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Wholaver executionstayed by judgeA federal judge has stayed the

execution of convicted murderer Ernest Wholaver Jr.U.S. Middle District Judge

Christopher C. Conner stayed the March 1 execution by lethal injection for Wholaver, who murdered his wife and two daughters in their Middletown home a day before Christmas 2002.Ed Rendell signed a death

warrant for Wholaver, 50, before leaving the governor’s office last month.Wholaver is being held on

death row at SCI Greene, a state prison in western Pennsylvania.Conner appointed the Capital

Habeas Corpus Unit of the Federal Community Defender Office to handle Wholaver’s appeal. The Philadelphia-based office defends death row inmates who cannot afford an attorney.

- Jim Lewis

Passenger, cargotraffic rises at HIAHarrisburg International Airport

was busier in 2010 than the previous year, airport officials said.Passenger traffic was up

more than 7 percent compared to 2009, while 79 percent of all departing seats were sold – an increase of more than 2 percent.HIA was used by 1,333,753

passengers in 2010.The increase in passenger

traffic is “a testament to the strength and stability of the south central Pennsylvania region and the local economy as it continues to improve and air travel returns to normal levels of demand,’’ said Fred Sembach, a member of the Susquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority.Cargo traffic increased in

December 2010 by 4.5 percent compared to Dec. 2009. Total cargo tonnage increased 20.1 percent in 2010 compared to the previous year.

- JIm Lewis

Steelton to studyhandicapped parking A Handicapped Parking/Safety Committee was formed in Steel-ton to review the availability of handicapped parking in the borough. The committee will be

chaired by Mayor Tom Acri, and will include Police Chief Scott Spangler, Councilman Dennis Heefner, Public Works Director Joe Conjar, and code enforcement assistant Justin Hayman.

- Debra Schell

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STEELTON

By Debra SchellPress And Journal Staff

Steelton has a new borough secretary and treasurer.Doug Brown, a 29-year-old

Highspire resident and former state employee, was hired by borough council on a consensus vote Feb. 7. He replaces John DeSanto, who will remain on the borough payroll until April to help Brown transition into the job, said Mayor Tom Acri.DeSanto, who held the post for almost 2 years, was

asked to step down, said council President Jeffery Wright. “We felt we needed a change,” he said.DeSanto said he planned to look for work in the

private financial sector.

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Doug Brown

District may cut 30 jobs next year

MIDDLETOWN SCHOOLS


Middletown Area School District may furlough up to 30 employees, as much as half of them teachers, to try to close a $2.5 million gap in the district’s 2011-12 budget, said Superintendent Richard Weinstein. The reduction in staff could eliminate

$1.3 million in salary expenses, said David Franklin, the district’s financial director – $735,000 from furloughs of 10-15 teachers, $400,000 from the reduction of 10-15 support staff, such as teaching assistants, secretaries, and custodial positions.A 5.68-mill tax increase approved

by the board at its Feb. 14 meeting would trim another $1 million from the deficit.Weinstein did not say which positions

would be eliminated, or offer a time

Tax rate to rise as the ax fallsBy Debra SchellPress And Journal Staff

Middletown Area School Board ap-proved a $39.3 million preliminary budget for 2011-12 that includes a 5.68 percent tax increase and that still leaves the district with a $1.5 million unfunded balance.The budget was approved 8-0. Board

member Sheila Evans was absent. The tax increase will cost the owner

of a home assessed at $100,000 about $117 more a year.The preliminary budget lists revenues

of $37.8 million and expenditures of $39.3 million. Officials hope to bal-ance the budget by furloughing up to 30 employees, freezing administrative pay, and adding $30,000 from

Please See LAYOFFS, Page A4

Please See TAX, Page A4

Senior teachers, others offered incentive to take early retirement, as the district strives to close $1.5 million budget gap.

“I don’t have art classes, so being able to learn and create art is great since it’s something I hope to do for a

career one day.” - Asi West

junior at Steelton-Highspire H.S.

Press-Journal Photo/Debra Schell

Steel-High students work on drawings for a mural during an after-school art program led by Barak Inc. artist, Mairin Egge. The students are designing coverings for recycling containers that will be placed around the district and the Harrisburg area.

Creative ClassAn after-school program opens doors for art


Steelton-Highspire junior Brook-lyn Mills wanted to create something to remember her high school days.

Asi West, also a junior, wanted to learn more about art, something she doesn’t have room for in her school day.Both started attending an after school art

program at the high school. “I don’t have art classes, so being able

to learn and create art is great since it’s something I hope to do for a career one day,” West said. The program is lead by artist Mairin

Egge, who joined with Barak Inc., the Harrisburg-based nonprofit organization that engages youth through the arts. The art program, Voices of Youth,

provides Steel-High students from grades 8-12 a place to hang out from 2:30-5:30 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays. “It give the younger kids a chance to get

their hands dirty and learn how to paint,” Egge said. “And it gives the older kids a chance to design and create fun scenes.”

The program also highlights teamwork and creating something positive, she said. The group of 15 students selected “can-

dy” as a theme for the recycling trash cans they will paint and display at locations in the Harrisburg and possibly the Steelton-Highspire area. “Using bright colors and the candy

theme will make people pay attention,” said Mills. The students plan to include pink, blue,

and fluorescent colors in their design.The program had hopes of combining

painting and photography but Egge said that they couldn’t find a photography teacher. Bonnie Bissett-Tessier, of York Haven,

an artist whose focus is comprehensive artistic design, is helping students work on the project. Barak’s motto – mentoring the youth

through the artistic process – hopes to encourage students at Steel-High to create and achieve, Egge said. The recycling can project began in the

Please See ART, Page A6

Movies that charm

...and they’re free at PSHBy Jim LewisPress And Journal Staff

Think film festivals are just for adults who are fascinated by Fassbinder and undaunted by subtitles?Penn State Harrisburg’s International Film

Festival will feature animated and live action short films for kids as young as 3, includ-ing one Oscar nominee, during matinees in the 5-day event – and the public can catch them for free.From Wallace and Gromit to a heroic ani-

mated octopus, the festival, in its 11th year, features shorts from the 2010 New York International Children’s Film Festival.The festival begins Friday, Feb. 18 and runs

on two consecutive weekends in the Kunkel Auditorium at the Olmsted Building.The first Kid Flix Mix matinee will be held

at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 19 with 10 shorts lasting a total of 66 minutes, including an animated Australian tale of the effects of pollution on the ocean, an animated Swedish bunny named Boooo and a Finnish tribute to milk. The shorts are recommended for children ages 3-8.The second matinee will be held at 2 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 26 and features the Oscar-nominated short, “Oktapodi,’’ a 2007 French film about the adventure of an animated octopus trying to save his partner from becoming breaded calamari, as well as “Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf & Death,’’ a 30-minute film in which the duo opens their own bread business.

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The characters of “Oktapodi,’’ an Oscar-nominated animated short from France about a brave little octopus trying to save his partner from becoming calamari, are among those starring in Penn State Harrisburg’s International Film Festival.

Police conduct cited in lawsuits

By Jim LewisPress And Journal Staff

Just before dawn on May 15, 2008, the Middletown police and Dauphin Coun-ty Drug Task Force came to Deana Perry’s home with a search warrant, looking for marijuana.Her husband led them

to a small amount he had hidden away. Officers searched the rest of the house. One Middletown officer placed a bumper sticker on a window de-claring, in green letters, “Say ‘No’ to Drugs . . . Busted . . . Middletown Police Department,’’ while a task force officer leaned a photo of Perry, discovered in the search of her bedroom, on the window frame near the sticker.But the drugs were not hers, Perry insists. Drug

charges against her were withdrawn at a hearing. Now, Perry has filed a civil rights lawsuit in U.S.

Middle District Court against the officers, Middle-town Borough, the task force and the force’s supervi-sors, charging they humiliated her with the sticker and the photo, which she claims was a picture of her nude.Rousted from her sleep, she was forced to sit on a

barstool in her living room in a T-shirt and panties during the search while her four children and three other children she was babysitting looked on, she charged in her lawsuit. Other nude photos of her were spread on her bed, where passersby could see them through the window of her first-floor apartment, and officers made lewd comments about her during the search, she charged.“The troubling thing about this is you have nine of-

MIDDLETOWN

Civil rights violations are alleged in incidents in 2008 and 2009 involving several borough police officers. Attorneys say police did nothing wrong.

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“The troubling thing about this is you have nine officers there, and not one single officer looked at the photos spread on the bed, or saw the photo on the window, and said, ‘This needs to stop.’”Joshua Autryattorney forDeana Perry

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Donald L. Cunningham Sr. (Plug as he was fondly called), 79, of Claysville, formerly of Highspire, died at Canonsburg Hospital from emphysema and COPD, for 30 years amazing everyone with his strength and courage. He was born on September 26, 1931

in the farmhouse he called his home. He was the son of the late J. Claire and Romaine Whiteman Cunningham. Plug was a 1949 graduate of

Claysville High School, studying through the Vo-Ag program where he learned his trade of welding. This union trade eventually took him all over the country as far away as Alaska, where he was proud to say he welded and helped build the then new Alas-kan Pipeline at Prudhoe Bay. He also worked in Holland and Turkey. When health forced Plug to leave this

trade, he returned home to Claysville to the farmland that he loved. He was a man who could always figure out how to build or fix something. A hard worker his whole life, he believed that you were “burning daylight” if you didn’t accomplish something in a day. On the farm, he was able to fulfill his dad’s dream of a pond where family and friends like to fish and swim. He was a hunter and enjoyed having hunt-ers come to hunt even after he could no longer do so himself. He hated the fact that he could no longer mow his fields and yard, but enjoyed riding in them with his beloved dog Max. His sense of humor and quick wit endeared him to all who knew him. He was a proud union member,

belonging to the Pipeliners Union 798. He worked for the Operating Engineers Local 520, as well as Lo-cals and contractors throughout the country. He was a lifetime member of the NRA, founding member of the Claysville Sportsman Club, and helped build the Highspire Fire Company. Plug was an avid Pittsburgh Steelers fan, watching them win and go to the Super Bowl and cheered for the Pittsburgh Penguins after his grandson

and great-grandchildren became ice hockey players. He was preceded in death by his high

school sweetheart and the love of his life Louise Livingood Cunningham, who he was married to for 60 years, daughter Patricia Ann Cunningham, and son Donald L. Cunningham Jr. He is survived by his beloved daugh-

ter Linda (William) Lowe; brothers Joe (Carol) Cunningham, George (Betty) Cunningham; sisters Betty (the late Gene) McAddo, Susan (Ken-neth) Boone, Janet (Richard) Burig; grandchildren Air Force Captain John (Mika) Rehrer III, Angie Lowe, Wil-liam Lowe, Donald (Christine) Cun-ningham III, Brenda (Glenn) Adey; great-grandchildren Justin Rehrer, Alyssa Rehrer, Ethan Kaito Rehrer, Sarah Sleighther, Donald Cunning-ham IV, Jasmine Cunningham, Kiana Cunningham; and several nieces and nephews who he loved seeing. Funeral services were held on Satur-

day, February 5 at the Michael H. Hei-nrich Funeral Home, Claysville, with the Rev. Merle Timko officiating. Interment was in Claysville Cem-

etery. Memorial contributions may be made

to the United Presbyterian Church, Claysville, or to the American Lung Association. A guestbook is available at www.

heinrichfuneralhome.com.

Donald Cunningham Sr.

Robert J. Fink, 81, of Middletown, passed away at Spring Creek Nursing Home, Harrisburg on Wednesday, February 9. Born in Highspire, he was the son of the late Jeremiah and Mildred Saul Fink. He worked as a custodian for the

former Chloe Textile Industries, and Olmsted Air Force Base, both of Middletown. He was preceded in death by a

brother Millard Fink and a sister Mildred Rife.

He is survived by a sister Sandra Whye (Jack Whye Sr.) of Middletown; and a nephew Jack Whye Jr. (Luann) of Harrisburg. Graveside services were held on

Saturday at Highspire Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may

be made to Spring Creek Nursing Home, 1205 S. 28th St., Harrisburg, PA 17111. Arrangements by Coble-Reber Fu-

neral Home, Middletown. www.lifecelebration.com

Robert Fink Joseph J. “Joe Boy” Russ Jr., 82,

formerly of S. Union St., Middletown, entered into rest on Friday, February 11, at Colonial Park Care Center. He was born in Middletown on

August 20, 1928 and was the son of the late Joseph J. Sr. and Dorothy Warmen Russ. He and his wife Lillian were the

owners of the former Mansion House, a Middletown landmark that was re-cently destroyed by fire. Joe Boy was a member of Seven

Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church, Rescue Hose Co., the former Middletown Elks Lodge #1092, and Moose Lodge #410, all of Middletown, and the National Rifle Association; he was a Navy veteran of the Korean War; and he enjoyed boat-ing and fishing on the Susquehanna River and hunting. He is survived by his loving wife

Lillian A. Correll Russ; daughter Toni Ann, wife of Kenneth Blouch of Londonderry Township; son Joseph D. Russ, husband of Laura A. Swan of Middletown; brother Louis N., hus-band of Joan D. Podlesney of Middle-town; sisters Carol, wife of Warren

Peiffer of Lower Swatara Township, and Audrey, wife of Terry Stauffer of Middletown; five grandchildren Kenny Blouch, Danny Blouch, Bob-bie Blouch, Samantha Russ, and Leila Russ; great-granddaughter Delaney A. Russ; and special friends Doug Stago and Bill Wilsbach. Mass of Christian Burial will be

celebrated at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, February 16, at his church, Race & Conewago Sts., Middletown, with the Rev. Louis P. Ogden as celebrant. Burial will be in St. Mary’s Cemetery,

Middletown. Visitation will be from 10 to 10:45

a.m. on Wednesday, February 16, at the Frank E. Matinchek and Daughter Fu-neral Home and Cremation Services, Inc., 260 E. Main St., Middletown. The family wishes to extend a special

thanks to the Colonial Park Care Cen-ter for Joe Boy’s excellent care. Memorial contributions may be made

to GRANE Hospice, 4 Lemoyne Dr., Suite 201, Lemoyne, PA 17043. Condolences may be shared at www.

matinchekanddaughterfuneralhome.com.

Joseph Russ Jr. Georgene E. Slatt, a loving mother,

grandmother, and great-grandmother, formerly of Middletown, entered into rest peacefully on Saturday, February 12, at Manor Care Nursing Home, Camp Hill, surrounded by her loving family. She was born in Steelton and was

the daughter of the late Harper and Mabel Boughter Myers. She was a member of Middletown

First Church of God, the Women of the Moose Chapter 553, American Legion Post #594, and the VFW Post #1620 auxiliaries, all of Middletown; and she was active in her church, visiting the sick, volunteering in the childcare, and serving as a greeter before services. Her husband Thomas J. Slatt Sr.

preceded her in death in 1986. She is survived by her daughter

Kathryn A., wife of Lee Sawyer of Me-chanicsburg; son Thomas “Jack” Slatt of Middletown; eight grandchildren Ashley, wife of Howard Kay, Danielle Slatt, Kristina Slatt, Jennifer Slatt, Joshua Schiavoni, Joseph, husband of Danielle Schiavoni, Brett Sawyer, and Eric Sawyer; great-grandson Dal-las Kessinger; and many nieces and nephews who loved her. A Tribute to her life will be held at

11 a.m. on Friday, February 18, at the Frank E. Matinchek and Daughter Fu-neral Home and Cremation Services, Inc., 260 E. Main St., Middletown,

with the Rev. Randall Bistline of-ficiating. Burial will be in Stoverdale Church

Cemetery, Derry Township. Viewing will be from 7 to 9 p.m. on

Thursday, February 17, and from 10 a.m. until time of service on Friday at the funeral home. VFW Auxiliary Memorial Rite will

be held at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be

made to Alzheimer’s Association of Greater Pennsylvania, 3544 Progress Ave., Harrisburg, PA 17110. Condolences may be shared at www.


