Oil City is collecting items from residents and businesses to be put in the sesquicentennial time capsule.
Oil City Mayor Bill Moon said the time capsule is about half full. The deadline for donating items is Sept. 24.
Menus from restaurants, business cards, giveaway promotional items from businesses that are the size of a cell phone or smaller, or personal letters to children or grandchildren, are among the items Moon suggested people donate.
Before the items are buried in the time capsule, they will either be laminated or vacuum-sealed, Moon said. The time capsule will be buried, surrounded with gravel for drainage purposes, in Hasson Park at 10 a.m. Oct. 9 during O.C.toberfest.
The Zonta Club is donating a bronze plaque to be put on the ground to mark where the time capsule will be buried.
Items Oil City residents and businesses would like to donate for the time capsule may be dropped off at City Hall from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday or from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday at Gates and Burns Realty, at 8 E. First St.
