Print Edition Highlights - February 12, 2015

Hunter’s Trading Post:
Doing bang-up business
By Peggie Williams


Photo by Curt Werner.
Jim Adams, owner of Hunter’s Trading Post, stands beside a display of guns at his new shop behind 10 East South Street in Franklintown.

____ For the first time in almost a decade, there’s a full service gun shop in the Dillsburg area. The Hunter’s Trading Post, nestled behind 10 East South Street in Franklintown Borough, opened last August and has been doing a bang-up business ever since.
____ Owner Jim Adams says the shop was the natural progression from his business as a gun show promoter, which he has been doing for a number of years. A federal regulation requiring every gun show to have at least one licensed dealer on the premises left him with some issues at some of his smaller shows when a dealer canceled at the last minute or just didn’t show up. He decided the most effective way to solve the problem was to obtain a license himself.
____ And the Hunter’s Trading Post was opened.
____ “It’s the same thing I do at the shows,” said Adams, “It’s just now we have a home base to sell from.”
____ And he means home – the shop is in the basement of his residence, barely 300 square feet in size but packed full of everything a gun owner needs, including a place to get a hunting license.
____ “We’re only one of two small shops in York County where you can get a hunting license; otherwise you have to go to a big box store,” said Adams, who noted that he has heard many positive comments from customers who didn’t like standing in line at the larger stores.

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Photo by Curt Werner.
Dillsburg Citizen’s Hose Fire Captain Seth Freeburn inspects the scene after a driver lost control of his car slamming into a light pillar on Logan Road Tuesday, Feb. 10 at 2:42 p.m. In the background, Fire Police Lieutenant Rich Wirt directs traffic away from the area.

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FRANKLINTOWN BOROUGH
Rupps' move leaves two vacancies
By Peggie Williams

____During their monthly meeting, the Franklintown Borough council accepted the resignation of Russell Rupp from the borough council and his wife Erin’s resignation from the position of tax collector, both effective immediately. The Rupps will be moving out of the area.
____Rhonda Harpster, a Franklin Township resident, was attending the meeting to submit her resume for tax collector to replace Rupp. She was hired on an interim basis. Under state law, the borough can contract out the position until the next election in the event of an unexpected opening. Harpster was recently appointed to the position of tax collector in Franklin Township and said she was set up and ready to take on the borough.
____Because the deadline is so close for tax bills to be sent out, the council debated just letting the county handle the tax collection for this year, but ultimately decided to keep the job in local hands.
____The position of tax collector will be on the May ballot.
____The Franklinton Water Authority is proceeding to acquire a permit from the Department of Environmental Protection to drain and inspect their water tank. They are preparing bid request for that work to be done once the permit comes through.

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Print Edition Highlights - February 12, 2015

Polar Bears ready for individual post season
By Andy Sandrik

Photo by Curt Werner.
Northern's Noah Smith (top) looks over to Northern Coach Josh Murray before pinning Camp Hill's George Wilson in the 285 pound weight class.

____The Northern wrestling team has spent the entire season training, sweating and competing for this moment.
____Now it's time to see how much of that work paid off.
____The Polar Bears will travel to Mechanicsburg on Saturday for the start of the individual postseason: The District 3-AAA Section 1 Tournament.
____With 11 teams in attendance and just three wrestlers advancing at each weight class, Northern will likely have its hands full against the likes of Cumberland Valley, one of the best teams in the state, as well as Big Spring, Carlisle, Chambersburg, Greencastle-Antrim, James Buchanan, Mechanicsburg, Shippensburg, Waynesboro and West Perry.
____"I think this is one of the toughest sections. It's tough, especially to bring four freshmen here," Polar Bears coach Josh Murray said. "It's individual season, so you just want to see each of the guys do their best individually."
____Northern, after a few hard weeks of training following the conclusion of the regular season, will be represented at sectionals in 10 of 14 weight classes.

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____ Last weekend, the Northern H.S. teams competed in the 2015 Mid Penn Class AAA and AA Swimming and Diving Championships. Despite only resting / tapering one of their eleven swimmers, the Polar Bears recorded nine career best times, four in season best times, six season best times, one Mid Penn Championship and one school record. Clocking a Northern record of 1:57.32, Josh Clarke's exciting, come-from-behind win in the 200 IM was a highlight for Northern fans.
____ Five trips to the awards podium for Northern included Garrett Mixon's fourth place diving finish earlier in the week as well as the Boys 200 Medley Relay Team of Cory Poe, Bryce Carroll, Josh Clarke and Peter Wheat who finished tied for seventh place. Also, the Boys 200 Free Relay team of Cory Poe, Bryce Carroll, Peter Wheat and Josh Clarke placed fifth. And Josh Clarke made another trip to the podium to receive his third place medal in the 100 Freestyle.
____ With his fourth place finish in the Boys 1-Meter diving event earlier in the week, Garrett Mixon had qualified for the PIAA District 3 Championships (Cumberland Valley H.S. February 27-28). As the Banner went to press the swimmers whose times will be submitted for Districts will most likely be: For the girls' squad: Alexa Byers, Makenna Byers, Rachel Eby, Libby Gingrich, Gabby Lodovici, Larissa MacDougall, Jenn Strine, and Caitlyn Weeden. And for the boys' team: Bryce Carroll, Josh Clarke, Cory Poe, Ethan Spencer and Peter Wheat. The girls team competes in Class AA while the boys' team is in Class AAA. Along with Districts, the Mid Penn Polar Plunge (@Northern, February 14) and States in March await the Northern teams.

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By Steven M. Nesbit

____ “We were a farm family,” Harold Friedline said proudly. His father Edward married Helen McMaster. They had four children – all boys, Curtis, Harold, Hugh and George. “What I remember is mostly a lot of hard work; I mean really hard work. Being a farmer ain’t easy,” he said. They lived on a farm and also did the farming for two adjoining properties. They had 84 acres and all together, the boys were probably farming about 175 acres. “My older brother Curtis and I did most the farm work because our two brothers were just too young. It wasn’t expected of them to work as hard as Curtis and me.”
____ Harold Friedline was born on December 28, 1938 in Heidlersburg, which is midway between Dillsburg and Gettysburg just off Route 15. Curtis was about three years older than Harold and believes they ran the farm when they were 12 or 13 years old. They didn’t have dairy cows – “just regular ones.” His mother would churn butter with the old wooden stomper. As for crops, they grew a lot of sweet corn, but their main crop was field corn. “My dad was one of the best farmers I ever knew. He was a farm boy just like me,” Friedline said.

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