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WOMEN ON THE WINGS OF WAR
A
Millville
woman
talks
about her involvement
in
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experimental flying program during WWII.
By Lenore
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says.
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sites,
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fourth business online.
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couple stayed in the only vacant room, a small cabin
behind the motel.
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Baluta looked at his young son and remarked "That
needed
was one of
the richest
men
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closed and Chester Baluta, my grandfather, passed
away. The family
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showing the man one of his rooms. This man was
certainly used to five-star hotels with extravagant furnishings. The Cool Nook provided one outside showfee.
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parking
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to call
was coal-dust covered overalls and a hard day's
work smeared over one's face. The man was
drunk, and the stench of liquor was competing
with the summer air. The gentleman requested a
room for the evening for himself and his comseat of the
Chomiak
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come from other countries.
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orders
rium,
says.
wasn't until 1991 that
he secured the location on East
Main Street.
He then moved on line, where
he could take orders from around
the world while keeping the
Bloomsburg shop.
of Chomiak's businesses to
have a site on the internet. His
newest project is called Slinging
Pig. The "pig" comes from "pigment" that is airbrushed into a
it
Chomiak
that
link to their page,
all
1989. But
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today.
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By Lenore Olsen and Robin Weidner
T AN AGE
her
WHEN MOST OF
were just
beginning to realize their
dreams, Mary Eleanor
Beckley Martin Sabota of
MillviUe,
was
hers
ing
already
10,000
liv-
feet
above the earth in a B-26 bomber.
During World War II, most
women were
caring
for
children
and counting the days when their
husbands would return from war.
Few women knew
pilot
was
that
a possibility.
being a
Women
like
Sabota did, they piloted every plane
the military used,
men
released
for
and their success
the war effort and
advanced the future of women
aviation. Women were expected
in
to
control domestic affairs, but thro-
ugh the Women Airfonce Service
Pilots (WASP) they were trained for
domestic
flying.
WASP began
program
women
in
part of the Civil Service.
Under the
peers
as an experimental
1942
and
trained
to fly military planes in the
United States to allow more "man"power for overseas combat.
direction
of Jacq-
ueline Cochran, an aviation speed
WASPs were
racer,
types
of
flight
trained for
missions,
combat. WASPs were required to be
between the ages of 21 and 35 and
have a high school education.
25,000 women who
applied to the program, 1,830 were
Of
the
accepted, and 1,074 completed the
training.
They flew 60
million miles
ambulance
air
in
"We spent every Sunday at the
for as long as I can remember," says Sabota. "My father, Sam
Bigony, or Harry Magee would take
us up, and we had a great time."
airport
In
1941, after obtaining a
degree in special education from
experimental because no one knew
if women were capable of flying
"the military way."
Sabota entered the WASP pro-
ege, Sabota
flights
1943 and served until it was
disbanded in 1944. "It was a very
exciting time for all of us. We wanted to help the war effort, but even
more we wanted to fly," says
gram
in
Sabota.
From the time Sabota was very
young, she was surrounded by people
who
flew, including her father,
women were
suc-
cousin,
cessfully trained
by the same
mili-
friends. After Sabota's father.
standards as male cadets,
because there were no legal means
to enlist or commission female personnel as military pilots, they were
emergency
first
the area.
during World
War II to release men for combat.
The program was considered
of domestic
Although these
tary
all
except
Beckley became close friends with
Harry Magee, a wealthy entrepreneur who owned the local airport.
There, Beckley learned how to fly,
and later he was responsible for the
brother and
close
family
Dr.
William Beckley, finished
medical school in Philadelphia, he
returned with his family and settled
in his hometown of Bloomsburg.
Daniel
Bloomsburg
State
Teacher's
was selected
only female
in
the
Training Course that
Bloomsburg
the
to
Civilian
was
These
Airport.
eral locations across the
for
fill
for
the
at sev-
country in
demand
the increasing
pilots
Pilot
offered at
courses were being offered
order to
Coll-
be the
war
effort.
Through this 19-week training program she received a Civilian Pilot's
License in 1942.
Later that year, Sabota married
John
Martin
pilot.
Less than a
of
Berwick,
month
also
later,
a
he
when his plane was shot
over Germany.
In 1943, Sabota received a
telegram from WASP Director
Cochran, informing her of her eligiwas
killed
down
Speclrum
Women
bility for
"I
PT-26, and a solo flight in an AT-6,
Pilots
the WASPs.
didn't
trained to
know anything about
it
I
received the original telegram, but I didn't even have to
think about it, I knew right away I
until
was interested," recalls Sabota.
needed something to do, and
that point in my life I needed
training at
physics,
any position
charts, navi-
gation, principles of flight, engines
by
was very much
training
like the men's," says Sabota.
only thing
we were
"The
not taught was
we were
men in the
States, not combat, but we were
taught the military way of flying."
The women pilots were trained
flying
because
trained as substitutes for
it
left
and hooded takewhere they only had the instruments to guide them. They learned
to fly every plane that was used at
for blind flying
offs
time
the
including
biggest
the
bombers such as the B-26, the B-17,
and the B-24. They also flew the
and propellers, weather, Morse
code, instrument flying, communications, physical training, and first
fastest fighter aircraft including the
aid.
perform searchlight
and the
P-51
WASPs were
tow targets, and
P-38.
trained to ferry aircraft,
flying, instrument
engineering test-flying
control
and administrative and
utility flying,
according to Cochran's final report
on the WASP program.
The women struggled with a
strict set of rules during their training, living with the constant threat
of "washing out" being dismissed
—
from service. They had to keep up
with the strenuous flight schedule
which included check runs by both
instructors and military personnel.
"If a girl failed the test run with the
military official, she was gone, usually within the hour," says Sabota.
Male cadets in the same position
were sent to other military duty,
while WASPs were dismissed on the
spot.
"It
was
hard, but since
I
was
widow
in the
through no matter what," says Sabota.
Housing was often a problem
for WASPs. The military bases were
flying,
night flying, a cross country flight in
an open cockpit Fairchild, PT-19, or
Although the WASPs were not
given much, they were given their
own
insignia, created personally
TANNEHV
by
Walt Disney. Because the women
had little to do when not flying, the
319th decided to create a newspaper.
Desperate for a name, editor Byrd
Howell Granger suggested Vie
Granger's brother
Fifinella Gazette.
had a friend at Disney and she wrote
him about having an insignia created
for the paper A few weeks later, a
named
colorful vixen
FiFi, as
the
Fifinella
women nicknamed
(or
her)
A member of
International Smart Tan Network
up
to
first
no good. Introduced
in the
issue of Vie Fifinella Gazette,
was an immediate sensation.
She caught on like wildfire, showing up all over WASPs even wore
FiFi patches on their army-issued
flight jackets. Wlien the time came
Fifi
many women
WASPs
to return the jackets,
believed this little female "gremlin"
was responsible for locking the
tore off the patches
cockpit hood, starting aircraft fires,
switching fuel control signs so they
read backwards, or unrolling blan-
disbanded, several of the
women got together and formed a
group called the "Order of
came back
in
the
mail.
kets of fog over the runway.
ever,
WASPs
carried
stamps with them,
tliey
be protected from any
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how-
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would
surely
FiFi that
was
the
group my instructors decided they were going to get me
a variety of military planes incorpo-
and navigational
radio
only
Flight training included flying in
rating radar
and tracking missions. They also
learned methods of smoke laying,
instruction,
at
Avenger Field
maps and
fill
stunt
in Sweetwater, Texas, was rigorous.
For eight months, Sabota took
courses in ground school half of the
day and flew the other half.
Ground school included mathematics,
men.
"Our
"I
badly."
WASP
WASPs were
according to Sabota.
them today.
When
keep
the WASPs were
and
still
finally
They send out montlily
all those who were
unless FiFi
of the program
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newsletters to
part
is
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Sabota (far left) and other WASPs
spent half of the day in ground
school learning navigational skills.
(.-.ich
woman spent an average of
own money to be prop-
>iOO of her
was
no standard WASP dress uniform;
rather, they wore tan pants and any
erly outfitted. Originally, there
blouse.
When
form was
a standard
finally
was Santiago
WASP
uni-
put into place,
it
Blue, different from
the men's khakis,
and the current
color of the Air Force uniform.
They were issued old
coveralls
once belonged to the
men. Often, they were too big or
too small. WASPs were often misfor flying that
taken
for
truck
delivery people
women
and
where only
females trained, the 'women occupied barracks in the same "way
not equipped for both
men. At Avenger
Field,
male cadets would. In Dodge
Kansas,
the
men and women
facilities.
City,
shared
Sabota remembers a
blanket hanging in the middle of
the barracks to separate the
men
tance
from the women.
WASPs
paid for their
to
drivers
or
milk
and refused admit-
some
officers'
clubs
because they were not in dresses as
women were expected to be at that
room and
and
and from Sweetwater. The male cadets were provided these items at no expense.
According to Cochran's report,
board, most of their uniforms,
time.
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Ferrying planes could be dangerous because the aircraft were
often tagged unflyable. If there was
something wrong with the plane a
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line,
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would appear on the forms. The
red X was the most serious. WASPs
had to fly these planes to "get them
Sabota seated on her plane.
Fortunately
would have
Some WASPs even
stationed in
the
aircraft.
being able to see the
ground beneath their feet.
During a cross country solo
flight, Sabota encountered some difficulty with her plane, the AT-6. She
was over the Rocky Mountains when
reported
her propellor began to malfunction.
"Here I am flying and looking over
these darn mountains which are
awfully sharp and awfully close, and
my prop was not functioning properly.
thing
So
I
I
pushed and pulled every-
could push and
pull," says
Sabota. "I thought, 'I'm not going to
jump, I don't like the looks of it, and
besides
my
my
suitcase,
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and I'm not leaving it!'"
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propellor
began
functioning just as she thought she
way so they could be
destroyed, or used for parts,"
explains Sabota. When there were
"more reparable" problems, the
women often flew without instruments, or with holes in the body of
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school and for the B-29 electrical
guns. She also tested the B-26s after
they had gone through maintenance to make sure the problems
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Sabota flew seven days a week,
two four-hour flights a day. These
flights were dangerous. "That was
live ammunition they were using,"
says Sabota. These long shifts in the
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men were
fire their
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the
learning to
fly
at the same time.
time for them to be
guns
first
target for
and firing. I tov^-ed the
them to shoot at. Also,
they w'ere
stiU
in the air
cal
Stretch
every other day.
''The
perfecting the electri-
guns for the B-29, which
I
The
towed
targets
for.""
says Sabota.
targets
hung
just
20 yards behind
Sabotas aircraft.
Another task Sabota performed
vcas to check the men -^ho remrned
from overseas to insure they knew
the specific procedures used at
Laredo, and that they w^ere safe
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didn't
want
Sabota to perform any of her typical
duties during the flight. "I pulled the
wheels up when he told me to and
then turned and looked out the win-
dow. I thought to myself, 'If you
dont want me to fly or do anything.
I won't do an\thingl"" As they continued to fly. the oil began to conmale pilot didnt know
geal. The
what ^as wrong. Sabota realized the
problem, but said nothing, knowing
he wouldn't listen. After an emergenc%' landing, she
flight
w as
over.
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thankful this
Sabota and other pilots stand on
top of a B-26 on their last day at
Laredo.
The next day, how^ever, she -was
assigned to fly with him again. She
reports that he had the same attitude as the previous day. After he
inspected the plane, (he wouldn't
let
her do
they took off. This
looked out the winand saw gasoline spewing
it)
time, Sabota
dow
from the tank on the wing. They
had to take another emergency'
landing. "Those were two mistakes
in that
airplane that
you do not
make. We are lucky ^^e survived
one mistake, but tu-o?"
women
Thirt\'-eight
active duty while the
gram
^'as
in
died during
WASP
existence.
pro-
Although
they were serving the war effort,
they were civilians and not given
any recognition for dying for their
country.
After training at
Sabota's
flying
Avenger Field,
Lea Ola
partner.
McDonald, was stationed in El Paso,
Texas. Upon returning from a three-
week
leave, she
was assigned
to fly a
Helldixen She had plans to resign the
following day in order to get married.
She
felt
uneas\- about flying in this
"diinger ship", according to
an unfin-
was -writing
to Sabota.
ished lener she
Sirectram
which led her to the
and Germany. There,
she worked in recreation centers as
the administrative assistant program
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McDonald requested someone
to fly
with her, but the request was denied.
When she was ready to land she hit
wrong
the
flaps
which caused the
plane to dive. She called for help, but
her throat mike malfunctioned, makto receive any
from the ground. The
Helldiver went down directly above
the field and McDonald did not survive. McDonald's death occurred
exactly one year after Sabota's husband was killed.
ing
impossible
it
moved
money
to collect
said
to
send her home,"
The women had no
Sabota.
insurance or benefits.
women
the
of the
insurance
were dropped when they
policies
began
Many
personal
pilots'
flying for the
women
program, leaving
completely uninsured.
WASPs had no
rights to a military bur-
The American flag could not be
used on their coffins, and their families could not display the Gold Star
ial.
medal and an honorable
service medal.
Although WASPs are
now
tled to Veteran's benefits,
enti-
such as
to
GI housing, a military burial and a
Moody, Georgia where she became
grave marker, Sabota believes the
center
most important aspect of this is the
recognition of the accomplishments
and services the WASPs provided.
There is still debate on the
appropriateness of w^omen in com-
director.
a
Sabota
recreation
she retired
in
then
director
In
1979-
until
1987 she
returned to the area and has lived
instruction
"My best friend was killed in a
crash, and we [the other WASPs] had
a victory
in MiUville since.
Today, almost 700
still
alive,
WASPs
are
and every two years they
gather at reunions.
In
1977,
the
WASP program
recognition
members
finally
they
of the
gained
deserved
President Carter signed a
bill
the
when
grant-
them Veteran Status, 35 years
after Worid War II ended. This classified the WASP program as equivaing
lent to active military duty.
It
also
allowed the eligible members to
receive an official Honorable Discharge. Every WASP who was in
good standing at the time the program was disbanded also received
bat situations but today, 99 percent
of Air Force positions are open to
women. For the first time in U.S. history women, are trained and available for air combat.
In the navy,
women pilots and flight engineers
are now based on carriers, flying the
same missions
WASPs
as the
men.
did something that had
never been done before, and they
proved
that they
were capable of
much more than was expected.
WASPs proved they could handle
the toughest planes of the time,
and
they are a testament that the sky
the
limit.
is
S
symbolizing the death of a family
member
while serving their country.
part of the mil-
"We were never
says Sabota. "We trained in
same way as the men, and had
the same rules as a military unit
itary,"
the
would.
We
military,
took our orders from the
but we took our pay from
Tlic
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Fantasies
by Rebecca
the Civil Service."
On December 20, 1944
WASPs were disbanded because
the
the
war was coming to an end. Sabota
was still working in Laredo at the
time. "It was a shock," says Sabota.
"Up until that moment we got the
letter,
we
really
would become
until the end of
had hopes that we
military and stay
the war."
After disbanding,
WASPs wanted
a
some of
the
to fly for China with
group of Americans called the
Flying Tigers, but President
ordered that no women could leave
country unless they worked
with the armed forces or the Red
the
Cross.
After
her service
Sabota chose to
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Spiked
Springs
By Caroline Glassic
In
December
1974, a sampling
of water flowing from several major
was
Roadside springs.
conducted by the
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources (now known as
the Department of Environmental
Passing motorists and neighbor-
Protection). "In almost
springs
ing residents often enjoy this free
[springs]
flowing water -with a naivete that
tible
Mother Earth
will
bring
them no
harm.
