bureau of Special as the county’s director of safety and Investigations with the state Office of Ph.D. in public health. She has worked for Proctor & Gamble and security for nearly 11 years. Before his Inspector General for seven years before Mobil Chemical. She later changed careers employment with the county, Pries worked retiring this year. He earned his law degree Republican and worked for an advertising agency in as a claims investigator at Equifax Services/ from the University of New Hampshire School Jim Zugay (I), Hershey Chicago, responsible for ethnic marketing of Law. Choicepoint and Pinkerton Security An attorney, Zugay was first elected to the Republican office in 2003. He is seeking a third term. Jack Lotwick (I), Hummelstown County Treasurer www.thehodgepodgery.com With 40 years in law enforcement, Lotwick Republican was first elected sheriff in 1999. He is seeking a fourth term in the office. He’s a Vietnam Janis Creason (I), Lower Paxton Township veteran and served on the state police for 23 » Nov. 11-13: First elected to the office in 2007, Creason, a years. businesswoman, is seeking a second term. Harrisburg Book Festival at Historic No Democrat running Harrisburg Clerk of Courts Resource Center County Controller Prepare for the Democrat Democrat holidays by » Nov. 17-18: Rte 15 Byway of Evelyn Zigerelli Henderson, Susquehanna The HoPo shopping for Township John E. Coleman, Derry Township the Arts event at cool, unique gifts A former Clerk of Courts for Beaver County, Coleman is the owner of a small financial the Keystone services firm. He has 28 years experience in at the HoPo Road Building Henderson started a Harrisburg limousine Show at these service with her husband in the 1990s. She the field of finance. He was educated in New » Nov. 19: York public schools and studied finance and fun spots this has a degree in administration of justice from OddOnes Bizarre the University of Pittsburgh. financial management while attending the month! at Historic American Institute of Banking in New York. Harrisburg Republican Republican Resource Center Dale Klein (I), West Hanover Township » Nov. 30-Dec. 4: Marie E. Rebuck (I), Halifax PA Christmas Show Klein, daughter-in-law of former county Commissioner Sally Klein, is an attorney who Rebuck has worked in the office for nearly at Farm Show was appointed to the office by former Gov. Ed 30 years. First appointed controller in 1996 Complex Rendell in 2010. She replaced Lowell Witmer, and elected to the office in 1997, Rebuck is who had been elected district judge. seeking a fourth term.

6 TheBurg Street Corners Around Town

Boulevard of Future Dreams? N. 6th Street finally may be turning a corner.

Peter Durantine “Anything urban development is land assembly,” that improves said Ralph Vartan, who now runs the transportation company. is a benefit to Interestingly, the proposed urban renewal,” buildings on the billboards—three said Bryan Davis, stories of office space, one story executive director of parking at 1640 N. 6th St. and of the Harrisburg 120,000 square feet of office space Redevelopment and parking at 1633 N. 6th St.—are primed for construction with already- Authority. The Vartan Group's 1500 Project rises, N. 7th Street’s approved land use plans. And they are signaling a possible renaissance for N. 6th. widening is expected located in the tax-abated Keystone to draw inbound and Opportunity Zone, an enticing feature 6th Streetscape: Some developers see potential for N. 6th, which outbound commuter to developers. Holiday Parade Nixed now has a smattering of older buildings amid grassy lots. traffic off of congested But for the rest of the lots and Front and N. 2nd boarded-up buildings between Reily For many years, people have rushed arly in the city’s development, it streets, which, in and Maclay, there remains a vision, but downtown to watch bands, floats and Ewas a major throughway called turn, should re-direct traffic around no specific plan. jolly old St. Nick as part of Harrisburg's Ridge Road, running northward along and through the 6th Street corridor. David Black sees numerous annual holiday parade. the ridge that overlooks the railroad This improved traffic flow should possibilities, with stores, shops and Barring a last-minute miracle tracks and Cameron Street beyond. demonstrate for developers the small businesses moving in to offer on 2nd Street, that tradition will be Today, it's known as N. 6th Street, potential for investment in the area, services to this under-served area. interrupted this year, as the broke city and the main stretch, a long-neglected Davis said. Vartan said he expects, over the said it simply can't afford the expense. strip between Reily and Maclay streets, The Vartan Group already sees years, a mix of residential, commercial “Policy was put in place a year may be poised for a comeback. potential along 6th Street. It owns and professional development. ago to ensure that all special events “It’s a good, wide street,” said most of the properties on both sides “I think you’re going to see more are zero tax dollar events,” Mayor Linda David Black, president and CEO of of it between Reily and Maclay, and large buildings with storefronts,” he Thompson said. “The holiday parade the Harrisburg Regional Chamber has for more than a decade. said. did not meet that criterion this year. I & CREDC. "It could be re-developed The late John Vartan, who found- He should know. There's a strong am optimistic that perhaps next year into a retail corridor for Midtown and ed the company, had a vision for this possibility his company will be we can raise the funds to hold a 2012 Uptown.” area, part building them. parade.” Since the 1860s, when of which development began there, 6th Street, can be was mostly middle- to low-income found on residential. By the post-World War II two large era, much of the building stock was bill- dilapidated. Urban renewal efforts by boards mid-century were largely unsuccessful, on empty leading to a long, blighted road of lots boarded-up buildings, many of which across later were razed. the street However, as a five-story from residential and commercial building each rises at the northwest corner of 6th other. and Reily, it’s now possible to begin to They imagine a transformation. depict Directly across from the Vartan modern, Group’s condominium project at 1500 suburban N. 6th, a new federal courthouse is office- planned, expected to rise in height six type to eight stories. build- These two towers could signal ings. a renaissance along the stretch of “My 6th Street between Reily and Maclay. dad used What makes this seem more possible to say the is the work now occurring to widen number 7th Street to boulevard-size and one chal- rehabilitate the Maclay Street Bridge. lenge in

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8 TheBurg Community Corner

Events in Our Area

State of the City Forum Conserving Energy Fair Pre-Holiday Bash Cruises Resumed Nov. 1: Harrisburg Mayor Linda Thompson Nov. 5: A conserving energy fair, a free event Nov. 19: The 2nd Annual “Thanks4Giving The Harrisburg Area Riverboat Society has will be joined by the mayors of Act 47 cities in Midtown Harrisburg, starts at 10 a.m. Yuengling” will be held 8 p.m.–12 a.m. at the resumed events and cruises aboard the Pride Scranton and Reading in a forum called with the screening of “Carbon Nation” at Linglestown Social Hall, 5901 Linglestown of the Susquehanna, after having cancelled "State of the City: Where Do We Go Now?" Midtown Cinema, 250 Reily St., followed by Rd. A $20 cover charge at the door includes many of September’s events due to the severe The Harrisburg Regional Chamber & Capital a presentation on energy saving tips by PPL Yuengling Lager drafts or soda, food and rain and flooding. Events will extend into the Region Economic Development Corp. event Electric Utilities at the Green Center of Central an event mug. Musical entertainment and a middle/end of November, including Jazzin’ on runs 7:30–9:30 a.m. at the Hilton Harrisburg. PA and ends with a live broadcast of WITF’s silent auction, all to benefit the Linglestown the Pride, Murder Mystery Dinner Cruises and www.harrisburgregionalchamber.org. Radio Smart Talk from the center at 1 p.m. Fire Company. Contact 717-487-7551 for a special “Early Thanksgiving Dinner Cruise.” tickets in advance or more information. Visit www.HarrisburgRiverboat.com. Museum Benefit Job Fair Nov. 1: Black Gryphon Restaurant, 54 S. Nov. 7: Job-seekers should attend the third Pride of Susquehanna Fundraiser Mount Gretna Rd., Elizabethtown, is hosting a Cumberland County Job Fair hosted by the Nov. 19: The Harrisburg Area Riverboat wine tasting and art auction starting at 6 p.m. Cumberland County Economic Development Society will present “Who’s Bad—The Ultimate Milestones to benefit Winters Heritage House Museum, a Employment Task Force and the West Shore, Michael Jackson Tribute” at 8 p.m. at the Chorale Founder Honored historic site and museum located at 47 E. High Greater Carlisle Area, Mechanicsburg and Radisson Convention Center, Camp Hill, as a The founder and conductor of Hershey’s St., Elizabethtown. Tickets are $10 if reserved Shippensburg Area chambers of commerce. fundraiser for the Pride of the Susquehanna Susquehanna Chorale, Linda Tedford, is the by calling 717-367-1859. Tickets also available The free event runs 9 a.m.–1 p.m. at riverboat. Advance tickets are $40 VIP and $20 2011 recipient of the Elaine Brown Award. at the door for $15. For information about the Cumberland Valley High School gymnasium, general admission. Tickets available at www. Since 1998, the honor has been presented by Winters Heritage House, call 717-367-4672 or 6746 Carlisle Pike, Mechanicsburg. HarrisburgRiverboat.com; www.missiontix. the American Choral Directors Association of visit www.elizabethtownhistory.org. com; Mr. Mike’s Records, S. 3rd Street, Networking Mixer Pennsylvania to the person who has exhibited Harrisburg; Music Man, Kline Village; and by Date Auction Nov. 8: The Central Pennsylvania Gay and outstanding lifelong work and leadership. calling 234-6500. Nov. 4: Harrisburg Young Professionals holds Lesbian Chamber of Commerce Networking Tedford founded the Susquehanna Chorale in its 3rd Annual Date Auction, 7–10 p.m., Mixer will be held 6:30–8:30 p.m. at Members Manners Matter 1981. She currently directs Messiah College’s at Level 2, 215 N. 2nd St., Harrisburg. The 1st Federal Credit Union, 1815 Hempstead Nov. 20: The Civic Club of Harrisburg Affiliates concert choir, chamber singers, men’s auction features 21 eligible bachelors and Rd., Lancaster. Register by sending an email to will host “Manners Matter,” a 3-hour program ensemble and Choral Arts Society. bachelorettes. Proceeds benefit Communities [email protected]. www.cpglcc.org. on table manners, anti-bullying, appropriate Law Firm Celebrates Anniversary in Schools of the Capital Region and HYP’s use of social media, ballroom dancing and Local History Lecture Dauphin County Judge Jeannine Turgeon Harrisburg University Scholarship Fund. proper etiquette for 7–12 year olds. Cost for Nov. 16: Join Linda Ries for an illustrated recently helped Harrisburg law firm Nauman $10 for members/$15 for non-members in the event, which includes a snack, is $40. lecture on J. Horace McFarland, a leader of the Smith Shissler and Hall celebrate its 140th advance; $5 more at the door. www.hyp.org. Some scholarships are available. Inquiries City Beautiful movement. 7 p.m., Centennial anniversary. Nauman Smith was founded in can be made by calling 717-234-6736 and Barn, Fort Hunter Mansion and Park. www. 1871 to serve the Harrisburg region’s railroad Cancer Education Summit responding to the RSVP line and online via forthunter.org. industry. Later, it branched into the banking Nov. 5: Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute’s [email protected]. and utility industries. Its founder, Wayne second annual Harrisburg Community Cancer Holiday Bizarre MacVeagh, was the son-in-law of Simon Education Summit is at the Zion Assembly Nov. 19: The Odd Ones Holiday Bizarre Cameron. Church of Harrisburg, 2101 N. 5th St. The (Bazaar) returns again this year with an Other event is free. This year’s theme: “Breast Cancer assortment of artists, crafters, one-of-a- Republican Women Receive Awards Survivors and Caregivers: Surviving Together.” kind items and music. Historic Harrisburg Help for Medicare Beneficiaries The Dauphin County Council of Republican For more information and to register, call Association Resource Center, 1230 N. 3rd St., This year, Medicare’s annual enrollment Women won three statewide awards at a Diane Sheehan, 717-531-1050. 11 a.m.–5 p.m. period begins and ends earlier than usual. Sept. 10 awards ceremony held as part of the Medicare’s annual coordinated election convention of the Pennsylvania Federation Therapy Open House Miracle Ball period started last month and runs to Dec. of Republican Women in Reading. The group Nov 5: Interested in learning about massage, Nov. 19: Help Penn State Hershey Children’s 7. Both Part D and Medicare Advantage Plan won an award for fundraising efforts to save acupuncture and reiki? Join Absolute Hospital pediatric patients by attending members must make plan changes at this its historic headquarters at 806 N. 2nd St., Wellness Group for a day of relaxation the 22nd annual Children’s Miracle Network time, if necessary. For help, beneficiaries Harrisburg, from sale. The council also won and complimentary services, 1–5 p.m. “Thanks for Giving” Miracle Ball, 6 p.m., at The should contact Dauphin County Area Agency a Silver Award for its 60 percent growth in Refreshments, door prizes and discounts on Hershey Lodge. Proceeds from the ball will on Aging’s APPRISE program at 717-780- membership, and former President Toni full sessions available. Donations accepted support pediatric services, equipment and 6130 to schedule a counseling appointment. Gilhooley won an "And Then Some Award" for for the “Feel Your Boobies” Foundation, 1519 research at the hospital. Tickets are $175 per Registration is required. service above and beyond the call of duty. N. 3rd St., Harrisburg. 717-525-7037. www. person, $300 per couple. Call 717-531-6606 to absolutewellnessgroup.com. purchase. Visit www.pennstatehershey.org.

3rd in The Burg: November 18

This Cambodian mask was created by Chamroeun Yin of Philadelphia to be worn by a dancer who portrays Ream Eyso, the Storm Spirit, in the dance of Moni Makhela. You can see this mask and other stunning works of art at a preview for the new exhibit, "Making it Better: Folk Arts in Pennsylvania Today," held at the State Museum of Pennsylvania, during this month’s 3rd in The Burg, Nov. 18. You can visit many galleries, restaurants and other venues at the monthly celebration of art, music and more at locations throughout Harrisburg. See our back cover or visit www.3rdinTheBurg.com. Photo: Drew Harty

TheBurg 9 ShutterBurg … a Month in Pictures

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Oct. 8: The custard was flying at the World’s Largest Pie Fight, held at Roof Park in Fairview Township. The fight didn’t set a record, but did raise money for Vickie’s Angel Walk, which financially assists families affected by cancer. Oct. 9: Runners pass Sunken Gardens and enter the MAKE home stretch in Riverfront Park during the Harrisburg Half Marathon, which took place on a gorgeous day after ART being delayed a month by September’s flood. After-School classes for ages 8 and up. Art-Based Birthday and Group Special Oct. 21: Brianna Miller and Julia Liberatore get into the Occasions. spirit of the season during a pumpkin-carving contest sponsored by Harrisburg Young Professionals and held Oct. 21: Amanda Kime (right) is attacked by a pack of facebook/BARAKINC, twitter@BARAKARTS at the Pa. State Museum during 3rd in The Burg. zombies during the Harrisburg Bike Taxi Zombie Ball www.barakarts.org, info (717) 724-0300 held at the Historic Harrisburg Association building.

