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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2016
VOLUME 126 - NO. 11
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Activist Stilp joins in fight over crematory
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Known for his giant Pink Pig, he’s been hired by a citizens’ group that opposes the facility. By Dan Miller
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Opponents of a proposed crematory in Middletown are stepping up their public relations campaign –aided by one of the region’s most well-known citizen advocates. Gene Stilp, famous for his inflatable Pink Pig that has come to symbolize waste and abuse in state government, is now working for Middletown Citizens Awareness Network, a group that has been formed by opponents of the crematory that Fager-Finkenbinder Funeral Home wants to build behind the funeral home at 208 N. Union St. Stilp issued a press release on Monday, March 14 to help spread the word about a hearing scheduled for Thursday, March 31, before the Middletown Zoning Hearing Board to consider the group’s appeal of a 2015 finding by thenborough zoning officer Jeff Miller that the proposed crematory is a permitted “accessory use” to the existing funeral home. The zoning board is to hear the crematory matter during a hearing that starts at 6:45 p.m. in the Borough Hall, Bruce Hamer, a former borough manager and a consultant for Middletown’s government, told the Press And Journal. Miller’s ruling – issued one day after the permit application was received from FagerFinkenbinder – cleared the way for the funeral home to apply to the state Department of Environmental Protection for an air quality permit to construct and operate the crematory. The citizens’ group will “demand” that Middletown Borough Council consider an amendment to the zoning ordinance requiring that any crematory be set back a minimum of 2,000 feet from residents or any other neighboring properties, according to the group’s press release. Such an amendment could not be applied retroactively to the Fager-Finkenbinder Please See CREMATORY, Page A5
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Cop, DA agree on ARD before trial on charges By Eric Wise
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Middletown police Sgt. James Bennett was accepted into Dauphin County’s accelerated rehabilitative disposition (ARD) program and ordered to complete 40 hours of community service for two charges he faced from a Dec. 24 incident in Middletown. Bennett and the Dauphin County District Attorney’s office reached an agreement to allow the officer into the ARD program before a trial on the charges Bennett faced was to begin on Wednesday, March 9 before District Judge Dominic Pelino of Derry Twp. Bennett huddled outside Pelino’s courtroom with his attorney and a prosecutor and apparently reached the agreement before the hearing was to begin. Bennett had been charged with summary disorderly conduct and public drunkenness,
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Middletown’s Elks Theatre has been closed since April 2015.
Fate of Elks Theatre uncertain
Frey Village will host a free Easter egg hunt at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 19 on the retirement community’s grounds, 1020 N. Union St. Candy and prizes will be awarded, and the Easter Bunny will be available for photographs. For more information, readers may call the village at 717-930-1302.
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iddletown’s Elks Theatre could be back in business – only better than before – by the end of 2016, says a local nonprofit group that hopes to secure a 10year lease to operate the historic venue. But that’s all up to the Middletown Industrial and Commercial Development Authority, which owns the 115-year old theater – the second oldest in the U.S. – just off the corner of West Emaus and North Union streets. But when it comes to discerning what the authority plans to do with the theater, and how soon it will be done, there’s not much in the way of previews of coming attractions. It’s almost a year now since the authority closed the theater – in April 2015 – to undertake repairs to bring the Elks Building up to code. It’s evident that residents want the theater reopened, based on their comments after the nonprofit group Friends of the Elks Theatre gave its proposal to the authority during a public meeting on Wednesday, March 9. The proposal was identical to what Friends had presented to the authority in October. Since then, four of the authority’s five members have been replaced with new members who were appointed by the a new majority on Middletown Borough Council that took office in January. The Friends group thought it best to present the proposal a second time for the benefit of the new members. The only authority member who was not replaced – Chairman Matt Tunnell – made good on his decision to resign from the authority as of Tuesday, March 8, despite council’s refusal to accept his resignation. In a nutshell, the Friends proposal calls for the borough to continue owning the Elks Theater and to further commit an estimated $370,000 to expand the theater from a venue that just shows movies to a performing arts center that would present live theatre, concerts, comedy acts and more. The Friends group would enter into a 10-year lease to operate the theater, according to its proposal. It would seek grants and hold periodic fund drives to raise money that would go toward further improvements of the theater beyond those recommended in its proposal. Any income that the theater generates beyond what is necessary to cover operations and expenses would be plowed back into maintaining and improving the venue, said Gordon Einhorn, a member of the Friends’ board of directors who presented the proposal on behalf of the group. He estimated that the theater was making Please See ELKS, Page A6
Girl in iconic Vietnam War photo to speak in E-town
Debris fills the lobby of the Elks.
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Officials threatened action for “violations’’at island retreats
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After a December inspection of Shelley and Beshore islands, the home to about 250 summer cabins, campers and other retreats built by leaseholders on the Susquehanna River, Londonderry Twp. sent a letter to the owner of most of the island property that detailed widespread problems when it comes to complying with floodplain and sewage disposal ordinances. The Jan. 29 letter notes several of the problems found during the Dec. 22 visit and concludes with a threat of enforcement against York Haven Power Company, which owns Beshore Island and most of the properties on Shelley Island. “The township will need to pursue enforcement actions against (York Haven Power) if a mutually agreed upon action plan, acceptable to FEMA, cannot be promptly reached to eliminate the violations by YHP’s licensees over a reasonable period of time,” it said. Township supervisors postponed a March 7 vote on an agreement with York Haven that would end all recreational leases and licenses by September 2017 and require leaseholders who built the summer retreats to remove everything
Chris Courogen, Middletown’s former director of communications, received a severance payment of $18,950 from Middletown Borough, according to an agreement that Middletown Borough Council approved on Tuesday, March 1. Details of the severance are included in a copy of the agreement that the borough released to the Press And Journal on Monday, March 14 as a result of a Right-to-Know request. Council eliminated the director of communications position when it gave final approval to the 2016 budget on Feb. 9. Courogen signed the agreement on Wednesday, March 2, and Council President Ben Kapenstein signed it on Wednesday, March 9. Courogen tendered his resignation from the borough on Feb. 1, with the effective date being Feb. 19, according to the agreement. Courogen was paid three weeks of vacation time for the period from Feb. 1 through Feb. 19. Courogen was hired as the new manager of Duncannon Borough in Perry County on Feb. 16 at an annual salary of $50,000, according to published reports by PennLive.com.
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She’s the girl in the iconic photo of the Vietnam War, screaming as she ran naked down a road after she was burned by napalm. Now she’s presenting a lecture on peacemaking at Elizabethtown College. Phan Thi Kim Phuc will present her lecture at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 13 at the college. Phuc was 9 years old when she was captured in a photo by Nick Ut as she and her family fled a Buddhist pagoda in Trang Bang in 1972. Her speech is titled, “War and Healing: The Girl in the Picture.’’
Youth 10Xs Better will hold an Easter egg hunt – featuring an egg holding $50 – for children ages 1 to 12 from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, March 26 at Wesley United Methodist Church, 64 Ann St., Middletown. Baskets of candy will be given to children on a firstcome, first-served basis. Middletown police and firefighters will participate and students from Penn State Harrisburg’s Epsilon Omicron chapter of Phi Sigma Phi will help.
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At MAHS, lots of singing – and pastries, for good measure
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Zoey Bright sings Meghan Trainor’s “Close Your Eyes.’’
Michael Osayi sing’s Maroon 5’s “Moves Like Jagger.’’
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Christian Nordai sings Scotty McCreery’s “The Trouble With 1John SXL_NextChapter_PA_24_13x15_Layout 2/3/16Hursh 5:36 PMsings Page 1the Beatles’ Girls.’’ “Blackbird.’’
Student-musicians at Middletown Area High School performed in the school’s annual “Evening in Paris’’ fundraising concert.
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School student-musicians offered both to a crowd at the school music program’s annual “Evening in Paris’’ fundraiser on Thursday, March 3 at the school cafeteria. Soloists performed an array of songs, everything from classic rock to pop to country and western.
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William J. Brown, 67, of Steelton, entered into eternal rest on Friday, March 11, 2016 at Harrisburg Hospital. He was born on May 17, 1948 and was the loving son of the late William C. and Hazel (Gantz) Brown. William loved spending time with his grandchildren and made it to every event that the children had if he could. He was a graduate of Middletown Area High School and was a high jumper for the track and field team. He was a fan of all sports, listening to oldies music on his records and watching movies. He never missed the Westminster Dog show each year and you could also find him judging the Miss USA pageants from his easy chair. He also enjoyed playing pool and telling old war stories. In addition to his parents, William was preceded in death by his brother Robert Brown, his aunt Reba Romain, and a cousin Neil Romain. William is survived by his former wife, Linda L. Scheaffer; three daughters Christina N. Brown of Middletown, Monica L. Brown of Harrisburg, and Angela M. Scheaffer of Middletown; nine grandchildren Kylea Abreu, Kierra Brown, Tamia Abreu, Terius Thweatt, Zayden Leach, Kylin Knier, Kelton Scheaffer, Kre Scheaffer and Kila Scheaffer; a greatgrandson Johnathan Knier; and seven siblings Cheryl Ashby, Tessa Brown, Allen Brown, Elaine Nester, Ellen Walker, Howard Nash, and Teresa Stair. A tribute to William’s life will be held on Saturday, March 19, 2016 at 12 p.m. at Matinchek Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Inc., 260 E. Main St., Middletown, PA, with the Rev Martin J. Romain Sr. officiating. There will be a viewing from 10 a.m. until the hour of the service on Saturday at the funeral home. The family suggests memorial contributions be made in William’s name to Matinchek Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Inc., 260 E. Main St., Middletown, PA 17057 to help defray the funeral expenses. Condolences can be sent online to www.matinchekanddaughterfuneralhome.com.
Eugene Duke Jr.
Eugene L. Duke Jr., 59, of Middletown, entered into eternal rest suddenly on Friday, March 11, 2016 at his home. Gene was born on March 17, 1956 in Lancaster, Pa. and was the son of Carol L. Woomer and Eugene L. Duke Sr. He was a former employee at Durabond and enjoyed shooting pool and other sports, but his greatest joy was the love he received from his family, especially his niece and nephews. Gene was preceded in death by his brother Darin Woomer. In addition to his parents, he is survived by his brother Craig L. Duke of Royalton; a sister LaRita I. Thompson and her husband Stacey of Elizabethtown; three nephews Deaven and Darrien Woomer, and Jaden Thompson; and a niece Rylea Thompson. A tribute to Eugene’s life will be held on Friday, March 18, 2016 at 11 a.m. at the Matinchek Funeral Home and Cremation Services Inc., Middletown. Viewing will be from 10 a.m. until the time of the service on Friday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Middletown Cemetery. Condolences may be sent online at www.matinchekanddaughterfuneralhome.com.
Obituaries
June L. Coble, 98, of Middletown, passed away on Friday, March 11, 2016 at the M.S. Hershey Medical Center. She was a member of First Church of God, Middletown, American Legion 594 Auxiliary, and a 51-year V.A. Hospital volunteer. June was preceded in death by her loving husband, Clyde B. Coble who owned and operated the former Clyde B. Coble Funeral Home in Middletown. June devoted her life to caring for their family, helping her husband in the funeral home and nurturing a heartfelt desire from within to help others. June’s beauty inside and out has been evident for decades – in the late 1930s she was crowned Miss Middletown. A tireless volunteer at the Lebanon VA Hospital since the 1950s, she has been recognized over the years for her dedication and contributions to various Veteran’s causes. June was active for years in the Elks and American Legion Auxiliaries, where she served in many capacities in both organizations. Records of volunteer hours were not kept when June started her volunteering, but the most recent award recognized her for 15,000 hours at the Lebanon facility. June continued her volunteering at the Lebanon facility, going at least once a week, until a fall in 2006 slowed her down. She will be missed by all but never forgotten. June is survived by two sons Clyde C. Coble of Leesburg, Va., and Craig A. Coble of Hummelstown; five grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; two nieces; and one nephew. Funeral services were held on Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at 11 a.m. at First Church of God, 245 W. High St., Middletown. A visitation was held from 10 a.m. until the time of the service on Wednesday at the church. Burial in Middletown Cemetery will be private. Memorial contributions may be made to First Church of God Middletown, 245 W. High Street, Middletown, PA 17057. K.M. Knight Funeral Home, Highspire is in charge of arrangements.
James Stapleton
James Stapleton, 78, of Middletown, entered into eternal rest on Monday, March 7, 2016 at his home. Memorial services and interment will be at the convenience of the family. The family has entrusted the care of the Matinchek Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Inc., Middletown, to handle the funeral arrangements. For full obituary and to send condolences online, please visit www.matinchekanddaughterfuneralhome.com.
Dennis Gutshall
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Dennis M. Gutshall, 61, of Middletown entered into eternal rest on Sunday, March 13, 2016 at Carolyn Croxton Slain Hospice Residence, Harrisburg. He was born August 20, 1954 and was the son of the late Paul E. and Dorothy R (Detwiler) Gutshall. Dennis was a member of Middletown Hunters & Anglers and an honorary member of the Londonderry Fire Dept. He really enjoyed traveling, fishing, hunting and spending time with his family. In addition to his parents Dennis is preceded in death by four siblings Doris J. Gutshall, Janet F. Sumpman, Connie R. Almond, and Gail D. Gutshall. Dennis is survived by six sisters Gloria Elli and her husband Richard of Middletown, Pauline Burkheimer and her husband John of Middletown, Rose Mary Gutshall of Middletown, Ruth Hessen and husband John of Lancaster, Maryln S. Heartman of Shermansdale, Pa., and Barbara A. Brooks of Orlando, Fla.; two brothers, Paul E. Gutshall Jr. and wife Victoria of Casper, Wyo., and Harold G. Gutshall of South Carolina; and several nieces, nephews and cousins. A tribute to Dennis’s life will be held on Thursday, March 17, 2016 at 11:30 a.m. at Matinchek Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Inc., 260 E. Main St., Middletown, PA 17057. There will be a viewing from 10 a.m. until the hour of the service at the funeral home. Interment will be at Mount Tunnel Cemetery, Elizabethtown. The family suggests memorial contributions be sent in Dennis’s name to Hospice of Central PA, 1320 Lingelstown Rd., Harrisburg, PA 17110. Condolences can be sent online to www.matinchekanddaughterfuneralhome.com.
