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Penn Forest Township looks to reward safety volunteers, reopens office by Seth Isenberg
As our area went into the COVID-19 shelter at home time, the Boulder View Tavern in Lake Harmony had its restaurant coolers full of food they were expecting to serve to patrons. With the restaurant and tavern closed, it was decided to make a donation of this food to the Valor Clinic Foundation to help them feed the veterans in their care at their Jonas facility, Paul’s House. Shown above are chef Steven Virola, general manager Keith DeVos, and Paul’s House house manager Michelle Goyette as they prepared boxes of the food for deliver to Paul’s House.
Penn Bid software program. As explained, the program posts all the bid documents Supervisors at Penn Foronline. Bidders then download est Township held a Zoom what they need, and submit a meeting on May 4 in front of bid if interested. The winning a couple of citizens and this reporter. Supervisors extended bidder pays a fee of 1/3 of 1% to cover costs. Ads would also the declaration of emergency go into the newspaper. Suto June 20. pervisor Judy Knappenberger The township is moving toward offering tax credits and wants to keep contractors local, and was the sole no vote. fee savings to the township’s It was agreed buy the license volunteer emergency responders. Details remain to be for one Adobe Acrobat Pro, for the office. worked out, including estabThe Stoney Creek Road lishing rules on who qualifies. A public hearing on the matter drainage project is ready to go to bid. It will be advertised, will be scheduled, with the with documents posted to hope of having the credits in Penn Bid. The short stretch place this summer. of Forest Street into BeltzLater in the meeting, it was ville Lake Estates needs to be also discussed to waive the repaired and repaved, in some garbage fees for these same volunteers. Township solicitor Tom Nanovic wants a good set of rules, in order to create a good set of lists (from each emergency service station) of those eligible. A request by Verizon to get a right-of-way to run an underground line to the new cell tower was tabled. It was decided to send the request back to Verizon and ask them to make the language on the agreement clearer and more specific. Schiffer Bituminous will again be contracted to come and fill potholes with their hot patch truck, at a cost of $3,000 for two truckloads. A split vote approved the township signing up for the
places from the base up. It’s a small project, and quotes will be sought. Another road project will be prepared for bidding, that of replacing about 37 pipes across township roads at the north end of the township. Some are settling, others have become ‘big bumps.’ It was agreed to work with PennDOT to get specs together in order to prepare bid documents. The project is to be done this paving season. PennDOT will also be asked what roads should be added to the summer’s paving projects if this year’s liquid fuels money can be stretched a bit. Suggestions were parts of Schoolhouse and Stony Mountain See PENN FOREST, page 2
In support of the police departments in the area where Pro Action Restoration conducts business, the company, which has an office in Albrightsville, donated hand sanitizer wipes and surface wipes to the Kidder Township Police Department on April 20. Shown with the donations, are Chief of Police Matthew Kuzma, left, and Kidder Twp. Supervisor Louis Pantages.