10 TheBurg Past Tense Investment Advice Invest in yourself! In turbulent times, or any market, what is your best investment? Put your money His (Her) Honor's History on a sure thing: your health! You deserve the best quality water, air, sleep, Familiar names have headed up City Hall. nutrition and energy. Discover Nikken, Inc., the 36 year old multi-national research and development company providing health and Peter Durantine balance to people like you in 38 countries. y mid-19th century, Harrisburg was Fritchey, one of two mayors to eight months.” Health benefits will pay dividends. Ban industrial town of iron and steel serve non-consecutive terms, was a That candi- Take control of your life. Visit plants, of railroad car and steam boiler physician who was viewed as opposed date was Daniel www.nikken.com/healthyhorizons manufacturing, creating a boom in to the city’s beautification progress. He L. Keister, who and become a human, being more! population and construction that led lost his re-election bid in 1902 to "City finished Meals’ Judy Forshee the state legislature to incorporate it Beautiful" leader Vance McCormick. term and was Independent Nikken Wellness Consultant as a city in 1860. McCormick was among the followed in 1920 ID 112 38 9800 Since then, Harrisburg has had 37 most prominent of the city’s mayors. by George A. mayors, with the current occupant in He served as the publisher of what Hoverter, who that seat, Linda Thompson, marking today is the Patriot-News, as well as served 16 years two historical notes as the first African- chairman of Democratic National until 1936. He American and first woman to hold the Committee. The year his term ended, was the city’s office. 1919, President Woodrow Wilson longest-serving Some city street names hint at appointed him head of the American mayor until Harrisburg’s mayoral past: Verbeke delegation at the Treaty of Versailles, 1999, when Street, named after the sixth mayor, which ended World War I. Stephen Reed William K. Verbeke (1871-1873); Boas In 1917, the city suffered a took that title. Street: Jacob D. Boas (1873-1875); and mayoral crisis when the newly elected Reed left office Fritchey Street: John A. Fritchey (1887- mayor died and then the appointed in 2010, having 1893; 1899-1902). mayor also died. held the post for Verbeke, the son of Dutch The September 1917 issue of 28 years. immigrants, was born in Harrisburg Municipal Journal reported: “So and also served as city controller. He far as is known, no city of the was a wealthy land developer and third class in the east can equal beloved politician, according to an Harrisburg’s mayoralty record for 1896 biographical sketch: the last six months. Mayors to the “He has represented the citizens number of four have served the of Harrisburg either in council or on city since April 1. In April Mayor the school board, and they regarded Ezra S. Meals died. City clerk him with such favor as to make him Charles A. Miller was appointed. mayor of the city previous to his Mr. Miller died on June 12. William election as controller.” L. Gorgas, a member of council, Boas had been a hatter, a jeweler became acting mayor. The courts and a state senator from Allentown named J. William Bowman to before moving to Harrisburg, where serve until a mayor is elected he was appointed as a “gauger” in the in November. The successful Harrisburg Mayor Vance U.S. Internal Revenue Department, a candidate in the election will be McCormick with U.S. post he quit to run for mayor. Harrisburg’s fifth mayor in less than President Woodrow Wilson in 1916. Then & Now

Photo: Historic Harrisburg Association The view of downtown Harrisburg from the edge of the Market Street Bridge is remarkably different over the course of a century. In 1917 (left), stores, many selling goods for the booming auto industry, were prevalent along Market Street. Today, government buildings dominate the landscape on both sides of the street.

TheBurg 11 Doing Good

In Support of the Arts Cultural Enrichment Fund lets the arts flourish.

Chad Barger he arts represent a vital Tcomponent of the fabric of Harrisburg and the capital region. They play an integral role in educating both children and adults, making our region attractive to new business, attracting and retaining a talented workforce and building and sustaining economically vibrant communities. The arts also have a direct Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet economic impact on our region. For The Cultural Enrichment Fund’s every $1 of investment in the arts, $7 annual campaign also supports a in local economic activity is generated. supplemental grant fund, which funds Yet sustaining a vibrant arts scene arts programs designed to involve doesn’t happen by itself. It takes the young and/or diverse audiences in the work of many organizations, donors creative process. This funding stream is and volunteers. designed to expand the organization’s One of the organizations support of the capital region’s arts dedicated to ensuring the presence community beyond its 13-member of a thriving arts scene in the capital group. Special consideration is region is the Cultural Enrichment given to programs serving minority Fund (CEF), the capital region’s united communities and/or at-risk youth. arts fund. CEF seeks to help close CEF’s long-term goal with this funding the funding gap between what an is to stimulate future arts audiences organization earns through ticket and contribute to a more vibrant arts sales and sponsorships and what it community in the capital region. needs to cover operating expenses. Donors to CEF can rest assured As a reliable source of annual general that their investment is wisely spent. operating support dollars, CEF allows The 13 member organizations are art organizations to focus on what monitored on an ongoing basis by the they do best—making great art, in all Fund’s Member Review Committee its forms. to ensure that they are fiscally sound, ANTHONY’S PLAY BOARD To accomplish this mission, CEF offering accessible programs to the conducts an annual united fundraising community and pursuing a strategic • Weekdays: $5 Fast Lunch (pizza, subs, salads) campaign for the arts in the capital vision. Supplemental grant fund region. It then invests the campaign’s recipients are also monitored along • Thurs, Sat, Sun: $5 Dozen Wings during proceeds with a limited number of these same lines throughout the grant football season member beneficiary organizations cycle. across the key artistic disciplines of The Cultural Enrichment the cultural arts: dance, music, theater • Sat-Sun: 2 large 1 topping pizzas for $14.99 Fund conducts its annual united and visual arts. campaign for the arts as efficiently during football season Current member beneficiary and effectively as possible. Each organizations are: The Art year, the campaign is coordinated • 7 days a week: Happy Hour with half price Association of Harrisburg, Central by a dedicated volunteer board of drafts on all 60 of our Craft beers and Micro Pennsylvania Friends of Jazz, directors made up of 15 to 25 business Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, brews, along with daily drink specials leaders. CEF employs only two paid Danzante, Gamut Theatre Group, staff members. It is the commitment of Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, » We serve the more than 100 campaign volunteers, You get great Market Square Concerts, Ngozi, Open along with the financial support of You watch full menu until ↓ beer from these Stage of Harrisburg, Susquehanna more than 600 donors, that ensures this 1 a.m. and pizza Art Museum, Susquehanna Chorale, the campaign’s success. ↓ until 3 a.m. Theatre Harrisburg and Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts. The Cultural Enrichment » “To Go” Beer These organizations provide creative Fund is a trusted advisor, advocate and shaper of available experiences to more than 232,000 the arts in the capital ← You residents of our region each year. This region. Chad Barger sit here includes educational outreach for is the Fund’s executive more than 48,600 students. director.

12 TheBurg Burg Biz Face of Business

Sausage Kings of Steelton Schmidt’s mixes meats, spices, family.

Kermit G. Henning take over Sausage has made its mark—most the business of the customers are on a first-name from the elder basis. Orders are always taken with a Schmidt. chat about family or community. They Jorich’s two offer suggestions on products and sons, the quantities. Even most of the customers present third- know each other and stop to visit. generation Despite the success, the shop is owners, limited to any expansion by space. The brothers small family storefront that has served The familiar exterior of Schmidt’s Sausage. Doug and them well these last 50 years offers Don Jorich, no room for the addition of any new For the present, they continue to grew up in the products. Look for a move to larger provide the tried-and-true products shop, always quarters somewhere after the first of that brought them through the last involved in the year. half-century. The small family butcher some way “We think we can better serve shop has a place indeed—it’s in or another. our customers, and bring in new Steelton. Whether it customers, in a somewhat larger place Schmidt’s Sausage, 378 S. 7th St., Steelton, Brotherly links: Don and Doug Jorich, the third-generation owners of was cleaning with more visibility and more parking, 717-939-0501; open Tuesday and Wednesday, Schmidt’s sausage. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Thursday and Friday, 9 a.m. to up, sweeping as well as expand our product line,” 5p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.; closed Sunday or whatever Doug said. and Monday. ifty years of business in the same chore came along, they learned the Fstorefront. In today’s market of responsibilities of running the family bigger is better and diversification, business, now in their sixth year especially in the food business with together. mega-grocery stores, the small family No doubt the secret to their butcher shops are becoming rare success has been not only doing one indeed. Schmidt’s Sausage in Steelton thing but doing it well. Their business has not only beaten the odds, it’s is sausage, and they are still doing it looking to expand. the way Henry did it 50 years ago. They It all started back in 1913, when use only the best ingredients, 100 12-year old Henry Schmidt emigrated percent boneless pork butts. Pork fat is with his family to the United States added as needed, enough to keep the from Hungary aboard the RMS mixture at 80/20 lean. All their meats Carpathia, the ship that rescued are cold-smoked for 10 to 14 hours on the Titanic survivors in 1912. The the premises using fruit woods like Carpathia was shot at and sunk by apple and cherry to enhance the flavor a German U-Boat in 1918, but not of the pork, not mask it. before delivering the young Schmidt Their product line-up includes to our shores. mild and hot fresh sausage; mild, hot Eventually finding a home in and extra-hot smoked; smoked honey; multi-ethnic Steelton, Schmidt and and smoked turkey and chicken his neighbors shared old-country sausage, using only boneless, skinless recipes and dishes. Schmidt had been thighs. Fresh sausage is available making sausage in his basement for loose; the smoked products are all many years when he lost his job at cased. Polish kielbasa is added at Harrisburg Steel at 60 years of age. Christmas and Easter. The smoked mild He found he was too old to be hired and hot sausages are the best sellers. anywhere else, so he decided to try Dried products, including slim his hand at something he knew well. Jim sausage, salami and bacons are He opened the sausage store at its available from October to May, as well present location in 1961. as their own home-pickled cabbage Henry and his wife had one child, heads, sauerkraut and pigs-in-a- a daughter, Mary Ann, who married blanket. Fresh hams, tied pork loins, into another local ethnic family. His ground beef and pork are available son-in-law, Dan Jorich, took an early during the holidays from Thanksgiving retirement at the steel mill to help to January. out in the growing sausage shop and It’s apparent that Schmidt’s

TheBurg 13 New Business

A Tradition of Words, Re-Born Midtown Scholar Press set to revive Harrisburg book publishing.

Peter Durantine That situation, Papenfuse said. “We are going to need Scholar though, has now an optimistic vision of Harrisburg to publishing changed. Eric Papenfuse go forward, and we do that by looking venture and Catherine Lawrence, at the past.” brings forth owners of Midtown One way to do this is to have words and Scholar Bookstore, have books about the city’s past, such as works that decided to bring book an architectural walking tour guide explicate publishing back to the and neighborhood histories, he said. Harrisburg’s city, launching Midtown Midtown Scholar Press accepts non- past, while Scholar Press this year fiction and fiction submissions, but it delivering jobs and hope for her living with a literary focus on must relate to the Harrisburg area. future,” Taylor said. Harrisburg. “It has to have a connection to Papenfuse and Lawrence use For its inaugural the city, the region and the culture,” designer Scott Boggs of Boggs and book, Midtown Scholar Papenfuse said, noting the Jackson Company in Midtown for typesetting, Press-ready: Eric Papenfuse and Catherine Lawrence among the stacks in their Midtown Scholar Bookstore-Café. Press is publishing, Taylor novel, “The Blue Orchard,” as an Fathom Studio in Mechanicsburg for “City Contented, City example of what they are seeking in other design work and Advanced Discontented: A History fiction. Color Graphics in State College for arrisburg has a storied book of Modern Harrisburg,” the compilation “'The Blue Orchard' book is the printing. Hpublishing past, but, for years, of 120 columns the late Reporter-at- best history I’ve read, and it’s not Barton, who is already working there has been almost no commercial Large Paul Beers ran as a series in the history—it’s fiction,” Papenfuse said. on ideas for the next book, said about publishing left in a city that once had Patriot and Evening News between Note to authors: Midtown Scholar Papenfuse’s venture, “For him, it’s not not only a thriving book industry but a February 1983 and March 1984. Press will not publish e-books. “We are only a matter of scholarship, but it’s vibrant bookstore culture. “In the future, we’re going to trying to encourage people to interact also a commitment to the community.” Such large houses as Evangelical be commissioning original works,” with one another, and books are a Unlike other publishing houses Press in Midtown and Mount Pleasant Papenfuse said. physical item,” Papenfuse said. that have operated in Harrisburg, Press in South Allison Hill are long Papenfuse and Lawrence wanted Penn State–Harrisburg Professor Midtown Scholar Press is distinctive gone, while 81-year-old Stackpole Beers’ book as their first because they Michael Barton, who edited the Beers’ “because it wants to do local Books moved across the river to see the city in which they live and book with some of his graduate publishing,” Barton said. “In a sense, I Mechanicsburg in 1993. work as having reached a crossroads. students, will serve as Midtown think Eric is an heir to that tradition in “We’re hoping to re-invigorate the Scholar Press’ editor of historical the community.” literary culture books. Taylor has agreed to edit a and historic book of poems. For more information, please see this issue's special supplement on the Harrisburg Book The Keystone memory in “In a cityscape consumed by a Festival or visit www.midtownscholar.com. Restaurant Harrisburg,” troubled present, the new Midtown Serving Harrisburg since 1957