Georgene Slatt

Weinstein to serve on PSH committeeMiddletown Area School District

Superintendent Richard Weinstein will serve on Penn State Harrisburg University’s Board of Advisors for a 3-year term.Weinstein announced the news during

the Feb. 8 Academic Affairs Commit-tee meeting, according to minutes of the meeting. PSH Chancellor Mukund Kulkarni

invited Weinstein to serve on the board, according to the district.

tween Feb. 8 and 9, said Middletown Police Detective David Sweitzer. Police were notified of the break-in by

a borough worker who noticed broken glass while emptying trash near the stand, Sweitzer said. “There was evidence of glass that was

broken, but we are not sure if that is the way they got in,” he said. Missing items include candy, soda,

and other snacks, Sweitzer said. Police are waiting for the owners to

take inventory to determine if more is missing, Sweitzer said.Anyone with information is asked

to contact Middletown Police at 948-3000.

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In Its Place

Agnes M. Divittore, 93, of Middle-town, entered into eternal rest peace-fully on Monday, February 14. She was born in Coatesville on De-

cember 2, 1917 and was the daughter of the late John and Sarah Pehowic Riddle. She was a retired employee of Her-

shey Foods; and was a member of Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church, Middletown and the Golden Group. In addition to her parents, her hus-

band Fiore T. Divittore preceded her in death in 1982. She is survived by her daughter Phyl-

lis R., wife of Fred Gravino; three sons Robert L., husband of Jean Divittore, Anthony J., husband of Carol Divit-tore, and Thomas F. Divittore and companion Meredith Cravener, all of Hershey; nine grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. Mass of Christian Burial will be

celebrated at 11 a.m. on Saturday, February 19, at Seven Sorrows Church, Race and Conewago Streets, Middletown, with the Rev. Louis P. Ogden as celebrant. Burial will be in St. Mary’s Cemetery,

Middletown. Visitation will be from 10 to 10:45

a.m. on Saturday at her church. Memorial contributions may be made

to Seven Sorrows Catholic Church, 280 N. Race St., Middletown, PA 17057. Arrangements by Frank E. Matinchek

and Daughter Funeral Home and Cre-mation Services, Inc., Middletown. Condolences may be sent to www.


Agnes Divittore

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Mr. Douglas Hall of Warren and Ms. Cora Hall of Smethport are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter Melissa Hall to Joshua Hoch, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Hoch of Harrisburg. Melissa is a graduate of Smethport Area High School and Keystone Technical Institute. She is employed by Widener University, School of Law, as a financial aid advisor. Joshua is a graduate of Middletown Area High School and Penn State University. He is employed by Lockheed Martin as a database engineer. A June 17, 2011 is planned at Liberty Forge in Mechanicsburg.

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Troy K. and Summer L. Heikes of Middletown are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter Randi B. Heikes to Eric M. Walker, son of Bill and Rose Walker. Randi is a graduate of Middletown Area High School and Drexel University. She is a business development associate at Corporate Executive Board in Arlington, Va. Eric is a graduate of Middletown Area High School and Millersville University. He is a research assistant at Battelle National Biodefense Institute in Frederick, Md. A May 2012 wedding is planned.

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Talk of the Township by LaVonne Ackerman is now News in Your Neigh-borhood. LaVonne is still gathering news about your celebrations, events, club happenings and everything in between, but now she’s including re-ports from Highspire, Hummelstown, Middletown, Royalton, Steelton, and Londonderry Twp. She loves it when people share their news with her, so she can share it with us.

Hi, people. I hope you all are having a very nice wintertime. I know many of you are sick of the snow. At least we are nearing the end. Every day, every week gets us closer to spring.Let me know if you have anything to

share – birthdays, anniversaries, new job, new baby? Do you want to share a recipe or helpful hint? Just let me know. Have a wonderful week.

BirthdaysBest wishes for a fantastic birthday to

Nicole Johnson of Greenwood Drive. She is 23 today.Happy 21st landmark birthday to Mi-

chelle Popa of Carriage House Road. Hope your day today is the best yet.Rob Ryan of Powderhorn Road turns

18 on Thursday. Happy happy legal eagle birthday to you.Adriana Black of Hanover Street

marks her decade old birthday on Thursday. Happy double-digit day.Happy 22nd cake day to Michael

Turner of Scarlett Lane. Enjoy Friday, enjoy the week.Josh Marion celebrates number 22

on Friday, too. Happy balloon-flying day to you.Ashley Perrelli of Lakeside Drive

observes her quarter-of-a-century day on Friday. Best wishes to you.Kristy Fortini of Shirley Drive

celebrates cake day number 23 on

Saturday. Hope it is full of sunshine and smiles.Amanda Finkbiner marks her 20

confetti-popping day on Saturday. Make it the best birthday yet.Terry Sisti of Longview Drive will

hear the birthday song on Saturday. Have a wonderful weekend celebra-tion.Happy 20th cake and ice cream to

Brianna Clark of Longview Drive. She celebrates on Saturday, too.If you see Megan Guerrieri on Orm-

iston Drive on Sunday be sure to wish her a happy 19th cake day.Hoping for sunny skies for Ginny

Wynkoop of Hollywood Drive on Sunday. Happy birthday to you.Ben Bowers of Spring Garden Drive

celebrates his 23rd birthday on Sunday. Wow, Snowflake boy grew up. Have a super day and week, Ben.More cake on Longview, Claudi

Sisti will celebrate her special day on Monday. Best wishes for a terrific week to you.Happy birthday to Jake Leggore of

Greenwood Drive. He turns 15 on Tuesday. Hope it is a beautiful sun-shiny day, Jake.Sandy Wise-Dunkleberger marks her

birthday on Tuesday too. Hope it is full of laughs and fun.

Mary Todd LincolnThe Middletown Area Historical

Society will hold its monthly meeting at the Liberty House Museum above the library on North Catherine Street, Middletown on Monday, Feb. 28 at 7 p.m. The program, “A Dialogue with Mary Todd Lincoln” well be presented by Darlene Murray of Mechanicsburg. Everyone is invited to attend. The mu-seum is handicapped accessible. For more information, call 944-3233.

Lower Swatara Twp. MeetingThe board of commissioners will

meet at 7 p.m . tonight in the mu-nicipal building located on Spring Garden Drive.

Stork CameCongratulations to Dustin and Lind-

say Reigle of Georgtown Road on the birth of their third son, Carson Aaron Reigle. He was born on Jan. 31 at Har-risburg Hospital. He weighed in at 7 lbs. 11 oz. and was 20.5 inches long.His big brothers Brayden and Mason

are excited about their baby brother. Proud grandparents are Brett and Christine Andrews of Harrisburg and Dale and Julie Reigle of the Lower Swatara Twp.

Supper Is ReadyThe Church of God monthly dinner

will be held on Monday, Feb. 28 begin-ning at 4:30 p.m. The menu is: roast turkey with filling, whipped potatoes, veggie and dessert. All are invited.

Dinner Is ServedWesley United Methodist church

community dinner is being served this Monday from 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. The

menu is roast beef, mashed potatoes, vegetable, dessert and beverages. Tickets will be sold at the door.

Question of the WeekWho is your favorite president and

why?“Ronald Reagan, because my dad

likes him.” - Timothy Wagner, 8, Constitution Drive.“George Washington, because he was

the first president.” - Matthew Wagner, 7, Constitution Drive.“Abraham Lincoln.” - Shane Miller,

18, Constitution Drive.“Obama. He works really hard.” - Ka-

tie Kellogg, 13, Huckleberry Court.“John F. Kennedy, because my mom

always said he was a wonderful presi-dent.” - Denise Giulivo, Woodridge Drive.“George Washington. We share the

same birthday.” - LaVonne Acker-man.

Proverb for the Week“He who oppresses the poor to in-

crease his wealth and he who gives gifts to the rich, both come to poverty.” (22:16)

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LaVonne Ackerman • 1438 Old Reliance Road, 939-5584 • [email protected]

ELIZABETHTOWN • All five of Elizabethtown Area School District’s elementary schools, along with its middle and high schools, have been honored by the Pennsylvania De-partment of Education with a 2010 Keystone Achievement Award. The award recognizes the schools for

“outstanding academic performance on critical state benchmarks,” the district said in a press release.Public schools in the Commonwealth

receive Keystone Achievement Awards for attaining adequate yearly progress for two consecutive years on the Pennsylvania System of School

Assessment test. This year’s awards are for meeting AYP standards in the 2008-09 and 2009-10 school years. This is the sixth consecutive year in which schools in the district were honored and the third consecutive year in which all seven schools received awards.Since the program’s inception six

years ago, E-town schools have a combined 39 awards out of a maximum of 42 possible. “We are always proud to receive

these prestigious awards on behalf of our district and proudly display them

in our schools as a reminder of the ac-complishment,” said Superintendent Amy Hodges Slamp. “The awards represent sustained student progress on the PSSA over many years and are a testament to the hard work of our faculty, staff, students, and parents.”At the Jan. 25 meeting of the Eliza-

bethtown Area School District, build-ing principals, district administration, faculty representatives and the school directors received the awards. Each school received a large, keystone-shaped placard that will be put on display at each school.

On presenting the awards to schools across the state, acting Education Secretary Thomas E. Gluck said the awards reflect the commitment of students, families, teachers, and the entire education community.“Just as schools proudly display

trophies for athletic and extracur-ricular accomplishments, displaying a Keystone Achievement Award is a way to acknowledge the school’s aca-demic accomplishments,” Gluck said. “These awards reinforce the hard work our schools are doing and the success their students are achieving.”

Submitted photo

Members of Elizabethtown Area School District’s board of education, faculty, and administration pose with 2010 Keystone Achievement Awards for excellence in education. Seated (l-r): Lois Brewer, Dr. Annette Spagnolo, Randy Fox, Jacques Viau, Brad Sterner, Amanda Hann, Jason Kingsborough. Standing (l-r): Allison Bronson, Caroline Lalvani, Lindsay Troop, Michelle Pelna, Nancy Warble, Jeffrey Shank, Richard Schwarzman, Dr. Amy Slamp, Jamie Rowley, Terry Seiders, Dr. Frederick Ritsch, Kay Ardner, Robert Cronin, and Louisa Clark.

EASD schools win achievement award

Television actor Frank Runyeon will perform a dramatization of Christ’s Sermon on the Mount at the Derry Presbyterian Church, 248 East Derry Road, Hershey, at 7 pm Saturday, March 12. Following the performance, Runyeon will lead a discussion on the values being taught by the media and the choices we face daily as Americans and people of faith. The program is part of the church’s 2011 Arts Alive cultural series. A free-will offering will be received. Handicapped parking and an elevator are available. A reception will follow in Fellowship Hall.

Actor to dramatize ‘Sermon on the Mount’

Submitted photo

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state block grant funding that wasn’t included in the previous proposed budget, said David Franklin, assis-tant to the superintendent for budget and operations.The district is also asking

the state for an exemption from Act 1, a state law that requires schools to adopt preliminary budgets before state and federal education funding levels are known. Gov. Tom Corbett is not ex-pected to present his 2011 budget until March 8.

Doing so could allow the district to “develop the budget and work to keep tax increases below the [state-imposed taxing] index,” Franklin said.“These are very difficult

times,” said Superintendent Richard Weinstein said, not-ing the district lost $1 million in federal stimulus funding.“If that funding had not

existed, we may have been in this position two years ago when the private sector was reacting to the financial market collapse,” he said.About 20 people from the

community attended the meeting.Some challenged the

school board to contact state legislature about the budget crisis. “Looking at these figures,

this has been on the horizon for a while. I am on a fixed income, and now so are you,” said Spencer Bevins, of Lower Swatara. “I would be happy to volunteer in assisting the district con-tact state legislators. They should be told about this mess.”School Board Member

David John agreed with Bevins and encouraged the public to get in touch with the legislature. “This is absurd,” he said.

“This is crystal-ball bud-geting.”Jodi Sessa, of Pheasant

Run Rd., Middletown, asked that the budget pre-sentation better define the cost of unfunded mandates the state imposes on school districts so it can be clear to the legislature. “If we make noise to the

big boys, if we go together, and say look, you better

listen … Maybe they will listen,” said board member Melvin Fager Jr. Weinstein said the district

is looking at other ways to reduce expenses and is waiting to hear from Har-risburg Area Community College about a request to permanently reduce the its share of tuition payments to the institution.Last year Middletown paid

$400,000 in tuition support, Franklin said. Debra Schell: 717-944-

4628, or [email protected]

TAXContinued From Page One

Retail theftBonnie J. Boltz, 54, of

the 100 block of Aspen St., Middletown, was charged with retail theft and tres-pass. The charges stem from an

incident at 7:52 p.m. Jan. 31 at the Giant Foods in the 400 block of E. Main St. A store employee told

police Boltz entered the store after being told not to return and left with two bags of items without pay-ing, police said.

Theft of serviceDavid A. Bucci, 39, of the

100 block of East Main St., Middletown, was charged with theft of services.

The charge stems from an incident at 3:20 a.m. on Jan. 16 in the 100 block of E. Main St., police said. A Keystone Cab driver

told police Bucci refused to pay the fare for a trip from Harrisburg to his home. The driver told police

that the cab fair was $39, police said. Bucci’s preliminary hear-

ing will be at 10:30 a.m. on March 3 in District Judge David Judy’s office.

Drug chargesAaron B. Fowler, 34; and

Maureen R. Sutton, 21, both of the 2800 block of Pineford Dr., Middletown, were charged for posses-

sion of a small amount of marijuana and drug para-phernalia.The charges stem from an

incident at 11:10 p.m. Feb. 1, police said. Neighbors complained

of noise coming from the residence and when police arrived they could smell the odor of marijuana com-ing from the home, police said. During a search of the

home police said they found a blue glass pipe, and other drug-related items. Fowler and Sutton’s pre-

liminary hearing will be held at 11 a.m. on March 10 in District Judge David

Judy’s office.

Public drunkennessBonnie Gates, 54, of the

200 block of Ann St., Mid-dletown, was charged with public drunkenness.The charge stems from an

incident at 1:25 a.m. Feb. 4 in the 100 block of East Main St., police said. A resident told police a

woman lay bleeding from the head in the area of the Turkey Hill on Main Street, police said. When police went to the

scene they found Gates in-toxicated, officials said.

Drunk drivingAmy S. Packer, of the

1800 block of Parkway West, Harrisburg, was charged with DUI, DUI-high rate, and a traffic violation. The charges stem from a

traffic stop at 10:24 p.m. Feb. 6 in the area of East Main and Spring streets, police said. Police observed Packer

driving straight while in a turning lane, police said. Packer had a blood alco-

hol level of .141 percent, nearly twice the legal limit, police said. Packer ’s prel iminary

hearing will be held at 8:30 a.m. on March 17 at District Judge David Judy’s office.

frame for when the changes would take effect. He said the district will begin noti-fying affected employees this week and will present more details at the board’s Feb. 28 meeting.In an attempt to reduce

staff through attrition, the board also announced an incentive plan to encourage eligible employees to take early retirement.The plan offers a $20,000

bonus to teachers with 20-30 years of service who

take early retirement. Under eligibility require-

ments outlined by the ad-ministration, the offer could affect approximately 26 teachers, 10 support staff, and one administrative em-ployee, Franklin said.“Reduction of staff through

retirement may have the po-tential to reduce the number of staff that would need to be furloughed,” said Franklin. “And staff reductions

through retirement may have an even greater impact on the expenditure budget,” Franklin added.

Board members directed Weinstein and his staff to determine the district’s minimum staffing needs last month after a presen-tation of the preliminary 2011-12 budget. Currently, there is a $2.5 million gap between expenses and rev-enue. The board will close part of that gap with a 5.68 percent increase in real estate taxes.In addition to the job cuts,

the administration pro-posed an administrative pay freeze that will save $60,000, Weinstein said.

