Print Edition Highlights - September 26, 2013
Franklintown celebrates 200 years
Photo by Mark Ryder
Marie Kuykendall, chairperson of the committee and Franklintown Mayor James Adams prepare to load the time capsule Saturday afternoon. On display in the back corner is the uniform Kuykendall wore as a police officer in Franklintown during the 1950s.
____Franklintown Borough spent Saturday Sept. 21 celebrating their 200th birthday.
____In 1813 the town was laid out and lots were doled out in a lottery. In 2013 Marie Kuykendall and her committee gathered up artifacts, photos and documents that gave people a sense of what happened in those 200 years.
____Kuykendall admits it was a lot more work than she thought it would be but even she learned a lot. So did the 200 or so people who attended the event. Many of them were residents or the descendants of former residents.
____Lorraine Maschiocchi, who has only lived in town for two years, spent a lot of time examining the displays that told the history of the town she has moved into. She said it was a very nice event for the community.
____Her friend, long time resident Marlene Rosenberger, agreed. Her husband Alan was considered the town’s historian until his death a few years ago. Much of his hard work was on display.
____A time capsule was loaded under the supervision of borough officials, Council President Richard Blouch and Mayor James Adams, along with special guests Congressman Scott Perry and State Representative Mike Regan. Items placed in the capsule were copies of several local newspapers, toys, memories and stories of many local people, and items to remember the day’s celebration including a t-shirt and an envelope with a commemorative post office cancellation.
____Perry said it was important to preserve tangible things, especially in this electronic age.
____“We learn from the past,” he said and lamented that there wasn’t more emphasis on preservation 200 years ago.
See the September 26, 2013 edition of the Dillsburg Banner for details.
By Peggie Williams
Photo by Curt Werner
Larry Frey brings in sweet potatoes from his field to get ready for his Dillsburg Sweet Potato Festival at Coover Park on Oct 5 and 6.
____The arrival of fall harkens the season of orange vegetables and the mouth waters for all things orange - like sweet potatoes and sweet potato pies, fresh cut sweet potato fries, sweet potatoes baked, sweet potato soup, sweet potato whoopie pies, and sweet potato funnel cakes.
____Sweet potato whoopie pies and funnel cakes? Really? ____
____“Really,” said Larry Frey, the founder of the Dillsburg Sweet Potato Festival to be held on Oct. 5 and 6 at Coover Park on Route 15.
The whoopie pies and funnel cakes are the new additions for this, the sixth annual event.
____Frey says it all started with corn. One day, as he sat at his corn stand on the parking lot of Coover Park, he realized he could also sell sweet potatoes to make a little extra money. The next spring he planted one hundred plants.
____“They’re labor intensive to get started,” explained Frey, “but after that they are easy to grow and produce a lot.”
____At first he was taking them to the Lancaster farm auctions, but he ended up losing money. It was then he came up with the idea of selling them on the roadside like he did his corn. To make it more appealing he started the festival to show people what could be done with them.
See the September 26, 2013 edition of the Dillsburg Banner for details.
By Carolyn Hoffman
____John Dockery was named as the new Warrington Township supervisor at the Sept. 18 meeting, replacing Bob Stoner, who resigned at the previous session. Dockery received the most votes during the May primary election. He will fill Stoner’s unexpired term, which will end at the end of the year. Dockery will appear on the November ballot, and if he wins the general election will be seated for a six year term on the board of supervisors. He is currently on the township’s zoning hearing board.
____Representatives from Roundtop Mountain Resort attended to discuss and invite questions about their future sewage planning ideas. Roundtop generates sewage at five areas on the resort, two of which are currently served by port-a-potties. Sewage amounts to 20,000 gallons a day on a big skiing day, down to about 300 gallons a day during the off-season. The company is discussing the idea of pumping sewage to an equalization basin and portioning the sewage through the sand mound at the tubing lodge, which can handle up to 8,500 gallons of sewage a day. The idea is still in its preliminary stages, and final approval rests as much with the Department of Environmental Protection as with Warrington Township.
See the September 26, 2013 edition of the Dillsburg Banner for details.
Also in the September 26, 2013 edition
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___ -Community events
___ -Obituaries
___ -Births
___ -20 years ago
By Stephanie Kalina-Metzger
The Trailer Trash Chili team at the Harrisburg Kipona Chili Cook-off over the Labor Day weekend.
____ Dillsburg resident Nathan (Nate) Gramm has been cooking for a long time, competing on the chili circuit since 2002 with his Trailer Trash chili.
