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PLUSHeat pump/AC tune-up tipsMix and matchSuper flowers

Time of tributeGold Star Families remember their fallen

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MAY 2016 Vol. 51 • No. 5

Editor Peter A. Fitzgerald

SEnior Editor/WritErKatherine Hackleman

Contributing ColuMniStSJames Dulley Janette Hess

George Weigel

lAYout & dESignW. Douglas Shirk

AdvErtiSing & CirCulAtionVonnie Kloss

MEdiA & MArkEting SpECiAliStMichelle M. Smith

Penn Lines (USPS 929-700), the newsmagazine of Pennsylvania’s electric cooperatives, is published monthly by the Pennsylvania Rural Electric Associa-tion, 212 Locust Street, P.O. Box 1266, Harrisburg, PA 17108-1266. Penn Lines helps 166,000 house-holds of co-op consumer-members understand issues that affect the electric cooperative program, their local co-ops, and their quality of life. Electric co-ops are not-for-profit, consumer-owned, locally directed, and tax-paying electric utilities. Penn Lines is not responsible for unsolicited manuscripts. The opinions expressed in Penn Lines do not necessarily reflect those of the editors, the Pennsylvania Rural Electric Association, or local electric distribution cooperatives.

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Board officers and staff, Pennsylvania Rural Electric Association: Chairman, Leroy Walls; Vice Chair man, Tim Burkett; Secretary, Barbara Miller; Treas urer, Rick Shope; President & CEO, Frank M. Betley

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archive of past issues.

4 kEEping CurrEnt News from across

the Commonwealth

6 EnErgY MAttErS Energy savings beyond belief

8 CovEr: tiME of tributE Gold Star Families remember

their fallen

12 SMArt CirCuitS DIY heat pump/air conditioner

tune-up tips

14 tiME linES Your newsmagazine

through the years

14a CoopErAtivE ConnECtion Information and advice from

your local electric cooperative

16 tECH trEndS Reliable electricity becoming even

more reliable

18 SpotligHt 50th Anniversary Contests

20 fEAturE: boAlSburg rEMEMbErS

Pennsylvania town home to first Memorial Day

22 ClASSifiEdS

24 CountrY kitCHEn Mix and match

25 poWEr plAntS Super flowers: the best of the

best annuals

26 punCH linES One-star family looks at four-star

summer vacation

27 rurAl rEflECtionS Celebrate ‘The Merry Month of May’

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keepingcurrent

‘Co-ops vote’ initiative encourages voting

Rural electric cooperatives across the United States are joining together to launch a campaign to help get rural residents to vote and insert issues of importance to cooperatives and their members into the public discussion.

As members of electric cooperatives, most Penn Lines readers have the opportunity every year to vote for directors to represent them on their local cooperative board of directors. But across the country, citizens often do not exercise that right to vote when it comes to local, state and national elections.

In 2012 during the national presidential election, the decline of voting in rural counties was 18 percent, twice that of the country as a whole. When residents choose not to vote, they lose the opportunity to

communicate their concerns about issues that matter to them.

The list of eight key issues cooperatives are focusing on getting elected leaders to understand includes: rural broadband access,

hiring and honoring veterans, low-income energy assistance, cybersecurity, water regulations, rural health care access, affordable and reliable energy, and renewable energy.

Every cooperative member can become involved in this initiative. Visit the Co-ops Vote website, www.vote.coop, and take the pledge to become a

“Co-op Voter.” The website provides information about elected officials and candidates, the voter registration process, election dates and locations, and background about the eight key issues.

Co-ops Vote is a nonpartisan program developed by the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association,

the national service organization that represents the nation’s more than 900 private, not-for-profit, consumer-owned electric cooperatives. With 42 million members across the nation, electric cooperatives are a powerful voice on national issues that have a local impact.

pfbC celebrates 150th anniversary

The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC), one of the nation’s oldest conservation agencies, is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year.

According to the PFBC, a group met in Harrisburg in early 1866 to investigate pollution in the state’s mountain lakes and streams, and the end of spring shad runs due to the construction of dams. As a result, the legislature approved and Gov. Andrew G. Curtin signed into law in March 1866 the act creating the Board of Fishery Commissioners with James Worrall as the board’s first commissioner of fisheries. The board would eventually be renamed the Pennsylvania Fish Commission (now the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission).

While the name has changed through the years, the agency’s commitment to protecting aquatic resources in order to have great recreational fishing and boating has remained the same.

Information about the agency’s founding and its plan to celebrate its anniversary can be found at its website, www.fish.state.pa.us (click on the 150th anniversary icon). l

News from across the Commonwealth

GOODBYE, VONNIE: Penn Lines’ longtime advertising & circulation coordinator, Vonnie Kloss, has retired after working for the Pennsylvania Rural Electric Association (pub-lisher of Penn Lines) for more than 35 years. She was an integral part of each issue for decades and even graced the magazine’s front cover in October 1988 (right), which featured the dedication of the Raystown Hydroelectric Project in Huntingdon County. Vonnie played a key role in the recipe column and our monthly Rural Reflections feature. We wish her the best in her retirement and thank her for her years of dedicated service to Penn Lines.

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Energy savings beyond beliefBy Brian Sloboda

A quick search of the internet reveals many great ways to save energy around your home. Simple things, such as adding insulation or using energy-effi-cient lightbulbs, are simple and relatively inexpensive ways to save small

amounts of energy. The same search will also reveal “amazing” products that claim to cut up to a third of your energy bill — without your changing anything about your energy use habits. Claims like this sound too good to be true, and there is good reason for that. These claims almost always turn out to be exaggerations or downright lies.

money, improve our lives and feed our families. But wanting something to work doesn’t mean it will.

