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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. ~Herman Melville
No. 33 - Issued Quarterly
BOROUGH OF WELLSBORO, PA
August 2020
The Dangers of Social Media
This Wellsboro Happenings is devoted primarily to social media, social media platforms. He had worked before putting together a a subject Patrolman Mitchell Christman has become very well social media marketing campaign, so with the interest being there acquainted with. within the department, he set up a Facebook account for the PD. With 3.5 years behind him at the P.D., Since then, they have found that people most of us know Mitchell Christman. would rather get on the Internet and For those who don’t here’s a little interact with the Police rather than call more about Mitch. Mitchell grew up or come in person. The Facebook page here, attending and graduating from increased the capability of interacting Wellsboro High School. After school, with the public. he lived in Elmira while obtaining his Funny enough, Mitch does not bachelor’s degree in mathematics at use social media himself. He Elmira College. once did, but when he saw the Police work had always interested invasiveness of this type of Mitch and so he did some courses on media and the silly and that at Elmira also. He stayed on after ugly things; harassment, graduation to work for the college as creating fake accounts with a residence life coordinator, where he your name, these were all saw a different side of college life. In good reasons to disengage. that role, he dealt with many cases of Rather than spend time on a drunkenness, breaking the law, etc., handheld device, Mitch and his sometimes seeing law enforcement wife McKenna have two small involved. The police were able to help children to focus their time and make the victim whole again, finding a energy on. They spend their resolution to the crisis. He found that free time biking, hiking, and, to be very interesting and decided to swimming with the family in tow. Mitchell Christman pursue more police studies. Mitch continues to study When an opening arose at the and learn new social media Sherriff’s department, he applied and got it, working there for platforms. If there is an incident at the station, he wants two years. He finished the police academy course while working to be able to respond in an educated manner. With his there. training as a school resource officer, he can also speak to Ultimately, Mitch wanted to do police work, so when an opening students about social media and its dangers. In return, came up here at the Wellsboro Police Department (PD), he was the kids teach him much about these new platforms. On chosen out of a group of three qualified applicants for the job. In the following pages are a series of articles written by concert with his police work, he has become more educated on Mitch about social media.
ON THE INSIDE... Social Media and Today’s Youth............Page 2 Social Media and Your Finances............Page 3 Social Media and Bullying.......................Page 5 Do I Know You?........................................Page 5 What Information Should I Share........Page 7
Picture Sharing.........................................Page 7 Keeping Your Family Safe......................Page 8 A Guide to Internet Safety....................Page 9 Inviting Tree Polinators....................... Page 10 Landlord Responsibilities.................... Page 10
Proper Tree Mulching.......................... Page 10 Water Account Information............... Page 11 Rules on Borough Compost Areas..... Page 11 Water System Improvements............ Page 11 Paperless Billing Available.................. Page 11
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Social Media and Today’s Youth by Margaret Dulaney
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The social media platforms used by today’s youth are updating seemingly on a daily basis. Often times young minds are the driving forces behind developments in these platforms and youth are able to function on applications intuitively. Unfortunately, such changes leave parents, teachers, law enforcement and other concerned parties increasingly behind the learning curve. Although I, Mitchell Christman, Patrolman, Wellsboro Police Department, am part of the millennial generation, I am continuously surprised at the seemingly endless utilizations and capabilities of online applications found on today’s smartphones and tablets. During this past year, Ms. Sharon Mohr of the Wellsboro Area High School invited Chief Jim Bodine and I to speak to students regarding cyber-bullying and social media use from a law enforcement perspective. During these presentations, the Chief and I were able to discuss the law as it applies to social media and the types of incidents we encounter regarding the Internet and social media. More importantly, we left a large amount of time at the end of these presentations to hear from students regarding social media. It was during these discussions that we learned how fast the landscape is changing regarding applications being utilized by today’s youth. Indeed, the preferred platforms of social media differed among the four grade levels that encompass the high school. Based on my experience with incidents at Wellsboro Police Department, discussions with youth, and outside research, this sequence of articles attempts to highlight safety guidelines for both parents and youth regarding social media use.
