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Next for new MAHS grads: “The test of life’’ Tim McGraw. Among the lyrics: “Don’t take for granted the love this life gives • More photos of Middletown you, when you get where you’re going; More than 160 members of Middletown don’t forget, turn back around and help Area High School’s Area High School’s Class of 2016 – the the next one in line.’’ commencement – B8 last group of seniors to graduate from the After years of high school tests – everysoon-to-be-demolished school – received thing from final exams, surprise quizzes to their diplomas at a commencement ceremony on Thursday, state-mandated assessment exams – the Class of 2016 faces May 26 at the Forum in Harrisburg. “the most challenging test’’ of all – the “test of life,’’ said Family and friends nearly filled the cavernous auditorium District Judge Joseph Lindsey of Lower Paxton Twp., a as seniors marched across the large stage to collect their 1970 graduate of MAHS gave a speech to the seniors. diplomas and begin the next segment in their journey Lindsey became a district judge and works as a police through life. officer and insurance agent in his life with a diploma from Seniors in the school choir sang the song that the class chose Please See GRADUATIONS, Page A6 to represent its high school career, “Humble and Kind’’ by
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NEWS Historic Highspire relics on display at open house The Highspire Historical Society will display town relics donated by the public at an open house at its headquarters, the Wilson House Museum, from 1 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, June 4. John Beck will speak on John F. Kennedy at 3 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. The Wilson House is located at 273 Second St. Guests may park in the back entrance to the yard, which can be reached by Lusk Avenue.
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The American Legion Auxiliary Unit 594 of Middletown, led by Uncle Sam, march through the town square during the Memorial Day parade.
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We won 9 Keystones! The Press And Journal won nine Keystone Press Awards for excellence in writing, reporting, design and photography in the annual journalism contest for state-circulated newspapers held by the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association Foundation. Staff members received their awards during a dinner for winners that was held on Saturday, May 21 at the Harrisburg Hilton. “It is with great pride that we acknowledge the accolades gathered by the Press And Journal’s staff in the annual Keystone Press Awards Contest,’’ said Joe Sukle, publisher of the Press And Journal. “Our staff consistently labors with dedication and professionalism in service to our readers and advertisers. “Receiving laurels from our peers helps ease the challenges of the job – covering seemingly endless municipal meetings, explaining complicated subjects, balancing multiple points of view and deadlines. I am humbled by the continuing efforts of our award winners, as
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The Middletown Zoning Hearing Board will issue a decision by August on the appeal of a zoning permit that would allow Fager-Finkenbinder Funeral Home to operate a crematory at their location at 208 N. Union St., under a schedule Solicitor David Wion announced following the conclusion of oral testimony on Thursday, May 26. The appellants, a group of five property owners who are appealing a decision reached in June 2015 by former borough zoning officer Jeff Miller, will have until June 20 to submit written findings of fact and conclusions of law from the case. Representatives of the funeral home will then respond with their own findings of fact and conclusions of law, and the appellants will have the opportunity to respond to that by July 6, Wion said. The zoning board – Chairman Jack Still and member Don Graham – will then meet in an executive session to review and deliberate the
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A veteran places a wreath on a grave during the Memorial Day ceremony at the Middletown Cemetery.
tradition is best kept alive by passing it down from generation to generation. So it is with the tradition of Memorial Day in Middletown. Monday, May 30 was the first time in 20 years that Ed Fox of Lower Swatara Twp. attended Middletown’s Memorial Day event at the Middletown Cemetery on North Union Street. “We wanted to come back with our grandchildren,” said Fox, a 72-year-old veteran who served in the Army’s transportation corps from 1966 to 1969. “We remembered how good it felt to participate in the Memorial Day parade. We want to give our grandchildren an idea of what our service people did to preserve our freedom.” Monday’s parade and ceremony also brought back memories for Isaiah DeJesus, but of a much more recent sort. He used to perform in each year’s ceremony as a member of the Middletown Area High School Band. “When I was in the band I talked to (Sam) Fisher (the high school band director) about joining the U.S. Marine Corps band,” said DeJesus, who has lived in Middletown since the third grade. DeJesus wanted to be a police officer and serve in the Dauphin County Crisis Response Team. Military service was a way to improve his chances, but instead of the band DeJesus became a combat engineer in the Marine Corps after graduating from high school in 2013. Standing in the crowd on Monday, and standing out from the crowd in his Marine Please See RITUAL, Page A5
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Jury convicts Middletown man of indecent assault A Dauphin County jury convicted a Middletown man of indecent assault and simple assault on Thursday, May 19 for a incident involving a friend and fellow college student in the Village of Pineford in 2014. However, the jury acquitted Yufan Yan, 21, of criminal attempt of rape and unlawful restraint charges. Yan’s sentencing was deferred until he is evaluated by a sexual offenders assessment board to determine whether he is a sexually violent predator, according to court records. According to court records filed by Middletown police, Yan sexually assaulted a 24-year-old woman in her apartment in the Village of Pineford in September 2014. Yan also lived in Pineford at the time. Yan and the victim were Chinese nationals who were friends and fellow students at Penn State Harrisburg at the time, Middletown police said in court records.
Middletown man who died from heroin struggled with addiction How Many How many of us live in pain and sorrow how many of us live fix by fix not even caring about tomorrow just trying to stay high without doing tricks How many of us have caring families How many of us have no one at all Some living without calamities Others on the street just trying to stand tall. How many of us have thanked God for a breeze How many of us have sold our soul Some of us living a life of ease Some of us living without a goal Oh, Lord, How Many, how many? Press And Journal Photo by Dan Miller
A poem by Jack Tillitson, written on lined paper, asks how many addicts “live in pain and sorrow.’’ Tillitson died in his Middletown home from the heroin he had taken, authorities said.
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Jack Tillitson was no angel. He had been abusing heroin and other drugs and alcohol for 30 years. He was busted for marijuana in 2006 and pleaded guilty to a DUI in 2007. Last Halloween, Tillitson was charged with DUI again, this time in Derry Twp. He was trying to turn it around, however, said Nancy Tillitson, Jack’s mom with whom Jack shared a residence in the 200 block of E. Jack High St. in Middletown. Jack had gone to drug rehab and been clean for five months. It was “the first time he made any progress at all” staying off drugs for an extended period, Nancy said. He had gotten a job as a dishwasher at a local restaurant and could walk to work, so he wouldn’t worry about driving. “I was so proud of him,” Nancy said. But it all went terribly wrong on March 23. Jack used heroin, which Middletown police
said was allegedly sold to him by Kenneth D. Clugston II, whom Jack had known since the two of them were second-grader students in a Middletown elementary school. Police charged Clugston, 45, of the 300 block of Elm Court in Middletown, with drug delivery resulting in death, according to court records. Nancy had been taking Jack to meetings and appointments with counselors as part Tillitson of his rehab. When she called him about going to a meeting and he didn’t answer, Nancy feared the worst. Jack had a bad heart. She had already buried her two other children. Jack’s brother Kevin died in 1976 and his sister, Becki, died in 2007. Nancy’s husband and Jack’s father, Kenneth L. Tillitson, died in 2001. “‘Not you too, Jack,’” Nancy said to herself as she headed home. Please See HEROIN, Page A6
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A Steelton man pleaded guilty in Dauphin County Court on Tuesday, May 23 to two charges that stemmed from the 2015 death of a woman in the borough. Kevin R. Caraballo, 23, 700 block of S. Second St., pleaded guilty to unlawful delivery of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was sentenced to 15 to 30 months in state prison by Judge Deborah Curcillo. Caraballo had been charged with drug delivery resulting in death, a first degree felony with a prison term of up to 40 years, but the charge was withdrawn because prosecutors could not prove that the oxycodone pills Caraballo sold to the victim for $40 were “the sole cause” of her death, according to a statement from county Senior Deputy District Attorney Jack Caravan. “The fact that the victim consumed a significant amount of alcohol meant that no commonwealth witness would have been able to testify that the oxycodone provided by Caraballo was the sole cause of the victim’s death,” Caravan said.
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Harrisburg International Airport is getting an $8.8 million grant from the Federal Aviation Administration to rehabilitate and rebuild its main runway. The money will pay for the first phase of a three-year rehabilitation project that will cost an estimated $24.5 million, according to a grant announcement from U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta, who represents Lower Swatara Twp. The grant is funded through HIA’s share of the Airport Improvement Program, a federal funding stream where each airport earns money based on the number of passengers and cargo using the airport. HIA is “banking” its share of AIP funding to be applied to the multi-year runway project, said HIA spokesman Scott Miller. Included in phase one this fall is clearing trees at Sunset Golf Course in Londonderry Twp. and in Middletown south of Susquehanna Street to the river. The trees are obstructing the runway, according to FAA. The runway rehabilitation will be completed in 2018, with associated additional work to the taxiways stretching over into 2019. The last time the runway was rebuilt was in 1996 – it is recommended that such work be done about every 20 years, Miller said.
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Susquehanna River Is Source Of Fun and Danger, Officials Say Boating, fishing, water skiing, jet boating, tubing – these are just a few of the recreational activities enjoyed by area residents who, at the first sign of warm weather, flock to the Susquehanna River. However, not only is the river a source of fun, it can also be a source of great danger. In the past five years, 88 people have died in recreational boating accidents on the Susquehanna, said Dan Martin, safety and accident review officer for the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission. Some readers may recall that in this area, three people lost their lives in the Susquehanna last year. Two shad surveyors drowned when their boat was pulled into Red Hill Dam and, above the turnpike bridge, a man who stood up in his johnboat fell overboard and also drowned, Martin said. This year, two men drowned May 1 when their boat went over the Holtwood Dam in Lancaster County. But to Martin’s surprise, the month ended with no additional fatalities. May is a very bad month for boating accidents due to the combination of nice weather and cold water. When boats capsize and boaters fall into that cold water, hypothermia sets in, Martin said, adding that hypothermia was a factor in 46, or 52 percent, of the 88 deaths. Alcohol use and failure to wear life jackets also played a role in the 88 deaths occurring between 1988-92. Alcohol was involved in 34 of the accidents and not wearing a life jacket was a factor in 71, Martin said. Studying $11.5 Million In Options MASD Looks At ‘Shopping List’ Of School Renovations An exhaustive tally of needed repairs, upgrades and renovations to the four elementary buildings in the Middletown Area School District was presented to the local School Board recently, creating a shock wave of surprise when officials learned that the cost of the work could exceed $11.5 million. The directors quickly assured the
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Middletown Man Selected For U.S. Wheelchair Team It definitely helps to be in the right place at the right time. Just ask Ron Davis, who, by a stroke of luck, got to show his pistol firing skills to the head coach of the United States Wheelchair Shooting Team last February, and was chosen on the spot to be a member. An Elizabethtown native living on West Main Street in Middletown, Davis, 35, is one of the newest additions to the 100-member Shooting Team, which includes wheelchair athletes from all over the nation. Davis and his comrades in arms, who use pellet-shooting air pistols in competition, will vie for the gold at the 1996 “Paralympics” in Atlanta, Georgia. The international competition for physically challenged persons will follow the Summer Olympics by just a couple of weeks and will take place at the same facilities. For Davis, the chance to compete in such stellar company arose last February while he was shooting his .22-caliber pistol with the Palmyra Sportsmen’s Association’s league team. Paralympics coach Dave Baskin, who was in the area for an international competition, was impressed by Davis’ abilities and decided to introduce himself. “It was such a great coincidence that I got to see Ron there,” Coach Baskin says of the meeting. “We got to talking and I asked him if he was interested in joining the team.” Davis admitted that he was slightly intimidated by the offer since he had never shot an air pistol in competition and because he’d only been using his .22 for about a year. The thing he had going for him, however, was the fact that he’d been shooting regularly against some of the best marksmen in the William Penn League, which includes 10 teams from throughout Central Pennsylvania. Prices From 23 Years Ago Hershey’s Meats Lean Cooked Ham.................... $1.99/lb. Whole Boneless Gooseneck Rounds............................. $1.39/lb. Italian Roast Beef............... $4.99/lb. Icy Point Pink Salmon 14.75 oz..................................$1.89 California Red Plum............. 99¢/lb. Golden Ripe Bananas............ 25¢/lb. Fox’s Own Apple Crisp...... $2.29/lb. Bratch’s Homemade Tortillini 1 lb..........................$2.49 McCain’s Ultimate Fries 32 oz. bag...............................$1.79 Peanut Butter Iced Cinnamon Rolls 6-pk.............$1.89 Dietz and Watson Canadian Bacon............... $4.99/lb.
