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CPARC hires director

The Arc of Cumberland & Perry Counties (CPARC) has named Mr. Lad-

die Springer as Director of the S. Wilson Pollock Center for Industri -al Training.

Mr. Springer has de-voted his career to indi-viduals with intellectual and developmental dis-abilities, spending more than 25 years with Key-stone Human Services.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Behav-ioral Sciences from Penn State Univer-sity. Mr. Springer recently finished a four-year term on the Board of Com-missioners in Lower Swatara Township.

The S. Wilson Pollock Center for In-dustrial Training provides vocational education and employment to citizens with disabilities.

Gassis certified

Safwat Gassis, M.D., of Geising-er Holy Spirit Cardiology has earned a Certified Physician Executive (CPE)

certification from the American Association for Physician Leader-ship.

CPE designation in-dicates that a physician has achieved superior levels of professional excellence and manage-ment education while

also demonstrating effective health care industry knowledge and leader-ship skills.

Dr. Gassis also earned his Master of Medical Management (MMM) de-gree from Carnegie Mellon University in 2017.

“Patients and their families bestow a tremendous amount of trust upon their care providers and we must never take that trust lightly,” Dr. Gassis said. “As transformational leaders of our profession, and drivers of the future of healthcare, we are committed to cre-ating an environment of excellence in quality, safety, accessibility and deliv-ery of patient-focused effective care. Our responsibility in healthcare lead-ership requires specialized skill sets beyond clinical training and expertise; the CPE and MMM degrees provide the foundation for those roles.”

CPE certification is the industry benchmark for CEOs and executive recruiters seeking the most accom-plished physician leaders.

“The contemporary challenges fac-ing health care today — such as vari-able clinical quality, persistent, high institutional costs in the face of clar-ifying value, and less than optimal patient experiences — require physi-cian leaders who can interlace clinical knowledge, seasoned leadership skills and superior management acumen,” said Dr. Peter Angood, president and CEO of the American Association for Physician Leadership.

The American Association for Phy-sician Leadership is the nation’s largest organization solely focused on leader-ship education and management train-ing for physicians. Chartered by the American Association for Physician Leadership to establish and maintain the high standards required for physi-cian executive certification, the Cer-tifying Commission in Medical Man-

agement has a 20-year history as a national, not-for-profit corporation certifying physicians specializing in medical management.

The Certifying Commission in Med-ical Management currently lists more than 3,300 Certified Physician Exec-utives.

NTM honored

NTM Engineering, Inc. was the re-cipient of the 2018 Women’s Transpor-tation Seminar (WTS) Central PA Em-ployer of the Year Award.

The award was presented to NTM representatives at the 20th Anniversa-ry Celebration and Awards Dinner on January 30 at the Sheraton Harrisburg Hershey Hotel. The mission of WTS is to attract, sustain, connect, and ad-vance women’s careers to strengthen the transportation industry.

The award is presented to compa-nies that are recognized for recruiting, retaining, and advancing women. Out of NTM’s 47 total employees, 36% are women, significantly above the Na-tional average of 14%, according to the U.S. Dept. of Labor.

NTM has provided support of WTS Central PA in a variety of ways, in-

cluding sponsorship, numerous em-ployee volunteers, and attendance at international conferences and leader-ship trainings. Companywide, NTM provides mentorship of personnel and encourages professional development training, provides challenging work, and creates career growth opportuni-ties.

“NTM’s commitment and support of WTS Central PA is key to our chapter’s success and growth,” said Crystalann Deardorff, PE, WTS Central PA Chap-ter President. “NTM staff provides chapter leadership, volunteer time, and are champions in the industry that are all helping to advance the mission of WTS.”

“NTM is a women-owned business and we understand the importance of having women in positions of owner-ship and leadership, with the ability to influence the policies, procedures, and vision of the firm. We take pride in our company and strive to promote the professional growth of all of our em-ployees, both women and men,” said NTM President Donna Newell.

Established in 2006 and head-quartered in Dillsburg, Pennsylva-nia, Newell, Tereska & MacKay (NTM)

Engineering, Inc. employs 48 profes-sionals and is a registered Disadvan-taged Business Enterprise in Pennsyl-vania, Maryland, and Delaware and a Women-Owned Small Business with the federal government. NTM has lo-cations in State College and Philadel-phia. The firm’s four principals are all licensed professional engineers with master’s degrees in civil engineering and offer a combined 70+ years of en-gineering experience.

Geisinger expands pediatrics

Geisinger Holy Spirit Orthopedics and Sports Medicine has expanded its pedi-atric services, and now offers specialized care in two locations.

Meagan Fernandez, D.O., provides pediatric orthopedic care at 550 N. 12th St., Lemoyne, and at 4230 Crums Mill Road, Harrisburg.

“At Geisinger Holy Spirit, we know kids aren’t simply tiny adults,” Dr. Fernandez said. “They need specialized pediatric orthopedic care. That is why we are expanding our availability of specialized pediatric or-thopedic care to the East Shore.”

Dr. Fernandez specializes in treat-ing pediatric fractures, sports injuries, and scoliosis.

Geisinger Holy Spirit Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine provides compre-hensive care for patients of all ages in four locations: Carlisle, Duncannon, Harrisburg, and Lemoyne.

Geisinger adds surgeon

Heather Thieme, M.D., a board-cer-tified general surgeon, has joined Geisinger Holy Spirit. She will perform

both general surgery and breast surgery.

Dr. Thieme earned her medical degree from St. George’s University. She completed a sur-gical residency at York Hospital and a two-year surgical oncology fel-lowship at Mercy Med-ical Center. She spe-cializes in laparoscopic

gallbladder, hernia, appendectomy, liv-er, and endoscopy procedures. She also performs breast surgeries, radical neck dissection, and colon and rectal cancer procedures.

Dr. Thieme sees patients at Geising-er Holy Spirit General Surgery, 890 Poplar Church Road, Camp Hill, and at Geisinger Holy Spirit Breast Care Center, 880 Century Drive, Mechan-icsburg.

Gift CPAs hires

Gift CPAs, a leading small business accounting and advisory firm in Cen-tral Pennsylvania, is pleased to wel-come Jeff Halligan, CPA, and Deanna Rosario to its team.

Halligan, a graduate of Elizabeth-town College, joins the firm as a senior accountant. In this role, he provides quality accounting services to small businesses and individuals based on a commitment to service. Halligan is a member of the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants and

NTM Engineering employees receive awards at the 2018 Women’s Transportation Seminar.

Heather Thieme

Laddie Springer

Meagan FernandezGeisinger Holy Spirit volunteers present red caps during February’s “Little Hats, Big

Hearts” initiative

Safwat Gassis

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CumberlandVA L L E Y B U S I N E S S J O U R N A L

Zack Hoopes

CVBJ

With the opening of Dead Lightning Distillery this month, downtown New Cumberland is continuing a resurgence that would’ve been considered unlikely four years ago.

The distillery is located at 311 Bridge Street, in what was the cigar bar at Coakley’s – the former staple hang-out of the West Shore community that closed in 2014 amidst bankruptcy pro-ceedings.

With the property under new own-ership since last year, Dead Lightning Distillery follows Funtastik skate shop as a new occupant of the vast Coak-ley’s building.

“The response has been incredible,” said distillery owner Andrea Mont-gomery. “We’ve had huge turnouts, and a very diverse crowd – we have people in here in suits, and people with two teeth.”

That juxtaposition – attracting both the white-collar crowd as well as New Cumberland’s blue collar base – is critical to expanding the borough’s economic base, especially as local gov-ernment embarks on a revitalization plan that will hopefully attract more business interest to the area.

“Having this success with the dis-tillery as we’re heading into to the revi-talization plan is a great sign,” said New Cumberland Borough Councilman Don Kibler, who has spearheaded the plan-ning effort. “It really lends credence to what we’re trying to do here.”

DISTILLERY

Dead Lightning Distillery is a memo-rial to Montgomery’s son, Skyler, who passed away two years ago at the age of 21.

S k yl e r wa s a n “ h o n e s t - to - go d moonshiner,” Montgomery said, dis-tilling his own spirits and giving them to friends and family. He was also an ardent Grateful Dead fan, inspiring the distillery’s tie-dye bottle labels and other motifs.

Shortly before his death, the fami-ly had talked about starting a licensed establishment so Skyler could sell his spirits commercially.

“Three months before he passed, we had started talking about getting a business together for him,” Montgom-ery said. “He made the best-tasting stuff you’ll ever have.”

Following Skyler’s unexpected death, Montgomery decided to keep going.

“I had to put my energy into some-thing. It was either curl up into a fetal position or move forward,” Montgom-ery said. “I got my license on his birth-day a year ago, and we’ve been working non-stop since.”

The distilling is done by Tom Gribb, a friend of Skyler’s who made much of his distilling equipment, Montgom-

ery said.The space itself was immediately at-

tractive and in surprisingly good shape. The Coakley’s cigar bar space had been renovated about five years beforehand, and sat unused for most of that time.

“It felt just like Skyler’s living room, which is what we wanted,” Montgom-ery said.

The former Coakley’s property is owned by a group of local investors that includes New Cumberland Mayor Doug Morrow, who has also become a major proponent of revitalization, both at his own property and elsewhere.

“The mayor approached us and I started looking into it. When I walked in, I knew it was the perfect fit,” Mont-gomery said.

RECOVERY

While Dead Lightning Distillery is the most recent addition to New Cum-berland’s post-recession wave of busi-nesses, it isn’t the first.

