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day’s society. James strives to live a simpler, peaceful, sustainable life connected to nature. Beginning September 2014, James will begin a one-year adventure by living primitively with an organization called Ways of the Earth Living Museum and Healing Center in Indiana. To follow James’ progress over the next year you can go to: http://www. waysoftheearth.org James Fulcher’s first blog post follows.

About The School Keepers of the Earth School of Primitive Skills has a deep longing to reconnect folks with the natural world. By studying the skills of the Ancestors and spending time surrounded by nature, we hope to reacquaint others with their God-given birthright. Keepers of the Earth classes are held in Spring Mills, Pennsylvania. If you would like to follow our school or sign up for a class, please go to our website: www. PrimitiveSkillsSchool.com Don’t forget to sign up for our mailing list. About The Teacher Raised in Cascade, Colorado with Pikes Peak in his backyard, James Fulcher discovered a close connection with the natural world at an early age. At the age of 18, he met Ed Winters, an Elder who guided him into the world of hunting, fishing and camping. From there, James continued on a steady path of learning the ancient ways of living, surviving and thriving with nature. In 2008, James began to deepen his experiences in nature awareness and survival skills. He studied with legendary tracker Tom Brown, Jr at his school in New Jersey. His love of all things primitive inspired him to begin teaching and sharing his skills with others. James feels deeply that a connection with nature is a important missing component in to-

Going Primitive One of the thoughts that haunts me most is just how attached I am to modern conveniences. With the upcoming move to primitive living drawing closer by the day, I ask myself, “Do I really need this or that? How long will it take me to make this or that? If I don’t take that, how will it affect my tribe wintering over in a primitive scenario?” If I’m being totally honest with myself, up to this point I have just been playing primitive. Don’t get me wrong, I work hard on my skills and endeavor to perfect them. I am always trying to figure out just how would I do this without this modern tool, or what would it take to make the primitive tool that I need for this project. But now I am really relying on me and my tribe’s ability to do this or to do that in the old way! Great Spirit Creator, We Preparing for Ceremony

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Editor’s Corner Wayne Stottlar And just like that, summer is over. As sad as that is, this month and the next are probably my favorite time of the year with its drier air, cooler days and chilly nights. It is a great time of the year for folks who live close to the Earth, there is a flurry of activity over reaping the bounty of your summer efforts, and that anticipation of things slowing down a little and becoming more home bound as winter approaches. Once the wood is finished being stacked for the winter, we will look forward to cozy nights indoors watching NHL hockey, our favorite winter past time. Our world continues to appear as if it has completely lost itss mind. An American journalist is beheaded, and our president goes golfing. Our Chairman of the Joint Chief’s of Staff, the Secre-

tary of Defense and the White House all come out with diametrically opposed statements the same day concerning our policy to deal with ISIS! It doesn’t give me a comfortable feeling that anyone in our government knows what the heck they are doing. ISIS has proclaimed they are going to kill us, so how about we don’t wait until they try before we get up off the couch to do something about it. I take them at their word, they will try, so let’s kill them first. You all know how I feel about going to war, I don’t want to, and I wouldn’t want to secure an area whose residents hate us anyway, but they have directly threatened us, that should be enough to go kill ALL OF THEM—wherever they are. And I still don’t want us to go to war unless we are going to unleash the total destruction

that we are capable of. Worrying about one foreign country and their opinion of what we are doing, while putting one American soldier in harms way is criminal otherwise. We shouldn’t play the game of waging war with them until they have had enough either, if we go in, we make sure that this threat can never rise again. All of THEM! I was very disturbed at the news coverage of the murder in St. Louis as well. I am just in awe as I watched the news media (Fox especially) mold public opinion over the incident. It had nothing to do with reporting, it was pure outright theatrics and propaganda fed to them by the law enforcement community. Before the victim was even buried, all kinds of angles were being explored to justify the murder of an unarmed teenager. Cops were brought in to make sure the viewers had the proper perspective of what

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Back Talk by Dr. Joseph Kauffman

The Cat Is Out Of The Bag! Like the title says: “The Cat is Out of the Bag!: Have you been paying attention to what is happening in the vaccine world? It has not been blown all apart yet due to mainstream media covering it up. Most of the people, like me, who tend to think deeply about conspiracies, are aware of how corrupt the media and the government are. Although, I am certain that what most of us know and think pales in comparison as to how corrupt these agencies really are. This particular example illustrates a cover-up and conspiracy involving one of the biggest government-run agencies, the Center for Disease Control (CDC). It also shows conspiracy and negligence of one of the biggest media sites, CNN. Considering the outbreak of deadly diseases such as Ebola and the mishandling of known pandemic diseases such as small pox, can the CDC really risk any mistrust among the mainstream public? Most conspiracy-minded people already have no trust for the CDC, FDA or any agency such as those. But, in general, most of the public is ignorant of how corrupt they are. But, now the cat is starting to come out of the bag and more of the public is becoming aware of facts and

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statistics that have not only happened, but have been covered up or censored. If these agencies can flat out lie to us all about some topics, can they really be trusted on any topic? A whistleblower from the CDC provided proof that the organization knew about the MMR vaccine causing a 350% increase in the chance of AfricanAmerican boys developing Autism after getting the shot, and they covered it up. He posted his article on a CNN website, which was then removed by the media outlet. Here is what I am talking about: “(NaturalNews) The CDC whistleblower story is exploding, and despite the best efforts of the mainstream media to maintain a total media blackout on the story, the truth is spreading like wildfire across the internet and social media. The essence of the story is that CDC scientist William Thompson has admitted to committing scientific fraud over the last ten years in conjunction with other CDC scientists. They retroactively altered study data to hide the proven fact that MMR vaccines cause a huge increase in autism risk in African-American children, and the CDC’s top criminal, Dr. Julie Gerberding, orchestrated the entire fraud. Now Rob Schneider, famous for his many roles in popular comedy movies, is urging the political leadership of California to investigate the fraud. More importantly, he also says he has a copy of “the original CDC report that was later suppressed and fraudulently changed.” His full letter, posted on the Canary Party website, is reprinted here: From: Rob Schneider Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 10:20 PM Subject: CDC Autism Whistleblower Admits Vaccine Study Fraud - CNN iReport To: Lark Park, Deputy Legislative Secretary, Governor’s office (Lark.Park@gov.ca.gov)

‘Dear Ms. Park, This is Rob Schneider. I want to first thank you for calling me several years ago when Governor Brown signed into law AB2109, the requirement for all parents of school children to have to “be counseled” to get a Doctor’s note in order to obtain a vaccine exemption to attend public school in California. As you may or may or not know this has caused hardships all over the state as Doctors have refused to meet with parents who want the exemption form signed and families who have been threatened with or have been kicked out of medical practices for not going along with the exact Vaccine schedule, currently 49 shots of over 16 different Vaccines before the age of Six Years old. This in spite of a family’s objections whose child may have had another sibling that had a bad reaction to a particular Vaccine. This policy of one size fits all Vaccine schedule for every child is as absurd as giving the same eye prescription glasses to every child. The fact is EVERY CHILD IS DIFFERENT and there is currently NO SYSTEM or thought to which child could be more susceptible to adverse reactions including permanent injury and death from any Vaccine or Vaccine ingredients. Since I have opposed this undemocratic and onerous legislation (and Law) from its inception, I have kept up on how it has affected families in California. Now there is more reason than ever to be concerned, even outraged, by the CDC and by AB 2109. A top Scientist and Researcher for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Dr. William Thompson PHD, who did the major research safety study for the Measles Mumps and Rubella Vaccine (MMR) has come forward as a whistleblower and admitted that the MMR study was in fact fraudulent. (I have attached a link of the news story from CNN for your convenience). As a concerned citizen of the State of California, I feel compelled to share with you proof the CDC committed fraud (I have copies of the original CDC report that was later suppressed and fraudulently changed). One disturbing disclosure, AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDREN were and still are THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY PERCENT more likely to develop Autism under the current Vaccine MMR schedule. This according to the original CDC study in 2001. My question to you and

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Governor Brown is, how many children in California in the last thirteen years since this report have been hurt? How many children in the US have been permanently damaged? Lastly, how many MORE children will be needlessly injured because of the bill Governor Brown signed? Before I pay for advertisements in News outlets, Sacramento Bee, etc., I would like to hear what Governor Brown has to say in light of this new information. This letter is being sent to my Representative in Congress, Congressman Sherman and to my friend Congressman Posey of Florida and to both our State Senators as well as to other media outlets. I await your call or email and Governor Brown’s prompt response. The children of California deserve nothing less. Sincerely, Rob Schneider’ Laura Hayes of HealthChoice.org follows up with even more damning evidence against the CDC. Following Rob’s letter, Laura Hayes of HealthChoice.org sent this email, summarizing the irrefutable evidence of scientific fraud carried out by the CDC in conspiracy with the for-profit vaccine industry: Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 11:56 PM Subject: Re: CDC Autism Whistleblower Admits Vaccine Study Fraud - CNN iReport ‘Dear All, Thank you, Mr. Schneider, for bringing this critically-important news to Governor Brown’s attention. Truly unbelievable, but unfortunately not surprising, that mainstream media hasn’t made this their top story since the release of the CDC whistleblower video. Those of us who have been trying to bring forth the lies being told and perpetuated by the CDC know this latest revelation is but one of many CDC cover-ups. There is also the transcript from the CDC-sponsored meeting in Simpsonwood, GA, in 2000, at which data was presented clearly demonstrating the link between the thimerosal (mercury) in vaccines and autism, in addition to its link to other developmental delays and disorders. This information was never shared with the public.

http://www.safeminds.org/government-affairs/... There is also the review of the NVICP, which revealed that the government had indeed been compensating cases of vaccineinduced autism for well over 2 decades, despite CDC representatives claiming publicly that such a case had never been compensated. http://www.ebcala.org/unanswered-questions There is also the CDC coverup of what they found in Brick Township, NJ, back in the late ‘90s. They discovered a vaccine link to the epidemic numbers of young children with autism in Brick Township, NJ. True to form, they left after their investigation without a word to the townspeople, never to reveal what they discovered. http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=tff7kXPoNxY There is also the CDC’s continual citing of a study done by one of the FBI’s Most Wanted Criminals, Paul Thorsen. Despite stealing the grant money given to him by the U.S., his study is still cited, as though it was valid (his study said there was no link between thimerosal and autism). http://www.justice.gov/usao/gan/ press/2011/0... Many of these items, among other important issues, are covered in a “back to school” article I recently wrote: http://www.ageofautism. com/2014/08/i-have-de... I sincerely hope that you will respond promptly to Mr. Schneider. I also hope that Governor Brown will make it a priority to overturn AB2109 and AB499, both of which he signed into law. Sincerely, Laura Hayes ‘ Learn more: http://www. naturalnews.com/046598_ Rob_Schneider_CDC_whistleblower_secret_documents. html#ixzz3BbIqnJlW “CNN caught red handed covering up CDC medical genocide of African-American babies