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Sandra Lee Barnes, 68, of Harrisburg, entered into eternal rest on Thursday, May 26, 2016 at the Select Specialty Hospital, Harrisburg Pa. She was born on November 25, 1947 in Royalton, Pa. and was the daughter of the late Louis and Ruth Fornwalt Barnes. She was of the Methodist faith, and was retired from the Visiting Nursing Association where she was a Health Aide. In addition to her parents, Sandra was preceded in death by five siblings Betty Sharp, Lois Powley, Doris Barnes, Patsy Barnes, and William Barnes. She is survived by four siblings Louis Barnes Jr., James Barnes, and Ronald Barnes, all of Middletown, and Wanda Fornwalt of Harrisburg. A tribute to her life will be held on Thursday, June 2, 2016 at 11 a.m. at the Matinchek Funeral Home and Cremation Services, 260 E. Main St., Middletown, PA 17057. Viewing will be from 10 a.m. until the time of the service at the funeral home. Burial will follow in Hillsdale Cemetery, Londonderry Township. Condolences may be sent online at www.matinchekfuneralhome.com.
23 YEARSA AGO - Stefanies’s Diner – Talk about good eating and the diner comes to the mind of Americans far and wide. Talk about good eating in Highspire and Stefanie’s Diner is the first choice for spotless dining and food that hits the spot. Barbara Wolfgang and Stefanie (right) are shown with a tempting home-made dessert to top off any of their home-made menu selections. community, however, that they do not plan to spend that figure any time soon and that the report is simply a “shopping list” of possibilities for the District. William Gallagher, of Lancaster firm Environmental Hazards Consulting, Inc., made the presentation at the Board’s May 17 meeting. The report includes an overview of all recent building studies at the four schools, Gallagher said, and is likely to change to some extent based on the District’s educational needs.
“We tried to address the broad scope,” he stressed. “I’m not recommending that you spend the $11.5 million all at once, but you’re starting at ground zero to determine everything that needs to be done. You should go through the study and do what really makes sense.” “We all probably got hit with sticker shock,” Board President Samuel Selcher later remarked, adding that the Board will take a close look at the suggestions in coming months and decide which items, if any, need to be addressed soon.
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Mary P. Viola, 90, of Middletown, entered into eternal rest on Sunday, May 29, 2016 at Frey Village, Middletown. She was born November 20, 1925 in Mapleton Depot and was the loving daughter of the late Anthony and Catherine (Chille) Pollicino. She was a member of Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church, Middletown. Mary was very devoted to her family. She enjoyed gardening and could make anything grow with her care and love. In addition to her parents and her husband Angelo A. Viola Jr., she is preceded in death by her sister Angeline Pasquini. She is survived by a daughter Donna A. Hunter of Carlisle; three sons Dennis A. Viola and his wife Debra of Middletown, Darrell A. Viola and his wife Michele of New Cumberland, and David A. Viola and his wife Lesley of Middletown; five grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and three brothers Antonio, Leo and Frank Pollicino. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Friday, June 3, 2016 at 11 a.m. at Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church, 280 N. Race St., Middletown, PA 17057, with the Rev. Ted Keating as celebrant. There will be a viewing from 10 a.m. until the hour of Mass on Friday at the church.
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Charged with theft of generator Shaun C. Zito, 29, of the 400 block of Hollywood Dr., Middletown, was charged with stealing a generator from a home in the 1000 block of Longview Dr. on May 20, police report. Police said Zito was seen taking the generator from the front porch of the home, placing it in a vehicle and taking it to a residence on Hollywood Drive. The generator was returned to its owner, police said. Zito was arraigned before District Judge Barbara Pianka in Dauphin County
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School was charged with threatening two other students at the school on May 18, police report. There was no report of injuries. Cited after domestic disturbance Tera L. Chamberlain, 20, of the 1000 block of N. Front St., Newport, was cited following a domestic disturbance at a home in the first block of Donald Ave. on May 17, police report. Police allege Chamberlain struck and bit an individual while the individual was moving out of the residence. Theft reported Numerous electronic devices were stolen from a business in the 300 block of Fulling Mill Road between March 1 and May 20, police report.
Police said they are gathering information about the extent of the thefts. Thus far an iPod is missing. Investigators counseled the victim and recommended various security measures at the local business. Drug charge Jory G. Henry, 23, of the 400 block of Kelker St., Oberlin, was charged with possession of a small amount of marijuana, police report. Henry was in the area of Strites Road and Longview Drive on May 14 and allegedly dropped something along the road, police said.. Henry was taken into custody by Swatara Twp. police, who searched him and found a small amount of marijuana, police said. A preliminary hearing is set for June 15 before District Judge Michael Smith.
Council fills rec board vacancy Middletown Borough Council has filled a vacancy on the Olmsted Regional Recreation Board, but is still looking for borough residents to serve on the new planning commission. Council appointed Arnold Crosson to the recreation board on Tuesday, May 17. Crosson was one of three people who applied to serve on the board. However, only one resident has applied to serve on the new five-member planning commission. Council this year voted to bring back the commission, which a former council eliminated to save money. The commission is an advisory body appointed
by council to review and make recommendations to council on land development and subdivision plans. The commission can also review and make recommendations on proposed changes regarding the zoning ordinance, as well as other ordinances having to do with land development and subdivisions. Council needs five residents willing to serve on the commission for a four-year term. There is pay involved – $100 for each member whenever the commission meets. Interested? E-mail a letter of interest to the borough at jobs@middletownborough. com.
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the headstone. So far, another $690 has been raised toward Jack’s funeral through a GoFundMe account that Lawson created on March 24, the day after Jack died. Nancy said she doesn’t know exactly how Jack got started using drugs, or why. It started with marijuana, but Jack would try anything. “He just thought he was invincible,” Nancy said. He tried PCP and he tried cocaine, although he didn’t like it. Eventually, heroin became his drug of choice. But there was much more to Jack, and Nancy wants people to know that. “He was really a good kid, when he was sober,’’ she said. “Everybody said he was their psychiatrist.” Nancy, who is from Middletown, met Jack’s father, Kenneth Tillitson, when Kenneth was in the military and stationed at Olmsted Air Force Base. When Olmsted closed, Kenneth Tillitson, like many others, was transferred to an Air Force base in Utah, where Jack was born on April 5, 1970. Kenneth was later transferred to Germany, where the family lived for more than five years before returning to Middletown. Jack had known nothing but German, and had to take lessons in speaking English so he could go to
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She discovered Jack dead in his bed in his room upstairs. Laying on the bed next to him were several bags of heroin, a syringe and what police called a “works kit,’’ according to court records filed with District Judge David Judy. Dr. Wayne Ross, a forensic pathologist from Lancaster, ruled on Thursday, May 19 that the cause of Jack’s death was acute morphine toxicity, and that the manner of death was accidental. Four days later, police charged Clugston. Nancy Tillitson did not have the means to pay for Jack’s funeral. From January through December, Jack had totaled five cars, and Nancy had to cash in and cancel all her life insurance policies to replace them, she told the Press And Journal in an interview on Wednesday, May 25. But Jack’s friends rallied to his and Nancy’s side. One of them, Leann Lawson, “got the gang together” for a memorial in Jack’s honor at the restaurant where he had worked. The event raised $1,725 toward Jack’s cremation and burial in the Middletown Cemetery, where his sister is buried. Nancy hopes to come up with the money to have Jack’s name added to
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tory, specifically the retort itself and a refrigeration unit. This building, described as a garage during the hearing, includes the business offices of the funeral home, a small sitting area and the selection and arrangement room, where the funeral director meets with survivors to explain services that are available and plan for a memorial and the disposition of remains. “We do provide cremation services,” he said. “We currently use a third party.” “Not having a crematory at one of our locations puts us at a disadvantage,” Finkenbinder said. For many, it is preferable to know that deceased person never leaves the funeral home, he said. “The chain of custody is critically
case. They will vote on the matter during a public meeting, the date of which was not announced, with a written determination to follow by Aug. 16. The third night of the hearing began with the testimony of Travis Finkenbinder, who owns and oversees the company that controls five local funeral homes, which added the Middletown property, formerly Coble-Reber Funeral Home, in April 2015. Finkenbinder described photos that provided a tour of the Middletown funeral home, including the renovated main building, where services are held, and the smaller building behind it where he plans to add the crema-
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by Jack’s example of staying clean, Nancy said. Now she worries that they will go back to using heroin because of what happened to Jack. She hopes not – and hopes that somehow his death from heroin will help the others to stay clean. Heroin is a problem in Middletown, probably bigger than a lot of people know. “You can get it anywhere,” Nancy said. “The size of the town doesn’t matter.” “It’s a terrible thing,” she said of what heroin and drugs did to Jack. He stole from her and the family often to get money to support his habit. She had bought a Nintendo Wii game system for the family as a gift. Jack sold it for drugs. “Anything we had of any value, he sold for drugs,” Nancy said. She had little to say upon hearing that Clugston, whom Jack had known since they were kids, had been charged. “I know he has three kids and I feel bad for them,” she said. As for Jack, he still makes his presence known, Nancy said. The other day, Nancy had surgery and was under anesthesia. “He came to visit me” while she was under, Nancy said. “He was just telling me that he was with me, so I wasn’t alone.” Dan Miller: 717-944-4628, or danmiller@pressandjournal.com
important to the families,” he said. He stressed the value in being able to “look in their eyes and say, ‘Your mom is going to be with us the entire time.’ ” Based on the company’s current volume, Finkenbinder estimated two to four cremations per week would occur at the Middletown funeral home. He denied that he plans to accept bodies for cremation from other funeral homes. Several additional people were allowed to testify about their objections to the crematory, despite objections by Finkenbinder’s attorneys. They argued that there is a 30-day limit to filing a zoning appeal, and that additional people could not appeal because the deadline had passed.
Melvin Fager, a partner in the Middletown funeral home, bemoaned the appellants’ concerns about property values and threats to people’s health and the way the crematory opponents are “trying to scare people.” Because of the signs that have been posted around town, and brought into the hearing room by opponents, “as a community, we look like fools,’’ Fager said. About 40 people packed the Middletown Borough Council chambers for the hearing on May 26, which spanned three hours of testimony and at least 20 minutes of board solicitor Wion quietly discussing the next steps of the process with zoning board members and the attorneys for the parties and the borough.
“This is not something that needs to happen in a residential neighborhood,” said David Crow, who testified. “It’s an industrial process.” During his testimony, Finkenbinder said Hoover Funeral Home in Linglestown and Hetrick Bitner Funeral Home in Harrisburg operate crematories in residential areas. Other residents denied Finkenbinder’s “chain of custody” arguments. David Lenker said he has not been convinced of the safety of a crematory for neighbors, and he lives next to the Fager-Finkenbinder Funeral Home. “You hold our lives in your hand,” he told the board. If the crematory is permitted, Lenker said Middletown will experience an “exodus of this town of biblical proportions.”