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Social Media and Your Finances
Ryan Oswald
BE SAFE. Do not link any financial information (credit cards, bank accounts, etc.) to any social media account. Some applications such as Amazon and PayPal are set up for secure financial transactions. These websites, as well as major retail store websites (Target, Walmart, etc.) are generally safe to conduct business online, just beware of websites posing as legitimate ones by changing the spelling of the store. A good test to know whether a financial transaction is secure is to look for the SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption which is often noted by the padlock symbol to the left of the URL (Griffith, 2020). However, you should not be linking financial information to Facebook or other social media platforms that allow you to send your hard-earned money to other users. GIFT CARDS, ETC. No legitimate transaction requires payment in the form of gift cards of any type. Diplomats, expatriates, and foreign royalty do not contact everyday people via online platforms when they need assistance. Any such solicitations for “help” in the form of money, such as gift cards or cashier’s checks, should be considered scams. Some people actively target others online and attempt to sell their misfortunes to those who they believe will “help” them by sending large sums of money. Because of the large amount of people connected to social networks and the inability to positively identify who you are dealing with on the other end, it is not advisable to conduct any sort of financial transactions online unless you are making a secure purchase from a reputable website as mentioned above.
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Social Media and Bullying
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Wellsboro Rotary Club Benefits: Cyber-bullying was the catalyst for our invitation to speak with students in the first place. Children today spend more time interacting through social media than they do face to face. The anonymity of social media often times leads to youth saying (typing) cruel things to or about others that they would not say to that person directly. Again, this is another conversation we attempt to have with the students. Once a message, post, or picture has been posted, it is permanent. Sure, your application may allow you to remove it, but that does not stop others from disseminating what you have already said. Bullying was difficult enough for students prior to social media. Now, victim students cannot escape the cruelty. Victim students may leave their aggressors at school and come home to find that additional painful things are still being posted about them or messaged to them through the Internet. We try to impress to students that such interactions are not healthy and words that may seem miniscule to them can have devastating effects on others.
Do I Know You? Know who you are talking to on social media. Beware of friend requests from people you do not know. Child predators often use social media to contact, groom, and ultimately victimize children. Popular applications proven to have been used by child predators include Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Tik Tok, Tinder, Tumblr, Whatsapp, Whisper, Fortnite, Minecraft, and many others (Baldwin, 2019).
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Mandated in the Borough. Place properly sorted materials curbside by 7 am
January '20
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Recycling Guidelines Route A canceled Dec. 25, 2020 Route B canceled Jan. 1, 2021
Aluminum Cans: Please empty & rinse cans. Crushing is optional but saves space. Corrugated Cardboard: Flatten boxes & keep dry. Look for the ridges. No cereal/macaroni boxes, etc. Glass Bottles & Jars: Separate bottles & jars by color; clear, brown, green. Remove all lids & rings. Rinse well, labels can remain. Magazines: Magazines & catalogs only. Keep dry. Do not bundle or tie. Newspapers: Keep dry. Inserts can remain. Do not bundle or tie.
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Plastic Bottles & Containers: Includes soda & water bottles, milk& laundry jugs, shampoo bottles, yogurt containers, butter tubs, berry containers, etc...Empty & rinse as necessary. Lids can remain. Crushing is optional but saves space. NO HARD OR BULKY PLASTICS, NO BLACK PLASTIC, NO PLASTIC BAGS, NO STYROFOAM, NO OIL CONTAINERS, NO FLOWER POTS
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What Information Should I Share? AUGUST 2020
In addition to being selective regarding who you talk to on social media, you should also be selective regarding the information you share. Information you share can be broken down into two categories: information you actively post or display and information you give up per the privacy settings and/or user agreements of the platform. In terms of information you share, your identification can be stolen with your name and birthday and you can become the victim of fraud or other financial crimes. More importantly, sharing things like your high school, hometown, address, occupation, etc. can allow others to victimize you by either pretending to know you or physically finding you. For instance, if your address is linked to an account and you post pictures or information showing that you are on vacation, now everyone, including potential burglars, know that you are not at home.
