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tents
Spring 1996
Volume 10
Number
1
features
8
departments
Behind THE Lines
6-7
AH Bones About
The debate surrouniling the
It
best care for back pain continues
Cutting Teeth
A "Whale" of Uses
The Not-So-Funny Bone
Dog Bone Fact or Fiction
by Joy Mushacke
Cal-culated Health
Back of the Book
'"
"Bone" Appetit
Life
in tlie
Vaiiey of
Shadow
tlie
cover
A
in
Business
;
Appetizers
Back
Croatian soldier patrols on top
of a building in Zagreb, Croatia.
Photo by Jim Craig
It
was supposett to be a
sbopt
trip,
but Jim Craig
found himseif in the miMie
of a
war tor three years
liy
Lisa Stociimal
32
Citizen
Canine
Is
Rolling
your dog out of control?
the Bones
Take heart, there Is help.
by Kerry Collins
by Cbris Kreplch
14 A Growing
30
Dilemma
Dream Development
by Lisa Stockmal
18 a
Bone
by Pamela Davis
36
to Picl< With
20
Taking
byte out
thie
Computer Anxiety
of
by Alisa Trepiccione
by Jeremy Powlus and Marli Steinrucl(
Serving up Elegance
40
by Lisa Stocldnal
Digging Up the Past
by Kama Timbrell
behind the lines
an
message
editorial
Dear Readers,
The
staff sincerely apologizes,
to pick with
bone
you
but I'm afraid we have
As you peruse
in this issue.
We
a
this
are
Bloomsburg,
also
is
pleased
magazine, you will undoubtedly notice a variety of stories
staff visited area
dealing with bones, from their mystical and past uses, their
ism students to submit
use in
art,
to
bone remnants from the war
Our Bosnia
centerspread
tells
country shattered by war. The
photojournalist Jim Craig
The second
who
first
in Bosnia.
a compelling story
story
is
a feature
part of the centerspread
real story
of
a
about
spent two years in Bosnia.
is
a
young boy's
the war- torn city of Sarajevo, complete with his
The
a
of the war in Bosnia
is
own
the people there, and
that is what we have attempted to capture with this series.
While some of the photos and text are heart-wrenching,
unfortunately they are an accurate account of a country and
its
people devastated by war.
announce
Pamela Davis,
that
last
December and
articles to us.
For her winning entry about
in the Peace Corps,
Pamela received
of Professional Journalists, and the opportunity
cle
to
have her
arti-
showcased in our "Student Spotlight."
As
usual, the
Our production
magazine continues
to
undergo design changes.
staff worked this semester to give the
magazine a
more polished and professional appearance. We are also able to
feature more color than ever, thanks to a solid job by the adverfising staff
We
are pleased to present
you with one of our
Relax and enjoy, and learn everything there
is
finest issues to
to
know about
calcium, dogs, archaeology, dice, and back pain— and that's just the
bare bones.
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Spectrum
Our
invited journal-
$50 from the Keystone State Professional Chapter of the Society
date.
The "bone" theme, as well as the tip about the Bosnia
story, was suggested by Espy resident Rosemary Brasch.
high schools
Bloomsburg man serving
story of
pictures.
to
the winner of our Student Spotlight contest.
9
Spring '96
Appetizers
Cal-culated Health
year, 20 million people
Each
from the painful effects of osteoporo-
suffer
Calcium can
sis.
bone weakening
people
let
who
disease.
"I'm lucky
I
from
find
calcium
Tricia
says
needs,"
mothers
also needs to keep a constant
supply of calcium
because
assists
it
blood,
calcium
body
the
takes
from
it
the.
on
in
life,"
up
«, build
tible
she says.
increases the risk
now recom-
supply,
their
says
are usually
the best source of calcium, but tofu, broclater adult years.
bones begin to break
A low calcium level
or four
daily.
Graff Dairy products
down. "The more bone mass you build by
intaking
calcium, the better off you are
later
1,200 milligrams,
1,500 milligrams per day in order to
you loose more calci- than what is being consumed, says
result,
is
that 18 to 24-year-olds get 1,200 to
After age 30,
Graff As a
Allowance
Daily
for pregnant or breast-feeding
calcium per day. Researchers
mend
bones, thus weakening them.
um
be taken from
her
years
drop in the
levels
will
it
The RDA for the average adult 25
and older is 800 milligrams of
in
contraction and relaxation of muscles
says. If
low
reducing
of dairy foods,
servings
transmission of nerve impulses, and in
Graff
is
Recommended
(RDA)
dietitian at
"Your blood
level
bones,
Graff,
Bloomsburg University.
Calcium builds and fortifies bones.
pulled
bone mass
and weakening her bones." The
her
meet
takes to
it
is
the mother," she says, "If a mother's
calcium
drink one glass of milk a day,
alone the four glasses
their
if
"Whatever the baby needs
intake.
prevent this
easily
pay special attention to their calcium
also
Older adults can be suscep-
coli, kale,
not only to osteoporosis, but also to
all
TUMS
antacid
chronic conditions such as colon cancer and
tablets
high blood pressure. But,
pensive alternative to food because,
it is
never too
late
to begin taking calcium, says Graff
of
turnip greens, seeds, and nuts are
calcium-fortified foods.
calcium
Expectant and nursing mothers should
several detrimental health conditions in the
with calcium carbonate are an inex-
is
better than
"Some
no calcium,"
says
Graff
-Danielle Harris
Bad
to the
Advertisements
Bone
tell
consumers to keep
clean and healthy with dog biscuits.
Meaty Bones, which has three
their dog's teeth
Meaty Bone, made by
Heinz Pet Products, and Milkbones, made
by Nabisco, claim
to
remove
tartar
on
Milkbones
medium
are
biscuits
he
says.
also notes, "anything
upon
is
the
amount of
these biscuits
do have
"You have
calories in them," says
(39 calories);
Feeding dogs biscuits
calories they contain.
increase weight," says Leighow.
50
pounds.
and
large (118).
An
average
flour,
soybean
include vitamin supplements.
with some dog biscuits that veterinarians
pretty good, but others are packed with calories
over
Meaty Bones also
contain wheat and meat by-products. Both biscuits
with scraping action will help out."
agree
calories
meal, and meat and bone meal.
can "aid in tartar removal," says Dr. Jean
One problem
113
also has three sizes: small (20 calories);
Milkbones contains primarily
However, some dog
Cunningham, Bloomsburg, who
contain 35 calories
Cunningham.
removal by dog biscuit manufacturers
"negligible,"
sizes,
pounds, 70 calories up to 50
50 pound dog should consume about 1,000 calories a day, says
bacteria," says
Dr. George Leighow, Danville. The claims of
tartar
to 25
and
pounds,
and plaque.
However, some veterinarians disagree with
these statements. "It depends
up
for dogs
"Some
and tend
are
is
to remember that
Cunningham, who
real bones,
Leighow, because
real
removal or
dogs.
adds that as an alternative, "there are some low-calorie biscuits."
them
irritation to the intestinal track," according to
bones "don't digest
Whether dog owners
to
better than giving
which can "cause
as treats,
it is
While dogs may
at all."
use the biscuits for tartar and plaque
important to observe the
like the biscuits,
some
are,
effects
their
than candy," says Leighow.
-Kama
Illustrations
Spectrum
on
"nothing more
o
Spring' 96
Timbrell
by Mike Altman
Appetizers
Cutting Teeth
smell of
The hunt,
and
A
the salt water, the thrill of
the
the longing for
home
are
few of the elements that inspired
a
a
little known genre of art that represents
bygone era of American craftsmanship.
Scrimshaw
patterns
teeth
and bone
that helped
pass the time of lonely whale hunters.
medium of
whale teeth were the
most
ed
who
sailors,
Sperm
choice for
on
The art
is
and
industry,
unique in
Add
itself
to
romance and purity of this truly
American art form, and scrimshaw suddenly
on
more profound meaning. The
reflect the numerous influences and
carvings
a
perspectives of the individual sailors, each
using his
own
of life
Although mostly noted for
its
aesthetic
rec-
ognized by the horn-shaped tooth and the
Useful tools such as
craft
hunting expeditions.
on
carved
To
the ivory.
ink
carving,
is
usually
most commonly
themes,
nautical
value
salad
ships,
ulas
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dominoes,
impressions perma-
violin
The tooth or
nently
colored.
bone
then polished to a
is
bril-
unusual
its
elements and characteristics, also holds a
unique place
American
in
history.
This
almost completely indigenous American
art
form hasn't been commercially marketed
until fairly recently. Ship records
from the
1800s indicate that although scrimshaw was
quite popular, especially
nities, there
trade
around
sea
commu-
was no mention of the
of the
sale
or
a
and
keys— were also
era
is
gone,
reminder and testament of the American
sailor
and
is
alive
today in a handful of
of
collectors
Today, scrimshaw
this
unique
artists
folk-art.
practiced with whale
is
or walrus ivory, wood, and even acrylic.
The
sailor's jack knife
an X-acto knife.
And
has been replaced by
to get started,
only needs to order a scrimshaw
of harvesting
a
bony
ribs in the
make
buggy whips, and
ribs,
mouths of most
corsets,
umbrella
hoops
until the
skirt
early 1900s.
The American whaling industry peaked
its decline began when the
automobile replaced horse-drawn
carriages,
and spring
women's
steel
replaced bones in
clothing. Today, horse-drawn carriages are
practically extinct in America,
certain religions,
of choice in
and
corsets.
plastic
is
kit instead
except in
the material
This makes the corsets
more durable
lighter,
and,
according to
Karen Acornley, Eudora's Corset Shop,
Bloomsburg, a lot less dangerous because, "I
imagine that the bones could be very sharp
when
they broke."
-Jen Boscia
The not-so-funny bone
When
you make
a
sudden turn while
happen to be at
wrong place at the wrong dme when a
door opens, you've probably experienced
sitting at a desk, or
the
the pain of hitting your "funny bone."
one
mighty whale.
Considering American
art.
carved
dice, jewelry,
Although the
from
aside
Baleen, the
whales, was used to
its
natural beauty.
its
made from the mammoth marrow.
liant shine, ready for display.
Scrimshaw,
were
tems — including
wiped away, leaving
the
pie
from bone. Fanciful
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tongs,
crimps, and spat-
contrast the
is
spread over theU|/[f
carvings
whale
deep-sea
once more revered for
usefulness than for
in the 1850s, but
at sea.
—John F. Kennedy was an avid collector-scrimshaw also had a practical side.
this
The whale was
technique and subject matter
to reveal a glipse
"Whale" of Uses
that
that the
practiced and perfect-
first
unique
accomplishment
takes
the carving of intricate
is
on whale
a
commercialization
"Funny bone"
is
the phrase used
by both
children and adults to explain the elbow's
unusual susceptibility to a stinging pain
-Chris Krepich
it
when
bangs into a hard surface. The area
falls
between the radius and ulna bones of the
All
Bones About
Whether
lower arm and the himierous bone of the
It
upper arm. This area of the elbow received
nickname because when
dog bone,
a
a
trombone,
"soaked to the bone," but without water a
"dry as a bone." Unusually thin
or a taiibone, "bones" in their
field
many forms and
people are often referred to as "skin and
functions are a
bonafide part of language.
When
down
is
as
bones," while their larger counterparts are
thing,
it
its
bangs into some-
an uncomfortable "pins and needles"
sensation results, often giving
sensation; hence, the
tickling
is
off" a
tickling
name "ftinny bone." This
soon replaced by pain, however. The
to the bare bones,
termed "big boned." Some people become
area
according to the Oxford English Dictionary,
"old bones" after "working their fingers to
near the
the bone."
bone" became a pun.
Although the word "bonfire" does not
have any form of "bone" in its spelling, it
The pain comes from the ulna nerve.
The muscles that protect this nerve are not
In the 19th century, bones
present where the nerve crosses the elbow
bone
getting
originally
meant "long bone" and
may have connections with the modern
German word beinn meaning straight.
Not only do bones unite to make up
the skeleton
in
of a body, they
many common
"bone
is
found
a
bone
to
pick with
having a matter to dispute,
to pick"
is
is
significant.
were regularly collected and burned
(bon in french)
phrases.
While "having
someone"
are also
a
something to occupy time.
After a rainstorm, a person could be
fires,
now
at
good
called bonfires.
Make no bones about it, bones are an
of the human body as well as
was
also
tip
named
because
its
location
is
of the himierous bone, so "fimny
just
beneath the skin. So when
hit,
the nerve sends a pain signal to the
brain,
this area
is
sending back an "ouch!" message
arm
move away
intregal part
telling
language; without jawbones, there wouldn't
Despite the involuntary action, though, the
be any verbal expressions.
tingling pain
-Joy Mushacke
Spectrum
Spring' 96
the
still
to
quickly.
lingers for a few seconds.
—Alisa Trepiccione
Business
The debate surrounding the best
care for back pain continues
by Joy Mushacice
n
•^
fter
a car accident in 1991,
an orthopedic surgeon told Christine
Everitt,
would have
22, East Stroudsburg, that she
to
learn to live with her back pain; he said there
how
tion, techniques used
Everitt suffered
back pain on
a daily basis.
recommendation from
a
friend,
are in preventing
Bloomsburg,
by
different health care
vary.
Dr. David
doing exercises prescribed for her condition,
After a
may
providers
was nothing he could do.
Wearing a supportive back brace and
methods
effective the
pain and reinjury. Depending on the condi-
Ball,
J.
orthopedic surgeon,
comprehensive
provides
back care ranging from conservative
treatments
anti-inflammatory
like
physical
X-rays,
therapy,
pills.
and MRIs
to
Everitt decided to seek out chiropractic care.
epidural injections and surgery. Ball treats
The chiropractor prescribed more
common
in
addition
Everitt's
to
office
When
condition worsened to include ten-
donitis in her right
arm and
exercises
treatments.
arm and then her
left
shoulder, she was referred to a
physiatrist for
muscle rehabilitation.
For awhile she says she
felt like a
When
new
was scared to go back to an orthope-
"I
says.
Although she
scoliosis, (spine curvature)
of what he told me," she
is
arthritis,
and lumbar
rediculopathy (disturbance in the nerves
of the low back that
see
hoping to avoid more
back patients
the
affects
legs).
because they require
at all
very specific care, says
the pain returned, she
returned to the chiropractor's office.
dic surgeon because
of degenerative
However, some orthopedic surgeons do not
person, until she was rear-ended in another
car accident.
cases
herniated disks, sciatica, lumbar strains,
Chiropractic
Ball.
employs different
care
techniques to match patient needs, according
to
Dr.
Russell
Hoch, Bloomsburg. The
method can
headaches, numbness of
chiropractic
alleviate
neck pain,
the hands and
feet,
rehabilitation treatments, Everitt thinks they
general back pain, sciatica, herniated disks,
were the most
degenerative problems, and arthritis,
thing,
effective. "I
have
and nothing works," she
tried every-
says.
Everitt's story isn't unusual.
Whether
because of an accident, the result of aging,
or the
symptoms of a
birth defect, millions
Constituting
the
many
patients in search
problems.
of back pain, and most are in search of the
community choose
method
for alleviating
it.
Types of
care for such pain are growing along with
the
ing
it is
number of people requiring and receivit. With such a selection to choose from
important to
know what
each does and
percent
largest
of
alternative health care, chiropractors attract
of people world wide suffer from some kind
perfect
among
other ailments.
looking
"Multiple
for
other
us
of
relief for their
factions
of
the
because
they
are
alternatives
to
taking
drugs or surgery," says Hoch. The questionability
of surgical procedures
is
also a factor
in care provider choice, as well as the "safer
attitude
of chiropractors,"
Spectrum
says
Spring '96
Hoch.
There are
a lot
accepting then
Any
TV shows
of anti-chiropractic
on, but overall the attitude
it
much more
is
used to be," says Hoch.
treatment regarding the spine has
However, the multifaceted chiropractic
risks.
exam taken from both an anatomical and
mechanical standpoint can determine the
Many
source and the cause of pain.
cases
require spinal manipulation, such as the
Thompson and
niques.
flexion
important to
It is
distraction
tech-
assess the patient's
conditions to decide the best technique for
correcting the problem, says Hoch. "The
treatment
is
not a cure but
right,
a healing proce-
body doesn't
dure," he says, "if the
heal
won't cure."
it
Often orthopedic surgeons or chiropractors
will
refer
patients
therapists. In Pennsylvania, a
be referred by
therapist.
a
physical
to
person must
physician to see a physical
Their
alternate
level
requires an in-depth look into the
and possible causes
and
their
of care
problem
related to individuals
lifestyles.
According
Welk, physical therapist
at
Fran
to
Susquehanna
Physical Therapy Associates, Bloomsburg,
However, there are advantages and disadvantages to each, (chiropractors
and orthopedic
Trust
in
chiropractic
always been as popular as
it is
care
has
not
today. "Fewer
people are skeptical of chiropractics today.
surgeons) he adds.
A
there
two
are
of
areas
plan— modalities, such
as
a
heat,
sound, and electric stimulation,
treatment
ice,
all
ultra-
aimed
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pain
and procedures, including
control;
exercise,
and instruction for
lifting, sitting,
and modification of the worksite.
Chiropractors
and physical
by
a transition into
active
and chiropractors
ment
styles.
because
chiropractors
therapists
more
using
mobilization
tech-
niques," says Welk.
"The competition
between chiroprac-
and physical
tors
therapists
sified
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As with
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"A segment
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model
type,"
Welk
"The treatment
not a cure
but a healing
procedure."
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For cases of herniated
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spasms, and radiating body pain, patients
St.
The
says.
decision
ance.
right to
says.
Main
uses chiropractors as a
because
Common
cases
pists
ical
of health care reform," he
itation,
more
mechanically
try to
the
in
treatment plan and
are
treat-
There are professional turf batdes
modalities
physical
merging in
are
more
a
control the spine differently," says Welk.
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what's going on," says Welk. "If a patient
does not receive an adequate work-up and
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could be very dangerous,"
it
says Ball. "It could actually
wrong
they receive the
The average
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ropractor
is
is
patients if
cost for a visit to an ortho-
$85, while a trip to the chi-
$25 for an exam and $25 for a
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apist's initial
$40-$70
Patients of
harm
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in
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about $50,
up treatments.
Susquehanna Physical Therapy
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average
Studies
spending
is
$375.
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month
the
Welk.
that half of back pain episodes
need care lasting a week or
a
Nationally
9.9 visits, for $786, says
or
less;
less;
two
thirds,
only eight percent
last
longer then six months, according to Welk.
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«l
ATURAL" HAS BECOME THE WAVE
stems,
and
many
leaves because they were getting
Ground
whose wife owns
Green Creek
Farms,
of the 1990s. From food and beverages with
too
no
water was contaminated. These were serious
leaves
problems that influenced some major farm-
potassium are beneficial to root develop-
preservatives, to soaps
and
toilet
paper
with no dyes, inks, or perflimes, the trend
all
around
us.
But
this revolution
olutionary for everyone. For
going
been
natural-in
a reviving
Damaging
their
not
is
some
is
rev-
farmers,
for decades.
effects
to
soil
and plants
and chemical
fertilizers
this return to the "old
pesticides sparked
ways" of farming.
It
in the 1970s
and 1980s.
Just
harm
connected with the overuse of synthetic
method
ers to try the organic
organic-has
case,
method
nutrients too quickly.
ic
and surface
ment and growth
health.
how much
synthetic
ones benefit
it,
is
debatable.
need to add nutrients to the
are
already
Mitchell, general
and
Edelman.
The numbers on
fertilizers
how much
Phosphorus and
as well as heartiness
disease control, says
the environment, or
nutrients
Orangeville. Nitrogen maintains a plant's
the bags of fertilizer
organ-
(10-10-10) represent the percentage of each
"You don't
element per unit of fertilizer, 10 representing
soil if
those
10 pounds of nutrient per 100 pounds of
says
Terry
fertilizer.
there,"
manager of the Log
Bam
the
Usually, the highest percentage of
mixed elements adds up
to a total
of 40
percent. Theoretically, there could be a pure
with
fertilizer
all
combining
the elements
would
to 100 percent, but then plants
too
much of
must be diluted with
nutrients
get
the nutrients at once. "The
a filler like
sawdust or ground corn cobs so that the
don't
plants
get
burned,"
says
Bob
Eshleman of Eshleman's Nursery, Bloomsburg.
One of the
purpose
benefits
of buying
a multi-
fertilizer is that all three essential
nutrients are in one convenient package.
They
are also easy to use.
Inorganic
because
fertilizers,
they
don't contain extra biological matter like
the organic fertilizers do,
unit of
have
amount of pure
analysis, or
fertilizer, says
is
in
the
and
microflora, says
its
fertilizers,
form of potassium
chloride, a salt that could cause
soil
higher
Eshleman.
However, in some synthetic
potassium
a
nutrients per
harm
to the
Dave Hartman,
extension agent for Penn State Cooperative,
started in industrial
Nebraska,
farmers
Wisconsin,
experienced
The remaining
pact that
surface.
farmmg
soil
states
of Iowa,
soil
erosion.
was so hard and com-
water would just puddle
Plants
There are three main nutrients that
and Idaho, where
major
on
the
developed burned roots.
Columbia County. He adds, though, that
researchers say the amount of salt in these
Nursery, Bloomsburg.
plants need to
rus,
grow well— nitrogen, phospho-
and potassium. "That's what the num-
bers (like 10-10-10) represent
synthetic
fertilizer,"
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the bags of
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Edelman,
products
is
"too miniscule to be a prob-
lem." However, synthetic fertilizers tend to
dry
soil out.
This
fertilizers.
is
one advantage
The organic
of organic
material they contain
DILEMMA
>
and so the application of
absorbant,
is
grinding fresh bones.
same
moister. These qualities allow the microflora
are first boiled in
to
flourish,
and reduce erosion. They
also
eliminate the problem of burn-damage in
by inorganic
plants caused
and
materials,
fertilizers,
is
an organic
fertilizer
Bone meal
derived from the
the
from animals processed
for
the
kettle.
powder form and has
a
The
is
third
sold in
and have from 12
are slightly alkaline,
amount of animal matter
left
on
the
0,
Raw bone meal
is
slower acting and
Bone
when mixed with the soil
young plants, and
in slaughter houses, but they can also be
meal
in
and
restaurants.
seedlings because of its benefits to roots
Bone meal comes in three forms.
is made by drying and
its ability to ward off disease. However,
bone meal has no potassium, and very little
is
excellent
meal grade
is
levels are
4-12-
lower
today because slaughter houses are more
efficient.
Manure
is
good source of
a
also has smaller
nitrogen.
amounts of other
including zinc, potassium, sulpher, and phos-
phorus,
is
Hartman
says.
He
adds that manure
probably the best organic
fertilizer.
bulbs,
and
the organic fertilizers
are
as
effective
"Entire
ic
fertilizers
result
is
and chemical
a smaller yield,
pesticides.
who
choose the organic method.
