Print Edition Highlights - March 13, 2014
Photo by Curt Werner
One day after the new signs pictured above were posted, a resident reported a school bus followed by three cars headed back the dead-end road trying to find Roundtop Mountain Resort.
____ The newest signs on Beaver Creek Road didn’t help.
____ A day after the new signs were posted, a resident reported a school bus followed by three cars headed back the dead-end road trying to find Roundtop Mountain Resort. Judy Saltsburg, a resident on the road, reports drivers hold their phones up to their faces as they drive, never noticing the signs in front of them telling them that Beaver Creek Road is not the way to Roundtop.
____ The road is now virtually plastered with signs, and still drivers don’t notice them, so intent are they on following their GPS directions.
____ At the March 5 Warrington Township meeting, supervisors decided to try another tactic. They will have the solicitor draft a letter to Apple and Google maps, the application that’s causing the problem. Residents have tried similar action on their own to no avail, but they hope an official letter from the township solicitor citing the danger and safety issues resulting from the bad directions might have some impact. Certainly the signs haven’t.
____ In other action at the session, Dillsburg EMS Coordinator Traci Cook told supervisors about a joint paramedic venture with West Shore EMS that will start April 1. The venture adds a paramedic to the local ambulance crew that will improve advanced life support (ALS) coverage. Clients won’t see an extra bill for that service, as is the case now. The new service is expected to reduce response time for ALS and increase the coverage area for it. Memberships in the ambulance service will rise to $90 for single coverage. Some changes to where the company responds to calls may result, but are not yet finalized.
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Photo by Curt Werner
Pennsylvania State Police investigate the scene where the center of a tractor trailer collapsed disabling the rig on Route 74 north, just past the Williams Grove intersection. Volunteers from Monroe Fire Company secured the scene. The northbound lane was shut for several hours.
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____ Carroll Township supervisors took care of numerous items of police business during their March 13 meeting.
____ First they hired Joshua Goodling as a part time police officer, contingent on him obtaining one more certification.
____ Then a long discussion ensued on how to purchase two new Ford Taurus police cars. One car was already included in the 2014 budget, but the other will have to be financed. They tossed around the idea of financing both of the cars and using the money in the budget to pay for the equipment needed to outfit both cars, but in the end one car will be paid for out right at the cost of no more than $50,000 and the finance committee will figure out the best way to finance the other car. Because one car was in the budget it was actually ordered last fall and is expected to be on the road this spring.
____ Chief Thomas Wargo brought a request to the supervisors to replace the three Automatic Electronic Defibrillators that are carried in the on duty police vehicles, plus one to keep in the township building. He also brought the news that a resident, who wished to stay anonymous, had contributed the $8,500 needed to purchase them. The request was granted.
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Also in the March 13, 2014 edition
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Print Edition Highlights - March 13, 2014
By Andy Sandrik
Photos by Curt Werner
The referee holds Kyle Koser’s hand up as the winner after pinning Tyree Spearman in overtime on Thursday, March 6 at the Giant Center.
Northern’s Kyle Koser takes control of Alex Price from North Penn by grabbing Price’s leg in the second period of the 182 pound weight class on Friday, March 7 during quarterfinals of the 2014 PIAA Wrestling Championships. Koser lost the match 7 to 3.
____ Northern senior Kyle Koser said the Giant Center in Hershey was the biggest stage he’s ever wrestled on. Last weekend’s PIAA Class AAA Championships, Koser said, featured the toughest competition he’s ever faced.
____ The big crowds, massive media coverage, the stud wrestlers -- all of it was completely new to the Polar Bears 182-pounder, a first-timer at states.
____ But Koser, Northern’s lone representative at the state tournament, didn’t let his school down.
____ He didn’t let himself down, either, and achieved his goal: To come home with a state medal.
____ Koser finished fourth at states to become the Polar Bears’ first placewinner since Zach Ross took fifth in 2012.
____ “I wanted to place at states really bad, so I took it one match at a time and ended up placing relatively high,” Koser said. “I never wrestled in anything as big as states with that many people watching. Every wrestler there is good and in my weight class it seemed like everyone was even.
____ “It’s all about how you wrestle that day and how you’re feeling.”
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Jeannine Webb, a junior at Northern High School, plans to make music her career.
____ Many children in grade school dream of becoming a fireman, a policeman or a teacher. Some want to be an astronaut or a basketball player. When Jeannine Webb, now 16, a junior at Northern High School, was in grade school she knew she wanted to be a singer. Singing songs in the shower at the age of six was the start of laying a foundation to a musical career.
____ The first break to debut her singing talents was making the school choir in fifth grade. In middle school she sang in the Spring Concert. Webb also sang in the choir at St. Paul’s Church in Dillsburg.
____ “When I was a sophomore, I decided on a career in classical music and opera,” said Webb. “My parents, Russell and Mary Ellen, support me and have been with me every step of the way,” Webb continued. “I follow Jackie Evancho, who is from Pittsburgh and finished second place on America’s Got Talent. Since then Evancho has released five albums with one going gold.”
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By Steven M. Nesbit
 
____ “Around here, everybody knows me as Blossom, but professionally my name has been Tina for many years. I was born on Friday the 13th in May of 1927.” Ernestine Hoff (no middle name) was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The family moved into this area in 1938. Her father, Henry, was in medical school at the University of Michigan when Blossom was born. When she was three years old, her mother and siblings lived with her grandparents because her father was interning in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Between the ages of three and nine, Blossom’s family lived in Liverpool, Pennsylvania which is along the Susquehanna River between Harrisburg and Sunbury. “We lived in a wonderful old house. It had been an inn during the stagecoach days. The second floor still had the room numbers on the doors; however, the third floor was not finished.” The family then went back to Ann Arbor, Michigan because her father pursued a degree in public health which was a two year program. “We came to Wellsville when I was eleven,” said Blossom.
____ There were seven members of the Hoff family. Henry and Barbara Hoff had five children. Charles Fisher Hoff was the oldest, Ernestine, Henry, Barbara, and Joanna. Blossom remembers, “I was a happy child, and I credit that to my mother. My father was not around very much. He practiced medicine 12 to 14 hours per day which is kind of unheard of today.” Dr. Henry Hoff was a very devoted country doctor. Blossom says, “My mother was a very gentle and refined lady, and my father was a very dynamic man. They met during college and were a wonderful match. Mother was much quieter than him, and my mother was an artist.”
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