The budget deficit isn’t the only thing driving the administration to cut staff, he said.“The public education cli-

mate has changed,” he said. “Middletown must develop a new model of delivering services to our community at the right size given the constraints that are placed upon us.”District enrollment has

declined by 350 students (13 percent) over a 10-year period while staffing levels have remained “relatively the same,” he said.

In 2002 the district had 2,676 students and 206 teachers for a ratio of 12.9 students per teacher. Today, the district has 2,323 stu-dents and 209 teachers (11.1 ratio), Weinstein said.Although the Pubic School

Code does not permit reduc-tion of staff for purely eco-nomic reasons, it justifies the furlough of employees when there is a substantial decrease in a district’s en-rollment, Weinstein said. Debra Schell: 717-944-


LAYOFFSContinued From Page One

Middletown Police NewsFollowing is a compilation of reports from the Middletown Police Department.

Please be aware all those charged/cited are presumed innocent unless proven otherwise in a court of law.

The nine shorts last 74 minutes and are recom-mended for children ages 5 to 12.The festival begins at 7

p.m. Friday, Feb. 18 with “White Wedding,’’ a South African farce.U.S. filmmaker Lisa Gos-

sels will present her docu-mentary, “My So-Called Enemy,’’ a film about teen-age Israeli and Palestinian

girls who participate in a women’s leadership pro-gram that brings them face to face to build bonds and promote peace. The docu-mentary will be shown at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 24.Other films scheduled to

be shown:• “Welcome , ’’ f r om

France, 2010, directed by Philippe Lioret, a story about a 17-year-old Kurd-ish refugee who plans on

swimming the English Channel to reunite with his emigre’ girlfriend in England, and the middle-aged swimming instructor who trains him, 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 19.• “The Secret in Their

Eyes,’’ from Argentina, 2010, directed by Juan Jose Campanella, a film about a retired legal counselor haunted by an unsolved ho-micide case. Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign

Language Film in 2010, the film will be shown at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 25.• “Not All Rivers Flow to

the Sea,’’ from Columbia, 2009, directed by Santiago Trujillo, a film about the correspondence between a boy from the Middle East and two sisters who move to Bogota, 3:30 p.m. Sat-urday, Feb. 26.• “Alamar,’’ from Mexico,

2009, directed by Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio, a film

about a father who teaches his young son about his Ma-yan roots, 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 26.Admission to all films is

free to the public as well as students.For more information,

readers may visit Penn State Harrisburg’s web site at hbg.psu.edu/film-festival.Jim Lewis: 717-944-4628,

or [email protected]

MOVIESContinued From Page One

The president of the Low-er Swatara Twp. Board of Commissioners has an-nounced he will run for re-election in May’s pri-mary.Frank Linn Sr., who has

served as a township com-missioner for 33 years, is one of three commissioners whose current term expires at the end of 2011. Com-missioners Thomas Clark and Robert Loych also are up for re-election.Linn is retired from the

state House of Representa-tives, where he worked as a specialist in intergovern-mental affairs to former Speaker of the House John Perzel.

He was selected Commis-sioner of the Year by the Pennsylvania State Associ-ation of Township Commis-sioners in 1988 and 1997.

The state House and Senate named the interchange at Route 283 and North Union Street after him.Linn said one of his goals

is to increase the town-ship’s tax base by “en-couraging business and retail development within the township, thereby gorwing the tax base but putting less demand on the (Middletown Area) school district.’’“When a constituent ap-

proaches me with a prob-lem, I always try to put myself in their position,’’ he said. “I feel it is important to always look at all sides of an issue before making a decision.’’

Lower Swatara Twp.

Linn will seek another term

Frank Linn Sr.


A kitchen fire in the first floor of an apartment at 83 Second Street in Highspire at 7:30 p.m. Monday night was deemed accidental.One resident was dis-

placed, but there were no injuries, said Highspire Fire Chief Rob Condran. The Red Cross is assisting

the resident, Condran said. Pennsylvania State Po-

lice Fire Marshal Terence Carberry ruled the cause accidental. The fire was contained to

the kitchen, which was a total loss, Condran said. Smoke damaged the sec-

ond and third floors of the building, but residents were able to return to their homes after the fire department ventilated the building, Condran said. Highspire Police and fire

departments from High-spire, Steelton, Lower Swa-tara, Bressler, and Swatara responded to the fire, Con-dran said. Debra Schell: 717-944-


Fire damages Highspire apartment

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Aggravated AssaultKevin S. Wagner, 46, of the 1000

block of Swatara Park Dr., Middle-town, was charged with aggravated assault, police report.The charges stem from an incident on

Jan. 28. Wagner’s estranged wife told police Wagner attempted to choke her then knocked and pinned her to the ground. At one point, police said, the victim alleged she unable to breathe. She also complained she had trouble talking, swallowing and suffered from pain in her jaw. Police said the victim had visible

injuries on her neck.A warrant was issued for Wagner’s

arrest. He surrendered at the town-ship police station on Feb. 3. He was arraigned before District Magistrate Michael Smith and was released on $5,000 unsecured bail, police reported.

Left diner without paying billFour individuals left Angie’s Diner

on Eisenhower Blvd. without paying for their meal, police said.Incident occurred on Feb. 5 at around

8:45 a.m. The suspects were described as a white female, two black females, and a black male. Police said the group ran from the diner while their waitress was assisting another customer with-out paying the $23.73 bill. The suspects fled the area in a blue

Suzuki four-door sedan, police said. Police added the vehicle had a spoiler and a sunroof. The vehicle was last seen headed north on Eisenhower Blvd. Anyone with information about the

incident is asked to contact police at (717) 939-0463.

Underage drinking Dillon C. Brinkerhoff, 18, of the 1000

block of Bonnie Blue Lane, Middle-

town, was cited for underage drinking following an incident in the 100 block of Park Dr. on Feb. 5 at 3 a.m.Police report being dispatched to

investigate a report of a suspicious vehicle during which time Brinkerhoff was questioned and admitted having consumed several beers.

Simple assaultBrian Hofsass, 34, of the 1000 block

of Georgetown Rd., Middletown, was charged with simple assault, police report.The case was filed following a do-

mestic incident on Feb. 1 at 6:18 p.m. at Hafsass’s home.Police said an argument over the

discipline of a child in the household escalated during which time Hofsass grabbed his wife’s head and banged it into a wall several times before knocking her to the floor and dragging her into another room. Police reported the victim suffered minor injuries to her arm. Medical treatment was not required, police said.

Hit-and-run crashPolice are seeking information about

a hit-and-run crash on Feb. 4 at 4:21 p.m. in the area of Nissley Drive and Fulling Mill Rd.Police said Sue Perez of Middletown

was traveling south on Nissley Dr. and stopped at a stop sign at Fulling Mill Rd. where her 2003 Chevrolet Cavalier was struck from behind by a gold-colored Jeep Cherokee. Perez told police the driver of the Jeep failed to stop and traveled east on Fulling Mill Rd. The driver was described as a white male wearing a baseball cap sideways.Perez told police her vehicle sustained

minor damage to its rear end.Police ask anyone with information

about the incident to contact them at (717) 939-0463.

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Gensemer Family Prominent In Pine Grove - By Colleen Hoptak Some of the most prominent residents of Pine Grove in the 19th and 20th

centuries were members of the Gensemer family who originally traveled from Rotterdam to America on the ship “Glasgow.” Of German ancestry, the Gen-semers arrived in America and traveled down the Susquehanna River and into Berks County with Conrad Weiser, eventually settling in a place in Lancaster County that became know as Schaefferstown, near Lebanon. Family History - George Gensemer, engaged in the tanning business, enlisted

in George Washington’s army, became a noncommissioned officer and was with Washington during the trying winter of Valley Forge and at the crossing of the Delaware River and Battle of Trenton, New Jersey on December 26, 1776. He died in Lancaster County and is buried in the Eck Church Cemetery in Robesonia. George’s son Henry was born October 16, 1782 in Blainsport, Cocalico,

Lancaster County, Pa and died in 1873. He had a long and active life, working as a butcher, drover, farmer and tanner. As a young boy, Henry traveled over the Blue Mountains to Schuylkill County where he and his party encountered hostile Indians. With his companions, the group crawled into a hollowed out log and waited for the Indians to make their departure. After staying with friends in Schuylkill County for a period of time, he re-

turned to Blainsport, learning the trade of a tanner during an apprenticeship in Adamstown, Lancaster Co., Pa. Henry married Elizabeth Fitchorn and had nine children: Levi, William, Henry, Daniel, John, George, Sallie, Catherine, and Elizabeth.Daniel Gensemer Tanner by Trade - Born September 23, 1823, Daniel

learned the trade of a tanner in his father’s business. He and his brothers John and Henry also worked on their father’s 250-acre farm before taking over the operation of their father’s tannery business under the name D. Gensemer and Brothers in 1849. The three men conducted the business until January 1, 1856 when Daniel traveled to Pine Grove and rented the tannery of Levi Miller. Jonathan Gerdel established the first tannery in Pine Grove in 1810. It was

sold to Samuel Hain in 1823 before being purchased by Levi Miller. In 1830 it was taken over by Samuel Goss. John Bechtel eventually succeeded Goss & Sons, who enlarged the works, located at Railroad and Tulpehocken streets, in 1856. In April 1856, John and Henry followed their brother to Pine Grove and the

three brothers took charge of the business until 1859 when Henry sold his interest to Daniel and John. Four years later, the three brothers reunited and purchased the Bechtel Tannery - The brothers operated the two tanneries until 1866 when Henry

Miller was taken into the firm. The name was changed to D. Gensemer & Co. Miller remained part of the operation for 10 years after which he sold his interest in the firm to Daniel.Business Thrives - In 1883, Daniels’s son George W. entered the business,

followed in 1889 by his brother Harry L. The business was conducted under this alliance until 1892, when the enterprise fell into the hands of the two junior members, George and Harry, who became the sole owners and pro-prietors. The annual output of the works at this time amounted to $100,000, which in today’s dollars would total approximately $3 million. George and Harry Gensemer continued to operate the old Bechtel Tannery until August 26, 1894, when it was destroyed by fire. After the old building was torn down the Gensemers on a much larger scale rebuilt a new business. At the time, the Gensemers were able to secure control of the Miller tannery, operating it for several years. Subsequently, they built a new tannery in North Pine Grove that became well known in the area as the Gensemer and Salen Tannery, a suc-cessful operation that continued and employed several hundred people well into the mid-20th century.Next week more on the Gensemer family

Society News The Gratz Historical Society: On March 24, 2011 guest speaker Marlin

Umberger presents “Somerset County Mt. Craft Days.”

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Pennsylvania Family RootsSharman Meck Carroll, PO Box 72413, Thorndale, PA 19372

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Seven Sorrows School science fair winners, with their projects are, from left, Kristianna Conjar, Joe Barone, Zach Young, Hanna Quarry, Kramer Lahr, and Katie Hartwell.

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Lower Swatara Twp. Police News

Following is a compilation of reports from the Lower Swatara Twp. Police Department.

Please be aware all those charged/cited are presumed innocent unless

proven otherwise in a court of law.

We always appreciate when genealogists share their publications with us. They are most helpful to us as we prepare our volume on Lykens Township for printing. The patrons in our library also appreciate access to these books. Gary Beck has recently given us a copy of his publication “Das Beckhaus, A

Story of Beck Ancestry From Wurttemberg, Germany.” Gary has a very unique approach to family history. His goal was not to focus on genealogical facts. Instead he begins with Johann Martin Beck, his earliest immigrant ancestor who came from Wurttemberg to Philadelphia in 1749, rather than focusing on the genealogical facts; Gary traces a single line of Johann Martin Beck’s descendants through a historical setting to his own present generation, a total of nine generations. The book contains many photos with descriptions and history in detail of the places where the ancestor lived (in their native land and in their new found land). Included are family lifestyles, traditions and events they witnessed and participated in which have contributed to their individual well-being. This book could relate to many of the immigrant families that were from Germany. It is interesting reading. The Gratz Historical Society now as a website www.gratzpa.org.The Andulhea Heritage Center - General Membership Meeting on Wednes-

day, May 11, 2011. Donald R. Brown, Founder of the Institute of American Deltiology, located in Myerstown will give an illustrated talk using some of the local postcards from his amazing postcard collection. The meeting will be held in the Rehrersburg Lions Den at 6:30 p.m. If you love local history you do not want to miss this meeting. Light refreshments will be served.Membership for 2011 is $15 - Individual; $20 (Family); Individual Life

Membership 59 & under $300; 60 & over $200. Membership is valid from January 1 through December 31, 2011. Check payable to: Andulhea Heritage Center, P.O. Box 176, Rehrersburg, PA 19550. Phone: (717) 933-5792. E-mail - [email protected] or website www.andulheaheritagecenter.org.

Community Events

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By Elyse CarabelloPress And Journal Staff

For some people, dogs are pets – loyal companions there to fetch your Frisbees and

eat your table scraps. However, for Londonderry Twp. resident Cindy King, a dog could potentially save her life. King has been battling epilepsy for as long as she can remember. Recently, her seizures have gotten worse, and her doctor recommended she get a service dog. Although King had a service dog before, she has been without one since 2007. By calling around and looking through newspapers, King discov-ered the Susquehanna Service Dogs organization in Harrisburg and wrote them a letter explaining her situation and requesting a dog. Her request was approved. Now, the only thing holding King

back is the hefty cost for her con-stant companion – $5,000. In addition to saving her own money, King is assembling her first-ever fundraiser. On March 15, anyone with a voucher ticket can go to Hoss’s Restaurant, 9009 Bridge Road in Hummlestown, and 20 percent of their bill will be donated to King’s cause. “The corporate office sends out the

check directly to the organization,” said Hoss’s manager Tammy Smith. Any extra money raised will be donated to the Susquehanna Service Dogs organization to help future people in need. King hopes the fundraiser will give her the boost she needs. She remem-bers how beneficial her previous service dog, Bishop, was. “I never know when my seizures

are going to occur or how bad they are going to be, so having Bishop around at all times was almost like a sigh of relief,” she said. Bishop did not leave King’s side for seven years, and together the duo achieved a level of co-dependence. Even though he was first and foremost a service dog, Bishop was treated like a normal pet – he received long walks, tasty treats, and plenty of playtime during the day. The two were inseparable for almost a decade, and King became emotionally attached to her four-legged lifeline. It was very difficult for King when Bishop died. “Bishop was a part of me,” she

said. “He was my partner. My com-panion.” The pain from the loss was one of the reasons it took King so long to look into another service dog. However, after she was rushed to the hospital for three grand mal seizures, she realized how much she benefited from having a dog.

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Cindy King has battled epilepsy all her life. Now, she is hoping to raise $5,000 for a service dog that will warn her of oncoming seizures.

The Canine Cause For woman with epilepsy,A dog could be a life saver

How to help Anyone interested in par-

ticipating in the Hoss’s fund-raiser may e-mail Cindy King at [email protected] for the voucher ticket. Hoss’s Restaurant in Hummelstown will donate 20 percent of any purchase on March 15 to the cost of obtaining a service dog.

Any service dog can help an indi-vidual go up and down steps, pick up the telephone, or open and close doors. But, epilepsy sufferers like King need a special seizure-alert dog. These dogs can sense a seizure up to 45 minutes beforehand, and alert their owners by barking or licking their face. The early warning allows patients,

such as King, to lie down ahead of time to make sure they don’t fall or hurt themself during the seizure. Also, the dog is trained to alert other people. In addition to the $5,000 fee, King also has to set aside money for her visit to the Susquehanna Service Dogs organization in June. There she will meet approximately five dogs to see which one is the best match for her. Afterwards, King and her new

dog will undergo “Team Training” – a series of outings and activities that lasts two and a half weeks to ensure a proper fit. These outings and means of transportation require money, she said. Getting a dog back in her life is cru-cial, King said. Anyone interested in participating in the Hoss’s fundrais-er may e-mail King at [email protected] for the voucher ticket.

