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Strong Spas of Nor-thumberland sells its prod-ucts around the world and now employs about 300/Page A2

Growing globally

SaturDay, March 14, 2015 Manufacturing

Return from the ashes

Employees say there was never a doubt that Keller Marine would return stronger than ever after a devastating fire/Page A4

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She is an industrial forceu.S. GypSuM coMpaNy

By Robert StonebackThe Daily Item

WASHINGTONVILLE – Though she only stands about five feet tall, Priya Ratanpara has a lot of responsibilities on her shoulders.

Hired this past June as a project engineer at U.S. Gypsum’s Washingtonville plant, among her tasks are re-sponding to safety concerns, reducing waste production and completing capital proj-ects meant to improve the wallboard plant’s infrastruc-ture.

Her current capital project has her doing the pre-work for establishing a building at the plant, which has her calculating cost analysis, con-tacting contractors, getting quotes on work and looking into permits.

These improvements over-

seen by Ratanpara “adds to the sustainability of the plant and ensuring it has a posi-tive future long-term. Not only can we continue to make a good product effectively, but the general infrastruc-ture and the product are maintained to standard they should be,” said Rob Robin-

son, production manager for the plant.

A May 2014 graduate of Rutgers University with a de-gree in chemical engineering, the 23-year old Ratanpara said about three quarters of those in her program were men.

She feels women “are not motivated to pursue math-ematics or science fields.”

She speculates this may be because those jobs are seen as “male-dominated” envi-ronments.

She believes more men-toring programs would help encourage women to be in-volved in engineering and related fields.

U.S. Gypsum has several programs in place to help women feel welcome and become acclimated to work-ing in these fields, Ratanpara said.

“With USG’s ‘Plan to Win’ and changing culture of innovation, I encourage women all around to consider manufacturing at USG,” she added.

“Diversity is one of USG’s core values,” said Robin-son.

“The different ideas and viewpoints people bring from different backgrounds are important to improve the op-erations and see how we can make the company a better place.

“We think having a rep-resentative sample of the general population only enhances the company’s strength.”

The “Plan to Win” program is a focus of U.S. Gypsum’s to “return out of the Great Recession,” Robinson said, and hiring talented, young engineers like Ratanpara is

part of that.The other aspects of that

program diversifying earn-ings, such as through joint ventures like last year’s USG Boral, and new product de-velopment, such as their “UltraLight” portfolio of wall board which is up to 30 percent lighter, easier to in-stall and much stronger than previous products.

“The reason we focus on having more women in man-ufacturing is to promote di-versity of thought,” said Pete Savu, senior vice president of manufacturing and supply chain for USG.

When we bring different people together, we have bet-ter engagement and innova-tion, which helps USG lead in the marketplace. This not only helps us meet and ex-ceed our business objectives, it’s the right thing to do.”

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Employees: More than 100

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USG engineer Priya Ratanpara, stands inside the Washingtonville plant where she works.

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Manufacturing

By Karen BlackledgeThe Daily Item

NORTHUMBERLAND — Strong Spas recently has added warehouse space and new loading docks.

The company, located along Route 11 soon will be adding a new customer ser-vice call center employing 25 to 27 people, said Company President Wade Spicer.

This year, the business added comprehensive health care coverage for employees. The company previously had a 401K plan in place.

“We are definitely growing as a company,” said Spicer of the international business.

He expects to employ about 300 this year with 70 percent to 80 percent of their business in hot tub sales.

Their largest sales are in the U.S. followed by Canada and Europe.

“We are looking at branch-ing into the Australian mar-ket in 2016,” he said.

They have sold hot tubs to numerous countries including the Middle East, Chile, Bra-zil, Argentina and India.

Strong Spas recently signed on a new dealer in Riga, the capital of Latvia, in the Baltic States.

“We think this will be a very good year for us,” Spicer said.

He said the industry had been struggling the past six or seven years as a result of the economy, a credit crunch, unemployment, high fuel costs and the cost of raw materials.

“We’re looking for much more profitability this year,” he said based on current oil prices and a reduction in the cost of natural gas.

He said this should help Strong Spas since the con-sumer should have more money to spend as a result of lower oil and gas prices.

The lower oil cost has had an impact on the European and Canadian markets due

to currency exchange rates which result in it being more expensive to buy products from the U.S., he said.

Strong Spas makes spas in all sizes, styles and colors.

Their hot tubs are virtually indestructible as the result of

a patented manufacturing process.

Strong Spas also produces the Titan HardCover sys-tem.

“This innovation allows us to compete very well in the North America market.

Ours will last forever. It’s like buying a car that never needs tires,” Spicer said.

Their hot tubs use a re-cycling system which re-uses heat from the motor to

maintain or increase water temperature.

Strong operates a factory direct showroom open year-round from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays. People can buy spas, pools and accessories there. Strong Spas

Founded: 1994 as Strong Industries and in 2004 as Strong Pools and Spas

Employs: Approximately 300Products: Hot tubs, above-ground pools, plastic

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Employment reaches 300 at company with worldwide reach

Photo by Karen Blackledge/Daily Item

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By Evamarie Socha The Daily Item

LEWISBURG — The playground may be the last place a child can be who he or she wants to be, and Play-world Systems wants to help keep it that way, Matt Miller, president and chief execu-tive officer of the Lewisburg company said.

“We have the opportu-nity to create the last sacred space,” Miller said. “We for-get as adults what it was like to meet those first friends or take that first risk on a swing or climbing bars.”

Playworld continues to help children make those memories, and do it around the world. You can find its equipment in playgrounds in 33 countries from Japan to Qatar and Dubai, even Cuba.

“The playground should be full of joyful moments,” he said. “The job we have is to design and build so those moments become the maxi-mum experience.”

Those experiences may come through some of Play-world’s latest offerings such as the Unity Collection, a modern take on iconic play-ground structures parents may have grown up with.

A teeter-totter with a twist, for instance, a slide and a climber “dome” are designed for children to get more ac-tivity while letting more of them use the equipment at once.

SMARTE Safety Surfac-ing offers the little acrobats protection from head injury while not restricting their urge to take a risk. The pat-ented material protects at fall heights up to 10 feet and features shock-absorbing properties.

Playworld is a business in an industry that grew, Miller

said. It sells its products to tax-supported entities and didn’t hit many economic bumps, he said, despite the downturn.

While there has been some markets that slowed during the recession, such as some municipal business, those are starting to turn around as well “and we’re going after

that again,” Miller said. Business also may boom

from a changing attitude to-ward recess. Unstructured play, he said, is coming back into favor as schools and other entities realize the im-portance of daily physical activities for kids who seem-ingly get less and less of it.

That makes it an especially

good time for Playworld’s partnership with KaBOOM!, a national non-profit that offers communities grant funding to create or finish a playground.

Through its involvement, Playworld has helped more than 2,200 communities be-gin or complete their projects, creating little “park-letts” on the most available space.

That brings the Playworld message back full circle. “Adults see differences, Children see similarities,” Miller said. “The job we have to design and build for the maximum experience.”

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SUNBURY — Lenape Solar helps people and busi-nesses save energy — and money.

By installing solar pho-tovoltaic energy systems to generate electricity through solar panels, solar thermal hot water and space heating systems, and by providing energy solutions for hom-eowners and businesses, the Sunbury company also is helping the environment, as well as its customers.

