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Vol. 78, No. 47, November 22, 1978
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Marietta Council
The Marietta Council
adopted three new ordi-
nances at its meeting last
Tuesday.
Ordinance #78-3 throws
out the borough’s claim to
a right of way through a
plot near Longenecker
Avenue and Waterford
Avenue. :
Council acted on a request
last month by a citizen who
is building a home for
himself on the land.
Although the right of
way, for a proposed road,
never had any legal status
(it was never recognized by
the County Planning Com-
mission), it was removed
by council for the record.
Ordinance #78-5 sets a
fine of $15. for these
offences:
Sign violation
Parking on the left side of
a roadway
Parking more than 12
inches from the curb
Parking longer than 48
hours
Invalid inspection
Invalid registration
Parking less than 25 feet
from an intersection
Parking less than 15 feet
from a fire hydrant
Double parking
Meter violations will cost
$2.00. All other parking
violations will cost you $15.
Ordinance #78-6 set the
maximum fine the borough
could levy for any violation
at $500.
‘‘Public nuisance’’
Council declared the
structure at 404 East Front
Street a ‘‘public nuisance”
and ordered it demolished.
The house, owned by
Robert’ Plank, shares an
address with another con-
demned building next to it,
due to a mix-up when the
property was divided and
the fact that no one has
lived in the building for
several years.
The house was condemn-
ed about six months ago,
when Plank was given
three months to renovate or
develop a plan for renovat-
ing. At the end of this time
he was given an extension
of another three months,
but still hadn’t a satisfac-
tory plan. (He intended to
sell the property instead of
fixing it up, according to an
informed source).
New fire truck :
About $20,000 of federal
Revenue Sharing Funds
will go into the Fire Equip-
ment Fund toward the pur-
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Fines increased; house condemned; new fire truck
chase of a new fire truck
for the borough. A new
truck, without much
chrome plating, costs close
to $60,000, so the extra
$40,000 will have to be
borrowed.
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Santa to arrive by balloon
Santa will arrive early
this year, paying a visit to
Seiler Elementary School
via hot air balloon on
December 2nd at 10:00 AM
(weather permitting).
The cost of maintaining a
reindeer has skyrocketed in
the last few years. Moss
shortages caused by recent
severe winters have led
North Pole bureaucrats to
search for alternative
modes of transportation.
After months of study,
the elfin engineers latched
onto hot air as a reindeer
replacement.
Santa and his entourage
will parade to Hostetter’s
Hardware, where Santa’s
Hut will be located.
You can visit Santa on
Friday nights and Saturday
afternoons until December
23rd. Pictures can be taken
with Santa for $1.00.
Anyone who is elf-shy,
or can’t go to see Santa in
person, can drop him a
letter. Santa letter collec-
tion boxes will be placed at
Hostetter’s on East Main
and at Western Auto on
West Main Street.
The public is invited to
comé out on December 2nd
and welcome Santa to
Mount Joy.
School Board
The Donegal School
Board met last Thursday .
night.
Little came out of the
committee reports at the
start of the meeting. Dr.
Felleibaum commented on
the good year Donegal has
had in sports, particularly
with football. Mr. Arnold
added that the Veteran's
Day program was also
excellent.
Roof and sewage prob-
lems were reported at the
three Vo-Tech schools in
the county.
Lots of filers
Jere Duke reported that
only 21 of 6244 tax payers
had failed to file, a small
number proportionately.
Dr. Eshleman reported
on the PSBA council and
bills pending in Harrisburg
which could influence the
Donegal District.
Greider appointed
J. Robert Greider was
appointed to a new S-year
term on the Donegal Union
School District Authority.
4 or 5 teachers?
The planned DHS band
trip to Mexico raised the
question of how many
teachers would be allowed
to go along. Band leader
Glen Leib’s request was for
four, or possibly five,
teachers to go as chaper-
ones in addition to twenty
parents.
The board discussed the
matter, weighed the cost of
hiring subsitutes, and let
four teachers go.
They also granted per-
mission for Mr. Miller's
Seiler School Sth and 6th
grade classes to go to
Colonial Virginia.
Group insurance
The board considered
group self insurance to
replace the present regular
insurance. School districts
would band together under
this plan to pay off most
claims themselves, with
excess coverage from
Lloyd’s of London.
This might not save
as much money for Done-
gal as it does for other
districts, because costs are
lower here. If our expenses
were lumped together with
those of urban districts, the
savings might not appear.
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Local girlm
Handmade quilts are a
hot item with the in crowd
in Boston and New York
now, and they aren’t hot
just because they keep you
warm—they’re considered
art and are hung on walls
up there.
Quilt-making has a long
tradition among -Pennsyl-
vania Dutch women, and a
lot of the quilts being
bought in the big cities are
being made by Dodie
Heisey,
Rheems woman who now
lives in Cambridge, Mass.,
part of the Boston urban
area.
Dodie, the daughter of
Jap and Margaretta Heisey
of Rheems, transferred
from E-town to Boston
University and ended up
staying in the area after
her graduation. She didn’t
forget her roots, though.
““A quilt is a means of
expression, and it’s also
functional,”” she told the
Times during one of her
recent visits back home.
Making quilts much the
way her mother and grand-
mother did, Dodie feels,
too, that ‘‘it’s a nice way to
keep in touch with my
heritage.’’
Dodie’s quilts sell for
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Dodie Heisey
akes good
quilts and other things for arty Bostonians
anywhere from $250 to
$600 in Boston’s and New
York’s stores (direct sales
cost the customer about
half that). There may be
1000 pieces in a quilt;
many tiny ones are stitched
together by machine into
squares, and the squares
are assembled by hand
sewing onto dacron filler
and backing cloth.
Amish style patchwork
quilts. like Dodie’s stop-
ped being quaint curiosities
in 1971, when the Whitney
Museum in New York had
an exhibition of quilts.
Their geometric patterns
reminded the critics of
modern abstract paintings.
Dodie makes this type of
traditional quilt, working
out her designs on graph
paper, then deciding the
colors. Each patchwork,
about six inches square, is
identical. The patchworks
can be assembled in many
permutations, each giving a
- distinctive overall design.
Dodie Heisey has been
making quilts (as well as
baby bibs and other,
smaller items) as a full
time business for the last
four years. She has taught
quiltmaking at a Boston
university.
Dodie has been written
up in Beston magazine,
and her work is featured in
many stores’ brochures.
She recently got an order
from Bloomingdale's in
Boston. (It’s a branch of
the famous Bloomingdale's
in New York, the most chic
of the world’s department
stores.)
Dodie says that Pennsyl-
vania Dutch women have
traditionally had two out-
lets for their creativity—
quiltmaking and flower
gardening. She seems al-
ways to see her work in the
context of her background.
By carrying on an old
vocation, she now finds
herself in the enjoyable
position of not only doing
what she likes, but seeing
the trend-setters circling
around to an appreciation
of her traditional craft.
[Nete: any local people
who would like to get one
up on the urbanites can do
so by buying a quilt direct
from Dodie for half of what
they pay. She can be
reached at 5 Fresh Pond
Lane, Cambridge, Mass.
02138. -Ed.]