Print Edition Highlights - October 22, 2015
By Carolyn Kimmel
Photo by Marie Chomicki.
Tractors line up on W. York Street for their parade Saturday afternoon during the 100th Farmers Fair. The fair drew a record 168 tractors.
____ The streets are cleared, the exhibits are down and the last funnel cake has long since been eaten, but the memories of the 100th Farmers Fair will linger for those who turned out to participate.
____ For Larry Martick, Saturday marked a special reunion with his son, Zach, who came home from his freshman year at University of Pittsburgh just for Farmers Fair.
____ “I do it to have the opportunity of throwing horseshoes with my son,” said Martick, who participated in the horse shoe pitching contest in the morning. The pair won fourth place.
____ For Melody Sowers, the fair brought the opportunity to meet up with former classmates at the reunion party at Noonan’s on Friday night, which drew more than 600 people.
____ “I ran into one girl I haven’t seen since we graduated. She screamed my name when she saw me,” said Sowers, a member of the class of 1979. “That was probably the most fun part of the evening. Just looking around the room, I saw all these different people I see around town, but I didn’t necessarily know they were Northern grads.”
____ A bird’s eye view of Baltimore Street on Saturday served up the same scene – people stopped in little groups up and down the street and sidewalk, talking and laughing, taking time to catch up on each other’s lives. Some saw people they hadn’t seen in months and others saw friends they see every week but without the luxury of having time to chat.
____ For many, there’s an irresistible pull on the third weekend of October that brings college students and natives who have moved away back for Farmers Fair . . . a big reunion with some of the best food around, punctuated with the excitement of competition, exhibits and parades.
Photo by Curt Werner
Crowds overtake downtown Dillsburg from Hanover to Greenbrier streets Saturday afternoon.
See the October 22, 2015 edition of the Dillsburg Banner for details.
By Peggie Williams
Spring Lane Road bridge nears completion in Carroll Township.
____ As the repair of Spring Lane Road bridge nears completion, Carroll Township supervisors contemplated ways to protect the bridge. They decided to restrict trucks of three axels or more from using the bridge which is easier to enforce that an actual weight restriction. Local deliveries will be allowed with intent of the ordinance to keep large delivery trucks from using the road as access to the commercial area on Route 15.
____ There is a process involving PennDOT that must be gone through in order to do this and township staff was given permission to begin the process. They will also begin a similar process to stop the use of engine retarders, a.k.a. Jake Brakes, at the intersection of Route 74 and Spring Lane Road.
____ Police Chief Thomas Wargo was given permission to install security cameras at the entrances to the police station. There was $4,000 in the police budget for this to be done. While the system being purchased will only be used on the Police side of the building at the current time it will have the capability of expanding to other parts of the building if that is desired in the future.
____ Wargo also received permission to donate the old Carroll Township police uniforms to the local fire police. Wargo said he was sure there would be enough to supply all four local stations.
____ The contract was renewed for Mary Harris to continue her animal control services to the township. Her retainer fee is $300 and her hourly rate is $17.50 per hour plus mileage. She is the only one willing to bring her services to the northern York County area. Ed Coble voted against the motion to keep her on.
See the October 22, 2015 edition of the Dillsburg Banner for details.
By Carolyn Kimmel
A couple hundred people gathered in the cold to watch 41 teams of two compete to see how fast they could saw a log in the cross cut saw competition. There were 23 men’s teams, six women’s teams and 12 mixed teams. The sawing went on until after 10 p.m.
____ For Eric Saunders, the third time was charm when his blueberry cheesecake ice cream placed second in this year’s Farmers Fair Ice Cream Churn Off last Thursday night.
____ When asked what the ice cream is judged on as he sat churning up his latest batch, Sanders grinned and said, “If only I knew!”
____ The person who does know is Mindy Cook, owner of Dillsburg’s Dairy Queen, who has been judging the contest for at least 10 years.
“Consistency, how fast it melts, creamy vs. icy and flavor,” said Cook, who was on hand to judge the contest’s record 16 entries along with the 2015 Farmers Fair Queen Amy Kimmel, who also happens to be a self-described “ice cream sculptor” at Dairy Queen, and fair volunteer Tom Gochenauer.
____ “I judge on the flavor,” Kimmel said, then added, “But if I don’t like a certain flavor, I have to be fair and still judge it on other things.”
____ A hungry crowd of more than 200 people milled around the 16 teams that were hand cranking their way to creamy delights, all waiting with cups and spoons in hand to have a taste of the finished product.
Behind the microphone is Farmers Fair Vice President Paul Tucker with Mindy Cook, owner of Dillsburg’s Dairy Queen and Farmers Fair Queen Amy Kimmel.
See the October 22, 2015 edition of the Dillsburg Banner for details.
