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February 2014 Community Publishers As members of Harrisburg’s business community, we are proud to support TheBurg, a free publication dedicated to telling the stories of the people of greater Harrisburg. Whether you love TheBurg for its distinctive design, its in-depth reporting or its thoughtful features about the businesses and residents who call our area home, you know the value of having responsible, community-centered coverage. We’re thrilled to help provide greater Harrisburg with the local publication it deserves. YOur LOgO here YOur LOgO Realty Associates, Inc. here Wendell Hoover ray davis YOur LOgO here 2 | theburg | 02.14 Community Publishers: Helping to Build a Better HarrisBurg Look to the left, and you’ll see logos for some familiar and trusted names in the greater Harrisburg area. We are delighted to announce that these companies have joined TheBurg as “Community Publishers,” partners helping to ensure that TheBurg continues to thrive as an important resource for news and community. It’s no secret that the traditional, advertising-based revenue model for publications is broken, leaving many newspapers and magazines struggling for survival. However, the need for original, quality reporting and writing is greater than ever, a vital element to building and securing a healthy community. In some cities, private businesses, organizations and even individuals have stepped up to fill the funding gap. With great generosity, the companies listed on the opposite page are helping to support us so that we can continue to serve the people of greater Harrisburg. What Does this mean? Readers will see no change in the way we cover our community. The writing, editing and design all will remain independent, of the highest quality we can produce. In fact, with the support of our Community Publishers, we hope, over time, to become even better—to add reporters, content and pages. For their part, Community Publishers will demonstrate, each month, their commitment to making the Harrisburg area an even better place to live, do business and visit. a Community Publisher: • Is a vital partner who allows us to continue to offer this important, free community news resource. • Is a business or community leader with a vision and a belief that, when the region prospers, we all prosper. • Believes an informed local public is a better local public and thus a better place to live and work. • Recognizes that engaged, local reporting is a community good that must be paid for—but that, in the age of the Internet, must depend upon resources outside of traditional advertising. • Supports arts, culture and the community good via news and education. • Understands and believes that the health of the community is reflected through affirmative, responsible local reporting and features. What Does a Community Publisher Do? • Meets quarterly with the Publisher, Editor-in-Chief and staff to discuss TheBurg. • Shares the Publisher's vision that a community paper is strongest when editorial and content are controlled by the Editor-in-Chief. • Exercises no direct editorial control but shares overall vision and direction. • Facilitates contact with other, similarly minded individuals and companies. hoW is a "Community Publisher" reCognizeD? • Each month, a logo will be printed on TheBurg’s inside front cover recognizing a company, organization or individual as a Community Publisher. • A special section of TheBurg’s website will provide a company description and additional recognition. • Community Publishers will have a dedicated distribution point for TheBurg at their location for the benefit of employees and clients. • Community Publishers will be honored each year at the annual Publisher’s Dinner. As we celebrate our five-year anniversary, we believe we’ve had great success in building a respected, high- quality magazine, brand and business. However, we simply can’t do it alone. Therefore, we are asking key members of our community to become Community Publishers, joining us so we can continue to publish a beautiful magazine that reflects, promotes and elevates the Harrisburg area. We hope that our readers will respond, as well, by patronizing the businesses that help make this free community resource possible. CONteNtS |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| General and leTTers NeWS 403 N. SeCOND St. • hArrISburg, PA 17101 7. NEWS DIGEST WWW.theburgNeWS.COM 10. cITy vIEW 12. state strEET ediTorial: 717.695.2576 ad SALES: 717.695.2621 PubLISher: J. ALeX hARTZLer IN the burg [email protected] 14. ArouND T oWN eDItOr-IN-ChIeF: LAWrANCe bINDA 18. cITy folk S [email protected] COVER arT By: anela BenCe-selkoWiTz SALeS DIreCtOr: LAureN MILLS www.anelapHoToGrapHer.CoM [email protected] buSINess raspberry chocolate truffles, made by mangia Qui. SeNIOr WrIter: PAuL bArker [email protected] 22. SHop