Print Edition Highlights - June 7, 2012

Hats off
to Northern High School 2012 Graduates
By Erica Smithson

Photos by Mark Ryder
Northern High School graduates toss their hats following their commencement ceremony at Christian Life Assembly Tuesday night.

____ Northern High School held its 61st annual commencement program on Tuesday, June 5. The ceremony was held at the Christian Life Assembly church in Camp Hill and 214 seniors were handed their diploma.
____ The end of high school is commonly painted as a look toward the future. After all, it is the symbolic end of childhood and the transition to the next stage in each graduate’s life. However, the themes that all of the featured speakers at the graduation ceremony presented were that you should live in the moment and enjoy the people, places and experiences around you. That does not mean that you should forget the past and future: Valedictorian Nicholas Sooy said the past “guides and grounds us” and the future “directs and drives us.” But we must use these layers to add elements – important lessons and knowledge – to our life. We must embrace what life gives us every day. We must never go backward, nor skip ahead. “Keep the present in mind while you are living it,” said Sooy.
____ Salutatorian Katerina Maylock was the first person to speak, and as others shared their thoughts over the course of the night, it became evident that her speech was the framework for words the Northern High School class of 2012 should live by. Maylock began by saying she wanted her speech to be a reflection on the educational years she has shared with her classmates, but she could not get past kindergarten. This was because she found that author Robert Fulghum said it best: “All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten.” This phrase is popularly seen on posters, but comes from Fulghum’s book of the same name. It is interesting to note, but sometimes hard to believe, that our core ideals were basically taught to us at 5 years old. Maylock elaborated on Fulghum’s ideas and presented several lessons of things taught in childhood that should not be forgotten in adulthood.

Northern High School seniors walk through the aisles to their seats.

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Wellsville commission waits for Dollar General permit
By Carolyn Hoffman

____With the Dollar General subdivision still awaiting its final permit before action by the planning commission, Wellsville Borough Council didn’t have a lot to act on during its June 4 session.
____Wellsville’s planning commission has scheduled a meeting for June 27 at 7 p.m. If approval for the last permit is in hand by then, formal action on the subdivision is likely at that session. That would put the subdivision on the agenda for the next borough council meeting on July 2.
____As it was, the June meeting was a quiet one, with discussion about the biannual tree-trimming along Main Street taking center stage. Secretary Carolyn Yates will get three quotes for the trimming and will accept the lowest. Letters will likely also go out to property owners whose privately owned trees encroach onto the borough right of way, asking them to trim those, as well.
____Signs replacing those damaged during an early spring traffic accident have been purchased and will be installed soon.

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New superintendent: District must do 'more with less'
By MaryLou Bytof

Photo by Curt Werner
Eric Eshbach, left, is the new superintendant of the Northern York County School District. He is replacing Linda Lemmon who is retiring at the end of the month.

____The Northern York County School District board of directors held a special meeting early Monday evening to appoint the district’s new superintendent, Eric C. Eshbach, Ed.D., effective Aug. 1. The board unanimously approved his appointment to the position at a salary of $130,000.
____“I am ready for a change, and I am looking forward to new challenges and a new chapter in my life,” said Eshbach, who is currently the superintendent of the Upper Adams School District in Biglerville, after the brief meeting. “I look forward to getting to know the district and the community.”
____A recent resident of the school district, Eshbach had a few months to get to know the Dillsburg area. He moved to Carroll Township in December from Dover, where he had lived most of his life. He graduated from Dover High School in 1984. He also holds a Bachelor of Science in elementary education from Elizabethtown College, a Master of Science in education administration from Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College) and a doctorate in educational leadership from Duquesne University.

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Local children’s book authors to hold book signing
By Erica Smithson


Book authors Susan (Kreyl) Whitelock and Cathi Dentler will sign copies of their book “Lucy Loves Life: A Summer Day at the Pond” on Sat., June 16, at the Country Collectibles store in Dillsburg.

____Local children’s book authors Susan (Kreyl) Whitelock and Cathi Dentler will sign copies of their book “Lucy Loves Life: A Summer Day at the Pond” on Sat., June 16, at the Country Collectibles store, 121 S. 2nd St., Dillsburg. The signing will run from noon to 2 p.m. and take place in the store’s outside garden. The garden at Country Collectibles is featured in the Dillsburg Garden Tour that also takes place that day.
____Whitelock and Dentler are both former Northern York County School District teachers. Whitelock taught first grade for seven years. She has since moved to Chambersburg School District and, for the last 18 years, has also served as an adjunct professor with Wilson College’s education department, where she supervises student teachers. Dentler was an elementary school art teacher who retired a few years ago after 35 years with the district.
____Whitelock and Dentler have known each other for nearly 40 years. They met in January 1974 when Whitelock got her first teaching job out of college at Dillsburg Elementary School. She taught first grade and got to know Dentler when she sent her students to Dentler’s art class. Whitelock said Dentler is one of the first people who welcomed her to the building.

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D.A.R.E. program holds graduation for
sixth-grade class at Northern Middle School

By Erica Smithson

Alexandra Fishel, one of 10 essay winners, receives a medal and a teddy bear from Officer Martin.

____The Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program graduated a class of 250 Northern Middle School sixth graders on Wednesday, May 30. The graduates received a T-shirt and a certificate for completing the program and also took a pledge to uphold the principles of the program – remaining drug and alcohol free and choosing positive, healthy responses when confronted with peer pressure to make destructive decisions.
____D.A.R.E. is an international program that was founded in 1983. Communities continue to adopt this program year after year. According to D.A.R.E.’s website, dare.com, 41 law enforcement agencies have started this program since the beginning of 2011, and more than 220 communities have started the program in the last three years.
____The goal of D.A.R.E. is to teach students the health effects of harmful substances and actions. The program focuses on areas such as tobacco, illicit drugs, prescription drugs, alcohol and violence. It also reviews peer pressure and teaches students ways of confidently refusing to give in to the pressure. The program runs 10 weeks and is taught by local law enforcement officers. Northern’s program is coordinated by Carroll Township police officer Sgt. John Schreiner, while patrolmen Ron Stiles and Ben Martin serve as instructors.

Sgt. Schreiner, Chief Kapfhammer, Officer Stiles and Officer Martin shook hands with every sixth grader who completed the D.A.R.E. Program when they walked on stage at the Northern High School to receive their certificate.

Training officers and the 10 essay winners are: (front, from left) Hannah Cornett, Grace Dowling, Alexandra Fishel, Miranda Gladwin and Veronica Lockard; (back, from left): Officer Stiles, Mady Adams, Allison Brosius, Blake Sanchez, Hannah Slothower, Mackenzie Winn and Officer Martin.

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