| Print Edition Highlights - December 11, 2014
Photo by Curt Werner.
Looking south in the northbound lane of Rt. 15. A Towne Air Freight tractor trailer, last in a six vehicle pile-up, jackknifes on the Glenn Bowers Memorial Bridge hitting and resting against the barrier, after pushing and crushing an SUV into a truck late Monday evening in Carroll Township.
____ Multiple vehicle accidents on the Glenn Bowers Memorial bridge shut down the highway late Monday evening for several hours. ____ ____ There were no reported injuries.
____ Ice on the road surface of the bridge was determined to be the cause of the chain events, Carroll Township Police Chief Thomas Wargo said. Wargo said the vehicles started to slide out of control and into each other, simultaneously, in both the south and north bound lanes of Rt. 15 at 11:47 p.m.
____ Southbound lanes. Gabrielle Hammen, 20, of Dillsburg, lost control of her white 2005 Buick just as she crossed onto the bridge, sliding and striking the barrier, coming to rest in the right lane, blocking traffic, responding officer Ben Martin said. Keith Blumenstein, Jr., 33, of York Springs stoped his grey 1996 Ford F250 to assist. As Blumenstein was helping Hammen, his truck was rear ended by Andre Tyre, 45, of Frederick, Md., driving a white 2012 Mazda sedan. Last to get involved was a gold 2007 Honda CRV driven by Lauren Simmons, 33, of Franklintown.
____ Northbound lanes. Six vehicles piled into each other in the northbound lanes. Sandwiched between two tractor trailers was a green 1997 VW Jetta Sedan driven by Robert Himes, Jr., of Camp Hill; a 2005 Chrysler convertible driven by Jennifer DePalo, of Wilkes Barre; a 2013 Toyota truck driven by Larry Anthony of Dillsburg and a 2002 Dodge SUV driven by William Weis of Frackville, Pa. Other drivers involved were David Hammen of Dillsburg in a white Yukon and Terrence Nelson of Richmond, Va. Hammen was on his way to help his daughter, Gabrielle, who was involved in the accident in the southbound lanes, Martin said.
Photo by Curt Werner.
Looking north in the northbound lane of Rt. 15. Emergency crews assist the drivers of the vehicles sandwiched between two tractor trailers.
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____ Carroll Township supervisors have changed their minds on a settlement agreement with Dillsburg Ventures, LLC over a proposed development consisting of 500 apartments on the 44 acres across from Logan Park.
____ The first business item at the Carroll Township supervisors meeting was to unanimously reject the agreement dated May 12, 2104. This is a full reversal from their former decision.
____ Board Chairman Bruce Trostle thanked everyone for attending the hearing held on Nov. 17 and 18.
____ “We heard your comments, as did Dillsburg Ventures, and your concerns are important to us, which is why we have decided to go in a new direction,” he said. He explained that Dillsburg Ventures has rights and something will get built there, but the township is now going to sit down with them and come up with something better.
____ To that end, supervisors Andy Ritter and Mark McCurdy were appointed as the township representatives in those talks.
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____ Although Franklintown Borough’s well No. 1 is beginning to slowly recover, the water authority and borough council are looking to the future to avoid a crisis.
____ A consultation with a hydrogeologist determined that it would not be worthwhile to dig deeper at the Well No. 1 site. The likelihood of finding more water would be slight and the same Department of Environmental Protection permitting process as a new well would be necessary. The proposed cost would be between $10,000 and $15,000.
____ Other options include talking to some local property owners known to have water including the Kings on the north east side of town and Harold Willis, whose well is in Franklin Township just north of town.
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Also in the December 11, 2014 edition:
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___ -Community Calendar
___ -Obituaries
___ -Letters to the Editor
___ -Editorials
___ -Births
___ -20 years ago
___ -Classifieds
Print Edition Highlights - December 11, 2014
By Jeff Roth
Photo by Curt Werner.
Dr. Michael Tomczyk examines Mary Ann Nestore’s teeth.
____For Dr. Michael Tomczyk and his wife, Sygal, the road from New York University in the mid-1990s, to Scotch Pine Road, off of U.S. 15, south of Dillsburg, included stints on the Jersey Shore, Bethlehem, Pa., and Chambersburg.
____Tomczyk, a dentist, a graduate of Seton Hall University, where he earned a bachelor’s of science degree in biology, went on to complete a doctor of dental surgery degree at New York University in 1996. There he met and fell in love with the woman who would become his wife. Married in 1999, they are the parents of three daughters, one son, three dogs and two birds.
____Prior to accepting an associate position at Dillsburg Dental Care, where he worked with Dr. Thomas H, Wiggin III, Tomczyk began work in 2008 at a Chambersburg-area dental firm. Following the retirement of Dr. Wiggin, Dr. Tomczyk immediately acted upon the opportunity to fulfill his dream of owning his own dental practice.