In July 2016, tattoo artist Steve Skelly ventured into starting his own shop, leasing the space directly across from what was then a totally va -cant Coakley’s.

“It’s just good to get back and come set up where I grew up, and bring something back to the area,” Skel-ly said. “There’s nothing but poten-tial here.”

Skelly was living in Philadelphia, and frequently commuting to New York City – an hour-and-twenty-minute run each way, he said. Now, Skelly’s commute is about three minutes from his home in New Cumberland to his shop on Bridge Street.

Not only that, he’s now across the street from a childhood friend, Aaron

Wilson, who opened the new Funtastik location in part of the former Coakley’s space at the end of last year.

Skelly and Wilson skateboarded to-gether as kids, and both ended up wanting to bring their passions back to the community as adults. Wilson pur-chased Funtastik in 2010, which had two existing locations in Mechanics-burg and York.

“I’m excited because we’ve gotten more and more people who are excit-ed about a location in New Cumber-land,” Wilson said. “Mechanicsburg is not that far away, but it takes a while to get there, especially for the Harris-

burg crowd.”A location like New Cumberland,

Wilson said, lends itself to some-one who is intimately familiar with the town. If you aren’t a local and an avid skater yourself, Wilson said, you wouldn’t’ think New Cumberland has enough of a skateboard community to support a dedicated shop.

“As a skater, we go by the old adage ‘if you build it, they will come,’” Wil-son said. “People asked me ‘are there enough skaters in New Cumberland to support a shop?’ My answer was ‘of

Distillery highlights New Cumberland’s resilience as downtown continues comebackBorough seeking ways to grow as revitalization plan nears

Michael Bupp, The Sentinel

A house specialities menu taped to a window at Dead Lightning Distillery in New Cumberland.

Please see Distillery, Page A4

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course there are.’ But if you’re not here and you’re not active in the communi-ty, you’ll never see it.”

Being located on a walkable stretch of Bridge Street amplifies that effect.

“I think it definitely helps to add awareness. It’s always good to have more eyes seeing what you’re do-ing and more feet crossing your path,” Wilson said. “We’re definitely gaining some momentum here. We have a real-ly good vibe going on.”

REDEVELOPMENT PLAN

The borough, Kibler noted, is cur-rently in the midst of selecting a ven-dor for a redevelopment study that should point the municipal gov-ernment toward additional ways to spur growth.

The borough’s solicitation for pro-posals garnered responses from some “top tier, national-level firms,” Kibler said, indicating the momentum behind

the effort.The borough’s Request for Propos-

al document notes a number of chal-lenges which new Cumberland hopes to overcome. Not only has there been turnover in commercial storefronts, but also in housing, with a large num-

ber of absentee landlords using the borough’s housing stock as an in-vestment opportunity. While some have been diligent in improving her properties, others have been less so, Kibler noted.

From 2010 to 2016, the borough’s

ra te o f ow n e r- o cc u p i e d h o u s i n g dropped from 74 percent of residential units to 67 percent. The renters that have come into the area also face in-creased hardship – in 2010, 20.7 per-cent of renters paid more than 35 per-cent of their gross income in rent. As of 2016, that number had increased to 34.2 percent, according to census data.

The borough also faces challenges with an aging populace, one of the key drivers of residential and commercial turnover. The borough’s median age is 41.8 years, slightly higher than Penn-sylvania’s 40.6.

Once a consultant is selected, the borough’s RFP calls for an extensive redevelopment planning process, in-volving an assessment of existing in-frastructure and resources, community meetings to prioritize needs, and as-sessment of the current market for res-idential and commercial space.

The ultimate goal will be a frame-work of tasks whereby the borough can attract new investment, ultimately in-creasing quality of life.

The borough hopes to select a con-sultant for the study by the end of April, Kibler said.

DistilleryFrom A3

Zack Hoopes

The Sentinel

If the county government seems like it has a low public profile lately, may-be it’s because, unlike other levels of government, it hasn’t been subject to incessant gridlock.

During a breakfast engagement last week with the Carlisle Area Chamber of Commerce, Cumberland County Commissioner Jim Hertzler relayed a comment from an attendee at a recent County Commissioners’ Association of Pennsylvania conference.

“He said ‘I think the county com-missioners are about the highest lev-el of government in our country that still works,’” Hertzler said. “When you think about local government … it’s where the rubber hits the road. There’s a lot of talk in Harrisburg and D.C. but not much seems to get done.”

Hertzler’s colleagues, Gary Eichel-berger and Vince DiFilippo, agreed that their three-member body was remark-ably undramatic.

“I think we’re a good team — we cer-tainly have our moments, believe me — but we discuss items, we can disagree, but we get it done,” DiFilippo said.

“This board is very focused on the people’s business and that’s a refresh-ing change,” Eichelberger said.

“I think there’s a lot of truth to that,” he said, referencing Hertzler’s anec-dote. “We’ve seen counties have to assume more and more responsibili-ty across the state … especially in this area since we are in growth mode.”

During their annual presentation to the chamber, the commissioners stressed the extent to which county government has had to take the reins to address the county’s increasing needs that aren’t being addressed at the state or federal level, and to keep the day-to-day organs of government running.

The county’s long-term financial

outlook continues to be sound, Di-Filippo said, noting the county’s re-serves are strong enough that it has been able to go four years without a tax increase, despite gradual cost increas-es. The county’s bond rating is still AAA, allowing it to borrow at low rates for capital projects.

This is critical given several large up-coming expenses, all of which are criti-cal to the county’s basic functions.

The county’s 911 system and public safety radio network will need a ma-jor overhaul over the next several years, and capital repairs and improvements are needed at Claremont Nursing and

Rehabilitation, the county-owned nursing home.

The state will also be adding a sev-enth Court of Common Pleas judge to the county judiciary in 2020, with the county facing down significant costs to renovate its court offices to accommo-date the extra judicial staff.

DiFilippo said the county govern-ment has taken the initiative on work-force and transportation issues. The county-sponsored Cumberland Area Economic Development Corp. is work-ing to develop and organize training to address the county’s’ shortage of skilled technical labor.

The commissioners were also re-cently successful in their push to have Capital Area Transit, a joint agency of Cumberland and Dauphin counties and the City of Harrisburg, contract with York-based Rabbittransit for manage-ment services.

“This is a big first step toward im-proving transit efficiency in our re-gion,” DiFilippo said.

Further, the county’s electronics re-cycling program — set up due to in-action at the state level on fixing dis-posal regulations — has enabled area

County commissioners discuss challenges


Cumberland County Commissioner Jim Hertzler, right, speaks during the county update breakfast at the Elks Lodge in Carlisle. Also shown, fellow commissioners Gary Eichelberger, left, and Vince DiFilippo.

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Dead Lightning Distillery in New Cumberland.



Zack Hoopes

CVBJ

Carlisle native Michele Buck was named CEO of The Hershey Company in March 2017. After a year of leading one of the world’s top food manufacturers, Buck spoke with the Cumberland Valley Business Journal. Parts of this interview have been condensed for clarity.

CVBJ: Can you start

off by telling us a little

about your experience

in the Carlisle area? I

cannot think of another

instance in which

someone this local is

running a Fortune 500

company. How did growing up here

shape your experience? Buck: I have deep roots in the area.

My grandparents and my parents grew up in Newville. My grandpar-ents dropped out of school around the seventh grade and were raised by their older siblings. My parents went to high school in Newville and maybe had 16 or 17 kids in their graduating classes. My mother grew up on a farm that had no indoor plumbing, and my dad was the first in his family to graduate high school. He went into the service to pay for his college education and then after he was married, went on and worked at night to get a master’s degree.

So I start with my parents who, I think, were really brought up in envi-ronment that required resilience and a hard work ethic. They moved to Car-lisle, and I was born in the Carlisle hospital and went through the Carl-isle school system and I think got a great education. I think Carlisle is a great place to grow up, a wonderful town with good people and interest-ing dynamics.

I really enjoyed growing up there, it’s a great place to raise a family with enough activity, but not too much. Occasionally, we would venture out way up here to Hershey — the whole 45-minute drive to visit the park or tour the chocolate facility. I laugh about that, but people ask ‘how did Hershey change since you were here’ and the reality is I really didn’t’ venture out that far on a frequent basis. Back then, we really did spend a lot of our time right there in Carlisle. Dickinson College is also an interesting dynam-ic that brings an influx of interesting people; the Army War College was also a great, interesting influx, at least for me, having classmates that had come here from different environments.

Obviously I went to school for un-dergraduate locally at Shippensburg, and again got a great education there, then worked for a while in govern-ment at the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue in Harrisburg for a couple years, so I was still in the area for my first job out of college. It was a great experience being a fiscal analyst and

having a chance to analyze legislation for both revenue impact as well as pol-icy impact, and serving in a group that was doing a little bit of internal con-sulting for the senior leadership at the Department of Revenue.

That was a fabulous work experi-ence, a lot of responsibility for a pretty young age, and at that point I decided to go get a master’s degree and that’s what took me out of the area for the next 20 years or so.

CVBJ: What was your learning curve

like as an executive?

Buck: I look at my path as a contin-uous evolution of learning and growing and experiencing different things, and I really do think it was that path of a lot of different steps that allowed me to be ready. That really does go back to my parents and how I was brought up and having that foundation.