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Barley Harvest

What’s up beer lovers? I have not written for The Valley for two months. Life sometimes just gets too busy and things just cascade down on to you so you push things aside to deal with the avalanche. Anyway I’m back, so this week I will be talking about harvesting the barley that I grew this summer. Some of it worked out, and some did not work out so well, but like I always tell my kids, “Live and Learn.” The patch of barley that I grew in my backyard near my chicken coop lodged due to the amount of rain we received this year, or due to the abundance of nutrients. Some of the stalks were plump and full of barley seeds, but many of them grew too fast and fell over before full pollination could take place. I harvested the viable barley. The mega-gar-

den barley plot did not lodge, but the nutrient content was lacking. The barley on the edge of the plot was awesome with very full stalks, but the barley in the middle of the plot was skimpy, but I took it all. This was probably because of over competition of nutrients in the middle of the plot and no competition on the edges. Next time, I should add some nitrogen to the middle of the plot before the heads start to develop. Overall, I think I have enough barley after the harvesting and malting process to make a few allgrain batches of homebrew. It’s important to know when to harvest the barley. You basically let the barley start dying back, but you do not want wait too long or the barley seed will start drooping, which makes harvesting much more difficult. The

individual grains should be dry enough that it’s hard to dent the seed pod with your fingernail. At this point, the barley has lost about 30% of its water content. You want to harvest the barley when it’s relatively dry, which has been hard to accomplish this year with our wet summer here in Central Pennsylvania. Harvesting the barley when it’s dry makes it easier to stack the barley so that it can dry out completely. If it is too wet, mildew will become an issue. I used a hand sickle to harvest the barley. You want to grab a handful of barley at the base of the plant and pull the sickle through the handful of barley. Hacking at the barley is not the way to go about it. Keep doing this until you have a bundle of 4 to 6 inches in diameter. I then used twine to tie off the bundle. I stacked the barley under my carport on an old screen window. I elevated the window frame using some clay pots. This allowed for air to pass freely throughout the whole stack. I let the barley dry out for another week or two under the carport. Once the grain is dried out, it’s time to thresh and winnow the grain. Threshing is the process of separating the grains from the

dried seed heads. I took my bundles and started whacking them against the sides of a 5 gallon bucket. Some books Grain after threshed but before winnowed recom mend laying out a tarp and placing the At this point, you can store the bundles on the tarp and beating barley in a burlap sack in a cool, them with a plastic baseball bat. but not damp, place. You want to I like the bucket method because do this because malting the grain you do not have to mess with a should take place in the cooler fall tarp. Separate the large patches of months. straw from the grain by hand, but Next month, we will get into to remove the finer bits of straw malting the grain. Until then, how you should winnow the grains. about ending with a Prohibition All you want to do is pour the Songthreshed grain from one bucket to another bucket on a breezy day or Mother’s in the kitchen washing in front of a small fan. The idea out the jugs, is to let the heavier grain drop into Sister’s in the pantry bottling the a bucket and the lighter straw bits suds, and chap to be blown away. You Father’s in the cellar mixing up are not going to completely clean the hops, out the grain this way, but that is Johnny’s on the front porch alright. You will need to wash the watching for the cops. a grain before you malt it away.

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A Little Food For Thought Stick with me here, folks, ‘cause this is not going to be a regular article and since there are some facts coming that you really need to know, I’m asking that you don’t turn the page before you get to them. Deal? Okay, then. To begin, please read this quote. It is from the novel, “Jurassic Park.” Wait! You promised not to turn the page, remember? Now forget all you know about the movies based on “Jurassic Park.” The book is very well written, intelligent, engaging and much grimmer than the Hollywood versions. And please

remember that the author, Michael Crichton, was educated at Harvard College and Harvard Medical School and was a fellow at the Salk Institute in California. This guy knows what he is talking about. And he really hit the nail on the head with the quote I want to share with you. Keep this in mind as you read; this is not an indictment of all science, nor of all business. It is an indictment of how some science and some business is being twisted into something very dangerous. More dangerous than ever before. Here is the quote. It is part of a conversation between a man who has made possible the cloning of dinosaurs and

the mathematician who has told him that it won’t work out well. The mathematician says, “But scientific power is like inherited wealth: attained without discipline. You read what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young. You can make progress very fast. There is no discipline lasting many decades. There is no mastery: old scientists are ignored. There is no humility before nature. There is only a get-rich-quick, make-a-name-foryourself-fast-philosophy. Cheat, lie, falsify – it doesn’t matter. Not to you, or to your colleagues. No one will criticize you. No one has any standards. They are all trying to do the same thing: to do something big, and do it fast. “And because you can stand on the shoulders of giants, you can accomplish something quickly. You don’t even know exactly what you have done, but already you have reported it, patented it, and sold it. And the buyer

will have even less discipline than you. The buyer simply purchases the power, like any commodity. The buyer doesn’t even conceive that any discipline is necessary.” [Here, the rich man, Hammond, who makes the cloning of the dinosaurs possible, says that he doesn’t understand what the mathematician is talking about. The mathematician says,] “I’ll make it simple. A karate master does not kill people with his bare hands. He does not loose his temper and kill his wife. The person who kills is the person who has no discipline, no restraint, and who has purchased his power in the form of a Saturday night spe-

cial. And that is the kind of power that science fosters and permits. And that is why you think that to build a place like this is simple.” “It was simple.” Hammond insisted. “Then why did it go wrong?” End of quote. Still there? Here are some facts. In 1974, the herbicide glysophate was introduced into agriculture as a way to control weeds that plagued farmers fields. In the early 1990s, the same companies that developed glysophate, brought corn and

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Encouragement from the Book of Revelation by Pastor J. C. Reese Last month, we looked at the Anti-Christ and now we finish chapter 13 by examining the other person in this chapter, the False Prophet: “Beast out of the Earth.” This man reminds me of how easily folks can be fooled by slick words and pleasant platitudes. He reminds us how even believers in churches today can be duped by charisma and dynamic personality, a leader of a large congregation or one who’s a prominent author as someone who must be “spot on.” But how can we truly know? By learning about someone as deceptive as the False Prophet! The dominant trait that stands out about him is phoniness. John states “he has two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.” (vs.11). The symbolism here depicts him as looking great, in fact the lamb is used in Revelation to speak of none other than Jesus! Yet, the dragon personifies Satan! Have you ever been tricked by someone who you thought was fine, but time and their deeds revealed their words to be lies? I know a man who was enamored by our President when first elected. He plastered signs for him everywhere and when I asked him if he would vote for him again he said, “Why wouldn’t I?” Now the signs are gone! The only reason I had not fallen prey to voting for him was a knowledge of Scripture helping me to spot his errors and deception. Politicians count on people being unable to discern. P.T. Barnum rightly said, “A fool is born every minute,” and he built a fortune on the backs of fools. But knowing the Bible, and by God’s grace living it out, makes you truly wise! Unlike the False Prophet, we must strive to be REAL – like Nathanael of whom the Lord mentioned, “Behold, an Israelite indeed in whom is no guile” (Jn.1:47). Ask God to show you any phoniness and help

you to be genuine, more like Him! It’s not enough to do outwardly those things you know are right, do them inwardly, from the heart and FOR God is what He desires. Do right even when no one else is looking, for God is! The False Prophet will promote false worship all to thwart the Lord and His purposes and advance the cause of Satan. Verse 12 tells us that he “. . . causes the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast [the Anti-Christ]”. He will spend his energy scheming to get others to worship Satan’s “right hand man.” There are myriads of examples today and throughout history of false worship and those engaged in it leading others down a road of false hope and eternal damnation. Yet we’re often tricked into thinking “we are all going to the same place, we all worship the same God, it doesn’t matter what kind of church I’m in as long as I’m in church.” Really? Didn’t Jesus correct that false thinking with the woman at the well? He told her “you worship you know not what” and “TRUE worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth” (Jn.4:22,23). His meaning here was that real worship, as opposed to false, is not fixated on externals making me more Christlike, but is spiritual in nature hitting us in our souls, and yet this spiritual worship is qualified by truth, which disqualifies the kind of worship that is subjective (God speaks to me what I say or think), but instead objectively as His Word says. When we worship as Christ says, we draw others to Him and make our world better! Join us Sunday at 9:45 a.m. at the “log cabin church” just one mile west of the intersection of Rts 144 & 322 in Potters Mills. Only 10 minutes from State College & Milroy. a

Editors Corner from page 2 happened, or at least what they wanted you to think. I watched people that I normally think of as reasonable, be completely swayed by the reporting like so many sheep. Of course, the perspective of the viewer by this time had been polluted with images of the looting and destruction taking place, and Fox and the rest of the media focused on that, after all, it would lead their viewers to side with the cop who murdered an unarmed person. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson served up their race baiting as well, which also brought us further from the fact that an unarmed person was killed by a cop, intentionally! I paid close attention to all the manipulation taking place on social media as well, in every instance the fact that an unarmed man was killed seemed not to matter. One person said that because of Michael Browns size advantage, it gave the cop the right to kill him..What? They were serious too. But that, of course, is absolutely incorrect and just cop propaganda. If the officer who eventually murdered Michael Brown didn’t think he could handle the situation, why did he engage with Brown instead of calling for help first? Couldn’t he have used his radio to coordinate and just keep Brown in sight until help arrived? Of course he COULD have, he just didn’t want to. Forgiving that, aren’t police taught non-lethal means of taking

people down or diffusing a situation? I mean, how many times have we been programmed to believe that any kind of attempt to not comply with a cops demand is all the more frequently being met with the subject getting tased? There was no other option available to this cop but to kill Michael Brown? I do NOT believe that, besides, he didn’t have to engage when he was in a bad position. All people are talking about is the looting and the race division. What folks ought to be noticing is the militarization of police departments across the country. How about reporters being the subject of police brutality? How about protestors being threatened with death by cops pointing guns at them? The fact that we aren’t up in arms over this tells me that the population is just about ready to submit to government authority, it is a sad day. None of what is going on in police departments across the country is Constitutional. They have no right to be better armed than any private citizen, who by the way, is actually their employer. If you are a student of history, you will know that every time government militarizes against its citizens, there is usually some kind of catastrophic outcome, in all cases millions of innocents die. Ok, my blood pressure is spiking so I am going to back away from the fact that the world is going in the toilet and switch gears a little. What a PERFECT summer we have had weather wise, no insanely hot humid stretches that

lasted weeks on end, or weeks without rain that left the landscape parched. This year was near perfect, especially if you are a beekeeper. After the past brutal winter and late spring, I was happy to see my bees came through fine and got right to work. We were able to get two extractions of Locust honey this year. Locust honey is premium top shelf honey and isn’t always available, so I got lucky, and so did those who have been stopping by regularly keeping me busy bottling up that liquid gold. All the hives are busy right now and I expect we will have a huge fall nectar flow due to the constant rain. That should mean a good crop again around Oct. 1st. It is a very gratifying feeling seeing how much people appreciate being able to get honey that is raw, unfiltered, and free of any chemicals or medicines used on the bees. It is 100% natural as God intended. I am sure you all know that our very existence is a credit to our advertisers, I hope that you all support them whenever you can. We have ourselves used most of our advertisers, and can vouch for their service and products. Case in point, while we were in NH, I got a call from Jason Kanagy, he had stopped by to limb a tree we had talked about a month or so before. Having used his services before, I just told him to do what he does, and it was perfect, that is the kind of advertisers we have—if you can, please give them a call or stop by and let them know you saw their ad in The Valley. Enjoy the coming fall, the best time of the year! a

OBSERVATIONS . . . of an OLD MAN

We are living in divisive times, challenged daily to discern. Do we understand issues, the views of others? Is our thinking Positive or Negative? POSITIVES Love Sharing Light Understand Compassion Joy Good Trust

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God is: Love, Caring, Sharing

NEGATIVES Hate Greed Darkness Ridicule Cruelty Sadness Evil Fear Evil is: Fear, Greed, Hate

Albert Einstein: “ Peace cannot be found or kept by Force. It can only be achieved by Understanding”

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Coins, Precious Metal and a Little of this and That

Silver? Gold? or Both?