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Brown, who started the job Mon-day, Feb. 14, will be paid $55,000 a year. DeSanto was earning $57,000 annually, officials said.“John [DeSanto] did a great job

for the borough, he just has other interests,” said Acri. Two other candidates applied for

Brown’s position, but dropped out at the last minute, Wright said. “After reviewing his references and

resume, we felt that he would make a good fit,” said Wright.Wright said Brown’s experience in

economic development and connec-tions in state government make him a good candidate. Brown is an at-will employee for

the borough, Wright said. “I choose to come to Steelton be-

cause I have a personal connection,” said Brown. His girlfriend lives in the borough. But it’s his experience working with

state Rep. Tom Houghton, D-Chester Co, as a legislative director that will come in handy, said Acri. “He comes with good experience

in politics and has dealt with small communities like Steelton in the past,” he said. “He is a perfect fit for the borough.” Brown said he approached the

borough when he heard the position was available. “I have always wanted to work in

a government capacity in the Har-risburg area,” he said. Brown said he would focus on

economic development in Steelton. “I want to be effective at it, and con-tinue to make progress in economic development and growth.” Brown said he worked to strengthen

economic growth in South Coates-ville Borough in conjuction with the Chester County Economic De-velopment Council as a member of Houghton’s staff.“[Steelton] reminded me of South

Coatesville,” he said, noting both were steel-making towns. “They were also looking at finding a new identity,” he said. Brown has a bachelor of arts degree

in government and political affairs from Millersville University. In other borough news, council

accepted the resignation of Denise Hill, neighborhood and economic development coordinator. Hill’s resignation was effective Feb. 4. Brown will take over Hill’s position

in addition serving as borough secre-tary and treasurer, DeSanto said.

Debra Schell: 717-944-4628, or [email protected]

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first week of January and already students have finalized their designs and are also working on plans for a mural, which should be finished by the end of the program in mid-March, Egge said. “We are doing the mural on a mov-

able piece, not a direct space, so it can go in different locations,” she said. “The students are making some-

thing that you don’t see every day, something unique,” Egge said. The program has space for about

15 more students, Egge said. There is a registration fee to par-

ticipate, but scholarships are avail-able, she said. The art-after-school program is

funded by the Hershey Company and Dauphin County Drug and Alcohol Services, said Wendell Murray, CEO of Barak.

Barak provides similar programs in the Harrisburg area, including The Center for Champions, Allison Hill, and Salem United Church of Christ in Harrisburg, Murray said. The Boys and Girls Club also have

after-school programs. Barak and Steelton Highspire

Initiative Roll Together, or SHIRT, coordinate efforts to give students activities after school, said Randi Yeager-Marker of Dauphin County Human Services. After-school programs through

SHIRT and the Boys and Girls Club funded through a federal 21st Cen-tury Grant provide activities for 60 students, Yeager-Marker said. For more information about the

art program contact Barak Inc.’s program director, Dynellia Carter at 717-724-0300.Debra Schell: 717-944-4628, or

[email protected]

ARTContinued From Page One

Press-Journal Photo/Debra Schell

A sheet of drawing paper reveals some of the designs Steel-High students came up with during an after school art program. The drawing, when finished, will be used to create colorful designs on recycling cans and a mural.

Dailey, Hiester, Sites will seek another termBy Jim LewisPress And Journal Staff

Three incumbents on Middletown Borough Council say they will run for re-election this year.Joseph Dailey, Mary Hiester and Scott Sites

confirmed they’ll seek another term on council in 2011, beginning with the May primary. Their current terms expire at the end of the year.A fourth incumbent, Michael Anthony, would

not say whether he intends to run for re-election. Asked by e-mail if he will run again, he replied, “No comment.’’Candidates could circulate nominating peti-

tions as of Tuesday, Feb. 15. Republicans and Democrats must hand in petitions to the Dauphin County elections and voter registration office by March 8. Independent candidates begin cir-culating nominating petitions as of March 9, and must submit them in August for November’s general election.Hiester, who represents the Third Ward, and

Anthony, the Second Ward, won 2-year terms

in 2009. Dailey, who represents the Third Ward, and Sites, the First Ward, are serv-ing 4-year terms.Declaring “the town

is in my blood,’’ Dai-ley said he was run-ning again because “I’m very happy with the way things are proceeding in town – I want to be

sure everything continues in an upbeat man-ner.’’Sites and Hiester, part of a committee of coun-

cilors working on a proposal to offer homeowners and landlords rebates and tax abatement if they improve the insulation of their homes to save borough-provided electricity, said they wanted to to improve life for borough residents.“I would just like to have the opportunity to

continue the successes we’ve had on council – keeping taxes the same, and working toward progress in keeping electric rates down,’’ said Sites.Hiester said she was seeking another term be-

cause “there’s a whole lot more things that need to be done for the good of the town.’’

Jim Lewis: 717-944-4628, or [email protected]

Mary Hiester

Scott Sites

Joseph Dailey IV

MIDDLETOWN

Lower Dauphin High School’s Guidance Depart-ment will host a financial aid workshop on Tuesday, March 1, at 6:30 p.m. in the school library.This meeting is resched-

uled from one in February which was postponed due to inclement weather.At the this meeting, Carol

Handlan, an access partner with the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assis-tance Agency, will assist senior parents with the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) form. Attendees are urged to bring their copy of the FAFSA to fill it out that night.For more information

about either event, please contact Kathy Weber in the high school guidance office at 566-5331.

LD offers help with collegeforms

POLICEContinued From Page One

ficers there, and not one single officer

looked at the photos spread on the bed, or saw the photo on the window, and said, ‘This needs to stop,’ ” said Joshua Autry, an attorney for the Camp Hill law firm of Boyle, Autry and Murphy, who is representing Perry.Named in the lawsuit are Middletown

officers Andrew Crone, Benjamin Lu-cas, James Bennett and Dennis Morris, who is a member of the task force, and the Borough of Middletown; task force officers Troy Elhajj a patrolman for the Steelton Police Department, Patrolman Keith Ocker of the Derry Twp. Police Department, Det. Jason Reber of the Susquehanna Twp. Police Department, Patrolman Ron Soutner of the Swatara Twp. Police Depart-ment and Patrolman Regis Vogle of the Penbrook Police Department; and two task force supervisors, Todd Johnson, the force’s coordinator, and John Goshert, chief detective of the District Attorney’s criminal investiga-tion division.A hearing is scheduled for June 20

before U.S. Magistrate Martin Carl-son, a former federal prosecutor. Both sides demand a jury trial.

Not nudeOfficers deny they made lewd com-

ments. One task force officer admit-ted he placed a photo of Perry on the windowsill, but denies it depicted her nude. Perry was forced to sit on a barstool in the living room during the search, but officers deny she was barely dressed.At no time did the Middletown of-

ficers “act in bad faith or in a willful, wanton, outrageous, reckless and/or malicious manner’’ during the search, they said in their answer to the lawsuit.The actions of Middletown’s officers

were “appropriate under the circum-stances and based upon a reasonable good-faith belief that they were justi-fied under the law,’’ according to their answer to Deana Perry’s complaint.At no time were the task force of-

ficers “deliberately indifferent to the constitutional rights’’ of Deana Perry, they said in their answer.Drug charges filed against Perry were

withdrawn at a hearing. A charge of endangering the welfare of children was dismissed by a Dauphin County judge. Her husband, Dawud, 32, pleaded guilty to possession of mari-juana with intent to deliver, posses-

sion of drugs and possession of drug paraphernalia and was sentenced to 12 months of probation by county Judge John Cherry.As Perry’s parents took the children

away, one Middletown officer pointed to the bumper sticker, covered the photo of her with his other hand and said, “Say ‘No’ to drugs. This is what happens when you do drugs,’’ she charged in her complaint.In responses filed to her complaint,

Crone, one of the Middletown officers ,admitted he placed the bumper sticker on the window, while Elhajj, the task force officer, admitted he placed a photo of Deana Perry in the window. Police officers deny the photo showed her nude.Deana Perry and her father met with

John Goshert, head of the county Dis-trict Attorney’s criminal investigation division, and Elhajj a few days after the search, so Elhajj could apologize, attorneys for Perry and Elhajj admit. But they disagree over exactly what was said.

No disciplinary action needed None of the Middletown officers

was disciplined after the search be-cause “they did absolutely nothing to warrant discipline,’’ said David MacMain, an attorney for Lamb McErlane, a West Chester law firm representing the Middletown officers and the borough.“It will be fully and vigorously de-

fended,’’ he said of the lawsuit.Officers filed drug charges against

Deana Perry even though they knew the marijuana belonged to her husband, charged Autry.Officers claimed during the search

that they were looking for a pound of marijuana they believed was inside the Perry home, said Autry. Police and the borough deny that officers claimed they were seeking a specific amount, and the search warrant does not specify how much marijuana that police suspected they would find.Drug charges against Deana Perry

were withdrawn at a hearing before Judge David H. Judy when her hus-band admitted the marijuana belonged to him, said MacMain.Middletown Police Chief Keith

Reismiller said he passed the lawsuit on to Mayor Robert Reid when he received it. A report on the lawsuit by a TV station that borough officials

were unaware of the lawsuit, and that Reismiller could be reprimanded as a result, was “totally inaccurate,’’ Reismiller said.

Second lawsuit Another federal lawsuit filed against

Crone and Lucas by Zachary Nowl-and, a Palmyra man who claimed his civil rights were violated when he was handcuffed and Tasered during a traffic stop in 2009 after officers said they found a marijuana stem and an empty plastic bag in his car, was also passed on, said Reismiller. “I did what I was supposed to do,’’

he said.Crone and Lucas deny Nowland’s

allegations. Both sides seek a jury trial.Reismiller said he could not talk

about the lawsuits, and had to defer questions to the borough’s and officers’ attorney. Nowland is also represented by Autry’s law firm.“That attorney is well within his rights

to go to the media and say whatever he wants,’’ said Reismiller. “I’d like to respond to it, but I can’t. It’ll all come out in the end.’’Nowland charges in his lawsuit, filed

in September, that he was physically abused by the officers after he was stopped for a burned-out brake light around 1 a.m. on April 23, 2009.He charges that he was thrown against

his Jeep SUV and handcuffed, passing out from the pain as his broken arm, which had been in a cast, was twisted. He charged that he was forced to sleep only in his boxer shorts in a holding cell in Middletown’s borough hall.Crone and Lucas recognized Nowl-

and from an unsuccessful search of his home in the past, he charged. The officers deny that they threw him

against his vehicle, and that he passed out. Nowland became belligerent after one of the officers spotted the mari-juana stem, they said in an answer to Nowland’s complaint.Nowland was not required to sleep only in his boxer shorts, the officers said.Nowland was charged with resist-

ing arrest, possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia and driving a vehicle with a defective brake light and improper muffler. All were dis-missed at a hearing except the brake light charge. Jim Lewis: 717-944-4628, or jim-

[email protected]

Sports B-1 WEDNESDAY, February 16, 2011

Girls’ BasketballBoys’ Basketball

Girls’ Basketball

Ice Hockey

Photo by Bill Darrah

Middletown’s Hannah Jorich takes advantage of a perfect pick setup by teammate Alonna Williams.

By Larry EtterPress And Journal Staff

The good news is the Middletown boys’ basketball team won both games played last week. The better news is, with their 13th win of the season,

the Blue Raiders recorded their highest number of victories since the 1992-93 season. And better still, the Raiders locked up a District

III-AAA playoff spot. With a rescheduled nondivisional game against

visiting James Buchanan scheduled for early this week the Blue Raiders were awaiting the postseason schedule to come out to see who and where they would play their first round contest. “That’s three years in a row we made the playoffs,”

said head coach Chris Sattele following a triumph over visiting Steelton-Highspire on Wednesday, Feb. 9, a win that came one day after a victory at Susquenita. The plan now will be for the Blue Raiders to get

past the first round of districts, unlike the previous two seasons when they lost on the opening night of the postseason.

Middletown 65, Susquenita 27 With the exception of injured junior Ryan Handley,

Middletown was back at full strength on Tuesday, Feb. 8, for its road trip to Susquenita where the Raiders cruised to an easy 65-27 Capital Division victory over the struggling Blackhawks. The Raiders jumped out to a 21-9 lead by the end

of the first quarter and led by 19 points at halftime. Following the offensive dominance in the first half, Middletown’s defense did the rest and limited their hosts to 7 points after the break. Devon Risko set the tone early by drilling a pair of

3-pointers in the game’s first 0:30 to get the Raid-ers started. The Blackhawks got on the board with a 3-ball from Steve Lauver but the Raiders picked up 5 straight points from Colby Klump and Jason McElwee for an 11-3 lead with 5:15 left in the open-ing period. The game really never got close after that. McElwee’s layup off an alley-oop pass from Trevor Pugh highlighted a 10-4 run by the Raiders who led 21-9 by the end of the first quarter. Risko, Klump and Xavier Griffin also scored for the Raid-ers in the run. Press/Journal photo by Debra Schell

Middletown Blue Raiders’ Devon Risko dribbles down court with Steel-High Rollers’ J.C. Brandt following.

Raiders secure playoff berth

Please See PLAYOFF, Page B-3

By Greg PickelPress And Journal Staff

A 13-9 record was good for 16th place in the final edition of the PIAA Dis-trict 3 Girls Basketball power ratings, earning Chris Hunter’s Lady Raiders a home contest against the 17th seed, Susquehannock.The 13th win of the season came on

senior night, as Caitlyn Curley, Emil-eigh Lloyd, Olivia Folmar, Hannah Jorich, and Alonna Williams played their final regular season home game against visiting Susquenita.

Middletown 47, Susquenita 28All five senior girls found the bas-

ket in Middletown’s triumph over Susquenita, a team they lost to by 2 points in their first meeting.Lloyd led the way scoring 13 points

in her final regular season home game. Folmar scored 9, Williams and Curley added 4, and Jorich dumped

Raiders earn home court advantage

Please See LADY RAIDERS, Page B-2

By Tom KlemickThe Press and Journal

Lower Dauphin fell to Susquehanna Twp. in a double overtime heart-breaker on Tuesday, Feb. 8. The Falcons tried to overcome foul

trouble, an injury, and a hostile crowd but fell short, dropping the nail-biter 56-47.A Chikisha Steele-Hook layup got

the Indians on the board first but LD owned the rest of the quarter. “Downtown” Megan Brown and

sophomore Hunter Bracale led the way for the Falcons early on. Brown scored 7 and Bracale added 5 to give the visitors a 10-point lead as the first- quarter buzzer sounded. Thanks to Brown, Bracale had a 12-0

run to end the period, Lower Dauphin looked like it might run away with the game. But Susquehanna had other ideas as the second got underway.A 7-2 Indian run to start the quar-

ter prompted LD Head Coach Bob Heusser to call a timeout with 3:13 remaining in the half. Senior forward Taylor Alwine knocked down two free throws to cap the Falcons’ first half scoring, but not before Susquehanna junior Jasmine Yanich started to come to life. She completed an old-fashioned

3-point play from the charity stripe and Steele-Hook put back a missed Tianna Jackson 3-ball at the buzzer to cut the Falcon lead to 16-14 at the half. The Indians outscored LD 12-4 in the

second and suddenly the would-be rout became anybody’s ballgame.Bracale tried to halt the Susquehanna

surge in the third quarter, knocking down back-to-back jumpers, including a 3 from the corner at the 5:29 mark to stretch the lead to 6. She tacked on two foul shots and junior Krista Hoffman found a wide-open Lucy Thompson for an easy layup moments later. But there was no quit in the Indians on

this night. They started to press mid-way through the period and the tough defense led to even better offense on the other end of the floor. Junior Tyree Clark scored an easy bucket in the paint and Yanich added the last 7 points of the third. In the blink of an eye, the home team was up 28-25; the first Susquehanna lead since the opening seconds of the contest.As the fourth got underway, it was

apparent the Falcons had no intention of going quietly. Pressure defense from junior Ashlee Krulock led to an Indian turnover and Alwine took care of the rest, scoring the next 4 points to put Lower Dauphin back on top. From there, the teams jumped on the

see-saw and began trading buckets back and forth. Yanich broke away for a layup. Krulock found a wide-open Steph Ebersole in the paint for 2 on LD’s next possession. Yanich went 1 for 2 from the line to tie the score at 31. Alwine hit a jumper but it was Yanich again on the other end, this time from beyond the arc to give Susquehanna a 1-point advantage. Brown answered right back with a

3 of her own and pushed the Lower Dauphin lead back to 2 with just 2:42 remaining in the game.The Falcons made some free throws

down the stretch and clung to a 38-35 lead with just over a minute remaining. But like she had all quarter, Yanich played the hero again. The Indians quickly moved the ball around the perimeter and LD struggled to stay in their lanes. The junior found some space, received a pass and nailed a 3 to send the game to overtime. Attrition took its toll on Lower

Dauphin in the extra session. Alwine fouled out and Ebersole went down with an ankle injury. Still, the Falcons found themselves with a 2-point lead late in the OT after Brown nailed a 3

Falcons clinchdivision crown

Please See FALCONS, Page B-2

By Greg PickelPress And Journal Staff

All good things must come to an end at some point, and for the Blue Raider ice hockey team, it was a five-game winning streak that snapped Wednes-day, Feb. 9, at Twin Ponds East by Tier III-leading Cedar Cliff, 11-5.The win secured Cedar Cliff’s num-

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board first with an unassisted tally 2:00 into the contest, but it was the 4-goal run in the second period and 3-goal run in the third, all unanswered, that gave Cedar Cliff an insurmountable lead over Coach Jeff Dukes’ Blue Raiders (12-5).

