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Garden Extravaganza To Be Held in Centre County by Larry Campbell Where can you go to buy quality plants, listen to talks from experts on topics ranging from raising berries to using goats for environmental cleanup, sample local delicacies, find unusual products for your lawn and garden, win valuable door prizes, tour a museum and have a great lunch all in one stop? This is only a sampling of the many surprises awaiting attendees at the 2015 Garden Fair and Plant Sale to be held from 9 am to 3 pm on Saturday, May 16, at the Penn State Ag Progress Days site on Rte. 45 West of State College. This free event is conducted by the Penn State Extension Master Gardeners of Centre County. The annual Plant Sale has become known as the “Grandfather of Plant Sales in Central PA,” and this year will feature more than 5000 high quality plants at great prices. For instance, the Master Gardeners will have 20 varieties of tomato plants and will have experts throughout the huge plant sale building to help you choose the best ones for you! Go to www. extension.psu.edu/garden-fair for detailed lists of plants for sale. Visitors can also take advantage of free gardening expertise offered during the event. In addition to answering questions about growing the herbs, annuals, vegetables, perennials, native and pollinator plants, grasses, and houseplants they sell, Master
Gardeners and other garden experts will give free presentations simultaneously in two theatres. Please visit the website previously listed for a list of presentations and presenters. The Garden Fair part of the
sale presents a unique collection of vendors from across Pennsylvania and includes six new vendors this year. They will offer big-ticket items such as storage sheds and chicken coops as well as everyday garden needs
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such as tools, gardening clothing, birdhouses, shrubs and trees, landscaping services and garden accessories and décor. There will also be local vendors selling food, including honey, maple syrup, hickory syrup, mustards, pepper
sauces, Brazilian munchies, and other items. Better yet, many of them will be offering free taste samples. Other vendors will feature organic and heirloom plants, environmentally-friendly products and services, items made from recycled materials, and much more. For a listing of all vendors go to www.extension.psu.edu/gardenfair. This year, there will be three valuable door prizes donated by Ace Hardware of State College. These include a heavy-duty steel wheelbarrow, a rain barrel, and a garden cart. For those not lucky enough to win a door prize, there will be other opportunities for bargains. A Garden Garage Sale will feature slightly used garden items at a fraction of their original cost. A Silent Auction will feature many valuable products donated by local businesses and Master Gardeners. Gift baskets and new garden items will be featured. The Pasto Agricultural Museum will conduct free tours and offer lessons in agricultural and gardening history. Red Rooster Catering will offer breakfast and lunch items during the event. The Penn State Extension Master Gardeners of Centre County work all year to make this gardening extravaganza a great event. They invite you to come early for the best selection of plants and stay for the talks and good food. Come celebrate a new gardening season with us! a
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Editor’s Corner Wayne Stottlar I think the hippies in the 60s may have been on to something. Over the last month I have been watching a whole lot less TV. Especially any kind of mews or political content shows. You know what? It is exhilarating! Almost as if breathing in a huge lung full of crisp mountain air. Oh, don’t get me wrong, I haven’t gone cold turkey, every few days I may switch one on just to reaffirm the fact that they are still lying through their teeth in an effort to manipulate the masses—they do a fine job of it too. I am not even going to get started here, I like not having the stress and drama in my life. On a happy note, as you all know, we rescued two Weimaraners after our first one passed aweay right before Christmas. Well, we had always wanted
two, and these guys came as a package anyway. No problem I thought, all the while not realizing how slow our old boy had become those last few years. These guys are ACTIVE! They want to go-go-go, and after being cooped up for three months over winter, they were raring to go all the more with the spring weather arriving. After a couple weeks I knew that something had to give, as they were wearing us both out. We had contacted Fences and More in Mifflintown about installing a fence so that, via doggy door, the two of them could access the yard from our screened in porch. The day Rick from Fences and More came to take measurements was the first real frigid day we had in early January, then it started to snow and stay cold, and that put the project off until spring. Well
as promised, the crew from Fences and More were here as soon as the ground thawed and in just a couple of days the new green vinyl-coated chain link fence was up and ready for the boys. Well, not quite. Since the top rail on fences has to be level, and our yard was anything but, we had a few dips and a gully to deal with before it would be dog ready. The aforementioned gully was beside the walkway leading out back. I never liked that area anyway since it was hard to mow and never looked good. The fix called for a 22’ long retaining wall and back fill to bring it level with the bottom of the fence. I had never done anything like this before, but decided after a few Youtube videos that I could handle it. I also forgot to mention that aside from the gully, the land also sloped up toward the back door adding another wrinkle. Well, as one overly simplistic phrase I heard over and over said, “if your base layer is level the rest will just follow suit,” turned out to be fairly accurate. However, it didn’t account for underground boulders the size of a VW bug being buried right there halfway up the walk. We robbed a little here and fudged a little there, and made up some on the back
end and after 7.5 hours, I had a pretty decent looking wall. Not as perfect as I had hoped, but very functional and looked great. With that completed, it was ready for the boys right? Nope, the north side of the house that is part of the enclosure used to store my winter wood supply on pallets. After 5 years of dealing with that mess, I decided I would pour a concrete slab and put a proper roof over the pile—all while I try to convince Lynn that the wood really belongs on the opposite side of the back walk. For now, I have planted the area in grass for the dogs, and I really wanted to give the grass a fighting chance before turning them loose. Besides that, I wanted to give Job Swarey a chance to start the flea and tick treatment in the area to help protect the dogs, and the plus side is the treatment is 100% ORGANIC, safe for people and dogs! It’s coming along and I hope everything is finished by the time we head to NH at the end of this month. Speaking of NH, a friend in the northern part of the state posted a picture taken just today, May 1st, of his kids in t-shirts sledding in his back yard—ayuh, they get a touch of snow in the north country. As much as I am enjoying a more relaxed life without all the
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turmoil on the TV, one does need to pay attention to local politics, as this affects you most directly and happens very quickly once in motion. It is often said that politicians and a babies diapers have to be changed often, and for the same reason. Too bad most treat this as a joke, because it is absolutely true. When our system of government was first envisioned, the founders could have never imagined that people would become so greedy that they would seek election for their own benefit instead of as a duty to serve his or her town, state or country. People were supposed to serve a short while and return back home. These days politicians seem to think their main purpose is to get re-elected and hold on to power. This isn’t just at the federal level, corruption, nepotism, scandal and criminality happen right at the local level in medium and small towns all across the country. The best way to guard against this is to change the total power structure at every opportunity. These town jobs are nothing that most people couldn’t handle, but they are made to seem the opposite by those wanting to retain power. As you can imagine, when
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Back Talk by Dr. Joseph Kauffman
Sit Down and Shut Up! Once again, the writing is on the wall. Is this the beginning of the end or the beginning of the beginning? In the past, many of my fears and anxieties were put off and labelled as conspiracythinking. But, as time has passed, many of these fears have come to fruition. The Muslim takeover is coming. If you don’t agree, open your eyes to what is going on, not only in other parts of the world, but also right here in our own country. The Supreme Court is deciding this week whether two men or two women can legally marry one another. And, forced vaccination is coming. Our state has a bill with bi-partisan support proposing that exemptions to vaccinations based on philosophical beliefs be stripped from parents, and that the only exemption be based on religious beliefs. We all know that once philosophical exemptions are gone, religious exemptions are sure to follow. Then, the Mennonites and the Amish alike will be forced to get their children inoculated with vaccines, regardless of their beliefs. Connecting the dots, who will be next? The answer will be the adults. Are you up to date on all of your booster shots? By taking away religious and philosophical exemptions, you will have no choice but to sit down, roll up your sleeve,shut your mouth and get your shots. There are cases out there that have proven that vaccinations are not 100% effective and have caused harm to children. Courts have forced pharmaceutical companies to pay damages due to vaccine injuries. Yet, some states are passing laws to enforce these shots, regardless of parental arguments. California is one such state. “Vaccine laws across the nation may be toughened, observers say, if California passes a fervently debated bill that would strip parents’ rights to exempt kids from immunizations based on personal beliefs. A potential end to California’s opt-out provision gained ground Wednesday when the state senate’s education committee voted 7-2 to require full vaccinations for almost all public school students. The move came in the wake
of ‘anti-vax’ parents who were often blamed for the Disneyland measles outbreak that sickened 147 people as it spread to at least five states. ‘Other states will be looking carefully at the California experience if this goes through,’ said Dr. Eric Kodish, director of the Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Ethics, Humanities and Spiritual Care. ‘If they become a place where, as I would predict, fewer children get sick and die, it’s something other states would want to look at.’ Even opponents believe the bill’s passing could have sweeping effect across the nation. ‘If it passes, oh my gosh, all hell is going to break loose. All eyes are on California,’ said Elaine Shtein, 34, of San Jose. She blames her fiveyear-old son’s autism diagnosis on his vaccinations. She’s one of many parents who have criticized the bill. Last week, she took her
daughter, Sophia, 7, to a senate hearing. Previous senate sessions spurred spirited testimonies from parents against the measure: Like when Robert Kennedy Jr. — the son of former U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy — also came to Sacramento and characterized the number of children injured by vaccines as ‘a holocaust.’ On Wednesday, there was no testimony, just a vote. Still, opponents arrived at the Capitol clad in red clothing and carrying red roses to represent kids injured by or who died from vaccinations, the Sacramento Bee reported. ‘If someone knocked on my door and said Sophia needs these vaccinations in order for her to be in
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third grade, I would say, ‘No, not going to happen,’ Shtein, whose daughter attends public school, said in a phone interview with NBC News. ‘Before I let anyone lay a hand on my daughter, I would home-school her.’ But, bioethicist Kodish contends some parents have forsaken parental responsibilities for the pursuit of parental rights. The California measles outbreak, he argues, showed how public health threats emerge when more parents opt out of vaccinating their kids. ‘I would ask these parents to think about the kids with illnesses like leukemia whose immune systems don’t work well (against viruses like measles),’ Kodish said. ‘Do parents have any obligations to other children or just to their own biological children? I hope, certainly for our society, that we would be thinking collectively about what’s good for (all) children and not just our own individual children.’ Similar proposals to bar vac-
cine exemptions on the grounds of ‘personal belief’ have been considered this spring in New Jersey and Texas. Meanwhile, bills that sought to end the opt-out clause failed in the Washington, Oregon, Vermont and North Carolina. But some experts see California as the most potent social and medical laboratory, the state where such legislative action could create national waves. Under that bill, parents of ill children still could get immunization waivers for medical reasons. ‘Since California is such a big state, I believe other states will look to see what happens should California remove all exemptions except medical contraindications,’ said Dr. Walter Orenstein, president-elect of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. ‘Should the experience be positive, more states may take this route,’ Orenstein said.
