Hi, all! Are we ready for the visioning session on Wednesday night??

We need some folks to assist with several tasks:

1. Traffic controller: Obviously, the library parking lot isn't very
big... we need someone to gently remind people that there's plenty of
parking at the borough building and downtown. You would also snag folks
who may have forgotten that the sessions are in the community room.
Bonus: you get a good parking spot. Start time: 5:20 pm

2. Greeter/name tag nagger:  We need someone to make folks feel welcome
and gently nag them into wearing a name tag. You get to hand out the
agenda also. Bonus: you get to meet each participant!  Start time: 5:30 pm

3. Refreshment captain: We need someone to monitor and maintain the
refreshment stand. Bonus: you get first dies on cookies!

4. Table layout manager: We need several someones to help put the tables
in position and put them away.  Start time: 5:15. End time: 9:30.

Please contact Jill Nickerson (nikerson@... 638-2005) or me to let
us know what role you would like to play!

And anyone with easels, please bring them!

Best,

Heidi

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Just to let you know, I received a call from Steve Mutchler from the
Montoursville PA Highway office,( smutchler@... ) he is our
contact for signs along state roads (these will include new 15, old
15 and main street).

He is sending us the policy for General Motor Service Signs (ie' a
picture of a gas tank, forks and spoons, etc), these the state will
fund.  Also have the option of "Logo" signs ( Acorn Market, Brick
Tavern) that would be funded by us and quite expensive.  I did talk
briefly about bed and breakfast signs, they seem to fall into
another catagory and harder to get sinage approved, but we can cross
that bridge when we get to it.

He is aware we do not have any plans in place at this time but will
be contacting him, or sending necessary paperwork when we are ready.

-----Original Message-----
From: Nickerson [mailto:nikerson@...]
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 11:26 AM
To: 16912@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [16912] Fw: dump property

Hi Tonya, we had a meeting lastnight with Joyce Andrews from TCCC about putting the ATV park up on and around the dump land.  We have decided to start in the first couple steps of doing this.  The first step is to make a atv committee and become 501c3.  I am wondering if you know the process  to become that.  Thanks alot,  Jill Nickerson

-----Original Message-----
From: Tonya McNamara [mailto:mcnamara@...]
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 3:19 PM
To: 16912
Subject: [16912] Fw: dump property

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Tioga County Concerned Citizens Committee

To: Tonya McNamara

Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 10:45 AM

Subject: Re: dump property

Dear Tonya,

We are looking forward to the Main Street meetings and we have some ideas too!

Hillside contacted Mr. Berguson in 2003 about purchasing the property.  He refused to talk to them.  We are trying a few other things to try to obtain the property.  We agree, it would be WONDERFUL.  However, keep in mind that PA Real Estate Resources owns the former Brague Properties next to the Northern Tier facility.  If they don't get the Berguson dump, we fear they may try to put one on the other properties.  One step at a time, I guess.  Robert Rovner is the president of both PA Waste and PA Real Estate Resources.

Joyce

Tonya McNamara wrote:

Hi. Good article in the Williamsport paper today. 

 

 We had a Main Street steering committee meeting last night and Jim Bogoczyk was not there to ask, has any one ever tried to purchase the proposed dump property from PA Waste, or has there ever been a price attached to the purchase of that land?  We know we are dreaming, but if someone could purchase that property for another use it would be an area that could be developed into something the people would want in the area, ideas were anywhere from a golf course to an ATV riding area.  I'm sure their price would be sky high. 

 

You will be getting info re' community visioning meetings soon.  Bring your ideas!

 

Thanks, Tonya McNamara

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-----Original Message-----
From: Tonya McNamara [mailto:mcnamara@...]
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 3:19 PM
To: 16912
Subject: [16912] Fw: dump property

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Tioga County Concerned Citizens Committee

To: Tonya McNamara

Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 10:45 AM

Subject: Re: dump property

Dear Tonya,

We are looking forward to the Main Street meetings and we have some ideas too!

Hillside contacted Mr. Berguson in 2003 about purchasing the property.  He refused to talk to them.  We are trying a few other things to try to obtain the property.  We agree, it would be WONDERFUL.  However, keep in mind that PA Real Estate Resources owns the former Brague Properties next to the Northern Tier facility.  If they don't get the Berguson dump, we fear they may try to put one on the other properties.  One step at a time, I guess.  Robert Rovner is the president of both PA Waste and PA Real Estate Resources.

