Sunday News Lancaster, PA back issues from February 2006:
A big house all to themselves
Feb 05, 2006; ... Families are smaller, but homes keep growing. Even empty nesterswant dream house. Is bigger really better? Paula Wolf More single-family homes these days come with four bedrooms, and real estateagent Ed Diller isnt at all impressed. Its stupid, he said. Thattrend helped the average new ...
Checking up on its candidates
Feb 05, 2006; ... Helen Colwell Adams The county Republican Party wants to know alittle more about the candidates who ask for its support. For thefirst time this year, the county GOP is considering background checksof candidates who are seeking the partys endorsement in the May 16primary. The move has ...
CATCH SUPER EXTRA in Sports The Super Bowl: Dont ask why
Feb 05, 2006 ... Do you ever go outside on a clear evening, ponder the stars andheavens and think, How insignificant I am? Me neither. But its beendone and is supposedly an antidote to the belief that we humans arealone out here. That makes sense: The universe is so immense, itsarrogant of us to believe ...
Restoring shad to river
Feb 05, 2006; ... John McGonigle Richard St. Pierre, of Millerstown, has thetenacity of a pit bull. Once he gets his teeth into a project, hesees it through. St. Pierre, a fisheries biologist with the U.S. Fish& Wildlife Service, received the Ralph W. Abele Conservation Award ata recent ceremony at the ...
Deer management isnt simple
Feb 05, 2006; ... All deer, all the time. Thats what some deer hunters seem to want reading, writing, talking and complaining about deer. Actually, thecomments about deer at the recent Pennsylvania Game Commissionmeeting were fairly well-balanced between those for and those againstthe states ...
State leads nation with young-hunter program
Feb 05, 2006 ... In the amazing-but-true category, a prospective youth hunterprogram for the nation came first to fruition in Pennsylvania whenGov. Ed Rendell last Dec. 22 signed into law a bill allowing youth-mentored hunts. Rendell held a symbolic signing ceremony on Jan. 27to help promote the program ...
Home (nearly) alone
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County GOP donors sit on their wallets
Feb 05, 2006; ... Helen Colwell Adams Dont get out the tin cup just yet, but moneyis a little tight for the countys Republican Party. The GOP finished2005 with $1,212 in the bank, its lowest balance since 2000, evenwith a late $5,000 cash infusion from state Senate Majority LeaderChip Brightbill. By ...
Alissa Murrys 724 series was real family effort
Feb 05, 2006; ... Alissa Murry reached a pinnacle of her bowling career last seasonwhen she rolled a 724, her first 700 series. With the support of herteammates, particularly, her father, Carl Farmer, and her brother,James Farmer, she capped the series with a 280. According to Murry,26, her fellow bowlers ...
4 softball players on mission to Venezuela
Feb 05, 2006; ... Jim Hersh Four Lancaster County fast-pitch softball players arepart of a mission trip to Venezuela that combines games and aChristian message. The four players pitcher Earl Rutledge, secondbaseman Chandler Evans, outfielder Terry Erb and utilityman andpitcher Tom Giberson are ...
Rowand, Howard aim high
Feb 05, 2006; ... Tom Arnold It wasnt long ago that first baseman Jim Thome andreliever Billy Wagner were among the best reasons for PhiladelphiaPhillies fans to believe. But Wagner left for more money and, hefeels, a better chance to win in New York. Enter a new closer, TomGordon. Thome and his giant ...
Bloomsburg drops MU in overtime
Feb 05, 2006 ... Mike Cheatle scored a career-high 23 points, including a game-tying 3-pointer with 19 seconds remaining in regulation, asBloomsburg defeated PSAC East rival Millersville 83-78 in overtimeSaturday at Bloomburgs Nelson Field House. Trailing 68-65 with 19seconds left, Cheatle drained a ...
Peg Kauffman is MU womens interim AD
Feb 05, 2006 ... Peg Kauffman has been named interim director of womens athleticsat Millersville University. Kauffman, the womens basketball headcoach at Lebanon Valley since 1993, was a star basketball player atLancaster Catholic and Millersville. Im excited to be coming back tomy alma mater, said ...