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It’s 7:30 am on a Saturday morning and I am on my fourth cup of coffee—let’s see where this article takes us, shall we? Well folks it’s that season when scum bag politicians come out of the wood work to spew their lies and empty promises so they can get your vote for POTUS. The candidates all dressed in their best suits and finely coifed hair and perfect smiles pop-up on every morning show, late night talk show or comedy show to win your approval. The lies are always the same, lower taxes, better schools, more transparency, equal access, fair or higher wages, a chicken in every pot horse crap. Can we just for once have a common sense candidate that is not bought and
financed by the big corporations? Can we have a person who is not a lawyer or a career politician? Can we have an individual who has a business back ground, good moral character and understands the free
market economy? Can we have a person who will uphold and follow the constitution and not circumvent its purpose for greed or political gain? Well that’s the big question. As you listen to the
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attack ads on the TV and radio, please keep in mind that someone has been promised a cushy position for lying to you, the American people. Just what kind of candidate should we listen and look for, you may ask? A candidate that will uphold the freedom of religion, speech, free press, peaceful assembly and holds the government accountable. We need a candidate that protects the rights of gun owners and does not enact
laws that limit ammo production or type, clip size, or registration of any firearms. We need a candidate that does not sign unlawful treaties with the UN banning and circumventing our constitutional right to keep and bear arms. We need a candidate that values and upholds every citizen’s rights to privacy and rule of law before any unlawful search or seizure occurs.
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The Hostetler Family, Reuben, Katie, Moses, Dorothy , Ketura and Asher, welcome you to their farm!
FORMER LOCAL DOCTOR RETURNS TO BELLEVILLE Chiropractic physician Dr. Kimberly Stefanik with Stefanik Chiropractic Clinic, LLC returns to practice in Big Valley.
Dr. Stefanik owned and operated a successful chiropractic clinic in Belleville just over fifteen years ago, but has been feeling the need for quite some time to return to Central Pennsylvania to treat the people of Big Valley. Since leaving the area, Dr. Stefanik has been living in Florida and treating patients with acute injuries of the spine. She maintains a certification in musculoskeletal rehabilitation and has a special interest in soft tissue injuries, though she treats many ailments related to the spine including headaches, shoulder pain and generalized neck and back pain, just to name a few. Dr. Stefanik has twenty plus years of experience in the use of Activator and Manual treatment of the spine. When asked what prompted her to return to the area, she states “I have felt a yearning for several years to return to the Big Valley.
The people are kind and genuine and always had a great appreciation for my services. I have enjoyed treating the people of this community and I look forward to once again treating many former and new patients.” Dr. Stefanik has one goal and that is to deliver quality treatment at an affordable price. Her treatments are $25.00 a visit, and she will begin seeing patients one week each month with her first week starting Monday June 8th through Saturday, June 13th. She encourages patients, former and new, to call and make an appointment in advance. See ad on page 16.
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Bolling for Mifflin County Commissioner. New faces with loads of integrity to lead this county into the future. Perhaps with these new voices in place, we can right some past wrongs. Dunkle, Nancollas and Bolling are our best chance of forging a clean path forward. We will work on changing up the Borough Council next time. With the return of warmer weather I have been able to get out and do some metal detecting recently. That is how I recharge my batteries, so if anyone has a property with some history, or an old home or land where there was a home, I would be extremely grateful for the opportunity to detect the property. My main interest is recovering the lost history laying under our feet. I do collect old coins but willingly share 1/2 of all I find with the property owner. There is a TV personalty on Metal Detecting whose motto is “Passion over Profit.” Howard Hewitt from up in New England hit the nail right on the head with that statement. Most of the detectorists I am friends with would frown at the term “treasure hunter,” for we all share an obsessive love of history. This hobby allows us to feed that need. If you have a property that you would allow me to detect, give us a call at the paper. a
you publish a paper you have LOTS of info crossing your desk, much of it can not be verified, and a lot of what happens in local government is never known to the people who live there. In fact, a lot is just plain swept under a rug. Then the job of getting re-elected becomes all the more important to keep the doings secret. Do we have any of these skeletons in the Mifflin County Commissioners closets? One way to find out is to replace them all! And in the process, let’s not let someone else from the same clique assume a position in the political musical chairs game. Sometimes when power holding groups see trouble on the horizon for one of their chosen people, they will run an extra candidate or two just so someone in the group retains power and can keep secrets hidden. It is never a good idea to keep returning the same people to office, just because that is the way it has always been—skeletons or not! Mifflin County has been stagnant for a long time; it is time for a change! Rather than returning the same unaccountable faces to the Commission, let’s clean house! I will be supporting Steve Dunkle, Lisa Nancollas and Shari
To contact Stefanik Chiropractic Clinic, LLC, please call: 717-935-0060 4101 East Main Street Belleville, PA 17004 a
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Encouragement from the Book of Revelation
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by Pastor J. C. Reese Our high school football team was predicted to go far in my senior year. The previous year we were co-champs and all the papers said we had the most talent and barring major injuries, should have a wonderful year. But, something happened that season. We won our first two games, but lost all the rest but one! What had occurred was the same thing we see in Revelation 18: PRIDE. We didn’t pull together as a team, many of us were too arrogant for our football britches, and as the Bible says, “pride goes before a fall.” Revelation 18 is a vivid futuristic lesson about this as it foretells accurately the demise of a rebuilt Babylon: the capital city and headquarters of the Anti-Christ. This will occur right before the Second Coming and so at the end of the tribulation period coinciding with the time of the seventh vial as well. The reason for this judgment will be that here will be centered on earth all that is evil as John writes, it will become , “. . .the hold of every foul spirit” (vs2). And, as is customary with the Lord, a final message of grace is delivered prior to His judgment to, “Come out of her, My people. . . that you receive not of her plagues” (vs4). He says further “her sins have reached unto heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.” (vs5). The word “reached” means to be piled up, one upon the other. In short, God will ‘have had it up to here’ with these folks on earth who have ignored and not trusted in Him for their eternal destinies. It is very arrogant of us to think that an allknowing God overlooks our sins as we are prone to do. The tower of sins against each of us is massive until we ask Jesus to forgive us for being the sinner we are and receive Him as our Savior. Doing so is a humble thing, for it admits we are helpless to save ourself and we need Him. It agrees with His plan for our salvation and rejects man’s. I knew I sinned as a teen before I was saved and thought that maybe God would pile up the good against the bad and I would perhaps merit a trip through those pearly gates one day. But that was my pride and idea, not God’s! I soon humbled myself to the truth of Ephesians 2:8-9, “For by grace you are saved through faith and that not of yourselves, it is the
gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.” and found the peace I’d sought for through Him! But back to those future inhabitants of earth. God says in one day this grand city which will be the center of worldwide economic power will be leveled! In fact, the wording “one day” in vs8 is what is called ‘emphatic’ in the structure it was first written in meaning God was trying to emphasize the utter, complete and swift judgment of this city! People today think they can do what they want with no accountability or consequences, no God watching over their actions. This is not what God describes here. It is arrogant to think otherwise, for God is holy and sin WILL be dealt with unless the sinner comes humbly before God repenting for his sin. This is so needed by folks today, for when they truly do, peace will come and behavioral changes will be engineered by God not some manmade means. Nasty habits will be replaced by good ones and a true love for others will be shown, not some cheap or perverse imitation of love. Finally, let me sum up the chapter by saying that in the last four verses is detailed the judgment of this city by God’s angel to the extent that “that great city Babylon be thrown down and shall be found no more!” WOW. This will not be nuclear obliteration, but angelic and Divine! God will have His due for they will have murdered His children and the righteous will win in the end: nice guys truly do NOT finish last!! Next time you think, ‘Why doesn’t God deal with evil people?’ The short answer is: He WILL! But in His time and way. He does desire still that all repent and turn to Him, but if they will not humble themselves to this, they have put themselves under His impending judgment. The lesson for us all here is to heed God’s Word, humble yourself to what He has said and great reward will be yours instead of great judgment.
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tending public schools. They used the measles outbreak as motivation, even though as many kids who were vaccinated contracted the measles as non-vaccinated kids. They passed it anyway. Now in California, if you don’t want your kids to be vaccinated, you either have to send them to a private school or homeschool them. Pennsylvania has a rule that even homeschooled children need to be up-to-date on vaccinations. Do you think the government is overreaching on their boundaries? I do. “Pennsylvania Yes: Homeschooled students are required to be immunized. Parents must submit proof of immunization in their annual affidavit.” http://www.responsiblehomeschooling.org/policy-issues/ current-policy/homeschool-immunization-requirements/ The same exemptions that are currently in place for public schools, philosophical and religious, also pertain to homeschooling, but as you can see, the threat is there to eliminate these exemptions. If you have read my columns in the past, you will know that this has been one of my fears for a long time and now it looks like it is coming soon. I know I have stated this quote before, but it continues to linger in my brain, “The world today has 6.8 billion
people... that’s headed up to about 9 billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, and reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.”—Bill Gates. Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/029911_vaccines_Bill_ Gates.html#ixzz3YUIgqcMR Who is Bill Gates? Only the richest man in the world who has a foundation promoting vaccine usage, The Gates Foundation. I’ve seen the liberal news backpedalling saying that he didn’t mean to imply actually killing people by vaccines and healthcare. Ten percent of 6.8 billion is 680 million people. He said out of his own mouth that we can decrease the world’s population by 680 million people through new vaccines, health care and reproductive health services. So, decrease the population and keep it from increasing? That’s kind of a black and white quote to misinterpret. So, here’s a bit of my take on these happenings. If the bill passes to strip away philosophical exemptions, the religious exemptions are the next to go, too. Once all ability to refuse getting shots is gone and vaccinations are forced on our children, adults are next.