John H. Hanlon, 63, of Effort, entered into eternal rest on Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at Cornerstone Living. He was born October 5, 1952 in Annville and was the loving son of the late Houston and Frances (Wolfe) Hanlon. John was a devoted Catholic and really loved going to his church, Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary and hearing Father Keating preach. He really took pride in his work as an electrician, a job that he had done for many years. John enjoyed spending time with his family as well as riding Harley Davidson motorcycles. John is survived by his wife of 40 years, Susan; a son Chad M. Hanlon and his wife Gina of Effort; a grandson Dylan Keesler; soon to be granddaughter Carly G. Hanlon; two brothers Karl Bishop and his wife Cora of San Antonia Texas, and Gerald Hanlon of Annville; and three sisters Donna Nelson and her husband Jim of Manchester, Pa., Joan Liles and her husband Mike of Annville, and Sandra Hanlon of Hershey. A tribute to John’s life was held on Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at 12 p.m. at Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church, 280 N. Race St., Middletown, PA 17057, with the Rev. Ted Keating officiating. There was a viewing from 11 a.m. until the hour of the service at the church on Wednesday. Interment was at the convenience of the family. The family suggests memorial contributions be made in John’s name, made payable to: Development Director UCP Foundation of Central PA, 925 Linda Lane, Camp Hill, PA 17011. The family has entrusted the care of the Matinchek Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Inc., Middletown with the funeral arrangements. Condolences may be sent online to www.matinchekanddaughterfuneralhome.com
Judith Stokes
Judith A. Stokes, 71, of Middletown, entered into eternal rest on Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at her home surrounded by her loving family. She was born on July 17, 1944 in Charlotte, N.C. and was the daughter of Betty L. (Mickel) Ramsey and the late Charles Ramsey. She was of the Protestant faith and enjoyed going to the beach and spending precious time with her family and friends. Judy is survived by her loving husband of 36 years, Paul M. Stokes; three children, Todd C. Holmes of Middletown, Amy C. (Holmes) Billy and her husband Michael of Hershey, and Jessica A. (Stokes) Lidle and her husband Ashley of Middletown; six grandchildren, Lindsey Holmes, Anthony Holmes, Nicholas Holmes, Andrew Billy, Ezra Billy and Piper Lidle; sister Pamela Miller; and several nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. A tribute to Judy’s life was held on Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at 11:30 a.m. at the Matinchek Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Inc., 260 E. Main St., Middletown. Visitation was on Monday, March 14, 2016 from 6 to 8 p.m. and from 10:30 a.m. until the time of the service on Tuesday, both at the funeral home. Burial followed the service on Tuesday at Ft. Indiantown Gap National Cemetery.
The family has requested that memorial contributions in Judy’s name may be made to Vickies Angel Walk, 511 Bridge St., New Cumberland, PA 17070. Condolences may be sent online at www.matinchekanddaughterfuneralhome.com.
Denise Heil
Denise L. Heil, formerly of Middletown, passed away on Friday, March 4, 2016 in Sparks, Nevada. She is survived by two sons; a granddaughter Sailee; a brother Bob; a sister Dianne; and several nieces and nephews. No services were held.
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From The Wednesday, March 17, 1993 Edition Of The Press And Journal What A Storm! 20-Plus Inches Of Snow Find Locals Still Digging Out From The ‘Great Blizzard Of ‘93’ It may not have been the area’s worst snowstorm of the century, “but for most local residents it ranked as one of the worst in memory. Although our area was covered by an average of 20 to 23 inches of snow before the precipitation ended late Saturday night, it wasn’t enough to top the record snowfall of 25.2 inches that was dumped on this area during the storm that hit here on Feb. 11, 1983. But that storm was not accompanied by the high winds, freezing temperatures and blizzard conditions that swirled Saturday’s snowfall into drifts that were sometimes more that 15 feet deep in many places. In fact, some roads in Londonderry, Lower Swatara, Conoy, West Donegal and Mt. Joy townships were still closed as of noon Monday, despite sustained and relentless efforts by exhausted crews to clear them of recurring drifts. As predicted, the snow began falling in this area early Saturday morning and continued throughout the day until it finally ended shortly before midnight. But it came down steadily, sometimes furiously, and by 1 p.m. State Police at Harrisburg were advising that many roads in the area were becoming impassable because of accumulating snow. But earlier in the morning, when it became obvious that the predicted storm would live up to its advance notices, Gov. Robert P. Casey declared a state of emergency and called on Pennsylvania’s citizens to avoid any unnecessary travel. Customers Will Pay For Unit 2’s Decommissioning Officials at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant in Londonderry Township say their Unit 1 reactor, which shut down automatically last Friday morning due to a malfunctioning
coolant system monitor, will return to 100 percent power by mid-week. The plant was operating at 50 percent capacity early this week after returning to service Sunday night, officials said. TMI spokeswoman Mary Wells noted Monday that the shutdown was caused during routine safety system testing when a monitor for Unit 1’s coolant pumps falsely indicated that several of the machines had stopped running. The pumps were actually operational, Wells said, but the plant automatically shut down as it is designed to do when it receives such a reading. Unit 1 remained out of service a total of 70 hours while crews performed maintenance jobs at the plant and engineers repaired the cause of the shutdown. While the plant is at half power, water vapor is visible from only one of the plant’s two cooling towers, Wells said. Officials stressed that the shutdown, which occurred while the plant was at 100 percent power, caused no detectable release of radiation. MASD Board Appoints Shank Superintendent In a unanimous vote Monday night, the Middletown School Board appointed Assistant Superintendent Gary E. Shank to the post of superintendent, replacing Leon R. Calabrese, who will retire at the end of August. Shank, a veteran educator with 27 years experience, came to the Middletown Area School District in 1990. Prior to that move, he worked for the SteeltonHighspire School District for 24 years, starting as a classroom teacher and eventually becoming an administrator. “We have a very fine person who’s been appointed superintendent,” Calabrese said of his coworker Monday night. “Gary Shank without a doubt is one of the finest professionals I have ever worked with. He is a gentleman in every sense of the word, and I’m sure he’ll do a fine job with the students of this school district.” Board President Dr. Samuel Selcher echoed that sentiment stating, “I’m very
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23 YEARS AGO - A Real Snow Job – It’s been called the “Mother of All Storms,” the “Blizzard of 1993” and certainly area residents had some choice words of their own for our latest experience with Mother Nature. As adults get nervous, buy extra milk and bread, and generally concern themselves with getting to work, one young fellow decided to take it all in stride. Pictured is Matthew Nye with his hipper than hip snowman of 1993 that will probably be hanging around right up to spring planting. glad that you’ve decided to accept this position. It gives us some important continuity. You are an exceptionally skilled peopleperson, and I’m sure the District will benefit from our work.” Many other Board members expressed similar praise of Shank’s abilities, while at the same time lamenting their loss of Calabrese. “Mr. Calabrese has done a lot of good things as superintendent,” said Director Richard Swartz. “I’m not anxious to have him go, but I’m looking forward to new challenges.” Shank thanked the Board for their support and noted that he was looking forward to working with them over the length of his five-year contract. His starting salary of $75,000 per year was approved in a separate, 8-1 vote, with Director William Snyder the lone dissenter. A Mechanicsburg resident, Shank, 48, said Monday he is hoping to move to the Middletown area in the near future.
at large on the island for approximately four hours, EMA workers in Conoy were on alert. Hower stated that during the emergency, 21 workers were based in the Township building in Falmouth and that 26 were on duty at the Bainbridge Fire House. Although most of these workers were volunteers, Hower explained that the incident still cost the Township money to feed the volunteers and to provide overtime pay for police. Officials with GPU Nuclear reportedly informed the Lancaster County EPA that the corporation won’t reimburse the County – including Conoy Township – for costs incurred during the Feb. 7 emergency, Hower further explained. While GPU reportedly compensates surrounding communities for most emergencies at TMI, officials allegedly told the County that the corporation believes it isn’t responsible for the incident because it didn’t involve any malfunctioning GPU equipment.
Conoy Wants Repaid Township Officials Ask For Refund Of Recent TMI Emergency Costs The Conoy Township Emergency Management crew isn’t getting the money, which its members feel they are due, and organization head Chuck Hower wants to make sure officials at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant know this. The controversy stems from a February 7 incident in which a site area emergency was declared at TMI after a Lebanon County man allegedly breached security at the plant. While the suspect was allegedly
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internal investigation to the incident that led to Bennett’s arrest. He has yet to return to the Middletown force. Middletown Police Chief John Bey said that Middletown Borough Council, which suspended him without pay in late December, must vote to return him with full pay before he can return. Despite being suspended without pay, Bennett receives about $1,500 worth of benefits from the borough each month during his suspension, according to borough records obtained through a Right-to-Know request. The borough continues to pay for Bennett’s health insurance at about $1,300 each month, along with $109 for dental insurance, $124 for life insurance and $10 for vision insurance.
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crematory, but would be used to govern “future applications,’’ Stilp said. Twenty-nine residential properties sit within a 250-foot radius of the proposed crematory, according to Fager-Finkenbinder’s application to the DEP. Council has also hired its own separate legal counsel regarding the crematory issue, since the borough solicitor, McNees Wallace & Nurick, represents Fager-Finkenbinder. The citizens’ group is also inviting the public to a “public information meeting” on the crematory issue that will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 24 at the Event Place, 11 S. Union St. The group has also launched a Web site, www.MiddletownCAN. com, and a Facebook page. Stilp has waged a number of public government-reform oriented campaigns over the years. He is perhaps best known for his opposition to the state legislative pay raise that was passed in Harrisburg at 2 a.m. back in 2005. In 2014, Stilp, of Middle Paxton Twp., lost an election bid to unseat state Rep. Sue Helm, a Republican who represents the 104th District. Most recently, Stilp has gotten involved in the firestorm surrounding Attorney General Kathleen Kane. He has called on the state Senate and Gov. Tom Wolf to remove Kane from office.
Stilp said he was approached by “certain individuals” involved in the Middletown citizens’ group to work on their behalf. The group is paying Stilp to cover his expenses associated with his advisory for the cause, he told the Press And Journal. He said he decided to get involved in the crematory opposition for several reasons. The way that the borough has handled the crematory issue has been “procedurally” flawed, with the public given no information or opportunity for input, Stilp said. “I hate to see communities be taken advantage of by the lack of information,” he said. The residents’ concerns over the potential health impact of the crematory being located so close are legitimate and deserve to be “investigated” by the borough, Stilp added. There is evidence that the crematory could have an adverse impact upon property values and could make it harder for neighbors to sell their homes if they choose to do so, he contended. Finally, Stilp said he believes that Middletown through the efforts of the opponents can become “a leader for the entire state” in pushing through the 2,000-foot setback regarding future crematories and in “overturning the ill-issued permit” that the borough granted to Fager-Finkenbinder.
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$80,000 to $100,000 a year from sales of tickets and concessions, but that future revenue could be “considerably” higher if the $370,000 in improvements are undertaken. “It’s not a question of giving any nonprofit or anyone the money to do it,” Einhorn told the authority. “The building is owned by the borough. What we are proposing is that the borough invest money in a building that it already owns in order to improve it for the community and in order to make it viable.” Moreover, there is “a model” for this sort of arrangement in Middletown, Einhorn said: the Main Street Gym. The borough assumed ownership of the gym when the Middletown Area School District moved into its then-new high school – and the borough turned the operation of the gym over to a local nonprofit group. “That’s exactly what we are proposing here,” Einhorn said. “Recognizing the fact that the theater is an irreplaceable asset of the borough, it should be owned by the borough. It’s a driver of economic development, particularly in conjunction with what is happening just down the block with Tattered Flag,” the company that is now converting the rest of the Elks Building next to the theater into a combined craft brewery/distillery/brew pub. The Friends proposal received a warm reception from a handful of residents who attended the authority meeting – except Mike Bowman, a former borough councilor who noted that the new Friends group is really the former Greater Middletown Economic Development Corp., a group that Bowman has repeatedly criticized for alledgedly mismanag-
ing and neglecting the Elks Building during the nine years that GMEDC owned the property. The authority acquired the Elks in 2014. “This is like deja vu again,” said Bowman, who contended that the borough doesn’t have the money to invest in the theater – and even if it did, it shouldn’t. “What don’t these people understand, or all you people understand, about a structural deficit?” Bowman said. “I just think this is frivolous. I’ve never seen a great gathering of people to say that we want the theater back. Very few people ever attended it when it was open. The Friends of the Elks has no track record for anything, as far as I am concerned.” Resident Cathie Winters rallied to defend GMEDC, saying that the group’s operation of the Elks Theatre was “superior.” “I live in Middletown because I love it here and the Elks Theatre is one of the many reasons that I do love it,” Winters said. “You should keep in mind that profits can’t be everything. You’ve got to give something back to the residents and this is one thing that you can give to the residents.” Others talked of how they grew up watching movies in the Elks Theatre. And while times have changed, the theater can be adapted to meet demands of a new era. “It’s an asset for our community and I think the people in our community would use it,” said Barbara Layne, a former borough mayor and councilor and former president of the Middletown Area School Board. “I just can’t see not having that theater in operation,” said resident Janet Vastine Kirchner, who noted that part of what drew the Tattered Flag partners to Middletown was
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from the island properties by November 2017. Since the proposed agreement was posted by township officials on Londonderry’s Web site on Friday, March 4, the island leaseholders have founded the Lake Frederick Association and started raising money to reach another solution that would allow them to keep their retreats. Lake Frederick, also called Lake Frederic, was formed near the islands with the construction of the
York Haven Dam in 1904. The agreement affects 178 properties on Shelley Island and 64 on Beshore, according to Dauphin County records. There are 19 properties on the southern end of Shelley, called Bare’s Tip, that are owned by a different entity. Londonderry first explained its intention to tighten enforcement of the floodplain ordinance for the 487 properties on five Susquehanna islands – Shelley, Beshore, Hill, Beech and Poplar islands – during a meeting in July 2015. Compliance with the township’s zoning code for areas identified
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their boyhood memories of watching movies at the Elks. “We need this for our community to help our community start growing again.” Contractors have told the Friends group that the work needed to reopen the theater could be done within 60 days, said Mike Dalton, another member of the Friends’ board of directors who was at the meeting. After the presentation, the authority gave no clear signal as to what its next step will be regarding the theater. However, in interviews afterward, two somewhat diverging points of view were offered by two of the three authority members who attended the Friends presentation – Mayor James H. Curry III and Councilor Diana McGlone, both of whom were appointed to the authority during the January shake-up orchestrated by the new council. Curry said he favors moving forward with the Friends proposal. His biggest concern is the estimated $370,000 price tag. “It’s just a math game at this point,” he told the Press And Journal. “How much money are we going to spend towards the project? Can we offset that amount of money by grants?” Curry said he has also approached Dalton urging he obtain letters of intent from two key prospective corporate donors to commit financial support to the theater project – assuming the authority approves leasing the theater to the Friends group. The mayor believes there is no question that borough residents want the theater to reopen and that there is a solid case for the borough to provide some funding to make that happen – especially given the authority’s decision in 2015 to commit $1.5 million toward the Tattered
Flag project. “If we as a borough/ICDA were willing to give Tattered Flag, a private business, a substantial amount of money to get started, why would we not spend even less than half that to give the residents back something they truly want?” Curry asked. But McGlone said the authority is not in any shape to make any decisions on the theater, given what she called “the turmoil and uncertainty” that surrounds the future of the ICDA itself. She said that uncertainty stems from the makeup of the authority, given council’s removal of four of its five members in January, followed by council’s decision in February to further assert control by voting to transfer authority funding to borough coffers. Council approved the transfer in response to Curry’s repeated public criticisms that the authority under a former council majority had been a body of appointed people that was not accountable to the voters. However, McGlone voted against the transfer, characterizing it as a kneejerk reaction to Curry’s demands. Council has now decided to fill all five authority seats with new people by mid-April. By the time that the authority’s current members are up to speed on the theater, they will be replaced by another slate of new people, McGlone said. “All council did by (replacing the entire board) is add an additional layer of complexity that did not need to exist, and because of that we are at a standstill,” she said. McGlone also contends that before the authority can do anything about the theater, council has to “determine” what is to be done with it. To Curry, that matter has been settled – the space should be reopened as a
theater. He also disagrees with McGlone’s characterization of the authority as essentially having been paralyzed by the moves made by the new council. Curry pointed to the numerous decisions that the authority made during the March 9 meeting regarding Middletown’s ongoing downtown streetscape improvement project. It will likely be after the new authority members are seated that the borough can fully investigate outside grants to help fund the theater project – and that Dalton can get letters of intent from prospective donors. Given all that, it’s unlikely that the current authority members could be ready to act on the Friends proposal before the new members are seated, and that’s perhaps as it should be, Curry said. Curry, McGlone and others whom the new council appointed to the authority in January are “holdovers” just until the new members take their place, he said, “So maybe we aren’t the group to make the decision…I don’t think we are talking about kicking the can down the road six months here. I think we are talking about a month or two” before the decisions can be made regarding the theater. Of the authority’s two other current members, Councilor Dawn Knull declined to comment on the theater when asked by the Press And Journal, and Councilor Damon Suglia did not return a phone call seeking comment. Suglia was absent from the authority’s March 9 meeting. He was elected chairman of the authority to replace Tunnell.