Breakfast•Lunch Changing Hands: September Property Sales

Homemade Soups Briggs St., 231: P. Moran to G. Dori, $160,000 N. 4th St., 2209: C. Roros & Cityscape Properties LLC to A. Dominguez, $45,000 Sandwiches Capital St., 1206: A. Schmidt to J. Penny, $117,000 N. 4th St., 3210: PA Deals LLC to S. & S. Burkholder, $67,900 Catering Available Chestnut St., 2412: K. Hitt to C. Franklin & M. Dulac, $235,900 N. 6th St., 3157: R. Shokes Jr. to R. Wickham, $63,750 1000 N 3rd St. Croyden Rd., 2969: G. Santana to T. Wise, $84,800 Harrisburg, Pa. Mon-Fri: 6 am-3 pm Penn St., 1702: K. O’Keefe to A. & D. Schade, $129,000 Derry St., 1523: J. Rissler to H. Cotignola & J. Pickens, $47,500 Sat-Sun: 7 am-1 pm 717-236-3273 Penn St., 1928: R. & C. Sheetz to A. Garnett & J. Scoz, $122,500 Elder St., 780: S. & S. Ritter to Bartush Signs Inc., $100,000 Pennwood Rd., 3001: Bank of New York Mellon Trustee to D & J Fair St., 728: Fannie Mae to H. Drayton, $35,900 Properties, $45,000 Forster St., 1611: C. Griffith to J. Witmer, $38,500 Randolph St., 1615: G. & G. Ridge to M. Kolback, $35,000 Green St., 1623: R. Darr to B. Christine, $90,426 Reily St., 224: J. Schoenly to PI Capital LLC, $38,100 Kelker St., 220: J. Webb to L. Lopez Medina, $160,000 S. 17th St., 230: R. Shokes Jr. to R. & D. Requa, $40,000 Lexington St., 2625: Marije Investments to J. DaCosta, $32,000 S. 18th St., 1043: E. & D. Hamburg to B. Do, $48,550 Linden St., 43, 46 & 58 N. 13th St.: E. & H. Crossan to Great Foods S. 25th St., 718: J. Lloyd to L. Ellis Jr., $132,900 Inc., $65,000 State St., 1925: M. & S. Duvall to T. Keefer, $70,000 Maclay St., 322: PA Deals LLC to J. Hocker, $60,900 Susquehanna St., 1815: Fannie Mae to PA Deals LLC, $40,000 Market St., 1820: US Bank NA Trustee to M. Lamereaux, $54,075 Swatara St., 1412: T. Sweet to S. Williams, $55,000 Market St., 1851: M. Harman to M. Stewart, $45,900 N. 2nd St., 1709: K. Litoff to 717 Properties LLC, $130,000 Source: Dauphin County, City of Harrisburg, property sales greater than $30,000. Data is deemed to be accurate. N. 2nd St., 2953: R. Feir to D. Alvey, $259,900

14 The Burg From the Ground Up

Building Restored, Shop Saved Another piece in place for Midtown arts district.

Lawrance Binda Last month, Eric This building would be the fourth Biz Notes Papenfuse and Catherine that Papenfuse and Lawrence own Lawrence, co-owners on the block. In addition to Midtown Tanger Factory Outlet Centers last month of Midtown Scholar Scholar Bookstore at 1302 N. 3rd St., purchased The Outlets at Hershey for Bookstore, said that they $56 million. Located adjacent to Hershey they own both 1300 N. 3rd St., which Chocolate World and Amusement Park on would purchase the three- houses Garden Fresh Market & Deli, Rt. 39 in Hershey, the 248,000-square-foot story building at 1320 N. and 1306 N. 3rd St., the home of the shopping outlets will be renamed Tanger 3rd St. for $55,000 from Mantis Collective art gallery and Outlets Hershey. long-time owner, The West Moviate film co-op. End Republican Club. The sale is due to close Nov. 1, said Papenfuse. The dilapidated building needs to be A new HoPo: Dawn Rettinger will re-open The HodgePodgery completely renovated. in December or January following a total renovation of this N. In addition to The 3rd Street building. HodgePodgery, the 3,452-square-foot idtown Harrisburg shrieked a building will include Mcollective, “Oh no,” when Dawn artist studio space and Rettinger’s new Rettinger decided to close her popular travel business, Dawn’s Escapades. crafts and consignment shop at N. 3rd “We’re delighted to be able to and Herr streets. develop arts-oriented space, including Mercifully, the bad news proved artist’s studio space, something that to be short-lived, as Rettinger will complement the Susquehanna announced that The HodgePodgery Art Museum, as well as the (Midtown will be the anchor tenant in a new Scholar) bookstore and the Broad arts-oriented building just a few Street Market,” Papenfuse said. blocks up the street. Rettinger said that the new “We plan to open again around HodgePodgery will have a “fresher the holidays, as soon as the building is look and feel” with many new items renovated,” said Rettinger, who added that will provide a higher-end that she’s able to relocate due to a shopping experience. much lower rent.

New Inspection, Permit Policy for City Rentals

Apartment conditions in Harrisburg owned as investment properties by soon will come under closer scrutiny, landlords, many of whom live out as the City Council last month of the area and, often, out of state. unanimously passed legislation The city long has been plagued with mandating inspections and permits complaints from renters that landlords for rental units. refuse to address deficiencies to units Under the new ordinance, the city and buildings. will establish a permitting process, The ordinance was opposed which requires that rental units pass by the Capital Area Rental Property inspection and remain liveable. Owners Association, which represents The ordinance also mandates owners of rental properties in that apartment owners assign a the Harrisburg area. Association “responsible agent” who lives or works representative David Lanza called the within 50 miles of the city and so can ordinance a “revenue-raising measure.” address tenant and building issues on To free up inspectors, the council short-term notice. Apartment owners also passed an ordinance ending can designate themselves as agents the city’s longstanding policy of or assign others, such as a property conducting inspections of properties management company. under contract for sale. Large swaths of Harrisburg are —Lawrance Binda

TheBurg 15 Good Eats Taste of the Town

Serving Harrisburg, Family Style The Cribaris will greet you, feed you like family.

Lawrance Binda his namesake trattoria, The menu is streamlined and the local—produce from the Broad Street Cribari’s Ristorante, prices substantially lower. Cribari starts Market, a soup offering from the on Reily Street, in the with a core of traditional Italian dishes Soup Spot, perhaps some items from space last occupied by such as chicken parmigiana, rigatoni Garden Fresh Market & Deli, all located Nonna’s Deli-Sioso. with a hearty, homemade tomato in Midtown Harrisburg. And, like “I always loved sauce and penne with a vodka sauce Nonna’s did, he plans to start “dinner to cook,” said Cribari, (with real Grey Goose vodka). Around and movie” specials with the Midtown a Bishop McDevitt those items, he wraps lunch favorites, Cinema across the street. graduate who such as hot and cold sandwiches, and But, mostly, he wants to give the recently turned 50. “I even a few uniquely American dishes, neighborhood an affordable place to saw an opportunity like the pulled pork barbeque, of catch a nice meal, a restaurant that is to get away from which Cribari is rightly proud. friendly and comfortable and treats the handcuffs and He's also not hesitant to get its patrons like one large, extended guns and pursue my creative. Cribari's offers specials each Italian family. In a way, he wants to Like many good Italian restaurants, Cribari's operates as a family passion.” day, often a pasta dish, such as, on one re-create the feeling he had during his business: from left, owner Ernie Cribari, daughter Jenny Finneran, Cribari, a 32nd- recent evening, homemade lobster youth on Chestnut Street on Allison Charlene Crescente and daughter Angelina Cribari. degree master Mason, ravioli and, on another, penne and Hill, where food and family and friends actually has years sausage in a savory marinara sauce. all blended so warmly together. or more than two decades, Ernie of experience in the At $17.95, the New York strip “Having my own restaurant has FCribari has had his living and his kitchen, as he’s long volunteered as steak—center cut Angus beef served always been my dream,” he said. “It’s love. the executive chef for Cedars Grove, with a baked potato and vegetable— even more special to be able to serve His living was law enforcement, the Mason-affiliated catering hall on is, by far, the most expensive dish my neighborhood and community.” slapping handcuffs on criminals Jonestown Road east of Harrisburg. on the regular menu. Nearly every and fugitives as a state constable in So, after Nonna’s closed, he phoned other item is less than $10, a price- Cribari’s Ristorante, 263 Reily St., Harrisburg. Open Monday to Thursday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Midtown Harrisburg and as a member owner Ray Diaz and asked about the point that, Cribari said, other area Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. BYOB. of the PA Task Force for fugitive space. And not only did he acquire restaurateurs told him was too low. 717-412-0550. recovery. the restaurant, but bought the entire “I’m not trying to get rich,” he said. His love, though, was always food, building, moving into the spacious, “I just want to pay my bills and make an affection gained at an early age by beautifully renovated apartment my customers happy.” watching his grandmother Concetta upstairs. Along the way, he’d like to give Restaurant Notes and mother Luisa, both from Calabria, Upon walking in, the restaurant something special to the community Italy, work magic in the kitchen while looks much like the old Nonna’s, as that he’s called home all of his life. Roxy's Café owner Richard Hanna has taken he grew up on Allison Hill. Cribari acquired the place lock, stock He’s pledged to use as many over the former Confit Bistro space in Camp Now, his living and his love have and barrel. Beyond the decor, though, locally sourced products as possible. Hill. Hanna will call the new restaurant, Layel become one as last month he opened the differences are substantial. And when he says local, he means Bistro, named after his daughter. He said the Market Street restaurant will feature Mediterranean cuisine, as well as American dishes, with lower prices than that at Confit. • Philly He expects to open later this month. Slow Pep Grill failed to sell in an auction last month Steaks as the reserve price was not met. Therefore, Real the long-time owners of the restaurant and • Salads Smoked bar said they will stay open and continue • Pizza BBQ operations until they can find a buyer. King Creole in the Broad Street Market will • Hoagies stay in business, says owner Maudeline Balan. • Wraps Balan had planned to close last month, but DJ’S SMOKE SHACK a change in circumstances convinced her to • Gyros stay. Check out her outstanding Haitian-style cuisine in the stone building. We serve dinner specials, such as meat loaf “Your #1 Source for Slow Smoked Meats.” Shady McGrady’s, a tavern on Verbeke Street and lasagna, and homemade soups every day. in Midtown Harrisburg, last month suffered a Open late Friday & Saturday. Caterings for all occasions! serious fire, which the Harrisburg Fire Bureau attributed to arson. Harrisburg police said the Mon.-Th: Fri.-Sat: cash register was stolen before a fire was set. 10:30a-10p 10:30-2:30a West Shore Farmers Market Shady's owners plan to restore the gutted ALECO’S Sun: 11a-9p 900 Market Street, Lemoyne Hours: interior and hope to re-open this month. “Simply the Best” 717-554-7220 Tuesday, 8-2 Mangia Qui/Suba, the popular Italian 620 N. 2nd St., Harrisburg (corner North & 2nd Sts.) djssmokeshack.com Friday, 8-6 restaurant and tapas bar downtown, has Ph: 717-230-9000 / Fax: 717-230-9001 Saturday, 8-2 completely redesigned its website. Check out [email protected] the new look at www.mangiaqui.com.

16 TheBurg The 2nd Annual Harrisburg Book Festival

Book Festival Returns Tuning into Reality Radio From sales to speakers: Books, art, forums, music, Man on the street: Armed with a microphone, special events stack the shelves over three days. citizens, students tell the story of America.

housands of inexpensive books, On Saturday, the festival switches “A microphone is a magic wand, waved programs. He’s also an adjunct Tbuyers grabbing them by the gears as the discussion turns to against silence. A recorder preserves the professor at Columbia University's armload. Speakers. Forums. Crafts. “reality radio,” the ability of ordinary stories that microphones catch. And radio Graduate School of Journalism. casts the stories to a broad audience— Art. Music. people to capture lives and tell stories bringing us together in special ways.” Radio Diaries offers compelling, It seems like just yesterday through the low-tech means of a -Susan Stamberg, National Public Radio intimate reports, such as “Audio Harrisburg celebrated its first annual microphone and a recorder. On the Portraits of a Vanishing City” about book festival. The bad news: It was TV side of broadcasting, the author of any have heeded such a call to New York’s fading past told through well over a year ago. The good news: “Inside Pee-wee’s Playhouse” drops Mradio, and two of the more highly people like “94-year old Selma Koch It’s back—and even bigger! by to discuss the frenetic, sometimes- accomplished, John Biewen and Joe [who] runs one of New York's last old- The 2nd Annual Harrisburg Book controversial, often-crazy show. Richman, have developed innovative style bra fitting shops.” Festival kicks off Friday, Nov. 11 and The final day is all about local documentary programs on life in the These stories bring a context runs through Sunday, Nov. 13. history and civic engagement. The modern day. and a perspective that, until 20 years During the long weekend, book- festival has assembled a blue-ribbon Juxtaposed with NPR news ago, was mostly absent from radio. lovers will be treated to authors, panel to discuss the news, news reports, these documentaries tell “It’s important that these stories air readings, signings, experts and more. reporting and the public spirit. The stories about real people, using real on 'All Things Considered' right after And, of course, they can buy as many work of Paul Beers, the late Patriot- voices and sounds that have greatly the news of the day,” Richman said. books as they can haul away—most News reporter, will be highlighted. enhanced radio’s intimacy. “It echoes the news of the day in costing just a buck or two. But maybe books and local “For people who love radio, that interesting ways.” But the festival is about far more history aren’t your thing. That’s OK. All word—intimacy—comes up again On the Book Festival's second than buying books. Each day, a series types of culture will be on display. The and again,” said Biewen. “There is day, Biewen and Richman will lead of special events will share a common Midtown ArtsFest will feature artists, something intimate about it.” a free student workshop on “Do-It- theme, with an emphasis on local crafts and vendors. The Midtown Folk Biewen, Yourself Radio,” focusing on how history and community. Festival will showcase local musical audio program high school and college students can On Friday, local author John talent. There will be special events director at Duke create their own radio podcasts. O’Hara will be in the spotlight. O’Hara, for kids too, including a visit from University’s Later that evening, Biewen one of the 20th century’s most “SuperReader” Floyd Stokes. Please Center for and Richman will offer a keynote popular and controversial novelists, turn the page for a full schedule. Documentary multimedia presentation at the often mined real-life events in the Most events will take place at Studies, has bookstore on “Reality Radio.” They Harrisburg area for inspiration as Midtown Scholar Bookstore, the John Biewen, with a worked in radio will share their own stories and lead a statue of Steinbeck. he explored the dark side of human festival’s sponsor, and at the Historic since 1983, discussion on radio documentary. behavior hidden beneath oh-so-proper Harrisburg Resource Center, both including at The free event will feature audio exteriors. His steamy novel, “A Rage at the corner of N. 3rd and Verbeke NPR. He also teaches radio-making clips from “Radio Diaries,” which lets to Live,” will be discussed, followed by streets, across the street from the at Duke and co-edited the 2010 book people whose voices are rarely heard a viewing of the 1965 feature film. Broad Street Market. See you there! of essays, “Reality Radio: Telling True share their powerful stories. Works of Stories in Sound.” Ira Glass, Radio Lab and other public Last year, armed with a radio storytellers will be examined. Book Lovers in Paradise microphone, he visited key locations As an electronic medium, radio, Richman said, is best at telling stories. Books and more books: that John Steinbeck wrote about in Bibliophiles and casual “Travels with Charley: In Search of “That’s how stories were first told,” he readers alike packed the America,” a chronicle of his 1960 said, “by people talking.” 1st Annual Harrisburg Book cross-country tour with his standard Festival, held last year at poodle, Charley. Biewen's own Event: “DIY Radio: A Student MIdtown Scholar Bookstore Workshop.” (Students should RSVP to and at outside tables. journey resulted in “Travels with Mike: This year, the three-day In Search of America 50 Years after [email protected]) festival will be held mostly Steinbeck,” a series of conversations Where: Midtown Scholar Bookstore indoors at the Historic about the country’s place and spirit. When: Saturday, Nov. 12, 4 p.m. Harrisburg Association Resource Center and at Joe Richman founded Radio Keynote Event: “Reality Radio: Midtown Scholar. Weather Diaries 15 years ago. Before Today’s Public Radio Documentary” permitting, some events becoming an independent producer, Where: Midtown Scholar Bookstore may move outside. he worked on numerous NPR When: Saturday, Nov. 12, 8 p.m.