Joyce

Tonya McNamara wrote:

Hi. Good article in the Williamsport paper today. 

 

 We had a Main Street steering committee meeting last night and Jim Bogoczyk was not there to ask, has any one ever tried to purchase the proposed dump property from PA Waste, or has there ever been a price attached to the purchase of that land?  We know we are dreaming, but if someone could purchase that property for another use it would be an area that could be developed into something the people would want in the area, ideas were anywhere from a golf course to an ATV riding area.  I'm sure their price would be sky high. 

 

You will be getting info re' community visioning meetings soon.  Bring your ideas!

 

Thanks, Tonya McNamara

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Folks --

Sorry for the short notice, but this is an open invitation to a meeting
to explore the feasibility of an ATV park in the Seven Lakes area
Thursday 6/3 at 7pm at Charlie & Renee's shop -- 248 Main St.,
Blossburg, 638-2828.


Purpose of meeting: plan feasibility study for ATV park at Seven Lakes.
We need to figure out what we need to do, how to do it, what political
and environmental issues might arise, and gather some idea of what the
project might cost and what it might bring in. Daniel and I have been
thinking about a three-month deadline on this -- ie presenting to
landowners and/or potential funders by mid-August. That's very tight,
but if we're serious about doing this, it's possible.

Thanks,

Heidi


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Blossburg V.I.B.e Meeting Minutes

Attendees:
      Heidi Jones
      Josh Jones
      Dave Jones
      Jill Nickerson
      Tim Kinsey
      Tonya McNamara
      Charlie Temeris
      Renee Woodhouse
      Kathy Hemling
      Mike Egan
      Daniel Mendonca
      Bill

Date:       May 20, 2004
Time:       7:00 pm
Location:   Council Room, Blossburg Borough Hall
Handouts:   Agenda including visioning sessions setup

Welcome (icebreaker:  What do you like best about Blossburg?)
Thanks to Charlie for the delicious Baxter's cookies and to Heidi
and Patty for the first round of visioning flyers.

Action items discussed

   The role of the treasurer will be to sign off on any expenses and
keep track of the accounting piece for Blossburg V.I.B.E.  Between
Mike and Tonya, the expenses will be paid through the Boro/BIA.

Jill Nickerson will be making name tags for the visioning sessions.
Tim Kinsey also volunteered to bring soda and Josh will be bringing
cups.

Daniel came up with an excellent idea to turn seven lakes into an
ATV park.  Great idea...we will keep that in mind for future
reference.

Tonya is looking into getting a contact person from the Dept. of
Transportation for signage on the highway.

Kathy Hemling brought up the issues concerning the Coal Festival.
Perhaps we would be able to help somewhere down the line.

Establishing the project

  Name?  After many interesting ideas from the committee we decided
on Blossburg V.I.B.E ( Visions in Business and Entertainment)  Great
job on the name...hopefully the town will soon catch the Blossburg
Vibe!!!

Developing Visioning Sessions

   Flyer
      Patty Kaminski did an excellent job on the Blossburg Dreaming
flyer shown at the beginning of the meeting.  After a name was
decided upon, the flyer did some changing.  With our new name we
also added a view of the downtown in the background of the font.
This is thanks to a late night from Heidi, Charlie and Renee.
Photocopies were made on friday at the Borough Office.  Labels were
made by Jill and with a crew of Heidi, Jill, Shane, Josh, Charlie,
Renee, and Bill the task of mailing the flyers was complete.

Flyers Sent:  Friday May 21st
Several copies of the flyers were also posted in the downtown stores.

Theatre Tour

      The tour took place on Friday May 21st at 1:30.
Attendees:  Jill Nickerson
             Shane Nickerson
             Heidi Jones
             Josh Jones
             Charlie Temeris
             Renee Woodhouse
             Bill
The meeting started at Frank and Mary Bodford's home on North
Williamson Road.  Mary, Frank and Audrey were very kind inviting us
into their home.  We discussed our intentions for opening the
theatre and looked at several amazing pictures.  Heidi and Josh took
the pictures home with them for Dave Jones to copy.  We all then
went to the theatre.  It is in great shape.  Audrey and Mary talked
about the costs of opening it again and showed us where everything
is located.  The boys went into the projection room (after having to
breat the lock) and checked it out.  All in all it was nice to meet
Mary and Audrey and see what it would take to get the theatre
running again.  A special thanks to them will probably be seen in
the newspaper...Heidi took a good picture.

