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Our Nature!
Good Nature!
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Our Good
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Our Good Nature!
Juniata River Valley Chamber of Commerce
& Visitors Bureau
Discover Our Good Nature!
Photo by Nathaniel Thierwechter
Owner, Dave Rank has been perfecting his skill for over 30 years, beginning his
career early by hand painting lettering in the 6th grade! He has come along
way since then and he and his staff use very sophisticated, hi-tech equipment
in their trade. If you
can imagine it they
can place it on a
sign, vehicle,
banner, or piece of
clothing. They use
the best materials
available and install
everything they
make at no extra
charge! They have custom designed thousands of vehicles with
paint & vinyl. Check them out on facebook at dsignsshop!
2816 US Highway 522 S., McVeytown, PA, 814.542.9506
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October 22
The Chamber was invited to get reacquainted with the
NEW & IMPROVED Glick’s Shoe Store!
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November 13th
Where what you love is always in style!
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Chamber Holiday Gathering
At the Juniata Valley Winery-December 11
Where what you love is always in style!
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Home Nursing Agency Home Health Named to the Top 500 of the
2014 HomeCare Elite
Home Nursing Agency Home Health announced that it has been named to the
Top 500 of the 2014 HomeCare Elite™, a recognition of the top-performing home
health agencies in the United States. Now in its ninth year, the HomeCare Elite
identifies the top 25 percent of agencies and highlights the top 100 and top 500
agencies overall. Winners are ranked by an analysis of publicly available
performance measures in quality outcomes, best practice (process measure)
implementation, patient experience (Home Health CAHPS®), quality improvement
and consistency, and financial performance. In order to be considered, an agency
must be Medicare-certified and have data for at least one outcome in Home Health
Compare. Out of 9,994 agencies considered, 2,501 are elite.
The entire list of 2014 HomeCare Elite agencies can be downloaded by visiting the National Research Corporation website
at www.nationalresearch.com/homecareelite.
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The Kiwanis Club of
Lewistown
PO Box 344, Lewistown
Local Rep.: Janie Welshans
Phone: 717.248.0520
Email: lewistownkiwanis@gmail.com
“Support Our Troops”
Lewistown Army & Army Reserve
Career Center
11126 W. 4th Street, Lewistown
Local Rep: Sergeant First Class Allan R. Bean
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Phone: 717.342.1082
Email: allan.r.bean.mil@mail.mil
www.goarmy.com
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Get Connected!
2015 After Hours
January 28-Valley Sports N
Outdoors
February-Sacred Heart School &
Parish
March-New Hue Salon
April 23: Geisinger Lewistown
Hospital
May: Northwest Savings Bank
June: Locust Grove
July-Ohesson Manor
August-Bell Mountain Estates
September-Goose Day
Themed After Hours Expo
We are now accepting reservations
for 2016, call today to schedule your
Business After Hours Event! What
better way to let the chamber
membership see what your
business or organization has to
offer!
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October-HealthSouth
Mifflintown
November-SUM Child
Development
December-Rich Coast Coffee &
Extrava Market
All the Answers Lie
in the Past
Another year has come and gone. It is
now 2015. The perfect opportunity to
push “refresh” and start over, move on,
tackle new goals, forget past mis-steps.
It’s a clean slate!
Personally, I am not big on the past. Yes,
some reflection is always enjoyable, but I
like to think I live in the “now”, I claim to
embrace change and I try not to worry
much about the future. Recently I have
noticed a couple of things that grabbed my
attention, speaking of the past.
I was watching one of my favorite
television shows and a character called
Howard Wollowitz was featured in a scene
changing clothes. After pulling on his
under shirt, he pulled a turtle neck
“dickie” over his head. A “dickie” is a
turtle neck attached to two twelve inch
squares of similar fabric that when worn
under a button down shirt gives the
illusion of wearing a full turtle neck shirt
or sweater. Howard always has one on.
They come in a wide assortment of colors,
often matching his canvas boat shoes.
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I remember being a college student
in Jamestown New York in the late
1960’s and a “dickie” was part of my
dress uniform every day. (along with a
button front sweater vest). I vividly
recall six colors: black, navy, gray, red,
green and tan. By the 1970’s, “dickies”
were long forgotten in favor of open
necked Joe Nameth rayon or polyester
shirts or colored dress shirts with huge
velvet bow ties.
In the early 1960’s we wore canvas
boat shoes made by Keds, Converse or
P.F Flyers. They had three or four
eyelets and came in white, chino or
navy. The soles were wrapped in a
wide rubber banding and the canvas
wore out long before the soles. We
would wrap around the front half of
the shoe with duck tape and continue
to wear the footwear until they
literally fell off our feet. Today Sperry
and Vans make the same shoes in
dozens of colors and are sported by
most school and college students. The
duck tape repairs are out of the
question today. They are now
considered disposable footwear.
My first serious job during my high
school years was working at the Hub
Shoe Store in Kane, Pennsylvania.
Boat shoes, penny loafers and saddle
shoes were hot sellers. Everyone had
at least one pair of dress shoes
(Sunday shoes). Boys wore black
oxfords and girls wore heels. The
“heels” were mid-high or high heeled
spikes, with double needle toes.
Continued...
The Fountain Arrives
and Musings Continued...
Translated, the spike heel was very thin,
like a pencil, either 2 ½ inches (mid) or
three inches (high). The toes were pointed
like an arrow head. The same high heels
are favored right now and the height
doesn’t end at three inches, going as high
as eight inches (as in Lady GaGa).
What I’m pondering is fashion has a life,
and creativity does too. After we’ve
searched and created “new” trends, we
re- design something that already had a
life in an earlier era that we may not have
been around to witness before. The most
obvious is skinny tie/wide tie for men and
long skirt/mini skirt for women. You see,
life is simple, history is significant, all the
answers lie in the past.
Welcome to 2015. Just maybe,
you’ll find new direction and great
success in yesteryear.
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Fountain Square Park-Dec. 9, 2014
Uncommon to rare in this neck
of the woods, this Peregrine
Falcon was spotted hanging
around downtown Lewistown.
Most notably, on top of St. Johns
Lutheran Church, corner of 3rd
and Main.
It's probably taking a nice
break while migrating south
but who knows, maybe he'll
hunker down here for a bit.
Having never seen one before,
I got to cross him off my list.
Photo Courtesy of Nathaniel Thierwechter
Gordon Parker