That’s a roadmap that worries some parents like Shtein, who describes herself not as anti-vaccination, but as ‘pro-health’ with deep concerns about any government dictating any child’s vaccination schedule. And she believes the momentum from California should the bill become law, could color future immunization laws for Americans of all ages. ‘This will set precedent for adult vaccinations also. If we’re saying school-age children need to be vaccinated ,then what about teachers? What about daycare providers? What about principals? They going to be next,’ Shtein said. ‘And then what? Will adults need their vaccination records to board airplanes?’ The California vaccination bill next goes to that state’s senate judiciary committee for debate on its legal ramifications.” http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/measles-outbreak/how-california-may-reshape-vaccinationslaws-across-nation-n346566 Even though the entire state did not feel the same way regarding vaccinations, this bill was passed by a 7-2 vote to require vaccinations amongst children at-
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The Valley, May 2015 Nobody seems interested in rectifying the problem. Reckless Federal government spending continues at everincreasing rates. Cities and states, overburdened with rising unemployment claims and future pension deposit requirements, while their tax revenues decline precipi-
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tously, watch their indebtedness grow to completely unmanageable levels. Debt “IS” a dirty word. One that will initiate financial ruin for all of us, and a much lowered standard of living for our children and grandchildren in the decades to come. a
Debt Our Nations Worst Enemy! If you ask “most” Americans about the general health of the US economy, you will mostly get answers suggesting that we are experiencing a decent “recovery”, and that “things” are not really all that bad. After all, they are bombarded with this type of propaganda many times throughout each day. The truth is, that our economy is anything but good. We frequently hear that the US National Debt presently exceeds 18 trillion dollars, but, people have been hearing about US Debt for decades, and most have become disinterested in numbers that they have a difficult time relating to. A trillion dollars? Wow, that is a lot of money. And right there is where most folks drift from the conversation. Honestly? Those people are probably a lot happier not knowing what is really going on around them. They will continue to live in ignorant bliss, until everything comes crashing down on top of
them. That crash could be coming sooner than any of us want. The National Debt is unquestionably B-A-D. Worse, however, is the total of unfunded liabilities that we never hear that much about. Unfunded Liabilities are those items that we (the US) are obligated to pay for, but simply do not have the money to do so. The biggest culprit is Medicare, to the tune of nearly 87 trillion dollars. Then Social Security, Medicare Prescription Drug programs, Federal Pension programs and a few others. Totally (that we know of) the US presently has about 123 trillion dollars in these payment obligations. Think about that. One-hundred-twenty-three-thousand-billion dollars. That is certainly bad, but, it gets much worse. States, cities and smaller municipalities are also awash in debt, and with higher-paying jobs drying up (or leaving the country),
many (most?) are being forced to raise taxes on a population that is already severely tax “challenged.” (Pennsylvania’s new governor has recently proposed a nearly 20% increase in the Personal Income Tax, and a 10% jump in Sales Tax, with many new items to be added to the Sales Tax ledger, including gold and silver bullion, which will likely ruin an entire industry and produce almost nothing in revenue. (Sorry, just had to get that in there.) This is all very bad news, yet, it still gets worse. Employee Pension programs for state, city and even many smaller municipalities are terribly under funded. The same is true for many of this country’s major corporations. Many pension programs are close to insolvency, and this will be devastating for retirees, and those people preparing for retirement in just a few short years. While we have just scratched the surface on the USA’s debt troubles, there is one huge concern that we have not yet covered.
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From The Desk of Lisa Nancollas Dear friend and fellow voter, Having quality, living wage jobs is the foundation of every community. More must be done to create a positive job environment locally. This is one of the driving forces behind my candidacy for Mifflin County Commissioner. I plan to develop a workable infrastructure for job creation and job expansion in our community. In addition, I believe that transparency is essential in county government. I will support, obey and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of this Commonwealth. I believe in limited involvement of government. I support 2nd Amendment rights. I am a Registered Nurse with a Bachelor’s of Science Degree from The Pennsylvania State University. My skills include auditing for law firms and accounting firms, as well as performing due diligence reviews in the business community. I have set up compliance audits and reviewed budgets for corporations, hospitals and private sector companies. I have worked with the State Office of Inspector General and the United States Department of Justice as a legal nurse consultant. I was chosen by the Governor’s office as a Nurse Reviewer for the Pennsylvania Department of Health and Welfare to detect medical fraud. My auditing and budgeting experience has given me the expertise needed to be County Commissioner. My healthcare background enables me to be a proactive voice for our older population. I am married to Dr. Paul Nancollas. We live in Derry Township with our four dogs and cat. We sponsor four children through Compassion International, Food for the Hungry and World Vision. I am the Central, PA State Coordinator of Tea Party Patriots and the Coordinator for Mifflin County Tea Party Patriots. I am a council member at Saint Mark’s Lutheran Evangelical Church in Alfarata. I am a board member at the Juniata Valley YMCA. I am Treasurer for the Pennsylvania Agriculture Republicans. I was a former volunteer for Make A Wish and Big Brother/Big Sister. I was a former board member for Rescue Our Furry Friends. Finally, I know that taxes come from you. As County Commissioner, I will closely audit every expenditure so that you get to keep more of your own money. I would like to be your “New Voice” as County Commissioner. I would appreciate your vote on Tuesday, May 19, 2015 Sincerely, Lisa Nancollas
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Cash In Your Pocket I have a couple little cash saving gems to share with those of you who do a lot of online shopping. While I do like to support our local businesses for unique and fun gifts, I also like to try to find deals on household appliances, home improvement needs, or even that hard to find item that can’t be bought locally. That’s where this article might come in handy for some of you. While shopping online to find a specific model and brand of vacuum cleaner earlier this year, I discovered a service called “FreeShipping.com.” Before I get started on its many benefits, yes, it costs money—$12.95/mo. However, when you sign up, you get $15 back for your first purchase, so that’s a little over one month of membership for free. Here’s how it works and what you get. 1) 10% cash back from many major retailers (sorry, not Amazon— but others like Lowes, Staples, Office Depot, Home Depot, Walmart, Bed Bath & Beyond, Kohls, Groupon, Sam’s Club, and the list goes on and on—there are over 1000 online retailers to choose from.) 2) Up to $10 cash back on shipping charges. That means that you can often choose expedited shipping and get most or all of your money back!
3) Free shipping to return something you weren’t happy with. You can claim a rebate of up to $10 on any return shipping charge you pay on any online purchase, regardless of where you bought the item or why you’re returning it. 4) Price protection guarantee. If you make an online purchase and then find a lower price for it — online or offline — within 90 days of your purchase, you can claim a rebate of up to $100 of the difference in price. 5) Retailer coupons! The coupons range from free shipping to significant discounts and other deals — on all your online purchases, right at check-out. So here’s how it works. When you want to buy something online, first you visit freeshipping.com and log in with your user name and password. Then you use the retailer search area to enter the retailer name. The retailer will appear and tell you if you’ll get 10% off in addition to your shipping rebated (up to $10). You can also use their comparison shopping feature if you don’t know what retailer has it the cheapest. I signed up for FreeShipping. com in February with the intention of only keeping it a month or two after I made one or two large
purchases. However, I found the savings to be worth staying on, so I kept with it. I’ve earned almost $112 cash back so far. Subtracting out my $12.95/mo. fee for five months (through May), I still profited about $47 from using this service. Now, remember that I did make several large purchases, which helped the cash back add up. For instance, we ordered a bunch of pavers and landscaping materials from Lowes (10% cash back retailer) and did the “pick up at store.” That’s $22 cash back. I
have no idea if I’ll stick with it all year, but for now it’s paying for itself. They have to make money, and so if you won’t make enough purchases (or enough large purcases), be careful. Only you know how much online ordering you do and if free shipping and 10% off many retailers will make up for the $12.95/mo. fee. Another service that I use often and is free (but cannot be used in conjunction with FreeShipping.com) is Ebates.com. It works similarly to FreeShipping.
com in that it gives you cash back on online retailers. However, the cash back amounts vary by store and are often under 10%. But, remember, it’s free to use and there are over 1,800 online retailers involved. If you decide to sign up for an Ebates.com account, please use my name (Lynn Persing) as a referral as you also get cash back for referring people who sign up. Also, when you sign up, you get a $10 bonus just for joining. I’ve gotten $205 cash back since I’ve been a member of this service! a
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Skye The last column I wrote was hopefully the hardest and most heartbreaking one that I will do. Luckily this month I can turn that around and tell everyone about the joy that has now come into my life. I had often thought as Emmie got older, I would get a puppy. Emmie could then teach the new little one “the ropes,” and hopefully in the end, the puppy could ease the pain of losing her
when she got older. Well as life throws us so many twists and turns in our plans; it unfortunately did not happen that way. I lost Emmie on February 27th. For days, I attempted to feed and water someone that was not there. I would think I saw her around the corner in the hall or heard her at the door. Your mind plays funny tricks on you when you have been there to care for someone for so long. One thing is also does, is to tell you that you really do need that loyal companion by your side. When I could no longer take the feeling of loneliness for a dog, the puppy search began. The start of my search brought on a lot of emotion and mixed feelings. How would I know if I had found the right puppy? I did not want or need just “A” dog— it had to be the “right” dog. My days were consumed with searching for a female Australian Shepherd. At one
point I went to the AKC website to search for a reputable breeder. There was one breeder within 50 miles of me. I googled her and found she had a little black tri Aussie female posted for sale on Facebook. I assumed it would not be still available, nor within my price range, and that it would not be “the right” puppy anyway. However, as it turned out she was all of the above! March 28th Phar Valley Cowgirl in the Skye came home with me. She has been the best medicine for healing and happiness. She is very intelligent and overall a sweetheart. She enjoys going places with us and goes to work at East Gate Feed & Grain. We have begun taking obedience classes at the Mifflin County Dog Club and she has already learned to sit, down, roll over, shake and a few more tricks. Skye will never replace Emmie, but she has been the perfect puppy for our home. If ever angels were disguised as dogs, I found one. a
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A Moment In Time
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I find myself barely able to stand—weeping—my soul broken and crying out from inside. All the words of anger and disgust used to describe him, circling over and over in my head. “He should be locked in a basement” yelled one parent at a community football field. “If that were my child, Id beat him black and blue” added another. School had called that week for me to pick him up, and the teacher says as we walk towards the office, “he’s always bugging the other students, won’t sit still in class, constantly rubbing his face.. picking scabs, making noises, just plain bad in class. He’s rude, then he gets mad and yells at the other kids when they tell him to shut up. He begins to throw things, bangs his head, sabotages any chance of having friends…how can anyone expect other kids to be nice, when he asks for trouble.” Arriving at the office, we are approached by the principal who addresses him “Tell her what you did, tell her how bossy, and nosey you are, tell her how you always pick fights, and ignore your teacher.” Looking at me, “He’s horrible, if he doesn’t straighten up, he’ll end up being a nothing… he’s not stupid, he’s starting problems, he’s bull-headed and interrupting the class.” “Well he says a boy pushed him into the locker, so he punched him back…that’s OSS. We know how he is, and no teacher saw anyone push him, therefore no other action will be taken.” Driving home I ask what happened at school ? He begins screaming, “I’m stupid, bad, trash, fat, everybody hates me…I should just die… I want to die. Banging his head off the dashboard, and punching himself in the face. Even god hates me, that’s why they don’t want me in church.” My legs feel weak and I stuff the washcloth in my mouth so he doesn’t hear my cries. I just