And the company has been growing rapidly since its start in October 2009.

“We’ve been very fortu-nate,” said co-owner and President Tonya Ditty. “We’ve experienced phenom-enal growth in the five years we’ve been in business.”

Originally starting out in Lewisburg but moving to Sunbury in June 2011, Lenape started out with just four employees.

The company experienced a 28 percent growth in sales to $1.26 million in 2011-2012, according to company fig-ures. Sales grew 41 percent in 2013-2014, and in Decem-ber 2014, sales totaled $3.36 million. Sales are projected to grow another 27 percent in 2014-2015 with a goal of $4.26 million in sales this year. Today the company employs 23.

“We have witnessed an in-crease in commercial activ-ity,” Ditty said, noting solar power is an investment on which companies, as well as residents, will see a return.

In fact, businesses make up a majority of the solar busi-ness, among them automo-tive dealerships and a diverse group of manufacturers in the four-county region, with residential customers making up only about 25 percent of the business.

But before the company installs solar panels, it looks at ways the customer can reduce its carbon footprint, Ditty said.

“Our goal is to come in and analyze their energy consumption,” she said.

Charles said solar power also provides tax benefits, incentives and rebates. He added that the cost of solar has gone down, making it an even wiser investment.

Lenape also does energy-efficient lighting retrofitting for government buildings, in-stitutions, commercial prop-erties and nonprofits, which pays for itself in months.

Company literature shows Northumberland and Snyder county governments, numer-ous municipalities, industries, churches, service organiza-tions and retail operations

each will save thousands of dollars — in some cases, tens of thousands — by converting to energy-efficient lighting.

In addition, the company also does heating, ventila-tion and air conditioning work, mostly for residential customers. Charles said the company installs Mitsubishi Electric ductless cooling and heating systems that focus on individual rooms rather than on a central air system.

Charles said the system could produce a savings of up to 75 percent in energy costs. It uses separate wall or ceil-ing units in each room into which cooled or heated re-frigerant is pumped through small lines, and each room has its own wireless elec-tronic temperature control system.

The system dehumidifies and is constantly cleaning the air, Ditty and Charles said.

Lenape also gives back to the community here and abroad, Ditty said.

“We do as much work for nonprofits as we can,” she said.

The company helped non-profits after the flood of 2011, and in December 2012, Charles brought a crew to Haiti, where the company designed and helped install a solar panel and a battery system to provide electricity to a new hospital and mis-sionary compound.

The solar panels, which are state-of-the-art, energy-ef-ficient and environmentally friendly, come with a 25-year warranty but have a life span of 50 or more years, Charles said.

Ditty said when the hail-storm damaged cars and homes last year, only one Lenape solar panel of all those installed sustained damage.

“One roof had to be re-placed, but there was no damage to the panels,” she said.

It took about a month to install 616 panels, which will produce 235,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year, at a business Charles said. A residential installation takes an average of three to five days while a commercial job can take up to 20 days, Charles said.

Steve Welker, Lenape’s di-rector of operations, said an average home would need about 50 solar panels.

Ditty said most homes would need 25 to 40 panels. The cost of installing 24 pan-els is about $27,500, but with tax credits, incentives and the energy savings, the pan-

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“The typical residential payback is seven to nine years,” Charles said. “That could be much lower.”

The payback for businesses is about three to five years.

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PORT TREVORTON — Even as she watched through tears as Keller Marine and RV burned to the ground that chilly March morning in 2013, Phyllis Jones knew she and the 80 other employees would be returning to work.

Jones had been employed by the Keller family for 64 years and couldn’t imagine all their work would end in a pile of ashes.

The morning of the fire, Jones dashed out of the burn-ing building with only her purse and took cover with other employees in a com-pany building across the street where they watched the tireless efforts of dozens of volunteer firefighters from four counties.

“I cried as I saw sparks and smoke billowing out of the roof. I wanted to go back in and shut the safe, but they wouldn’t let me,” she recalled.

The contents of the safe, as well as a framed photo-graph of company founders George and Margaret Keller, were saved from the acciden-tal blaze that consumed the main warehouse and office space.

Company co-owners and siblings, Mike Keller and Lori Morrow, didn’t miss a beat. They put the employees back to work two days later and immediately began to rebuild.

“There was a lot to do. We didn’t have time to stop and think,” said Jones.

Today, Jones works in an office near the front door of the new office-warehouse that is triple the size of the 22,000-square-foot building that burned.

She’s often the first person a visitor encounters, which makes sense since Jones knows nearly everything about the business that dis-tributes boat and RV parts and accessories to about 1,000 dealers in the Mid-Atlantic and New England region.

The 82-year-old controller began working in 1949 for George Keller’s father, G. Flanders Keller, who oper-ated a lumber yard in Port Trevorton. She stayed on as a bookkeeper when he turned his attention to building wooden boats a few years later.

“It was a job that I liked,” she said matter-of-factly. “I stayed in the office and I’ve been there ever since.”

In 1958, George Keller established Keller Marine Service to provide boat parts to dealers and expanded 10 years later to include parts for recreational vehicles.

His children took over the business in 1993 following his retirement. They’ve since

added two other companies, Patriot Marine, that sells boat a RV accessories to the fed-

eral government, and Image 1 Technologies specializing in data integration.

Jones has been with the

family throughout it all, a trusted employee and be-loved friend.

“Phyllis holds us all to-gether. She knows where ev-erything is,” Morrow said.

Jones stays on the job for no other reason than she likes the work. She and her husband, who retired from Keller Marine years ago, have outside interests that include working with therapy dogs that they take to nursing homes twice a month.

Her many years of service to the family business is caus-ing a little concern for Mor-row and Keller as Jones 70th

anniversary with the com-pany approaches.

“For her 50th anniversary we bought her a Rolex watch and for 60 years we gave her a diamond necklace,” said Keller. “We’re running out of ideas.”

Keller MarineAddress: 2712 Main

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80Year Founded: 1958Products or ser-

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Photos by Amanda August/The Daily Item

Mike Keller, co-owner of Keller’s Marine, talks about the new organizational system at the warehouse in Port Trevorton.

Never a doubt this company would rise from the ashes

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LEWISBURG — Coming soon to Citi-zens’ Electric Co. customers: freedom of choice.

Every customer of the Lewisburg utility will have the option of picking an alternative electric supplier, said Eric Winslow, president and chief executive officer.

A new system called Electronic Data In-terchange is in the first testing stages and “hopefully will remove the biggest obstacle we have that keep suppliers from choosing to market their services in our territory,” Winslow said. The system is expected to go live by the end of March.

This will allow Citizens’ customers — about 6,900 in Lewisburg borough, East Buffalo and Buffalo townships — compare rates and choose a supplier for some savings in electricity costs.

Once the interchange is up and running, “we’re hoping other suppliers will recognize it’s available and will want to come in and market to our customers,” he said.

Citizens’ Electric delivers electricity; “We own the poles and wires,” Winslow said.

The customers “pay us to deliver someone else’s product. If you don’t choose a sup-plier, we have one on hand.” Deciding for themselves which company the current will come from can add up to considerable sav-ings, he said.

By making their market competitive, other suppliers also may feel an incentive to shave some cents off their rates.

That can only mean good news during times like this winter. January and Febru-ary set new service records over 2014, which included the notorious polar vortex.

“The last two winters have definitely put systems to the test,” Winslow said, but he was happy to say Citizens’ Electric had no weather-related outages this season.