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MAHS. He did not attend college, but achieved much on “a Middletown Blue Raider High School education,’’ he told the graduates. “Take it and run with it and good things will happen,’’ Lindsey told them. The graduates, observed valedictorian Eric Belles, were like “flowers in the yard, ready to bloom as we begin to celebrate the next chapter of our lives.’’ “Both the good and bad times have made us the individuals we are,’’ Belles said. The Class of 2016 dealt with a host of changes and challenges throughout their high school career, from exams to prepare for college to the use of iPads as part of their curriculum at MAHS to the upheaval of moving the school weight room equipment into the auditorium to prepare for the demolition of a school workout building to make way for a new school that is under
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hey walked into Middletown Area High School after after the scuffing of sunset, slamming of locker students filing through the halls, the laughter and gossip doors, the cacophony of banter and they had walked intohad died. Tentative steps, as though their own dream. They wandered past and the silence with empty classrooms, filling the vacant the characters and spaces Mr. Brunner, the principal, scowling sounds of their memories. in a hallway, so imposing as he watched them pass that somehow he made The squadron of you feel safe. eager cafeteria moms, plopping hamburgers and vegetables and helmeted in hairnets, shaped plates. applesauce on moonRoger Miller’s “King of the Road’’ echoing the record Mrs. Goepfert, in the gymnasium the gym teacher, played , dancing to awkward to teach square For some, it was the boys and girls. first time they walked years. When the Alumni into their old school in 50 school, which opened Association offered a tour of the venerable Homecoming week in 1963, to graduates during Middletown opportunity to return,in late October, former students seized ’s the chance for one the last look. The old school
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he Stoner family settled Through a century a farm in an area outsideon of growth, the turnpike through Lower Middletown that is often Swatara grew called Jednota centuries wider, ago, probably within until traffic crept just a few feet around the time that the stone fence that construction of a surrounds private turnpike, originally the tiny family graveyard. chartered The road, by the Lancaster, Elizabethto now called Route 230 – or West Harwn and Middletown Turnpike risburg Pike to township Company in locals – is 1796, began. so close that vehicles have struck the Soon after, the family cemetery wall in Henry Stoner, in 1814, buried children accidents, tearingat least three recent the wall down and and Mary Ann Stoner, in 1816, in threatening the plots a the family farm in small plot on the The family cemetery,inside. Lower Swatara left by the last Twp. – and family surviving Stoner to burials, including the First Church of the remains of Civil God in Highspire to maintain, is now continued through War veterans, a challenge for church the 1800s. members to preserve.
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Bill Knerr, a church member, brought the matter to the Lower commissioners during Swatara Twp. meeting on Oct. 21, a township rier along the road requesting a barthat the cemetery, located would protect Airport Connector between the and Lane, from additional Whitehouse But Lower Swatara damage. any extra materials, does not have like concrete Jersey barriers, to donate to the church, according to Dan Wagner, the township’s public works director. Even if a barrier was it outside what remainsfound, placing etery’s wall probably of the cemwould not work
A Lower Swatara Twp. officer who made 75 police DUI arrests last year was named of the Pennsylvania DUI one sociation’s “Top Gun AsAward’’ winners. Officer Patrick Ribec received the award during a ceremony held by the association on Oct. 29 in State Officer Patrick Ribec College. Ribec made more than half of the Lower Swatara department’s 137 DUI arrests in 2014. even more remarkable, But Chief Richard Brant, said is that Ribec “successfully prosecuted each of those cases through the magisterial district level, which shows he judge is doing his job in a proper way.’’
E-town hosts holiday parade A sign the holidays indeed are upon us: Elizabethtow will host its annual holidayn parade at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 21. The parade, with the theme “A Beary Special Holiday,’’ will begin at the intersection of West Bainbridge and Market streets and end South intersection of North at the Street and MechanicsMarket Alley. Whey “Beary Special?’’ The local high school’s mascot is the Polar Bear – it’s partly a nod to to school’s sports teams.
Middletown firefighter to sell Christmas treess beginning Black Friday The Middletown Volunteer Fire Department will annual Christmas treebegin its Friday, Nov. 27 – Blacksale on – at the Grove Car WashFriday parking lot on East Main Street. The sale will be held noon to 7:30 p.m. on from Friday and continue that weekend from noon to 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 28 and on Sunday, Nov. 29. After that weekend, trees will be sold on weeknights from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. weekends – Saturdays and Sundays – from noon and to 7:30 p.m. For more information, may call 717-944-16 readers 44. .
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Middletown residents could be looking half-mill increase at a in half-cent electric rate their property tax and a hike in 2016, based recommendation Middletown on a Borough Council has received from the prepares the town’s financial consultant who annual budget. But it is far from clear whether council support the recommend will ation from consultant Mark Morgan of Susquehann a Group Advisors, who wrote the borough’s Early Intervention in March 2013. Plan Even if council approves the tax increase or electric rate hike – or the the 2016 budget will both – it is all but certain that be reopened and changed a new council majority by January, said Councilor that will take control in man of council’s financeBen Kapenstein, chairDespite cost-cutting committee. moves during the several years, the past borough still has a projected “structural deficit” hole of up to $2 million close in the 2016 spending plan, Morgan to during a presentation said members on Monday,of the budget to four council Nov. 16. That is largely the result of the borough to increase taxes over failing the cost of operationsthe past several years, as throughout Middletownand providing services keeps going up, Morgan said. Council must act soon of the 2016 budget. to advertise some version sible Monday as notHowever, that was not posenough members up for a quorum. Absent showed were Council President Chris McNamara, vice president Robert and councilors John Louer Brubaker and Sue Sullivan. Please See TAXES, Page A8
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The Middletown Area High School Class of 1966 will hold its 50th reunion on Saturday, Oct. 22. The reunion committee is trying to locate the following classmates: Cheri Adams, Michael Adams, James Crittendon, Daniel Crider, Anna Good Deimler, Michelle Fair, Robert Fornwalt, Mary Babinsky Greathouse, Bruce Howard, Judith Howell, William Lyell, Trudy Moser, Linda Paul, Chris Rogers, Earla Bitner Shay, Patricia Stanislawski Souders, Larry Squires and Johnnie Thurman. Please contact Gaye Barilla Turpin, 717-364-5821, Larry Etter, 717-944-3123, Denny Stover, 717-579-8165 or Diane Daily, 717-944-9595.
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Over Zululand’’ – and some of which book reflects upon the family’s experience stories about her family’s he new book “Wings , some dangerous, many enticing the Mary Kay Smith, 1960s and 1970s, Janet Snavely wrote ’ are tales of adventuresJanet Snavely alongside daughter lived there in the titled, “Pennsylvania Wings Over Zululand.’ the newspaper Written by John and in South Africa. While the Snavelys Africa. “Writing a column were published in it was like in South they were also municipality Journal, where they how her family was doing and what informing her local community, but Zululand, a district on people. “We them to the Press And escapades and sent as a way to update people back homeSnavely said. Not only were her columns and hospital supplies to the Zulu she support back home,” clothes, blankets, She used the column way to get information out,” Janet places were the vital out and donated old pilots, who reached many people in Middletown and other column was the easiest aviation many, people, like missionary distributed to other ground (or the wings in the air), but Moody Bible Institute’s the when a through the going y soon presented itself were the boots on of the family, was hospital. The opportunit when John, the father put our concerns about said. took us a while to their missionary trip become a bush pilot for a missionary “It about service. came to start an airplane He wanted to The Snavely family for central Pennsylvania. program one day, asking for someone an ambulance plane program in 1958 in his wish of flying nurses as well as Bible the Moody said. fulfilled visited John Snavely Africa to student we did!” Janet the Zulu people. man from South were very thankful South Africa, among n of the hospital. Janet taught English Africa aside, but we the Snavelys lived in Ingwavuma, in and constructio “It was like living on the maintenance of meals and a place to sleep. From 1958 to 1977, was the years of apartheid. as well as working in need lived there during recalled. “Since the mission hospital the missionary hospitala hospitality ministry for visitors particularly since they Snavely classes, and she ran gave the Snavelys a bit of culture shock, places, housing areas, etc.,’’ Janet other staff eating the Africans.” Living in Africa they had nurses and with segregated benches, than others did to mingle with their language (although the Zulus were extremely the old American South, we had more freedomof the Zulu culture, such as learning Janet Snavely, now 93, was a missionary in such as earrings because in Zulu territory, though, Zululand. as pants or jewelry to adapt to other aspects of Zululand and The Snavelys had wearing clothing such Outside avoiding Africa. and of South members to translate) heavily by the British in various regions Restrictions differedterritories, South Africa was influencedSnavely said. d superstitious. Janet They also encountere chabordering Bantu the Snavely family. sophisticated country, lizards, and was a modern, was not the only new experience for a whole slew of exotic pets such as bird that stayed The African culture firsthand. The Snavely children had had a baby fly catcher riding a record ed crow. The family found him the amazing wildlife monkey and a white-vest the house. One day the family his glass jar where we meleons, a vervet exploring tapped he week, a hungry over with them for a littlegoing around in circles. “When he washe did acrobatics and flips while he in the record player, insects we had caught for him, and other some kept the moths or air,” Janet Snavely recalled. many close calls with , the family also had with a wild male giraffe. caught them in the could be fascinating Story By was a close call Although the wildlife Reserve, they included in her book the Hluhluwe Game That seemed animals. One encounter were driving through photos. Katlyn Miller a One day, as the Snavelys and decided to stop to take some leaned against it as giraffes spotted a group of the group, who circled their car and to upset the bull of over the family. Snavely on his stomach,” Janet way to show his dominance could count the ticks “He was so close I driving by and the family escaped exclaimed. said. became distracted, Janet Eventually the giraffe was the thrill of being in Africa!”John and Janet “That for a few years. away – in reverse. to the U.S. in 1977 taught at a Bible The family returned South Africa, in 1984 where they Snavely stayed in later moved to Durban,died the following year, but Janet college. John Snavely and then returned to the U.S. would 1991 that the Snavely family South Africa until the inspira, one would think ago. When asked about Having so many adventures their travels years explained, “I on Smith book a fact, the have published years after be lost if the book so many of our history – would tion behind writing stories – and much didn’t have enough informa[Janet’s] her that but I realized down in some form, we didn’t get them time in their justice.” from it do to papers tion showed Smith of a book,” Smith So when Janet Snavely I had the framework Africa, “I realized as a said. “Wings Over Zululand’’ Smith originally wrote members and friends. But she family family journal for story is also very fascinatand interesting realized that the Snavelys’ its exotic location ing to others due to experiences. it is poignant in down, winds “and “As the memoir and loss,’’ Smith said, its sense of change people relate many that that is something to, also.”
Middletown Area School District is offering a Summer Food Service Program that will provide free lunches Monday through Friday to all children ages 18 and under. There is no need to register in advance – just come to the following locations at the following times on Monday through Friday: Middletown Area Middle School cafeteria, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on June 6 through Aug. 5; Fink Elementary School and War Memorial Field concession stand, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on June 6 through Aug. 12.
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The seventh-annual Middletown Carnival will be held from Wednesday, June 1 to Friday, June 3 from 6 to 10 p.m. and Saturday, June 4 from 4 to 10 p.m. at South Union and Susquehanna streets., Middletown. Proceeds benefit the Middletown Youth Club. For more information, contact the club at mycraiders@ gmail.com.
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construction a few yards away, said Michael Carnes, principal of MAHS. Seniors dealt with changes easily, and set an example for underclassmen. “It’s truly a testament to you as a class,’’ Carnes told them. The Class of 2016 was “an amazing senior class,’’ one that achieved many things in academics, sports and school activities and will be remembered “with great fondness’’ by teachers, staff and administrators, said Superintendent Lori Suski. “You have certainly left an indelible mark on our lives, and we will always remember you as the last class to graduate from Middletown Area High School as we know it today,’’ Suski told them.
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Highspire Historical Society Open House
Highspire Historical Society is hosting an open house from 1 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, June 4 at the Wilson House Museum, 273 Second St., Highspire. Parking will be available at the Lusk Avenue yard entrance. John Beck will talk about John F. Kennedy at 3 p.m. There will be light refreshments served. For more information, call the society at 717-566-6828. •••••
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Strites Orchard, located in Chambers Hill area off Route 322, will host its third-annual Strawberry Festival from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 4. For more information, call 717-564-3130 or visit www.stritesorchard.com. •••••
Cassel Vineyards Summer Concert Series Miller and Eric Wise, honorable mention for their coverage of a Dauphin County police department merger report and efforts by local municipalities to investigate possible mergers • Editorials, Jim Lewis, first place for three editorials on a proposed amendment to Middletown Borough’s lease with a private water company; a proposal to lease Middletown Borough’s electric system; and efforts by the Middletown Area School Board, Middletown Borough, Lower Swatara Twp. and Royalton to provide funding to and insure the future of the Olmsted Area Recreation Board • Personality Profile, Jim Lewis, honorable mention
Cassel Vineyards, 80 Shetland Drive, Hummelstown, is kicking off its Summer Concert Series on Friday, June 3 with a concert featuring Crossing Abbey Road from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Concerts will be held every Friday in June through August. Visit casselvineyards.com for a complete schedule. •••••
Middletown Public Library Kick Off Carnival
The Middletown Public Library, 20 N. Catherine St., is hosting a Kick Off Carnival from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 11. For more information, visit www. middletownpubliclib.org.
