THE LANDMARKNEW SLETTER OF TH E FRIENDS OF O LD ANNVILLE, P.O. BOX 99, ANNVILLE, PA 17003 Vol. XXVII, No. 2__________________________________ March/April 2007

HISTORIC OLD ANNVILLE DAY AND RAFFLE

Saturday, June 9, 2007 9:00 AM « 2:00 PM

THEME: Fun and Games in Old Annville

A detailed schedule will appear in the next issue of The Landmark.

RAFFLE

1ST PRIZE—$500.00 2ND PRIZE—$250.00 3RD PRIZE-$ 100.00

Tickets will be mailed to FOOA members in early April, and will also be sold on His­toric Old Annville Day.

The winning tickets will be drawn at 1:00 PM, at the Bandstand during Old Annville Day, June 9, 2007.

Please support this fundraiser for FOOA.

Blanche Schaeffer 867-1632

PROTECTING ANNVILLE

Editorial Comments by Owen Moe, President of Friends of Old Annville

It was about two years ago that a good friend of mine, a former president of the Borough Council of Elizabeth­town, PA, told me about a new ordinance that they were in the process of enacting. Now on the books for over a year, Elizabethtown’s new ordinance, No. 864 (see http://www.etownonline.com), requires the regis­tration, licensing, and inspection of all rental proper­ties within the borough. It also establishes rights and obligations of both landlords and renters. Elizabeth­town’s ordinance and others like it have been springing up in both cities and small towns across the country, and for good reason - our towns and our neighbor­hoods need protection.

Family homeowners have a vested interested in main­taining their properties because they live their daily lives within their neighborhoods and they often con­sider their homes to be their primary financial invest­ments. Absentee developers/landlords, on the other hand, all too often buy buildings in a town for one pur­pose only: to take money out of that town. Many of us have encountered run-down rentals, often violating local codes, in which the landlord can be almost impos­sible to contact. I believe that there is a close link be­tween neighborhood decay and a high percentage of rental units owned by absentee landlords. According to the 2000 census, 33% of the housing units in Annville were identified as rental properties. Towns today need to be proactive, defining what they expect from rental properties, their owners, and their occupants.

We are blessed in Annville with many responsible land­lords, landlords who take excellent care of their build­ings and who provide clean and safe living quarters for

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AnnviUe Free Library Special Events

FOOA and the Electronic Age

The printed Landmark is an im­portant part of Friends of Old Annville, and will be into the foreseeable future. It arrives in your mailbox only six times a year, however, and there are times when we would like to be able to contact you on much shorter notice. Therefore, we would like to start constructing an email list for our FOOA member­ship. In the first phase of building this list, we would ask those of you who do have email service to email FOOA with your name listed on the subject line of the email. We will then add you to our list of contacts.

£0 Smart Start Storytime - Tues. /10:15am - Birth through 11 months.; Tues. / 1 1:15am Ages 12 mo. through 24 mo. Dates: April 3, 10, 17, 24 / Pre-registration Required

£3 Preschool Storytime -Tues. & Thurs.,10:15 am, through April 24 Sc 26 (NO Story- times on April 3 Sc 5)

£Q After School Storytime -Grades 2 Sc 3, Tues., 3:15-4:15 pm, Jan. 9-March 27; Grades K Sc 1 -Thurs., 3:15-4:15 pm, Jan.11- March 29Ask for information at your school office or the Annville Free Library.

£Q Youth Room - Grades 4th thru 9thAfter School Hours - Mon. thru Thur., 2:30pm - 6:30pm / Fri., 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm. Adult supervised, youth-only space is equipped with computer, card and board games, and a casual reading and socializing area. Come hang out with your friends @ the Youth Room!

£3 Take-a-Break Tuesday @ your library - last Tuesday of each month @ 6:30 pm March 27- “Gardens and More” presented by Joey Snaidach; April 24 - “Emergency Preparedness” presented by Home Depot

£3 Special program - Mark your calendar! “Operation Remembrance” presented by Nick Serikstad and Chuck Yurtin Thursday, April 12 @ 6:30pm WWII Recreation Asso­ciation, 45th Infantry Division Reenactors.

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The Friends o f Old Annville Train Station is open to visitors Tuesdays, 7-9 PM, and Saturdays, 9 AM-12 noon, or upon request. The station is available for par­ties and meetings. Please write Friends o f Old Ann­ville, PO Box 99, Annville 17003, or call 717/867-0770 for information.

LANDMARK ADVERTISING POLICY

The Landmark is a bimonthly newsletter published and distributed as a benefit of membership to our members for the purpose of imparting information about the activities of the Friends of Old Annville and the community. The Board has agreed to accept business card size adver­tisements based upon space availability, at the following rates and in accordance with the following policies.

1. Copy for advertisements must be delivered to the Landmark no later than the second Friday of the following months: January, March, May, July, September, November. Mail the business card, or cam­era-ready copy to The Landmark, PO Box 99, Annville, PA 17003. Include name of contact person, phone number, number of issues, and check payable to FOOA.

2. The rate for advertisement for members is $25.00 per issue or $125.00 for six issues. Rates for nonmembers is $40.00 per issue or $200.00 for six issues.