Sometimes energy scammers contact consumers directly, either by calling or stopping by and claiming they represent your electric cooperative. Never give anyone personal or finan-cial information who claims to be an employee of the cooperative without confirming their identity. If they call, ask for a call-back number, then verify their identity with your cooperative. If they stop by, ask the person for a valid employee ID.

The key is to be skeptical and ask questions. Asking tough questions and being skeptical will not offend honest people. Remember, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. l

Brian Sloboda is a technical research analyst specializing in energy efficiency and renewable energy for the Business Technology Strategies (BTS), a service of the Arlington, Va.-based National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.

An energy-efficiency scam is gener-ally easy for a person who works at an electric cooperative to spot and iden-tify. However, it isn’t so easy for most people. Scams generally center around misstatements of science or confusion over utility programs.

A popular scam is a little box that promises to save you energy. The box is a device that supposedly saves energy without the consumer making any changes to behavior, turning any-thing off or adjusting the thermostat. The people who sell these boxes often claim outrageous energy savings — sometimes as much as 30 percent or more. They often use terms such as power conditioning, capacitors and power factor, all of which are legiti-mate industry terms.

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BRAD’S HILL: Army Pfc. Bradley G. Kritzer, who died on May 5, 2005, in Baghdad, is remem-bered with this memorial near the home of his parents in Irvona.

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hit just behind the front wheel, killing him instantly. And in that terrible moment, Jack and Marilyn joined a group whose membership is earned through loss and marked with a shining symbol to honor the ultimate sacrifice of our nation’s warriors: Gold Star Families.

Symbol of sacrificeThe Service Flag or Service Banner is

a white field with a red border contain-

ing stars representing family members serving in the U.S. Armed Forces during war. It was designed in 1917 by U.S. Army Capt. Robert L. Queisser for his two sons, both of whom were serv-ing in The Great War. Each star stands for a service member: blue stars for those who are serving, and gold stars for those who have died while serving.Since the end of World War I, more than half a million Americans have died during war or conflict.

time of tribute Gold Star Families remember their fallen

By Neil C. Jones Contributing Writer

Jack and Marilyn’s two sons, Michael and John, were both serving in Iraq.

“You kinda know,” says Jack, a mem-ber of United Electric Cooperative. “It’s everybody’s nightmare when the military comes to the door.”

Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Tully died Aug. 23, 2007. The 33-year-old Special Forces combat medic, Ranger and former Marine was in a vehicle near Al Aziziyah, southeast of Baghdad, when an improvised explosive device (IED)

“It was a nice night,” Jack Tully says. “It was summer, it was in August. The garage doors were open, it was nice. Naturally, I’m sitting watching TV or something, and Marilyn says to me, ‘There’s a car that just pulled in.’ So I

get up. I looked out and saw the soldiers coming, and Marilyn came out behind me, and all we could say was, ‘Which one?’”

TULLY MEMORY QUILT: Marilyn Tully, of Falls Creek, pulls out a quilt made of squares sent as con-dolences on the loss of her son, U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Tully, on Aug. 23, 2007, in Iraq. A Gold Star Banner hangs on the wall behind Tully.

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“All the time he was growing up, that’s all he ever talked about doing, going into the military,” Marilyn says about her son.

She remembers Michael and John as children pretending to be soldiers, with camouflage curtains and bedspreads, and even camouflaging themselves with poison ivy while at play. Michael became a Marine, and then transi-tioned to the Army, becoming an elite Green Beret. John would also go on to be a soldier, retiring this year after more than 20 years of service. It was John who brought his brother home from Iraq.

“You know,” Marilyn says, “every-body will console you and talk to you and express their concern for you, but a lot of times, I think the siblings — sometimes I feel, personally, that the siblings are overlooked.”

Phillip and Robert Hayslett and their sister, Melody Connelly, know the pain of losing a sibling. Their brother, U.S. Army Sgt. Timothy L. Hayslett, was 26 years old when he was killed by an IED on a side street in Baghdad Nov. 15, 2003. But Robert, an Army explosive ordnance disposal non-commissioned officer serving in Fort Drum, N.Y.,re-members his older brother as some-thing more than a soldier.

“He was a person,” he says. “He wasn’t just Sgt. Hayslett.”

“Timmy was lost for a lot of years, didn’t know what direction he wanted to go,” says Mary Hayslett, a resident of Newville and their mother. “He tried his hand at a few things, was excel-lent at sports, but didn’t get the whole school thing. We tried to give him discipline, and our form of discipline didn’t work for him. Timmy could be alone in a crowded room. That was the kind of person that he was.”

“He came to me and said he was join-ing the Army,” says Phillip, the oldest son and a former Marine. “You know how I felt about that,” he adds, laugh-ing. “I said, ‘I’ll believe that when I see it.’ And he did it. And it was, like, that was the click. He excelled very fast. Any of the guys he was in with that I’ve talk-ed to said he was very well respected.”

The Hayslett children’s father, Guy Hayslett, a member of Adams Elec-tric Cooperative, was a Vietnam-era Marine.

“I told him that it was his choice,” he says of Timothy’s decision to join the Army. “I would have liked to see him go into the Marine Corps, but it was his choice. Hell, he surprised me. I mean, he really got it together, and he was doing good for himself.”