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Lower Dauphin, above left, lines up at the beginning of its District 3 playoff game against Governor Mifflin; Lower Dauphin pitching ace Ava Battiglia (1), right, hurts Governor Mifflin with her bat, too, collecting a hit and driving in a run.
BALLISTIC BATS Hot-hitting Lower Dauphin wins two in District 3 playoffs Falcons secure spot in state championships Lower Dauphin batters picked a great time to go ballistic on opposing pitchers. The Falcons pummeled its opening-round opponent in the District 3 Class AAAA playoffs, then scorched the pitching ace of its second-round opponent for seven runs to reach the district semifinals and secure a spot in the PIAA championships. Lower Dauphin (22-2) burned Governor Mifflin in its first-round game, 15-0, on Tuesday, May 24 in Hummelstown, forcing a quick mercy rule end to the contest. It lasted just four innings after the Falcons
pounded Governor Mifflin with an eight-run first inning and a six-run fourth. Then the Falcons struck quickly against the pitching ace of Hempfield (18-7), the Lancaster-Lebanon League champion, on Thursday, May 26 at Lebanon Valley College, Annville, scoring three runs in the first inning to erase a 1-0 Black Knight lead and never looked back. Lower Dauphin, the No. 4 seed, faced top-seeded Chambersburg in a semifinal game on Tuesday, May 31 in Carlisle. With the top four teams in Class AAAA guaranteed a spot in the state playoffs, all four semifinalists secured spots in the quest for a state title. The winners and losers were scheduled to play championships and third-place games on Thursday, June 2 at sites and times to be announced. Dallastown (18-2) and Penn Manor (21-3) are the other two semifinalists.
Lower Dauphin 7 Hempfield 3
Paige Hollinger and Kelly Fahringer each drove in three runs and Maddie Hillock scored three runs and drove in another as Lower Dauphin subdued Hempfield and guaranteed itself a spot in the PIAA championships. Kaylee Stoner scored two runs for the Falcons, who scored early to grab the lead against Black Knight pitching ace Lauren Lichtenwarner. Hempfield jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning on an RBI single by Kara Cook, but the Falcons answered quickly in the bottom of the first. Hollinger, the designated hitter, hit a two-run single that pushed Lower Dauphin ahead, 2-1, and added an RBI single in the Falcons’ two-run second inning that staked LD to a 5-1 lead.
The Black Knights scored two runs in their last at-bat in the top of the seventh inning, but couldn’t stage a comeback. Lower Dauphin pitching ace Ava Bottligia held Hempfield two earned runs on eight hits. She struck out three batters.
Lower Dauphin 15 Governor Mifflin 0
The Falcons put the game out of reach early with their eight-run first inning, then finished it early with a six-run explosion in the fourth. Governor Mifflin (13-9) managed just two hits against Bottiglia. Lower Dauphin’s Kayla Holl drove in four runs, while Fahringer drove in two runs. Bottiglia also contributed at the plate, driving in two runs.
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It was a mighty throw. The longest throw of his life. And when the discus landed, Cameron Yon made history at Penn State Harrisburg. Yon, a freshman, earned a bronze medal in the NCAA Division III Track and Field Championships on Thursday, May 26 in Waverly, Iowa, making him the first Lion track athlete to win an NCAA medal. His winning throw: 53.19 meters. Yon had already made a name for himself as the first athlete in Penn State Harrisburg’s fledgling track and field program to compete in the NCAA championships. He arrived in Iowa ranked 14th in the country in the discus, and held first place through some of the event at the NCAA championships. He eventually was beaten by gold medalist Max Leonard of Illinois Wesleyan and silver medalist Theron Baumann of Wisconsin-Whitewater, losing to Baumann by less than a half meter. Yon claimed multiple wins at a variety of contests this season, including a Capital Athletic Conference championship just a few weeks prior to the NCAA competition. He also finished second in the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships. “We are proud of Cameron’s performance today and all season long – he has set a standard for all Penn State Harrisburg athletes,’’said Coach Danielle Lynch. “Cameron rose to the level of his competition and came to play, improving from 14th to finish third.” “This is an amazing feat and one that will be talked about for years to come,’’ Lynch said.
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LD, Steel-High eliminated from District 3 playoffs The road was rough for Lower Dauphin and Steelton-Highspire in the District 3 playoffs. The Falcons and Rollers lost firstround games on the road and were eliminated from postseason play on Monday, May 23. Lower Dauphin (12-8) was ousted by Ephrata, 7-3 in the District 3 Class AAAA playoffs in Ephrata, while Steelton-Highspire (7-13) was ousted by Newport, 6-0 in the District 3 Class A playoffs in Newport. The Falcons jumped to a 1-0 lead against Ephrata (18-5), but the Moun-
taineers took the lead with a two-run second inning, then used a two-run third inning to build a 4-1 lead. Lower Dauphin scored two runs in the seventh inning during a last-gasp effort to remain alive in the playoffs, but fell short. Lower Dauphin’s Michael Geesaman drove in two runs with a triple and teammate Tyler Friedrich drove in a run. Josh Safely and Connor Buggy each score a run for the Falcons. Steelton-Highspire surrendered six runs even though the Roller pitchers
gave up just three hits to Newport. Steel-High committed five errors that helped lead to its elimination. Taj Roach-McClendon, the Rollers’ starting pitcher, gave up only one hit to the Buffaloes in four innings, striking out two batters, but saw Newport seize a 3-0 lead in the second inning anyway. Reliever Jaqui Jenkins gave up two hits. Newport pitcher Josh Kline surrendered only one hit to SteeltonHighspire – a double by the Rollers’ Matt Pilsitz. He struck out six SteelHigh batters.
Standings for 6-1-16 Posing with their championship trophy are Middletown Mudcats team members, from left: first row, Dylan Maxwell, Micah Krasja, Brett Dunlap, Zac Hiner, Isaiah Crossin, Tyson Leach and Will Fulmer; second row, Max Dupes, Aiden Eckley, RJ Gomboc and Trey Kephart; back row, coaches Ike Crosson, Kyle Hiner, Jesse Dupes, Bob Gomboc and Jeff Lawrence.
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CLASS A First round Newport 6, Steelton-Highspire 0 (Steelton-Highspire eliminated) SOFTBALL DISTRICT 3 PLAYOFFS CLASS AAAA First round Lower Dauphin 15, Governor Mifflin 0 Quarterfinals Lower Dauphin 7, Hempfield 3
The Middletown Mudcats 10U youth baseball team won the Hanover TNT Tournament on Sunday, May 29, in Hanover, beating teams from Williamsport, Dallastown and Hanover to win the title. The Mudcats beat the Dallastown Cougars, 10-4 and the Hanover Rampage, 6-4 on Saturday, May 28, then beat Williamsport, 10-0 and the Dallstown Cougars, 10-5 on Sunday to win the championship.
Semifinals Tuesday, May 31 Lower Dauphin (22-2) vs. Chambersburg (19-4) (Winner vs. winner of Penn Manor/Dallastown game in championships, Thursday, June 2, time and place TBA; loser vs. loser of Penn Manor/Dallastown game in third-place game, Thursday, June 2 time and place TBA)
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Middletown Muscat infielder Dylan Maxwell, left, puts an opposing team’s runner out at second base.
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TEENER A National Division W Lower Dauphin 6 West Hanover (2) 5 Palmyra 2 Hershey 1 West Hanover (1) 1
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Recent games Lower Dauphin 15, Susquehanna (1) 3 Lower Dauphin 5, Linglestown 3 Lower Dauphin 8, West Hanover (1) 2
Recent games Middletown 7, Dauphin 7, tie West Hanover 10, Lower Dauphin 3 Hershey (2) 8, Lower Dauphin TABA 3 Linglestown (2) 12, Steelton 0 TEENER C West Division W L Middletown 6 0 Paxton 4 1 Swatara 1 3 Harrisburg 1 4 East Division W Lower Dauphin TABA 5 Hershey 5 Susquehanna 5 Palmyra 0 Lower Dauphin 0
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Last week’s games Hershey (2) 9, Middletown 6 Middletown 11, Hershey (1) 7 Lower Dauphin (2) 12, East Hanover (3) 10 Lower Dauphin (1) 14, East Hanover (2) 7 Lower Swatara 15, Susquehanna 2 Central Dauphin 10, Middletown 8 Paxtonia (2) 17, Lower Dauphin (1) 14 Hershey (1) 13, Lower Dauphin (2) 10
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TEENER B Stammel Division W L Lower Dauphin TABA 7 1 Hershey (2) 7 2 West Hanover 4 3 Hershey (1) 4 4 Lower Dauphin 4 5 Middletown 0 5 Steelton 0 8
Paxtonia (4) 6, Middletown Gold 2 PHR Royal 6, Lower Swatara Red 1 West Hanover Royal 12, Lower Swatara Yellow 9 Paxtonia (6) 11, Lower Swatara Black 2 Lower Swatara White 10, Middletown Gold 2 PHR Carolina 15, Middletown Green 0 Lower Swatara Yellow 11, Middletown Green 1 Lower Swatara Red 12, Lower Swatara Yellow 4 Lower Swatara Orange 12, Penn Gardens 7 Lower Swatara Black 12, Paxtonia (4) 1
YOUTH SOFTBALL EAST SHORE FAST PITCH LEAGUE 10U W L Swatara/Paxtang 10 0 Lower Swatara 7 0 West Hanover 6 4 East Hanover (3) 6 3 East Hanover (1) 6 4 Lower Dauphin (2) 6 6 Paxtonia (2) 5 4 Hershey (1) 5 4 Paxtonia (1) 5 4 Hershey (3) 4 3 Central Dauphin 4 5 Lower Dauphin (1) 4 4 Harrisburg 3 5 Hershey (2) 3 8 Middletown 3 8 Susquehanna 1 8 East Hanover (2) 1 9
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14U Swatara/Paxtang Paxtonia Dauphin Lower Swatara (1) Susquehanna Hershey Lower Swatara (2) Central Dauphin Lower Dauphin Londonderry Harrisburg Milton Hershey
Last week’s games Lower Swatara (1) 7, Lower Dauphin 0 Dauphin 13, Lower Dauphin 12 Susquehanna 5, Lower Swatara (2) 1 Lower Swatara (1) 12, Central Dauphin 8 Lower Swatara (2) 12, Hershey 8 Lower Swatara (2) 18, Londonderry 9 Lower Swatara (1) 17, Lower Dauphin 2 Lower Swatara (1) 8, Hershey 8, tie SUBURBAN GIRLS SOFTBALL LEAGUE 11U W L Hummelstown (2) 12 1 Hummelstown (1) 9 2 Cedar cliff (1) 6 3 Dillsburg 5 3 Akron 5 4 Londonderry 3 4 Lower Swatara (3) 3 6 Cedar Cliff (3) 2 7 Lower Swatara (4) 1 10 Cedar Cliff (2) 0 6 Akron Lower Swatara Londonderry
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You, Genealogy, And Copyright, Part II Who Owns Genealogy? Cousins And Copyright By Gary B. Hoffman
The practice of genealogy - researching and publishing information about someone’s ancestors - falls under the purview of intellectual property laws. Computers attached to CD-ROM readers and communications networks make it easy to compile information from disparate locations and then convey it to any point on the globe. Who owns a compiled genealogy? The one who compiled it? The one who possesses a copy? The one whose ancestors are the subject of the compilation? Anyone? No one? This article does not purport to answer every question about copyright and related doctrines. Nor can it even plumb the depths of all legal issues involved with the practice of genealogy. Rather, it should be taken as a launching pad for further discussions in intellectual property. It should definitely not be construed as legal advice. First, I’ll define several terms related to copyrights, and then, I’ll talk about how copyrights relate to you and your genealogy work.
