RT HONORS: The awards keep coming for Smethport artist Julie Mader.
The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) has chosen her “Power Within” as one of four statewide Best of the Best Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts Projects.
The awards recognize artistic and community accomplishments of outstanding arts projects, events and activities developed in local and community settings, according to the PCA.
“The Power Within” was a traveling art exhibit that featured seven plants that produce cancer-fighting agents used in chemotherapy. The exhibit was shown across McKean, Cameron, Elk and Jefferson counties.
The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts is a state agency that supports excellence, diversity and vitality of the arts in Pennsylvania, and seeks to broaden access and appreciation of the arts. The council formed the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts in 1997 to expand access to arts funding and promote local arts decision-making.
Also recently, Julie’s painting titled “Summertime” won WPSU-FM’s annual Art for the Airwaves poster competition. The acrylic painting depicts her daughter and a friend wading in Potato Creek. One hundred prints of the painting were offered to WPSU donors.
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BAD HABIT: There’s at least one trio of black bear cubs learning some bad habits from their mother.
Last Saturday a resident of Dennis Lane spotted the mama bear and her three cubs rummaging though a neighbor’s trash can and later discovered her bird feeder mangled and empty.
The same night, a resident of Lang Maid Lane a few blocks away saw what was likely the same bear family doing the same thing.
While we haven’t had many in-town bear sightings reported so far this year, it’s clearly time for the bruins to be out and about — and time for us to bring our bird feeders in, at least at night.
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NOTE OF THANKS: Hal R. Harmon dropped us a note hoping his message would get to the person who did a good deed.
Hal lost his wallet at Bradford Regional Medical Center but someone found it and turned it in, intact.
“Since I don’t know who you are,” Hal wrote, “I hope honesty is its own reward.”