First, the MOST IMPORTANT consideration, is that you purchase as much Gold and Silver as you can comfortably afford, and do so quickly. Your window of opportunity, at these much lower prices, is (in our opinion) about to CLOSE. With the tremendous amount of money-creation that has occurred in the past six years, it is impossible to believe that extreme inflation is not coming our way, and soon. If you are any type of shopper, you are already seeing substantial price increases everywhere, especially, where it really hurts everyone—at the grocery store. While many (most?) Americans are not in a position to buy any amount of Gold and Silver, those that ARE, always have the same question. Which is it best to buy? Generally speaking, we believe that Silver will substantially outperform Gold on a percentage basis. Therefore, if you are dealing with somewhat limited funds, or, have access to a larger, secure storage facility,

Silver should be your main target. It is not difficult for us to believe that Silver will DOUBLE in price, before Gold rises 60%. It may not happen EXACTLY that way, but we feel reasonably comfortable suggesting that those numbers will be close. If you are considering a “sizable” investment, such as a 6-Figure sum or more, or, if you prefer to have your precious metal investment in an easily transferable (or easy to hide) package, then Gold is your best solution. Most customers end up buying both metals, but, as you might suspect, tend to lean more heavily toward Silver. We have quite a few customers who have faithfully visited us on a weekly basis, buying one ounce, and sometimes two or three. One female customer has been accumulating one-ounce Silver Eagles in this manner since the late 1990’s. Earlier this year, she confided that she had amassed over 1500 oneounce Silver Dollars in that time. Obviously, she was quite pleased with herself, and she should be. Those Silver Dollars represent

(according to her) the majority of her “Retirement Savings.” With normal “Paper-type Dollars” being supported by nothing, and with the ever-increasing risk of hyper-inflation, she admitted that she is most comfortable with her decision to accumulate REAL money. It remains surprising (at least to us) that we are still able to find reasonable quantities of Gold and Silver to offer our customers. We are keenly aware, however, that those supplies could DRY UP in a nanosecond (one-billionth-of-asecond) if even a few measly billion dollars were to find their way into the precious metals markets at one time. That such an event hasn’t happened yet, is honestly quite a mystery. When that tiny percentage of new customers awaken to today’s economic reality, and, in the panic we can clearly see in the not-todistant future, rush to precious metals, available supplies will increase in price tremendously, then, in a very brief period of time, disappear for good. a

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The Long War of The Jews

Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, ISIS, anti-Semitism, Hitler’s Third Reich and the Holocaust, Pogroms, The Spanish Inquisition, Crusades, The Romans, Babylonians, Persians, and Greeks all have worked or are currently working to eradicate the Jew from our midst. It seems the world was never happy with the Jews living in and among the nations and worked hard throughout the ages to rid themselves of this “problem.” After Hitler’s attempt at the Final Solution, the Nations had a collective momentary guilty conscience with regard to the treatment of the Jews and the UN approved a partition plan authorizing the creation of the State of Israel in 1947. This plan had been on the table since the end of World War I. Problem solved!

Giving the Jews their own country in their Biblical Homeland would undoubtedly go a long way to rectifying the egregious treatment they received over past centuries as well as creating opportunity for greater global harmony. The day the British Mandate ended, Israel, under Prime Minister David Ben Gurion declared her independence and was immediately attacked by five neighboring countries vowing to drive the new nation and the Jews into the sea. That was 1948. Israel of course, still occupies its place among the nations of the Earth, in the heart of the Biblical Holy Land. What has not changed however, is the heart of mankind toward the Jew. What is it about the Jew and Judaism that the nations find so appalling that they cannot leave

him alone to live in peace? May I propose to you that the Jew represents a God in Heaven who is a God of order and of Laws. The Jews were there at Sinai when the Law was given to Moses and they have never lost their identity throughout the ages. Such a reminder is anathema to a world that wants to live by its own rules and standards and desires no accountability to an eternal God. Further if you are a world leader who sees yourself as above the law, then you’ve got a problem because these people are a constant reminder that no one is really above God’s law. Is it any wonder then that the Jew has been, and is so maligned? Consider that for years rockets have been launched almost daily into Israel from Gaza. How many foreign dignitaries have called for restraint on the part of Hamas? I am not aware of any. However, now that a hot war has erupted due to this terror group’s actions, the world is calling upon Israel to show restraint. Hamas Mis-

siles are hidden in UN sponsored schools and when discovered, what does the UN do? Turn them over to Hamas! Where is the reason in that? This only makes sense if you see the Jew as the problem and unfortunately all too many have been raised to think that way. If we look at this situation through a Biblical lens, we see that many great promises have been given to Israel by the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Jacob was re-named Israel by God Himself according to scripture). These promises are to bless and prosper Israel and its people in their Land, which again, according to scripture will include all the real estate from the Nile River in Egypt to the Euphrates. It appears that will include both the Sinai and Arabian Peninsulas. So, when we understand the Biblical reality of Israel’s situation, there will be land for peace, but it won’t be as the nations’ envision it, as Israel will one day (I suspect soon) occupy and control this huge swath

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of land which The Lord Almighty has promised. To punctuate The Almighty’s involvement in this current conflict, thus pointing to His continued interest in Israel’s affairs, an article entitled “Their God changes the path of our rockets in mid-air,” published in the July 18th edition of the Jewish Telegraph reads: “As one of the Terrorists from Gaza was reported to say when asked why they couldn’t aim their rockets more effectively: “We do aim them, but their God changes their path in mid-air,” which appears to confirm an eye witness account by an Israeli soldier of a missile being blown out to sea that was heading toward the train station in Tel Aviv, which Iron Dome was unable to neutralize in midair. David Ben Gurion

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Tea Tree Oil — The Jack of All Trades

For the last year or so, I’ve been dabbling in the use of essential oils to treat some common ailments. I love the idea of using natural remedies rather than synthetic ones with lots of side effects. One of my favorites is Tea Tree Oil. When you rub it on a skin rash, it has an instant cooling effect, and I like the smell of it too. Yes, I can smell it, unlike many other scents! Tea tree oil is an essential oil that is believed to have been used for medicinal purposes by Aborigines of Australia centuries ago. The oil is derived from the leaves of the Malaleuca Tree. However, not until the past decade has its healing benefits been so widely known. In the 1920s and 1930s, a researcher named Arthur Penfold published the first series of papers documenting its antimicrobial activity. In his research, he found that tea tree oil was 11 times more active than phenol in its antimicrobial activity. Before I list some of tea tree oil’s uses, let’s be clear that tea tree oil should NEVER be ingested and is only to be used as a topical remedy. Tea tree oil is said to be a “jack of all trades” in the remedy arena. To fully understand its benefits, just think: skin issues + tea tree oil = healing (in most cases). According to http://www. keeperofthehome.org/2013/04/25uses-for-tea-tree-oil.html, “Tea tree oil is known for its topical antiseptic and anti-fungal treatment or infection-reducing benefits. It also has antibiotic properties and helps aid against aliments such as skin infections, rashes, burns, dandruff and much more. It should be noted that tea tree oil should not be used on babies younger than 6 months.” The website, http://www. activistpost.com/2013/05/the-miracle-of-tea-tree-oil-80-amazing. html, lists 80 different uses for tea tree oil, which is unfortunately, about 50 more than will fit in the space I have for this article. However, I encourage you to head to that web site and check

them all out. I think you will be amazed at all the different uses for this one inexpensive oil!

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Helps heal and soothe sunburns. Heals skin infections naturally. Relieves itchiness from rashes as well as helps reduce rashes. Can be used as an all-purpose cleaner: Fill a spray bottle with 1-2 tsp. of tea tree oil and the rest of the bottle with water. Treats acne. Helps to prevent lice naturally; just add a few drops to your shampoo. A few drops in your pets’ crates or beds keep the fleas away. Removes ticks; just add to skin, and the little stinker will usually unlatch. Cures toenail fungus and Athlete’s foot. Helps remove skin tags. Naturally cures bad breath. (Swish some tea tree oil and water in your mouth.) Can be used in a homemade toothpaste recipe. Has been found as an effective treatment for warts. Soothes insect bites. Treats ringworm. Treats psoriasis and other skin conditions. Relieves asthma or other breathing conditions when

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Social Networking ?

Do you ever wonder why certain animals form lasting bonds with others? Have you seen the unusual animal pairs such as the dog/deer, bear/tiger, or the cat/ squirrel on tv or the internet? Social interactions and changes in social ranking can be fascinating. I often sit and watch my herd, wondering why they get along the way they do. Dynamite the donkey is probably the most interesting equine I have as far as his social skills. When Dynamite arrived, I had a newly found kitten named Spooky. Dynamite was a bit anti-social at the time. The horses were afraid of him, but the cat was extremely curious about him. The bond that the cat and the donkey formed was unbelievable. Spooky crawled over or under Dynamite and actually helped to calm him down. Spooky passed away within a year and you could see that Dynamite was depressed. He has never accepted another cat as his “friend” since Spooky. At that time Crockett was at the bottom of the herd order and

needed a friend. Dynamite then bonded with him. As Crockett began to progress to be at the top of the herd through several social changes in our horses, Dynamite also became more dominant. We added a few horses at different times and not much changed. However when I bought Turk the pony to keep Dynamite company when all the other horses were out competing, it was a nightmare!

Turk was a feisty, but submissive pony. He was not at all intimidating to any of the other horses, but Dynamite wanted to attack him. He hated him with a passion. He chased him relentlessly. His chasing would encourage my other horse, Goose, to chase the pony. Although these two were aggressive to the pony, Crockett, the dominant horse, completely accepted him. It took several weeks before Turk

Lizzie showing Dynamite who’s the “boss”

was allowed to join the herd and the crazy donkey finally gave up. They are now good buddies. They play and eat together. I recently had a litter of three kittens show up in the barn. All found homes, but one was sadly returned. I worried about the kitten being scared and lonely in the barn. Well no worries because Dizzie Lizzie now rules the barn. Not only that, but she has decided that it is kind of fun to “ride” the

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donkey. It’s always interesting to watch the social world of my animals and see what happens from day to day. What people should remember is that one change in social order can make a huge difference in your community of animals. Animals have their own way of “social networking.” a

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Hillside Orchard News and Comments by Iddo M. Hostetler Ein grus zu alle thal laser. Hello to all The Valley readers from Hillside Orchard, where the people pick peaches, and where time reaches, and you hear the owl’s screeches. Where the people are that busy that they could get dizzy so you see there is no time to be a sissy. September! W w w what happened to the summer? Already school house doors are swinging, the bells are ringing, and soon the children will be singing. Well, we had to eat the loss of our cherry crop this year; however, we sure don’t have anything to complain about because our peach crop is double of what we had a year ago. As the saying goes, if you lose something, there is usually something that helps to make up for it.

One thing we have to keep on the watch out for as we close in on harvest on the stone fruit, is brown rot. If it’s left unchecked, it can be destructive. You’ll have nice fruit that is sizing up, and all of a sudden it turns brown and is rotten. The weather over the blooming period and close to harvest largely determines the severity of the disease for the season. Brown rot thrives in humid, warm, rainy weather. Although we have had a lot of rainy and cloudy weather this summer, it wasn’t a big problem for us this summer because it was cool enough most of the time that it didn’t get a chance to run away. While harvesting, it is probably the most important part of every farmer’s crop, I will say that pruning in the winter and spring

is just as, or even more, enjoyable because it isn’t as much hassle. That’s right, you’re out there, and if you choose, you can enjoy God’s beautiful Creation with no humming and roaring of a factory. Oh yes, we need factories, but I’m glad that there are other people to work in them. I suppose the good part of it is. you get a paycheck every week, but when you plant trees you are spending money, and then you still have to wait a couple of years to get a reward. The saying that goes with planting fruit trees is... “the first year they sleep, the second year they creep, the third year they leap, and by the forth, you usually can reap, and by the fifth you get a heap, so you see starting trees isn’t cheap. a

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a few drops are added to a humidifier. Works as as antiseptic on small cuts. Keeps your bathroom fresh. Relieves earaches; mix 1 drop of tea tree oil with 1 tsp. olive oil, drop mixture into the ear and then remove by tilting head. Freshen laundry: Add a few drops in your washing machine to scent your clothes. Also, if you forgot to put the clothes in the dryer, run again with tea tree oil to remove mildew. You can also scent wool dryer balls with tea tree oil. Helps freshen carpet. Can be used in several homemade kitchen cleaners. Cleans mold: Mix apple cider vinegar and tea tree oil and scrub mold; place outside to sun-dry. Can be used in a homemade natural deodorant.

