Greater Harrisburg's Community Newspaper June 2010
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TheBurgGreater Harrisburg’s Community Newspaper June 2010 Free HMACharrisburg midtown arts center 268 Herr Street www.harrisburgarts.com “Cultural Icon,” Ophelia Chambliss June Schedule • 1st: Pretty Things Peep Show • 16th: Open Mic w/ Mike Banks Juneteenth Forum & The Sex Slaves • 17th: Zach Maxwell • 2nd: Open Mic w/Mike Banks • 18th: Novak CD release party Please join Gallery Blu at the Midtown Scholar • 4th:Vinegar Creek Constituency • 19th: The Greatest Funeral Ever for a forum entitled: "Defining Black Art: • 5th: Capitol Area Music • 20th: Hot Club Du Jour Black, Because I Am or Black, Because It Is?" Association benefit featuring • 22nd: Board Game Night Layla Hathaway • 23rd: Open Mic w/ Mike Banks This forum will be a visual exhibition and intellectual • 6th: Sam Quinn w/Cullen Miller • 24th: Sam Baker, Natalia discussion about art expression, ethnic identity and • 8th: Board Game Night Zukerman, John Fullbright in cultural representation. It will be hosted by • 9th: Open Mic w/ Mike Banks the round! Ophelia Chambliss, renowned muralist. • 10th:Mike Banks & Friends • 25th: Bloodfeathers, Wayne • 11th: Gleason’s Drift with Supergenius and The Last 55’s Starsan Quartet • 26th: Dexter Romweber Duo When: June 20, 2-4 p.m. • 12th: The Cultivators, Slim Fit, • 27th: My Rural Radio Where: Midtown Scholar Bookstore Case 150 w/ guests The Last 55’s • 28th: Arctic Death 1302 N. 3rd Street, Harrisburg • 14th: The Farewell Drifters • 29th: Board Game Night Information: www.midtownscholar.com • 30th: Open Mic w/ Mike Banks Gallery Blu • 1633 N. Third Street • Harrisburg, Pa. 17102 For full event information visit www.harrisburgarts.com or call 717 701-6199 (717) 234-3009 • www.galleryblu.org Contents J.C. Snyder Florist In the Burg Over 30 Years in Business Mention this ad 4 The First Word and receive 10% Off 5 City Hall 2900 Greenwood St. Order flowers Harrisburg, PA anytime online: 564-5700 www.jcsnyderflorist.com Burg Biz 6 New Business 7 Face of Business New business jackpot, p.6-7 Street Corners 8 Intersections 9 Around Town 11 ShutterBurg 12 Doing Good 13 Past Tense From bad to beauty, p. 8 Good Eats 14 Home Cooking 15 Wine Time Culture Club 16 Creator 17 Musical Notes 18 Happenings The sound of State Street, p.9 HSAP Paving 20 Curtain Call Driveways • Parking Lots 21 On the Outskirts Residential • Commercial Henry Stanley, owner Fully Insured Home & Family 717-434-7764 22 Hall Pass Free Estimates PA051136 23 Wags & Whiskers 24 Green Thumb Sprint Midtown Harrisburg Sports & Bodies A woman & her art, p.16 For all your Sprint/Nextel needs 25 Your Health • Service plans 26 One More Thing… 1426 N. 3rd Street • Full line of phone accessories Suite 130 • Pre-paid phone service Harrisburg, PA 17102 This month’s cover: • Bill pay center p. 717-695-3401 A view from Riverfront Park, Harrisburg, by local artist Susan Getty for Sprint/Nextel f. 717-695-3403 TheBurg 3 In the Burg The First Word General & Letters TheBurg 1103 N. Front St. Harrisburg, PA 17102 1 Courthouse, 1 Civics Lesson Letters www.theburgnews.com Editorial: 717-602-4300 miles. Hugs. More smiles. news report had the courthouse After reading your interview of Ad Sales: 717-350-0428 S It may have been raw and rainy going to 2nd and Locust or 3rd and us in the May issue of TheBurg, I as a crowd huddled beneath a Walnut or 3rd and Pine. had to sit down (“A New Gallery, Principals Years of Connections,” May 2010, Editor: Peter Durantine makeshift tent set up in a grassy lot They did all the right [email protected] at the corner of 6th and Reily, but, things. They formed a steering p.10). Your treatment, pacing and as the microphone warmed and committee to make the large group accents in the article were superb! Advertising Executive: dignitaries piled out of their big, manageable; they used billboards, While I paid compliments and high Angela Durantine black cars, it may as well have been a posters and petitions to push their praise for the newspaper’s design [email protected] sunny day in the tropics. cause; they wrote letters to local attributes the last time we met, your deft authorship and editorial Co-Editor/Creative Director: “Congratulations,” was frequent media; they got politicians on their greeting, and another one was, “Can side; and they waited out a stubborn balance, both on our behalf and that Lawrance Binda of the community, are real gifts to [email protected] you believe this?” administration in Washington. Members of Right Site So, you could understand Harrisburg. Harrisburg had fought for years their sense of glee, relief and even We haven’t even opened the Staff & Contributors to get a new federal courthouse disbelief as the politicians stepped doors to our new gallery, and your Sales Associates: feature already has made Linda and Leann Leiter located