WINDoW SALeS/SPeCIAL ProjeCtS: ANDreA Black 24. restaurANT profIlE leTTer FroM THe ediTor [email protected] For years, my good friend, bob, and I have had a rather odd debate—an argument over ConTriBUTors: which month is the worst. gOOD eAtS TarA LeO AuCheY, today’S the day hArrISburg his nominee, February, primarily for its cold, [email protected] 28. WINE TImE ice and snow, though I’m not sure he likes 29. HomE COOKING weather-savvy rodents much either. his RoseMArY ruggIerI bAer feelings about the month are so strong that [email protected] he usually can’t say the word, “February,” bArbArA trAININ bLANk without preceding it with a certain [email protected] alliterative expletive. CELEBRATE black hIStOrY MONth Jess HaydeN honestly, I don’t get it. Sure, February is no [email protected] 30. AcHIEvEmENT stranger is the occasional blizzard and, yes, by 31. roAD To frEEDom then, I’ve had it, had it, had it with winter. but DON heLIN www.DONheLIN.com 32. DoING GooD it’s also the month where we begin to see the 34. rESourcES To BEAr light at the end of the tunnel. kerMIt heNNINg the days start to get noticeably longer. [email protected] Snowfalls melt quicker. If you’re attentive, ANDreW herMeLINg you’ll see the first tiny flowering plants poking [email protected] hOMe FrONt through the snow and mud. In most years, by the end of the month, you can feel winter Steve JuLIANA [email protected] 36. HAll pass loosening its icy grip. 39. WAGS & WHISkEr S For me, February is a month of anticipation. M. DIANe MccorMICk Sure, it’s still cold, as this month’s stories on [email protected] soups and winter pet care attest. but it’s StePhANIe kALINA-MetZger also about what’s to come, thus our column [email protected] CuLture on outdoors shows, which hint at the start of springtime. It’s also black history Month, LOrI MYerS 41. CURTAIN cAll [email protected] President’s Day and valentine’s Day, all of 42. muSIcAl NoTES which we write about in this issue. kerrY Royer 43. creator [email protected] So, I’m no Pollyanna. I agree with bob that I’ll probably be stuck inside much of the reggIe SheFFIeLD month, as another Arctic front or polar [email protected] vortex or whatever comes screaming down hAPPeNINgS, 45 Front Street. but, in the meantime, I’ll have missy SMIth [email protected] a Little Amps coffee, some cookies from Alvaro bakery and an entire burg to read DAN WebSter SPORTS & heALth through. And that’ll keep me plenty warm. [email protected] laWranCe Binda Jason WILSON 48. fAmIly HEAlTH [email protected] 49. Great ouTDoorS Editor-in-chief inTern: FeAtureS ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| eMMA bArr desiGn: tIMe & MAterIALS, P. 14 • hArrISburg'S Mr. Lincoln, P. 18 CreAtIve DIreCtOr & DeSIgNer: MegAN davIS uSeD goods, NeW hOMeS, P. 22 • comfort soups, P. 26 [email protected] black hIStOrY MONth, P. 30-34 • S tuDeNt scrIbeS, P. 36 DeSIgNer: krIStIN SAbADISh [email protected] FACebOOk.COM/theburgNeWS @theburgNeWS #Shutterburg Romantic Getaway City House Bed & Breakfast is an elegant blend of historic beauty and modern comforts along the banks of the picturesque Susquehanna River. Providing lovely overnight accommodations with private ensuite baths, City House is a romantic setting to celebrate any intimate occasion. 915 North Front St., Hbg || 717.903.2489 || www.CityHouseBB.com NeWS WHo are yoU? Online anonymity devalues our conversation, our community. By J. ALeX hArtZLer s I have mentioned before, one of the watching a writer who has published a well-researched unexpected changes in my thinking since piece go online and try to defend the article against the becoming publisher of TheBurg is my anonymous commentators. As a teaching psychologist Aview of local media. Where I was once friend once told me, “Rational argument is a useless tool merely an avid consumer, I am now, with this column, against the irrational”—it only makes you crazy. Proof a monthly producer of sorts. The added duty has caused of that maxim can be found in nearly every one of these me to think about local online and print media in new so-called forums. I feel for the writer who thought she and different ways. had chosen a career in journalism with the local paper and now realizes that it is far more “Lord of The Flies” Far from making local media irrelevant, online social than the Wall Street Journal (the WSJ now requires real media seems to have enhanced individualized stories in names in its commentary). the regional community. Anyone on Twitter or Facebook cannot help but notice the local stories of the day, week There is simply no point in engaging in combative or month. Checking your Twitter feed or Facebook page back and forth with someone who doesn’t want to be will gain you instant knowledge of what your friends are informed or for whom the facts do not matter. For many thinking about.
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