Four local athletes set to play Division I lacrosse
Feb 05, 2006; ... Jim Hersh Lancaster Countys stature in lacrosse continues to grow.Four local athletes two each from Lancaster Country Day andHempfield will play lacrosse in Division I programs next season.LCDs Matt Mersky will play at Lafayette College, while Lance Diamondwill compete for the ...
State targets county coroner
Feb 05, 2006; ... Gil Smart Lancaster County Coroner Dr. G. Gary Kirchner is thesubject of an investigation by the Pennsylvania Attorney Generalsoffice over allegations that he provided a local newspaper access tosensitive information. As first reported on 5thEstate.com Saturday,officials with the ...
Pittsburgh Steelers fullback
Feb 05, 2006 ... Dan Kreider, a Manheim Central graduate, was upgraded Friday fromquestionable to probable for tonights Super Bowl against Seattle inDetroit. Kreider, a key member on Pittsburghs offense, suffered aleft knee injury after ...
DANCE AUCTION
Feb 05, 2006 ... The black-tie event held at Lancaster Country Club benefits themission and work of the American Heart Association. The eveningfeatured dinner, dancing to the music of Cruise Control, and silentand live auctions. The ball is designed to raise awareness and fundsfor the nations number one ...
McCaskey High School Alumni Association
Feb 05, 2006 ... The McCaskey High School Alumni Association plans to publish acookbook of favorite recipes provided by alumni and friends ofMcCaskey High, Boys High and Stevens High Schools. Recipes can besubmitted by ...
Hair and special teams favor the Steelers
Feb 05, 2006; ... Looking to try something different, I decided to recruit anotherprognosticator for this weeks Super Bowl column. Recruit probablyisnt the right word, though, because my cohort likely didnt know shewas being targeted. Shamelessly copying an idea from a WashingtonPost sportswriter, who ...
Nagy and Force face title rematch
Feb 05, 2006; ... Dan Kreider wont be the only former Manheim Central football starin action today. Matt Nagy will quarterback the Georgia Force againstthe Colorado Crush in an Arena Football League game at 1 p.m. inAtlanta. The Crush defeated the Force 51-48 in ArenaBowl XIX lastsummer. Nagy led the ...
Guffy leads Manheim Central to rifle title
Feb 05, 2006 ... Ryan Guffy shot 200 with three centers to lead regular-seasonchampion Manheim Central to the championship of the L-L League shoot-off Saturday at Ephrata. Guffy just edged out Elizabethtowns ...
More folks on less land
Feb 05, 2006; ... Gil Smart The thing about development in Lancaster County is thatso many seem to embrace the very thing they claim to hate. Sprawl hasbecome a dirty word here, but sprawl is merely a preservationiststerm for the type of development that has predominated here becausetheres a solid market ...
Diplomats capture titles in swimming
Feb 05, 2006 ... COLLEGES Franklin & Marshall (6-1, 6-0 CC) defeated hostGettysburg, clinching its first Centennial Conference mens swimmingdual-meet title. It was the Diplomats first win over Gettysburg since2000. Sophomore Derek Nowak (Lancaster Catholic) won the 1,000freestyle (10:25.74) and the 500 ...
Hempfield runs past Central York, 49-33
Feb 05, 2006 ... GIRLS BASKETBALL Andrea Bowman and Analicia Evans each talliednine points Saturday to help lead visiting Hempfield past CentralYork Panthers 49-33 Saturday in a non-league girls basketball game.Gov. Mifflin 50, ...
On the front lines of neurosurgery
Feb 05, 2006; ... Jon Rutter Had he been covering the Vietnam War, newsman BobWoodruff probably would have died of his injuries. As it is, the ABCWorld News Tonight co-anchor was badly wounded last month in Iraq, aswas ABC News cameraman Doug Vogt. Theyre getting the kind ofsophisticated care unavailable ...
Diplomats win at buzzer
Feb 05, 2006; ... Brett Hambright Its not that Derek Hines wasnt a deservingcandidate, he just didnt expect to be a hero Saturday night atFranklin & Marshalls Mayser Gymnasium. My role was to screen for[teammate Brandon] Smith, F&Ms sophomore center from Manheim Townshipsaid of the Diplomats offensive ...
Elizabethtown goes cold
Feb 05, 2006; ... Greg Caldwell A basketball team can play strong defense all game,but if its offense fails to make shots, the best defense does notmatter. This is a lesson the Elizabethtown College Blue Jays learnedup close and personal at Lebanon Valley College Saturday. The BlueJays held LVC to 32 ...
