Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA back issues from December 2003:
Eras Past; This week in Lancaster County history
Dec 01, 2003 ... Summaries of local news stories from the pages of the LancasterNew Era appear in this space each Monday. They are researched andcompiled by New Era staffer Tim Buckwalter. Full versions areavailable on microfilm at the Lancaster Area Library, 125 N. Duke St. 25 years ...
Yohe passes exam for architects
Dec 01, 2003 ... Charles E. Yohe of Lewis & Associates Architects has passed thearchitectural registration examination and become a registeredarchitect in the ...
Lancaster law firm hires new attorney
Dec 01, 2003 ... The Lancaster law firm of Gibbel, Kraybill & Hess has hired Amy C.Slody as an associate attorney. Slody, of Elizabethtown, graduated this year from ...
Kelly Services hires city group manager
Dec 01, 2003 ... Kelly Services Inc. has hired Joseph P. Jackson as city groupmanager for Lancaster, overseeing the firm's Lancaster and NewHolland offices. The Mount Joy resident ...
FICTITIOUS NAMES
Dec 01, 2003 ... A And B Sharpening, Mervin S. Beiler, 376 Newport Road, Ronks. Auntie Anne's Ellmaker House Bed and Breakfast, Ellmaker House ofGap LP, 5380 Lincoln Highway, Gap. Circle of Health, Linda S. Nichols, 241 Pleasant Valley Road, EastEarl. Curious IQ.Com, Alexander I ....
Feather named new director of surveying
Dec 01, 2003 ... David Miller/Associates Inc. has hired James L. Feather asdirector of surveying services. Feather, of Lancaster, most recently was director of surveying forLSC Design Inc. of York. He also has worked for N.M. Lake & ...
Leah Davis named marketing partner
Dec 01, 2003 ... North Star Marketing Inc. has promoted Leah Davis to partner incharge of marketing. Davis, of ...
ARTICLES
Dec 01, 2003 ... This listing, taken from the Lancaster Law Review, shows recentarticles of incorporations filed by people establishing corporations.The accompanying feature, "Fictitious Names," lists peopleestablishing businesses in other forms. A & L Advanced Physical Therapy Inc. Bronze By ...
No day at the ballpark; Special deliveries for Rebecca and the Barons
Dec 01, 2003; ... READING -- Mike Williams' life changed forever Saturday afternoonon a windswept football field in Coatesville. Our life changed forever Sunday morning in room 221 of the ReadingHospital. Williams, the winningest coach in the history of the Lancaster-Lebanon League, finally ...
Commercial air service's return
Dec 01, 2003 ... Lancaster Airport's on-again off-again commercial air service is"on" again, following some deft political maneuvering by Sens. ArlenSpecter and Rick Santorum and Rep. Joe Pitts. The Republican lawmakers inserted language in the four-year, $60billion Federal Administration ...
World AIDS Day focuses on stigma of AIDS/HIV
Dec 01, 2003 ... Editor, New Era: Today marks the 16th annual World AIDS Day. The AIDS epidemic hasbeen with us since 1981 and shows no signs of abating. Although life-saving treatments are now available to many persons in the U.S andWestern Europe, this is not the case for the rest of the ...
A friend in deed; These women were brought together at a trying time
Dec 01, 2003; ... SIXTEEN WIDOWS SIT around a table. You can hear them laughing all the way upstairs. The women - residents of Masonic Homes retirement community inElizabethtown, their hair shades of silver and white &tstr; have losttheir husbands. But they are still alive. The ...
THEN & NOW; Edward and Lillie Gochnauer; 'You have to put some work into it'
Dec 01, 2003; ... EUGENE GOCHNAUER ALWAYS LOVED the water. Lillie Gochnauer alwaysenjoyed a boat ride with Eugene - as long as she could still seeland. The Lititz couple put their advice for a happy marriage - workingtogether - into practice through 60 years of wedded bliss. On a recent ...
Mary Patterson, was club manager
Dec 01, 2003 ... Mary L. Patterson, 86, of 2829 Lititz Pike, died after a longillness Wednesday morning at Lancashire Hall, where she had lived forthree years. She had worked as manager of Coatesville Country Club, MediaHeights Country Club and the Lancaster Elks Club. She also was partowner of ...
