May 2009 - Juniata River Valley
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May 2009 - Juniata River Valley
Inside the view... Place to Visit 1 Schedule of Events 2 Member Spotlight 4 New Members 5 After Hours 6 Jim’s Corner 8 WE WANT YOU! Open Auditions will be held on May 20th & May 27th (3-7pm) at the Historic Courthouse in Downtown Lewistown, PA. Contestants must be 12 years of age and older. RiverFEST Idol is limited to amateur contestants. All Open Auditions will be done “A cappella.” information contact the office: 717.248.6713. For more Place To Visit For MAY! If you find yourself in search for some inspiration in perking up your home for the summer months or you need a pickme-up gift for yourself to grab some warm weather spirit, we’ve got just the fix for you. A trip to Reedsville and a visit to Squire Brown’s beautiful colonial two story shop full of fine furniture and gifts will work wonders. Michelle Logan started her dream business 16 years ago in a store room on the back side of the Dairyland Antique complex in Reedsville. Michelle has always used her retail business as a way of expressing her taste in early American decorating and gift presentations. Her store was known as The Sugarbox for it’s initial 14 years of doing business, until she built the colonial home style two story building next to the Honey Creek Inn in 2007. She chose Squire Brown as the name upon relocation, based on famous local resident William Brown, namesake of Brown Township and original settler and explorer of Kish Valley. He established a grist mill where the town of Reedsville is today, was a Revolutionary War leader and the first Mifflin County judge. Fifteen years ago she hired Jody Shaffer as her part time co-worker and Jody is now her full time assistant, helping in all facets of the business. Squire Brown is known for its selection of fine quality American crafted colonial reproduction furniture, made of tiger maple or cherry. They are the exclusive Vera Bradley dealership for Mifflin and Juniata Counties. They proudly present the Stonewall Kitchens and Barefoot Contessa gourmet food lines, Lt. Moses Willard handcrafted Early American wood or wrought iron chandeliers and wall sconces, Crabtree & Evelyn bath & body products, Added Touch colonial upholstered furniture and exclusive jewelry lines. May is a great month to plan a visit to Squire Brown’s on Edgewood Drive in Reedsville. You just might leave with a new lamp, a piece of pottery, a Squire Brown's, LLC new bed, or a renewed interest in updating a room in your home. 8 Edgewood Drive You’ll be joining regular shoppers coming from over a one hundred Reedsville PA 17084 mile radius of the shop. Squire Brown’s - is just that unique. (717)667-2556 Get Connected... www.juniatarivervalley.org Discover Our Good Nature! P age 2 ma y 2009 Pennsylvania’s Littering Laws We are deep into the spring season and many visitors will be coming to the Juniata River Valley to “Discover Discover Our Good Nature”. Nature They come primarily to view our incredible scenery; our rivers, streams and mountains. They’ll be staying with friends and family, at motels, bed & breakfasts, and campgrounds throughout our two county region. The only things interfering with our beautiful nature are what a small minority of citizens contribute. We’re talking about things they do such as littering and things they don’t do such as acting courteously and taking pride in their properties. Now is the time to check out the “curb appeal” of your business and home. It’s time to remind our front line staff, our co-workers and our friends and families just how important it is to welcome our visitors and to make them feel at home in our communities. Our visitors bureau is constantly striving to bring more visitors to our area. Visitors spend money in our businesses and that creates more jobs and provides more spendable income and tax dollars for our municipalities. Tourism is the number two industry in the state of Pennsylvania. Our association with the Alleghenies will definitely raise the bar on our quantity of visitors and increase revenues. Pennsylvania has a littering law on the books that has enough teeth to discourage offenders. It includes up to a $300.00 fine per occurrence. It reads “the fine is for dropping, throwing or depositing, upon any highway, or upon any other public or private property without the consent of the owner thereof