Print Edition Highlights - December 13, 2012

Santa visits Legion
By Curt Werner

Photo by Curt Werner
Tylar, 1 year old, and Kyleigh Myers, 2 years old, talk to Santa.

____Breakfast with Santa was held at the Dillsburg American Legion Post 26 on Saturday, Dec. 8. The two-session event had 110 children and 170 adults in attendance.
____Two large, decorated Christmas trees towered in the banquet room, alongside row after row of long tables. At the end of the tables were volunteers ready to serve breakfast. Scrambled eggs, pancakes, bacon, sausage, tater tots, milk, juice and coffee were on the menu. Santa, with his bright red suit and big fluffy white beard, sat to the side as he waited for the children to finish their breakfasts.
____One by one, the children lined up to sit on his lap and tell them their Christmas wishes. The youngest to see Santa was a six week old boy and the oldest, well, no age was given.
____Santa gave each child a small gift and then the kids walked through a decorated arch into another room full of presents separated into age groups. Cars, trucks, toys with sirens and dolls were favorites among the children.

See the December 13, 2012 edition of the Dillsburg Banner for details.

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Spirit of Giving

____The New Hope Ministries project, Christmas Blessing Express, was held at Calvary Church on Wednesday, Dec. 12.

Photos by Curt Werner
Volunteer Pat Curry hands out containers of food during New Hope’s Christmas Blessing Express project.

Volunteers wrap gifts at Calvary Church Wednesday morning.

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On future taxes, Carroll Twp. supervisor says 'anything could happen'
By Peggie Williams

____While the vote to raise taxes in Carroll Township was split last month, the vote to accept the budget that spends that money was unanimous at this month’s meeting. But there were some questions from the public addressed before the vote.
____Karen Deibler said she understood where the extra money was going in 2013 (repairs to the Spring Lane Road bridge, the traffic signal at Spring Lane Road and Route 74, etc.), but she wanted to know what it would be used for in the future. She was reminded that there had been discussion that the tax increase would only be temporary.
____“But we have no idea what the future will be,” said supervisor Bruce Trostle, he added that the township roads were in need of work and he was sure some would be put to use there.

See the December 13, 2012 edition of the Dillsburg Banner for details.

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Local business to offer free Christmas trees to those in need
By Erica Smithson

Photo by Curt Werner
Ken Doll with the help of grandson, Kole, and daughter, Kendra, line up freshly cut Christmas trees along his garage.

____A local businessman, with the help of his friend, is trying to make the holidays a little brighter for those who cannot afford Christmas trees this year. Ken Doll Jr., of Ken Doll Jr.’s General Repair, will be offering free Christmas trees at his auto-repair business, located at 269 Poplar Road in Dillsburg.
____Doll said his friend Ken Dahlhammer, who has an excavating business in East Berlin, was contracted to remove some trees and the two decided to offer the trees for free to anyone in need of one this holiday season.
____“We know times are tough and we want to help people where we can,” said Doll. He added that he and Dahlhammer both having small businesses has given them perspective on “how hard it is to survive.” They know there are people from all walks of life who do not have extra money during the holiday season and are struggling to afford the things they most need. This, coupled with the faith that inspires the holiday season, is what moves the businessmen’s generosity.

See the December 13, 2012 edition of the Dillsburg Banner for details.

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Photos by Curt Werner

____The Northern Middle School recently held their Christmas concert. Performing were 6th, 7th and 8th grade bands under the direction of Chad McCartney. In photo on left is the percussion section and on right are flutists playing in the aisle of the auditorium.

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Bears to host East Penn
By Joe Guty

Photo by Curt Werner
The Northern girls' basketball team lost to Bermudian, 31-25, in a match Friday, Dec. 7. In photo, Northern's Mary Walsh goes high with her jump shot for two points.

____In girls' basketball this Friday night, December, 14, Northern hosts East Pennsboro with the JV squad tip-off at 6 p.m. and the varsity at 7:30 p.m. The Lady Polar Bears travel to Milton Hershey on Saturday before starting a three game home stand when they host Middletown on Monday, December 17.
____Last weekend, the Northern H.S. varsity girls' basketball team faced Bermudian Springs in the opener of the Northern Tip-Off Tournament. Sara Yunez led the Lady Bears with 10 points as Northern held a one point lead going into the final quarter. The Lady Eagles, however, scored the go ahead points down the stretch to prevail, 31-25. Shannon Kuhn led Bermudian with 12 points, most of them in the fourth quarter.
____Northern had seven points from Steph Clark while Kelsi Ceriani added six points and Darby Anderson posted two points. On Saturday in the consolation contest, Northern faced Hershey. Mary Walsh scored nine points and Kelsi Ceriani and Sara Yunez added six points apiece. Other scorers were: Steph Clark (4), Darby Anderson (2), Hope Jacobs (2) and Lexi Waddell (2). Hershey pulled away in the second half to a 58-31 victory as Libby Nolan (23) and Victoria Blackburn (17) led their team.