Next Meeting will be Wednesday June 23rd at 7pm at the Borough
Council Room.

Adjourn

VISION SESSIONS TO BE HELD JUNE 16 AND 30
Blossburg V.I.B.E. to Create Vision Statement, Action Plan

BLOSSBURG, Pa., May 21 -- Residents of Blossburg and surrounding
communities will gather to create a vision for Blossburg’s future two
evenings in June at the Blossburg Memorial Library.

To be held June 16 and 30, 6-9 pm, the sessions are sponsored by
Blossburg Visions in Business & Entertainment, a new group created as a
joint project of Blossburg Borough Council and Blossburg Improvement
Association.

Blossburg V.I.B.E. members have invited anyone who lives, works, plays
or attends school in Blossburg, especially residents of Blossburg
Borough and Bloss and Hamilton townships, the primary users of
Blossburg’s downtown.

The sessions are intended to incorporate ideas from a wide range of
community participants, with fun exercises and small group discussions
resulting in a collaborative, consensus-based vision.

Blossburg V.I.B.E. will use the sessions to develop a vision statement
and an action plan in preparation for submitting grant proposals to the
Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development and other
funding sources. The grants are to provide resources for projects
developed through the vision session process.

Who: Residents of Blossburg Borough, Hamilton Township and Bloss
Township, or anyone who lives, works, plays or attends school in Blossburg.

When:  Wednesday, June 16, 6-9 pm
		 Wednesday, June 30, 6-9 pm

Where: Blossburg Memorial Library, downstairs community room
		 307 Main Street, Blossburg

The library is handicap accessible. Refreshments will be served.
Prospective participants should contact Jill Nickerson at 570-638-2005,
570-638-2586 or nikerson@....

Blossburg V.I.B.E. (Visions in Business & Entertainment)
245 Main St., Blossburg, PA 16912
www.blossburg.org  vibe@...

Hi. Good article in the Williamsport paper today. 

 

 We had a Main Street steering committee meeting last night and Jim Bogoczyk was not there to ask, has any one ever tried to purchase the proposed dump property from PA Waste, or has there ever been a price attached to the purchase of that land?  We know we are dreaming, but if someone could purchase that property for another use it would be an area that could be developed into something the people would want in the area, ideas were anywhere from a golf course to an ATV riding area.  I'm sure their price would be sky high. 

 

You will be getting info re' community visioning meetings soon.  Bring your ideas!

 

Thanks, Tonya McNamara

Hello,

This email message is a notification to let you know that
a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the 16912
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You can access this file at the URL

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Mike & Tonya --

Should someone attend? I can, but I want to know if it will be a good
use of my time.

Thanks,

Heidi

--- In 16912@yahoogroups.com, "Tonya McNamara" <mcnamara@e...> wrote:
> FYI  - If anyone is interested in attending.  I am unable to go.  Do
not know if it would be of help to attend or not.  I did not get the
attachment but if anyone is interested I'm sure you can contact TCDC.
  Tonya
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: Robert J Blair
> To: Jamie JENKINS
> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 3:41 PM
> Subject: Pennsylvania Economic Development Stimulus Package Roll Out
Session . . .Tioga County
>
>
> Tioga County is one of six host sites throughout Pennsylvania to
host the Pennsylvania Stimulus Roll out Sessions.  The Session in
Tioga County will be on THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 2004 at MANSFIELD
UNIVERSITY.     Attached is the Invitation from the Pennsylvania
Economic Development Association (PEDA).  Seating is limited to 200 so
send in your RSVP today!
>
> Thank you,
> Bob

http://www.tiogapublishing.com/articles/2004/05/19/news/news04.txt


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Main Street Program Meeting Minutes

Attendees:
	 Patty Kaminski
	 Carol Tama
	 Jim Bogaczyk
	 Charlie Temeris
	 Renee Woodhouse
	 Kathy Hemling
	 Shane Nickerson
	 Jill Nickerson
	 Tim Kinsey
	 Tonya McNamara
	 Josh Jones
	 Dave Jones
	 Heidi Jones

Date:  May 12, 2004
Time:  7:00 pm
Location: Council Room, Blossburg Borough Hall
Handouts: Agenda, map of boro and surrounding townships

Welcome (icebreaker: what's your favorite radio station?)
Thanks to Tonya for setting up room, Jill & Tonya for refreshments,
Renee for greeting and passing out agenda.