Cedar Cliff snaps Raiders’ winning streak

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Senior bowlers, from left, Cole Pavilishin, Brandon Debow, Nate Kramer, Kateri Albers, and Kathleen Smith, with Coach Darryl Bower.

Bowling


The Middletown Lady Raiders honored their senior class Tuesday, Feb. 8. Members of the Class of 2011 are, from left, Alonna Williams (Hampton University,) Caitlyn Curley (Penn Tech,) Hannah Jorich (Penn State-Altoona,) Olivia Folmar (Bloomsburg University,) and Emileigh Lloyd (Lesley University.)


Emileigh Lloyd puts up two from the lane against Susquenita.

Sea Lions Swim Team won their final meet of the season against Palmyra Aquatic Club 559-468, on Saturday, Feb. 5 finishing the season with two wins, three losses.A few standout events during the

meet included an 0:08 drop in time for Riley Compton, 12, in the 100 free (1:27.55;) and a 0:03 drop in his 100 individual medley (1:35.64.) Paul Mahalik, 14, dropped 0:02 in his

100 free (1:11.91) and 0:04 seconds in his 100 back (1:23.67), which won him a first-place finish for the 13-14 boys.The 9-10 girls saw the biggest drops

in times this week with Paige Richards, 9, taking 0:12 off her 100 individual medley time with a 1:36.68; Erin Shif-flet, 9, shaved off almost 0:07 in her 100 free (1:45.28;) Jenna Waughen, 9, dropped almost 0:05 off her 100 IM (1:39.27;) and Mackenzie Wilson,

10, dropped 0:04 off her 50 free time of 42.92. On the boys’ side, Garrett Doane, 9,

dropped almost 0:06 off his 100 free, for a 1:34.71 time.Other impressive times included

Thayer Rogers, 7, dropping 0:06 in her 50 free; Hannah Weber, 11, drop-ping more than 0:03 in her 100 IM; Emma Lawn, 11, dropping more than 0:06 in the 50 fly; Cassie Zinkan, 13, dropping 0:03 in the 100 free; and Caiden Robinson, 14, dropping more than 0:05 in the 100 back.The highlight of the meet came when

Chris Paynter, 12, broke the Palmyra pool record previously held by David Nolan of Hershey, in the 50 free with a time of 25.38.Swimming his last Sea Lions meet as

a senior, Matt Feathers, 18, took home two first-place finishes – the 100 free and the 200-yard medley relay.

Colette Robinson, 12, Jefferson Wa-ters, 11, Austin Zelko, 16, and Chris Paynter took home four first-place finishes. The following swimmers also had

first place finishes: Autumn Borges (2), Adam Brock (3), Caroline Clough (1), Colin Clough (2), Riley Compton (1), Carson Doane (2), Elijah Duran-tine (3), Emma Durantine (1), Matt Feathers (2), Andrew Han (1), Lidiya Louder (1), Robert Louder (1), Paul Mahalik (2), Madison Moyer (2), Grace McCloskey (1), Carlee Rankin (1), Madison Ripley (3), Connor Schrum (1), Jarrett Simonetti (1), Sa-mantha Smartschan (2,) Jesse Walborn (3), Mitch Wolfe (1), Rachel Yeager (2) and Rebecca Yeager (1).The Sea Lions wrap up the season

with their Divisional Championship meet at Cedar Crest High School on Feb. 26, and All-Stars at Cumberland Valley on Feb. 27.

Sea Lions finish strongSwimming

in a bucket.“It felt really good to go out with a

good game,” Lloyd said of the team’s victory. “It was also nice to avenge a loss from earlier in the season that basi-cally guaranteed us a playoff spot.”Middletown raced out to a fast start,

scoring three of the game’s first four buckets, and led 11-9 at the end of one quarter. However, the second quarter was

the gem for Middletown as they held Susquenita to just 4 points and scored18 of their own to take a 30-13 halftime lead into the locker room.Sloppy third-quarter play continued

to plague the Raiders, but it was matched by an equally sloppy show-ing by Susquenita (9-13.) Susquenita’s leading scorer, Nova Whitaker, scored 4 of her 8 points in the quarter.Several reserve players got minutes in

the final quarter. Junior Megin Houser and sophomores Jess Shipkowski, and Sarah Crippen all scored in the final stanza.

LADY RAIDERSContinued From Page One

Playoff PictureMiddletown will host YAIAA mem-

ber Susquehannock (11-11) in the first round of the Girls District 3 playoffs

at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 18. The winner of that contest will face

number 1 seeded Gettysburg at a time and place to be determined.

in the corner with a hand in her face. A stop on the other end gave LD the ball back but the referees gave

Susquehanna the break it needed moments later. Bracale controlled the ball and drove up the right sideline with 0:24 to go. Her defender stepped in front of her and made contact that sent both girls to the floor. To the shock of the Falcon bench, the ref signaled for an offensive foul on Bracale even though the Indians had to foul to keep any chance of victory alive.Susquehanna took advantage of the momentum swing when Steele-

Hook drove down the lane and hit a layup to tie the game at 44. Hoff-man’s desperation 3 fell short at the buzzer sending the game to a second overtime.LD quickly fell behind by 3 but caught a break of its own when Brown

was fouled while shooting from beyond the arc. The junior had kept the Falcons in the game all night and had no shortage of big buckets earlier in the game. This time however, she hit just one of three from the stripe. Lower Dauphin lost Krulock to fouls moments later and was unable

to catch up. The Indians converted their free throws down the stretch and sent the Falcons home with just their sixth loss of the season. Brown led the way for LD, scoring 16 points, including three baskets

from 3-point range. Bracale and Alwine added 11 and 9 respectively. However, the star of the game was Yanich. She dropped in 21 points

for Susquehanna; 10 in the fourth quarter alone and three buckets from downtown. Steele-Hook added 15 and Jackson notched 12. The Falcons showed resiliency three days later when they rebounded

by beating Palmyra in another overtime thriller 36-34. The win clinched the 2010-11 Keystone division crown for Lower Dauphin. LD will take part in the Mid-Penn tournament when it gets underway

this week.

Photo By Tom Klemick

Falcon junior Megan Brown had 16 points in Lower Dauphin’s 56-47, double-overtime loss to Susquehanna Twp. on Tuesday, Feb. 8.

FALCOnSContinued From Page One

Wrestling

By Bob StoneFor The Press And Journal

Middletown 29, Chambersburg 33The Blue Raiders were left out of

the District III Team Tournament and traveled to Chambersburg on Thurs-day, Feb. 10, for the final dual meet of the season.Chambersburg was able to avenge

an earlier loss to Middletown at the

Central Dauphin Duals.Brock Thompson (119) won by tech

fall, 15-0. Chambersburg won the 125 bout when Colton Arnold defeated Jordan Murray 9-3. Celby Allen (130) won a 6-1 decision,

Chambersburg won by fall at 135, and the Blue Raiders trailed 8-9. Garett Hammond defeated Middle-

town’s Shane Miller 6-2, and the Blue Raiders responded by winning the next two bouts. Anthony Chambers (145) won by fall, and Mikey Simmons

Raiders fall in final meet

Ice Hockey

By Tom KlemickThe Press and Journal

Lower Dauphin’s 2010-11 ice hockey season came to an end Monday, Feb. 7, with a 5-1 loss to Wilson. An ugly third period that included

more than 20 penalty minutes and a near brawl capped a tough year for the Falcons. Despite some close games, LD recorded just one win and finished last in the CPIHL standings.The home team came out flat while

the visiting Bulldogs needed less than 3:00 to notch their first point of the game. Senior Matthew Haueisen put his shot

past Falcon goalie Jason Henry-Linn at the 12:39 mark of the first period. Sophomore Mark Mulkeen made the assist. A Lower Dauphin penalty 2:00 later

gave the Bulldogs a one-man advan-tage and it didn’t take long for them to capitalize. This time it was junior Mark Balthaser who put the puck in the back of the net and stretched the lead to 2-0. Haueisen added the assist.Falcon senior Darren Stine had two

scoring chances at the 9:00 mark but both his shot and rebound attempt were knocked away by Wilson keeper Marc Daouphars. Sophomore Ryan Yingst had a shot to get LD on the board moments later but his backhand was

blocked by Daouphars as well.Henry-Linn absorbed some big hits in

the second period, the first while stop-ping a shot in goal, a second outside the crease while covering a loose puck, and a stick to the face, which resulted in Wilson’s first penalty. The goalie battled hard but the con-

stant pounding eventually led to more Bulldog points.Sophomore Jon Corderio snuck the

third goal of the game past the keeper at the 5:24 mark and sophomore Eric Bowers put home a Dylan Hayick rebound with just over a minute re-maining in the second. LD missed an opportunity with nine

minutes to go in the period. The Fal-cons controlled the puck in Wilson’s zone for nearly a minute and a half and, despite shots from freshman Chad Stine and junior Andrew Lister, came away with nothing to show for it. Frustrations from both teams boiled

over in the third and the period dete-riorated into little more than a shoving match. Both teams struggled to put any kind of offensive series together and instead tried to see which team’s players could spend more time in the penalty box. Bulldog sophomore Darian Weiden-

hammer tacked on a goal with 5:00 remaining. After that, his focus seemed to be more on boxing than hockey.Weidenhammer and the elder Stine

got into two fights. The first consisted of some harmless trash-talking and resulted in roughing penalties on both players. The second, however, with the game in hand and only 2:00 remaining, punches were thrown by both players. The game was stopped as the referees

deliberated the melee’s consequences. Surprisingly however, neither player was ejected. Instead, both spent the remainder of the contest in the box and on the bench. The Falcons fought hard until the final

horn. The lone bright spot came with just 0:02.8 seconds remaining in the game. Sophomore Marshal Kiessling fired a slapshot past Daouphars for LD’s only point of the night. Lister made the assist. For a team that lost two games this

season to last-second buzzer beaters, one coming in the first meeting with Wilson, it was a bit of retribution. Unfortunately, this contest was out of reach by the time the puck crossed the goal line.Henry-Linn made 30 saves in his

last hockey game for Lower Dauphin. Daouphars followed close behind with 29 stops. The Falcons will lose five players to

graduation this spring. They include both goalies in Henry-Linn and Mi-chael Wolfe, Stine, Chad Baker and Ryan Grubb.

Falcons lose brawler to Wilson, 5-1

By Lauren ScottPress And Journal Staff

Middletown’s varsity bowling club was in a fight for control of fourth place, but couldn’t hold on, falling to third-ranked Central Dauphin on Senior Night, Thursday, Feb. 10, to end their season. The results of the match were impor-

tant for the Raiders, who were tied for fourth with Northern High School go-ing into the match. Northern defeated Central Dauphin East the same day.Although the Raiders were 10-2 in

their previous four matches, third-ranked Central Dauphin, which averaged 973 before the match, defeated Middletown in both games. Middletown’s average of 886 before the match placed them against the 973-average team, while Northern at 835 was placed against East’s 819 average, at ABC East lanes.Dylan Bower and Cole Pavilishin led

the Raiders in the first game with 224

and 209 respectively, but CD’s Sydney Herrman connected on seven consecu-tive strikes after two splits early in the game, for a 233 first-game total. Matt Hoffman placed second for

the Rams, grabbing a turkey and five strikes in a row to end the first game.Bower’s score was only 8 pins shy of

his high score this season. Pavilishin finished the game by picking up four strikes in a row. Both players rank in the top individual performances in the league. The Raiders finished game one behind CD by a score of 1,029 to 933, awarding the Rams the point for the game.Northern won their first contest over

CD East by a score of 808-790, giving them the point to take an advantage over Middletown.In the second game, Pavilishin and

Bowser opened with a turkey apiece, but both slid in the fourth frame. Pavilishin could not connect on an eight-split while Bower knocked down

only 9 pins. Middletown’s Tim Krepps bowled

a 200, leading the team in the second game. Bower finished second with 186, and Pavilishin rounded out the top three with 178. The Rams exploded in the second

game as four out of their five bowlers picked up more than 200 pins. Dylan Warfield and Taylor Hermann led with 234 and 232, respectively. The score for the second match,

1,078-858 awarded the Rams the second point and their 2,107-1,791 score overall gave them the third point, ramming the Raiders chance of making the tournament.Meanwhile, Northern defeated CD

East 966-845, giving them all 3 points in the match. “We were 10-2 in the previous four

matches, [but] we were paired against a tough [Central Dauphin] team,” said Middletown head coach Darryl Bower, The next match is Thursday, Feb. 17,

at Red Crown Bowling Alley.

Raiders outgunned by Central Dauphin

(152) won by decision, 8-4, to give Middletown a 17-12 lead. Chambersburg won the bout at 160

and Elijah Flasher (171) won by forfeit. Chambersburg then put the match away by winning the next four bouts – by fall at 189 and 215; a Dawson Peck 2-0 decision over Tony Dubois at 285; and in the highlighted bout of the night at 103, Tanner Shoap defeated Zach Ulerick 2-0 in a match up of District 3’s top-ranked wrestlers, avenging a defeat earlier in the season. With the match clinched, Bryce

Killian (112) won by forfeit, making the final score Chambersburg 33, Middletown 29.The individual postseason begins

with the sectional tournament on Saturday, Feb. 19, at CD East.

Jr. HighSeveral Blue Raiders placed at the

season-ending junior high tourna-ment at Wilson College on Saturday and Sunday. Steven Cain won gold in his weight

class, while Levi Sterner and Will Bot-terbusch each finished second. Todd Houser finished fifth and Chris

Holliman sixth.