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Schedule of Events

he 2nd Annual Harrisburg Book McGuinness 6–7:30 PM: “Talk-Show 2–3 PM: Book signing by Alan Kennedy- TFestival will take place Nov. 11 to 13 Royer and Matt Style Book Discussion Shaffer, author of "The Obama at N. 3rd and Verbeke streets in Midtown Royer, author and and Movie Review of Revolution." Harrisburg. illustrator of the 'The Help.'” The National 3–3:30 PM: Book signing by Emily Parke popular "Nightbear Coalition of 100 Black • Literary programs will be hosted by the Chase, author of "Help! My Family's and Lambie" book Women will host an Midtown Scholar Bookstore-Café, 1302 N. Messed Up." series. interactive panel and 3rd Street. audience discussion 4–9 PM: On Sunday 11 AM–12 PM: Storytime for elementary • A special Friday night film screening of African American afternoon and evening, school children, featuring 7-year-old author will take place at MOVIATE, 1306 N. 3rd domestic workers in the the newly inaugurated Madison Stokes and Floyd “SuperReader” Street. South during the Civil Rights era. Midtown Scholar Press Stokes. Second-grader Madison Stokes will celebrate the release • The book sale and artsfest will take place is the newly published 8–9:30 PM: KEYNOTE of an exceptional book: at the Historic Harrisburg Association, author of "I Can Do It EVENT "City Contented, City 1230 N. 3rd Street. By Myself," illustrated “Reality Radio: Discontented: A History by Sheena Hisiro.Floyd Today’s Public Radio • Folk musicians will perform outdoors of Modern Harrisburg," Stokes is the author Documentary.” John in fair weather or indoors if inclement in which award-winning of six books. He has Biewen and Joe Richman weather. journalist Paul Beers (1931-2011) reveals been visiting schools, will share their own stories how contemporary Harrisburg came to be. • Ample FREE PARKING in the bookstore’s libraries, Head Start and lead a wide-ranging, parking lot and at the neighboring Broad centers and other interactive discussion.Their 4–5:30 PM: In recognition of what would Street Market. community locations to multimedia presentation Richman have been Paul Beers’ 80th birthday, read to children for over 10 years. will feature audio clips from a panel of distinguished historians, Friday, November 11th the past 15 years of “Radio journalists and politicians will join in 12-2 PM: "Path to Publication: Tips for Diaries,” a National Public Radio standout a discussion on “Paul Beers’ Life and At the Midtown Scholar Bookstore: Writers and Readers." Panel and book that works with teenagers, seniors, prison Legacy.” Panelists include Philadelphia signing with regional authors: Don Helin 6:30–7:30 PM: “John inmates and others whose voices are Daily News political columnist John Baer, on suspense and thrillers, Susan Gourley/ O’Hara’s Harrisburg.” rarely heard to document their lives and Patriot-News Executive Editor Cate Barron, Kelley on romance and fantasy, Franklin Middletown author and share their powerful stories. the Hummelstown Sun’s Bill Jackson, Kury on nonfiction and memoirs, Cate artist Christine Goldbeck Harrisburg historian Calobe Jackson, Masters on urban fantasy and ebooks and discusses John O’Hara’s Sunday, November 13th the Dauphin County Historical Society’s Lori Myers on magazine articles and plays. best-selling 1949 novel Ken Frew, the State Archives’ Linda Ries, At the Historic Harrisburg Association: "A Rage to Live." 2 PM: Book signing by Harrisburg Treasurer Paul Wambach and Thousands of new and used 8–10 PM: Friday Folk Caseen Gaines, author 9 AM–9 PM: former Capitol reporter Peter Shelly. Café presents singer- of "Inside Pee-wee’s books for $1 or $2, arts & crafts vendors Playhouse," the only and live folk music. 5:30–7 PM: Reception and book songwriter Javier Dunn release party for “City Contented, City in a free concert. behind-the-scenes look At the Midtown Scholar Bookstore: at the award-winning Discontented: A History of Modern At MOVIATE Film Space: TV show starring the 9 AM–9 PM: The bookstore-café will be Harrisburg,” a compilation of the columns pop culture icon Pee- open extended Sunday hours during the of Paul Beers, released by Midtown 8–10 PM: Film Screening of "A Rage to Scholar Press. Live" (1965, 16mm) starring Suzanne wee Herman, with over Book Festival. Pleshette. 200 rare and never- 12–3:30 PM: FICTION & NON-FICTION: 7–9 PM: KEYNOTE EVENT before-published photos, marking the Book signings by regional authors. Penn State–Harrisburg Professor Michael Saturday, November 12th show's 25th anniversary this fall. Barton, who transcribed and edited Paul 12–1 PM: Book signing by E. M. "Gene" Beers’ original newspaper columns with his At the Historic Harrisburg Association: 2:30-3:30 PM: Book talk and signing Albano, author of a trilogy of historical by Tim Portzline, author of "Harrisburg students, will deliver 9 AM–10 PM: Thousands of new and used novels: "The Widow's Web," "Bashful a keynote lecture in Broadcasting," a history of radio and TV in Lucy" and "Martin's Story." books for $1 or $2, arts & crafts vendors the Capital region. tribute to Beers and and live folk music. 1–2 PM: Book signing by his contributions to 4-5:30 PM: “DIY Radio: A Student our understanding At the Midtown Scholar Bookstore: Penn State–Harrisburg's Workshop.” Critically acclaimed public Jen Hirt, author of "Under of past and Children’s programming, 9 AM–Noon radio producers John Biewen and Joe Glass: The Girl with a present, through Richman focus on empowering high school a lifetime of lively 9:30–10:30 AM: Storytime for young Thousand Christmas and college students to record their own and provocative children, with central PA’s own Kelly Trees." interviews and create their own podcasts. reporting.

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Progress and the Public Spirit Civic engagement, accountability in focus for panel discussion.

hile Pennsylvania has novelist board of directors, a member of the Scholar Press’ inaugural book, “City WJohn O’Hara as its social Pennsylvania Freedom of Information Contented, City Discontented: A historian, Harrisburg had Paul Beers, Coalition board of directors and past History of Modern Harrisburg,” a the late award-winning journalist president of the Pennsylvania Society compilation of Beers’ columns. whose 120 columns for The Patriot of Newspaper Editors. The book is the first in the Press’ and Evening News chronicled a city at “Harrisburg History and Culture • Bill Jackson, publisher and editor the crossroads in the early 1980s. Series,” which publishers Eric of The Sun in Hummelstown from “As a reporter-at- Papenfuse and Catherine Lawrence 1970 to 2007. Jackson continues to large, Paul Beers want to use to create a shared write his long-running weekly column, saw the city, cared heritage that illuminates today’s social “From Where I Sit,” for the paper. He that he saw it and relations and political culture. The started his journalism career in his “Paul Beers' Life and Legacy," documented what series seeks to educate and inspire Event: hometown of Clearfield, Pa., is a U.S. a panel discussion was there to see,” readers, to elucidate and inform army veteran and a former race car Midtown Scholar Bookstore said Jackson Taylor, contemporary public discourse and to Where: driver. Sunday, Nov. 13, 4 p.m. author of “The transform the possibilities of civic life When: • Harrisburg historian Calobe Paul Beers Blue Orchard” and in the future by strengthening bonds Event: Reception and book release keynote speaker at Jackson. A graduate of the former of community, they said. party for “City Contented, City 2010’s First Annual William Penn High School, he served For the final Book Festival event, Discontented: A History of Modern Harrisburg Book Festival. for many years on the Harrisburg a keynote lecture will be delivered Harrisburg" Beers joined The Patriot in 1957 School Board. Jackson lectures on by Penn State–Harrisburg Professor Where: Midtown Scholar Bookstore as a reporter and started his long- Negro League Baseball and African Michael Barton, who transcribed and When: Sunday, Nov. 13, 5:30 p.m. American history in Harrisburg. running Reporter-At-Large column edited Beers’ original columns for the Keynote Event: Penn State– in 1961. He left The Patriot-News in • Dauphin County Historical Society’s book with his graduate students. He Harrisburg Professor Michael Barton 1985 to become a legislative historian Ken Frew, research librarian, city will offer a tribute to the reporter and will speak on the life and career of for the General Assembly. He died in historian and author of the highly honor his extraordinary contributions Paul Beers. January of this year. acclaimed “Building Harrisburg: The to our understanding of past and Where: Midtown Scholar Bookstore On Sunday, Nov. 13, as part Architects and Builders 1791-1941.” present. When: Sunday, Nov. 13, 7 p.m. of the 2nd Annual Harrisburg Book Festival—and in recognition of • Pennsylvania State Archives’ Linda what would have been Beers’ 80th Ries, archivist and author of “Images Bet You Can’t Buy Just One birthday—a panel of distinguished of America: Harrisburg.” historians, journalists and politicians • Peter J. Shelly, the president of People carried will participate in a roundtable Shelly Communications. Before away books by discussion on the reporter’s life starting his own firm, he served as the armload at last year’s and legacy at the Midtown Scholar Capitol reporter for the Pittsburgh festival. This Bookstore. Participants include: Post-Gazette and The Patriot-News. year, the book sale will • Philadelphia Daily News political • Harrisburg City Treasurer Paul P. take place at columnist John Baer. The National Wambach. Long active in politics, the Historic Journal has called Baer one of the Wambach served on the Democratic Harrisburg country's top 10 political journalists City Committee and the Harrisburg Association outside Washington. Resource Center, City Council and has been city in the historic • Patriot-News Executive Editor Cate treasurer since 1992. Pennsylvania Barron, who is also president of the A reception and book release National Bank Building at 1230 Associated Press Managing Editors party will follow the event for Midtown N. 3rd St.

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John O’Hara’s Harrisburg Lecture, film to put local author in the spotlight.

s one of American literature’s sees himself or anyone else in this national sensation upon its release, Amore notable 20th-century novel is wrong,” he wrote. celebrated as the “most talked about authors, John O’Hara, like others of John O’Hara scholar and novel of the year,” but more for its his time, wrote about locales from Middletown author Christine subject matter than its depictions of where he was born and raised. Goldbeck said there is good capital city society. For Sherwood reason for readers in Pottsville and Posters for the 1965 film version Anderson, it Harrisburg to conclude O’Hara was touted the book as “the John O’Hara was the fictional writing about them, even though they best-seller that dares to probe a Winesburg, were mistaken. woman’s intimate desire!” Ohio, standing “He was a social historian,” Goldbeck will discuss how living in for Clyde, Goldbeck said. “He knew his town, in Pennsylvania inspired O’Hara’s Ohio, the town and he had a lot to say about his town stories. of his youth; for and his region.” “O’Hara did for northeastern William Faulkner, His technique, she said, was Pennsylvania, and particularly the John O'Hara Yoknapatawpha to use a psychological profile of a hard coal region, what writers before County, based on real-life character and impose it on a him, such as Sherwood Anderson, Lafayette County, Miss., where he dissimilar character in his fiction. The who wrote 'Winesburg, Ohio' had spent most of his childhood. purpose was to expose a society at done; he recorded the social history For O’Hara, his native Pottsville large, not gossip about individuals. of a place and time,” she said. in Schuylkill County is Gibbsville in To kick off the Second Annual An award-winning writer and his novels and short stories, and Fort Harrisburg Book Festival, Goldbeck artist, Goldbeck Penn is the fictional name he gave will give a free lecture at the Midtown (pictured) is the Harrisburg. Scholar Bookstore-Café, 1302 N. 3rd author of a short story In an opening note to his 1949 St., on “John O’Hara’s Harrisburg,” on collection entitled novel, “A Rage to Live,” set in Fort Friday, Nov. 11. “A Tribute to O’Hara Penn, O’Hara spoke fondly of visiting Following her talk, and Other Stories,” relatives in the Harrisburg of his MOVIATE, next door published in 2000. youth. at 1306 N. 3rd St., will She has lectured But O’Hara, plagued throughout host a free screening on how all writing is regional at his career as a novelist by these of the original 16mm, centennial celebrations for O’Hara cities’ denizens believing he was black-and-white and developed Pennsylvania high writing about them individually, also 1965 film of “A Rage school curriculum materials on how warned local readers in that same to Live,” starring O’Hara’s works have endured. note not to make such conclusions in Suzanne Pleshette, O’Hara, said Goldbeck, used the “A Rage to Live.” Ben Gazzara and Peter Graves and novel to chronicle the social history “I also have made a complete directed by Walter Grauman. not only of Pennsylvania in the 20th substitution of the population past The novel draws upon century, but also of the state’s coal and present of Harrisburg, Dauphin Harrisburg’s social and political region, New York City and Hollywood. County and anyone who thinks he elite for inspiration. It had caused a “To read O’Hara is to know, beyond doubt, what people wore, where they worked and how much they earned, to which clubs they Standing Room Only belonged, what kinds of automobiles they drove and what games they Anticipation: played,” she said. Last year, Harrisburg More importantly, and as “A Rage Book Festival to Live” shows, what O’Hara wrote events attracted about was the timeless subject of love large crowds, and the social interactions that occur including this one patiently between people seeking it. waiting for speakers to take the stage Event: “John O'Hara's Harrisburg” at Midtown Where: Midtown Scholar Bookstore Scholar When: Friday, Nov. 11, 6:30 p.m. Bookstore. Event: “A Rage to Live," screening of the feature film Where: MOVIATE Film Space, 8 p.m. When: Friday, Nov. 11, 8 p.m.

