| Print Edition Highlights - June 18, 2015
By Curt Werner
Photo by Curt Werner.
The Dillsburg Citizens Hose 64’s ladder truck, driven by Bob Heffelfinger, towers over the charred remains of the front end loader that caught fire just outside one of the sheds at the Pennex Aluminum plant Thursday in Wellsville.
____ On Thursday, June 11, at 10:18 a.m. a front end loader caught fire at the Pennex Aluminum plant in Wellsville. Employees were unable to extinguish the fire. Wellsville fire company was only a few hundred feet from the plant.
____ Firefighters Craig Harlacker and Alex McCoy were first on the scene. "There was thick black smoke and fire when we arrived," said Harlacker. "We were able to get the fire under control quickly."
____ Approximately 80 employees had to leave the plant for safety. They relocated at the Wellsville Fire Company. The fire hall was air conditioned and many took advantage of the cool inside from the 90 degree temperature outside.
____ A second alarm was called, once an odor of ammonia was detected. Additional fire companies arrived with plenty of manpower. A HazMat team from York County was called. Once the area was secured, it was determined there was no run off contamination and testing showed no emissions.
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By Jeffrey B. Roth
Kenneth Searfoss
____ Kenneth Searfoss is waiting to be assigned down under—no not Australia.
____ In a few weeks, Searfoss, 20, a 2013 Northern High School graduate, is expecting to get assigned for duty in a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine. While still a junior at Northern, Searfoss had signed up for the delayed enlistment program. A month after he graduated, in July 2013, Searfoss entered boot camp at the Recruit Training Command at Great Lakes Naval Station, at Great Lakes, Ill.
____ “My grandfather, (Kenneth “Ken” Searfoss, a Vietnam veteran), was in the Navy,” Searfoss said. “He was always an influence on me. When I took the ASVAB, (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery), in school, I got a really good score. My uncle, Scott Meredith, (originally from Mechanicsburg, but currently living in Maryland), was in the same program and he kind of laid out all of the career opportunities available. He is not in the Navy now, but transitioned to the civilian side and still works in the same field, (nuclear power).”
____ After boot camp, Searfoss, the son of Kevin Meredith and Beverly Searfoss, spent six months training at the Naval Nuclear Power Training Command at Goose Creek, S.C. At the “A School” Searfoss learned the fundamentals of nuclear power, a first step in becoming a nuclear machinist's mate. At the time of the interview, Searfoss was assigned to the Nuclear Power Training Unit at Ballston Spa, N.Y.
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Submitted by Paul Tucker
Here is a 1950s picture of the “skirt” of the dress that covered the automobile upon which Delta Rumsey was riding. Rumsey was awarded fourth prize of $5 in the decorated automobile division.
____ Several weeks ago, I sent out a request for pictures and/or stories of your family and Farmers Fair. Well, two weeks ago I had the distinct pleasure of sitting down with someone who has a long history of participating in the fair. In fact she has some memories that go back well before World War II.
____ Delta Rumsey, a Dillsburg native, has lived in the same house for over 80 years and she remembers going to the parades when she was very young.
____ Through the years Delta, her husband Ralph, and their two daughters have been very involved in making Farmers Fair a time to remember.
Here are a few of the pictures Delta showed me of her family in various parades. (See A5)
____ I think my favorite is that huge car-encompassing skirt that Delta traveled down Baltimore Street wearing in the early 1950s. Delta still can tell you exactly how many pieces of tissue paper she hand-pulled through the fabric to decorate the floats. (One was over 5,000!) ____ From these photos it is certainly clear that the Farmers Fair has been a Family Affair for the Rumsey family. I want to thank Delta for sitting down with me and Ginny Shatto and sharing all these great memories.
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Also in the June 18, 2015 edition:
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___ -Community Calendar
___ -Obituaries
___ -Letters to the Editor
___ -Editorials
___ -Births
___ -20 years ago
___ -Classifieds
Print Edition Highlights - June 18, 2015
Dillsburg Wolfpack off to 8-2 start
By Andy Sandrik
Photo by Curt Werner.