But
five years ago, a local
trickled
down
a concrete channel
from which he sought refreshment.
The spring water that spills down
the hillside off Route 6l, near
Tharptown, was contaminated with
fecal coliform bacteria. Although
too late for this man, a sign has
been posted at the site by a nearby
resident warning other unsuspect-
bacterial
all
to
cases, the
be suscep-
contamination,"
If less
than 40 samples are
collected per month,
no more than
sample can contain coliform bacteria. If 40 or more samples are collected per month, no more than 5%
can contain coliform bacteria.
According to Harry Wilson, president of Wilson Testing Laboratories,
Shamokin, springs -which contain
1
according to Jeff Hoover, a compli-
runoff surface water, like the spring
ance
described above, are especially sus-
man
died after ingesting the water that
to
were shown
monthly.
specialist
Hoover
with the DEP.
said the
most
common
type of bacteria found in the samplings
total
was
"total coliform."
coliform
itself is
Though
not necessari-
does indicate the
likelihood of pathogenic bacteria,"
says Hoover. Consequently, public
drinking water systems regulated by
the DEP must monitor for coliform
ly
problematic,
"it
ceptible
two kinds of
and fecal
to
fecal streptococci
"Although
less,
some
bacteria are harm-
and some are
human
survival,
ogenic
bacteria:
coliform.
essential
for
such forms of path-
bacteria
could
potentially
lead to life-threatening illnesses like
typhoid,
and
cholera,
giardisis,"
severe dysentery
explains Wilson.
m
ing passers-by of the "unsafe drinking water."
Many
springs
can be spotted
throughout Pennsylvania. Chances
are, these springs are also "spiked."
Flowing surface and groundwater
up contaminants, including bacnitrates and pesticides which
can be carried below the ground and
pick
teria,
deposited in the w^ater table from
which spring water
is
discharged.
Contaminants may make this
Wapwallopen spring, lilte others
in our area, much safer to lool<
at than to drink from.
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Surface water tends to
draw
in
from se'wage,
contaminants
these
systems"
A
manure and other wastes. According
"Decaying
Wilson,
to
vegetation
would be the source of non-fecal
coliform, and fecal coliform results
from human and animal waste."
The site where the spring water
is
discharged also contributes to the
quality of the water. According to
Bowling, hydrogeologist
with the DEP, "Coliform bacteria
w^ill
most definitely appear in
springs because of a lack of soil or
rock above the "water table that
could otherwise filter out some
commonly
down
drift
groundwater
and
through the
into the water table."
the filtering capabilities of the
protect groundwater from
to
soil
human
contamination by
above ground.
more
are
unsafe
contain
to
likely
activities
springs
But,
amounts of bacteria because they
tap the highest level of groundwaGroundwater within 20 feet of
ter.
the surface
is
defined
public of piped water for
consumption,
such system has
if
at
connections or reg-
least 15 service
ularly serves
human
an average of
25 individuals daily
at least
60 days
at least
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their
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people
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The Visual Difference
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By Pat Castellanos
being a police officer
Imagine
who
isn't
authorized to write
or
an auto mechanic
tickets
denied
access
to
and
wrenches
Today, nurse practitioners are
involved in all aspects of medical
of
having to keep books according to
rules made by the American Bar
patients.
This
faced
by
nurse
is
dilemma
the
practitioners
in
Pennsylvania.
Nurse
Registered
Certified
and the care
and chronic
care including research
spark plugs. Imagine accountants
Association.
The
of the expertise of a physician.
all
adult,
pediatric,
restrictions aren't limited to
how an NP
duties.
In
"One of
the most important dif-
we
Medicare or
bill must go
companies,
ance
Instead, the
through a physician or hospital.
Nurse practitioners are
the time that
is
medical
NPs are
by insur-
not reimbursed directly
Medicaid.
ferences to patients
performs
Pennsylvania,
trained
can spend with them," says
Sharon Haymaker, R.N., Ph.D. "The
to
work with
to
operate independently.
average time of a doctor's
can work in areas that have trouble
visit is six
seven minutes," says Haymaker,
a physician but also
An NP
and deal
Practitioners
(CRNPs or NPs for
one of several kind of
Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs)
who have received special training
that allows them to perform duties
for which most registered nurses
to
short) are
"we're usually with a patient from
with patients
15 to 20 minutes or longer as the
everyday ailments that
patient requires."
nothing more than a prescription of
aren't qualified.
take the time to talk to the parents,"
be
Depending upon the laws of
where they practice, NPs
can see patients, order and interpret
laboratory tests and X-rays, and
Haymaker says. "We can explain to
them why they're doing what we've
asked them to do and make sure
approval.
perform some diagnoses.
leave."
the state
But not
they're
particularly important in
"We can
comfortable
really
before
antibiotics.
ing
is
of
used
But
have the kind of
may
require
this additional train-
little
use
without
if
a
it
cannot
physician's
According to the Alliance of
they
Advanced Practice Nurses (AAPN),
the problem stems from their regulating body. In Pennsylvania, NPs
Nurse practitioners are involved
unlike nurse anesthetists or nurse
midwives, are under the dual con-
admit
promotion and illness prevention.
But they are not involved in
a hospital without a
the decisions that will affect the
of the Board of Nursing (BON)
and the Board of Medicine (BOM).
The BON can issue regulations
for NPs but they must be approved
by the BOM which has been slow
to grant any prescriptive freedom
to APNs.
"We want the right to be self
Melinda
Dr.
says
regulating,"
Jenkins, an NP for 15 years and the
head of the AAPN. "I came here
from Missouri and when I saw the
restrictions that advanced practice
nurses face in Pennsylvania, it was
that
to
prescribe
into
is
who
in teaching nursing students, hea-
in Pennsylvania.
commonwealth, it's not
simple. NPs don't have the power
In this
patients
This
dealing with children.
attracting full-time doctors
medication
or
physician's approval despite the fact
that these are basic parts of
future of their
own
profession.
With the exception of
an NP's
Illinois,
every state allows nurse practition-
job in 39 states in the U.S.
The nurse practitioner
was developed in 1965
lth
position
at
the
University of Colorado to alleviate
the shortage of doctors, especially
ers
to
medications that
prescribe
would fall within the NP's training
and their scope of practice (Pediatric NPs, for instance, would not
in pediatrics. The nurse practitioner
would serve in the gap between
nurses and physicians, performing
be prescribing
tasks that are outside the traditional
so severe the
sc-ope of nursing yet don't require
independence.
in
several
of
fertility
those
drugs). But
states,
the
restrictions that limit this ability are
NP
loses almost
all
trol
very shocking."
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The AAPN encompasses
all
of
the advanced practice nurses in the
commonwealth.
down
take
mission
Its
is
group of nurses from using the
full
range of their training. Right
means lobbying
that
for
a
change in their regulatory body to
the Board of Nursing alone.
"I know a nurse -who came here
from California and took a job in
western Pennsylvania. She said to
me, 'This is like trying to practice
with one hand tied behind my
says
back',"
Christine
Filipovich,
Pennsylvania Nursing Association's
Nursing Practice Administrator.
"We
know
Pennsylvania
is
a
for
fact
that
less attractive to qual-
advanced practice nurses than
other states," adds Filipovich. Many
ified
of the best
and
NPs obtain dual
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ABOUT
6:45 A.M.,
main gate of
the Three Mile Island (TMI) Nuclear Power Station,
Middletown. "We didn't know if it was a confused
person or someone with evil intentions. We just
didn't know," recalls Mary Wells, head of public
relations at TMI. Nye hit the turbine building and
four hours until Security could find him and turn
Pierce Nye's car crashed through the
hid inside for
him over
to the State Police.
This security breech
had been
plant that
drew
attention
once again to a
relatively quiet since the
dent. But this time the focus
was on
1979 acci-
security at
all
The disturbance affected a
and unheard.
Security at the PP&L Susquehanna Steam Electric
Station (SSES), about five miles north of Berwick, is one
power
nuclear
plants.
department which
of the
first
is
primarily unseen
visible safety features.
But behind the scenes
and
way. "We normally don't give a lot
of information out about security because that's the
way we do business," says Roland M. Ferentz, SSES
security operations supervisor. "We keep everything
very generic and very brief for the simple fact of safelies
a part of security the public doesn't see,
Security likes
it
that
guards."
Security
increasing
events
are
growing
"of
numbers throughout the
concern
and
country," says Paul
Gunter, director of the the Reactor Watchdog Project
the
Nuclear
Information
Washington, D.C.
many
This
and Resource Service
rise
in incidents
at
in
has caused
plants to reinforce their security programs, either
the set of 8-foot fences, says Richard Gaudreau, former
SSES plant security coordinator and security training
supervisor. "When tripped, the field starts a camera,
two videotape recorders, and the alarm. A security officer in the control booth immediately dispatches anoth-
and sees what is happening on his screen,"
Gaudreau explains.
The security officer at the scene is updated about
the situation by radio. "The officer in the booth uses
movable cameras to watch the action and the dispatched officer would be out of his vehicle, using it as
a defense barrier in case the intruder were to fire [a
weapon]," says Gaudreau. If the intruder makes it past
the second fence, the officer "is going to challenge the
intruder by telling him to halt, warn him that he is trespassing on private property, and if he does not remove
himself, he 'will be removed by force," Gaudreau says.
If the perpetrator has knowledge of where to go to
accomplish an objective, and "if the security officer fails
to detain or capture him, then another one [officer]
would be sent," Gaudreau says, noting "all of our proer officer
through mandated orders or by choice.
tected areas are well covered."
The 108-acre protected area at SSES, where the
main reactor building and two cooling towers are located, is surrounded by two rows of barbed wire fence 20
Gaudreau, who was also in Air Force security prior
working for PP&L, says there are few differences
between nuclear protected areas and Air Force bomb
dumps. Most of the security measures are common to
both private industry and armed forces. "[The training]
works just as well in one as it does the other," he says.
Precautions are also taken to guard against assault by
automobile. Every vehicle that enters the site, even PP&L
vehicles, undergoes a thorough search by security officers, as mandated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Code of Federal Regulations. Entering the
first gate, the vehicle is driven onto an open grate.
Security Officers check all areas of the vehicle.
apart. Motion detector devices line the area
between the fences and will sound alarms if movement
by anything as small as a bird is detected. The fence
line and interior of the protected area is monitored by
closed circuit television cameras mounted high on lattice work poles. If the plant were to lose power, an
Uninterruptable Power Supply battery and diesel generator backups are available to keep these systems
feet
working.
An
intruder
the area
that sense
22
who
known
climbs the
first
fence would enter
as the "E-Field," a set of eight wires
motion or objects within the area between
to
Following the TMI incident, the
situation
and determined
that they
NRC
evaluated the
should change the
Spectrum
the
protected area is gained
through one of two heavily-moni-
Nuclear Power Plant
design basis
tJireat,
They decided that
for power reactor
against
tect
it
says Ferentz.
was important
pro-
facilities to
vehicle
tored gate houses.
From
side, these buildings
look more
tourist
information
the out-
centers
like
than
coded with information about the
holder are issued to personnel, and
used to unlock the turnstiles and
various doors in the plant. "Personnel are allowed into certain areas
penetrations.
entrances
"We sent out a generic letter
demanding that nuclear power
Inside are
activities,"
tors,
keycard, the Security Data Manage-
plants install better gate devices,"
machines.
says Paul Swetland, project engi-
neer for the SSES, working out of
NRC
the
regional office, Williams-
SSES responded by installing
stronger secondary gates at the
entrances of the plant.
port.
to
nuclear
a
facility.
rows of explosive detecmetal detectors and X-Ray
prior
to
access to the plant.
When
a visitor
be searched, employees park outside the fence and walk to the
an officer
compares information provided for
the advance check with information
on a photo I.D. People in the past
have failed the check and were
denied access to the plant, but they
had no problems when they were
informed. "They must know what's
in their background that didn't
allow them to go into the plant,"
says Elaine Panella, SSES senior
plant.
public information specialist.
The plant's 1,200 employees
must go through a variety of secu-
entering the protected area
Once
inside the protected area,
vehicles are escorted
by armed
security
mobile
who
officers
in
units
lock the steering wheel to the
brake pedal, when the vehicle is
parked. Because all vehicles must
rity
searches every day. Access to
Spring 1997
arrives at the gate house,
The
of
last line
locked
of defense before
turnstiles.
is
a set
Keycards
controls
plant
is
and work
their clearances
says Ferentz. With the
ment System (SDMS)
on all
granting them
Security conducts a check
visitors
based on
access
computer
throughout
the
and monitors where everyone
while inside the plant, Ferentz
explains.
Because keycarding
strictly
is such a
enforced security procedure,
tailgating
is
not permitted.
the plant with
their
ing
own
and
I
keycard and
use
"If
I'm in
someone who has
my
we
are talk-
keycard but the
other person forgets and follows
through the open door,
me
that's tailgat-
ing," Panella explains. If an emergency inside the plant would occur,
the person who tailgated would be
Security officers check all vehicles before they are allowed to
enter the protected area.
23
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1 00-yard firing
Nuclear Power Plant
team
"You just
endangered a whole team of securiunaccounted
would be
ty
officers
for
and a
security
dispatched.
a plant emergency,"
in
says Panella. Officers train extensively to
deal with such emergencies.
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of a high school
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personnel
at
SSES
now
range for practice.
Security personnel carry .40 cal-
have
col-
HK semi-automatic pistols.
iber
also
bomb
threats to hostage situations to
bomb-laden vehicles. We graded our
teams on how they responded to the
situations."
To prevent
lege degrees in law enforcement or
ring
criminal justice.
They
equipped with 12-gauge
shotguns and AR-15 rifles. Several
4x4 personnel carriers and armored
Chevy Blazers are also used.
Gaudreau says the security team
trains "on a range of scenarios, from
are
training
mistakes, a reoccur-
cycle
requiring
32
secu-
hours of training every five weeks
three phases of training
must be completed. Phase I consists of 240 hours of combined
classroom and performance training. Phases II and III require performance/observation based training including response actions,
equipment familiarization and uti-
Everyone who enters the plant
must pass through the gatehouse
and a variety of security checks,
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The
where all
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Security Annex, also located off-site,
contains
a
physical
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and an area for training during
inclement weather SSES also has a
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into
the
work
schedule.
Personnel also go through about
300 hours of recertification/
retrain-
ing a year.
"We have
that
training.
"White House"
is
and
outside training.
A variety
including a bomb sniffer, metal
detector, and X-ray machine.
we
a lot of procedures
follo'w," says Ferentz,
"and
once it's in the procedures, that's
what you follow." A committee is in
place to make sure any procedures
changed are not degraded. "There
are so many approvals and reviews
it goes through to make sure nothing
is
missed," says Barry Bechtold,
security shift supervisor
PP&L
also
Spectrum
The reinforced secondary gate
is
the
entrance to the protected
area. The gate was installed after
Pierce Nye broke through the
gates at TMI.
A
inspection.
runs
of the
regional assist team
during a small-scale
drills
Safeguards Readiness Eval-
tional
uation (OSRE)
when
test
The Opera-
organization.
a larger scale
is
special forces are
used
drill
to test
The NRC will also "come
unannounced to see how we're
security.
in
complying with their laws," says
Ferentz. It can request any information
during
these
routine
inspections.
Beneath clouds of steam and
the roar of the generators of the
SSES
plant
silence of a
has
its
"audit
the
up
auditing department that
programs other than what
NRC would
to
make
sure we're
to speed," says Ferentz.
