Bald Eagle residents and people of Snyder Township have had their eyes opened by the placement of Pyramid Healthcare Inc.\u2019s Greentree Village facility within the rural community of Bald Eagle that rehabilitates troubled area youths.
\nThe people of Bald Eagle have formed a group, \u2018Snyder Township and Vicinity Concerned Citizens,\u2019 to help organize their opinions and disagreements as a whole because many citizens in the small Snyder Township community have voices that now want to be heard.
\nThose concerned citizens have flocked in large numbers to the recent Snyder Township meeting September 3 and to the September 10 Tyrone School Board meeting. The Pyramid Healthcare issue has struck a chord with the people of Snyder Township and they want some sort of resolve granted to them.
\nTheir presence alone shows the troubling concerns and questions the people of Bald Eagle have, and they plan on continuing to overflow the Township and School Board meetings until their concerns are addressed and questions are fully answered.
\nOne concern that has bewildered the involved Bald Eagle residents is the way the Tyrone School Board meetings are conducted.
\nBonnie Houser, treasurer and spokeswoman for \u2018The Snyder Township and Vicinity Concerned Citizens,\u2019 stated, \u201cWe\u2019re not happy with the way the School Board meetings are held or the way the minutes are written for the School Board. There\u2019s no time really to talk or to give answers to any of the questions – they don\u2019t answer you.\u201d
\nEd Schenck, another spokesperson for the Snyder Township citizens, likewise is frustrated with the lack of support from the school board and how difficult he found it to be to receive information from the board.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s almost like they (the School Board) don\u2019t want you to know, and hopefully that isn\u2019t the case,\u201d said Schenck. \u201cWe don\u2019t get responses from the School Board when we bring up issues. They open up public comment session, you can\u2019t address a board member personally and then you only have five minutes to speak; but they do give you the five minutes.\u201d
\nSchenck noted that Superintendent Dr. William Miller did address some questions that were appreciated by Schenck. He noted, \u201cI appreciate the passion Dr. Miller and Joann Lang show for helping the kids, but they should give equal consideration for the people paying the bills and how they feel about a facility coming into their neighborhood.
\n\u201cI\u2019m just one person expressing my views, but I want our folks to express their opinions also,\u201d said Schenck. \u201cThat\u2019s what\u2019s great about our country and we\u2019re trying to follow the school\u2019s process and hopefully we\u2019ll get all our answers to our questions at some point.\u201d
\nHouser and many other Bald Eagle residents are pushing for an ordinance and\/or zoning by Snyder Township supervisors to possibly prevent other incidents like Pyramid Healthcare\u2019s placement within the township and Bald Eagle.
\nAccording to Houser, Snyder Township is looking into the issue, and the Northern Blair Regional Sewer Authority is still concerned and checking in on the sewage issue at Greentree Village.
\n\u201cIf they (Snyder Township) would pass the ordinance for a 90 day notice for any business to go into the township, that would be a big help,\u201d said Houser. \u201cThat would definitely be in our favor if it was an active ordinance right now.\u201d
\nHouser stated, \u201cIt\u2019s all new to us, we\u2019re still pushing for the township to look into zoning also. There\u2019s zoning in other places, so why not in Bald Eagle?\u201d She continued, \u201cWe\u2019ll have to have some zoning when the Northern I-99 Corridor gets completed because more businesses will be coming into Bald Eagle, and hopefully some good businesses come here.\u201d
\nSchenck commented, \u201cOur intent is not to take away the fundamental reasons why people live here and what they want to do with their properties.\u201d
\nSchenck\u2019s main concern with Greentree Village is safety and security. He stated, \u201cPeople in Bald Eagle are really nervous; just in the past two weeks there\u2019s been three incidents of kids wandering off the premises by themselves. This is something Pyramid assured us would never happen.\u201d
\n\u201cThere\u2019s not one on one supervision like we were told,\u201d said Schenck. \u201cAnd this is before the overnight people have come in when the supervision will be less.\u201d
\nSchenck continued, \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of elderly people here and they\u2019re scared to death. We\u2019re not against these kids, but let these people in this community live out their lives peacefully. This isn\u2019t a personal thing against Pyramid, but here we are with a bad situation in our neighborhood – our residential area.\u201d
\nSchenck, Houser and the rest of The Snyder Township and Vicinity Concerned Citizens are going to keep attending Snyder Township and Tyrone School Board meetings to keep seeking answers to their questions and try to avoid a similar incident in the future.
\nHouser stated, \u201cWe\u2019re not dead, it opened our eyes – we\u2019re as active as we were a month ago, and just as concerned and upset. This isn\u2019t going to happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bald Eagle residents and people of Snyder Township have had their eyes opened by the placement of Pyramid Healthcare Inc.\u2019s Greentree Village facility within the rural community of Bald Eagle that rehabilitates troubled area youths. The people of Bald Eagle have formed a group, \u2018Snyder Township and Vicinity Concerned Citizens,\u2019 to help organize their opinions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}