Once the option of choosing a supplier is available, there is no deadline for customers to do that. A list of suppliers can be found on PAPowerSwitch.com.

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SELINSGROVE — As a company that has achieved success in five states, Weis Markets continues to meet the changing needs and ex-pectations of its customers.

In recent years, it has been adding more organic, natural and gluten free foods in its 163 locations across Pennsyl-vania, Maryland, New York, West Virginia and New Jer-sey.

Jennifer Sands, commu-nications specialist, showed off these sections and foods inside the new 66,740-square-foot, Selinsgrove location along Routes 522 and 204 in Snyder County.

All Weis locations now offer gluten free products. Customers have been trend-ing toward such products due to medical needs and lifestyle choices, said Sands.

Gluten-free items include bread, cereals, pasta, chips, cookies, macaroni and cheese, frozen pizza and bev-erages and even beer. And as Sands notes, “Most produce is gluten free.”

Weis also has a “super-foods” designation on 25 foods throughout the store, mostly in fruits and vegeta-bles.

These foods include al-monds, broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, salmon, oats, tea and even dark chocolate. Custom-ers will find these signs on more than 100 items through-out the store, which includes both fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables, said Sands.

“The official definition we are using in our materials for superfoods is nutrient rich foods that naturally contain significant amounts of vita-mins, minerals, antioxidants or beneficial plant-based

nutrients (phytochemicals). When eaten regularly, as part of a balanced diet, superfoods may positively impact overall health,” said Sands.

The Selinsgrove location also has eight gasoline pumps at the Gas N’ Go Center, where customers can earn gas rewards.

“We have the best gas rewards in the valley. Our customers can save twenty cents a gallon for every $100 they spend,” said Sands. The gas center features a manned kiosk and pay-at-the-pump options.

The new Selinsgrove store is designed to be eco-friendly, using technologies to reduce the energy usage by about 30 percent. The store features a 30-seat cafe with dine-in or take-out service, outdoor patio seating and more than 700 varieties of domestic, im-ported and craft beer.

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The video is the first of several that marketing director Jeff Wolfe has commissioned to demonstrate the care, detail and workmanship that goes into creating Wood-Mode cabinets.

“This is not a factory assembly line. There’s so much personal in-spection and hand touch that goes into it,” said Wolfe who has ex-panded the 73-year-old company’s reach into the digital market by working with numerous industry bloggers and joining Facebook.

He hired a New York City film crew to produce the video that shows employees at work in differ-ent areas of the 1 million-square-foot plant and explaining how they produce one-of-a-kind pieces.

“Our target audience is an af-fluent customer who want some-thing different, not off the shelf,”

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Dreese, one of six employees who create custom furniture in the specials department, is among the workers featured in the first video highlighting craftmanship, which is available on Wood-Mode’s website and Facebook page.

“There’s a lot that goes through my hands,” said Dreese, who has worked on millions of dollars worth of cabinetry featured in homes across the U.S.

After nearly four decades with the company that was established in 1942 with six employees, Dreese said he still enjoys the work and hopes viewers of the video will rec-ognize and appreciate the work put into the products.

“Wood-Mode has been here for quite a long time and we want it to stay,” he said. “I can’t see myself doing anything else.”

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Karen BlackledgeThe Daily Item

DANVILLE — Employ-ees of Metso Minerals have family ties to the Railroad Street business.

Peter Wilver worked there when it was known as Ken-nedy Van Saun Corp. He has done similar work the past 40 and a half years, said Wilver, manager of the Pyro Research and Test Center and product development in their mining business lines.

His father, the late James Wilver, also worked in the KVS test center and retired as test center manager.

Rob Richards has had a varied background at Metso and now serves as manager of purchasing and logistics. His dad, David Richards, is retired as manager of engi-neering from the company.

“There are many people here with a number of years. A lot are second-generation or more,” Wilver said.

At the Danvil le loca-tion, large pyro processing systems are designed. The systems, which are sold worldwide, can cover acres of land. Their rotary kilns can be hundreds of feet long and 30 feet in diameter.

The systems are used for petroleum coke calcining, iron ore pelletizing and cal-cining and other types of special mineral calcining. They do a lot of business with Russia, China, Eng-

land, the U.S., Peru, Canada and Sweden.

The test center, which employs three people full-time and others who help out, complements the busi-ness. “We help prove exist-ing processes to customers and develop new processes,” Wilver said.

The test center is at the forefront of pyroprocessing technology for the division’s worldwide leadership in de-veloping energy-efficient,

environmentally sound and economic processes to ex-tract and use the world’s vital natural resources including the recycling of waste prod-ucts and destruction of haz-ardous materials, according to Metso officials.

Typical processes include rotary kiln and fluid bed ap-plications for drying, calcin-ing, roasting, direct reduc-tion, thermal conversion and soil decontamination and waste treatment.

Wilver said sustainability is an integral part of Metso operations with the goal to do business in an economi-cally, environmentally and socially sustainable manner and to provide solutions with a favorable impact on the en-vironment.

“At Metso, sustainability is an integral part of our operations. Our goal is to do business in an economi-cally, environmentally and socially sustainable man-

ner and to provide solutions that have a favorable impact on the environment. Metso recognizes that today’s con-cerns and future goals of our customers, owners and society must be reflected in the way we run our business profitably and responsibly. Our mission is to contribute to a more sustainable world by helping our customers to process natural resources and recycling materials into valuable products,” Wilver said.

The test center is a fully equipped facility capable of handling complex mate-rial evaluations and process testing.

The center is unique with its ability to pilot test a complete flow sheet with many different unit opera-tions that can be assembled to represent a commercial plant, he said.

Metso works on a confi-dential basis with both small entrepreneurs as well as ma-jor corporations to develop processes.

Metso Minerals designs,

engineers and manufactures equipment and systems that increase the economic value of ores, minerals, waste and related materials by chang-ing their mechanical and or chemical properties through the addition or removal of heat. Some of the materials that have been subjected to processing in the research and test center include coal, diatomite, aluminum dross, zinc waste, aluminum hy-droxide, iron ore, activated carbon, oil shale, gold ore, kaolin, tires and waste met-als.

As manager of purchasing and logistics, Richards said his department manages the supply chain and works to improve cost-efficiency of Metso products.

“I am responsible for getting the manufacturing and delivery to the job site,” he said. Manufacturing is sub-contracted to shops throughout the world. He said he spends a lot of time developing vendors located near a customer.

He said Metso supports many U.S. manufacturers. Metso also uses shops in Pennsylvania along with the test center obtaining items as locally as it can. Pennsylvania businesses Metso works with include heavy fabricating machin-ing, foundries and forges.

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rob richards, left, and Peter Wilver show a model of a petroleum coke calciner at metso minerals in Danville.

By rick DandesThe Daily Item

LEWISBURG — Down-town Lewisburg is wel l known as a vibrant home for small businesses, but over the past year, one address in particular has become a hotbed of entrepreneur-ial activity for the commu-nity.

Located at 416 Market St., the DeWitt Building is the home of the Bucknell University Entrepreneurs Incubator, a lso known as “Startup Lewisburg”. Launched in 2012 when Bucknell’s Small Business Development Center moved into the newly renovated space across from the Cam-pus Theatre, the program is now the home of 12 innova-tive startup companies.