as floodplains includes provisions that the township had never enforced, according to Larry Toth, the president of the Beech Island Association. Many people with summer homes on the islands said the same thing at township meetings in 2015 and 2016. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has taken a keen interest in Londonderry’s floodplain and its even more vulnerable floodway properties, perhaps due to its payouts for damages following floods. Property owners in the entire township could become ineligible for flood insurance
or flood-related disaster assistance if Londonderry doesn’t enforce floodplain regulations on the islands, said Jim Diamond, an attorney with the township’s solicitor, Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott. Township solicitor Mark Stewart urged the supervisors to vote and ratify the agreement March 7, noting that the agreement does not prevent York Haven’s leaseholders from reaching their own FEMA-compliant agreement with the power company. That suggestion died when Bart Shellenhamer, chairman of the supervisors, was unable to get one supervisor willing to make a motion to approve the agreement. The township had reported holding private meetings with York Haven, and have yet to provide details about the meetings. The Jan. 29 letter, signed by Jeff Burkhart, the township’s zoning and codes officer and floodplain administrator, made it clear that township officials had been taken to the islands by the power company’s representatives. Burkhart said the township identified “widespread, very substantial violations of the Londonderry Twp. floodplain ordinance” that may also violate the power company’s license agreement with occupants of the recreational properties. The problems in the flood-prone areas “will continue to represent a threat to the health, safety and welfare of Londonderry Twp. residents and first responders, as well as to communities downstream,” he said. The township’s letter to York Haven included photos showing dozens of island homes without permanent foundations, including many manufactured homes. Under the ordinance, these are required to have permanent foundations that are elevated above base flood elevation and securely anchored. Some people have campers or recreational vehicles on the islands, as shown in township photos. As a recreational vehicle, a camper should be licensed and ready to be transported on public streets and remain on the site for fewer than 120 days at a time, according to Londonderry’s ordinance. If campers are attached to other sheds, decks, porches or other structures, they are to be situated using the rules for manufactured homes. In addition to the issues with properties that do not comply with the floodplain ordinance, the township found that many of the Shelley Island homes have “homemade” sewer disposal systems. Burkhart notes in the letter that none of them have the proper sewer permits required by the township. The township ordinance also prohibits placing any on-lot system in a floodplain. The letter notes that officials visited all but nine of the York Haven properties on Shelley Island. Photographs of Beshore Island were taken by boat due to time limits. In the letter, Burkhart observes that Beshore appears to be more vulnerable to flood damage because it has a much lower elevation. Burkhart began inspecting island properties in September, starting on Beech Island. Toth said Beech Island’s 70 leaseholders have long-term, perpetual leases for the property that many of them had signed with Frank and Betty Garman. Today, Beech Island is owned by the Garmans’ heirs, Francia Plott of Middletown and John Garman
of Bonita Springs, Fla. Following the Beech Island inspections, the township sent warning letters to eight leaseholders for illegal development, the last of which was sent on Nov. 2. These letters gave the leaseholders 90 days to get their properties into compliance, threatening fines of $500 per day and other costs if they did not comply. The owners were required to seek a floodplain development permit. If Londonderry has completed inspections of the 130 properties on Hill Island and 25 on Poplar Island, it has not shared its results yet. In response to a Right-to-Know request, the township reported on Friday, March 11 that no other warning letters have been sent since November. A Right-to-Know request showed that three leaseholders had applied for floodplain development permits, and all were denied. The same request showed that two island property owners have received on-lot sewage permits, which have been required of all property owners in the township for about 40 years. The township indicated that it received no additional applications for floodplain development or sewage permits since its response in 2015. In addition to the township permits, the state Department of Environmental Protection requires permits for any type of boat dock that juts into the water. James D. Myers of Harrisburg, a Beech Island property leaseholder, applied for a Water Obstruction and Encroachment permit with the state on Dec. 2, 2015. The township warned Myers on Aug. 4 about violations stemming from the “construction of a massive deck, boat docks encroaching into the Susquehanna River and related improvements.” The township file for Myers’ property included photos showing a recreational deck has been built on the island property itself as well as the separate docks that jut out into the river, and are suitable for use by a few boats each. Myers was one of the eight leaseholders who was warned about illegal development without a floodplain permit in 2015.
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Seven Sorrows Catholic Church, Race and Conewago streets, Middletown, is hosting its 19th Annual Fish Fry from 5 to 8 p.m. on Friday, March 18. For take-out, call 717-944-5488 after 4 p.m. Please visit ssbvmfishfry. weebly.com for menu and specials. •••••
Easter Bake Sale
St. Ann Byzantine Catholic Church, 5408 Locust Lane, Harrisburg, is hosting an Easter Bake Sale from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, March 19 in Parish Hall. Featured will be homemade walnut, poppyseed and apricot rolls, perohi and kielbasa. No orders taken – first come, first served. For more information, call 717-652-0545 or visit www. stannbyz.org. •••••
Spring Craft Show
The Central Dauphin Band Boosters 26th Annual Spring Craft Show will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, March 19 at Central Dauphin High School, 437 Piketown Road at Route 39. Admission and parking are free. For more information, visit www.cdramband.org. •••••
Londonderry Fish Fry
Londonderry Fire Company, 2655 Foxianna Road, Middletown, is hosting its Fish Fry from 5 to 8 p.m. on Friday, March 18. For take-out, call 717-944-2175. •••••
Easter flower sale
The Rescue Firemen’s Home Association, 600 S. Union St., Middletown, is hosting an Easter flower sale from 3 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, March 24 and Friday, March 25 and all day Saturday, March 26. •••••
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Courogen was hired in 2012 under the leadership of a former majority on council that was led by former Council President Chris McNamara. Several other members of the management team that were brought on board under McNamara submitted their resignations in late December, as a new council majority elected in 2015 was about to assume control. Courogen initially stayed on as acting borough manager as the new council majority sought to replace former Manager Tim Konek. But the new majority assigned Konek’s duties to Police Chief John Bey on an acting basis and brought in former borough manager Bruce Hamer to serve as a management consultant.
The new council majority has advertised to hire a new borough manager and a director of finance and administration – a position that Kapenstein has likened to an assistant manager. The former council majority awarded bonuses totaling $28,600 to Konek, former Borough Secretary Amy Friday, former Public Works Superintendent Lester Lanman, Courogen and finance department employee Linda Houser, the only one of the five who still works for the borough. The former council majority also approved an additional $27,530 in severance payments to Konek and Friday, according to records obtained by the Press And Journal through a Right-to-Know request. Dan Miller: 717-944-4628, or danmiller@pressandjournal.com
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Anthony Wright, former Steel-High basketball star, poised to play at Division I university ketball star left Steelton’s tiny Martin J. Benkovich Gymnasium, where he led the Rollers in his senior year of high school, for Harcum College, a junior college in Bryn Mawr, where he evolved from a tall, quick kid who scored rarely to the college’s record-holder in steals who averages 18 points a game. One of three captains on the team, Wright helped Harcum to the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division I championship tournament in Hutchinson, Kansas. Seeded 17th in the 24-team field, Harcum (25-5) was eliminated by North Dakota State College of Science, 102-86 on Monday, March 14, despite Wright’s 17 points. He’s dreamed of playing basketball for a major college, and in the NBA – a dream that never died despite suffering a bacterial infection as a teenager, methicillin resistant staphylococcus arenas (MRSA), which can be fatal but can be treatable. He was hospitalized for four months. Fortunately, he recovered, returned to the basketball court, scored his 1,000th point in 2014 with Steelton-Highspire and went to Harcum, a move that has prepared him for the next step in his sports career. At Harcum, Wright, a 6-6 sophomore, broke school records for steals in a single game, a season and a career. He’s gotten scholarship offers from Division I schools Alcorn State and
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Talk about extremes: Anthony Wright has gone from life-threatening illness to life, most likely, as a major college basketball player, from a hospital room to a sports arena, from the fear of losing his ability to walk to the thrill of playing for a national championship. The former Steelton-Highspire bas-
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Delaware State and interest from Oregon State, Rutgers, LaSalle, Utah, Iona and Duquesne. He’s also received offers from smaller universities West Chester and East Stroudsburg, but he really wants to play for a Division I school. “What kid doesn’t?’’ he asked. Says his coach at Harcum, Drew Kelly: “He’s going to be a Division I signee. There’s no question.’’ Wright’s metamorphosis at Harcum was amazing, said Kelly, who has coached the Bears for 11 years, compiling a record of 277-65. When Wright arrived at Harcum, he scored very little, averaging just 6 points a game. But Wright worked hard to improve his shooting at Harcum, and is one of the team’s leading scorers. “I don’t think I’ve had a player in my 11 years improve so much,’’ Kelly said. “It’s a testament to his hard work. He’s paid the price and put in the time, and he’s reaping the benefits.’’ Wright admits he’s changed since coming to Harcum, a small campus founded by a former concert pianist, Edith Hatcher Harcum, as a preparatory school for girls in 1913. “Find your hope, cherish it, and set about actively realizing it,’’ Harcum once told her students in an early commencement address – advice that Wright seems to have taken to heart. At first, it was difficult not being the go-to guy at Harcum, as he was in his senior year at Steelton-Highspire. He matured at the junior college, and he describes the change as “dramatic.’’ “You expect and want to do great things, but you heave to wait your turn,’’ Wright said. “I saw myself maturing and grew up as a player and a man. I’m a better person, a better man.’’ Shooting drills and coaching from
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Anthony Wright (4) and his family, left, pose for a photo after Wright scored his 1,000th high school career point against Bishop McDevitt in 2014.
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Middletown’s Belles wins spot in state championships By Larry Etter
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Middletown senior Eric Belles finished in 10th place at the Eastern Pennsylvania High School Regional Bowling Championships on Friday, March 4 at Lancaster’s Leisure Lanes, rolling a five-game series total of 1,112 pins and qualifying for the Pennsylvania state bowling championships. Belles will compete for the state title on Friday, March 18 at North Versailles Bowling Center in Pittsburgh. He rolled games of 201, 227, 258, 218 and 208 for an average of 222 to lock down 10th place among the 180 bowlers in the Eastern Regional. Belles was the regional’s defending champion, winning the tournament in 2015. He went on to take 15th place in the 2015 state championships, rolling a six-game total of 1,228. His Middletown teammate, Cole Kautz, enjoyed a good outing as well at the Eastern Regionals and knocked down an even 1,000 pins for a 45th place finish in the competition, improving from the No. 78 spot he registered the previous year. Kautz rolled a high game of 266 and finished with an even 200 average for the five-game set. Representing the Middletown girls’
PENNSYLVANIA EASTERN REGIONAL BOWLING CHAMPIONSHIPS BOYS Five-game series (Top 12 qualify for state championships) 1. Dominik Bouman, Conestoga Valley, 1,187 2. Peter Strippoli, Neshaminy, 1,168 3. Austin Long, Shikellamy, 1,168 4. Daniel Althouse, Conrad Weiser, 1,156 5. Chris Houtz, Midd-West, 1,152 6. Brian Kennedy, Central (Phil.), 1,146 7. Austin Barilar, Warwick, 1,146 8. Kevin Sampson, St. Joe’s Prep, 1,130 9. David Callahan, Pennsbury, 1,123 10 Eric Belles, Middletown, 1,112 11. Tanner Simet, Penn Manor, 1,100 12. Nick Kahler, Shikellamy, 1,092 (Strippoli won boys’ title in championship flight match, 164-154 over Bouman)
bowling team was Victoria Spangler, who finished with an 859 series, good enough for 80th place among the 151 female bowlers at the event. Spangler posted a single-game high of 221, which raised her overall average to 171 in Lancaster. The Middletown bowlers are coached by Darryl Bower, owner of ABC East Lanes. Larry Etter can be reached at
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Middletown’s Eric Belles will compete for the Pennsylvania boys’ high school bowling title on Friday, March 18 in Pittsburgh.
