Penn’s Woods Printmakers at SCCA

From SCCA:
Please join us on March 25, 5-9 pm for the opening of Penn's Woods Printmakers show at the Susquehanna Center for the Creative Arts.

Penn's Woods Printmakers (PWP) is a group of 13 printmakers based in Chambersburg, PA.  United by a love of the artistic medium of printmaking, the group's members create hand-pulled prints, original works of art that are created by the artist with an original plate run through a small press, one at a time, on high quality art paper.  Penn's Woods' exhibition at the Susquehanna Center for Creative Arts (SCCA) will be a diverse show of many printmaking processes and techniques, with subject matter ranging from landscape and still life, to figures and abstractions. Mixed media drawings and preparatory studies will also be displayed.

Penn's Woods Printmakers has been the focus of exhibitions in Chambersburg, Waynesboro and Shippensburg, PA and Hagerstown, MD, and its members have earned awards and juried exhibition entries throughout the Mid-Atlantic region.  Members of the group include:

Lynda Beckwith, Mercersburg

Dawn Burgoon, Greencastle

Becky Dietrich, Mont Alto

Anne Finucane, Chambersburg

Sue Frotscher, Newburg

Ethel Heckman, Shippensburg

Dee Henry, McConnellsburg

Bruce Hensler, Dillsburg, PA

Brandii Kligge, Newburg

Chris Mcdonel, Walnut Bottom

Ruth Ann Smith, Fayetteville

Marti Yeager, Fayetteville

Dorothy Yoh, Chambersburg

Penn's Woods Printmakers are led by Sarah (Sue) Frotscher. A graduate of Penn State's Master of Fine Arts Program, Frotscher also studied at the Slade School of Art in London, and has won many awards for her prints. A specialist in the process of etching, she has worked with class members who have created both soft and hard-ground etchings and aquatints, as well as solar plate etchings, relief prints, monotypes and collagraphs. 

Penn's Woods Printmakers originated in 1997, under the late Shippensburg University Professor William Davis. Davis offered members of the Franklin County Art Alliance the opportunity to come to the University's printmaking and sculpture studios – two areas where most artists have no facilities in which to work.  With retirement approaching, Professor Davis handed off the group to Frotscher, who continued the tradition of bi-weekly meetings, but at Wilson College, in Chambersburg.  The group appreciates the generosity of Wilson College's Art Department in providing the space where they work.  For more information, call 717-816-7568.

SCCA
224 Locust Street
Columbia, AP 17512

717-576-9628 or 717-580-9031

Sunshine Week - March 13-19 - Your Right to Know

In observance of Sunshine Week - March 13-19, 2016 - Columbia Spy will be posting news articles, opinion columns, and other materials related to the occasion.

Sunshine Week is a national initiative to promote a dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of information. Participants include news media, civic groups, libraries, nonprofits, schools and others interested in the public’s right to know.

According to Wikipedia:

Sunshine Week is a national initiative spearheaded by the American Society of News Editors to educate the public about the importance of open government and the dangers of excessive and unnecessary secrecy. It was established in March 2005 with funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.[1]

Sunshine Week occurs each year in mid-March, coinciding with James Madison's birthday and National Freedom of Information Day on the 16th.

Caleb Brown performs at Market House

Musician Caleb Brown, accompanied alternately with violin and guitar, played and sang various classically influenced compositions, and folk and popular songs Saturday at the Columbia Market House. The Market has been featuring a variety of weekend entertainment over the past few months.

Two-vehicle accident snarls traffic near Rt 30 & 441

A two-vehicle collision caused traffic problems on North Third Street near the westbound Columbia exit ramp of Route 30 on Saturday about 10 a.m.  The accident involved a Volvo V70 station wagon and a Ford Freestar minivan, both of which sustained front-end damage. Northbound traffic on North Third was diverted left onto Cedar Street. Two vehicle occupants suffered minor injuries but neither was hospitalized.  Emergency crews initiated spill control measures due to fluids leaking from both vehicles, which were then towed from the scene.  Airbags deployed in both vehicles.

Spring forward this weekend

Daylight Saving Time begins this weekend - Sunday at 2 a.m. Set your clocks one hour forward.

Coroner identifies 1 of 2 bodies found in Susquehanna River this week

Donald Findley, 60, of Columbia, died as a result of drowning. His death has been ruled a suicide.

The coroner is still working to identify a second body that was also found on Wednesday.

MORE HERE:

http://m.wgal.com/news/coroner-identifies-1-of-2-bodies-found-in-susquehanna-river-this-week/38460890

Commission Seeks Comments on 717 Area Code Relief Plan

HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) today voted to defer an implementation plan that would result in a new area code in the 717 service area, pending receipt of comments.

The Commission voted 5-0 to hold in abeyance and seek comments on the petition filed by Neustar Inc. (Neustar), the North American Numbering Plan Administrator (NANPA). Neustar, acting on behalf of the Pennsylvania telecommunications industry, filed a petition on Oct. 23, 2015, requesting approval of its plan to alleviate numbering exhaust for the 717 Numbering Plan Area (NPA or area code) upon its predicted exhaustion in 2018 through the use of a distributed overlay.

"Because we need input from consumers, the industry and other interested parties involved regarding this decision, we direct that the consensus relief plan for the 717 NPA shall not be implemented at this time," the Commission Order states.

MORE HERE:
http://www.puc.pa.gov/about_puc/press_releases.aspx?ShowPR=3673