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We have formed a grassroots group called Friends of Jacks Mountain. There are over 200 members – residents of Mifflin County, sailplane pilots, hang glider pilots, hawk watchers, hikers, foresters, and farmers. Some members live far away, but value Mifflin County for all its varied treasures. We’ve received a grant from Sierra Club to help us save the valuable wildlife habitat found on Jacks and Stone Mountains. The Visitor’s Bureau has written an open letter expressing their concerns about impacts to tourism. Three townships – Union, Granville, and Menno – have enacted restrictive ordinances to protect residents. Brady Township in Huntingdon Co. will soon vote on a similar ordinance. Oliver Township is also working on a wind ordinance. These ordinances tell you that residents value the mountains more than the money. Community surveys show

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that the vast majority of people don’t want your wind projects, since we know you will be destroying not only the scenic beauty of the area, but your construction projects will degrade important watersheds on the mountains. These watersheds provide clean water to many farms and homes in the valleys. The wide roads, turbine pads, drainage ditches, and even a substation will require many acres of flat ground on top of the mountain. How much of the mountaintop will you have to remove? We are encouraged by the fact that Volkswind’s test tower was removed from the top of Jacks Mountain in early August, after getting damaged by a summer storm. Are you planning to replace the test tower, Jeff? If you are still planning the project, just how will you get those turbines

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up to the top of Jacks Mountain? You’ll either have to construct a new road, or widen an existing road. Property owners on East Flat Road and Old Lewistown Road aren’t interested in leasing. The Ferguson Valley side of Jacks is really steep. Are you planning to build a road on such steep slopes? We have been very transparent in our concerns and we’ve invited you to speak at two different public meetings, Jeff, but we have yet to hear answers to our concerns. Dennis, you did speak at a meeting in Belleville, and we learned that you don’t have experience building wind projects on mountains. We have questions for you, too, Dennis. We recently found out that E.ON’s application to the PJM Grid includes plans to build 94 General Electric turbines. If you build 5 turbines per mile like

Volkswind, then that is about 19 miles of turbines on Jacks and Stone Mountains! Since you plan to build turbines on both mountains that means more power lines will be constructed to connect the two strings of turbines. Where will the new substation be located? Do you have enough leases to build your wind project on Jacks and Stone Mountains? We hope you will move your operation to a more open community – in an area where you won’t have to cut so many trees, chop off the top of mountains, or degrade numerous high quality watersheds. Find a place that isn’t so important for birds, bats, rattlesnakes, and wood rats. Find a location far from homes, schools, and communities. Have we done enough to convince you that you should look elsewhere, Jeff and Dennis? a

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Feed Your Body Well

Hey all! We are very busy lately gathering our herbs, veggies and fruits from our back yard garden. Harvest time makes me think of how grateful we will be for fresh, clean foods this winter. Canning and freezing not only saves our family money and trips to the stores, it also insures us with healthy and nutritious foods. These foods also play a very important part in our family’s well-being. To me, it is far better to feed your body premium fuels than to suffer through colds and flu season. As we send our youngest remaining daughter to kindergarten, we are gearing up for germ season. On boy, here we go! Our bodies are wonderfully made. They can and will heal and protect us from germs, bacteria and viruses—IF you feed it well. There are many ways we prepare and maintain healthy habits for prevention. I am a firm believer that eating is paramount to your overall health. The better you eat, the better your body can efficiently run. Convenience foods are everywhere these days. It is hard to go anywhere without see-

ing some form of over-processed food-like items tempting you to take a bite. Problem is, the ingredient put into that item to make it seem tasty can also be addictive. But if you deliberately change your diet, soon you can usually feel a change—change in your palette, change in your moods, change in your physical body, and some lucky people can see a change in weight, too! There are additional things you can add to your everyday diet that can assist in higher immunities. I enjoy fermenting some of our harvest. Like old time sauerkraut, foods that are allowed to ferment in a salt brine will begin to create billions of probiotics. To ferment a vegetable, make a simple brine of 3 tablespoons sea salt to a quart of non-fluorinated water. Pour over any garden fresh veggie in a bale top jar; you can even use a mason jar. You can add spices to suit your taste. Top with a lid and wait. Depending on the type of food you choose, it can start bubbling in a few days or a few weeks. They even gain more vitamins than they had straight

out of the ground! Good bacteria are the basis of a strong immune system. And if your gut is healthy, the rest of your body usually falls into a healthy state, too. Our garlic is great source of immune boosting power. My smallest daughter will eat it like candy, smell like it for a week, but despite her smell, is very healthy! Raw, unfiltered honey is another superb source. Cinnamon with honey is a kid-friendly treatment. Of course there are also over the counter supplements. At the slightest tinge of a sore throat, I will take around 4000 mg of vitamin C. The next day I will be all better again. Zinc is another one that will keep the bad bacteria from grabbing hold. Change is never easy, at least for me. But if you have the right motivation, you can stick to it. One small change a week will soon lead into healthy habits that will make you feel great. When that flu season comes around, you won’t have to worry about how you’ll ever recover. Keep eating those raw veggies, Grandma knew what she was talking about! a

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Understanding the Constitution by David Molek

WE THE PEOPLE – LAST LINE OF DEFENSE OF OUR CONSTITUTION

At the present time, our country is experiencing illegal immigration, radical Islamic jihadists, a Middle East war, a war in Russia, Ebola outbreak, potential terrorist nuclear attacks, unsustainable debt, weakening of our dollar, rising food prices, the Obamacare fiasco, more takers than makers, an overwhelming welfare system, no personal responsibility, no accountability, outright lies from our President and his administration, a do-nothing U.S. Senate, no answers to Benghazi, terrorist leaders are released to the battlefield, IRS corruption and political profiling, lost emails, black race riots, a mainstream media acting as a propaganda machine and an ever-evolving, rising socialism. The list is almost never-ending. We have a President who vacations and plays golf continually, even during world crises. I have been trying to write a column to assist people with reading and understanding our Constitution. I believe I have made it quite clear that our President fails or refuses to abide by our Consti-

tution. I have cited and explained numerous actions he has taken which are clearly unconstitutional. It is difficult for me to continue to cite these actions and violations when nothing is done to correct the problems. One dim hope is our Republican-controlled House of Representatives which refuse to accede to Obama’s liberal and socialist policies from time to time. Our President totally ignores the restraints of our Constitution. When Obama disagrees with duly-enacted laws, he waives legal requirements or fails to enforce them. The Executive branch is charged with enforcing laws enacted by Congress, but Obama ignores that responsibility. The rule of law, as I have discussed many times, is a bedrock principle of our country. It means everyone, including government officials and our President, is subject to our laws and is not above the law. Our Constitution does not grant our President the power to dispense with or suspend laws. The president cannot break

the law, order others to do so, or authorize members of the public to do so. That is just what he has done on numerous occasions. Obama has taken the “go it alone” plan, acting without congressional approval. Our Congress, stymied by the Democratically-controlled Senate, has failed or refused to stop him. Unlawful, unilateral action has been a hallmark of the Obama administration. Executive fiats abound and tyranny results. Obama’s actions are far worse than Clinton’s or Nixon’s. Obama’s violations of the separation of powers principle are truly serial. Citizens should be reading and citing our Constitution in response to where Obama is taking this country. He promised a “fundamental transformation”, and I do not like where he has taken us. It is like the exercise of unlimited power. To what end? Impeachment is the ultimate check on an out-of-control President. However, I have little faith that such a procedure will start or

Keepers of the Earth from front page come to you as babes. Help us to grow in the ways that will please you most. Help us to have pure hearts and face all challenges with pure non-judgmental love. Give us the strength to laugh at the hardships, to know that you will always guide your children with a loving hand. Teach us to honor our Earth Mother, your gift to all Children of the Earth. May we always treat Her with love and respect, gratitude, and care taking. I raise up this prayer in humbled awe, and thanks giving for all of your many blessings. Primitive Fire building is one of the most http://ways-of-the-earth. anticipated skills our students learn tumblr.com/

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be successful. Our mainstream media is merely a propaganda machine for Obama’s administration and does not report the facts. So, “We The People” appear to be the last line of defense. The question is whether we can make it through the end of Obama’s term. Obama views our Constitution as a “living document” with no fixed meaning, subject to changing interpretations according to the spirit of the times. Our Constitution is not a living organism. Its status as the world’s longest surviving written charter of government is in true jeopardy. Our President takes the position that if Congress and the Judiciary do not agree with his politics and facilitate them, then he has the inherent power to do whatever he wants. Obama has rewritten the rules all by himself for himself. One thing that bothers me significantly is his embedding non-law into regulations allowing him to execute non-laws. Obama has undermined the independence of both Congress and the courts, vastly expanding executive power and making it impossible to oppose his policies. This is certainly this “fundamental transformation” of our American

way of life. The federal government is narrowing, almost on a daily basis, our range of liberties. A perversion has taken place and freedom is slipping from our grasp. These are God-given natural rights, not rights “given” to us by our Constitution. The endurance of our Constitution, I believe, will result only from a return to adherence to our framers’ “original intent”. We need to restore the principles of our American founding to their rightful, preeminent authority in our national life. As Reagan said, government is not the solution, government is the problem. There are 530,000 elected offices in the United States. Each one has taken an oath to support, obey and defend our Constitution. Just because our chief executive fails to follow his oath, I have some optimism that many other elected officials will follow their oath. However, I am still not optimistic about the near future regarding the endurance of our Constitution. Constitution Day is September 17. Celebrate it by reading our Constitution and our Declaration of Independence. Our Constitution was signed on September 17, 1787, some 227 years ago. These principles are worth conserving. These are two of the greatest statements of human liberty ever written. They define us as a people and a nation. The people retain the right to alter or abolish government when it becomes destructive to these ends, but let’s hope we do not have to resort to such action. a

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Celebrating Goose Day Weekend on Jacks Mountain in Mifflin County Sponsored by the Jacks Mountain Hawk Watch and Friends of Jacks Mountain

Each year on September 29th in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, an old English custom known as Goose Day is celebrated. Way back in the year 480 A.D., Pope Felix, III of England, declared a festival to honor Saint Michael. Part of the yearly traditional festivities included a meal featuring roast goose, which was thought to bring good luck to one and all! Over two hundred years ago the Pennsylvania Dutch acquired this custom, which continues to this day in Mifflin County. Many local restaurants will be serving goose dinners and special activities can be enjoyed throughout the county. For a full list of county-wide activities going on from Friday, Sept. 27th through Monday, Sept. 29th 2014, please visit www.juniatarivervalley.org or call 717.248.6713 This year, there will be Goose Day festivities at the Jacks Mountain overlook – where Jacks Mountain road crosses the top of Jacks Mountain between Belleville and McVeytown. Please note that parking is limited, so car pool if possible, and practice caution with all family members when parking and while visiting

the overlook! For more information call 717.899.7212 On Saturday, Sept. 27th and Sunday, Sept. 28th enjoy: Jacks Mountain Hawk Watch 9:00 AM till 5:00 PM Observe the fall migration of birds over Jacks Mountain and learn how to identify raptors and other migrating birds from the folks who follow this yearly migration every day from September through November. Bring a lawn chair, binoculars, bug spray & your own lunch. Stay for an hour or all day! PA Cleanways of Mifflin County 1:00 till 3:00 PM This local group will have people on hand to talk about their yearly efforts to clean up illegal dump sites throughout our area. Find out how these efforts got started and how you might help! Friends Of Jacks Mountain 9:00 AM till 5:00 PM Due to the threat of 114 industrial wind turbines going up on top of Jacks and Stone Mountains, this group will have volunteers

Steel Wheels Meet Rubber Tires Cruise In - Car Show at Rockhill Trolley Museum Rockhill Furnace, PA 17249 Saturday, September 13, 2014 11:00AM to 4:15PM Bring your antique car, tractor or any vehicle 25 years of age or older to display alongside our vintage electric trolleys at our event, Steel Wheels Meet Rubber Tires. We are looking for antique cars, tractors, motorcycles, buses, and trucks to display alongside our vintage electric trolley cars. All drivers will receive a free ticket for unlimited trolley rides during the day. Bring your cameras and record the special lineups with the vintage cars and the electric trolley cars. Trolleys from Johnstown, York, as well as an old open summer trolley (like Mr. Rogers’ Trolley) from Brazil (if weather permits) will be available for

scenic three-mile rides along the Blacklog Creek passing the Rockhill Iron Furnace remains to Blacklog Narrows. See other trolleys in the collection including a snowplow, snowsweepers, a freight motor and a Bullet trolley. See the 100-year-old interurban trolley undergoing restoration. Visit the museum store for trolleyrelated gifts. Snacks and drinks may be available at an additional cost. Besides the free tickets for all drivers displaying their automobile, fares are only $8.00 for all riders over 2 years of age; those under age 2 are free. Tickets are good for unlimited rides all day long. A Best of Show Award will

on hand with current information about these projects, educational handouts and free yard signs available to all who stop by. Saturday Special Event -- Sept. 27th Hyner Hang Glider Club Members 2:00 till 4:00 PM We are working on having an actual hang glider set up on Saturday, with several club members available to talk about their sport. Although this activity has not yet been confirmed ,we are hopeful that it will become a reality. Sunday Special Event -- Sept. 28th at 2:00 PM and again at 3:00 PM Jon Kauffman of Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center will be presenting two live Raptor Programs featuring a Golden Eagle, a Broad-winged Hawk and a Redtail Hawk. These are all common species observed flying over Jacks Mountain in the Fall and Spring migrations. This is a free program. Come and learn about raptors up close and personal! a be given as well; with the winner receiving a free opportunity to participate in our “Run A Trolley” and a one-year membership to the museum. The Museum is located on PA 994 just west of the US 522 / SR 994 intersection at Rockhill Furnace/Orbisonia, PA, and 25 minutes north of the Fort Littleton turnpike exit. Signs along US 522 guide visitors to the adjacent East Broad Top Railroad. Maps, directions, and more information are available at our website www. RockhillTrolley.org or call 814447-9576 (weekends). The Rockhill Trolley Museum is Pennsylvania’s First Operating Trolley Museum, founded in 1960 and operating for public education, enjoyment, and entertainment each season since 1962. The museum is a 501(c)3 all-volunteer staffed museum. Interested visitors are invited to join the museum and volunteer to preserve old electric trolley cars for future generations to see and ride. a