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Church

Swatara Hill Church of the Brethren2943 E. Harrisburg Pike, Middletown

REV. NANCY FITTERY, PastorWorship Service - 9 am • Church School - 10:15 am

St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran ChurchSpring & Union Sts., Middletown

Church Office 944-4651REV. DR. J. RICHARD ECKERT, PastorSaturday Service With Spoken Liturgy - 5 pm

Services - 8:15 am & 11 amSunday Church School - 9:45 am

Wesley United Methodist Church64 Ann Street, Middletown

Church Phone 944-6242

REV. NANCY GOFF, Pastor Saturday Worship - 5 pm

Newspirit Praise Service - 8:30 amAt Riverside Chapel, S. Union Street: Sunday School - 9 am

At Wesley: Sunday School - 9 amWorship & Nursery - 10:30 am

www.newspiritnet.org

Seven Sorrows of theBlessed Virgin Mary Church280 North Race St., Middletown

944-3133REV. LOUIS P. OGDEN, PastorMasses: Monday thru Friday -8 am;

Saturday - 8 am, 5:30 pm; Sunday - 8 am, 10 amHoly Day: Call Church Office For Times

Confessions: Saturday - 7:30-7:50 am, 4:30-5:15 pm

Glad Tidings Assembly of GodRoute 283 @ N. Union Street, Middletown

Phone 944-1042REV. JOHN LANZA, Sr. Pastor

REV. ANDREW JORDAN, Student Ministries PastorREV. BEN GRENIER, Children’s Pastor

Sunday School - 9:30 am • Worship - 10:30 amSmall Groups - Various LocationsWednesday Family Night - 7 pm

Wednesday AXIS Student Ministries - 7 pmListen to FM 91.1 Sundays at 9 a.m.

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Ebenezer United Methodist Church"Love God, Love People, Make Disciples"

Corner of 441 & Ebenezer RoadPhone 939-0766

Worship - 9 am • Worship 2.0 - 10:30 am (Nursery and Sunday School for Children)

Christian Child Care - 985-1650REV. JOHN OVERMAN, Pastor

www.ebenezerumc.net

Evangelical United Methodist ChurchSpruce & Water Sts., Middletown

REV. JIM DAWES, PastorSunday School (all ages) - 9 am

Sunday Worship - 10:15 am

First Church of God235 W. High St., Middletown

REV. KIMBERLY SHIFLER, Pastor944-9608

Sunday School - 9:15 am • Worship Services - 8 & 10:30 amClasses for Special Education

(Sunday Morning & Thursday Evening)Ample Parking Nursery Provided

Open Door Bible Church200 Nissley Drive, Middletown, PA

(Located In Lower Swatara Township)Pastor JONATHAN E. TILLMAN

Phone 939-5180Sunday School - 9:30 am • Morning Worship - 10:45 am

Evening Worship - 6:30 pmWednesday Prayer Service - 7 pm

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Presbyterian Congregation of MiddletownUnion & Water Sts., Middletown • 944-4322Church School - 9:15 am • Worship - 10:30 am

Evangelical United Methodist ChurchMiddletown

What is more pleasant than entering into the presence of the Lord? We welcome all who come to join in the worship of God. “Oh come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.” Psalm 95:1. Evangelical Church meets on the

corner of Spruce and Water streets at 157 E. Water St., Middletown, south of Main St. behind the Turkey Hill convenience store. The ministries scheduled at Evan-

gelical United Methodist Church from Feb. 16-22 are always open to everyone seeking a deeper experience with Jesus. Wed., Feb. 16: 6 p.m., Alcoholics

Anonymous speakers meeting; 6:30 p.m., Senior Choir rehearsal; 7:30 p.m., Intercessory Prayer Group.

Thurs., Feb. 17: 5:30 p.m., Girl Scout meeting. Sun., Feb. 20: 9 a.m., Sunday church

school, with classes for all ages. Seek-ers Choice Coffee House, free, all are welcome. Adult Sunday school devotional leader for February: Bill Harris; 10:15 a.m., worship service. The worship center is handicap and wheelchair accessible. Greeters: Sylvia Derr, Kelly Martin, Eleanor Sankey. Nursery Helpers: Deb Lidle, Joyce Moyer. The altar flowers are given in memory of parents Walter and Dorothy Hoke presented by son Walter Jr. and family; 11:30 a.m., Refresh-ments and fellowship time. Tues., Feb. 22: 5:30 p.m., Girl Scout

meeting; 6:30 p.m., United Methodist Men’s dinner and meeting.

First Church of GodMiddletown

First Church of God, 245 W. High Street, Middletown, invites you to join us on Sunday for morning worship services that are held at 8 and 10:30 a.m. Childcare is provided. Sunday school for all ages begins at 9:15 a.m. Classes for special education are available. Sunday mornings at 9:15 a.m. the

following adult elective classes will be offered “Growing Toward Spiritual Maturity,” Marriage and Relationships – “Boundaries in Marriage,” “How Now Shall We Live?” and there are a variety of other adult classes available as well. Classes are available for the Youth, (grades 6-12), Frog Pond for grades 1-5, Kindergarten Class (ages 4-5), Toddler Class (ages 2-3), and Nursery (infants to age 2). Sunday evenings: 7 to 9 p.m., (YACH) Young Adult Coffee House. Wednesdays: Join us for supper at

5:45 p.m. and Wednesday Night Live classes for all ages at 6:30 p.m. Classes being offered are: Adult Bible study, Mugs and Muffins (Ladies), Craft Class, Keyboarding 101, The Book Club, Balancing Politics and Faith, Meeting the Spirit, Lifebuilder Bible Study, Fitness Class, Spanish Bible Study, Youth Class, Children’s Classes – age 4 through 5th grade, Nursery for

infants through age 3. Thursdays: 8 a.m., Breakfast Club

Bible Study; 6 to 8 p.m., the Sunshiners gather weekly for a time of Christian fellowship, teaching and worship. They are a group which exists to meet the spiritual needs of persons who are developmentally challenged. New for 2011: The Middletown

Church of God is blogging on the Internet. Each weekday there is a de-votional put onto the blog which you can read before you start your day so you have some one-on-one time with God daily. The website for the blog is www.middletowncog.blogspot.com. Our monthly Community Dinner

is Mon., Feb. 28. The menu is roast turkey with filling, whipped pota-toes, vegetable and dessert. There is a cost.Latino Congregation: Betesda Casa

de Misericordia, CGGC, 245 W. High St., Middletown. Servicio Evangelis-tico: Domingos 1:30 p.m.; Estudios Biblicos 6 p.m.; Contactos: Ricardo and Jeanette Perez 717-333-2184 or Caleb and Christina Acosta 717-490-6495. For additional information call the

church office at 944-9608 or e-mail us at [email protected] and check out our Web site at www.middletown-cog.org.

Open Door Bible ChurchMiddletown

“Be ready for me to come.” Mat-thew 24:44 Open Door Bible Church, located

at 200 Nissley Drive, Middletown, invites you to worship Jesus Christ with us this week. Our February 20 Sunday worship

service commences at 10:45 a.m. with a 9:30 a.m. Sunday school hour with classes for all ages; children from ages 4 through second grade are welcome to participate in Junior Church during the morning worship service; we also welcome you to join us at our 6:30 p.m. service. Childcare is provided for children under ages 4 during all services and classes. Wed., Feb. 16: 7 p.m., Patch the Pirate

Clubs for ages 4 through grade 6, and Prayer meeting. Sat., Feb. 19: 8:30 a.m., Men’s Bible

Study. Tues., Feb. 22: 9:30 a.m., Ladies’

Bible Study. For more information call the church

office at 939-5180 or visit us online at www.odbcpa.org. Better yet, come worship with us in person.

Presbyterian Congregation of MiddletownMiddletown

We invite you to join us for worship at 10:30 a.m. each Sunday. We are a body of Christian people who reach out to others by sharing God’s Word, love and fellowship. Prior to worship at 9:15 a.m. the

children are welcome to go to Sunday School and the adults to the Adult Forum. On Feb. 20, the Adult Forum is continuing the theme of Seeds of Change. Speaking this Sunday is Norma Mateer, former chair of our church’s Mission Committee and Erika Lauffer, member of the Mis-sion Committee, telling stories of our church’s benevolence money helping people with emergency handouts (works of charity) as well as with hand-ups (doing justice) so that they can become self-sufficient; Feb. 27: Faith Based Investing, the other FBI. Come and learn how you too can make a difference for good. Pastor Don Potter is inviting every-

one to a 7-week Lenten study of “Your Bible” beginning Sun., March 6 at 9:15 a.m. in the Adult Forum class. This Kerygma study will include top-ics like: What is the Bible? How did the Bible come to be? What are the Old/New Testaments about? What is the place of the Bible in our lives? Registration is required. Those who register are to see Pastor Potter for a Resource Book and prepare for the

first class. The study will meet each Sunday: March 6, 13, 20, 27 and April 3, 10 and 17. All are welcome. The Fellowship Committee has

begun making and taking orders for Easter eggs. There are six choices: Milk chocolate peanut butter, white chocolate peanut butter, milk choco-late coconut, dark chocolate coconut, milk chocolate butter cream and dark chocolate butter cream. Call Joanne Harter for orders at 564-0475. Mon., Feb. 21: Church offices closed

in observance of President’s Day. Thurs., Feb. 24: 7 p.m., Worship

Committee meeting. Mon., Feb. 28: 7 p.m., Deacons

meeting. Remember Krislund Camp brochures

for the summer in Centre County for the children and youth can be picked up from the bulletin board by the Morrow Room. Cancellation of church activities in

the event of bad weather will be broad-cast on the following stations: ABC-WHTM-TV Channel 27, CBS-TV Channel 21 and CW-15. On the radio tune to: WLAN-FM 97 or WQLV-FM 98.6. You can log on to CBS website: www.cbs21.com. For further information, contact the

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The Colts’ 4-goal run began with Bryan Albright’s first of four goals to tie the game at one with10:00 to play in the first period.A scoreless spell kept the game tied at

1 when the first period horn sounded, but the Cedar Cliff flurry started early in the second period. Robert Zweigart started the rally at 12:31 of the second period, and ended it with a slap shot from the point assisted by Evan Bensch at 8:06 to give the Colts 5-1 lead with just under 7:00 gone in the period. Albright and Bensch each added a goal between Zweigart’s tallies.Cody Spitler ended the Middletown

scoreless drought at the 6:39 mark of the second period, and Ben Hoerner’s tally 4:00 later cut the deficit to 5-3 and gave Middletown some momentum.However, it didn’t last long.Albright struck again to give Cedar

Cliff a 3-goal cushion.Spitler added his second goal of the

period with 1:20 to play, but Middle-town didn’t have time to build momen-tum because another Colts stampede

was about to begin. Bensch opened the scoring 0:30 in,

finagling the puck past Middletown goalie Joey Owens (35 shots, 24 saves) off a feed to the right circle from Zweigart. Zweigart added a goal 4:00 later for

a hat trick, and Albright picked up his final goal of the evening at the 8:52 mark with the assist going to Zweigart.The trio of Albright, Bensch, and

Zweigart combined for 10 of the Colts’ 11 goals, and eight assists.Dylan Grim added his seventh goal

with 7:23 to play, but it was merely a cosmetic note for the Blue Raiders, as Greg Marshall picked up his first goal of the night and Zweigart closed down the scoring for the night with 5:00 and change to play in the final period.

Middletown 9, West Perry 5The Blue Raiders picked up their 12th

win of the season and third over West Perry by downing the Mustangs Friday evening at Twin Ponds East. No stats were reported.

STREAKContinued From Page One

Two minutes into the second quarter Middletown got a scare when Klump went down hard on the court. But the senior guard was back in action a minute later and the Raiders continued to increase their lead. The Blackhawks were victimized by

10 turnovers in the period, which the Raiders turned into points and a 34-14 lead with a little over 2:00 left in the first half. A pair of late goals by Josh Supko and Max Flurie closed the gap to 16, but Klump swished a 3-pointer with 30 ticks left to make it a 39-20 game at the break. Turnovers caused by Middletown’s

defensive pressure hounded the Black-hawks from the outset of the second half and Susquenita was held score-less until the 4:06 mark of the third quarter. By that time the Blue Raiders had streaked to a commanding 47-20 lead. Some 14 combined points from Risko, McElwee, Klump and Brandon Light in the period kept the Raiders comfortably in front heading into the final frame.When Jared Deibler’s put-back

opened a 55-24 lead early in the fourth quarter Sattele pulled most of his start-ers and let his second team finish the job. Light, Trent Zimmerman, Griffin and Collin Easter, along with a mix of Pugh, Risko and Klump in limited minutes, closed out the victory for the Raiders.

Middletown 69, Steelton-Highspire 51Suffering through an uncharacteris-

tic season for first-year coach John Albert, Steelton-Highspire came into its final game of the year with just one win. Ironically, that lone victory came against Middletown in late De-cember and the Rollers were hoping for another upset. The Blue Raiders, however, had other plans. And, after turning in one of their best halves of basketball this season, the Raiders had their revenge in a 69-51 decision. With a sizeable home crowd on hand,

the Raiders blasted their way to a 41-15 lead at halftime. That advantage turned out to be important as Middletown was able to hold off a strong second half by the Rollers to lock up victory number 13 for the season, secure a berth in District III playoffs.While the Rollers hit just 3 of 13 shots

from the floor in the opening quarter, the Raiders played nearly flawless basketball in the first 8:00 to forge their way to the early lead. With an assist from Pugh, Risko opened the game with a trademark trey 0:20.Following a scoreless stretch by both

teams McElwee’s bucket and foul shot off a Klump assist gave the Raiders a 6-0 lead. Anthony Ferguson’s basket broke the

ice for the Rollers at the 5:04 mark, but Risko and McElwee went back-

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Middletown Goalie Joey Owens leaps for the puck after the Raiders, defense deflects it wide against Cedar Cliff.

to-back for Middletown to push the lead to 10-2. Risko’s second triple of the game with 0:01left in the first offset a trey by Steel-High’s Broderick Simmons-Settle and gave the Raiders a 22-9 lead. The home team expanded its lead to

29-9 after opening up the second stanza with a 7-0 run by Risko, Zimmerman and Deibler. Steel-High’s Max Ward broke the string by hitting one of two free throws, but the Raiders ripped off another 7-0 scoring streak to push their guests into a 36-10 hole with 4:59 left in the first half. Chris Rozman’s trey and a basket by

Mike Brown helped the Steel-High cause, but Klump, Deibler, Risko and McElwee went 6 for 8 from the foul line in 4:00 to elevate the Raiders to a commanding 41-15 lead at the intermission. Middletown opened up the second

half with an 8-0 run. Following a scoreless minute and a half, another Risko trey kicked off the string. Pugh’s baseline basket, Klump’s drive and a foul shot by McElwee completed the run and pushed Middletown advantage to 49-15 with 4:22 left. At that point the Steel-High defense

stepped up its play and changed the complexion of the game. They out-scored the Raiders 13-2 in the bottom half of the third and closed the gap to 23 points to start the fourth. But the Blue Raiders never cracked

and kicked off the final frame with an 8-2 run to cool the Rollers’ drive. Up 59-30 only 3:30 into the period Middletown absorbed the late rush and held a comfortable lead the rest of the way. Off the bench, Easter dropped in a pair

of free throws and added a putback to offset some of the Rollers’ late points. Steel-High closed out the game with three straight buckets to round out the scoring.Larry Etter can be reached at etter@

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The excite-ment a parent feels

when their son scores a touchdown is the same feeling that overcomes me

when my son, Braden, smiles.To understand this, I have to take you back

to the beginning. Braden Connor Albert was born on July 21, 2004. His birth date was scheduled because it was a repeat C-Section. Everything went smoothly during delivery. I gave birth to a healthy baby boy, or so I thought. He did have some jaundice, but nothing that required an extended hos-pital stay. I was so relieved that everything seemed to be fine with Braden.I was worried because our first-born son,