____ Gramm, owner of G&G Automotive and Performance in Dillsburg, said his love for cooking chili beats out his affinity for fixing cars. This year alone he’s competed in cook-offs from Connecticut to West Virginia and averages between 10-15 cook-offs a year.
____ He and his team competed once again this year in the Kipona chili cook-off on State Street in Harrisburg, winning first place with the People’s Choice award. His wife Jennifer also triumphed, capturing first prize for her home style chili. “Home style is a new category to get more people interested in competing in the cook-offs. It’s pretty much anything goes—chili you’d make at home,” Nate explained.
____ Gramm said his team has done well at Kipona. “Last year we won second place for ‘People’s Choice.’ The Swamp Rats ruled the roost over there for about 12 years,” he said, referring to one of his competitors. “In 2009, we took third place. In 2010, we took first place from them. Last year they beat us. It’s been a back-and-forth battle for People’s Choice. We have fun with it.”
____ As to how he came up with the name ‘Trailer Trash chili?’ “Well,” Nate said, “I certainly don’t intend to offend anyone. When I was young, I bought a trailer and lived the trailer-trash life. People would come over for a football party or something and I’d make a pot of chili and it would be gone. That was our name the first year we competed at Kipona in Harrisburg in 2002 when we served it out of a snowmobile trailer. Our first sign was on rolled rubber roofing.”
See the September 26, 2013 edition of the Dillsburg Banner for details.
By Joe Guty
Northern's Colton Baxter goes high for a catch against Big Spring.
____The game plan is simple: play hard for four quarters.
____Northern improved to 2-2 on the year and proved they can battle for four quarters as they crushed Big Spring 47-13 last Friday at Bostic Field.
____This week, the Polar Bears travel to Greencastle Antrim (1-3 overall and 0-1 in the Colonial) and a bruised Blue Devil squad that dropped a double overtime thriller to Gettysburg last week. It looks to be a classic match-up as Greencastle is eager for a league win. The Bears, meanwhile, found some success and rejuvenation with their running game to complement their formidable passing attack.
____The real battle might be in the trenches.
____"They're a physical team and they'll try to pound it downhill on us," said head coach Garrett Mowery of the upcoming Blue Devil clash. "We're going to have to continue to play tough defense and make some big plays on offense."
See the September 26, 2013 edition of the Dillsburg Banner for details.
Submitted by Jack Armstrong
Photo by Curt Werner
Northern's Devon Hake tries to get the ball past the Milton Hershey goalie.
____Wednesday evening (9/18) brought Milton Hershey to town. With the exception of a couple very brief forays into the circle by the Spartans, the night belonged to Northern. With the visitors under almost constant duress, the first penalty stroke of the year was awarded to the Purple and White at 6:32. Although the keeper was able to get a pad on Brooke Sheibley’s twisted wrister, it found the back of the net to give the home team an early lead. Keighly Adams ripped her 2nd of the season past the goalie at 18:28 to double the advantage. The second half was a mirror image of the first. Meghan Gallagher banged one hard off the board to extend the lead. The fourth goal was an example of this team’s monad approach. With 2:03 left in the contest, the Bears earned a corner which went full-circle. Devon Hake inserted it to Sheibley who calmly drew the defender and slipped it to Annalise Armstrong. Her drive handcuffed the goalie and it bounced free to Renee Weigel who pushed it to Devon at the post. Hake quickly poked it into the cage to account for the 4-0 final.
____Northern entertained Bishop McDevitt on Friday evening and the Bears put on a clinic of surgical precision. There is really no reason to add many descriptors to this one as the stats tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. N 27 shots, 15 corners, 9 goals, BMcD 0 shots, 0 corners, 0 goals. The Crusaders only entered the circle once in the entire 60 minutes. Meghan Gallagher 1 goal on a penalty stroke got everything started at 14:49 and added 2 assists. Hake 2g, Weigel 2g, Sheibley 1g, Adams 1g all scored and Arlana Racer notched her 1st. During liberal and sportsmanlike substitutions by Coach Boyer which allowed all the defensive players some offensive time, we may have seen a very positive glimpse into the future. Sophomore Armstrong went forward for the first time this season in the last 6:30 and recorded 2 assists. Freshman midfielder Emma Strouse got her first goal with 3:45 remaining. Looking a little further into the future, the junior varsity, middle school varsity and JV combined to go 6-0 on the week. Boyer’s Bunch completed a clean sweep of divisional opponents through the first half of the campaign and holds a 1 game lead over Susquenita at press.
See the September 26, 2013 edition of the Dillsburg Banner for details.
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