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don’t know what to do…what am I doing so wrong. How can I help him? Kneeling on the shower floor, letting the water rush over my face… If this is what the professionals’ think of him, does he have a chance to make it? I remember how it felt to be in 3rd grade and my parents came home from parent teacher night and spanked me and sent me to bed with no dinner. I remember lying in bed hearing my mother repeat the things the teachers said about me. My brother, 14 years my senior, said “Mom that’s your daughter…don’t let people talk about her that way. And why did you spank her, they already did that at school.” “She’s my baby sister and she will be a wonderful woman someday, she doesn’t believe what everyone tells her…she finds out for herself, she stands up for the underdog, and insists the teachers hear her side. The reason she ripped her clothes in a fight was because she defended the little poor girl when the bullies stole her lunch and threw her books.” “She’s not bad mom… she just is persistent. She needs you to be on her side.” Slowly, those descriptive words rang loader in my head, SHE/HE NEEDS SOMEONE TO BE ON HIS SIDE. RIGHT OR WRONG, NOT ALONE. SOMEONE HAS TO USE HEALING WORDS. That night I broke out the thesauruses, and found the positive/ mirror meaning for ever negative bad word used to described him. Wrote them on a list and taped them to the bedroom and bathroom mirrors. Not for him to read, but me. When morning hit, I spoke life, love, and healing, helpful, hopeful words. “Please don’t get into trouble today—you can have a great day. Put on matching clothes so the kids don’t make fun of you— hey, what about this, you look so
“If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.” -Johann Wolfgang van Goethe
Pennsylvania has made great strides in municipal waste management over the last four decades. The eradication of nearly 1,500 open municipal dumps, followed by the permitting and construction of safer, state-of-the-art disposal facilities have prevented pollution, and created a cleaner and healthier environment. Yet despite these advancements, the behavior of a select segment of the population – namely, illegal dumping – continues to plague the Commonwealth and have a costly impact. Between 2005 and 2013, more than 6,200 of these illegal dump sites were identified. Investigating sharp in these clothes” Yes, the very next morning was a struggle, and frustration filled my body. So from the bathroom as I brushed my teeth I forced the words. You are a good guy, you’re going to be a big help to someone today, reading down the list putting as many healing words into a sentence as I could. And yes, I was soon again called to school. This time I was determined to repeat the hopeful words over my child. “He is so bull headed.” “Yes,” I replied, “he has a strong mind and is not easily persuaded.” What a great leader he can be. “He’s nosey, talkative, a busy body.” “Yes, his gift to investigating, finding out answers, and searching for the facts could be cultivated into a possible future in the FBI or TV reporter.’ Agreeing with everything they said in that meeting, but changing it into potential for the future, may have fallen on deaf
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illegal dumping crimes is timeconsuming and labor intensive for both state and local governments, with each site costing $619 per ton for an average total of $2,947 to remediate. However, it is not unusual for costs to be significantly higher. Illegal Dumping in Pennsylvania: A Decade of Discovery represents the final stage of ongoing efforts of Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful (KPB) to identify where and how illegal dumping occurs. This report offers practical, costeffective solutions and accountability measures to address a statewide issue. The purpose of the study, prepared in cooperation with Nestor Resources, Inc., is to document the full extent of illegal dumping, beginning with information gathered by KPB and supplemented by other sources, including surveys, cleanups, stakeholder focus groups and a public opinion poll. Based on the conclusions of the analysis, the project provides ears. But, they also fell into little ears… And to the bus driver who called him dumber then dirt, I promptly thanked, then reminded him that dirt is the world’s hope to survive. If we care for it being sure to keep it full of nutrients, it will in turn grow the food and forest that animals and humans need to survive. And if we poison
recommendations to minimize, if not halt, the situation. These include mechanisms to raise awareness, provide universal access to convenient and affordable waste disposal and recycling, and apprehend illegal dumpers. Next month we will cover the Background of Illegal Dumping. Actions to Prevent and Enforce Against Illegal Dumping. We are behind on our cleanup schedule this spring due to the weather conditions. Some of our spring cleanups will go on our fall schedule. We will be doing a cleanup on May 2nd at Hungry Run in Burnham with another group. Also our river cleanup will be on August 1st in the same area of the river we did last year. We are still looking for people that want to help with boats or to help loading trash and tires. If you would like to help, you can call Pam at 717-899-6701 or email pammiff@verizon.net. Also our Tire Recycle will be held on September 19th. Pam Sechrist Affiliate Coordinator PACleanWays of Mifflin Countya it, in return nothing will grow, but we will all be left with figuring out how to clean it up and billions of dollars will be then needed to do that. Let’s work together to nurture, not destroy, our future. Speak life, hope, empowerment, positive, supportive, hopeful words. Someone is always listening. a
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Low cost Spay & Neutering Clinic for Juniata County When: Monday, May 18th Where: Transport bus will be leaving at 6:00 AM from the Old 22 Grocery Outlet at 2668 William Penn Highway-Mifflintown, returning with your pets about 3-4:00 PM that same day. (We MIGHT add a second stop that morning about 6:30 in Milroy at the truck stop for those in Mifflin county!) Spaces are limited, so please set up your appointment ASAP. There will be paperwork that needs to be filled out as well. Download the consent forms and information on the website ALL pets must arrive in a carrier and labeled with owners information. Cost: Dogs Spay-$110.00 Dogs Neutering-$95.00 Cats Spay-$70.00 Cats Neutering-$55.00 Fees include the transportation cost, the surgery AND a One or Three year Rabies Vaccine. ALL costs MUST be paid in full prior to the morning of the transport. There will be NO refunds issued if a cancellation is needed. Your pet must not have food or water 8 hours prior to departure. Other options available are Distemper for Dogs $14.00 Cats $12.00/
Lyme Vaccine Dogs $25.00/ Bordetella for Dogs $17.00/ Feeline Lukemia $22.00/Combo FELV/FIV for Cats $32.00 (Lukemia & Aides) Microchipping also available for both Dogs & Cats at $30.00 each. Please call (717) 513-7868 to schedule your appointment and/ or get more information. Owner is responsible for dropping off and picking up pets. This is being sponsored by The Mifflin Co. & Juniata Co. Pet Pantry. The pets will be transported to The Allegheny Spay & Neuter Clinic in Woodland, PA. Hosted by The AWC(The Animal Welfare Council) The top 10 reasons to spay & neuter your pet! 1) Your female pet will live a longer, healthier life 2) Neutering provides major health benefits to your Males 3) Your spayed female won’t go into heat 4) Your male dog won’t want to roam away from home 5) Your neutered Male will be much better behaved 6) Spaying & Neutering will NOT make your pet fat!! 7) It is highly cost-effective 8) Spaying & Neutering helps fight pet overpopulation 9) 1 female cat & kittens can lead to the birth of 370,000 cats in 7 years
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Understanding the Constitution by David Molek
Religious Freedom Religious faith was an essential component of the Founders’ understanding of liberty. Religious freedom is a fundamental right to be protected in a free society. Religion played a vital role in forming the virtues essential to a free and limited government. America remains a deeply religious people. The vast majority of Americans believe in God. By providing education, health care and countless social services, religious groups contribute significantly to the health of society. Religious individuals and institutions should be free to exercise their religious beliefs in private as well as in public. America needs to return to a more reasonable and historically accurate understanding of religious liberty. This requires that government respect the role of religion and refrain from
establishing religion or prohibiting the free exercise of religion. The First Amendment to our Constitution states that “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”. By 1833, every state constitution guaranteed its citizens basic liberty of conscience, free exercise of religion, and freedom of religious worship and association. Government officials routinely acknowledged and supported common (usually Christian) beliefs and practices. “In God We Trust” and similar confessions appeared on currency, stamps, state seals and government stationery. The Ten Commandments and other Bible verses were and are inscribed on the walls of many courthouses and other public buildings. Government officials predicated some of
their laws and policies directly on Christian teaching. There was a pattern of granting freedom to all private religions while patronizing a common Christian religion. Today, almost 90% of Americans say that religion is at least “somewhat important” in their lives. Religious faith is understood to be the exercise of inherent natural rights. The key to America’s religious liberty is its constitutional order. The Founders believed that virtue derived from religion was indispensable to limited government. Our Constitution therefore guaranteed religious free exercise while prohibiting the establishment of a national religion. This constitutional order produced a relationship between religion and state that balances citizens’ dual allegiances to God and earthly authorities without forcing believers to abandon or to moderate their primary loyalty to God.
The phrase “separation of church and state” has caused much confusion. The phrase is not in our Constitution. It is a metaphor based on bad history and should be abandoned. Many think, however, that it means a radical separation of religion and politics. The true American position was that religious liberty is not merely a matter of tolerance but is an inherent right to be guaranteed by government. That, unfortunately, is not what is happening today. There are situations in which Christian business owners of bakeries, pizzerias and florists are being sued, fined or even threatened with jail time for politely declining to apply their God-given time and talent to create goods or services that require they violate deeply-held, and constitutionallyprotected religious beliefs. It really is that black and white. It is not about discrimination. For
liberals, it is about the “message”. For the rest of us, it is truly about liberty. Government has begun alienating unalienable rights at an unparalleled level since passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. These business owners are attempting merely to re-affirm their already existing right to live out their faith without fear of persecution or government reprisal. It is hard to imagine a more bedrock American right than being free to live according to your religious convictions. These laws creating special privileges based on sexual orientation and gender identity looks much like government harassment. Government should respect the rights of all citizens. Citizens should not be forced to choose between their beliefs and their livelihood. These culture wars are being pushed by liberal activists assisted by our liberal mainstream media. The debate has nothing to do with refusing to serve gay people simply because they are gay. The question is whether the government should discriminate against citizens who believe marriage is between a man and a woman. Many of us Americans continue to attach a great significance to religious faith and
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MAY 2015 Mifflin County History Trivia The Robin Hood of Pennsylvania The life of David “Robber” Lewis (1790 – 1820) became the topic of legend in his own time. However, when his career began in the first decade of the 19th Century, his exploits were generally considered heroic, even humorous. The common man enjoyed Lewis’ bedevilment of the local gentry and stories of robbing the rich to give to the poor spread. As his career progressed to its likely conclusion - either at the end of a rope or the target of a posse’s bullets - the common man viewed Lewis as a feared criminal deserving of capture, imprisonment or worse. Here are some questions about this so-called “Robin Hood of Pennsylvania” who stalked the Juniata Valley., and once held in the Miflin County Jail. David Lewis was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on March 4, 1790. His parents, Lewis and Jane (Dill) Lewis moved to Bellefonte around 1800. As the story goes, by his early twenties he called himself an “equalizer” by robbing from the prosperous shop keepers
Stealth Diggers from page 4 The other traits in a candidate I would like to see is one who limits the size of the Federal Government, does not make concessions for illegals that cross the border, and one who secures our borders and protects the integrity of the lawful immigration system. Among other important things, the city, state, and federal government should not be able to take your land or property by force or eminent domain for the good of the corporations that want their way for a pipeline, road or building venture. And lastly, a candidate that will honor the individual’s hard work by not taxing the money or services they