Music at Church of the Apostles
Dec 01, 2003 ... You can take a break from Christmas preparations and spendWednesday afternoons during Advent listening to area musicians playthe Steinway grand piano at Church of the Apostles United Church ofChrist, 1850 Marietta Ave. The presentations will take place from 12:15-12:45 ...
Miriam Shaffner, homemaker
Dec 01, 2003 ... Miriam S. Shaffner, 69, of 1906 Harrisburg Ave., Mount Joy, diedof natural causes Saturday morning at Lancaster General Hospital. A homemaker for most of her life, she worked for SICO Corp. inMount Joy and at Rheems Elementary School in Rheems. She also helpedher husband, who ...
David Sanner, was Navy vet
Dec 01, 2003 ... David William Sanner, 60, of 1901 Oregon Pike, died Friday at theVeterans Administration Medical Center in Lebanon after a longillness. He was the general manager for Fry's Carpet Cleaning, where healso worked in the service-personnel area before becoming disabled. He ...
Bertha Ulrich, former mill worker
Dec 01, 2003 ... Bertha W. Ulrich, 91, formerly of 174 E. Main St., Reinholds, diedof natural causes Saturday at Denver Nursing Home, where she livedfor three years. She was last employed by the former Penn Dale hosiery mill inSinking Spring. A member of Cloister chapter 406, Order of Eastern ...
Model citizen: a makeover and milk
Dec 02, 2003; ... BASED ON HER DEDICATION to her community, Kara Donatucci's beautyis definitely more than just skin deep. It's also bone deep. As one of three winners of the Beauty is Bone Deep contest, she'has pictures and posters to prove it. Donatucci, an attractive 32-year-old ...
Man sentenced for robberies near F&M
Dec 02, 2003 ... The last of three armed robbers who went on a crime spree in theneighborhoods near Franklin & Marshall College was sentenced to stateprison Monday in Lancaster County Court. Zachary T. Evans, 20, of 636 Third St., was sentenced to 10 to 20years in prison, plus 10 years' probation, ...
Manheim man hurt, may have given wrong location
Dec 02, 2003; ... A Manheim man who was injured in a Saturday morning accident onRife Run Road in Rapho Township allegedly told 911 dispatchers thatthe crash was in another county, Ephrata state police said. The injured motorist, identified by police as Bo M. Moore, 26, ofManheim, lost control of ...
2 sought for robbing Intercourse bank Mon.
Dec 02, 2003 ... Two robbers and their getaway driver escaped with a bag of moneyfrom an Intercourse bank on Monday afternoon. State police said at 12:45 p.m. two men robbed the Farmers FirstBank, 3433 Old Philadelphia Pike. The two men, described as Hispanic and in their 20s, police ...
Local Red Cross worker retiring after 2 decades
Dec 02, 2003 ... After 23 years on the job, Marianna Pirrung has decided she'lltake a break from all the disasters that have occupied her life. The Leola resident is retiring from her career as a volunteer forAmerican Red Cross of the Susquehanna Valley. What drew her to the Red Cross in the ...
Luminaries to aid spina bifida
Dec 02, 2003 ... The Spina Bifida Assocation of Greater Pennsylvania is sellingluminary kits for the holidays. They include six luminary bags, sixlong candles and luminary sand packed in a reusable gift bag. Cost is$7.50. They make great gifts or to use to line your ...
Fire destroys barn in Little Britain Twp.
Dec 02, 2003; ... A two-alarm fire in a stiff 20-mph wind destroyed a storage barnwithin minutes early today at a Little Britain Township farm,officials said. A neighbor spotted flames whipping through a pole barn at NorthLittle Britain Road and Asheville Road at about 1:25 a.m. and ...
Rapho Twp. man charged with dealing cocaine
Dec 02, 2003; ... Lancaster state police have arrested a 25-year-old man who,investigators allege, has been peddling crack cocaine out of hisRapho Township apartment. Jamar Marquise Myers, 25, of 46 Lancaster Estates, Mount Joy,failed to post $100,000 bail on charges of delivery of a ...
POLICE-FIRE DIGEST
Dec 02, 2003 ... THEFTS BROWNSTOWN: A burgundy-colored 1994 Chevrolet work van was stolenearly Sunday morning from driveway of Richard Northeimer home in thefirst block of South State Street in Brownstown, West Earl Townshippolice said. The vehicle, which has a white ladder rack, was takenbetween ...