or into or on the waters of this Commonwealth from a vehicle, any waste paper, sweepings, ashes, household waste, glass, metal, refuse or rubbish or any dangerous or detrimental substance, or permitting any of the preceding without immediately removing such items or causing their removal.” Let’s be propro-active in discouraging offenders. offenders Remind the culprits that the fine isn’t worth the crime. Use a trash can. can Let’s keep the area litter free. RECURRING EVENTS Belleville Sale & Livestock Auction - Wednesdays – All year (unless a holiday) in Belleville 717-935-2146 MAY EVENTS Mifflin County Christian Academy - 19th Annual Benefit Auction Friday, May 1st, 6:30 pm & Saturday, May 2nd, 9:00 am (General Auction, Bud Balliet, Auctioneer, Lic. AU3409-L) Mifflin County Youth Park, Reedsville, PA Sat. May 9th - Touring Friends Downtown Lewistown Cruize-In. www.touringfriends.com "The Kitchen Witches" - The Stone Arch Players top off their spectacular season with the funny yet moving comedy, "The Kitchen Witches." When two old adversaries are thrown together on a cooking show, watch the kitchen heat up as insults are flung and tempers boil. Showtime's are 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 88-9, 1515-16, 2222-23 and 2 p.m. Sunday, May 17 and 24. www.stonearchplayers.com. “Here Here to Help” Help event - May 12 - for Mifflin and Juniata Counties will take place from 2-5 pm at the Compass Building on Dorcas Street in Lewistown. CareerLink in Mifflin County at 717-248-4942. 41st Annual MifflinMifflin-Juniata Arts Festival - Saturday, May 16, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm & Sunday May 17th, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm. JUNE EVENTS June 19th & 20th - Rally In The Park at Derry Park Touring Friends - www.touringfriends.com Juniata RiverFEST - June 27th 11am - 11pm @ Victory Park, Lewistown PA Raft Regatta - Rockin’ by the River 5k Race JULY EVENTS Sat. July 11th - Touring Friends Downtown Lewistown Cruize-In. www.touringfriends.com Chamber Night with the Spikes - July 10th, 2009 - MARK THE DATE NOW! Remington Ryde Bluegrass Festival—July 10-11, 2009. Festival Mifflin County Youth Park Fairgrounds, Reedsville, PA. 3rd Annual. Visit: www.remingtonryde.com for more information. August EVENTS Fri. Aug. 14th - Touring Friends Downtown Lewistown Cruize-In. www.touringfriends.com River Rampage 5k - Raft Regatta Community Float - Food - Vendors Rockin' by the River - Fireworks! Get Connected... September EVENTS Fall Festival of Savings in Big Valley—Sept 12&13 Sat. Sept. 12th - Touring Friends Downtown Lewistown Cruize-In. www.touringfriends.com www.juniatarivervalley.org Discover Our Good Nature! P age 3 ma y 2009 Belleville Mennonite School Middle School Students Community Service Day On Friday, April 17th, a group of middle School Students from Belleville Mennonite School, led by teacher, Ann Quinn put in a hard days work on two beautification projects in the Juniata River Valley. Janet Walker with the Visitors Bureau along with Duane Coulter with County Maintenance led one team in the Monument Square Area. This team pulled weeds, mulched and performed general clean-up of the Sailors & Soldiers Monument area, anchor planters as well as the new trees encircling the square area. Another team, led by Rhonda Walters with the Chamber worked in Victory Park. This team raked a mountain of leaves as well as collected mounds of trash to be picked up by the Borough Refuse Department. The students worked tirelessly and found some very unusual treasures while collecting trash in the Tow Path section of Victory Park, including a crumpled kiddie pool, large conch shell and even a bowling ball (which has now become the class prized mascot). If you have the chance, be sure to say thank you to anyone associated with Belleville Mennonite School, Mifflin County Maintenance, or Lewistown Borough for their efforts. Community Service should not feel like an obligation; but a privilege! If we each do just a little it’s amazing what we can accomplish! St. Joseph Institute Pennsylvania “Welcome in Central to the St Joseph Institute ! Located 10 miles west of Port Matilda. St. Joseph Institute is unique – a mountain resort and hotel, spa, conference center, retreat facility, licensed school for massage and holistic studies, and nationally recognized center for alternative and complementary medicine. “ The above