3. Advertisements are limited to local businesses and organizations within the Annville-Cleona area. The FOOA Board shall exercise complete discretion over the type size, content, and suitability of any and all advertisements submitted. The Organization may, with or without reason, reject any advertisement for publication.

4. Printing of advertisements may, at the discretion of the editorial board, be postponed based upon space availability.

Liability of FOOA for errors in printing, providing the printing error was our mistake, is limited to a refund of the single-issue rate paid, or the option of a corrected reprint in a subsequent issue at no charge.

Adopted November 03,2005 Amended January 05, 2006

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tenants who, in turn, contribute positively to our town. Some of those landlords have, in fact, won Prop­erty Pride Awards from Friends of Old Annville. We also, unfortunately, have less responsible landlords whose buildings are decaying and whose tenants become local problems for the community. The Annville police log for January, 2007 for example, shows that two-thirds of the police calls to Annville residences in that month went to rental units. In Elizabethtown, the responsible landlords are rewarded: if a rental unit passes inspection one year, it is exempt from inspection for the next year.

Annville Township is now in the process of revising and updating its full zoning ordinance. An entirely new section of the ordinance will require the licensing and inspection of rental properties. Under the ordinance, landlords will pay an annual fee for the licensing and inspection. The inspection process will make sure that all rental units meet reasonable standards set by our Township. The fees collected will cover the costs of hiring an inspector for the rental units.

The proposed Annville ordinance will also move the limit for the number of unrelated persons living in a rental unit from five to three, bringing us in line with Elizabethtown and many other communities. Counter to the concerns of some landlords in Annville, approximately 1800 rental units in Elizabethtown are able to succeed financially in spite of the limit of three unrelated persons per unit.

As a property owner in Annville, I enthusiastically support our Township Commissioners in the adoption of the new zoning ordinance, especially the provision for licensing and inspecting rental units. The new ordinance, I believe, will ultimately benefit renters, the landlords themselves, and the greater community.

And finally, we should go back to Elizabethtown. I talked recently to my friend and also to the Borough Manager of Elizabethtown Borough and both are overwhelmingly positive about their new ordinance. Inspections have gone well, properties have been repaired, and the initial resistance from the landlords has largely abated. They feel that they made a very good decision for their community. I trust we will do the same for Annville.

Send your comments and reactions to this article to oamoe@yahoo.com .Owen Moe

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To join the FOOA email list, send your email to: fooa_annville@hotmail.com.

We will use this list sparingly, mainly to an­nounce special events and to send out meeting reminders. We look forward to receiving your email.

For those of you who may not know, FOOA does have a web site — www.fooa.org.Please stop by sometime and take a look. We plan to begin building up this site and we will keep you posted as we add items.

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Community members are invited to attend the Annville Free Library Board Meetings @7:00pm,

June 12, Sept 11, Nov. 13.

“OPEN HOUSE” 63 YOU ARE INVITED! Annville Free Library April 10 @ 6 - 8pm /

Annual Meeting @ 8 - 9 pm

Library Closed: April 6, 7, 8, 9 / Easter Holiday

Call 867-1802 and ask for program details!

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Permit No. 32

PLANNING TO MOVE?Box 99, Annville, PA 17003 PLEASE NOTIFY US.

R E T U R N SE R V IC E R E Q U E ST E D

MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL DATE can be found on the mailing label of this issue of The Landmark. Please send your dues and address change to Rachel Noll, 1673 Louser Road, Annville, PA 17003-8856; questions call 867-2137.

Individual & Student ........... ................................... .....$ 5.00Family (2+ persons)............................ ....$10.00Business ........................................ $25.00Friend of FO O A ............... $50.00

(Make checks payable to Friends of Old Annville)

RENEWALS

M /M Bernard BellM /M Henry BergerMrs. Joan BernardoLyle & Christine BowserGreg <Sl Yvonne BumpMrs. Jeanne DabichEd & Mary DuffyM /M Edward EisenhauerM /M William J. FeltyM /M Ronald FloryM /M Paul W.K. FreelandM /M Eden FryM /M Tilman FryeRev/M Paul & Becky Fullmer •M /M Stan FurmanakMrs. Doris GerberNancy GingrichM /M Eugene Heisey •Mrs. Annabelle Henning

Hildegard E. Henson M /M James Hoffsmith M /M Richard W. Hollinger Elizabeth Holz Mr. Wesley G. Houser Dr. Frederick Johnson Mrs. Lucille V. Kauffman Tony & Dawn Kearney Bob & Laura Kindt, Jr.Mr. David H. Kling M /M Thomas Lehman Ken & Kathy Long Gladys Mariani M /M Adam Miller M /M Carl O. Miller Marcus & Kolleen Newman Rachel R. Noll •Mrs. J. Robert O ’Donnell Ms Ruthmary V. Pearce Gwendolyn Pierce Matilda Peiffer Prehoda

Ms. Jane Quairoli M /M James Scott •Mrs. Gladys Seiverling M /M Ralph B. Shanaman M /M John D. Shuey M /M Thomas Svirsko Dr/M Pern,' J. Troutman Mrs. Gloria Wending Eleanor Witmeyer Curt & Wilma Wood •Bob & Doris Yorty

NEW MEMBERS

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