Harrington News

Tuesday evening,, Jan 6, at 6:30 p.m. the Harrington Historic

Preservation Commission, (HHPC) met with the following in attendance:

Jay Gossett, Paul and Peggy Charlton, Aileen Sweet, Celeste Miller,

Marge Womach, Karen Allen, Lindsey Harder and Anita Harman.

Paperwork was presented by the Charltons seeking to have their home,

known as the Attie Turner house, put on the local Register of Historical

Houses. The house was built in 1918 by J.R. Burrill, is one and one-half

stories, and is a single family bungalow. Attie Turner was born Sept

24, 1882 in Harrington, son of Luther P. and Jane Turner.

L.P. Turner came to the Harrington area in the spring of 1888. They

had seven children and raised six: Maud, Lelia, Attie, Ruth, Lois and

Ethie. Attie graduated from Harrington high school and married Anna

Lyle Turner in Harrington on Jan 27, 1917. Shortly thereafter this

beautiful house was built. They raised two daughters and farmed until

Attie's retirement in the mid-1940s.

Projects for the year are beginning to be discussed, picking up from

last year's concept of Harrington's groups banning together to

accomplish maximum benefit. First on the list was to meet with the

Harrington Public Development Authority to improve the appearance of the

buildings on Third Street, commonly called the main street. Elections

will be held at the next HHPC meeting on Feb 3, 6:30 p.m., meeting at

city hall.

Considerable discussion was held regarding the rough draft received

from Chaz Bates of Studio Cascade pertaining to the updating of the

2000+ plan for revitalizing the downtown district of Harrington. The

rough draft was critiqued by the members and suggestions for changes

were to be sent to Studio Cascade during the week.

Harrington Opera House Society

Monday evening, Jan 5, at 7 p.m. in the Art Room, Mark Stedman called

the HOHS meeting to order with the following present: Mike and Bonnie

Hardy, Sheryl Stedman, Carol, Ed and Bunny Haugan, Steven and Becky

Hardy, Dillon Haas, Gordon Herron, Linda Wagner, and Marge Womach.

Building projects were discussed, and Gordon announced that the plaster

work had been finished. Bonnie stated that she has 113 molding pieces

that are ready to return to the auditorium and be put in place. The work

on dressing room number 1 has issues yet to be finished. The stage

curtains need to be hung during the week, following a cleaning of the

stage and auditorium. Later they will be shortened to fit our stage.

Coming events were discussed with the next event being Horse Crazy

Cowgirls on March 20.

Chamber of Commerce

Wednesday noon at city hall, the Harrington Chamber of Commerce met.

Cassandra Paffle-Dick, Kathy Hoob, Heather Slack, Paula Pike, Cindy

Haas, Jay Gossett, Allen Barth, Bunny Haugan and Summer Clark were in

attendance.

Election of officers resulted in the same slate of officers as the

previous year, i.e., President Cassanra Paffle-Dick, Co-Vice Presidents

Kathy Hoob and Sharon Nighswonger, Treasurer Cindy Haas and Secretary

Bunny Haugan.

A general review of the 2014 activities was discussed but most of the

attention was directed toward the May 16 Cruisin' Harrington spring

event and attempting to organize a clean-up date when the chamber and

school could work together. Some interest was shown in organizing a

beer garden for the event.