Establishing the project

• Name?
Although the agreement was to have a name to differentiate from BIA and
the boro, the ideas we came up generally resulted in an acronym close to
"BURP" which didn't seem quite appropriate. We tabled it for later
decision and discussion.

• Define "downtown"
After some discussion, we agreed that "downtown" would be defined as
cement bridge to green bridge at this time. It does leave out the
Wishing Well.

We took a quick look at the zoning map on the wall of the borough
council room and realized we need better information about zoning, both
what is zone how and what the process is for rezoning. Tonya McNamara
will find more information and report back.

• Define participation area
After discussing the impact of the new highway on Covington residents'
travel patterns, we decided that we should focus our advertising and
requests for participation to Blossburg, Arnot, Morris Run (Bloss
township, Blossburg borough, Hamilton township)

• About the yahoogroup:
Why is it useful and important? Free, 24-hour, allows those who can't
come to meetings to stay involved and give input, allows us all to have
an easily accessible archive of all our discussions and files. How to:
Register with Yahoo if you’re not a member already. Go to
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/16912/ and click “Join this Group!” To
send email messages to the group use this address: 16912@yahoogroups.com
Need help, email Josh Jones: jdj@.... Josh agreed to be
technical advisor for anyone who needs help.


• Elect secretary and treasurer (one job or two?)
Josh Jones nominated Jill Nickerson to be secretary. Carol Tama
seconded. No opposition.

Discussed need for separate treasurer, Jim Bogaczyk suggested we
discuss more thoroughly the relationship between BIA and the project
with Mike Egan, as Margie Wesneski is treasurer of BIA. Heidi will
discuss and clarify with Mike, Tonya & Jill.


Develop visioning sessions
• Establish date, time, location, refreshments and other logistics

June 16 and 30, 6-9 pm. Location TBD. Location options: Kiwanis
building on Island, library.
	 Refreshments:
		 Kathy Hemling: iced tea
  		 Carol Tama: coffee
		 Charlie Temeris: Baxter's cookies

• Develop advertising and outreach strategy for visioning meetings
Heidi will develop copy for advertising.
Patty Kaminski will create a one-page flyer for distribution downtown
and mailings.
Charlie will contact radio stations (KC101, 104.5, 89.5, 102.7, the
Whitneyville Christian station)
Heidi will contact the newspapers (Wellsboro Gazette, Sun Gazette, Star
Gazette, plus put ad(s) in PennySaver.)
Kathy Hemling brought up concerns she has heard from other Main St.
businessfolks about this project fizzling out like past improvement
projects. After some discussion, Shane Nickerson said that we'll just
have to "lead by example".

• Review existing demographic and business data, think about what else
we need to inform the visioning session participants

Heidi will contact Kerry Geikis, Tioga County planning manager, to see
if data from survey is available for Hamilton & Bloss townships.


Set date of next meeting
Thursday, May 20, 7:00pm Blossburg Borough Council room, 245 Main St.

Other items:

1. Tonya McNamara brought up www.elmiradowntown.com as another source of
information and ideas.

2. Heidi mentioned that Mike Egan has been in touch with the Montrose
Main Street program and they'll be sending us their original grant
proposal that we can use as a base for writing ours.

3. Carol Tama asked when we'd start looking for a manager. Heidi said
Mike Egan and she expect to have the grant proposal in by Fall Festival
in October, we would definitely know by then a timeline for that
possible part-time hire.

4. Shane Nickerson has set up a date for touring the theater: May 21,
1:30pm. We don't want to overwhelm Miss Meyers, so we want to limit the
number of attendees. Josh will take a digital camera so everyone can see
it. Contact Shane or Jill to attend (638-2005/2586)

5. Jim Bogaczyk expressed his apppreciation that so many under-35s were
excited and involved.

8:25 pm Adjourn


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MaryEllen Hill, reporter for the Williamsport Sun Gazette, attended
the ioga County Development Corp. meeting on Friday morning. Instead
of writing about the TCDC meeting, she wrote about our Blossburg Main
Street program! It's in today's paper 5/15/04, page A-14. If it was
online, I'd send it to the group.