Evenly matched
Feb 05, 2006; ... Super Bowl Extra Mike Gross You may have noticed that one of theentries in tonights Super Bowl has gotten a bit more attention thanthe other. The Pittsburgh Steelers have personality, color, historyand a national fan base. The Seattle Seahawks, uh, dont. The Steelerscome from the better ...
Tag Shop opening
Feb 05, 2006 ... The Tag Shop, formerly of MarketwayAlley, will reopen Friday at 15W. King St. Barry and Mary Jo Kline, owners of the store, have closedtheir original site and have moved their inventory two doors down tothe former home of the Central Market Art Gallery. The Klines hadhoped to reopen last ...
Changes to Sunday News stock listings
Feb 05, 2006 ... The Sunday News has reduced its stocks and mutual-fund tables. Wewill carry up to 1,300 of the most active stocks, listed from A-Z inone table, not differentiating the exchanges. Up to 500 of the mostactive mutual funds will be printed. There are two reasons thatnewspapers across the ...
Personnel File
Feb 05, 2006 ... C. J. Levan, West Lawn, has joined RGS Associates of Lancaster asa senior project designer. RGS is a land-development consulting firm.Levan graduated with a degree in civil engineering from Penn StateUniversity. The Building Industry Association of Lancaster Countypromoted Tess A ....
Bankruptcies
Feb 05, 2006 ... Here is a list of Lancaster County bankruptcies recorded in U.S.Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Reading, Jan. 28-Feb. 3. Benjamin M. and Meggin L. Santiago, 900 block of BoyceAvenue, Chapter 7. Sigifredo Zabala, 100 block of ...
Park City retailers top in their leagues
Feb 05, 2006; ... Eric G. Stark Food top 10. Jewelry top 10. Clothing top 10.Would you believe several stores at Park City Center are top-sellersnationwide? Its true. In fact, some set records within theirfranchise chain for sales during store openings, while othersconsistently rank in the top 10 for ...
Park City retailers top in their leagues
Feb 05, 2006; ... Eric G. Stark Food top 10. Jewelry top 10. Clothing top 10.Would you believe several stores at Park City Center are top-sellersnationwide? Its true. In fact, some set records within theirfranchise chain for sales during store openings, while othersconsistently rank in the top 10 for ...
Carpenters helper
Feb 05, 2006; ... Judy A. Strausbaugh For many Americans, religious faith is notsomething they confine to weekly worship services, but live everyday, including at work. See story in todays Living Section, page G1.When Gary DeHaas served as a minister of a church, he wouldfrequently hear of peoples ...
Flamenco dance with passion and Pasion
Feb 05, 2006 ... The women of the Philadelphia-based Pasion y Arte Flamenco dancecompany will take the stage at Franklin & Marshall Colleges RoschelPerforming Arts Center at 8 p.m Feb. 10, seeking to both preserve theFlamenco tradition and empower women through cante (deep song), baile(dance) and toque ...
Haring show has Reading up in arms
Feb 05, 2006; ... James Buescher What, exactly, is art? Is it self-expression, likeJackson Pollocks 1950s splatter paintings, or is it a kind ofhistorical artifact capturing a lost time and place, like Jean-Franois Millets 1857 work The Gleaners? Is art made just to bebeautiful, or should it make people ...
Sterling banks on being less efficient, more productive
Feb 05, 2006; ... Judy A. Strausbaugh Business Editor While the nations large banksare wincing from bruises inflicted by lackluster fourth-quarterreturns, at least one Lancaster County bank company remainedunscathed in 2005. Sterling Financial Corp., with which The Bank ofLancaster County is affiliated, ...
Songs from and for the Fulton
Feb 05, 2006; ... Marty Crisp You can take a little piece of Fulton Opera Househistory home when a new compact disc called From the Fulton goes onsale later this month. Recorded as a fund-raiser for the venerableOld Lady of Prince Street, the CD offers music from past shows sungby Fulton stage alumni. The ...
Love times two at Rainbow Dinner Theatre
Feb 05, 2006; ... Laura Knowles As the old song goes, Love is lovelier the secondtime around. Thats the premise behind Rainbow Dinner Theatresproduction of The Second Time Around, which opens Feb. 8 and runsthrough April 29. The good-humored comedy about an older couplessecond chance at love couldnt have ...