Breakfasts to help HOPE International
Dec 02, 2003 ... Breakfasts will be held Friday and Saturday, Dec. 12-13, tohighlight efforts of HOPE International, a Christian organizationthat ministers in Ukraine and several ...
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
Dec 02, 2003 ... DEAN'S LIST Drexel University. Justen Greising, son of Raymond and RhondaGreising, Landisville, has been named to the dean's list. He is asenior in the College of Engineering and graduated in 1999 fromLancaster Catholic High School. SCHOLARSHIPS Virginia Tech ....
Art museum offers classes
Dec 02, 2003 ... The Lancaster Art Museum will hold winter and spring art classesfor children and adults, with offerings for both beginners andadvanced artists. ArtSmart is for children ages 6-12 who will paint, draw, sculptand more. The cost is $90 for members and $115 for non-members. Theclass ...
Football tickets on sale in Manheim
Dec 02, 2003 ... Tickets for Manheim Central's state championship football gameagainst Pine-Richland in Hersheypark Stadium Friday at 7 p.m. will beon sale today, Wednesday and Thursday from 6-7 p.m ....
...Cinderella team aims to dash Barons' dreams
Dec 02, 2003; ... During a conditioning practice over the summer, Clair Altemus tooka few spare minutes to watch the new kid. Pine-Richland's football coach had never heard of Jake Long, a 5-10, 180-pound transfer from Bradford. After a handful of snaps,Altemus wasn't exactly overwhelmed. "He ...
Bell claims regional championship
Dec 02, 2003 ... Kevin Bell earned the Middle Atlantic Regional championship in the178-pound Open class with a four-round decision over Ruel WilliamsSaturday. Bell, who trains at East Side Athletic ...
E-town's Conner is Player of Week
Dec 02, 2003 ... Jon Conner is proving to be Elizabethtown's most dangerous scorer. The junior guard scored 27 points on 10 of 15 shooting to lead theBlue Jays past York 99-84 in the consolation game of the York CollegeInvitational Sunday. It was the third straight game in which Conner led ...
Williams guards against letdown...; Did the Barons leave everything they had out there on the muddy, wind-swept field at Coatesville High, or do they have enough left in the tank to go the final mile?
Dec 02, 2003; ... They celebrated like like there was no tomorrow. But there arethree big tomorrows ahead. They acted like it was the biggest win of their lives. But thereis an even bigger win to be secured. Manheim Central's players made history Saturday, when they becamethe first Barons to ...
Marlin McMillen, AMP retiree
Dec 01, 2003 ... Marlin G. McMillen, 68, of 255 Blossom Trail, Mount Joy, diedSunday morning at Essa Flory Hospice Center after a long illness. Known as "Mick," he worked for 35 years as a tool and die maker atthe Mount Joy and Landisville AMP Inc. plants, retiring in 1994. He and his wife ...
DEATHS; DAILY LOG
Dec 01, 2003 ... BENNAWIT, Dorothy B., 82, (Mrs. William B.), 1395 Union St. BRILL, Dianne E., 58, (Mrs. David G.), 6217 Beaver Dam Road,Narvon. CINTRON, Patricia A., 51, of 550 S. Hanover St. Apt 10. CREASY, Robert J., 75, of 2414 Ironville Pike, Columbia. DEVONSHIRE, Glen E., ...
DATEBOOK
Dec 01, 2003 ... Meetings HISTORICAL: The Manheim Historical Society will meet at 7 p.m. onThursday, Dec. 4, at the society's Manheim Railroad Station, 210 S.Charlotte St. in Manheim Local auctioneer Jay Witman will present theManheim version of the "Road Show." "Show and Tell" is always apopular ...
BIRTHS
Dec 01, 2003 ... BARTELS, Rachel, Lititz, a daughter, at Women & Babies Hospital,Sunday. CAZAD, Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. (Catherine Grady), Landisville, ason, at Women & Babies Hospital, Sunday. DOOLEY, Mr. and Mrs. John H. (Maureen Hopkins), Lancaster, adaughter, at Woman & Babies Hospital, ...