“I think a lot of it was the whole unit,” Mary says.“The guys that he got close to, that feeling of not being alone. I guess that’s what clicked for him.”

“Structure,” Guy adds.“And a routine,” Mary continues.

“And pride. There was a lot of pride there. He was proud of what he did.”

Though she and her family are just as proud of that service, Mary doesn’t hold back when it comes to the pain she feels from losing her son.

“People have told us time heals,” she says. “Time doesn’t heal. You get better at acting. You get better at skating around that hole every day and every

day and every day, and every once in a while, something will come along and kick your butt right in that hole.”

“It’s something you deal with every day,” Guy adds.

“My biggest fear is that he’ll just fade into history, that he’ll be forgotten, that the only people who’ll remember him will be us,” Mary says.

remembranceTo ensure that all who have lost their

lives in times of war are remembered, United Electric Cooperative members Roger and Sharon Kritzer have set up a memorial near their home at the intersection of Ansonville Road and Kitchens Road, Irvona, on property owned by cooperative members Blair and Kathy Williams.

The Kritzers call the memorial “Brad’s Hill,” in memory of their son, Army Pfc. Bradley G. Kritzer, who was killed by an IED on the streets of Baghdad on May 5, 2005, when he was only 19.

The memorial features a three-ton

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boulder with Brad’s photo engraved on a porcelain inset, a concrete cannon, flags and a kneeling soldier paying his respects.

“But it’s not just about Brad,” Roger explains. “My goal is to support all our troops. It’s a reminder that we are still at war.”

Since he was a child, Brad had always been interested in the military, even writing about it in elementary school papers, but after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, he was deter-mined to serve his country, his parents recall.

“He could have done anything,” his father says of Brad, “but he put his life on hold to serve his country. He was taking online courses and wanted to be a conservation officer someday, but he had a dream of serving his country first.”

Today, his parents carry on the tradi-tion of service.

“We support our troops every way we can,” Roger explains. “We provide a shoulder to lean on for other fam-ilies in the same situation. We ship packages, we keep the memorial lit to recognize the soldiers who serve our country. Yeah, we hurt, and we are part of the equation, but Brad was where he wanted to be. It wasn’t like he had to go there.”

Keeping the memory of a loved one alive is also very important for Larry Farner of Dillsburg. Though he never met his Uncle Bob, Larry has letters, official records and photographs that account for the life of Army Pfc. Robert E. Engle, a paratrooper and combat medic with the 377th Parachute Field Artillery attached to the 101st Airborne Division, who was killed in Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944.

“A lot of what we know, our parents told us,” says Larry, who is also a mem-ber of Adams Electric Cooperative. “There were 11 children in the family, and we got to know all of the other brothers and sisters, but there was always that one that was missing that we never knew.”

Generally accepted as quite a hand-(continues on page 19)

a number of other people responded to the Penn Lines request for names of gold star families, providing the following names of men who died in service to their country:

James corrigan, brother of anna gunnett, williamsburg, pa., July 1944, (valley rec), battle of saint lô, france

army spc. stephen r. currier, son of w. richard and Joy currier, genesee, pa., (tri-county rec), november 2010

army pvt. gregory evanetz, brother of anna marie harker, mill creek, pa., (valley rec), feb. 3, 1945, battle of the bulge, europe

army pfc. william c. folmar, brother of pauline hubler, morrisdale, pa., (united ec), april 12, 1945, world war ii

spc. larry clarence haylett, brother of danny haylett, albion, pa., (northwestern rec), 1967, vietnam

army cpl. theron s. hensel, brother of alice hensel, newburg, pa., (adams ec), June 11, 1945, leyte, philippines

pfc. quentin hess, brother of melva hess calaman, sabinsville, pa., (tri-county rec), may 1, 1944, anzio, italy

army cpl. dale J. kridlo, nephew of robert and lynn cingolani, tunkhannock, pa., (claverack rec), nov. 7, 2010, kunar province, afghanistan

marine pfc. earl John lanzendorfer, brother of eva coho, duncansville, pa., (valley rec), sept. 15, 1944, battle of peleliu

marine pfc. danny e. nicklow, son of bernice rodeheaver, friendsville, md., (somerset rec), march 16, 1967, khe sanh, vietnam

tec5 simon f. ohler, brother of shirley schrock, garrett, pa., (somerset rec), feb. 12, 1943, world war ii

army chief warrant officer matthew p. ruffner, son of chuck and diane ruffner, cherry tree, pa., (rea energy cooperative), april 9, 2013, nangarhar province, afghanistan

army sgt. 1st class scott r. smith, grandson of richard and betty smith, rossiter, pa., (rea energy cooperative), July 17, 2006, iskandariyah, iraq

spc. richard vanblarcom, son of mildred vanblarcom, columbia crossroads, pa., (tri-county rec), may 12, 1968, vietnam

army pfc. travis zimmerman, son of lloyd zimmerman Jr., new berlinville, pa., (tri-county rec), april 22, 2006, iraq

HAYsLett MeMoRIAL: Mary and Guy Hayslett, of Newville, hold hands in front of a plaque ded-icated to their son, U.s. Army sgt. timothy L. Hayslett, who was killed in Iraq on Nov. 15, 2003.

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diY heat pump/air conditioner tune-up tips

By James Dulley

Dear Jim: I have the central air conditioner serviced periodi-cally. It is running fine, but are

there any simple low-tech maintenance things I can do between service calls to improve efficiency? — Randy G.

Dear Randy: There are things you can do to keep your central air condi-tioner running at maximum efficiency and cooling output. Keep in mind, though, it is a complicated piece of equipment so you still need regular professional service calls.