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nutrients,
However, Hartman says that none of
longer lasting than the steamed form.
planting
A typical bone
although the phosphorus
bones during processing.
obtained from municipal dumps, hotels,
Green bone meal
nitrogen.
milder smell
30 percent phosphorus, depending on
are
meat
is
than the others. All three forms of bone
to
bones of animals. The bones usually
leftovers
a white
though, are more
specialized in their application.
an open
steamed bone meal, which
is
meal
prevent the run-off of nutrients.
Organic
type
as
Raw bone meal
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organic fertilizers makes the soil softer and
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of the appeal for the organic method
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because
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"Organic
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says.
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mainly quick acting chemical
fertilizers
he
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are
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longer because they
but they cost a
lot
more,"
adds that newly developed syn-
thetic fertilizers encase the nutrients in a
poly
much
like
coating that
is
water
soluble,
aspirin gel caps. This coating allows synthetic
MAiNSTREET
fertilizers to
have slow release similar to their
organic counterparts, another advantage over
Davis
believes,
in the
and herbicides
especially
on
and
really
however, that
fertilizers
are generally used too
He
lawns.
tries to
soil,
nitrate because
it
pure source of nitrogen, with a grade of
a
is
form of ammonium
He
33-0-0.
says,
phorus to the
"Why
soil
add pot ash or phos-
when
it's
already there?"
Mitchell admits, however, that "if I had
I
choice, and money was not an obstacle,
would go organic because it's natural." The
synthetic fertilizers are usually
like the
ammonium
know what
much,
keep his use to
elements have on
he adds. Mitchell uses
manure when he has
enough of it
compounds,
and you never
nitrate,
effect the extra
the environment,
it,
but there
never
is
to get the job done.
At Hock's Hidden Heights Nursery,
Bloomsburg, Dana Hock
much
tries
to
organic fertilizer as possible.
use as
He
uses
mainly a sawdust and manure compost, but
ganic
amount of slow-releasing
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Merrell has found that
He
best way.
compromise
is
the
uses a synthetic fertiUzer with a
grade of 10-6-4 that
is
55 percent organic.
He
claims that pure organic fertilizers don't stop
the weeds,
and then herbicides are needed.
The mixture of organic and inorganic
the weeds, yet
is
naturally slow-acting.
and "the nitrogen doesn't
longer,
pear with the
he
first rainfall,"
stops
It lasts
all
disap-
says.
James H. Christ of Christ's Nursery,
Bloomsburg,
compromises the two
also
because, "you can't
buy organic
fertilizer
with the right consistency to get the job
done
right."
He
mixes slow-releasing inor-
ganic fertilizer in to get good color and
more buds on
No
his shrubs.
matter what
eration
is
fertilizer
is
used,
mod-
the key to protecting plants and
the surrounding environment. Plants thrive
on nitrogen, and they don't
get
it.
"Nitrogen
is
care
where they
nitrogen to a plant,
whether in the form of manure, or some-
Hartman
thing synthetic," says Hartman. But too
much
level
nitrogen in any form will raise the Ph
of the
soil
and increase
its
acidity.
Eshleman says that "a true organic farmer
would argue that organic fertilizers result in
less
pollution to the environment, but used
in moderation, everything has
it's
place."
believes that synthetic fertil-
fertilizers
"We
about the
effects
the microbi-
the
still
claims about
gardeners
izers are unfairly getting a
may
not
the
disadvantages
bad name.
know enough about
ology of the soil to make any
inorganic
dangers
or
fertilizers,"
he
of using
soil
between
cannot be resolved with questions
of inorganic
unanswered.
must
decide
following
The debate over organic and inorganic
the easier
way-and
Until
for
"natural
fertilizers,
their chances.
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then,
themselves
trendy
the
way," or using synthetic
says.
fertilizers
taking
for ail trades
Bones once served as the tools
A BONE TO PICK WITH
by Alisa Trepiccione
N THE
PAST,
"jacks
of
ancient
bone
given
such
Other bones,
body was
be for
as a caribou," she adds.
Every
cultures.
like skulls,
were often used in prayer to
use,
special
it
broken when butchering an animal
for
trades"
all
in the
a
whether
BONES SERVED AS THE
forth prey such as
call
carv-
Human
buffalo.
bones
of any kind were often
ing meat, decorating a
necklace, or savoring
kept as a source of
soup.
powerful magic.
The
and
folklore
In other cultures,
ancient use of bones
100
B.C.
dates
to
The
strength
nature of both
them many
showing
human
uses.
of
ally
or the everyday needs of a
when preparing food
to hunt, they
the Plains Indians
after
a
would go
would use the whole animal,"
Millville, whose
Madeline Foshay,
says
grandmother
great
Cherokee. "Bones were used to make
things,
such
as
arrowheads,
many
spearheads,
and scrapers," she says.
American Indians incorporated bones
needles, pins, awls,
part of their everyday
as
frequently
tied
were made into
rattles,
life.
with
together
muscle strands, to make
Ribs were
sinew,
sleds. Shell
or
bones
and smaller bones
and claws were often made into jewelry,
ornaments, and dice in games of chance.
"Bone tools were the mainstay of
prehistoric
Wymer,
at
cultures,"
says
associate professor
Bloomsburg University.
ied
the
Dr.
of past
Dee Anne
of anthropology
Wymer
has stud-
sites
that hold
civilizations.
She has
bones from archeological
history
found bones from the Hopewell time period
(100 B.C.-400 A.D.), and
during excavations
some of the
earliest
in
the
In
930s.
1
bones found included
elk,
and
on public
deer, turkey, turtle,
mammal
similar to an elephant, in
Ohio
in
1990
showed how American
handled
the
butchering
of the
tools were used to butcher
the mastodon, since
the joints," says
we found cut marks
Wymer, who
in
discovered
of the mastodon bundled up and
placed in the ground for meat storage.
Many
in
humans were
their heads
were kept
There was even a sacred
of
city
capital
the
saw spiritual
civilizations
ized the respect for animals that
tures had, as seen
when food was
to a slain animal's
body
"There are also
molded
He
many
cul-
"offered"
as respect to the
the spirits of animals, says Foshay. "If a seal
a
drink
of water. Also, no bone was allowed to be
Spectrum
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life-like,"
to
says
this
and
make them
Minderhout.
was part of
a
which they could "talk" to their
ancestors who would "help" them. "This
ritual in
was done by the Manus culture of
New
The bones of children were
frequently
robbed from their graves by sorcerers in
Haiti, who used them as part of their magic
potions. "It was a
a
psychological
says
was offered
handful of cultures
on them
emphasizes that
careful not to offend
killed," she says, "it
clay faces
appear more
signif-
"creator."
The Eskimos were
a
that kept the skulls of their ancestors
Guinea," he adds.
icance in bones. Their treatment symbol-
was
rack
skull
Wymer's discovery of a mastodon, an
parts
display.
region,
and
Tenochtitlan.
fish.
mammal. "Stone
Aztec
the
sacrificed to gods,
extinct
Indians
Bloomsburg
at
University.
(Courtesy of BU Anthropology Department)
full-blooded
a
is
skull as a trophy,
anthropology professor
A Shaman's Mask (native priest)
found in a burial mound in Oliio
American Indians commonly
"When
and
the head
tive clothing.
hunt.
a
according to Dr. David Minderhout,
everything from basic meals to decora
Early
someone from
kill
neighboring tribe and collect
society for survival. This included
used bones
impor-
New Guinea head-
tance.
One
bones,
dieir
hunters would tradition-
gives
the earliest uses was efficiency,
human
with
and
and animal bones
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INTENSE FIRE IN MOSTAR,
UNDER
photojournalist Jim
West
Craig,
Milton, remembers loud explosions
going off around him, followed by
screams.
direction of the screams
body
my
hurt,
a boy's
was running so hard
"I
whole
hurt from pounding the
feet
ground so hard," he
Craig
recollects.
went to Bosnia around
first
He
Thanksgiving time in 1992.
planned to go to Sarajevo
originally
few
just for a
some compelling photos
days, shoot
the
in
my
that
for his
and return home. Those few days
portfolio,
turned into almost a week
when
the
war
shut the airport down. "I was scared just
about the whole time," he
On
met Zeljka Vojinovic, who
I
knew
that
I
had
Craig
became
later
meeting
"After
translator.
family,
says.
his last night in Sarajevo,
his
and her
her
to return," he says.
He went back to Sarajevo after Christmas.
He stayed there about 24 months over
the next three years. Craig entered Sarajevo
as a sports
photographer looking to branch
out into other areas of photojournalism,
and
winner
a
as
left
he took of
staff
his
a casuality
own
worked
Mlady
was a
Images,
weekly Czech publicafion
a
(Young World) and
svet,
photo
and, with
company Action
private
for
UNICEF
a
He
of the war.
photographer for
Czech
of the
Photographer of the Year honor for
Newspaper Die
a
German
Zeit, recording the devasta-
don of the war with
his camera.
Craig was a neutral party in Bosnia, so
he could go
to
about anywhere.
just
"On
all
met with people who were pleasant
me, and I got to know many of them on
sides
I
a personal level,"
he
says.
There were four
main armies—The Bosnian Serb Army
(BSA),
Army
the
Herzegovina
Croat
Army
BH),
Army (HVO), and
(HV).
HVO,"
occasions
I
the
the
Bosnian
Croatian
found most of the armies
"I
fairly easy to deal with,
of the
of Bosnia-
Republic
(Armija
he
says.
with the exception
"On
a
number of
was arrested for the sole purpose
of finding out what
my
personal views
on
the war were," he remembers.
Sarajevo itself
Craig,
who met
is
very integrated, says
Serbs, Croats,
Muslims, and
Jews, but the Jewish population was in the
minority. Prior to World
lation of Sarajevo
Jewish.
Most of
War
II,
the popu-
was almost 25 percent
the Jews were
slaughtered
Adorned with an army patch, a
Sarejavian boy digs through garbage
in search of something to play with.
by the pro-Nazi Croats. At the beginning of
this most recent war, leaders from the Jewish
community
negotiated with the
warring
parties to allow the
Jews trapped in Sarajevo
to leave, Craig says.
The Holocaust and
recent exodus has
this
Sarajevo with a Jewish
left
population of fewer than 50 families.
All these people, despite their differ-
common
ences, shared a
of bewil-
feeling
derment about the war. "Their war-ravaged
country was once so beautiful, and they
how
can't understand
so
it
much, or why," Craig
Many of the
says.
would
Sarajevans thought the United States
come and
Craig
and
save them,
made
this belief
he knew
sad because
just
could have changed
probably
it
wouldn't happen.
Craig had a few close
in Sarajevo.
On
while he was
calls
January 27, 1993, —he will
always remember the date— a shell hit his
apartment building and
from
glass
window caused minor
tered
a shat-
injuries to his
right arm.
"The one that
happened about
later
when
a
me
in
ricocheted off a bridge and hit
bullet
the chest.
but
shook me up
really
month
a
I
was wearing a bullet-proof vest,
was ripped apart and the force broke
it
one of
my
he
ribs,"
says.
Craig had only
planned to stay for three months on that
trip, and after the "sniper incident," he was
having trouble concentrating on his work.
"In early
March
I
Bosnia with no plans
left
to return," he says.
However, in the summer of that
Craig was watching
girl
CNN.
There was
year,
a litde
from Sarajevo who had been out
walk-
ing with her mother, and they were hit with
from an exploding
shrapnel
mother was
spinal
killed,
wound
and the
Her
meningitis," Craig says.
save her.
He
of
Craig's,
to
Edo
doctor,
needed to get her out of the
"Edo went on
appeal
a
was trying to
but there were no planes
city,
"The
shell.
Erma, had
had developed into
that
Jaganjac, a friend
girl,
CNN
to
make
a
available.
worldwide
any government which could
offer assistance in getting her out," Craig
says.
The
the
government
British
responded and sent
a
city.
"With the plea
for
began to think about
still
finally
plane to help her leave
in Sarajevo.
Erma on CNN,
my
Some of them
the option of leaving like
I
did not have
did,
and
A woman takes cover
an
I
friends that were
I
had
during
one of
Sarejavo's mosques.
artillery attack at
man
foot of a Muslim
on a
hit
street, the result of
lies
a direct
from a Bosnian-Croat rocket.
no way
and check how they were
to call
doing," Craig says. All this motivated
him
year, a
few days before Christmas,
while he was working for
UNICEF, he was
stuck in Sarajevo because of problems at the
airport.
While
he went to Kosovo
there,
litde girl while the
looking
a
happy
so
my
and
just to
his boss that the girl didn't
arm
it
tery,"
was cut off most of the time.
lights
were run by a car bat-
was one generator to supply energy for the
whole
to put the bear in.
tures that
hospital, but
was only turned on
it
during emergencies or for surgery."
On
that day,
UNICEF
teddy bears to the kids
at
"There was one litde
I
girl
the
hospital.
saw holding
teddy bear with her right hand.
Her
a
left
arm had been amputated
at
Craig
Craig says that
says.
In spite of
this,
the elbow,"
ing that bear
up and she looked happy.
UNICEF
suggested that
I
my
"I
boss from
put the bear in her
have another
"Sometimes the
picI
at
another hospital in Sarajevo covering
a
after
number of
story about the
There had been
a
babies being
record
17
the
on the day he went there
had been none. While waiting, a car pulled
up in front of the hospital. "They don't
previous day, but
have
official
ambulances for the hospitals
there, so this car
wounded
"I
was an ambulance with
just
The
I
I
ran out to get the child," he
driver
coming out. "They laid the
and would not let me back
just
a table,
in— they said
was a bad time.
it
of the car carried one boy
When
he
later told his
in Zagreb about the
Craig
to get
seemed
he says.
"My
and
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told
it
was appro-
way
for the organization,"
me
to just take the
Craig says. Afterwards, she
appropriate,"
him away
to "recover," thinking he
had been traumatized by the
event.
In Mostar, where Craig was sent to
"recover," there was a
in her leg
who
refused to
critical
let
little girl
with cancer
desperately needed to get to
The Bosnian Croat Army
her out of the city despite her
condition. Gerry
the head of office for the
Hume, who was
UN High Comm-
issioner for Refugees in Mostar, thought
HVO
that the
boy up and handed him
He
she asked why,
her decide which ones were
appeal was made.
the
boss
she asked
too vulturous a
boss told
let
there was another in the car. Craig picked
whole
when
like
more money
pictures,
sent
UNICEF
incident,
he said that he didn't think
for the picture," Craig says.
Craig's
face with
he had gotten any pictures.
if
her that he didn't, and
into the hospital and then screamed that
moment changed
looked in
his little Levi's jacket," Craig says.
other arm, essentially under the stump, just
That
I
and saw them covering the boy's
a better hospital.
about any-
where in the hospital and help out where
adds.
a
child inside," Craig says.
was allowed to go
could, so
on
child
priate. "It
Kosovo, Craig was
she did not look traumatized. She was hold-
was taking her picture when
told
I'm most proud of are the ones
Not long
born.
was giving out
He
never took," he says.
Craig says, adding, "Sometimes there
who was
boss wants to exploit the situa-
tion." Craig didn't take the picture.
Serbs control the electricity that can get
into the city,
little girl
be getting a teddy bear,
Hospital to get some pictures. "Because the
Sometimes the
this
the back-
radio in
ground and thinking, "This poor
is
at
Cat Stevens song "Wild
World" played on
to return in July 1993.
That
He remembers
oudook.
would
let
her go if a public
"Gerry figured that he would write a
press release explaining the situation," Craig
says.
"I
was asked to take a picture to
accompany
the press release. I was really
nervous-my camera would possibly save
someone's life," he says. They never did
have to publish
Croats
let
though. The Bosnian
it,
her leave just from the threat of
being exposed to the world.
Shortly afterward, a local resident took
man had
Craig to a place where a
by
a rocket. All that
one foot laying
was
me
foot laying in the street
is
rence,
it
was
"The
in the street.
not particularly shake
just that
it
a
seem
says.
it,
more
artistic,
want-
way
as to
he adds.
Mostar was under intense
was
wasn't
I
more compelling, not
just a foot in the street,"
entire time Craig
occurreal. It
"I
but
ed to take the picture in such a
it
sight did
common
completely comfortable with
make
hit
up, not that a
didn't
was so inanimate," Craig
been
of the guy was
left
there.
shelling the
As he ran
he had heard the boy screaming
to
where
after
the
explosion, another shell went off close by.
Jim Craig's
(RIGHT)
first
picture talien in Bosnia.
UN firemen hose down
spilling
fuel
from the wing of a
French transport plane that
was
hit
with machine gun
fire.
(LEFT) No Man's Land
The bullet-riddled Croat side of
Mostar (West).
know
don't
"I
knocked
me
over, or
for cover, but
I
was
the
if
I
flat
my face with
on
wind knocked out of me," Craig
He
of
force
it
unconsciously dove
the
says.
up and went toward
finally got
where he heard the boy crying. Craig found
some
who had been killed
man he found was an
journalists there
by the
The
blast.
first
Italian journalist
with
shrapnel
a
the size of a golf ball that
head. Another had the fingers of
blown
third
off,
was
and
way
like the
his
hunched
a bear sits. "I
knocked unconscious, so
him
up," Craig says.
hit nearby,
ders
of
of
I
apart.
A
over, kind
of
thought he was
I
tried to
"When
another
wake
shell
grabbed the guy by the shoul-
him away, and one
The lower part of his
his coat to pull
his legs fell off
stomach
just
dropped out," he remembers.
Craig threw the dead
to a shelter
Inside
his
one hand
stomach ripped
sitting up,
wound
went through
was
man down and ran
where the boy had been taken.
their
woman named
translator,
a
wounded
Vesna. Craig carried her
up
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killed in the
He was
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think about
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My
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way home from the front line. He telephoned my mother and said he would be home soon. I wanted to talk to
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never saw
I
my
father again.
He
was shot in the
head by a machine gun.
Before
he
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we
buried.
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We
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a big lion.
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a personal stereo.
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Teachers Association
Parent
(PTA) to improve
Before traveling
in
Sabana Cruz was working with the
local
the
a
their schools.
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acted as an advisor to the
community
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the govern-
soliciting
money from
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Dominican
ment
for the
Washburn
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also traveled with the school's
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that the
be assigned.
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place a request for
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volunteer
made with
is
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support," says
materials to build desks
is
involved in another large
a repre-
Because Sabana Cruz
"The most
part of the
move was
the loneliness,
Washburn
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and
fences,
money
that
was
later
and
commuput into
his
assignment,
community
in the
Washburn was
also
project with a nearby village.
middle of a
desert, the
only drink-
community was rain water, collected in "aljibes"
(al-HE-bays). Aljibes are made of a half side of corrugated zinc
roof with gutters made of zinc and PVC (poly vinyl chlorides) tubing water in the
community
Washburn.
The hardest
the
and bookcases.
Although not part of
application describing the needs of the
from the Peace Corps before
work with
paint the school, saving the
nity
community must
community must be completed, then
his
repair the latrines
where he would
the guidelines that the
Peace Corps stresses
of Education.
school, another organization helped
Washburn
spend the next two years.
One of
meal program.
president to deliver the grant proposal
months of intensive training
on language and including
sentative
and
Washburn was not
which allowed him three
to
focused
cultural
45 minutes from the
is
the
village
Republic,
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though;
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educational aspect.
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located in a
is
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Washburn's assignment while
Washburn was involved with
small
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to
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running water.
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Republic, two hours from the Haiti
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with people here.
different
with
contact
region
desert
a
my own cul-
nearest village with electricity
home
experiences
wasn't
were times when
Sabana Cruz
says.
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share the
craved
unteers," says
of people around the world, to
bring
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large
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ters
built,
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cisterns.
increasing
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cisterns.
potable water
the
40,000 gallons in the two
The most important
burn acted mainly
as
by
villages.
part of this project
was the community involvement.
Wash-
an advisor to the two
community groups throughout
struction of the aljibes.
gifts," says
rain
the zinc roof into the gut-
con-
the
"We're not giving
Washburn. "We're giving
infor-
mation and technical knowledge on how
complete projects."
When Washburn
to
left
the Dominican Republic, plans were being
made for the construction of two hundred
aljibes
throughout the country.
Looking back, Washburn
believes that
he benefited from his experience in
ways.
many
"The experience helped expand
world view," he
differently
now,
says.
I
"I
have
perspective because of
look
at
my
things
a totally different
how my
time in the
Dominican Republic affected my life."
Though the Peace Corps will remain
an unforgettable part of his life, Washburn
knows that it is not for everyone. It is a
step that requires a tremendous amount of
forethought. "You don't really find out if
it's for you until you do it," he says, and
many
volunteers don't discover themselves
until they've started training.
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dogs learning to behave themselves. "Dog problems are people problems," she
says.
Veterinarians are also pleased with the pro-
gram because it allows for easier handling of the
dog during examinations and hospitalization.
"The program tests an animal's sociability,"
says Dr.
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"It helps the
a
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animal mingle better with other
animals as well as humans," he
RAINING A DOG TO BEHAVE IN PUBLIC
IS
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Walking through crowded
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may
and perhaps even stand
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areas
in
one
training dogs to be well
A new
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Established
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being
around people.
The
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events they
of
would encounter
mem-
settings,"
according to an Animal- Vues pamphlet.
Sherry Carpenter, Bloomsburg, columnist
for
in a public place.
stranger without showing signs of resentment
pets into contact with other pets
and small group
to
or shyness and not trying to break free from the
CGC "promotes safe animal and
in large
easier
a
handler behavior in stressful situations bringing
and humans
also
the tests include accepting a friendly
stranger
a variety
is
training involved for the dogs requires
owner. Other
of society.
"It
to be able to handle different sequences or
sored and approved by the American Kennel
bers
fear
their teeth," he says.
Canine Good Citizen Program (CGC), sponClub, helps dogs become well mannered
are less like-
from "white coat" syndrome, a
the
1985 by Animal- Vues,
in
educational
says.
CGC members
of doctors, says Shonis, and the dogs are used to
Some of
training.
that are
ly to suffer
examine
of what's around them.
This no longer has to be a problem.
way of
cause
Dogs
Dog World magazine, and promoter of the
leash,
may
tests
include sitting so a friendly
pet them, walking
on
a
loose
walking through a crowd without being
intimidated, and reacting politely around other
dogs.
Dogs who
receive
CGC
standing usually
more public places because
they aren't as aggressive. Dogs usually bred to be
protectors will not attack someone who comes
near the owner with friendly intentions. They
find themselves in
program, believes that owners need to learn
merely stand between the stranger and the owner
how
just to let
to handle their dogs in addition to the
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him
or her
know
that they're around.