But then I was on a journey of lean-ing experiences. Certainly my first job out of college was a learning experi-ence, and then I chose to go get a mas-ter’s degree, because I thought that would give me more knowledge, but also just open up more avenues where I could uncover what possibilities ex-isted in the work world. So that was a great experience, I moved to North Carolina, went to University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. I went there be-cause it was a top ten business school, I think number 8 at the time, but I also went there because I liked the culture. It was known for being a school where teamwork was really valued, it was not a school with a lot of elbow-y compet-itive edge, which I think given my up-bringing would not have been a good fit with some of the places I looked at.

So then I looked at what’s the best job coming out of business school, and I went to Frito Lay and chose marketing as a career, and that was yet another learning experience. Building on foun-dations and strengths, but also grow-ing and learning about living in a dif-

ferent place, being around people who had grown up — in business school and in Texas — from all different plac-es, because people had come from all around the county in those work envi-ronments.

Then I came back to the East Coast, and I’d say each move and each job I took was a progression of learning and being around different people, lean-ing different skill sets. And then later in my career, I started branching out to get different experiences in terms of the actual work I was doing. So I had focused on marketing as my func-tional backbone, but once I got may-be 10 years into my career I took my first general management position, and that was a great way to learn to manage more broadly beyond marketing but actually manage a full business. I had a manufacturing plant that reported to me, which I had never done before.

That was the start of many differ-ent experiences where I learned that if I really branched out and went af-ter an experience of higher learning and growth, it developed me more as a person. Managing the plant, it was a teamsters union and a plant that was in trouble and was going to be shut down, but I worked with the team there to turn the plant around, and that was one of the most rewarding things I did in my career in part because I knew the impact it would have on the lives of the people who worked at the plant, and in part because it was out of my wheel-house, and that really intrigued me with continuing in my career to take other assignments like that.

I was given an opportunity here at Hershey to manage a lot of functions I had never managed before, like re-search and development, which are the scientists who develop the tech-nologies around our products, and we needed to kind of reinvent that area. I took that on because I thought I could apply all my basic skills to things like that, so I’ve had a lot of those great ex-periences, and I think that learning and

growth are part of who I am as a leader. I really believe in inspirational leader-ship.

I’m very relationship-focused; I like to be out with people. When I took over as CEO one of the first things I did was listening tours with people through-out the company, at all levels in the company, and I think some of those elements of my leadership style are grounded in who I am and how I was brought up.

CVBJ: When you were named to the

position, one of the things that was

mentioned was your leadership in

expanding Hershey’s offerings beyond

chocolate, with the acquisition of

beef jerky and some other products

like that. Where do you see that going

in the future in terms of Hershey’s

market share and trying to diversify?

Buck: Let me start by saying Hersey is a great company and got to be a great company by its leadership in confec-tionery, and that is at the core of who we are. We are the No. 2 snacking play-er by virtue of being number one in candy, because of how large the candy market is.

What I see in terms of our future is that when I came on as CEO I estab-lished the vision of us being an “in-novative snacking powerhouse,” and that starts with continuing to win on our core confection business because it is our bread and butter and where we make the bulk of our money right now. However, all of the capabilities that we have as an organization relative to taste science, distribution, manufacturing knowledge, consumer insight, those are all transferrable to other types of snacks.

So consumers are snacking more — snacks are a growing segment with-in food — and by virtue of us being the leader in confection we have a lot

Michele Buck On staying local while running a multinational corporation

Buck

Associated Press

This AP file photo shows Hershey’s chocolate in Overland Park, Kan.

Please see Buck, Page A6

CVBJ Q&A

residents to dispose of over 300,000 pounds of unwanted televisions, com-puter parts and other items.

The county has also been successful in its multiyear plan to repair or replace the county’s 19 bridges and their adja-cent roadways. The county infrastruc-ture plan uses the $5 vehicle registra-tion fee that counties are authorized to collect under state Act 89, which has generated roughly $1.1 million per year since 2015.

“That money is allowing coun-ties to tackle the backlog of structur-ally deficient bridges across Penn-sylvania ... but it doesn’t address the future, namely the future of widening I-81 throughout Pennsylvania,” Hert-zler said.

Data from the American Society of Civil Engineers shows that 34 per-cent of Pennsylvania’s traffic is heavy trucks, more than double the national average. Statewide, time and fuel lost in congested traffic saps $3.7 billion per year.

Hertzler said the county has been told by PennDOT that the cost of wid-ening I-81 between I-78 and the Mary-land border is $2.7 billion, with little to

no word on any state or federal financ-ing plan.

“We need the federal government to step up and help us,” Hertzler said, adding that he was “underwhelmed” with the Trump administration’s in-frastructure plan and it’s lack of detail as to how $200 billion in federal fund-ing would leverage a total $1.5 trillion package, as Trump has promised.

“We need Congress to stop kick-

ing the can down the road on this, be-cause the can is stuck in traffic,” Hert-zler said.

Possibly even more than I-81, the county is facing a public crisis over opioids, not only in the human cost, but increased costs to county govern-ment that aren’t being covered by the state or federal governments.

The county’s Children and Youth Services division saw a 26 percent in-

crease in out-of-home placements last year, with 81 children removed from their homes in the last quarter of 2017 alone, Hertzler said. Of these, he said, two-thirds were due to parental drug use.

Data from the county coroner also shows that toxicology costs were $87,797.13 in 2017, more than double what was budgeted just a year pri-or, due to the need to confirm cause of death on an influx of overdose victims.

The county has signed on to a law-suit, in conjunction with a number of county and municipal governments nationwide, against certain manufac-turers and distributors of opioid med-ications, maintaining that the phar-maceutical industry inappropriately promoted the drugs and downplayed their risks.

Eichelberger said, however, that the suit was not a quick fix.

“To me, it’s very different than the tobacco settlement,” he said. Opioids do have a legitimate pharmaceutical use, as opposed to tobacco, making the case much less of a slam-dunk.

“We did have a healthy debate on that, but there was ultimately a unan-imous decision to proceed on litiga-tion,” Eichelberger said. “We chose an imperfect solution, but in this business there are no true perfect solutions.”




The county commissioners held an update breakfast at the Elks Lodge in Carlisle.

CommissionersFrom A4

of capabilities that are extendable to total snacking. So our vision is real-ly about capturing more of consum-ers’ snacking occasions, and we’ll do that by looking at opportunities where there are usage occasions we aren’t hitting currently.

For example, the bulk of our portfo-lio is in the “sweet indulgence” cate-gory, but we recently purchased Am-plify brands, which is Skinny Pop, and that gets us into better-for-you sa-vory. We’ve also purchased other com-panies — barkTHINS which is a great better-for you snack-able product, Brookside, Krave [beef jerky] as you mentioned, so that’s really the vision.

CVBJ: There was recently a new

or expanded facility announced,

in Luzerne County – do you see a

physical expansion of Hershey’s

production footprint going along

with that, and how rapidly would that

happen?

Buck: Yes, we’ve been fortunate enough to have consistent growth on our core brands — Hershey’s, Reese’s, Kit-Kat, Kisses — and those brands have posted single-digit growth year after year after year, and as a result we have been fortunate enough to find ourselves in the position of needing more capacity.

So earlier this year we invested in a new Reese’s line in one of our facilities here in Hershey, and we are now break-ing ground for this new Kit-Kat line in Hazelton as we speak.

CVBJ: Is that growth fueled by the

domestic market, and have you also

seen an increase in your international

share as well, what does that makeup

look like? Buck: So our profile from a global

basis, we are still primarily a U.S. do-mestic organization. I would say that is where we have scale and we’re con-tinuing to make significant invest-ment here. At the same time we do see an opportunity in the internation-al markets, particularly in the emerg-ing markets where there is high pop-ulation growth and high growth and movement of consumers into the mid-dle class, which then creates purchas-ing power.

So we have businesses in develop-ment in China, India, Brazil, and have scaled businesses in Canada and Mexi-co, but are not as scaled as the US busi-ness — but we have significant mar-ket shares. The U.S. will continue to be our number one priority because of the scope and scale and profitability of the business in this market.

CVBJ: I know trade policy has been in

the news a lot and I don’t know if you

have any idea of how something like

that could affect Hershey’s growth

— I don’t know how much of your raw

materials are sourced domestically

or what that supply chain looks like

but I assume there’s a significant

movement of goods into and out of

the U.S. Buck: We are definitely staying on

top of all regulatory environments, and we have people on the ground in Wash-ington, D.C. and have the connections to work with our legislators to make sure we communicate to them what’s important to us. We’re really pleased that they have always done a great job of representing our interests.

That doesn’t mean we will always win on every topic and every matter, but as you know there are a couple of things in

the current legislation right now – the proposed tariff on steel and aluminum products is probably the hottest one right now — and like other US manufac-turers we do use steel for our plants and will use it for plant expansion, and we use aluminum for product packaging.

We require food grade aluminum that we can’t get in this country right now. So we certainly understand that could have an impact on the entire economy, and impact beyond us, but we are con-stantly focused on what we can do.

Throughout the years, it’s our job that if something does change, to work to figure out how to work through those changes and figure out offsets in our business to continue to grow.

CVBJ: What are the challenges and

advantages of continue to grow

Hershey’s production footprint in the

U.S.? I know there was a question a

couple years ago of where some new

production would be built and it ended

up being built here, in Dauphin County

— where do you see that going in

terms of your ability to keep the blue

collar base of Hershey in the U.S.? Buck: About 85 percent of our busi-

ness is done in the U.S. and about 85 percent of our production in done in the U.S., so we have a general overarching strategy of having our production locat-ed in close proximity to where the prod-ucts are actually sold. So I would antic-ipate that we would continue to have strong investment as we have in the past because that has been our strategy of lining that up.