Special Supplement 4 Home Cooking

A Traditional Feast For Thanksgiving, Rosemary makes it all-American.

Rosemary Ruggieri Baer t is hard to believe that November is morning when, with some difficulty, • If not already trussed, tie the Ihere. I drag it out and give it a “bath” in the drumsticks and wings with When I was a child, this was a kitchen sink. kitchen twine. month that made me sad. There is a Many years ago, I found a recipe • Melt ¼-pound butter with haunting stillness to November. As in Parade magazine that I have been ½-cup of maple syrup. Double I grow older, I have come to love its using ever since. The recipe calls for a these ingredients if your turkey stark beauty: butter yellow maple 14-to-16-pound turkey, but you can is large. leaves set against a slate blue sky, the easily adjust the amount of ingredients browning fields and even the misty based on the size of your bird. It’s • Pour the butter mixture over grayness that often settles in. And important to spray your roasting the turkey, lightly salt and place of course, Thanksgiving, the warm pan with a non-stick spray to make it in the roasting pan. I always and wonderful holiday that gathers clean-up easier. (This is especially add enough apple cider to cover families and friends together. important to my husband, who has the bottom of the pan and add I'll take the drumstick: a traditional Thanksgiving. With all of my extended family been assigned clean-up duty.) The more during cooking if needed. gone, I am now the host of the great preparation is a little different, but it is • Roast the turkey about 20 to 30 The maple syrup and cider lend feast that heralds the start of the delicious. minutes per pound, basting it with the a wonderful sweetness to the turkey holiday season. It is a lot of cooking, pan juices every ½ hour or so. meat, and it smells so heavenly while and I start menu planning weeks Roast Turkey with Maple-Butter Glaze • If the turkey begins to brown too roasting. I hope you enjoy this very ahead. Should I make my long-time • Bring 1 fresh turkey, any size you American recipe that probably would favorites or try something new? And much, tent it with a piece of heavy choose, to room temperature before duty foil. not go well with lasagna. is this the year someone will try the roasting. (Rinse the bird with cool Wishing all TheBurg readers a very Brussel sprouts? And certainly I can water first and dry it with paper • The turkey should register about 180 happy and blessed Thanksgiving. find at least one dish to put chestnuts towels.) degrees when fully cooked. in. • Pre-heat the oven to 325 degrees. • Let rest for about 30 minutes before Rosemary Ruggieri Baer, Our Thanksgiving dinner is unlike carving. that of many of my Italian relatives. • Stuff the cavity with chunks of fresh a first generation Italian- I use some of the pan juices and American, grew up in My father’s sisters cooked either a onion, apple quarters and several Harrisburg and has spent her small turkey or a roast chicken, but it stalks of celery cut in 2-inch lengths. Williams and Sonoma’s Turkey Gravy life perfecting her mother’s was almost a side dish to the chicken Vary the amount of these items base for gravy. It is very easy, but very country cooking. soup, salad and lasagna that preceded depending on the size of the turkey. good. it. But I love the American traditions of this holiday: sweet potatoes with brown sugar, cinnamon and cream, bread stuffing spiked with poultry seasoning and fresh cranberry sauce with grated orange or ginger. We are a very small family, but, on Thanksgiving, I cook enough for an army. We are blessed to have our good friends, Carol and Steve, and at least one of their daughters, join us every year to expand our little gathering. They come up from Virginia laden with Garden Fresh We’re across the street from wonderful beers and cheeses, Market & Deli The Broad Street Market. as well as a can of jellied cranberry sauce that Steve Now Featuring: can’t do without. Fresh Baked Goods & Pastries Then there‘s the turkey. I buy one that is far too big but sOrganic Goods & Produce certain to provide leftovers. I s3PECIALTYItems always order a fresh bird from s.ATURALFoods my chicken vendor at the 1300 N. 3rd St. s6EGANProducts market. It rests in the outside Harrisburg, Pa. 717-421-7097 s3PECIAL$IETARY Needs refrigerator until Thursday

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Creativity Encouraged New heights reached at Paxton Street Home.

Ruth Hoover Seitz painting from staff that cares. she became fully involved in painting. of Christ” to 85 people struggling with Activities Coordinator Hannah As a result, she takes much less mental illness. Life is more satisfying Ritch helps Doris approach medication. Sometimes Doris doesn’t for these residents because of staff galleries for exhibits. feel like an artist, she said, but then like Hannah. With such caring case Doris compiled a list of she gets encouragement from Hannah management, they live out one of potential galleries. She and and continues with her artistic goals. Rob’s sayings: “Nothing succeeds like Hannah planned a presentation, Hannah has also initiated the idea success.” and Doris successfully launched of bigger goals for Rob Caplan, an avid an exhibit of 27 pieces at chess player. He was The Gallery at Walnut Place winning in-house in Harrisburg last fall. Her oil games hands down painting, “The Old Mill” won first by expertly “creating place at the Art Association of binds and getting Rob Caplan and Doris Valdes at Paxton Street Home. Harrisburg. out of binds.” After Most days, Doris is at her Hannah introduced ith no hesitation, Doris Valdes easel. “It takes me about a Rob to websites Wadmits that oil paints are at the month to complete a painting,” she where he could top of her Christmas list—as they said. She commonly works on a 24-by- study famous games are every year. Painting or creating 30-inch canvas or slightly smaller. on the computer, her own renditions of nice images is One of her techniques is to build up she worked on Valdes’ first love. She prefers subjects the paint to make the scene “more strategy with Rob so that interest her—scenery, water realistic.” She prefers to paint with no he could play more and animals. Her working studio is one watching. Some staff attributes challenging chess. her room at Paxton Street Home, a this preference to her shyness. Now he travels 30-year-old personal care home in The contentment she feels each Saturday Harrisburg. pursuing her art is a great gain from afternoon to a chess But her residence for the past the time when she was submerged in club on N. 3rd Street four years is not just a place to eat depression. She was interested in art in Midtown. He goes and sleep. At Paxton, a brick structure way back in 5th grade and then took by bus by himself. shaded by trees at 2001 Paxton St., a correspondence course in her 30s. It Hannah showed him Valdes receives encouragement for her was only after she came to Paxton that the route, traveling with him the first time. People there are friendly, he said. Our November Cover He remembers with pride, “I had perfect At TheBurg, we've featured artistic takes of the concentration one beautiful state Capitol Saturday. I won building from time to three out of four time. This month, that games.” tradition seems even more Rob knows a lot timely and relevant as the state legislature last about overcoming month passed a bill that difficulties. He would take over many city spouts aphorisms functions under a state- that he has found appointed receiver. In this spirit, we selected Matthew true in chess—“You LeVier's "Capitol–Fulton" have to change for our November cover. small advantages LeVier says, "It is a view that into a win.” Rob I see every day, but most easily recalls chess people will never have an opportunity to see it." An moves, including the Art Institute of Pittsburgh Sicilian defense. Rob graduate, the Derry is definitely Paxton’s Township artist says, "When creating my work, I want each and every person to see something Bobby Fischer. different and meaningful to them. Most of my inspiration for my work comes from my trips to Cape Cod and areas that are in Harrisburg. Each subject matter has something visual to me that Paxton Street makes me want to explore it and see where it takes my creativity. When painting, I try not to Home provides worry about everything being precise but rather working the canvas layer after layer." For more “housing, help and on LeVier's work, visit www.matthewlevier.com. He can be reached at [email protected]. healing in the name

TheBurg 23 City Cinema

From Midtown to Midtown These New York Festival films are coming soon to Harrisburg.

Kevyn Knox few weeks back, I made my annual beautiful and horrific. In other words, probably ultimately make it ineligible Atrip to the New York Film Festival it is a film that dares to destroy for the Oscar. Either way, expect to see and, as is usually the case, I saw some everything we know and love, in one this quirky film at Midtown Cinema pretty good films there. Some of the fell cosmic swoop, and does so in sometime before the end of the year. highlights of the festival will actually the most awe-inspiring manner— And, if my opinion means anything, be coming to the midstate area over both visually and emotionally. This expect to enjoy it quite a bit. the next few months, and, therefore, stunning film opens in New York and There are a slew of other films we should probably talk about them. Los Angeles on Nov. 11 and will make coming our way, many of which have First and foremost among its way to Midtown Cinema sometime aspirations of Oscar gold. Among these films is probably the most in December. them are several that are noteworthy. A scene from the quirky film, “Le Havre.” controversial—though not for its Another festival favorite that From director Alexander Payne, content so much as for the antics of its will most likely see some screen the man who last gave us the acerbic talented younger sister of those director, Lars von Trier. The melancholy time in Harrisburg is a film called “Le “Sideways” (and it has been one hell of terrible tabloid twins, in a role that Dane who gave us such divisive works Havre,” about a shoeshiner who tries a wait since that film’s 2005 release), could get this young lady an Oscar as “Breaking the Waves,” “Dancer in to save a refugee. It is the latest film comes “The Descendants,” starring nomination—if not a win. the Dark,” “Dogville” and “Antichrist,” from Finland’s greatest auteur, Aki George Clooney. We will also get to Look for all of these films is back again—this time with a Kaurismaki. You have probably never see the always-wonderful Michelle beginning very soon. Well, that’s it for film called, appropriately enough, heard of Mr. Kaurismaki, but trust me Williams as the iconic Marilyn Monroe this time around, but I will be back “Melancholia.” The premise of the film, when I say he is well worth exploring. in “My Week with Marilyn.” And let’s next time with my choices for the best which stars Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte A big influence on American face it, how can you go wrong with films of 2011. Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland and filmmakers like Jim Jarmusch and the Michelle Williams? Kevyn Knox is a film critic + Alexander Skarsgaard, is that of the Coen Brothers, Kaurismaki has the One of the more intriguing films historian. His reviews can be end of the world. ability to blend together deadpan coming to theaters soon is “Martha read at thecinematheque. Part sci-fi, part melodrama, comedy with a wry political sensibility. Marcy May Marlene.” A film about a com. “Melancholia” is the story of a “Le Havre” is the Finnish young woman’s escape from a cult, runaway planet hurtling toward a director’s second film in French and is the movie stars the dangerous John fateful collision with Earth. With von Finland’s official entry for the Foreign Hawkes (Oscar nominee last year for Trier’s usual sense of doom—and his Language Oscar—though knowing his terrifying turn in “Winter’s Bone”) dreadfully gorgeous cinematography the Academy’s silly rules, the fact that as the creepily charismatic cult leader Lost in —”Melancholia” is simultaneously it is in French and not Finnish will and Elizabeth Olsen, the surprisingly SantaLand

Harrisburg's own Stuart Landon stars as Crumpet the Elf in David Sedaris' hilarious adult comedy, "The SantaLand Diaries," which debuts at Open Stage of Harrisburg on Nov. 25 and runs through Dec. 17.

24 TheBurg Burg Books

A City in Turmoil New Harrisburg press has timely offering.

Peter Durantine City Contented, City Discontented: A the epoch of sunny horizons in which, History of Modern Harrisburg as Dr. Donehoo stated: “The striving for By Paul Beers, Edited by Michael better things in material surrounding is Barton … an evidence and a token of what man Midtown Scholar Press is in his soul and of what he is seeking to 404 pp; $25 paperback attain. Someday he will be what he seeks to be.” This book could not Such purity, or naiveté, was have come at a better heard from the highest places, such as time as Harrisburg is the White House and the Governor’s again at a crossroads, Mansion. Woodrow Wilson and Martin its anxious citizens G. Brumbaugh, both pious sons of living in the aftermath ministers, were the only Ph.D.s to of a 28-year-old hold their respective offices, and they political reign that has believed sincerely in humankind’s left behind financial progress, almost perfectibility. To them, chaos and political uncertainty. as to many, World War I was more Beers, who went to work for The opportunity than it was carnage. Patriot in 1957 and started writing his As a journalist and a historian, “reporter at large” columns in 1961, Beers uses the crafts of both spent nearly a year between 1983 disciplines deftly to depict the and 1984 detailing the rise of the characters, prominent leaders and contemporary city in the 120 columns humble citizens while describing the compiled in this book. region’s society, politics and culture in He charts the capital city’s 20th century Harrisburg. development in the 20th century, from As Barton noted, Beers was “the the Progressive Era, when the City proverbial Indian guide who could Beautiful movement created an urban lead me through the dense forest landscape full of green public spaces of the city’s past and present life. and premier educational institutions, Not only was he invaluable to the through more turbulent eras of race newcomer, but I found that the old- riots, floods and the world’s first timers in town swore by him too, or nuclear accident at Three Mile Island. occasionally at him.” Beers was a social historian, While Beers loved history, he was providing a narrative that Harrisburg’s foremost a journalist. For years after citizens could follow to understand retiring from The Patriot-News in 1985, their present in relation to their past. he could be found sitting with a cup of It’s not surprising to learn, in coffee in the Capitol cafeteria, smoking the book’s forward, written by Penn his ever-present pipe and reading the State– Harrisburg Professor Michael newspaper. Barton, that Beers’ literary hero was another social historian—Pottsville native and 20th century novelist John O’Hara. O’Hara used fiction to depict the trials and tribulations of his era in a manner so convincing You may be ready that many people believed he was writing about them. for your retirement, Here’s Beers writing in one but is your portfolio? column about the delusions of city leaders: Call me today for a no-obligation consultation. Harrisburg: The City Beautiful, Anthony M. Conte, MSFS, CFP® Romantic and Historic, as George P. Donehoo entitled his [1926] book, [email protected] lasted from 1900 to 1930, or when 717.975.8800 the first clues emerged, though not Registered Representative Securities o ered through Cambridge Investment Research, Inc., a Broker/Dealer, Member FINRA/SIPC. Investment Advisor recognized at the time, that the city Representative Cambridge Investment Research Advisors, Inc., a Registered was losing its pre-eminence. This was Investment Advisor. Cambridge and The Conte Browne Group, LLC are not aliated.