Although not really a tune-up item, run your air conditioner less during the peak afternoon heat by setting the thermostat a few degrees higher. An automatic setback thermostat with at least three setback periods (day, after-noon, night) is ideal.

This does two things. First, an air conditioner efficiency drops when it’s hottest outdoors, so it uses more elec-tricity. Second, setting the thermostat higher reduces peak electricity demand, which minimizes rate increases and greenhouse gas emissions.

The most important factor for effi-cient operation is getting maximum air flow through the outdoor condenser coils.

Clear the area on the grille side of the outdoor unit where the condenser coils are exposed. Cut plants and branches back to provide at least 2 feet of clearance.

Inspect the inside of the outdoor unit for excessive debris. There will always be some debris (leaves, sticks, etc.), but if it looks excessive, clean it out. Always switch off the circuit breaker inside the house and pull the outdoor electric dis-connect before reaching inside the unit.

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The easiest way to clean it out is to remove the side access cover. It doesn’t have to be squeaky clean inside, but remove as much by hand as possible. Using the tip of a knife, separate any fins that have been bent together to allow air flow through. Don’t try to straighten them too much or they may break off.

It is very important to make sure all the screws are tight when you replace the side access cover. Check the tight-ness of the screws twice a year.

For efficiency, it is equally import-ant to have adequate air flow through the cooling coils in the indoor blower unit. Remove the access panel over the indoor coils and blower. Use the brush attachment on a vacuum cleaner to remove the dust. Use a damp rag to wipe dirt off any stubborn areas.

If you found the blower area is very dirty, install a better quality furnace filter. When the air conditioner is run-

ning, check for leaky duct joints and seal them with aluminum or duct tape.

Dear Jim: I want to place my new clothes dryer on an inside wall. It would be easiest to vent it upward through the roof. What is the best and most efficient way to vent it? — Ann D.

Dear Ann: You must vent a dryer properly when going through the roof or it constantly sucks air out of your house. Use a special vent cover made just for roof venting. Twenty feet is about the maximum duct length or the air resistance may become too great.

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Your Newsmagazine Through the Years

Just because you live in a rural community doesn’t mean you have to miss out on the latest news or the most-popular songs. Satellite programming, which picks up program feeds from other states, enables small, rural radio stations to operate on a 24-hour basis even with a small staff.

As important as top-notch entertainment and the latest news is, it’s the unique connection between local radio stations and their communities that makes them special. Radio is an im-portant resource in any area, providing instantaneous weather and traffic updates, as well as local news. But it is especially critical in rural areas, where it is often the only source for up-to-the-minute local information.

Like rural electric cooperatives, many small town radio stations are locally owned and operated. And like rural electric cooperatives, one of their main missions is to serve the com-munities where they are located. This personal stake in the business — and the community — is what keeps rural radio stations delivering the best product they can.

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Rory Pearson, now the safety/energy use specialist at Adams Electric Cooperative, is a veteran of the Gulf War, Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

A Reagan Adminis-tration plan to sell off federal power agencies could impact the stability of 600 rural electric cooperatives.

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Your electricity is on almost all the time. You knew that. But you might not know how

much of the time it’s on. And that the amount of time it’s on has been getting better every year.

Electricity has become so reliable that the numbers for a typical American home sound crazy. For most people, the total amount of time without power (an outage) is less than two hours a year — that means their electricity is on 99.977169 percent of the time.

“You can’t have 100 percent reliabil-ity all the time on something as large as an electric distribution system,” says Tony Thomas, principal engineer at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. “But reliability has been getting much better.”

To understand the improvements in electric utility reliability, you need to be introduced to what Thomas says are known as “the three sisters:” the acro-nyms SAIDI, CAIDI and SAIFI.

Those stand for different ways to measure how power outages affect con-sumers. Here’s what they mean:

SAIDI shows how long an average customer goes without power during a year. It stands for System Average Interruption Duration Index. It’s cal-culated by dividing all of a utility’s power interruptions by the number of customers that utility serves. Analysts caution against citing a national average SAIDI because of the huge differences in utilities across the country and how data is collected. But a report from the Institute for Electrical and Electron-ics Engineers (IEEE) puts the typical customer as being without power 115 minutes a year.

SAIFI shows how often the power goes out for each customer. It stands for System Average Interruption Frequency Index. It’s calculated by dividing the number of customer interruptions by the number of customers.

CAIDI shows the average time it takes to restore power after an outage. It stands for Customer Average Interruption Dura-tion Index. It’s calculated by dividing SAIDI by SAIFI.

All three of these reliability mea-sures have been improving, according to IEEE reports. The amount of time a utility customer was without electricity for the year (SAIDI) declined about 20 percent in the most recent four years of figures, from 143 minutes in 2011, to 115 minutes in 2014.

The number of outages per typi-cal consumer in a year (SAIFI) went down from 1.16 to 1.07. And how long each of those outages lasted (CAIDI) declined from 117 minutes in 2011 to 104 minutes in 2014.

Thomas credits advances in utility technology for those improvements.

More and more mechanical electric meters are being replaced with auto-mated smart meters that do more than just measure the bulk use of electricity coming to the meter at your house. They can also monitor whether elec-tricity is delivered to your house at all, as well as the voltage quality of that electricity.

Another step toward utilities spotting and solving outages faster is the more

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High-tech innovation reducing power outagesBy Paul Wesslund

widespread adoption of high-tech mon-itoring systems. These SCADA (Super-visory Control and Data Acquisition) systems are typically set up as several computer monitors in a control room, each showing a different view of the utility’s service area, including weather maps and detailed schematics of each power line, substation, and home or business served.

