Reed said the grant includes $30,000 toward the Midtown Market District program, which seeks to place new businesses in the corridor, produce special events and promotions, improve safety and codes compliance, and undertake beautification projects, with another $15,000 earmarked for the District’s new Facade Grant Program.

The new Facade Grant Program will benefit property owners and businesses within the MMD by providing matching funds for specified improvements to building exteriors, noted the Mayor. The MMD Design subcommittee and city have developed guidelines for the grant program, and 15 applications have already been received, he added.

First established by the Mayor in 1995 and now a part of the national Main Street USA program, the MMD is a comprehensive public/private sector development initiative centered around the newly renovated historic Broad Street Market and encompassing much of the area adjacent to North Third Street between Forster and Reily Streets.

The Midtown Market District has a full-time staffperson, a citizen-volunteer Steering Committee and four taskforces working on organization, promotion, design and economic restructuring. The District publishes a monthly newsletter and has recently begun a Merchant Mentoring program to help new businesses get started. The District is administered by Executive Director Martha McGraw, who can be reached at the MMD office in the Historic Harrisburg Resource Center, 1230 N. Third Street, (717) 221-8134.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH ART EXHIBITION
The MetroArts African American Visual Artists’ Group is holding a Black History Month exhibit at the Doshi Gallery from February 1 to the 23. The public is invited to view the exhibit and to attend an opening reception on Saturday, February 1, from 5 PM until 7 PM. The gallery is located inside the Harrisburg Transportation Center.

The theme of the event will be "Quiet Moments" a perspective into the lives of African-Americans that is too often overlooked. The Stevenson Twins provide musical entertainment at the opening. Light refreshments will be served.

For more information please call MetroArts of the Capital Region at (717) 238-1887 between the hours of 9 AM and 5 PM, Monday through Friday.

Are you interested in your African-American ancestry?

The Historical Society of Dauphin County is presenting a workshop to help you get started looking for those elusive ancestors—Saturday, February 15, 1997.

The workshop will be hosted by lecturer and teacher John W. Heisey, author of Checklist of American Coverlet Weavers and the genealogy columnist of Antiqueweek and The Pennsylvania Magazine.

Assisting this well-known authority will be Kathleen Signor, Archivist for the Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg; Ruth E. Hodge, Archivist, Pennsylvania State Archives; and Warren W. Wirebach, Librarian, Historical Society of Dauphin County. Various search and research techniques will be covered with emphasis on African-American records nationwide, statewide, and local.

The workshop will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, February 15, in the library of the Historical Society of Dauphin County. There will be an hour break for lunch, and staff persons can make suggestions for nearby restaurants. After the workshop, the Historical Society’s library will be open for research until 6 p.m. with staff on hand to provide assistance.

The registration fee is $15. Seating is limited and registration deadline is February 10. For a registration form or more details, please call (717) 233-3462.

OPEN STAGE SPONSORS SPRING BUS TRIP TO NEW YORK CITY
Winter doldrums and cabin fever got you down? If so, make reservations early for the spring bus trip to New York City on Saturday, May 17, sponsored by Open Stage of Harrisburg. The bus trip will depart from Harrisburg at 7 a.m. and return by 11:30 p.m. Your New York destination will be Lincoln Center in the fashionable Upper West Side. Transportation will be aboard a Capitol Trailways coach equipped with comfortable reclining seats and restroom facilities. This excursion is open to the public.

Participants can plan their own itinerary for the day in the city.

The round-trip fare is $30. For reservations, call Open Stage at 232-6736.

HOLY SPIRIT GRADUATES RADIOLOGY STUDENTS
Camp Hill, PA—January 22, 1997—Jean Marie Crater of Elizabethtown and Beth Ann Renoll of East Berlin graduated on January 17 from Holy Spirit Hospital’s School of Radiologic Technology.

Crater was recipient of the Simmonds Award for academic excellence, and Renoll was awarded the Mallinckrodt Award for clinical excellence.

Crater, a graduate of Elizabethtown Area High School, is the spouse of Leonard E. Crater III, the daughter of George and Alma Mosonyi Sr., and the mother of three children.

Renoll is a graduate of New Oxford High School. She is the daughter of Leroy and Nadine Swope, and the spouse of Craig Renoll.

Holy Spirit’s School of Radiologic Technology is a 24-month program affiliated with Harrisburg Area Community College. Genevieve Conrad, R.T. (R) is director of the radiologic technology school, and Barbara Kunkel, M.D., serves as medical director for the program.

GRAND RE-OPENING ANNOUNCED FOR UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF THE CAPITAL AREA
Camp Hill, PA—United Cerebral Palsy of the Capital Area will be hosting a grand re-opening of its newly renovated Linda Lane facility on Thursday, February 13, 1997, from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. The dedication ceremony will begin at 6 p.m. Many area businesses have donated food, refreshments and supplies for the evening. Funds for renovating the Linda Lane facility came from the Whitaker Foundation and other contributors who designated gifts through the Capital Campaign.

Alternatives West, one of UCP’s adult day training programs for adults with disabilities, relocated to the newly renovated Linda Lane facility after being at its Trindle Road location for the past nine years. The new center provides the Alternatives Program with approximately 2,000 more square feet, offering more program space and a better program layout. In addition to new program equipment, program participants will have the opportunity to experience things such as a kitchen center where they can learn various cooking skills. The staff will benefit from a resource library which they can use for continuing education on new training techniques for different types of disabilities.

UCP of the Capital Area provides programs for children and adults with disabilities and their families in Perry, Cumberland, Dauphin, and Northern York counties. The programs of UCP are aimed at advancing the independence of people with disabilities.