Print Edition Highlights - February 14, 2013

Dillsburg Borough seeks liquor referendum
Mayor vetos resolution, council overturns veto
By Mary Lou Bytof

____ Although the Borough of Dillsburg has been a dry town for many decades, the town council voted Tuesday night to pass a resolution seeking a referendum on the May 21 ballot to allow voters to decide whether they wish to permit the sale of alcohol in designated areas of the borough.
____ In a 5-1 vote, the council passed Resolution 2013-1 to petition the York County Board of Elections for a local option referendum on the question regarding the granting of liquor licenses for the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages in the borough. However, before the referendum can appear on the municipal primary election ballot in May, the York County election board must receive a petition with the signatures of 292 registered voters who live in the borough. Those circulating the petition are limited by time, as the election board must receive all the signatures by March 11, which is less than one month away.
____ “Basically, we’re putting it on the agenda and letting the people decide if they want this,” said Councilman John Richardson after the meeting. He said the council considered the referendum after hearing requests from several people outside of the council.

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Between 1 and 3 million gallons of water escape
from break in water main
Basement of house fills with water, may be condemned
By Jeffrey B. Roth

Photo by Curt Werner
A worker saws through the 10-inch cast iron pipe to fix the break in the line Tuesday morning. Between 1 and 3 million gallons escaped, filling the basement of a nearby house is less than a half hour.

____ Officials are not certain what may have caused a Tuesday water main to break releasing from 1 to 3 million gallons of water into the basement of a nearby house, in Boiling Springs.
____ Robert Kissinger, manager of the South Middleton Township Municipal Authority, said Wednesday, that the break of the 10-inch cast iron water pipe was discovered around 3 a.m., at 201 Walnut Street, when Esther and Jack Heisel heard, what they described to officials as a loud explosion outside of their home. The family dog led the couple to their basement door, which when opened, revealed water flowing into the house.
____ The Heisels called 911 and the South Middleton Township Fire Company responded. By the time firefighters arrived on the scene, the basement had filled with water to a depth of about 10 feet; up to the floor joists. Once it reached that depth, the water began flowing out of the house onto the property.

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Local chiropractor celebrates 25 years
By Erica Smithson

Photo by Curt Werner
J. Clifford Renyo, D.C. explains the vertebrate to Lisa Lerew at the Dillsburg Chiropractic Center.

____ Dr. J. Clifford Renyo, of the Dillsburg Chiropractic Center, is celebrating 25 years in practice.
Renyo is a cum laude graduate from Texas Chiropractic College. He is board-certified by the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners. In 1987, he became licensed to practice chiropractic and licensed in adjunctive therapy techniques. He opened his Dillsburg practice in February 1988. Not wanting to limit his skills and expertise to the walls of his office, Renyo has also been a certified instructor for the American Red Cross where he taught the “Protect Your Back” course for many years. He has been approved as an expert witness by the Court of Common Pleas in York, Cumberland and Dauphin Counties on matters concerning automobile accident injuries. He has also been approved as an expert witness for workers’ compensation cases. Renyo has always maintained strong ties to this community. He is a member of the Dillsburg Kiwanis and works philanthropically with the Polar Bear Foundation and New Hope Ministries.
____ It seems to have been written in the stars that Renyo would become a doctor. His father was an optometrist and his high school nickname was “Doc.” His school years in New Jersey were well spent. He was a starting lineman on his high school’s state championship football team. To this day, he remains close with his teammates and coaches, getting together with them every Thanksgiving morning to have a reunion breakfast.
____ Renyo said he connects with central Pennsylvania and his practice has been able to thrive here for two-and-a-half decades because he has felt drawn to this area since his days in college. His undergraduate studies in biology and chemistry brought him to Lebanon Valley College in Annville.

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Local attorney opens new office in Dillsburg

Photo by Curt Werner
Attorney John G. Bergdoll has recently opened a law office at 5 East Harrisburg St., Suite 204, in Dillsburg.

____Attorney John G. Bergdoll has always called the Northern York County area home. He grew up in Wellsville and graduated from Northern High School. For the past five years, he has even lived in his childhood home, which he bought from his parents. Since graduating from Penn State’s Dickinson School of Law in Carlisle and passing the bar in 2005, Bergdoll’s goal has been to serve the legal issues of the people in his hometown community. He has recently opened a law office at 5 East Harrisburg St., Suite 204, in Dillsburg.
____“When I decided to do law, I really wanted to be in this area. I like helping people and dealing with local issues,” said Bergdoll.
____Though Bergdoll began his law career with an office in York and has also had an office out of his home in Wellsville, he is looking to work in Dillsburg full-time if he can get someone else to staff his York office. He said Dillsburg is an ideal location, in part because he can work in several jurisdictions, including Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin and York Counties.