description is directly from the website of the institute. The Alleghenies Tourism Council held their annual all-day strategic planning session there on Friday, April 17th. This is where the council members plan the marketing of the region for the fiscal year (07-01-09 to 06-3010). Jim is a voting member representing our Juniata River Valley Visitors Bureau. The marketing goal for this upcoming year is “To position The Alleghenies as PA’s premier destination for active outdoor recreation while featuring the heritage, culture and scenery of the region”. The current web-site will be revisited and enhanced with Mifflin and Juniata County information added. A larger presence of “scenery” photos, many including people, will be offered. This is based on an extensive Penn State survey of visitors to find out why they return year after year. The majority stated the beauty of the scenery of the region for the visits. Next is the outdoor recreational opportunities. Check out the Alleghenies web-site: www.theAlleghenies.com Get Connected... E-MAIL BROADCASTS It is certainly no secret that the Juniata River Valley Chamber of Commerce offers free e-mail broadcasts as a member service. We are now into our fifth year of extending this popular service to our members at no cost. We have received rave reviews from users as well as from the recipients. Some days the requests are overwhelming. It has reached a point where we must enact a policy as to how we handle the requests. First, we do reserve the right to reject any request due to content and we exercise full editorial privilege. We will alter a flyer or an attachment if it is too large for our system to efficiently handle. We won’t guarantee that we can meet a specific delivery date; however, we shall try our best whenever possible. We require flyers be sent to us as a PDF, ready for attachment to a memo of introduction and broadcast. We are in the process of acquiring a scanner to handle flyers not available via electronic copy. Please get your information to us a few days in advance and state what day you most prefer we send it. If at all possible, we would like to have it a week in advance. We cannot send more than three broadcasts on any given day. Our chamber and visitors bureau broadcasts are always top priority. We will send flyers out on a first come, first served basis. The earliest date and time gets the first position. Members are limited to four free broadcasts per year. The timing is up to each member’s seasonal issues. Broadcasts are intended to introduce new features, major product introductions or special events concerning your business or organization. We are not here to compete with our media members. www.juniatarivervalley.org Discover Our Good Nature! P age 4 ma y 2009 The Chamber sponsored our very first n oon - t im e seminar on April 23rd at the Waterfront Restaurant. It was titled “Gaining Ground in an Economic Slowdown” and was presented by our good friends from the Penn State Small Business Development Center. Michael Ryan from our local office in the Regional Business Center (former Danks building) in downtown Lewistown and Linda Feltman from the office in Centre County, both SBDC analysts, served as presenters. Twenty people attended and took advantage of the wide range of economic tips and marketing suggestions. Among the topics presented was a hard look at how we measure up locally in contrast to the national outlook. We are in better shape economically than many of the more urban areas. An example being our housing recession is certainly no where as severe as many regions of the nation. Our local banks were conservative and didn’t get themselves into serious lending losses and foreclosure situations. The good news is interest rates are at an all time low and our lenders are writing loans. Our home values have held up fairly well and our contractors are doing more remodeling jobs than new construction. Emphasis was placed on monitoring your credit scores as they become the qualifying medium for more and more services. The higher the score, the better the interest rate. Attendees were advised to stay on budget, cut costs where it makes sense, watch payroll, cross train staff, clear out slow moving merchandise and investigate all the new marketing opportunities the internet presents. Highly recommended were Facebook and Twitter. Both are controlled by you and require little, if any, cost other