NRC
personnel, augmented by
engineers and special forces, con-
duct large and small-scale inspec-
and
"They cover so
much material, they'll send an itinerary," Ferentz says. But little
advanced notice is given so Security can't change things for the
tions
tests.
lies
group
a vital
role
symbol
of
Ferentz
says
at
a
silence.
The
that quietly plays
the largest visible
power
the
in
area.
SSES is
happy to stay behind the scenes
because, "sometimes a low profile
is
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ON
Everyone
A COLD FEBRUARY
afternoon at the
Sunbury Ice Rink,
two hockey players
fought for control of
the puck.
One
player checked the
other with a forearm to the head.
Steamed, the second player responded with a slash-proving that on
the
Amanda Hemsarth can fend
ice,
for herself.
The
17-year-old
School junior
er
in
the
is
Millville
High
the only female play-
Susquehanna Valley Ice
"It's an unusual sport
Hockey League.
for a
girl
to play,"
says Hemsarth,
makes it even more fun."
Most girls who play hockey join
field hockey team and leave the
"that
a
ice to the guys.
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is
Amanda
plays field
as well, but her true pasfor the ice.
Amanda's family
Her
Bruce, and younger brother,
in
shares her love for ice hockey.
father,
Greg, also play in the league.
The Susquehanna Valley Ice
Hockey League consists of eight
teams. Players range in age from 14
their 50s. Amanda is used to
being the only female on the ice
because all of her hockey experience has been against guys. When
to
she was growing up, her father's
came over to play pond
hockey. "We played for four hours
friends
every
and Sunday,"
Amanda.
When she was 12, she began
playing organized hockey in open
games at the rink. "My father and I
were on opposite teams," says
Amanda, "That made it really
Saturday
explains
competitive."
At
15,
she joined the league
and got her first experience of
organized hockey. The league
allowed checking and the games
were more intense than the pond
hockey games.
Players
from
Hershey and even Canada came to
play in this league. Everybody took
the game seriously and Amanda
didn't
know how
would
react to a female playing
her teammates
on
their team.
"I
don't think there
was
a lot of
resentment, they really didn't
what
know
Amanda. "After
they all went out
to think," says
they got used to
way
it
encourage me."
Teammate, Dick Laroche says
of their
that
to
anybody
onto the
to play.
ice
"It
is
willing to step out
given a
chance
fair
doesn't matter
if
you're
male or female, if you can stand on
skates you can play," he says.
Although it's now a non-checkSpectrum
Ice
Hockep
and they dropped the gloves,"
Amanda, "They were on
each other the whole game and
ended up getting kicked out."
recalls
Amanda's
ing league, during
year checking
was
first
allowed. That
year was a proving ground for
first
Amanda
show
to
she could
that
handle the physical play.
"During one game the
go and
letting things
were
refs
guy
a
hit
me
in
the head with his forearm," says
Amanda, "so I slashed him back
with
my
was
a girl he kept apologizing."
stick.
When
he found out
I
Amanda is the only
make her exempt
hit. "When I put my
Amanda
during
her
league.
The
shot;
scored her
first
wrist shot
is
goal
first
season
in
the
her best
however, she scores most of
her goals by posting in front of the
and knocking in rebounds.
like to hang in front of the
net and catch the goakender out of
position," says Amanda. She plays
net
"I
from getting
hair up under my helmet the players don't even know there's a girl
the game with an aggressive style,
whether chasing loose pucks or
fearlessly going into the boards.
"She can handle the puck pretty
good and maneuver well on her
on the
skates," says Laroche.
Just because
female doesn't
says
Amanda. The
first
was on
ice,"
the receiving
end
of a cheap shot she
was more
sur-
prised than angry.
"I
time she
thought to
myself, 'What a creep,
back
later.'
didn't forget
didn't get
I
it,"
recalls
get
I'll
mad
him
but
I
Amanda.
"Hockey
is
game
a
intimidation," says Laroche,
off, she'll
come
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is
instincts are all about."
Bruce plays on defense but
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the youngest
player in the league. "We have
good chemistry and play well
together," says Amanda. Sometimes,
Bruce moves up to center
with his children on the wings to
form the "Hemsarth Family
Line."
Obviously, her father loves the
idea of her playing in the league.
"He thought
EXPLORE
is
mother
is
was
it
hula
thing since
the
my
"[My father]
POTENTIONAL
'That's
my
I
whoops and
hollers
score a goal and says,
girl,'"
make
restroom a
and
conditions in the
too crowded.
little
While Amanda has succeeded
in the
men's league, she didn't stop
Two summers
there.
attended Ice Hockey
camp
ago
Camp
at
she
Penn
The week-long
University.
State
consisted of conditioning and
training
drills
school players
designed for high
who
w^ant to play at
the college level. Coincidently, she
was
the only female there as well.
"They helped
training
she says.
every time
will
this
greatest
hoops, and
That's nice dear,'"
like.
one inconvenience. Most ice
one locker room,
so Amanda has to change in the
ladies'
restroom. According to
Amanda three more girls are going
is still
rinks have only
to start playing in the league
one of the League's leading
Another teammate, her
14,
at
is
scorers.
brother Greg,
right
playing with the guys, there
laughs Amanda.
glideboards,
ice,"
me
with off-ice
such as shooting with the
and with things on the
she explains.
Although
ice
hockey
is
her true
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the
left,
a family affair for the Hemsarths. (From
father Bruce, Amanda and Greg)
is
i hese two alumna have helped
of
mater with a portion
love,
Amanda
doesn't limit herself to one sport. She
also plays basketball, softball,
naments
in the
for Millville
and
field
hockey
tour-
High School. She coaches a team
American Youth Soccer Organization with her
friend Allyson Gatski.
When
to
Although she would
hockey, she says
it
she chooses a college.
academic reasons
like to
"I
first,"
want
I
when
go to a college for
explains Amanda, "having
never played against other
how good
continue playing ice
won't be the deciding factor
to
girls,
I
really don't
know
was so
a
playing.
"I'll
would love
find a recreational league to play
to play
hockey
in college, but
any farther than a recreational league
if I
they
us why Bloomsburg
tell
special to them, but their stories
will
remain a
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you have made, or are considering,' a commitment
we'd
secure the future of Bloomsburg University,
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A number
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having included Bloomsburg University
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of
alumni and
already identified themselves as
charter
members
in their
future
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Whatever decision Amanda makes concerning her
hockey future, chances are she won't be the last female
from the Hemsarth family to play in the men's league.
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ey
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which type of hockey she likes
better, field or ice, she can't decide. "Ice hockey helps
me with field hockey by improving my hand and eye
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By Robin Weidner
BEVERLY CRAWFORD
when nearby
IS
USED
residents
to being awakened
begin their drunken
journeys home. Because it was St. Patrick's
Day, she expected it to be a little louder than usual.
Crawford rolled over and went back to sleep, only to
morning her hand-made decorative
and the pole had been stolen from her front
porch on Bloomsburg's Iron Street.
Crawford says this wasn't the first time something
like this happened. "My husband brings the flags in
every night now before we go to bed, or else people
find that the next
flag
Beverly Crawford has made more
than 100 flags in the past five years.
would
steal
them,
she says. Although these incidents
"
are discouraging,
it
favorite pasttime of
doesn't stop Crawford from her
making
She began creating
flags.
about five years ago after
New England and saw
them for sale. "I thought they'd be easy enough to
make," she says. They were an instant success. Since
she began making flags, many local residents have
nick-named her "the flag-lady."
Crawford works at Weis Markets and acts as secretary for the Bloomsburg Bowling League and the
Association of Bowlers. Still she finds time to sew. At
the end of the day she says she relaxes by working
on her flags.
she visited a
"At night
craft
sew
show
in
when I am done washing
husband goes
to
flags
in to
watch
television
the dishes,
and
I
go
for the rest of the night," she says.
has a special
room
set aside just to
work on
She spends about three nights on each
upon the difficulty of
make a simple flag in as
ing
complex
flag,
my
upstairs
Crawford
the flags.
depend-
the pattern. Crawford can
little
as
two hours.
pattterns take four or five hours.
More
She makes
about 40-50 flags a year.
Crawford buys most of her patterns at craft stores,
but when she can't find a specific pattern, she and
Craig, her daughter Amy's huband, create their own.
can draw the pattern, but my
is a draftsman by trade
and he helps to size them for me,"
Crawford says. Most of the flags
she makes are 3 feet by 5 feet.
Unlike many of the nylon massproduced flags on the market,
Crawford uses a material called trigger
The previous
"I
son-in-law
The material is heavier than
nylon and keeps the flag from blowing away when it is windy outside.
People let Crawford know
when it's time for the weekly ritual
of changing the flag. "They walk by
my house and say we've seen that
poplan.
flag
long enough," she says.
Because Crawford's house
bend
porch
is
the
they drive
One
down
"was
many
see as
Iron Street to work.
for
Stacy
who showed
a lamb
a
Longenberger
flag
Bloomsburg
the
Fair.
Longen-
who w^as nine at the
won third prize for Good
berger,
time,
at a
of Crawford's most recent
projects
at
thing
first
is
on her
in the road, the flag
Housekeeping.
year's flag
had a
picture of the pig the girl raised.
"Her brother,
show
Jeffrey,
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By Vicki Harrison
A MIDDLE-AGED
DAVE*,
from Montour
once
down
sat
BUSINESSMAN
county,
to read to
However, he lacked
his daughter.
the necessary reading skills to even
bedtime story.
read a
This was quickly pointed out to
him by his preschool daughter in
one simple sentence that has
haunted him ever since "Daddy,
children's
—
you
can't read."
One-third of Pennsylvania's 12
reading
skills,
adequate
lack
residents
million
according to a 1994
adults, representing 50 million
peo-
were functioning at Level 2,
involving more varied, but still quite
These staglimited reading skills.
gering statistics become even more
ple,
through
is
one such
individual
received a high school diplo-
believes
teachers
the
knew he
in
his
couldn't read,
and
The only "help" he remembers
receiving was being sat at the back
of the room by an elementary
school teacher so he would not
have to participate, and having
tests read to him by certain high
Northumberland
counties),
beyond
school
according to
the
Esther
ninth
grade,
Ann
Zabitz,
coordinator of Susquehanna Valley
Adult
Cooperative.
Literacy
quite possible
ly illiterate;
many
"It's
are functional-
someone who
doesn't
have enough reading and writing
to function
skills
in
today's soci-
A
fies
functionally
United
illiterate,
States
49th
and ranks the
out
of
156
The National
nations in literacy.
Literacy
Survey
(NALS),
administered nation'wide in
1994,
found 21-23 percent of the adult
population functioning
skill
Level
1,
at
reading
capable of performing
"brief,
uncomplicated text."
Another 25-28 percent of American
only
*Dave's real identity
32
did not help him.
school teachers.
tests] if
far
Dave,
is
"I'd
you'd read
as taking a
reading
it,
I
it
[the
Diane
I
-was
OK
participating
O'Neil,
as
(in
assistant
coordinator of Susquehanna Valley
Adult Literacy Cooperative, recognizes
personality
the
traits
Dave
exemplified in school as two of
three different
means by which
stu-
dents with reading difficulties some-
mask
many
cases slip virtually undetected
teachers]
their
problems, and in
through the school system.
Dave's
show
traits
behavioral
patterns
what
of
O'Neil
describes as the "model student"
the school didn't know,
a
problem only recog-
few decades by the educa-
tional system.
In a person suffer-
ing from dyslexia, a "switch" in the
brain
that
times
nized and properly tested within
last
was
[the
it
however, was that Dave's reading
problems stemmed from difficulty
hearing short sounds and from
the
life
I
me, but as
pass
to
book home and
do it," recalls
they
my
as
sports)."
it."
dyslexia,
long
couldn't
"and
What
United Nations study identi-
90 million American adults as
Adult
stUl
knew
ety," says Zabitz.
mind
He
Dave
who
(Columbia, Montour, Union, Snyder
21,708 adults never finished high
may
Although some messages
not connect properly in his
ma, yet lacked adequate reading
skills.
"It's the most false piece of
paper ever given to me," says Dave.
fact that
graduated from high school.
school
and
connected,"
not
that's
explains Dave.
due to dyslexia, certain messages
Dave received from the high school
he attended did connect. Those
messages left Dave with the
assumption that as long as he
behaved and "was involved in
sports, he would get by in school
regardless of whether or not he
could read. Dave concedes, "I felt
when coupled with the
many of these adults have
disturbing
by the Education Testing
Service. In a five county area
report
switch
doesn't
function
properly,
and the "jock." The model student
is one who is well mannered who
gains extra credit from teachers for
good behavior that boost their otherwise unsatisfactory grades. The
"jock"
w^ho receives
in
activities.
extracurricular
Although
Dave
could not be certain that his grades
were
and numbers backwards.
his
a
a student
involvement
sports
leading that person to see letters
"It's
is
passing grades to ensure his or her
actually
enhanced because of
involvement
in
sports,
he
not revealed because of career concerns
Spectrum
admits,
you have
playing
think
"I
helped."
sports
O'Neil confirms, "We've
So
multiple choice.
it's
Adult Illiteracy
test,"
statistically
a chance of passing that
gram, he says
much
many
edge he has
in his field
may
non-readers use
law.'"
problems. "Most of our non-read-
A
third type
who
problems
behavioral
keep
of smdent
is
the
exemplifies
order
in
to
reading disabilities hidden.
such children are pushed
through the school system in an
educators
dismiss their
to
unwanted
behavior.
However
that
different these
may
ioral habits
some common
between
all
behav-
be, O'Neil believes
threads exist
of them, as well as in
the school systems that allow these
problems
reading
students'
to
remain undetected. The forms of
used in classrooms do
testing often
little
to
detect reading difficulty.
"Many times
is
given
it
is
in school,
The
-
when
a test
either true or false, or
when
the teacher asks a question,
they can respond very well."
Many non-readers
exceptional
listeners;
what
I
because
Dave
ters
really
I
says.
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in a conversation, so
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explains that he
can be
good communication
good memory.
and a
John Pickin, 38, Danville, says
he has also used similar survival
skills to compensate for his reading
deficiencies. "My other skills were
skills
sharpened,"
says
Pickin,
•
"I
could watch someone and just listen to them, and not be in the con-
and how
know what
but
versation,
to
do
to
do
it."
Gloria Phillips, 33, Mifflinburg,
agrees
her
that
learn
to
ability
through watching others also
helped her, in spite of not being
able
to
"tactile,
read.
visual
Phillips
learner,"
is
a
according
to her reading tutor, Karol Weaver,
Mifflinburg.
able to
do
"If
it
able to learn
she sees
it
and
is
with her hands, she's
it,"
explains Weaver,
an instructor and graduate student
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O'Neil,
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have good memories," says
"so they can listen, and
ers
Although he
did complete a certification pro-
says O'Neil. She also believes
that the survival techniques
had several students "who say, 'I
was the jock. I was above the
"problem child"
uted his inventory.
Dispense long-term prescriptions
school than a lack of encourage-
Adult Illiteracy
your
neighbor
as
we
will
at
Penn
Like
continue
supporting
our
community
ment. "What hurt
kids
many
"They
non-readers, Phillips
ment the ones
school, never forming any lasting
they thought
with
because she
students
other
like
felt
an outcast.
low
Phillips attributes this to a
self-
esteem that she believes developed from two major obstacles she
faced.
more
being a bank
She claims the
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ability to learn
more by turning her
nature
even
naturally shy
outright
into
ridicule
withdrawal
had low selfesteem, and when someone would
tear me down, I would get hurt
and
isolation.
more," she
"I
recalls.