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What is Copyright? - A copyright is an exclusive right to reproduce a “work of authorship,” to prepare derivative works, to distribute copies of the work, to perform the work, and to publicly display the work. A work of authorship must be “original” and must be fixed in a “tangible medium of expression” in order to be protected. As subject matter, genealogy generally falls into the “literary work” category of works of authorship. U.S. Law - In the U.S., copyright laws derive from the U.S. Constitution, which gave Congress the power “to promote science… by securing for limited times to authors… the exclusive right to their ...writings.” (Art. 1, Sec. 8) Federal legislation preempts state laws on the subject of copyright. Copyright statues are found in Title 17 of the United Stated Codes, whose last major revision was called the Copyright Act of 1976. Definitions - As used in the intellectual property context, “original” means both (1) originating with the author, not derived from another source, and (2) novel or new, not previously known or expressed. In copyright laws, the first definition is paramount; an author’s work needs not be different than another’s, only that it is independently created by him or her. As Justice O’Connor has stated, “The sine qua non of copyright is originality. Originality requires independent creation and a modicum of creativity.” (Feist) The common explanation is that anyone can pen (and claim a copyright in) an exact copy of ODE to a Grecian Um as long as they had never seen or heard Keats’ poem. A “tangible medium of expression” can be any method of recording “now known or later developed, from which the work can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device.” Spoken words are not tangible unless recorded. Ideas are never tangible and do not receive protection, but their expressions do. When Copyright Arises - Under current U.S. copyright law, a copyright arises when a work is fixed in a tangible medium of expression. That is, it automatically comes into being when it is recorded in any fashion. The immediate owner of a copyright is the author, or authors in the case of joint authorship. Works created by employees of the U.S. Government and most state and local
governments are not protected by copyright. Copyrights in “works made for hire,” that is, works created by employees as a part of their employment, are owned by the employer. Transferring Copyrights - A copyright may be transferred to another, as is commonly done when authors assign their rights in a work to a publisher in order to get the work published. A major part of the publishing and movie business concerns itself with buying, selling, and tracking copyrights. Ownership of Copyright - Ownership of the copyright is distinct from the ownership of any material object in which the work is embedded. Mere possession of a book, for example, or a CD-ROM, does not give the possessor absolute right to do anything they please with the contents of the book or CD-ROM. Public Domain - A work that is not copyrightable or whose copyright has expired or lapsed is considered “in the public domain.” There are no restrictions on what can be done with works in the public domain. Term of Copyright - Newly created works are protected during the author’s lifetime and an additional 50 years thereafter. (Congress is considering a provision to add 20 years to this limit.) Works created before the law governs 1978 then in effect, generally for a total term of 75 years. In general, any work published before 1922 is now in the public domain. Not Copyrightable - Certain expressions cannot receive copyright protection, either because they are not original (such as ideas, facts, events, news of the day, concepts, principles, Laws of Nature, or discoveries), or the domain of patent law (devices, procedures, processes, method of operation) or trademark law (names, titles, logos). If a concept can only be described in a limited number of ways, its expression is said to “merge” with the concept and is also, not copyrightable. Also not copyrightable are blank forms, plain calendars, and lists or tables taken from public documents or other common sources. Compilations - A Compilation, that is a collection of works, is itself a work that receives copyright protection whether or not the works it contains are copyrightable. The originality involved in compiling (selecting, arranging, explaining, etc.) the compilation qualifies it for its own copyright. Until 1991, compilers could assert a right in a compilation of public domain facts based on their considerable effort to compile them into a new work. But the Supreme Court threw out the “sweat of the brow” theory in its decision “Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service,” (499 U.S. 340). Since then, database owners have been forced to use other techniques to protect their market, including license agreements and moral suasion. Fair Use - “Fair use allows non-infringing copying of a copyrighted work for such purposes as comment, criticism, news reporting, teaching, scholarship or research. In determining whether such use in fair, courts consider: (1) whether the purpose is commercial or non- commercial; (2) the nature of the work; (3) the amount used in relation to the whole work; and (4) the effect of the use on the market or value of the work. In general, copying a small amount of a work is considered fair unless it is the heart of the work. © 1997 by Gary B. Hoffman. Have full permission to reprint this article. Genealogy. Com ©2003 MyFamily.com. Inc.
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t was satisfying to see 163 seniors in Middletown Area High School’s Class of 2016 accept their diplomas at the school’s commencement on Thursday, May 26 at the Forum in Harrisburg. It was amazing to see family, friends and other Middletowners fill the cavernous auditorium, which seats more than 1,000 people. Very, very few seats were available as the ceremony began. Afterward, proud parents, grandparents, siblings and friends greeted newly-minted graduates with flowers, gifts and hugs. It’s great to see so many people celebrate education. We need more of that if our world is to become a better place. The crowd applauded the members of the National Honor Society, who were asked to stand by school administrators, and those graduates who have chosen to enter the military. It all begins with education. Take District Judge Joseph Lindsey of Lower Paxton Twp., a 1970 graduate of Middletown Area High School: He’s worked as a judge, a police officer, an insurance agent, and all on his MAHS diploma. He didn’t attend college. “Take it and run with it, and good things will happen,’’ Lindsey told the graduates. Steelton-Highspire High School and Lower Dauphin High School seniors will receive their diplomas, and move on to the next chapter in their lives, at commencement ceremonies this month. Steelton-Highspire will hold its commencement at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 7 at the school, while Lower Dauphin will hold its commencement at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 9 at the Giant Center. Congratulations to all the graduates.
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Posting "In God we Trust'' Energy obstructionists and in schools is appropriate their pipeline hostility Editor. The “National Motto” bill (House Bill 1640) sponsored by state Rep. Cris Dush (R-66th District), who serves Jefferson County and part of Indiana County, passed the House of Representatives on May 2 by a vote of 179-20 and now sits in the Senate Education Committee. This bill states: “Each school entity in this commonwealth may display the motto, ‘In God We Trust,’ '' which is declared by law to be the national motto, “and the first 10 amendments to the Constitution of the United States, also known as the Bill of Rights, in each school building.’’ This has caused some news sources to poke fun at this effort and suggest that it is a distraction from the real issue of underfunded K-12 education. The facts are that Pennsylvania spends $13,864 per student, according to Governing. com. Only six states, as well as the District of Columbia, spend significantly more per student than Pennsylvania. The states are: New York, Alaska, New Jersey, Connecticut, Vermont and Wyoming, with New York spending the most at $19,818 and Wyoming spending a healthy $15,700. Pennsylvania spends 120 percent more than the national average and 210 percent more than the bottom four states – Oklahoma, Arizona, Idaho and Utah (spending $7,672$6,555 per student). Only two states (New York and Alaska) spend more than the District of Columbia at $17,953 per student. Yet Washington, D.C. has the lowest graduation rate in the entire country at 62.3 percent! The top three states boasting strong graduation rates spend significantly less. Iowa, at the top of the graduation chart at 89.7 percent, spends $10,313 (33rd in the nation). Second is Nebraska at 88.5 percent, spending $11,579 (19th in the nation). Third is Texas at 88 percent, spending a measly $8,299 (43rd out of 50). So Texas can top the chart in graduation rates and spend nearly the least per student while the District of Columbia can spend the most in the nation – twice as much as Texas – and find itself on the bottom of the graduation chart! Might this suggest that money alone is not the solution to the problems in our schools? Might we consider the fact that a nation that turns its back on God and the revelations God has given might struggle to find truth, honesty, dedication, loyalty and respect? I’ve not met Dush, but I am guessing that his effort to pass the “National Motto” grows out of his service in the U.S. Air Force (1982-1990) and the Pennsylvania Air National Guard (2000 – present). His bill does not require any school to require anyone to do anything. It just makes clear what is already true – that we have a National Motto that has been recognized since the writing of the National Anthem in 1814 – and that “each school entity in this Commonwealth may display the motto ‘In God We Trust.’ ” Though the “National Motto” bill easily passed the House, Rep. Jordan Harris, a Philadelphia Democrat, voted no. He said that he is a churchgoing Christian, but that people “have a right to believe in the god of their choosing or believe in no creator at all.” That is like saying, “People have a right to believe in the Constitution’s 10 Amendments, or they have a right to believe in the writings of Karl Marx and Lenin and Stalin – and for that reason, we should not post the Constitution where our children can see it and where we can be proud of it.” How absurd! Perhaps Harris could agree to a compromise. Rather than post the National Motto, “In God We Trust,” perhaps he would agree to something closer to home and more appropriate to Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Constitution begins with: “WE, the people of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of civil and religious liberty, and humbly invoking His guidance, do ordain and establish this Constitution.” Dr. James Hanak West Chester (The writer is CEO of the Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School, West Chester.)
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Consider the current backlog of stymied he U.S. has pipeline projects. The best known is Keybecome stone XL, which would move crude oil the world’s from western Canada to the Gulf Coast. leading producer of The project promises to create 42,000 oil and natural gas. new construction jobs – plus thousands By 2040, an estimated 80 percent of more spin-off jobs in the manufacturing and hospitality industries. all U.S. energy consumption will be met Green radicals, arguing the pipeline by carbon-based energy. And, the country would harm the environment, demanded could export as much oil as it imports that President Barack Obama block its apwithin 15 years. That is, if lawmakers don’t fall under the proval. He happily obliged, rejecting the pipeline last November – even though the sway of environmental extremists deterState Department concluded the pipeline mined to block new pipeline projects and would have no negative environmental keep fossil fuels in the ground. impact. Environmentalist Bill McKibben, Many other lesser-known pipelines are founder of 350.org, recently noted that also languishing. if fossil-fuel companies “can build those The Constitution Pipeline, which would pipelines and mines, then for the next 40 have created 1,300 jobs and moved oil or 50 years they’ll be able to get carbon from Pennsylvania to New York, was out cheaply enough to compete (and to blocked by regulators in Harrisburg and wreck the planet).” If they can’t, he adds, the governor in Al“The transition to bany. The Sandpiper clean energy [will Environmentalists' complaints Pipeline, meanbecome] irreversible.” about pipeline safety while, would have oil between Green radicals contradict the facts. carried North Dakota, Minand government According to the latest data, nesota and Wisconofficials across the nation have been 99.999997 percent of natural sin – and created jobs. Yet there emboldened by gas was transported safely 2,500 won’t be any, thanks McKibben’s mesover the country's 300,000 to the efforts of sage – especially within the Obama miles of pipe. Minnesota’s Public Utilities Commisadministration. All sion. other priorities – job Moreover, new creation, economic growth, energy affordability and updating pipeline investment is essential for a growing, consumer-driven energy market. the nation’s aging energy infrastructure – A 2015 report from the U.S. Department are taking a back seat. of Energy concluded that energy infraBut environmentalists’ complaints about structure has “not kept pace with changes pipeline safety contradict the facts. Acin the volumes and geography of oil and cording to the latest data, 99.999997 pergas production.” cent of natural gas was transported safely One-in-two of the nation’s oil pipelines over the country’s 300,000 miles of pipe. was built before the 1970s. And the new And natural gas production is actually geography of oil production, with centers helping the environment by replacing in far-flung locations, makes delivery difcoal, which pollutes almost twice as ficult, as do congested ports, rail systems much as natural gas, in power generation. and waterways. Crude oil pipelines also have a track reConstructing pipelines such as the cord of safety. In 2013, 99.999 percent of Keystone XL, the Constitution and the the oil delivered by pipeline reached its Sandpiper would ensure that Americans final destination without incident. The oil continue to have reliable energy to power industry has instituted numerous safety their everyday lives. Instead of succumbmeasures to prevent accidents, including to the unfounded demands of today’s ing new tools for evaluating equipment, green movement, lawmakers must say no stronger infrastructure and more stringent to energy obstructionists. inspections criteria. Yet government officials continually Robert L. Bradley Jr. is the founder and block pipeline projects that would create CEO of the Institute for Energy Research, thousands of jobs, enhance the national Washington, D.C. grid and reduce energy costs for consumers.