Also in the October 22, 2015 edition:
-Community Calendar
-Obituaries
-Letters to the Editor
-Editorials
-Births
-20 years ago
-Classifieds
Print Edition Highlights - October 22, 2015
Lady Polar Bears win again; District 3 bound
By Joe Guty
Photo by Curt Werner
Northern's Taylor Brown blocks a shot.
____Adding to the positive momentum from recent victories, the Northern H.S. girls varsity volleyball team has qualified for the PIAA District 3 Tournament. The Lady Polar Bears are currently ranked sixth in the PIAA District 3, Class AA rankings. The opening round begins on Saturday, Oct. 31 at Northern H.S.. The Quarter-Finals are slated for Tuesday, Nov. 3 and Semi Finals on Thursday, Nov. 5. The Championship Final is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 7.
____On Senior Night at home this past Tuesday, Oct. 20, Northern blanked Shippensburg 3-0 to move to 14-4 for the year and 10-3 in the Mid Penn Capital Division. Game scores: 25-14,25-15,25-6.
____Senior stat leaders included: Ally Bittinger - 3 aces, 4 kills, 24 assists and 9 digs; Ashley Deardorff - 2 aces, 9 kills and 5 digs; Katie Smith - 1 ace, 2 assists and 6 digs; Maranda Gibb - 5 aces, 7 kills and 4 digs; Taylor Brown - 4 aces, 4 kills and 2 digs; and Madi Landis - 1 kill and 1 dig.
____In JV action, the Lady Bears posted a 2-0 win over the Lady Greyhounds JV (25-6,25-16). Stat leaders included: Elizabeth Friends - 7 aces, 2 kills, 5 assists and 2 digs; Brynlee Brenneman - 2 aces, 6 assists and 4 digs; Jaidyn Gillespie - 1 kill, 1 assist and 5 digs; Alison Abrashoff - 3 kills and 1 dig; Lexi Hunter - 1 ace and 2 digs; Cassie Smith and Corrina Smith - 2 kills apiece; and Bella Vidic - 4 aces;
See the October 22, 2015 edition of the Dillsburg Banner for details.
Northern suffers first two losses, awaits playoffs
By Andy Sandrik
Northern's Maddie Waits sends the ball up field.
____ After opening the season with 16 straight victories, the Northern girls soccer team will be entering the District 3-AA postseason on a two-game losing streak.
____ The Polar Bears played five games over the past week and earned a 3-0 win over West Perry on Thursday, a 9-0 victory over Shippensburg on Friday and a 6-0 triumph over Carlisle on Saturday.
____ Then came the losses. Northern fell 3-2 to Trinity in double overtime on Monday before falling 3-1 to Hershey on Tuesday in the Mid-Penn Conference Tournament semifinals.
____ The Polar Bears, even with the loss to the Shamrocks, are champions of the Mid-Penn Capital Division over Trinity (16-1-1, 10-1-1 division), Middletown (12-5, 8-4), East Pennsboro (11-6-1, 5-6-1), Camp Hill (7-10-1, 3-8-1), West Perry (5-12-1, 2-9-1) and Milton Hershey (5-12, 1-11).
____ Northern, which has outscored its opponents 91-17 this season, was still waiting to find out who its first opponent in the District 3-AA playoffs was when the Banner went to press.
See the October 22, 2015 edition of the Dillsburg Banner for details.
Wolf Tracks
Fortunate and a little spoiled
By Dave Wolf
Photo by Dave Wolf.
A descendent of the squirrel that bit my grandmother.
____ We are fortunate and a little spoiled, constantly confusing our wants and needs. For example we need clean water; without it we can’t survive. On the other hand, I want to take a buck this year. No I won’t starve if I don’t, but it is something I want and desire. Nevertheless, it is important to note the differences. I will spend countless hours pursuing something in the short time frame we call fall, and “early winter.” My grandfathers, both of them, loved to hunt squirrels. My grandmother attempted to partake of hunting, but the first squirrel she shot, she picked up by the tail. The problem was the squirrel had not expired and somehow swung up and bit her! My grandfather claimed that the teeth had been so embedded into her finger that they touched one another, so he had to literally pull open the squirrel’s jaws to get him loose. That evening after cleaning the squirrel, my grandmother decided that hunting wasn’t for her, and she went back to concentrating on fishing. Amazing as it might seem, she never visited the hospital. Instead, she cleaned her wound, bandaged it and went about her daily chores. My father loved squirrel hunting and would often sit under a large oak and wait for a bushy tail to appear. When I went with him, we sat in silence and I was directed not to shoot the first gray that appeared. His method seemed to work, because a few minutes later another one would appear and soon after that another. It was then that I was given the nod to take one. Cradling a single shot H&R .410, one was all I could harvest before they retreated for a time span of 10 to 20 minutes. Of course I missed as many as I took, but I recall squirrel hunting as being a time to sit back and relax, well about as relaxed as a 12-year-old boy can get. One night, after a long day at work, my father went hunting. I recall that he didn’t come home right after darkness fell.
See the October 22, 2015 edition of the Dillsburg Banner for details.
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