Another aspect of
CGC
behave when the owner
someone
training
to teach the
is
around, or
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if the
dog
dog how to
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with
The dogs learn to sit with patience and wait for their
owners to return. They don't whine and bark while the owner is in
a store or is away for a period of time.
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maintain and enhance quality and
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areas of the University.
to get along with each other," she adds.
Currently, there are 500,000 dogs nationwide that have certificates for
The Foundation conducts
completing the program.
new program, dogs are going to gain access to many
new places. The owners who have only their dogs for company and
protection will enjoy the new freedom they will have to bring the
With
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would bring them
expensive. Craig
and they would trade
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it
sugar,
for firewood. If he
Republic to petition the
fly out.
"But
UN
to let the kids
school year got closer
as the
would have
didn't come, they wouldn't eat. Coffee was
we
about 150 marks per kilo ($75 for two
through the tunnel that the Bosnian
a ladder to an ambulance. All this happened
while he was supposed to be relaxing and
pounds), a chocolate bar was about $8, a
had dug under the airport," he
recovering from his "trauma" in Sarajevo.
itarian aid provided barely
work
All this
for
UNICEF
always enjoyable for Craig.
more
ten times
all
about
Europe
the pictures he took
as advertisements for the orga-
had to serve
It
costs
It
to feed a child in
than in Africa, so
nization.
was not
was a competition for funding
where the most compelling pictures got the
most donations, and Craig was uncomfortable with that. "I
was encouraged to take
pictures mainly of blonde-haired, blue-eyed
bottle
physical
who donated most
of the funds, and "were more
money
likely to give
to kids that look like their neigh-
bors," Craig says. "This
was was the
reality
of working for some of the aid organizations in former Yugoslavia," he adds.
With
the assignment in
finished, Craig
Mostar almost
took a short break in Rome,
bad for the people
I
stayed with
in Sarajevo," says Craig. Everything
Craig
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For the younger ones, the war didn't
to affect
them
known
Craig says. Kids in Sarajevo
as badly. In
cases
their
life.
was normal to them. The teenage boys
were worried mostly because they knew
they could soon be drafted. Craig thinks
who were
was the older people
it
remember
Route 1-80
my way
day on
mountains reminded
Bosnia.
It
to
go
fly fishing,
me of those
made me
start
up
driving
in northern Pennsylvania
old,
it
affected the
was impossible to
their lives over. "I
can't
go to school until they are eight years
and she wanted her son in school
before that. The only official way out was
most
war most of
the
most. For them,
to get her kids
to Croatia.
of the war, "The Bosnian
seem
It
city.
On the
says.
influen-
wanted
Army
children were surprisingly resilient," Craig
most of the
one
and the
in central
sad to think of the
who were
just
caught up in
United Nations.
"Zeljka had a press pass,
the middle," he says, adding,
"Some were
so she could leave
whenever she wanted, but
retired
to fly,
and that had
to be authorized
by the
even when the planes were empty,
wouldn't authorize
to get to
the
it,"
he
says.
government
she
in
Craig tried
the
innocent people
and
just
wanted to enjoy the
their lives, but instead they
all
ended up
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they had worked so hard for just to stay
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who were
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says.
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says.
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killed. "It
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enough
couldn't get her kids out because the U.N.
and returned to Sarajevo.
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COLUMBIA COUNTY SITES YIELD
ARCHEOLOGICAL TREASURES
by Kama Timbrell
leven
homes
may have
Hemlock Twp.
nected to the
A
Sewer Cooperative.
prehmi-
nary archeological dig was
I
ommended by
(BHP)
located near a signifi-
is
archeological
cant
believes "in
site,
other
sites
Baker, archeologist for the
dig
and
and
passed,
tion spurred the perception that "a lot of
archeological
and buildings were being
sites
"I
ical
Twp.
can see wanting to do
value,"
says
Norman
supervisor,
this for histor-
Mael,
be
will
abandoned, says Matt Laidacker, chair of
the
Hemlock Twp. supervisors.
The National Historic Preservation Act
of 1966 requires federal agencies to take
into account the effect their actions have
and archeological
historical
sites.
on
Many
states,
including Pennsylvania, have similar
laws,
says
Montour
Since
Baker.
counties have
Columbia and
little
state/federally
funded construction, there are few archeological digs, he notes.
Under
these laws,
federal or state
any project receiving
money must
ask the
BHP if its
actions will affect historic or archeological
sites,
the
says Baker.
The
projects
must accept
recommendations of the BHP.
The Act was passed because
the historic
preservation programs were "inadequate to
insure future generations a genuine opportunity
to
heritage
appreciate
of our
and enjoy the
nation,"
according
rich
to
language in the Act.
Spectrum
Hemlock
"but the septic systems
BHP
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don't work."
The
Spriiifi '96
BHP has
to
ommendations, but "there
funding," says Baker.
to
pay for any
own
these rec-
enough
isn't
The township
will
says
Baker.
have
Some
PennDOT, employ
archeologists,
including the
make
digs, says Laidacker.
agencies, such as
destroyed," says Baker.
nearby, says Joe
BHP.
urban
interstate construc-
BHP
the
recommended, the project
is
Act was
our best professional opinion,"
may be
there
rec-
the
renewal, highway,
the Bureau of
Historical Preservation
because the project
When
Hemlock Twp.
in
to forego being con-
their
Others,
Army Corp of Engineers,
afford archeological digs, he adds.
can
Financially, "it's a tight squeeze for the
who
township," concedes Baker,
solution
best
for the
is
thinks the
or federal
state
agency to provide funding to pay for the
digs.
Despite the inconveniences the state
respon-
federal laws produce, they are
and
much of the
sible for
eries
in the area.
archeological discov-
These laws don't cover
construction that isn't state or federally
new home
funded, such as
Archeological
nonrenewable resources,"
Anne Wymer,
anthropology
construction.
sites "aren't like trees, they're
at
Columbia County has
of
professor
Bloomsburg
ber of archeological
Dee
Dr.
says
associate
University.
the fewest
sites in
num-
Pennsylvania,
Mark McConaughy,
associate
curator of archeology at the State
Museum
according to
of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg.
However, the
county are
sites that are
located in the
A
fairly significant, says Baker.
Hemlock Creek, near Buckhorn, is
one of the most important sites in
Pennsylvania, says Baker. The site, dug in
site
along
1981 by a private collector, revealed a flutedpoint,
spearhead
distinctive
a
Paleoindians
least
at
by
used
years
10,000
ago.
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The
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Fluted-points
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the state, he says.
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of stone removed from
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simply eats bones," he
Another important
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County
to anchor the point into a shaft. Points used
later
of the Mississippi doesn't preserve organ-
material very well.
from
American
the middle of both sides, leaving a
by
ic
different
Native
are
east
is
site
in
the Catawissa Bridge
was excavated in
1985
Columbia
site.
Adovasio, Mercyhurst Archeological
tute,
before the
new
and waste
storage
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While
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any animal
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bones from mammoths, mastodons, and
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Wymer. This
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Parcheesi.
They
bol of coming of age.
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rolls are offered
of the bones." But how did
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WHETHER IN AN ATLANTIC CITY CASINO SHOOTING
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game
game of chance get such a mysterious and ghoulish name?
The name may have evolved at sea when sailors, who
embarked on extremely long voyages, carved dice from
whale bones. The carvings both passed the time and created
a new activity to occupy idle sailors.
Today, the "roll of the bones" plays a much more complex, though subtle, role in our society. Dice have worked
their way into the American persona, having long been the
playing, or just seeking to test their luck.
Commonwealth, but
has
key ingredient of family board games
Harrisburg. State Rep.
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like
Fortunes can
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the nation's
American
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state
Pennsylvania
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literally
of the bones," and dice also play an important
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attached to it, must pass the state government committee before reaching the
House. The bill will remain dead in the state government committee as long
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endum
lawmakers could
roll
the dice and propose the
question clause. That would allow the
Gordner
says
Gov.
erendum question.
bill
without
a refer-
to bypass Clymer, but
Tom Ridge has indicated that the bill should keep the refNo action on the bill is expected before July, Gordner says.
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searching for
By Robert
P.
come out
MY
and Testament -
I
HEART!
walked across the white
IN
tile
Northumberland
of
the
County Courthouse, and started
down the winding stairs to the cellars. In the dimly lit basement I
floor
came to
between
a hallway cut lengthwise
the
building's
ancient
a will that hadn't
about her: She was
Bomboy, but there was
no maiden name. She had died on
October 13, 1880, but there was no
hint of where she had been buried.
The will named her surviving children, but it made no mention of her
husband,
wooden doors
ther,
were firmly
closed. Behind the third door lay a
small room, a scarred wooden
table, and a bare lightbulb hanging
from a cord. On one side, another
doorway led to a room that was
smaller and even more poorly lit.
Boxes of dusty envelopes stood on
the open shelves.
I was searching for my greatgreat grandmother. The date of her
death in 1880 was one of the few
things I knew, although I had been
had
Elizabeth
stone foundation and, at intervals,
that
I
copying her Last Will
me much
told
years.
of the Register of Wills
office after
HOPE LEAPED
many
Bomboy
my
great-great grandfa-
Abraham.
The will referred to letters testamentary. A blonde clerk told me
they were in the cellars. So I went
down there and was standing in the
dusty little room, carefully opening
the cracked and faded envelopes
that, after
116 years, contained the
only remaining traces of men and
women who once, long ago, had
lived and breathed, loved and
hated,
wept and laughed,
But 116 years
is
like
me.
a long time for
filed on open shelves.
box where what I was seek-
papers to be
In the
ing should have been, someone,
perhaps long ago, had misfiled or
misplaced the papers of Elizabeth
Bomboy. They were gone.
Once again I had missed them,
and Abraham, they whose
names appeared on the census
records of the 1840s, the 1850s, and
the 1860s; they who were the only
link absent from the trail I had so
Elizabeth
painstakingly
own
children
followed from
backward
to
my
the
Revolutionary War.
In the 1970s, Alex Haley's
begin looking
many Americans to
among the branches
own
family trees. In the
Roots spurred
of their
past
five
years,
the
rise
of the
worldwide Internet has dramatically
accelerated genealogical searching.
The search backward
that
are,
human
that
desire to
is
a part of
know who we
great-driving force
that
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humankind from the
There may not be a
separates
other species.
single person in this
up
not gazed
world
who
the heavens
at
has
on
a
dark night and wondered:
clear,
Who am
I
One
in all this?
begins
family
a
history
be a simple
task. Put dow^n a few^ names, draw
the necessary connecting lines, and
believing that
it's
will
it
done.
usually,
an
to other continents
One
across the w^ater.
memorable scenes
version of Roots
connect
to
is
American family
is
of the most
in the televised
the final
when Alex Haley found
moment
his family's
have known that
took a dozen
years of detective work, unremitorigins in Africa.
I
exultation
It
too.
tracking
tingly
before
down
traced the
I
every clue,
first
Bomboy
back to a small village in Europe.
But there are compensations:
• Looking back at one's own
family can help give a researcher
new insight into huge historical
events. In my family tree I can
clearly see a subtle, yet predictable,
of
effect
Montana
to
the
Great
and,
finally,
California.
• It's also possible to look back
over the generations and see pat-
terns
of inherited
there
seem
in
my
cer in
it
illness, though
be no such patterns
line. There had been no canmv family, for example, until
struck
to
me
in 1983-
But physicians
and epidemiologists recommend
that families
The reality is that the search
may go on and on, as it has for me,
and it may frequently bring with it
the frustration and disappointment
I
felt in that cellar. The hardest
jump,
on
look for patterns of
inherited illness in their family trees
and record them
for the benefit of
future generations.
•
There
may be
a philosophical
benefit to pouring over
all
those old
records of births and deaths.
It
is
sobering and humbling to reflect on
and death over the generasorrows that must
have crushed those who had to
bear them. In my research, I found
a house fire long ago in Milton that
wiped out an entire Bomboy family. We baby boomers don't realize
how devastating sudden onslaughts
of disease could be before the
life
tions-and the
Hie Costv^me
Fantasies
Sliop
by Rebecca
Depression.
Prior to the 1930s, for generation
after generation, the
Bomboys had
big families. During the Depression
my
mother,
who
firms that she
is still living,
made
a
con-
conscious
decision to have one child because
she could not afford more. Within
two generations, the family name
in
our line has almost died out,
because other parents also reduced
family size.
•
It's
fascinating to visualize the
western migration, and to watch,
Bomboy
family's
slow movement
and fresh
opportunities - to Illinois, and then
Missouri, and from there to the
Indian Territory of Oklahoma, and
toward
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heart ached for the mother
and father when I saw, written after
each child's name, the epitaph:
"killed by the black diptheria
killed by the black diptheria
killed by the black diptheria ..."
.
.
•
One
other benefit
is
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.
.
.
that I've
met wonderful people and heard
their amazing stories. I was studying records at the Columbia County
Genealogical Society in Orangeville
by the name of Ohl
to find families
(Elizabeth Bomboy's maiden name
was probably Ohl, although I can't
confirm
it.)
One
of the volunteers at
the genealogical society shyly told
me
-4
that
he
was
related
to
the
Robert Bomboy and his family
in
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Ohl
sergeant
in
who
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had saved his regi-
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when
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his officers turned
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Columbia County because,
between 1810 and 1820, at least
three Bomboys - all brothers migrated from Berks County and
put down deep roots here. There
began when
number of Bomboys in the
phone book. "Bomboy's Meats"
was once well known throughout
left
in
are a
the area; the Rev. D.
still
remembered
voice. There
in
is
L.
Bomboy
is
for his glorious
also a
Bomboy Lane
York and
more than
I now work
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Geisinger
for
My
interest
I
that time, only
eight sisters
alive.
history
my forties. By
one of my father's
in
and brothers was
still
Before she died in 1976, an
old auntie, one of
some
sheet
family
in
was
my favorites, had
clues
tantalizing
of steno
on
a
One was
paper.
"Abraham Bomboy and Elizabeth
married October 22, 1828."
She had seen the words on the
marriage page of an ancient
Ohl,
was lost,
the Susquehanna
Bible, a Bible that
working class line,
from other
branches of the family; from generation to generation, we have been
apparently
God-fearing, ordinaiy people, often
carpenters and cabinetmakers, who
same page my auntie
had written, "John Bomboy, the
were born, had children, lived out
our lives, and eventually died in
the hope of the hereafter.
first
Mine
less
a
is
distinguished
At 55, I'm satisfied with the
I've
lived.
I
worked
life
for national
Scott L. Smith, President
Center.
German
Berwick.
taught
as the Public Relations Executive
other
stories
of many
Bomboys throughout the nation.
The Bomboy name is common
vivid
New
in
I've
in
That Bible
River flood
of
would have
established the link
still
am
On
1972.
I
seeking.
the
Bomboy to come
try." And it was true.
Over the years
researching
to this
that
I
coun-
have been
I have
my family name,
encountered distant cousins
who
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were searching. One,
also
from
M. Hoch
(now
Colyitibici
from
record
Coyoty
listed
1780.
my
a
Township
Limrick
part of Philadelphia) that
Johann Casper Bomboy
He was
the "John
Bomboy"
old auntie's note,
later
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his origins in
Schorbach bei Treysa, a tiny
HessenKassel, doesn't appear on even the
largest atlas maps. It is west of Bad
Hersfeld and east of Marburg, in
the area where the Lutheran
Reformation began. It is from Hesse
that the word Hessian comes. At
the
time that Johann Casper
Bomboy "was born, in 1760 (his
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army's
passage
to
America from
Portsmouth, England.
It
was
a long
and stormy voyage in a fleet of 100
sailing ships, and I can imagine
what it must have been like for 17year-old Johann Casper Bomboy.
Americans always refer to the
Hessians
who
fought for the British
was their
prince, the Landgrave, w^ho was the
mercenary. They were his subjects
and had no choice but to do his
bidding. As a result of that lack of
self-determination, and the poor
economic conditions at home,
as "mercenaries," but
it
many Hessian troops stayed in
America or went to Canada. Some
deserted the British even before the
war ended, many during a British
withdrawal through Philadelphia in
1778. I believe Johann Casper
Bomboy
his
left
regiment
at
that
and settled in Philadelphia,
and he was listed on the tax rolls of
Limrick Township two years later.
time
Bomboys
All the
more than
America -
in
-
1,000
are
related,
because
all of us are descended
from Johann Casper Bomboy. I
once did an article for Parade
Magazine, the Sunday supplement
had no
Bomboy from
Texas saw
you
ing: "Are
My
and
it
'wrote to
me
ask-
kin?"
of
line
the
Abraham Bomboy
-
Bomboys moved from
Columbia County to Northumberland County between 1830 and
1840 and lived in Turbot Township
and
later
Town-
Chillisquaque
in
near
ship,
Later
Milton.
still,
Abraham's son, Peter, and several
of Abraham's daughters moved
Wyoming
north to the
there in Kingston
tling
Valley, set-
and other
communities. Most of the family
in
has died out, with the
that
area
lines
ending
in
female children (so
How Did Your Ancestors Die?
longer continues).
w^hen
idea,
moved
I
Danville in 1980, that
I
way, actually returning
home
tral
was,
in a
an ances-
to
more than
after
I
to
100
years.
There
that has a circulation of 20 million
nationwide, and a
name no
the
names
whose
many
aren't
my
in
family.
was
famous
My
wife,
can do
much better: she can count two
distant cousins who were famous,
or infamous. One w^as Big Ed
family
Irish,
Walsh, enshrined in Cooperstown
Fame
as a Hall of
pitcher for the
Chicago White Sox. The other was
Pete O'Donnell, a coal miner who
was hanged in 1876 as a Molly
Maguire and
is
still
known
family as "Swingin' Pete."
Maguires,
turned
in the
The Molly
violence
to
to
oppose coal barons who paid the
Irish hardly more than pennies a
week and indentured them to the
company
store.
A
re-enactment of
one Molly Maguire trial in Pottsville
two years ago demonstrated that
some of the original trials had been
Many
gross miscarriages of justice.
of the jurors had been Pennsyl-
M3Lany
What you
doctors today encourage
their patients to
sit
down and draw
a
family tree of health.
That's because it's possible to
inherit bad health, or at least a tendency to develop an illness or a con-
For example, says Dr. Howard
Hughes, the chief doctor in the
Geisinger Health Plan, "If your mothdition.
er or father
may be
had heart
disease,
you
higher risk of developing
heart problems than the general population. If your mother or father had
cancer, then you may be at higher
at
developing that disease."
can you tell where you, your
spouse and your children stand? Do
risk of
How
research.
How did your spouse's ancestors
die? How did your own ancestors
•
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have
—
do
for example,
living relatives
your and your
spouse's parents and grandparents?
• Do anxiety or depression mn in
your family?
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or the
life
of another family
if
your
take steps to reduce
your risk of developing that disease
by exercising regularly, eating a
nutritious diet,
weight
and maintaining
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epilepsy
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article
about the
Molly Maguires, found a
jurors.
list
Among them was
of the
a
juror
named Thomas Bomboy.
The melting pot
is
an American
long a part of the fabric of
The weave
this country.
so
is
intri-
cate that, after 120 years, the fami-
Thomas
of Pete O'Donnell and
lies
Bomboy
my
And
so
tion
come
have
through
my
Diabetes
Obesity
Depression and anxiety
Glaucoma and certain other eye
an
researching
story,
What should you look for? Here's
some afflictions that
seem to run in families:
•
Dutchmen who spoke
German and could hardly understand the proceedings. And here's
an irony: One of my students,
vania
ideal
levels.
a checklist of
Did any of your ancestors have
diabetes, kidney disease or liver disease? How many? Who?
illnesses
you
members can
•
What
surprise
research reveals that diabetes has
afflicted middle-age ancestors time
and again, you and other family
•
•
may
member. For example,
die?
•
learn
— and even save or prolong your
wife and me.
I
continue tracing out
family tree. Yet the
still
occupies
over and over.
there,
together
my
I
one ques-
mind.
I
turn
it
look here and
always hoping to find the
last
piece of the puzzle, an answer to
such as
the
question:
Who was
father
Abraham, and from whence did he
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PhiPs Cajun Kitchen uses
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Miccio
Philip
WHILE VENDING THE CHERRY
Blossom
Barre,
and
Festival in Wilkes-
Philip Miccio
Jr.,
Miccio Sr., of
Cajun Kitchen, had the experience of having caterers from Louisiana, who cook during the Mardi
Gras, taste their food.
'They told us that we would fit
Mardi Gras]", Miccio Jr.
says, "They wanted to know where
right in [at
we
moved
good
job for a
onto
Ridgway's
and
"I
Corporations.
got tired of working all the
time and not getting compensated,"
says Miccio
Jr.
He began working
as a laborer in the tufting depart-
ment at Magee Carpet Industries,
where he has been for the past 15
years.
Phil's
was the
first
to bring this
we
unique cuisine to the Bloomsburg
The reason Miccio wanted to
work Cajun food was because it
was something no one else was
Yankees."
Cajun Kitchen is owned
and operated by Philip Miccio Jr.,
and his father. Philip Miccio Sr.,
worked as an investor before he
retired.
Cooking has been his
Phil's
hobby
to
bunch of damn
learned to cook. They said
did a
went
then Sheridan
his father Philip
Phil's
Jr.
Luzerne Community College, then
for the past 30 years.
little bit different than the typical
food stands that are at the Fair."
Miccio explains, "My father and I
had been experimenting with Cajun
food, so we set out with the
a
assumption to give people restaurant quality food out of a mobile
unit."
One item that didn't make the
menu was alligator. Phil's tried alligator soup and alligator
on
a stick,
area.
but
doing
from the swamp, but they come
from a farm, like catfish," Miccio Sr.
at the time.
"We
like to cook," says Miccio
""When we talked to the people
in charge of the Bloomsburg Fair,
they told us they wanted something
Sr.,
it
didn't
go over
well.
"People think alligators
come
says.
But the Bloomsburg Fair was a
tough battle for the Miccios because
of the amount of food stands.
"The first year we were at the
fair, people were going through our
garbage to see what we were
using,"
the Miccios explain.
But now, Phil's has a
themselves, and a large
name
They serve the Bloomsburg
Hughesville
Fair,
Luzerne
for
clientele.
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Fair, vari-
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and the fall move-in at Bloomsburg
University.
They serve authentic
dishes including jambalaya, crawfish,
M
gumbo,
barbecue
shrimp,
Phillip Miccio Sr. cooks up his
crawfish delicacy at the
Rohrbach Pumpkin
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Cajun
Cajun
Cajun chicken salad,
sandwich, and boudine
rice,
rib
(Cajun sausage)
"We
among
our
base
others.
business
come
"It
his father both learned to cook
Cajun food through experimenta-
and
tion
FAMOUS nRSTS
research.
Though
on
repeat customers. "We want people
to
and
offers
have been made
to market the four special sauces,
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Miccio says he doesn't feel ready.
says.
Jr.