:-)

Best,

Heidi
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Both of the visioning meetings will be held at the Library.  Dates
and times are as follows:

June 16th  6-9

June 30th  6-9

http://www.elmiradowntown.com

forgot to give you the web site for Elmira.  Tonya

The Boro Council room is available on May 20th.

The zoning maps are unavailable at this time, they are being
reviewed.  A few discrepancies were noted between maps.  We can have
access to them after they are reviewed and/or updated.  Tonya

-----Original Message-----
From: Tonya McNamara [mailto:mcnamara@...]
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 10:02 PM
To: 16912@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [16912] main street addresses

Jill, I could not get your "nikerson" e-mail address to work, maybe I copied it wrong, thought this might work.  Tonya

 

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Hi, all!

Don't forget, the Main Street program steering committee is meeting
Wednesday, May 12 at 7pm in the council room of Blossburg Borough hall.
We'll be working on developing the visioning process. If you have
additional agenda items, please email me at hij@....


Draft agenda for meeting

Welcome

Establishing the project
• Name?
• Define "downtown"
	 o House's lumber mill to the beer distributor
	 o House's lumber mill to the beer distributor plus old 15
	 o Cement bridge to green bridge
	 o Bear A to green bridge
	 o other
• Define participation area
	 o 16912 only
	 o Blossburg, Arnot, Morris Run
	 o Blossburg/North Penn school area
	 o other
• About 16912@yahoogroups.com
• Elect secretary and treasurer (one job or two?)
• Discuss process for buying stuff

Developing visioning sessions
• Establish date, time, location, refreshments and other logistics
• Develop advertising and outreach strategy for visioning meetings
• Review existing demographic and business data, think about what else
we need to inform the visioning session participants

Set date of next meeting

Adjourn

So far the group has received copies of these two documents from the
Center for Rural Pennsylvania (see http://www.ruralpa.org/reports.html
to download the documents)
1. Welcome Back Downtown: A Guide to Revitalizing Pennsylvania's Small
Downtowns
2. Planning for the Future: A Handbook On Community Visioning

There's lots of additional information available about community and
economic development on the web... start here if you're interested:
	 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/16912/links
and please add links that you find interesting and worthwhile.


The steering committee is currently comprised of the following people:

	 Shane & Jill Nickerson
	 Mike Egan
	 Tonya McNamara
	 Charlie Baxter
	 Renee Woodhouse
	 Tim Kinsey
	 Kathy Hemling
	 Anne Fisher
	 Jim Bogaczyk
	 Patty Kaminski
	 Daniel Mendonca
	 Carol Tama
	 Heidi, Josh & Dave Jones

Best,

Heidi

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TONYA MCNAMARA
113 SOUTH WILLIAMSON ROAD
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

TIMOTHY ROUPP
144 GULICK STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

THOMAS BOGACZYK
301 GRANGER STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

JEROME OGDEN
262 SOUTH WILLIAMSON ROAD
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

RAYMOND KAMINSKI
242 SOUTH WILLIAMSON ROAD
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

JAMES HOLLEMAN
119 GRANGER STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

CHERYL BUBACZ
236 SOUTH WILLIAMSON ROAD
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

GEORGE LLOYD
205 SOUTH WILLIAMSON ROAD
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

JOHN BACKMAN
140 NORTH WILLIAMSON ROAD
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

JIM BOGACZYK
338 NORTH WILLIAMSON ROAD
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

MIKE EGAN
4 RIVERSIDE PLAZA
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