Noah, was severely developmentally de-layed. We had taken Noah all over the state to find answers, and yet no test confirmed an exact problem. A geneticist at a lead-ing children’s hospital told my husband and I that she was 99.9 percent certain that Noah’s problem was not genetic. The doctor suspected that Noah had a mitochondrial disease. So I prayed about having another child, and when I got pregnant I was ec-static.The day that Braden was born was a

beautiful day. It never occurred to me that a storm was brewing and ready to hit our family full force.Within weeks of Braden’s birth, I knew

something was wrong. He was refluxing his formula and always sounded congested. His pediatrician sent him for numerous chest X-rays, but pneumonia was never found. He ended up with RSV, a respiratory illness, when he was 3 months old and spent several days at a local hospital.I will never forget that

hospitalization because his brother, Noah, was sick at the same time. The two boys shared a hospital room.Braden was sent home

with oxygen and a monitor. During the next several years, I watched as Braden did not meet milestones. He couldn’t sit up unassisted and really didn’t focus on items. I couldn’t even tell if he understood that I was his mommy.I started to wonder whether my two boys

had the same problem because there were so many similarities. I never stopped searching for someone to help me get to the bottom of this mystery.When Noah passed away in 2006, just

shy of his 6th birthday, I knew that I had to get to the bottom of this unknown medical condition. We had put him through so many tests while he was alive, and yet nothing ever came back positive. I heard about Dr. Holmes Morton, who operates a clinic in Lancaster. The majority of his patients are Amish. Dr. Morton had discovered some rare diseases and conducted detailed re-search, so I called and made an appointment for him to see Braden.Dr. Morton spent hours with us. He was

so kind and wanted to help. He ran many tests, but the results were inconclusive and we still had no answers.Dr. Morton’s partner, Dr. Kevin Strauss,

told me about Dr. Carsten Bonnemann at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. I made the appointment with Dr. Bonnemann, and soon he was conducting an extensive evaluation of Braden. He closely watched Braden’s movements and even videotaped him. Dr. Bonnemann had a suspicion – he sent Braden to the lab for blood work.A few weeks later, Dr. Bonneman called us

at home to tell us he had an answer: Braden had MECP2 Duplication Syndrome, a rare disease. It was later confirmed by testing frozen blood of Noah’s that he, too, had the syndrome.Life with MECP2 Duplication Syndrome

has been a challenge, not only for Braden but also for our entire family.Braden is now 6 years old, but he is

functioning at an infant level. He cannot sit unassisted, crawl, stand, walk, talk, or eat by mouth. He also has numerous seizures

every day, despite trying a variety of dif-ferent epilepsy medications. Braden gets upper respiratory infections frequently and is often on an antibiotic. He wears diapers and is totally dependent on others for all of his care.There are nights when Braden’s monitor is

beeping constantly, and we struggle to keep up his oxygen saturations. In a way, our house is very similar to a hospital. We have the oxygen, the suction machine, suction catheters, syringes, a nebulizer machine, inhalers, a monitor and a feeding pump. We work very hard to keep him healthy and out of the hospital, but it isn’t an easy job.We have never been able to leave Braden

with a babysitter because his care is much too complex. We are blessed to have his grandparents living in the area, and they help us out so we can attend our daughter’s school and gymnastics events. Braden also has a wonderful nurse, Vicki Killian, who lives in Middletown and takes care of him while we are at work.Because Braden’s care is so complex, it is

sometimes a struggle to find time to get the everyday tasks done. Even the simple act of going to church has to be planned at our house. There are no spontaneous outings as we pre-plan everything to make the neces-sary arrangements for Braden’s care.I try really hard not to focus on the hard-

ships but, instead, to find joy in these struggles. I do not want to constantly dwell on the problems, but rather find blessings in even the smallest of things.I don’t know how long I will have Braden,

but I do know that l will rejoice every time I hold him in my arms, every time I feel his breath on my cheek.

I appreciate things more now than I ever did before. A smile from my son means a great deal to me because it is very rare that I can get a reaction from him. I even get excited on the days when Braden has a bowel movement be-cause he struggles with constipation.I find joy when he

coughs and is able to clear mucus from his airway on his own without having to be suctioned. I rejoice on those evenings when I put him to bed and his breathing is calm and he doesn’t require oxygen. My husband and I believe that he is a

blessing from God.I want to enjoy every day that I have with

Braden, and I don’t want to live my life angry and resentful. I know that I haven’t been promised an easy life, but I have been promised that I would never be forsaken or left to face these problems on my own. It is my faith in Jesus that promises me that things will get better, even though it might not happen here on Earth. It is also the support of friends and family

who provide encouragement that make each day seem brighter and easier to face.I have also put a lot of my energy into

raising funds for MECP2 Duplication Syndrome research and creating awareness about this rare disease. I encourage you to check out my website (www.mecp2duplica-tion.com) to learn more details.I have become friends with other par-

ents whose children suffer from MECP2 Duplication Syndrome from all over the world including Australia, Norway, France, Canada and the United States. While it is true that MECP2 Duplication Syndrome is a rare disease with only 150 reported cases worldwide, I have become very close to these other individuals and, in a way, they have become like family to me. We share our fears and joys while offering advice to one another.I plan to live my life one day at a time and

find joy in even the smallest things.My touchdowns may be simple things, but

that’s OK.Sometimes the simple things in life are the

greatest blessings.Pam Albert, a Londonderry Twp. resident,

can be reached through her website, www.mecp2duplication.com.

A week ago, more or less, Presi-

dent Barack Obama blew in to Penn State and blew right out again. He was

there to ballyhoo the work being led by the institution’s researchers at the Energy In-novation Hub in Philly.We can count our lucky stars that his rap-

id passage didn’t blow out all the kerosene lamps.Back to the lamps in a moment.The EIH project, according to the Huff-

ington Post, will receive more than $129 million in federal funds over the next five years. You will remember that Obama talked a lot in his Jan. 25 State of the Union address about the importance of clean energy technology for creating jobs and protecting the planet.I’ll give you a moment to catch your

breath.Simply put, Obama planned to use his

visit to Happy Valley to lay out his admin-istration’s vision for “winning the future,” a phrase that I predict will wear exceedingly thin by the time it is discarded.One of the means by which We The

People will win that future, said the Presi-dent, is by “investing in innovative, clean energy technologies and doubling the share of electricity from clean energy sources by 2035.”A media handout at Penn State stated that

Obama wants to improve energy efficiency in commercial buildings, which suck up about 20 percent of all the energy in the country’s economy.“Improving energy efficiency in our build-

ings can create jobs, save money, reduce our dependence on foreign oil, and make our air cleaner,” the handout read. The goals? A 20 percent improvement in energy efficiency by 2020, a $40 billion-a-year reduction of business owners' energy bills and decrease in energy use by reforming outdated incentives and “challenging the private sector to act.''Oops. What was that? “Challenging the

private sector to act?”Now, back to the kerosene lamps.I would be willing to bet that when the

“private sector” was confronted with the in-candescent light bulb after Thomas Edison invented the thing in the 1870s, it dragged its heels, complaining about the imposi-tion of making the switch to electricity and all that the modernization entailed. Some, doubtless, sat squinting in the smoky light, muttering.An ad seen on TV lately shows a woman

griping about the government telling her what she can and can’t buy in the grocery store, or what light bulbs to buy. We’re going to hear a lot more grousing about it, because GE, the last manufacturer of incandescent bulbs in the U.S., shut down in September, putting something like 200 people out of work.That happened in part because of an

energy conservation measure passed by Congress in 2007 – during the administra-tion of George W. Bush, by the by – that essentially banned regular old-fashioned in-candescent bulbs by 2014. The idea was that the ban would spur the development of new, low-energy, low-waste light bulbs that would save a bunch of energy and greenhouse-gas emissions.Enter the new compact fluorescents, or

CFLs, which were developed by Ameri-can engineers way back in the 1970s. But no American manufacturer makes them, because the CFLs with their twisty glass shapes require more hand labor, so most of them get built in China. The CFL bulbs were deemed by the executives at GE and every other bulb-maker in the U.S. to be too expensive because American workers make too much money.I’m not even going to bother digging up

the compensation packages for GE execu-tives who, I would point out, make nothing, if you take my point.So the fate of light bulbs in the U.S.

is partly a fault of the free-market system that allows top management to be given – I won’t say “earned” – huge incomes while it ships jobs overseas. But that’s only part of the problem.Look at it this way: Edison patented the

first commercially feasible incandescent light bulb in 1879. They have not changed significantly in their design since. Now there is a new design, one that uses less power, meaning it produces fewer pol-lutants in creating the power for it, and produces less heat. And, like the Edison bulb, it was developed by Americans. But we can’t crank up enough brain power to figure out a way to make them here.It seems that the can-do attitude of Ameri-

cans has turned into done-enough.The technology, I suspect, is relatively

easy. Getting us off our duffs to do some-thing about it will be the real challenge.Terry Burger, a Gettysburg resident, has

worked as a mortician, salesman, trash collector, newspaper reporter and concrete truck driver. He can be reached at his blog, Burger2go.wordpress.com.

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Last Monday, some members of our staff, including Press And Journal Publications owners Joe and Louise Sukle, had an opportunity to join Penn State Harrisburg

Chancellor Dr. Mukund Kulkarni for dinner.It was a get-to-know-you event initiated by the chancellor, who

made it clear he wanted the university to be a good neighbor and a source of economic growth in the region.Whatever the university can do to make the community a

more vibrant place benefits the students and the staff, he said. It makes people want to come here and move here.Dr. Kulkarni should know – he’s been at the university for 25

years, much of that time teaching business and finance.Since becoming a 4-year institution a few years ago, the uni-

versity has grown at a near exponential rate. The trajectory of that growth is expected to continue for several years before it tapers off, said Donald R. Holtzman, senior director of student

life and enrollment service..Penn State’s impact on the region’s

economy was measured at $135,135,348, according to an economic impact study performed for the university by Tripp-Umbach in 2008. The same study esti-mated that Penn State students, including those at the medical school in Hershey, spent more than $27 million in Dauphin County. And as the campus in Lower Swatara

Twp. grows, the economic impact the school will have on communities like Middletown, Highspire, Hummelstown, Royalton, Steelton, Lower Swatara Twp. and Londonderry Twp. will grow as well.Middletown may be positioned best to

benefit from this growth. Its downtown is deceptively close to campus, and may get closer if borough officials and devel-

opers stick with a proposal to extend Emaus Street to the new commercial development proposed at the former A.P. Green warehouse site on West Main Street. The extension would open a direct route to South Union Street and provide opportunity for business owners and entrepreneurs. Kulkarni mentioned the Emaus Street extension during dinner,

which was served in the Madlyn Hanes Conference Room of the Olmsted Building. He pointed to the large bank of win-dows facing west across the campus and lamented that most students don’t realize how close the borough’s downtown is to campus. “It’s right there,” he said pointing out the window. And if the road is extended, it will put downtown within a 5-minute walk.A lot is poised to happen in the next couple years – a new train

station, new commercial development and, it seems likely, more student housing on the outskirts of campus. We know these issues make some queasy. And we understand why – if done poorly, property owners could suffer. However, if done properly, the next 10 years could make the Middletown-Highspire-Steelton corridor an exciting place to be.

The obituary in our Jan. 26 edition that noted the passing of Grace Nye of Londonderry Twp. offered me the chance to reflect.Many in the township knew Grace from her position with the

township’s board of elections. At least twice a year voters would find Grace and her fellow elections staffers at the poll at the township build-ing off Geyers Church Road. Grace always had a smile and pleasant word to every voter.

My wife and I had a special connection with her in that she lived a short distance from us. She will be missed.Come election time – and when I register my presence at the poll – I’ll see Grace and

smile.

Really? REALLY?I’m not a smoker, although an occasional cigar is fine and dandy. I approve of smoking re-

strictions in public buildings, restaurants and bars, but that’s as far as I believe it should go.That’s why New York City Council’s approval of a bill banning smoking in the city’s parks

and beaches has me staring slack-jawed.Go ahead, ask it – what’s next? Honestly, I don’t know.

Quite a few nerves were grated by last week’s cartoon that took liberties about the fiscal crisis that’s assaulting the Middletown Area School District.Rather than re-voice the civil and courteous discussion, I believe it is responsible for me to

pontificate a bit.Communication between intelligent beings is a wonderful thing. Honest and forthright talk

affords the opportunity to vent and along the way offer suggestions, commiserate and ultimately lend respect to varied points of view.While it is always pleasant to hear expressions of praise for our efforts, it’s just as important

to face the music and dance as we listen when someone believes we failed to hit the mark or struck in what is perceived to be an inappropriate manner. [email protected]

With Penn State's growth,we could ace prosperity

It just won't be the samevoting without Grace Nye

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teRRyBURgeR

When my son smiles, the joy is like a touchdown

As Penn State-Harrisburg grows, the

economic impact the school will have on

communities like Middletown, Highspire,

Hummelstown, Royalton, Steelton, Lower Swatara

Twp. and Londonderry Twp. will grow as well.

I don't know how long I will have Braden, but I do

know that I will rejoiceevery time I hold him

in my arms, every time I feel his breath on my

cheek.

pamaLBeRt

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L “I understand the police department’s sinking fund benefits from fines bestowed on the public, could this be the reason they are constantly intimidating the local public in hopes of finding a viola-tion? This should be illegal or, at a minimum, no longer the practice of the borough. It doesn’t sit well with me to receive a speeding ticket on Union Street hill just to have the fines contribute to their toys and a hot rod Charger police car for officers that very rarely follow the traffic rules themselves.”

K “I would love to know why the mail person for Royalton doesn’t take my outgoing mail? I am tired of bringing my new mail inside, only to find the letters I placed in there two days ago are still there!”

L “If you bully and are caught, expelled. More and more stories in the news. No second or third chances just done on one! You know it’s wrong and you decide to continue, goodbye to you! It’s not technology it’s the behavior, the reflection of the parents or lack thereof. If you want to fine parents for absent kids how about parents of bullies? Fine them then expel their troublemaker.”

K “Having worked for several school districts, I know that the paramount decision to postpone or close schools is the safety of the students. You can make up one day you can’t make up the loss of a child. Also, the superintendent was no doubt up by at least 5 a.m. discussing the weather forecast with school district officials or with officials from other school districts. Again, these decisions are made with the safety of students in mind, and the decision is made by a certain time to allow parents and students enough time to make alternate plans. Unfortunately, the weather predictions and forecasts are not always right, and the school districts may look like they didn’t know what they were doing, but they do, and your child is safe because of it.”

K “George Chaump just resigned at Harrisburg, but he still wants to coach. Let’s go Middletown, give him a call!”

L “I want to know who is in charge of sending the taxes. For the second time I have to call and change addresses. They can find where I work so that means they can find my address. They put a wage detachment on my paycheck. But they can’t put two and two together to send me my taxes. I didn’t even get a letter about the wage attachment. I had to call my HR department and ask what the monies were going for. I’m looking for a job and that one seems to be open. Can I apply for it?”

L “MASD is going to spend over $400,000 on two new soccer fields at the same time as examining if staffing cuts are necessary? Maybe they can honor all the people losing their jobs by naming the new fields after them. Sounds like no one there understands how to prioritize spending! The only people that should lose their jobs is the school board members going along with these stupid ideas and the adminis-tration who makes these decisions. Let’s vote out all the current board members over the next few years and begin to rebuild MASD into the great district it once was.”

K “The Middletown Borough Public Safety Commission held a meeting on Feb. 3 at approximately 7 p.m. on the 2nd floor of the Borough building. Heister, Rhen, and Arnold, I ask you Press And Journal, are these not to be public

meetings with minutes taken? Or are they allowed to meet whenever they want without notice to the pub-lic with no record of the meeting? Just a question I thought you might know the answer to. Thank you for your time.” Editor’s note: The Pennsylva-nia Sunshine Act says “The body [in this case borough council,] and all committees thereof authorized by the body to take official action or render advice on matters of agency business...” are open to the public. That would include all borough council committees.

L “I think I have the perfect solution for both Harrisburg and Middletown. Just switch Mayors. Ms. Thompson should do well with the idiots that we have here and Mayor Reid would be a bless-ing to the city council. That was easy to fix.”

M “Why is February black history month? Why do they get a month and no one else like the Asians, Mexicans, Indians, and Whites etc.? Why do we owe them a month? I am not being prejudice here, I want to know.”

L “If Middletown Area School District is $2.5 million short on their budget, how can they justify what they spend on sports? You would be surprised how much prop-erty taxes could be lowered if sports activities were not included in the budget. It does not make sense to run a couple buses to Greencastle for a football game. When you consider all the teams that are run-ning all over the state for sports that only the participants parents are interested in, this cost should not be a burden on property owners. The time has come to eliminate all or most sports to lower property tax increases.”