Thomas credits electric cooperatives with making special use of technology to overcome the barriers of long dis-tances between consumer-members. Outages and other routine changes in power flow can be more quickly and easily addressed remotely, without hav-ing to make a long drive to a home or substation.

“Rural electric co-ops have done an amazing job of adopting technology and putting it to use,” Thomas says. “And all this technology just translates into better operation of the electric system.” l

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50th Anniversary ContestsPenn Lines staff

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Penn Lines. As part of the anniver-sary celebration, we asked readers to participate in a number of contests (all contest entries are now closed). Throughout 2016, we will be printing win-

ning entries, plus selected other entries, in the magazine.

gift card (the winning entry from the “Oldest Penn Lines” was published in February, the winning entry for the “Most Well-Trav-eled Penn Lines” was pub-lished in March and the winning entry for the essay question, “How does Penn Lines help me as a coop-erative member?” was published in April).

Here is Smith’s winning entry:“My first memory of the Penn Lines

magazine goes back many years. My

mother-in-law was very ill and she had asked me to make her favorite candy. It was divinity. I had no idea what it was, let alone how to make it.

“My husband told me he saw a rec-ipe for the candy in Penn Lines. Well, I looked and there it was! I had hit the

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and we took it to my husband’s mother. She loved it! She said it was exactly what she had remem-bered. Great job, Penn Lines!

“Ever since then, the recipes are a favorite part of Penn Lines for me. I have gotten many delicious recipes. Keep it up!”

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Here are some of the entries in the “oldest magazine” division:

JULY 1977: Bonnie Miner, a member of Wysox-based Claverack Rural Electric Cooperative, holds the oldest Penn Lines magazine she has saved. It is from July 1977.

JANUARY 1996: Dean eichen, a member of Cambridge springs-based Northwestern Rural electric Cooperative, holds a Penn Lines magazine published in January 1996.

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This month’s winning entry — sub-mitted by Dawn Smith, a member of Indiana-based REA Energy Cooperative — is for the essay contest answering the question, “What is your earliest memory of Penn Lines?” The winning entry was randomly drawn from all submissions in that category.

An announcement coming up later in 2016 will include the winner in the remaining essay contest: “What Does Penn Lines Mean to Rural Pennsylva-nia?” Winning entries from the five anniversary contests will receive a $50

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time of tribute(continued from page 10)some young man, Robert was known as “Cutie,” and the family still tells of how he carried his 3-year-old cousin, Doris, to the house from a swimming hole after she hit her head, and the time he totaled his new car, bought a new one that was a different color, and convinced his mother he had simply repainted the old car so she wouldn’t find out about the accident.

“He sounded like an awesome guy,” Larry says.

HonorThe state of Pennsylvania has tried

to do its part to keep the memories of lost service members alive. The bridges on Highway 830 going to DuBois Regional Airport are now the “SFC Michael J. Tully Memorial Bridges,” a section of Route 233 in Newville has been designated as the “Army Sgt. Tim-othy L. Hayslett Memorial Highway” and a bridge just off Route 53 in Becca-ria Township in Clearfield County has been named the “PFC Bradley Gordon Kritzer Memorial Bridge.”

Mary Hayslett says it helps to know her son is being honored.

“If anything, he deserves to be honored,” she says. “They say it’s the ultimate sacrifice, and it is. He gave his life so my youngest son had the oppor-tunity to go into the military. That his older brother has the freedom to decide to go work on the railroad. That’s why he did what he did. And to have him be honored, it means a lot.”

Despite their loss, many Gold Star Families continue to serve the military community. Marilyn Tully is an active member of Gold Star Mothers, and Jack Tully, a former soldier, is an Amer-ican Legion district commander. Guy Hayslett serves on an honor guard for military funerals, many for those who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“Once you take the oath, you never give it back,” he says.

“The big thing is,” says Jack Tully, “we have and we’re going to continue to be as positive as we can about this. You know, carry on. We have an opportunity

to make something positive out of this. We try to, and we have since the begin-ning. We’ve always tried to stay positive about it, to tell people about our sons,

WORLD WAR II HERO: Army Pfc. Robert E. Engle, a medic in the 377th Parachute Field Artillery, was killed on D-Day, June 6, 1944, which he references in one of his last letters home as “the big day.”

what they’ve done. We never want any-thing negative to come out of it.”

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WE REMEMBER: Members of the 28th Infantry Division of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard gather every year in May to remember the division’s fallen members and to reflect on the service of all past and present military personnel.

Local historians credit three Boalsburg ladies for beginning the national celebration of Memorial Day. (Other communi-ties also claim credit for this, but documents showing that in 1864, Boalsburg residents Emma Hunter, Sophie Keller and Elizabeth Myers placed flowers on the graves of two fallen soldiers provide enough background that residents can legiti-mately continue to make their case for being the first.)

Today, women dressed in period costumes re-create the ceremony of laying flowers in the Boalsburg Cemetery every Memorial Day. They also walk in the annual parade, held at 5 p.m. on the Saturday before Memorial Day.

Boalsburg, a community of fewer than 4,000 residents, is so close to State College, yet removed from the major highways, that it often is overlooked by the

casual passersby. But, for veterans, people with an interest in history or anyone who loves the charm of “Small Town, USA,” it’s impossible to ignore the area that lays claim to being the birthplace of Memorial Day.