Dairy Connection by Kelly Beck

Centre Count y Dair y Princess With School starting and everyone getting busy, it seems like it is impossible to find any time to exercise or have time to play, even when you want to. It’s important to stay fit, and even when you have a busy schedule, it’s easy to fit in. Any time you have five free minutes, you can stretch or jog, do jumping jacks or walk. When you do this throughout the day, you can easily get sixty minutes of exercise in your day, which is a goal to help stay fit. But exercise isn’t everything. You have to eat healthy as well to keep your body in tune, which you do by making smart food choices and drinking milk! With milk being rich in calcium,vitamin D,and protein, it helps keep your bones and muscles strong, and is easy to keep in your diet even on the go! Here are two quick recipes

that are sure to be good on a busy day! ChocoRaspberry Chug 1 cup fat free or reduced fat milk ½ cup frozen raspberries 1 ½ tbsp sweetened cocoa Blend milk with frozen raspberries and sweetened cocoa. Blueberry Yosicles 2 cups vanilla yogurt ½ c blueberries 1 tbsp milk Popsicle sticks Mix yogurt, blueberries and milk in a medium bowl. Pour into popsicle molds or dixie cups and freeze for one hour. Take out and put in popsicle sticks. Freeze overnight, or until solid. a

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Rescue Our Furry Friends by Patricia Lawson

WOW, this month ROFF celebrates its 10th Anniversary! Come out and celebrate with us at Kish Park at the Orange Pavilion on Saturday, September 13th from 11am to 2pm. And, get out your calendars, more fun events are coming up! Saturday, October 11th: Tagging at the WalMart in Lewistown and Hoss’s Nite in Lewistown. Saturday, October 25th: Cash Nite Party at Burnham’s Lions Club. Tickets are only $35, and a meal and drinks will be provided. In the future, ROFF will also be having a Tastefully Simple Fundraiser by Richelle Strawser. And, currently we are selling Marianna Hoagies, Thompson

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New Easy Access to Boalsburg History Invented by Penn State Interns Four interns from the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State teamed up this summer at the Boal Mansion Museum to invent applications

giving easy access for residents, schools and tourists to historic Boalsburg’s rich heritage. Interns Charles Chiang and Thomas Pazamickas combined decades-old research by village historians with more recent research by Penn State History interns into a brand new interactive internet map. Now people walking in the village with a smart phone can see where they are on an internet map and can access pictures and histories Listing the pioneer David Boal’s 1804 tavern on East of most of Main Street in Boalsburg on the new interactive internet the buildings walking tour of historic Boalsburg are, left and right, around them on Penn State Interns Tom Pazamickas and Charles Chiang Main and Acadwith Boalsburg Village Conservancy President Chrisemy Streets, of topher Lee (in center). The tour is accessible by smart St. John’s and phone at http://boalmuseum.com/walkingtour.html

Zion Churches on Church Street and of the Memorial Day cemetery and the Boal Mansion Museum on Old Boalsburg Road. “We gave Charles and Tom raw data and they crafted it into easily accessible information that visitors walking in the village can get on their smart phones by going to http:// boalmuseum. com/walkingtour. html,” says Boal Mansion Museum CEO Christopher Lee who supervised their work. Lee, who is

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Repairing Your Relationship: Examine the causes & discover the solutions

Does your relationship have you feeling one or more of the following? Alone? Hurt? Enraged? Abandoned? Rejected? Stuck? Stagnant? Sad? Depressed? Miserable? Flat? Numb? In shock? If you feel any of these, I really hear you. It makes perfect sense given whatever you have recently gone through. Whatever challenges your relationship faces right now is a very important part of your life story. You can’t change what happened. There is no rewind button. However, I believe you can radically alter the future and learn deeply from this painful experience. Not only can you benefit from this lesson, I also believe that you can do things in the coming days and weeks to get stronger and move into a place of empowerment. I guarantee that if you stay stuck in “poor me” or play the blame game, you will miss a giant opportunity. That negativity will probably continue to attract more relationship pain. The time to get a handle on this is right now. The first step in avoiding a divorce, affair, or more “stuckness” is to be very honest with yourself about where things stand. How

did you get to this place? I believe it’s possible to transform your pain into power. First, take a deep look at what happened. When did your relationship start to go downhill? When do you feel you checked out – when did your partner start to drift? When did you notice one of you consciously or unconsciously accepting that drifting apart was okay? Looking closely, you’ll begin to see that your relationship was in trouble long before whatever happened, happened. Consider that you played a part in things derailing. One suggestion is a journal – write down what you feel clearly led to your current relationship crisis or stuckness. Why? I believe taking responsibility is the first step to your empowerment. I believe you need be very self-aware of what happened and how you participated, so it doesn’t repeat itself. Sometimes, despite our best intentions, you and your partner’s unconscious patterns (over which we have less control) can rule or ruin our partnership, especially when we react without thinking. After journaling, sit quietly and feel. Feel your heart. Feel your emotions. Feel your body sensations. I believe the more that you

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was once quoted as saying, “In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.” This seems as true today as when he said it in 1956. Scripture tells us to pray for the peace of Jerusalem and to consider her among our chief joys. As the capital city, she represents all of Israel, those re-gathered and those still in dispersion. If, in addition to praying, you desire to support Israel in a more tangible fashion, consider a donation in any amount to the nonprofit arm of Kibbutz Beth-El. We have lived and worked among this community and they are strongly dedicated to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Make your check payable to: Amutha Beth El, and mail to the same in Zikhron Yaaqov, PO Box 166, 1 Avshalom Road, Zikhron, Yaaqov, Israel, 30951. 100% of your donation will go to assist the soldiers and people of Israel including orphans and those affected by war and terrorism. Please remember to place an international stamp on your envelope. A fun way to support Israel is to receive a box of Israeli produced products sent right to your door on a monthly basis. If this

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idea appeals to you, consider signing up for Lev HaOlam’s package project. You will receive handcrafted, artisan-quality products direct from Israel while supporting Jewish pioneers in Judea and Samaria, bypassing international boycotts that threaten their livelihood as they work to restore the ancestral homeland according to Biblical prophecy. See www. levhaolam.com for more information. My wife and I can attest to what a great blessing it is to receive this package of different, various items each month. In the end, scripture teaches that Israel will prevail and this long war will end in victory and peace for the Hebrew nation. Shalom. C. Mark Ostrowski, MSFS, is the Founder and President of The Stewardship Group in Belleville. His articles ponder various contemporary topics evaluating them from a political, economic and scriptural point of view. He may be reached at: mostrowski@thestewardshipgroup.org Reference cited: wnd. com/2014/08/hand-of-god-sentmissile-into-sea/ a

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Savvy Cents & Sensibility by JoAnn Wills-Kline MBA

I know what the calendar says, but it sure feels like fall already. Wait, it was just spring yesterday, wasn’t it?! Oh well, “To everything there is a season…” and I guess it’s that time in the harvest when we start to look to getting ready for the winter’s rest. Long evenings cozied up under snug blankets with the sound of the wood stove ticking away. Right now, with long, busy days, that sounds really good. And speaking of warm blankets for our beds, NOW is when we should be putting the winter’s blankets on our fields and gardens. That’s exactly what fall cover crops are, you know, blankets that protect and enrich the soil. As the garden gives up its crops to busy hands, we need to be feeding each bit of harvested ground and planting something to help the soil do its work all through the cold months. It’s interesting to read that more and more scientific research is showing that cover crops are another key to making a healthy environment for crops to grow in. Of course that’s always been nature’s way, and an awful lot of country folks have always done it as just good farming, but that’s okay. It’s good that science is catching up to us. Anyway, whether you have a small backyard garden or a ten acre field, as soon as it’s clear of its crops, get that winter blanket planted. How you do this can be as simple as digging in some manure, maybe a bit of lime and kelp meal, then planting some oats or buckwheat. This will make a nice growth before the winter cold kills it down where it lays until spring. Come warm weather, dig it all up and you’ll be on your way to a good years’ gardening. But it’s not a bad idea to do some soil tests to see exactly what your particular ground needs in the way of feeding, especially if you’ve been having trouble with pests or diseases. Some soil needs help to get the minerals balanced just right, and science is a big help here. For a lot of years, a lot of folks thought that as long as you put on nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorous, plants will grow fine. But many years of soil

study has shown that lots of other minerals are needed too, to make the soil healthy enough to grow the food that will keep us healthy: minerals like magnesium, and boron and especially calcium that helps all the others work together to get into the plants. So look into soil testing if you want some help with your soil. And one of the important ways to get the minerals into the soil in a way that the bacteria and soil critters can use it to grow our crops, is to put in fall cover crops that take up the minerals and then put them back into the soil in a usable form when you dig that cover crop in. Oats and buckwheat are two of the most common cover crops, but rye, field peas, different clovers, vetches, radishes, turnip and mustards are some of the other plants also used. Some of these die over the winter, some regrow in the spring. You’ve got to do some reading and talk to other farmers and gardeners. Get educated! It is our blessing to be working with the soil so we have to do it right! And get those cover crops in cause Old Man Winter’s coming!

A Little Food For Thought from page 5 soybean seed to the agricultural market that were changed at the genetic level to resist the glysophate. These are called genetically modified organisms – GMOs. Now the list of GMOs includes sugar beets, yellow and green squash, cotton and others. We’ll concentrate on the corn and soybeans. The introduction of glysophate resistant crops was proclaimed to be a sure way of reducing the use of toxic chemicals on American farms. Many scientists warned that this would not happen; in the past, targeted weeds had been seen to adapt to the applied chemicals. Fact: “Herbicide-resistant technology has led to a 527 million pound increase in herbicide use in the United States between 1996 and 2011” due to the development of so-called superweeds. The answer: these companies are planning to add to the chemical mix, an herbicide that

