Print Edition Highlights - June 12, 2014
____ Friday was a great day to be a Polar Bear, especially for the 232 members of Northern High School’s class of 2014 who graduated with tears, cheers, a little swagger and a lot of sparkly shoes.
____ “Four short years ago on the first day of high school, our journey together began,” said Jason Swartz, valedictorian, noting that many of the students had been together since elementary school. “It’s hard for us to imagine how far we have come . . . Tonight is the last time we will all be together.”
____ Against the backdrop of a polar bear projected on an immense screen on stage, Northern pride abounded all evening as family, friends and teachers filled the rows of Christian Life Assembly in Camp Hill and seniors took endless last photos together that will fill the pages of Facebook and their parents’ photo albums.
____ The “Northern philosophy” that Swartz spoke about in his commencement address was certainly on display. Gathering information that he drew from interviewing teachers, classmates and first graders in Michele Brymesser’s class, Swartz said that, in Dillsburg, people care about and support one another, take time to do small things that make a difference in another’s life and have the courage to try something new.
____ “Don’t ever forget the feeling of exhilaration the first time you let go of the ropes on a swing, flew through the air and landed safely,” he said, challenging classmates to “Find a playground, get back on a swing and remind yourself you can swing to ever higher heights no matter how scary it may seem.”
Taryn Casey holds Delaney Roman at the 63rd Annual Commencement Exercises of Northern High School.
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____ The public hearing at the federal courthouse in Harrisburg scheduled for Monday June 16 concerning The Village at South Mountain has been cancelled.
____ The township received the notification by email Tuesday from Kurt Williams, of Salzmann Hughes, PC, the township's consulting attorney on the matter, Faye Romberger, secretary/treasurer said. Romberger said Judge Martin Carlson cancelled the meeting and has requested residents to mail in their concerns on or before Monday. June 23. All comments submitted to the court will be placed on the docket in this case.
____ Comments may be submitted via mail to Chambers of the Honorable Martin C. Carlson, United States Federal Courthouse, 228 Walnut Street, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17101.
____ No reason was given to Williams why the judge cancelled the meeting, but he does have the perogative to do so, Romberger said.
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Print Edition Highlights - June 12, 2014
Photo by Carolyn Kimmel
Jim Childs, the Northern York County School District’s Director of Safety, in front of the administration office in downtown Dillsburg.
____ At 6 feet 8 inches tall, Jim Childs looks big enough to wrestle a steer, but the director of safety and security for Northern School District puts that rumor to rest.
____ “No, it’s not my hobby to wrestle steers on the weekend,” Childs said with a grin. The rumor got started when a high school student remarked that Childs looked big enough to wrestle a steer and high school assistant principal Richard Mauck picked up on it.
____ “This leaves a lasting impression on students who hear and sometimes question whether the rumor is true or not,” Mauck said. “Seriously, Jim really relates to the students and forms connections with them, builds trust and that really pays off big when issues have to be resolved.”
____ Few school districts have a person dedicated solely to making their schools safe and secure, but since 2010, Childs has made that his top priority. A retired police chief from Southern Regional Police in southern York County, Childs, 60, brings a wealth of knowledge and 35 years of practical experience in the law enforcement field.
____ “Jim has the ability to look at a situation through the lens of law enforcement. This allows him to see things we in education aren’t trained to see,” said South Mountain Elementary School Principal Jeff Clifton.
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____ There's no doubt it, there is a good feeling that comes with making it to the championship game.
____ But to win that big game, that's a whole different feeling altogether.
____ Mike Sherman's Bob Ruth Ford squad, coming off a 2013 season that saw the team lose in the Dillsburg Youth Baseball Majors Division championship game, took care of business this year with a hard-earned 2-1 victory over Jack Panas Insurance on Saturday afternoon.
____ Prior to Saturday, Jack Panas Insurance (17-3) hadn't lost to a team from Dillsburg all season. But Bob Ruth Ford had played the regular-season champs close this year, losing 5-4 on April 10 and 6-3 on May 22.
____ "All three times we played them, the games have been close," Bob Ruth Ford coach Mike Sherman said. "We knew it would be a difficult time. We knew it would be a tough game."
____ After rocking its first two playoff opponents by a combined 16-4 score, Bob Ruth Ford saw its bats go silent against Jack Panas Insurance's pair of aces, Blake Markwood and Connor McCombs.
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____ Helen Bricker Chronister was born October 15, 1933 in Middlesex Township in Cumberland County about a mile from Carlisle. “They had a boy ten years before I was born, and he only lived two days. I was an only child, but I wasn’t a spoiled brat,” she said. Paul G. Bricker and Pauline Stickle were her parents.
____ Helen’s earliest memory occurred when she was four years old. “Mother baked bread to sell. When she was finished baking, we would wash the dishes. I had a little round red stool and my mother would put the stool next to the sink and let me wash and dry a few dishes. That’s my first memory of being a little kid,” Helen said. The Bricker’s had a summer kitchen and a winter kitchen in the house. “The winter kitchen was down two steps, and we were only down there in the winter. We had one of those old wood stoves where you had to stick a metal handle into the burner to lift it. Later on, mom got a different style. Off of the kitchen there was a little room that we called the pantry. There was a sink in there, and that’s where we kept the groceries. We would take a basin of water in there and pour it in the sink. That’s how we took our baths – by washing in that sink. Believe it or not, we got ourselves clean.” They never had a bathroom until Helen was 12 years old. “We had an outhouse for a bathroom. That outhouse was one of my havens when my mother would scold me. I would just go sit in the outhouse and talk to my dog. ‘Brownie, you are my only friend,’ I would say.”
____ Her father was one of those men that could do a lot of things and do them well. He was a good mechanic. Later on, he drilled wells, and became a welder until welders had to take state exams. He was a welder at Grangers back when that was an annual event. “My father wanted my mother to stay at home, but my mother wanted to work,” Helen said. “My father did not want her to go out in public or to work away from home. He was jealous of her. She was a very pretty woman. You would think if you had a beautiful wife you’d be glad for other people to see her, but not my father. For a long time she couldn’t even go uptown to go shopping,” Helen recalled. “Finally, she started baking in the house.”
____ “When I was 14, we moved to Greenbrier Lane which was called Lovers Lane at that time,” she recalled. Helen’s mother loved to bake. “She made fruitcakes, pies and bread. She was known all over the area; in fact, people who worked in Washington, D.C. would stop in to buy some of her baked goods. Mom would never charge people enough for her baked goods. She was just nice that way. When I was little older, mom let me help out. I’d cut up the fruit for the fruitcake, and I’d get the bread out. One time, she made a coconut cake for people down on the next corner, and I was to deliver it. As I was walking down the street I saw a good-looking soldier standing on the corner. When I went to step over the curb, I was looking at him and I tripped. There went the coconut cake into a thousand pieces, and mom had to make another one,” she said.
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