“Over the past year the SBDC has been focusing on how to help these com-pany founders prepare their firms for growth,” said Ste-ven Stumbris, SBDC direc-tor. “Entrepreneurship can often be a very solitary un-dertaking, but being able to bounce ideas off fellow entrepreneurs, as well as the opportunity to network with other company founders, is vital for the members of an entrepreneurial commu-nity. Being able to share and learn about resources, tips,

and tricks you discover as you launch your venture with peers is often the most important aspect of an in-cubator.”

Other tangible benefits to entrepreneurs and firms in the incubator include broad-band internet service, a high-tech conference room, and networking opportuni-ties with the Bucknell com-munity through events such as the incubator’s monthly “Tech Meetup Lewisburg”. Members may choose from offices, a cubicle space, or a collaborative shared work area known as a “cowork” space. Additionally, firms may apply for micro-grants and a tax credits through membership in the Greater

Susquehanna Keystone In-novation Zone program.

The members of the in-cubator range from devel-opers of medical education software to the designers of a platform for real-time global supply-chain man-agement. Firms include Brighton Training Group, named as the SBDC’s Small Business of the year in 2014, which consists of instruc-tional designers and child nutrition experts develop-ing online training sys-tems; and Bison Analytics, who provide customizable

analytics tools for growing companies. For more infor-mation about these firms, visit www.Bucknell.edu/StartupLewisburg

“The Bucknel l SBDC has long provided entrepre-neurs with the education, information, and consult-ing services — at no fee and confidentially — they need to build successful busi-nesses,” Stumbris said, “but now Startup Lewisburg is a deeper way that Bucknell is engaging in entrepreneurial economic development. By actually hosting these firms in this downtown space; they interact with each other, confer daily with the staff of the SBDC, and even work alongside ventures being started by Bucknell students.”

The application to the program begins simply; “Initially they will seek as-sistance from the SBDC via our website www.Bucknell.edu/SBDC, and they could be entrepreneurs planning to start a business, or a firm that has launched already. The SBDC will engage them as a client and our team of

staff and student consul-tants will provide startup and growth consulting ser-vices. Then,” Stumbris said, “if their goals for growth can be met by the benefits of the incubator, we can help them apply for membership. We’ve worked with numer-ous partners at Bucknell, including representatives of the College of Engineering and the School of Manage-ment, to design a program that is beneficial to the member firms and provides opportunities for interac-

tion with students and fac-ulty at the University”.

Stumbris emphasized that “you don’t have to be an alumnus or member of the Bucknell community to become an incubator firm, but it certainly is of great value for entrepreneurs lo-cated there to partner with the school, and vice-versa. For example, students fre-quently pursue internships with these startups, and firms can connect with fac-ulty members for assistance. Its a win-win situation”.

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Groundbreaking should occur in April with construction going on most of the year, said David Manton, manager of sales and ad-missions for Albright Care, Riv-erWoods’ parent company. Cost of the project was not available at

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“It’s more homelike,” he said. “Clientele today doesn’t want to be at their grandmothers’ nursing home, and we don’t want people leaving any sooner than they have to. ... If someone spends more time in rehab, they’ll go home healthier and stronger and less likely to fall

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The senior Feryo explained that to begin the process of getting a hearing aid, a customer would fill out a confidential report providing information about his/her symptoms. “After that, we’ll go and do a visual inspection of the ear with our otoscope.” That examination will show things such as the presence of earwax or the condition of the eardrum.

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for the company 39 years as a chemical operator until his retirement. Father and son Boyer worked together at the plant at one point, in the chemical operation build-ing.

It’s fairly common at Cherokee for kids to follow their parents as employees, he said.

“Merck’s been good to me,” he added.

“There are many, many people with 35 plus years of service (at Cherokee) and have many family members who have come through the site as well,” said Brian Kil-len, executive director of the plant.

However, new faces are just as important at the Cherokee plant. Killen, who moved to the Riverside area 18 months ago from Ireland, can be counted among those, as can Emmanuel Minier, the Safety and Environment di-rector who started working at Cherokee in early January.

A native of France who had previously worked at Merck plants around his home coun-try, Minier’s first obstacle was culture shock.

“Everything surprises me,” including translating Fahren-heit to Celsius temperatures during this cold winter, he said. He’s taken it in stride, though, saying that “every day is a new adventure,”

and he has developed quite a taste for American fast

food such as Taco Bell and Dunkin Donuts, though he

admits he needs to keep that in check.

On a day-to-day basis, Mi-nier’s goal is to continuously improve the culture of safety at Cherokee and encourage the employees to improve

their safety.“I need to be sure a se-

curity program is in place to avoid any issues for the community around us. It’s very important for me that we continue to produce good drugs for patients because the products we manufacture here are so important to the patients. People live thanks to these every day,” Minier said.

He also wants to ensure that the plant operates to the highest environmental stan-dards to protect local air, soil and water, especially since he’s been charmed by the lo-cal wilderness.

“I’ve never before in my life seen so many birds, so

many deer, so many foxes,” he said. “I’m very happy to live here and I don’t want to pollute air because of the work here, pollute water be-cause of the chemicals and I don’t want to see my col-leagues in a hospital because of the work here.”

“The Merck Cherokee fa-cility in Riverside continues to be a key member of our local community and the Merck Manufacturing Net-work because of the dedi-cation of employees such as John and Emmanuel, and the life-saving antibiotics we produce,” Killen said. “The site is looking forward to cel-ebrating 65 years this year and the next 65 to come.”

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DANVILLE — Old Forge Brew-ing Company’s brewmasters are helping to concoct the future of the restaurant at its brewing plant.

Located on Railroad Street, at the site of the old TRW plant, Old Forge sold its first brew out of the facility in January of 2012. The 13,000 square foot space rented by the restaurant now serves as a space to produce, package and sell their beer through distributors.

Old Forge Brewing Company’s year-round beers, such as Overbite IPA, it’s most popular, are made at the Railroad Street plant, in addition to special seasonal beers.

“This is where everything is made,” said Damian Malfara, who founded Old Forge Brewing Company as a res-taurant with his wife, Maria Malfara, in 2008. The restaurant continues to draw regular crowds at its Mill Street location, and three full-time brewing employees split their time between there and the Railroad Street plant to create Old Forge’s unique brand of beer.

Last year, 1,700 barrels passed through the brewing plant, and as many as 3,000 could be made for this year, Damian said.

Opening up the new canning fa-cility “gives us the opportunity to grow,” Damian added. He credits the brewers with that expansion.

“They do all the work,” he said.

Darren Stonecypher serves as head brewer. To hear him describe his job, it’s “a lot of cleaning,” as well as run-ning the plant’s canning line, in addi-tion to brewing at both locations.

His background is in mechanical engineering, but he started brewing beer in August of 2007. He met Da-mian after marrying his sister-in-law,

and after brewing on Old Forge’s system in the summer of 2011 he was brought officially onto the team the next fall.

“Brewing is a l l hands-on,” Stonecypher said.

Old Forge distributes its cans as far west as Altoona and to the entire state of New Jersey.

“We’re really looking right now to improve sales in current distribu-tion areas” before expanding further, Stonecypher said.

Depending on the type of beer, it can take between two to five weeks to brew up a batch to be canned. Dur-ing the canning process, the cans get washed, carbon dioxide is pumped into them, they’re filled with beer and a lid is placed over them before the can is sealed by a device called a seamer. The canning process is a little more difficult during the cold winter months, Sotnecypher said, but it’s a labor of love for him and the other brewers, Jason VanSickle and Josh Gauger.