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he Pennsylvania House of Representatives concurred with Senate amendments to the Public School Code on Wednesday, May 25 to create a student-weighted formula for awarding state subsidies for funding basic education in the state’s public school districts. The House agreed with the amendments by a vote of 188-3. The Senate had approved the amendments by a vote of 49-1. Reaction to the votes • Sharon B. Klutzien, vice president for government and social policy for the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania: “The gap in resources in Pennsylvania’s richest and poorest school districts is among the worst in the country. Adoption of the Fair Funding Formula will go a long way toward addressing that issue. Clearly, the Pennsylvania legislature understands that the quality of a child’s education should not depend on her zip code. Of course, this is only one step. A formula is useless without sufficient resources to be divided up. We call on the legislature to prioritize education funding in the 2016-17 budget.” • Ted Kirsch, president of the American Federation of Teachers, which represents 32,000 public, private and charter school teachers and school support employees: ”Pennsylvania has finally joined the majority of states, which use permanent, transparent formulas to take the politics out of distributing education funds. This is a major first step to erasing the staggering disparity between what wealthy and poor school districts in Pennsylvania spend to educate children, but it is not the end of the journey. No formula will ever be fair if state education funding remains – as it is today – inadequate. The Public Interest Law Center estimated recently that school districts need a minimum of $3 billion more to educate every child. So Pennsylvania legislators, we have a message for you. Your job isn’t done until all schools have enough funding to educate all children to state standards. As legislators work on the 2016-17 budget, we urge them to provide $400 million in additional education funding that is supported with new, stable revenue sources. During the budget process, we also ask lawmakers to distribute additional education funds first to those school districts that suffered disproportionate funding cuts in 2011-12 under then-Gov. [Tom] Corbett. Restoring funding to struggling districts is essential if we are to close both the funding gap and achievement gap.” • Mike Wang, executive director of Philadelphia School Advocacy Partners (PSAP): “PSAP applauds the Pennsylvania Legislature’s overwhelming approval of legislation to make permanent the fair funding formula to guide funding for all school districts across the Commonwealth. Today’s action is a significant step forward in the campaign to ensure that all students at all public schools in Pennsylvania will have access to a quality education. The formula is the product of months of hard work by the bipartisan Basic Education Funding Commission, which held 15 hearings over 11 months and heard from more than 100 different education experts, business leaders, families and taxpayers from across the Commonwealth. The formula created by the Commission provides a predictable and transparent basis for the award of state education funding, offering districts at long last a stable and consistent basis upon which to make critical decisions about the operation of their schools each year. Notably, the formula benefits Philadelphia by over-weighting students whose needs are greater because of poverty or English language learner status. The formula also includes a weight for charter students in recognition of the transition costs that occur when students move from district to charter schools. While this formula is a big step forward for Pennsylvania, money and a fair system for distributing it is not enough to ensure every student receives a great education. We now encourage the Legislature and the Governor to pass necessary reforms – particularly measures that ensure accountability for students in struggling schools – so that all students at all public schools in Pennsylvania receive access to a quality education.”
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pogee Biotechnology Corp., headquartered at the Hershey Center for Applied Research (HCAR) in Hummelstown, has been making significant strides in the field of medical research and development. As a state representative, I have consistently advocated for adequate grant and research funding for companies like Apogee, so I’m thrilled to share the latest news about their advancements in cancer treatment with you. Apogee has completed extensive pre-clinical work on a new drug known as ABC294640. The company is currently testing this drug, which is the first ever to target an enzyme called sphingosine kinase-2, in human cancer patients. In the field of medical research, receiving approval to test a drug on human patients is very difficult to obtain. ABC294640 can be taken orally by patients and has a very low toxicity profile compared with other cancer drugs. The safety of the drug was demonstrated in a clinical trial phase involving patients with advanced solid tumors, and is now being tested for its anti-cancer activity in patients with lymphoma, multiple myeloma or liver cancer. The drug also has anti-inflammatory activity and may be useful to protect normal tissues from damage by radiation, as happens in many cancer patients being treated with radiation. The radiation protecting activity of ABC294640 was also studied by Apogee for its potential use following radiation exposure as a result of a nuclear accident or terrorism event, or by military personnel on a nuclear battlefield. I have been a supporter of the research and development work conducted by Apogee, as well as other medical research companies in the region, for a long time. Apogee’s story is just one example of the
importance of locally appropriated medical research funding. By supporting local research efforts, we will continue to get new medical treatments in the hands of Pennsylvania doctors for the benefit of our citizens. Apogee, founded in 2001, is a spinoff of the Penn State College of Medicine’s Department of Pharmacology. Apogee focuses its research on the treatment of cancer and inflammatory diseases.
Pennsylvania Constitution. That is why I founded the Second Amendment Caucus in the state House of Representatives in 2011. All 97 members of the Second Amendment Caucus fight 365 days a year to prevent the infringement and elimination of our Second Amendment rights.
Second Amendment rally at Capitol
In honor of the veterans of the 106th District who put their lives on the line to serve our country, I will be hosting my 2016 Veterans Breakfast from 8 to 10 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 4. The breakfast will be held at Spring Garden Reception and Conference Center, 903 Spring Garden Dr., Lower Swatara Twp. Reservations for this event are required and can be made by contacting my Hershey office at 717-534-1323. Seating is limited and the deadline to register is Monday, Oct. 24. The breakfast will be complimentary to those in attendance and is limited to veterans, including active duty military, residing in the 106th District. Accommodations will be made for disabled veterans requiring the assistance of another person. Each year, I look forward to this opportunity to personally thank our veterans for their sacrifice. I hope all area veterans who have served our country will consider joining me for my last Veterans Breakfast before I retire.
On Tuesday, May 24, I joined hundreds of Pennsylvania residents in the Main Rotunda at the state Capitol for the annual Rally to Protect Your Right to Keep and Bear Arms. To view photos from the rally, visit my Web site, RepPayne. com, or my Facebook page, Facebook.com/RepPayne. The rally featured a number of speakers, including by Dr. Alan Keyes, who is a scholar, author and former Reagan Administration Ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council. He was joined by several firearm rights advocates and members of the state House and Senate. The passion displayed by our residents demonstrated that the national and commonwealth constitutions continue to be strongly valued in Pennsylvania. In my view, our Second Amendment rights represent a coveted freedom and are among those important qualities that have enabled this country to remain a free and democratic one. While this rally is an important grassroots event, it’s only one day. As lawmakers, I believe we have a duty to advance and protect this right and all others guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and
My annual Veterans Breakfast
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.
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The death of economic growth in the U.S. F
or decades, authors grounded in ecology and environmentalism have produced excellent — and widely ignored — forecasts of the end of economic growth in the U.S. It’s unsustainable, depleting resources from oil to topsoil, while filling air and water with wastes. Think CO2 and climate change, Chesapeake Bay and nutrients. Now comes a fascinating convergence of green and mainstream thought in Robert J. Gordon’s massive book, “The Rise and Fall of American Growth.’’ Growth is over, he says, at least in any semblance to the “boomier” days that Wall Street and our political leaders all count desperately on reviving. The author, a respected professor at Northwestern University, is an economist — an established member of a profession that mostly sees no contradiction in the concept of infinite growth on a finite planet. Indeed, Gordon has little to say about climate change, pollution, overfishing or species extinctions. Nor does he say the end of growth is a good thing. In contrast to more ecologically minded authors, Gordon focuses more on the dramatic slowing of “total factor productivity,” which measures how much economic oomph you get from given inputs of capital and labor. Less and less, he documents. Between 1870 and 1970, we experienced a leap in our standard of living that was, in all of humankind’s 100,000-year history, something new and unrepeatable, Gordon’s argument goes. We went from horses to cars, from kerosene lamps and outhouses to universal electrification and sanitary sewers and tap water on demand; we developed anesthesia, antibiotics and X-rays. Economic change in more recent decades has been iPhone and YouTube dazzling, he says, but nothing like those “great
inventions” that fundamentally transformed our lives and economy. And the gains have accrued to a narrower segment of Americans (think Silicon Valley). An example: I might have argued after I bought my first Toyota Prius that it was a game-changer. But it’s still a car. Compare it to this from Gordon’s “unrepeatable” century: In 1900, there were 8,000 registered automobiles in the U.S. Thirty years later there were 26.8 million. World War II and the Great Depression were also factors in marshaling economic resources for Gordon’s unrepeatable century (and who’d want repeats?). How much common ground is there between the path Gordon follows to the death of growth and that taken by ecologically-based books like “Limits to Growth,’’ the seminal 1972 publication by Donella and Dennis Meadows, Jorgen Randers and William Behrens III? Critics, who pan the book as overreaching prophecy that simply did not come true, ignore that it said the “average quality of life” would begin turning down “sometime in the 21st century.” Both Gordon and the “Limits’’ authors target “techno-optimism” as a powerful and seductive force that makes it easy to think solutions are just around the corner, masking the realities of ecological and economic downtrends. There’s fruitful overlap, too, between green and mainstream in concerns about growing economic inequality in the U.S., which is playing an unexpectedly large role in the turbulent race for the U.S. presidency. Gordon sees continuing inequality as one of a few critical headwinds ensuring growth as usual doesn’t return. (Others include decreasing educational attainment, growing debt and an aging population.) His conventional economist’s concerns are echoed brilliantly on the green side by Herman Daly, an inventor of ecological economics, which rejects endless growth on a finite planet. Believing in growth as the best
— even only — way to solve our problems, Daly says, is comforting. It means you never have to share (this includes redistributing income from rich to poor, something Gordon advocates). It means you never have to worry about population, just trust that as people grow richer they have fewer babies. And it means you never have to reduce consumption – just do it “greener” and “smarter.” On the mainstream side, Gordon is preceded by historian J.R. McNeill, whose book, “Something New Under the Sun,’’ has been assigned since 2003 to Environmental Studies freshmen at Salisbury University, where I teach. McNeill takes another path to demonstrating how the last century cannot be repeated: Urban population up 13 times; energy use greater than the cumulative consumption of the previous 1,000 years; industrial output up 40-fold; more rock moved by humans than by volcanoes, glaciers and plate tectonics combined; more deaths from air pollution than from both World Wars. The real danger is not from the unrepeatability of the extraordinary growth we’ve enjoyed in the U.S. and developed world. Rather, it is from nations grown powerful in their ability to impact nature continuing to thrash about this planet for ways to jump-start growth. It’s time to stop telling people we can grow our way to a restored Chesapeake Bay and planet, and to explain how prosperity and quality of life can exist separate from growth. Indeed, that’s the only way they will exist for most of us. Take a look at the first meaning of “growth” in any good dictionary: “to spring up and come to maturity.” It’s time we acted our age. Tom Horton, of Salisbury, Md., is a professor of environmental studies at Salisbury University and has written about the Chesapeake Bay for more than 40 years.
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• “Why is the person that owns
the burned out property on Wilson Street allowed to let that eyesore stand for so long?”
• “It’s a great thing to hear the
Lower Swatara commissioners have approved two police officers to replace the two that left. This is a great step in the right direction for our community and mending a lot of valuable relationships. I speak for many here so, sincerely, thanks for keeping our and your police department running. Positive actions deserve as much attention as negative actions. Kudos on this one, Board of Commissioners.”
• “Good acts breed great relationships and can quickly kill a lot of negativity.”
• “So I saw two Lower Swatara
officers out on Friday night who looked absolutely exhausted. Come to find out that one was working 18 hours straight and another was on a 22-hour stretch due to low manpower. Firstly, I feel horrible for those two officers who had to work that long, but secondly, the danger this poses not only to themselves but the public in general. No one person can think clearly or straight with that long of time on duty. Officers are put in serious situations that sometimes require life and death split-second decisions and you have two officers clearly exhausted making those kinds of decisions. It’s a shame on the commissioners for allowing the manpower to get this way just to save a few dollars. I guess it doesn’t affect their family so they don’t care; bottom line is they’re saving money and that’s all they care about.”