Picture Sharing
Any sort of picture sharing can lead to legal and other problems via the Internet. Based on the talks we have had with youth at the high school, large amounts of interactions among youth via social media are solicitations for “pics” meaning nude pictures. Most likely if a teen is using social media, they have sent, received, or viewed other teens in various states of nudity. Pennsylvania has laws that cover the litany of situations that arise regarding youth sending, receiving and possessing nude pictures of one another. Pennsylvania has a common sense law to prohibit all minors (under 18 years old) from becoming criminals for such conduct. This “sexting law” makes it a summary offense (a citation filed with a Magisterial District Judge) for a minor to
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disseminate a sexually explicit image of himself or herself or to possess a sexually explicit image of another minor over the age of 12. Misdemeanor charges can be brought against minors under this same statute if they disseminate sexually explicit images of another minor (See PA Title 18, Section 6321). More serious, felony criminal charges arise when those over the age of 18 possess or view a child under the age of 18 engaged in a prohibited sexual act or in the state of nudity (See PA Title 18, Section 6312). So, a student who is 18 that possesses pictures of their significant other who is 17 in the state of nudity is violating this statute. Regardless of the violation, it is not advisable for youth to engage in possession or dissemination of pictures of themselves or others. This is a conversation we try to have with the students at the school, but a reminder from parents can never hurt.
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Keeping You and Your Family Safe PRIVACY SETTINGS: In regards to information you give up, most of us surrender large amounts of information about ourselves simply by agreeing to terms of service. Snapchat has a separate portion of their terms of service titled “Information we get when you use our services” (Privacy, 2019). The small print or privacy settings that we always agree to without reading allow applications to take (because we gave them permission to) large amounts of information about us. Using the Snapchat example, the parent company Snap Inc. collects information from the device you use the application on, including “information from device sensors, such as accelerometers, gyroscopes, compasses, microphones, and whether you have headphones connected” (Privacy, 2019). By using the application, you also give Snapchat information regarding your “precise location using methods that include GPS, wireless networks, cell towers, Wi-Fi access points, and other sensors, such as gyroscopes, accelerometers, and compasses” (Privacy, 2019). Not only does Snapchat receive all this information about you, but they also have the capability to share it with third parties. None of this is to discourage you from using Snapchat or other applications (most have similar methods for gathering your information). Please just keep in mind how much you are giving up when using social media and always try to find the privacy settings of the applications and set them to the most restrictive. In short, there are several potential problems that arise when youth are turned loose on the Internet. Please remember the implications regarding financial transactions, friends and their true identities, information sharing, sending pictures, and bullying when speaking to your child about using social media. When in doubt, it comes down to communication and supervision. Know which applications your child is using and know who their friends are on these applications. At the end of the day, children do not need social media to survive (although they may tell you otherwise). We have always found that the first step to correcting problems is to disengage. If your child complains that someone is bothering them though the Internet, tell them to cease interactions with that person on the platform. We see many complaints of “harassment” when in reality it is two parties bickering. If more serious problems arise, please feel free to reach out to us at Wellsboro Police Department. If we cannot help, we can usually point you to other resources who can.
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A Guide to Internet Safety
1. Keep Personal Information Professional and Limited Potential employers or customers don’t need to know your personal relationship status or your home address. They do need to know about your expertise and professional background, and how to get in touch with you. You wouldn’t hand purely personal information out to strangers individually—don’t hand it out to millions of people online. 2. Keep Your Privacy Settings On Marketers love to know all about you, and so do hackers. Both can learn a lot from your browsing and social media usage. But you can take charge of your information. Web browsers and mobile operating systems have settings available to protect your privacy online. Major websites like Facebook also have privacy-enhancing settings available. These settings are sometimes (deliberately) hard to find because companies want your personal information for its marketing value. Make sure you have enabled these privacy safeguards, and keep them enabled. 3. Practice Safe Browsing You wouldn’t choose to walk through a dangerous neighborhood—don’t visit dangerous neighborhoods online. Cybercriminals use lurid content as bait. They know people are sometimes tempted by dubious content and may let their guard down when searching for it. The Internet is filled with hard-to-see pitfalls, where one careless click could expose personal data or infect your device with malware. By resisting the urge, you don’t even give the hackers a chance. 