While important, Boalsburg’s connection to remembering fallen service members extends beyond the first Memorial Day, says Doug Roles, Valley Rural Electric Cooperative’s manager of member services and a member of the Pennsyl-vania Army National Guard.

“Ever since 1919, members of the 28th Infantry Division have gathered in mid-May for a memorial service at the 28th Division Shrine on the grounds of the Pennsylvania Military Museum,” Roles says. “It’s a moving ceremony that honors the Iron Division’s fallen and provides an opportunity for reflection on the service of all our soldiers, past and present.”

The National Guard ceremony annually kicks off remem-brances and celebrations that extend through Memorial Day in Boalsburg.

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by a vote of its residents in 1820 as a way to honor the Boal family. According to local history, the first Boals moved to the area in the late 1700s. Born in 1867, Theodore Davis Boal went on to study in Paris, where he met his wife. The couple returned to central Pennsylvania in 1898 and purchased land in Centre County. As fighting escalated in Europe during the early years of World War I, both Theodore Davis Boal and his

son volunteered overseas — the elder Boal donating money and materials to French hospitals and the younger Boal join-ing the French cavalry.

Upon his return to Pennsylvania in 1916, Theodore Davis Boal set out to form a horse-mounted machine gun troop — Boal Troop — that could assist the National Guard if, as he anticipated, the U.S. became involved in the war. Boal’s pre-diction came true, and eventually his troop served overseas with the 28th Division, with 12 men killed in action.

Those fallen heroes were remembered at the first memorial service held in 1919 at the shrine that is now a part of the Pennsylvania Military Museum complex. The annual event, known as “A Celebration of Service: Honoring Pennsylva-nia’s Veterans,” is open to the public. It includes exhibits, a military band concert and a 21-gun howitzer salute. This year’s event is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, May 22, with the formal ceremony to begin at 12:30 p.m.

Along with the shrine, the museum, located at 51 Boal Avenue (just off Business Route 322/Pennsylvania 28th Division Highway east of State College), is also located on part of the original Boal estate. Construction on the military museum began in 1967, and it opened to the public in May 1969. Originally planned to tell the story of the citizen sol-diers in the National Guard, the museum has been renovated and upgraded a number of times, and now honors all service branches and conflicts since the 1700s, with special empha-sis on the 20th century. Since 1957, it has been a part of the

Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.In addition to the National Guard ceremony, the museum

also hosts a number of other events throughout the year, including “World War II Revisited,” an encampment of Axis and Allied re-enactors on the grounds of the museum every Memorial Day weekend. This year’s events, scheduled for May 28-29, include displays of vehicles, uniforms and equip-ment with a tactical patrol demonstration at 12:45 p.m. each day and a canteen show at 2:30 p.m. on May 28.

World War I is remembered each year in April with a sim-ilar encampment by living historians, and the Vietnam War will be revisited this year on July 23-24 with an immersive experience into the Southeast Asian conflict set in 1968-69. U.S. military conflicts that took place between the 18th and 21st centuries will be highlighted Sept. 10 and 11 this year, with re-enactors from each era.

Boalsburg’s focus on remembering the nation’s fallen ser-vice members includes a five-day celebration held annually over the Memorial Day holiday. Weekend activities include a carnival sponsored by the Boalsburg Fire Company, sched-uled this year from May 26-30.

The annual observance ends with the Memorial Day Festi-val on May 30, scheduled from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., with food, music, craft vendors and two Civil War battle re-enactments at the historic Boal Mansion. The annual Memorial Day Ser-vice begins at 6 p.m. May 30 with a community walk to the cemetery where flowers first decorated veterans’ graves more than 150 years ago. The ceremony there takes place near the life-sized sculpture of three women laying flowers at a grave.

“Boalsburg is a small community, but it goes all out to hon-or our country’s fallen heroes every May,” Roles notes.

For more information about museum activities, schedules and admission fees, visit www.pamilmuseum.org or call 814-466-6263. l

WWII REVISITED: The Pennsylvania Military Museum in Boalsburg annu-ally hosts the “World War II Revisited” encampment of re-enactors every Memorial Day weekend. The event also includes displays of uniforms, vehi-cles and equipment.

THE LADIES OF 1864: In re-enactment ceremonies, Boalsburg resident May Fisher portrays Elizabeth Myers, one of the three women who are credited with beginning what would become national Memorial Day cere-monies around the country when in 1864 they laid flowers at the graves of family members who had died in the Civil War. The sculpture honors Myers, Emma Hunter and Sophie Keller.

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countrykitchen

Mix and matchBy Janette Hess

Whisk together all ingredients and serve immediately. Chill any leftover dressing, but return to room tempera-ture before serving again. Makes approximately 3/4 cup dressing.Serving suggestion: Toss baby arugula or baby spinach with desired amount of dressing. Top with crumbled feta cheese, toasted almonds and thinly sliced red onion.

Citrusy dressing1 tablespoon fresh

lemon juice1 tablespoon fresh lime

juice3 tablespoons orange

juice 1/2 cup extra virgin

olive oil

2 teaspoons honey1 teaspoon Dijon

mustard1/4 teaspoon dried

thyme, crushed1/8 teaspoon saltfreshly ground pepper

to taste

Combine all ingredients, except poppy seeds, in blender or food processor. Blend until smooth. Stir in poppy seeds, if desired. Serve immediately. Chill leftovers. Makes approximately 1 cup dressing.Serving suggestion: Toss baby spinach and sliced strawberries with desired amount of dressing. Add blueberries, toasted pecans and sliced green or red onion. For extra flavor, sprinkle with crumbled feta or blue cheese.