See the December 13, 2012 edition of the Dillsburg Banner for details.

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Bears take second place in Bubblers' tourney
By Joe Guty

Photo by Curt Werner
The Northern boys' basketball team defeated Greenwood, 55-50, in a match Friday, Dec. 7. In photo, Northern's Kevin Reeder gets a jump shot for two points.

____At the Boiling Springs Boys' Basketball Tip-Off Tournament last weekend, the Northern Polar Bears opened up the new season with a 55-50 victory against Greenwood H.S. which earned them a championship clash on Saturday night with the host Bubblers.
____The Polar Bears fought hard all game long but could not overcome a poor shooting night against an impressive and talented group of Bubblers who prevailed 48-38. Boiling Springs, opening night winners over Susquehannock, maintained a strong lead for most of the night, stretching it out to twenty points at one point in the third quarter.  While Northern was able to narrow the final margin in the closing minutes, they never really threatened in the second half. 
____Senior guard Tanner Dixon paced the Polar Bears with 13 points including three baskets from long-range.  The next leading scorer for Northern, senior forward Travis Saylor, chipped in nine.  Only five players from the Polar Bear squad got into the scoring column in the game, a stat that showed how difficult a night they had on the offensive end against a much larger and very active Boiling Springs team. 

See the December 13, 2012 edition of the Dillsburg Banner for details.

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By Steven M. Nesbit

____His father gave me my first official haircut, a flat top, and his oldest sister was in my high school graduating class. He played the same brass instrument that I did, the trumpet, and he was the keyboard player for our first garage band in the late 1960s.
____Craig Cramer was born January 27, 1954. His father, Roy, was the town barber, and his mother Martha was like a second mom to all of her children's friends. “Mom and dad had three children. My oldest sister, Gay, is three years older than me, and my younger sister, Lois, is seven years younger,” said Craig. “Today [October 19] , as a matter of fact, my parents are celebrating their 65th wedding anniversary. That is so incredible; it's just great.” Their children returned to Dillsburg to celebrate their parents anniversary weekend which coincided with Farmers Fair, too.
____Craig's earliest memory of school was not first grade, believe it or not. “We had kindergarten at the Greiman's house. Mrs. Greiman operated a private kindergarten. There were no public school kindergartens at the time when we were kids,” Craig added. Mrs. Greiman's husband, Ralph Greiman was the pastor at St. Paul's Lutheran church, and their son Jeff was one of Craig's classmates. “I think there were about twelve kids in the kindergarten class,” he said.
____About the only elementary school memory that popped into to Craig's head was “there were 41 kids in my first grade class, and Mr. Rhone was my sixth grade teacher at Northern elementary.” In seventh grade, he went to Northern junior-senior high school. One building housed grades seventh through twelfth at that time. When Craig began walking those hallowed halls at NHS as a freshman, the district had just decided that the new high school would be directly across the street from the old high school. “We, the class of 72, were the first class to graduate at the new high school,” Cramer remembered. “But, for the first year at the new high school, half of the students came during the morning, and the other half [the upper classmen],” he continued, “came to school only in the afternoon for that first semester, and then beginning the second semester we [the seniors] were at school all day.”

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Northern High School class of 2002 . Nina Johnston, Candace Cieslukowski and Mike Creavey put on the Northern High School class of 2002 10-year reunion at the VFW.

Photo includes: Adam Butterbaugh, Emily Hilderbrand, Kerry Edwards, Becky Shumaker Horst, Jenni Cooper, Aurthur Guise, Adam Urich, Alica Malo Urich, Mike Baum, Megan Kochenderfer Bupp, Adriene Felty, Eric Niefert, Joe Dice, Crystal Starcher, John Niedzwiecki, Tracey Wicker Milliken, Andrew Milliken, Candace Cieslukowski, Robert Miller, John Gerberich, Dave Koppenhaver, Sean Riley, Nina Johnston, Mike Creavey, Kenny Baker, Andrew Miller, Tanner Trueax, Sean Stephenson, Ashley Snyder Fink and Allison Maurer Freas.

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