HARRISBURG -- Since Arizona Sen. John McCain no longer has any Republican competition for the GOP presidential nomination, he's unlikely to attract as much news coverage or public attention as the two battling Democrats.

New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama will be in Pennsylvania frequently leading up to the April 22 primary.

But Mr. McCain is still trying to stay somewhat in the public eye, not to mention continuing to raise campaign cash, as a visit to the Harrisburg area planned for Thursday shows.

He'll attend a $1,000-a-plate fund-raiser at the West Shore Country Club at noon. The setting, in the upscale community of Camp Hill just across the Susquehanna River from Harrisburg, looks a lot like Upper St. Clair or Sewickley. The luncheon is closed to the public and the news media.

Then he'll cross the river into Harrisburg for a tour of Turbine Airfoil Designs factory. That also is closed to the public, but afterward there will be what McCain campaign aide Leslie Gromis Baker called a "media gaggle," to make sure TV reporters put his face on Central Pennsylvania TV stations that evening and make sure stories appear on newspaper Web sites and in the Friday morning papers.