Floyd Walters of Bloomsburg,
principal and former reading liai-
son
Middle
Le'wisburg
the
for
School,
correctly
points out that
education has been improving
in
needs students are not subjected to
such ridicule. "We don't pull children out of class anymore," says
Phillips
says
that
taught only basic
were
and never
students
skills,
Instead, Walters explains,
Walters.
excel.
"now vv^e have chapter teachers
moving through the grades with
children. They are in the room giv-
says Phillips.
room
allowed to
try
Nevertheless,
higher
levels
of
the
rudimentary
level of education Phillips received
earned her a high school diploma
but, like Dave, she also couldn't
read when she graduated. Phillips
blames this on not being given any
incentive. "Because I thought I was
just slow at learning, I kind of
eased back," says Phillips, "What-
ing support to the regular classteacher, rather than pulling
By keeping
the child out."
these
students involved in regular class-
room
"we've eliminated
activities,
the stigma of 'Hey, you're special',"
says Walters.
"Chi" Walthery, 47, Lewis-
P.S.
burg, a former educator in
New
Jersey, Florida
and Ohio, and
for-
mer program
consultant
the
for
me was
Association for Retarded Citizens
fine
because I was not ever going
make anything of my life."
Dr. Ben Van Horn, superinten-
(ARC), describes this form of edu-
to
cation as inclusion,
ever they wanted to teach
dent for the Mifflinburg school dision.
disagrees with Phillips's opin-
"From
my knowledge
of the
est trends in
one of the
lat-
education where spe-
needs smdents are kept in reg"The program can be successful if it has
cial
ular classroom activities.
daily activities of the special edu-
enough of
cation teachers, they're very
dili-
Walthery,
about challenging the
stu-
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"if
those involved, stu-
dents academically, and providing
educated, and
them with a good transition into
the work place," says Van Horn.
However, Phillips says she
faced an even greater problem in
are
"If
and
teachers
made
if
parents,
are
proper materials
available."
She cautions,
these programs are implement-
ed without proper planning
doomed
to failure,
they're
because they
Spectrum
However,
Adult liiiteracy
with Dave,
people off to inclusion by
turn
Walters says that the chapter
program
successful in the Lewis-
is
He
burg schools.
believes
and allows students
tion,
it
more one-on-one
students
same
the
way,
this
on paper and
couldn't
I
out of a book," says Dave.
it
Dave
believes that learning to read
to learn
his wife
is
a teacher,
personal responsibility he
himself. Therefore,
on
own.
his
is
owed
a
to
he sought help
Unfortunately,
for
at their
own
assured
a
children
that
grasping what
much
is
Intermediate
founded
to
more
adults
was
(CSIU),
by
and
Zabitz.
It
instruction
through
students
its
grants
obtained by CSIU from the
Department of
Pennsylvania
Education and other govern-
mental
Anyone at
no longer
agencies.
least 17 years old, or
high
attending
are
school,
can
seek confidential, one-on-one
program
tutorial services
gram.
for kids," says Walters, "since
it's
Unit
1982
in
offers free materials
being taught.
better
where
from Columbia, Montour, Union,
Snyder, and Northumberland counties.
The program, sponsored
through
Central
Susquehanna
Walters.
are
Literacy
work with
volunteer tutors
and teachers can be
pace,
"It's
it
could-
Although
children
allowed to learn
put
read
I
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In
interest -was there, but
offers
developmental stages. "They
don't all have to be on the same
at
existed.
atten-
in
page,
n't
says that his ambi-
leam has always
tion to
"My
their errors."
was not the case
this
who
from
this pro-
Tutoring sessions take
place in public settings, and at
child sensitive."
However, Walthery believes
that the whole developmental
process of a child's growth must
the request of the students can
be addressed. "No one is monitoring the whole development
of a child," says Walthery. She
"Most
explains
ment
whatever subject
in
teacher
particular
is
the child's growth.
teachers
Literacy
to
Perhaps
teaching
acy
this
distinguishing
who
truly
Dr. Frank Laubach
says Walthery.
would
between students
have learning problems,
By
that refuse to learn.
looking
the child's entire devel-
opment, social and emotional
problems that sometimes cause
children to rebuke against an education may also be recognized.
Unfortunately, even when all these
factors
tion,
are
there
taken into considerastill
are students
are disruptive, refuse to learn,
who
and
blame everyone but themselves
their failure.
Spring 1997
students
as
(ESL).
a
Liter-
American-
are
for
many years
his persistent search for
help with his reading
was met with
ESL students are individ-
born
ed
several different occasions,
of
the
are interest-
skills.
In 1996, 312 students enrolled
in the
program. Of 196 literacy stuwere high school gradu"We have a lot of students
ates.
who are
who come
former school teachers. However,
in each instance he was either
level,"
denied assistance, or promised
help that never developed. "I
always pursued this, but the only
real help I got was through CSIU,"
in the
form of
high
to us
school
on
graduates
a second grade
says O'Neil. These statistics
sound only too familiar to Phillips,
Pickin, and Dave, w^ho all received
high school diplomas, yet lacked
the necessary reading
skills to
even
read them.
More
Dave.
That help came
who
improving their English
in
language
Dave sought help from reading
instructors, physicians, and even
recalls
outside
dents, 50
disappointment.
On
skills.
uals
United States
Benton native and founder of
Laubach Literacy International
approach to
aid teachers in
and those
at
English
born, with low level reading
be
aware of looking at a child as a
complete package, rather than
in isolation,"
and
Second Language
of
"Dedicated
need
alv/ays
towns.
self-con-
about their reading
so we're very
accommodating," says O'Neil.
Students in the program are
classified in two basic groups.
that
rest
are
deficiency
teaching,
and doesn't consider the
home
their
students
scious
a child's develop-
deals with
of
side
teacher often
a
that
be arranged to take place out-
startling
is
Robert Berkheimer,
the case of
58,
Danville,
35
he moved to a job
in the hospital's
garage
food
Adult illiteracy
who
his alphabet
when he
problem, Berkheimer,
in a special education
ABC's,
Fortunately,
a farm,
and
I
knew
notliing."
vocation, often keeping
from school to do
Dad kept me home
so.
to help
this practice is
today's
Berkheimer's case,
a job
on the
Pickin
and Dave
it
disadvantages in children, such as
dyslexia and attention deficit disor-
to find help with
Regardless of improvements in
education,
with adequate reading
tional
skills.
Berkheimer, and Dave
in
helped him get
dairy farm at Danville
reading
disorder
tion of schools with
records]
there
proper educational testing did not
[the
"It
preoccupa-
good standing
out there," says Dave,
way
because
is
Hov/ever,
may be
I
my
can say
some school
trying
to
out
it's
wife teaches."
districts
overcome
this
by initiating propromote literacy. For
the Warrior Run school
preoccupation
grams
which
17 years.
is
"and the only
problems.
in
the educapreoccupied
the expense of ade-
contrast,
dyslexia
a
at
quate educating.
State Hospital
is
them
gets
"The schools, all the way through,
helped me as much as they could,"
he explains. Unfortunately, along
with Phillips and Dave, Pickin's
where he worked for
Once the dairy was closed.
too
is
to teach-
he attended attempted to help
his
Dave believes
system
with having good records, and often
let
Pickin believes that the school dis-
him with
30 years as an edu"I have seen
our professional ability develop to
identify more problems."
systems that failed to provide them
trict
his
Walters says,
cator,
opposing opinions on the school
my
not encouraged
During
der.
problems from Susquehanna Valley Adult Literacy Cooperative. However, the four have
Alth-
educational system,
today's
of Phillips,
them down when it came
ing them to read. In
him on
school.
that
fol-
has
believe the educational system
wasn't
"I
the farm," says Berkheimer.
in
in the footsteps
Phillips,
him the
him home
learning anything in school, so
ough
lowed
Berkheimer lived on
his father taught
left
believes
to recognize the causes of learning
Berkheimer
his reading
program. How^ever, he did not
receive even the rudimentary skills
that she did. "I really didn't know
anything," says Berkheimer, "I didn't
know my
Walters
service.
Today,
like Phillips,
he
exist until after
his
school systems are better equipped
left.
from an acute speech
Suffering
was placed
know
until
retirement after almost 36 years of
attended high school until the
tenth grade, but didn't even
delivering
that
instance, in
district
students are offered incen-
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read through reading con-
tives to
tests,
which
in
special needs stu-
dents are encouraged to participate
in as well.
"Through our
library,
we
have reading contests for all reading levels to promote literacy," says
Kov/alski,
principal
at
Sarah
Warrior Run High School.
John Klusman, Bloomsburg
High School principal, says that
special needs students are given
tutoring for classes that require a
lot
of reading, and are assisted by
w^hen tests are given.
Because of these types of assisinstructors
tance,
Klusman
"Every stu-
says,
dent graduating from here
spokesperson
Corbe,
Adult illiteracy
liter-
is
the
for
don't think that everyone
She adds that funding is targeted towards adults with the most
educational need. "In general, both
state and federal funding is to be
used for the most uneducated or
undereducated adults," says Corbe.
She adds, "The objective is to have
the services tailored to each individual adult's needs." However, as
read
cation.
a
whole,
adult
students
literacy
need community support as w^ell,
according to Corbe. "Communities
have to understand and respond to
the literacy needs within their own
quality
specific areas to structure
programs
insufficient
who have
adults
for
literacy
says
skills,"
one degree or another, but
there are some students who have
Corbe.
lower levels
resources are necessary to provide
ate to
of
literacy
[due
to
learning disadvantages]."
grams aimed
eracy
reducing adult
at
illit-
promoted.
link to such
not properly
is
Therefore,
illiteracy's
and economic concerns as
unemployment, crime, poverty and
domestic problems remains unchanged. The U.S. loses over $225 billion a year in productivity due to
Almost $5 billion a year
illiteracy.
is spent on welfare and unemployment because of illiteracy. "People
have to learn to read, or we're
social
going to become a two-tier society," says O'Neil.
In spite of these statistics, gov-
programs like
Susquehanna Valley Adult Literacy
Cooperative, and aid in the devel-
opment of new
Kirk
ernment support often fails to provide adequate funding for proat
reducing the
a
in
"There's been
government to
is
outreach
work
to
"Local
expand the
of local literacy pro-
and
recruit
train vol-
unteer mtors, and then match mtors
with students
who need
To ensure
funding
that
help."
adult
continues,
tion that lobbies
is
literacy
on behalf of the
"The lobbying
campaign.
an outgrowth of organizing
dents
on behalf
stu-
of themselves,"
says Zabitz. "The biggest advocates
are the adult students themselves,"
she adds, "and
that's
how
it
should
be."
One
is
Gov. Tom Ridge's proposed
budget for this year calls for only a
three percent increase in funding
for adult education,
adult literacy,
which includes
according to
Chris
can't
else," says Pickin.
Certainly, it was not "skid row
bums" that Benton native Dr. Frank
C. Laubach envisioned when he
embarked on a worldwide literacy
campaign in the early part of this
century. While working as a mis-
Moro
sionary with the
tribe in the
province
Philippine
Lanao,
of
Laubach developed his one-to-one
teaching method, and mastered the
idea of using phonetics as the core
people to read.
for teaching
After
funding was discontinued, Laubach
found
that
the
who had
JVIoros
ers.
his
literacy
globe in his 40 years of service.
Founded
Literacy
900 local literacy proUnited States, and an
additional 33 programs in other
countries. One such program is
in the
Susquehanna Valley Adult
Cooperative,
where
donated
I'll
take a couple of days and
to Washington, D.C., to
lobby so
Literacy
volunteer
7,936
hours
to
teaching others to read in 1996.
"They are the backbone of
our
of the
pro-
group,"
says
gram's tutors.
O'Neil
Many housewives
have become tutors, says O'Neil,
but it is the former students who
become tutors that she is most
proud of.
Dave is one of these former students, who embodies the "Each
one, teach one" motto, by being a
illiterate
lit-
presently
sponsors
grams
his
eracy program, has gone on to help
others through lobbying. "A lot of
Laubach
1955,
in
International
coming
helping himself
teach
this dis-
and led Laubach to expand
campaign around the
covery,
tutor to
after
one,
"Each
Laubach's
one" motto formed from
who,
learn to read with the aid of the
go
going to
of these student advocates
Pickin
times,
who
row bum ^vho's never
learn how to do anything
a skid
tutors
government
students have formed an organiza-
reduce funding for adult education," says Zabitz.
Spring 1997
needed
funding
grams which
adds,
Shisler
politics.
push
big
Laubach Literacy
for
International.
of fund
director
illiter-
acy problem. O'Neil concedes that
change
resources
educational
because of
materials, according
Shisler,
development
literacy
grams aimed
more governmental
However,
to
is
learned to read were teaching oth-
training to localized
Unfortunately, support for pro-
and representatives
senators
that
Pennsylvania Department of Edu-
adults.
reading
perhaps Dave can
By
over-
deficiencies,
finally lay to rest
words his daughter
once spoke, and replace them with
"Daddy, you
the new affirmation
can read."S
those
tell-tale
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COLUMBIA COUNTY'S
Men of Iron
HARD TO IMAGINE A TIME
The Iron Guards were named
when mules pulled men up
IT'S
canal
next
and down
Bloomsburg at the time. The men wore
uniforms paid for by local citizens
who donated $1,500 to the cause in
a
the
to
ever,
May
7,
built
Susquehanna.
that
was
How-
the case
on
when the Rolling Wave,
boat owned by William T.
1861,
a canal
from Bloomsburg's Port Noble, carrying all 77
men of the Iron Guards from
Columbia County. Their destination
Coleman,
departed
was Camp
The
Curtin, Harrisburg.
Iron
Guards
organized
themselves within a week after the
fall of Fort Sumter and formed three
volunteer companies to fight in the
Civil War.
after the iron industry in
just a
few days. They were trained
by Capt. William T. Ricketts, who
had spent time at West Point.
Armed with supplies and a
small cornet band, the Iron Guards
set out for Camp Curtin where other
Pennsylvania volunteers were gathering. A number of citizens accompanied the volunteers on their trip.
Lt. Charles B. Brockway commented on the mood of the men in
a letter he wrote home a few days
later: "It was not regret for what we
had done that saddened our
but
thoughts,
the
reflection
some and perhaps
bidding
final
and
friends
all
that
of us were
adieus to weeping
many
that
of us were
beholding the spires of Bloomsburg for the last time."
His
letter also
documented
the
Camp Curtin in detail. Along
way they stopped at the
Catawissa Bridge to greet the many
people who assembled. They also
greeted
them, anel
a
barrel
of tar
was
burned so
that people
could see the
volunteers
boat passing
Many
of those peo-
ple provided the party with milk,
bread and supplies.
When
in
the Iron Guards arrived
Harrisburg the next afternoon,
the governor, legislature,
ous military
company
the
of
On
nized on
to
their
tom of
the boat
and others
slept
on
Run,
16,
home
nic) the
retired
They fought
Bull
June
returned
send them on their way.
As the cornet band
beds of straw strewn along the bot-
to
at
the
Gettysburg,
Antietam, and Fredericksburg.
berland where citizens gathered to
some volunteers
the
and
The Iron Guards went on
battles
played,
drilled
serve an extensive three-year tour
of the South.
Danville and Northum-
best
lent of the military police.
the
at
vari-
equipped that had come to Harrisburg. Because of their prior training with Ricketts, the Iron Guards
were given responsibilities equiva-
trip to
docked
and
men pronounced
1864,
the
men
to a repast (or pic-
town of Bloomsburg orgathe
court
house lawn.
They honored the soldiers who
returned and remembered the 14
who died and 27 were wounded. S
-George Turner
the deck. Just about the time things
began
ties
to
calm
down and
the reali-
of war began to enter the men's
thoughts, the Rolling
Selinsgrove.
