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June 16, 2016
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Fishing and memories at Hillside Park by Linda Scott
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Larry “Bud” Young was a funeral director at the Lawrence E. Young Funeral Home in Clarks Summit. He liked to fish, cook, watch football, go for walks and watch old movies. “Bud belonged to many organizations and could be counted on to support them,” his widow Linda Young said. “He was a friendly man, had a joke for everyone and was very compassionate. He passed away Aidan Ryan, 11. Austin Browning, 5. in 2009 from colon cancer, and I started the Forever Young Fishing Derby in his the park for my Eagle Scout project,” said Sebring. memory.” Children and their families gathered at Hillside “I went to the Abington Joint Recreation Board Park last weekend for the seventh annual edition meeting to propose a project, and they said they needed a rain shelter,” he said. of this event. Also at the event, a memorial garden was dediAidan Ryan won the Bud Award for the first fish caught that is 13 inches long or the closest to 13 cated. Young said it was inspired by the passing of another dedicated volunteer. inches. “Tom Roberts was a member of the Masonic “I caught a 13¼-inch Northern Pike,” he said. “It was fun catching the fish, and I won a TV for Lodge No. 301 and helped with the fishing derby,” Young said. “He would volunteer in any capacmy bedroom.” Austin Browning caught a 12.25-inch Northern ity and would ask what is needed. He came to be Pike to win in the 5-and-younger age group, and known as ‘Got You Covered,’ which is inscribed on Giada Lovecchio caught a 13.5-inch catfish to win the rain shelter. When he died, the Forever Young the 6-to-9 age group. They won bikes and trophies. Fishing Derby committee realized that to memoriConnor Watkins won in the 10-to-15 age group alize all park volunteers we needed a memory garby catching a 13.75-inch catfish. His catch also den. We ran a raffle and raised $8,000. With the won him the catch of the day. He proceeds, a dock was purchased that was placed at won a bike, gift card and trophies. the far end of the lake.” “Tom was a husband, brother and friend. He’d “It is my third time at the help anyone in need. This shelter means so much,” event, and I had fun,” he said. A rain shelter built by Wyatt said Charlie Saxe, Worshipful Master at Waverly Sebring for his Eagle Scout project Lodge No. 301. Future plans for the memorial garden include for Boy Scout Troop No. 160 was benches, trees, shrubs and paving stones. The dedicated at the event. “I wanted to do something at stones will be inscribed with names of volunteers,
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Giada Lovecchio, 6.
Connor Watkins, 10, with event organizer Linda Young.
and anyone in the community can purchase one in memory of a loved one. Kunihiko Matsui Architecture created a drawing of the future garden. “The committee had a vison. I put it on paper what it will look like,” Matsui said. “With everyone’s help, their wish will come true.” The premier sponsor of the event was Prudential. Grand sponsors include Lawrence E. Young Funeral Home, the Abington Area Joint Recreation Board, the Abington Heights Civic League, Associated Insurance Agency of Pennsylvania, Community Life Support, Lamar Advertising, Peoples Security Bank and Trust and Sickler’s Bike Shop. Sponsors include Abington Lions Club, Abington Planning Group, Dixon Automotive, Eagle Cleaners, J and B Printing, Kevin Treat Woodcarving, Rotary Club of the Abingtons, Waverly Masonic Lodge No. 301 and Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 63. Donations for the memory garden can be mailed in care of Linda Young to the Clarks Summit Borough Building, 304 S. State St., Clarks Summit, PA 18411.
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