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“Hello Dolly” hits the stage at NHS

____What happens when small town meets big city with a little musical matchmaking thrown in for good measure? Audiences will find out when Northern High School proudly presents “Hello Dolly!” Slated for March 1 and 2 at 7 p.m. and March 3 at 3 p.m., “Hello Dolly” is directed by Laura Bissell and assisted by Becky Myers, with instrumental music directed by Jeremy Leidhecker and choreography directed by Sharon Gochenauer.
____A Tony Award-winning success on Broadway, Jerry Herman’s “Hello Dolly” pits widowed and brassy Dolly Levi, a self-proclaimed “meddling” matchmaker, against crusty, chauvinistic “half-a-millionaire” Horace Vandergelder, who opposes the proposed wedding between his niece and a budding-but-stereotypically starving artist. With action hopping back and forth between small-town Yonkers with its quaint hat shop and feed store and sophisticated New York City’s swanky restaurants and high society, it seems the whole community is involved in unlikely match-ups and plot mix-ups. With secret scandals and entrepreneurial dreams, high jinx and peppy parades, there’s never a dull moment as the Yonkers crew takes on the Big Apple. And in true romantic comedy fashion, after a series of teeter-totter love advances and rebuffs between Dolly and Horace, eventually, Horace finds himself practically penniless and down a few societal notches but admitting his love for Dolly. In return, she promises, as the famed tune states, that she’ll “never go away again.”
____Beyond its Broadway billing, “Hello Dolly” was nominated for seven Academy Awards in its 1969 film format starring Barbra Streisand. Locally, Northern seniors Kim Bartol and Evan Brubaker will play the roles of Dolly and Horace, backed by a full cast pit, and crew numbering more than 60 students.

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Lippy named champion of Busy Bee Competition

Seated from left are Megan Zagoric, McKenzie Shank, Rachel Lippy (Champion), Molly Kellam, Mariah Shope, Paige Tamecki; standing Ericka Kauffman, Frederik Schumacher, Logan Mabus, Cory Poe, Justin Myers, Ed Busch, Jared Hubbart and Lexie Swanger.

____ Rachel Lippy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Lippy, was recently honored as the champion of the 16th annual Busy Bee Competition at an award ceremony held in the Northern High School library. By mastering basic concepts as indicated in both written and oral examination, Lippy and the other winners were given recognition for demonstrating their excellence in the field of cellular respiration and the biological sciences.
____ Award recipients were selected by achieving the highest scores from the testing of the students in biology classes of Charles Griscavage and Ryan Fryer, sponsors of the Busy Bee Competition.

Pictured from left are Jena Liner (2nd place), Kennedy Shank (1st place) and Ericka Kauffman (3rd place).

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____ Before I had a chance to say hello Mike said, “I have a very bad memory. I really can’t remember things that far back. To be honest, I got C’s and D’s in high school, but at college I did phenomenally well.”
____ These were the first comments Mike said to me as we sat down at a table at Ferrante’s Pizzeria for our afternoon chat. By the end of our talk, my brain kept playing over and over again the fifty year old theme song of the classic cartoon series produced by Hanna-Barbera in 1962 called, The Jetsons. So, “....Meet, George Jetson...”
____ Michael O. Harpster was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania on September 24, 1969.
____ When he was three or four years old his family moved to Mechanicsburg while they were building a house in Dillsburg. As long as Mike can remember, he has always lived in Dillsburg. His parents, Michael Sr. and his mother Rhonda have five children. Michael Jr. is the oldest, his sister Holly is a year younger, his brother Nathan is six years younger and then there are Kristen and Amy.

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The Miracle of Music
By Curt Werner

Photos by Curt Werner
Helen Middleton sings "Amazing Grace" with the Jazz Me Band, led by Kirk Wise, at the Valentine's Day dance at Dillsburg's Elmcroft on Wednesday, Feb. 6.

____ Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, which means romance is in the air for kids and seniors alike. Dillsburg's Elmcroft had a Sweetheart Dance on Wednesday, Feb. 6. Hearts were hung from the ceiling, tables were neatly decorated and a long table against the wall had a wide range of desserts lined up. The entertainment was by Jazz Me Band, led by Kirk Wise.
____ One week ago, Cindy Middleton, who lives in Michigan and is on temporary leave from the U.S. Air Force, received a phone call from Elmcroft advising her if she wanted to visit her mother, 92-year-old Helen Middleton, now was the time, as Helen’s health was fading.
____ Helen had a wonderful talented life. She loved to paint and music was a big part of her life – especially honky tonk. Throughout her years living in Summerdale, Helen had three sons and two daughters. Music was always in the house, something through which the whole family could bond. They even formed a group called the Middleton Family Singers and, in 1969, made an appearance on the “Ted Mack Show.”

Helen Middleton, Kirk Wise and Cindy Middleton.

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