Wave reached
Although
it
was
the
middle of the night, a brass band
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Letters from Soldiers and Citizens of
Columbia County, Pennsylvania. Edited
by George Turner, Published by The
Columbia County Historical
1996.
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Contents
BINGO!
by Heather Williams
Some
BINGO
local hotspots for
enthusiasts
On The
6
by Steven
Ice
Kleinfelter
& Tom Venesky
Tips for heating up a popular
winter sport
Shedding New Light
by Steve
Keeping
"at
Kleinfelter
school
risk" kids in
Bent Feather of The Flock
by Karyn Gandenberger
One
mother's struggle with
Rose
ADD
'Petaler'
by Caroline Classic &
Karyn Candenberger
Rob
Dillon carries
'Til
by
a122 year
Violence
tradition
Do us
part
Vicki Harrison
Clothesline project raises awareness
about domestic violence.
Walk Like A Man
A
look at abuse, from the eyes of the
young
O/^
Dying
^^
in
Bloomsburg
by Jim Seip
A
look at a local dye
company
with
NationalAcclamation
Cover Design by
Stephanie Kreamer
The Tracks
28
of History
by Tammy Benscoter
A
look at local railroads
when
trains
roamed the countryside
Spectrum
BINGO!
"We
other,
pretty
all
and
it's
much know each
always a good time,"
who
says Annette Cooper, Danville,
has been playing at the Washington
Company
Fire
(Washies) in Danville
every Wednesday night for 25 years.
can
"It
add up,"
really
says
Cooper, "but there are also cash prizes
larity
more than sim-
involves
showing up
play the game.
to
numerous multicolored "dabbers" to mark the numbags, hold
bers called and tote plastic figurines
for
Markers, boards, and good luck
charms are
all
part of
BINGO
at
the Catawissa Fire Hall.
good luck.
"You must have an elephant,"
worth hundreds of
According
to the players
BINGO
games
at
Ever
or a "postage stamp"
hour"?
at
Ever pay $60
averaging about 100
sidered small,
local halls attract over
400
some
local
"That's nice, but
fun out of
called.
it
really takes the
Cooper
game."
it,"
the original
says. "It's not
The game of BINGO,
first
record-
ed in 1778, was originally an English
game
The
"Keno"
or "Kino," dates from the early nine-
tions.
teenth century.
player can win several ways,
BINGO"
traditional
by covering
a straight line.
five
"straight
numbers
in
The "postage stamp"
covers four numbers in each comer of
the card and "bull in the ring" is won
by covering the squares around the
center or "free" space.
BINGO games range from
$60 a
night,
$15 to
depending on the color of
The Moose
Lodge in Bloomsburg charges $25 to
$100 for packages ranging from 30 to
90 games respectively.
the card a player chooses.
Winter-1998
since
it
reopened for
BINGO
"BINGO
is
what keeps
this place
The average person
running," he says.
spends close to $40 a night, according
The
Sorber.
go
profits
American Legion and
the
to
charity organi-
earliest
won
called "Lotto."
American form,
called
The game gradually
recognition as "Beano," "Lucky,"
each
nights
other
players attend
regularly
well
and know
enough
to
joke
reached the height of
"People like to yell things to the
caller
and some of the
fold papers and throw
women
them on
will
stage,"
he says.
But the jackpot still creates the
most excitement. "The people really
get into
it
when
they are playing for
the thousand dollars," Sorber says.
"Radio," or "Fortune."
It
BINGO
around.
are held at local churches or fire sta-
the
retired
a
zations such as Bloomsburg's Easter
television screen
children's
A
Lodge
to
BINGO halls attract nearly 700 people
weekly. Many of these BINGO nights
including
Sorber,
postal worker, has been playing at the
Egg Hunt.
The majority of the
as a tradition at birthday parties
that
games on Sunday and
the
nights.
games" that utilize a
to show the numbers
people regard the ages-old
unaware
who runs
Monday
out $2,300 to $2,400 a
James Sorber, Bloomsburg,
people a night, playing "high-tech
games? If not, then you're probnot aware these are popular
games on BINGO nights.
or fairs,
"We pay
night," says
"happy
ably
game
Many
at
to play
these
Many
one game known as "The Jackpot"
Moose Lodge.
places like the
the
are con-
people a night.
played a "bull in the ring"
dollars.
nights in 1983.
says Cooper, "they are lucky."
Washies, the
by Heather Williams
winning cash and prizes
their luck at
of the players carry canvas
BINGO
cards
with their admission tickets, then tried
Today, players can win $1,000 in
BINGO
Many
BINGO
patrons received free
over $200."
ply
during the Great Depression.
The game then became known as
"Screeno" and was played in movie
theatres. One night of the week
its
popu-
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by Steven
Kleinfelter
and
Tom Venesky
Although the temperature may be below freezing,
winter can be a hot time for fishing.
Ice fishing requires little angling skill and is a great outdoor activity for the whole family. The equipment is basic,
easy to find and inexpensive. The necessary tools are a
tipup, a jigging pole, an awl, an ice scoop,
and either a man-
ually operated or gasoline-powered auger.
The auger
operated auger
is
used to
is less
drill
a hole in the ice.
A manually
expensive; however, a gasoline-pow-
ered auger saves time and energy.
No
matter what type,
according to Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission regulation, the hole may not exceed 10 inches in diameter,
Once
ice
to
the hole is drilled, the scoop
from the
hole.
It is
is
used to remove loose
important to keep the hole free of ice
prevent sharp pieces from cutting the fishing Une.
After the hole
is
cleared, the baited line can be dropped.
There are two types of setups
line.
that
can be used to work the
A tipup is a reel of line mounted on a tripod that stands
over the hole. The line
is
depth and a signal flag
is
bites, the flag is released
baited and lowered to the proper
attached to a catch.
When
a fish
and pops up.
The other type of pole is a jigging pole, a short rod
about two or three feet long. The pole is baited
now
or small jig and worked up and
utes to attract fish.
setups.
Many
down
every
anglers choose both
According to Fish Commission
rules,
an anglefinay
use a
maximum
of five devices and no more than two jig-
ging poles.
The awl
is
a
wooden device
that is
worn around an
angler's neck. If anglers falls through the ice, they can
break the awl into separate parts revealing a spike
end.
The spikes
at
each
are placed into the ice, giving grips to the
anglers so they can pull themselves out of the water.
"I also strongly
Photos by
Tim Flanigan
recommend
County Waterways Conservation
Mark
Pisko,
officer.
Pisko also recommends ice fishermen
ice to see
how
ice because
strong
it's
it is.
wear a
Columbia
that ice fishermen
personal floatation device," says
Clear ice
is
test opacity
of
stronger than cloudy
newer.
"Always go with a buddy," says Frank Cann,
assistant
regional supervisor for the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat
Commission's northern headquarters in Sweet Valley. "Stay
away from docks, rocks, dams and stumps."
Factors underneath the ice can also dictate
is.
how
safe
it
Rotting vegetation and large schools of fish generate
Spectrum
Ice Fishing
Although Lake ChiUasquaque
heat that can melt the ice from the bottom.
"People often overestimate the thickness of the
ice,"
is
not stocked with trout,
Pisko says there are good opportunities for panfish, bass,
owned by
says Pisko. "I've seen guys walking on ice so thin that
and northern pike. Lake ChiUasquaque
every time they step down, the water seeps through their
auger holes."
Pennsylvania Power and Light, but managed by the Fish
In
Columbia and Montour
counties,
Pisko recom-
mends
Briar Creek Lake, north of Berwick; and Lake
ChiUasquaque in the Montour County Preserve.
Briar Creek Lake offers good opportunities for panfish
and
trout.
The lake
stocked with trout in October,
is
November, and February. The October and November
Many
Commission, and
is
unique because a section of
is
it
is
set
aside as a refuge.
"The refuge portion of
the lake
says Kevin Drewencki, land
for the preserve.
He
children because
it
want
to
is
only for ice fishing."
management superintendent
says the lake
is
a great place to bring
holds an abundance of panfish.
keep the lake as a family
fishery.
We
""We
improve the
of the
panfish habitat by putting out porcupine reefs every year."
from these months will be left over for the winter season. The February stocking is part of the Late WinterExtended Season program started by the commission two
Porcupine reefs are structures made of wood and block that
stockings are part of the
fall
stocking program.
trout
years ago.
Trout is in season at Briar Creek Lake until March 31.
The limit is three daily with a minimum size of seven inches. Along with a fishing license, a trout stamp is required.
Photo below: A tipup and a jigging rod are
two devices winter anglers can use to
catch their limits. Gas powered augers
make
drilling
photo on
holes
right.)
in ice
a breeze. (See
provide shelter for panfish. In order to fish there a permit
must be obtained from PP&L. Permits are
obtained by calling 437-3131
Ice fishing
many outdoor
remember
to
is
a great
way
to
free,
and can be
overcome cabin fever for
enthusiasts during the winter months. Just
be
safe,
have fun and stay warm,
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Keeping
by Steven
'at
Risk' Students in School
Kleinfelter
back
to the
home
school to be re-evaluated to find a more
appropriate solution. Lee explains two unwritten rules she
Discipline problems, poor attendance records and academic underachievement usually buy students trips to the
principal's office. In the six school districts of Columbia
County, students get a
"The shed," the
tive education
trip to "the
better
program,
is
"Show your
also advocates.
Donna
known synonym
for the alterna-
who
designed for students
teacher
Lee,
at
the
Alternative School. She explains that
your igno-
Doug Wolf,
17,
Bloomsburg, a third-year student of the
alternative education program, says that although the stu-
shed."
dents
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Show your
can't
"stigmatized,"
are
tion has helped him.
Columbia-Montour
the nickname origi-
he asked to
intelligence,
ignorance.
the trailer has been replaced by a building with four class-
was
"I
crowd.
previously sat beside Crispin Field in Berwick. This year
move
Wolf says
to the
program
three years ago.
not your
nated because of the trailer that housed the program, which
he
believes that alternative educa-
deal with the structure of a regular classroom environment,
says
intelligence, not
rance," says Lee. And, students must "use their manners."
back
I
[to
in
with the wrong
really don't
my home
want
to
go
school], but
I
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rooms, each with a capacity of 10 students. There
office, a
"A
common
is
area and a student store.
large portion of the kids have failed and
guess
also an
I
were held
to
(CSIU) took over an alternative education program that had
been run by Union and Snyder counties, says Kathy
Bohinski, director of educational initiative at the CSIU.
hard.
keeps a
faculty of four teachers and one teacher's aide
maximum
enrollment of 40 students. Participants
are considered "at risk" of dropping out of school.
often have problems with
They
school attendance, academic
have
to. I
teachers [at
Bloom and
Everyone here
to
felt like
Bloomsburg High
can go to just about any." says Wolf. "I talk
they're like 'you go to that shed
school' and I'm like 'no, man, everybody
Wolf hopes
never
go
is
smart.'
It's like
down
there tries
being in a family."
to college after he graduates.
Providing structure and stability
is
one of the ways the
program is effective. "Many of these kids come from broken homes or have no real family structure," Lee says.
"People think these kids are bad," says Bohinski.
"Some have done
bad, but
some come from
situations that
they were never taught right from wrong."
work and conduct.
For
I
people from
back a year or so," says Lee. The program began about 10
years ago when the Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit
The
my
could go up to any of
School]. Here
I
this reason, students are required to sign a contract
Students benefit from the predictability of the school.
of 19 rules Students are also under another contract from
the
home
Photo by Karyn Gandenberger
school.
"The home school keeps a contract of why
they are here," says Lee. They must abide by that
contract. If a student
is
referred to the alternative
education program for attendance problems and
the
problem continues, the student
Levy Whitesell,
14,
is
brought
Berwick;
Doug Wolf, 17, Bloomsburg; and
Andy Sweigert, 16, Millville (left to
right) benefit from instruction on
computers, one of the many indi-
vidualized programs at the alternative school in Berwick.
Spectrum
Alternative E
They know what
them, Lee says.
to expect
and
"I think it's better than
it's
my
The program has been in place since August 1 986, says
Ray Boccardi, a teacher at the alternative school who
began teaching there two months after it opened.
The school day at the alternative school is slightly
a safe environment for
old school," says
Andy
Sweigert, 16, Millville. "It's not as bad as people think
modified. Students take the bus from the
it is.
The
goals for the
improve academic
priate behavior,
students
skills,
make informed
of the program are to
decisions about their goals
These goals are
met through the behavior modification program.
their actions.
"We have
Students reach higher "levels," says Lee. Through correct
During
behavior students can earn days that turn into weeks
that eventually
become
keep behavior on
track.
to
be on a certain level
to deal with the
to eat in
start at
also
work
a certain level and proceed
He
at their
with the
pace, says
ties
done
plastic
at the alternative
education
Muchler.
"We
Some
Lee explains that students used to be involved
Cross. They are now involved with putting
bags over parking meters in the winter for free park-
"Once you
of the activi-
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feel like
you've reached your level you can
go back," says Wolf.
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baggage the student brings with them."
Lee says students
a regular school setting.
BED
our lessons."
ing and taking Halloween decorations to retirement homes.
starts at
Muchler, Intermediate Unit supervisor.
in
own
projects.
points out the
"Everyone
start
Students are also required to do community service
educational levels. Students
math lessons for example.
book one," says Wolf. "They move
book four, and then they go to the hard book."
Each student's program is different, according to Tom
Wolf.
to
at different
we
work with computers,
self-esteem work, getting along with others
and team building
"open" lunch with the other students.
They
games
"We do
Each level is designed to
These levels become privileges.
9:00, then
that until
their free time, students
take part in
levels.
For instance, students have
school to
the
respond to situations with appro-
and accept responsibility for
home
Columbia Montour Area Vocational Technical School.
They then get on a bus provided by the Berwick school district to transport them to the alternative education building.
"The morning is our free time," says Levi Whitesell,
14, a second year student from the Berwick school district.
a normal school, just smaller."
It's like
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"We had
graduation.
says Boccardi.
seven graduating seniors
"If they hadn't
last year,"
been here they would have
quit school or failed."
alter-
native education program, agrees. After graduating in 1992
she attended Penn State University, Hazleton.
Bloomsburg
House believes
She has
University.
the alternative education
program
is
important to prevent dropouts.
"High school
is
of the beneof the alterna-
school
tive
Joanna House, Berwick, a former student of the
since transferred to
One
fits
tough. There
is
is
smaller class size.
Donna Lee, one of
the four teachers
the
school,
at
instructions Andy
Sweigert.
a lot of pressure to con-
form, and peers can be very judgmental," says House. "The
alternative education school provided
at
me
a second chance
education in a smaller, more supportive atmosphere.
doubt that
I
would be where
I
am
I
Photo by Karyn Gandenberger
today without their supto
port."
Both the school
district
and the alternative education
program help students
try to get
that students graduate
from
back on
their
own
track.
Parker says
high school, not the
succeed
at
work. The program has between an 80 and 90
percent success rate, according to Boccardi.
"It's
into a
rewarding when I'm out
former student
who
is
in the
community and run
doing well, doing something
alternative education program.
they enjoy and they aren't a burden on society," says
Lee explains that students are usually involved in the
program for two or three years. The program accepts students from 13 to 19 years old.
For those who do not plan to enter college, the alternative education program gives students the skills to go on
Boccardi.
The
to
teachers are the strength of the system, according
House.
"I think
about the teachers
"They mean so much
to
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parents left
the
me
by Karyn Gandenberger
behind
at
Horn
Big
Little
V
i m. Monument Park
Montana when I was eight years
in
old. I
had been distracted by an Indian chief
while the rest of
my
Why
can you be so
you pay
can't
always act
like
attention
Why
your head
symptoms
ADD
tests,
above average
has been
in
a
in aptitude
only
in
report cards had the
much and
talked too
I
all
could not
was
I
fidgety and
sit still.