4. Make Sure Your Internet Connection is Secure. When you go online in a public place, for example by using a public Wi-Fi connection, you have no direct control over its security. Corporate cybersecurity experts worry about “endpoints”—the places where a private network connects to the outside world. Your vulnerable endpoint is your local Internet connection. Make sure your device is secure, and when in doubt, wait for a better time (i.e., until you’re able to connect to a secure Wi-Fi network) before providing information such as your bank account number. 5. Be Careful What You Download A top goal of cybercriminals is to trick you into downloading malware—programs or apps that carry malware or try to steal information. This malware can be disguised as an app: anything from a popular game to something that checks traffic or the weather. Don’t download apps that
look suspicious or come from a site you don’t trust. 6. Choose Strong Passwords Passwords are one of the biggest weak spots in the whole Internet security structure, but there’s currently no way around them. And the problem with passwords is that people tend to choose easy ones to remember (such as “password” and “123456”), which are also easy for cyber thieves to guess. Select strong passwords that are harder for cybercriminals to demystify. Password manager software can help you to manage multiple passwords so that you don’t forget them. A strong password is one that is unique and complex—at least 15 characters long, mixing letters, numbers and special characters. 7. Make Online Purchases From Secure Sites Any time you make a purchase online, you need to provide credit card or bank account information—just what cybercriminals are most eager to get their hands on. Only supply this information to sites that provide secure, encrypted connections. You can identify secure sites by looking for an address that starts with https: (the S stands for secure) rather than simply http: They may also be marked by a padlock icon next to the address bar. 8. Be Careful What You Post The Internet does not have a delete key. Any comment or image you post online may stay online forever because removing the original (say, from Twitter) does not remove any copies that other people made. There is no way for you to “take back” a remark you wish you hadn’t made, or get rid of that embarrassing selfie you took at a party. Don’t put anything online that you wouldn’t want your mom or a prospective employer to see. 9. Be Careful Who You Meet Online People you meet online are not always who they claim to be. Indeed, they may not even be real. Fake social media profiles are a popular way for hackers to cozy up to unwary Web users and pick their cyber pockets. Be as cautious and sensible in your online social life as you are in your inperson social life. 10. Keep Your Antivirus Program Up To Date Internet security software cannot protect against every threat, but it will detect and remove most malware— though you should make sure it’s to date. Be sure to stay current with your operating system’s updates and updates to applications you use. They provide a vital layer of security.
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Inviting Tree Polinators
(from Tree City Bulletin May/June 2020) Property owners can create special gardens and sites to provide food and habitat to pollinators. Almost any piece of your property, including window or balcony boxes, can provide enough space to help pollinators. The key is plenty of sunlight, no nearby use of insecticides and loosely cultivated soil, rid of weeds. Creating this space can also reduce the area you mow, saving time while adding an aesthetically pleasing area to your property. A pollinator garden creates a beautiful, informal area. Landowners should plant in same-plant clumps of four or five, with tall species at the center of the garden or in the back, then medium and short plants in the front. Of course, plant selection is important to growing a pollinator garden. A mix of numerous species will help ensure the availability of specific flowers needed by wild bees. When possible, select native plants, grown chemical-free, and for bees – bright blue, white, or yellow flowers. At least some should be tubular and aromatic, with landing platforms (such as snapdragons). For monarch butterflies, milkweeds should be among the mix; hummingbirds prefer red blossoms. Select plants that bloom at different at different times throughout the season. Even though pollinator gardens look informal, they still need to be maintained. The plants need adequate water, especially during the first year. Weeds need to be removed from the area as well. Leave the stalks and seed heads in autumn and then cut back the old vegetation in late spring. Use compost and organic mulch when necessary and avoid fertilizers.
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Proper Tree Mulching
(from Vincent Cotrone/Penn St Extension)
Placing mulch around trees and shrubs adds organic matter and nutrients, conserves soil moisture and prevents lawn mowers from injuring trees and shrubs. However, mulch that is applied too thick and piled against the stems can be harmful to trees and shrubs. Thick mulch can suffocate roots and create a moist environment which promotes decay fungi attack on the trunk and roots, root rot, crown dieback and possible tree failure. Over-mulching also prevents the movement of oxygen and carbon dioxide in and out of stems and can lead to rodent chewing and stem-girdling. Mulch “volcanoes” are common, but unfortunately, they cover the natural flare where the tree meets the soil. It is important to the tree’s health that this flare not be covered with soil or mulch. Mulch should be spread out in a layer no thicker than 3-4 inches, and don’t pile it up on the trunks of trees and stems of shrubs.