Christmas a cherished constant in our ever-changing lives
Dec 01, 2003; ... I am driving to the Philadelphia airport, to take my mom, mysister and my niece to California, where my niece will play in aThanksgiving week field hockey tournament. Weird time for field hockey, I think. Even weirder time to go toCalifornia. Thanksgiving is about turkey and ...
Amateurs, pros join forces to aid art museum
Dec 01, 2003; ... Think about the people who create elaborate landscape paintings,dead-on portraits and beautiful pottery. Now get that image of paintbrush-toting, portfolio-lugging, glaze-splattered artists out of your mind. Instead, picture an elementary-school student creating ...
1 million hunters open deer season
Dec 01, 2003; ... Pennsylvania's 1.6 million deer became the hunted this morningwhen around 1 million orange-clad hunters took to the woods as thestate's traditional two-week rifle deer season opened. No reports of heart attacks or accidental shootings were reportedlate this morning at Lancaster's ...
Robber grabs $250 from woman near city ATM
Dec 01, 2003; ... A female robber late Sunday night grabbed $250 from the hand ofanother woman who had just obtained the cash from a 24-hour bank-teller machine in the first block of North Queen Street, city policesaid. The robbery happened at about 10:50 p.m. Sunday. The victim, whois a ...
Questions and concerns as students return; Health Department officials, grief counselors on hand as Wheatland Middle School opens for first time after pupil's death to meningitis.
Dec 01, 2003; ... Students returned to Wheatland Middle School today for the firsttime since one of their classmates died of meningitis. Grief counselors, health department representatives and schooldistrict officials were on hand to answer questions and help thechildren, as well as their parents ...
Parking rules tightened around Central Market; Parking in streets around market is being restricted on market days to loading and unloading. The change is one of asthetics and of safety.
Dec 01, 2003; ... The day is coming soon when pedestrians can walk freely aroundCentral Market without having to navigate a sea of automobiles. Last Tuesday, Lancaster City Council cleaned up the streets aroundCentral Market by restricting parking to loading and unloading only.The new rules will ...
The hunt is on...; Clear, cool as deer season opens
Dec 01, 2003 ... New Providence hunting family members Parke Wilson (left) and sonsJeremy, 15, and John, 17, head into game lands this morning nearHoltwood. Today marks the first day of the traditional rifle seasonthroughout Pennsylvania, and around 1 million hunters ventured intothe woods. They ...
POLICE-FIRE DIGEST
Dec 01, 2003 ... ACCIDENTS LEACOCK TWP: A unknown hit-and-run vehicle, heading south onMonterey Road, struck a traffic sign near Church Road and MontereyRoad and then went through the yard of Leslie E. Fezekas, 2852 ChurchRoad, Bird-in-Hand, at about 5:20 a.m. Saturday, state police ...
Marion Court to help Clare House
Dec 01, 2003 ... Lancaster's Marion Court Room restaurant will host "Guest ChefNight" Tuesday Dec. 2, to benefit the Clare House shelter. During the event from 5 to 10 p.m., the restaurant will donate 25percent of all sales from a special "Guest ...
Some win, some lose in county commissioners' $255M budget proposal; hearing set for Dec. 9
Dec 01, 2003; ... Members of the Haldeman Mansion Historical Society have longsought to preserve and restore the stone building that has overlookedthe Susquehanna River at Bainbridge for nearly three centuries. To do so, they want to install a heating, air conditioning andventilation system that ...
Bicycle Club to award grants
Dec 01, 2003 ... The Lancaster Bicycle Club is seeking applications for grants itwill award for bicycle-related projects. The club will award as muchas $10,000 in 2004 to government groups or non-profit serviceorganizations. Eligible projects could include bicycle parking facilities atpublic ...
Barbara Ann Knosp, was nurse
Dec 01, 2003 ... Barbara Ann Knosp, 64, of 8229 E. Thomas Road, Scottsdale, Ariz.,and formerly of Lancaster, died at home Nov. 17 of natural causes. A registered nurse, Miss Knosp retired in 1990 from ScottsdaleMemorial Hospital, Osbourne Division. From 1960 to 1980, she wassupervisor of the ...
Senate hopeful fighting 'technology sweatshops'
Dec 01, 2003 ... A local candidate for the U.S. Senate is starting a petition driveto end "technology sweatshops." Democrat Charlie Crystle hopes the petition pushes the federalgovernment to close a visa-regulation loophole that allows companiesto import high-tech, low-pay workers from other ...