I tried to
be good,
I
I
didn't think
I
just couldn't stop
cookie-cutter society of the
my
prob-
lems stemmed from anything other
My
than disobedience.
out.
I
or simply
was frequently
left
out because
left
I
brain than
its
excuse clothed
Scientists rightly get upset
extravagant claims
Among
lished.
up
to
many myths
is
25 percent of our population
my
I
son started to display
was
afraid he
personality flaw.
and
guilt
felt
I
Dr.
an
Danny Waldrop,
was
I
read about
symptoms
for
It
report cards.
my
I
son's and
in
listed
ADD,
as if reading the teacher's
ments from
it
and
com-
my own
could not believe
how
they had
a pediatrician at
We
a long and tedious series of
began
tests, that
took over a year to complete, but
we
we were
not
to
make
sure that
blaming a disease instead of being
r]p\
newspaper.
article in a
eight or nine
it
when
little
Geisinger Medical Center.
responsible parents.
rest-
ADD.
was extremely out of date. I found a
support group which directed me to
frustra-
because of his
mistakenly
reluctant to pro-
What
The
had never heard of ADD until he
10,
was
vide any material.
inherit-
was overwhelming.
I
My
contacted his school, the
administration
iLy
r.
Alice
J.
Sheflin Zal, a family
physician
ADD.
process,
ior
people
always present with
had
and impulsive behav-
less, inattentive
many
is
When we
wanted
ADD.
When my
have been around a
Winter-1998
these
pub-
are
suffers
and disorders
(ADD)
is not a new disorder. Dr. Edward M.
Hallowell, a psychiatrist who suffers
in neurological, sci-
language for any inappropriate
entific
behavior.
was about
Attention Deficit Disorder
a
They
to identify diseases
that
it
a catch
have been coined
long time under various labels.
existence, considering
to
become
ed
is
not
"flavor-of-the-month" disease.
tion
considered a subgroup of ADD.
son did not display any hyperactivity,
effort.
feel this diagnosis has
that
abnormal, hyperactive behavior, and
is
believe
behind
known about the
ever before, and new names
Today, more
of
which
symptoms,
distracted and forgetful.
deficit
many people
to tune
was often
Disorder
includes
he sudden popularity of ADD has
believe
teachers, par-
and siblings soon learned
They have
been told they suffer from a
t:caused
with
Hyperactivity
have been shamed, beaten,
motivation and
class-
Deficit
and
punished and humiliated.
when
talking and thinking.
1960s didn't consider that
is
ADHD.
or
Attention
names: laziness,
ADD
the
in
For decades, children
with
all
was being bad, but
child
rooms.
along,
worthlessness."
out of
instead of following along with the
of the class:
the
"It
has been called by
it
different
I
I
The
he responds,
the diag-
nosis because
under our noses
was a daydreamer and didn't
pay attention in class; I jumped ahead
turn;
High IQ can mask or delay
these
all
and
same teacher remarks every marking
period:
learning disability at the age of 12.
up with work
placing in the "high" group.
My
call
and offices and homes all
over the world, right
managed to get good grades until
homework assignments became more
frequent.
we now
people ask him where
stupidity, rottenness,
tested
was experiencing.
He was diagnosed as having a
I
stu-
cloud?"
I
similar to what
ADD." When
symptoms coincided
these
with what
able to keep
do you
is
closely
classrooms
they scolded
later,
"How
severely.
states,
age syndrome' was used to describe
has been
parents returned to the
stay with the family?
me
dam-
years,
pid?
ents
as the
raced to the souvenir shop.
park several hours
rest
"As long ago
1940s, the term 'minimal brain
When my
ters
me
brothers and sis-
ADD
from
explains
if
who
specializes
that
the
in
testing
done properly, invohes
input from teachers, counselors, par-
and other relatives.
This is
accomplished by ha\"ing them fill out
ents,
a detailed questionnaire regarding the
attention span and behavior.
These questionnaires ask the respondent to indicate the degree to which
child's
the
child
displays
the
patterns
of
for
ADD.
It
took three months for the school
were completed.
questionnaires
The responses from
of his
several
teachers were wildly different from
other
further
Medication
is
like a pair of
enhancing
beneficial in about
ADD
80 percent of
u
needed
told
he
stronger
As long ago
These
drugs
include
stimulants like
Ritalin, antide-
1940s, the term ^minimal
disci
damage syndrome^
brain
of "babying"
'^
times
we
felt
they
treat his
step
included a physical
work.
efforts to identify
problem.
The next
physical problems.
in
process
the
exam
with blood
This
is
mimic symptoms of ADD.
The test results came back normal, so
we made an appointment for the next
step in the diagnostic process.
A neuropsychological
and
ability
to
logic,
organize
Impulsive behavior
tasks.
included not thinking before acting;
saying things before thinking about
appropriateness.
Dr.
tester
needs
tell
to
says
the
that
whole
watch the
score
story; the
client
to
determine whether he or she becomes
easily distracted.
He
says,
"We
even
include a simple motor test that measures
how
their finger.
was
obstacle
the local
and
ation
we
and
Many
of the teachers are willing to
high-
school
face every
accommodate
year.
but have a heavy
us,
blood pressure
class load, or face a lack of reference
medicines like
material and lack of support from the
C
administration
a
t
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s
.
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to
influencing
of
levels
vices.
and counseling
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ser-
efforts to
create an environment conducive to
who
learning for students
are diag-
(Patients with
ADD
my
with
we decided
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and includes educating the
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prescribed medications
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from teachers did not help
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perception
either.
remarked
him
straps,"
to
that all he
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students
ADHD
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with
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diagnosed
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which he didn't understand.
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initial
are
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This allows the
more effectively.
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Ritalin
are not.)
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start.
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to focus
quickly a person can tap
very good at this; depressed patients
faceted
fresh
a chance at a
slate,
Elavil,
do was "pull himself up by the boot-
Hallowell
alone does not
mind
was
battery
measure memory,
impulsivity
complex
meant a clean
Trofranil
These medica-
external and internal.
work,
given which included standard written
that
For him,
simply replied, "Relieved."
it
brain inhibit extraneous stimuli, both
essential
because thyroid disease and other dis-
tests
like
felt
it
school district and the lack of cooper-
according
Hallowell, by
asked what
I
when he was diagnosed with ADD, he
key neurotransmitters which helps the
This ruled out other possible
orders can
work,
tions
were sabotaging our
When
feel over-
like
some
was used to describe
continued symptoms similar to what
throughout seventh grade and at we now call ADD.
and further behind on his
pressants
Their unco-
him.
operative attitude
and
focus.
the
as
mental
sharpening
He would get
son faced every day.
homework until he would
whelmed and just give up.
eye glasses for the brain,
and
pline and accused
us
working
cases,
with children
deal
to
experiencing the types of problems
my
cases, medication.
was uninformed and
faculty
ill-equipped
some
same
teachers
that
to
coaching,
structured,
and from our own.
teachers
These
changes
lifestyle
therapy and social training, and in
and another month before
to respond,
the
making
become more
der,
behavior that are considered markers
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and teachers about the disor-
friends,
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When
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the winter air whirls at night
in
Bloomsburg, a familiar patch of light shines
above the greenhouses at Dillon Floral Corp.,
marking the ground where roses bloom year
round.
Those roses wouldn't
brighten
Bloomsburg's days and nights had it not been
for John Lloyd Dillon's bright ideas in 1875.
Dillon, founder of Dillon's, built his first
greenhouse on land he rented from his father
consumer need of vegetaThe greenhouse was 20 feet
by 60 feet and first housed lettuce plants
which grew all winter at a lower cost than hot
beds. Dillon built the greenhouse on cement
which led to greater efficiency and productivity,
there-by helping him to expand the company.
after learning of the
bles
In
in
the area.
1879, he bought 10 acres of land on
where Bloomsburg University now
built what was originally named
the Normal Hill Greenhouses. By 1914, the
business expanded to 15 greenhouses with
Normal
lies.
Hill,
There, he
100,000 square feet under glass on
Fifth
Street.
In
the mid-1 890's, vegetables, Dillon's val-
were soon accompaintroduced steam to
heat the greenhouses using a furnace and
boiler. Others had considered his idea to be a
ued greenhouse
nied by roses
crop,
when he
worthless experiment, yet Dillon became the
first person in the country to successfully use
steam
talized
to heat a
on
greenhouse.
this idea
He
roses year-round.
With
spark
this
of ingenuity.
Dillon contributed to what
largest rose
producer
is
today the
in the state
and
one of the few remaining rose growers
the nation as well as the largest
in
"Roses can have
capi-
and began growing
Alsteroemeria grower on the east
ed
to the glass ceilings of the green-
houses with
Currently
its
main crop, approxi-
mately 2.8 million roses are sold year-
1,000-watt bulbs
in
each.
some
Dillon's has also instituted
new growing mediums which
are an
experimental concept in the rose
industry.
coast.
24 hours a
light
They just keep growing," says
Dillon. Over 100 lights are connect-
day.
perlite
The
substrate,
traditional
and peat moss has recently
been met with two more productive
including rockwool and
According
"Labor
Dillon,
to
costs less in a day than
an hour." Labor
it
does for us
ly.
"For Valentine's Day, about a quar-
substrates,
ter
of a million roses are distributed,"
coconut byproduct.
expense for Dillon's, and,heating the
greenhouse comes second.
and
"They have just discovered roses
to grow in coconut," says
Dillon. Coconut byproduct bears a
biodegradable property, whereas
introduced some of today's advanced
rockwool absorbs water especially
Ecuador, suffer a loss in the quality
and efficiently controls the
of their roses during the passage
says
Rob
Dillon,
of
president
Dillon has
inherited
his
renaissance
great-
spirit
horticultural technology
and flower-
well
growing mediums
company
nutrient supply to the roses.
to the
in
order to maintain a competitive edge.
overseas.
Dillon's greenhouses also feature
largest
identify this
South American
as an unfair loss.
countries,
the
is
While Dillon's may
love
Dillon's.
grandfather's
in
such as Colombia and
Inspection conducted by
U.S. customs and the
USDA adverse-
the
"environmental computers" which
ly
high-pressure sodium lights which
control temperature, humidity, light,
drawn-out and disruptive shipping
induce photosynthesis, thereby yield-
and carbon dioxide.
These advancements
process which the roses must endure.
One such implementation was
ing
more roses
in the winter.
strate
not
demon-
only Dillons' long-held
Walt Deitrick checks roses to be certain of their
high quality.
affects
the quality,
Home-grown Alsteroemeria
company because of
nature, but also their
ty
that
now
overseas
begun
market
has
because
of
countries
According
environment provides a warm
welcome, so Dillon's has been shiftthe
ing to flowers that don't ship well in
response.
Carnations
among
where the climate
discontinued.
is
growth.
rose
South
In
America,
to Dillon, the flower-
growing business has been shifting to
the equator for the past decade where
closer to the equator
highly conducive to
says
Dillon.
in
production in
foreign
more
flowers and thicker stems,"
to
trade
shrunk to 40 per-
rose
are
due
In America, the
cent
"Our Alsteroemeria
open, have longer laterals with more
the mid-1970s.
rose
poor quali-
the
of Alsteroemeria flowers grown
extends
international
policies
is
overseas.
supply
rose
rent
does the
another promising flower for the
innovative business
response to the cur-
as
Though
been
and
pom
pons are
the flowers that Dillon's has
trade policies have not
in their favor, Dillon's
"We
sisted.
are
more
has per-
interested in
Colombian growers
quality and customer retention," says
produce a rose crop
Dillon.
at
nearly one fifth
This continual philosophy and
the cost of domestic
their
markets and export
have assured their existence
them
flower industry.
to
America.
innovative business practices
in the
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Clothesline Project Raises Awareness about Domestic Violence
Story and Photos by Vicki Harrison
A
makeshift clothesline, stretching
"The
across
Washington,
Women's Rights
Mall"
D.C.,
in
a
at
a couple
rally
of
years ago displayed a host of brightly
colored
of the
shirt
shirts. In spite
shirts, a
of the vibrancy
simple white, cotton T-
stood out from the
on
blood
be precise.
red, to
The only
was red
rest.
bright color
this shirt
Nicole Brown Simpson was the
owner of the shirt. As part of a nationwide Clothesline Project that contin-
ues
today,
gruesomely
shirt
this
Other
tation.
included in the
shirts
Clothesline Project are decorated by
children
—
the consequent victims of
violence against
women.
"They're therapeutic for the
first-hand account of abuse
made by
by
either a survivor of violence or
someone who cares
for that person.
Sylvia Costa, educational coordinator of the
Bloomsburg Women's
Center, explains that the shirts are
decorated to represent a particular
woman's experience and color coded
to define the type of abuse that
woman
Costa's
experienced.
is
each
For instance,
a yellow T-shirt, signifying
that she has
been battered or assaulted
violence
(
nity is uncomfortable
are
silent
by the presence
women from
deters
speaking out
The
non-judgmental
in a
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tify
to
harsh
that
won Y he
against
in
many
domestic
let
forms, ranging
violence,
rape,
makes us pause and think
lives," says Russell.
or
lavender
for
and
women
attacked because of their sexual orien20
stay in these abusive
relationships,
and subject them-
becoming
selves to the possibility of
one of the 2,000
to
show
who
die with nothing
for their lives but a white shirt
women who have no
about the tremendous
and violence against
toll that
women
crimes
take on
control
over the violence they have been sub-
question should be
reality
violence
Other color codes include red, pink, or
incest or childhood sexual abuse
die each year as a
jected
who
why
her go,
women
to,
them-
allow
selves
stay
to
abusive
of domestic violence, sexual assault
purple
women
Yet,
the
Brown Simpson's, represents a
woman who has died from violence.
survivors of
women
direct result of battering.
vari-
tion that
women
spousal
Other sources suggest that
colored
enced different types of violence. For
example, a white shirt, like that of
green represents
women
by
sustained
injuries
abuse.
The question shouldn't
shirts also tesbe why does she stay. The
ous
crimination. "It's a dramatic presenta-
raped or sexually assaulted blue or
hearings
million
represent
do so
to
atmosphere.
have experi-
have been
Judiciary
them
molestation, and violent acts of dis-
women who
Senate
revealed that one
ing, but the Clothesline Project allows
from
orange for
The
hanging on a Clothesline Project.
While some of the other colored shirts
about the violence they are experienc-
cat-
Nicole
1993
study.
commu-
of victims," says Russell. This often
free."
women who
according to a
American Medical Association
about 2,000
oth crimes of sexual assault and
women comes
egories of
tell
their story in order to heal.
and reads, "You said you were sorry
again and again and again, now I am
Other colors signify different
her lifetime,
for
in their lives." Russell
explains that victims often need to
crimes, and in both cases the
a
is
enced violence
B«'domestic
is
women
expected to be abused by a partner in
every year require medical attention
depicts the horrors of violence against
from one of these clotheslines
victims of
are
severe assauh by boyfriends and hus-
women and children who have experi-
women.
