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Bill would open pool halls to people under 18:
He calls it his "anti-Music Man bill."
Instead of diverting youths away from the pool hall as in the musical "The Music Man," Sen. Jeffrey Piccola, R-Dauphin County, is pushing a bill that invites youngsters inside them. The bill would repeal a 19th-century law that bars anyone under the age of 18 from entering a pool hall.
"Times have changed. Pool halls and billiard parlors are now looked at as family enterprises," Piccola said.
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the bill Tuesday. It now goes to the Senate Appropriations Committee.
The issue arose last summer when Paxtang officials told him the law hurts BCA Billiards and Game Room, which opened in Paxtang with the intention of being a family establishment.
My local room owner from Fitch's Billiards in Easton, PA has begun the revolution on this ancient law. He will be having the local paper The Express Times come and do an interview with him about the discrimination that his hall is facing. There are 5 other pool rooms within 15 miles of his and NO ONE else is having this problem. Scott has been on the phone non stop with representatives in our senate and with Gov Rendell. The bill should be going to the House within a week, and then once passed there to the Gov to be signed into law. Basically they are removing the old law. The police have already fined him once and one of his employees once!!!!
I ask any and all room owners in PA and surround areas to call Scott and give him some firepower with the newspapers or more information on helping us in PA get this law undone. They have closed him down on Sundays as well, and patrol his parking lot every 20 minutes!!!
This is injustice to him, as he has been a room owner for 16 years and the top table mechanic in this tri state area. He has done nothing but good with the communities he's been in. He doesn't charge for lessons when you need help, he helps kids with their homework, and even lends an ear to the kids problems that they have!
His contact info is as follows:
Scott Fitch
Fitchs Billiards
17th and Lehigh Streets
Easton/Wilson, PA 18042
610-250-POOL (7665)
www.fitchsbilliards.com
Thanks!!!
Bill would open pool halls to people under 18:
He calls it his "anti-Music Man bill."
Instead of diverting youths away from the pool hall as in the musical "The Music Man," Sen. Jeffrey Piccola, R-Dauphin County, is pushing a bill that invites youngsters inside them. The bill would repeal a 19th-century law that bars anyone under the age of 18 from entering a pool hall.
"Times have changed. Pool halls and billiard parlors are now looked at as family enterprises," Piccola said.
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the bill Tuesday. It now goes to the Senate Appropriations Committee.
The issue arose last summer when Paxtang officials told him the law hurts BCA Billiards and Game Room, which opened in Paxtang with the intention of being a family establishment.
My local room owner from Fitch's Billiards in Easton, PA has begun the revolution on this ancient law. He will be having the local paper The Express Times come and do an interview with him about the discrimination that his hall is facing. There are 5 other pool rooms within 15 miles of his and NO ONE else is having this problem. Scott has been on the phone non stop with representatives in our senate and with Gov Rendell. The bill should be going to the House within a week, and then once passed there to the Gov to be signed into law. Basically they are removing the old law. The police have already fined him once and one of his employees once!!!!
I ask any and all room owners in PA and surround areas to call Scott and give him some firepower with the newspapers or more information on helping us in PA get this law undone. They have closed him down on Sundays as well, and patrol his parking lot every 20 minutes!!!
This is injustice to him, as he has been a room owner for 16 years and the top table mechanic in this tri state area. He has done nothing but good with the communities he's been in. He doesn't charge for lessons when you need help, he helps kids with their homework, and even lends an ear to the kids problems that they have!
His contact info is as follows:
Scott Fitch
Fitchs Billiards
17th and Lehigh Streets
Easton/Wilson, PA 18042
610-250-POOL (7665)
www.fitchsbilliards.com
Thanks!!!
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