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Franklin School Board member Patricia Moore was named chairman of the Venango Technology Center's Joint Committee at its reorganization meeting Tuesday. Kathy Karl of the Oil City School Board was elected vice-chairman, and Dwight Proper of the Titusville School Board was elected treasurer. All of the votes were unanimous. Moore replaced Forest Area School Board member John Mehalic at the head of the table. The committee also unanimously agreed to retain Joseph J. Liotta III as its solicitor and to pay him a retainer of $135 a month. It was the first meeting for Franklin school district Superintendent Ronald Paranick, who will serve a one-year term as the center's chief school administrator. He takes over from Forest Area Superintendent Duane Vicini, who served in the post for the past year.
EVERYBODY has pictures on their walls. Even if it is only posters stuck with Blu-Tack, art is part of the furniture in every home. But if you bought Nathan Coley's Lamp of Sacrifice, 286 Places of Worship, you would have to move out to make room for it. Cardboard scale models of all the places of worship listed in the Edinburgh Yellow Pages for 2004, all jumbled together, completely fill the floor in two large rooms at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (SNGMA). Yinka Shonibare's Sun, Sea and Sand, several hundred paper plates decorated with brightly coloured patterns from African textiles, fills the floor of another room. It leaves only a narrow passage, but Martin Creed's Work no 370, Balls - several hundred balls of conceivable, kind, size and pattern scattered across the floor - fills the big central room so completely, you have to walk through the middle of it.
Have you ever searched high and low for that just right piece of furniture only to find everything on the market to be a few inches too wide, a few inches too tall, or a few inches too deep? That's the challenge many clients bring to Portland based Showcase Designs, says owner Grant Hamilton. The solution? To have a piece of custom furniture made that's just right, he says. Exactly What You Want A division of Showcase Furniture Gallery, Showcase Designs focuses solely on building custom furniture piece by piece. "The beauty of custom furniture is you can get exactly what you want," Hamilton says. "Not almost what you want." Shop manager Doug Wilson and a crew of 15 skilled carpenters build all of the company's made-to-order furniture at a 30,000 square foot state of the art woodshop on Hayden Island.
On Tuesday, I arrived at home, met as I walked into my kitchen by my seventh-grade daughter. With a wry smile, she handed me a letter we received that day.
The letter began simply with, "WHAT PART OF 'NO' DON'T THEY UNDERSTAND?"
I could have stopped reading immediately.
I knew it was the latest letter distributed by Donald Nix, and it would contain misleading statements regarding the Harrisburg School District bond issue on Tuesday.
As I read through his letter, the half-truths started almost immediately. One of his first statements reads, "This is the same plan with a few soccer and softball fields eliminated." Wrong!
The athletic facility as now proposed is a football/soccer field and running track. Additional cost-cutting measures include eliminating the proposed remodel of the existing middle school and a new bus barn.
PALMER - Amid a mix of support and opposition from some Mat-Su Borough residents Monday evening, the borough planning commission unanimously voted to send the Point MacKenzie prison site to the assembly as its preferred site.As in most meetings where public comment has been taken, residents of the areas where a prison could be built - Point MacKenzie and Sutton - showed either complete support or total opposition for the development.Just before voting to agree with the site selection committee, members of the planning commission expressed concern about environmental impacts on a designated wildlife area and watershed adjacent to the proposed prison site in PointMacKenzie.The same concern was shared by many residents from the Lost Lake area, who said the tranquil area with year-round residences and vacation homes would be destroyed by a prison development.Officials with various organizations in charge of planning the prison said the environmental issues would be looked at more closely in the near future.And, even as the Point MacKenzie Community Council adamantly opposed the prison during a Nov.
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