We have certain cities where we have a particularly strong manufacturing presence, certainly right here in Her-shey as well as Stuarts Draft, Virginia, Hazelton, Robinson (Illinois), there are a number of cities across the country that are particularly important to us and where we make a significant amount of

our products.

CVBJ: How have you also managed

the acquisitions of some of the

healthier snack options — where have

consumer trends gone on that in

recent years, is the trend still toward

more health-conscious options, and

do you know where you see that going

in the next couple years in terms of

consumer preference?

Buck: Snacking is growing, and we’re seeing snacking growth on both ends of the spectrum. If you look at growth rates in the indulgent categories and the growth rates in better-for-you, more health and wellness oriented categories, you see growth in both.

So it’s really interesting. Certainly consumers have started incorporating more health and wellness snacks into their repertoire, but they also contin-ue to want to treat themselves. We feel good about the fact that consumers know and understand that Hershey’s confection is a treat – and that they use it in the way it’s intended. I think candy overall is less than 2 percent of the ca-loric intake in a consumer’s diet. So the way that we look at it is we see contin-ued opportunity in indulgence, and we try to offer a variety of products so that consumers have choice when it comes to portion control, and that they know it’s a treat so it’s not a surprise when they look at the ingredients in a can-dy bar.

But at the same time we have oppor-tunities to participate when consumers are looking for a better-for-you option, maybe it’s a meal replacement option. That’s why we have interest in those categories as well because we can grow more. We’re interested in creating long-term shareholder value, for our compa-ny, our shareholders, and our commu-nities, and by participating in both we think we can maximize the opportunity.

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Amitrajeet A. BatabyalRochester Institute of Technology

President Donald Trump recently slapped tariffs of 25 percent on im-

ported steel and 10 percent on foreign aluminum, prompting significant con-cern and discussion about the wisdom of this action.

As an economist who shares some of those concerns, I believe it’s important to first understand what a tariff actually is and does before we can determine whether Trump’s new trade barriers are good or bad.

Two kinds of tariffs A tariff, simply put, is a tax levied on

an imported good.There are two types. A “unit” or

specific tariff is a tax levied as a fixed charge for each unit of a good that is im-ported – for instance $300 per ton of imported steel. An “ad valorem” tar-iff is levied as a proportion of the value of imported goods. An example is a 20 percent tariff on imported automobiles. Both tariffs act in similar ways.

Tariffs are one of the oldest trade pol-icy instruments, with their use dating back to at least the 18th century. Histor-ically, the main objective of a tariff was to raise revenue. In fact, before ratifying the 16th Amendment in 1913 and for-mally creating the income tax, the U.S. government raised most of its revenue from tariffs.

Even so, the main purpose of a tariff these days tends to be about protecting particular domestic industries from

foreign competition, alongside rais-ing revenue.

Examining a tariff’s impact The impact of a tariff depends on

whether the levying country is large or small – not in terms of size but the potency of its trade and ability to influ-ence world prices.

Ghana, for example, roughly the size of Minnesota with a population similar to Texas, is the world’s top exporter of cocoa. The Netherlands, meanwhile, slightly smaller than New Jersey, is the commodity’s biggest importer. As such, both countries’ trade policies can have a significant impact on the price of cocoa on global markets.

So if the Netherlands were to levy a tariff on imports of Ghanaian cocoa to protect a nascent – and currently imaginary – industry of small Dutch cocoa bean growers, there would gen-erally be three effects.

First, the price of the import good, cocoa, would rise, making it more costly for domestic consumers of the product. This would be bad news for Dutch chocolatiers – the Netherlands is the world’s biggest exporter of co-coa butter – and citizens – who eat a lot of chocolate. But it’d be good news for companies in the domestic im-port-competing industry – the exper-imental Dutch farmers growing co-coa plants in a greenhouse – because the good they produce is now cheaper than the import, and so the cocoa but-ter makers would buy more of the lo-cal variety.

Second, because the tariff-levying country is large, it drives down the ex-port price of the good in question. So the pre-tariff price at which Ghana can export cocoa to the Netherlands de-clines, Ghanaian growers and produc-ers make less money, and the country’s economy is hurt. Economists call this a “terms of trade gain” for the coun-try imposing the tariff. Such a tariff ensures that the price of cocoa in the Netherlands does not rise by the entire amount of the tariff.

Finally, the overall volume of trade in the product between the countries in-volved decreases because the demand for and supply of the good falls.

If the tariff-levying country is small, however, there are only two effects: The good’s price will go up – domestic consumers will pay more, while pro-ducers will sell more – and the coun-try’s trade of the product will decline. The action will have no impact on global prices.

Benefits and costsFor a “large” country, the benefits of a

tariff are mixed.Consumers, whether businesses

like Dutch cocoa butter makers or in-dividuals who enjoy a tasty bar of dark chocolate, face higher prices and hence are the losers. The industry being pro-tected, however, benefits by becoming more competitive and selling more of its wares. In addition, the government will gain a new source of revenue.

The net effect boils down to whether any gains in the terms of trade are great-er than the resulting “efficiency loss”

– that is, how much the tariff artificially distorts consumption and production decisions in negative ways.

If the magnitude of the terms of trade gain is larger than that of the efficiency loss, then the country benefits from the tariff. If not, then it loses.

For a small country with no market impact, the terms of trade gain is zero, hence a tariff unambiguously makes it worse off.

Political economy of tariffsThe fact that a large country can, in

some cases, be better off with a tar-iff has led some to suggest that such nations ought to, when necessary, levy “optimal tariffs” against their trade partners.

An optimal tariff maximizes the dif-ference between the terms of trade gain and the efficiency loss and hence is essentially a “beggar-thy-neighbor” trade policy.

In other words, the problem with such strategic tariffs is that in addition to frequently being illegal, they are not implemented in a vacuum. Aggrieved trade partners are likely to respond with appropriate tariffs or other trade policy instruments of their own.

These kind of sequential “tit-for-tat” actions can easily degenerate into a trade war. This is in part why trade economists are typically against re-stricted trade and for free trade.

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the origi-nal article here: http://theconversation.com /what-is-a-tariff-an-economist-explains-93392.

What is a tariff?

DON LEETribune News Service

WASHINGTON — As the Trump ad-ministration barrels ahead with its plan to apply stiff tariffs on imported met-als starting Friday, governments and businesses around the world are in a fog about what is happening and are brac-ing for at least a short-term hit because of what many criticize as the adminis-tration’s slapdash process.

When President Donald Trump an-nounced the tariffs March 8 — 25 per-cent on steel and 10 percent on alu-minum — he exempted Mexico and Canada, at least temporarily, and said other nations could negotiate with the White House to get out of paying du-ties on tens of billions of dollars’ worth of imports.

But the administration still has not spelled out in any detail what trading partners must do to secure a country exemption. And with just a few days before the tariffs take effect, the void has left many companies and govern-ments confused, frustrated and con-cerned that the trade action could spiral into a global crisis.

Trade ministers from Europe and other countries have been seeking to meet with Trump officials in recent days, even as they and business groups in the U.S. and abroad have been wait-ing for the administration to clarify

what it will take for nations to get tariff exemptions.

“If we want to negotiate something, we need more time,” said Gabriel Fel-bermayr, director of Ifo Center for In-ternational Economics in Munich. Some people in Germany, he said, are so baffled by what’s happening that they hope the whole undertaking by Trump can be postponed.

“The entire process, the tone, time schedules — all these elements — are annoying people here and harming the image of the United States in an unnec-essary fashion,” he said.

It isn’t winning fans at home, either. Late Sunday night, Commerce Secre-tary Wilbur Ross announced proce-dures on how U.S.-based importers or users of foreign steel and aluminum could apply for tariff waivers on specific products that may not be available do-mestically. In the past, companies have been able to get product waivers before such tariffs were implemented.

That’s impossible this time. It was only Monday that an online form was made available for companies to file for product exclusions, and the Commerce Department said it would take 90 days to review the detailed applications — meaning that U.S.-based car producers, appliance-makers and other companies will have to pay the tariffs and hope that they will be reimbursed if they later re-ceive exemptions.

“There’s just too many questions on retroactivity,” said Brett Guge, an exec-utive vice president at California Steel Industries, which processes import-ed steel from Brazil, Mexico and Japan. Guge said his company will work on the product-exclusion application this week. “It is what it is, as far as the time-line,” he said. “Doesn’t matter what we think. We don’t have a lot of time.”

In issuing the tariffs, Trump moved to fulfill a campaign promise to aid do-mestic steelworkers and get tough on trade rivals, whom the president blames for America’s industrial and economic troubles. He surprised his staff in pre-viewing the tariffs March 1, saying they would apply to all countries, only lat-er to temporarily exclude Canada and Mexico on the condition that they rene-gotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement to Trump’s satisfaction.

Trump charged ahead with the tariff orders, which were justified on the basis of national security, even before his ad-ministration could prepare the neces-sary rules and procedures for countries and companies seeking exemptions for steel and aluminum products.

Trump assigned his chief trade offi-cial, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, to negotiate requests from other countries for exemptions. But there’s been little information released on what the Lighthizer’s office seeking, beyond the tariff proclamation’s general

clause indicating that a country must provide a “satisfactory” alternative.