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Clinton and Donald Trump said, ‘The EgyptAir plane was probably brought down by terrorists.’ Commercial came on, so I turn over to Channel 8. They were doing a segment on the ‘stupid things’ that Donald Trump has said. He said, ‘The Egpytair plane was probably brought down by terrorists.’ Never mentioned that their girl Hillary said the exact same thing. And that Susan woman, when she says the word ‘Republican’ she spits the word out like you and I would say ‘ISIS.’ Very unprofessional, Channel 8. If this gets printed, someone cut it out and mail it to whoever is in charge of Channel 8. Me? I’ll never watch any news on that channel again.”
• “Love how the Middletown Area School Board kicks the can down the road by two years of zero tax increase. The board is just setting up the next board to deal with the shortsightedness. Shame on the administration for not standing up to these goofballs.”
• “OK, the joke is over. Ha, ha,
very funny. Can we please have Barbara Layne back on the school board to restore some common sense? These new board members are uninformed people.”
• “People, remember Benghazi.
We already know how Clinton will answer the 3 a.m. call.”
• “Good employees do need protection when attacked without reason by self-serving small minded leaders, scary truth!”
• “Yes, the LSPD isn’t happy
because they might make $60,000 to $100,000, but that is only if they work overtime, which means basically living at the station and giving up their life. How would you like to eat all your holiday meals at a little table with hard chairs and maybe have your family bring you leftovers if you’re lucky? Or better yet,
how would you like to miss most of your children’s events because you only get off one weekend a month? But oh, wait, in order to make $60,000 I am going to have to take those two overtime shifts? People, come on, we need the police, start supporting them, go to meetings, they just want to be able to live happier lives with their families!”
• “I want to hear from Fager, not
Finkenbinder. Fager is even at the hearings.”
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the Press And Journal at the picture of the brick work. Does anyone else see the problem I see? When it rains, especially in the winter, I can see the water pooling and freezing. I can also see a lawsuit coming from the first person that is injured from a fall there. Just drive through Steelton when it’s raining and you can see the water pools in all of the places where they put brick, too.”
• “In a city of a couple million peo-
ple, maybe 1,000 hit the streets flying the Mexican flag and protesting Donald Trump’s run for president. What do you think those other million plus people are thinking? When the majority of Americans cast their vote, those 1,000 ‘thugs’ can pack up and head south. No one’s going to miss them.”
• “It was Bill Clinton that pushed
to have it made illegal for banks to deny a loan to people that could not afford it – folks making $10,000 a year and trying to buy a house priced at $400,000. Thereby he was the cause of the housing bust and foreclosures that caused the banks to go bust.”
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Ebenezer United Methodist Church
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. We also offer a variety of other groups including Bible studies. For additional information please contact the church office at 939-0766 or e-mail us at ebenezerumc890@ comcast.net.
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. 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. 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 p.m. followed by Round Table discussion; Sociable Seniors group meets the 1st and 3rd Monday of every month from 1 to 3 p.m.; 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. Short-term morning Bible Study
meets Wednesdays at 10 a.m. “Forever In Love With Jesus.” Covers portraits of Christ from Book of Hosea and the Gospel of John. Community is welcome. Pastor Britt writes a daily devotional on Facebook page, “One Way, One Truth, One Life.” We invite all to read it. Nursery: Dana Rhine, Evette Graham. Men’s Group meets every Thursday morning at 6 a.m. for prayer. Community men invited. Our “Prayer and Veggie Garden” is being started. Wooden pickets inscribed for the fence are being sold for a cost in memory of, honor of, or family name. Contact Michelle Strohecker at 717-982-5068. Wacky Wednesday children’s program starts Wednesday, June 8 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. All children in kindergarten through 5th grade are invited. Contact Carol Helman at 944-4861 to register or register on June 8. The program is four Wednesday’s in June: 8, 15, 22 and 29. 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.
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Calvary Orthodox Presbyterian Church
Evangelical United Methodist 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.
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 As we begin to move into summer, we find that this is not a time to take a vacation; but rather, it is a time to rest in the Lord, wait upon His favor and reach out and minister to our neighbors in Middletown. The God’s Kitchen Community Dinner will continue throughout the summer, as will the Threads of Hope. Youth 10Xs Better are having their 19th Annual Wheel-A-Thon. The event will be held June 25, 2016 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Each year we engage the community and ensure that a large number of our youth receive new (brand new) bikes. At this point we have at least 15 participating vendors. These vendors consist of health vendors, food vendors, community resources (fire trucks, police force, etc.), bike repairs, motorcycles, face painting, reading activities, churches, and children’s games, etc. We continue to Worship at 9:15 a.m., with Blended Worship: New Spirit Praise Team and Hymns accompanied by the organ. Starting last Sunday we had three Small Group Bible Studies at 10:30 a.m. following worship. Journey 101 – Knowing, Loving and Serving God. Call the office to sign up for a Small Group: (a) Loving God or (b) Serving God; or the New International
Bible Study: the Gospel of Luke. You are welcome to come join us for small group fellowship and learning God’s Word. Our Lord calls us into Fellowship with Him to walk in His ways and minister in His Name, without the “fellowship of other believers” and being guided by the Word of God, others cannot see Jesus’ love in us. So, can you meet the challenge? Can you meet the Mission of “making disciples for Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world?” Can you meet the Goal of everyone having a place in the worship and ministry of Wesley Church? Everyone is our neighbor who God calls us to get to know! We are called to connect to the stranger that comes into God’s Kitchen or into Youth 10Xs Better, or into Threads of Hope. Thanks be to God who gives us the Spiritual Gifts to serve Him in this place! 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. If you normally eat alone, this is an opportunity for you to share a meal in fellowship with other folks who normally eat alone. Come share the bounty of fun, fellowship and a meal. No strings attached! 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. Threads of Hope has clothing and household supplies for the survivors of the Middletown fire. 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, finances God’s way, Bible Study, Chess Class, photography and art classes as well as other events. There is also a Men’s Discipleship Class every Saturday at 8 a.m. Remember, we are your “neighbors” here at Wesley Community Church and we desire to meet you, connect with you and serve the community together with you.
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 June 1-7 are always open to everyone. Wed., June 1: 3 p.m., Frey Village Vesper Service; 6 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous Book Study. Thurs., June 2: 6 p.m., Girl Scout Troop #10067.
Sun., June 5: 9 a.m., Sunday Church school with classes for all ages. Adult Sunday school devotional leader for June: June Martin; 10:15 a.m., Worship service. Holy Communion; Graduate Recognition Sunday. The worship center is handicap and wheelchair accessible. Greeters: Bonnie Bathurst, Forney and Mary Jane Rife. Lay Liturgist: Donna Burkholder. Nursery helpers: Gloria Clouser, Vickie Hubbard. The altar flowers are given in honor of the 61st Wedding Anniversary of Sue and Bill Neiman presented by son David. Tues., June 7: 2 p.m., Prayer Shawl Ministry.
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. Wed., June 1: 6:30 p.m., Bells rehearsal; No Chancel Choir rehearsal. Church School for our Adult Forum class continues on June 5 from 9:15 to 10:15 a.m. College students are at a critical time in their lives where worldviews, values, and beliefs are being shaped. They are given resources for leadership, money, and power. But how will they learn to use their lives in the service of the Kingdom of God? Come to a discussion with InterVarsity
staff Jesse Stowell to learn how InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Penn State Harrisburg is addressing these needs, how God is present on campus, and how students are partnering in God’s mission and growing in faith. Please join us for worship at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, June 5. 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 bags for children to utilize during the service. Do join us. 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.
St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church
Middletown St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Wyoming Street, Royalton. IndividuChurch is located at Spring and Union als may also take items directly to the streets, (121 N. Spring St.), Middle- food pantry, which is open Tuesdays town. We are a Reconciling In Christ and Fridays, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Church. The Community Action Commission Please join us for worship. Our wor- office is open Tuesdays from 10 a.m. ship times are: Wednesday morning at to 1 p.m. at the same location. 10 a.m., Saturday evening, 5 p.m., and Church and Community Events: Sunday, 8:15 a.m. and 11a.m. Sunday Wed., June 1:10 a.m., Holy Commorning worship is at 9 a.m., through munion, Chapel; 1:30 p.m., Interfaith Sunday, September 4. Our Sunday Apts. Holy Communion. worship service is broadcast at 11am Fri., June 3: SYNOD ASSEMBLY on WMSS 91.1FM. Our Saturday begins and continues through Sun., service is a casual traditional service. June 5. This service usually is 45 minutes in Sat., June 4: SYNOD ASSEMBLY length. Please enter the church through continues; 8:30 a.m. -1 p.m., Frey Vilthe parking lot door. lage Strawberry Festival; 1:30 to 3:30 The first Sunday of each month is p.m., Stella and Dot Event in Luther Food Pantry Sunday. Needed are Hall; 5 p.m., Holy Communion. personal care items: toothpaste, Sun., June 5: SYNOD ASSEMBLY toothbrushes, deodorant, shampoos, concludes; Food Pantry Sunday; 9 soaps, lotions, and paper products a.m., Holy Communion. (toilet tissue, tissues, paper towels) and Mon., June 6: 2 p.m., Middletown food items: cereals, Bisquick, pancake Home Holy Communion. mixes, syrup, cake mixes and frostings, Wed., June 8: 10 a.m., Holy Comcondiments (ketchup, mustard, mayo, munion-Chapel; 3 p.m., Frey Village relishes, pickles and olives), puddings Holy Communion. and gelatins. These are items not Visit our website at www.stpeconsistently purchased or available at tersmiddletown.org. Central PA Food Bank. Items collected Scripture for June 5: 1 Kings are taken to the Middletown Area 17:17-24; Ps 30; Gal 1:11-24; Luke Interfaith Food Pantry located at 201 7:1-11-17.
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 Spring & Union Sts., Middletown Church Office 944-4651
REV. DR. J. RICHARD ECKERT, Pastor
Saturday Worship With Spoken Liturgy - 5 pm Summer Worship Schedule Thru Sept. 4 Worship Service - 9 am • No Sunday School Worship Broadcast on 91.1 FM - 11 am Kierch Sundays - July 3, September 6
BRAD GILBERT, Pastor
Seven Sorrows BVM Parish
Evangelical United Methodist Church
REV. TED KEATING, JR., Pastor
www.ebenezerumc.net
Spruce & Water Sts., Middletown REV. ROBERT GRAYBILL, Pastor Sunday School (all ages) - 9 am Sunday Worship - 10:15 am
Geyers United Methodist Church
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
1605 South Geyers Church Road, Middletown 944-6426
REV. MARGARET “Pastor Peggy” SPENGLER, Pastor Pastor James Lyles, Youth Pastor, 10xBetter
Worship - 9 am - Followed by Coffee Fellowship Sunday School - 10:30 am
Sunday Worship - 9:15 am Small Groups - 10:30 am
PASTOR STEVAN ATANASOFF
Phone 944-6242
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LaVonne Ackerman • 1438 Old Reliance Road • LaVonneAck@comcast.net Welcome, June! Please go easy on us. May was freezing cold, then way too hot! We want to ease into summer temperatures without breaking out in prickly heat. June is the month for weddings and love. I will be sharing romance poems, so this month will be a hot one! Please feel free to share engagements and weddings here. Also, let your neighbors know about new babies, where graduates are going to college and what fun plans you have for the summer. Have a wonderful week! Wedding anniversary gifts Just so you know, for the wedding anniversary month of June: First – clock; Second – china; Third – crystal/glass; Fourth – appliances; Fifth – silverware; Sixth – wool; Seventh – desk sets; Eighth – linens/ lace; Ninth – leather; 10th – diamond jewelry; 11th – fashion jewelry; 12th –pearls; 13th– textiles/furs; 14th – gold jewelry; 15th – watches; 20th – platinum; 25th – silver; 30th – diamond; 35th – jade; 40th – ruby; 45th – sapphire; 50th – gold; 55th – emerald; 60th – diamond. Love Was, Love Is, Love Will Be, Love Eternally Peter Stavropoulos Love was... When ‘if’ lay between you and I And ‘never’ seemed forever I fell to earth in surrender And you became the centre of my eye Love is... When I pass by you accidentally I grab a sense of your smile When between us is distance measured by the mile I grab a sense of our love immeasurably Love will be... When I can no longer see to see When I can no longer hear to hear I know you will be near Simply just you and me Love eternally... When God granted us our wish finally He put in us a throbbing heart When it stops from this earth we will depart But our Love will live eternally
Birthdays Happy razzle-dazzle birthday to Al Tomalis of Lower Swatara Twp. as he celebrates another cake day on Wednesday, June 1. Have a wonderful day, Al. Pamela Morsberger of East Hanover Twp. celebrates her cool-parade birthday on Wednesday, June 1. I hope you celebrate you all month long. Best wishes to Andrea Harvey of Lower Swatara on Thursday, June 2. May your day be full of 27 fun and amazing things. Lamar Ventura of Lower Swatara turns 15 on Friday, June 3. Yay, school is out and you get to celebrate all month long! Happy 22nd cake day to Aaron Suknaic of Lower Swatara. Hope your day is sweet on Friday, June 3. Rich Severin marks his 24th cake and ice cream day on Friday, June 3. Keep the party going all weekend long and enjoy! Brenda Rineer of Lower Swatara will hear the birthday song on Saturday, June 4. May it be a very sweet sound to your ears, Brenda. Happy fun-filled quarter-of-a-century birthday to Liz DiFrancisco of Lower Swatara on Saturday, June 4. Congrats to you! Best wishes for a over-the-top landmark 18th birthday to Jarrod Rife of Lower Swatara. He celebrates on Saturday, June 4. Happy birthday to Marc Breon, who marks his 24th frosty-filled day on Sunday, June 5. I hope you get to do something amazing on your birthday weekend, Marc. Keyana Allensworth of Lower Swatara celebrates cake day No. 12 on Sunday, June 5. Hoping it is superspecial for you! Happy last-teener birthday to Brian Kelly of Lower Swatara on Monday, June 6. Make 19 be amazing! Angela Hernandez of Lower Swatara celebrates her 15th snappy-happy birthday on Monday, June 6. Have a wonderful week, Angela. Best wishes for a terrific birthday to Nate Kinsey of Lower Swatara as he turns into a teenager on Monday, June 6. May No. 13 be the best year for you yet!