Hunger Happening Here Part 3 In the final installment of the “Hunger” series we will examine options for eating nutritionally dense foods while on a super slim budget. When people are food insecure, it takes a lot of energy just to get through the day. So, I wanted to close the series with suggestions of foods with high nutritional value and low budget cost. Let’s take a look: 1. Eggs - Loaded with highquality protein and cheap, eggs certainly deserve mentioning. Just one egg provides 6 grams of protein (11% of the daily value). The composition of vital amino acids, branched chain amino acids and glutamic acid make egg protein the ultimate source for helping your muscles recover after a workout. Cost: For less than $2.00, you can get a dozen eggs, which will give you a whopping 72 grams of protein--now that’s a deal. And for about a buck and a half more, you can go organic for an even healthier protein option. 2. Canned Tuna - A single, five-ounce can of tuna yields almost 30 grams of protein. According to the FDA, you can safely eat 5.6 ounces of Albacore tuna per week and 16.4 ounces of light tuna. Cost: Tuna is definitely among the cheapest of all lean protein sources. If you don’t mind the chunk light (aka dark meat) you can get it for under $1.00 a

can. Upgrade to the higher quality solid white tuna, and you’re looking at about $1.50. 3. Peanut Butter - According to the peanut institute, the peanut contains more plant protein than any other legume or nut. It may not match the amount of protein in a giant turkey leg, but at eight grams per serving it provides an economical way for those on a shoestring budget to get their fill. Cost: On average, an 18-oz. jar of peanut butter will set you back about $3.00. For an extra $2.00, consider almond butter. It has a higher-quality protein than peanut butter and is less allergenic. 4. Beans - Everyone knows beans are typically low in cost and high in nutritious fiber, but they’re also loaded with protein. Depending on the type of bean, protein amounts range from about 15 to 25 grams per cup. So choose the ones you like, and go to town. A can of protein-rich, black beans for example, goes for about a buck in most supermarkets. Add another buck if you want to go organic. 5. Potatoes - one of the world’s most perfect foods. They contain a little bit of almost every nutrient we need, and are also one of the most fulfilling foods in existence. When researchers compared the “satiety value” of

was banned – 2, 4-D – to combat the problem weeds that they have created. 2, 4-D is one of the ingredients in Agent Orange, the herbicide used in the Vietnam War and that has haunted our Vietnam Vets to this day. Fact: 80% to 90% of the corn and soybeans grown in the United Stated are glysophate resistant GMOs. In some form or another, these crops are found in practically all processed foods and socalled fast foods. Fact: A critical look at statistics from the Center for Disease Control, The United States Department of Agriculture and other governmental and scientific sources show a horrifying trend. Since the early 1990, there has been a very noticeable and severe upsurge in many serious and debilitating health issues. These include: thyroid cancer, liver

cancer, autism, diabetes, kidney failure, high blood pressure, senile dementia, Parkinson’s disease, inflammatory bowel disease, intestinal infection, obesity. If you plot these increases of diseases on a graph, it is very clear that there has been an almost sudden up swing in their occurrence since the early 1990s. If you then plot, on the same graphs, the increase of the use of GMO crops grown in our American fields, and the increase in use of herbicide use used in growing those crops, one thing stands out very clearly. The sudden increases are all but identical. Here is one example to illustrate this point. (See graph page 5) It is a graph showing the rates of thyroid cancer in the U.S. from the 1970s to 2009. It also shows the increase in GMO corn

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different foods, boiled potatoes scored higher than any other food they measured. 6. Kale - one of the most nutrient dense vegetables you can eat, with large amounts of vitamins, minerals and cancerfighting compounds. Of all the super healthy leafy greens, kale is the king. 7. Blueberries - are very nutritious compared to most fruits and are loaded with powerful antioxidants, some of which can increase the antioxidant value of the blood and have protective effects on the brain. This list contains seven of the most nutritionally dense, energy filled foods that can be purchased with a modest amount of money. Strategize to build many of the seven foods into your frugal food budget so you can strive to be as healthy as possible, while you weather a financial crisis or food insecurity. Remember, your local library is packed with free reading material and resources to assist you as you navigate a hardship. I hope the series provided ideas and solutions for those in need. Resources: http://www.mensfitness.com/iancohen/cheap-sources-of-healthyprotein?page=2#sthash.EqpVi5y3. dpuf http://authoritynutrition.com/11most-nutrient-dense-foods-on-theplanet/ a and soybeans grown from 1997 (green) and the amount of glysophate applied from 1990 (red). Fact: You can help to stop this. Educate yourself. Vote with your money, refuse to put products that use some form of these crops. Use your vote: demand that your governmental representatives control those elements in government who are aiding and abetting these companies. You, and only you, can make the difference. Get online: www.earthopensource.org www.mindfully.org www.ensser.org America isn’t the only place at risk google: Union of Concerned Scientists. The Rodale Institute a

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Fifty Years Ago August 1964 Pennsylvania Governor William W. Scranton, and erstwhile Keystone State favorite son candidate for the Republican nomination for President against Barry Goldwater, spoke at Green Gable Hotel to an invited crowd of 250. Gov. Scranton praised the work of the Mifflin County Industrial Development Corporation, and was warmly received by the “Who’s Who” of the county. Ground breaking was held at the site of the future water filtration plant in the Seven Mountains; the 72nd Central District Volunteer Firemen’s Convention was held in Lewistown and Fame Fire Company wins the Mifflin County Softball League title over City in a 5-2 win. The Burnham Drive-In Theatre was showing “He Rides Tall” starring Dan Duryea and Tony Yound, plus Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in “Charade.” Reminder, first show at dusk and $1.50 a car load. The Embassy Theatre drew the young crowd with “Bikini Beach” starring Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello and Martha Hyer. Shirley McClain and Paul Newman starred in “What a Way to Go!” at the Miller with shows at 2, 7 and 9:10 p.m. One Hundred Years ago August 1914 As the First World War raged in Europe, the United States remained at peace. However, the cost of commodities jumped on this side of the Atlantic. Local warehouses received notices from supplying firms that foodstuffs, like flour, sugar and coffee will be both scarce and costly. “Dan Cupid on Job at County Bastille,” noted the Lewistown Democrat & Sentinel. The newspaper took some delight is reporting that, “Little God of Love Uses His Good Offices in Making Emma Pentland the Blushing Bride of Tony Chirco.” United in marriage by Justice of the Peace W. P. Searer, the report continued, “The smiling groom, a youthful native of sunny Italy, and latterly a resident of Yeagertown, has been a guest of the official family of Sheriff Thomas VanZandt at the

county Bastille since last May as his portion of the fight along the Milroy Branch of the PRR.” It seems Judge J. M. Woods acted the part of good fairy by releasing the young bridegroom on parole following the expiration of his term in jail. The bride and groom repaired to her father’s home for a welcoming reception. “Farmers Win Road Victory,” announced the headlines. State Highway Commissioner Bigelow ordered the Auto Registration Division to accept all applications for traction engines to traverse state roads. A win for the farmers, notes the paper, removes any misunderstanding in the Automobile Act of 1913.

bersburg as a case in point. No adequate defense was in place and the quota of emergency volunteers was unmet during that perilous event. The editor called for martial law to be declared when another invasion threatens, covering every border county from the Susquehanna to the Alleghenies, and every man from 18 to 45 be put under arms. a

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Civil War Echoes August 1864 “Burning of Chambersburg” was the headline on page one of the Lewistown Gazette, relating that 200 to 500 Confederates under Gen. Bradley Johnson had demanded $100,000 in gold or $500,000 in greenbacks or the town would be burned. Unable, or unwilling to produce the ransom, the stores and houses were plundered, the townsfolk driven into the streets and the town torched. The story took up a column and a half on the front page. “Invasions and Their Remedy” was the subject of a Gazette editorial, and pointed to the burning of Cham-

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Modern Energy and Alternative Heating with Curt Bierly Are YOU ready for Winter? I hate to be the bearer of bad news (unless you love winter), but Grange Fair is over and Labor Day has passed, so we know winter is not far off. I’m not too sure where summer has gone, but we’ve been blessed with outstanding weather and adequate rain to make things grow (especially grass). If you heat with wood, chances are you didn’t want to even consider doing any wood stove maintenance this spring after the severe winter of 2013/2014, so now it’s time to check your wood burner and make a list of the things you need to accomplish to safely make it through the upcoming winter. Have you had the chimney cleaned and checked for structural integrity? Check your smoke

pipe. Has it been brushed clean of creosote? Is it 24 gage and is it secured with screws at each joint (minimum of two per joint 180 degrees apart). Is the smoke pipe securely attached to the stove and chimney? Are your clearances to combustibles correct according to your instruction manual. Is the stove located on a rated noncombustible surface (stove board, concrete floor, etc). Do you have at least 16” of non-combustible surface in front of the loading door(s). If it’s a fireplace installation, is there adequate distance between the stove and a wooden mantle or wood trim around the fireplace opening? Check the wood burning fire box. Are there any firebricks cracked or broken that need replaced, or any cracked

castings or broken welds? Do the charging and ash doors close tightly or is it time to re-gasket them? If you have a masonry chimney and your draft was marginal last year, do you want to consider the installation of a stainless steel chimney liner to improve the draft? A magnetic flue thermometer is always a good idea so you can monitor the temperature at which the stove is burning. How about a humidifier for the stove top to add a little moister to that dry winter air? By now you’ve cut/split or purchased your firewood for the winter and no doubt stored it under a roof or have it covered with a tarp – or - perhaps you purchased a load of “Poles,” which was seasoned (dried) before you received them, which you will cut and split this winter as needed. If you haven’t purchased your firewood to date, be sure you request “seasoned” hard wood like oak and maple as they produce long lasting hot fires as opposed to soft woods like poplar, aspen, willow, spruce and pine, which burn quickly and don’t leave a good bed of coals. If you cut your own wood, be sure to cut and split seasoned wood for this year.

Wood stoves burn best if there is 2” to 3” of ash on the floor of the firebox. The fire lasts longer and you have a better chance of having red coals in the morning, so with a little dry kindling you can easily restart the fire. I have a Jotul Oslo which is a cast iron stove with cast iron grates and a steel ash pan. Jotul makes a stove without an ash pan, but I like the convenience - so – when my ash pan fills up, I don’t take it out, but instead allow the ash to build up on the floor of the fire box. When there is too much in the firebox, I’ll pull the ash drawer out and empty it. Although I have no factual proof, it appears to me there is less ash generated using this method. I assume that is because you are truly burning everything that is combustible. With everything checked out

and maintained, you can look forward to a safe winter of warmth. 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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PACleanways of Mifflin County Keep PA Beautiful In the week before our river cleanup, we watched the weather daily. Rain would not hurt our cleanup, but thunder showers would. Thankfully, Saturday morning dawned bright and sunny with no rain in sight. This year’s cleanup was a big success. We had 44 volunteers helping to clean our site. Volunteers were from the Granville Fire Company, City Hook and Ladder Fire Company, The Lewistown Elks Club, Community Service, members of PACleanWays of Mifflin County, Mifflin County Conservation District, and area campers. We would like to say thank you to all our volunteers who worked hard bringing in boat loads of tires, and to all the volunteers that had to roll or carry the tires up the

incline to Earl Tabb’s truck and trailer to be taken up to Mahantangos waiting tractor trailer to be loaded and taken to be recycled. These tires will be ground into either mulch or small pebbles that will be used for playground surfaces or tracks surfaces. I will get a list of everything these tires can be used for and write about them in a future article. We would also like to thank Downtown OIP for delivering lunch, because everyone had worked up a big appetite! That day volunteers removed 544 tires, 740 pounds of trash, and 207 pounds of metal. I do not yet have the totals from the other counties and there is one more county cleanup to go. Keep Huntingdon County Beautiful will hold their cleanup on August 24.

To get details of Huntingdon’s cleanup, go to the www.keeppennsylvania.org web site. We will be having our annual Tire Recycle Challenge against Huntingdon, Juniata and Perry counties on Saturday September 20th at the Lewistown Borough Public Works Facility on Washington Avenue. Each year, each county tries to collect the most tires competing for the Gold Rim Award. This is a friendly competition to put a little fun into an otherwise dirty, tiring job. We will be doing an education event the weekend of September 27 and 28 on top of Jack’s Mountain as part of the Goose Day weekend. We will be giving out information about Keep PA Beautiful (KPB) and what our organization does. Members of the Hawk Watch, Friends of Jacks Mountain, and members of the Glider Club will also be there that weekend. Our September meeting will be on September 16th at Downtown OIP at 12 noon. Everyone is welcome to come. We will be choosing our fall cleanups at that meeting. Pam Sechrist Affiliate Coordinator PACleanWays of Mifflin County KPB a

The Cat Is Out Of The Bag from page 3 salivates over the news potential of an African-American teen being shot by a police officer, the network deliberately censors any news of the systematic medical abuse of African-American children by the CDC and the vaccine industry. That’s the startling revelation which has now surfaced from recent events. Following the explosive story of a key CDC scientist and whistleblower going public with his admission that the CDC committed scientific fraud to bury the truth about MMR vaccines causing autism, CNN has twice censored citizen journalists who posted well-cited stories on CNN’s iReport website. CNN has been aggressively monitoring its own website to commit content suppression actions as rapidly as possible, making sure any truthful reporting about the CDC, MMR vaccines and autism gets deleted as quickly as possible.