"Once you get
taste exactly the
same because everything
to taste," says Miccio
Jr.
mixed
"Anybody
is
it
[the product]
off the ground, then they like to sell
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by Deborah
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Deborah Savage,
41,
matured as a writer in an
environment with few distractions, ample time, space, and
freedom.
This
Bloomsburg
High
School graduate has centered
her life around her passion
Living
writing. "In terms
of a calling, the deeper sense
word career, I was
making life decisions that had
to do with my writing from
the time I was l6 or 17,"
of the
Savage says.
Savage began supporting
herself at 17 when she left
home
develop as a writer.
"I chose to never have a fulltime job and I always lived on
very
to
little
money
in
rented
rooms because full-time jobs
me no time and no ener-
gave
gy to
of the landscape.
with this sense of
Savage says she
nature,
gained a "familiarity with
being alone" which allowed
her time to explore both the
aspects
Savage's Eterary career
and love of
to the natur-
al
helped shape Deborah
by Lenore Olsen
Savage
Mainville,
in
became attached
write," she recalls.
knew was that it
I
was important to write and
that was the thing that gave
world and
herself.
The popularity of harness
horse racing in this area and a
love of horses
of her
life
is
another part
that she carries into
work. In To Race a
Dream, Savage uses what
some say to be the greatest
her
racehorse ever,
Dan
Patch, as
a central element of the story.
Although her
latest novel.
Under a Different Sky, is the
only one set in Pennsylvania,
has always been a career,"
of her novels reveal her
attachment to rural living.
Under a Different Sky takes
place in a boarding school
and on a neighboring farm.
says Savage.
This
"All
my
life
purpose, so
guess
I
commitment
This
hard work resulted
cess as a
young
Savage
currently
in
it
and
her suc-
adult novelist.
published books:
has
four
all
farm.
Savage
says,
is
many of the
farms she grew up around in
this area. One of the main
modeled
after
characters in the novel
A Rumor of young man who
lives
and
is
a
on the
Otters, Flight
farm. His speech
A
tudes also reflect what Savage
of the Albatross,
Stranger Calls Me Home,
and To Race a Dream. Her
most recent work. Under a
Different
is
atti-
this area.
This character
is
troubled
set
in
with a sense of wanting to go
expected
in
beyond what he knows of
Sky,
Pennsylvania,
remembers of
his
bookstores by April.
Growing up on an old
farm
life,
how
to
but he doesn't know
begin searching for
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this
Through experiences
self.
with a young
from the board-
girl
ing school, he gains the tools to
himself and the
explore
further
world around him. In
he
return,
the
some of his knowledge
young girl who is troubled
her
own
gives
have the opportunity.
Savage also has close
ships with her brother
who
ters
encouraging. Her brother, Dillon,
concert pianist in Indiana.
in
describes her sister Rebecca as a
"free
who
spirit"
Theodora, the main character, dreams
wetlands biologist
of driving harness horses, but
State.
and
1906,
to
work
is
were not permitted
However,
girls
in the stables.
she gains an opportunity to
dis-
guise herself as a boy. She experi-
ences
success
and
setback
in
attaining her dream.
own dream
to
of following
'If
needs. Both she and her parents
writing
treat
as a serious passion,
it
they
also
respect
"Nothing
is
it
an
as
really a
art
and
form.
hobby when
you're young. At that age, everyis coming from your soul,
and you're exploring the ways of
expressing yourself and the way
that your deepest self needs to
thing
that's
in
in
Exactly
is
memory
of her
of
life.
artist
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explains
when Savage began
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"From my family, I learned
about the concept of commitment
to what was important," she says.
"There was a lot of support in terms
something she
something she
wants,
and
achusetts,
said,
Savage sees her
write, not only as
is
She
a
v/ay.
it
sis-
and
supportive
are
to
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relation-
and two
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dramatically
when
a
speak," says Savage.
Richard and Judith Savage support
daughter's
their
Deborah's
English
taught
also
father,
interest.
a
University, after several years with
the Saturday Evening Post. His wife
taught
and
art
in
local
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and inning Salon
public schools
currently teaches at
Friends School in
uarters
writer,
Bloomsburg
at
Greenwood
Millville.
Savage
"They exposed me to various books and techniques in writing
and art, but their influence is so pervasive, it is hard to limit it to one
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never received formal training to
refine her writing skills. She says
she learned
how
to write
by read-
Her parents rouand commented on her
writings and encouraged her to
continue this passion. Even now,
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and
writing.
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Savage says her parents read her
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to
financially further her
to
commitment
She
her calling as a writer.
remembers
saying
"Okay,
is
this
to
I've
it,
herself,
got
this
I'm not looking back.
money.
From now
on, this
is
how
I
am
"Teaching
calling.
a
isn't
it
is
struggle
a struggle,
and
enjoy,
as
I
opposed to struggles with my
ing which I do enjoy, or at
full
this
life.
She
as possible in order to allow the
Fine Arts.
as life-like as possible so her read-
For the
last
has returned to
two years Savage
Bloomsburg High
School to present writing seminars
for a number of English classes.
She also conducted workshops for
students who had expressed interest
and displayed
When
talent in writing.
Savage
is
not writing
she spends time in the classroom
teaching anything to do with writing.
Working through freshman
composition at North Adams State
College, North Adams, Mass., she
admits that teaching is not her
Gjoucrnor
the story.
Savage wants each character to be
can get to
sonal way.
ers
"I
acter,
know them
in a per-
Savage is aware that her novare mostly read by young
adults, but she never intended to
els
write
specifically
the closest thing
I
could say
is
that
for
are
characteristics
truths and
whether they are
young or
old.
When
trying to
show
share
certain
I
write, I'm
the basic
know
age
The
author's attention to char-
makes Savage's work
stand out from many young adult
writer's work. Typically, in young
acter often
adult fiction,
nant,
and
the action
often
the
is
domi-
characters
dif-
know the age thing.
human beings, and human
emotions," notes Savage.
about."
because
very
don't
"I
We
is
come from the same place that
dreams come from, places we don't
they
difficult
it
to relate to her readers
she doesn't think she
ferent from them.
audi-
that
ence. She doesn't find
beings
spend a lot of time on charbut where they come from,
impor-
at least as
tant as the plot.
a character
beyond
becomes
acter
going to make my living." She
decided to go to Goddard College
in Vermont to earn her Master's of
character to exist
Because of this tenwork, the char-
flat.
in Savage's
least
author faces, she cites the task of
attempts to draw as
dency
writ-
welcome," says Savage.
Among the hardships
bringing her characters to
become
Good
human
goes beyond
and allows the
literature
differences
reader to learn about the story, the
and about themselves.
used her local
background and her love of
characters,
Savage
has
nature to aid in creating this type
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the crime in a half an hour. For us, it just takes a little
longer," says Chief Smith. If life had an editor who could
cut the slow parts, guarantee a happy ending for the police,
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[EDITORS NOTE: Three years ago,
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Columbia High School graduate
who later earned a law degree from
Dickinson University, went to
Russia to help direct a new legal
code for that country. This
is
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MANY
FOR
an
FOREIGNERS, RUSSIA
exciting
IS
and challenging
place. But, foreigners are not
well liked and are the target of
many Russians' envy and hatred.
Our success often depends on our
The complexity of the
invisibility.
problems here and the challenges
of never knowing what will happen
next encourage me to stay.
Russians are easily dismayed by
many Western businessmen who
come to Russia thinking they can
so
get rich
without making any com-
mitment to the people or the infrastmcture. We have a lot to offer to
those
who
proposals.
assured that
of the
Kremlin,
Assumption
Moscow
we
to
be
are really here to
help them and not just to turn a
profit for ourselves. Russians are
not stupid, but by nature, they have
a
fundamental distrust for foreignbecause many foreigners do
ers,
not make the commitment it takes
to understand the people and the
traditions which are so important to
them.
This
< Church
are willing to accept our
The Russians need
is
not a
fault of^
people. After 70 years of
the Russian
Communism
what would you expect? A grandmother is not going to be able to
always count on
grasp the structure of a stock mar-
ty
ket or understand •why
it should be
most important thing on her
mind. She probably earns less than
$15 a month and feeds a family of
six. What incentive does she have
hold
the
Communism,
every
to invest in Russia's future
if
penny she saves must go
to feed
her family?
Russia has a
lot
to
offer
the
younger generation who have the
energy and inclination to implement change. Young Russians are
motivated by profit, are entrepreneurial, and have an astute business
sense.
The
prises,
land,
privatization
of enter-
and housing
is
hap-
pening at a rapid pace.
People are no longer faced -with
long food lines or no food, but
instead with an abundance of
Western products which they can't
afford. People find it difficult to
cope because the things they could
—
•
stable govern-
ment, stable job, a sense of equali-
and
class
trust in
true.
Russia has
society
between the
—
people
no longer
With the fall of
become
and the
classes
is
a
disparity
ment of Russia's economy are those
money to throw around
the
Mafia
which makes the whole
—
—
system extremely corrupt. Several
Russian
investment
companies
have opened to attract money from
the Russian people, but they
promise the world and then close
up shop and there is no recourse
for the investors. The robber barons
of Russia are alive and they create a
level of fear in those
who
struggle
to survive.
the
People beg for protection from
bureaucracy, and from the
Mafia. Yet they are the
to get
first
to bribe
what they need from the gov-
ernment, the
first
to resort to vio-
to turn to drink to escape
first
from
the country's failures.
I
have been
three years
ized
what
in Russia,
the
my
I
me
first
was
to
real-
it.
couple of years
a legal advisor to
Russian
purveyor of
legal pronouncements) and the
President
Federation (the
all
in Russia for nearly
and only recently
attracts
During
startling.
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with
lence to solve a problem, and the
Russian
Duma
of
one seemed
difficult to
I
equivalent of
(the
the U.S. Congress).
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the
official
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was
sent to
reforms that every-
to
want,
but
were
implement.
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the United States
government, which created a
strange dichotomy in regard to the
w^ork I was expected to carry out. I
helped a new breed of Russian
lawyers write commercial and economic laws that work for Russia's
newly emerging market economy.
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outdated and unsophisticated for
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and
long resulted in the defensiveness
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first
an
new
civil code that had been prepared by a group of leading academics and jurists. A civil code is normally something that takes a country over 30 years to develop, but in
Russia
we
finished
it
on the
the Soviet Union.
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regarding the legal needs of their country's future.
Many
still
do not believe in private ownership rights for land and real
property. The Russian government and its people are clearly
divided. The resounding support (almost 43 percent) received
by the Communist party's leader in this year's presidential elections strongly reflects that despite
outward appearances,
little
has changed in Russia since the beginning of perestroika.
There are a few radical reformers who push the limits knowing that
if
they don't implement changes
return to the
way
things were.
now
Russia could
The overwhelming
majority,
though, seeks to return to the way things were.
Legal reform is more important than economic reform
because without
it
Russia will continue to be a country lack-
Few
Russians understand their legal rights,
fewer rely on the government to enforce their rights. Most
agreements are settled through private enforcement mechaing the rule of law.
nisms
(i.e.
bribes, kickbacks, threats, extortion, guns).
After almost three years in Russia,
it is
difficult to
the political climate has in store for legal reform.
It is
say what
clear that
President Boris Yeltsin and his supporters are trying to impose
law and order. However, little is done to educate the people
There are no clear mechanisms for the
enforcement of basic civil rights.
So far I have not been scathed by thugs or hooligans, but
my day is likely to come. They say that every year in Russia is
like living three years somewhere else. You have to be strong
and you have to be brave. But more importantly, you have to
to accept the laws.
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what you're doing. The hardships
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expand, she decided to petition Big
Brothers/Big Sisters of the Bridge in
friends
Wilkes-Barre
Catholic
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children who needed
and some adults who were
willing to spend time with them.
That was in 1988, and now, over
500 matches later, Mary Diehl is
housed in a small office on Main
Street doing her work as the
head of Columbia County's Big
Brothers/Big Sisters program.
Big
Brothers/Big
Sisters
is
a
matching service that sets up kids
betv,^een the ages of 7 and 17 with
adults
who are
willing to
commit
to
spending 2-3 hours a week with
them
for
one
year.
It
was
started in
to
form
a
satellite
office in
Mary Diehl
had
elementary
Bloomsburg.
been teaching
school for 13 years, and decided
was time for a change.
it
'I
started with nothing, no
phone, no forms, no office," says
Diehl. 'All I had was seven files
from Sister Anita of matches that
had been made," she adds. Contacts
had to be made with these seven
people to tell them about the new
affiliation with Big Brothers/Big
Sisters, and only one group decided
to stay with the program.
Big Brothers/Big Sisters
is
fund-
ed solely by the United Ways of
Berwick and Columbia County and
a March fund-raiser called Bowl for
Kid's Sake. Making the budget
stretch can be taxing at times. Her
permanent agency display is made
out of cardboard, with pictures and
"I could
probably tell you where everything
in our office came from," says
cutouts that she fashioned.
Diehl.
Diehl
is
always
more volunteers
especially males.
in
search of
for the program,
"Nationally,
we
have fewer male volunteers than
we do females, and I really don't
know why," she says.
There is an intensive screening
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volunteers,
including
months residency, four
six
than he used
adds Diehl.
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to,"
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work
has been proven to
ences, a state police check, child
Sisters
abuse clearance,
an interview, a
psychological test, and home visits.
Another program that encourages
college and high school students to
join does not require the psycho-
well.
logical test.
less likely to
Private
as
Volunteers,
was found
it
46 percent of children with a
Big Brother or Big Sister are less
that
likely to
use drugs; 27 percent are
begin drinking; 52 per-
Bloomsburg
cent are less likely to skip school;
University student, joined the Big
and 4 percent care more about
school. These statistics come from a
Czahor,
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a
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Going to the park, playing
baseball, watching movies, and
cooking dinner were some of the
things Czahor enjoyed doing with
his little brother. "I felt proud to be
looked up to by somebody I could
years.
help,"
he
Diehl recalls dozens of times
when
having a Big Brother or a Big
Sister has turned a young person's
life around. She has one match that
lasted nine years, and others where
one of the
parties
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but still found the time to adopt a
little brother. "They would call him
every chance they got just to check
and see how he was doing," says
They took the boy to Disney
World for his birthday once during
their two year match. Recently, the
couple announced their move to
Wilmington, Del., and on their way
in
Diehl.
out, they
because they knew
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Over
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dog, and one-fourth own two cats.
The problem of finding enough
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become an increasingly difficult
situation.
in shelters across
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ignore
rights
the
warnings
activists
allowing
their
pets
of spending
instead
necessary to
of animal-
by irresponsibly
to
breed,
the
money
sterilize their animals.
According to Dr. Jean Cunningham,
Bloomsburg Veterinary' Hospital, "A
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don't feel it's worth the expense" to
have their pet sterilized. The average cost of sterilization for a dog or
cat can range from $30 to $100.
Pet owners in Columbia and
Montour counties no longer have
cost as an excuse to ignore the
responsibility
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the problem. "I finally decided this
was
ridiculous,
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let's
thing," says Wright.
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experimented with
P.E.T.S.
money,
but currently runs a used merchanseveral
methods
dise store
on
and Catherine
to
fund
staff
the corner of Fifth
streets,
Bloomsburg,
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all-volunteer
its efforts.
uses donations from individuthe
als in
community
sterilization of
On
to raise
to
pay
for the
over 3,000 animals.
the average, the organization
funds the sterilization of 50 animals
per month, according to Barbara
Crawford, volunteer store manager.
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difficult for the
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afford to have an
animal neutered
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organization to reach due to a lack
of community
awareness and
a
constant need for volunteers.
In spite of the efforts of PA
P.E.T.S.,
more than 6,000 animals
entered Danville's SPCA in 1995,
and over half of these animals were
killed, usually within a week of
arriving at the shelter, according to
Clayton Hulsizer, manager of the
In 1984, the facility's popureached 10,545 with almost
9,000 animals killed because of a
facility.
lation
of homes for the animals.
Hulsizer attributes the decrease in
population from 1984 to 1995 to the
lack
SPCA's adoption policy. This policy
offers a low cost adoption fee for
the animals and, like
PA
P.E.T.S.,
provides funding for
sterilization.
The problem, however, has not
been solved through the conbined
efforts of the organizations.
pet
"More
education
for
owners" is needed, says Gerald
Clemens, a shelter employee. "A lot
of people get a puppy because it's
cute, and don't take into consideration that the animal will grow up
and become fully functional, capable of breeding," adds Clemens.
Often individuals get a pet.
without considering that
if
breeding
produce
such pet
owners cannot support. Even more
is
uncontrolled,
more
offspring
typical are those
it
will
that
who
absent-mind-
edly accept a pet, only to decide
later that they don't want the
such
dropping
responsibility. In either case,
people
feel
justified
in
these animals off in a
field,
on
a
street corner, or at a local shelter.
They never consider the
fate that
often awaits the animal. Such indi-
death.
add to the costly expense
animal destruction, animal
law enforcement, and food and
People who get a pet and don't
follow through with sterilization do
very unpleasant to put a healthy
viduals escape their responsibilities,
expense of sending
often at the
their pet to
its
not realize the ramifications of their
In
irresponsibility.
controlled
a
breeding situation, one female dog
(with her
first
females) can
Owning
in
to
left
we'd probably be 10
feet
them," says Dr. Robert
Lewisburg
ment
at
deep
Martin,
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Lewisburg, and
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of the intense pace,
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Paul excelled in her studies.
her
family, she spent time in
Mexico with a family who also had
weekend respites
come as a welcome
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sure to be
at
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involved.
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says.
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speaking culture.
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week
needed
bit.
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Living in a
of six million, like Guadalajara,
veiy different from home."
For Paul, the road to Mexico
was not paved with the
legendary
silver,
Aztecs'
but with hard
work, careful planning and some
help from others.
Paul's mother, Sherrie, has said
her daughter has "struggled to
economically survive. "We're not
Sarah has to work, or
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well-off.
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by her spring
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A graduate of
High School, Paul is a
senior Spanish Major at Gettysburg
College.
Paul says
many
of her endeav-
were prompted by a need to
communicate with others. "Spanish
has opened up an entire area of the
world to me," she says.
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In a quest to further her education
and understand other people,
Paul spent the
fall
semester study-
ing in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Gettysburg College students
studying Spanish had the option of
a term abroad in either Spain or
Mexico. Paul opted for Mexico
"All
of
my
classes,
my
|
home
life,
conversations,
excursions, bus rides, even
^
my
dreams
were
in
Spanish," Paul says.
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Mexico
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Joseph Manor, a nursing home.
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itself,
to redouble her efforts.
Already carrying a
load
down
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grades.
migrants."
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back," says
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in the
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curriculum,
children
his
from school),
house
to
sitting,
and
and
tour guide," she recites.
In addition to her studies
jobs, Paul
and
has also been involved in
a variety of activities at Gettysburg
College:
symphonic and marching
bands, college-community orchestra;
WZBT
radio disk jockey
and news director, Alpha Phi
Omega, a co-ed service fraternity,
Social Justice
senter
for
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the
Women's
co-pre-
Conf-
manager for a one-act
Sigma Alpha Iota, a women's
do everywhere she goes, even
time.
such
Christ
Chapel board.
"Really,
it's
The
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home
again,
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plagued with another obstaDuring her time in Mexico, she
says.
she's
Mrs. Paul laments that Paul could
cle.
in
USA
says Paul.
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financially just to get by," Mrs. Paul
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heartbreaking.
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Mexico.
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Ministries at
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know about
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made good use of her
And she looks for the good in
play,
fraternity,
if
She's always
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music
electives.
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Hex
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others, in
what I'm going to
do my best," she
"I'm not sure
do.
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be
says Mrs.
al
possibility
is
the feder-
Americorp program.
"I
wanted
participate in Americorp, but
in
is
the
area.
Paul's
father,
manager at Steve
and Auto. He also
ate,"
to
have
she says.
"Perhaps the Peace Corps," Paul
muses.
assistant
Shannon Tire
worked at the Danville News for a
year,
and
^wrote
the
few
'Remembering the Past' articles dur-
I
won't be funding for
by the time I gradu-
a feeling there
the program
exams
on helping
capacity," she says.
considering an internship
liaison
Paul works at Shamokin
Area Community Hospital as a lab
technician, and does paramedical
John,
carry
to
like
Paul.
every other ideal-
"Just like
young person, I'm convinced
istic
I
can change the world."
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master's degree
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way
to fin-
point," says Paul.
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Volume 10
Number
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features
8
departments
Behind THE Lines
6-7
AH Bones About
The debate surrouniling the
It
best care for back pain continues
Cutting Teeth
A "Whale" of Uses
The Not-So-Funny Bone
Dog Bone Fact or Fiction
by Joy Mushacke
Cal-culated Health
Back of the Book
'"
"Bone" Appetit
Life
in tlie
Vaiiey of
Shadow
tlie
cover
A
in
Business
;
Appetizers
Back
Croatian soldier patrols on top
of a building in Zagreb, Croatia.
Photo by Jim Craig
It
was supposett to be a
sbopt
trip,
but Jim Craig
found himseif in the miMie
of a
war tor three years
liy
Lisa Stociimal
32
Citizen
Canine
Is
Rolling
your dog out of control?
the Bones
Take heart, there Is help.
by Kerry Collins
by Cbris Kreplch
14 A Growing
30
Dilemma
Dream Development
by Lisa Stockmal
18 a
Bone
by Pamela Davis
36
to Picl< With
20
Taking
byte out
thie
Computer Anxiety
of
by Alisa Trepiccione
by Jeremy Powlus and Marli Steinrucl(
Serving up Elegance
40
by Lisa Stocldnal
Digging Up the Past
by Kama Timbrell
behind the lines
an
message
editorial
Dear Readers,
The
staff sincerely apologizes,
to pick with
bone
you
but I'm afraid we have
As you peruse
in this issue.
We
a
this
are
Bloomsburg,
also
is
pleased
magazine, you will undoubtedly notice a variety of stories
staff visited area
dealing with bones, from their mystical and past uses, their
ism students to submit
use in
art,
to
bone remnants from the war
Our Bosnia
centerspread
tells
country shattered by war. The
photojournalist Jim Craig
The second
who
first
in Bosnia.
a compelling story
story
is
a feature
part of the centerspread
real story
of
a
about
spent two years in Bosnia.
is
a
young boy's
the war- torn city of Sarajevo, complete with his
The
a
of the war in Bosnia
is
own
the people there, and
that is what we have attempted to capture with this series.
While some of the photos and text are heart-wrenching,
unfortunately they are an accurate account of a country and
its
people devastated by war.
announce
Pamela Davis,
that
last
December and
articles to us.
For her winning entry about
in the Peace Corps,
Pamela received
of Professional Journalists, and the opportunity
cle
to
have her
arti-
showcased in our "Student Spotlight."
