TodaySentinel Morning Update:Clean Air Board celebrates new air-quality monitor
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Article RatingThings were set up perfectly for a picnic at the Macaluso home in Carlisle on Sunday. There were smiling faces, sunny skies, plenty of good eats ... and a strange machine that resembling a NASA leftover on the otherwise picturesque green lawn.
"I think I'm going to add arms to it and really make it look like a robot," quipped Russ Macaluso.
Not quite.
Strange as it may look, the thing in question actually is an air-quality monitor. On Sunday, the Clean Air Board of Central Pennsylvania -- to which Russ Macaluso and his wife, Jean, both belong -- celebrated its installation by the Department of Environmental Protection with a "Flip the Switch" party at the Macaluso home.
Although there already is a similar monitor set up on Route 34 in North Middleton, the board hopes the additional monitor -- which actually won't be turned on until Tuesday -- will allow for more specific analysis of the Carlisle area air quality, especially the fine particulate generated by local diesel fuel use.
With its location near Interstate 81, the turnpike and several warehouses, the Macalusos decided sometime ago to volunteer their property to house the monitor. While Jean Macaluso admitted it isn't the most attractive addition to the lawn, she felt the information the monitor would provide to the public is worth it.
"We thought it was a great idea," she said. "We knew what it was going to look like."
Her husband Russ, an eye, ears and throat doctor, agreed.
"We were very happy we could contribute this way."
Read more of Jessica Bruni's story in today's print and online editions later today.
Also coming today:
Clemente documentary a hit in Carlisle -- Luis Clemente arrived in New York from Puerto Rico about 5:20 a.m. Saturday and drove the
distance to Carlisle to be in the Amani Festival after flying all night.
He also wanted to be sure to meet the 50 or so people who turned out Saturday
night at Dickinson College to learn more about the legacy of his late father,
Roberto Clemente, the baseball hero who provided the theme for this year's
Amani Festival. Following a documentary promoting the idea of retiring Clemente's 21 from all of Major League Baseball, he sounded pleased with the effort and the amount of interest being shown in his father.
Tuskegee Airmen joining Army Heritage Day -- Army Heritage Day takes place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 19 and will highlight the 250th anniversary of Carlisle Barracks and the opening of the completed World War II area at the Army Heritage Trail. It is free and open to the public and refreshments will be available for sale.
Pennsylvania artist back home -- An exhibition of Howard J. Eberle's watercolors will take place at Hotel Carlisle in Middlesex Township with a reception from noon-2 p.m. Sunday, May 20, in the lobby. The works will hang in the hotel grand ballroom lobby for two months afterward. The hotel is kicking off a series of exhibitions of local artists with Eberle's work, says Eve Bannan, guest services/training director for Glendale Management Company, which owns Hotel Carlisle and Embers Convention Center.
