Horner, Arts Council Award Winners at CCEP Dinner
LOCK HAVEN – Veteran Chapman Township supervisor Tim Horner and the Clinton County Arts Council were recognized at the Clinton County Economic Partnership annual dinner Wednesday night.
Horner was presented the Frank D. O’Reilly community service award, for what presenter and county commissioner Pete Smeltz said was his life-long municipal service in a variety of capacities in western Clinton County and presently as president of the Pennsylvania Association of Township Officials.
Horner said, “One person can’t do it, it takes everyone working together to make things happen in Clinton County.”
Arts council president Steve Getz and past president Ron McGinniss accepted the Carl Bergdahl tourism award from tourism committee chair Bonnie Hannis. The council was recognized for its support of the arts, including its operation of the Train Station Art Gallery at 2 E. Bald Eagle Street in Lock Haven, site of a year-round showing of offerings from artists from a broad area.
Dinner speaker was David Spigelmyer, President of the Marcellus Shale Coalition. He detailed the growth of Marcellus Shale development in large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.
Spigelmyer said 23 percent of U.S. natural gas comes from the Marcellus Shale. The industry accounts for 240,000 jobs in Pennsylvania, Spigelmyer said, with an average pay of $90,000.
He said the state’s current impact fee on natural gas drilling provided more than $500,000 to Clinton County government and more than one million dollars to its member municipalities.
