Common calendar, Packet papers, May 14
Common calendar, Packet papers, May 14
The Bordentown Historical Society needs a female theatrical storyteller for its award-winning Harrowing History performances.
Looking for a woman who likes to perform, dress up in period costumes and entertain people.
Send a message with contact information to kkantorski@aol.com
Look for signs on Route 206.
Volunteers are needed, age 18 and older, will clean both sides of Route 206 between New Amwell and Homestead Road.
Volunteers are asked to wear masks and socially distance from other volunteers.
The Hopewell Valley Arts Council seeks artists, artisans and creatives ready for an eco-art challenge at its newest community event: The Junkyard, an upcycle art exhibition.
Harrisburg’s mayoral candidates meet up in last forum before May 18 primary
Updated May 13, 2021;
Posted May 12, 2021
The four top-tier candidates in the race for the Democratic nomination for Harrisburg mayor brought their pre-primary debate season to a close Wednesday night.
Mark Pynes | mpynes@pennlive.com
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Here’s a look at the highlights of the four participants’ pitches.
Otto Banks.
The former city council member and deputy assistant secretary in George W. Bush’s Department of Housing & Urban Development lobbed an interesting new proposal on the table, saying that if elected he would proposed selling the current City Government Center building on 2nd Street and moving the city’s offices to the site of the National Civil War Museum in Reservoir Park.
Fasted 500 | Meet the cyclists riding 500km through Ramadan
Fasted 500 | Meet the cyclists riding 500km through Ramadan The Fasted 500 encourages Muslim cyclists to ride 500km through Ramadan, with participants from the USA to Malaysia
May 11, 2021 at 6:30 pm
The Rapha Festive 500 sees tens of thousands of cyclists worldwide ride 500km between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. Now a new event – the Fasted 500 – has challenged cyclists to ride 500km through the month of Ramadan.
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The Fasted 500 was the brainchild of Zahir Nayani, a lawyer and cyclist from Swindon, who saw the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Muslim communities and a need to encourage an active lifestyle. The Fasted 500 has required participants to ride an average of 17km a day through the holy month of Ramadan, from 12 April to 12 May.
Spending in 2021 Harrisburg mayoral primary will set city record
Updated May 11, 2021;
Posted May 11, 2021
The race to occupy Harrisburg s mayor s office is breaking fundraising records, according to campaign finance reports filed with Dauphin County. (Photo by Christine Vendel, PennLive, File.)Christine Vendel, PennLive
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Dave Schankweiler, the retired founder and publisher of the Central Pennsylvania Business Journal, has shown he may have the best Rolodex in the Harrisburg mayor’s race, out-raising all candidates who have filed campaign finance reports so far.
The big wild card? Former Harrisburg city councilman Otto Banks, who has the single-biggest donor in the race, but whose campaign committee had not yet filed a report as of noon, Tuesday.
We all have our hobbies. Mine is writing about history. I have come to know others. They’re passionate. Like Betty Davis of Wrightstown, who collects historic Bucks County postcards, and Neil Wood of Levittown, whose inspiration is railroad history.
Lately I’ve been in touch with Chuck Denlinger of Downingtown, who reacted to my account of Bucks County’s George Scott who drove the famous John Bull locomotive on it’s last full run, passing through Bucks en route to Chicago as featured attraction of the 1893 world’s fair.
The locomotive, built in England in 1831 and shipped to Philadelphia on a sailing ship, was one of the first steam engines to operate in the U.S. The Pennsylvania Railroad carefully maintained and preserved the engine in Bordentown, New Jersey.