and wealthy farmers and helping poor farmers and laborers facing foreclosure or bankruptcy. 1. In 1807, Lewis enlisted in the U.S. Army, deserted, then re-enlisted for the second time, collecting a bounty each time. He was caught, court-martialed and sentenced to hang. How did he avoid the noose? [a] claimed he was another man [b] reprieved by President Thomas Jefferson [c] bribed a judge [d] escaped 2. The following year, 1808, he made his way back to Central Pennsylvania, through Mifflin County, eventually hiding in Bellefonte, PA, his hometown. Conning the military for cash bounties could only be accomplished a limited number of times, so what was the “Robber’s” next criminal activity? [a] kidnapping [b] horse theft [c] counterfeiting [d] stage robbery 3. In 1819, following a robbing spree along the pike between Lewistown and Harrisburg, Lewis his two companions Connelly and Hanson, traveled north toward provide, by not regulating the free market and by not redistributing wealth as they are doing now. We need to abandon this notion of “Social Justice” and let the free market reward the hard workers and let our economy thrive. This will be the Live Free or Die candidate. In other news, please check out the Stealth Diggers who have individual YouTube channels: Stealth Diggers; Beardon O’Diggerton; NH Treasurehunter; The Hoover Boys and Stealth Doctor. We all show case our hunts and give great tips on detecting and new products. As always, check out the 3rd Life store on eBay where you can purchase your Stealth Digger
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Mifflin County. A small posse began to assemble along the way in pursuit. Men from Dauphin, Huntingdon and Mifflin County joined. Ephraim Enser and William Price from Waynesburg (McVeytown) helped subdue the thieves two miles below Lewistown. The outlaws were taken and transported to the Mifflin County Jail. During an escape attempt there, Lewis pushed a loaded pistol into Enser’s chest. What prevented Enser’s death? [a] more posse members subdued Lewis [b] Enser slashed Lewis with a sword [c] a dog bit Lewis’ wrist [d] the flintlock pistol misfired 4. According to his own admission in 1820 just before he died, how many years did David “Robber” Lewis actually spend behind bars? [a] 0 [b] 1 [c] 2 [d] 3 ANSWERS: 1.B 2.C 3.D 4.B SOURCES: The Life & Adventures of David Lewis by C. D. Rishel, 1890; The Incredible True Life Story of a Romantic Robber, Davey Lewis by Ned Frear 1976. a
swag, Charlie’s music and other cool items. Sometimes we dig what we think is a cool find and it ends up being not what we thought. We begin with the strange case of Becky’s egg. She dug an egg and a ring and posted these on the Stealth Diggers Facebook feed. Well let’s just say the egg was not just a pretty ornamental object, it turns out it happened to be a pleasurable device that was discreetly disposed of, to say the least. We all had a good long laugh and the comments went on for days about Becky’s beautiful egg. We now jokingly refer to her as the “EGG LADY.” Thanks for being such a good sport Becky. Thank you all for subscribing to the Stealth Diggers on YouTube and on Facebook and we hope to see you online. LFOD The Stealth Doctor a
Dairy Connection by Kelly Beck
Centre Count y Dair y Princess As my year as Dairy Princess comes to a close, I have begun to look back on everything I have done over the past year. From my first article for the newspaper, to my promotions at Special Olympics and PSU Ag Day, I have learned many things about myself and the dairy industry. I have gained many friendships through other promoters and have gained experiences I would have otherwise never had. And as I give the title of princess to another girl, I hope she learns as much as I have over this past year. As always, here are two recipes to help you reach your three everyday of dairy. Strawberry Oatmeal Smoothie Ingredients 1/2 cup rolled oats 1 cup fat-free milk (traditional or lactose-free) 1/4 cup Strawberries – fresh or frozen 3/4 cup vanilla kefir 1 strawberry, fresh (optional for garnish. Directions To make oatmeal: 1. Combine oats and milk in saucepan; simmer for 5 minutes or until oats have absorbed a majority of the milk. Oatmeal will yield 1 cup. 2. Let cool. To make smoothie: 1. In blender, combine cooked oatmeal, banana, 1/4 cup strawberries, kefir and ice cubes. Blend until smooth.
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2. Serve immediately with strawberry garnish if desired. Cheesy Baked Oatmeal Quiche Ball Ingredients 1 1/2 cups fat-free milk (traditional or lactose-free) 2 tsps baking powder 1/8 tsp salt 1/4 tsp ground black pepper 1/2 tsp dried thyme leaves 3 cups quick or old fashioned oats 1 cup frozen broccoli, thawed slightly 1/2 cup (2 oz) chopped cooked lower sodium ham (about 6-8 thin slices) 1 cup (4 oz) shredded reduced-fat Cheddar cheese 4 eggs slightly beaten Directions 1. Preheat oven to 375° F. Spray muffin pans with non-stick cooking spray or line with 16 paper cupcake liners. 2. In a large bowl, whisk together milk, eggs, baking powder, salt, pepper and thyme. Stir in oats and let oats absorb mixture for at least 5 minutes. 3. Chop broccoli into small pieces. Stir broccoli, ham and cheese into oats mixture. 4. Scoop 1/4 cup of batter into each of 16 muffin cups 5. Bake 20-25 minutes until the edges start to brown and are firm to the touch. 6. Cool on a wire rack. The quiches may stick when hot but are easily removed when cooled. a
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Greenwood Furnace State Park is one of the more popular local state parks. Located just north of Belleville and a short drive from the State College area, the Greenwood Furnace State Park provides many recreational opportunities; a lake for swimming and fishing, campsite facilities for modern and primitive camping, and many hiking trails in and around the park. Greenwood Furnace State Park is also the northern terminus of the Standing Stone Trail, a long distance backpacking trail. From the park, the Standing Stone Trail climbs to the top of Stone Mountain as it heads south to Cowan’s Gap State Park. As the trail reaches the top of the mountain, the forest opens up to provide panoramic views of the state park and of the valley below. This is the Stone Valley Vista and can be visited during a day hike at Greenwood Furnace State Park. For this day hike, we will start at the Standing Stone Trail northern terminus parking area, located off of route PA305, across from the park office. This hike includes 2.5 miles of the Standing Stone Trail as well as a side trail called the Turkey Trail. Turning off the Turkey Trail we will follow Lorence Trail back to the trailhead. We start our adventure heading east from the trailhead, as the trail follows the edge of route PA305 east for about two tenths of a mile, passing an old stone church. From here the trail skirts along a fenced-off tree nursery, following an old jeep trail. The trail enters the woods, still following the old forest road with the steep sides of Stone Mountain to your right and a small stream in
the hollow far below on your left. The ascent is gentle and the trail well maintained. The trail is plenty wide for side-by-side hiking. At about 1 mile into the hike you’ll come across a winter vista. There are a large number of blowdowns to the left of the trail and with the leaves off the trees you’ll have a nice view back into Rag Hollow and Thick Mountain beyond. Traveling another quarter of a mile the trail switchbacks to your right. Make sure you keep your eyes open as you will be leaving the old, wide forest road that you had been following since the beginning of the hike and following a narrower, dug trail up the mountain side. There is a sign posted here marking the switchback. The ascent on this section of the trail is a little steeper, but still a nice easy climb; one that doesn’t leave you too winded. At 1.4 miles the trail makes a sharp turn to the left and begins a steep climb to the top of the ridge. The trail also leaves behind the old forest roads and traverses across a rock field, as is typical on Pennsylvania ridge tops. At 1.6 miles the trail merges with what looks to be an old logging road or log skid coming in from the right. The trail turns left at this point following this old log skid as it keeps to the southern
side of the mountain. The trail never quite reaches the summit of the ridge here but seems, at times, to descend back towards the hollow below. The trail will turn and climb back to the ridge top at about 1.9 miles. The top of Stone Mountain is somewhat broad and, at least on this section of the trail, relatively rock free. The trail makes its way through a large stand of
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hemlocks that will provide a cool break after a hard climb, even on the hottest of summer days. At 2.25 miles from the trailhead you will come upon the Stone Valley Vista. This is truly a gorgeous view. You can see for over 10 miles both east and west. Directly below you will see the State Park and where you started the hike. Looking west you can see the rolling hills and farmlands of Stone Valley. To the east you see Broad Mountain and the
radio towers located on Little Flat beyond that. From the vista the trail continues southwest for about a quarter of a mile where you’ll come across the intersection of the Standing Stone Trail and the yellow-blazed Turkey Trail. The Turkey Trail was a former log skid where loggers of old would drag trees down from the ridge tops and mountain sides. As is
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Love Thyself First
One of the biggest gifts I received from having breast cancer was learning the importance of loving myself unconditionally. In fact, I think that helped heal me. During my workshops and retreats, I often say, “Love yourself like your life depends on it, because I truly believe it does!” Having cancer taught me that my purpose is to be me, to express my authentic self fearlessly. I also learned I could never fully express myself unless I was able to accept and love myself unconditionally. Expressing myself and loving myself went hand-in-hand. Yes, it’s one thing to know the importance of loving yourself, and quite another to put self-love into practice. Most of us come from cultures that don’t promote, or even support, self-love; we often feel judged if we value ourselves, put ourselves first. We seem to live in an upsidedown world – taught to do the opposite of what would really
help us. Is this the reason so many of us feel unfulfilled? Here are three common myths which I believe keep us from living our lives fully. Myth # 1: It’s selfish to love myself. When we don’t love or value ourselves, we feel unworthy, unde-
serving, and unlovable – likely to become needy, looking to others for fulfillment. Oh my, I remember being a “people pleaser,” saving what “pleased me” for another day, and another. When I learned to love myself, without the need-
ing others’ approval, I became my fully-realized, joyful self. Myth # 2: Loving myself means being self-absorbed. Many think loving and honoring ourselves simply means making time to take care of ourselves – a manicure, a massage, shopping – giving ourselves a treat. People share, “I must already really love myself, because I do all that. But my life still isn’t working!” Though a little self-pampering is important, here’s what selflove means to me: Loving myself even when I fail. Even when I’m depressed. When I feel I’ve lost everything. Even when I feel others don’t understand me, I can look myself in the eye, and say, “I love you Joanie, no matter what!” – feeling it in my soul. Myth # 3: It’s important to stay positive, no matter what. I truly believe it’s good to nurture a positive attitude. I’ve read a gazillion books that advocate positive thinking, turning thoughts into reality. And, that made me fearful of having “negative” thoughts. Whenever I felt fearful, insecure, or negative, I’d deny it, suppress it, or push it away, be-
lieving it would manifest a negative reality. When I discovered I had cancer, I realized I had been suppressing many thoughts and emotions for fear of being negative. I believe this suppression only contributed to my illness. By constantly judging certain feelings as “negative,” I was telling myself, “My thoughts are wrong.” Keeping these feelings and emotions bottled up is not healthy or loving.
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I realized that it’s not my thoughts that create my reality, it’s my attitude about myself. The more I love myself, the better my external world – the more I allow positive things into my life. It’s more important to be your authentic self than to merely be positive. Then when you’re positive, it feels genuine. Curious? If you were to unconditionally love yourself, would that change anything? Or everything? a
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Ask Every Morning
There is a daily practice that I institute in my morning routine. It is like a little “life” application to help me grow into higher levels of awareness, compassion, and kindness. The practice consists of three questions I ask of my God in meditative prayer. The questions are: 1. Where would you have me go? 2. What would you have me do? 3. What would you have me say, and to whom? The practice centers me and prepares me for my day. It helps bring my awareness and attentiveness to the needs of others as I go about my day. I started this daily practice a long time ago because I wanted to enhance my mindfulness, consideration, and gratitude. I also wanted to improve my ability to be of service to others. Improving ones attentiveness to their surroundings also improves their ability to quickly respond to others in need. I believe we all have the capacity to make a difference, an improvement, in the lives of others every single day. It is because of my hope to make a difference that I ask those three particular little questions every single day.