Strawberry vinaigrette1/2 cup canola oil1/4 cup red wine

vinegar1/4 cup sugar4 large, ripe

strawberries, trimmed1/4 teaspoon paprika

1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce

1/4 teaspoon salt1/4 teaspoon onion

powder1 teaspoon poppy

seeds (optional)

Using hand mixer or small blender, combine sour cream, mayonnaise, buttermilk, lemon juice and 1 ounce blue cheese crumbles. Mix until smooth. Fold in remaining blue cheese crumbles, chives, Worces-tershire sauce, hot pepper sauce and freshly ground pepper. Chill several hours to allow flavors to blend. Makes approximately 1 cup dressing.Serving suggestion: Spoon dressing over iceberg lettuce wedges. Top with crisp, crumbled bacon and additional blue cheese.

1/4 cup sour cream1/4 cup mayonnaise 1/4 cup buttermilk

or additional 2 tablespoons sour cream and 2 tablespoons mayonnaise

1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice

2 ounces blue cheese, crumbled and divided

1 tablespoon freshly snipped chives

1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce

3-4 drops hot pepper sauce

freshly ground pepper to taste

blue Cheese dressing

A trained journalist, Janette Hess focuses her writing on interest-ing people and interesting foods. She is a Master Food Volunteer with her local extension service and enjoys collecting, testing and sharing recipes.

Before spring gets away from you, treat your family and friends to perfectly mixed and matched salads. To start, simply mix up one of this month’s easy dressing recipes. Next, match it with the perfect leafy green. Finally, hand

out the forks, because dinner salad is served!

In recent years, food snobs have tossed iceberg lettuce aside in favor of more exot-ic offerings. Even so, homemade Blue Cheese Dressing begs to be served over cool, crisp wedges of iceberg lettuce.

Arugula, also known as salad rocket, is a bright, peppery green that has found its way into most supermarket produce sections. For a salad that’s delicious but decid-edly different, mix baby arugula with Citrusy Dressing and top it with feta cheese, toasted almonds and sliced red onion. Arugula also adds a pleasing zip to sandwich-es and pizzas.

Because ripe, juicy strawberries are abundant at this time of year, match them with baby spinach and a batch of Strawberry Vinaigrette. Add blueberries, toasted pecans and sliced onions to the mix, and you have captured the essence of spring in a salad bowl! l

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powerplants

Super flowers: the best of the best annuals

By George Weigel

The arrival of another frost-free season means the coast is clear to plant our 2016 crop of annu-

al flowers.

Annuals are transients that live their entire existence in one season. You plant them in spring, they bloom their heads off all summer, then they croak in fall’s freeze.

“Why bother?” you may ask. After all, don’t plenty of perennial flowers come back year after year in Pennsyl-vania’s climate?

Yeah, but most perennials bloom four to six weeks of the year, while most annuals bloom non-stop from the day you plant them until the day you yank them.

The caliber of annuals’ floral show also is generally a notch or two above most perennials.

In other words, you get a lot in return for the work and expense of replanting each year.

Whether you plant in the ground or pots, today’s annuals are light years ahead of what Grandma could buy.

Growers are producing some super performers that bloom fuller, bloom longer, and fend off bugs, disease and weather better than ever.

This year, check out some of the best on today’s market:

Euphorbia. 10- to 18-inch-tall rounded plants put out baby’s-breath-like clusters of white or pale pink. They look dainty, but they’re bul-let-proof in heat and drought. Dia-mond Frost, Breathless Blush and the Stardust series are especially good. (Sun to light shade.)

Angelonia. Another dainty-looker, angelonias resemble orchids or snap-dragons with their 12- to 18-inch spikes of purple, lavender, pink or

george Weigel is a Pennsyl-vania Certified Horticulturist, author of two books geared to gardening in Pennsylvania, and garden columnist for The Patri-ot-News/Pennlive.com in Har-risburg. His website is http://georgeweigel.net.

white. Serena and AngelMist are excel-lent lines. (Sun to light shade.)

Begonia Dragon Wing. Unlike small wax begonias that come in cheapie six-packs, Dragon Wings flourish into arching 2- to 3-foot-wide beauties with glossy leaves, reddish stems and droop-ing flowers of red or pink. They’re especially nice in hanging baskets. The Big and Whopper series also are excel-lent. (Sun or shade.)

Coleus. Now that downy mildew disease has made it difficult to grow impatiens, coleus is your go-to shade annual. These are grown for their brightly colored foliage — primarily burgundy, gold, lime and green. They come in sizes from 10 inches to 2 feet tall, and most newer ones do sun as well as full shade.

Petunias. Take a new look if you think these get “leggy” or peter out in mid-season. Most new petunias clean themselves and churn out so many flowers all along their stems that they’re nearly covered with color all

season. Supertunias are superb, but you won’t go wrong with most in the Potunia, Whispers, Surfinia or Wave series. (Sun to light shade.)

Zinnia. Check out new types of this old favorite that are both more com-pact (12 to 18 inches tall) and more mildew-resistant than older zinnias. Most come in orange, red, yellow and gold. The Profusion and Zahara series are best. (Sun.)

Vinca. These aren’t a staple of shop-ping-center parking-lot islands for no reason. Annual vincas are survivors in heat, sun and not-so-good soil. They grow 12 to 15 inches tall and come in red, pink, rose, lavender or white. Nirvana, Titan and Cora are top types. (Sun.)