As
usual, the
Our production
magazine continues
to
undergo design changes.
staff worked this semester to give the
magazine a
more polished and professional appearance. We are also able to
feature more color than ever, thanks to a solid job by the adverfising staff
We
are pleased to present
you with one of our
Relax and enjoy, and learn everything there
is
finest issues to
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know about
calcium, dogs, archaeology, dice, and back pain— and that's just the
bare bones.
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Our
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date.
The "bone" theme, as well as the tip about the Bosnia
story, was suggested by Espy resident Rosemary Brasch.
high schools
Bloomsburg man serving
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pictures.
to
the winner of our Student Spotlight contest.
9
Spring '96
Appetizers
Cal-culated Health
year, 20 million people
Each
from the painful effects of osteoporo-
suffer
Calcium can
sis.
bone weakening
people
let
who
disease.
"I'm lucky
I
from
find
calcium
Tricia
says
needs,"
mothers
also needs to keep a constant
supply of calcium
because
assists
it
blood,
calcium
body
the
takes
from
it
the.
on
in
life,"
up
«, build
tible
she says.
increases the risk
now recom-
supply,
their
says
are usually
the best source of calcium, but tofu, broclater adult years.
bones begin to break
A low calcium level
or four
daily.
Graff Dairy products
down. "The more bone mass you build by
intaking
calcium, the better off you are
later
1,200 milligrams,
1,500 milligrams per day in order to
you loose more calci- than what is being consumed, says
result,
is
that 18 to 24-year-olds get 1,200 to
After age 30,
Graff As a
Allowance
Daily
for pregnant or breast-feeding
calcium per day. Researchers
mend
bones, thus weakening them.
um
be taken from
her
years
drop in the
levels
will
it
The RDA for the average adult 25
and older is 800 milligrams of
in
contraction and relaxation of muscles
says. If
low
reducing
of dairy foods,
servings
transmission of nerve impulses, and in
Graff
is
Recommended
(RDA)
dietitian at
"Your blood
level
bones,
Graff,
Bloomsburg University.
Calcium builds and fortifies bones.
pulled
bone mass
and weakening her bones." The
her
meet
takes to
it
is
the mother," she says, "If a mother's
calcium
drink one glass of milk a day,
alone the four glasses
their
if
"Whatever the baby needs
intake.
prevent this
easily
pay special attention to their calcium
also
Older adults can be suscep-
coli, kale,
not only to osteoporosis, but also to
all
TUMS
antacid
chronic conditions such as colon cancer and
tablets
high blood pressure. But,
pensive alternative to food because,
it is
never too
late
to begin taking calcium, says Graff
of
turnip greens, seeds, and nuts are
calcium-fortified foods.
calcium
Expectant and nursing mothers should
several detrimental health conditions in the
with calcium carbonate are an inex-
is
better than
"Some
no calcium,"
says
Graff
-Danielle Harris
Bad
to the
Advertisements
Bone
tell
consumers to keep
clean and healthy with dog biscuits.
Meaty Bones, which has three
their dog's teeth
Meaty Bone, made by
Heinz Pet Products, and Milkbones, made
by Nabisco, claim
to
remove
tartar
on
Milkbones
medium
are
biscuits
he
says.
also notes, "anything
upon
is
the
amount of
these biscuits
do have
"You have
calories in them," says
(39 calories);
Feeding dogs biscuits
calories they contain.
increase weight," says Leighow.
50
pounds.
and
large (118).
An
average
flour,
soybean
include vitamin supplements.
with some dog biscuits that veterinarians
pretty good, but others are packed with calories
over
Meaty Bones also
contain wheat and meat by-products. Both biscuits
with scraping action will help out."
agree
calories
meal, and meat and bone meal.
can "aid in tartar removal," says Dr. Jean
One problem
113
also has three sizes: small (20 calories);
Milkbones contains primarily
However, some dog
Cunningham, Bloomsburg, who
contain 35 calories
Cunningham.
removal by dog biscuit manufacturers
"negligible,"
sizes,
pounds, 70 calories up to 50
50 pound dog should consume about 1,000 calories a day, says
bacteria," says
Dr. George Leighow, Danville. The claims of
tartar
to 25
and
pounds,
and plaque.
However, some veterinarians disagree with
these statements. "It depends
up
for dogs
"Some
and tend
are
is
to remember that
Cunningham, who
real bones,
Leighow, because
real
removal or
dogs.
adds that as an alternative, "there are some low-calorie biscuits."
them
irritation to the intestinal track," according to
bones "don't digest
Whether dog owners
to
better than giving
which can "cause
as treats,
it is
While dogs may
at all."
use the biscuits for tartar and plaque
important to observe the
like the biscuits,
some
are,
effects
their
than candy," says Leighow.
-Kama
Illustrations
Spectrum
on
"nothing more
o
Spring' 96
Timbrell
by Mike Altman
Appetizers
Cutting Teeth
smell of
The hunt,
and
A
the salt water, the thrill of
the
the longing for
home
are
few of the elements that inspired
a
a
little known genre of art that represents
bygone era of American craftsmanship.
Scrimshaw
patterns
teeth
and bone
that helped
pass the time of lonely whale hunters.
medium of
whale teeth were the
most
ed
who
sailors,
Sperm
choice for
on
The art
is
and
industry,
unique in
Add
itself
to
romance and purity of this truly
American art form, and scrimshaw suddenly
on
more profound meaning. The
reflect the numerous influences and
carvings
a
perspectives of the individual sailors, each
using his
own
of life
Although mostly noted for
its
aesthetic
rec-
ognized by the horn-shaped tooth and the
Useful tools such as
craft
hunting expeditions.
on
carved
To
the ivory.
ink
carving,
is
usually
most commonly
themes,
nautical
value
salad
ships,
ulas
then^^4\\
dominoes,
impressions perma-
violin
The tooth or
nently
colored.
bone
then polished to a
is
bril-
unusual
its
elements and characteristics, also holds a
unique place
American
in
history.
This
almost completely indigenous American
art
form hasn't been commercially marketed
until fairly recently. Ship records
from the
1800s indicate that although scrimshaw was
quite popular, especially
nities, there
trade
around
sea
commu-
was no mention of the
of the
sale
or
a
and
keys— were also
era
is
gone,
reminder and testament of the American
sailor
and
is
alive
today in a handful of
of
collectors
Today, scrimshaw
this
unique
artists
folk-art.
practiced with whale
is
or walrus ivory, wood, and even acrylic.
The
sailor's jack knife
an X-acto knife.
And
has been replaced by
to get started,
only needs to order a scrimshaw
of harvesting
a
bony
ribs in the
make
buggy whips, and
ribs,
mouths of most
corsets,
umbrella
hoops
until the
skirt
early 1900s.
The American whaling industry peaked
its decline began when the
automobile replaced horse-drawn
carriages,
and spring
women's
steel
replaced bones in
clothing. Today, horse-drawn carriages are
practically extinct in America,
certain religions,
of choice in
and
corsets.
plastic
is
kit instead
except in
the material
This makes the corsets
more durable
lighter,
and,
according to
Karen Acornley, Eudora's Corset Shop,
Bloomsburg, a lot less dangerous because, "I
imagine that the bones could be very sharp
when
they broke."
-Jen Boscia
The not-so-funny bone
When
you make
a
sudden turn while
happen to be at
wrong place at the wrong dme when a
door opens, you've probably experienced
sitting at a desk, or
the
the pain of hitting your "funny bone."
one
mighty whale.
Considering American
art.
carved
dice, jewelry,
Although the
from
aside
Baleen, the
whales, was used to
its
natural beauty.
its
made from the mammoth marrow.
liant shine, ready for display.
Scrimshaw,
were
tems — including
wiped away, leaving
the
pie
from bone. Fanciful
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tongs,
crimps, and spat-
contrast the
is
spread over theU|/[f
carvings
whale
deep-sea
once more revered for
usefulness than for
in the 1850s, but
at sea.
—John F. Kennedy was an avid collector-scrimshaw also had a practical side.
this
The whale was
technique and subject matter
to reveal a glipse
"Whale" of Uses
that
that the
practiced and perfect-
first
unique
accomplishment
takes
the carving of intricate
is
on whale
a
commercialization
"Funny bone"
is
the phrase used
by both
children and adults to explain the elbow's
unusual susceptibility to a stinging pain
-Chris Krepich
it
when
bangs into a hard surface. The area
falls
between the radius and ulna bones of the
All
Bones About
Whether
lower arm and the himierous bone of the
It
upper arm. This area of the elbow received
nickname because when
dog bone,
a
a
trombone,
"soaked to the bone," but without water a
"dry as a bone." Unusually thin
or a taiibone, "bones" in their
field
many forms and
people are often referred to as "skin and
functions are a
bonafide part of language.
When
down
is
as
bones," while their larger counterparts are
thing,
it
its
bangs into some-
an uncomfortable "pins and needles"
sensation results, often giving
sensation; hence, the
tickling
is
off" a
tickling
name "ftinny bone." This
soon replaced by pain, however. The
to the bare bones,
termed "big boned." Some people become
area
according to the Oxford English Dictionary,
"old bones" after "working their fingers to
near the
the bone."
bone" became a pun.
Although the word "bonfire" does not
have any form of "bone" in its spelling, it
The pain comes from the ulna nerve.
The muscles that protect this nerve are not
In the 19th century, bones
present where the nerve crosses the elbow
bone
getting
originally
meant "long bone" and
may have connections with the modern
German word beinn meaning straight.
Not only do bones unite to make up
the skeleton
in
of a body, they
many common
"bone
is
found
a
bone
to
pick with
having a matter to dispute,
to pick"
is
is
significant.
were regularly collected and burned
(bon in french)
phrases.
While "having
someone"
are also
a
something to occupy time.
After a rainstorm, a person could be
fires,
now
at
good
called bonfires.
Make no bones about it, bones are an
of the human body as well as
was
also
tip
named
because
its
location
is
of the himierous bone, so "fimny
just
beneath the skin. So when
hit,
the nerve sends a pain signal to the
brain,
this area
is
sending back an "ouch!" message
arm
move away
intregal part
telling
language; without jawbones, there wouldn't
Despite the involuntary action, though, the
be any verbal expressions.
tingling pain
-Joy Mushacke
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the
still
to
quickly.
lingers for a few seconds.
—Alisa Trepiccione
Business
The debate surrounding the best
care for back pain continues
by Joy Mushacice
n
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fter
a car accident in 1991,
an orthopedic surgeon told Christine
Everitt,
would have
22, East Stroudsburg, that she
to
learn to live with her back pain; he said there
how
tion, techniques used
Everitt suffered
back pain on
a daily basis.
recommendation from
a
friend,
are in preventing
Bloomsburg,
by
different health care
vary.
Dr. David
doing exercises prescribed for her condition,
After a
may
providers
was nothing he could do.
Wearing a supportive back brace and
methods
effective the
pain and reinjury. Depending on the condi-
Ball,
J.
orthopedic surgeon,
comprehensive
provides
back care ranging from conservative
treatments
anti-inflammatory
like
physical
X-rays,
therapy,
pills.
and MRIs
to
Everitt decided to seek out chiropractic care.
epidural injections and surgery. Ball treats
The chiropractor prescribed more
common
in
addition
Everitt's
to
office
When
condition worsened to include ten-
donitis in her right
arm and
exercises
treatments.
arm and then her
left
shoulder, she was referred to a
physiatrist for
muscle rehabilitation.
For awhile she says she
felt like a
When
new
was scared to go back to an orthope-
"I
says.
Although she
scoliosis, (spine curvature)
of what he told me," she
is
arthritis,
and lumbar
rediculopathy (disturbance in the nerves
of the low back that
see
hoping to avoid more
back patients
the
affects
legs).
because they require
at all
very specific care, says
the pain returned, she
returned to the chiropractor's office.
dic surgeon because
of degenerative
However, some orthopedic surgeons do not
person, until she was rear-ended in another
car accident.
cases
herniated disks, sciatica, lumbar strains,
Chiropractic
Ball.
employs different
care
techniques to match patient needs, according
to
Dr.
Russell
Hoch, Bloomsburg. The
method can
headaches, numbness of
chiropractic
alleviate
neck pain,
the hands and
feet,
rehabilitation treatments, Everitt thinks they
general back pain, sciatica, herniated disks,
were the most
degenerative problems, and arthritis,
thing,
effective. "I
have
and nothing works," she
tried every-
says.
Everitt's story isn't unusual.
Whether
because of an accident, the result of aging,
or the
symptoms of a
birth defect, millions
Constituting
the
many
patients in search
problems.
of back pain, and most are in search of the
community choose
method
for alleviating
it.
Types of
care for such pain are growing along with
the
ing
it is
number of people requiring and receivit. With such a selection to choose from
important to
know what
each does and
percent
largest
of
alternative health care, chiropractors attract
of people world wide suffer from some kind
perfect
among
other ailments.
looking
"Multiple
for
other
us
of
relief for their
factions
of
the
because
they
are
alternatives
to
taking
drugs or surgery," says Hoch. The questionability
of surgical procedures
is
also a factor
in care provider choice, as well as the "safer
attitude
of chiropractors,"
Spectrum
says
Spring '96
Hoch.
There are
a lot
accepting then
Any
TV shows
of anti-chiropractic
on, but overall the attitude
it
much more
is
used to be," says Hoch.
treatment regarding the spine has
However, the multifaceted chiropractic
risks.
exam taken from both an anatomical and
mechanical standpoint can determine the
Many
source and the cause of pain.
cases
require spinal manipulation, such as the
Thompson and
niques.
flexion
important to
It is
distraction
tech-
assess the patient's
conditions to decide the best technique for
correcting the problem, says Hoch. "The
treatment
is
not a cure but
right,
a healing proce-
body doesn't
dure," he says, "if the
heal
won't cure."
it
Often orthopedic surgeons or chiropractors
will
refer
patients
therapists. In Pennsylvania, a
be referred by
therapist.
a
physical
to
person must
physician to see a physical
Their
alternate
level
requires an in-depth look into the
and possible causes
and
their
of care
problem
related to individuals
lifestyles.
According
Welk, physical therapist
at
Fran
to
Susquehanna
Physical Therapy Associates, Bloomsburg,
However, there are advantages and disadvantages to each, (chiropractors
and orthopedic
Trust
in
chiropractic
always been as popular as
it is
care
has
not
today. "Fewer
people are skeptical of chiropractics today.
surgeons) he adds.
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two
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"The competition
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and physical
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As with
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"A segment
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and
a
segment uses the
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model
type,"
Welk
"The treatment
not a cure
but a healing
procedure."
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spasms, and radiating body pain, patients
St.
The
says.
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ance.
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says.
Main
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because
Common
cases
pists
ical
of health care reform," he
itation,
more
mechanically
try to
the
in
treatment plan and
are
treat-
There are professional turf batdes
modalities
physical
merging in
are
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The average
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ropractor
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patients if
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$85, while a trip to the chi-
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about $50,
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Nationally
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ROWlN<
by Lisa Stociimai
«l
ATURAL" HAS BECOME THE WAVE
stems,
and
many
leaves because they were getting
Ground
whose wife owns
Green Creek
Farms,
of the 1990s. From food and beverages with
too
no
water was contaminated. These were serious
leaves
problems that influenced some major farm-
potassium are beneficial to root develop-
preservatives, to soaps
and
toilet
paper
with no dyes, inks, or perflimes, the trend
all
around
us.
But
this revolution
olutionary for everyone. For
going
been
natural-in
a reviving
Damaging
their
not
is
some
is
rev-
farmers,
for decades.
effects
to
soil
and plants
and chemical
fertilizers
this return to the "old
pesticides sparked
ways" of farming.
It
in the 1970s
and 1980s.
Just
harm
connected with the overuse of synthetic
method
ers to try the organic
organic-has
case,
method
nutrients too quickly.
ic
and surface
ment and growth
health.
how much
synthetic
ones benefit
it,
is
debatable.
need to add nutrients to the
are
already
Mitchell, general
and
Edelman.
The numbers on
fertilizers
how much
Phosphorus and
as well as heartiness
disease control, says
the environment, or
nutrients
Orangeville. Nitrogen maintains a plant's
the bags of fertilizer
organ-
(10-10-10) represent the percentage of each
"You don't
element per unit of fertilizer, 10 representing
soil if
those
10 pounds of nutrient per 100 pounds of
says
Terry
fertilizer.
there,"
manager of the Log
Bam
the
Usually, the highest percentage of
mixed elements adds up
to a total
of 40
percent. Theoretically, there could be a pure
with
fertilizer
all
combining
the elements
would
to 100 percent, but then plants
too
much of
must be diluted with
nutrients
get
the nutrients at once. "The
a filler like
sawdust or ground corn cobs so that the
don't
plants
get
burned,"
says
Bob
Eshleman of Eshleman's Nursery, Bloomsburg.
One of the
purpose
benefits
of buying
a multi-
fertilizer is that all three essential
nutrients are in one convenient package.
They
are also easy to use.
Inorganic
because
fertilizers,
they
don't contain extra biological matter like
the organic fertilizers do,
unit of
have
amount of pure
analysis, or
fertilizer, says
is
in
the
and
microflora, says
its
fertilizers,
form of potassium
chloride, a salt that could cause
soil
higher
Eshleman.
However, in some synthetic
potassium
a
nutrients per
harm
to the
Dave Hartman,
extension agent for Penn State Cooperative,
started in industrial
Nebraska,
farmers
Wisconsin,
experienced
The remaining
pact that
surface.
farmmg
soil
states
of Iowa,
soil
erosion.
was so hard and com-
water would just puddle
Plants
There are three main nutrients that
and Idaho, where
major
on
the
developed burned roots.
Columbia County. He adds, though, that
researchers say the amount of salt in these
Nursery, Bloomsburg.
plants need to
rus,
grow well— nitrogen, phospho-
and potassium. "That's what the num-
bers (like 10-10-10) represent
synthetic
fertilizer,"
Spectrum
says
®
on
the bags of
Adam
Spring '96
Edelman,
products
is
"too miniscule to be a prob-
lem." However, synthetic fertilizers tend to
dry
soil out.
This
fertilizers.
is
one advantage
The organic
of organic
material they contain
DILEMMA
>
and so the application of
absorbant,
is
grinding fresh bones.
same
moister. These qualities allow the microflora
are first boiled in
to
flourish,
and reduce erosion. They
also
eliminate the problem of burn-damage in
by inorganic
plants caused
and
materials,
fertilizers,
is
an organic
fertilizer
Bone meal
derived from the
the
from animals processed
for
the
kettle.
powder form and has
a
The
is
third
sold in
and have from 12
are slightly alkaline,
amount of animal matter
left
on
the
0,
Raw bone meal
is
slower acting and
Bone
when mixed with the soil
young plants, and
in slaughter houses, but they can also be
meal
in
and
restaurants.
seedlings because of its benefits to roots
Bone meal comes in three forms.
is made by drying and
its ability to ward off disease. However,
bone meal has no potassium, and very little
is
excellent
meal grade
is
levels are
4-12-
lower
today because slaughter houses are more
efficient.
Manure
is
good source of
a
also has smaller
nitrogen.
amounts of other
including zinc, potassium, sulpher, and phos-
phorus,
is
Hartman
says.
He
adds that manure
probably the best organic
fertilizer.
bulbs,
and
the organic fertilizers
are
as
effective
"Entire
ic
fertilizers
result
is
and chemical
a smaller yield,
pesticides.
who
choose the organic method.
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longer lasting than the steamed form.
planting
A typical bone
although the phosphorus
bones during processing.
obtained from municipal dumps, hotels,
Green bone meal
nitrogen.
milder smell
30 percent phosphorus, depending on
are
meat
is
than the others. All three forms of bone
to
bones of animals. The bones usually
leftovers
a white
though, are more
specialized in their application.
an open
steamed bone meal, which
is
meal
prevent the run-off of nutrients.
Organic
type
as
Raw bone meal
green bone meal except that bones
organic fertilizers makes the soil softer and
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of the appeal for the organic method
paign.
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"Organic
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says.
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he
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are
expensive.
less
longer because they
but they cost a
lot
more,"
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like
coating that
is
water
soluble,
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MAiNSTREET
fertilizers to
have slow release similar to their
organic counterparts, another advantage over
Davis
believes,
in the
and herbicides
especially
on
and
really
however, that
fertilizers
are generally used too
He
lawns.
tries to
soil,
nitrate because
it
pure source of nitrogen, with a grade of
a
is
form of ammonium
He
33-0-0.
says,
phorus to the
"Why
soil
add pot ash or phos-
when
it's
already there?"
Mitchell admits, however, that "if I had
I
choice, and money was not an obstacle,
would go organic because it's natural." The
synthetic fertilizers are usually
like the
ammonium
know what
much,
keep his use to
elements have on
he adds. Mitchell uses
manure when he has
enough of it
compounds,
and you never
nitrate,
effect the extra
the environment,
it,
but there
never
is
to get the job done.
At Hock's Hidden Heights Nursery,
Bloomsburg, Dana Hock
much
tries
to
organic fertilizer as possible.
use as
He
uses
mainly a sawdust and manure compost, but
ganic
amount of slow-releasing
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only needs nitrogen added. Mitchell adds
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best way.
compromise
is
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uses a synthetic fertiUzer with a
grade of 10-6-4 that
is
55 percent organic.
He
claims that pure organic fertilizers don't stop
the weeds,
and then herbicides are needed.
The mixture of organic and inorganic
the weeds, yet
is
naturally slow-acting.
and "the nitrogen doesn't
longer,
pear with the
he
first rainfall,"
stops
It lasts
all
disap-
says.
James H. Christ of Christ's Nursery,
Bloomsburg,
compromises the two
also
because, "you can't
buy organic
fertilizer
with the right consistency to get the job
done
right."
He
mixes slow-releasing inor-
ganic fertilizer in to get good color and
more buds on
No
his shrubs.
matter what
eration
is
fertilizer
is
used,
mod-
the key to protecting plants and
the surrounding environment. Plants thrive
on nitrogen, and they don't
get
it.
"Nitrogen
is
care
where they
nitrogen to a plant,
whether in the form of manure, or some-
Hartman
thing synthetic," says Hartman. But too
much
level
nitrogen in any form will raise the Ph
of the
soil
and increase
its
acidity.
Eshleman says that "a true organic farmer
would argue that organic fertilizers result in
less
pollution to the environment, but used
in moderation, everything has
it's
place."
believes that synthetic fertil-
fertilizers
"We
about the
effects
the microbi-
the
still
claims about
gardeners
izers are unfairly getting a
may
not
the
disadvantages
bad name.
know enough about
ology of the soil to make any
inorganic
dangers
or
fertilizers,"
he
of using
soil
between
cannot be resolved with questions
of inorganic
unanswered.
must
decide
following
The debate over organic and inorganic
the easier
way-and
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for
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says.
fertilizers
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for ail trades
Bones once served as the tools
A BONE TO PICK WITH
by Alisa Trepiccione
N THE
PAST,
"jacks
of
ancient
bone
given
such
Other bones,
body was
be for
as a caribou," she adds.