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LD’s Shutt sixth, Morrill eighth in PIAA wrestling Two Lower Dauphin wrestlers placed in the top eight in their weight class in the PIAA Wrestling Championships on Saturday, March 12 at the Giant Center in Hershey. Bailey Shutt finished in sixth place at 160 pounds, while Evan Morrill finished in eighth place at 182 pounds
at the state championships. Shutt, who received a first-round bye, won a 3-2 decision over Jaydn Swartwood of Jersey Shore in the second round, then a 3-1 decision over Dane Iredale of Conestoga before losing a 3-1 decision to Trent Hidlay of Mifflin County.
In the consolation bracket, Shutt lost a 3-2 decision to Josh Stillings of Pennridge to claim sixth place. Morrill won a 9-4 decision over Nick Bonomo of Quakertown in the first round, then won a 3-2 decision over Adam Soldridge of Bethlehem Catholic in the second round before
losing a 13-4 major decision to Milton Kobaly of Belle Vernon. In the consolation bracket, Morrill won a 10-2 major decision over Jake Paulson of McDowell before losing a 7-2 decision to Gregg Harvey of Boyertown in the seventh-place bout.
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Lions’ late-inning uprising stuns No. 8 Frostburg St., 4-3 Lions’ way, Denniston raced home on a single by Kremer and an error by the Frostburg center fielder in the bottom of the sixth to cut the Bobcats’ lead to 3-2. That set the stage for Penn State Harrisburg’s winning rally in the bottom of the eighth inning. Frostburg won the first game, 15-9, scoring eight runs in the first four innings and pounding out 18 hits. Down 10-1, the Lions found their stride in the bottom of the seventh inning. Kell, a freshman, drove in a run with an RBI single, and Kremer followed with an RBI single to cut the lead to 10-3. The Lions then scored three runs on three consecutive bases-loaded walks, to Chris Iocca, then Struve, then Brubaker, to pull within 10-6. The Bobcats responded with a threerun eighth inning, but the Lions got two of those runs back, one on another RBI single by Kell.
For The Press And Journal Left fielder Josh Brubaker singled home the winning run in the bottom of the eighth inning to lead Penn State Harrisburg to a 4-3 upset of eighthranked Frostburg St. in the second game of a doubleheader on Saturday, March 12 in Middletown. Lion pitcher Mark Artley (1-3) kept the powerful Bobcats in check to earn a complete-game victory, surrendering three earned runs on seven hits while striking out 12 batters. Down 3-2 in the eighth, Penn State Harrisburg (8-10, 1-2 in the Capital Athletic Conference) rallied for the win on an RBI single by Will Quiles that scored Tom Denniston with the tying run, then Brubaker’s game-winning RBI hit that drove home Jackson Struve, a pinch runner for Middletown’s Ethan Kell, who had reached second base after being walked by Frostburg reliever Nick Huff (2-1). The Bobcats (7-2, 1-1) committed six errors. None of the Lion runs were earned. Down 3-0, Penn State Harrisburg started its comeback with an RBI single by Quiles that scored teammate Kevin Kremer in the bottom of the fifth inning. With the momentum swinging the
Wash. and Lee 11 Lions 10
Penn State Harrisburg’s first seven batters walked, allowing the Lions to score five runs in the first inning without registering a hit, but Washington and Lee rallied for the victory on Thursday, March 10 in Lexington, Va. An RBI single by Quiles pushed the
Lions’ lead to 8-3 in the top of the sixth inning, but the Generals (12-6) blitzed Penn State Harrisburg with a six-run sixth to take a 9-8 lead. Penn State Harrisburg regained the lead in the top of the seventh inning on an RBI single by Scott Angstadt Jr. and a sacrifice fly by Denniston that pushed the Lions ahead, 10-9. But an RBI grounder by Luke Myer in the bottom of the seventh inning tied it for the Generals, and an RBI single in the bottom of the eighth by Jonny Swenson won it.
Lions 8 Roanoke 3
Penn State Harrisburg scored four runs in the fifth inning to take a 4-1 lead and never looked back in a victory over Roanoke on Wednesday, March 9 in Salem, Va. Iocca tied the game with an RBI single in the fifth-inning rally, then Kremer doubled home a run. Travis VanHouten hit an RBI single to the pitcher, and Kell drove in a run with a sacrifice fly. The Lions put the game away with a four-run seventh inning that included an Angstadt single that drove in two runs and a walk by Blake Reiff that drove in a run. The fourth run scored on a Roanoke error.
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Monday, March 21 Lower Dauphin at Cedar Crest (scrimmage), 4 p.m.
BOYS’ TENNIS MID-PENN CONFERENCE Colonial Division W L OVERALL Middletown 0 0 0-0 Bishop McDevitt 0 0 0-0 Palmyra 0 0 0-0 Trinity 0 0 0-0 Camp Hil 0 0 0-0 East Pennsboro 0 0 0-0 James Buchanan 0 0 0-0
Tuesday, March 22 Middletown at Elizabethtown (scrimmage), 4:15p.m.
This week’s matches Thursday, March 17 Middletown at Elizabethtown, 4 p.m.
Capital Division W L OVERALL Steelton-Highspire 0 0 0-0 Milton Hershey 0 0 0-0 Trinity 0 0 0-0 Camp Hil 0 0 0-0 East Pennsboro 0 0 0-0 Northern York 0 0 0-0 West Perry 0 0 0-0
Friday, March 18 Palmyra at Middletown, 3:30 p.m.
This week’s games Wednesday, March 16 Middletown at ELCO (scrimmage), 4:15p.m.
SOFTBALL MID-PENN CONFERENCE Keystone Division Middletown Lower Dauphin Hershey Bishop McDevitt Palmyra CD East Harrisburg Susquehanna Twp.
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L OVERALL 0 0-0 0 0-0 0 0-0 0 0-0 0 0-0 0 0-0 0 0-0 0 0-0
Monday, March 21 Middletown at Camp Hill, 3:30 p.m. Keystone Division W L OVERALL Lower Dauphin 0 0 0-0 Hershey 0 0 0-0 CD East 0 0 0-0 Harrisburg 0 0 0-0 Susquehanna Twp. 0 0 0-0 Northern York 0 0 0-0 Mechanicsburg 0 0 0-0 Mifflin County 0 0 0-0 This week’s matches Thursday, March 17 Lower Dauphin at Cedar Crest, 3:30 p.m. Monday, March 21 Lower Dauphin at Red Land, 3:30 p.m.
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Last week’s games Greensboro 7, Penn State Harrisburg 0 SUNY Polytechnic 3, Penn State Hbg. 0 Penn State Harrisburg 7, Wilkes, 4 This week’s games Tuesday, March 22 Stevenson at Penn State Hbg. (2), 3 p.m.
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Cooper ($3,026) will return to coach boys’ lacrosse. For soccer, girls’ coach Roy Gesford ($3,002), boys’ coach Mike Rowe ($2,448) and assistant coach Damon Kaylor ($2,435) were approved to return. Barry Lopatic ($3,117) will move from assistant to head track coach for the junior high level. Junior high assistant coaches include Christian Stremmel ($1,758) and Mary Dell ($1,758), joined by new assistant Kelly Millsteen ($1,651).
The Lower Dauphin School Board rehired baseball coach Ken Kulina and a list of other sports coaches and assistant coaches during a meeting on Feb. 16. The board rehired Kulina at $6,646 and assistants Ron Collier ($3,897), David Fascella ($3,220) and David Gourley ($2,719). Also returning are long-time tennis coach Peggy Long ($3,612) as well as tennis coach Charles Nelson ($2,688) and volleyball coaches David Machamer ($5,565) and Doug Baker ($3,339).
Rupakus homer lifts Lions over Wilkes, 7-4 Shortstop Jenna Rupakus hit an inside-the-park home run and pitcher Amanda Hartman struck out 10 batters as Penn State Harrisburg defeated Wilkes, 7-4 on Monday, March 7 in North Myrtle Beach, S.C. Hartman (2-1) surrendered eight hits. All four runs against her were unearned, as the Lions (3-4) made five errors. Rupakus’ home run, in the bottom of the second inning, drove in three runs and erased a 1-0 Wilkes lead. Trailing 4-3, the Lions erupted for four runs in the bottom of the sixth inning on RBI singles by Hartman and
DREAM Kelly made Wright, in his own selfassessment, “a better shooter, and I definitely have a higher IQ for the game.’’ The small, close-knit campus reminds him of the closeness he felt at SteeltonHighspire, where he grew up with teammates. “It’s definitely a family environment,’’ he said. “You know everyone here and everyone knows you. The teachers help you and the coaching staff pushes you every day. That’s how we got to where we are.’’ To Kelly, attitude is key – it’s the word his players shout every time they break their huddle – and Wright’s success is due to his attitude. Wright will graduate from Harcum with a GPA over 3.0, Kelly said, and “that’s a testament to his mental discipline.’’ Wright traces his outlook on life and basketball back to Steelton-Highspire,
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COLLEGE BASEBALL CAPITAL ATHLETIC CONFERENCE W L OVERALL Salisbury 3 0 8-3 Marymount 2 0 10-9 Chris. Newport 2 1 12-3 Wesley 2 1 8-5 York 2 1 4-10 Frostburg St. 1 1 7-3 Penn St. HBG 1 2 8-10 Southern Virginia 1 2 5-10 Mary Washington 0 3 13-5 St. Mary’s 0 3 4-11
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SUNY Poly 3 Lions 0
SUNY Poly scored two runs in the bottom of the fourth inning to break a scoreless tie and subdue Penn State Harrisburg in the second game of a doubleheader for Penn State Harrisburg on Monday, March 7 in North Myrtle Beach, S.C. A triple by Danielle Witchley scored the first SUNY Poly run, while an RBI single by Hannah Wasco made it 2-0. A wild pitch in the fifth inning scored the final run for the Wildcats (1-1). Wasco, the Wildcats’ pitcher, silenced
to former coach Tramayne Hawthorne, another former Roller star. The most valuable lesson he learned at SteelHigh: “You have to make every day count in life. Don’t have regrets at the end of the day,’’ Wright said. “Nothing’s a guarantee. You have to take it.’’ Wright’s dream of pro basketball never died, though, he admits, it wavered more than once. He had doubts. “There were moments – there were times when I thought that,’’ he said. “I just kept pushing. You have to keep
Penn State Harrisburg’s bats, surrendering just five hits and striking out five batters for a complete-game win.
Greensboro 7 Lions 0
Greensboro bombarded Penn State Harrisburg with five runs in the third inning to pull away on Tuesday, March 8 in Greensboro, N.C. Greesboro pitcher Maddy Wetherholt shut out the Lions on six hits, striking out five batters. The Pride (10-5) collected 11 hits and benefitted from three Lion errors. Loch went 2-for-3 for Penn State Harrisburg.
that dream. People doubt and people believe in you. Whether it’s the NBA or overseas (basketball), I can get it done.’’ His journey is far from over. From Steelton to Bryn Mawr to a championship tournament in Kansas to, maybe, Oregon? “I came a long way,’’ Wright said. “I’m just thankful and, honestly, it’s a blessing, from the situation where I almost died to now.’’ Jim Lewis: 717-944-4628, or jimlewis@pressandjournal.com
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Lions hire E-town’s Jackson as head coach For The Press And Journal
Penn State Harrisburg has hired former Elizabethtown golf coach Malcolm Jackson as head coach of its men’s golf team. Jackson, who led Elizabethtown for three years, improved the Blue Jay golf program during his leadership. He received a full scholarship to play golf at Division I-AA South Carolina State, and his college experience served as a foundation that has helped his players develop the discipline and focus it takes to compete at the college level. Jackson, who lives with his wife and two daughters in Dauphin, holds a business administration degree from Elizabethtown and is a managing partner in several private corporations. Jackson plans to use his success in
building businesses with a holistic approach to mentor and prepare his golfers for success on and off the course. “There are more scoreboards than just those that frame our competition areas, therefore we must coach to win on all fronts,” he said. Rashaan Carlton, Penn State Harrisburg’s athletic director, said he has confidence that the golf team will continue to excel under Jackson. “We are very excited to welcome Malcolm to our team here at Penn State Harrisburg,’’ Carlton said. “I am very confident that he will help continue the solid tradition that our golf program has established here over the years.” The Lions begin their spring season on Saturday, March 19 at the Ursinus College Revolutionary Classic.
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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. Charged after crash Two people were charged following an investigation of a one-car crash at 3:08 a.m. on Feb. 27 in the 1000 block of W. Harrisburg Pike, police report. Tara N. Curry, 26, of the first block of Green Acres Trailer Court, Lebanon, the driver, was charged with DUI, recklessly endangering another person, involvement in an accident involving damage to property, reckless driving and public drunkenness, police said. Luis R. Torres, 30, of the 100 block of S. Second St., Lebanon, a passenger, was charged with possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, police said. Curry’s 2008 Suzuki Forenza was found sitting on a median in the road at the entrance to the Sharp Shopper off West Harrisburg Pike, and Curry was at the Sheetz nearby, police said. After performing sobriety tests, Curry was taken to the Dauphin County Judicial, Center where she refused to provide a blood sample to test for the possible presence of intoxicants, police said. A preliminary hearing for both Curry and Torres is set for March 30 before District Judge Michael Smith. Citation issued Joshua A. Scholl, 24, of the 300 block of Caravan Court, Middletown, was issued a citation for public drunkenness after police stopped his 1995 Chevrolet Geo at 7:19 p.m. on Feb. 12 in the 1000 block of S. Eisenhower Blvd., police report. A breathalyzer test showed negative results to the presence of intoxicants, police said. Scholl was taken to Penn State Hershey Medical Center, where blood was drawn to be tested for the possible presence of intoxicants, police said. Results of the tests were not reported. Stephen J. Dakota, 45, of the 1000 block of Lexington Ave., Middletown, was issued a citation for public drunkenness following an incident at 6:50 p.m. on March 5 in the 200 block of Brookside Dr., police report. Dakota was taken to the Dauphin County Judicial Center and detained for several hours, police said.