than the time to update the information. If you desire free and confidential advise and analysis to better your business, contact the Penn State Small Business Development Center by logging on to: www.sbdc.psu.edu. News at Noon Community Partnerships Resource Conservation & Development Just exactly what is R.C. & D.? I’ve been asked that question dozens of times over the past few years and it’s time to focus the spotlight on what it is, who they are and what they do. Simply put, R.C. & D. is federally implemented through National Resources Conservation Service. Each local council is an independent non-profit 501 C (3) corporation. Its mission is to address the long-term needs of our communities by promoting arts, culture and sustainable human and other natural resources. They are 375 unique multi-county councils, located throughout rural America, each with a federally employed coordinator. Each regional council is comprised of a board of directors and a community advisory group. Together they seek funding from various grants and contracted projects and community events in order to fund the staff, maintain an office and implement projects and fulfill contracts To site some examples of the local R. C. & D.’s ever evolving work load, I would note the Great Chip Drop, Drop the community wide celebration/festival on New Year’s Eve on the square in Downtown Lewistown. The local council contracts with the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts and the Folk Arts Regional Support Center to conduct arts award seminars and to oversee the screening process and present the grants each year. They have conducted farmer training on eliminating invasive plants, energy audits, watershed conservation and perennial crops for energy creation (hazelnuts versus corn and soybeans). They have distributed dry hydrants for installation in streams and ponds for fire protection in rural areas and now are preparing GPS mapping of those locations. The stream identity signage at all our regions bridges was a massive project. Our locally headquartered R.C. & D. office at 23 North Main Street in Lewistown serves Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Snyder, Union and Northumberland Counties. The staff includes Dr. Larry Schardt, coordinator and Sam Price, Kevin Morgan, Janet Kearns, Kristen Price, Bob Lyter and several summer interns. They are available to help our businesses and organizations research grant opportunities on a password protected system at 23 North Main. Call to arrange an appointment at 248-4901 and enjoy the beautiful historic home they call headquarters. Their motto: “Pride in Community, Partnerships in Action”. Get Connected... www.juniatarivervalley.org Discover Our Good Nature! P age 5 MA Y 2009 Please join us in welcoming our new Chamber Members by patronizing their businesses! Their membership reflects their integrity as a responsible business owner and demonstrates their commitment to the community. Pampered Chef Consultant LISA A SAVITTS 1147 Ridens Road Lewistown, PA 17044 Phone: 717 543-5497 Cell: 717 994-4050 Email: [email protected] Overhead Door Corporation - PA Division 23 Industrial Park Road Lewistown PA 17044 (800)929-1277 Fax: (800)929-1782 Brad Knable, V.P. Operations Other Contacts: Karen Knable, International Sales Coord. Have You checked Your Website Listing? Listing? To ensure that your business is represented properly to visitors and residents, please review your listing information at www.juniatarivervalley.org to ensure it is correct. If you see that there are modifications to make, please email [email protected] your changes. Keystone Business Support, Inc. 214 (Rear) S. Allen Street State College PA 16801 (814)234-2213 Fax: (814)234-2216 B. Perry Babb, President Other Contacts: Masi Shahnazari, Nathan Yocum, Manager FROM VISITPA.COM: ATTENTION Tourism Partners! Back in March we gave everyone a sneak preview of our spring/summer campaign with a taste of the Peter Arthur Stories. We are very excited about this campaign and the web series that will debut on May 14th. We invite you all to check out the teaser at PAstories.com and be prepared for more fun. Thanks to your assistance we are able to offer 12 exciting PA Getaways prize packages from all over Pennsylvania that should spur continued interest in the Peter Arthur Stories. Look for the premiere Thursday, May 14th. Click here: PA Stories HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! Trout Chiropractic Center, P.C. • Juniata Valley Foot & Ankle • Empire Kosher Poultry Associates • Lewistown Welding Supply Co. Inc. • Gold Key Real Estate • Haubert Homes, Inc. • Lewistown Florist, Inc. • Mifflin Co. Solid Waste Authority • EconoLodge & The Stop Restaurant • Hummel Associates • Heller - Hoenstine Funeral Homes, • PA CareerLink of Mifflin County • Thomas G. Clark, CPA • Representative Kerry Benninghoff • Greater Lewistown Corporate Center • Buchanan’s Fabrics & Sewing Center • Olde Hatchery, Inc. • Juniata Memorial Park, Inc. • Strawser's Excavating & Hauling • Lindsey's Decorative Concrete • American Cancer Society • Downtown Lewistown, Inc. • Ewing & Company • Downtown OIP & Grille • Paint Shop at Brindel's Hardware • Focal Tech, Inc. • Reedsville Seafood Company • Trolley Car Cafe • Culligan • Mary Kay Cosmetics • Kishacoquillas Valley National Bank • Gold Key Real Estate • Hartman Center • Curve Baseball, LP • Deihls' Flowers, Inc. • Get Connected... www.juniatarivervalley.org Juniata Valley Council Boy Scouts of America • Strut and Stroll Exercise Class • Love Shine Agency, Inc. • Central Penn Real Estate • Geisinger Health Plan • Mike Kalin • Gisewhite Construction Inc. Keystone Sprayfoam • Simply Health.Calm • Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc. • Burnham OIP • Triple G Design Group, Inc. • Shaklee, Independent Distributor • Republic Development Corporation • Mahoney's Construction Inc. • Discover Our Good Nature! P age 6 MA Y Calkins Automotive, Dunkin’ Donuts and the Waterfront, hosted the 49th monthly “After Hours” networking event with approximately 120 in attendance. The trio of hosts certainly provided an exciting and rewarding evening of mixing, information and tasty victuals & beverages. Several café tables enabled the munchers well, Waterfront servers with trays of hors d’ oeuvres wandered freely and the dessert station handled by the Oden family of Dunkin’ Donuts topped off the food offerings. A very informative feature of the evening took place at three different times. The staff in the repair shop demonstrated air bags by deploying them for all the guests to witness (they were removed from the automobile). This dramatic action certainly left a deep impression with everyone and we do not want to experience a bag activating in our lap. Drive defensively and with care. Generous tote bags filled with goodies and discounts were appreciated by everyone. Partnering with other businesses certainly enhances events and we thank all three of our hosts for a wonderful evening. Remember Calkins for all your automotive needs, the Waterfront for fine dining and catering services and Dunkin’ Donut for the best treats around (plus many Mark your calendars for other food offerings). in 2009 partnership with Wednesday, May 13th at HealthSouth in Mifflintown. 2009 after hours: May 13th - HealthSouth Mifflintown June 17th - Juniata County Historical Society at the Pomeroy Academia Bridge July - Edward Jones, Cross Country Coach & Caretaker LLC August - Buttonwood Campground September - Bings Diner October - Mifflin County Historical Society November - Dairyland Gift Shops December - Holiday Gathering hosted by... 2010 after hours: January, February, March - OPEN April - After Hours EXPO May - Metzler Forest Products June - Central PA Dock & Door July - OPEN August - Embassy Theatre September - OPEN October - OPEN November - OPEN Get Connected... CHAMBER AWARDS and the Workforce of Tomorrow Educator of the Year Awards will be presented. Special Guest Speaker: Mr. Nick Moraitis with Moraitis Properties. Mr. Moraitis is the developer and owner of the 160 acre parcel of land located off the 322 Burnham Exit. Breakfast Menu: At the welcome station - Coffee, Tea, Assorted Juice & Water, and Assorted Danish & Pastry. Table Service Entrée - Mushroom Egg Divan, Corned Beef Hash, and Rum & Ginger Infused Fruit Salad. www.juniatarivervalley.org Discover Our Good Nature! P age 7 ma y 2009 A Visit to Allensville On a recent Wednesday, Jill, Rhonda and Jim traveled up the Big Valley to Water Street in Allensville for a visit with Nick and Tara at Dayze Gone Bye Carriage Rides. We had no idea what a wonderful experience we were about to embark upon. Allensville is a quaint little village at the end of route 655 in Mifflin County (a mile from the Huntingdon County line). It is surrounded by many Amish