Road work for Target is topic tonight
Dec 01, 2003; ... East Lampeter Township supervisors tonight will discuss what roadimprovements the developer of a Target-anchored shopping center willhave to make to Witmer Road. The shopping center, which would be called Covered BridgeMarketplace, would be built at Witmer Road and Route ...
South Centerville Road rehab in Manor budget; Officials have been contemplating the $600,000 project for several years. It will be accomplished without raising taxes.
Dec 01, 2003; ... It's been called "Lancaster's Western Bypass." It's busy, winding South Centerville Road, which takes you throughthe heart of Lancaster County farmland and on past new housingdevelopments in the growing area west of Lancaster. And South Centerville, easily Manor Township's ...
A Scribbler column full of Wrinkles and other local curiosities
Dec 02, 2003; ... About a month ago, the hamlet of Mascot in Upper Leacock Township,just south of Leola, produced a flash-in-the-pan sensation when astain appeared on an interior wall at Mascot Roller Mills, otherwiseknown as Ressler's Mill. Depending on the eye of the beholder, the stain looked ...
Senate action is needed on state spending plan
Dec 02, 2003 ... Editor, New Era: The Outreach Committee of the Lancaster Association, United Churchof Christ, is aware of some facts about the critical state of publiceducation in Pennsylvania. The committee produced the following viewsto be considered in our state: Our state House of ...
Bad Manheim intersection
Dec 02, 2003 ... Editor, New Era: There is a very dangerous intersection in Manheim Borough, atSouth Pitt and West Ferdinand streets, that needs to be corrected assoon as possible. The problem is when people coming out of South Pitt Street, afterstopping at the stop sign, proceed to go their ...
Physicians attack lawyers
Dec 02, 2003 ... Editor, New Era: In late October, the Pennsylvania Medical Society unveiled apublic education campaign in many Pennsylvania counties, featuringthe theme, "To lawyers, PA patients all look the same. Stop LawsuitAbuse." The campaign's billboard advertisements featured photos ...
The president's 5 chefs
Dec 02, 2003 ... Editor, New Era: I read in the newspaper that our president, on his recent trip toEngland, took along five personal ...
The best defense against meningitis
Dec 02, 2003 ... Parents anxious to know the source of the meningococcal meningitisthat claimed the life of 12-year-old Kendra McEwan, a WheatlandMiddle School student, need not look very far for the answer. That's because the bacteria that causes this rare and sometimesfatal disease exists widely ...
'Marriage is marriage'
Dec 02, 2003 ... Editor, New Era: This is in response to the article about gay marriage which wasprinted Nov. 19. I was completely appalled at the negative reactionsstated throughout the article. One man said, "The whole world is going down the pot." Anothersaid, "I don't care what they do, ...
PACK NOTES
Dec 02, 2003 ... Lititz hunter takes big bear The Pennsylvania Game Commission is still tallying the final bearkill from last week, but this much is known: James S. Hoover ofLititz killed one of the largest black bears of the season. Hoover shot a 642-pound male bear on the second day of the ...
CALENDAR
Dec 02, 2003 ... TODAY Indoor handgun range, open to public, Manheim Sportsmen's Assoc.,7-10 p.m., range officer on duty. No magnums and lead bullets only.Call 665-7028 or 665-7093. WEDNESDAY Kick 'N Gliders Nordic Ski Club meeting, 7 p.m., WildwareBackcountry basement, 995 Peiffer's ...
Archer tales; Monster buck in 13 minutes
Dec 02, 2003; ... One of the great things about deer hunting is you never know whenthat trophy of a lifetime might happen by. For Noelle Feltenberger, it took just 13 minutes in a tree standbefore she arrowed a monster 10-point buck at 20 yards on a Nov. 10Saturday evening hunt alone in private ...
ASSETS will graduate aspiring entrepreneurs
Dec 02, 2003 ... ASSETS Lancaster will graduate another two classes of aspiringentrepreneurs on Thursday at Southern Market Center. The evening will begin with a 6 p.m. business fair by past ASSETSgraduates. Keynote speakers for the 7 p.m. graduation will be state Rep. P.Michael Sturla and ...