on this empty expanse of up to the mic. On that day, other [email protected] grass and asphalt. Against all odds, people took the spotlight, but the me feel like it’s a success. Peter Carli they had won. They persisted in real credit goes to these residents Ted Walke [email protected] the face of opposition from the of Harrisburg. Their determination Gallery@Second, Harrisburg two entities that seemed to hold brought the courthouse to 6th and Reporters: all the cards: the General Services Reily. Without them, this day never Thank you so much for the great M. Diane McCormick Administration and the judges. would have come. article about Messiah Lutheran [email protected] “We didn’t know it would be “We all hung together and kept Church (“Partnership with the Stephanie Kalina-Metzger such a long haul, but we persevered,” the pressure on,” Allis said. People,” April 2010, p.22). We’ve [email protected] said member Jane Allis. Could their model work heard several comments from our Right Site Harrisburg was a beyond the siting of one building? Jeffrey B. Roth members, many of whom have been [email protected] coalition of about nine diverse Right Site Harrisburg made me exposed to your publication for the community, religious and labor feel that it could, that a lot can be first time. Everyone was pleased Carol Maravic groups. In 2007, sharing a common accomplished in this city by ordinary with the photos and write up. Again [email protected] goal, they joined forces and then people using their smarts, a sense of thank you so much. Rick Kearns hung tough through three years of mission, a good organization and a [email protected] ups and downs. Several times, the whole lot of will. Bob Horner cause seemed all but lost, as another 150th Anniversary Committee, Mike Walsh —Lawrance Binda Messiah Lutheran Church [email protected] Pat Carroll Principal members of I really enjoyed the article about [email protected] Right Site Harrisburg, La Femme Jolie (“A Most Fabulous at the new courthouse Shop,” April 2010, p.6). I love jewelry Lori Myers location at 6th and [email protected] Reily: back row, left and this place has just what I was Ruth Hoover-Seitz to right, Roy Christ, looking for in finding my mom [email protected] Reginald Guy, Dr. a unique Mother’s Day gift. The Richard Dowhower, Lori woman who owns the shop is Columnists: Raver, Bob Disabella; fabulous! Thanks for the tip! Front row, left to right, Cooking: Rosemary Ruggieri Baer Kimberly McCallum [email protected] Craig Peiffer, Don Barnett, Judy Forshee, Harrisburg Cooking: Sara Goulet Jane Allis; not pictured: [email protected] Letters may have been edited for Rev. Earl Harris length, grammar and style. Local History: Jason Wilson Cinema: Kevyn Knox [email protected] Sports & Fitness: Laura Spurgeon [email protected] Outdoors: Kermit Henning [email protected] Pets: Todd Rubey Follow us on Facebook, Twitter: [email protected] theburgnews 4 TheBurg City Hall Keystone Games Return to City Peter Durantine he Keystone State Summer The games will be hosted by the Summer Program Reed Aide Returns TGames return to Harrisburg on Hershey Harrisburg Regional Visitors July 25-31, 2011, for a three-year run Bureau and are expected to be held Turns Cans into Art as Finance Director that is expected to generate at least in at least three facilities: Metro Bank $25 million in economic activity for Park, the Pennsylvania Farm Show The city has joined with the non- Harrisburg has a new finance the region, according to the Hershey Complex and Expo Center and Giant profit BARAK Inc. in a summer youth director, a city veteran who served Harrisburg Regional Visitors Bureau. Center in Hershey. program that will turn the city parks’ for decades under former Mayor The bureau’s Board Chairperson The Keystone Games are the green-painted 55-gallon steel drum Stephen Reed. Tara Betz and President Mary Smith state’s largest amateur athletic trash cans into works of art. Mayor Linda Thompson last were joined at Metro Bank Park by festival, open to all ages, and Through the “Trash Can month appointed Robert Kroboth Mayor Linda Thompson, Dauphin modeled after the Olympic Games Transformers Project,” kids will learn to the post at an annual salary of County Commissioner George P. with more than 30 events, where basic art skills to paint trash cans. $66,950. Kroboth had served as Hartwick III and Keystone Games athletes compete for gold, silver and The newly decorated cans will be both chief of staff and business CEO Owen Costello for the May 17 bronze medals. used in the parks. The program manager under Reed. announcement. “The games are another is part of the Recreation Bureau’s Kroboth had left city service in The 30-year-old games were last stepping stone to achieving an Summer Enrichment Series, which December at the end of Reed’s 28- held in the city from 1993 to 1998, athletic career,” Costello said.