Backyard news, 10.01.08

* Lower Paxton Twp. citizen watchdog group SWAN has posted a newsletter that reviews township meetings in August and September. Be sure to review it to see what’s happening, if anything, in your backyard. Below are a couple items of widespread interest that I culled from the newsletter:

– Representatives of Koons Pool, likely Walter Shatto and Chuck Barto, are tentatively scheduled to attend the Oct. 14 township supervisors workshop meeting to outline the pool’s reorganization plan. As a condition of getting a $5,000 grant to offset this year’s pool budget deficit, the supervisors requested a marketing plan and periodic status reports on pool membership efforts, a proposed budget for 2009 and a list of the board of directors including their terms.

– Another item that is likely to be discussed at the Oct. 14 meeting is a proposal by the township Planning Commission to create three Business Improvement Districts, including one in Linglestown.

* A cluster of Linglestown merchants located west of the square hope to convince township officials to improve the two alleys that parallel Linglestown Road – Raspberry and Blackberry lanes – prior to the planned village improvement and square project kicks into high gear. (Construction is tentatively slated to begin in March or April next year.) You can help make this happen by sending an e-mail to the township supervisors asking them to include paving of the alleys in the township’s 2009 budget.

* Gazette quickies ... T.W. Burger, Patriot-News beat reporter for LP and CD schools, is vacationing in Maine. … The legend of Linglestown’s Speedo man is growing (see thread #443). … Linglestown blogger Kim waxes poetic about her garden in autumn.