K “Get ready for $5 gas this sum-mer!”

L “The school district is look-ing at a $1.5 million shortfall and you want to spend $400,000 on two more soccer fields? What kind of fiscal responsibility is that? They can practice on the JV football field, Reid’s field, or even Memorial Field. Or just like basketball, the girls can practice 3-5 and the guys 5-7 or under the lights at Memorial. Save the money you spendaholics!”

L “MASD needs to cut the budget? Stop negotiating automatic raises for teachers. Get rid of the Dean of Students at the high school. Go back to two guidance counselors at the high school and just one at the middle school. Make soccer share fields instead of building two more. Don’t pay a dime for students who want to go to Vo-Tech or Cyber-school. If they don’t want to go to Middletown, then they can pay for their own education! If you school board members are too stupid to see these easy solutions, resign!”

L “We need to impeach Tom Corbett, he now plans to stop a much needed adult basic health care program that will leave thousands of hard working men and women without health care. This man is evil to the core!”

K “The principal needs to do something about the school parking lot after school. Those teenagers drive like idiots! I can’t believe they are allowed to get away with it. I have seen Mr. Hruz standing right there watching these teenag-ers. Why are the parking permits of these teenagers not being sus-pended? The parking lot is out of control and the school better step up and do something before there is an accident or someone gets run over by these out of control drivers on school grounds! I would hate to have to sue the school for dam-ages because they don’t enforce the rules!”

L “I agree teachers should not get any vacation time off in winter. They’re off all summer and besides they get enough snow days off. Teachers need to do their job, a lot of kids today are still stupid.”

L “To the person that says she knows a teacher that locks herself in the house for 12 hours grading papers. Well that’s her job, and if she doesn’t like it she should not be a teacher.”

K “Standing on the corner watch-ing all the girls go by and you don’t know a better occupation, matter of fact, neither do I. I love it when they’re texting and walk into a pole. I just whistle and laugh.”

K “Reply to: ‘can anyone tell me what kind of fighter jet was flying over the area a few weeks ago? It

was going very fast, and could do hairpin turns.” If the aircraft was going very fast then it was not do-ing hairpin turns, there is a rather direct relationship between aircraft speed and bank angle and radius of turn. If it is going fast a small radius turn requires a steep bank angle, which is not exactly comfortable for the pilot, high G’s, even wearing a G-suit. Are you sure it was a jet? Are you sure it was an airplane?”

L “A concession stand for $109,240? Really? Go buy a really good shed for $3,000 and put in some electric. Wow do they know how to waste money! Use a propane tank outside to run the grills, etc. What is wrong with these people? They just love to spend your hard earned money unnecessarily don’t they?”

J “I would like to thank the elec-tric department men who got my power back on quickly during that storm on Wednesday. I know there is a lot of complaining from some of the village idiots and renters about their bills, but when you live alone it’s kind of scary not to have electricity, and to me I understand things go up in price, but some things are just worth paying a little more for. God Bless you all.”

L “If we are buying your grocer-ies we shouldn’t have to ‘mind our own business’ as you so put. If you want us to mind our business buy your groceries, don’t have us buy them for you.”

L “My school district isn’t Middletown. They haven’t raised taxes in three years so far. They aren’t raising them this year either. Shouldn’t they need less money with everyone moving out of Middletown? I know I did, and boy, am I glad. I miss Middletown, but not the terrible schools, the high crime rate, the high taxes, and the harassing cops.”

L “Middletown School District is spending over $100,000 on a base-ball press box? Is it a Ritz-Carlton press box? This is after you want to spend $400,000 for soccer fields. Two sports that don’t produce revenue! What is wrong with you people?”

L “Middletown Police Depart-ment true colors keep showing up. Nice job really shows the quality of our police in the borough. Whoever hires these people should be fired and the whole police department should be looked at.”

K “I want to hear more about this joggin Jesus! He sounds like my kind of person. He probably has the ability to get things straightened out in Middletown. Who is this person anyway? Can anyone help me out with his identity?”

K “A sharp tongue and a dull mind are usually found in the same head, this explains Sound Off.”

One of the most important ingredients in the creation of a productive learning

environment is the presence of safety within a school. Without it, the ultimate goal of educating responsible and knowledgeable students cannot be achieved. But beyond safety in our

classrooms, it is important to protect student identity and privacy. Without safeguards in place for students and their families, particularly on the college level, identity theft and other abuses can lead to lifelong consequences.That’s why I have taken steps to

address both of these issues by introducing legislation that would ensure our schools are safer havens for learning and Pennsylvania’s students, parents, and the higher education community would be shielded from breaches in the security of personal data. The Senate Education Committee which I chair recently endorsed my bills, paving the way for the full Senate’s consideration in the future.

Senate Bill 224 would prevent individuals with serious criminal records from teaching children in the Commonwealth’s classrooms. Specifically, the legislation establishes a lifetime employment ban for those who have been convicted of serious violent offenses, including sexual violence and crimes against children. The bill also prohibits anyone convicted of any other felony crime from working in a school setting for at least 10 years. By establishing tougher school hiring policies, we will go a long way to improving safer schools and put the emphasis on where it should be – educating our children.The origin of my efforts lies in

the work of a Dauphin County Grand Jury which uncovered the underreporting of arrests and incidents of violence by the Steelton-Highspire High School and which also found that Pennsylvania’s existing background check law for school employees was inadequate. Since that time, I have continued to work closely with Dauphin County District Attorney Ed Marsico, local chiefs of police, and school administrators to respond to the call for legislation that would strengthen Pennsylvania’s Safe Schools Law. The other measure I have

sponsored and which also received the committee’s endorsement is Senate Bill 343, legislation that would tackle a number of student privacy-related issues and permit the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) to collect information that could identify individual college students, but only when specifically required to do so by law. When collecting information for the system known as the Pennsylvania Information Management System, the department would be required to describe in detail its legal authority to collect the information and allow students to opt-out from the system. My bill would also provide liability protection to colleges and universities that disclose information to the state as requested. I believe the elements contained

within Senate Bills 343 and 224 are in the best interests of the safety of students in this Commonwealth and will result in a safer school environment for all and better protection regarding an individual’s personal identifying information. Both of these bills have been legislative priorities for me as Chairman of the Senate Education Committee and have been the subject of public hearings in the past. I made a pledge when assuming this role that these would be two of my legislative priorities, and that’s why I continue to work toward the bills’ final passage. Jeffrey E. Piccola is a Republican

member of the state Senate representing the 15th Senatorial District.

JeFFreyPiccOlaProtectstudentidentity,privacy

By establishing tougher school hiring policies,

we will go a long way to improving safer schools

and put the emphasis on where it should be –

educating our children.

It’s time to clamp down on the Commonwealth’s fleet of vehicles. That’s why I have

reintroduced legislation that would limit the use of the more than 16,000 state cars and trucks used by elected officials, state agencies, commissions and public employees.Maintenance of Pennsylvania’s

automobile fleet is a significant cost that is borne by Pennsylvania taxpayers. The General Assembly and the governor must review the need for this many vehicles, eliminate those that are unnecessary and reduce the cost of government.In 2009 Auditor General Jack

Wagner issued a report pointing out that the Pennsylvania Department of General Services must exert greater control over its management of the state’s vehicle fleet. He also faulted the agency for weak leadership, incomplete record keeping and little accountability of how vehicles are assigned and maintained.House Bill 157 would require

adherence to specific rules and procedures prior to a vehicle being assigned to a state employee. Three specific components must be met: • The employee must obtain written permission from his or her immediate supervisor and the applicable agency secretary prior to having use of a vehicle. • Employees who exceed 12,000 miles per year would be permitted to use a permanently assigned state vehicle. • Fleet vehicles would be subject to disposition once they reach 100,000 miles. If DGS decides to replace the vehicle, it must be replaced with a hybrid or alternative-fueled vehicle to the extent practical. I believe it is essential to put into

law what is and is not acceptable use of state-owned automobiles. Pennsylvania taxpayers pay a considerable amount of money to maintain state government, and as such, strict rules and policies must be in place when spending taxpayer dollars.I introduced this measure in May

2010. However, under the then-Democratic controlled House, the bill was never considered by the State Government Committee.

Higher-ed grant applications availableStudents seeking state higher

education assistance grants for the 2011-12 academic year may now begin submitting applications.Need-based state grants are

provided to qualified Pennsylvania residents through the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency and do not have to be repaid. Students must complete and submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) to be considered. Individuals with internet access may file their FAFSA electronically at www.PHEAA.org/FAFSA or at fafsa.ed.gov. Completing the FAFSA online reduces errors and speeds up the processing time.May 1 is the deadline for the

Pennsylvania State Grant, but families should contact the schools their student is interested in attending, as many have earlier financial aid deadlines.Federal, state and institutional

student aid programs have varying deadlines. Be sure to submit a completed FAFSA prior to the earliest deadline for awards for which the student may be eligible.The PHEAA website offers

services to manage student accounts and obtain information about Pennsylvania State Grants or special programs that would be relevant to secondary education students including account summaries, free online applications, online payment options, and additional forms of financial assistance such as work-study programs, special grants or scholarships and loan forgiveness programs for those who qualify.For more information on FAFSA

Workshops, PHEAA grants or for an application, visit my website at RepPayne.com.John Payne is a Republican

member of the state House of Representatives. He represents the 106th district.

The Capitol REPORT

JOHNPayNe

Tighten controlof state vehicles

“Fun Fact of the week: Alpacas come in 22

different colors.”

www.pressandjournal.com; e-mail - [email protected] - THE PRESS AND JOURNAL, Wednesday, February 16, 2011

From The Wednesday, February 17, 1988 Edition Of The Press And Journal

School District Hires Marching And Drill Designer For MAHS

The Middletown Area School Board has hired a marching band drill de-signer for the High School Marching Band for the 1988-89 school year. Kenneth Green of Lebanon will

receive $1,000 for the drill design show and a maximum of $1,000 per year for his per diem work. Board member Larry Robbins said

at last week’s School Board meeting that the Middletown band performs at a number of competitions and parades during the year, in addition to home and away football games. He stressed that band competitions

are “very, very strict and regimented” and that shows have become highly competitive. Robbins said that the Middletown Band competes with school districts from a wide area and would like to remain competitive with programs comparable to those staged by other schools. Robbins further pointed out that the

Middletown Band Boosters organiza-tion raises about $5,000 annually to assist with band expenses.

‘Bleacher Creatures’ at MAHS Sports fans come in all shapes

and sizes. They have been praised, ridiculed, criticized and sometimes victimized. But at the Middletown Area High School there is a group of fans that defy descriptions. They are the “Bleacher Creatures.” What exactly are “Bleacher Crea-

tures?” They are spirited, youthful spectators who supply the lungpower for the MAHS Blue Raider Blue and Gold cheering section. This vocal, loyal and animated bunch follows the Blue Raider boys basketball team to every game, cheering on the local hoopsters. Identifying “Bleacher Creatures” is

quite easy. Outfitted from head to toe in our school’s colors, royal blue and gold, these fans gather in a particular section of a gymnasium. And when their enthusiasm and support of the Blue Raiders reaches fever pitch, ther is little doubt who and where these young people are.Creating The Creatures - At the

beginning of the basketball season, Casper Voithofer, MAHS principal, noticed that a large group of students

were attending each game. “The kids were trying to be a part of the activity,” said Voithofer, “but they had no real direction. I thought it would be good to have a controlled student cheering section.” After a conference with some of the students, the “Blue and Gold Cheering Section” evolved. Students who participate in this section have come to be known affectionately as “Bleacher Creatures.” The “Creatures” strive to support

the Raiders rather than condemn their opponents. Good sportsmanship is always displayed.

Poison Control CenterHelp When It’s Needed Most

It’s a nightmare come true for any parent. A young mother realizes that her 2-year-old son and 4-year-old daughter have swallowed several Ty-lenol tablets. Luckily she remembers the Poison Control Center at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. Frantically she dials the Center’s

telephone number that’s printed on a brilliant green “Mr. Yuk” sticker that was placed on her telephone. A calm yet concerned specialist at the Center answers the call for help and immediately takes charge. She asks the woman several questions – what was taken, how many tablets were in the bottle and how long were the children alone. The Center’s trained specialist rec-

ommends giving the children Ipecac syrup, and over-the-counter medicine commonly used to remove poison from the stomach. Ipecac is plants extract, that when swallowed, irritates the stomach and causes vomiting. The young mother was advised to keep her children awake and not allow them to eat or drink for approximately one and a half hours. Once things settled down the Center’s

representative called back to check on the children. “The Center reassured me that it was not my fault and there are many children who take poisons everyday,” the mother said, reflecting on her brush with danger. “There cer-tainly is a need for the Center.”

Board Accepts Low Bid To Replace Black Swamp Bridge

Conoy Township supervisors voted unanimously last Thursday night to accept a low bid of $3,896 for a sec-tion of fabricated steel pipe that will be used to replace the deteriorated Black Swamp Road Bridge. The huge conduit, nearly 11 feet in

diameter, will be delivered to the job site within 45 days by the low bidder, Lane Enterprises of King of Prussia, and work on the project will begin shortly thereafter, said Joe Kauffman, Township road master. The Township closed the aging

bridge to traffic late last year because it was feared the span might collapse. Barring bad weather, Kauffman said

he hopes to have Black Swamp Road open to traffic again by mid-May. He said portions of the old bridge have to be removed before the conduit can be put in place and the road rebuilt over it. He said most of the work would be done by the township road crew.

Sewer Project Delayed By Search For Artifacts

Without so much as a war whoop or a single flaming arrow, the ancient inhabitants of West Donegal Township have managed to stop the white man’s latest plans to develop this Ancient Indian Territory. Steve Hendricks, system operator for

the West Donegal Township Author-ity, said last Friday that work on the planned $1.4 million expansion of the municipal sewer system has been delayed “three or four months” to al-low an archeological team to search for “prehistoric artifacts” in areas that will be involved in the major construc-tion project. The Township Authority had planned

to get bids for the project sometime this month, but those plans have been set back by a $3,775 archeological study. The project is required by the Penn-sylvania Historical and Museum Com-mission as a condition for approval of an $800,000 low-interest loan from the Farmers Home Administration to help finance the project. The search for ancient artifacts, being

conducted by a team of archeologists from Franklin & Marshall College’s North Museum, should be finished shortly, Hendricks speculated, but he declined to estimate when the team will issue a final report on its findings.

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23 Years AgoFrom The Middletown Journal Files


Steelton is going green.And the move may save the borough

about $187,000 or more on energy costs over the next five years, said David Wion, borough solicitor.Borough council approved a $504,721

contract with Pittsburgh-based Con-stellation Energy on Feb. 7 to upgrade to more efficient lighting, temperature controls, and motors at its seven build-ings, including the borough’s water authority. The company is guaranteeing the

savings, Wion said.If the borough doesn’t see the pro-

jected savings, Constellation will make up the difference, he said. “Installation of new lighting, tem-

perature controls, and upgrades … will start immediately,” Wion said. “Installation of equipment should be completed in the next six months.” Outlined by Wion, the improvements

are expected to save the borough $35,232 in the first year. Subsequent savings were estimated as follows:• 2nd year: $36,289• 3rd year: $37,378• 4th year: $38,499• 5th year: $39,654About half of the cost – $249,998

– will be paid using federal stimulus funds through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Wion said. The balance of the cost will be paid

by leasing the equipment from the Municipal Capital Corporation for 10 years at an interest rate of 5.5 percent, said Jay Wenger financial advisor for the borough. The borough will take ownership of

the equipment when the lease ends, Wenger said.The borough will make payments

quarterly, Wion said. Debra Schell: 717-944-4628, or

[email protected]

Press~Journal photo by Debra Schell

Steelton Borough Hall on South Front Street and other borough-owned buildings will become more energy efficient in the near future under a contract signed by borough council.

Steelton

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