Citations for harassment were filed against Colton M. Dalessandro, 25, of the 100 block of Butler St., Mt. Holly Springs and Robert Goril, 54, of the first block of Forge Road. Boiling Springs, following a fight between the two at 2:54 p.m. on Feb. 25 in the 1000 block of Lexington Ave., police report. Funds withdrawn from account Three withdrawals totaling $500 were made from township resident’s bank account without her knowledge or consent, police report. The withdrawals were made on Feb. 19, 20 and 21 during transactions initiated in New York, police said. The victim said her debit card was in her possession when those transactions were made. The fraudulent actions were reported to police on Feb. 23. DUI charge Fallon N. Kane, 26, of the first block of Wilson St., Middletown, was charged with DUI and DUI-high rate of alcohol following a traffic stop at 2 a.m. on Feb. 13 in the 800 block of S. Eisenhower Blvd., police report. Kane was driving a 2005 Chrysler Pacifica that crossed a fog line on the right of the road, police said. Kane was taken to the Dauphin County Judicial Center, where blood was drawn to be tested for the possible presence of intoxicants. Results of the tests were not reported. A preliminary hearing is set for April 6 before District Judge Michael Smith. Drug charges Kevin R. Miller, 47, of the 3000 block of Elder Road, Harrisburg, was been charged with possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia after a traffic stop at 12:35 a.m. on Oberlin Road at Spring Garden Road, police report. Miller was driving a 2001 Buick Regal that had a faulty brake light, police said. The arresting officer noted Miller exhibited no signs of intoxication during his performance of sobriety tests. A preliminary hearing is set for March 30 before District Judge Michael Smith.
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(10) Rebecca Zimmerman and David Bowers Continued - They had 10 children: (a) Charles “Chaulky,” born 1894-1967, married Jenny Fiarro. He played baseball for the Jolly Miners team; (b) Sadie, born 1896-30 May 1979, married Howard Albright, lived in Reading, Berks County, Pa. (no issue); (c) David James “Butch,” born 23 Sept. 1899 in Lytle, Foster Township, Schuylkill County, Pa., died in 1967 in Coupeville, Wash. David James married on 24 June 1925 in Minersville, Schuylkill County to Catherine H. Searle (16 May 1909 Cass Township, Schuylkill County, Pa.-25 April 1998). Both died at Coupeville, Washington State. David fought in WWI and WWII. On his tombstone has Indiana/Cpl. Co. A. 329 Infantry/WWI and WWII. They had five children: (1) Hannah Rebecca Bower, born 5 March 1926 in Minersville, she was baptized 30 March 1926, married William Bainbridge; (2) Pearl May, born 8 July 1927 in Minersville, baptized 31 July 1929 at the Zion German Lutheran Church in Minersville, married Herman Sieger; (3) Joseph Henry Bowers, born 8 July 1929, baptized 18 Aug. 1929 at Zion German Lutheran Church, Minersville, married on 30 Oct. 1949 to Mary Jean Wynne; (4) Albert Raymond, born 19 Dec. 1934, baptized 6 Jan. 1935 at Zion German Lutheran Church, Minersville; and (5) Mary Louisa, born 11 Oct. 1936, baptized 1 Nov. 1936 at Zion German Lutheran Church. (d) Joseph Bowers (1901-1918); (e) Elizabeth, born 1903, married Howard Dauberman (one daughter Betty Dauberman), 2nd husband Adam Bellis; (f) Laurel Elizabeth “Tootsie,” (19021979); (g) Adam S., born 9 July 1905 in Minersville, Schuylkill County Pa., died 19 May 1976 in Coupeville, Wash. He was Sgt. in U.S. Army/WWII stationed at Ft. Casey, Wash. Adam married Henrietta Alice Capaan on 25 Feb. 1930 in Tacoma, Wash. She was the daughter of Alt Kemper Capaan and Eva Dena Overweg. She was born on 21 July 1912 in Oak Harbor, Wash. She died 19 Feb. 1989 in Coupeville, Wash. They were both buried at Sunnyside Cemetery, Island County, Wash. They had five children: (1) Betty Alberta Bowers Baker, born 29 July 1930 in Coupesville, Wash., now is living in Florida; (2) David James Bowers, born 21 June 1936 in Coupesville, Wash.; (3) Edna Pauline Bowers Rohde, born 19 April 1943 in Coupesville, Wash.; (4) Susan Elaine Bowers Boone, born 6 July 1948 in Coupesville, Wash.; (5) Rosa Rebecca Bowers Wood, born 26 April 1951 in Coupesville, Wash. (h) Abel Isaac Bowers (1907-1968), married Helen Walasavage; (i) Fannie Rebecca (1912-1979), married William Showers (divorced); (j) Lucy Bowers (1914-1999), lived at 326 Pine St., Minersville, Schuylkill County, Pa.; (k) Eva Bowers (1910-?), married Samuel Curcio. Rebecca and David in 1910 lived in Buck Run Village, Foster Township, and Schuylkill County, Pa. According to the 1920 federal census the family was living in Minersville Borough 2nd Ward at 518 School Alley. In 1930 the family was still living in Minersville but moved to the 3rd Ward on 326 Pine St., Minersville, Schuylkill County, Pa. (11) Ida Melinda Zimmerman, daughter of Martin and Lucy Zimmerman, born on 30 Jan. 1877 in Washington Township, Schuylkill County, Pa. According to her baptismal, Rev. Elias S. Henry baptized her on 11 June 1877 at St. Peter Evan Lutheran Church in Pine Grove Borough. Her father, Martin Zimmerman was on the church council 8 June 1873 as Deacon and again on May 1875 as Elder. According to the federal census 1850 through 1870, Martin’s family lived in Swopes Valley, which he had several acres of his father Peter Zimmerman’s farm. By June 1880 the census showed that Martin and his family were living in Washington Township, and by 1890 Martin was living in Pine Grove Township, Schuylkill County, Pa. I found my great-grandmother Ida Zimmerman’s marriage application in the Schuylkill County Courthouse at the Clerk of the Orphans Court. This document provided good information on husband-to-be Charles Edwin Bowers. Charles was born in Reinerton, Schuylkill County on 6 Aug. 1876, and he resided in Minersville as a miner. The document was dated 16 Aug. 1899, and married on 19 Aug. 1899, at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Pine Grove Borough, Schuylkill County, Pa. The 1900 census shows they were living in Jonestown, Cass Township, Schuylkill County, Pa. Their first child, Ruth
Malinda Bowers was born 5 Oct. 1899 and baptized at the Zion German Lutheran Church in 1900. In 1910, Charles and Ida lived at 319 New Castle St., 3rd Ward, Minersville Borough. My grandmother Ruth was 10 years old; Pearl, 9; Frederick, 8; Leo, 7; Marion, 4; and Joseph, 8 months. Charles and the family must have left shortly after the 1910 federal census was taken. I have my grandmother Ruth Bowers small Catechism book, inside she wrote, Miss Ruth Bowers, 919 Minersville St., Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pa., October 1914. She goes on writing born Oct. 5, 1899 at Minersville, Pa. and lists all of her siblings and mother and father, spelling her father’s middle name “Edwin.” On the last two blank pages in the back of the book she also wrote: “ Four confirmed together, Miss Ruth M. Bowers, Miss Fern C. Woorner, Miss Dora Griffith, and Flora Griffith, Palm Sunday 1914.” She listed another address; Ruth Bowers 1323 Seneca St., Pottsville, Pa. ending with Trinity Lutheran, Church, Rev. Umbenhein’s Catechism Class, 54 pupils, year 1915. Ruth worked at the silk mill in Pottsville at the age of 14/16 (1913-15); the family was in Pottsville before 1920. Ruth married Clyde John Mills on 16 April 1917 at Trinity Lutheran Church on 3rd and Arch. St. in Pottsville. Clyde Mills was born 1896 in Treskow, Carbon County, Pa.-1965 Pottsville. Clyde’s family roots were in Schuylkill County before 1818. His father John Samuel Mills was born in Landingville Schuylkill County, Pa. (1872-1939), mother Rebecca Jones was born 2 May 1873-1940. John Samuel’s father John Mill was born 4 July 1838 in Landingville, Schuylkill County, Pa.-died 1906 in Roxborough, Philadelphia. He built canal boats/carpenter. When the Schuylkill Canal closed in the late 1880s, the father went to Philadelphia, Pa. Samuel’s father John Mill was a soldier in the Civil War, through his pension records he married twice. First to Lydia Kline, had three children, two girls and son William who worked on the canal boats at the age of 16. Second wife was Lucinda “Lucy” Hammes Jones (widow) they had a large family finding out a new found cousin from the same family was looking for John Mill, my side of the family knew as Samuel. Zimmerman Continued in Column No. 841. If anyone is interested in Column No. 834 - My 2xgrt grandfather John Mill Civil War Ancestor on what I found.
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ROBERTBRADLEY
How he kept his dream amid the madness
The shrill cries against Big Oil
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o we love basketball, or the sight of an underdog overcoming tremendous odds? Now that NCAA college basketball’s national championship tournament – March Madness, as it’s popularly known – gets underway, corporations will lose an estimated $1.9 billion because of unproductive workers checking out the scores of daytime games, according to the Web site WalletHub.com. Does everyone have a buck on a tournament pool? Probably not. The tournament allows us to live vicariously through those smaller universities who we’re rooting for, who can rise up and claim the spotlight. Such stories of success make us feel good. There’s one March basketball story about the success of a former local high school basketball star that makes us feel good. Anthony Wright, who scored his 1,000th career point at Steelton-Highspire, was a co-captain for the Harcum College Bears, who played in the National Junior College Athletic Association Division I national championship on Monday, March 14 in Hutchinson, Kansas. Harcum lost in the opening round, but Wright’s success on the court – he set a school record for steals in a game, a season and a career – as well as his success in the classroom has earned him offers and interest from major college teams. He’s already gotten offers from two Division I universities, with a list of others expressing interest. It was only five years ago that Wright suffered from a bacterial infection called methicillin resistant staphylococcus arenas (MRSA), which can be fatal, though it is treatable. Doctors feared Wright might lose his ability to walk even if he did recover, his family said. He spent four months in the hospital. He recovered fully, and never relinquished his dream of playing basketball in college, and eventually in the NBA. “He’s going to be a Division I signee. There’s no question,’’ said his coach at Harcum, Drew Kelly, in our story about Wright on page B1. We love such stories – particularly the lesson Wright learned from his experience so far. “You have to keep that dream,’’ he told us. His experience is an inspiration, something that makes the madness of March, or any other month of the year, easier to navigate.
