At that hearing, Monroe Township Citizens for Clean Groundwater called on the supervisors to go with the original Act 537 plan approved by DEP in July 1993. Habitat group nearly formed Perry County Habitat for Humanity will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Blain firehouse. The nonprofit organization has met at different locations across the county for the past several months in an effort to recruit members from a wide geographic area. Paperwork is nearly complete for affiliation with Habitat for Humanity International. And committees are busy selecting potential sites for building the first home and setting up criteria for selection of families to buy a home.
Construction is planned for spring, probably in New Bloomfield or Newport.
General meetings on the first Tuesday of January and February will be held at the organization's offices at Church and Main streets in New Bloomfield the basement of the United Methodist Church. A federal official responsible for documenting human rights violations in south Asia is the featured speaker at the upcoming meeting of the Foreign Policy Association of Harrisburg. Patricia Grossman will speak on international human rights and U.S. foreign policy. Washington D.C. Besides documenting human rights violations, she does advocacy work with the U.S. and other governments. The event begins with a 6 p.m. social hour followed by dinner at 7.