On Monday, the trade representa-tive’s office declined to comment on whether such clarifying rules are com-ing. Nor would it confirm that Aus-tralia had been granted a countrywide exemption. Australian Prime Minis-ter Malcolm Turnbull said on Twitter a week ago that he had received a “com-mitment” from Trump that the duties would not apply to Australia.

But Australia accounts for only a tiny share of all U.S. imported steel — $380 million, or just 1.3 percent, in 2017. The U.S. imports about triple that amount each from Japan, South Korea and Ger-many — also countries with military agreements with the U.S.

All three countries and others have called on Trump to exempt their coun-tries from the tariffs. And many have urged Trump to work cooperative-ly with other nations to address a steel problem rooted in overproduction in China, instead of pushing through blanket tariffs and then looking for ne-gotiations with countries wanting out of them.

Analysts, however, doubt that whole-sale tariff waivers for any single nation will be provided, apart from Canada and Mexico. And what’s more, Germa-ny, the United Kingdom, Sweden and others in Europe are trying to negotiate a European Union-wide exemption.

Implementation of metals tariffs remains muddled



Zack HoopesCVBJ

It’s Made Here is a recurring fea-ture highlighting manufacturing and production processes in Cumber-land County.

With global trade and manufactur-ing a recurring topic in national news, Pyrotek Inc. is one of several world-wide manufacturers that make one of their homes right here in Cumber-land County.

Located at 1285 Claremont Road, just outside of Carlisle, the local branch of Pyrotek could be called a manufactur-er’s manufacturer — making compo-nents that are used in manufacture of glass and metals.

“Basically, we produce products that are used in high temperature applica-tions for the aluminum industry, the aluminum foundry industry, and the glass industry,” said Darren Snow, Op-erations Manager for the Carlisle plant.

Most of these are so-called consum-ables — parts that wear out and are gradually used up during the manufac-turing process.

“That could be something as small as a washer that’s maybe the size of a quarter, all the way up to pieces that are maybe 100 inches in length, with diameters up to 48 inches or so,” Snow said.

These parts are used on that ma-chinery that forges and shapes indus-trial metals and glass, with Carlisle being the main parts supplier for facto-ries in the Americas.

“We manufacture primarily for the U.S., but there is a certain percentage that we export to our sister plants in Canada and in Mexico, and occasional-ly to Brazil,” Snow said. “We have done things for Europe, but the way Pyrotek is set up, we have machining centers in key areas of the world.”

Pyrotek has over 60 locations in 35 counties, all of which are part of a supply chain that makes the machin-ery used in the primary manufactur-ing of glass and metals, chiefly alumi-num foundries.

“For example, for the aluminum in-dustry we manufacture consumables that are sued in casting systems,” Snow explained.

Aluminum, of course, doesn’t come out of the ground in ready-to-sell bars. Foundries worldwide turn to Pyrotek for the equipment needed to form raw metal into workable materials, and many of the parts on such equipment need to be regularly replaced, given that they are consumed by high-heat and high-pressure processes.

“If you ever go down the road and see a flatbed truck with 9- or 16-inch aluminum billets stacked on it, we may have made the consumables that got

that aluminum from the furnace to the casting,” Snow said.

The Carlisle site also makes simi-lar materials used on equipment that forms molten glass.

“That could be making anything from flat panel window glass to the Snapple bottle you’re drinking out of,” Snow said.

The Carlisle plant uses two machin-ing processes — a “wet” production line that uses liquid coolant on metal and glass parts, and a “dry” line that produces certain ceramic parts used in the foundry process.

Machinists work in two ten-hour shifts Monday through Thursday, with

variable overtime shifts on Fridays. The plant employs 84 people, includ-ing the accounting and sales staff lo-cated at Carlisle.

The plant was first built in 1971, with several expansions over the years, Snow said. The last major addition was in 1999.

Demand for Carlisle-made con-sumable parts has been consistently strong, Snow said.

“Demand remains pretty consistent, except for the challenge of the glob-al financial crisis back in 2009-2010, we haven’t had any major issues,” Snow said.

Emal Zack at [email protected].

It’s Made Here: Pyrotek

Zack HoopesThe Sentinel

The former Vectron electronics plant in Mount Holly Springs will be chang-ing hands for the second time in a little over four months.

M icrochip Technology Inc. an-nounced a deal this month to acquire the Microsemi Corp. for $68.78 per share in cash, or roughly $8.35 billion.

In late October 2017, Microsemi had acquired the assets of Vectron — in-cluding the Mount Holly Springs site — from Vectron’s former parent com-pany, the Knowles Corp.

“This transaction represents a com-pelling opportunity for Microsemi stockholders, employees and custom-ers by combining the leading embed-ded control market position of Micro-chip Technology with the world class power, security, reliability and per-formance solutions from Microsemi,” James J. Peterson, chairman and CEO of Microsemi, said in the announce-

ment. “We are delighted to become part of Microchip Technology, a pre-mier company in the semiconduc-tor industry.”

Microsemi is a major producer of semiconductors and other frequency controls and sensors used in commu-nications. The Mount Holly Springs site, specifically, builds military and aerospace controls.

Microchip Technology is headquar-tered in Chandler, Arizona, and Mi-crosemi in Aliso Viejo, California. The companies maintain dozens of facili-ties worldwide.

What is now the Vectron plant was

originally built by McCoy Electronics in 1952, according to The Sentinel’s ar-chives. The company was one of sever-al local manufacturers who pioneered the development of piezoelectric tech-nology, using quartz crystals to build radio controls that would lead to the rapid development of electronics af-ter WWII.

McCoy Electronics eventually be-came part of Oak Industries, which was acquired by Corning in 2000. Corning sold the site to Vectron in 2004 due to a downturn in the telecommunications market, according to Sentinel reports at the time.

Former Vectron plant sold again

CAEDC Staff With close proximity to agricultur-

al production, food processing seems like an easy industry to attract at first glance. If a product requires milk or soy, why not locate it next to a farm that supplies such products? Although this seems like a natural fit, food pro-cessing is a broad industry that re-quires three very important things: proximity to supply, accessible utilities (namely water, sewer and electric) and proximity to consumers.

Food processing and manufacturing often requires equipment with substan-tial electrical demands. Water is used actively in production as well. Disposal of wastewater from the production pro-cess demands sewer capacity. For food processing, this infrastructure is gen-erally available in developed areas with existing infrastructure. While a large

greenfield may seem optimal to build a new food production facility, with-out nearby utilities it becomes a rather heavy investment that most companies cannot make.

Once a product is developed, it needs to reach consumers quickly. Proximity to major highways, freight rail and cargo air transportation are often key in the food production site selection process.

CAEDC can help facilitate discus-sions on finding the right locations and connecting utilities to the appropri-ate sites. As well as, offer a great loca-tion with access to major highways and markets in the Mid-Atlantic region.

The County is within a three-hour drive of Washington DC, Baltimore, New York City, Philadelphia and Pitts-burgh. It is also the fastest growing county in Pennsylvania. Our strategic location, abundant and fertile farm-

land, a skilled workforce, and com-prehensive infrastructure gets food products to market quickly and at a reasonable cost.

With food processing being a focus area for the Strategic Economic Devel-opment Plan for Cumberland County, CAEDC has also dedicated financing resources to this industry. Through in-ternal and state loan programs, CAEDC is able to make projects happen faster and more efficiently.

Just in the past year, CAEDC has as-sisted three major food processors in Cumberland County expand through financing efforts.

Through the Small Business Ad-ministration (SBA) 504 loan program, CAEDC assisted Warrington Farm Meats with a $595,000 loan for an ex-pansion to their butcher shop.

Using low-interest loans through the

PA Industrial Development Authori-ty (PIDA) CAEDC assisted both Elev-en Oaks Farm and AC Bakehouse with their expansions.

Eleven Oaks Farm in Newville is a family-owned enterprise that was looking to expand their farm to include raising Wagyu Beef and Gloucester-shire Hogs. Through a $227,500 loan they were able to acquire the additional needed farmland.

AC Bakehouse, a food manufactur-er who makes pretzel brands includ-ing Tonya’s Gluten-Free Kitchen, All Twisted Pretzel and Auntie Anne’s Pretzels, received two PIDA loans to-taling $900,000 to expand their opera-tion in Carlisle.

To learn more about CAEDC’s focus on food processing and financing op-tions for this industry visit Cumber-landBusiness.com/Grow.

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CAEDC UPDATEPAGE 10 | CUMBERLAND VALLEY BUSINESS JOURNAL

Tammie GittThe Sentinel

A new Redd’s Smokehouse BBQ will rise from the ashes this week after a kitchen fire last month in Carlisle.

O w n e r N i c k M a u l d i n s a i d t h e restaurant will reopen on Friday, March 23. The hours will be 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

A smoker at the restaurant at 109 North Hanover St. malfunctioned Feb. 6, causing a fire in the kitchen that fire crews quickly contained, l i m i t i n g d a m a ge to t h e k i tc h e n and basement.

Since recovery work after the fire closed the restaurant for six weeks, Mauldin decided to use the time to make some changes that he had in mind but never had the time to implement. The smokers are “remarkably better” than the ones the restaurant used be-fore, he said.

They have also changed the seating to allow for better flow through the ex-panded dining room.

“Everything about it is going to be worlds improved from what it was six weeks ago,” he said.

Mauldin credited Reisinger & Sons, the Loysville contractor undertak-ing the restoration and remodel-ing, for “going above and beyond” so the restaurant could open as quickly as possible.

