Print Edition Highlights - January 30, 2014
Pennsylvania Bar Association Pro Bono Coordinator David K. Trevaskis presents Attorney Suzanne H. Griest with the Pro Bono Attorney of the Year Award.
____ Attorney Suzanne Griest received several honors at the York County Bar Association’s annual dinner on January 14.
____ Griest was named Pro Bono Attorney of the Year at the state level, was honored for her work as president of the York County Bar Foundation and was the recipient of the Jane Alexander Award.
____ David K. Trevaskis, Pennsylvania Bar Association Pro Bono Coordinator presented Griest with the award. This is not the first time Griest received such an honor. In 1996, she received the York County Pro Bono Award. Throughout her thirty-two years of practice, she has devoted herself to assisting the underprivileged by regularly volunteering to represent those in need as well as assisting in custody and divorce workshops.
____ Highly regarded, Griest served as the third female president of the PBA in 2005, is a past chair of the Family Law Section and is the immediate past president of the York County Bar Foundation, the charitable arm of the YCBA.
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By Stephanie Kalina-Metzger
Photo by Curt Werner
Pictured from left are Kelly Falck, PTO co-president; Ragan Dyer, kindergarten teacher; Patricia Franko, principal; Emily Reed, reading specialist and Janelle Kopac, third grade teacher.
____ Staff and students at Dillsburg Elementary have a lot to brag about, having recently scored a 95.8 percent on the Pennsylvania Department of Education’s 100-point scale, making them among area’s top 20 highest academic performers. Only six other area schools in the nine-county region scored higher, so you might think they’d be walking around high-fiving each other, but celebration doesn’t seem to be high on Principal Pat Franko’s “to do” list.
____ The no-nonsense principal said, “We’re thankful to have achieved a REWARDS status based on high achievement and we know we have a good thing going here, but when you’re up high, the challenge is staying there. We don’t want to take that for granted.”
____ As staff members gathered in the conference room, they shared some of the secrets to their success. Dr. Franko laid out the framework, describing how Dillsburg Elementary School succeeds where many others fail. Part of that equation, she explained, is the expectation of excellence among staff and students. To achieve that expectation, everyone works together as a team to encourage academic rigor and carefully crafted goal achievement.
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Students raise over $5,000
By Curt Werner
Photo by Curt Werner
Northern's High School Principal, Matt LaBuda uses the school's mascot, the polar bear, as a screen while he drives to the basket for two points during the “Shooting for Smiles” event on Saturday.
____ The fifth annual "Shooting for Smiles" was held on Saturday, Jan. 25, at the Northern High School to benefit the Miranda K. Zeigler Foundation. This was the first year the girls middle school and high school basketball teams joined the boys teams to raise money for the foundation.
____ Miranda K. Zeigler was born May 24, 1994. At the end of July 2008, she became ill. A short time later at Hershey Children's Hospital she was diagnosed with a very high risk form of T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Miranda passed away on January 30, 2009.
____ Through all the hardships and treatments, Miranda always had a smile. Her dream was to help other children at the Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital that had cancer. Her parents, Tammi and Jeff Zeigler, continued their daughter’s wishes and started "The Miranda K. Zeigler Memorial Foundation, Miranda's Smile."
____ Jeff Reed served as president of the Northern Boys Basketball Booster Club during the year 2010. He was always service minded and wanted the team to get involved with the community. Jeff was aware of the Miranda's Smile Foundation and it was natural for him to organize "Shooting for Smiles" with the help of the boys middle and high school basketball teams.
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___ -Births
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Print Edition Highlights - January 30, 2014
By Andy Sandrik
Photo by Curt Werner
The Northern High School Ice Hockey Team fell to Susquehannock 2 to 1 at the Twin Ponds West in Mechanicsburg on Friday, January 24. In photo, Jacob Sanchez and Colton Brewer (right) go for the puck.
____It would have been easy for the Northern ice hockey team, at the tail end of a rough season, to simply give up.
____But the Polar Bears, fighting for a spot in the Central Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League (CPIHL) Tier 3 postseason, gave it all they had in Friday's game against Susquehannock, a team that had already beaten up on Northern by a combined 14-2 score in two games.
____The Polar Bears turned in one of their best efforts of the season, battling tooth and nail in a 2-1 loss to Susquehannock, a setback which eliminated Northern from playoff contention.
____The Polar Bears then fell to 1-15 with an 8-2 loss to third-place Penn Manor.
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By Joe Guty
Photo by Curt Werner
Northern boys and girls swim teams had Senior Night on Thursday, January 23. The teams continued their winning ways defeating Mechanicsburg at home. The boys won 109 to 71 and the girls’ score was 118 to 51. In the water is Gabby Lodovici who won the Women's 200 Yard IM with a time of 2:27.22.
____It was a fitting Senior Night for the Northern H.S. swimming and diving teams last Thursday, January 23.
____Highlighted by 22 career best times and several season best times, both teams claimed victories. The Northern girls' squad defeated Mechanicsburg 118-51 and improved to 10-0 overall and 5-0 in the Mid Penn Colonial Division. Meanwhile the Polar Bear boys team upended the Wildcats, 109-71 and improved to 9-1 and 4-1 in the league.
____Individual highlights included senior Liam Handley who lowered his own pool record in the 100 Backstroke with a time of 54.43 and junior Josh Clarke who established a new school record and pool record in the 100 Butterfly with a time of 53.16.
____Seniors who were recognized by coaches, parents and teammates included Sydney Archuleta, Madi Bleiler, Rachel Hawkins, Alexis Munshower, Sami Poe, Lily Ritter, Liz Vinette, Ben Haley, Liam Handley and Nick Watson.
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By Andy Sandrik
Photo by Curt Werner
Jonathan Ross works on a reversal before pinning Camp Hill's Alex Gallaher in the 138 pound weight class.
____Kyle Koser and Jonathan Ross, welcome to the 20-win club.
____Northern's top wrestlers continued their season-long tear over the past week, bruising through dual-meet victories over Mid-Penn Capital Division opponents Susquenita and Camp Hill before emerging with their milestone wins in last weekend's New Oxford Invitational.
____Koser, now 23-1 on the season, nailed down his 20th win in dominant fashion, pinning CD East's Sean Fitzkee in 39 seconds for his third-fastest fall of the year.
____Ross, now 23-3, earned win No. 20 with a 16-1 technical fall over Line Mountain's Gary Laudenslager.
____The Northern stars highlighted a group of wrestlers that collectively turned in a big week.
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