Purchase of Service Agreement for use, if needed, Children and Youth, for services of Bobbie Rabuck, Esquire, of State College Mark Remy, Esquire, of Lewistown, and Pathways Adolescent Center of Oil City.Reappointment of Dan Dunmire, McVeytown, and Dan Taptich, Belleville, to the Mifflin County Hospital Authority for a five year term, expiring Dec.7 with Delta Development Group to extend the agreement for an additional twenty-four months for a fee of $4,000 per month. ![]() In other business Thursday, the board approved: These funds will pay for Appel to do the preservation work at Old Town Cemetery. “Atlas Preservation will be primarily, one, preserving the base of Dorcas Buchanan’s headstone and second, Appell will also help with the sunken stone of historic tombstones so that they are safe from lawnmowers.”ĪCT 13 monies are funds given to counties for Marcellus Shale Drilling permitting although the Mifflin County has no known Marcellus Shale, a small amount of funds are still allocated to the county. “You can still read Dorcas’s headstone, which is absolutely amazing which must be tribute to good Central Pennsylvania sandstone,” Landis said. “What’s important here is that that we get training so that learn as much as possible, so that we can then know the materials and techniques used to preserve the rich history of our borough for future generations,” Commissioner Kevin Kodish said. County employees and members of the public are welcome to follow along Appel as he works on the headstones. Appell will be working primarily on Dorcas Buchanan’s grave site. Many nuances of time are also effecting Old Town Cemetery as modern cement borders historic gravestones and headstones that have sunken and are vulnerable to lawnmower blades, along with cracks which hold water and expand and erode with freezing and thawing. “Headstones can’t last forever and eventually turn to dust, but through preservation can prolong their life for as long as possible,” Landis said. ![]() Old Town Cemetery also is the resting place of soldiers from the borough who fought in the American Revolutionary War against the British. As a preeminent expert in stone rehabilitation Appel will be bringing a skill that will help preserve history in good place for the citizens and future citizens of Lewistown, Landis explained.
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