“I’m the one putting the smile on everyone’s face,” said VanSickel, as he loaded up a case full of Old Forge’s brews for shipment.

Brewmasters look to future of restaurantRobert Stoenback/The Daily Item

Brewer Jason VanSickle collects filled cans from the brewing plant’s seamer, and prepares them for distribution.

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Cans of Old Forge Brewing Company’s beer are filled up before being sent along to the seamer, at the company’s Railroad Street brewing facility.

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WINFIELD — A year af-ter its amazing comeback, Penn Cheese continues to thrive, broadening its reach beyond award-winning Swiss cheeses and selling all over the world.

About 40,000 pounds of cheese, a full ship container load, had just set off to Gua-temala, General Manager Jonathan Weber said, and another truckload was on its way to Canada. Central America comprises between 5 percent and 10 percent of its sales.

Locally, the cheeses are in stores under the Winfield Valley brand, and soon may be carried by Giant food markets, Weber said, hop-ing to have the products in Giant stores within a few months.

“It’s been very, very good,” Weber said. The Winfield company is now Vetch LLC, but the product still comes under the Penn Cheese la-bel.

“The new owners have a strong commitment to the success of the company here, and one of the main driving forces for purchasing us was to have local outlet for milk supply in the area,” Weber said. “They have really held true.”

Penn Cheese had shut down in July 2013, and all but two employees were laid off, including Weber. But a few weeks later, Ed Clouse, who runs Clouse Trucking of Carlisle, a milk haul-ing company that worked with Penn Cheese for years, learned what happened and that Penn Cheese was for sale. Mainly, Clouse felt that a dairy processing facility in this area was important to the local farmers.

By November 2013, Vetch LLC had bought the com-pany, and Penn Cheese was back, rehiring 10 employees who had not found other em-ployment.

Penn Cheese’s winning

streak continued last year as well. In the World Cham-pionship Cheese Contest in March 2014 in Madison, Wis., it took third place in rindless Swiss cheese and in baby Swiss cheese.

It also has ventured into making other cheeses — Cheddars and Jacks, for instance, that are keeping up the winning tradition. It’s Black Jack, a new prod-uct, helping up the Penn

Cheese winning legacy as the Monterey Jack cheese with coarsely ground black peppercorns, took first in its category at January’s Penn-sylvania Farm Show.

Weber said the business is an adventure. “The new owners are willing to try just about anything,” he said: different flavors, partner-ships, making more organic products.

Among new adventures

is a product expansion; the finishing touches were be-ing done to the yogurt room, Weber said, hoping to have bottled yogurt smoothies manufactured there very soon.

The company also will ex-plore whey manufacturing,

he said, though right now the focus is on expanding the cheese customer base.

Finding a use and sales av-enue for its whey byproduct is important, but also very costly, Weber said, and is something that will move forward eventually.

Tom Weber, Jonathan’s dad, is still there making cheese and still puts heart and soul into the product.

“It’s not easy, but it’s great,” Jonathan Weber said of Penn Cheese. “And we’re moving in the right direc-tion.”

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The trend has already emerged in the restaurant and retail industries, where quits and pay are rising faster than in the overall economy. Workers in those industries appear to be taking advan-tage of rising consumer demand to seek better pay elsewhere.

Workers who quit typically do so to take higher-paying jobs. That’s why rising num-bers of quits typically signal confidence in the economy and the job market. As the trend takes hold, employ-ers are often forced to offer higher pay to hold on to their staffers or attract new ones.

The Labor Department said Tuesday that the number of people who quit jobs rose 3 percent from December to January to 2.8 million — the most in more than six years. Quits have jumped 17 percent over the past 12 months.

Since the Great Recession ended, the figure has soared. Just 1.6 million people quit their jobs in August 2009, two months after the reces-sion officially ended.

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Herbie Clark founded Tulpehocken Spring Water in 1924. He was followed in 1953 by Glen Bickel, who took over Tulpehocken and ran a successful local Mom and Pop operation, which catered to the local commu-nity.

Joseph Mallory took over ownership and operations in 1977, and for the past 37 years he has steered and guided Tulpehocken Spring Water to new heights, taking a two-man operation and building it into 90 employees strong, with six service centers, 26 eight bay delivery trucks, 12 tractor trailers and six ser-vice vans. All these vehicles are on the road Monday through Friday, 52 weeks a year, to service a large por-tion of the company’s patrons throughout Central and Northern Pennsylvania, as well as Northern New Jersey and parts of Maryland and

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By Francis ScarcellaThe Daily Item

SUNBURY — Tom Webb continues to provide enter-tainment and wine to Val-ley residents and he has no plans to stop anytime soon, but he does have plans to expand.

Webb, owner of Spyglass Ridge Winery, in Sunbury announced he will be ex-panding the winery by about 2,500 feet and all the work will debut when rock n roll performers “Heart” hit the stage June 28.

Webb has tried to book the band Heart, which is headed by Ann and Nancy Wilson, for the past several years, he said.

Webb almost had the band at Spyglass in 2012 but once Heart became inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame a company bought the rights to the bands tours and decided to not stop in Sunbury.

Webb got a call in 2014 that Heart had a date open and it was March 30.

“We a re a n out s ide venue so we just couldn’t take the chance on the weather,” Webb said. “So we passed.”

The dream of getting Heart never faded because Webb never quit and pur-sued the Wilson sisters by appealing to their love for great crowds, he said.

“I called the road agents for REO Speedwagon and Styx who both preformed here and asked them to contact the road agent of Heart,” Webb said. “Both REO Speedwagon and Styx love playing here and I fig-ured we could use them as a reference.”

It worked. Heart agreed to come on

June 28 and when Webb re-leased tickets 3,000 sold in 25 hours, he said.

“It’s great that we are able to bring this entertainment to Sunbury,” Webb said.

“We are very proud of that.”

Webb is also becoming a huge name on the list of “contacts” for some big name bands because he re-

ceived a phone call in early March from the road agent from the legendary band Cheap Trick.

Webb was asked if the band would be invited to come and play at Spyglass because they have heard great things and they wanted

to participate.“I said absolutely,” Webb

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the dates and we realized we only had one open date at the winery because of weddings and concerts and when I gave them what we had available I was stunned to learn that was the date the band was hoping for.”

C heap Tr ick i s now booked solid for Sept. 19, Webb said.

“We were thrilled this all worked out,” he said. “We will continue to do the best

we can to provide the best entertainment we can.”

And for all of the wine lovers, Spyglass has dozens of wine varieties available

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ELYSBURG — The skies are the limits at Northumberland County Airport, which has just started train-ing the next generation of flyers.

At the start of this year, the airport started its newest program, the Nor-thumberland County Flight Acad-emy, to teach aspiring pilots how to take to the skies.

“No one else around has it,” said Mark Fry, flight school head.

“We had a bunch of people call (about flight lessons) and nowhere to send them,” said Ron Smith, airport manager.

After a while, the airport decided to start offering the classes them-selves.

There are currently three instruc-tors available to help students earn their wings. Craig Hornberger is a Navy veteran and former pilot for the Pennsylvania governor’s office, Tim

Krebs flew flights from Newark to Beijing for United Airlines and Ross Van Horn is a charter flight pilot.