HARRYCAMPBELL
It's time to start healing the ailing Susquehanna
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e learned a few things by asking Pennsylvanians to share their concerns for clean water. It is encouraging that people feel it is everyone’s responsibility to keep our rivers and streams clean. Roughly 19,000 miles of commonwealth waterways have been designated as impaired, including polluted stretches of water in every county. Pollution threatens our health, degrades our way of life and challenges the
economy. Many people say they place great value on the nature of Pennsylvania’s rural and agricultural landscapes. Plentiful opportunities to get out and enjoy nature, to boat, camp, hike, hunt and fish are extremely important. Many feel deeply connected to the Susquehanna River. Because of this shared appreciation for clean water and enjoying the natural world, concern runs deep for a Susquehanna that is sick and in need of restoration. In 2005, Bassmaster Magazine listed the Susquehanna as one of the five best bass fishing rivers in America. But that same year, diseased and dying smallmouths were first discovered in the river. Since then, smallmouth bass continue to bear sores and lesions. Researchers have been finding intersex fish – adult male bass with female eggs in their testes – since the early 2000s. A world-class smallmouth bass fishery is threatened. Recent studies led by the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) found endocrine-disrupting compounds and herbicides, and pathogens and parasites, to be the two most likely causes of death and disease among smallmouths in the lower Susquehanna. The results are further evidence that the river is ailing. Although studies continue, now is the time to begin to address it. The state Department of Environmental Protection will soon release its draft Integrated Water Quality Report which will include its decision on whether to recommend an impairment designation for the Susquehanna. A 45-day comment period will follow. The mighty Susquehanna and its tributaries are a way of life and life-sustaining for too many Pennsylvanians for the river’s illness to continue untreated. An impairment declaration would begin the process of healing this amazing river. The Susquehanna River Basin drains 27,510 square miles from New York as well as the center of the commonwealth. Its network of more than 49,000 miles of waterways is enough to circle the Earth twice. About 6.1 million people get their drinking water from the Susquehanna River Basin. That’s enough people to fill Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field (home of the NFL’s Eagles) 88 times. The Susquehanna winds 444 miles from Cooperstown, N.Y., to Havre de Grace, Md., and provides half of the freshwater to the Chesapeake Bay. It flows 20 miles per day on an average summer day and at a rate of 18 million gallons per minute at Havre de Grace, Md. About 20,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age, the Susquehanna’s valley floor extended southward to what is now the Chesapeake Bay. After the ice receded, the sea level rose, the Atlantic Ocean filled in the old valley and the bay, and its tidal tributaries were born. Just as Pennsylvania has a Clean Water Blueprint for restoring its 19,000 miles of impaired waterways, the Susquehanna deserves its own prescription for improved health. It is time to begin healing this amazing river. Harry Campbell is Pennsylvania executive director of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
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was not clear it was more profitable? The t is now a answer is simple: It was a blatant exercliché that cise of economic and political power by the American American corporate leaders. worker has not had Beginning in the late 1970s, the shift a pay increase in from a manufacturing to a service decades. During the economy required retooling of the labor last three decades, force. The burden of this adjustment fell 1979 to 2007, after-tax income of the top on the workers. In the 1970s, the United 1 percent grew by 275 percent, the next Auto Workers went from 1.6 million 10 percent grew by only 65 percent but members to 600,000, (today’s memberthose lower on the scale by 40 percent or ship is 400,000). Corporate business used less, which is less than inflation. this period of strain to demand re-negotiAll kinds of horrendous statistics are ation of contracts, deny benefits, impose available. wage cuts and refuse to obey labor laws. The value of financial markets, where Corporations refused to fund pension the rich get their income and build their agreements, which is the source of the wealth, increased from 55 percent to 155 present-day pension problems. percent of GDP. This shift of income was The attack on wages and worker income no accident. It was the deliberate action was persistent and pervasive. Presidents of the very wealthy. It was the exercise of and politicians of both parties lied about economic and political power. It says the the impact of NAFTA, CAFTA and now populists have a reason to be angry. The the TPP on job crerich took what they ation and worker’s did not earn. wages. Economists claim It was the death that this redistribuThe attack on wages and of a thousand cuts tion of income is impoverished “not well underworker income was persis- that middle-class workstood.” But they have to list trade as tent and pervasive. Presidents ers. These included: and politicians of both parties regressive tax laws; among the primary health care economic factors lied about the impact of NAF- rising costs; fewer beneassociated with the TA, CAFTA and now the TPP fits; stricter bankshift of income to on job creation and worker's ruptcy laws; bailing the rich since the the bankers but mainstream “factorwages. out not the homeownprice-equalization” ers; privatization model guarantees of public utilities, that with increased the national parks and transportation; trade, U.S. wages will fall and the return using inflation to lower the minimum to capital will rise. wage; the rising cost of education and the There are other economic factors. Dehorrendous debt; and the deterioration regulation of finance, securitization and of public goods such as highways and the shadow banking system allowed the bankers to skim profits on every deal. The infrastructure. The rich paid Congress to set up these income transferring scams. deregulation of transportation and energy It is time we made Congress pay for their did much the same. Skill-based technocorruption. logical changes lowered wages, increases The 1 percent had the power to corin productivity sets up worker transition rupt politicians and the politicians never costs and, finally, financialization of hesitated, except for Bernie Sanders, who assets rewarded trade without creating never took the bait. The populists, among value. whom I count myself, have a point: We Policy and politics are, however, far was robbed. more important than market changes Don’t get me wrong: Donald Trump is because they are the exercise of power. nobody’s salvation. He is Mussolini in Why did the trade unions, other than waiting. the Air Traffic Controllers, collapse after 1980? Most important, why did workers Paul A. Heise, of Mount Gretna, is a pronot share in the increased output from fessor emeritus of economics at Lebanon productivity increases when economValley College, Annville, and a former ics clearly said they would? Why were economist for the federal government. manufacturing firms off-shoring when it
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ust a few short years ago, the shrillest environmentalist voices targeted oil companies’ “obscene” profits. Today American energy producers are swallowing big losses. Yet rather than celebrating, those same environmentalists have gone silent. The reason: Their protestation about profits was disingenuous from the beginning. And now they’ve moved on to other anti-oil arguments such as divestment and “keep it in the ground.’’ It’s worth recalling just how frenzied the attacks on oil companies’ profits were. Back in 2012, back-to-nature ecologist Bill McKibben, noting the $1 trillion profit made by the top five oil firms, stated that “having found a profitable vein, they’re compelled to keep mining it, more like efficient automatons than people with free will.” Oil Change International, meanwhile, bemoaned how oil companies were “making ridiculous profits in the billions, raking in more money than most of us can even fathom.” Anti-energy politicians were even more aggressive. House Democrats proposed establishing a Reasonable Profits Board, which would have the power to confiscate up to 100 percent of so-called “excess” profits. What do we hear now that BP has reported a $3.3 billion loss in just three months? Shell’s income is 87 percent below 2014 levels – and Chevron posted a quarterly loss for the first time in 13 years? Crickets. For some companies, this is nothing short of a struggle for survival. Last year, almost 70 U.S. oil and natural gas companies filed What do we for bankruptcy hear now that – up nearly 400 BP has reported percent from the year before. a $3.3 billion The sector also loss in just lost more than three months? 258,000 jobs Shell's income worldwide – and expects to is 87 percent cut even more below 2014 levworkers this els – and Chevyear. What’s more, ron posted a by the end of quarterly loss 2016, one out of for the first time three oil companies could be in 13 years? bankrupt. Crickets. The point isn’t that anyone should feel bad for oil companies. But the magnitude of the oil-price cycle – artificially engendered in part from quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve Bank – should not have happened. The least-able drillers got subsidized loans, which allowed them to over-drill and drive prices down for the better-capitalized producers. That amount of capital was employed to nobody’s benefit. The price cycle has been driven by new technology that has permanently revolutionized American energy production. A year and a half ago, we overtook Saudi Arabia as the biggest oil-producing nation on the planet. And during November of 2015, the last month on record, the U.S. produced its highest monthly production since 1986. This boom has been a major factor in declining energy prices worldwide. And while that price decline has caused oil companies’ profits to sink, it’s fattened the pocketbooks of families across America. Last year, consumers enjoyed $130 billion in savings – more than $1,000 for each two-driver household. So oil companies, far from the nefarious greedy automatons of green fever dreams, are also subject to market caprices. But artificial stimuli from easy money policy is a boom that has a day of reckoning. Today’s silence on the subject exposes the environmentalists’ anti-profit obsession for what it was: an opportunistic drive-by hit on Big Oil, not a legitimate critique of industry economics. The truth is, these fossil fuel opponents wouldn’t be satisfied no matter how low profits drop. They simply hate the oil industry. Full stop. But when companies’ bottom lines begin to grow again, will the critics remain silent rather than fuss about high profits? Here’s a prediction: The answer will be a hypocritical “no.’’ Robert L. Bradley Jr. is the founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy Research, Washington, D.C.
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• “OK, people, I am a Trump sup-
porter, but I see now all the Republican establishment wants to do is destroy him. Trump should leave the party, run as an independent and give the Republicans what they want, Hillary Clinton for four more years with Obama’s agenda. I see what animals are in the Republican Party, they are going against the American people in what they want. Does this sound like a fair election to you?”
• “Have been following the Repub-
lican debates and have never been a Trump fan or a GOP member. He does, however, have people coming out in droves. You would think the party of NO would get the message. Romney four years ago after asking for Trump’s endorsement said Donald basically was the best thing since sliced bread and now throws him under the bus. Mitt Romney is nothing more than what’s stuck to the bottom of my shoe. Many more R’s in the near future will be going the way of Cantor and Boehner.”
• “What’s with that big brick building on the airport No. 26? Right along the railroad and Route 230. It has a massive hole in the roof and it’s had that hole for at least five years.”
• “I would not vote for ‘that
woman’ even if she were running against the devil himself. Hillary, just go away. Haven’t you told enough lies?”
• “Hey, this country survived four years of Jimmy Carter and eight years of Obama, we’ll be OK for four years without a politician in the White House. I’m voting for Trump.”
• “Half-truths are as dishonest as lies.”
• “Middletown wants to clean up
their town, but why do they continue to let residents dump their trailers and boats wherever they please throughout the town? We have trailers and boats on our street without license plates and flat tires and nothing is done. How can they park these items on the street? Why isn’t something done? Kids are playing on these trailers, which are unsafe, which have their junk piled high
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on them. Officials were contacted and they still refuse to do anything about it. It’s ridiculous. Surrounding townships have ordinances and we should have one in Middletown, too. Let’s clean up our town and get the junk off the street. If you have a boat or a trailer, it should be parked at your residence or in a rental facility! Please do something about it!”
• “I don’t know if it’s true, but I
heard the person who is always commenting in Sound Off about the LST police department wears a tin hat.”
• “This is in response to the com-
ments in the 3/2/2016 Sound Off column about the rental inspection program. 1. You talk about the license fee being passed on to renters as a rent increase – how it will make money for the borough – but were there any dollar figures given at the meetings as to how much the fee is? Is it a nominal fee, like $10-$20, is it $100 or $500 per apartment? That’s important to know. 2. Yes, there are existing codes, but Middletown is a historic town. Many of the buildings are very old and who knows when the last time was that they were actually brought up to code. For interior issues, codes enforcement only knows if someone calls and tells them there is a problem. (I own my home. It should be re-wired and have additional outlets, but as the homeowner, I’m aware of and in control of any risks I may be taking. A renter is not). 3. As far as tenant registration and privacy, I believe that any federal or school district census takes care of that argument. If police need to go to a home for a raid, it isn’t unusual for them to first find out who lives in the home, via the school census. 4. You want problem properties to be taken care of on an individual basis, but this town is well known to have a few slumlords that own multiple properties. The only way to get this town cleaned up once and for all is to enact this inspection. If not, we will continue to have more of the same, as current codes can only go so far. 5. If your rental properties are up to code, why would you have anything to worry about?”
were just trying to make a point, right? P.S., I think the lines in the parking lot by the post office are just temporary. At least, I hope so.”
• “Subject: Crematorium Request:
Pay attention, I’m tired of having to repeat this for late comers. The main problem with the proposed crematorium is the location. It’s a densely populated and historical area. In fact, it is right at the beginning of the new downtown gateway that our tax dollars are paying mightily for. If the location were somewhere else, say, down where the old Crawford Station was, it wouldn’t be a problem. Once it goes in, who is to say that these nice folks will continue to own it? What if these owners, or future owners, want to cremate bodies for the entire county? What if they want to bring bodies in from other counties, too? Maybe they’ll even fly them into HIA. The current owner owns three other funeral homes in neighboring towns. Do you think he is only going to be cremating the bodies for this facility? Seems to me like the guy wants to be the Walmart of funeral homes. What if this facility is really a front for doing nothing but cremations in the first place? There are two funeral homes in this town, and FagerFinkbinder gets about 1 percent of the business, if that. It’s pretty rare to even have a funeral there, but the other funeral homes they own are the No. 1 funeral homes in those towns. Can you do the math?”
• “I said this way back when: I
think Donald Trump is a ‘plant’ by Bill Clinton to wreck the Republican Party and get his wife elected president.”
• “I read the front page story about
not responsible for reporting arrests, they’re only responsible for making them. Surely you knew that, but
the cost of snow removal. I added up the six line items for the cost of snow removal. I got a sum of $427,484. The Journal’s total was $550,532. The difference is more than $100,00! Eric Wise needs to learn how to add.” (Editor’s note: The six line items in the graphic were a partial list of the money that municipalities, school districts, Harrisburg International Airport and Penn State Harrisburg are requesting in federal disaster funds. The story contains the entire list of requests. When you add them up, the total is correct.)
park, recreation, conservation and greenway projects. Under the program, Dauphin County was awarded a grant of $480,000, for further development of the Capital Area Greenbelt, including a portion in Swatara Twp. Work is expected to include rehabilitation of approximately 1.3 miles of the trail at four locations; construction of safety improvements; and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) access, landscaping, signage and other related site improvements. Lower Swatara Twp. also received a grant in the amount of $112,000 for the rehabilitation of two local parks. Work on Shope Gardens
Park and Old Reliance Park is expected to include installation of play equipment with required safety surfacing and ADA access, landscaping, signs and other related site improvements. Congratulations to Lower Swatara and Swatara townships on these grant awards. I look forward to enjoying the improvements made as a result. John D. Payne is a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. He represents the 106th District, which includes Middletown, Royalton, Lower Swatara Twp., Hummelstown, Derry Twp., Conewago Twp. and parts of Swatara Twp.
• “The Middletown police force is
JIMMURPHY
The man who saved blue babies
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istory is written by the winners, or so the old saying goes. But this year’s Oscars weren’t defined by the winners. Rather, they were defined by those the Academy chose to ignore. It’s an old story: People of color don’t get the recognition they deserve. It’s the reason why Vivien Thomas remains one of America’s least known African-American heroes. Thomas was a bright young man whose dreams of college and medical school were dashed by the Great Depression. Instead, he found work in the medical lab of Vanderbilt University. While the man who hired him, Dr. Alfred Blalock, a white southern surgeon, found Thomas a man of great ability who mastered intricate medical procedures quickly, Thomas was officially listed (and paid) as a janitor. In 1941, when Blalock was named chief of surgery and research at Johns Hopkins, he asked Thomas to join him and move his family to Baltimore. Thomas gave up a great deal to make that move. Baltimore proved to be a much harder place for blacks to live than Nashville. Additionally, at Johns Hopkins, Thomas was the only African-American working who wasn’t either a janitor or cafeteria worker. Despite his lab coat, people assumed he, too, was a janitor. The head of Hopkins’ pediatric cardiology department was a woman named Dr. Helen Taussig. Well known for her work on congenital heart problems, she was one of the only females in a world of male doctors. For years, she treated young patients, known as “blue babies,” who were born with heart defects that always proved fatal. She proposed that Blalock work on a surgical solution. But Blalock was more interested in his own research and turned the problem over to Thomas. He instructed Thomas to find the time to do both the old and new research. For two years, Thomas put in 12-14 hour days in the lab. First, he needed to recreate the condition
in research animals. Then, with suggestions from Blalock and Taussig, he worked to find a surgical cure. After more than 200 painstaking, agonizing surgeries, success! Thomas had found a way to “redo the plumbing,” as Taussig said, so that oxygen-rich blood once again flowed through the heart of a mutt named Anna. But Thomas would never be allowed to actually operate on a human. He would have to instruct Blalock, first on animals and then on humans. That plan was cast aside when Taussig introduced Thomas and Blalock to an 18-month-old patient, Eileen Saxon, who was so sick that, without a miracle, she would soon die. To the amazement of those watching the operation from the balcony, Thomas “the janitor” entered the surgical theater in a white doctor’s uniform. Despite the fact that he wasn’t supposed to be in the room, Thomas stood on a wooden stool behind Blalock, watching Blalock’s every move. Every so often, Blalock would ask Thomas what to do and Thomas would whisper the answer. Here was something extraordinary – a risky heart operation in which an African-American “janitor” was directing a southern white doctor in a segregated hospital on an operation so risky the doctor could lose his license. Although it took only an hour, it seemed far longer to those involved. When the baby’s skin began to
change from a bluish hue to a healthy, rosy color, they knew it was a success. Largely unrecognized and unnoticed, Thomas returned to the laboratory. In time, the softspoken Thomas began to instruct Johns Hopkins residents in surgical procedures. By 1950, doctors at Johns Hopkins had performed more than 1,000 “Blue Baby” operations, while thousands more were being performed around the world. Finally, in 1951, a doctor at the university published a scholarly paper about the operation and listed two names. This was the first time Thomas’ name had ever appeared alongside Blalock’s. Over three decades later, Thomas was named the director of the surgical research laboratories at Johns Hopkins, the first and only non-physician to ever hold the position. Today, a painting of Thomas hangs in the great hall of the Alfred Blalock Clinical Sciences Building along with the portraits of all the school’s other great surgeons. So should today’s people of color in the film industry sit back and wait for the awards and honors? While it took decades for the gracious and humble Vivien Thomas to get the recognition he deserved, the talented artists of 2016 should not have to wait so long. Jim Murphy is the author of “Breakthrough!: How Three People Saved ‘Blue Babies’ and Changed Medicine Forever.’’
