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Photo by Curt Werner

A tractor plows through the creek pulling children in a rocket ride at the Latimore Valley Fair last weekend.

____ The 25th annual Latimore Valley Fair, held Friday, June 26, to Sunday, June 28, had a few new twists this year including pony rides for the kids, an extra shuttle to accommodate the crowd, more children’s games and the Silver Mile Walk/Run to benefit Relay for Life.
“It just felt right to try it since both Relay and the fair were celebrating 25 years,” said Silver Mile chairman Deb Allison. It cost the walkers $10 each to participate and they got a t-shirt to commemorate the event. The $650 raised at Latimore will go to Team SMAKS who will be participating at the Hanover Relay for life in mid-July.
Latimore Fair chairman Barbara Paxton reported that the craft vendors were down somewhat from years past, but the crowd was good, especially on Saturday, which had great weather.
____ More images of the Latimore Valley Fair can be viewed here.

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See the July 2 Dillsburg Banner, page 1A, for details.

____ Pay now or pay later? That was the question confronting the Northern York County School Board as members again listened to a few public comments last Thursday and then voted four to three to pass the $36,744,607 final budget for the 2009-10 school year. Although they spared the public from a tax increase for the second consecutive year, this trend is likely to be broken next year, according to both the school board and district administrators.
____ Board members David Holmes, Joy McCreary, Ronald Rudy and Linda Hansen voted in favor of the final budget. Harry “Bud” Lake, Elizabeth Grinder McLean and Michael Barndt voted against it. Charles Comrey was absent from the meeting.
____ The high school library was packed with visitors that evening. Five people addressed the board concerning the budget.

See the July 2 Dillsburg Banner, page 1A, for details.

____ Fireworks, Civil War reenactments, a music festival and more events are scheduled for the July 4 weekend.
____ Battle reenactments will be held on the Yingling Farm, south east of Gettysburg, from Friday, July 3, to Sunday, July 5. There will also be special events featuring reenactors in and around the borough. A program on Civil War medical horrors will be demonstrated by reenactors at Camp Letterman’s Medical Department. Other programs include the life of a Confederate infantryman, spies of the Civil War, live mortar fire demonstration, Civil War music and a Civil War style wedding. Ghost stories of Gettysburg will also take place each day of the reenactment.
____ For more information call 338-1525 or visit www.gettysburgreenactment.com.
____ There will also be continuous living history programs in the two large activities tents and a living history village with a variety of period demonstrations, such as blacksmithing, medical demonstrations, etc.

See the July 2 Dillsburg Banner, page 1A, for details.

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Photo by Curt Werner

A motorcycle stands near the rock it split in half on Tuesday, June 23. Billie Dearmond, 53, Harrisburg, was travelling on South Mountain Road on his 2006 Harley at 9 p.m. when he failed to turn and struck the rock at the intersection with Clear Spring Road, according to Mark Bentzel, Northern York County Regional Police.

See the July 2 Dillsburg Banner, page 3A, for details.

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Photo by Curt Werner

Happy Birthday Day - Rep. Scott Perry and his wife Christy celebrate the birth of their daughter Ryenn Rosemary on Friday, June 19. She weighed 7 pounds 8 ounces and was 18.5 inches long. Perry was given leave from his deployment in Iraq to visit with his daughter (family).

See the July 2 Dillsburg Banner, page 4A, for details.

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Man steals beer from Flapjack’s

____ Carroll Township police are searching for a man who stole beer from Flapjack’s Pub on Saturday, June 6.
____ The white male entered the business, removed several six packs of beer and then left without paying at 3:50 p.m. according to police.
____ Security cameras recorded the theft and police are currently searching for the man.
____ Anyone with information in this case is asked to contact Carroll Township Police at 432-3317 or the York County Office of Emergency Services 911 at 1-800-427-8347.

See the July 2 Dillsburg Banner, page 5A, for details.

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Also in the July 2, 2009 edition

____ Holiday recipes
____ Obituaries
____ Upcoming community events
____ Police reports
____ Birth announcements
____ Dean's List
____ 20 years ago

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Not your typical stray
Firefighter rescues bee swarm from tree
By John Zaharick

Photo by Marie Chomicki

Mark Brubaker shakes bees into a box where they will start a new hive. Ted Baker found the colony resting on a tree in his back yard.

____ Ted Baker found a sweet surprise in his backyard one Monday in May--a few thousand honeybees. The insects were gathered in a mass about 1 foot long on a tree branch around 4 feet above the ground at the Logan Road, Dillsburg, property.
____ Wishing to safely move the beneficial insects, Baker, president of Franklintown Fire Company, called apiarist Mark Brubaker, York Springs, who arrived the next day on May 26.
____ Condensed into a single mass, none of the bees flew about due to the cold weather, Brubaker said. Once temperatures warmed up, scouts move out to find a location for a permanent hive, such as inside of a dead tree or a house. Brubaker suspected that a hobbiest had a hive 1 or 2 miles nearby and the group, including a queen, had migrated from there. He estimated that there were around 1,000 to 2,000 bees in the swarm.

See the July 2 Dillsburg Banner, page 1B, for details.

Phyllis Nace, Charles Walter, Lorraine Walter, Frances Calderone, David Calderone, Wesley Dunn and Alta Dunn are installed as new members of the Pinchot Park Lions Club by past District Governor Al Hayes, center at podium.

____ Incoming Pinchot Park Lions Club officers were installed by past District Governor of Pennsylvania Lions District 14-C Al Hayes at the Country Buffet Restaurant, York. They will be responsible for the club’s operation in the year 2009 to 2010.
____ The new officers include Larry Northstein, president; Ervin Nace, first vice president; Al Hayes, second vice president; David Calderone, third vice president; Dale Carr, secretary/treasurer; Lorraine Walter, tail twister; Ervin Nace, lion tamer, and Harry Ropke and Charles Walter, one year directors.

