December 2022

Through the week before Christmas, the Potter County Farmers Market will move indoors to the Riley Gallery, next to the Crittenden, on Saturdays from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. The next market will be this Saturday, December 3rd. Here is a list of who plans to be there and what they plan on bringing to the Market:

BLACK CATS AND PAPERCRAFTS is planning on being there with charms, quilled paper light boxes, wall hangings, hair accessories, paper and resin jewelry and other assorted paper crafts. We also have cards, gift tags and gift boxes for the holidays and are taking a few more commissions to be done by Christmas. For more information, or to make a custom order contact Leon at blackcatsandpapercrafts@gmail.com or visit our Facebook page to see sneak peeks of the new things we’re making at https://facebook.com/blackcatsandpapercrafts

ME AND MY BOYS SOAP plan on attending the market this Saturday. We will have a selection of goat milk based products that include soap bars, shampoo bars, lotions and bath bombs. For your holiday gift needs have put together so gift boxes and have jars filled with bath bombs. For more information contact us at meandmyboyssoap@gmail.com or visit our Facebook page. 

CARD CREEK BAKERY will be at the market with requested breads types and sweet treats, jams, and jellies. Potter County wooden Bread Boards will be available topped with your favorite bread for gift giving near Christmas. Please let me know your requests each week so I can bring what you are tasting. netrabaker@hughes.net. 814-544-7313

JOANIE’S APIARY will not be able to attend any in December. However I do have a full line of my products at the Artisan Center and at my house. 

On December 2, at 9:54 Pm. Mt. Jewett and Hamlin Fie Depts. have been dispatched 14 Division St. for a working structure fire a shed connected to a house with a possible explosion. Kane has also been dispatched. Update a patient has been transported to BRMC from the scene

The Port Allegany Evangelical Covenant Church announces the return of the Christmas Bazaar! The Bazaar will be held at the church at 67 Church Street in Port Allegany on Saturday, December 3 from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. and will feature homemade soups, pies and baked goods; Covenant Church Cookbooks, Rada Cutlery, hand-made wares; hand-made jewelry; hand painted crafts and more.

For further information, contact Cheryl Freer at 814-558-0988.

The St. Gabriel’s Catholic Church Holiday Bazaar will be held Saturday, December 3rd at St. Gabriel’s Church located at 203 Arnold Avenue in Port Allegany from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. 

The Bazaar will feature homemade soups to go, Crafts, Basket Raffle, Chinese Auction, White Elephant Sale and more.  Raffles include an afghan, Kate Spade Backpack and a Weed Eater.  Raffle Tickets are $2 each.  

In July 2022, the PA Clean Streams Fund (CSF) was passed as part of the state budget.  This fund provides $220 million in dedicated funding from the American Rescue Plan to create new clean water programs, including $154 million for the Agricultural Conservation Assistance Program (ACAP). This program will provide farmers with funding to implement conservation practices on their land.

The State Conservation Commission will establish programmatic details modeled after PA’s Dirt, Gravel and Low Volume Road Program.  Similar to that program, ACAP funding will be distributed to County Conservation Districts. 

Conservation Districts will work with participating farmers and landowners to help design and implement soil and water conservation practices. These practices are designed to reduce or prevent nutrient and sediment losses from their farms while improving water quality and soil health across the Commonwealth. This funding will be available for all farmers within McKean County – there are no eligibility requirement that farmers must be within a certain watershed.

The McKean County Conservation District Board of Directors will be developing priorities and policies for ACAP at the local level within the coming months.  This is a unique opportunity to implement projects within the next three years starting in 2023.  The District will receive the allotted funding in three yearly installments. The funding is required to be obligated for projects and spent within two years of each installment. 

If you are interested in participating in the ACAP program in McKean County or for more information, please contact Adam Causer, Watershed Specialist at 814-887-4003 or accauser@mckeancountypa.org.

We have started this years Stockings for Soldiers! Stop by either funeral home to pick up a stocking and fill it with items on the included recommended list. Bring the stuffed stocking back to us by December 20th, and we will be mailing them to local soldiers and their unit for Christmas.