The first story posted on CNN’s iReport site stayed up for 19 hours before CNN censors noticed it and ordered it deleted. By that time, it had racked up 17,000 shares and was starting to go viral. The author of that story contacted The Truth Barrier and explained how CNN content censors lied: I wrote the CNN iReport. The producer contacted me and wanted to know how I know what I know. I gave her contact info for Hooker, and also for Thompson’s attorney. I took her through the entire Hooker/Thompson timeline of events. I told her what else is coming soon. The producer said she was calling Hooker right away and that if they verified the story they’d put it back up. Hooker said they never called. The story is still down. The second story was removed far more quickly, lasting just two hours before it too was censored. The story “had garnered 20,000 views and 5,000 shares, before it was deleted,” reports TruthBarrier.com.” Learn more: http://www.natu-

ralnews.com/046599_CNN_censorship_medical_genocide. html#ixzz3BbJmYMVI If this doesn’t open up the eyes of all who read, I don’t know what will. Ask yourself this and be your own judge: since the CDC lied about this topic, denied the statistics, and then covered it up and CNN censored it and is guilty of not publishing the news, can either of these organizations truly be trusted? If the CDC is not to be trusted, how can we believe anything they say? Do you believe they truly care about the public? Why is the NAACP not concerned about this? They are more focused on what may or may not have happened in Ferguson, MO than what has happened with the CDC! Why are people not outraged?! The public has already expressed a lack of trust in the government, but this proves the CDC and CNN are not to be trusted either. What do you think?

LIbrary Lines Your Mifflin County Library by Susan Miriello Children’s Librarian What a wonderful summer we’ve had, providing young children and school students in Mifflin County with a summer reading program during the break from school! This year’s theme, Fizz, Boom, Read @ your library, was as big a success as ever. Over 19,000 books were read by over 600 children and teens. As you may know, every summer we offer children of all ages the chance to read great books and earn prizes. I am a big proponent of positive reinforcement and I believe that providing a child (or in the case of the infant readers, the parent) with a small reward for reading, will lead to that child’s greater love of reading. And we’ve all heard of the “summer slide.” Studies show that students who read in the summer retain more knowledge than those who did not. We were so busy this summer. For example, in the past two months we issued 791 new library cards! This summer, MCL provided programming geared toward STEM education. We offered CSI: Lewistown, a program in which we learned fingerprinting and problem solving, and Marty Bowen visited with his Serpents and Claws, where the children learned all about reptiles. LEGO League, a program in which we learned air propulsion and gear mechanisms using LEGOs, was offered. LEGO League is a district-wide partnership for MCL. We partner with public libraries in Juniata, Centre and Clearfield counties. The summer reading program at MCL is for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, school-age children and teens. The teen program (for

students going into grade six to high school) encourages students to read and enter weekly drawings. Those who finish by reading 35 items are entered into a grand prize drawing of an iPod Touch Gen 5. Emma Todd, age 13 and regular library patron, won! Congratulations Emma! I’d like to thank the following for helping make this year’s summer reading program an overwhelming success: Kentucky Fried Chicken; Harshbarger’s Sub and Malt in McVeytown; the Steelworkers Union Local 1940; the PA Renaissance Faire; and especially Women’s Service Club. Also my thanks to Community Partnerships RC&D for Butterfly Day. And my thanks go to Rosalee Massie for offering the Best Nest program and to Bill Corbin for bringing Smokey the Bear to visit. I want to thank our excellent staff, our director Molly Kinney, our board of trustees, our library volunteers and Junior Volunteers, who do so much with so little. My thanks, also, to the United Way of Mifflin and Juniata Counties which helps fund the library all year long and to the generous people who give to the United Way. The Mifflin County Library is a United Way Agency. Please use and support your local library. The library is the only place in the county that offers free wifi and a computer to use it, free downloadable eBooks and eAudio books and a person to show you how to use your portable device, free story times for children from birth to age five, and an experience your child will never forget. Use us, and take advantage of our services. We want to be here serving Mifflin County for years and years to come. a

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Cozy Dutch Colonial Home Awaits New Owners! by Kim Rickert

A home should reflect the passions of the owners, yet be flexible enough to suit many tastes. The Dutch Colonial Revival style historically allows for just that; its sweeping gambrel roof with flaring eaves may look traditional from the outside, but inside many different variations exist. Popular in the early 20th century, the Dutch Colonial style was popular in the North East as homage to earlier Dutch settlers who liked this cozy style. Often built with a side main entrance,

the homes were a creative way to build a two story without being taxed for a second story. However, the lovely example of a Dutch Colonial that was built on South Main Street in 1928 by locally known premier builders, the Steinbach Brothers, takes on a different approach to the style. The home was built in 1928 and was often known as the Miller house. Like most Steinbach homes, it features brick as its main building material—in this case a multi-color combination of oranges, browns and tan. The

home remains true to the gambrel roof design, but features a flat facade rather than the more common shed-like dormers. The right side of the sweeping eaves shelters a private porch with ceramic tile floor, a great place to relax in the shade or entertain friends. A built-in wooden seating area adds to the charm of this hideaway. Entering the home now owned by Kay and Larry Groninger, one is received in a large foyer with sweeping oak stairway. In colonial fashion, the center foyer is flanked on either side by a formal dining room and formal parlor. Both rooms, as well as the foyer, boast oak crown molding, hardwood floors under the current

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carpet, and spacious living areas. A convenient eat-in kitchen has loads of cabinet space in the floor to ceiling cabinetry and still allows room for a breakfast table or bar. Wainscoting, tile backsplash and counters add to the updated look in the kitchen. Access to the backyard and detached garage make the kitchen “user-friendly,” as well as the convenient cooking layout. Just off the kitchen at the back of the foyer, is a first floor powder room. The formal living room is flanked by a cozier sunroom, a great place for tv viewing and conversation. This room shows one of the trademark features of a Steinbach house, the two corner built-in cabinets used for displaying treasured mementos.

Ascending the wide staircase, a visitor will notice the hideaway storage closet used for the extra dining room table leaves in past days. Three bedrooms with oak hardwood floors service the owners, and a smaller one that easily accommodates a twin size bed or that could be used as an office or den. The two larger front rooms have front facing as well as side view windows, giving the rooms an abundance of natural light. The master bedroom has two closets, both with the original wooden “shoe boxes” used to store footwear in the years before modern closet systems. A private bathroom with tiled shower adjoins

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Caving Mifflin County with Todd Karschner

Still Finding New Caves to Explore in Mifflin County Hi again everyone. Hopefully everyone is enjoying the last bit of summer this year. We had a chance to explore a cave in Mifflin County that required the use of a kayak. It wasn’t a large cave, but rather a few smaller ones separated by collapse on one end and a low ceiling on the other. We gathered a small group armed with cameras and kayaks for a trip. Jenn Jones, Lance

sandy beach. We pulled the yaks out of the water and continued on foot. The cave continued for a short ways until it pinches off where the ceiling had crumbled to loose sand and filled the entire passage. The owner informed us that the cave continues on the other side for quite a ways deep under the mountain. Needless to say, we will be returning to work on a surface dig to try to re-open it again.

The large cave entrance with two openings allowed us plenty of room to assemble our gear for the excursion underground. Kayaks are a must to explore this cave.

Lukins and I met at the large entrance and got our gear unloaded and carried into the sandy beachlike hole in the ridge. After a few pictures of some interesting cave features and some wildlife using the entrance as a home, we slid our kayaks into the cold water and paddled towards the darkness with steam on our breath like a late fall evening. The water temperature was in the mid 50s and deeper than our paddles. About 30 feet in, the ceiling was roughly 20’ high and some places only three kayaks wide. The wall on the left was curved towards the water from the ceiling. It was mostly compressed sand because it crumbled in your hand. (not the safest feeling I’ve ever had). While the other wall was nearly vertical, disappearing below the water level into the depths. Almost out of the reach of all light, we came across another

We returned to the entrance and continued paddling through a small passage opposite the direction that we were going where the ceiling eventually dips below the water level. After we had finished that section, we were shown some digs the owner was working on with his backhoe. More water filled passages! Due to lack of time that day, we had to cut our trip short. We will be returning to this little cave hot spot in the near future to look for more. CAVE SAFE Todd K. a

Public urged to be on watch for invasive Asian longhorned beetles Story the public subcourtesy of mits specimens Penn State of invasive Public Inforplants and mation. pests, rather than relying By spoton our staff to ting, collecting find and catch and submitthem, it frees ting suspected our experts to Asian longcontinue their horned beetles research into to experts, fighting invaPennsylvanians sive species.” can help keep Citithe non-native, zens can colinvasive woodlect a sample boring threat to and ship it to the state’s trees Pennsylvanians can submit suspect Asian longhorned beetles to county Penn a county extenState Extension offices. There’s an Extension office near every citizen -- one in at bay, accordsion office or all 67 Pennsylvania counties -– to quickly identify and respond to threats from ing to agriculDepartment invasive species. ture officials. of Agriculture Image: Penn State “Many office along sylvanians can submit suspect Pennsylvanians with a sample beetles to the department headare aware of the threat that invasubmission form. They can find quarters in Harrisburg or to its six sive species pose to our state’s the form at agriculture.state.pa.us other regional office locations, timber, maple syrup and tourism by searching “sample submiscounty Penn State Extension ofindustries, but awareness isn’t sion form” and scrolling down to fices are often a closer, quicker enough,” said Agriculture Secre“publications.” option. tary George Greig. The reminder comes during “There’s a Penn State Exten “Since Asian longhorned August Tree Check Month, part sion office near every citizen beetles are similar in appearance of a national campaign urging – one in all 67 Pennsylvania to more common beetles, we people to take 10 minutes to counties – to quickly identify and need citizens to not only be on check their trees for signs of the respond to threats from invasive the lookout for the Asian longAsian longhorned beetle. species,” said Penn State College horned beetle, but to capture the Greig added that since many of Agricultural Sciences Acting beetle and submit it to experts for species of wood-boring insects, Dean Barb Christ. “We work identification. That way we know including the Asian longhorned closely with the department to efexactly where the beetle is and beetle and emerald ash borer, can ficiently and effectively find ways how to best stop its spread.” to combat invasive species. When Greig added that while PennContinued on page 30

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Fiber ArtsFest returns to Huntingdon County The Huntingdon County Arts Council is pleased to announce a return of Fiber ArtsFest to the Huntingdon community for a second year. On September 19 and 20, fiber arts will take center stage on the Huntingdon County Fairgrounds with classes held on both days and a vendor showcase on Saturday. The event seeks to promote fiber arts and Pennsylvania fiber growers. A variety of full and half-day workshops on both days offer instruction in different fiber art techniques for all levels of expertise. Come and take a felting primer class with internationally known fiber artist Renate MaileMoskowitz. Renate combines aca-

Artist, Renate Maile-Moskowitz

demic training and research with gifted creativity. Her professional career as a fiber artist spans the globe and includes ten years as costume designer at the Washington National Opera under Placido Domingo’s artistic leadership, collaboration on the Discovery Channel’s TV series Silkroad and many publications and original works of art. Techniques learned in the felting primer class can be put to the test in her Nuno silk scarf class on Saturday. Quilters have a number of choices from Nine Patch to Tessalation Stars and more, while traditional Victorian red work offers a low key embroidery option. Bead artist Marie Campbell will provide instructions for an exquisite bangle. She resides in rural Huntingdon County and teaches the exquisite artistry of beading internationally. Additional classes cover knitting and braiding and quilting techniques are applied to create useful bags of all sizes. Class registrations will stay open until classes are filled or supplies exhausted. Registration forms and more detail is available online at www.fiberartsfest.org. On Saturday, Johnson Hall on the Huntingdon County Fairgrounds will be open to the public with a selection of regional vendors offering fiber arts merchandise and demonstrations. Admire all shades of the rainbow

in wool and fabric to get ready for a new sweater or quilt project. Get your fleece supplies to put your felting skills to work and connect with a fiber processing mill to have your wool spun into yarn. Learn about the unique benefits of alpaca fibers and observe a sheep shearing. The Market Place is free and open to the public from 9 am to 5 pm on Saturday, September 20. While on the grounds, visit the Farm Museum with its extensive collection on display for the day by special arrangement. For additional information, please contact the Huntingdon County Arts Council at (814) 6436220 or e-mail huntingdonarts@ gmail.com a

Crisp Air FALL is my favorite time of the year with its crisp morning air and the colors of orange, red and yellows. Come in and get a glimpse of fall, we have leaves and pumpkins tucked in corners and on shelf edges just waiting for the season. We also have art work by Billy Jacobs, well known for his barns and homestead scenery. We

have framed and canvas art as well. Some of my top picks are in the pictures I have shared in this column. Sometimes a candle on a shelf makes a room come to life. We have Luminara candles with timers back in stock. Come in and see how real they look, they are great to come home to. We have some of the most unique items around. So next time you need that ‘something different’ item for your home, office, or a gift check us out first. We will be the last place you have to run to and the first place you think of next time. Bushmen at Home 1537 Loop Road Lewistown a

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Mail Pouch Books by Carleen B. Grossman This month my focus is on learning about nature. These are books the entire family can enjoy! THE EVOLUTION OF CALPURNIA TATE By Jacqueline Kelly Copyright 2009 340 pages Newbery Honor Book 2010 I absolutely was delighted while reading this book for

readers of ages 7 years of age to 100 years of age! Even though it is a children’s literature honor book for the Newbery Award, it is a book that is perfect with the rhythms of a lazy summer for either children or adults! It starts out in the summer of 1899 and encompasses the lives of the Tate family in an out-of-the way Texas town. The protagonist of the story is a young 11 year old girl who is the only daughter in a family of six brothers. Early in the story, she becomes attached to her grandfather while enjoying her special likes of observing nature; for he too has similar likes in his retired state from war veteran and business man. In fact, he calls himself a naturalist and spends much of his time in his lab or by the river. As granddaughter and grandfather discover their shared interests, the duo start to spend more and more time together! She inhales it all with an enthusiasm and passion not exhibited by females during these times.