The instructors are “some of the very best,” Smith said.

“They all have flying in their blood,” Fry added.

There are currently about 10 stu-dents, aged 14 to late 60s, enrolled in the program.

Once spring starts, enrollment should “take off,” said Fry, fully aware of the pun.

The aircraft used is Piper Chal-lenger PA-180. Students get in the plane their first lesson, and the les-sons are “hands-on from the minute you take off,” Smith said.

The plane is dual-controlled, though, meaning the more veteran pilot always has the chance to take the controls.

“The instructor is always in charge,” Smith said.

The advantage of using the Chal-lenger is that it’s a versatile aircraft that can also be used to train them how to use more advanced flight in-struments.

Students need 10 hours in the air before they qualify for a solo permit, which lets them go up in the air on their own without passengers.

Once 60 hours of f lights are achieved, they qualify for their pri-vate pilot license.

“The learning curve is kind of like getting a driver’s license,” Fry said.

A lot of students are getting their li-cense to use for company work, while others are just using for recreation and travel.

“You can leave here and be in Ocean City, New Jersey, in less than an hour,” Smith said.

The rush from flying for the first time is something Fry and Smith know well.

“Once you do it, it’s infectious,” Smith said. “Even the first time they get out, they have an awful sense of accomplishment. ‘Wow, what did I just do.’”

“You never forget” your first time in the air, Fry added.

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Electricity/Transportation


DANVILLE — The fu-ture is being powered by PPL Electric Utilities.

David Bonenberger, vice president of Distributions Operations for PPL Electric Utilities, has personally wit-nessed that growth from the time he joined the company 31 years ago.

His job is to oversee the planning, engineering, con-struction, operations and maintenance of PPL Elec-tric Utilities’ distribution system to ensure safe and reliable electricity delivery to customers. He assumed his current position in July of 2012.

Over the next five years, Bonenberger expects the power company to cut power outages in its service area by 30 percent, and that’s af-ter dropping outages by 16 percent over the course of 2014.

Part of that comes from installing new “smart grid” equipment which can sense power outages and reroute power around the damaged area. By 2018, Bonenberger expects to have one smart grid in place per 500 custom-ers, the idea being that they will be used to prevent any-one beyond those 500 from experiencing a power outage in a given area.

PPL substation operators can use two of the smart grids to isolate an outage area so it does not expand beyond those 500 houses by transfer-ring electricity loads away from those circuits.

By the end of 2018, they should be “pretty well satu-rated throughout our sys-tem,” Bonenberger said.

This year will also see some improvements to the Danville-Bloomsburg area.

“This year, we’re install-

ing a half-mile span of new, stronger power line along Route 642, which will ben-efit about 140 customers,” Bonenberger said.

This is part of PPL’s com-mitment to improving the standards used for its power lines.

Part of this cable care is

making certain that trees aren’t endangering the lines. Trees too close to lines are the biggest cause of outages in storms, Bonenberger said. PPL has far fewer customers affected by storms now than we did just a few years ago, because of our line clearance work, he added.

Summer is frequently the most common time for out-ages due to storms knock-ing over trees. To combat this, PPL spent $50 million a year for the past two years on tree trimming. The strat-egy paid off, as tree-related outages for 2014 were down by 20 percent, according to

Bonenberger.These infrastructure up-

grades have been a project for PPL for the last several years. Overall, the plan calls for $5.7 billion to be spent on infrastructure over the next five years.

The cost is worth it to PPL,

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“Over this span of time, it will be one of the biggest reliability improvements our customers have ever seen,” he said.

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NORTHUMBERLAND — North Shore Railroad is in its 31st continuous year of freight service to Central Pennsylvania.

Serving the customers on the SEDA-COG Joint Rail Authority’s rail network, as well as a privately owned line in Union County, the North Shore has met the needs of companies of all sizes.

From single car shipments to 100-plus car unit trains, the North Shore has the in-frastructure, locomotive, and crew capacity to connect cus-tomers to local, regional, and international markets.

A company, however, doesn’t have to be located on a site served directly by rail in order to take advan-tage of North Shore’s years of expertise.

North Shore prides itself in attempting to find solutions to the rail needs of each cus-tomer, both conventional and unconventional, company of-ficials said.

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Health and Fitness

By Francis ScarcellaThe Daily Item

SUNBURY — One of the crown jewels of the city, and a place that is packed nearly every hour of every day is the YMCA.

Thanks to CEO Bon-nie Wassmer, the Greater Susquehanna Valley YMCA is continuously growing.

“When dealing with life’s daily demands, people need a place to go where they can feel supported and receive help in trying times — a place where adults can find life balance, children can reach their full potential, se-niors can be active and find camaraderie and families can connect and strengthen rela-tionships,” Wassmer said.

By becoming involved with a YMCA in your community, individuals have the opportu-nity to improve their health and well-being and connect with the community, all while participating in their favor-ite program or activity at the YMCA, Wassmer said.

“The YMCA is a com-munity that is dedicated to helping individuals achieve a balance of spirit, mind and body,” said Bonnie Wassmer, CEO of the Greater Susque-hanna Valley YMCA.

“We encourage everyone to get involved by joining the YMCA where they can take advantage of the re-sources and support to be healthy and connected.” As a leading nonprofit com-mitted to strengthening community through youth development, healthy living and social responsibility, the YMCA seeks to ensure that everyone, regardless of age, income or background, has an opportunity to learn, grow and thrive, Wassmer said.

The YMCA offers a va-riety of programs to help achieve greater health and well-being, nurture youth and inspire individuals to give back to better their com-munity, she said.

The Sunbury Branch of the Greater Susquehanna Val-ley YMCA has experienced many positive changes over the last year as the Robert B. Celletti Pool at the YMCA underwent many renovations and a new water boiler, sand filtration system and dehu-midification system were installed.

While these were all be-hind the scenes changes, the work has made a big impact on the quality of swimming and aquatic programs for the YMCA, Wassmer said.

In December, the Seiple Family Fitness Center under-went some renovations.

A rubber floor was in-stalled and 13 pieces of new cardio and strength training equipment were added.

Thanks to Hoegh Physi-cal Therapy, Wi-Fi was also installed allowing members free access, Wassmer said.

“The weight room also had new equipment added. These changes and additions will make a big impact in the quality of healthy living the YMCA members are seek-ing,” she said.

New Healthy Living pro-gramming has been added to the YMCA, Wassmer said.

The Get Fit Stay Healthy program is a 12 week orienta-tion to help beginners get on board and stick to an exercise program.

The YMCA 1000 cardio program began in March and is one of many new exercising initiatives designed to keep members active and healthy year round, Wassmer said.

Future renovations to the YMCA are in the works, Wassmer said.

“A new entrance, lighting, carpeting and fresh paint will be completed in the lobby,” she said.

“A new digital marquee will also be installed in front of the YMCA.

These renovations should start in the spring. Future renovations include updates and changes to both the men’s and women’s locker

rooms.”The YMCA’s gem is our

YMCA Art Center located on Fifth Street in Sunbury, Wassmer said.

“They too underwent some renovation this winter. The Jewelry Studio has been renovated to better accom-modate this forever growing program,” she said.

“A variety of art classes are offered for all ages and abili-

ties. You are bound to find an activity you enjoy. Some of the offerings are drawing and painting classes, sewing, knitting, and quilting, jew-elry making, lapidary, and pottery. A new and exciting line up of summer art classes is being planned.”