TheBurg 25 Happenings

Museums & Art Spaces

3rd Street Studio Gallery at Walnut Place Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art 1725 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg 413 Walnut St., Harrisburg; 717-233-0487 176 Water Company Rd., Millersburg 717-385-3315; www.3rdstreetstudio.org 717-692-3699; www.nedsmithcenter.org The artwork of Bernice Bratton, through “Transgressions” mixed media by Loryn November; reception: Nov. 18, 5–8 p.m. “Jerome P. Connolly: Master Muralist,” Spangler-Jones, through December; also through March 17. sculpture by Shippensburg University HMAC/Stage on Herr student Stanley Osmolenski; opening 1110 N. 3rd St./268 Herr St., Harrisburg Pennsylvania National Fire Museum reception: Nov. 18, 6-9p. 717-441-7506; www.harrisburgarts.com 1820 N. 4th St., Harrisburg 717-232-8195; www.pnfm.com Works by various local and regional artists. Antique Auto Museum at Hershey A tribute to the firefighters killed during 161 Museum Dr., Hershey Mangia Qui the Sept. 11 attacks, highlighted by a pile 717-566-7100; www.aacamuseum.org 272 North St., Harrisburg of 343 firefighter helmets. Holiday program features the taxi from 717-233-7358; www.mangiaqui.com “It’s a Wonderful Life,” model trains, Rose Lehrman Arts Center Paintings by Elide Hower & Walter Diehl, antique dolls, pedal cars, period-themed One HACC Drive, Harrisburg through November. Christmas trees and more, through Dec. 31. www.hacc.edu/RoseLehrmanArtsCenter The Mantis Collective Ceramic sculptures by contemporary Art Association of Harrisburg 1306 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg artist Meredith Brickell, through Nov. 23; 21 N. Front St., Harrisburg [email protected] lecture and reception, Nov. 3, 5:30 p.m. 717-236-1432; www.artassocofhbg.com Photography of David Lynch and paintings “4 Artist Invitational,” featuring works by The Soup Spot by Richard Rodriguez, through Nov. 13. Carol Herr, Eric Olson, Martin Pieczonka 1014 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg and Brooke Schmidt, through Nov. 23. Paintings by Tara Chickey, Nov. 18–Dec. 11. 717-232-7867 Photography and paintings by Café di Luna Midtown Scholar/Yellow Wall Gallery Harrisburg-area artists. 1004 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg 1302 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg 717-585-6174; cafediluna.com 717-236-1680; www.midtownscholar.com The State Museum of Pennsylvania Works by local artists are featured. “A Wake’ng Danger,” painted works by 300 North St., Harrisburg Meisa Chase, through Nov. 13. 717-787-4980; www.statemuseumpa.org Cornerstone Coffeehouse Oil etchings of figures and architecture by "Making it Better: Folk Arts in Pennsylvania 2133 Market St., Camp Hill Sandra Marino, Nov. 15–Dec. 11; reception, Today," Nov. 20–April 29. www.thecornerstonecoffeehouse.com Nov. 18, 6–10 p.m. Ceramics (wall-hangings) by Scott The Susquehanna Art Museum Jones, through November. National Civil War Museum 717-233-8668; www.sqart.org One Lincoln Circle at Reservoir, Harrisburg “Latent Images,” held at The State Museum Gallery@Second 717-260-1861; nationalcivilwarmuseum.org of Pa., 300 North St., through Dec. 30. 608 N. 2nd St., Harrisburg “1861,” an exhibit highlighting the first galleryatsecond.com year of the Civil War, through December. Whitaker Center/The Curved Wall Works by Ted Walke and Kim 222 Market St., Harrisburg “To Further Their Cause: Inventions and Stone, through Dec. 3. 717-214-ARTS; www.whitakercenter.org Innovations of the Civil War,” through March 4. Gallery features Harrisburg-area artists.

The Stage Door

Allenberry Resort Inn and Playhouse Harrisburg Shakespeare Company Oyster Mill Playhouse 1559 Boiling Springs Rd., Boiling Springs 3rd Floor, Strawberry Square, Harrisburg 1001 Oyster Mill Road, Camp Hill 717-258-3211; allenberry.com 717-238-4111; www.gamutplays.org 717-737-6768; www.oystermill.com “Mistletoe Magic,” Nov. 2–Dec. 23 “Hamlet,” Nov. 4–20 “Godspell,” Nov. 4–20

Broadway Classics Productions Hershey Area Playhouse Popcorn Hat Players at the Gamut Harrisburg Mall, 3501 Paxton St., Harrisburg Sand Hill Road at Cherry Drive, Hershey 3rd Floor, Strawberry Square, Harrisburg 877-717-7969; broadwayclassicspa.com 717-838-8164; hersheyareaplayhouse.com 717-238-4111; www.gamutplays.org “Following Your Dream,” Nov. 18–Dec. 23 No shows scheduled in November. “Golden Goose,” Nov. 9–19

Giant Center Hershey Theatre Rose Lehrman Arts Center 550 W. Hersheypark Dr., Hershey 15 E. Caracas Ave., Hershey One HACC Drive, Harrisburg 717-534-3911; www.giantcenter.com 717-534-3405; www.hersheytheatre.com www.hacc.edu/RoseLehrmanArtsCenter “Dare to Dream,” (Disney on Ice), Nov. 2–6 “A Christmas Story,” Nov. 8–13 Fred Garbo Inflatable Theater Co., Nov. 13 The Duquesne University Tamburitzans, Harrisburg Comedy Zone HMAC/Stage on Herr Nov. 20 110 Limekiln Rd., New Cumberland 1110 N. 3rd St./268 Herr St., Harrisburg 717-920-3627; harrisburgcomedyzone.com 717-441-7506; www.harrisburgarts.com Theatre Harrisburg Cee-Jay Jones, Nov. 4–5; Bob "The Polish Soul Comedy Café, Nov. 13 513 Hurlock St., Harrisburg Madman" Golub, Nov. 11–12; Jim Norton, 717-232-5501; www.theatreharrisburg.com Nov. 18–19; Earl David Reed & Nipsey’s Open Stage of Harrisburg “A Christmas Story,” Nov. 4–20 (at Whitaker Annual Thanksgiving Eve Comedy Bash, 223 Walnut St., Harrisburg Center) Nov. 23 717-232-OPEN; www.openstagehbg.com “The SantaLand Diaries,” Nov. 25–Dec. 17

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Live Music around Harrisburg

Appalachian Brewing Co./Abbey Bar Dragonfly Club/Spy Club Midtown Scholar Bookstore-Café 50 N. Cameron St., Harrisburg 234 N. 2nd St., Harrisburg 1302 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg Read, Make, Learn 717-221-1083; www.abcbrew.com www.dragonflyclub.com 717-236-1680; www.midtownscholar.com 3rd Street Studio Nov. 2: Medeski, Martin & Wood Nov. 5: Rightstart, Kid Pa, The Line, The Saints Nov. 4: The Ivan Swangren Trio and Club 1725 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg Nov. 4: Jackie Cassett (CD Release Party) Of Sorrow & Brad Grissinger Sauce 717-385-3315; www.3rdstreetstudio.org Nov. 5: Mightychondria w/Former Champions Nov. 19: Saddle of Centaur, El Guano & Nov. 5: Good News Café (Back To The Future Party) Courting Harlots Nov. 11: Javier Dunn Nov. 27: “The Art of Creative Nov. 6: Scythian & Enter The Haggis Nov. 13: First Annual Midtown Folk Festival (at Journaling,” a workshop, 9 a.m.–noon Nov. 10: Brown Chicken Brown Cow String Giant Center Historic Harrisburg Resource Center) (maximum of 10 people) Band 550 W. Hersheypark Dr., Hershey Nov. 17: Barb Ryman Nov. 11: Cabinet w/Citizens Band Radio (Live 717-534-3911; www.giantcenter.com Nov. 18: Voxology Art Association of Harrisburg DVD Taping) Nov. 19: Jeff Pianki, Seagulls & Friends 21 N. Front St., Harrisburg Nov. 20: Trans-Siberian Orchestra Nov. 12: Toys For Tots Benefit (4 p.m.) Nov. 26: Common Rotation, Anti Cool & Mr. 717-236-1432; www.artassocofhbg.com Nov. 12: March Fourth Marching Band w/No Fuzzy and the Barbarian Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra Art history lectures (all 2–4 p.m.): Last Call The Forum (5th and Walnut Sts.), Harrisburg Nov. 6: “Collectors, Collections and Collecting” Nov. 13: Oxymoron's Improv Show MoMo’s BBQ & Grille 717-545-5527; harrisburgsymphony.org by Peter Risser Nov. 15: David Mayfield Parade w/Leonardo 307 Market St., Harrisburg DiSanto Nov. 13: Harrisburg Symphony Youth 717-230-1030; www.momosbbqandgrill.com Nov. 13: “The Ancient Egyptian Quest for Nov. 17: Mahavishnu Project Orchestra Eternal Life” by Dr. Sara Meng Nov. 4: Bob Noble & Blue Voodoo Nov. 18: The Sadies Nov. 19–20: “Surging Sea” Nov. 11: Blue Light Special Nov. 20: “Painted Churches of Cyprus and Nov. 19: The Wallace Brothers Band Nov. 18: Blue Elephant Donor Portraits” by Barbara Piscioneri- Nov. 22: Ra Ra Riot w/Delicate Steve & Yellow HMAC/Stage on Herr Nov. 28: Jeff Calvin Arrangement McNulty Ostrich 1110 N. 3rd St./268 Herr St., Harrisburg Nov. 23: Brothers Past w/Damn Right! 717-441-7506; www.harrisburgarts.com Nov. 27: “Exploring Aging in Art” by Glen Morgan’s Place Nov. 25: Nate Myers and The Aces Dunbar Nov. 1: Betty Poison from Rome 4425 N. Front St., Harrisburg Nov. 26: Hierosonic w/TBA Nov. 4: Aortic Valve First Friday Big Party 717-234-8103; www.morgans-place.com Nov. 27: The Steel Wheels Midtown Scholar Bookstore-Café Dance in Harrisburg Every Wednesday, Open Mic Nov. 4: Kings & Queens 1302 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg Nov. 5: The Passionettes Nov. 5: Not Guilty 717-236-1680; midtownscholar.com Nov. 6: Alash, Throat Singers from Tuva Broad Street Market/Stone Building Nov. 11: White Bread Nov. 8: Gennaro Porcelli, blues guitarist Nov. 6: Book release party for Dan Schmidt’s N. 3rd and Verbeke streets, Harrisburg Nov. 12: Strange Eden Nov. 10: Bess Rogers “An Advent Companion,” 4 p.m. www.broadstreetmarket.org Nov. 18: Jewett Brothers Nov. 11: Three’s Company Nov. 19: A-Factor Nov. 10: Chisuk Emuna congregration hosts Nov. 12: Jonathan Frazier Nov. 12: Hexbelt Nov. 23: Don Johnson Project Kathleen Bonnano’s poetry reading, 7–9 p.m. Nov. 19: Voxology Nov. 17: Hickory Hollow and RiverRat Jenkins Nov. 25: Everyday People Nov. 26: Chris Gassaway Nov. 18: The Dirty Sweet Pajama Party Nov. 19: Book signing (and cupcakes) for Nov. 26: UV Rays Nov. 19: Alash, Throat Singers from Tuva Florence Ditlow’s Harrisburg-based “The Carley’s Ristorante and Piano Bar Nov. 20: Sviraj Balkan Dance Party Bakery Girls,” 2 p.m. Open Stage of Harrisburg 204 Locust St., Harrisburg Nov. 25: Parallax Project 223 Walnut St., Harrisburg Nov. 26: Book signing for Steve Blank’s “Sara 717-909-9191; www.carleysristorante.com Nov. 26: City Music Project 717-232-OPEN; www.openstagehbg.com Sharps and the Liberty Guards: The Untold Nov. 27: Roller Girls Nov. 2: Bryan Herber Story of John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry,” Every Wednesday, Open Mic Nov. 11: Jazz on Court Nov. 3: Wade Preston 2 p.m. Nov. 4, 19, 23: Noel Gevers Hershey Theatre Ski Roundtop Nov. 5, 26: Brandon Parsons The Susquehanna Folk Music Society 15 E. Caracas Ave., Hershey 925 Roundtop Rd., Lewisberry, Pa. Nov. 9: Chelsea Caroline www.sfmsfolk.org (check website for 717-534-3405; www.hersheytheatre.com 717-432-9631; www.skiroundtop.com Nov. 10, 17: Giovanni Traino location) Nov. 11, 18, 25: Ted Ansel Nov. 18: Buddy Guy Nov. 4: Soul House Nov. 6: Zydeco dance workshop w/Jeffery Nov. 12, 16, 30: Jett Prescott Nov. 20: Straight No Chaser Nov. 5: Rick Pawelski & Jazz Me Band Broussard & The Creole Cowboys, 2:30 p.m. Nov. 27: Celtic Thunder Nov. 6: Autumn Brew Central Pennsylvania Friends of Jazz Nov. 19: Hungarian Folk Dance workshop w/ Sheraton Harrisburg Hershey, 4650 Lindle Rd. Hollywood Casino at Penn National Stock’s on 2nd Richard Balazs, 1 p.m.; Serbian Folk Dance 717-564-5511; www.cpfj.org 777 Hollywood Blvd., Grantville 211 N. 2nd St., Harrisburg workshop w/Srbo Cvetkofic, 2:30 p.m. 877-565-2112; www.hcpn.com 717-233-6699; www.stocksonsecond.com Nov. 20: Lew Tabackin International Trio Nov. 4: Luv Gods Nov. 5: Funktion At the Cinema Clover Lane Coffeehouse Nov. 5: She Said Sunday Nov. 12: Shea Quinn and Steve Swisher 1280 Clover Lane, Harrisburg Nov. 11: Uptown Band Nov. 19: TBA Moviate Film Co-Op 717-564-4761; www.harrisburguu.org Nov. 12: Vinyl Groove Nov. 26: Soul Solution 1106 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg; moviate.org Nov. 18: The Real Geniuses Nov. 18: John Terlazzo & Voices in the Hall Nov. 19: Full Tilt The Susquehanna Folk Music Society Nov 3: Academy Award-winning film, Nov. 23: John King's Dance Band www.sfmsfolk.org (check website for location) "Shoeshine" by Vittorio De Sica, 8 p.m. Cornerstone Coffeehouse Nov. 25: Cazhmiere 2133 Market Street, Camp Hill Nov. 6: Jeffery Broussard & The Creole Nov. 9: Filmmaker Roger Beebe, in person, Nov. 26: Stayin' Alive & Honeypump www.thecornerstonecoffeehouse.com Cowboys presenting a film performance, 8 p.m. Nov. 12: Garnet Rogers Nov. 4: Maria Wilson Mangia Qui/Suba Nov. 11: "A Rage to Live," based upon Nov. 19: Sviraj Balkan Jam Nov. 5: Kevin Kline 272 North St., Harrisburg Harrisburg writer John O'Hara's novel, 8 p.m. Nov. 20: The Duquesne University Nov. 6: Mitch and Lee 717-233-7358; www.mangiaqui.com Tamburitzans Nov. 12: "Places in Pieces," vol. 3, with Nov. 11: Ed Horan Nov. 4: Nate Myers and The Aces filmmaker Jason Papariella, in person, 8 p.m. Nov. 12: Shanna Rae Nov. 5: Kristen Ford & Kara Kulpa Whitaker Center Nov. 13: Ann Jerstetter Nov. 15: Sigur Ros' "Inni" film by Vincent Nov. 11: Flint Zeigler 222 Market St., Harrisburg Nov. 18: Maiden Ground Morriset, benefit screening for C.A.S.A., at the Nov. 12: Nina Scarcia 717-214-ARTS; www.whitakercenter.org Nov. 19: The Pig Merchants Cinema Center, Camp Hill, Pa. Nov. 18: Dirk Quinn Nov. 20: Billy Reighns Nov. 10: Bret Michaels (The Forum) Nov. 19: Paul Cullen Nov 17: H.A.R.D. benefit screening with a rare Nov. 26: Basic Black Nov. 23: The Machine Nov. 25: Jon- Sketties Solo 16mm film print of "Kansas City Bomber," Nov. 27: Harp-Felt Christmas (Harrisburg Harp Nov. 26: The Great Northeast 8 p.m. Orchestra)

