Quick Notes

• FRESH PAINT @ URBAN PLACE/Science Factory


• LBC HAS GONE SMOKE FREE


• CAR MAX IS COMING TO LANCASTER NEAR PARK CITY MALL


• STEVE AND BARRY'S IS OPEN @ ROCKVALE OUTLETS

Iron Hill Brewery is NOW OPEN in Lancaster, PA

From the local paper: Iron Hill Brewery has to opened its $2.8 million restaurant and brewpub today in College Row, the $30 million student housing and commercial complex at Franklin & Marshall College.The 280-seat restaurant at 781 Harrisburg Pike, Lancaster, PA expects to annually brew about 37,200 gallons of beer on site. It will feature six house brands, as well as seasonal beer varieties. House brands are Iron Hill Light Lager, Raspberry Wheat, Lodestone Lager, Anvil Ale, Ironbound Ale, Pig Iron Porter. Dinner entrees will range from $12 to $20 in the restaurant, while lunch entrees will cost $9 to $14. The restaurant will have about 80 employees.The Delaware-based Iron Hill also has locations in Media, North Wales, West Chester and Phoenixville, and in Newark and Wilmington, Del.

Sweet T and I had lunch their last Saturday. We both had the sample tray of beers, which included 9 samples for $7.00. A great price and a great way to sample their brews and seasonal. I am familiar with their brews from their other restaurants but they always have something new. I was delighted with their Pig Iron Porter with Nitro, nice and creamy. Their pints are $ 4.50 and they sell growlers to go. A word of caution to the local beer lovers: They will NOT fill your LBC Growler, only their own. So NO use taking that with you!

The wait staff was friendly and I recognized a few from other local restaurants. I ordered the Angus burger and did not notice the small print: All Meat is cooked well, no pink. I liked my Med. rare to well, so I definitely thought my burger was too dry. Partly my fault and great waiter would have asked me but I will overlook that since the restaurant is so new. However, I cannot over look how over salty my pomme frites were. I think I went in to a sodium coma.

Overall, not too bad for just opening and I will definitely be going back.

Heavy Trash/Forever Landfill

Manifesto

Heavy Trash is an anonymous arts organization of architects, artists, and urban planners, which started in LA. Heavy Trash creates large, disposable art objects that draw community and media attention to specific urban issues. By explaining a particular urban problem and suggesting a solution, Heavy Trash seeks to provoke dialogue among citizens. Lets start on HERE in Lancaster County!! http://heavytrash.blogspot.com/2005/04/manifesto.html

THEIR Next Project was Forever Landfill>>>

http://www.heavytrash.com/whatwedo.html

LOS ANGELES - In unrelated news, urbanist pranksters Heavy Trash are at it again. This time they're calling attention to the wastefulness of Angelenos who dispose of "940,000 tons of trash annually." And where does the trash go? After the dumpster, we mean. The majority of us have no clue. Heavy Trash wants to make sure you know that there's a place out there for your refuse through the Forever Landfill. [CurbedWire Inbox]

Better Design for the Greater Good

I stumbled upon a really cool web site/network through an Ad in GOOD Magazine....It is called Design 21: Social Design Network.http://www.design21sdn.com/

Are you a socially conscious designer, non-profit, individual organization who believes social change can happen through design?
Welcome Home states the web site, which is designed to engage the power of design and connect to create change.....please check it out and join.

"Never underestimate that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world." Margaret Mead

DEC 5th Also NInja Day

It's time for the Annual Day of the Ninja. Forget 'Talk Like a Pirate' Day. This will truly be our chance to show the world what ninja are made of.

As last year (and every year from now on), December 5th is the Day of the Ninja. Plague your co-workers with ninja-ness and wear a ninja mask to work! Got the day off? Run wild in the streets, or dress like a ninja at the mall! Just show the world that YOU ARE NINJA!

I also want you to help me take over the Internet on that day. LiveJournal posts about ninja. YouTube videos. Ninja links on all your websites. Photos of yourself wearing ninja outfits. Whatever. Go Ninja crazy.

Most importantly, tell YOUR friends and get them aboard. The more ninja, the merrier. mailto:aeon@ninjaburger.com?subject=DOTN to let me know you're aboard, and let me know what you plan to do to help celebrate the Annual Day of the Ninja.

Special Note: There are several other websites and movements out there calling this "International Creep Like a Ninja Day" or "Sneak Like a Ninja Day". This site is not affiliated with them, but we support their efforts. Really, as long as we're all doing it on the same day (December 5), you can call it whatever you like.

December 5 - Annual Day of the Ninja

http://dayoftheninja.com/index2.html

Repeal Day

On December 5th, 1933, Utah, the final state needed for a three quarters majority, ratified the 21st Amendment, repealing Prohibition and restoring the American right to a celebratory drink. While the amendment still allowed for state and local levels of Prohibition, by 1966 there were no state laws banning alcohol.

Why Do We Celebrate?

Repeal Day is not widely celebrated in this country, yet it commemorates the anniversary of the day the United States repealed the Eighteenth Amendment and gave Americans the constitutional ability to consume alcohol.

Here are a few reasons why we think Repeal Day should be a celebrated day in the United States:
It's the perfect time of year.

Conveniently located halfway between Thanksgiving and Christmas — at a time when most Americans are probably not spending time with family — Repeal Day presents a wonderful occasion to get together with friends and pay tribute to our constitutional rights.
We have the constitutional ability to do so.

Unlike St. Patrick's Day or Cinco de Mayo, Repeal Day is a day that all Americans have a part in observing, because it's written in our Constitution. No other holiday celebrates the laws that guarantee our rights, and Repeal Day has everything to do with our personal pleasures.
It's easy!!!

There are no outfits to buy, costumes to rent, rivers to dye green. Simply celebrate the day by stopping by your local bar, tavern, saloon, winery, distillery, or brewhouse and having a drink. Pick up a six-pack on your way home from work. Split a bottle of wine with a loved one. Buy a shot for a stranger. Just do it because you can.
Thanks for reading about what we hope will become a celebrated day in this country. Please help spread the word about Repeal Day, and tell a friend.
Cheers!
The 18th Amendment
Ratified January 16, 1919

http://www.repealday.org/

Fall Cancelled

I read this and had to pass it on in case you missed it:

BY Op-Ed Columnist....
The People We Have Been Waiting For

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: December 2, 2007

It was 60 degrees on Thursday in Washington, well above normal, and as I slipped away for some pre-Christmas golf, I found myself thinking about a wickedly funny story that The Onion, the satirical newspaper, ran the other day: “Fall Canceled after 3 Billion Seasons”:

“Fall, the long-running series of shorter days and cooler nights, was canceled earlier this week after nearly 3 billion seasons on Earth, sources reported Tuesday.

“The classic period of the year, which once occupied a coveted slot between summer and winter, will be replaced by new, stifling humidity levels, near-constant sunshine and almost no precipitation for months.

“‘As much as we’d like to see it stay, fall will not be returning for another season,’ National Weather Service president John Hayes announced during a muggy press conference Nov. 6. ‘Fall had a great run, but sadly, times have changed.’ ... The cancellation was not without its share of warning signs. In recent years, fall had been reduced from three months to a meager two-week stint, and its scheduled start time had been pushed back later and later each year.”

To read the entire piece:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/business/coll02friedman.html?_r=1&n=Top/Opinion/Editorials%20and%20Op-Ed/Op-Ed/Columnists/Thomas%20L%20Friedman&oref=slogin