Blue salvia. Almost as durable as vinca, blue salvias grow 15 to 18 inches tall and produce pollinator-attracting spikes of purple-blue, blue-gray, or bicolor white and blue. (Sun to light shade.)

Ornamental peppers. These little hot peppers are grown mainly for their colorful leaves (purple, lavender, var-iegated or nearly jet black), their white or lavender flowers, and their showy fruits of red, black or yellow. Calico, Purple Flash and Black Pearl are three of the best. (Full sun.)

Persian shield. This tropical is a guaranteed head-turner for its impres-sive foliage — a blend of metallic pur-ple and silver. Grows 2 to 3 feet tall and wide. (Part shade to shade.) l

PRettY PetUNIAs: Petunias are among the most popular annuals due to their showy blooms.

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punchlines

one-star family looks at four-star summer vacation

By Earl Pitts, American

Social commentary from Earl pitts — a.k.a. GARY BUR BANK, a nation ally syndicated radio per son ality — can be heard on the following radio stations that cover electric cooperative ser-vice territories in Pennsylvania: WANB-FM 103.1 Pittsburgh;

WARM-AM 590 Wilkes-Barre/ Scran ton; WIOO-AM 1000 Carlisle; WEEO-AM 1480 Shippensburg; WMTZ-FM 96.5 Johnstown; WQBR-FM 99.9/92.7 McElhattan; WLMI-FM 103.9 Kane; and WVNW-FM 96.7 Burnham- Lewistown. You can also find him at earlpittsa-merican.com.

We are at that time of year where everybody is plannin’ a summer vaca-tion. This is that time most known for puttin’ on a swimmin’ suit and gettin’ sunburned at some exotic vacation spot somewheres. But mil-

lions and millions of regular Americans are just plannin’ to take a mini-vacation to someplace not too far away from home.

Well, we’ve never even done that, on account of we’re poor. But that don’t stop my better half, Pearl, from dreamin’. Sometimes it’s like she thinks our last name is Rockefeller.

Anyways, I come home last night, and she wants to show me this hotel on the computer. She says she has found a four-star resort in New Jer-sey, a resort not too far from home that actually has a waffle buffet on the beach every morning. And she says there are four-star bungalows where the price includes a daily spa treatment — at no extra charge. I mean, the woman is pretty hepped up.

I says, “Pearl, you’re forgettin’ one thing.”

She says, “Yeah, I know. We’re poor and you’re boring.”

And I go, “No. You’re lookin’ at four-star vacations, and we are — on our best days — one- to two-star people.”

You take the Pittses, on a good day, one- to maybe one-and-a-half-star peo-ple, and put them in a four-star hotel, and well, it’s bound to get awkward. I remember one time we stayed over-night at a Holiday Inn Express, and the breakfast buffet lady made a big scene, askin’ Pearl to take the extra dough-nuts out of her purse before we left.

Then there was one time when we was at the Marriott pool all day, enjo-yin’ the cuss out of the water, and

they throwed us out. Yeah. Something about the pool being open for guests only, and not the people staying at the cheap hotel down the road.

Generally speakin’, this family does not stay at four-star resorts, where they have free, freshly baked cookies when you check in, a spa center, a Friday night pizza buffet and an infinity pool with jacuzzi. We’re more apt to stay where they advertise “Color TV” and “We spray for roaches every day!”

Wake up, America. We might still go somewheres this summer, but we ain’t gonna be checkin’ into the room next to the Mr. Bill Gates family.

I saw this story on the computer the other day, and now I know what my problem with workin’ is. The

story was about how to tell when it’s time to change jobs. And they said that it’s when the Sunday Night Blues start getting to you.

They said the Sunday Night Blues is when the weekend is almost over and you start gettin’ depressed and anxious and upset because you know Monday morning is comin’, and that means the work week is startin’. They said when you get the Sunday Night Blues every Sunday night, it’s time to start lookin’ for another job.

That’s when I realized that I have had the Sunday Night Blues since the

first week I was in kindergarten. And I’m not the only one. You come into the Duck Inn on a Sunday night about 6 p.m. I have seen happier people at funerals. Everybody’s in there gettin’ one last drink and some of that fried food that everybody says ain’t good for you before they got to straighten up for Monday morning.

Sunday night’s a whole different atmosphere than your Friday night. Your Friday night is an anticipatory “anything can happen” excitin’ eve-ning out. On Sunday night, you know another worthless week is comin’.

Wake up, America! The fact is, peo-ple are wrong when they say the week-end is Saturday and Sunday. Saturday and Sunday isn’t even the real weekend. The real “weekend” starts on Friday when you punch out at work and it lasts until Sunday afternoon when NASCAR is over. And then, it’s time to let the Sunday Night Blues commence. I have wept at my share of checkered flags. Pearl used to think it was because the race was over, but it’s more than that. The weekend is over, too. l

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ruralreflections

Celebrate ‘the Merry Month of May’

Spring is the perfect time to get outside and enjoy the weather, and to take some photos for the Rural Reflections contest.

Amateur photographers are encouraged to send photos to Penn Lines Photos, P.O. Box 1266, Harrisburg PA 17108-1266. Include name, address, phone number and the name of your electric cooperative. 2016 winners in each of five categories — artistic, landscape, human, animal, and editor’s choice — will receive $75 and runners-up will receive $25.

Please send summer photos by mid-May; fall photos by July and winter photos by September (hint: save your spring photos for next year). We will return photos in early 2017 if you include a self-addressed, stamped envelope. l

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