TheBurg 27 Home & Family Hall Pass

Harrisburg: College Town Educational gems can be found throughout the area.

Kyle Schaeffer hen one thinks of higher public and others private. The Center Development and Leadership Weducation in Harrisburg, two began as the Harrisburg Academy, program through Shippensburg institutions immediately come to a school founded by John Harris in University at the Dixon Center, mind: Harrisburg University of Science 1784. It now serves as the seat of describes the campus as a and Technology and Harrisburg the 20-member board of governors “hidden gem” and “a hub of all Area Community College. That's not for the Pennsylvania State System of this great academic activity, but a surprise, as both have become Higher Education (PASSHE) and has you don’t really know it until important places of higher learning in representation from six of the 14 state you’re there.” central Pennsylvania. system schools. Check out: www. There are, though, other colleges The five-building campus in dixonuniversitycenter.org for a that educate thousands of students Uptown offers “an expansive menu of list of schools represented and each year, most affiliated with schools undergrad, graduate and certificate degrees offered. programs, professional development Six Pennsylvania state schools have programs at in larger metro areas. So, before you Eastern University Dixon University Center in Uptown Harrisburg run off to Philadelphia for that MBA, and customized training,” according This Christian faith-based university consider these lesser-known higher- to the center’s website. Along with located outside of Philadelphia campus in the late 1980s. “Temple education programs found right here. 27 degree options, the Dixon Center opened its central Pennsylvania came to Harrisburg because the offers up to $1,000 in scholarship Dixon University Center campus in 1997. The campus now community invited programs,” said funds to its students based on One of the great educational assets offers six undergraduate degrees and Link Martin, campus director. “As academic performance each term. to the Harrisburg area, the Dixon four graduate programs, with courses those programs grew, Temple saw we Ashley Barton, a student University Center comprises 10 available in Lancaster. All of Eastern’s needed to provide the support for in the Master of Organizational colleges and universities, some programs are designed for working those programs as well.” students. Classes meet one night a The campus is now located week with some work done online. in Strawberry Square downtown HMAC “Philadelphia is a very saturated and offers a variety of master's- November Schedule market” for universities looking to level programs, from social work to expand, said Ryan Knisely, the site community planning, and a wide Nov. 1: Betty Poison from Rome director for the Harrisburg Campus. range of education degrees. “Eastern University saw a growth “There are a lot of people in this Nov. 4: Aortic Valve First Friday Big Party harrisburg midtown arts center area who are interested in teaching Dance in Harrisburg potential in central Pa.” 268 Herr Street Check out: Registered Nurse/ opportunities,” Martin said. “And we Nov. 5: The Passionettes www.harrisburgarts.com Bachelor of Science in Nursing are looking to provide new programs Nov. 6: Alash, Throat Singers from Tuva Program. The flexible schedule allows as the area needs.” current registered nurses to work full Check out: Master of Public Nov. 8: Gennaro Porcelli, Blues Guitarist time while pursuing a BSN. Health (MPH), a new program that just from Italy began this fall. Widener University Nov. 10: Bess Rogers Another example of a Philadelphia Nov. 11: Three’s Company – The boys from school expanding to this market is HU Gets Federal Grant Aortic Valve bring you something di erent. Widener University, which opened its Harrisburg campus in 1989. It is The Science Education for New Civic Nov. 12: Hexbelt now one of the premier law school Engagements and Responsibilities Nov. 13: Soul Comedy Café campuses in the region, and the only (SENCER) project at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology Nov. 17: Hickory Hollow and RiverRat law school in Harrisburg. The campus also boasts a Master of Social Work has received a $399,488 grant from Jenkins program and a nursing department. the National Science Foundation. Nov. 18: The Dirty Sweet Pajama Party Check out: Legal Nurse HU says that the SENCER project promotes greater engagement of Nov. 19: Alash, Throat Singers from Tuva Consultant (LNC) Certificate. Designed for current working nurses, the LNC undergraduates with the sciences in Nov. 20: Sviraj Balkan Dance Party Certificate allows graduates to serve institutions of higher education. Nov. 25: Parallax Project as a liaison between attorneys, health "I am particularly proud of care providers and their clients. the SENCER approach to science Nov. 26: City Music Project education. It is an approach that Nov. 27: Roller Girls Temple University motivates today’s students, appeals One of Philadelphia’s top institutions, to their interests, counts on their Every Monday: Karoke Temple has provided programs in contributions and makes science real Every Wednesday: Open Mic w/Mike Banks Harrisburg since the early 1950s. The and relevant to their lives,” said Dr. Eric school began as part of the Dixon Darr, HU's provost and executive vice For full event information visit www.harrisburgarts.com or call 717-701-6199 Center and then became its own president.

28 TheBurg Wags & Whiskers

Good Nutrition, Healthy Pets Educate yourself on what's best for Fido, Fluffy.

Laura Maynard love fast food restaurants. I know the protein consumption (18 to 35 percent I food isn’t the healthiest for me, yet I for instance), but the right amount continue to enjoy value meals despite for your dog will be determined by this knowledge. his age and activity level. If your dog My dog, however, doesn’t have is a 10-year-old couch potato, rest the luxury of choosing her food. So, it assured he needs much less protein is my job to make sure she eats a well- than a 2-year-old working sled dog. balanced diet based on what her body Your vet can be a valuable resource in needs. This means I need to take into determining the proper levels for your consideration her age, breed, size and dog. Ask questions. activity level. This brings me to our feline It isn’t merely about buying what companions. Cats have long been is on sale or what is most popular. She known as independent pets with would eat both types willingly. But, as fussy appetites, yet this doesn’t mean her owner, I need to make informed we can turn a blind eye towards their decisions that ensure she receives the health. nutrients she needs. Cats were built to be carnivores, There is no shortage of dog food so it is important to pay close on the market. Some have glossy attention to the protein source in the packaging or cute commercials, food your cat eats. The protein needs but what’s in the bag is the most to be animal-based and not plant- important thing. The first step based, which is less expensive for in making a proper decision for companies to produce. your pet’s nutrition is reading the The best advice I can offer ingredient list and knowing what is to do your homework and is good and what is simply a ‘filler’ research ingredients. Is your cat’s ingredient. food supplying a heavy load of Take a look at the ingredient carbohydrates? Carbohydrates are not list from a very popular dog food: needed in a feline diet, but what is "Ground yellow corn, chicken by- needed is water and lots of it. product meal, corn gluten meal, whole When feeding your cat, it is wheat flour … ." important to make sure there is plenty At first glance, there doesn’t of fresh water readily available. Cats appear to be anything alarming or are infrequent hydrators, so they need even harmful in this list. However, water with their meal, as well as a in interpreting a dog food label, an canned food that has a high moisture animal-based protein should always content. Anyone who has had a cat be listed first or at least within the first with kidney and urinary tract issues few ingredients, as it is a critical part of will attest to the importance of this a dog’s diet. requirement. In this case, there isn’t a single The bottom line is that family pets animal-based protein source within are members of our family. By making the first four ingredients. "Chicken by- the right decisions in regards to their product" appears to be convincing, nutrition, you will help keep them but it is, in fact, what is left after the happy and healthy for many years to good meat is processed. Your pet may come. actually be enjoying beaks, claws, bone or undeveloped eggs. Is this Laura Maynard of inherently harmful? Not necessarily, Mechanicsburg has but if my dog could talk I am quite worked in the pet positive she wouldn’t ask for an extra care industry for more serving of chicken beak! than three years and is a pet management The building blocks for proper consultant with Pet canine nutrition should look Solutions/Invisible familiar to all of us: proteins, whole Fence. Pictured with grains, vegetables, fruits. There are Laura is Honey, her recommended daily requirements for 3-year-old rescue pit bull.

TheBurg 29 Family History

Blood Ties to Camp Curtin On Veteran's Day, remember soldiers like John Norris.

William S. Jackson put a flower on a grave at After joining what infamously ured as ICurwensville Oak Hill Cemetery in became the Bucktails, John and barracks. Clearfield County every Memorial Day, 99 other members of the newly Within for there lays a man who not only was formed Company K, 1st Volunteer two my great uncle, but a great patriot Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment, weeks, who learned about fighting while hiked 36 miles to Tyrone and hopped a more training at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg. train to Harrisburg. than John Norris was also a hero to Camp Curtin was a makeshift 5,000 many who watched him train for training ground that sat on land that soldiers battle at Camp Curtin, fight for the is now marked by Maclay Street to the were Union Army during the Civil War and south, the old Pennsylvania Railroad training escape twice from the infamous Libby on the east, Reels Lane (near the Poly- at Camp Prison in Richmond, Va. clinic campus) to the north, and 5th Curtin. A scene of troops drilling at Camp Curtin that appeared in the popular Harper's But it didn’t take four years Street to the west. It was designated as Harp- Weekly of May 11, 1861. to show his valor. After President a receiving ground for arriving Union er’s Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 soldiers by Pennsylvania Gov. Andrew Weekly volunteers to join the Union Army Curtin. magazine said sergeants at the camp Indeed, Camp Curtin was a major soon after Confederate forces opened While not an ideal tract, Gov. were “busy from daylight to dark drill- reason why Gen. Robert E. Lee invaded fire on Fort Sumter, S.C., on April Curtin picked the Dauphin County ing the men, who go through the un- Pennsylvania in late June 1863. 12, 1861, the strapping 21-year-old Agricultural Fairgrounds because it accustomed labor with cheerfulness, After the war ended, and until it lumberman from Grampian, who had a well and pump to deliver fresh and only ask to be led forward.” finally closed on Nov. 11, 1865, Camp could wield an ax and fire a rifle with drinking water; the railroad, to receive The troops who were the first to Curtin served as a mustering-out precision, was second in line to answer supplies; and the Susquehanna River, arrive at Camp Curtin, my great uncle location for thousands of home- the call. which offered a place for recruits among them, were also the first to bound soldiers. to swim and head to Washington, D.C., to defend John Norris mustered out with his bathe. the nation’s capital from Confederate regiment for the final time on June 28, Pennsylva- attack. 1865, with an honorable discharge, nia provided The Harrisburg training grounds but not before performing light duty 200 Sibley continued to be a vital facility during his final days as an active tents for shel- throughout the bloody 4-year war. soldier in Carlisle. ter, and sheds Some 300,000 men went through Camp Curtin isn’t the only tie that were its gates, including soldiers from to central Pennsylvania for my great used to house Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New uncle. He married Hanna Cecelia animals dur- Jersey, New York, Ohio and Wisconsin. McCleary of Lancaster County and ing fairs on After the battle at Gettysburg, Camp was a York County revenue inspector the grounds Curtin served as a hospital and a for three years before returning to were reconfig- prisoner of war camp. Curwensville. As a veteran, John Norris served two years in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat. He died a month shy of his We invite you to be our guest and 80th birthday on Feb. nd out why you should join the 23, 1920, and 14 years West Shore Breakfast Club! before I was born. I am Tired of networking groups that cost an arm and a leg? one of six remaining descendants of members Tired of groups that cost you more every meeting? Meeting Time & Place: Tired of groups that don’t produce results and put of the Bucktails, and I dollars in your pockets? t
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From River to Bay The Susquehanna is a critical link to Chesapeake Bay health.