Ed’s Railroading News by Ed Forsythe

Just a short note to let you all know about what’s coming these next few months at the Rockhill Trolley Museum. On Saturday September 13th, the museum will be host to “Steel Wheels Meet Rubber Tires” from 11 to 4. Come see antique cars, trucks, tractors, bikes and other antique vehicles. Feel free to bring your own antique or classic vehicle for all to see also. On Sunday the 14th, the trolleys will also run for regular rides from 11 am to 4:20 pm. On the following weekend, the 20th & 21st, bring the children out to break up the start of the new school year. Relax and ride a trolley back to yesteryear as a reminder of just how far we have come in the transportation department. Our Fall Spectacular will be held on October 11th & 12th from 11 am to 4:20 pm with a very special visitor coming on Saturday the 11th only. “DANIEL TIGER” will be at the museum from 11 am to 2:20 pm on that day. Daniel Tiger is a character

from the Mister Rogers neighborhood gang, that kids just love to visit with. Also in October, will be the Pumpkin Patch trolley weekend on the 18th & 19th where kids get a free pumpkin on their ride through the pumpkin patch. After choosing their pumpkin, they will get to decorate it with the supplies that are provided. The following weekend will be another Halloween-themed weekend with Halloween Costume Days on the 25th & 26th. Children who are in costume get a FREE ride with a paying parent. This event is from 11 am to 4:20 pm daily. On December 6th, the Santa’s Trolley event will be held from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. with each riding child receiving a gift when they visit with Santa. Beginning November 28th and 29th and continuing on December 5th, 6th, 12th & 13th from 6:30 to 9:00 pm, everyone can enjoy the trolley rides through the valley that is all lit up with Christmas decorations and lights. Well, I hope this lists has

The discovery of a new species of plant by both this young female and her grandfather wraps the story in a mystery that will be solved in spellbinding pages at the end of the book. You will enjoy the precociousness and spunkiness that this female character exhibits along with her special attachment to

been informative, so please make plans to come on out and enjoy this fine attraction that’s only 45 minutes from Lewistown on route 522 South in the village of Rockhill Furnace. Visit rockhilltrolley. org for more information. Another local attraction coming up is the “Shining Light Through the Darkness” that is held each year at Kish Park during the month of December. Each night the park is all lit up with Christmas decorations, free food, entertainment, a train layout and winter village display, and many more items. This event is FREE with donations being accepted to help offset expenses incurred. Anyone that may be interested in assisting with setup and take-down can contact me at (717) 248-4862 or by stopping in at Ed’s Train Repairs and Sales in Vira. We could always use more help, as each year this event seems to be getting bigger and bigger. Last year there were over 12,000 visitors through the park even though there were several nights that the weather did not cooperate and the park had to be closed. Watch here for more information about this event and the Miffin County Model Railroad Clubs “Open House” events coming up. Until then, Happy Railroading, Ed a

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KEEPING A NATURE JOURNAL By Claire Leslie & Charles Roth Copyright 2003 224 pages Reconnect to nature with sketches and writing using some simple methods for capturing living beauty during each season. A

Cozy Dutch Colonial Home Awaits New Owners from page 23 the master bedroom. Another full bath is centered in the front hallway between the two larger bedrooms. A full walk up attic serves as extra storage on the upper level. Unlike many older homes in the area, this house has a partially finished basement. A family room, which also serves as Larry’s art studio, has carpet, built-in cabinets and counter space to accommodate an office or computer station. The basement also features a cedar closet and another storage closet, in addition to the laundry hook up and work bench area. Although the above ground square footage of this home comes in at about 2300 square feet, the property also has outdoor amenities that will interest buyers.

tell-how book for all ages! DRAWN TO NATURE By Claire Leslie Copyright 2005 176 pages Sketches of nature invite readers to slow down and see nature with a new outlook! THE NATURE CONNECTION Claire Leslie Copyright 2010 304 pages An interactive workbook for kids [ages 8-13], families and classrooms to record what is seen, heard, smelled and touched outdoors. Many fun activities are presented! a

A custom built, matching shed holds another work area and storage on two levels. The detached brick two car garage has access to the rear alley, garage door opener and a second storage level. The charming corner lot is fenced and features perennials, raised beds for vegetables or herbs and an arched entryway from the alley. The mature trees and landscaping make the backyard a private haven to be enjoyed. Although the home has been well loved by several owners, the time has come for it to pass on to a new owner who will enjoy the charming home on the corner of South Main Street and Grand Parkway North. This cozy home is ready to welcome someone who can appreciate the quality and style of a time gone by—yet give it a new life that will comfort another generation of homeowners. Could this be the house for you? a

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Greenwood Furnace Folk Gathering Features Music and Dance at Greenwood Furnace State Park Greenwood Furnace State Park in northeastern Huntingdon County has become the natural home to the Folk Gathering, a folk music event that celebrates more than a decade of music workshops and performances at the park. On September 12 through 14, the Huntingdon County Arts Council, as host of the event, invites folk musicians of all instruments and skill levels to participate in this year’s event. In addition to almost fifty different music classes and presentations, the Folk Gathering also offers a choice of five master classes at the beginning of the event on Friday afternoon. Registration is required for most music workshops and available online at www.folkgathering.com The general public is invited to

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evening concerts at the church on park grounds on Friday and Saturday at 7 pm; a contra dance following Saturday’s evening concert and the annual Heritage Musician Award starting at 1 pm in the Visitor Center on Saturday. The Heritage Musician Award is unique to the Folk Gathering. It seeks to recognize the lifelong musical contributions of musicians in the region and preserve the musical traditions of central Pennsylvania. This year’s awardee is Dianne McDaniel of Mount Union who is as much at home in the African American gospel traditions as in traditional R &B. She sings, plays piano and organ, teaches students, organized community choirs and has performed on numerous stages, from the Governor’s mansion to a local PBS production. Dianne will be introduced by Jerry Zolten, a professor of communication at Penn State Altoona, and former fellow band member with Dianne McDaniel. Zolten, a roots music aficionado, researcher, collector and author, is also steeped in traditional, American music and will share a tribute to Pete Seeger at 9 am in the visitor Center. Music workshops cover a

visitors to boalmuseum.com to view three rooms – the library, the ballroom and the Columbus Chapel – in their entirety, 360 dealso President of the Boalsburg grees around. They can also click village Conservancy, assigned on certain objects in the rooms for them the task to fulfill the Condetailed descriptions. servancy’s mission “to stimulate “So many local people tour awareness of and interest in this the Boal Mansion and then say, area’s historic past.” ‘I’ve been driving by the Boal Meanwhile, intern Lisa Khuu Mansion for thirty years and had produced a virtual tour of the Boal no idea of the rich history inMansion Museum that enables side,’” says Lee. “This virtual tour will help local people and even local teachers see some of the museum’s interior from their homes and no doubt will entice them to come see the rest in person.” Finally, intern Filmon Beraki upgraded and improved the Boal family genealogy on the internet Providing an internet 360 degree tour of which thousands have acthree rooms of the Boal Mansion Museum to Museum Docent Renate Ferree (right) is cessed to find their roots. Penn State intern, Lisa Khuu, who created All the intern-enhanced

variety of musical styles and expertise from novice to advanced musician, and welcome all instruments. From learning to play by ear, to boot camp foot percussion, from waltzes to Irish tunes, attendees will be taught by accomplished musicians whose teaching style is exceptionally accommodating. Simple Gifts musicians Karen Hirshon and Linda Littleton will be joined by other regulars, including Henry Koretzky, Jerry Trusty, Ryan Thompson and Bob Nicholson. Special guests include Van Wagner, Corey Wood and Luci Tedesco, Rick Kyser, Amy Forsyth and Diana Wagner. Registration stays open until the day of the event. Limited, rustic camping is available by special arrangement with the park, call (814) 667-1800, and regular campsites can be reserved through the State Park campground reservations system. For additional information please call the Huntingdon County Arts Council at (814) 643-6220 or e-mail huntingdonarts@gmail. com a

programs can be found at boalmuseum.com on the web site menu. The Boal Mansion Museum and the Columbus Chapel are open from May 1 to October 31 six days a week (closed Mondays). From August 26 through October 31, the daily hours are 1:30 to 5 pm. Group tours are possible at any time or any season by advance arrangement at office@ boalmuseum.com or 814-466-9266. a

be spread through transport of infested firewood and logs, campers and homeowners are encouraged to use only locally harvested firewood, burn all of it on-site and not carry it to new locations. The adult Asian longhorned beetle is three-quarters to oneand-a-quarter inches long, has a jet-black glossy body with white spots on each wing, and long, black and bluish-white antennae. Beetle larvae tunnel through tree stems causing girdling that cuts off the flow of nutrients, eventually killing the tree and resulting in coarse sawdust at the base of infested parts of the tree. Adult beetles leave round exit holes in the tree after they emerge. There is no known practical control for this wood-boring pest other than destroying infested trees. The beetles attack and eventually kill many species of trees, but prefer maple species. Soft (red maple) and hard (sugar maple) trees make up more than 25 percent of Pennsylvania’s hardwood forests. The beetle also attacks species of ash, birch, buckeye, elm, horsechestnut, poplar and willow trees. As much as $10 billion in lumber and pulp production, and

$3 million in maple syrup sales are at risk. Native to China, Mongolia and Korea, the beetle was first discovered in North America in New York in 1996 and has since been found in Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ohio and Ontario, mainly in urban settings. Pennsylvania’s proximity to New York, New Jersey and Ohio raises a concern due to frequent travel across state borders for recreational purposes. Should the beetle be found in Pennsylvania, the Department of Agriculture will partner with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s Plant Protection and Quarantine division, and the U.S. Forest Service to implement a full-scale eradication program. The program would entail surveys, imposing quarantines to prevent accidental transport of the beetle, removal and destruction of infested host trees and high risk trees, as well as outreach and replanting efforts. Early detection of the beetle can lessen the severity and impacts of these activities. If citizens suspect a sighting of Asian longhorned beetle, call the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture’s toll-free pest hotline at 866-253-7189 or email badbug@state.pa.us. a

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It’s hard to believe that some of the best made fudges in the world comes from a little town right outside of Pittsburgh Pa. The company is called Fudgie Wudgie, yet for being one of the world’s best fudge makers, no one seems to have heard of them. The main reason is that Fudgie Wudgie private labels their fudge to other companies, so you may have tried it and never knew it. So what is their secret to making fudge? Well in truth, it is no secret, because they are proud to share all of the details of what makes Fudgie Wudgie so special. World Class Facility It begins with a world-class facility in the heart of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—the fudge capital of the world. Every package of

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