Cupboard sellers shelves wont be bare after $31,100 bid
Feb 05, 2006 ... Public Auctions Horst Auctioneers of Ephrata held the followingsales. wAntiques and books with 506 registered bidders attending Jan.27 and 28. Items that sold included a small, walnut Dutch cupboard,$31,100; a Daniel Oyster grandfather clock, $18,400; a Victoriancupboard, $1,200; a ...
Lititz group examines states writers
Feb 05, 2006 ... Would you like to join a book group that provides you with freebooks? That features an academically qualified discussion leader?That reads books by Pennsylvania writers, set in their home state?Lititz Public Library will host Read About It! Pennsylvania Writers10 a.m.-noon Fridays, Feb ....
Bar fund-raiser for boy with autism
Feb 05, 2006 ... Rookies Sports Bar & Grill, 30 Keller Ave., is holding a fund-raiser for Chris Davis, 12, son of Bill Davis, an autism advocate,and the late Jae Davis, who brought autism education into themainstream in Lancaster County. Bill Davis is a local bartender andan author of books on autism. He ...
CV parents night
Feb 05, 2006 ... Conestoga Valley High School will host a parents night from 7 to8:40 p.m. Thursday at the high school, 2110 Horseshoe Road. Parentsand guardians of ...
Monkey business to mark Georges 65th birthday
Feb 05, 2006 ... Curious George, the funny monkey starring in picture books createdby H.A. and Margret Rey, qualifies for Social Security this year. Yeteven at 65, he still has a lot of mischief left in him. Not only thesubject of an upcoming feature film, hes making the rounds of countylibraries this ...
STRAW POLL TOTALS
Feb 05, 2006 ... Results of the county Republican Partys straw polls through lastweek. Two-thirds is needed for endorsement. The countywideendorsement convention starts Feb. 15. 36th Senate District MikeBrubaker, 34 Chet Beiler, 25 Lowell Fry, 25 Heidi Wheaton, 2* *FromLancaster County only Wheaton won ...
Round Table focus on Irish volunteers
Feb 05, 2006 ... bookends Author Don Ernsberger will discuss and sign Paddy OwensRegulars: A History of the Pennsylvania Irish Volunteers at theLancaster Civil War Round Table meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9,in Park Citys community room. His comprehensive two-volume regimentalhistory contains 58 ...
Former U.S. deputy attorney general to speak in Lancaster
Feb 05, 2006 ... A former top attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice who servedduring three presidential administrations will visit Lancaster thisweekend for a series of public presentations. Former U.S. DeputyAttorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. will participate in local eventscommemorating Black ...
Middle East topic of lecture
Feb 05, 2006 ... Middle East scholar Dr. Mitchell Rothman will present The MiddleEast: Who Are All These People? at 7 p.m. Feb. 16 in the BatesAuditorium of the Duke Street Library, at 125 N. Duke St. The programis free to the public. Rothman is an associate professor at WidenerUniversity, Chester, and a ...
Church concert
Feb 05, 2006 ... The Soul Purpose quartet will present a concert at 10 a.m. Feb. 12at Mount ...
Scholastic Corner
Feb 05, 2006 ... Brett Nelson has graduated from Philadelphia Biblical University,Langhorne, with a bachelor of science degree in health and physicaleducation. He was a recipient of the National Collegiate EducationAward. He is the son of Phil and Gail Nelson, East Petersburg.Elizabeth A. Young, ...
Hooked on Florida trip
Feb 05, 2006; ... I Know a Story Jay M. Enders I am from a family of five: onebrother, one sister and both parents. My parents owned a small storein a small town. Every year at Christmas, my father would say that wecouldnt go on vacation. In anticipation of my father finally sayingthat we could go, we ...
Riverside trail meeting is Tuesday
Feb 05, 2006; ... Jon Rutter One rail-trail at a time. Thats the idea behindconverting an old Manor Township train line into a recreation pathalong the Susquehanna River. The county commissioners will join ManorTownship supervisors in hosting a public meeting to discuss theriverside trail proposal at 6 ...
