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King and Queen

   Josh Brown and Kasey Davis were crowned the Northern High School 2019 Homecoming King and Queen before the football game at Bostic Stadium last Friday night.

      To remember a friend forever, library names room in honor of Boelhouwer

Peggie Williams

   Dillsburg Area Public Library Board of Directors has named the library meeting room after Doug Boelhouwer, a man who they feel was instrumental to making it possible.

   "There was no dicusion," said librarian Keith Greenawalt. "Once the idea was proposed, it was passed quickly and unanimously."

   Boelhouwer served on the library board for more than 10 years, until his death earlier this year. It was his work, along with a representative from the GFWC Dillsburg Women's Club, that made the half-million-dollar Keystone Grant possible, enabling the purchase and renovation of the building on Mumper Lane that now houses the library.

   A graduate of Rutgers University, Boelhouwer devoted his career to education and worked for more than 20 years at the Pennsylvania Department of Education in Harrisburg as director of the division of nonpublic and private school services and as health and physical education advisor for the bureau of curriculum services.

   In addition to the library board, Boelhouwer also served on the Dillsburg Borough Zoning Hearing Board during his time in the area. He was instrumental in seeking improvements to the Rt. 15 corridor through Dillsburg, especially the intersections. PennDOT, just last week, redesigned the Rt. 15 at Golf Course Road and Range End Road crossing to right turns only.

   The room named after Boelhouwer isn't big. It seats only about a dozen people, but according to Greenawalt, it's an integral part of the library as was the man it was named after. There was no big ceremony when the sign was added to the meeting room door. It was done without fanfare, the same way quiet, efficient way Boelhouwer worked, Greenawalt said. The room is used for meetings of the library board and classes and workshops, but it's also available to the community for meetings, tutoring sessions, or just as a quiet place to study and work.

   "It gets a lot of use," said Greenawalt.

   The Dillsburg Area Public Library has roots back to 1953 as a children's storytime offered in the office waiting room of Dr. Martha Bailey, located at 27 N. Baltimore Street. This grew into a children's lending library at the same location.

   Later that year, the Dillsburg Women's Club opened a general lending library in a corner of the second floor of the Community Center Building in the Dillsburg Fire Hall. They had very limited hours and only about 300 books in their permanent collection.

   After moving to several other locations in town, growing with each move, they settled down at 17 S. Baltimore Street in 1986  where it stayed until the move to Mumper Lane in 2016.

   For more information on services and programs offered at the Dillsburg Area Public Library go to yorklibraries.org/dillsburg or call 717-432-5613.

Bears' winning streak reaches six games

Andy Sandrik                                        

   After a flat start to the season, the Northern girls soccer team has caught fire.

   Seth Lehman's Polar Bears went 2-0 last week, defeating Colonial Division opponents Boiling Springs 1-0 on Thursday and Greencastle-Antrim 3-1 on Tuesday. Northern, which now owns a win over every division opponent, is on a six-game winning streak, making the Polar Bears 1-3 start to the season seem like a distant memory.

   Northern (7-3, 6-1Colonial), which checks in at No. 7 in the latest District 3-3A power rankings, has outscored the competition 19-4 during its winning streak.

   The Polar Bears will look to keep their momentum going today, when they hit the road to face Waynesboro. Northern will then travel to face Lower Dauphin on Tuesday.

   Northern 1, Boiling Springs 0

   Northern exacted revenge on Boiling Springs, a team that swept the 2018 season series by beating the Polar Bears by scores of 4-3 (2OT) and 1-0.

   Northern has been solid in close games, going 3-1 in contests decided by one goal.

   The Polar Bears JV team was also victorious on Thursday, topping the Bubblers by a 3-0 score.

   Northern 3, Greencastle-Antrim 1

   The Polar Bears continued their revenge tour on Tuesday night, defeating Greencastle by the same 3-1 score the Blue Devils issued to Northern on Sept. 3.

   Northern took a 2-0 halftime lead on goals from Camille Waits and Allie Tutich, before Waits added another goal in the second half to cap off the scoring for the Polar Bears.

   Northern's JV team exploded for an 8-0 victory over Greencastle.

                                          Polar Bear blasts Blue Devils

Joe Guty

   Surprising many people, including themselves, the Northern H.S. Varsity Football team steamrolled Greencastle-Antrim H.S. 55-13 last Friday night at Bostic Field. It was Homecoming Night and a night to remember as Kyle Swartz eclipsed 4,000 yards in career rushing with an epic 250-yard performance. The senior running back had a mere 12 carries, a long run of 67 yards and two touchdowns as the Polar Bears improved to 3-2 on the season and 2-0 in the Mid Penn Colonial Division. Greencastle Antrim fell to 1-4 overall and 0-2 in the Colonial. Quarterback Jordan Heisey was 8 of 10 for 105 yards in the air with three touchdown passes and one TD on the ground. The junior signal caller had his best game of the year and also benefitted from a strongs upporting cast—both the offensive and defensive lines - that kept the Blue Devils back on their heels or backs all night.

   Around the Mid PennColonial Division last week, West Perry dropped their first game of the year as Mechanicsburg rolled to a 35-7 win. The Polar Bears travel to West Perry (4-1overall and 1-0 in the Colonial) this Friday night in what could be a pivotal league game in the last half of the season. Shippensburg (5-0 and 2-0) thrashed Mifflin County 45-14 and Waynesboro blanked Big Spring 22-0.