LEBANON, PA VOL. FIRE DEPT. HOSTED WHITE POWER SHOW FOR THE FOURTH TIME

Some of you might have seen an earlier version of this article where we say the Prescott Community Fire Dept. was duped into hosting this, but in checking our archives, we found out we were wrong. This is now the FOURTH time they hosted an event sponsored by Keystone State “Skinheads”! UPDATE: 9/11/12 Article revised again to note the low turnout of 80 boneheads.

One People’s Project

LEBANON, PA Sept. 8—For the fourth reported time in the past few years, neo-Nazi Keystone State “Skinheads” held a concert at the Prescott Community Fire Dept. on Friday, this one featuring among other bands, 13 Knots, the band Wade Michael Page belonged to before he went into a Sikh Temple in Wisconsin and killed six people before killing himself.

At least 25 cars were seen in the parking lot of Prescott Ave. banquet hall, many of them sporting out of state tags as far out as Florida and Tennessee. Approximately 80 people had attended, including members of Confederate Hammerskins as well as the Atlantic City “Skinheads”. Because of the low turnout, the bands performed shorter sets than usual, and all the bands scheduled to perform were there except Chaos 88, whose guitarist, Kenny Souder also plays in the band the Hard Way. That band, which was barred from an actual Battle of the Bands event near Philadelphia earlier this year, was performing the same day at an event in New Jersey sponsored by the Pagans Motorcycle Club. Instead, Chaos 88’s lead singer performed with his reunited former band Aggravated Assault.

The Prescott Community Fire Department is a volunteer organization that has no connection to the Lebanon Fire Department that is run by the town. Elaine’s Catering, the operators of the banquet hall has reportedly told sources that he had no idea what kind of event they were hosting, however this is the fourth time that a white power event sponsored by KSS has been hosted at this venue. In 2009 KSS hosted Uprise here.  Richard Poplawski, who is currently serving time for the murder of three police officers in Western Pennsylvania, expressed interest in attending, and Empire Falls, who performed on Friday, also performed during Uprise 2009. Two prior events reportedly sponsored by KSS were held there as well.

On Sunday, a benefit show at the Golden Nugget Casino in Atlantic City, NJ that purports to raise money for injured and fallen workers in the name of the founder of the Atlantic City “Skinheads” is scheduled to take place, and the possible “Leif Ericson Day Celebration” that is put on in Philadelphia every October by the Keystone State “Skinheads” has yet to be announced publicly.