See the July 2 Dillsburg Banner, page 1B, for details.

Dillsburg Lions Club installs new members

John Wise affixes the president’s pin on Bernard Park at the Dillsburg Lions Club’s annual installation of new officers on Monday, June 22.

____ The Dillsburg Lions Club had their annual installation of new officers at Gullifly’s Restaurant in the Cedar Cliff Mall, Camp Hill, on Monday, June 22. The following members were installed:
____ Bernard Park, president; Wayne P. Kautz, first vice president; Jeffery L. Griffin, second vice president; John P. Wise, immediate past president; James Shaffer, treasurer; Richard L. Knaub, assistant treasurer; R. Brian Radcliffe, secretary; Robert E. Rettgers, assistant secretary; Larry Klase, lion tamer; Barry R. Bender, assistant lion tamer; Lloyd B. Wire Jr., assistant lion tamer, and Luther D. Drumgold, tail twister.

See the July 2 Dillsburg Banner, page 3B, for details.

York Springs Lions install new officers

President Emory Golden presents Gus Fridenvalds with the Lion of the Year award. Fridenvalds is the first member to serve as district governor.

____ The York Springs Lions recently installed new officers for the 2009-2010 year. They included Len Lobaugh, president; Gene St. Clair, vice president; Ron Weigle, vice president; Everett Gaines, vice president; Tom Harbold, treasurer; Harrison Fair, membership; Vince Kowalski, secretary; Neil Tate, lion tamer; Tom Hart, tail twister; Ken Larue, director; Fred McCauslin, director; Clyde Waltemyer, director, and Stewart Herron, director.
____ Channel 27 feature reporter Chuck Rhoades was the guest speaker at the dinner.

See the July 2 Dillsburg Banner, page 1B, for details.

CX Media is the brainchild of Thad Eisenhower.

____ The Big Apple, Dillsburg is not.
It is the last place most people would associate with a national advertising business. Yet, in fact, there is such a marketing business located in several rooms in the rear of a coffee/restaurant business on the square.
____ CX Media, the brainchild of Thad Eisenhower, not only operates from several rooms to the rear of Coffee Express, 1 S. Baltimore St., Dillsburg, it shares its existence with the restaurant. Eisenhower’s late father-in-law David Thompson had started a UPS and copier business at 40 S. Baltimore Street.
____ With the sudden, unexpected death of his father-in-law, his mother-in-law Joyce Thompson was not sure what to do with the business. They discussed opening a coffee shop and Coffee Express was born.

See the July 2 Dillsburg Banner, page 1B, for details.

Eagle Scout Adrian Martin received his Eagle Scout Court of Honor on Sunday, June 7.

____ Adrian Martin’s Eagle Scout Court of Honor was held at the Dillsburg VFW Post 6671 on Sunday, June 7. For his Eagle Scout project, Martin and Boy Scout Troop 38 of Dillsburg weeded and mulched all the flowerbeds around the VFW building on Franklin Street, in addition to refurbishing the World War II battleship gun mounted in front of the building by scraping the old paint and repainting the gun.
____ Martin has been a member of Dillsburg’s Boy Scout Troop 38 since February 2002 and has earned 27 merit badges. He has held the positions of senior patrol leader, junior assistant scoutmaster, troop guide, patrol leader and scribe. He also earned the Ad Altare Dei medal, which is awarded to Boy Scouts of the Roman Catholic faith. He earned the BSA Snorkeling Award and completed the NRA Basic Practical Light Rifle course.

See the July 2 Dillsburg Banner, page 1B, for details.

Pictured from left, front, are Tom Gribb, Mark Myers, Ryan Barnes, Anna Rickard, Preston Whiteman, Tyler Roberts and Nate Jenson; back, Thad Gayman, Mark Myers, Travis Frankenfeld, Mike Magee, Cam Howe, Chip Johnson, Trent Diller, Blake Slaybaugh, Cody McLaughlin, Ben Rickard and Jared Myers.

____ A team of local young sporting clays shooters earned state titles at the recent Scholastic Clay Target Program Pennsylvania Sporting Clays State Championship.
____ The Central Penn Crushers, a shooting team composed of 18 youth in grades 6 through 11, is home based at Central Penn Sporting Clays in Wellsville. The team has been preparing since late February for the June 20 shoot.
____ The competition, held at Whitetail Preserve near Hazleton, featured some of Pennsylvania’s top young shooters in varsity, junior varsity, intermediate advanced, intermediate entry and rookie divisions.
____ The Crushers placed first in three of the five divisions of the SCTP Pennsylvania Sporting Clays State Championship.

See the July 2 Dillsburg Banner, page 2B, for details.

____ While Okinawa, Japan, is his duty station, A1C Jody Roof, a 2000 Northern graduate, received the opportunity of a lifetime in March of 2009 when he was offered a position with the US Military All-Star Baseball Team.
____ The team is comprised of US military members, retired professional players and collegiate players who represent the United States in the “Red, White and Blue Tour of America.”
____ The tour, which began in May and continues through September, is designed to boost the moral of the country while also giving military members a break from their daily routine to play the game they love.
____ For the past few weeks, Roof has been part of the tour giving public appearances at elementary schools by day and playing baseball at night.

See the July 2 Dillsburg Banner, page 2B, for details.

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Also in the July 2, 2009 edition

____ Military news
____ Golf coverage
____ Deed transfers

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