Nea rby b u s i n e sse s l i ke M a rke t Cross Pub, North Hanover Grille and Chef Exclusive offered their assis-tance during the restaurant’s closure by opening their kitchens to allow the

Redd’s staff to continue catering or by offering storage space.

“It really has that small town men-

tality,” Mauldin said. “It really gives you a feel for how Carlisle gives back to each other.”

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BUILDING BLOCKSPAGE 11 | CUMBERLAND VALLEY BUSINESS JOURNAL

Zack HoopesCVBJ

One of Camp Hill’s most historic — and most visible — buildings is up for sale, as Creative Elegance owner-op-erator Kathryn McCauslin-Cadieux plans to retire.

The building, located at 2129 Market Street, is believed to date from the ear-ly 19th-century. McCauslin-Cadieux bought the building in 2001 for her clothing boutique after Landis Jewelers had vacated the property.

“When I heard the Landis family was finally going to sell the property, I knew I had to have my store in there,” McCauslin-Cadieux said. “I looked at the property around 3:30 in the af-ternoon, and by 7:30 in the evening, I bought it.”

The property has 3,827 square feet of leasable residential or commercial space, according to broker RSR Real-tors, including a 1,400 square foot res-idence in the former carriage house to the rear of the property.

The upper floor of the main building has also been used as an apartment, al-though McCauslin-Cadieux currently uses it as additional retail space.

“It’s set up so that if somebody wants to turn it back into an apartment on the second floor, they can,” she said. “Renting the second floor and the car-riage house pretty much paid my mort-gage for the first couple years.”

McCauslin-Cadieux said that her mother had done research on the prop-erty when she first bought it. Landis Jewelers had occupied the building since 1970, with a number of oth-er owners before that who used the property as a combined storefront and residence.

The building does have a number of features that indicate its age, Mc-

Causlin-Cadieux said. The kitchen was originally designed so that horses could be led in at night, in order to pro-tect them from thieves.

The original cooking hearth over the fireplace is still present, with what was once a small set of stairs leading up to a hole or trap-door in the floor. This al-lowed food to be lowered from the up-per-floor pantry down to the kitchen.

The garage space in the carriage house also features an antique lathe. McCauslin-Cadieux said that her mother’s research indicates that the original residents ran a small wood-working business that turned many of the stair rails and bannisters for Camp Hill’s early homes.

“ We t h i n k t h a t l a t h e wa s u se d for most of the woodwork in the o l d h o u s e s o f C a m p H i l l ,” M c -Causlin-Cadieux said.

The property is zoned for gener-al commercial use under Camp Hill’s code, said Garrett Rothman with RSR.

“I would anticipate either another professional office, like some of the other buildings along that stretch of Market Street, or a retail or restaurant use, especially with the high visibility,” Rothman said.

The property is currently listed for $849,000.

McCauslin-Cadieux plans to retire to Philadelphia to be closer to family. Although business has been strong, competing with increasing pressures from online sales was not something she wanted to deal with this late in the game, McCauslin-Cadieux said.

“We’ve had a very strong business there,” she said. “I just got tired of fighting with online sales, and I’m at the age that I’m not going to get into being computer savvy.”


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STATE UPDATEPAGE 12 | CUMBERLAND VALLEY BUSINESS JOURNAL

Gene BarrPresident & CEO,

Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry

As mega-conglomerate Amazon narrows down the field this year on where to build their second

headquarters – and the 50,000 jobs it will bring – two Pennsylvania locations (Philadelphia and Pittsburgh) are left standing among the top 20. The reasons for this are easy to understand – we’re located within a day’s drive from 60 percent of the nation’s population; our cost of living is lower than many other surrounding states; we boast a number of world-class educational institutions; we’re a resource-rich state that presents many industrial opportunities; and of course we have a working population that is second-to-none. As we consider the many aspects that make Pennsyl-vania such a great choice for business, there are also areas in which we need to improve — and that’s why from the time of our founding more than 100 years ago until today, the PA Chamber’s mission is to help make our Commonwealth the best possible place for companies of all sizes to locate, invest and hire.

To that end, one of the core areas we continue to work with lawmakers on is the reduction of our state’s uncompet-itive Corporate Net Income Tax, which at 9.99 percent is the highest effective rate in the nation. This presents a major red flag for any business. Reducing this rate to a more competitive level has been a long-time priority for the PA Cham-

ber, but we need this reform to be with-out any “strings attached,” including with the implementation of mandatory unitary combined reporting, as Gover-nor Wolf has proposed in his 2018-19 state budget plan. We’re also advocat-ing eliminating the current cap on Net Operating Loss Carryforwards, among other changes that will bring clarity and predictability to the state’s Tax Code. Pennsylvania lawmakers need to take a page out of the federal government’s book, which implemented the most sweeping national tax reforms in more than 30 years this past December. In the months since, numerous companies have announced plans to re-invest their savings from this tax bill back into their facilities and workers – a classic case of how the private sector can harness the power of economic growth on its own, and which also makes a convincing ar-gument against misguided, “feel good” polices like minimum wage mandates.

Also in the way of taxes, we’re again urging lawmakers to reject the Wolf ad-ministration’s continued call for anoth-er punitive tax on the natural gas indus-try. The Marcellus and Utica Shale that we are fortunate enough to have here in the Commonwealth is helping to secure our position as a domestic and interna-tional energy leader for generations to come – in fact, it has already brought the equivalent of TWO Amazons to our

state in terms of new jobs.As we work to build upon and sustain

our state’s dynamic energy sector, we’re also focused on cutting through regula-tory red tape to make it easier for energy companies to operate. This session, our organization has communicated our support of numerous regulatory reform bills to lawmakers – including legisla-tion that would streamline and bring efficiency to the permitting process; ensure that the legislative branch plays a key role in regulatory development; and consider the economic impact of new regulations on the business com-munity as a whole. The good news is that many of these policy goals have earned bipartisan support, and Gov-ernor Wolf announced earlier this year that he’s also taking steps to make sure that the state’s permitting and regula-tory programs are more predictable and accountable.

Pennsylvania must also embrace policies that ensure the private sector they will be able to compete on an equal playing field with unions when bidding on projects. More than half of the 50 states are Right to Work states, meaning that they prohibit agreements between labor unions and employers that make union membership or payment of dues or fees a condition of employment. The states that have enacted Right to Work laws have seen tremendous economic

benefits, as employers have more flex-ibility in their ability to negotiate the terms of employment with their work-ers; and Pennsylvania – which is NOT a Right to Work state—has undoubted-ly lost out on economic development opportunities. In that same vein, we’re also promoting legislation this ses-sion that would prohibit project labor agreements in the Commonwealth. These agreements require companies to commit to use unionized labor as a prerequisite to be considered for work on public construction projects; forc-ing companies whose employees are not members of a union to either forgo bidding on a project or lay off their own employees so they can get union work-ers to do the job.

Lastly, in order to build a workforce that is primed to take on 21st century jobs, the PA Chamber is continuing this year with our efforts to award schol-arships to people who want to pursue careers in the skilled trades. Visit our website, www.starttheconversation-here.com, to learn how we’re partner-ing with business leaders through-out the Commonwealth, educators, students and their families to provide insight into these in-demand and for-ward-looking positions; and how you can contribute toward closing the jobs skills gap and help students on the path to a vibrant and rewarding career.

PA Chamber policy priorities focus on budget, workforce

Phyllis ZimmermanFor The Sentinel

A microhospital originally scheduled for construction this spring at South Market Street and Gettysburg Pike in Upper Allen Township isn’t happening as planned.

In November, NXT Harrisburg was in the process of purchasing and consol-idating two commercial zone proper-ties into a 2.93-acre lot for a new 19,722 square-foot freestanding microhospi-tal and a 3,983-square-foot building suitable for leased office space.

NXT Harrisburg LLC of Addison, Texas, a division of Nutex Health, planned to operate the facility at 147 and 151 Gettysburg Pike, the current site of Maggie’s Italian Ice and Custard and a private home. The land purchase was expected to become finalized af-ter developers obtained necessary per-mits, project engineer John Murphy of Alpha Consulting Engineers said in November.

Property owner John Eberly veri-fied Feb. 27, however, that a contract between him and Nutex for the pend-ing land sale expired on Jan. 31. Realtor William Gladstone of NAI CIR also said

that the contract between Nutex and Eberly “no longer exists.”

Eberly received notification about the expired contract in a letter from Nutex, but the document didn’t state a reason for the termination, he said. “Whatever the reasons, Nutex didn’t share them with me,” Eberly said.

N u tex re f u s e d c o m m e n t wh e n asked about the development plans on Feb.22. Murphy said on Feb. 21 that he wasn’t aware of the status of the land sale.

Upper Allen Township manager Lou Fazekas said last week that town-

ship officials also were unaware of any changes with the sale. “We have not heard. The facility requires special state permits that may just be taking longer than usual,” Fazekas said.

In August 2017, the Upper Allen Township commissioners conditionally approved a final subdivision/land de-velopment plan for the Mechanicsburg Mircohospital at South Market Street and Gettysburg Pike.

The Mechanicsburg Microhospital was expected to offer the full capacity of a standard emergency department and observation unit, including emer-

gency procedures, CT scans, bedside emergency ultrasound, X-rays and a full clinical laboratory.

Nutex Health is a consortium of li-censed 24/7 stand-alone emergency facilities and hospitals with care pro-vided by board-certified physician teams. For now, all operational Nutex facilities are based in Texas, but a map on the company’s website indicates that sites are planned in 16 states be-sides Pennsylvania.