First baseman Scott Leitholf holds the Enola runner at first.
____After a year on the sidelines, sandlot baseball is officially back in Dillsburg.
____And this group of ballplayers seems better than ever.
____Using a mix of veterans and stars from Northern's baseball team, the Wolfpack have burst out of the gates for an 8-2 start in the West Shore Twilight Baseball League and were riding a four-game winning streak going into Tuesday evening's game against Mechanicsburg.
____Coach Billy White has only been able to make a handful of games, but he is impressed with what he has seen. White, a third-round selection of the Chicago Cubs in the 1989 MLB draft who played as high as the AAA level, says Dillsburg is certainly a team to keep an eye on this summer.
____"I've got to hand it to (manager) Harry Sanders, he's assembled a really good team," White said. "It's a good mix of the younger players and the college guys. It's been a total team effort. The guys look like they're having fun playing and they're also winning games."
____Dillsburg has gotten the job done with stellar pitching and timely hitting.
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Three teams end DASC season with wins
By Andy Sandrik
Post game shot of the team and coach.
____ The curtain has officially closed on the Central Pennsylvania Youth Soccer League season.
____ In the final week of the season, Dillsburg Area Soccer Club had three winners on the girls side, including victories from the U9 Dragonflies, U9 Banshees and U12 Rage.
____ For now, DASC teams will wait and see whether they move up or down in divisions before returning to action in the fall.
BOYS
U13 Rush vs. CASA Galaxy (no report)
____ There was no report for last weekend's CPYSL Division 1 game between the Rush and CASA Galaxy.
____ The season is over for both teams.
____ The Division 1 champion is the CYSA Blue Thunder, which finished 8-0 and outscored its opponents by a 46-8 margin.
GIRLS
U9 Dragonflies 8, Fusion FC Inferno 1
____ The Dragonflies ended their season in CPYSL's Division 1 with a lopsided victory over Fusion FC Inferno.
____ Dillsburg (2-5-1) was led with two goals from Cassidy Sadler and one goal apiece from Maddie Derr, Jaidyn Smith, Katie Felmlee, Helena Henderson, Hannah Freese and Megan Ressler.
____ The Inferno end their season at 0-8.
____ The Dragonflies, who outscored their opponents 17-16 this season, complete their season as the division's fifth-place team.
____ The division was won by HMMS Force (8-0), a team that outscored its opponents 36-7.
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Wolf Tracks
Father’s Day?
By Dave Wolf
Photo by Dave Wolf.
A father and son creating a “remember when.”
____ I can still hear the footsteps ahead of me, the kicking and rustling of long grasses, and the crunching of dried cornstalks with their bounty already harvested. I can see the frayed bottoms of canvas pants, ripped by the thorns of greenbriers.
____ I recall the smell of the beagle, and the bawling deep within a thicket was a sign that a cottontail would soon be circling. There was always a lead dog, with the remainder of the small pack following, some instinctively, and others so they wouldn’t get lost.
____ I wasn’t the “lead dog” back then, and I was following in footsteps I would never quite fill. These were men of another era, back when harvesting a cottontail meant food for the table. Shotgun shells weren’t something to be wasted, and I never recall “patterning” my shotgun. My shotgun happened to be an inexpensive H&R single shot, one that I was told would quell my urge to flinch.
____ Years prior, I had been taught to shoot with a single shot .22 while sitting on my father’s knee. I learned quickly what a good “backdrop” was—a coal bank—the remains of sifted coal. All rocks had to be removed before the shooting began, and it was years before I was allowed to carry the rifle, with the bolt open, and the chamber checked for a live round by my father.
____ Somehow, I never realized that we quit shooting when the cardboard box was empty. That ammo was something that was part of our budget. I quickly learned that every gun was loaded, and only touched them under adult supervision. Even back then I was taught, you never “dry-fire” a gun of any kind.
____ My father’s dad was a World War I veteran, my father a World War II vet, and both knew that guns could be extremely dangerous. However, in our family, hunting was a way of life. I actually thought everyone hunted, and never heard a single person condemn it when I was in school.
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