CAROL TAMA
214 GRANGER STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

DAVE JONES
386 GRANGER STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

MARGIE WESNESKI
300 MAIN STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

GEOFF RAKOSKI
228 MAIN STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

TCCCC, INC
PO BOX 124
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

TCDC
FRED LAVANCHER
BOB BLAIR
114 MAIN STREET
WELLSBORO PA 16901

COAL FESTIVAL COMMITTEE
KATHY PEARSON
120 TABER STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

TIOGA ENERGY
PO BOX 158
MANSFIELD PA 16933

BLOSS GULF
JAMIE LEFELOC
326 NORTH WILLIAMSON ROAD
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

BLOSS BEVERAGE
JOHN MARTIN
334 NORTH WILLIAMSON ROAD
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

BUTTERS CARWASH/LAUNDRY
GARY BUTTERS
3465 ROOSEVELT HIGHWAY
MANSFIELD PA 16933

SEAL'S INC.
JOE SERFOSS
329 NORTH WILLIAMSON ROAD
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

ROOT OIL COMPANY
DONALD ROOT
PO BOX 18
WELLSBORO PA 16901

EMPTY
312 NORTH WILLIAMSON ROAD
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

MOUNTAIN LAUREL BED AND BREAKFAST
TIM & SHELBY KNISEY
127 NORTH WILLIAMSON ROAD
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

FREEBURG FUNERAL HOME
CHARLES & NANCY FREEBURG
120 NORTH WILLIAMSON ROAD
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

LAUREL YOUTH SERVICES
DAN STYBORSKI
520 RURAH STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

LAUREL HEALTH SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION
ELAINE HICKEY
22 WALNUT STREET
WELLSBORO PA 16901

JIM'S SERVICE STATION
JIM MCINTOSH
314 MAIN STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

FIRST CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK
TERRY ASALONE
300 MAIN STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

GANNON ASSOCIATES
MARK DALTON
235 MAIN STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

RNS SERVICES
NEIL HEDRICK
7 RIVERSIDE PLAZA
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

NORTH PENN HEALTH CENTER
RUSSEL GOMBOSI
6 RIVERSIDE PLAZA
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

LAUREL WELLNESS CENTER
SUSAN STICKLIN
5 RIVERSIDE PLAZA
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

BRADFORD/TIOGA COUNTY HEAD START
JODI THOMAS
5 RIVERSIDE PLAZA
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

TIOGA COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITY
MIKE EGAN
4 RIVERSIDE PLAZA
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

U S POST OFFICE
POSTMASTER
3 RIVERSIDE PLAZA
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

LEMON'S PHARMACY
JEFF LEMON
2 RIVERSIDE PLAZA
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

BLOSS HOLIDAY MARKET
LYLE BRION
1 RIVERSIDE PLAZA
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

BLOSSBURG DG PARTNERS
SCOTT & GLENN BASTIAN
218 SOUTH MAIN STREET
MANSFIELD PA 16933

DOLLAR GENERAL
KIM DUPRAS/SCOTT HOLLEY
1A RIVERSIDE PLAZA
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

BLOSS HARDWARE
DON & BRENDA TROWBRIDGE
218 MAIN STREET
BLOSSSBURG PA 16912

BOGACZYK PARTNERSHIP
TIM & DAVE BOGACZYK
220 MAIN STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

BRICK TAVERN
THELMA WICKMAN
224 MAIN STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

DR. STEPHEN OLLOCK
226 MAIN STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

AUDREY MEYER
222 MAIN STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

FRANK SHERANT
PO BOX
ARNOT PA 16911

WINDOW BOX
CATHY HEMLING
232 MAIN STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

BLOSSBURG LODGE
PO BOX 1
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

BLOSS AUTO SUPPLY
GEOFF RAKOSKI
234 MAIN STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

KIM'S HAIR CONNECTION
KIM BERGUSON
238 MAIN STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

DRAKE MORRIS INSURANCE
DRAKE MORRIS
238 MAIN STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

VIDEO STORE
MOLLY HEBE
240 MAIN STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

SHANE NICKERSON
217 PARKHURST STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

THE TYOGA STUDIO
ANN FISHER
242 MAIN STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

EMPTY
244 MAIN STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

EMPTY
246 MAIN STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

THE REAL ESTATERS
ROBERT WOOD
1671 SOUTH MAIN STREET
MANSFIELD PA 16933

SPRING CREEK BRIDAL FASHONS
248 MAIN STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

JANIE CHABOREK BEAUTY SALON
JANIE CHABOREK
105 CARPENTER STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

THE ROCK YOUTH CENTER
MIKE DECKMAN
137 NORTH WILLIAMSON ROAD
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

TROPICAL RAYS TANNING SALON
106 CARPENTER STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