Landlord Responsibilities
It is crucial for landlords to keep the accounts at your rental properties current. The borough cannot switch the names on the account without a completed application, signed by both the tenant and the property owner. The borough cannot back date billing to before the application date. If a new tenant moves into the rental unit, one of the first things a landlord should do is to contact the borough office at 570-724-3186 to request a final meter reading to start the billing on the new account and ensure the borough receives a completed water/sewer/garbage application (with $50 deposit).
Improper Mulching or “Volcanoes”
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Proper Mulching Katarina Swendrowski receives a Certificate of Appreciation for her year and a half serving as Junior Borough Council Person.
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Around the Borough...
Water Account Information
Borough residents are urged to keep their contact information on their utility accounts current. The borough can use this information to contact owners and residents of potential or confirmed leaks, or for public notification reasons. For example, when the borough puts a notice out through the county’s alert system Swift911, those notices are sent through telephone numbers. If a current phone number isn’t available, residents cannot receive these notices from the borough. Borough residents can also receive updates and notifications by downloading the Wellsboro Borough app for free on either Android or iPhone cell phones.
Rules on Borough Compost Areas
The borough offers residents two options for disposal of grass and yard clippings, including branches and trees. 1. The compost area at the borough garage on Old Tioga Street. This is for the disposal of grass clippings and yard clippings only. No contractor dumping or dump trailers are permitted at this area. When dumping grass or yard clippings, if the compost bin is empty, please place the materials (small branches, leaves and weeds) in the back of the compost bin. Recently, borough crews have removed pallets, large stones, and a pile of dirt from this area. These items can damage the grinder, which leads to a repair expense for the borough. 2. The compost area at Meade Street (near the ballfields). This is available for contractors and the disposal of larger items such as logs, large branches, and stumps. There are separate areas in the compost area for different items. Please place your items in the appropriate piles when dumping your materials.
Water System Improvements
Current projects include improvements, including a new box culvert, on the access road to the water sources, replacement of approx. 3400 feet of water delivery line, and an upgrade of the meter and valves at the Willis Run surface intake. The Municipal Authority has also ordered two new, more secure buildings for two of the water sources. After these two outbuildings, four of the six wells will have been upgraded to the more permanent, more secure buildings. This year, the Authority has partnered with the borough on the purchase of a mini-excavator, which the borough crew uses nearly daily. The Authority has also paid for the re-sanding of both Slow Sand Filters at the water treatment facility at a cost of over $120,000. These projects and purchases are geared to improving the systems and increasing the efficiency of running those systems. Borough employees are in the process of installing radio-read units to speed up the monthly reading of the meters by reducing trips inside buildings and through yards to gather meter readings. Multiple operations at the wastewater treatment facility have been upgraded to remote operation capabilities. The Wellsboro Municipal Authority has invested 1.1 million dollars in these upgrades since January of 2019 and is continually looking for new projects. The benefit of these repairs, upgrades and purchases, besides the water and sewer service, is that the Authority’s monies remove the burden of those projects from taxpayers and the borough’s budget.
Paperless Billing Available!
CONTRACTORS fees to use the Meade Street area are $35 for the day or pay an annual fee of $300. Contractors paying the annual fee receive a key to the Meade Street area. RESIDENTS who use contractors to dispose of materials at Meade Street are asked to let the contractors pay the fee and sign the key out. These fees are used to offset the cost of the tub grinder that the borough contracts annually to grind and chip the materials at the compost area. To get a key, please stop in to the office from 8am to 4pm on Monday through Friday to sign one out and then sign again when you return the key. WOOD MULCH The wood mulch left behind after the grinding process is available for anyone to use at no cost. Residents can get a key and load as much mulch as they please. The borough tries to put these materials to use when possible. This year, the older wood mulch was used to re-establish and increase the size of the shooting range backstop used by our local police officers, state troopers, sheriff’s department and multiple other local law enforcement agencies.
The Borough of Wellsboro is now offering paperless billing for utility customers. To sign up, just visit the borough’s website at www. wellsboroborough.com and click on the “View eBills” button below the borough calendar. Customers will need their bill to enter their customer number and PIN to register their account. Be sure to enter the exact customer number (preceded by 4 zero’s) The PIN number is located on the bills below your name and address. Customers can still choose any method of payment when receiving paperless billing.
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