The first question, “Where would you have me go?” prepares me to be attentive during all of my daily routine and travels – work, errands, and recreation. I remain attentive and on the lookout for others who could benefit from a helping hand or a kind word. Perhaps it’s an extra hand to open a door. Maybe, it’s a phone call to someone who could use a little inspiration or motivation. Possibly it’s simply a kind word to someone who appears downtrodden. I try to be of service by being attentive to the surrounding happenings and act as I perceive a need arises. The second question, “What would you have me do?” flows from the first question and is completely interrelated. The second question goes a bit deeper because it necessitates us to carry a burden for another. It entails us actually doing an action for someone who is having difficulty completing the action. Perhaps we help another by carrying their grocery bags, preparing a meal for them, or simple performing a kind act for an animal like placing shelter or food. The third question “What would you have me say, and to whom?” builds upon the former two questions. Sometimes a kind
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Happy Spring! After the long, harsh winter both the Lewistown and Kish Branch Libraries are buzzing with activity. We just finished Income tax season. Each year we request forms for the public to use in filing their Federal, Pennsylvania, and Local taxes. Every year they send us fewer forms, but we can help you find your forms on the internet. We also have Rent Rebate booklets and forms.available. The Mifflin County School Retirees have conducted another successful book sale for us, the next book sale will be September 23-27. they do all the work,
collecting, sorting, setting up, running, and cleaning up for each sale. Fran Mackneer, Marianne Sutton, Sharon Armstrong and others are faithful coming in each week, sorting and organizing the books, puzzles, CD’s and records. All proceeds are turned over to the Library to benefit our community. There will be another book sale in September—call either library for information. The Friends group have purchased new upholstered chairs for Lewistown. The old ones were worn and starting to be a little rickety. We now have a nice fresh reading area for patrons to sit and enjoy the newspapers
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word could make all the difference in someone’s day. It’s easy to be kind, and it doesn’t require deep mindfulness, just merely common sense and the desire to look beyond one’s own needs. When we practice more kindness towards others, we often tend to receive more kindness in our own lives. I believe we all have the opportunity to be beacons of hope and light to assist others as we all make our way on this journey of life. I’ve shared my three questions with you as readers, now I must ask, if you could institute a daily questions meditative practice, what questions would you ask each morning? “Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr. “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore “People of excellence go the extra mile to do what’s right.” ~ Joel Osteen a and magazines. In Lewistown. Miss Susan and Miss Kelly are conducting Baby and Preschool Storytime. Mothers, dads, grandparents and caregivers along with the children are reading, singing and doing crafts each week. Miss Chris is busy keeping the books shelved and keeping everything organized. At the Kish Branch, Miss Kelly and Miss Trish have a full house each week with grownups and children’s story times. The children’s Summer Reading Program is in the planning stages and will start in June. Along with reading, we offer a Young Authors workshop. The children write and illustrate their own books. This year, thanks to Lisa, Melody, Cathy and Marianne, we will have an Adult Summer Reading Program. They have a lot of exciting ideas and activities planned. Also on May 20 we
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OK, how cute is this girl? Meet Patches! She is a Jack Russell who is only 4 years old. She is spayed and up to date on all of her vaccines. She has been dewormed and has started Vectra. Patches is housebroken and crate trained, and gets along with other dogs, kids and people. We’re not sure about cats. Wouldn’t you love to add this little princess to your household? Just go to our web-site, www.roffrescue.com to fill out an application or call 1-877-933-ROFF (7633).
tion. She is a young female who is looking for a “fur”ever home. She is spayed, and is ready to go. All you need is a litter box and food, and she’ll add so much joy to your life. Again, an application can be obtained at our web-site, www.roffrescue.com or call 1-877-933-ROFF (7633).
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And, who is this cutie? It’s Sparkle and she does sparkle when she plays with her toys and expresses her love and attenwill have a Vintage Book Sale in the Community Room. On October 17, the Friends will have their second Books and Brushes exhibit. If you missed it last year, you missed the opportunity to see and purchase local talent. It’s also great to meet the artists! Other things we offer at both locations: free ebooks, free internet, copier service, fax service and a friendly staff. a
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typical with old log skids, the Turkey Trail previously descended straight down the side of the ridge making for a very steep trek to the valley below. The Standing Stone Trail Club has done a wonderful job of rerouting the Turkey Trail, incorporating many switch backs and side-hill dug trail. Descending on this recently revised Turkey Trail, you will
Tick season is upon us, so please provide the proper protection for your pets. If you have questions about what is right for your pet, just contact your veterinarian. Be sure to check out our Facebook page for upcoming events, including Casino Night and Doggie Splash! And, as always, your donations are crucial to our mission. Contributions can be made via PayPal or checks may be mailed to: 133 North Walnut Street, Burnham, PA 17009. Thank you! a have a relatively easy hike down from the ridge top. Once the descent levels off, you will notice the yellow-blazed Lorence Trail coming in from the right. Turning here you’ll follow Lorence Trail for about a mile, encountering a number of charcoal flats from days-gone-by, as you re-enter Greenwood Furnace State Park. Lorence Trail ends at an intersection with the yellow-blazed Monsell Trail. Continue straight on Monsell Trail another 0.3 miles as you walk through the park back to the traihead. This hike is about 4.7 miles in length and should take about 2.5 hours to hike, depending on the amount of time spent enjoying the views at Stone Valley Vista. Additional information about this hike, and many others in Central Pennsylvania, can be found on PAHikes.com. a
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Modern Energy and Alternative Heating with Curt Bierly Spring Maintenance and Next Winter Planning Well, I do believe that we can consider Winter officially over!! And what a beautiful spring it has been. The grass is very green and the mountains are shedding their bleak appearance as the leaves begin to appear. Spring flowers are blooming. Nature is rewarding us for “hanging in there” during the long cold winter of 2014/2015. We’ve certainly had our share of April Showers and are truly enjoying the May Flowers. As less heat is required to keep your home or business in the comfort zone, it’s time to schedule needed service and maintenance to ready the heating system for next winter. If the plan is to upgrade the furnace, boiler or the distribution system, now is the time to consider options before
the fall rush. What fuel will you use, what equipment is available, how can the distribution system be improved, what money will be budgeted for the project, and is financing needed? Schedule a meeting with an HVAC or Alternative Heating Professional and let them know what you’re thinking. There are lots of options out there. They’ll provide choices that will fit your life style and budget. If you have a ducted warm air system with air conditioning or a ductless AC/HP unit, it’s time to clean or replace the filters so the equipment will operate efficiently during those hot summer days. Filters need to be replaced in the spring before the air conditioning season and in the fall before the
heating season. It is simple to do and very important to obtain the highest efficiency and the maximum life of the equipment. If you are using one of the newer wall thermostats, it can be programmed to provide a reminder every spring and fall to clean or change the filters. If you have an electronic filter, when washing them, always be careful of the ionizing wires in the electronic filter cell as they are very brittle. Be sure to allow time for the filters to dry completely before reinstalling them in the filter housing and turning on the power! If you burn coal, it is very important to service the unit in the spring immediately after it is shut down for the summer season. Coal produces a small amount of noncombustible fly ash when it’s burning. If fly ash is mixed with water (humid air or rain), it produces hydrochloric and sulfuric acid, which will eat thru black steel smoke pipe by the next heating season and cause wear and tear on the coal burning equipment. If you have a coal stoker boiler that heats domestic hot water all summer, it’s ok to wait until the fall to shut it down to clean, because as long as there is heat in the unit, no degradation will occur. In addition, if the coal burning unit is vented into
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an insulated stainless steel all fuel chimney, a brush will be needed to clean it and then install a cap on the top so rain water can’t enter. It is imperative that the coal stove, smoke pipe and SS chimney be cleaned shortly after the unit is shut down. Sweep out the ashes, clean the glass, disconnect the smoke pipe and brush it out. Store it in a warm dry location (attic) until the fall. An oil burning unit should be cleaned in the spring if turned off for the summer months or in the fall if used during the summer months to heat domestic hot water. A wood and pellet stove is a different story because rain water or humid air won’t affect the life of the chimney, smoke pipe or stove. Before next heating season, remove all ash from the
stove, clean the glass, brush the smoke pipe and chimney. If you burn wood, beyond cleaning the flu, this is the time to cut and split wood so it is seasoned by fall. If you burn pellets, watch for those low summer prices so you can stock up for next year. If you own a gas stove, turn off the pilot light, remove the glass and clean it. It is usually just dusty. A gas furnace or boiler requires no maintenance. We wish you the best summer ever! Curt Bierly is president of the bierly group incorporated of which Stanley C. Bierly is a division. He graduated from Penn State with a BS in Mechanical Engineering and is the chair of the Penn College HVAC Advisory Board. You can contact him at cbierly@bierlygroup.com a
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Solar Explained by S. Yoder Hello to all readers of The Valley. I hope you have had a good first third of the year, and the best for the rest of 2015. First of all, I want to express my sincere thank you for the trustworthiness of the WildCats Camp for buying one of our systems with Deka batteries. Also a very hearty thank you for the very delicious supper afterwards. So, what’s the news? Let’s see, Solar Land did it this year. I guess it’s about their turn in the maximum Power Point tracking controller. They also have one coming in the 60 amp line, which is magnum. Solar Land is 20 amp and very affordable, only $110 vs Current Tracer 20 for $155. Solar Land’s have three LEDs to tell state of charge or S.O.C. vs the more advanced models with digital displays. Also, we still sell and will keep using Midnite Kid and Classic for advanced systems, which are performing above our expectations and are the better option for an adjustable volt point and state of charge meter. We still use Midnight Kid’s in almost all of our freezer systems. We also now have another option; instead of the aluminum warped board, we can now use just a plain pine board with water repellent to cut some of the accessory costs, but absolutely not system quality components. When you buy local, you can be assured we will help you throughout, like a friend or family. We now have some of our systems on display at Valley Sports and Outdoors in Reedsville. Whether 5 watt or 1000 watt plus off-grid, we can help, so put our experience to work for you. We have inverter systems available up to 17,500 watts. We custom design every system for each individual’s needs, because no two systems are hardly ever alike. Now is a good time of the year to check on installing your system. First of all, you have to have it designed and then get the price, and lastly, time to try to make you as familiar with the system as possible before you buy. If you need answers and don’t have them, call us. If we don’t have an answer, we can probably get your questions answered in a timely
manner. One of the first questions I will ask you is how much sunlight does your location receive on a full day without shade? Another question will be how many watts will you need.? Another option is to make an appointment and I will be here, Lord willing, and will design your system in front of you. This is usually the best option and also results in the happiest of all customers. So give us a call and schedule your appointment with us and learn all you can before you buy anything. We try to use only the best of components. Be sure to determine if you need true sine or modified sine wave, or give us a call and explain to us everything that you plan to power now and in the future. True sine is identical to or better than utility power. Modified or square sine is not, since it has a square sine. Modified sine costs less upfront. It just occurred to me that three years ago I did not carry M.P.P.+ controllers. So be sure yours is M.P.P.+ because it produces more power for your money especially with Solar Land. Best wishes till next time, gotta go! ~S. Yoder a