and Mennonite farms and beautiful mountain ridges. Many of the in-town residents are also Amish and Mennonite, several homes are owned by people from a great distance away who love to vacation in the valley. Owners, Nick and Tara Richtscheit, will take you on a trip back in time on one of two horse drawn carriages. They can handle from one to 14 passengers and will customize your tour to suit your interests. They offer sunset rides, moonlight rides, private parties and Halloween tours. We guarantee you’ll enjoy every minute of your trip through the back roads along pastures, farmland and Amish schoolhouses. This will prove to be a wonderful way to experience farm animals, wildlife, nature, people and streams with all your senses being stimulated. Be assured they’ll stop for visits with Amish produce farmers, greenhouses and crafters of your choosing. Nick and Tara will be accompanying you on your tour and will share fascinating stories and educate you about our Amish neighbors. They also offer a beautiful white Vis-à-vis carriage for weddings, proms and special events. You’ll find them on Wednesdays at the Belleville Sale offering carriage and pony rides. The Richtscheits started the business four years ago following their permanent relocation from Houtzdale. Nick took the position of Chief of Police in Mt. Union, which he still holds. They reside on Water Street on the same grounds as the business, next door to the Allensville Library and the Kish Valley Historical Society. For reservations, pricing or more information, call (717) 483-0099, email them at [email protected] or visit them on the web: www.dayzegonebye.com Some Chamber History In 1925, some 84 years ago, a series questions and answers appeared in the SENTINEL pertaining to the Chamber of Commerce, similar to the “Voices” feature of today, but, without the photos. The Chamber was an infant at that time, just seven years old. On May 19th the question was: What can the Chamber of Commerce do to help your business? H.L. Berkheimer, Grocer, 482 West 4th Street: “The greatest aid to business would be a greater spirit of co-operation among businessmen in Lewistown.” W.H. Yocum, Barber, 28 East Hale Street: “The building up of a spirit of co-operation among the businessmen in each line of business and among the various lines of business would help a great deal. What helps one helps the other.” Lynn B. Mitchell, Manager, Mitchell Electric Company, Chestnut Street: “Establish a Retail Board of Trade for the purpose of bringing the local businessmen in closer contact with each other. This would raise the standard of local retailing. Why not make the Chamber of Commerce the business place for all the business places in the area.” C.H. Quigley, Ticket Agent, Pennsylvania Railroad, Chestnut Street: “We try to co-operate with the Chamber of Commerce in giving better service to the public in every way. There is nothing I can suggest which they could do just now.” John Benner, Watchmaker & Jeweler, 10 West Water Street: “Devote some time to putting an end to the useless and reckless expenditure of the public monies, so that taxation may be lowered and the City of Homes be made a fact rather than a fallacy.” Luther Kepler, Photographer, 127 East Market Street: “Persuade the public to have their pictures taken. I’ll do the rest.” Most of the answers involved one of the key objectives of today’s Chamber of Commerce: networking. Business and Chamber working together to improve business in general and promote doing business with one another. Get Connected... www.juniatarivervalley.org Discover Our Good Nature! P age 8 ma y J i m ’s s Corner 2009 Mothers Day 1964 It was Mother’s Day, 1964. I was the 19 year old son of a widowed waitress who was forced to work seven days a week including every Sunday until 4:00 P.M. Mom couldn’t drive and we lived seven block’s from Aunt Selma’s Swedish restaurant, the Hillcrest. I had recently purchased my first automobile, a 1964 pea green Volkswagen beetle for $1,640.00 cash, my entire lifetime savings (that’s a bunch of lawn mowing jobs). We never had a family car so I was officially the taxi driver for Mom whenever I was available. Since it was Mother’s Day, I convinced my two best friends, ironically Jim and Jim that I had to be in town at four o’clock to take Mom home from work. Mom had imagined a significant investment of my time. We had a different agenda. She thought I