Hey, Joe Giulivo of Lower Swatara! Have a rootin’-tootin’ fantastic 50th birthday on Monday, June 6. Enjoy all you do. Brayden Reigle of Lower Swatara will blow out eight candles atop his super-sweet cake on Monday, June 6. Congrats, and keep smiling! Happy Sweet 16 beep-beep-honk day to Dominick Barillo of Royalton on Monday, June 6. Be safe. Be happy. Janelle Dukes of Lower Swatara will hear the birthday song on Tuesday, June 7 as she turns 21. Congrats, and best wishes in all you do, Janelle. Happy 14th confetti-popping day to Macy Appleby of Lower Swatara on June 7. I hope your Tuesday cake day is just how you like it. Anniversaries Happy 43rd wedding anniversary to Ed and MaryAnn Carpenter of Lower Swatara. They celebrate their romantic holiday on Wednesday, June 1. Congrats! Nathaniel and Rachel Perry of Middletown mark their second anniversary on Wednesday, June 1. Happy china gift anniversary to you both! Best wishes to Bill and Dawn Mattes of Lower Swatara as they observe their 22nd hearts, flowers and love day on Saturday, June 4. Enjoy! Dave and Pam Yandrich of Lower Swatara celebrate 33 swell years of wedded bliss on Saturday, June 4. Hope your weekend is super-special, guys. Jerry and Paula Staub of Lower Swatara were married on June 6, 1975. Happy 41st anniversary on Monday. Enjoy it all week long. York dean’s list The following local students were named to the dean’s list at York College for the spring semester: • Adrian Graff, of Middletown, a senior biology major • Madison Lewis, of Middletown, a sophomore nursing major • Cara Anderson, of Hummelstown, a sophomore who has not declared a major • Joel Hess, of Elizabethtown, a sophomore who has not declared a major
• Paige Huntington, of Elizabethtown, a sophomore psychology major • Jordan Specht, of Elizabethtown, a senior computer engineering major Mansfield dean’s list Benjamin Danner, of Middletown, was named to the dean’s list at Mansfield University, Mansfield, for the spring semester. Lancaster Country Day grads The following local students were among the 55 seniors who graduated from Lancaster Country Day School, Lancaster, on Friday, May 21: • Alexander d’Entremont, son of Jessica Woolridge of Middletown • Steven Frick, son of Kathy Cerullo-Frick and Michael Frick of Hummelstown Quote of the Week “Time has a way of showing us what really matters.” – Anonymous Question of the Week What is the best thing about the last week of school? “We get to go on our picnic.” – Isaiah Rogers Keeney, 11, Middletown. “I love summer! I am looking forward to being able to sleep in!” – Terry Seaton, Hummelstown. “As a teacher, I look forward to spending more family time with everybody being off this summer.” – John Rhodes, Hummelstown. “There is less work in class.” – William Benkovic, 13, Lower Paxton Twp. “I get to bring all my projects home from the whole year.” – Anna Benkovic, 7, Lower Paxton. “We get to play outside more, and we play more games.” – Jon Benkovic, 5, Lower Paxton. Proverb for the Week To man belong the plans of the heart, but from the Lord comes the reply of the tongue (16:1).
MAHS students awarded $58,00 in scholarships MAHS students earn $58,000 in awards. Students at Middletown Area High School reaped the rewards of their hard work, collecting more than $58,000 in local scholarship awards for their academic work, leadership, musicianship and athleticism at the school’s annual Honors Night on Thursday, May 19 at Middletown Area Middle School.The National Honor Society at MAHS inducted 16 new members during a ceremony held before the awards were presented. The awards, and the winners, are: • Denise Frisbee Scholarship – Samantha Altland • Run for Joe – PRIDE Scholarship – Megan Shatto • Donald Conrad Memorial Scholarship – Cheyanne Frayre • Middletown Alumni Association 2-to-4-year School Scholarship – Eric Belles, Charity Cooper, Brooke Myers and Brooke Sides • Robert Reid Elementary School PTO Scholarship – Alyssa Ebersole • G.W. Fraser Scholarship – Andrew Yeich • Ruth Coble Scholarship – Charity Cooper and Cassidy Snyder • John C. Kunkel Elementary School PTA Scholarship – Rachel Applegate and Andrew Yeich • Class of ’58 Pathways to Pride Scholarship (science and health pathway) – Angela Shields • Ruth L. Graham Award – Michael Osayi • Middletown Scholar Athlete – Eric Belles and Charity Cooper • Ted Essex Memorial Award – Garrett Deyle • Middletown Three Season Athlete – Megan Danilowicz, Morgan Danilowicz, Charles Euker, Brandon Harper and Michael Osayi • H.K. Alwine Award – Jenna Abbott and Fabiola Hernandez • Lower Swatara Lions Club Sophomore Award – Keely Lombardi and Jacob Spear • Woodmen of the World American History Award – Shannon Reese • Edward E. Brunner Memorial Scholarship – Abigail Gipe • American Legion Americanism
Award – Trevor Fuller and Meaghan Nelson • Edward Tennis Memorial Scholarship – Justin Imler • Work Experience Scholarship – Alyssa Ebersole and Mark Wagner • George Lenker Football Award – Jarred Rife • Mel Fager Senior Awards – Makayla Anderson, Morgan Millhouse, Gerardo Ortiz, Ramon Ortiz, Sang Pui and Owen Shank • Ben Olsen Soccer Scholarship – Michael Brinton • Blue & Gold Club Student Award – Kassidy Deibler and Brandon Harper • Bill & Betty Fox Scholarship – Eric Belles • Phoenix Contact Big 33 Award – Alyssa Ebersole and Katelynn Kennedy • Elizabeth G. Alesick Scholarship Award – Lyndsay Truax • Mid Penn Bank Best Attendance Award – Makayla Anderson • Class of 1948 Academic Scholarship – Michael Brinton • William & Wyllis Leonard Scholarship – Samantha Romberger • Karen K. Kasper Performing Arts Scholarship – Nicole Whittle • R. James Kleinfelter Chemistry
Award – Levi Buckwalter • Raider Club Honorary Football Scholarship – Michael Osayi, Jarred Rife and Justin Shaver • Ida Prouser Orstein/B’nai Jacob Synagogue Scholarship – Charity Cooper • PIAA District 3/Fackler-Hower Scholarship – Brooke Myers and Michael Osayi • GRIT Scholarship – Megan Shatto • E.E. Jerry Brooks Award – Eric Belles and Charity Cooper • One for the Kids Scholarships – Jenna Abbott, Fabiola Hernandez, Jarred Rife and Connor Wallett • Hall Foundation Scholarship – Taylor Kolish • Kiwanis Club Scholarship – Garrett Deyle • Middletown Area Education Association Scholarship – Samantha Altland • Anna Woodside Scholarship – Samantha Romberger • Field Hockey Booster Club Scholarship – Abigail Gipe and Megan Shatto • Hugh O’Brian Leadership Recognition – Sarah Fluke • Rotary Service Above Self Scholarship – Rachel Applegate
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Emily McKissick was named the Rotary Club of Hummelstown’s Student of the Month and Cammi Fletcher was named the Hummelstown Women’s Club’s Student of the Month for April at Lower Dauphin High School.
She plans to attend Berklee College of Music and major in commercial music/music business after she takes a year to do volunteer work and travel.
McKissick, daughter of Cate and Eric McKissick, is a four-year member of the high school’s choral program, earning national honors last year as a member of the All-National Mixed Choir. She is also a four-year member of the spring musical, playing “Alice” in this year’s production of “The Addams Family.’’ She is also active in the high school Thespian Society, participating in the fall plays and Dramapalooza. She is a two-year member and treasurer of the Tri-M Music Honor Society. In the community, she sings competitively and works at the Cocoa Beanery in the Hotel Hershey.
Fletcher, daughter of Kirk and Chrissy Fletcher, is a member of the girls’ lacrosse and soccer teams. She is a member of the National Honor Society, National English Honor Society and National Science Honor Society. She is active with MiniTHON and Volunteen, volunteers with Special Olympics and serves as a mentor in Lower Dauphin’s outdoor education program. In the community, she works for East Hanover Twp.’s summer recreation program, coaches youth soccer and volunteers at the food pantry. She plans to attend Slippery Rock University, Butler County, and major in pharmacy.
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Graduate Kenneice Duncan, center, hugs her boyfriend, Alex Furlan, after the commencement ceremony.
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Graduate Fabiola Hernandez, center, with grandmother Maria Barajas and father Moises Hernandez.
Seniors pose for a photograph backstage at the Forum before commencement begins.
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Graduate Cassidy Snyder, center, with her mother, Michelle, right, and grandmother, Shirley Thomas – and a bouquet made of money
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Graduate Canar Morrison, second from left, with grandmother Linda Eshenaur, left; mother Nicole Morrison; and uncle Scott Harmon.
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Graduate Ky-Yahn Garrison, right, shares the moment – and his cap – with his brother, Anthony, a sophomore at the high school.
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Valedictorian Eric Belles, left, and Salutatorian Samantha Romberger.
iddletown Area High School’s Class of 2016 collected the diplomas they earned at the school’s commencement at the Forum in Harrisburg on Thursday, May 26 – then tossed their graduation caps into the air and began their journey into the world. More than 160 seniors attended, in blue and gold gowns, and marched across the stage in the cavernous auditorium, which was nearly filled to capacity with family and friends. It marked the 137th time
MAHS held a commencement, but the Class of 2016 will be remembered “with great fondness’’ for its accomplishments – and for its place in the history, said Superintendent Lori Suski. The school will be demolished this summer and replaced by a new school next school year. “You have certainly left an indelible mark on our lives and we will always remember you as the last class to graduate from Middletown Area High School as we know it,’’ she told the graduates.
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Graduate Michael Osayi, above, who signed a letter of intent to play football at Wilkes University in the fall, reveals his Philadelphia Eagles necktie beneath his robe. Valedictorian Eric Belles, right, gives a farewell speech to his class during commencement.
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