To ms kathy snavely, my luv

It never fails to amuse me how entertainingly "hippo"critical mount gretna christians are---pun intended [the morbidly obese ones know who they are].

More importantly, snavely's persistent interest in persons she has no responsibility for or relationship/business with is a revealing obsession--if, as she insists, there was no merit to the financial hankypanky scheme that I discovered, then why is she wasting so much time on what she is wanting the public to believe is not a credible source? Well, she remains obessed because she has full knowledge of the money that is being/has been skimmed out of the pockets of mount gretna borough and pennsylvania chautauqua citizens---and doesn't it look a lot like she is trying to help cover it up by harassing and silencing the source?

Back in 2009, when I first discovered this financial imbroglio, my estimate was that 2.4 million is unaccounted for--and that's the gap that I could see from the documents and reports that I managed to get my hands on. Who knows what grants, transfers, etc. never made it to any document, budget or ledger. I also did the correct thing and reported it to the district attorneys office, specifically naming at least four public officials that had to have knowledge of the improper activities. Coincidentally, one of the activities described to him was the misreporting of work hours to inflate paychecks and to qualify for and receive benefits.

Instead of doing what he was ethically bound to do--pass it on to either the state police or the attorney general, weeks later he charged my wife and i with criminal activities that we never committed and used three of the four reported public officials (Linda Bell, Andrew Allwein, and William "Bill" Care) as "reputation witnesses" at our trial [at which these persons gave false testimony, by the way]. The fourth public official--Chuck Allwein was just as conspiratorial and active in this farce, by working with the da to silence the publication of details of the financial scheme, inter alia. And during all this, Snively was doing her part to discredit, harass, and intimidate by using her access to the local media, to the local political parties, and to the financial reports and "books", to assist in the cover up and to prevent proper investigation into the matter. (If you have another way of seeing it, please, do tell--but give facts, not opinions.)

Now you don't have to believe my assertions that misreporting your hours worked in order to inflate your wages and benefits is a crime. In fact, don't pay any attention to me at all. Just look to the district attorney's office itself and you will see that its a crime. In the two and a half years since my reporting of such activities to him, the da has clearly demonstrated this via the prosecution of two lebanon county public officials for misreporting work hours: he has prosecuted/participated in the prosecution of a former police chief for misreporting a few hours of overtime, and he is prosecuting a former myerstown town clerk/financial secretary for misreporting hours worked. Ironically, the chief's alleged misreporting did not result in that public official deriving any personal gain. On the other hand, the clerk's alleged misdeeds resulted in tens of thousands of dollars of personal gain for her. By the way, the myerstown clerk's alleged ill-gotten bounty pales in comparison to what Linda Bell has had unfettered access to...and to what Bill Care has raked in. Pales.

More importantly, however, is that these prosecutions show that the lebanon county da has a clear understanding of how he was supposed to handle the reported financial improprieties, misreporting, etc, and thereby reveals his own knowing participation in/support of the misdeeds.

So when HACC instructor kathy snavely uses her darling "social media" to publish knowingly false information about someone that even she admits has not published anything to annoy or to poke her fat ass for over a year, she is proving that neither religiosity (at least her version of it, anyway) nor social media require integrity from their participants, even if those participants call themselves "experts" at it and are paid to teach on the subject at a local community college.

Kathy dear, does Harrisburg Area Community College know that you use your subject matter (social media) in this manner--for malfeasance, ill-will, and obsessing? Maybe they should be made aware. Maybe they should be shown how questionable your self-professed "expertise" with social media really is. How do you put this shit on your resume: "Used Twitter succesfully to engage in pattern of bullying and intimdation to foil the request for investigation into financial improprieties involving entity of which I am a voting board member"; "Adopted extremely fexible/adaptable philosophical belief system in order to achieve the appearance of integrity and ethics without really having to live with integrity or demonstrate positive ethical traits";...

Its slightly entertaining how such a large person can actually be so vacuous of any substance.

Hugs and Kisses, my dear.

More non-enforcement of PA GC timber contract

What is the Game Commission doing on that land behind us!?

On the blocks that were harvested recently on our neighboring game lands, over 800 trees were to be spared from harvesting, according to the harvest contract. These trees were marked with red paint at eye level on the up and downhill side of the tree, and at the base. In the contract, these trees are called "reserved trees."

However, as you can see just by driving by some of these harvested blocks, there is NOT any number close to 800 trees left on these blocks. On the two blocks that follow Pinch Road, there are supposed to be 360 of these reserved trees. What do you think there really is there now?

In case you would like to check this for yourself, I have included a map of the blocks for this harvest, and the numbers of reserved trees that should be still standing. I broke the numbers down by block.

Block 1 should have 114 reserved trees, marked with red paint. That is the block right behind us that has all the large woody debris left behind.

Block 2 should have 153 reserved trees, marked with red paint.

Block 3 --197

Block 4--144 This block is across from the smashed port-a-potty on Pinch Road.

Block 5--215 This block is the next harvested block on Pinch Road, and abuts Block 4.

Let me end this post with the reminder that the PA GC holds those lands in public trust FOR US and in the pursuit of its assigned responsibility: providing game and wildlife habitat.

If anyone wants a copy of the contracts for this harvest, just email me at viragogretna@gmail.com. Also, I will be walking the blocks to take an inventory this week. Let me know if you would like to join me-I would love the company.

It also appears as if our neighbor Weaber, Inc. was the contracted harvester for this mess. Also, I have visited some other game lands recently harvested by other contractors, and they look like the contractor actually did use forestry's best practice standards and complied with the terms of the contract.

Forest fires can't be prevented, expert says!

I recently read this interesting presentation given by a federal forester on the potential for forest fires causing damage to homes. The author, Jack Cohen, drives the point that a home's "ignitability" is a very serious factor in the amount of damage any forest fire causes to a home. He shows that even if the home is "buffered" from any type of forest fire, whether a low-intensity or high-intensity fire, a home with a high-ignitability score will likely become a part of the combustion.

Cohen also states that;

"If no wildfires or prescribed fires occurred, the wildland fire threat to residential development would not exist. However, our understanding of the fire ecology for most of North America indicates that fire exclusion is neither possible nor desirable."


Now, that statement seems to me like a truism, or a fairly common-sense kind of assumption--that we can't possible prevent all forest fires. So, the risk of such fire is always present.


And, given that I have sat in on many community conversations where we all admit that the age and design of our homes here cause us to worry about their susceptibility to fire damage, I just don't understand why local leaders are being so dismissive and in public denial of this situation!

I invite Chuck, Peggy, or Dave Henry to provide us with the evidence--documentary support from knowledgable and neutral experts, that the conditions of that block do not increase our risk of loss due to fire. Please, do you know something that you are not telling us? Why can't that contractor just come back and remove a large portion of that debris? Why is that such a hard action to take?



Here is the url for the presentation:
http://www.firewise.org/resources/files/WUI_HIR/Wildlandfirethreat.pdf