would spend the rest of the day with her, take her for a ride in the country, maybe a meal along the way and some television viewing together. Certainly not the plan we three Jims had in mind. We picked Mom up at four, took her home and immediately boarded the guilt trip train. As we pulled out of Kane I was dealing with anger (after all, I waited around most of the day so I could drive her home) and the guilt trip she exercised so often and so well (I must be a terrible son). We were en route to a state park to hike and as I drove the rural two lane road to our destination I was pushing the beetle to its max (65 mph). As I entered a sharp right hand curve in the road I quickly realized I was going too fast to negotiate the turn. I hit the brakes and the fact I was driving a rear engine car, I found myself looking backwards at the passing roadway. Next thing we were airborne over an embankment, rear end first, landing abruptly, wrapped around a single mature oak tree in the middle of a clearing at the base of the embankment. We bounced off the tree at about four feet above ground level, landed, the two doors flew open, both front seats ejected and Jim and I landed on the ground a few feet from the beetle, unscathed. Other Jim hit the front windshield from the backseat, smashing it with his head, climbed out uncut and conscious. There were no illegal substances or alcohol involved. The demolished beetle was resting out of view of the roadway. There were no witnesses to the event. It took us two hours to get a passing motorist to pick us up. He took us the 15 miles back to Kane to the Pennsylvania State Police Barracks. We all agreed that I slammed on the brakes to “avoid hitting a deer”. Jim and Jim were told to go home and the investigating officer took me back to the scene of the accident. Lucky for me the site was in the Allegheny National Forest and there were deer tracks on the berm everywhere we looked. The officer doubted my story but couldn’t prove otherwise. After completing the investigation he noticed a county line marker. We were not in McKean County, we were in Elk County. The officer radioed the Ridgeway State Police and we waited until another officer arrived on the scene. He repeated the entire investigation. When he was finished he walked over to the county marker and discovered to his disgust we were not in McKean or Elk Counties, we were in Forrest County. A third investigation took place and much to the distress of the new officer, he had to drive me home to Kane. It was truly amazing that none of us had any visible injuries. Later that evening I experienced an extreme case of gastric distress. I had all the usual symptoms associated with the flu. My Mom called our family doctor and after hearing of the accident he prescribed a visit to the hospital to explore the possibility of internal injuries. My first visitor the next day was the most charming person I ever met. After completely wooing me, I signed an insurance release and a form to allow his firm to promptly have my car repaired. They had it towed it to a body shop in Warren, thirty miles away. I worked in a shoe store and we closed at noon on Wednesdays. I would pack a sandwich in the morning, walk to the north side of town along route 6 after closing the store, hitchhike to Warren and check on my car’s condition every Wednesday for the next six weeks. Finally, it was ready. Cost new: $1640.00, repair bill paid by insurance company: $1590.00, my deductible: $100.00. Hmmmm! The sad part, since I wrapped the rear end around the tree and Volkswagen was a rear engine auto, it never ran properly again. It was in the repair shop (fifty miles away in Jamestown, New York) every Wednesday afternoon until I traded it for a 1965 (rear engine) Corvair. It is now recorded in the annals of automotive history that Corvair was the worst engineered and least safe vehicle ever conceived. My relationship with that lemon will be a lengthy and colorful story. The moral of the story is simply: spend Mother’s Day with your Mother or something bad will happen to you!! Contact Us: Historic Courthouse - One West Market Street - Lewistown, PA 17044 Hours: Monday through Friday 8:30am - 4:30pm Phone: 717.248.6713 Fax: 717.248-6714 Email: [email protected] Web: www.juniatarivervalley.org Get Connected... www.juniatarivervalley.org Discover Our Good Nature!
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