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Ebenezer United Methodist Church
St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church
Middletown
Ebenezer United Methodist Church and Childcare, 890 Ebenezer Road, Middletown, invites everyone to join us for worship on Sunday mornings led by Pastor Brad Gilbert. Our services are relaxed and casual. We offer a traditional service at 8:45 a.m. and a contemporary service at 10:45 a.m. At 10 a.m., between services, there is a variety of Christian education classes for all ages. There are several things happening at Ebenezer and all are welcome. There is a prayer time “Partners in Prayer” that meets the first Monday of each month at 7 p.m. Through scripture, song, and meditation we experience
the joy of God’s presence. Have a favorite board game? “Game Night” is every third Monday at 6:30 p.m. Due to egg making in March, Partner’s in Prayer will be the 1st Tuesday of the month and Game Night will be the 3rd Tuesday of the month. We also offer a variety of other groups including Bible studies. Our annual homemade chocolate Easter Egg Fundraiser continues. Flavors include peanut butter, coconut and butter cream. For purchasing information please contact Mel Bollinger at 583-0502 or Bill Hoch at 944-6080. For additional information please call us at 939-0766 or e-mail us at ebenezerumc890@comcast.net.
Evangelical United Methodist Church Middletown
Welcome, all! May God’s light shine upon us as we gather to worship. May the brilliance of His light and His wisdom fill us. May it be as a lamp to our feet and a light to our path. 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 Evangelical United Methodist Church for March 16-22 are always open to everyone. Wed., Mar. 16: 10 a.m., Lent/Spring Bible Study; 6 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous Book Study; 6:30 p.m., Senior Choir Rehearsal. Thurs., Mar. 17: 6 p.m., Girl Scout Troop #10067; 7 p.m., Lent/Spring Bible Study. Sun., Mar. 20: 9 a.m., Sunday Church school, with classes for all ages. Adult Sunday school devotional leader for
March: Bill Harris; 10:15 a.m., Worship service. The worship center is handicap and wheelchair accessible. Greeters: Gloria Clouser, Bill and Delores Mortimore. Lay Liturgist: Mike Harris. Nursery helpers: Deb Lidle, Joyce Moyer. The altar flowers are given in memory of parents Earl and Catherine Hoffman, and sister Katie Atticks presented by Gloria, Bob, Jeff and Chris Clouser. Palms are given in memory of parents Morris and Kathryn Reider presented by daughter Evelyn Reese; 2 p.m., Easter Egg Hunt. Mon., Mar. 21: 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., Community dinner at Evangelical United Methodist Church. Menu: Roast turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, peas, cranberry sauce, dessert and beverage. Tues., Mar. 22: 1:30 p.m., Holy Tuesday service; 2 p.m., Prayer Shawl Ministry; 6:30 p.m., United Methodist Men’s dinner and meeting.
Calvary Orthodox Presbyterian Church Middletown
Calvary Church has been a part of the Middletown Borough community since 1936. It has been our privilege to proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ all these years and to do so knowing the good news has never changed in over 2000 years. We firmly hold to the Apostles Creed and the Westminster Confession of Faith and its Larger and Shorter Catechisms as clearly teaching what Scripture teaches. If we believe the Gospel of Christ, then by trusting in his death and resurrection for sinners we can and will be forgiven and
saved from God’s wrath. Please join us each Sunday to hear the Gospel. Our services are at 10:15 a.m. and 6 p.m. We are located at the corner of Spruce and Emaus streets here in Middletown. We have a fellowship meal following the 10:15 a.m. morning service on the first Sunday of every month, free to all who come. We also have Sunday school classes for all ages at 9 a.m., and a Bible Study each Wednesday at 7 p.m. We are now studying the Gospel of Luke. Feel free to contact us with questions at 944-5835.
Middletown St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Bank. Items collected are taken to Church is located at Spring and Union the Middletown Area Interfaith Food streets, (121 N. Spring St.), Middle- Pantry located at 201 Wyoming Street, town. We are a Reconciling In Christ Royalton. Individuals may also take Church. items directly to the food pantry, which You are invited to join us for wor- is open Tuesdays and Fridays, from 10 ship on Wednesday morning, Saturday a.m. to 12:30 p.m. evening and Sunday morning. Sunday Church and Community Events: worship times are 8:15 and 11 a.m. Wed., Mar. 16: 10 a.m., Mid-week Sunday Church School for all ages is Lenten Service in Chapel; 3 to 5 p.m., at 9:45 a.m. Our 11 a.m. worship ser- Homework Club; 5:30 to 6:15 p.m., vice is broadcast live on WMSS 91.1. Soup and Bread; 6:30 p.m., Mid-week Wednesday morning service is at 10 Lenten Service in Nave; 7:10 p.m., a.m. Saturday at 5 p.m. is a casual Adult Choir. traditional service and is 45 minutes Sat., Mar. 19: 5 p.m., Holy Comin length. Please enter through the munion. parking lot doors. Sun., Mar. 20: Passion of Our Lord/ The first Sunday of each month Palm Sunday; 8:15 a.m. (C) Holy is Food Pantry Sunday. Needed are Communion; 9:45 a.m., Intergenerapersonal care items: toothpaste, tion Sunday Church school and youthtoothbrushes, deodorant, shampoos, sponsored breakfast buffet fundraiser; soaps, lotions, and paper products 11 a.m., (C) Holy Communion. (toilet tissue, tissues, paper towels) Mon., Mar. 21: 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., and food items: cereals, Bisquick, Community Dinner – Evangelical pancake mixes, syrup, cake mixes United Methodist Church. and frostings, condiments (ketchup, Tues., Mar. 22: No Homework Club. mustard, mayo, relishes, pickles and Visit our website at www.stpeolives), puddings and gelatins. These tersmiddletown.org. are items not consistently purchased Scripture for March 20: Is 50:4-9a; or available at Central PA Food Ps 31:9-16; Phil 2:5-11; Luke 23:1-49.
New Beginnings Church Middletown
We are an independent body of believers offering God’s invitation for a new beginning to all who seek it. We exist to meet the spiritual, emotional and physical needs of all people through faith in Jesus Christ. We are a Safe Sanctuary congregation. Our church steeple bell tolls four times at the beginning of worship, one for the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit and you. New Beginnings Church invites you to worship with us each Sunday at 10:30 a.m. Nursery and children’s church is provided. Our congregation meets at Riverside Chapel, 630 S. Union St., next to the Rescue Fire Company. Sunday School for all ages is at 9 a.m. We are handicap accessible via ramp at back door. Youth Fellowship is from 5 to 7 p.m. For additional church information call 944-9595. Wednesdays: Craft Group, 1 p.m.; Choir rehearsals, 6:30 p.m.; Praise Band rehearsals, 7:30 p.m. Thursday evenings Pastor Britt’s Bible study begins at 6:30 p.m. followed by Intercessory Prayer; Sociable Seniors group meets the 1st and 3rd Monday of every month from 1 to 3 p.m.; The Knitting Group meets the 2nd and 4th Wednesday at 1 p.m.;
CHURCH DIRECTORY Calvary Orthodox Presbyterian Church 10 Spruce Street • 944-5835
Sunday School - 9 am • Morning Worship 10:15 am Evening Worship - 6 pm www.calvaryopc.com
New Beginnings Church at the Riverside Chapel
630 South Union St., Middletown • 388-1641 Sunday School - 9 am • Worship Service - 10:30 am
Pastor BRITT STROHECKER Everyone Is Welcome!
Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church 329 Market Street, Middletown
Presbyterian Congregation of Middletown
Church School - 10 am •Worship Service - 11 am
Church School - 9:15 am • Worship - 10:30 am
Pastor C. VICTORIA BROWN, M.Div. • 215-280-0798
Ebenezer United Methodist Church "Love God, Love People, Make Disciples"
890 Ebenezer Road, Middletown (Corner of 441 & Ebenezer Road)
Phone 939-0766
Sunday Worship: Traditional - 8:45 am • Contemporary - 10:45 am Christian Education (All Ages) - 10 am Christian Child Care - 985-1650
Union & Water Sts., Middletown • 944-4322
St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church 121 N. Spring Street, Middletown Church Office 717-944-4651 REV. DR. J. RICHARD ECKERT, Pastor
Sunday Worship - 8:15 am & 11 am Sunday Church School - 9:45 am - for all ages Saturday Worship - 5 pm - in the Chapel Worship Broadcast on 91.1 FM - 11 am We are a Reconciling in Christ Congregation
BRAD GILBERT, Pastor
Seven Sorrows BVM Parish
Evangelical United Methodist Church
REV. TED KEATING, JR., Pastor Deacon Thomas A. Lang
www.ebenezerumc.net
Spruce & Water Sts., Middletown REV. ROBERT GRAYBILL, Pastor Sunday School (all ages) - 9 am Sunday Worship - 10:15 am
First Church of God
235 W. High St., Middletown
REV. KIMBERLY SHIFLER, Pastor
944-9608
Sunday School - 9:15 am • Worship Services - 8 & 10:30 am Classes for Special Education (Sunday Morning & Thursday Evening) Ample Parking Nursery Provided
Geyers United Methodist Church
1605 South Geyers Church Road, Middletown 944-6426 PASTOR STEVAN ATANASOFF
Worship - 9 am - Followed by Coffee Fellowship Sunday School - 10:30 am
280 North Race St., Middletown Parish Office 944-3133
Saturday Evening Vigil - 5:30 pm Sunday Masses - 8:00 am, 10:30 am & 6:00 pm Confessions: Saturday - 7:30-7:50 am, 4:30-5:15 pm
Wesley United Methodist Church 64 Ann Street, Middletown
REV. MARGARET “Pastor Peggy” SPENGLER, Pastor Pastor James Lyles, Youth Pastor, 10xBetter
Phone 944-6242
Sunday Worship - 8:30 &10:30 am • Come as you are! Follow Jesus, Change the World.
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Blanket making is the 2nd Thursday of every month at 9 a.m. We clean the Middletown Food Bank the 3rd Saturday every other month. Everyone is welcome to participate in these important areas of our church life. For security purposes our back and side doors will be locked every Sunday morning at 10:30 a.m. at the start of worship. The only door for entry after that will be the front door. Nursery: Dana Rhine, Evette Graham. Acolyte for March: Faith Rhine. Ushers for March: Linda Balmer, Rick Pennington, Binny and Carl Dupes. Children’s Church Leaders for March 20: Eva Allen, Judy Hinkle. Chancel flowers were presented to the Glory of God and in memory of William Mencer by his wife Peggy and family. Thurs., Mar. 31: 7 p.m., Pastor Britt will host a round table discussion of current world events in relation to the Bible. The community is invited. Our men’s group to inspire and empower men in their faith meets to fellowship and pray together, discussing topics of interest that deal with everyday living. They meet every Thursday morning at 6 a.m. for prayer, and Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. during Lent. Community men invited. Our Sunday worship service is broadcast on the MAHS radio station, WMSS 91.1 FM at 3 p.m. every Sunday afternoon. Listen on the radio or the Internet at www.pennlive.com/ wmss/audio. Check us out on our Website at www.newbeginningschurchmiddletown.weebly.com. Pastor Britt’s parting words each Sunday: “Nothing in this world is more important than the love of Jesus Christ!” We invite you to come and experience this love.
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Presbyterian Congregation of Middletown Middletown
The Presbyterian Congregation is located at the corner of Union and Water streets in downtown Middletown. We are a body of Christian people who reach out to others by sharing God’s Word, love, and fellowship. Warm greetings to one and all as we seek to grow closer to our Lord Jesus Christ. Church school for all ages continues on March 20 from 9:15 to 10:15 a.m. We encourage parents to bring the children and teens to class. Adults are welcome to the Adult Forum. The Adult Forum discusses Palm Sunday as where Jesus’ Passion walk begins. Come walk that with us. Please join us for worship at 10:30 a.m. on Passion/Palm Sunday, March 20. Our sanctuary is handicapped accessible, and there are also hearing devices for anyone wanting to use one. Nursery is available during the service, as well as Bible Listening
Wesley United Methodist Church Middletown
Wesley “Community” United Methodist Church 64 Ann Street, Middletown, Pa. Office Hours: Mon.-Wed.-Fri. 1-3 p.m. and Wednesday 6:30-8:30 p.m. wesleyumc@co,mcast.com 717-944-6242 Time has passed so quickly. Lent is almost over as we have slipped quietly into Palm Sunday and then the Passion of our Lord Jesus as we remember the last events of His life during Holy Week. As we continue reading the Gospel of John you will soon discover that John’s message of Holy Week takes on a love story as He shares “An Example, A Command and A Promise.” I am praying dear brothers and sisters that you will continue reading the Gospel of John and in fasting and prayer allow Jesus to transform your life. At 8:30 a.m., the “New Spirit” worship of praise, prayer and the message from the Gospel of John will encourage your growth in Christ. At 10:30 a.m., our worship follows the same preaching series, with the hymns of faith being sung to the glory of God. Our Sunday school hours are 9:15 a.m. for the Adult Sunday school class. Come as you are and discover who God is calling you to become.