Grumble, grumble
Feb 05, 2006; ... Years ago there was a popular song that went, accentuate thepositive, eliminate the negative, latch on to the affirmative, dontmess with Mr. In-between. This older upbeat song offers good advicetoday when we get instant daily reports of disease, naturaldisasters, violence and mayhem from ...
Taking stock of news space
Feb 05, 2006; ... Notes, quotes and the No. 1 reason why I just cant wait for theSuper Bowl to kick off today: It means spring training is only acouple of weeks away. Starting today, we cut our stock listings inhalf. Like every newspaper in the country, we feel the pain of therising cost of newsprint ....
Susan Mann Wolfgang
Feb 05, 2006 ... PAID OBITUARIES Susan Mann Wolfgang, 51, of Lancaster, passedaway Sunday evening, January 29, 2006. She was a 1972 graduate ofLebanon Senior High School and a 1976 graduate of Millersville StateUniversity. She taught elementary school for the Solanco SchoolDistrict for over 20 years ....
Charles Albert Mathews
Feb 05, 2006 ... PAID OBITUARIES Charles Albert Mathews died Thursday, Feb. 2,2006, in Lititz. He was the father of Susan Keyser, and grandfatherof Ben and Abbey Keyser of Lititz. Born January 10, 1922, to Charlesand Lillian Mathews in Rio, La., he graduted from LSU in 1943 with aB.S. in electrical ...
Ruth F. "Ruthi" Borkon
Feb 05, 2006 ... Ruth F. "Ruthi" Borkon PAID OBITUARIES Ruth F. "Ruthi" Borkon,65, of Lancaster, died Saturday, February 4, 2006, at Essa FloryHospice Center. She was the wife of Leonard "Lenny" R. Borkon forover 41 years. Born in Lancaster, she was the daughter of the lateEli H. and Bessie Pressman ...
Sealed against sugar bugs
Feb 05, 2006; ... Patricia Poist Katie Gardner, 6, lay patient and perfectly stillSaturday morning in a dental chair as Bebe Miller and Chris Kolandasealed her molars with a thin plastic coating to protect them fromcavities. No sugar bugs are going to get you now, said Miller, aLancaster dental hygienist, ...
Providence Twp. crash claims two lives
Feb 05, 2006; ... Jon Rutter Two people died when a station wagon collided head-onwith a minivan on Route 272 in Providence Township Saturday. GingerWatson, 27, no address given, was pronounced dead at the scene byLancaster Deputy Coroner Robert Good, state police at Lancaster said.A 13-year-old boy was ...
Passion for Pennacchio
Feb 05, 2006; ... Believe. Its one of Chuck Pennacchios favorite words, judging bythe number of times he uses it. Fight. Theres another one. Hell needthem both if hes to upset Bob Casey Jr. on May 16. But the nearly 60people crowded into Cafe Aroma Borealis on Wednesday want to believe.Pennacchio is one ...
Meet the amazing Ben Franklin with Professor Max and friends Part 5
Feb 05, 2006 ... When the darkness lifted, Sam and Isabel found themselves in alarge room, surrounded by 50 or 60 men sitting in chairs or talkingin small groups. One man sat at a desk at the front of the room. Along document lay before him. Sam peered over his shoulder and readthe first line: The ...
Name-Dropper
Feb 05, 2006 ... Nathan Deron, 14, son of Drs. Patti Chambers and Scott Deron, ofLancaster, was awarded the rank of Eagle Scout Saturday, Jan. 28,during a Court of Honor held at The Unitarian Universalist Church ofLancaster, where he is a member. A member of Boy Scout Troop 58 inWillow Street, Deron has ...
On the Agenda
Feb 05, 2006 ... YOURE INVITED Willow Street Womans Club, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb.14, Room 104, United Church of Christ, 2723 Willow Street Pike. CallJune Cummings, 464-53622. Card party, Auxiliary to Conestoga View, 1p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 7, King Street Lounge, 900 E. King St. Call JaneCentini, 872-2891 ....
Its a Girl Thing
Feb 05, 2006; ... By Laura Knowles Sunday News Correspondent What does it feel liketo be excluded from the cafeteria table or to be ridiculed in thehallway by so-called friends? Nearly 40 girls in Conestoga ValleySchool District are learning how to be better friends and avoid thehurtful behaviors that ...