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Then, we ALL will be forced to get our shots. Who benefits the most from these laws? Pharmaceutical companies who manufacture the vaccines. They’ll get a ton of money. They contribute to politicians at every level and they are pushing these laws getting passed. So, what will stop them from adding ingredients into a vaccine in order to help decrease the population by 680 million? Or, what would stop them from adding something like an RFID chip in order for you to be tracked. “RFID stands for Radio Frequency IDentification, a technology that uses tiny computer chips smaller than a grain of sand to track items at a distance.” Sound like science fiction? Perhaps, but the fact that there even is something like the RFID chip that can track humans sounds a bit sci-fi, too. “On the 31st of July 1997, the United States Patent and Trademark Office granted to four inventors a patent for ‘Personal tracking
From the Desk of Steve Dunkle Dear neighbor and fellow Republican, “More needs to be done to create jobs here in Mifflin County.” “Our children have to leave the area in order to find a good job.” These are the two things I hear the most as I travel from one end of the county to the other. Indeed, the picture isn’t very rosy here in Mifflin County. Our economy is stagnant. Income is down. In fact, the per capita income in Mifflin County is the second lowest in the state. We rank 66 of 67 counties.* We have lost our young people at an alarming rate. The number of children enrolled in our public schools is half the number we had 25 years ago. And, the list goes on and on. Why? MIfflin County lacks leadership. As a county, we have lost our way. We must chart a new course. We can no longer accept the status quo. Standing still is actually moving us backwards. To move forward, we need a strong vision and someone who is willing to roll up their sleeves to get things done. That is why I am running for County Commissioner. I, like you, cherish this area, because of our deep roots, relative safety, great outdoors, and our family, friends and neighbors who make-up our community. During my lifetime, I have acquired a broad range of administrative, executive and legislative experience at the local, county, state and federal levels. My background enabled me to work closely with members of the state Supreme Court, three former governors, U. S. senators, and dozens of congressmen, state senators and representatives. In doing this, I not only acquired a keen understanding of government, I also developed a broad-based network of associates and friends among cabinet members, department heads and senior staff. In other words, I have the skills and connections to get things done. From these experiences, I truly understand that government runs on your tax dollars. County Commissioners don’t spend their money; they spend your money. You have my word that I will stretch every dollar to the maximum. I will also eliminate all unnecessary spending. I am ready to use my experience and put it to work for you and Mifflin County. My background enables me to help “jumpstart” our county on the road to a better tomorrow. You deserve that. Your children and grandchildren deserve it, and so do your friends and neighbors. If you share my vision that the quality of life for the people of Mifflin County can be better than it is, then I would appreciate your vote on May 19th. There are many challenges ahead. Together, WE can do it! Most sincerely, Steve Dunkle P.S. You are reading this letter because your voting record is outstanding! Take great pride in the fact that you and others like you are the foundation of our democracy. *U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 “Until a man participates in a cause greater than himself, no man is truly whole.” — A. Lincoln
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and recovery system.’ An excerpt of the abstract of the patent reads as follows. ‘Apparatus for tracking and recovering humans utilizes an implantable transceiver incorporating a power supply and actuation system allowing the unit to remain implanted and functional for years without maintenance.’” http://resources.infosecinstitute. com/human-implanted-rfid-chips/ That was 18 years ago! You know by now that technology has been refined and made smaller and more efficient. So, what would stop the government or the pharmaceutical companies from injecting something like that inside of your body? Sound crazy? Perhaps. But, stripping away Americans’ freedom of choice is crazy to anyone who understands the Constitution and history of our country. The more freedoms we lose, the worse off we are. Oh yeah, how’s that Ebola working out? Whatever happened to that? The media spoon-feeds us what the government wants us to focus on while bigger things are
happening while we’re sleeping. It’s high time for Americans in general to wake up before it’s too late. Being for vaccination or against them, shouldn’t we be united in that it should be our right to choose? Once they take that away, what’s next? If you or someone you know has experienced an adverse effect due to a vaccination, would you please email me your story? Or, if you have an opinion that you’d like to share with me about why you think forced vaccinations are not a good idea, please email me. I am trying to meet with politicians in order to give them the other side of the story before it’s too late for our state. My email address is listed below. Thank you for reading and please do your own research and open your eyes to the bigger picture and look at every topic from multiple angles. Dr. Joseph Kauffman Kauffman-Hummel Chiropractic Clinic 717-248-2506 drjosephkauffman@comcast.net a
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Understanding the Constitution from page 13 practice, marriage, family and raising children in a morally rich and supportive environment. Religious freedom is the birthright of all people. Our Constitution is designed to safeguard this fundamental right. We need to vigilantly defend it. Judicial activists and some political leaders have “interpreted” the First Amendment to suit their political agendas. They often invoke this obscure and wholly misrepresented “wall of separation” to expel religious practices from any and all public forums. We need to restore the rule of law and our Constitution’s limits on our federal government. Remember what Edmund Burke said, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing”. In 1776, Thomas Paine wrote, “These are the times that try men’s souls”. So it is today. a
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It’s Springtime! In honor, I’m shaking things up this month with a guest feature. First, a heartfelt request: Please buy your PorcFest tickets today! Roger’s is catching up on campsite reservations, but there is no reason to wait to get your PorcFest entry tickets before the prices go up again. Join thousands of liberty lovers in the White Mountains of New Hampshire for a week-long, pro-freedom camping extravaganza. You will never want to leave! Wondering what’s cooking this year? Check out the PorcFest Newsletter, and be sure to subscribe for the latest news. FSP signers Catherine Bleisch and John Bush, together with their two adorable kiddies, recently visited New Hampshire to pick up the Unschool Bus, which has been repurposed for The Uncoinventional Bitcoin Bus Tour. Here, in her own words, are Cat’s impressions of their latest visit to the freest state: “The bus is up and running! John is on his way to us! This situation, this week, this place, and these people have me all sorts of emotional today. There are no words to describe the deep appreciation I feel as I lie here
in bed thinking about all of the amazing people who have touched our lives today, who have touched our lives since we arrived in New Hampshire to pick up the bus, and over the past seven years of visiting...
that I hope lasts a lifetime), the hospitality (not just a roof, but meals, toys for the kids, time and energy expended with love), the generosity (the blankets, towels, soap, crafts, essential oils, cast iron pan and other gear donated to our trip home), and the support (food delivered to the guys at the bus breakdown, the friends who show up to say ‘hi’ simply because we are here). There is a thoughtfulness present here in New Hampshire that is incomparable to other places. It humbles me, grounds me, and inspires me.
2. The Environment: The lakes, fresh air, trees, and the seaThe Blush family launch Uncoinventional Bitcoin sons. I feel so alive Bus Tour from NH here, so connected to the Source. There is magic in the air, you can feel it. I Here are three reasons I truly love just want to spend every moment the Free State: with my feet in the rich soil, with my skin being kissed by the gentle 1. The People: Natives and movsun and caressed by the fresh ers alike. I have never felt more breeze. I love looking for pineloved or supported than when cones and other gifts from mother I visit New Hampshire. Take nature with my kids; there is such this trip for example, the bus (a an abundance of life here! (Texas gift that comes with knowledge, is so hot, so dry, the ground so support, hard, the contrast is astounding... and a new although I find it preferable to be friendship
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in the south for the winter/spring!) I cannot wait to see the New Hampshire seacoast for the first time tomorrow... I know I will only fall more in love! 3. The Community: This is broader than the individual people, it is the network, the connections, the camaraderie. It’s knowing people will help you if something happens, it’s knowing we will have a huge move-in crew when we finally make the move one of these years, it’s the community hubs in each of the various towns that serve as a welcoming hug each time we visit. It’s having a Free Stater drive by your broken down bus on the side of the highway and contact you to see if you need help. It’s beautiful. I love it here. Thanks for existing, Free State Project! Thanks for shaping
me into the person I am today. Thanks for providing me a reason to visit over and over and over during the past seven years. I love it here. I love what you all have created, and what was here before you existed. This place is simply amazing. You people are simply amazing. I feel so blessed tonight as I lie here with my sleeping babies waiting for John to return. There really are no words... Just pure, unadulterated gratitude.” a
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Journal - On Nuance One morning last week as I drove my usual route through Brush Valley toward Millheim, I looked over at the south side of the mountain ridge and, for the first time this spring, could really see the subtle blush of the red maples budding out and getting ready to bloom. The change from the brown of winter treetops to a richer, redder tone was subtle, but beautiful in a very different way from the glorious explosion of red those same trees will show in October. This was a soft, nuanced hint of color. And that set off thoughts about nuance. Nuance (noun) - “A subtle difference in or shade of meaning, expression, or sound.” Nature is a place of nuance, of subtleties that are only noticed if you pay close enough attention and get to know the patterns, webs of life and activity, and particular plants and animals well enough to
get beyond the obvious. People, and cultures, and human relationships are like that, too. We often miss the nuances in what someone else is saying or trying to say because we’re too busy listening to our own words or formulating an argument. I’m as guilty of this as anyone, though I try to do better. We fail to understand someone with a different ethnic heritage or world view because we focus on the obvious, clichéd differences instead of finding common ground in our shared humanity. We divide our politics, philosophies, and belief systems into tightly defined “isms” instead of exploring the overlaps and endless possibilities together. We miss opportunities to reach out to someone in need because we don’t hear the need in their voice or see the need in their face. Some of the simple but profound thoughts have come
down to us from people much closer to the land than most of us today. Jesus said, “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.” Or this, handed down from Crowfoot, of the Blackfoot tribe, in his dying hours, “What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.” Be on the lookout for nuance in your journeys today. This month’s image is a large, 30 by 30 inch acrylic on canvas painting I recently finished. It is an example of how subtle nuances of color and texture in paint can be used to bring a great white tundra swan alive against its marsh background. This was one of several swans that stopped over this spring at Muddy Paws, a restored wetland area along Rt. 45 easy of Spring Mills in Centre County. The property belongs to Greg and Mary Kay Williams and was restored with the help of the Penns Valley Conservation Association. It features nature paths and a boardwalk over the shallow water. PVCA holds many educational programs there each year, including FrogFest coming up Saturday, May 23 from 3-6 pm. More information at http:// pennsvalley.net/ upcoming.htm. a
“Morning Stretch, Tundra Swan” Acrylics on canvas by Karl Eric Leitzel, 30 by 30 inches. Available at the Green Drake Gallery in Millheim, PA
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Mail Pouch Books by Carleen B. Grossman “Light affects our moods, our perceptions and our energy levels,” John Marsden writes in EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT WRITING, and “A face glimpsed among trees, dappled by the shadows and the green-tinged light reflected from the forest, will seem quite different from the same face seen on a beach in hard, dry, sunlight, or in a darkening room at twilight, with the shadows of a venetian blind striped across it like a convict’s uniform.” And Alexandra Elle states, “The Sun will rise and set regardless. What we choose to do with the light is up to us.” And finally Vera Nazarian writes, “Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.” I have selected 3 wonderful novels that deal with light. One is a classic and the other two are highly rated new comers!