Worship With Your Family
Middletown
First Church of God, 245 W. High Street, Middletown, invites you to join us for worship at either 8 a.m. or 10:30 a.m. this Sunday. Childcare is provided. Sunday mornings at 9:15 a.m. classes are available for Youth (grades 6-12), FROG Pond (1st through 5th grade), Kindergarten (4-5 year olds), Nursery (infants through age 3), and Adult classes that offer a variety of Bible studies and electives. Classes for special education are also available. Wednesdays: Wednesday Night Live. Supper at 5:30 p.m., Classes
and loving kindness. The Seder is a retelling of the Passover story including Communion as Jesus celebrated the Last Supper with His disciples. The Seder includes a full meal beginning with appetizers, and includes matzo ball soup, roast beef, carrots, green beans, baked potato and dessert. Children are welcome as there are activities that can be enjoyed by all members of the family. There is no cost for the meal; donations are welcome. You can register by calling 717-944-4400. Bright Hope Fellowship is located at 345 N. Deodate Rd., Middletown, PA 17057. www.brighthopefellowship.org.
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God’s Kitchen Community Dinners are every Tuesday evening in our Fellowship Hall. The entrance is in the rear across the alley from the parking lot. The dinner is served from 6 to 7 p.m. by the congregations of Wesley, Evangelical, Geyers, Royalton and Highspire. NOTE: When the schools are closed on Tuesday, we will serve the meal on Thursday. Threads of Hope Clothing ministry, which is open the 4th Friday of each month from 4 to 6 p.m., is also open every Tuesday evening during the God’s Kitchen Community Meal. Youth 10Xs Better is every weekday evening from 5 to 7 p.m. with a variety of educational opportunities for youth 3rd to 12th grade such as sewing, cooking, photography and art classes as well as other events. There is also a Men’s Discipleship Class every Saturday at 8 a.m. We look forward to seeing you. We are your “neighbor.” We desire to meet you, connect with you and serve the community together with you. Youth 10X Better is sponsoring the annual Easter Egg Hunt on Sat., Mar. 26, from 9 a.m. to noon for children Ages 1 to 3, 4 to 8, and 9 to 12. The Police and Fire Dept. will be present with hot dogs. Come out and enjoy the fun!
First Church of God
Passover celebration to be held Bright Hope Fellowship will be celebrating the Passover on March 24, beginning at 6 p.m. The Seder will be led by Robin and Steve Martin following The Messianic Passover Haggadah, published by Messianic Jewish Publishers in Clarksville, Md. Please join us to commemorate and celebrate God’s redemption, power
bags for children to utilize during the service. Do join us! An Easter egg hunt will be held after worship. Wed., Mar. 16: 6:30 p.m., Bells rehearsal; 7:15 p.m., Chancel Choir rehearsal. Thurs., Mar. 17: April newsletter deadline. Mon., Mar. 21: 10 a.m., Fellowship Committee meeting; 1:30 p.m., Afternoon Book Club; 7 p.m., Deacons meeting. Please plan to join us for a Maundy Thursday service on March 24 at 7 p.m. Our Easter egg sale is in full swing. Please call the church office to place an order. The Parish Nurse is available by calling the church office at 717-944-4322. For further information, see our Website www.pcmdt.org, visit our Facebook page www.facebook.com/ Presbyterian Congregation, or call the office.
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at 6:30 p.m. Classes are: Adult Bible Study; Ladies Bible Study: “Angels”; “Painting with Donny” - Bring your own sketchbook and there is a cost toward paint and brushes. The Wired Word; “Boundaries With Kids.” There are also classes for Youth, Children’s Classes Grades 3, 4 and 5: Grades 1 and 2, Kindergarten and Babysitting for Infants thru age 3. Thursdays: 6 p.m., Pasta and Prayer Young Adult Bible Study; 6 to 8 p.m., The Sunshiners meet 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. They meet weekly through May. Thurs., Mar. 17: 11:30 a.m., Seniors Alive. Menu: beef stew, coleslaw, dessert, bread and beverage. Entertainment will be Echoes of Grace who play and sing. Remember to bring a nonperishable food item to donate to the Middletown Food Bank. All Seniors 55 and older are welcome. Sun., Mar. 20: 8 to 10:30 p.m., Adult Choir Easter Cantata. Thurs., Mar. 24: 6:30 p.m., Maundy Thursday Community Service. The service includes Feet Washing, Communion and Meditation. Fri., Mar. 25: Noon, A Good Friday Community Service will be held at Evangelical United Methodist Church, 157 E. Water St. Middletown. Area clergy will take part in the hour-long service. An offering for the Middletown Interfaith Human Needs Fund will be received. Sat., Mar. 26: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Easter Egg Hunt. Latino Congregation: Betesda Casa de Misericordia, CGGC, 245 W. High St., Middletown. Estudios Biblicos Domingos, noon; Servicio Evangelistico: Domingos 1:30 p.m.; Contactos: Ricardo and Jeanette Perez (717) 333-2184. For additional information call the church office at 944-9608 or e-mail us at mdtcog@comcast.net.
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LaVonne Ackerman • 1438 Old Reliance Road • LaVonneAck@comcast.net Hi! Don’t forget to wear your green for St. Patrick’s Day on Thursday, March 17! How about some jokes for this green holiday? • What do you get when you cross poison ivy with a four-leaf clover? A rash of good luck. • Why can’t you borrow money from a leprechaun? Because they are always a little short. • How is a best friend like a four-leaf clover? Because they are hard to find and lucky to have. • Why don’t you iron a four-leaf clover? Because you don’t want to press your luck. • Why do people wear shamrocks on St. Patrick’s Day? Because regular rocks are too heavy. • Are people jealous of the Irish? Sure, they are green with envy! So there you have it – a few jokes to share with your friends and family. Be sure to let me know your news to share. Have a wonderful last few days of winter and happy spring! It’s only four days away. Birthdays Best wishes for a wonderful birthday to Deborah Etter of Lower Swatara Twp. on Wednesday, March 16. I hope the sun is shining for you and you have 53 fabulous things happen to you on your day. Double birthday greetings are sent out to brothers Daren Waters and Darias Waters of Lower Swatara. These two handsome fellows turn Sweet 16 on Friday, March 18. Honk-beep-honk to you both! Karen Landis will hear the birthday song in Lower Swatara on Saturday, March 19. I hope it is a wonderful sound to your ears, Karen. Happy birthday! Happy frosty-filled day to Joni Prisbe of Lower Swatara. She marks her cake day on Saturday, March 19. Many special returns of the day to you, Joni. Happy 12th cake and ice cream day to Kaleb Stein of Lower Swatara. He is celebrating on Saturday, March 19. Enjoy with lots of laughs this weekend, Kaleb. Happy 16th sparkles and glitter birthday to Kirstin Burkett of Lower Swatara. She observes her balloonflying day on Sunday, March 20. Happy first day of spring, too! Aaron Fernback of Lower Swatara will blow out 22 candles atop his
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birthday cake on Sunday, March 20. Have a great day, Aaron. Dennis Houseal of Lower Swatara turns 24 on Sunday, March 20. Yay! Spring is here and so is your meholiday. Aalyah Rodriguez of Lower Swatara will have 14 brightly burning candles atop her cake on Sunday, March 20. Best wishes for the best birthday yet, Aalyah! Happy 17th snappy-happy birthday to Dylan Zimmerman of Lower Swatara on Monday, March 21. I hope the breezes are warm for you, Dylan. Have a blast! Mikaela Fleisher marks her cake day on Tuesday, March 22. Happy birthday to a sweet gal! Matthew Wincoop Jr. of Lower Swatara will celebrate his No. 17 cake and ice cream day on Tuesday, March 22. Make it the best birthday ever, Matt. Grant Carpenter of Lower Swatara will celebrate his confetti-popping day on Tuesday, March 22 as he turns 9. I hope your day is full of tons of treats, Grant! Best wishes for a bling-and-sparkles day to Madison Sieber of Middletown on Tuesday, March 22. Hope your 12th birthday is the happiest ever, Madison! Spaghetti dinner Please mark your calendar: The Lower Swatara Lions Club will be serving their famous all-you-can-eat spaghetti dinner from 4 to 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 19 at the Lions Club, 2 Theodore Ave. in Shope Gardens. Admission will be collected at the door. Kids age 3 and under eat free. The menu: spaghetti, salad, bread, drink and dessert. Come hungry! Anniversaries Mr. & Mrs. Turns Sr. of Middletown celebrate their romantic holiday on Wednesday, March 16. Happy anniversary to you both. Best wishes to Mike and Julie Deibler of Lower Swatara on their 23rd holy matrimony celebration day, Sunday, March 20. Congrats! Township meeting The Lower Swatara Twp. Board of Commissioners will meet at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 16 in the municipal building on Spring Garden Drive. Roast turkey dinner A roast turkey dinner with all the
trimmings (stuffing, mashed potatoes, peas, cranberry sauce), dessert and beverage will be served from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. (or until sold out) on Monday, March 21 at Evangelical United Methodist Church, 157 E. Water St., Middletown. All are welcome. Tickets may be purchased at the door. Take-out is also available. February’s dinner was cancelled because of a winter storm warning. For March, our menu has been changed from roast beef to roast turkey. For more information, call 717-9446181. Michael Symon recipe Scallops with Brown Butter, Orange & Capers (serves 4) • 1 1/2 pounds of sea scallops (about 18), side muscle removed • Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper • 2 tablespoons of olive oil • 2 tablespoons of unsalted butter • 2 tablespoons of capers, rinsed and drained • 1/4 cup of chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves • Juice of 1 orange • 2 teaspoons of white wine vinegar 1. Put a large skillet over mediumhigh heat. Using paper towels, pat the scallops dry. Season the scallops on both sides with salt and pepper. Add the olive oil to the pan followed by the scallops. Cook without moving for 3 minutes. 2. Drain any excess oil from the pan. Flip the scallops, add the butter and capers and cook, swirling the pan until the butter is brown and nutty smelling, about 30 seconds. Stir in the parsley and then add the orange juice and vinegar. Season with salt and pepper. Continue swirling the pan and basting the scallops with the sauce until it thickens to a glaze-like consistency, about 30 seconds. Serve. Roger Williams dean’s list Joshua Fejfar, of Hummelstown, an international relations major, was named to the dean’s list at Roger Williams University, Bristol, R.I., for the fall semester. Old Reliance yard sale Time to get yourself organized and cleaned out! Old Reliance residents, now is your time to make some money and clear out your home. The spring yard sale is set for 8 a.m.
tudents of the Month MIDDLETOWN AREA HIGH SCHOOL
Nicole Marie Whittle and Michael Brinton were named Students of the Month for February at Middletown Area High School. Whittle, daughter of Brett Whittle and Cheryl Adams-Whittle, is the 2015 Homecoming Queen, Student Council president, class vice-president and drum line captain for the Middletown Area High School Blue Wave Band. She is a member of the Link Crew and Mini-THON and an Honor Roll student who has earned a Tournament of Bands Scholarship and was nominated for the Army All-American Marching Band. In the community, she works as a lifeguard at the Middletown Community Pool. She plans to attend the University of Pittsburgh and major in music performance, with the goal of becoming a professional musician in Broadway musical orchestras. “It was a great surprise to find out I had been chosen along with Mikey,’’ she said. “It’s nice to know that my teachers recognize my hard work and positive attitude.’’ Brinton, son of David and Jeni Brin-
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Ithaca dean’s list The following local students were named to the dean’s list at Ithaca College, Ithaca, N.Y., for the fall semester: • Kathryn Montgomery, of Hummelstown • Macaela Metz, of Hummelstown • Dante Marrocco, of Hummelstown • Megan Erb, of Elizabethtown Quote of the Week “A leap of faith can be comprised of many small, courageous steps.” – Anonymous Question of the Week What is your favorite number? Why? “Seven. It is my birthday!” – Alex Kelly, 6, Swatara Twp. “215.” – Rory Rondorf, 4, North Carolina. “Six, for no reason.” – Briana Woodring, East Hanover Twp. “Eighty-eight (88). It looks cool.” – Will Benkovic, 12, Lower Paxton Twp. “Seven. I am 7.” – Julien Hollenbach, 7, Campbelltown. “Six. It represents each one of my kiddos, birthday month, day, or year.” – Nina Santiago, Lower Paxton.
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Prokipchak
Anniversary celebrated Joseph and Georgina Prokopchak of Ocean View, Delaware, recently celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary. They were married on February 18, 1951. They have two children, daughter Lina Prokopchak of Campbell, Calif., and son Steve Prokopchak of Elizabethtown, Pa., five grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. Georgina retired from Dot’s Beauty Shop in Elizabethtown. Joseph retired from the Middletown School District in 1984. Anyone wishing to send best wishes Georgina and Joseph Prokopchak: 30018 Arrowhead Dr., Ocean View, DE 19970-3302.
Proverb for the Week A wise man thinks ahead; a fool doesn’t, and even brags about it (13:16)!
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bucks. He plans to attend Penn State and major in chemistry. “It is a great honor to be chosen as the Student of the Month,’’ he said. “It lets me know all of my hard work has paid off.’’
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Elizabethtown scholars Alexander D. Good, of Elizabethtown, a sophomore who has yet to declare a major, and Alexandra K. Sevareid, of Elizabethtown, a sophomore fine arts major, were named Emergent Scholars at Elizabethtown College for attaining at least a 3.75 cumulative grade point average at the end of their first three semesters.
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aked or battered, the fish at Londonderry Fire Company’s Fish Fry has become a popular treat during Lent. Crowds of diners show up at the Foxianna Road fire hall for haddock, shrimp, clam chowder and other ocean delicacies – as well as a long list of desserts. The tradition of eating fish – and abstaining from meat – on Fridays dates back the third century, when Socrates of Constantinople, a church historian, wrote about it. The custom was incorporated into canon law by Pope Gregory I, who served from 590 to 604 A.D. Londonderry’s fish fry will continue to be held from 5 to 8 p.m. on Friday, March 18 and Friday, March 25.
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