Nutex Health’s website solicits ER doctors to invest in new health care fa-cilities, with Nutex providing support to physicians who are both operators and financiers of new microhospitals and freestanding ERs.

“Our philosophy is simple: by pro-viding physician investors with the tools, resources, and management ser-vices needed to build their emergency facility, we allow for a higher and more proficient level of care,” Nutex says on its site. “We deliver a turn-key process which includes providing equipment, design, licensing, and accreditation.”

Eberly said his properties remain on the market for now. “I’ve been ap-proached by other developers who said they’re interested,” he said.

UPPER ALLEN TOWNSHIP

Microhospital land deal falls through in Upper Allen


Corner lot at intersection of South Market Street and Gettysburg Road in Upper Allen Township.

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Borough of Carlisle & Carlisle Events’ Success:

$12.9 million in Tax-Incremental Financing (TIF) secured to

leverage $60 million in private investment for water, sewer

and road improvements to support the redevelopment of the

three former industrial sites in the northern quadrant of the

borough. This would include a major reconfiguration of the

intersection at Carlisle Springs Road and North Hanover Street

and the reconnection of several cross streets.

Our Support:

The Cumberland County Industrial Development Authority,

administered by Cumberland Area Economic Development

Corporation, issued the financing.

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Zack HoopesThe Sentinel

The Carlisle Family YMCA has raised $6,213,971 during the initial phase of its capital campaign, the organization has announced, as it kicked off the sec-ond, more public phase of its fundrais-ing effort.

“This is an astounding number for our ‘quiet phase,’” said Hubert Gilroy, the YMCA’s capital campaign chair, during a kick-off event Feb. 20 at the Allenberry Resort.

The critical message now, Gilroy said, “is to talk with your friends and family and tell them to join in on this, perhaps the most successful capital campaign in Carlisle’s history.”

The Carlisle Family YMCA has, for over a year now, been soliciting con-tributions from local businesses, foun-dations and other philanthropists for a major overhaul of its Carlisle facility.

That less-public phase of fundraising was capped off in December when the state announced that the Carlisle Fam-ily YMCA would receive a $1.5 million grant from the state Redevelopment

Assistance Capital Program.Now, the YMCA will conduct a more

public campaign over the next year, with community events and fundrais-ers aimed at finishing off its final dol-

lar figure.That number was initially quoted at

$8.5 million to $9 million, putting the YMCA at least two-thirds of the way there heading into the public phase of the campaign.

“If we’re going to pull this off, we’re going to pull it off because of folks like you who are generous with their mon-ey and generous with their time,” said Buz Wolfe, campaign vice-chair and immediate past president of the YMCA board, told the crowd at Allenberry.

The ultimate goal of the capital cam-paign is to raise enough money to tear down and rebuild a significant chunk of the YMCA facility, located on South West Street between Walnut and Wil-low streets. Parts of the building date to 1899. The YMCA occupied and ex-panded the site beginning in 1960.

Although the YMCA had consid-ered moving to a new site for an im-proved facility, Gilroy said that donors had encouraged the group to stay in the borough and re-vamp the exist-ing property.

Plans for the renovated site include additional youth program space, new gym offerings and a wider variety of

CARLISLE

YMCA raises more than $6M in capital campaignFunding drive for building overhaul enters public phase

A crowd filled the Carriage House at Allenberry Resort on Tuesday during the Carlisle Family YMCA Capital Campaign Celebration.

Jason Malmont Photos, For The Sentinel

A crowd filled the Carriage House at Allenberry Resort Tuesday.



aquatic amenities. Although the design is not finalized, the YMCA has been circulating several preliminary plans and sketches for what the rehabilitated facility will look like.

The YMCA has almost 100 volun-teers helping with the public solicita-tion phase of the campaign, according to a release from the organization. On Tuesday, Gilroy also thanked Carlisle Family YMCA Executive Director Mar-cia Drozdowski and Fundraising Coor-dinator Cate Mellen for their guidance and leadership in the capital cam-paign’s day-to-day operations.

“They do a fantastic job of keeping our eye on the ball,” Gilroy said.

He also thanked state Sen. Mike Re-gan and state Rep. Stephen Bloom for their advocacy in Harrisburg to get the YMCA’s RCAP grant approved, as well as all of the YMCA’s current and past board members for their input.

“This has been probably the most gratifying thing I’ve been involved in with the Carlisle community,” Gil-roy said.


Bob Rahal, YMCA board president and leadership cabinet, addresses the crowd at the Carriage House at Allenberry Resort on Tuesday during the Carlisle Family YMCA Capital Campaign Celebration.

From left, Bob Rahal, YMCA board president, Buz Wolfe and Hubert Gilroy, YMCA campaign chair, unveil the amount that has been raised — $6,213,971 — at the Carriage House at Allenberry Resort Tuesday.

Buz Wolfe, YMCA campaign vice chair, addresses the crowd during the Carlisle Family YMCA Capital Campaign Celebration.

Hubert Gilroy, YMCA campaign chair, left, and Buz Wolfe, campaign vice chair, right, present Sen. Mike Regan with a plaque for his help and support during the Carlisle Family YMCA Capital Campaign Celebration.

Hubert Gilroy, YMCA campaign chair and member of board of the trustees, addresses the crowd at Allenberry Tuesday during the Carlisle Family YMCA Capital Campaign Celebration.



Tammie GittThe Sentinel

For the 18th year, guests at the Taste of Carlisle, host-ed by the Greater Carlisle Area Chamber of Commerce, sampled the best Carlisle restaurants have to offer while browsing displays from other vendors and non-profits.

Hollis Kosco, director of events for the chamber, said the event again sold out at 600 tickets.

“We’ve had great weather. which has caused peo-ple to come out and check out what we have to offer,” she said.

Kim Rizzardo knows what it’s like to come up on the short end of the stick of the often sold-out event.

“We tried to come last year, and they were sold out, so I went and got my tickets right away,” she said.

She said she had the opportunity to sample dishes from places that she had never visited before, like 1794 The Whiskey Rebellion, and would recommend it.

Daneyon White, owner of Chef Exclusive and the Pretzel Spot Cafe Food Truck, returned to the event this year with roasted turkey with bruschetta and toasted bruschetta baguettes for sampling.

“We usually try to go the opposite route of what ev-eryone else is doing. We try to do something fun and daring,” he said.

The catering side of his business at Chef Exclusive was the main focus for his food choice at the event be-cause it is the type of dish they offer at holiday parties,

Restaurants shine at sold-out Taste of Carlisle event

Jeff Utzman, executive chef for 1794 The Whiskey Rebellion in Carlisle, describes the cheeses they use to Sam and JoAnn Garman of Carlisle.

Jason Malmont Photos, For The Sentinel

Culinary arts program students from Carlisle served a wide variety of foods on at the Taste of Carlisle Sunday.

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Students form Carlisle Area School District’s Culinary Arts Program prepared Over The Rainbow desserts, which had butter cookies on the bottom with Irish espresso cream and topped with salted caramel.

Landon Saunders, 8 months, tries some of the foods at the Taste of Carlisle.

Nick and Lindsey Ziegler of Carlisle taste food and talk about what they liked the best at Taste of Carlisle.

catering or anything of that nature.“I can’t tell you how many times

I hear people say, ‘I didn’t know you were around,’” he said.

Patrick LeBlanc of Spoons Cafe in-tended to bring his vegan chili and meatball macaroni soups to the Taste of Carlisle for the restaurant’s first time appearance. The event gives peo-ple a change to try their product and to give people a flavor of the restaurant using a few limited items.

For Spoons, that means a focus on special dietary needs.

“It’s just a great way for us to reach some of the community that we don’t see on a regular basis,” he said.

He also has a second motive for be-ing at this year’s event since he will be part of the food service at Burd’s Nest Brewing, which is preparing to open on North Hanover Street.

Jeff Hawks, education director at the Army Heritage Center Foundation, said the event offers a great environ-ment to promote its Soldier Experience Adventure Camp for students in grades 7-10, and to talk to veterans about The Veterans’ Cafe, a series of community events for veterans and their friends to share meals, tell their stories and talk

about the value of their service.“It’s an opportunity to reach a dif-

ferent audience. It’s an opportuni-ty to reach a more diverse group of folks than we normally interact with,” he said.

It was the first time at the Taste of Carlisle for Nancy Barr, owner of Rus-tic Pine Pet Lodge in Shermans Dale, but she found herself in a prime loca-tion where people would wait in line for samples at Kona Ice. She came to the event as a member of the Greater Carlisle Area Chamber of Commerce, and plans to try it again next year.

In addition to the 65 vendors at the Taste of Carlisle, Kosco expressed ap-preciation for sponsors like UPMC Pinnacle, which sponsored the special plates offered to VIP ticket holders. Sponsors also include Bimbo Bakeries, Belco Community Credit Union and Aero Energy.

New additions to this year’s event included music as well as three cooking demonstration segments. The event also featured two lounge areas de-signed by Dyndes Construction.

Email Tammie at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @Tammie-Gitt.

Chicken Larb from Carlisle Thai Cuisine and other foods were available for tasting at the Carlisle Expo Center Sunday.

Terry Fulton of Marion, Pennsylvania, left, tries a plate of barbecue at the Carlisle Expo Center.

A large crowd of people wander around the Carlisle Expo Center trying a wide variety of foods Sunday during the Taste of Carlisle.



