Print Edition Highlights - November 21, 2013
Photos by Curt Werner
Ana Sandu watches as her father from Romania becomes a U.S. Citizen.
____ In honor of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, 16 new citizens were sworn in by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scallia, Tuesday, at the 150th commemoration of Lincoln's dedication of the Soldier's National Cemetery, Nov. 9, 1863.
____ With temperatures in the mid-40s, thousands of spectators swarmed the cemetery to hear the speakers who came to mark the historic occasion. Special guests, which included Gov. Tom Corbett, U.S. Senators Pat Toomey and Robert Casey Jr., Congressman Scott Perry, National Park Service Secretary Sally Jewell, historian James B. McPherson, the keynote speaker, and other guests, who gathered on a raised rostrum, yards from the actual location where Lincoln delivered his “appropriate remarks” 150 years ago.
____ Love was the reason Mattias Van't Hoenderdaal, formerly of the Netherlands, emigrated to the United States. Hoenderdaal, who resides in Philadelphia, and turned 30 on Tuesday, was sworn in as new citizen by Justice Scalia. Hoenderaal originally came to this country on a student visa about eight-and-a-half years ago.
Supreme Court Judge Antonin Scalia swears in sixteen people from other countries to be U.S. Citizens.
See the November 21, 2013 edition of the Dillsburg Banner for details.
By Mary Lou Bytof
____ The Dillsburg Borough Council last Tuesday unanimously passed the final budget for 2014. The new budget has a $68.00 balance and holds the line on taxes for the upcoming year.
____ The total income of this budget is $1,09,413; the total expenses are listed as 1,092,345.
____ As in past budgets, the public safety department will incur the largest expense - $343,615, with a total of $254,875 going for police services provided by the Carroll Township police department. Last month, the council awarded the department a $195,000 contract for 2014 which represents fewer contracted police hours; however, this budget includes the funds to cover extra police hours should the need arise.
____ The public works department closely follows public safety with expenses totaling $343,615.
See the November 21, 2013 edition of the Dillsburg Banner for details.
Photo by Curt Werner
Emergency volunteers help to stablize a car, after the driver lost control, rolled over and landed on its roof in the 200 block of Campground Road, Carroll Township, at 2:15 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 17. Dillsburg Citizens Hose No. 1 and Carroll Township Police were on the scene. The driver was not seriously injured.
Also in the November 21 , 2013 edition
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___ -Community events
___ -Obituaries
___ -Births
___ -20 years ago
Photo by Curt Werner
Northern High School junior (yellow shirts) and senior girls (pink shirts) on the field with their coaches and male cheerleaders after the Powder Puff football game at Bostic Field on Monday, Nov. 18. The juniors trampled the seniors 10-0. For more coverage of Powder Puff, see Erin Martz’s Purple Haze on 2B.
By Andy Sandrik
Photo by Curt Werner
Sara Yunez MVP soccer Player of the Year.
____If there was one feared soccer player in the Mid-Penn Conference this season, it was Northern goalkeeper Sara Yunez.
____The senior used her length, her strength and her natural instincts in goal to control the opposition.
____Yunez, who allowed just eight goals in 23 games and pitched 15 shutouts, was named the Mid-Penn Conference's Player of the Year.
____It's a pretty big honor for the Polar Bears star, especially when considering she won the award over plenty of talented big-school athletes.
____Yunez, who also earned an all-state nomination by the Mid-Penn, was the headliner for a group of 13 Northern girls and boys soccer players named to the conference all-star team.
See the November 21, 2013 edition of the Dillsburg Banner for details.
Many plan to make it an annual event
Photo by Curt Werner
Ken Ketterer and John Burnheimer sing King Tut to a full house at the Northern High School Farmers Fair Reunion at Noonan’s on Oct. 17.
____The Farmers Fair Reunion III, held at Noonan’s Restaurant, Friday, Oct. 17, was a "huge success," said Kelley Moyer-Thomas, manager of the event with fellow organizers Ken Ketterer and Sean Gould. "We had about 300 to 375 in attendance throughout the evening," Moyer-Thomas said. "It was a come and go type thing so people were in and out all night."
____John Burnheimer, Class of 1985, was the emcee, DJ and Master of Ceremonies for the night. "The Farmers Fair Reunion Band was great and very entertaining," Moyer-Thomas said. They were even joined by fellow classmates who were not members of the band.
____Members of the reunion band are Gordon Brinton, Class of ’75; Donna Jean Foster, Class of ’85; Mike Ketterer, Class of ’78; Sean Storms, class of ’82; Tory Keefer, Class of ’91; Big John Burnheimer, Class of ’85; Mark Winieski, Class of ’79; Sean “Birdman” Gould, Class of ’82; Ken Ketterer, Class of ’80 and Kelley Moyer-Thomas, Class of ’85.
____Any alumni interested in participating in the reunion band can contact Ken Ketterer at 432-0605.
____Members of the Northern Alumni Association were on hand to sign up new members and keep track of fellow classmates for the Dill Pickle trophy which was given to the class with the most members attending.
See the November 21, 2013 edition of the Dillsburg Banner for details.
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