This classic is about a boy in Pennsylvania who was captured as a child by Indians. The story begins in 1764, when the boy is 15 and has become assimilated and accepted as a tribal member. This tribe recently entered into a peace treaty with the British forces which states that the tribe must return all ‘White Captives’.
The boy knows no other way of life and does not want to return to his original family! The boy is taken to Fort Pitt where he is met by his blood father and then returned to his blood family near present-day Harrisburg. Troubles arise and the boy
The novel takes place in Western Australia and is about a baby and a dead man who wash up in a rowboat to an isolated
THE LIGHT IN THE RUINS By Chris Bohjalian Copyright 2013 322 pages Some chapters of this book are based in 1943 and others are in 1955. Interspersed are short chapters related to the individual who is the killer in this mystery. Your quest is to discover who is the killer! You will follow an Italian family living in a villa nestled into the hills south of Florence as they become involved in the war. And you will also become absorbed in the investigation 12 years later as to why certain remaining members of this family seem to be targeted for brutal murders. a
The Light in the Forest By Conrad Richter Copyright 1953 192 pages (2004 Paperback)
Ed’s Railroading News by Ed Forsythe
It’s been quite an uphill battle these past several months since the burglary, but we will be up and running full time again by May 5th. Our new Summer hours are 10 to 6, Tuesday though Friday. If I’m home on Saturdays I’ll be glad to open, but it would be best to call first as we will be doing some weekend traveling also. We do want to say THANK YOU to all who have helped us through these troubling times that were caused by some of the scum of the earth. Someday they will get theirs, either here on earth or when they meet their maker. ‘nough said.” I’d like to take this time
THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS M. L. Stedman Copyright 2013 345 pages
lighthouse where a young childless couple decide to keep the baby girl for their own child! This brings the couple and the readers into dealing with a morality code that twists and turns not only in the pages of the book, but in the readers’ hearts. You will dwell on this haunting story even after you finish it. This is a tale of longing, loss and overwhelming love for a child. It tests the waters of true love. It is beautifully written and definitely a page turner.
to let you all know about a really nice excursion train ride that begins in historic downtown Jim Thorpe, Pa. This area is known as ‘’The Switzerland of America’’ and for the past 30 years it has served thousands of satisfied visitors to the area. Included in the many reasons to visit this area is the Lehigh Gorge Scenic Rail-
way. The excursions begin in Jim Thorpe and continue through the beautiful Lehigh Gorge State Park from May through December. Available for riding are many special train trips like the Easter Bunny train, Bike Ride trains, Dutch Treat Trains plus others, all the way to the Santa train in December. So for a really enjoyable railroading experience ,visit www.lgsry.com for compete details of what’s available. Locally for your enjoyment, don’t forget the Rockhill Trolley Museum is just 45 minutes from this area on Rt. 522 South. A really fun time for all. Rockhilltrolley.org. Happy Railroading, Ed a
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Life in the East End by Rebecca Harrop SPRING is definitely here should all know that farming isn’t now! Everything is getting so just a “summer job.” You will see green. The spring flowers and farm vehicles on the roadways shrubs are blooming. I’m pretty any time. It only takes a few exsure I even smelled newly mown tra minutes to be safe. Last month Each book tells a story about grass a couple weeks ago. MifI shared info about the Farm Bua different form of agriculture. flin County Farm Bureaus’ Rural reau “Farmtastic” Book Program. These are great books for helpRoad Safety event was held April I have been into about half of ing kids learn about their foods 11 from 10 am - 1 pm at the Althe schools so far. This year I am and the importance of agriculture. lensville Fire Co. Pavilion. There reading to the 3rd graders. I will May 19th is Primary Election Day was a demo of the Penn State roll be finishing up with the reading for Pennsylvania. On May 6th, over tractor and ATV and how this month. We also took books to Mifflin County Farm Bureau is to prevent rollovers. The guest the Mifflin County Public Library, holding their “Measure the Candispeaker was John Tyson from so be sure to stop in there and dates” night at the Mifflin County Penn State Extension. We had a check it out. The “Farmtastic” High School Auditorium at 7:00 really good turnout for the event. books are all about agriculture. pm. It is a great time to come out There was lots of and hear from the information provided candidates. Each and I’m sure everyone candidate is given gained some valuable an opportunity to knowledge. Mifflin speak for an allotCounty Farm Bureau ted time. Questhanks all those who tions are submitattended and a special ted by members thanks to the program of the audience presenters and those that night to be who provided inforaddressed to the mation. April was candidates. If “Rural Road Safety” you vote, you month, but it is still a should be an good idea to be aware informed voter so of farm machinery and come out and get vehicles on our local informed! Here roads all year long. In is a list of which Rural Road Safety Demonstration at the Allensville Fire Pavilion our area especially, you
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Progress At The Embassy by Patricia Lawson The fair is now over for the year, and as we move into summer, the “Summer 1st Series” continues. The weekend of June 5 and 6 begins on Friday night at 6 pm when we close the street in front of The Embassy, for vendors to set up. There will be live entertainment in our parking lot, followed by a movie at dusk. On Saturday, our first summer “Art and Craft Show” takes place from 10 am to 5 pm. Live entertainment continues through the day. Art and Craft spaces are only $20 for Friday, and $40 for Saturday. Commercial spaces are $35 and $70 respectively. Then on June 26 to 28, we will be hosting the 1st annual “Embassy’s Mifflin-Juniata Art & Music Festival” in conjunction with WCHX, Star Country, and WKVA Hometown Stations’ “Picnic in the Park.” The festival takes place at Kishacoquillas Park. The fun begins Friday
evening, June 26, at 5 pm with live entertainment and art and craft vendors. Saturday, the event continues with the “Picnic in the Park.” The event runs 5 to 10 pm Friday, 10 am to 10 pm Saturday, and 12 pm to 8 pm Sunday. With two stages of entertainment and several art and craft vendors, it will bring back a taste of the old Arts Festival. Vendor spaces are still available for Arts and Craft for $100 for the whole weekend, and $200 for food vendors. The proceeds of both events benefit the Friends of the Embassy Theatre. Vendors and local crafters wanting to set up at either or both events please call event coordinator Rick Clark at 912401-1282. Hope to see you there. www.embassytheatre.org www.facebook.com/embassyltwn A Memory with a Future, a Future Full of Memories! a
Juniata Valley Master Gardeners Plant Sale! Saturday, May 16
The Juniata Valley Master Gardeners of Penn State Extension will be having a Plant Sale on Saturday, May 16th from 8 AM to 12 PM in the parking lot across from the Mifflin County Library at the Demonstration Garden. Available for sale will be perennials, annuals, herbs, vegetables, Native Plants, container gardens and Hypertufa items. There will also be info on Pollinator Gardens, Living Art using Succulents, making your own Rain Barrels and planting herbs. At 10 am, there will be a compost workshop and every participant will receive a free compost bin. Master Gardener’s will be available to answer any questions. For more information on the Plant Sale, or becoming a Master Gardener, please call the office at 717-436-7744.
Life in the East End from page 28 candidates have been invited to attend and the office they are seeking. Judge of the Court of Common Pleas: Aaron Gingrich County Auditor: Teresa Hobbs, Joseph A. Laub, Helen E. Kirk, James W. North, Jr. County Commissioner: Shari Bolling, Kevin P. Kodish, Deborah A. Bargo, Stephen T. Dunkle, Lisa Nancollas, Otis E. Riden, Jr., Mark A. Sunderland County Coroner: Daniel Lynch District Attorney: Jeff Davis, Mark Remy, Nancy Schrum, Chris Torquato Prothonotary: Tammy Stuck Magisterial District Judge District 58-3-02: Thomas J. Heller, John Pannizzo, Jonathan Reed, Stephen S. Snook, Richard Strausberg Magisterial District Judge District 58-3-03: Tammy L. Hunter, Kent Smith Mifflin County School District Board of Directors: Clair E. Flynn, Beth Laughlin, Mary Lou M. Sigler, Annemarie Swineford, Noah D. Wise The Mifflin County Farm Bureau ladies will be serving light refreshments afterwards . The Mifflin County Dairy Promotion Committee will have Dairy Maid and future Princess Macie Mackneer there serving a Milk Punch. So be sure to come out and learn about the people who are running for local office and enjoy some refreshments. Take
it from me, these ladies make the BEST food! I always check out what they all brought as soon as I get there. Naturally chocolate goodies are my favorite, but Barb Bonson makes these cinnamon things out of croissant rolls with cream cheese. They are soooo good! Fishing season has started
and I’ve been out once so far. I caught a trout on the first day. We started the day with breakfast at the Honey Creek Inn. I love their pancakes. I’m planning to get out more later. That’s all for this month. Remember, if you’re registered, get out and vote! a
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A few months ago I wrote a story on the benefits of Alpaca Wool and spoke a bit about the socks and dryer balls that are carried at Dutch Pantry Gifts in Milroy (DP Gifts). This story was such a hit that we could not keep up with the orders of dryer balls and have been out of stock since December. Well we are back in business with the dryer balls and thought it would be a great time to remind the community how great these dryer balls really are. Dutch Pantry Alpaca Wool Dryer Balls are made of densely felted wool made in Unityville, PA. When placed in a dryer with wet laundry, they move between the folds breaking up clumps of wet clothes so the hot air can circulate and dry the clothes faster. The wool absorbs moisture coming off of the clothes, reduc-
ing dry time by 30-50%. This leads to several important benefits and real, measurable savings. 1- Dry time is reduced by 30-50%, saving you time in the laundry and letting you spend more quality time on other things. 2- Because dry time is reduced you save significant money on your household electricity bills as the dryer is not on for as long. 3- The gentle movement of
the balls acts like a fabric softener so never again will you need fabric softener or chemical filled dryer sheets. Who Should Use Wool Dryer Balls? If you want to save time, money and the environment while enjoying soft, static-free clothes then you want Dutch Pantry’s pure Alpaca wool dryer balls. Mothers washing cloth diapers find wool dryer balls invaluable as they are doing even more frequent laundry loads than usual, and need soft, dry diapers ready for their babies. Don’t undo all your eco-conscious good work avoiding disposable diapers by running the electric dryer all day! Anyone looking to reduce household bills—dryers are guzzlers of electric-
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