Every
cultures.
like skulls,
were often used in prayer to
use,
special
it
broken when butchering an animal
for
trades"
all
in the
a
whether
BONES SERVED AS THE
forth prey such as
call
carv-
Human
buffalo.
bones
of any kind were often
ing meat, decorating a
necklace, or savoring
kept as a source of
soup.
powerful magic.
The
and
folklore
In other cultures,
ancient use of bones
100
B.C.
dates
to
The
strength
nature of both
them many
showing
human
uses.
of
ally
or the everyday needs of a
when preparing food
to hunt, they
the Plains Indians
after
a
would go
would use the whole animal,"
Millville, whose
Madeline Foshay,
says
grandmother
great
Cherokee. "Bones were used to make
things,
such
as
arrowheads,
many
spearheads,
and scrapers," she says.
American Indians incorporated bones
needles, pins, awls,
part of their everyday
as
frequently
tied
were made into
rattles,
life.
with
together
muscle strands, to make
Ribs were
sinew,
sleds. Shell
or
bones
and smaller bones
and claws were often made into jewelry,
ornaments, and dice in games of chance.
"Bone tools were the mainstay of
prehistoric
Wymer,
at
cultures,"
says
associate professor
Bloomsburg University.
ied
the
Dr.
of past
Dee Anne
of anthropology
Wymer
has stud-
sites
that hold
civilizations.
She has
bones from archeological
history
found bones from the Hopewell time period
(100 B.C.-400 A.D.), and
during excavations
some of the
earliest
in
the
In
930s.
1
bones found included
elk,
and
on public
deer, turkey, turtle,
mammal
similar to an elephant, in
Ohio
in
1990
showed how American
handled
the
butchering
of the
tools were used to butcher
the mastodon, since
the joints," says
we found cut marks
Wymer, who
in
discovered
of the mastodon bundled up and
placed in the ground for meat storage.
Many
in
humans were
their heads
were kept
There was even a sacred
of
city
capital
the
saw spiritual
civilizations
ized the respect for animals that
tures had, as seen
when food was
to a slain animal's
body
"There are also
molded
He
many
cul-
"offered"
as respect to the
the spirits of animals, says Foshay. "If a seal
a
drink
of water. Also, no bone was allowed to be
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life-like,"
to
says
this
and
make them
Minderhout.
was part of
a
which they could "talk" to their
ancestors who would "help" them. "This
ritual in
was done by the Manus culture of
New
The bones of children were
frequently
robbed from their graves by sorcerers in
Haiti, who used them as part of their magic
potions. "It was a
a
psychological
says
was offered
handful of cultures
on them
emphasizes that
careful not to offend
killed," she says, "it
clay faces
appear more
signif-
"creator."
The Eskimos were
a
that kept the skulls of their ancestors
Guinea," he adds.
icance in bones. Their treatment symbol-
was
rack
skull
Wymer's discovery of a mastodon, an
parts
display.
region,
and
Tenochtitlan.
fish.
mammal. "Stone
Aztec
the
sacrificed to gods,
extinct
Indians
Bloomsburg
at
University.
(Courtesy of BU Anthropology Department)
full-blooded
a
is
skull as a trophy,
anthropology professor
A Shaman's Mask (native priest)
found in a burial mound in Oliio
American Indians commonly
"When
and
the head
tive clothing.
hunt.
a
according to Dr. David Minderhout,
everything from basic meals to decora
Early
someone from
kill
neighboring tribe and collect
society for survival. This included
used bones
impor-
New Guinea head-
tance.
One
bones,
dieir
hunters would tradition-
gives
the earliest uses was efficiency,
human
with
and
and animal bones
were employed
rituals
way
for sorcerers to gain
advantage over people,"
Minderhout.
Bones
also
had
a role in cultural super-
According to Delaware folk medipeople believed that if someone burns
stition.
cine,
the bones of an animal, then that person's
bones
will
One
ache.
story said
tliat
the
bones of a snake are poisonous and must be
buried so that they are not stepped on.
Another
such
tale
discussed
bones,
"special"
"knowledge bone," which could
as the
cure a child with sore gums.
In the Pennsylvania
is
German
said that hitting one's "flinny
as painfiil as the
hung
from losing
Though
in a
their
barn
unborn
will prevent
calves.
Steaks
Chicken
these superstitions are primarily
show
untrue, they
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death of a male spouse, and
that a dog's skull
cattle
culture,
bone" can be
that bones
still
had
signifi-
cance well into the early 20th century. The
tales
the
and other
modern
skeletal
historical records
civilization
have given
an idea of
how
system was viewed by different
Although
anthropologists
uncovered a
there are
bone use
have
already
lot
of knowledge about bones,
many
questions regarding ancient
that
still
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unknown because the practice of leaving
graves undisturbed
most of the 15,000
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because
it
looked so
buy
a
a
Wedgwood
bone china
set
fragile for its extraordinary
expense, a sales associate will "take the plates and
smack them on the counter
says
to demonstrate their strength,"
Janah Lincoln, an associate of the Wedgwood company.
However, bone china is not a typical collector's item
because of
mon
as a
Collectibles,
wedding
Or
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Bloomsburg.
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more comgood set of
"It is
people want
a
buy bone china if they can afford it," she says,
adding, "Americans seem to be more into collecting
pottery, such as Rockwood, McCoy, or Roseville."
Kalison tries to get her bone china at flea markets and
china, they'll
auctions where
it
isn't as
a dealer, which, "is the
sometimes must go through
most expensive way," she
sell
bone china by the place
setting,
which
bone china and porcelain
more musical sound
are also fired at
materials.
The
much
Pfaltzgraff place settings
it
setting.
go for between $85 and $175, but
bone china line next year because
stoneware is more popular and less expensive.
Bone china was developed in England at the end of the
plans to discontinue
its
one
18th century.
its
it is
likely to
the quality
on
so
it
contained
when
at least
the
and
and
at
would be much more
Kalison. A bone china
superior to pottery both in fine-
is
durability, manufacturers tend to
carat gold rims
uses
them.
on
all
put more expen-
For example, Pfaltzgraff puts 24
of their bone china
ox knuckle,
a strong
bone
up completely, allowing bone
that
plates,
is
and
difficult
flecks to be seen in
Unfortunately, for collectors of these beaudful items,
these are just a few
of the reasons that the cost of bone
china continues to soar.
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remain in one piece," says
Wedgwood
body of the porcelain was made
are pure white
more ver-
remarkably durable and strong. "If you were to
Because bone china
ness
50 percent calcined bone ash.
Bone china and porcelain
thinner and
it.
popular imported Chinese porcelain. The name "bone
china" developed
much
can even withstand the weight of someone standing
plate
Calcined bone (bone that has been convert-
match
is
They
higher temperatures than softer clay
same time, the bone china
the
ed by heat into an ash-like powder) was one of the ingredients the British experimented with to
slowly.
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the finished product.
charges the most for a place setting, $500.
more
However, bone china has an advantage over porcelain
since
to grind
prices are the highest, beginning at $99 for
more
satile for design.
includes a dinner plate, a salad/dessert plate, a bread and
Wedgwood
that fades
bonds, causing the china to be
butter plate, and a teacup and saucer.
Lenox's starting
are also
intense heat fuses the material with stronger
sive materials into
says.
Three American companies— Lenox, Wedgwood, and
Pfaltzgraff— all
a richer,
expensive. Dealing mainly in
collector's plates, however, she
struck,
resonant then other types of china. The sound produced
expense, says Sondra Kalison, owner of
its
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INTENSE FIRE IN MOSTAR,
UNDER
photojournalist Jim
West
Craig,
Milton, remembers loud explosions
going off around him, followed by
screams.
direction of the screams
body
my
hurt,
a boy's
was running so hard
"I
whole
hurt from pounding the
feet
ground so hard," he
Craig
recollects.
went to Bosnia around
first
He
Thanksgiving time in 1992.
planned to go to Sarajevo
originally
few
just for a
some compelling photos
days, shoot
the
in
my
that
for his
and return home. Those few days
portfolio,
turned into almost a week
when
the
war
shut the airport down. "I was scared just
about the whole time," he
On
met Zeljka Vojinovic, who
I
knew
that
I
had
Craig
became
later
meeting
"After
translator.
family,
says.
his last night in Sarajevo,
his
and her
her
to return," he says.
He went back to Sarajevo after Christmas.
He stayed there about 24 months over
the next three years. Craig entered Sarajevo
as a sports
photographer looking to branch
out into other areas of photojournalism,
and
winner
a
as
left
he took of
staff
his
a casuality
own
worked
Mlady
was a
Images,
weekly Czech publicafion
a
(Young World) and
svet,
photo
and, with
company Action
private
for
UNICEF
a
He
of the war.
photographer for
Czech
of the
Photographer of the Year honor for
Newspaper Die
a
German
Zeit, recording the devasta-
don of the war with
his camera.
Craig was a neutral party in Bosnia, so
he could go
to
about anywhere.
just
"On
all
met with people who were pleasant
me, and I got to know many of them on
sides
I
a personal level,"
he
says.
There were four
main armies—The Bosnian Serb Army
(BSA),
Army
the
Herzegovina
Croat
Army
BH),
Army (HVO), and
(HV).
HVO,"
occasions
I
the
the
Bosnian
Croatian
found most of the armies
"I
fairly easy to deal with,
of the
of Bosnia-
Republic
(Armija
he
says.
with the exception
"On
a
number of
was arrested for the sole purpose
of finding out what
my
personal views
on
the war were," he remembers.
Sarajevo itself
Craig,
who met
is
very integrated, says
Serbs, Croats,
Muslims, and
Jews, but the Jewish population was in the
minority. Prior to World
lation of Sarajevo
Jewish.
Most of
War
II,
the popu-
was almost 25 percent
the Jews were
slaughtered
Adorned with an army patch, a
Sarejavian boy digs through garbage
in search of something to play with.
by the pro-Nazi Croats. At the beginning of
this most recent war, leaders from the Jewish
community
negotiated with the
warring
parties to allow the
Jews trapped in Sarajevo
to leave, Craig says.
The Holocaust and
recent exodus has
this
Sarajevo with a Jewish
left
population of fewer than 50 families.
All these people, despite their differ-
common
ences, shared a
of bewil-
feeling
derment about the war. "Their war-ravaged
country was once so beautiful, and they
how
can't understand
so
it
much, or why," Craig
Many of the
says.
would
Sarajevans thought the United States
come and
Craig
and
save them,
made
this belief
he knew
sad because
just
could have changed
probably
it
wouldn't happen.
Craig had a few close
in Sarajevo.
On
while he was
calls
January 27, 1993, —he will
always remember the date— a shell hit his
apartment building and
from
glass
window caused minor
tered
a shat-
injuries to his
right arm.
"The one that
happened about
later
when
a
me
in
ricocheted off a bridge and hit
bullet
the chest.
but
shook me up
really
month
a
I
was wearing a bullet-proof vest,
was ripped apart and the force broke
it
one of
my
he
ribs,"
says.
Craig had only
planned to stay for three months on that
trip, and after the "sniper incident," he was
having trouble concentrating on his work.
"In early
March
I
Bosnia with no plans
left
to return," he says.
However, in the summer of that
Craig was watching
girl
CNN.
There was
year,
a litde
from Sarajevo who had been out
walk-
ing with her mother, and they were hit with
from an exploding
shrapnel
mother was
spinal
killed,
wound
and the
Her
meningitis," Craig says.
save her.
He
of
Craig's,
to
Edo
doctor,
needed to get her out of the
"Edo went on
appeal
a
was trying to
but there were no planes
city,
"The
shell.
Erma, had
had developed into
that
Jaganjac, a friend
girl,
CNN
to
make
a
available.
worldwide
any government which could
offer assistance in getting her out," Craig
says.
The
the
government
British
responded and sent
a
city.
"With the plea
for
began to think about
still
finally
plane to help her leave
in Sarajevo.
Erma on CNN,
my
Some of them
the option of leaving like
I
did not have
did,
and
A woman takes cover
an
I
friends that were
I
had
during
one of
Sarejavo's mosques.
artillery attack at
man
foot of a Muslim
on a
hit
street, the result of
lies
a direct
from a Bosnian-Croat rocket.
no way
and check how they were
to call
doing," Craig says. All this motivated
him
year, a
few days before Christmas,
while he was working for
UNICEF, he was
stuck in Sarajevo because of problems at the
airport.
While
he went to Kosovo
there,
litde girl while the
looking
a
happy
so
my
and
just to
his boss that the girl didn't
arm
it
tery,"
was cut off most of the time.
lights
were run by a car bat-
was one generator to supply energy for the
whole
to put the bear in.
tures that
hospital, but
was only turned on
it
during emergencies or for surgery."
On
that day,
UNICEF
teddy bears to the kids
at
"There was one litde
I
girl
the
hospital.
saw holding
teddy bear with her right hand.
Her
a
left
arm had been amputated
at
Craig
Craig says that
says.
In spite of
this,
the elbow,"
ing that bear
up and she looked happy.
UNICEF
suggested that
I
my
"I
boss from
put the bear in her
have another
"Sometimes the
picI
at
another hospital in Sarajevo covering
a
after
number of
story about the
There had been
a
babies being
record
17
the
on the day he went there
had been none. While waiting, a car pulled
up in front of the hospital. "They don't
previous day, but
have
official
ambulances for the hospitals
there, so this car
wounded
"I
was an ambulance with
just
The
I
I
ran out to get the child," he
driver
coming out. "They laid the
and would not let me back
just
a table,
in— they said
was a bad time.
it
of the car carried one boy
When
he
later told his
in Zagreb about the
Craig
to get
seemed
he says.
"My
and
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told
it
was appro-
way
for the organization,"
me
to just take the
Craig says. Afterwards, she
appropriate,"
him away
to "recover," thinking he
had been traumatized by the
event.
In Mostar, where Craig was sent to
"recover," there was a
in her leg
who
refused to
critical
let
little girl
with cancer
desperately needed to get to
The Bosnian Croat Army
her out of the city despite her
condition. Gerry
the head of office for the
Hume, who was
UN High Comm-
issioner for Refugees in Mostar, thought
HVO
that the
boy up and handed him
He
she asked why,
her decide which ones were
appeal was made.
the
boss
she asked
too vulturous a
boss told
let
there was another in the car. Craig picked
whole
when
like
more money
pictures,
sent
UNICEF
incident,
he said that he didn't think
for the picture," Craig says.
Craig's
face with
he had gotten any pictures.
if
her that he didn't, and
into the hospital and then screamed that
moment changed
looked in
his little Levi's jacket," Craig says.
other arm, essentially under the stump, just
That
I
and saw them covering the boy's
a better hospital.
about any-
where in the hospital and help out where
adds.
a
child inside," Craig says.
was allowed to go
could, so
on
child
priate. "It
Kosovo, Craig was
she did not look traumatized. She was hold-
was taking her picture when
told
I'm most proud of are the ones
Not long
born.
was giving out
He
never took," he says.
Craig says, adding, "Sometimes there
who was
boss wants to exploit the situa-
tion." Craig didn't take the picture.
Serbs control the electricity that can get
into the city,
little girl
be getting a teddy bear,
Hospital to get some pictures. "Because the
Sometimes the
this
the back-
radio in
ground and thinking, "This poor
is
at
Cat Stevens song "Wild
World" played on
to return in July 1993.
That
He remembers
oudook.
would
let
her go if a public
"Gerry figured that he would write a
press release explaining the situation," Craig
says.
"I
was asked to take a picture to
accompany
the press release. I was really
nervous-my camera would possibly save
someone's life," he says. They never did
have to publish
Croats
let
though. The Bosnian
it,
her leave just from the threat of
being exposed to the world.
Shortly afterward, a local resident took
man had
Craig to a place where a
by
a rocket. All that
one foot laying
was
me
foot laying in the street
is
rence,
it
was
"The
in the street.
not particularly shake
just that
it
a
seem
says.
it,
more
artistic,
want-
way
as to
he adds.
Mostar was under intense
was
wasn't
I
more compelling, not
just a foot in the street,"
entire time Craig
occurreal. It
"I
but
ed to take the picture in such a
it
sight did
common
completely comfortable with
make
hit
up, not that a
didn't
was so inanimate," Craig
been
of the guy was
left
there.
shelling the
As he ran
he had heard the boy screaming
to
where
after
the
explosion, another shell went off close by.
Jim Craig's
(RIGHT)
first
picture talien in Bosnia.
UN firemen hose down
spilling
fuel
from the wing of a
French transport plane that
was
hit
with machine gun
fire.
(LEFT) No Man's Land
The bullet-riddled Croat side of
Mostar (West).
know
don't
"I
knocked
me
over, or
for cover, but
I
was
the
if
I
flat
my face with
on
wind knocked out of me," Craig
He
of
force
it
unconsciously dove
the
says.
up and went toward
finally got
where he heard the boy crying. Craig found
some
who had been killed
man he found was an
journalists there
by the
The
blast.
first
Italian journalist
with
shrapnel
a
the size of a golf ball that
head. Another had the fingers of
blown
third
off,
was
and
way
like the
his
hunched
a bear sits. "I
knocked unconscious, so
him
up," Craig says.
hit nearby,
ders
of
of
I
apart.
A
over, kind
of
thought he was
I
tried to
"When
another
wake
shell
grabbed the guy by the shoul-
him away, and one
The lower part of his
his coat to pull
his legs fell off
stomach
just
dropped out," he remembers.
Craig threw the dead
to a shelter
Inside
his
one hand
stomach ripped
sitting up,
wound
went through
was
man down and ran
where the boy had been taken.
their
woman named
translator,
a
wounded
Vesna. Craig carried her
up
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NINE YEARS OLD.
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REAL PICTURES. I USED TO LIVE IN
Sarajevo. Now I live in the Czech
Republic with my mother and sister.
I
My
father
was
beginning of the war in
killed in the
He was
Bosnia.
a soldier in the
three years ago, but
I
still
Bosnian Army. That was
think about
myself dream about him.
My
father
him
was
a lot.
make
on his
I
killed
way home from the front line. He telephoned my mother and said he would be home soon. I wanted to talk to
him on the phone, but my mother told me to wait until
he came to us. He was going to bring me a set of binoculars.
never saw
I
my
father again.
He
was shot in the
head by a machine gun.
Before
he
is
we
buried.
left
We
Sarajevo,
because of the snipers. Last
shoot
there
as
is
much and we
a big lion.
visited the cemetery
I
were not able to
The
visit for a
summer
the snipers didn't
were able to go. At the cemetery
lion
is
there to let everyone
that the people in the cemetery are brave.
been shot and broken a
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little,
"My mother and my
my
but he
is still
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sister
father's grave."
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moved away or have been killed.
When we left Sarajevo, we had to go through
of our
friends have
our army made.
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We
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fast
walking behind us and they were in a hurry.
me and my
sister,
she was too
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scared
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mother was not
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we had money
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left
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a small solar panel
light bulbs
a personal stereo.
Sabana Cruz,
Teachers Association
Parent
(PTA) to improve
Before traveling
in
Sabana Cruz was working with the
local
the
a
their schools.
He
acted as an advisor to the
community
m
the govern-
soliciting
money from
Wash-
Dominican
ment
for the
Washburn
underwent
burn
also traveled with the school's
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that the
be assigned.
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place a request for
contact
a
is
volunteer
made with
is
sent.
important part for our element of volunteer success
support," says
materials to build desks
is
involved in another large
a repre-
Because Sabana Cruz
"The most
part of the
move was
the loneliness,
Washburn
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and
fences,
money
that
was
later
and
commuput into
his
assignment,
community
in the
Washburn was
also
project with a nearby village.
middle of a
desert, the
only drink-
community was rain water, collected in "aljibes"
(al-HE-bays). Aljibes are made of a half side of corrugated zinc
roof with gutters made of zinc and PVC (poly vinyl chlorides) tubing water in the
community
Washburn.
The hardest
the
and bookcases.
Although not part of
application describing the needs of the
from the Peace Corps before
work with
paint the school, saving the
nity
community must
community must be completed, then
his
repair the latrines
where he would
the guidelines that the
Peace Corps stresses
of Education.
school, another organization helped
Washburn
spend the next two years.
One of
meal program.
president to deliver the grant proposal
months of intensive training
on language and including
sentative
and
Washburn was not
which allowed him three
to
focused
cultural
45 minutes from the
is
the
village
Republic,
It
though;
available.
are
educational aspect.
his
located in a
is
of the Dominican
Washburn's assignment while
Washburn was involved with
small
Washburn.
completely
Within the Peace Corps many
to
other Peace Corps vol-
running water.
share
to
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other
Republic, two hours from the Haiti
was
with people here.
different
with
contact
region
desert
a
my own cul-
nearest village with electricity
home
experiences
wasn't
were times when
Sabana Cruz
says.
American
share the
craved
unteers," says
of people around the world, to
bring
"It
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Americans,
The Peace Corps has three
main goals: to help improve the
lives
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really
important for personal
development," he
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Bloomsburg High School, his
dream was to join the Peace Corps.
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large
water runs
cement
down
and then into
ters
built,
The
cisterns.
increasing
Aljibes were
cisterns.
potable water
the
40,000 gallons in the two
The most important
burn acted mainly
as
by
villages.
part of this project
was the community involvement.
Wash-
an advisor to the two
community groups throughout
struction of the aljibes.
gifts," says
rain
the zinc roof into the gut-
con-
the
"We're not giving
Washburn. "We're giving
infor-
mation and technical knowledge on how
complete projects."
When Washburn
to
left
the Dominican Republic, plans were being
made for the construction of two hundred
aljibes
throughout the country.
Looking back, Washburn
believes that
he benefited from his experience in
ways.
many
"The experience helped expand
world view," he
differently
now,
says.
I
"I
have
perspective because of
look
at
my
things
a totally different
how my
time in the
Dominican Republic affected my life."
Though the Peace Corps will remain
an unforgettable part of his life, Washburn
knows that it is not for everyone. It is a
step that requires a tremendous amount of
forethought. "You don't really find out if
it's for you until you do it," he says, and
many
volunteers don't discover themselves
until they've started training.
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there ^« help.
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citizen
Canine
by Kerry A. Collins
dogs learning to behave themselves. "Dog problems are people problems," she
says.
Veterinarians are also pleased with the pro-
gram because it allows for easier handling of the
dog during examinations and hospitalization.
"The program tests an animal's sociability,"
says Dr.
John Shonis,
"It helps the
a
Danville veterinarian.
animal mingle better with other
animals as well as humans," he
RAINING A DOG TO BEHAVE IN PUBLIC
IS
sometimes the hardest thing for an owner to
do.