____“After two years working in Chambersburg, the practice was sold to a corporate entity,” Tomczyk said. “I'm so not the model corporate person; I'm always myself.”
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By Joe Guty
Photo by Curt Werner.
Alyssa Swart makes a quick move to the basket. The Northern Girls Varsity Basketball team started its season off on the right foot defeating Littlestown on the season opener Friday, Dec. 5, at the high school. The score was 37 to 24.
____ After a solid win over Littlestown in the Northern Tip Off Tournament, the Lady Polar Bears fell short in Saturday's championship final as Hershey rolled to a 53-20 win. The Lady Trojan's 26-4 halftime lead was tough to overcome for the host Lady Bears. Northern did rebound with 17 points in the second half against the Class AAAA and veteran Hershey squad. And they added a runner-up trophy to put in the school trophy case.
____ Taylor Grace paced the visitors with 19 points and Gabriela Blackburn added 13 points. Blackburn was also perfect from the free throw line with a 6-for-6 night. Other scorers for Hershey included: Cassie Zugay (6), Mason Benovy (4), Shyanne Gaston (4), Mikala Awde (2), Rachel Groves (2), Delany Price (2) and Rebecca Woltman (1).
____ Senior center Liz Horn led Northern with four points while freshman Kennedy Barber, sophomore Catherine Brubaker and junior Maggie Frey added three points apiece. Other scorers for Northern were: sophomore Jordan Clark (2), sophomore Makenna McGill (2), junior Gabrielle Mowchan (2) and junior Alyssa Swartz (1).
____ The All-Tournament team included Northern's Jordan Clark, Bermudian's Gabby Emeigh, Littlestown's Jill Gauthier and Hershey's Rachel Groves, Taylor Grace and Tourney MVP Gabriela Blackburn.
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Print Edition Highlights - December 11, 2014 
By Steven M. Nesbit
 
____ Years after her last writing class at Northern High School, 1968 graduate Barbara Beaston found a passion for writing when she began reading letters sent from her grandmother in Oregon to her mother.
____ Beaston realized that she, too, had stories to tell from her past like sledding in the peach orchard as a kid and celebrating Christmas on the farm. Remembering Mrs. Pitcher’s encouragement in her creative writing class at Northern gave her the courage she needed to write a book that she has recently self-published called "My Perfect Christmas."
____ The concept was prompted by her own belief that if she had more than she needed, she would share it with the less fortunate. “I always wanted to be a Secret Santa by giving Christmas to other families,” Beaston said. “At one time, I had been the recipient of a Secret Santa through the churches near my home.”
____ Barbara Jean Phillips was born at Harrisburg Hospital on August 7, 1949. At that time, her parents, Winifred Myers and Guy Phillips, were living in Middletown. Later, they moved to Dillsburg, where Beaston was raised in a small trailer behind a cemetery along Mountain Road.
____ Although the trailer was only two small rooms, Beaston has fond memories of growing up there with sister, Suzanne, who was born 18 months after her and brother, Michael, now 54. “It was so small, [that] it reminded me of living in a camper,” she said. Family members helped build a small house on the other half of the double-sized lot. When her father went bear hunting one year, her mother decided it was time to move into the house. Beaston doesn’t remember much about the move during that winter except there was a blizzard involved.
____ “I remember quite a few cold mornings going to the bathroom outside because we only had an outhouse. I hated those days,” she recalled. Another memory popped into her head as she remembered playing in the corners of the house with her sister because the girls were used to playing in such a confined space.
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Photo by Curt Werner.
Stephanie Wise, from Mechanicsburg, is the key makeup artist on the hit crime thriller on NBC, “The Blacklist.”
____ Ever since Stephanie Wise was a little girl, she has been fascinated by makeup.
____ At age 10, the Mechanicsburg girl watched a documentary on how the movie, “The Exorcist” was made. The makeup on the characters and special effects sparked her curiosity. Her father, Kirk, could not have enough coloring books around to experiment and use imagination sketching different colors between the lines.
____ Once in high school, Wise kept her summers busy face painting at Hershey Park. Each face painting was different, from a butterfly to a princess. Wise continued this until she graduated from the Mechanicsburg High School in 2001.
____ Wise studied fine art design at HAAC for three years, where her professor’s guidance taught her to take makeup seriously. She landed a job at the Little Theatre of Mechanicsburg, doing makeup for the a production of “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.” Makeup in this play was challenging and was the first step to a promising career.
____ Next, Wise attended a trade school in New York furthering her education in makeup design. She became skilled in special makeup effects and character makeup artistry.
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