In fact, every shirt that hangs
women
four million
bands; about one in four
"The T-shirts make a statement,"
says Kathlene Russell, executive
director of the Bloomsburg Women's
Center and survivor of domestic violence.
cer deaths combined. Each year, about
in
relation-
ships are often seen
as having the con-
'
trol to
avoid the vio-
lence they're experiencing. However,
control
is
the very chains that hold
them captive
"Who
to their abuser.
has the power?
one who needs
to
be
Who
in control
the
is
within
that relationship or that family?" asks
Costa. "It's usually the male
who
has
dominance," she says.
that
But she's quick
men
to point out that
abuse women. "There are
The 1992 U.S. Senate Judiciary
Committee report recognized violence
not
as the primary public health risk to
not batter," says Costa, "but the ones
adult
women
proved
to
in the
be more
United States.
common
It
than auto-
mobile accidents, muggings and can-
all
some wonderful men out
who
do,
there
who do
do so because they want
to
maintain power and control."
This need for power and control
Spectrum
Econo
Lodge
The Women's Center Clothesline Project is a graphic depicAbout one-fourth of all American
women will be abused by a boyfriend or husband.
m>
AT BLOOMSBURG
tion of violence in society.
has
stemmed from a
will tend to
tality,"
history of sexist
and viewpoints. "A batterer
values
buy
into that sexist
men-
profile of an abuser
often includes acts of jealousy. Quite
often, this characteristic will crop
in
teen
relationships,
Unfortunately,
Costa.
predecessor of abuse
tected.
"A
lot
up
"It
leaves scars here and here,"
I
heart.
Emotional abuse
mental control over
and, thus,
common
"The number one reason
why they stay is fear and threats," says
Costa. These threats can be toward
this
may go unde-
think that's a real
situations.
own
their
lives or
Costa.
threats like, 'If
from these character flaws of
controlling jealousy that a continuum
of violence can progress.
that violence will escalate
"We know
over time
and become more frequent," says
start
what breeds
causes them to stay in these violent
dren, she says.
What may
is
women
according to
of students equate jeal-
ousy with love, and
Costa.
emotional
abuse.
naive thing females tend to do," says
It is
from
out as a push,
may advance
toward
will use
get a penny, everything's in
You won't
my
name.
get the house, you'll have
"
nothing.'
Women
relationship
often stay in an abusive
out of desperation and
fear that are products of the abuser's
control over them. In fact, the mental
weapons over time.
However, these
control that an abuser has over his vicviolent acts usual-
tim has been equated with the same
develop over a long period of time,
type of mental manipulation used to
down
prisoners of war, accord-
with emotional abuse throughout the
break
progression. "It just doesn't start out
ing to Costa.
where they are a wonderful couple
and he just hits her one day," says
Costa, "There's going to be something
strong people
their will,
going on as emotional abuse."
Although some who emotionally
mind games and physical abuse," says
Russell. "Well, that's what we've been
abuse do not physically abuse,
many
"We
think of
POWs
who
as incredibly
are held against
and constantly subjected
to
Although no physical bars held
one point or
her captive, her abuser used intimida-
another. Victims
Winter-1998
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diffi-
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Both located at Exit 34 off
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their chil-
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ly
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says Costa, pointing to her head and
says Costa.
The character
recovering
culty
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reac-
abuser
lence, not the actions
ety
is
sometimes led
to believe.
"The
question
shouldn't be
she stay.
sweetest
for her
pressures,
so
and
treats
her
"He's got
all
much
"It
then.
Maybe once
takes care of
as your
neighbor
me
let
why won't
we
her go," says Costa. Perhaps
as a society
of that
don't happen a
he
why does
The question
should be
and the children well.
OK. He
of the
of the victims as soci-
me," she says.
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don't have normal reactions."
lead to domestic vio-
kids."
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world where normal actions
torted
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guy 1 know."
She says he cares
It's
Russell.
reality looks to a victim
he's
now and
and not
says
the time, living in that sort of dis-
from
those
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how
all
tions
f***ing bulls**t, he just dumps on
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bone
work,
the world
at
bit distorted
same,"
he
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tired
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spite of being
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looking
like
reality.
married 18 years with three children,
Serving all your needs
is
through yellow sunglasses. "Everytry-
Under such extreme
ing to escape."
mental control,
me
Russel explains that living with an
abuser
need
to put the
blame
where blame belongs, on the offender
not the victim.
As one
T-shirt
hanging
on
a
lot.
a week.
and the
Clothesline Project suggested, "Don't
ask m.e
why
why he
batters."
I
was
g
battered, ask
him
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She wakes up beside him again,
sUps out of bed and hghts the day's
first cigarette.
She looks
in the mirror at "I love
but no tears
She knows
fall.
that today she's
pack her clothes
going to
in a suitcase
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It
doesn't matter as long as she's gone;
because she's free now,
free to go.
They both promised
death do us
'til
part,
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the promise
hit.
broken
is
along with her cheek,
and tomorrow
be gone
she'll
with only a short
left
Bloomsburg University
fly,
and drive;
but that was before he started to
Beyond Violence
you"
written in purple blotches on her face,
letter
goodbye
on the kitchen table
beside the flowers he gave her,
and sealed with tape instead of a
kiss.
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iS^^ guess
would
about
assumed
he
just pick
along.
took the time to
me much
I teach
If
up things
that
I
"Don't marry a redhead."
didn't need to
to
work.
Mom
me
tell
that
back twelve hours
men
got
and
tired
later,
He didn't talk about it much,
when he did I could tell he didn't
grumpy.
but
like
running
my
ass
like
a creek
down
the crack of
and for what? ").
Dad sometimes
said, "I could' ve
short-lived term in school.
got straight A's
until
when his father
work the farm.
pulled
In
said he
grade
eighth
him out
the years I've
all
He
to
known my
dad, however, he never did anything
to
improve
home
his
situation.
brought
I
information about G.E.D.
ing, but
he wasn't interested.
He
test-
anything these days but the
n't read
I
guess he lost something somewhere
along the
line,
or something
was taken
from him. I'm not sure which.
learned that the
man
is
taught
when
son
me
yell
Men
The man's
wife
^ man's
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encompass
on
time,
desk chair back
was on
I
the floor fitting a
bunch of building blocks together
the boss of
soft-spoken and submis-
Ining
wanted you.
I
havin' kids."
He
at least four
me
to
hours a night and not to
talk with the family
value.
TV
He
watch television
taught
pay
to steal the
channels, as long as
I
didn't get
watch sexy movies;
and
to
blow
off going
my
hope for
I
to put
learned that
men
or
something
in
didn't.
right in the eye.
better to
me
tell
said
mom
was done
I
told
I
didn't understand
hope
at the time. I
it
made him
it
feel
that.
Another time when
I
was
still
a
child, he said, "you're a yellow-belly.
You're never gonna amount
in'.
You know
that?
to noth-
Huh? You know
that?"
believe that
I
spanked
It
me
was when
began
I
to
wasn't the times he
or yelled at me. Those
been forgotten. Again
remember him
say-
about spirituality or of eternal value.
and again those words would come
He showed me
back
"You don't
listen.
You're
that
men
only need to
to
follow their conscience as long as
man's wife makes him angry,
convenient and does not make them
my
uncomfortable.
doubting
she should be put in her place.
If
she
does something dumb, she should cer-
be told about
it.
Don't be afraid
her in front of other
her she's
fat,
and when
If
a
lie is
it
is
necessary to
keep oneself out of a jam, then
it
is
learned that
me, not always consciously,
life
It
questioning
my
was
my
worth and
I
value
lived
and
ability.
Mom who gave me spiritMom who taught me to
ual guidance.
expected.
I
all
but would efface themselves as
your mother."
tell
He
me that when I
eight. He was sitting on
his garage, looking me
despise him.
don't need to
was too
I
to understand.
no uncertain terms, "Your
was seven
about anything of
me
young
times have
respectfully.
make fun of
me when
to
was a shoe. It was dad's. I looked
up. He was leaning forward in his
chair. "I told you to push that chair
back when you were done," he said.
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pray with their family, to talk to them
him
people,
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from
and responded
to
out of her thirties.
hands. In the center of the pile of plas-
taught
are all
I
to disrespect
sive
tainly
older than me;
in
He
brothers
was Mom's last
grasp for motherhood. Her other sons
were out of the house before she was
much
I
tic
was helping him
I
My
garage.
his
in
was going to give him.
After working on it for over half an
hour, I watched it fly to bits in my
a structure
financial gain in a lotto jackpot.
If a
into
caught; to read dirty joke books; to
to listen.
ing to me,
to
in after sit-
supposed
just like
I
in
forgot
I
one day while
this
keep them
to
is
One
line.
it.
Her
all else.
role with the children,
gathered,
his
responsibility to
to provide for her.
is
to church;
I
need
good cooks, who don't
are
responsibilities
ting
women
your young
back and who don't require expla-
nations.
his
to
the family and his wife and kids are
Mom was
my
fine to insult her
it's
driving around.
who
wives
does-
paper and word-search puzzles.
I
He
dignity by leering at sensual
push
been a brain surgeon," referencing his
the waitresses
mother."
("/ stand there all day, sweat
it
tell
things like, "people think she's
and pointing them out
(I didn't.)
him up five
days a week at 4 a.m., fed him some
oatmeal and sent him off. He'd come
need
you're out with her,
we went
did get one thing distinctly:
I
He
as
life. I
IVLaiv
men need
to instill
their children a sense of worth.
He
did
pray, taught
asked
Dad
me
to fear
to pray at
God.
(I
once
supper and he
Spectrum
Mom
yelled at me.)
encouraged me,
me, showed me she
loved me. She went overboard, actually, to make up for my father's near-
showed
interest in
me
away with
tyranny, and
let
being
undisciplined.
very
"
learned
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But
I
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inherit
from
about
I remember looking at Dad one
day not too long ago and thinking, "/
am more
than you."
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man,
of manhood.
about
.
Mom.
being a good man, from
My
most shocking lesson came
after
moved
all
but
the
others,
after
I'd
can look
at
want
never knew. As he spoke about the
hard to find.
my
father, I
saw where Dad
learned about masculinity.
had
I
better
grown.
to admit,
my
was a
dad. He had
man than his
He had moved
My
enough.
on.
I
want
to
and
to
But not
far
brother said, "you can't
blame Dad. He did the best he could."
Maybe one day I'll agree, but today I
don't. Today I say, "Bullshit. He could
have done better. He could have been
say,
live right
I
want
be assertive
be strong
to
be
like
like that. I
like that.
want
I
and pure and honest
to
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look up to, whose behavior and mind I
my own with my
child. I spoke to one of my brothers
and he told me a little about my grandfather, my father's father, a man I
father of
didn't like
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past
Civil War. Like any
Littlewood leans over
like he's
years.
He
done for the
is
that hold the culmination
on the wall
of weeks of work.
He
straightens his
back and points to a box that contains
a lump of yellow fibers. "I bet you
me what
can't
tell
used
for,"
that's
going to be
he says confidently.
1869, G.J. Littlewoood
In
moved
his business a short dis-
Manayunk, PhilaThe company is now
one of the few private, familyowned, commissioned, rawtance
to
dephia.
stocked, textile dye houses in
the country.
After he waits a few moments, he
reveals that this handful of fibers will
eventually
be processed into paint
been
"It's
says.
The company expanded
Littlewood
nuts
examthe
ines
of the boxes
around
and
points indiscriminately from one
box
to another.
"This will be fake fur that will end
up
in apparel,"
he says. Each box of
colored fibers has a destination
yam,
carpet, stockings for profession-
al sports,
coats and
scarves, sweaters, bath mats,
filters.
isn't certain
for.
Bob
moved
later,
Littlewood
to the
10
area
although he's been
for his
family's
company
much longer than 21 years. The same
company his great-great-grandfather
started in the 1860s has shaped his
life
since high school.
He began working in
Manayunk plant when he was
the
a 16-
year-old high school student. After
He
graduation he went to a textile school
what the
fibers will
be
but he believes they'll even-
end up in children's toys.
According to family legend.
tually
Littlewood's great-great-grandfather
founded G.J. Littlewood and Son
in
1863 in Wissahicken, Philadelphia.
One of
sions
months
working
Magee
Carpet Co. dye house.
Littlewood points to
a pile of florescent yellow fibers.
used
—
to
It's leased the old
and pigment."
he
moves
machinery.
water, steam, temperature
him
while
is
operation
its
Bloomsburg in September 1976, when it
and bolts of the
operation
rest
family's
the
bread and butter," Littlewood
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'It's not rocket science. The
then
busi-
both blue and gray uniforms.
surround-
ed by four-inch square boxes mounted
good
nessman. G.J. Littlewood dyed
the company's first commiswas dying uniforms during the
Robert Littlewood checks
samples of fibers in his office
at the G.J. Littlewood & Son
Dye company, Bloomsburg.
for
two years while he continued
to
"We do
a unique
thing
here,"
Littlewood says. "Most people could
how it's done or the
bulk of material we dye. The trick is to
never imagine
take a 50 to 100
shade from the
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lab,
and turn
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that into
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Bloomsburg has the potential to dye
60,000 to 100,000 pounds of fiber
in
a week.
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and explains each piece of
plant
machinery and the entire process. He
recites the large quantity of fibers that
in one machine and lists
amount of each type of fiber usu-
can be dyed
the
ally dyed.
Then he
turns around quickly in
an attempt to assure anyone
listen,
nuts
will
The
and bolts of the operation
machinery.
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who
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The Tracks
of History
A Look
Tammy
by
at the
Benscoter
Development of Local Railroads
Company
Railroad
took control of the
operation. After financial trouble in
Although
no passenger
trains
Columbia County, at
one time the county was the
cross
1838, the
company completed
the rail
nected
at
brought the
and
The Catawissa group purchased
In
first train to
Bloomsburg,
1860
in
However,
in 1854.
Catawissa.
in
to
1858,
it
Northumberland.
1881, the
Lackawanna
took over the railroad.
hub of a
large transportation industry,
the railroad in 1860. Sixty-three miles
The North and West Branch
with as
many
of track transversed three tunnels and
Railroad was built from Catawissa to
as a
dozen passenger
making stops daily.
The first Pennsylvania
trains
was proposed
in
1822 by Christian
Catawissa.
Brobst,
authorized until
eight bridges and trestles.
railroad
but
1831.
The
first
rail
from Port Clinton, through
Catawissa, and arrived at Milton.
Brobst, however, died before
its
com-
pletion.
1833,
a
15-ton
locomotive
was to carry it had not been
was kept in Tamaqua until the
track that
laid. It
Catawissa, Williamsport,
and Erie
Running
it
cov-
Wilkes-Barre about the same time.
ran
By
was
first
It
passenger train in 1882,
the Pennsylvania Railroad system.
The Bloomsburg and Sullivan
Catawissa in 1864. Previously, repairs
were done
to trains
its
and by 1886 was under the control of
Railroad repair shops opened in
in
Railroad was completed in 1888.
Tamaqua.
1871, the Catawissa Railroad
extended
Williamsport.
arrived from England, although the
to Rupert,
ered 30 miles.
was not
it
stretched
In
from Port Clinton
It
from Milton
became part of
to
the
Pennsylvania and Reading the following year.
In 1857, the Lackawanna and
Bloomsburg Railroad was completed
to Rupert, and was eventually con-
It
ran along Fishing Creek and ended in
Bloomsburg it met
Lackawanna, and
Western (D.L.&W.) Railroad.
The increase of automobile sales
Jamison
the
City. In
Delaware,
reduced the need of passenger
trains.
The Bloomsburg and Sullivan made
its last
run in 1926.
One
year
later,
the
Ten cabooses that Walt Gosciminski has restored
to their natural color are currently on display at the
Catawissa Train Station.
photos by Karyn Gandeuberger
Once owned by Berwick
Forge and Fabrication,
engine is used by
Walt Gosciminsl at
"Whistle
Stop"
in
Catawissa to reposition
this
the cabooses on
the
railroad tracks he has
rebuilt for his display.
restored
railroad
and
museum
a
Catawissa
cabooses
the
at
Since
station.