Walking through crowded
dogs to
may
and perhaps even stand
pull,
place, afraid
areas
in
one
training dogs to be well
A new
mannered
allows dogs to behave in public and not be
restricted
by strong obedience
Established
non-profit
organization,
being
around people.
The
them
events they
of
would encounter
mem-
settings,"
according to an Animal- Vues pamphlet.
Sherry Carpenter, Bloomsburg, columnist
for
in a public place.
stranger without showing signs of resentment
pets into contact with other pets
and small group
to
or shyness and not trying to break free from the
CGC "promotes safe animal and
in large
easier
a
handler behavior in stressful situations bringing
and humans
also
the tests include accepting a friendly
stranger
a variety
is
training involved for the dogs requires
owner. Other
of society.
"It
to be able to handle different sequences or
sored and approved by the American Kennel
bers
fear
their teeth," he says.
Canine Good Citizen Program (CGC), sponClub, helps dogs become well mannered
are less like-
from "white coat" syndrome, a
the
1985 by Animal- Vues,
in
educational
says.
CGC members
of doctors, says Shonis, and the dogs are used to
Some of
training.
that are
ly to suffer
examine
of what's around them.
This no longer has to be a problem.
way of
cause
Dogs
Dog World magazine, and promoter of the
leash,
may
tests
include sitting so a friendly
pet them, walking
on
a
loose
walking through a crowd without being
intimidated, and reacting politely around other
dogs.
Dogs who
receive
CGC
standing usually
more public places because
they aren't as aggressive. Dogs usually bred to be
protectors will not attack someone who comes
near the owner with friendly intentions. They
find themselves in
program, believes that owners need to learn
merely stand between the stranger and the owner
how
just to let
to handle their dogs in addition to the
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him
or her
know
that they're around.
Another aspect of
CGC
behave when the owner
someone
training
to teach the
is
around, or
isn't
if the
dog
dog how to
is
left
with
The dogs learn to sit with patience and wait for their
owners to return. They don't whine and bark while the owner is in
a store or is away for a period of time.
else.
CGC
humane
They can become
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of companion ani-
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areas of the University.
to get along with each other," she adds.
Currently, there are 500,000 dogs nationwide that have certificates for
The Foundation conducts
completing the program.
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protection will enjoy the new freedom they will have to bring the
With
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Bosnia
would bring them
expensive. Craig
and they would trade
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it
sugar,
for firewood. If he
Republic to petition the
fly out.
"But
UN
to let the kids
school year got closer
as the
would have
didn't come, they wouldn't eat. Coffee was
we
about 150 marks per kilo ($75 for two
through the tunnel that the Bosnian
a ladder to an ambulance. All this happened
while he was supposed to be relaxing and
pounds), a chocolate bar was about $8, a
had dug under the airport," he
recovering from his "trauma" in Sarajevo.
itarian aid provided barely
work
All this
for
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more
ten times
all
about
Europe
the pictures he took
as advertisements for the orga-
had to serve
It
costs
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to feed a child in
than in Africa, so
nization.
was not
was a competition for funding
where the most compelling pictures got the
most donations, and Craig was uncomfortable with that. "I
was encouraged to take
pictures mainly of blonde-haired, blue-eyed
bottle
physical
who donated most
of the funds, and "were more
money
likely to give
to kids that look like their neigh-
bors," Craig says. "This
was was the
reality
of working for some of the aid organizations in former Yugoslavia," he adds.
With
the assignment in
finished, Craig
Mostar almost
took a short break in Rome,
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Craig
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For the younger ones, the war didn't
to affect
them
known
Craig says. Kids in Sarajevo
as badly. In
cases
their
life.
was normal to them. The teenage boys
were worried mostly because they knew
they could soon be drafted. Craig thinks
who were
was the older people
it
remember
Route 1-80
my way
day on
mountains reminded
Bosnia.
It
to
go
fly fishing,
me of those
made me
start
up
driving
in northern Pennsylvania
old,
it
affected the
was impossible to
their lives over. "I
can't
go to school until they are eight years
and she wanted her son in school
before that. The only official way out was
most
war most of
the
most. For them,
to get her kids
to Croatia.
of the war, "The Bosnian
seem
It
city.
On the
says.
influen-
wanted
Army
children were surprisingly resilient," Craig
most of the
one
and the
in central
sad to think of the
who were
just
caught up in
United Nations.
"Zeljka had a press pass,
the middle," he says, adding,
"Some were
so she could leave
whenever she wanted, but
retired
to fly,
and that had
to be authorized
by the
even when the planes were empty,
wouldn't authorize
to get to
the
it,"
he
says.
government
she
in
Craig tried
the
innocent people
and
just
wanted to enjoy the
their lives, but instead they
all
ended up
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says.
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says.
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enough
couldn't get her kids out because the U.N.
and returned to Sarajevo.
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sell
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to the western countries
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is
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GB
standard in
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COLUMBIA COUNTY SITES YIELD
ARCHEOLOGICAL TREASURES
by Kama Timbrell
leven
homes
may have
Hemlock Twp.
nected to the
A
Sewer Cooperative.
prehmi-
nary archeological dig was
I
ommended by
(BHP)
located near a signifi-
is
archeological
cant
believes "in
site,
other
sites
Baker, archeologist for the
dig
and
and
passed,
tion spurred the perception that "a lot of
archeological
and buildings were being
sites
"I
ical
Twp.
can see wanting to do
value,"
says
Norman
supervisor,
this for histor-
Mael,
be
will
abandoned, says Matt Laidacker, chair of
the
Hemlock Twp. supervisors.
The National Historic Preservation Act
of 1966 requires federal agencies to take
into account the effect their actions have
and archeological
historical
sites.
on
Many
states,
including Pennsylvania, have similar
laws,
says
Montour
Since
Baker.
counties have
Columbia and
little
state/federally
funded construction, there are few archeological digs, he notes.
Under
these laws,
federal or state
any project receiving
money must
ask the
BHP if its
actions will affect historic or archeological
sites,
the
says Baker.
The
projects
must accept
recommendations of the BHP.
The Act was passed because
the historic
preservation programs were "inadequate to
insure future generations a genuine opportunity
to
heritage
appreciate
of our
and enjoy the
nation,"
according
rich
to
language in the Act.
Spectrum
Hemlock
"but the septic systems
BHP
If a
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don't work."
The
Spriiifi '96
BHP has
to
ommendations, but "there
funding," says Baker.
to
pay for any
own
these rec-
enough
isn't
The township
will
says
Baker.
have
Some
PennDOT, employ
archeologists,
including the
make
digs, says Laidacker.
agencies, such as
destroyed," says Baker.
nearby, says Joe
BHP.
urban
interstate construc-
BHP
the
recommended, the project
is
Act was
our best professional opinion,"
may be
there
rec-
the
renewal, highway,
the Bureau of
Historical Preservation
because the project
When
Hemlock Twp.
in
to forego being con-
their
Others,
Army Corp of Engineers,
afford archeological digs, he adds.
can
Financially, "it's a tight squeeze for the
who
township," concedes Baker,
solution
best
for the
is
thinks the
or federal
state
agency to provide funding to pay for the
digs.
Despite the inconveniences the state
respon-
federal laws produce, they are
and
much of the
sible for
eries
in the area.
archeological discov-
These laws don't cover
construction that isn't state or federally
new home
funded, such as
Archeological
nonrenewable resources,"
Anne Wymer,
anthropology
construction.
sites "aren't like trees, they're
at
Columbia County has
of
professor
Bloomsburg
ber of archeological
Dee
Dr.
says
associate
University.
the fewest
sites in
num-
Pennsylvania,
Mark McConaughy,
associate
curator of archeology at the State
Museum
according to
of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg.
However, the
county are
sites that are
located in the
A
fairly significant, says Baker.
Hemlock Creek, near Buckhorn, is
one of the most important sites in
Pennsylvania, says Baker. The site, dug in
site
along
1981 by a private collector, revealed a flutedpoint,
spearhead
distinctive
a
Paleoindians
least
at
by
used
years
10,000
ago.
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who
the people
from
crossed into
North America
Asia, says Baker. There are fewer than a
dozen fluted-point
The
points
groups.
sites in
fluted-point
used
by
is
later
Fluted-points
length, with a flake
the state, he says.
4-5
site
of stone removed from
flat area
groups were
much
smaller, only
simply eats bones," he
Another important
inches
in
It
adds.
County
to anchor the point into a shaft. Points used
later
of the Mississippi doesn't preserve organ-
material very well.
from
American
the middle of both sides, leaving a
by
ic
different
Native
are
east
is
site
in
the Catawissa Bridge
was excavated in
1985
Columbia
site.
Adovasio, Mercyhurst Archeological
tute,
before the
new
and waste
storage
Insti-
bridge was built.
basketry,
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simply eats bones."
inches in length, and were used as
arrows as well as spears.
as
It
spear,
A fluted-point,
used
"wasn't something to throw,"
While
there haven't been
found
in
any animal
Pennsylvania,
animal
bones from mammoths, mastodons, and
DC/CB
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Parcheesi.
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playing, or just seeking to test their luck.
Commonwealth, but
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endum
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the dice and propose the
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UNIVERSITY
searching for
By Robert
P.
come out
MY
and Testament -
I
HEART!
walked across the white
IN
tile
Northumberland
of
the
County Courthouse, and started
down the winding stairs to the cellars. In the dimly lit basement I
floor
came to
between
a hallway cut lengthwise
the
building's
ancient
a will that hadn't
about her: She was
Bomboy, but there was
no maiden name. She had died on
October 13, 1880, but there was no
hint of where she had been buried.
The will named her surviving children, but it made no mention of her
husband,
wooden doors
ther,
were firmly
closed. Behind the third door lay a
small room, a scarred wooden
table, and a bare lightbulb hanging
from a cord. On one side, another
doorway led to a room that was
smaller and even more poorly lit.
Boxes of dusty envelopes stood on
the open shelves.
I was searching for my greatgreat grandmother. The date of her
death in 1880 was one of the few
things I knew, although I had been
had
Elizabeth
stone foundation and, at intervals,
that
I
copying her Last Will
me much
told
years.
of the Register of Wills
office after
HOPE LEAPED
many
Bomboy
my
great-great grandfa-
Abraham.
The will referred to letters testamentary. A blonde clerk told me
they were in the cellars. So I went
down there and was standing in the
dusty little room, carefully opening
the cracked and faded envelopes
that, after
116 years, contained the
only remaining traces of men and
women who once, long ago, had
lived and breathed, loved and
hated,
wept and laughed,
But 116 years
is
like
me.
a long time for
filed on open shelves.
box where what I was seek-
papers to be
In the
ing should have been, someone,
perhaps long ago, had misfiled or
misplaced the papers of Elizabeth
Bomboy. They were gone.
Once again I had missed them,
and Abraham, they whose
names appeared on the census
records of the 1840s, the 1850s, and
the 1860s; they who were the only
link absent from the trail I had so
Elizabeth
painstakingly
own
children
followed from
backward
to
my
the
Revolutionary War.
In the 1970s, Alex Haley's
begin looking
many Americans to
among the branches
own
family trees. In the
Roots spurred
of their
past
five
years,
the
rise
of the
worldwide Internet has dramatically
accelerated genealogical searching.
The search backward
that
are,
human
that
desire to
is
a part of
know who we
great-driving force
that
Spectrum
humankind from the
There may not be a
separates
other species.
single person in this
up
not gazed
world
who
the heavens
at
has
on
a
dark night and wondered:
clear,
Who am
I
One
in all this?
begins
family
a
history
be a simple
task. Put dow^n a few^ names, draw
the necessary connecting lines, and
believing that
it's
will
it
done.
usually,
an
to other continents
One
across the w^ater.
memorable scenes
version of Roots
connect
to
is
American family
is
of the most
in the televised
the final
when Alex Haley found
moment
his family's
have known that
took a dozen
years of detective work, unremitorigins in Africa.
I
exultation
It
too.
tracking
tingly
before
down
traced the
I
every clue,
first
Bomboy
back to a small village in Europe.
But there are compensations:
• Looking back at one's own
family can help give a researcher
new insight into huge historical
events. In my family tree I can
clearly see a subtle, yet predictable,
of
effect
Montana
to
the
Great
and,
finally,
California.
• It's also possible to look back
over the generations and see pat-
terns
of inherited
there
seem
in
my
cer in
it
illness, though
be no such patterns
line. There had been no canmv family, for example, until
struck
to
me
in 1983-
But physicians
and epidemiologists recommend
that families
The reality is that the search
may go on and on, as it has for me,
and it may frequently bring with it
the frustration and disappointment
I
felt in that cellar. The hardest
jump,
on
look for patterns of
inherited illness in their family trees
and record them
for the benefit of
future generations.
•
There
may be
a philosophical
benefit to pouring over
all
those old
records of births and deaths.
It
is
sobering and humbling to reflect on
and death over the generasorrows that must
have crushed those who had to
bear them. In my research, I found
a house fire long ago in Milton that
wiped out an entire Bomboy family. We baby boomers don't realize
how devastating sudden onslaughts
of disease could be before the
life
tions-and the
Hie Costv^me
Fantasies
Sliop
by Rebecca
Depression.
Prior to the 1930s, for generation
after generation, the
Bomboys had
big families. During the Depression
my
mother,
who
firms that she
is still living,
made
a
con-
conscious
decision to have one child because
she could not afford more. Within
two generations, the family name
in
our line has almost died out,
because other parents also reduced
family size.
•
It's
fascinating to visualize the
western migration, and to watch,
Bomboy
family's
slow movement
and fresh
opportunities - to Illinois, and then
Missouri, and from there to the
Indian Territory of Oklahoma, and
toward
open
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the
down
ease struck
tion;
my
another genera-
heart ached for the mother
and father when I saw, written after
each child's name, the epitaph:
"killed by the black diptheria
killed by the black diptheria
killed by the black diptheria ..."
.
.
•
One
other benefit
is
.
.
.
.
that I've
met wonderful people and heard
their amazing stories. I was studying records at the Columbia County
Genealogical Society in Orangeville
by the name of Ohl
to find families
(Elizabeth Bomboy's maiden name
was probably Ohl, although I can't
confirm
it.)
One
of the volunteers at
the genealogical society shyly told
me
-4
that
he
was
related
to
the
Robert Bomboy and his family
in
1980.
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original
Ohl
sergeant
in
who
Columbia County, a
had saved his regi-
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when
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his officers turned
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between 1810 and 1820, at least
three Bomboys - all brothers migrated from Berks County and
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was once well known throughout
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and brothers was
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Before she died in 1976, an
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some
sheet
family
in
was
my favorites, had
clues
tantalizing
of steno
on
a
One was
paper.
"Abraham Bomboy and Elizabeth
married October 22, 1828."
She had seen the words on the
marriage page of an ancient
Ohl,
was lost,
the Susquehanna
Bible, a Bible that
working class line,
from other
branches of the family; from generation to generation, we have been
apparently
God-fearing, ordinaiy people, often
carpenters and cabinetmakers, who
same page my auntie
had written, "John Bomboy, the
were born, had children, lived out
our lives, and eventually died in
the hope of the hereafter.
first
Mine
less
a
is
distinguished
At 55, I'm satisfied with the
I've
lived.
I
worked
life
for national
Scott L. Smith, President
Center.
German
Berwick.
taught
as the Public Relations Executive
other
stories
of many
Bomboys throughout the nation.
The Bomboy name is common
vivid
New
in
I've
in
That Bible
River flood
of
would have
established the link
still
am
On
1972.
I
seeking.
the
Bomboy to come
try." And it was true.
Over the years
researching
to this
that
I
coun-
have been
I have
my family name,
encountered distant cousins
who
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1780.
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a
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Hersfeld and east of Marburg, in
the area where the Lutheran
Reformation began. It is from Hesse
that the word Hessian comes. At
the
time that Johann Casper
Bomboy "was born, in 1760 (his
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army's
passage
to
America from
Portsmouth, England.
It
was
a long
and stormy voyage in a fleet of 100
sailing ships, and I can imagine
what it must have been like for 17year-old Johann Casper Bomboy.
Americans always refer to the
Hessians
who
fought for the British
was their
prince, the Landgrave, w^ho was the
mercenary. They were his subjects
and had no choice but to do his
bidding. As a result of that lack of
self-determination, and the poor
economic conditions at home,
as "mercenaries," but
it
many Hessian troops stayed in
America or went to Canada. Some
deserted the British even before the
war ended, many during a British
withdrawal through Philadelphia in
1778. I believe Johann Casper
Bomboy
his
left
regiment
at
that
and settled in Philadelphia,
and he was listed on the tax rolls of
Limrick Township two years later.
time
Bomboys
All the
more than
America -
in
-
1,000
are
related,
because
all of us are descended
from Johann Casper Bomboy. I
once did an article for Parade
Magazine, the Sunday supplement
had no
Bomboy from
Texas saw
you
ing: "Are
My
and
it
'wrote to
me
ask-
kin?"
of
line
the
Abraham Bomboy
-
Bomboys moved from
Columbia County to Northumberland County between 1830 and
1840 and lived in Turbot Township
and
later
Town-
Chillisquaque
in
near
ship,
Later
Milton.
still,
Abraham's son, Peter, and several
of Abraham's daughters moved
Wyoming
north to the
there in Kingston
tling
Valley, set-
and other
communities. Most of the family
in
has died out, with the
that
area
lines
ending
in
female children (so
How Did Your Ancestors Die?
longer continues).
w^hen
idea,
moved
I
Danville in 1980, that
I
way, actually returning
home
tral
was,
in a
an ances-
to
more than
after
I
to
100
years.
There
that has a circulation of 20 million
nationwide, and a
name no
the
names
whose
many
aren't
my
in
family.
was
famous
My
wife,
can do
much better: she can count two
distant cousins who were famous,
or infamous. One w^as Big Ed
family
Irish,
Walsh, enshrined in Cooperstown
Fame
as a Hall of
pitcher for the
Chicago White Sox. The other was
Pete O'Donnell, a coal miner who
was hanged in 1876 as a Molly
Maguire and
is
still
known
family as "Swingin' Pete."
Maguires,
turned
in the
The Molly
violence
to
to
oppose coal barons who paid the
Irish hardly more than pennies a
week and indentured them to the
company
store.
A
re-enactment of
one Molly Maguire trial in Pottsville
two years ago demonstrated that
some of the original trials had been
Many
gross miscarriages of justice.
of the jurors had been Pennsyl-
M3Lany
What you
doctors today encourage
their patients to
sit
down and draw
a
family tree of health.
That's because it's possible to
inherit bad health, or at least a tendency to develop an illness or a con-
For example, says Dr. Howard
Hughes, the chief doctor in the
Geisinger Health Plan, "If your mothdition.
er or father
may be
had heart
disease,
you
higher risk of developing
heart problems than the general population. If your mother or father had
cancer, then you may be at higher
at
developing that disease."
can you tell where you, your
spouse and your children stand? Do
risk of
How
research.
How did your spouse's ancestors
die? How did your own ancestors
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of another family
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take steps to reduce
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about the
Molly Maguires, found a
jurors.
list
Among them was
of the
a
juror
named Thomas Bomboy.
The melting pot
is
an American
long a part of the fabric of
The weave
this country.
so
is
intri-
cate that, after 120 years, the fami-
Thomas
of Pete O'Donnell and
lies
Bomboy
my
And
so
tion
come
have
through
my
Diabetes
Obesity
Depression and anxiety
Glaucoma and certain other eye
an
researching
story,
What should you look for? Here's
some afflictions that
seem to run in families:
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Dutchmen who spoke
German and could hardly understand the proceedings. And here's
an irony: One of my students,
vania
ideal
levels.
a checklist of
Did any of your ancestors have
diabetes, kidney disease or liver disease? How many? Who?
illnesses
you
members can
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What
surprise
research reveals that diabetes has
afflicted middle-age ancestors time
and again, you and other family
•
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may
member. For example,
die?
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learn
— and even save or prolong your
wife and me.
I
continue tracing out
family tree. Yet the
still
occupies
over and over.
there,
together
my
I
one ques-
mind.
I
turn
it
look here and
always hoping to find the
last
piece of the puzzle, an answer to
such as
the
question:
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father
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Phil's
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to bring this
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unique cuisine to the Bloomsburg
The reason Miccio wanted to
work Cajun food was because it
was something no one else was
Yankees."
Cajun Kitchen is owned
and operated by Philip Miccio Jr.,
and his father. Philip Miccio Sr.,
worked as an investor before he
retired.
Cooking has been his
Phil's
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to
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for the past 30 years.
little bit different than the typical
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Miccio explains, "My father and I
had been experimenting with Cajun
food, so we set out with the
a
assumption to give people restaurant quality food out of a mobile
unit."
One item that didn't make the
menu was alligator. Phil's tried alligator soup and alligator
on
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area.
but
doing
from the swamp, but they come
from a farm, like catfish," Miccio Sr.
at the time.
"We
like to cook," says Miccio
""When we talked to the people
in charge of the Bloomsburg Fair,
they told us they wanted something
Sr.,
it
didn't
go over
well.
"People think alligators
come
says.
But the Bloomsburg Fair was a
tough battle for the Miccios because
of the amount of food stands.
"The first year we were at the
fair, people were going through our
garbage to see what we were
using,"
the Miccios explain.
But now, Phil's has a
themselves, and a large
name
They serve the Bloomsburg
Hughesville
Fair,
Luzerne
for
clientele.
Fair,
Fair, vari-
ous monster truck competitions,
and the fall move-in at Bloomsburg
University.
They serve authentic
dishes including jambalaya, crawfish,
M
gumbo,
barbecue
shrimp,
Phillip Miccio Sr. cooks up his
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Rohrbach Pumpkin
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Cajun
Cajun chicken salad,
sandwich, and boudine
rice,
rib
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"We
among
our
base
others.
business
come
"It
his father both learned to cook
Cajun food through experimenta-
and
tion
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research.
Though
on
repeat customers. "We want people
to
and
offers
have been made
to market the four special sauces,
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never
Miccio says he doesn't feel ready.
says.
Jr.
"Once you get
taste exactly the
same because everything
to taste," says Miccio
Jr.
mixed
"Anybody
is
it
[the product]
off the ground, then they like to sell
The
first
safety razor
in 1901. In
it
to other people," Miccio says.
was patented by King Camp
them from a manufacturer,
same, but our taste
is
it's
original,"
the
he
adds.
Instead of using other's sauces
or recipes, Miccio
makes
the sauces
one simple reason, "That way
w^e can be imitated but never duplicated," he says.
for
Just because
it's
Cajun doesn't
mean it's hot and
blend of the spices that
Miccio explains that he
is
happy
present
the
stage
of
the
"You are limited working out of
a
trailer,"
Miccio Sr. explains,
adding "one reason we don't is
because we don't want to be confined to
restaurant six or
a
seven days a week."
"We do
though it
back of a
is
a
pretty
full
Miccio explains.