ACORN MARKET #35
190 EAST AVENUE
WELLSBORO PA 16901

ACORN MARKET
MELISSA YOUMANS
210 MAIN STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

SMALL MALL
JOHN & LINDA SHYPULEFSKI
213 MAIN STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

EMPTY
206 MAIN STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

BEAR-A BAR & GRILL
HAN-ROW ASSOC & CO
200 MAIN STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

LAURA'S BEAUTH SHOP
LAURA PATTERSON
107 MCINTIRE STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

BOB'S SALES AND SERVICE
BOB METARKO
121 MAIN STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

3-TEES
GEOFF RAKOSKI
130 MAIN STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

FREDERICK CYCLE & SMALL ENGINE REPAIR
331 GRANGER STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

ZWICHAROWSKI FUNERAL HOME
PETE PEPPER
314 GRANGER STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

JENNIFERS CUTTING EDGE
JENNIFER ARNOLD
302 PARKHURST STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

JAMES MONTAGUE
RR#3 BOX 616
MANSFIELD PA 16933

EMPTY
303 MAIN STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

SOUTHERN TIOGA SCHOOL DISTRICT OFFICE
214 MAIN STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

BEN JONES HEATING & PLUMBING
390 GRANGER STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

WISHING WELL RESTURANT
GAIL MOORE
104 GULICK STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

WARD MANUFACTURING
PO BOX 9
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

PRECISION ALIGNMEMT
MILLER TRUCKING
EUGENE MILLER
HC 60 BOX 309
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

WILLIAMSON LAND COMPANY
RICHARD MAYS
7 RIVERSIDE PLAZA
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

EMPTY
LOTS (2)
OLD ROUTE 15

SARAH'S DOG & CAT GROOMING
SARAH PEQUIGNOT
214 SOUTH WILLIAMSON ROAD
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

EMPTY
RAY KAMINSKI
RR GULICK STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

NICKERSON CONSTRUCTION
HC 60 BOX 310
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

B & D TRANSFER
ROUTE 15
LIBERTY PA 16930

BLOSSBURG MEMORIAL LIBRARY
SHARON THOMAS
307 MAIN STREET
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

BLOSSBURG FIRE DEPT
BLOSSBURG AMBULANCE ASSOC
PO BOX
BLOSSBURG PA 16912

If i can help with any preps i would be glad to,, just let me know
when , where and what .. and i will try to be there..I think getting
a no profit center for kids is a good idea and think it would be a
good thing for bloss..there really is not any place for kids to go
and have fun anymore like there used to be..the old Sandbox was a
good place when i was a teenager..hope i can help.. john onks

The Main St. program steering committee will meet

Wednesday, May 12, 2004
7:00 pm
Blossburg Borough Council room
245 Main St.

I look forward to seeing you there!

Heidi

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Here's the nice list of community assets Mike put together.

Thanks, Mike!  And thanks for arranging for the council room, Tonya.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject:  Bloss Main St. Comm Assets
Date:  Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:15:27 -0400
From:  Michael T. Egan <Tbcha@...>
To:  <hij@...>



BLOSSBURG MAIN STREET PROGRAM

COMMUNITY ASSETS:



Public Offices, Agencies, Organizations, Property


-         Post Office - Plaza
-         Southern Tioga School District Headquarters- Main Street
-         Elementary, Middle and Senior High Schools
-         Blossburg Borough Office & Police Department - Main Street
-         Library - Main Street
-         Bradford/Tioga County Housing Authority Main Office - Plaza
-         Riverside Park Elderly Housing Development - Diehr St.
-   Public Parking Lot in Plaza
-         Island Park



Non-Profit Organizations
-        Laurel Health System
	 (1) Bradford/Tioga Head Start (Plaza)
	 (2) Wellness Center  (Plaza)
	 (3)    Laurel Health Center  (Plaza)
	 (4)    Laurel Youth Services (Ruah Street)
-         Blossburg Improvement Association
-         Blossburg Fire & Ambulance Association - Main Street

Private Organizations
-   Kiwanis Club
-         VFW
-         American Legion
-         Masonic Temple
-         Knights of Columbus

Churches

-         1st Baptist - Main Street
-         St Andrews - Catholic -Granger St.
-         United Methodist - N. Williamson Rd.
-         Emmanuel Church - Ruah St.
-         Seventh Day Adventist - N. Williamson Rd.

