Print Edition Highlights - November 14, 2013
Photo by Curt Werner
A fire fully engulfs a house, above, on the 300 block of North Grantham Road, Monaghan Township, near Messiah College, shortly after 11:00 p.m. on Friday night. The house, located on a long wooded lane, was under renovation and no one was living at the residence at the time. Cause of the fire is undetermined. Eight neighboring fire companies responded. In photo, firemen help to move a hose to fight the blaze.
Photo by Curt Werner
Visaggio's restaurant on Wertsville Road, Silver Spring Township was destroyed by fire Sunday evening. The fire is believed to have started in the kitchen around 6:10 p.m. The popular Italian eatery was not open at the time. The fire wasn't contained and spread through the establishment. Fire officials are calling the building a total loss and a damage estimate has yet to be established. The owners said they plan to rebuild. In photo, fire crews spray the roofline, from both sides of the building.
See the November 14, 2013 edition of the Dillsburg Banner for details.
By Peggie Williams
____ Carroll Township supervisors and residents heard the good news that the Spring Lane Road bridge replacement project is still about a month ahead of schedule and should be completed by August of 2014 in time for the new school year. Township engineer Ryan Rhoades reported that the Department of Environmental Protection permits have been applied for and the final cost estimate should be done before the end of the year.
____ Supervisors accepted the contract for police service with Monaghan Township. The contract cuts their service to only three hours a day. Paul Walters voted no.
____ Developer Gary Reihart received approval for his revised plans for phase II of Logan Meadows. The original preliminary plan which was submitted in 2003 called for 14 residential lots, but the new plan calls for only three. Reihart’s request to have the recreation fees on the lots grandfathered in at the 2003 rate of $750 each was denied because the old plan was withdrawn before the new plan was approved. But supervisors did agree to enter into talks about deferring some of the cost in exchange for a walking path right of way that will help connect Logan Park with Ore Bank Road.
See the November 14, 2013 edition of the Dillsburg Banner for details.
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Photos by Curt Werner
Veterans are seated for breakfast at Northern High School on Veterans Day, Monday morning.
____ Veterans Day is an official United States holiday that honors people who have served in the armed service. It is a federal holiday that is observed on Nov. 11. It has also been known as Armistice Day and Remembrance Day and is celebrated in other parts of the world. The date also marks the anniversary of the end of World War I.
____ U.S. President Woodrow Wilson first proclaimed Armistice Day for Nov. 11, 1919. In proclaiming the holiday:
"To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations."
Northern seniors from the government class host the breakfast on Nov. 11.
By Stephanie Kalina-Metzger
The Couriers, Neil Enloe, Duane Nicholson and Dave Kyllonen.
____Dillsburg resident Duane Nicholson, as a member of the gospel singing group, The Couriers, recently attended a special ceremony at DOLLYWOOD in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee where he was inducted into the Southern Gospel Music Association (SGMA) Hall of Fame.
SGMA Executive Director Charlie Waller said, “The name “Couriers” became synonymous with quality in Southern Gospel Circles,” calling the celebrated tenor “a class act within one of the industry’s classiest groups.”
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____ “It was quite an adjustment going from Dillsburg to Parris Island. It was rough. I went to infantry training, and then I went to Camp Pendleton in California to take more infantry training, all in about six months. I left Camp Pendleton for Vietnam on June 10, 1969.”
Greg Myers was born on October 15, 1949 at the Carlisle hospital. His father, Arthur Myers and his mother, Gladys Rosenberger lived at 316 S. Baltimore Street in Dillsburg, which is where Greg lives today. “I am an only child. My mom died two Mother's Days ago and my dad died 13 years before my mother. But being a Rosenberger, I did have a lot of cousins. I bet there are 50 people related to me,” he said.
Greg's fondest childhood memory is playing little league baseball back in the 1950s. “Dillsburg wasn't as it big as it is now. A lot of people living in Dillsburg today do not understand that the town was very small. There were only four little league teams in town. Most people don't remember that because the teams are not around anymore. The four teams were K and G Feed, Capital Engineering, Castle's Lumber, and Spangler's Pontiac.” Myers explained that when a boy was between eight and twelve years old, and he wanted to play baseball, he was picked for a team, and once he was chosen for one of those four teams, he was on that team for the entire time he played little league. “I played for Capital Engineering, and I had cousins that played for Spangler's Pontiac. My cousin, Ronnie Rosenberger played on Capital Engineering with me, but his brothers played for Spangler's Pontiac. You ended up playing against your brothers or your cousins. That was the way little league in Dillsburg was first structured,” Greg said. Near the end of the season, the managers would pick the best 11 and 12-year-old kids from all four teams to be on the All-Star team.
____ Greg remembered a very scary experience that he had as a kid. In those days, there were only two ball fields in town, a smaller one and a big one. The smaller field is called Krall field now, and the big field where the town team plays used to be called Wolfe field. “I remember one day after practicing with the Dillsburg All-Star team, I was walking to see the game going on at the big field. A thunderstorm popped up quickly, and before anyone could do anything, there was a lightning strike which struck the pitcher from New Cumberland on the top of his head. I was just a kid. That gave me a really weird feeling. It blew off his shoes and it killed the pitcher. It knocked down the infielders and an outfielder, too. They were all okay. A lot of people around here never knew that ever happened,” he said.
____ Living in Dillsburg during the late 50s and early 60s, there wasn't much to do. It was a small rural community. Greg went to Dillsburg Elementary from first through sixth grade. “There was no middle school back then,” he said. “There was one building called Northern Junior-Senior High School for grades seven through twelve. Those days, the teachers were pretty strict. They could paddle you and shake you around a little if you were bad. Kids didn't get into too much trouble back then. I remember a few of my teachers. I hurt my arm one time, and when I had health class, Mr. Estright would pull on my arm; it would hurt, but eventually my arm was all right. Mr. Estright was also the Driver's Ed. teacher. If he needed something for wrestling, he'd use Driver's Ed. car to go get it. You had to like Coach Estright. He was a man's man. Mr. Kistler was a good guy, too. Mrs. Charles became Mrs. Kistler. She was tough, and Mr. Bob Baker taught history. History was one of my better subjects. Bob Bostic was the athletic director, and Larry Rhone; we don't want to forget him either. That's about all.”
See the November 14, 2013 edition of the Dillsburg Banner for details.
Photo by Mark Ryder
Twenty-four students graduated from Dillsburg High School in 1943. Many recently attended a reunion at Hoss’s Restaurant. Pictured from left, seated are Marguerite Deardorf, Jean Richwine, Evelyn Brenneman, Martha Slusser; standing, Martha Detter, George Bentzel, Jean Heberly and Richard Frederick.
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