"People ask us about opening a
spicy.
restaurant, but
it
a
a unique flavor.
branch of French
cooking, and is just a 'way to blend
seasonings," he says, noting that he
"Cajun
is
a
we
to at this point,"
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Deborah Savage,
41,
matured as a writer in an
environment with few distractions, ample time, space, and
freedom.
This
Bloomsburg
High
School graduate has centered
her life around her passion
Living
writing. "In terms
of a calling, the deeper sense
word career, I was
making life decisions that had
to do with my writing from
the time I was l6 or 17,"
of the
Savage says.
Savage began supporting
herself at 17 when she left
home
develop as a writer.
"I chose to never have a fulltime job and I always lived on
very
to
little
money
in
rented
rooms because full-time jobs
me no time and no ener-
gave
gy to
of the landscape.
with this sense of
Savage says she
nature,
gained a "familiarity with
being alone" which allowed
her time to explore both the
aspects
Savage's Eterary career
and love of
to the natur-
al
helped shape Deborah
by Lenore Olsen
Savage
Mainville,
in
became attached
write," she recalls.
knew was that it
I
was important to write and
that was the thing that gave
world and
herself.
The popularity of harness
horse racing in this area and a
love of horses
of her
life
is
another part
that she carries into
work. In To Race a
Dream, Savage uses what
some say to be the greatest
her
racehorse ever,
Dan
Patch, as
a central element of the story.
Although her
latest novel.
Under a Different Sky, is the
only one set in Pennsylvania,
has always been a career,"
of her novels reveal her
attachment to rural living.
Under a Different Sky takes
place in a boarding school
and on a neighboring farm.
says Savage.
This
"All
my
life
purpose, so
guess
I
commitment
This
hard work resulted
cess as a
young
Savage
currently
in
it
and
her suc-
adult novelist.
published books:
has
four
all
farm.
Savage
says,
is
many of the
farms she grew up around in
this area. One of the main
modeled
after
characters in the novel
A Rumor of young man who
lives
and
is
a
on the
Otters, Flight
farm. His speech
A
tudes also reflect what Savage
of the Albatross,
Stranger Calls Me Home,
and To Race a Dream. Her
most recent work. Under a
Different
is
atti-
this area.
This character
is
troubled
set
in
with a sense of wanting to go
expected
in
beyond what he knows of
Sky,
Pennsylvania,
remembers of
his
bookstores by April.
Growing up on an old
farm
life,
how
to
but he doesn't know
begin searching for
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new
this
Through experiences
self.
with a young
from the board-
girl
ing school, he gains the tools to
himself and the
explore
further
world around him. In
he
return,
the
some of his knowledge
young girl who is troubled
her
own
gives
have the opportunity.
Savage also has close
ships with her brother
who
ters
encouraging. Her brother, Dillon,
concert pianist in Indiana.
in
describes her sister Rebecca as a
"free
who
spirit"
Theodora, the main character, dreams
wetlands biologist
of driving harness horses, but
State.
and
1906,
to
work
is
were not permitted
However,
girls
in the stables.
she gains an opportunity to
dis-
guise herself as a boy. She experi-
ences
success
and
setback
in
attaining her dream.
own dream
to
of following
'If
needs. Both she and her parents
writing
treat
as a serious passion,
it
they
also
respect
"Nothing
is
it
an
as
really a
art
and
form.
hobby when
you're young. At that age, everyis coming from your soul,
and you're exploring the ways of
expressing yourself and the way
that your deepest self needs to
thing
that's
in
in
Exactly
is
memory
of her
of
life.
artist
it,'"
explains
when Savage began
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"From my family, I learned
about the concept of commitment
to what was important," she says.
"There was a lot of support in terms
something she
something she
wants,
and
achusetts,
said,
Savage sees her
write, not only as
is
She
a
v/ay.
it
sis-
and
supportive
are
to
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relation-
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dramatically
when
a
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Richard and Judith Savage support
daughter's
their
Deborah's
English
taught
also
father,
interest.
a
University, after several years with
the Saturday Evening Post. His wife
taught
and
art
in
local
IHair
D>iail
and inning Salon
public schools
currently teaches at
Friends School in
uarters
writer,
Bloomsburg
at
Greenwood
Millville.
Savage
"They exposed me to various books and techniques in writing
and art, but their influence is so pervasive, it is hard to limit it to one
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never received formal training to
refine her writing skills. She says
she learned
how
to write
by read-
Her parents rouand commented on her
writings and encouraged her to
continue this passion. Even now,
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and
writing.
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Savage says her parents read her
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financially further her
to
commitment
She
her calling as a writer.
remembers
saying
"Okay,
is
this
to
I've
it,
herself,
got
this
I'm not looking back.
money.
From now
on, this
is
how
I
am
"Teaching
calling.
a
isn't
it
is
struggle
a struggle,
and
enjoy,
as
I
opposed to struggles with my
ing which I do enjoy, or at
full
this
life.
She
as possible in order to allow the
Fine Arts.
as life-like as possible so her read-
For the
last
has returned to
two years Savage
Bloomsburg High
School to present writing seminars
for a number of English classes.
She also conducted workshops for
students who had expressed interest
and displayed
When
talent in writing.
Savage
is
not writing
she spends time in the classroom
teaching anything to do with writing.
Working through freshman
composition at North Adams State
College, North Adams, Mass., she
admits that teaching is not her
Gjoucrnor
the story.
Savage wants each character to be
can get to
sonal way.
ers
"I
acter,
know them
in a per-
Savage is aware that her novare mostly read by young
adults, but she never intended to
els
write
specifically
the closest thing
I
could say
is
that
for
are
characteristics
truths and
whether they are
young or
old.
When
trying to
show
share
certain
I
write, I'm
the basic
know
age
The
author's attention to char-
makes Savage's work
stand out from many young adult
writer's work. Typically, in young
acter often
adult fiction,
nant,
and
the action
often
the
is
domi-
characters
dif-
know the age thing.
human beings, and human
emotions," notes Savage.
about."
because
very
don't
"I
We
is
come from the same place that
dreams come from, places we don't
they
difficult
it
to relate to her readers
she doesn't think she
ferent from them.
audi-
that
ence. She doesn't find
beings
spend a lot of time on charbut where they come from,
impor-
at least as
tant as the plot.
a character
beyond
becomes
acter
going to make my living." She
decided to go to Goddard College
in Vermont to earn her Master's of
character to exist
Because of this tenwork, the char-
flat.
in Savage's
least
author faces, she cites the task of
attempts to draw as
dency
writ-
welcome," says Savage.
Among the hardships
bringing her characters to
become
Good
human
goes beyond
and allows the
literature
differences
reader to learn about the story, the
and about themselves.
used her local
background and her love of
characters,
Savage
has
nature to aid in creating this type
of literature.
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BLOOMSBURG, AND THAT
Police Chief Larry Smith happy.
glad Bloomsburg
isn't like
some
He
says he's
of the places
shown
gramming was "COPS", produced by John Langley whoj
professes that each episode contains a "moment of
grace." This moment of grace is where the viewer at
home can get in touch with the feeling of being on thei
scene and the emotions of the people involved in the
on TV cop shows.
"Reality Programming" is television's wave of attack
on the human psyche in an endless quest for ratings and
advertiser money. Some believe this so-called "reality
programming" could be detrimental to American society
since violence and hardships shown on TV may desen-
arrest or rescue.
America through the television screen.
like "COPS" on FOX, "Rescue 911" on CBS,
and "Real Stories of the Highway Patrol" from Warner
Brothers turn out action packed episodes of this relatively new programming every day.
show
sitize
Shows
The
trail
blazer of this
new wave
of television pro-
show," Langley says, "we try to incorporate
and thought issues. We want the show^
to be more than riding in a police car." Langley says he'
tries to keep each show balanced, instead of just an hour
long car chase or an entire philosophical show. "The
"In every
action, domestic
is
pro-social,
and
we hope
that
the audience;
derives something from each episode that goes
beyond
the scope of the other prime time reality shows," he says.
Some
violence,
believe "Reality TV" takes away sensitivity for;
and turns viewers into apathetic citizens, buC
Langley disagrees.
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funded by the Bloomsburg Hospital
Providing opportunities that add to the quality
education received by Bloomsburg University
students
is
a duty held in high regard
by the
Bloomsburg University Foundation. Continued
generosity from alumni, faculty, staff, parents,
and friends enables the Foundation
,
many of
to support
the programs and events that promote
excellence. The Foundation also garners
scholarship funds to give deserving students
opportunities to achieve their academic
aspirations
"We think
the
show
sensitizes
people toward
real
violence because they know that these are real people,
and there's nothing glamorous about real pain," says
Langley.
hope
it
"This
isn't
Hollywood,
makes people more
it's
live,
and
real.
We
how you
can be a part
of the Foundation's efforts to support
Bloomsburg University please
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sensitive to the pain in the
he says.
"COPS" tries to make police officers look like real
people, and less like the menacing horror figure that
gave you a ticket and a hard time last week, according
real world,"
to Langley.
is more popular among civilians than it is
among Bloomsburg police officers, however, "They solve
the crime in a half an hour. For us, it just takes a little
longer," says Chief Smith. If life had an editor who could
cut the slow parts, guarantee a happy ending for the police,
and put in a few ads for bleach and pizza, the real police
could catch up to the portrayal they get on television. 5
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and Photos by Melindo
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[EDITORS NOTE: Three years ago,
Melinda Rishkofski, a Central
Columbia High School graduate
who later earned a law degree from
Dickinson University, went to
Russia to help direct a new legal
code for that country. This
is
her
story]
MANY
FOR
an
FOREIGNERS, RUSSIA
exciting
IS
and challenging
place. But, foreigners are not
well liked and are the target of
many Russians' envy and hatred.
Our success often depends on our
The complexity of the
invisibility.
problems here and the challenges
of never knowing what will happen
next encourage me to stay.
Russians are easily dismayed by
many Western businessmen who
come to Russia thinking they can
so
get rich
without making any com-
mitment to the people or the infrastmcture. We have a lot to offer to
those
who
proposals.
assured that
of the
Kremlin,
Assumption
Moscow
we
to
be
are really here to
help them and not just to turn a
profit for ourselves. Russians are
not stupid, but by nature, they have
a
fundamental distrust for foreignbecause many foreigners do
ers,
not make the commitment it takes
to understand the people and the
traditions which are so important to
them.
This
< Church
are willing to accept our
The Russians need
is
not a
fault of^
people. After 70 years of
the Russian
Communism
what would you expect? A grandmother is not going to be able to
always count on
grasp the structure of a stock mar-
ty
ket or understand •why
it should be
most important thing on her
mind. She probably earns less than
$15 a month and feeds a family of
six. What incentive does she have
hold
the
Communism,
every
to invest in Russia's future
if
penny she saves must go
to feed
her family?
Russia has a
lot
to
offer
the
younger generation who have the
energy and inclination to implement change. Young Russians are
motivated by profit, are entrepreneurial, and have an astute business
sense.
The
prises,
land,
privatization
of enter-
and housing
is
hap-
pening at a rapid pace.
People are no longer faced -with
long food lines or no food, but
instead with an abundance of
Western products which they can't
afford. People find it difficult to
cope because the things they could
—
•
stable govern-
ment, stable job, a sense of equali-
and
class
trust in
true.
Russia has
society
between the
—
people
no longer
With the fall of
become
and the
classes
is
a
disparity
ment of Russia's economy are those
money to throw around
the
Mafia
which makes the whole
—
—
system extremely corrupt. Several
Russian
investment
companies
have opened to attract money from
the Russian people, but they
promise the world and then close
up shop and there is no recourse
for the investors. The robber barons
of Russia are alive and they create a
level of fear in those
who
struggle
to survive.
the
People beg for protection from
bureaucracy, and from the
Mafia. Yet they are the
to get
first
to bribe
what they need from the gov-
ernment, the
first
to resort to vio-
to turn to drink to escape
first
from
the country's failures.
I
have been
three years
ized
what
in Russia,
the
my
I
me
first
was
to
real-
it.
couple of years
a legal advisor to
Russian
purveyor of
legal pronouncements) and the
President
Federation (the
all
in Russia for nearly
and only recently
attracts
During
startling.
Also interested in the develo-
with
lence to solve a problem, and the
Russian
Duma
of
one seemed
difficult to
I
equivalent of
(the
the U.S. Congress).
assist w^ith legal
the
official
I
was
sent to
reforms that every-
to
want,
but
were
implement.
was paid by
the United States
government, which created a
strange dichotomy in regard to the
w^ork I was expected to carry out. I
helped a new breed of Russian
lawyers write commercial and economic laws that work for Russia's
newly emerging market economy.
It was clear to most, Soviet law was
outdated and unsophisticated for
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parties,
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code which
and
long resulted in the defensiveness
My
first
an
new
civil code that had been prepared by a group of leading academics and jurists. A civil code is normally something that takes a country over 30 years to develop, but in
Russia
we
finished
it
on the
the Soviet Union.
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job
specialists to
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draft.
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regarding the legal needs of their country's future.
Many
still
do not believe in private ownership rights for land and real
property. The Russian government and its people are clearly
divided. The resounding support (almost 43 percent) received
by the Communist party's leader in this year's presidential elections strongly reflects that despite
outward appearances,
little
has changed in Russia since the beginning of perestroika.
There are a few radical reformers who push the limits knowing that
if
they don't implement changes
return to the
way
things were.
now
Russia could
The overwhelming
majority,
though, seeks to return to the way things were.
Legal reform is more important than economic reform
because without
it
Russia will continue to be a country lack-
Few
Russians understand their legal rights,
fewer rely on the government to enforce their rights. Most
agreements are settled through private enforcement mechaing the rule of law.
nisms
(i.e.
bribes, kickbacks, threats, extortion, guns).
After almost three years in Russia,
it is
difficult to
the political climate has in store for legal reform.
It is
say what
clear that
President Boris Yeltsin and his supporters are trying to impose
law and order. However, little is done to educate the people
There are no clear mechanisms for the
enforcement of basic civil rights.
So far I have not been scathed by thugs or hooligans, but
my day is likely to come. They say that every year in Russia is
like living three years somewhere else. You have to be strong
and you have to be brave. But more importantly, you have to
to accept the laws.
believe in
what you're doing. The hardships
we face take a toll
sometimes, but I'm the ever-eternal optimist.^
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making
matches.
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Campus
McGowan
Ministry.
of seven
As her program continued to
expand, she decided to petition Big
Brothers/Big Sisters of the Bridge in
friends
Wilkes-Barre
Catholic
a
children who needed
and some adults who were
willing to spend time with them.
That was in 1988, and now, over
500 matches later, Mary Diehl is
housed in a small office on Main
Street doing her work as the
head of Columbia County's Big
Brothers/Big Sisters program.
Big
Brothers/Big
Sisters
is
a
matching service that sets up kids
betv,^een the ages of 7 and 17 with
adults
who are
willing to
commit
to
spending 2-3 hours a week with
them
for
one
year.
It
was
started in
to
form
a
satellite
office in
Mary Diehl
had
elementary
Bloomsburg.
been teaching
school for 13 years, and decided
was time for a change.
it
'I
started with nothing, no
phone, no forms, no office," says
Diehl. 'All I had was seven files
from Sister Anita of matches that
had been made," she adds. Contacts
had to be made with these seven
people to tell them about the new
affiliation with Big Brothers/Big
Sisters, and only one group decided
to stay with the program.
Big Brothers/Big Sisters
is
fund-
ed solely by the United Ways of
Berwick and Columbia County and
a March fund-raiser called Bowl for
Kid's Sake. Making the budget
stretch can be taxing at times. Her
permanent agency display is made
out of cardboard, with pictures and
"I could
probably tell you where everything
in our office came from," says
cutouts that she fashioned.
Diehl.
Diehl
is
always
more volunteers
especially males.
in
search of
for the program,
"Nationally,
we
have fewer male volunteers than
we do females, and I really don't
know why," she says.
There is an intensive screening
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for
volunteers,
including
months residency, four
six
than he used
adds Diehl.
Big Brothers/Big
to,"
Nationally,
refer-
work
has been proven to
ences, a state police check, child
Sisters
abuse clearance,
an interview, a
psychological test, and home visits.
Another program that encourages
college and high school students to
join does not require the psycho-
well.
logical test.
less likely to
Private
as
Volunteers,
was found
it
46 percent of children with a
Big Brother or Big Sister are less
that
likely to
use drugs; 27 percent are
begin drinking; 52 per-
Bloomsburg
cent are less likely to skip school;
University student, joined the Big
and 4 percent care more about
school. These statistics come from a
Czahor,
Chris
a
Brother program for almost two
Going to the park, playing
baseball, watching movies, and
cooking dinner were some of the
things Czahor enjoyed doing with
his little brother. "I felt proud to be
looked up to by somebody I could
years.
help,"
he
Diehl recalls dozens of times
when
having a Big Brother or a Big
Sister has turned a young person's
life around. She has one match that
lasted nine years, and others where
one of the
parties
moved away,
but
"One
kid,
the couple stays in touch.
who was matched
made
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a
goal
to
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Dr. Betsy
Another great match Diehl witnessed was a young couple who
were both physicians at Geisinger,
but still found the time to adopt a
little brother. "They would call him
every chance they got just to check
and see how he was doing," says
They took the boy to Disney
World for his birthday once during
their two year match. Recently, the
couple announced their move to
Wilmington, Del., and on their way
in
Diehl.
out, they
because they knew
she had been saving for a car. What
impresses Diehl, however, is that
send cards and letters to
the boy, and have even been up to
visit him once since August. "The
boy
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half
of
American families own at least one
dog, and one-fourth own two cats.
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homes for these dogs and cats has
become an increasingly difficult
situation.
in shelters across
the nation. Yet, people continue to
ignore
rights
the
warnings
activists
allowing
their
pets
of spending
instead
necessary to
of animal-
by irresponsibly
to
breed,
the
money
sterilize their animals.
According to Dr. Jean Cunningham,
Bloomsburg Veterinary' Hospital, "A
tremendous number of people
don't feel it's worth the expense" to
have their pet sterilized. The average cost of sterilization for a dog or
cat can range from $30 to $100.
Pet owners in Columbia and
Montour counties no longer have
cost as an excuse to ignore the
responsibility
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concern regarding overpopulation
and the subsequent use of lethal
injection by shelters to eliminate
the problem. "I finally decided this
was
ridiculous,
do some-
let's
thing," says Wright.
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P.E.T.S.
money,
but currently runs a used merchanseveral
methods
dise store
on
and Catherine
to
fund
staff
the corner of Fifth
streets,
Bloomsburg,
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all-volunteer
its efforts.
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community
sterilization of
On
to raise
to
pay
for the
over 3,000 animals.
the average, the organization
funds the sterilization of 50 animals
per month, according to Barbara
Crawford, volunteer store manager.
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difficult for the
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organization to reach due to a lack
of community
awareness and
a
constant need for volunteers.
In spite of the efforts of PA
P.E.T.S.,
more than 6,000 animals
entered Danville's SPCA in 1995,
and over half of these animals were
killed, usually within a week of
arriving at the shelter, according to
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In 1984, the facility's popureached 10,545 with almost
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facility.
lation
of homes for the animals.
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PA
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pet
"More
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immerse herself
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two
classes,"
In
of the intense pace,
spite
Paul excelled in her studies.
her
family, she spent time in
Mexico with a family who also had
weekend respites
come as a welcome
"One weekend
four children.
beach
oldest of four children in
sure to be
at
I
just
out of the city for a
city
is
The
however,
did,
relief.
I
went
to the
Barra de Navidad and had
a great time.
involved.
she
says.
Spanish-
speaking culture.
The
week
needed
bit.
to get
Living in a
of six million, like Guadalajara,
veiy different from home."
For Paul, the road to Mexico
was not paved with the
legendary
silver,
Aztecs'
but with hard
work, careful planning and some
help from others.
Paul's mother, Sherrie, has said
her daughter has "struggled to
economically survive. "We're not
Sarah has to work, or
she can't go to a high-priced liberal arts school. She held six
well-off.
Danville
M
jobs just to get
V
semester. She
by her spring
found time to
still
A graduate of
High School, Paul is a
senior Spanish Major at Gettysburg
College.
Paul says
many
of her endeav-
were prompted by a need to
communicate with others. "Spanish
has opened up an entire area of the
world to me," she says.
ors
In a quest to further her education
and understand other people,
Paul spent the
fall
semester study-
ing in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Gettysburg College students
studying Spanish had the option of
a term abroad in either Spain or
Mexico. Paul opted for Mexico
"All
of
my
classes,
my
|
home
life,
conversations,
excursions, bus rides, even
^
my
dreams
were
in
Spanish," Paul says.
School
in
Mexico
according to
Paul. "Each semester is
broken up into three fivedifferent,
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volunteer
to
English
teach
to
When
in
job maintaining top
a
the opportunity to study
Paul said she began working
Paul had
soon as I was old enough."
Her first real job was with Maria
Joseph Manor, a nursing home.
Mexico presented
itself,
to redouble her efforts.
Already carrying a
load
down
ing
grades.
migrants."
at college,
course
full
and working
at least
"just as
"Talk about a learning experience.
40 hours a -week, Paul needed to be
And
resourceful in order to finance a
Amusement
semester in Mexico.
found myself at the library so often,
I even applied for a job there," she
Paul
upon
hit
the creative idea
to sell stock in her education.
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says.
exchange for the purchase of a
$100 share of her educational stock,
Paul would share her Mexican
While still in high school, Paul
worked, studied, and still found
Chicken
time for Girl Scouts, playing in the
SeaFood
school experiences with the classes
high school band, acting in school
upon her
plays, participating
return.
"She didn't want to
donations. She
felt
just
ask for
there should be
some element of pay
back," says
When
Paul
and wanted
was
in
high school
to travel to Spain with
same educaprogram to help
the class, she used the
stock
tional
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finance the
trip, in
addition to hold-
forensics
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has also been involved in
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others, in
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do my best," she
"I'm not sure
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wanted
participate in Americorp, but
in
is
the
area.
Paul's
father,
manager at Steve
and Auto. He also
ate,"
to
have
she says.
"Perhaps the Peace Corps," Paul
muses.
assistant
Shannon Tire
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year,
and
^wrote
the
few
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year in (Downtown 'BCoomsSurg!
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of
Wine Spectator's J^warcC of 'E7(cdCence
CCancy 's -Opening ^{pvemSer 1996
featured in
"MCMout ^eer" Magazine
and the Qrand !A.wardfrom
We weCcome you
the 9A.ait
Advocate
to join us at liusseCC's
for fine dining and a reiaTqng atmosphere.
Jrom our dining room to our bar, you 'it
find many deCightfuC e?(penences.
Tlease do visit us.
117 West Main Street
'BCoomsBurg,
(Pa.
17815
717-387-1332
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