Industries

-         Ward Manufacturing

Other Outside Groups that promote borough interests

-         Tioga County Development Corporation (TCDC)
-         Northern Tier Regional Planning Commission (NTRPDC)
-         Tioga County Concerned Citizens Committee (TCCCC)



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4/28/04
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Attendees:
	 Mike Egan
	 Heidi Jones
	 Tonya McNamara
	 Jill Nickerson
	 Shane Nickerson


Tonya has nearly completed a list of all the businesses in Blossburg,
including maps for each area (north, downtown, south), and has developed
a mailing list with the businesses, Blossburg Improvement Association
members, and Blossburg Borough council & committee/board members.

Mike also made a nice list of community assets.

We discussed the boundaries of "downtown" for the Main St. program's
purposes. The options:
	 - House's lumber mill to the beer distributor
	 - House's lumber mill to the beer distributor plus old 15
	 - Cement bridge to green bridge
	 - Bear A to green bridge
The concensus was bridge to bridge, but other definitions and opinions
welcome - definitely a topic for 5/12 meeting.

We also discussed the boundaries of our participant/stakeholder area:
	 - 16912 only
	 - Blossburg, Arnot, Morris Run
	 - Blossburg/North Penn school area
This definition would be useful for advertising future meetings and
thinking about the population that our downtown serves. Again, more to
discuss at 5/12 meeting.

Mike made it clear that state and local funding and technical assistance
is available and those key folks are very interested. Blossburg has an
"ideal" downtown set up with lots of services (post office, grocery,
pharmacy, dentist, doctor, fitness center, head start) already in our
downtown, plus plenty of parking, easy walking area. He and/or Tonya
have been in contact with Dept of Community & Economic Development,
TCDC, Northern Tier Regional Development Commission, PA Downtown Center.
We also discussed some other folks we'd like to bring in, Dave Darby and
Denny Murray at Mansfield University, for example.

We reviewed the Tioga County comprehensive plan survey summary. The data
is skewed by the age distribution of the respondents: 36% were retired
at the time of the survey, so we need to make sure that other age groups
get equal input. The major areas of concern for the future: Employment
opportunities/biz development, property taxes, services for elderly,
recreation, and of course, landfills.

A note on property taxes: In Tioga County, property taxes vary
considerably by jurisdiction but every property owner pays three kinds:
county taxes are 3.779 mills, school district taxes (STSD: 11.2, WASD:
8.52, NTSD: 9.325), and local taxes (lowest overall: Duncan Township:
.1, lowest borough: Liberty Borough: 1.3, highest overall: Blossburg
Borough: 6.224). Thus, Blossburg borough property owners pay 21.203,
while our biggest "competition", Wellsboro and Mansfield borough
property owners pay 17.379 and 20.229 respectively. I figured this all
out using Census data and a property tax information sheet that a
realtor gave me. I think it's all 2000 - 2001 data.

We discussed some of the barriers to small businesses moving in to
Blossburg: we have a good amount of retail space available with decent
rents, however, the heating costs are enormous - $800+/mo in the winter.
Mike mentioned that there are rehab matching grants available for both
commercial and residential rentals that we'll need to look into.




Action items (I should have written them all down, I'm sorry I've
forgotten some):

- Heidi & Jill: contact all members of steering committee about 5/12 meeting
- Heidi: develop agenda and data for 5/12 meeting
- Tonya: send Jill lists she's developed
- Shane: work on setting up a tour of old theater
- Mike: keep finding information and resources, find data


Next meeting:

Invitees: steering committee
Wednesday May 12, 2004
7:00
Blossburg Borough council room
Refreshments

Draft agenda:

Welcome
About 16912@yahoogroups.com
Define "downtown"
Define participation area
Review existing demographic and business data, think about what else we
need to inform the visioning session participants
Define date, start planning logistics for visioning meetings
Develop advertising and outreach strategy for visioning meetings
Elect secretary and treasurer
Adjourn

Please edit/add to/comment on these notes :-)

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