Meanwhile, the Union County Branch of the YMCA is conducting a market re-search study and a financial

feasibility study to confirm the needs of the residents in the Lewisburg area, Wassmer said.

“The YMCA is planning a new facility at the former Wal-Mart building, next to the Weis Markets and Evan-gelical Community Hospital in Lewisburg,” she said.

“The YMCA has received tremendous support to grow our programs and services

in Union County. After the studies are complete the YMCA will be announcing plans that will include what programs and services we’ll offer at the new facility, plus give a timeline on when it will be open for the community to enjoy.”

For more information about any of the programs, stop by the Sunbury YMCA at 1150 North Fourth Street

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Visit the Art Center at 35 S. Fifth St., Sunbury or call (570) 286-0818.

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Jenn Sanchez, a CT technician, shows the capabilities of 3D imaging available with the new CT scanner at Sunbury Community Hospi-tal.

By Justin StrawserThe Daily Item

SUNBURY — Officials at Sunbury Community Hos-pital are proud of their high quality care they provide to their patients and member-ship in the community for the last 120 years.

In an interview with The Daily Item, Lynn Taggart, director of emergency de-partment and case manger; Cathy Keister, chief nursing officer; and Baird Brehm, chief quality officer, stressed their devotion to “high reli-ability and safety.”

If they are incorporating steps along the way to ensure doing their work in the safest way possible, the results will mean better quality for all patients.

As part of its 120th year of serving the community, the 118-bed facility offering a range of services includ-ing inpatient, outpatient and emergency care, will be hav-ing ongoing events leading up to a celebration that includes an open house and other de-tails to be released soon.

The hospital, which has

been affiliated with Com-munity Health Systems for 10 years, was chartered in 1895 as Mary M. Packer Hospi-tal, which is also the former Sunbury Middle School on Catawissa Avenue. The cur-rent location at 350 11th St. was opened in 1951.

The emergency room was the last addition to the facil-ity. The 11,000-square-foot

facility has 14 treatment areas, including dedicated exam rooms specially outfit-ted for critical care patients, as well as gynecology, ob-stetrics, isolation, orthope-dics and patient fast-tracking services.

The hospital pledges to have patients initially seen within 30 minutes of their noted arrival, said Taggart.

“As a testament to our diligence and hardwork, our infection rates are be-low 1 percent — way below the national average,” said Brehm.

Patient satisfaction scores show that 96 percent of the people are “very satisfied” with their care and employees are 93 percent very satisfied with the work environment, said Keister.

“When you have people who love what you do, it shows,” she said.

Joseph H. Stender, market-ing director, said the hospital employees take their jobs se-riously.

“Patients are not just pa-tients or symptoms. They are friends or family. We’re a community hospital and we’re part of the community, too,” Stender said. “We’re not just a big building on a hill.”

More than $2 million in charity and uncompensated care was given out in 2013 to organizations like the United Way or Special Olympics.

The hospital also cooper-ates with the city of Sunbury to host the annual Sunbury

Challenge 4 Health, which promotes health lifestyle choices.

Education events are often held for emergency provid-ers and patients, such as par-ticipating in the Children’s Health Fair at the Susque-hanna Valley Mall. Ebola training was also recently held for employees.

In the last year, Dr. Jenni-fer Rager, an ear/nose/throat specialist, was hired to pro-vide speciality care. She is a great example of a qual-ity health care provider who keeps her patients comfort-able and informed, Stender said.

The hospital newest piece of equipment is the CT scan-ner, an X-ray machine worth more than $750,000. It pro-vides fast and detailed 3D images of bones, veins and arteries.

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Health and Fitness

By Karen BlackledgeThe Daily Item

DANVILLE – The Dan-ville Area Community Cen-ter changes as interests are changing.

“The only workout equip-ment when the center opened in 1986 was a small universal gym and free weights,” said Center Executive Director Jean Knouse.

Now the center, in its 29th year, offers a variety of fitness equipment including a room for teens and adults under 5 feet 4 inches tall and a fully equipped cardio-strength room.

When the center f irst opened, no one had heard of CrossFit, she said. Zumba and indoor cycling also are relatively new at the center, said Knouse who has been executive director since 1991.

Other classes offered in-clude boot camp, gentle yoga, flirty girls, fun at the barre, tapercize, a dance combo, preschool playtime and pre-school gymnastics.

Staple offerings through the years have been swim-ming lessons and basket-ball.

“We have the largest and nicest indoor pool in the area which makes it an attraction for people looking to swim for exercise,” she said. The Danville Dolphins and Dan-ville High School also use the pool for swim meets.

Knouse said the center is a community center and not here for a specific age group. “We try to provide activities and opportunities for folks of all ages,” she said.

“We offer Silver Sneakers classes which have been very popular among people of a certain age,” she said.

Since Jan. 1, the center be-gan offering a new program

through Geisinger Gold which is open to anyone with a fitness benefit as part of his or her health insurance plan. “We’re really excited about that,” she said.

The center has been suc-cessful in organizing a girls’ basketball program for third through sixth grades. Any-one wanting to participate can call the center at (570) 275-3001.

Knouse said they are at-tempting to hold family-type activities with “families ex-tremely important to our facility.”

Family Fridays were be-ing held Jan. 9 through Feb. 27 with the special program free to families who are cen-ter members. Families could choose from activities that evening including swimming and games in the pool, mov-ies in the fitness studio, ac-tivities and crafts for children and games and activities in the gym.

Teen Saturdays began Jan. 10 and continue through March 28 from 7 to 9 p.m.

They are open to teens in sixth, seventh and eighth grades who live in the Dan-ville Area School District or Montour County.

Dress is casual but nice. Teens can swim for the first hour, sit and chat with friends, play cards, games in the gym or if anyone wants to dance a DJ can be arranged. The cost is $2 for members and $5 for others.

The center has about 4,100 members with 315 being sponsored children and fami-lies who otherwise would not be able to be members, she said.

People can pay a daily guest fee if they don’t want to purchase a membership.

A membership drive con-tinues through March 17 with 10 percent off the cost of an annual membership and to anyone not a member since Jan. 1, 2014.

The center sells DACC-wood sandwiches each month except in the summer as a fundraiser. Orders can be placed by calling the center one week before the sale. Ham or turkey are available with delivery provided for a minimum of 12 sandwiches and within two miles of the center. The next sale is sched-uled March 25.

Bingo of Coach purses to benefit the center will be held March 15 in the Danville Moose Family Center.

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ELYSBURG — Only one thing is on everyone’s mind as Knoebels Amusement Re-sort officials prepare for the park’s 89th opening day on April 25: is Impulse going to be ready to ride?

The answer, according to Brian and Rick Knoebel is a resounding and excited “Yes!”

Currently, yellow steel beams jut up from the snowy landscape like giant Erec-tor sets while blue coaster tracks weave in and out of each other above the ground. The new coaster is taking shape.

“We’re great when it comes to families with kids 12 and under, but we didn’t really have anything for the thrill-seeking families. We wanted to add this for them,” said Rick Knoebel.

“We’re so excited for this,” said Brian Knoebel.

Impulse, the latest attrac-tion being prepared for the 2015 season by the fourth generation of the Knoebels family, features nearly 2,000 feet of track.