Peter Durantine or the Expedition Chesapeake all have a stake in the health of the central Pennsylvania region, where the Fteam, September’s torrential creeks and rivers that feed into the Susquehanna and her tributaries are a rains foiled a kayak excursion on Susquehanna and ultimately the vital resource for the area. the Susquehanna River, from Fort Chesapeake Bay.” “How we manage this resource Hunter to City Island, and left the As a $10 million advocacy has an impact on our lives, obviously, waters too high for safe navigation and education project, Expedition but also on the Lancaster County on the paddleboat, Pride of the Chesapeake does indeed appear farmer; the fisherman in the lower Susquehanna. timely after the deluge that caused the Susquehanna; and on the oysterman So, staffers from the Whitaker evacuation of Harrisburg and turned in the bay,” Bishop said. The raging Susquehanna River during Center for Science and the Arts, the local creeks into roaring rivers that September’s floods from the September's flood. Expedition Chesapeake advisory devastated homes and businesses. remnants of a hurricane and tropical committee members, state officials Launched earlier this year, the multi- storm made this point even clearer. Press. “We have to do a little bit better and conservationist Jeff Corwin of media project, when completed in Large chemical containers from a planning.” Animal Planet channel fame settled for 2013, will include a 42-minute large plant in Middletown were found in the The Bay Foundation’s Campbell a pavilion on City Island. format film for IMAX theaters, an Chesapeake Bay, washed downstream told the City Island gathering that, Even that proved a dicey interactive website for schools and by the flood, the state reported. while no one is to blame for the proposition. As one speaker after a traveling exhibit. Its purpose is Harry Campbell, a senior scientist flooding, “we did influence it” by our another talked about the river and its to educate and entertain the vast at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, an activities. vital role as part of the Chesapeake watershed’s 17 million residents Expedition Chesapeake team member, “Every day each of us makes a Bay watershed, rain continued to fall, whose daily living has a significant said the flood’s power was so great decision that affects the Susquehanna flooding an already soaked ground impact on the bay. that the river washed 4 million tons of River and Chesapeake Bay,” Campbell and further raising the mighty “This project is very, very valuable sediment into the bay. said. Susquehanna’s waters. to all of us,” said Richard Allan, state Gov. Tom Corbett, who has urged To protect the bay means to “The recent flooding reminds us, Department of Conservation and the General Assembly to conduct protect the Susquehanna and its quite convincingly, that Expedition Natural Resources secretary. hearings on the catastrophic flooding tributaries, such as the Swatara and Chesapeake is an initiative whose The watershed’s population this fall, suspects the causes to be Conodoguinet creeks. To do that, said time has come,” said Steve Bishop, stretches from New York state’s intense development and lack of Animal Planet’s Corwin, watershed vice president of Science and IMAX southern tier to Virginia’s coastal storm water maintenance. residents must get educated, the goal Programs at Whitaker Center. “We plains and, of course, includes the “I think we have to take a look of Expedition Chesapeake. at how developments are made, and “Ultimately, the mission is to how much water is running down into promote stewardship,” Corwin said. Tree Restoration Free Mammograms streams that frankly wasn’t running “You can’t protect what you know and down into streams maybe 10, 15, 30 love, if you don’t know it. And to know Task Force Takes Root for Low-Income Women years ago,” Corbett told the Associated it is to learn about it.” Environmentalist Josh First last month Penn State Hershey Breast Center, Weis was named head of a new Harrisburg Markets and the state Department Tree and Restoration Task Force. of Health’s HealthyWoman Program The Harrisburg Mayor Linda Thompson said the have joined forces to address one Your Holiday task force will “create a sustainable reason women do not have annual RADIO LAB. Headquarters program to restore and develop a mammograms: the ability to pay. Sales & Service manageable city tree canopy that is The Weis Markets BEFORE YOU BUY ANY science-based, sensitive to residents Mammography Voucher Program Since 1944 and in keeping with city planning will provide vouchers for free -&%
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TheBurg 31 Women's Health

Engaged in the Battle HCCN helps local women fight breast cancer. Robin Perry-Smith & Dr. Eugene J. Lengerich

ancer, sometimes referred to as to implement a CHW pilot program. Cthe “Big C”, is a word that we do The goals of the six-month program not like to talk about and can be scary are to educate 300 African-American to deal with. One in seven women women in Dauphin County on breast will develop breast cancer during her health, emphasizing the importance of lifetime. Breast cancer is the most self breast exams and mammograms. commonly diagnosed cancer among To celebrate cancer survivorship, African-American women. the HCCN established the Harrisburg Caucasian women are more likely Community Cancer Education Summit, to develop breast cancer but less likely which is held annually on the first to die from it compared to African- Saturday of November. The upcoming American women. Also, African- summit, "Breast Cancer Survivors and American women tend to have more Caregivers: Surviving Together," will aggressive tumors that are diagnosed celebrate breast cancer survivors and later. Why? It is thought that factors caregivers. This event will include a that contribute to the higher death caregiver panel, myths and facts of rates among African-American women survivorship, breast cancer updates include differences in access to and and much more. utilization of early detection and treatment and differences in tumor The Harrisburg Community Cancer Education Summit, "Breast Cancer Survivors and characteristics. Death rates from Caregivers: Surviving Together," will take breast cancer have been decreasing place 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 5 at since 1990 and are thought to be the Zion Assembly of Harrisburg, 2101 N. 5th St., result of treatment advances, earlier Harrisburg. Information source: ACS African- detection through screening and American 2010-2011 Cancer Facts. increased awareness. Robin Perry-Smith, MHA, is program manager To help fight breast cancer, for the Harrisburg Community Cancer Network Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute at Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute. partnered in 2009 with community Dr. Eugene J. Lengerich, V.M.D., M.S. is director organizations, government and cancer of the Community Sciences and Health survivors to create the Harrisburg Outcomes Core, which supports the Harrisburg Community Cancer Network (HCCN). Community Cancer Network. The HCCN addresses the barriers to breast cancer prevention, screening, treatment and survivorship for African-American women who Milestone Reached live in Harrisburg. In 2009, the HCCN conducted a needs assessment in Robotic Surgery among African-American breast cancer survivors to hear the voice of PinnacleHealth’s Women’s Cancer the brave women not afraid to speak Center marked a milestone about their breast cancer journey. recently: its 1,000th robotic-assisted As a result, the HCCN developed gynecological surgery, a minimally a Community Engagement Advisory invasive procedure for women. Board (CEAB) to establish and “One thousand is not just a develop community cancer education number, it represents the number programs. With the CEAB’s help, the of women in this region who have following programs were created: undergone safe, successful, leading- the Harrisburg Community Cancer edge surgical procedures—from Education Summit, Harrisburg Breast treating pelvic reproductive cancers Cancer Support Group, National to hysterectomies,” said Dr. Jose Misas, Survivor’s Day of Harrisburg and the Women’s Cancer Center medical HCCN Community Health Worker director. (CHW) Program. With the achievement, In August 2011, Penn State PinnacleHealth's Women's Cancer Hershey Cancer Institute was awarded Center is in the top 5 percent of funding from the American Cancer facilities using this procedure Society and the Wal-Mart Foundation nationwide.

32 TheBurg Family Health

Helmets on Heads, Please Bike helmets are essential safety equipment for kids.

Dr. Deepa Sekhar ’m not wearing that helmet!” (CPSC) issued mandatory safety visible, must be replaced. Otherwise, Bicycling is great exercise and “I As part of routine pediatric care, standards for bicycle helmets. helmets should be replaced after five a wonderful activity for families to doctors are expected to provide Parents should look for the sticker years of use. participate in together. As most adults injury-counseling and guidance for inside the helmet documenting that Using bicycle helmets is but one did not grow up wearing bicycle parents. It is impossible to cover it meets CPSC standards prior to aspect of bicycle safety. Children need helmets, I find many of us undervalue everything, and sometimes I find it’s purchasing a bicycle helmet. Multi- to be instructed on safely crossing the importance of this very simple but hard to cover even a few key points in sport helmets designed for in-line the street and the use of hand signals crucial injury prevention measure for the depth I would prefer. Bicycle safety skating, skateboarding, bicycling when turning. Though school-age our children and ourselves. I am lucky and the use of bicycle helmets is one etc., are another option, but they children may be skilled bike riders, if I get to cover a portion of the above example. should still have a CPSC certification they often lack the judgment to information during a busy office visit. Aside from injuries related to sticker indicating that they meet navigate busy roads and should be Yet I am hopeful that sharing the car crashes, bicycles cause more bicycle helmet standards. Helmets supervised at all times. Infants should information in various other forums childhood injuries than any other manufactured before 1999 may never be placed in backpacks or other may educate and empower parents to consumer product. Children 5 to 14 also be used, as voluntary standards carriers while an adult is bicycling. In enforce bicycle helmet use and safe years old are at the greatest risk, with existed for many years prior to fact, children less than 1 year of age riding for the entire family. the majority of bicycle accidents 1999. Look for certifications by the should not even ride as passengers involving boys. Bicycle-related injuries American Society for Testing and on a bicycle. After the first birthday, a Dr. Deepa Sekhar is a usually occur due to falls or collisions Materials (ASTM) or the Snell Memorial child normally has sufficient muscle pediatrician at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. with a fixed or moving object. More Foundation in older helmets. Older strength to control head movement serious injuries and deaths typically helmets only certified by the American during a sudden stop, even with the occur from collisions with a motor National Standards Institute (ANSI) added weight of a helmet. vehicle. Because injuries to the head should not be used, as they were are the most severe, disabling and tested to meet a less stringent safety potentially fatal, use of a bicycle standard. helmet is one of the most effective Purchasing the proper helmet Emergency Update preventive measures parents and is important, but equally important children can take. is wearing the helmet properly. A Dr. Lewis Shaw, head Studies show that use of a bicycle helmet should rest just above of Harrisburg Hospital’s helmet reduces the risk of head and the eyebrows and not slide around emergency medicine, brain injuries by 63 to 88 percent for the head. The foam pads can be used shows a treatment to raise or lower the helmet, pad the room in the new $27 bicyclists of all ages. Bicycle helmet million Donald B. & use has increased substantially since sides or otherwise assure a snug fit, as Dorothy L. Stabler the 1980s, when less than 5 percent needed. A helmet should not be worn Emergency Department. of children wore helmets. Two factors tipped back on the head. The straps Its formal grand opening was celebrated have been found to be particularly should form a Y under the child’s ears, by PinnacleHealth influential in increasing helmet use by and the chinstrap should be tight Foundation on Oct. 6. young children: enough to pull down on the helmet PinnacleHealth’s new when the child opens his or her department is expected • State mandatory helmet use laws to ease congestion. It will mouth. triple patient capacity to • Use of helmets by an accompanying Any helmet that has been in a 110,000 annual visits, Shaw parent crash, even if no obvious damage is said. The foundation raised $12 million from corporate and public donations towards the full cost of the project. In Pennsylvania, state law mandates that children under 12 years old wear a helmet when operating a bicycle or Mention This Ad and riding as a passenger on a Receive a 10% Discount bicycle. Though this is the written law, helmets should be worn by anyone riding a bike. As mentioned above, Shining Light Thrift Shop it is especially important for (a Clothing Ministry of St. Patrick Cathedral) parents to model this behavior for their children. Wed. to Fri., 9:30 to 5 1310 N. 3rd St. In 1999, the U.S. Consumer Sat., 9:30 to 4 Harrisburg, Pa. 17102 Product Safety Commission 717-234-2436 [email protected]

TheBurg 33 One More Thing …

The Good among the Gloom Down on Harrisburg these days? Here's a quick pick-me-up.

Treasa Ward moved to Harrisburg four years ago, for most people elsewhere. This is a of the Industrial Revolution is I and I am constantly amazed by the city where a little girl from the poorest reflected in our manufacturing beauty of this city. I can honestly say family can potentially have a princess history. And, of course, our that I am very proud and grateful to be turret bedroom—what other city can railroads once linked the living here. offer its residents that? metropolitan East Coast (which I Harrisburg has a wonderful I have traveled to 16 states across sincerely hope will do so again) vibrant, international and young vibe, America, and there is nowhere I have with the nation. Books such as yet stands tall as a beautiful, proud, been that has this abundance of old “The Blue Orchard” visualize our old city of stunning turn-of-the-20th- American grandeur in its buildings. more recent and compelling century houses, with the Susquehanna The whole city is one stunning old, history. River sweeping alongside. In my great house after another. Many are I am amazed that I must go experience, so many people from this in disrepair but are repairable. Other to Wormleysburg or drive miles area do not appreciate the beauty cities may have an “old city” area, down Front Street to sit with One of Harrisburg's many charming Victorian streets. that they live in, preferring to dwell on but Harrisburg trumps them with food or a drink while enjoying for investors who can see the massive negative aspects. I understand. I felt its collection of buildings depicting the river views. I am baffled that we potential of our city and give them the same about my home town until American history from the 19th have miles upon stunning miles of the a vision that they can believe in. We absence made the heart grow fonder. century. This is a hugely ignored Susquehanna almost totally unused have the natural resources to easily The stunning houses people tourist attraction. Sometimes, we all except by dog walkers and exercise make Harrisburg into a northern drive past on a daily basis in areas like need a stranger’s eye to point out the enthusiasts. Most cities have their Savannah. Midtown, Uptown and yes, Allison beauty in something that we take for restaurants and bars overlooking Harrisburg is a diamond in the Hill, are, to me, the greatest treasure granted every day. these views. We have ours behind rough that just needs a little polishing. this city has. They are, to my mind, the This vibrant little city wears her large offices with views of traffic and biggest untapped resource of the city. history with pride for everyone to see. streets. Treasa Wood lives on Maclay Street in Uptown Those of us who move to Harrisburg On almost every corner, a plaque tells We can easily be a hub for tourists Harrisburg. from elsewhere will often walk around us of events gone by and national who want to see the East Coast, open-mouthed in amazement. firsts, such as the Walnut Street Bridge whether they base themselves here At every turn, there is something to City Island—the oldest of its kind in or stay for a few days on their way Burg Classifieds more beautiful than the last. One can the nation. The Broad Street Market, through. Our location is one of the affordably buy and live in a historic one of the oldest farmers markets best in the country with our proximity old house that, in other cities, costs in the United States. We have the to major cities. millions of dollars. Even the poorest colorful history of Hardscrabble, a part I am confused, though, that Auto for Sale amongst us can come home every of which is now a manicured part of we are looking for bailouts and night to a home that is out of reach Riverfront Park. The positive impact resolutions to an incinerator crisis. We Lexus IS350 2006, one owner, custom- need to protect the city’s heritage, ordered, low mileage (under 45,000), show our debtors a plan of action to excellent condition. Asking $25,000. Call develop what we already have. Look 233-2270 or 919-1540. NOW LEASING

Various Apartments and Houses throughout Greater Harrisburg Area 10 Years On Ready for Immediate Occupancy The Senator John J. Shumaker Public Safety Center at HACC received a special delivery this fall from the Port Authority of New York: a piece of concrete- encased steel from the Twin

717-652-4434 Towers at the Tenant Screening and Placement World Trade Lease Execution and Enforcement Center. The Maintenance and Construction Oversight approximately 12-by-4-foot Rent Today in Central PA beam is from the rubble Professional Management Services created by the collapse of the towers on Sept. 11, 2001. The beam eventually will be transformed into a memorial to first responders at the center.

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