Phyllis ZimmermanFor The Sentinel

After months of waiting, South Middleton Township officials learned last week that Gov. Tom Wolf’s office has released $2.4 million in promised funding for repairs to Children’s Lake.

“... We received notice from the state Fish and Boat Commission that the governor’s office has made funds available for Children’s Lake,” so-licitor Bryan Salzmann announced to applause at a township supervi-sors meeting.

“You really stuck with this,” Su-pervisor Tom Faley told Salzmann. Township supervisors also credited Wolf’s office, state Sen. Mike Regan, and the community in general for see-ing the job through.

“The effort to ‘Save the Lake’ has been a prime example of what the public and private sector can do to-gether when they work in unison,” Regan said in a news release Friday.

In November 2017, Wolf signed a deficit patch measure for the state’s $3.2 billion budget that included a

$2.4 million appropriation to the state Fish and Boat Commission for re-pairs to Children’s Lake. At the time, township officials remained uncer-tain when Wolf’s office would release the money.

Last year, South Middleton pro-cured the $400,000 needed to begin the project’s design phase, includ-ing $150,000 from the township’s lo-cal design funds, $25,000 from F&M Trust and $12,500 each from Allen Distribution and R.S. Mowery & Sons. This, along with $200,000 pledged by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Com-mission, was considered enough to cover engineering costs for repairs to the lake.

A Save The Lake organization was founded in 2017 with the backing of the Bubbler Foundation to accept charitable, tax-deductible donations from the community and corporate sponsors. Since its inception, Save The Lake raised more than $10,000 through the sale of merchandise and donations.

Save The Lake co-chairs Liz Knouse and Jorie Hanson said they were “be-

yond excited” about Thursday’s news. Knouse said she wants to add a “d” to the clusters of Save The Lake signs set throughout Boiling Spring so that they will read, “Saved The Lake.”

“We want to make sure people will know. We not only saved the lake, but it’s going to be better than before,” Knouse said.

Salzmann said the project as ap-proved by the state will involve a lot more than just repairing a leaky dam. Project components will include:

� Re pa i r/re p l a ce t h e p r i n c i pa l spillway structural deficiencies;

� Address the structural/drainage issues on the right abutment;

� Determine the dam’s spillway de-sign flood discharge and upgrade the spillway capacity accordingly. Provide property surveying services if flowage easements are necessary;

� I n c l u d e p r o v i s i o n s f o r ADA-compliant sidewalk with railing on the dam’s crest;

� Restore the roadway surface, paving markings, guardrail, etc., or abandon the roadway and construct a streetscape feature;

� Sediment removal, or dredging the reservoir;

� Ecological assessment of the im-pacts associated with storm water fa-cilities entering the reservoir;

� Storm treatment facilities for outlets into reservoir to mitigate sed-iment transport and improve wa-ter quality;

� Stream bank improvements for the inlet channel from the spring at the head end to the mouth of the reservoir;

� Aquatic habitat improvements for the inlet and/or reservoir;

� Boating amenities that may in-clude: ADA boarding docks and kayak launches, boat launch ramp improve-ment and ADA-compliant sidewalks.

Salzmann said officials hope to see project engineering completed by the end of 2018 and construction begin in 2019. Mostly likely, work would begin in the fall or winter when the lake is at its lowest level and take around a year to complete.

“We have the money. Now we have to design and build it. We’re jumping ahead by years with the way we got this funded,” Salzmann said.

BOILING SPRINGS

Governor’s office releases $2.4M for Children’s Lake repairs in Boiling Springs

Photo by Crystal Hunt

Gov. Tom Wolf has released funds to repair Children’s Lake in Boiling Springs.

BIZ BUZZPAGE 19 | CUMBERLAND VALLEY BUSINESS JOURNAL

a Junior Achievement Volunteer teaching fi-nancial literacy to mid-dle school students in the Harrisburg area.

Rosario brings nearly 20 years of experience in the Central Pennsyl-vania market to her role as business develop-ment manager. Deanna prioritizes developing creative, fresh concepts to introduce new cli-ents to the value and service provided by Gift CPAs. Rosario is active in the community, vol-unteering with Junior Achievement, Relay for

Life and other great organizations.Gift CPAs has locations in Mechan-

icsburg, Harrisburg, Lancaster, Myer-stown, and Ephrata.

Geisinger promotes screenings Geisinger Holy Spirit, in partnership

with the American Heart Association of the Capital Region, provided hand-made red hats to every baby born at the hospital during February.

The “Little Hats, Big Hearts” initia-tive raises awareness of the importance of neonatal congenital heart defect (CHD) screenings. Screening for CHD can identify issues before babies go home from the hospital, which allows for earlier treatment and may prevent disability or death early in life. Doctors can also better plan treatment, allow-ing the baby to have surgery or other treatment when he or she is stable, not in an emergency.

Babies that have a critical CHD diag-nosed after they leave the hospital tend to be admitted to the hospital more frequently, spend more time in the hospital, and have higher hospital costs compared with babies that are diag-nosed before they leave the hospital.

Geisinger Holy Spirit’s mission in-tegration team organized volunteer knitters and crocheters to create and donate the hats, wash them, and stuff them into plastic bags provided by the AHA.

For some staff, the project became a family event. Cheryl Myers, a ra-diology technologist with GHS, said her 93-year-old grandmother loved joining in the fun knowing that she was knitting hats for new babies born at GHS.

“It was an amazing experience,” My-ers said. “We had our own crocheting bee at my grandmother’s home. We crocheted, laughed, reminisced and laughed some more. I am very bless-ed to have an active grandmother and such a close ‘knit’ family. It was an honor to use our skills for such a good cause.”

Geisinger Holy Spirit gave away ap-proximately 150 hats in February.

Penica honored Jay Garland Penica, a wealth ad-

visor with Ameriprise Financial in Camp H ill, was l isted among the “Best-in-State Wealth Advisors” in a

recent Forbes Magazine/SHOOK Re-search poll.

The listings are based on data from over 11,000 of the nation’s most pro-ductive financial advisors, with rank-ings based on assets under manage-ment, industry experience, regulatory compliance, and revenue produced over a three-year period.

Penica is part of Penica, Place, and Associates, a private wealth adviso-ry practice of Ameriprise Financial Serivces, Inc., which provides one-on-one professional financial ser-vices to their clients. Penica is locat-ed at 2331 Market Street, Third Floor, Camp Hill.

UMHC merges with BCC The United Methodist Home for

Children (UMHC), located in Mechan-icsburg, has announced plans to merge with the Board of Child Care (BCC), an organization that shares its tradition of serving children and families through the social justice ministry of the United Methodist Church.

UMHC will become United Method-ist Home for Children, a Program of the Board of Child Care.

“This merger will enable UMHC to leverage BCC’s scale and deep expertise, thereby, continuing our 100-year legacy of providing exceptional care to young people and their families in Pennsylva-nia,” said Dan Brannen, President and CEO of UMHC. “BCC is an excellent partner due to its United Methodist his-tory, traditions, core values and meth-odology for delivering services.”

UMHC was founded in 1917 by the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church (now the Susque-hanna Conference of the United Meth-odist Church) as an orphanage. Each day, the Mechanicsburg campus serves approximately 35 children between the ages of 12-20 using a collaborative trau-ma-informed approach to care. UMHC contracts with county Children, Youth and Family agencies to provide safe, residential care to young people and supportive services to their families.

Similar to UMHC, BCC began as three orphanages operated by the Unit-ed Methodist Church in Maryland and the District of Columbia during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Today, it is a highly-respected provider of ear-ly learning, mental health and ther-apeutic residential services to more than 700 children and families across the mid-Atlantic. Young people receive services backed with evidence-based

best practices and supported by a na-tional accreditation that reflects the highest standard of residential treat-ment services.

Bishops of the governing United Methodist Conferences, along with the boards of directors of BCC and UMHC, enthusiastically support the merger. The Pennsylvania State Attorney Gen-eral and Cumberland County Orphan’s Court will also need to approve the transaction.

It is anticipated that the merger will be completed in the fall of 2018. A smooth transition to ensure minimal disruption to employees, children and operations is expected.

Warrell recognizes safety

The Warrell Corporation facility in Camp Hill marked 500,000 hours of work with no lost-time incidents as of Jan. 10, 2018.

Warrell held a company-wide lun-cheon to recognize employees’ commit-ment to a safety-first workplace culture and dedication to accident prevention.

Headquartered in Camp Hill, the Warrell Corporation is a family-owned company that has become a nation-al leader in contract manufacturing of candies and snacks. The company also directly markets its products under the Katharine Beecher, Pennsylvania Dutch Candies, and Classic Caramel brands.

FirstLight opens FirstLight Home Care of the West

Shore has opened at a new location at 4076 Market St, Suite 201, Camp Hill.

F i r s t L i g h t H o m e C a r e o f f e r s non-medical companion care and per-sonal care services for seniors, adults with disabilities, veterans, new and busy moms and those recovering from surgery. FirstLight caregivers are able help with many needs, from personal hygiene, cooking and running errands, to mobility assistance and demen-tia care.

Owner Leigh Twiford launched her FirstLight business to help residents in Camp Hill and surrounding commu-nities maintain their independence, safety and happiness at home by pro-viding quality home care and senior care services.

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Photo feature: Basehore Family Farm

Max Basehore plants Petunia’s and verbena’s at the family farm in Hampden Township.

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Max Basehore collects eggs at the family farm in Hampden Township.

Max Basehore collects eggs at the family farm in Hampden Township.

Max Basehore at the family farm in Hampden Township.

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