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Livestock
marketing
hearing
Anyone with a stake in
livestock marketing costs
will have an opportunity to
tell the USDA just what
they think of the situation
on February 14th in
Lancaster.
On that day the USDA
will conduct a hearing, one
of 7 throughout the nation,
to gather the public’s views
and comments on whether
the current regulations on
livestock marketing rates
should be changed.
The meeting will be held
at the Treadway Resort
Inn, 222 Eden Road (just
off Rte. 30 at Rte. 272)
between 9 AM and S PM
and from 7 PM to 9 PM,
February 14.
If you want to speak at
length, teli the Deputy
Administrator for Packers
and Stockyards, Agricultur-
al Marketing Service,
USDA, Washington DC
20250, before Feb. 21st.
Mount Joy
Planning
Commission
The agenda for the
Mount Joy Borough Plan-
ning Commission meeting
on Thursday the 26th, at
7:30 PM in the Borough
offices, is as follows:
1. Reorganize;
2. Consider the final sub-
division plan of Clarence
Herr for a two lot sub-
division across from Weis
Market on Rte. 230;
3. Consider the final
one-lot subdivision plan of
Henry Stolzfus near the
Cross Roads Church inter-
section on Donegal Springs
Road;
4. Consider the final sub--
division plan of Gertrude
Nentwig at 304-306 No.
Market Avenue.
Extension
classes
Want to learn something
during these slow winter
months? The Agricultural
Extension Service is offer-
ing classes at the Farm
and Home center, 1383
Arcadia Road, Lancaster.
Classes, which will be
filled on a first-come, first
-served basis, will teach
topics such as sewing (one
course title: ‘‘The classic
shirt’’), oriental cuisine,
and microwave cooking.
For more information,
write to Doris Thomas,
1383 Arcadia Road, Lancas-
ter 17601. Most classes’
registration deadline is
February 1st.
The classes cost one to
four dollars.
On Wednesday, January 18th, the Mount Joy Jaycees
observed Library Night at the Mount Joy Library.
In the photo, Jim McAfee of the Jaycees and Jane Emery
of the library look over the book presented to the library by
the Jaycees.
The book is American Politics in a Bureaucratic Age:
Citizens, Constituents, Clients, and Victims. It was
presented along with a flag contract as part of Jaycee
Week.
| Groundhogophilia
Jessie Nissley
Jessie Nissley, whose
sister is Mrs. Harry Riley
of Marietta, is Lancaster's
foremost exponent of
Groundhog Day.
SUSQUEHANNA TIMES — Page 7
Jessie, who lives in
Ephrata, has an entire
garden full of pet ground-
hogs and groundhog bur-
rows, and is the world’s
answer to those who think
of groundhogs as pets. She
writes groundhog books,
groundhog music, and
+ groundhog greeting cards,
and coloring books for kids.
She makes groundhog
jewelry and bakes ground-
hog cakes. She talks about
groundhogs on TV and
radio, and lectures about
them in schools.
Jessie runs a groundhog
shop, the Gourmet Ground-
hog. at her home at 532
Pointview Ave., Ephrata.
She will be having a free
party, with refreshments
and prizes, on Groundhog
Day — February 2nd —
from dawn to dusk.
You don’t need reserva-
tions, but if you have
questions you can call
Jessie at (717) 733-7337.
According to one of our
native Pennsylvania Dutch
legends, February 2nd is
the day the groundhog
wakes up from his hiberna-
tion and predicts the
weather by observing his
shadow. If he sees his
shadow, he climbs back in
his burrow for six more
weeks of snoozing.
Biologists and other
self-styled ‘‘experts’’ re-
fuse to believe that ground-
hogs actually predict the
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