The vehicles will be lifted by a chain up a 98-foot-high hill with a 90-degree free-fall drop at 55 mph complete with several inversions.

As visitors enter the park, they will get a full view of the massive ride.

The coaster will have a bit of the Knoebels charm with a chain lift similar to their wooden coaster, said Stacy Ososkie, public relations di-rector.

The anticipation on the first hill is much like Stratos-Fear, said Brian Knoebel.

“You rise and rise and rise, but you don’t know when the drop is coming,” he said.

The ride is manufactured by Zierer and designed by Stengel, both German firms. The last adult steel coaster at Knoebels was the Whirlwind, which closed in 2005.

Each car will have two rows of four passengers in a stadium-like setting. Each seat will have lap restraints. A person must be 48 inches

to ride Impulse. The photobooth, gift shop

access road and landscaping are several parts of the ride that will be constructed last, but the tracks and coaster will be completed soon. The interior of the powerhouse is completed as well.

Opening weekend will in-clude a deal for buying one handstamp, getting the sec-ond free. The regular hand-stamp will include Impulse.

Impulse will be the larg-est addition or change to the park this year, but that doesn’t mean park officials have stopped there. Other tweaks will be rolled out this year as well, said Ososkie, Brian Knoebel and Rick Knoebel.

The food roundstand near the Haunted House has been expanded to include cheeses-teaks. The waffle ice cream treats are moving to the Old

Mill to replace the Dippin’ Dots location, which will be moved to the kiddie area.

The Giant Wheel will be installed with a new 45-min-ute LED light package.

The ride is currently being refurbished, but it should be back by opening day.

The first lift hill of the Phoenix is also being re-placed. Fans of Power Surge and 1001 Nachts will be ex-cited to learn these two rides are returning from refurbish-ment.

More areas of the park will also be accepting credit cards, including all ticket booths in the park.

The park’s fleet of electric convenience vehicles has in-creased from 100 to 150.

Several games that were located around Impulse will be moved.

The website will also be

revamped by opening day to provide guests with a more user friendly experience.

The park is a consistent winner of Golden Ticket awards. Brian and Rick Knoebel said it’s their goal to win the “friendliest park” award.

Dick Knoebel, 75, recently won the Hall of Fame award from the International Asso-ciation of Amusement Parks and Attractions.

Henry and Hattie Knoebel opened the amusement park in 1926.

The park now has more than 2,000 employees and is the second largest employer in Northumberland County. The fourth generation of the Knoebel family is taking over in leadership.

The fourth generation has been taking great steps for-ward, said Dick Knoebel.

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Knoebel’s newest roller coaster, “Impulse,” opens this season.


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LEWISBURG — Ac-cording to a 2014 report of statistics from the American Heart Association, an esti-mated 85.6 million people in the United States are liv-ing with cardiovascular dis-eases, including heart attack, stroke, high blood pressure, and chest pain.

Building on its reputation for improving the health of the Central Susquehanna Valley, Evangelical Commu-nity Hospital is answering those cardiovascular needs and further centralizing ser-vices in the new Heart and Vascular Center of Evangeli-cal.

What to Look for in 2015Standing firmly on a his-

tory of providing quality car-diac and vascular services, patients of Evangelical will see a dedicated heart and vascular practice opening in the summer of 2015, with everything under one roof. The Center will be located adjacent to the cardiovas-cular wing of Evangelical that opened in 2012. Having the Center on the Hospital campus will spell out conve-nience for patients who can have their diagnostic test-ing and even procedures, if needed, without traveling to other locations.

While the footprint of the Hospital will change to ac-commodate the new Center, patients don’t have to wait for the services. At Evangeli-cal now, patients have access to physicians who specialize in the medical and surgical treatment of cardiac and vas-cular conditions. Already on staff to answer those needs are Petra Lynch, MD, Car-diologist, Anuradha Tunu-guntla, MD, FACC, FSCAI, Interventional Cardiologist, and Todd Stefan, MD, FACS, RPVI, Vascular Surgeon.

In April of 2015, Evangeli-cal will see the addition of Christopher Brancato, MD, who specializes in medical cardiology.

Building on SuccessEvangelical’s expertise in

the area of cardiac and vas-cular services is shown in the numbers.

In 2014 alone, 577 cardiac catheterizations were com-pleted. A staggering 4,112 vascular procedures were done. Both numbers show the growing need for a Heart and Vascular Center in the region.

Cardiology services in-clude medical monitoring of patients with identified heart-related issues, diagnostic testing, minimally invasive emergent and interventional cardiac catheterizations, as well as balloon angioplasty and stent placement to open blocked arteries. Known for its comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation, Evangelical

aids patients in building heart strength and endurance through a supervised pro-gram. In addition, patients benefit from having routine check-ups with a consistent specialist to manage heart issues so they don’t evolve into emergencies. For car-diac emergencies there is a physician with surgical ca-pabilities on call 24/7, 365 days a year.

Vascular services range from cosmetic in-office pro-cedures to more extensive medical conditions associ-ated with Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD), or blockages and abnormalities of blood vessels outside of the heart. Vascular services include but are not limited to treatment of spider and varicose veins, which can cause leg pain and swelling; management

of carotid stenosis, which can cause stroke; blockages in leg arteries, which can cause leg pain, difficulty walking, and ulcers; and aneurysms, a ballooning of a portion of an artery, which can rupture and cause possible death. Patients experiencing any of those symptoms or condi-tions can benefit from care and services at the Heart and Vascular Center.

Convenience and Exper-tise

When the new Center opens, there will be a large number of exam rooms for Evangelical’s specialists to efficiently diagnose and man-

age heart and vascular needs, with shorter wait times. Be-yond the physicians involved with the Center is the back-ing of an experienced team. Evangelical has recruited an exceptional staff of technolo-gists and nurses who bring decades of catheterization lab experience to every pro-cedure performed at Evan-gelical.

The addition of the Heart and Vascular Center of Evan-gelical is just one more ex-ample of a local community hospital evolving to meet the needs of its patients, all in one place, with expertise and technology.

Heart and Vascular Center opens this summer

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This is an artist’s rendering of the Heart and Vascular Center of Evangelical Community Hospital, scheduled to open this summer.

Evangelical Community

HospitalEvangelical em-

ploys more than 1,600 people and has more than 170 employed and non-employed physi-cians on staff. The hospital is licensed to accommodate 132 overnight patients, 12 acute rehab patients, and 18 bassinets. The hospital serves resi-dents throughout the Central Susquehanna Valley, including those living in Snyder, Union, Northumberland, and Lycoming counties.

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SELINSGROVE — Susquehanna University has added 12 new programs to its roster of majors and minors in the past year, bringing the total to more than 60.

“We are always looking for ways to broaden the academic experience for our students,” said Susquehanna Uni-versity Provost Linda McMillin. “As the world around us evolves, so too must our academic offerings so that our graduates can be relevant in this constantly changing world. We believe these newly offered programs will go a long way toward that goal.”

The new offerings range from majors in luxury brand management and neu-roscience to minors in museum studies to data analytics.

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Museum studies offers students prac-tical experience in a museum while ex-ploring topics in art history, anthropol-ogy and history. Other minors include entrepreneurship and innovation, which is open to all students, providing skills on how to start and grow a business and leadership classes in philosophy, communications, management and psy-chology to help students gain a better understanding of group dynamics, eth-ics and personal interactions.

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