1996, 400 feet of tracks have
been
freight trains also stopped running.
In
After being sold to the Reading
Railroad
at a sheriff's sale in
Catawissa,
1930,
Catawissa
Bloomsburg and Sullivan ran
again. However, by 1969 both passenger and freight services again
the
to preserve
tracks
in 1981, the tracks in
in
time,
fol-
train station in
some of
old
the
it
was nothing
Today,
an attempt
today.
Gosciminski
has
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$5.00 Off
any new or transferredprescription
at the Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy
not valid on third party prescriptions plans
that
do are
ing local businesses.
Winter-T^Sa
freight
As
trains are
is
trying to
capture and preserve their nostalgia.
Ironically,
he
is
doing so in the same
posed his
J.
idea.
S
David Ferro,
R. Ph.
<^%ny
25%
Off
any Medicine Shoppe brand
non-prescription item at the
Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy
expires 6-30-98
J
9am-6pm lUon,-Fri.
9am-lpm Sat.
to
only a few cars, serv-
woe
I
com-
run through the area
trains
Those
forgotten, Gosciminski
ten
In the Market Street Shopping Center
to
Catawissa
place that Christian Brobst
1000 South Market Street
Bloomsburg, PA 17815
.Vi
He hopes
from
trains, pulling
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the local history.
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Rupert, about 1.1 miles.
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purchased
plete
Gosciminski. "The tracks were only
a block apart from each other. At that
1971;
Catawissa
Gosciminski,
was raised between both the
Pennsy and Reading lines," says
of the Bloomsburg
and Sullivan were removed
Walt
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ceased.
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1979,
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784-9382
first
pro-
xatn
1907, Rush Harrison
About
of land
purchased a
plot
start a store.
to
Soon
after the
stopped
became
into the store
in
new
the
When
and Harrison
became
the pro-
moter, stockholder, director and sec-
company. Harrison also
retary of the
published the Forks Bulletin!, a
small pamphlet he began in 1911 that
In 1979,
Neil Harrison took over the
responsibilities after the death of his
in
A second
1935. However,
when
Emma Harrison
daughter of Rush Harrison,
v.
family business that gained
store
opened
the trains
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rote
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and the Harrison store located
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remain standing, although today they
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suc-
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cess from the railroad that ran close
by.
In
1
980, fire struck the store,
sparked by electrical wiring, and gut-
The empty
bed has since grown
full
railroad
with grass,
just like tracks throughout
most of
the county.
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the past are also
Used Furniture
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rent
and Times of a Country
Merchant, the detailed story of the
ted the inside.
he circulated to customers.
father in 1919.
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Life
postmaster.
telephone service arrived
1908, Harrison
by the passe
Shortly after, the store closed.
store opened, the postal service
moved
1971, so did a portion of
in
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Chomiak, the owner of three online
shoot a stream of color onto a sur-
onto
face. Slinging Pig deals in science-
says.
"People will link you to their
sites,
and request
fiction
and science-fantasy
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art.
was incorporated
in
businesses, including Bloomsburg's
Reflections.
He
is
about to take
his
fourth business online.
Reflections,
the
first
dealing mainly in
Dead merchandise, was
Grateful
design,
Chomiak
other
Airbrushing is a painting technique that uses compressed air to
Mystery Guest
takes
months
until
WAS A MUGGY AUGUST NIGHT
IN 1949
was ready
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to sleep off their "ails" until the morning. The
couple stayed in the only vacant room, a small cabin
behind the motel.
The next day, after the couple left the Cool Nook,
Baluta looked at his young son and remarked "That
needed
was one of
the richest
men
in the world."
As the decades passed, the Cool Nook eventually
closed and Chester Baluta, my grandfather, passed
away. The family
Baluta explained his reluctance, the
any condition
Nook
Cool
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lesta shall bo liable for sD fnmishinin, dwrinfr period of
woman slumbering in the front
man's sleek black touring car, idling in the
replied that neither he nor his
month,
a
is
the day
the guests to share, a feature included in the
all
now picking
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was a bit embarrassed at the prospect of
showing the man one of his rooms. This man was
certainly used to five-star hotels with extravagant furnishings. The Cool Nook provided one outside showfee.
says.
hits
Pig
items]."
just
in a top
lot.
er for
such
is
online. S
SHICKSHINNy,
Baluta
room
catch
really
a
panion, an attractive
parking
Slinging
six
Telepboira
to call
was coal-dust covered overalls and a hard day's
work smeared over one's face. The man was
drunk, and the stench of liquor was competing
with the summer air. The gentleman requested a
room for the evening for himself and his comseat of the
Chomiak
up,
600-700
or
five
afraid that they wouldn't
Realswords
and Subter-
No.
TIME IN
day when there was a loud rapping at the door.
As Baluta opened the door, the man standhat
it,
to [find
AT
desolate stretch of Route 11 just outside of
ing there startled him.
be able
- by Jake Baluta
ITthe Cool Nook Motel which was located on a
Shickshinny. Chester Baluta
about
people
to
logo on
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"It
six
become popular. "What
really set it off was when Jerry
Garcia passed away," Chomiak
explains, "People went crazy trying
to find things with a Grateful Dead
Circean,
businesses,
[tMvw.realswords.com]
about
took
Reflections
months
Chomiak says about half of his
come from other countries.
Chomiak next went on Hne with
two
you set up a
and you have to
be added to each search engine."
orders
rium,
says.
wasn't until 1991 that
he secured the location on East
Main Street.
He then moved on line, where
he could take orders from around
the world while keeping the
Bloomsburg shop.
of Chomiak's businesses to
have a site on the internet. His
newest project is called Slinging
Pig. The "pig" comes from "pigment" that is airbrushed into a
it
Chomiak
that
link to their page,
all
1989. But
[the internet site],"
it
today.
Among
still
about that notorious guest
names signed in the
the man's signature. His name?
talks
the hundreds of
old register books
is
Howard Hughes. 5
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amounts of garlic relieved
problems including stomach maladies, impotency, joint diseases,
headaches, breathing problems and
effect," says
cardiovascular disorders.
herbs, as
Although there does appear to
be a substance in garlic with some
National Cancer Institute
cient
k^URE, YOU MAY HAVE TO
suffer from bad breath, but the posof garlic incredibly out-
itive effects
weigh the bad.
ask Hippocrates or Aris-
Just
totle.
They were among
Greeks
who
used
the ancient
herb as a
diuretic to remedy ailments such as
constipation.
Egyptian
doctors
thought garlic was the ultimate
first
this
beneficial effects
on
cular system,
changes in
have an increased
exercise
and
the cardiovas-
"overall
diet
Sharon Madalis,
regis-
tered dietitian at Geisinger Medical
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among
This "wonder drug"
it
is
commonly
even been
has
all
referred to,
by the
studied
upon
find-
ing the potential to inhibit tumor
formation.
cell
Breath mint, anyone?
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cure-all.
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this
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healing herb and found even
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relieving effects.
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says Elisa
a natural antibiotic,"
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Zimmerman, owner of As
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food store in Bloomsburg.
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corpse to look
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tions
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it
to
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as Corpses for Sale,
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using
lot
it's
it
that suffi-
cost
for,
but
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seem
what
to get a
of people that are into haunted
just a
to
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unique
spots" of the internet,
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FWAR
By Lenore Olsen and Robin Weidner
T AN AGE
her
WHEN MOST OF
were just
beginning to realize their
dreams, Mary Eleanor
Beckley Martin Sabota of
MillviUe,
was
hers
ing
already
10,000
liv-
feet
above the earth in a B-26 bomber.
During World War II, most
women were
caring
for
children
and counting the days when their
husbands would return from war.
Few women knew
pilot
was
that
a possibility.
being a
Women
like
Sabota did, they piloted every plane
the military used,
men
released
for
and their success
the war effort and
advanced the future of women
aviation. Women were expected
in
to
control domestic affairs, but thro-
ugh the Women Airfonce Service
Pilots (WASP) they were trained for
domestic
flying.
WASP began
program
women
in
part of the Civil Service.
Under the
peers
as an experimental
1942
and
trained
to fly military planes in the
United States to allow more "man"power for overseas combat.
direction
of Jacq-
ueline Cochran, an aviation speed
WASPs were
racer,
types
of
flight
trained for
missions,
combat. WASPs were required to be
between the ages of 21 and 35 and
have a high school education.
25,000 women who
applied to the program, 1,830 were
Of
the
accepted, and 1,074 completed the
training.
They flew 60
million miles
ambulance
air
in
"We spent every Sunday at the
for as long as I can remember," says Sabota. "My father, Sam
Bigony, or Harry Magee would take
us up, and we had a great time."
airport
In
1941, after obtaining a
degree in special education from
experimental because no one knew
if women were capable of flying
"the military way."
Sabota entered the WASP pro-
ege, Sabota
flights
1943 and served until it was
disbanded in 1944. "It was a very
exciting time for all of us. We wanted to help the war effort, but even
more we wanted to fly," says
gram
in
Sabota.
From the time Sabota was very
young, she was surrounded by people
who
flew, including her father,
women were
suc-
cousin,
cessfully trained
by the same
mili-
friends. After Sabota's father.
standards as male cadets,
because there were no legal means
to enlist or commission female personnel as military pilots, they were
emergency
first
the area.
during World
War II to release men for combat.
The program was considered
of domestic
Although these
tary
all
except
Beckley became close friends with
Harry Magee, a wealthy entrepreneur who owned the local airport.
There, Beckley learned how to fly,
and later he was responsible for the
brother and
close
family
Dr.
William Beckley, finished
medical school in Philadelphia, he
returned with his family and settled
in his hometown of Bloomsburg.
Daniel
Bloomsburg
State
Teacher's
was selected
only female
in
the
Training Course that
Bloomsburg
the
to
Civilian
was
These
Airport.
eral locations across the
for
fill
for
the
at sev-
country in
demand
the increasing
pilots
Pilot
offered at
courses were being offered
order to
Coll-
be the
war
effort.
Through this 19-week training program she received a Civilian Pilot's
License in 1942.
Later that year, Sabota married
John
Martin
pilot.
Less than a
of
Berwick,
month
also
later,
a
he
when his plane was shot
over Germany.
In 1943, Sabota received a
telegram from WASP Director
Cochran, informing her of her eligiwas
killed
down
Speclrum
Women
bility for
"I
PT-26, and a solo flight in an AT-6,
Pilots
the WASPs.
didn't
trained to
know anything about
it
I
received the original telegram, but I didn't even have to
think about it, I knew right away I
until
was interested," recalls Sabota.
needed something to do, and
that point in my life I needed
training at
physics,
any position
charts, navi-
gation, principles of flight, engines
by
was very much
training
like the men's," says Sabota.
only thing
we were
"The
not taught was
we were
men in the
States, not combat, but we were
taught the military way of flying."
The women pilots were trained
flying
because
trained as substitutes for
it
left
and hooded takewhere they only had the instruments to guide them. They learned
to fly every plane that was used at
for blind flying
offs
time
the
including
biggest
the
bombers such as the B-26, the B-17,
and the B-24. They also flew the
and propellers, weather, Morse
code, instrument flying, communications, physical training, and first
fastest fighter aircraft including the
aid.
perform searchlight
and the
P-51
WASPs were
tow targets, and
P-38.
trained to ferry aircraft,
flying, instrument
engineering test-flying
control
and administrative and
utility flying,
according to Cochran's final report
on the WASP program.
The women struggled with a
strict set of rules during their training, living with the constant threat
of "washing out" being dismissed
—
from service. They had to keep up
with the strenuous flight schedule
which included check runs by both
instructors and military personnel.
"If a girl failed the test run with the
military official, she was gone, usually within the hour," says Sabota.
Male cadets in the same position
were sent to other military duty,
while WASPs were dismissed on the
spot.
"It
was
hard, but since
I
was
widow
in the
through no matter what," says Sabota.
Housing was often a problem
for WASPs. The military bases were
flying,
night flying, a cross country flight in
an open cockpit Fairchild, PT-19, or
Although the WASPs were not
given much, they were given their
own
insignia, created personally
TANNEHV
by
Walt Disney. Because the women
had little to do when not flying, the
319th decided to create a newspaper.
Desperate for a name, editor Byrd
Howell Granger suggested Vie
Granger's brother
Fifinella Gazette.
had a friend at Disney and she wrote
him about having an insignia created
for the paper A few weeks later, a
named
colorful vixen
FiFi, as
the
Fifinella
women nicknamed
(or
her)
A member of
International Smart Tan Network
up
to
first
no good. Introduced
in the
issue of Vie Fifinella Gazette,
was an immediate sensation.
She caught on like wildfire, showing up all over WASPs even wore
FiFi patches on their army-issued
flight jackets. Wlien the time came
Fifi
many women
WASPs
to return the jackets,
believed this little female "gremlin"
was responsible for locking the
tore off the patches
cockpit hood, starting aircraft fires,
switching fuel control signs so they
read backwards, or unrolling blan-
disbanded, several of the
women got together and formed a
group called the "Order of
came back
in
the
mail.
kets of fog over the runway.
ever,
WASPs
carried
stamps with them,
tliey
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surely
FiFi that
was
the
group my instructors decided they were going to get me
a variety of military planes incorpo-
and navigational
radio
only
Flight training included flying in
rating radar
and tracking missions. They also
learned methods of smoke laying,
instruction,
at
Avenger Field
maps and
fill
stunt
in Sweetwater, Texas, was rigorous.
For eight months, Sabota took
courses in ground school half of the
day and flew the other half.
Ground school included mathematics,
men.
"Our
"I
badly."
WASP
WASPs were
according to Sabota.
them today.
When
keep
the WASPs were
and
still
finally
They send out montlily
all those who were
unless FiFi
of the program
Fifinella."
newsletters to
part
is
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Sabota (far left) and other WASPs
spent half of the day in ground
school learning navigational skills.
(.-.ich
woman spent an average of
own money to be prop-
>iOO of her
was
no standard WASP dress uniform;
rather, they wore tan pants and any
erly outfitted. Originally, there
blouse.
When
form was
a standard
finally
was Santiago
WASP
uni-
put into place,
it
Blue, different from
the men's khakis,
and the current
color of the Air Force uniform.
They were issued old
coveralls
once belonged to the
men. Often, they were too big or
too small. WASPs were often misfor flying that
taken
for
truck
delivery people
women
and
where only
females trained, the 'women occupied barracks in the same "way
not equipped for both
men. At Avenger
Field,
male cadets would. In Dodge
Kansas,
the
men and women
facilities.
City,
shared
Sabota remembers a
blanket hanging in the middle of
the barracks to separate the
men
tance
from the women.
WASPs
paid for their
to
drivers
or
milk
and refused admit-
some
officers'
clubs
because they were not in dresses as
women were expected to be at that
room and
and
and from Sweetwater. The male cadets were provided these items at no expense.
According to Cochran's report,
board, most of their uniforms,
time.
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Ferrying planes could be dangerous because the aircraft were
often tagged unflyable. If there was
something wrong with the plane a
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line,
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would appear on the forms. The
red X was the most serious. WASPs
had to fly these planes to "get them
Sabota seated on her plane.
Fortunately
would have
Some WASPs even
stationed in
the
aircraft.
being able to see the
ground beneath their feet.
During a cross country solo
flight, Sabota encountered some difficulty with her plane, the AT-6. She
was over the Rocky Mountains when
reported
her propellor began to malfunction.
"Here I am flying and looking over
these darn mountains which are
awfully sharp and awfully close, and
my prop was not functioning properly.
thing
So
I
I
pushed and pulled every-
could push and
pull," says
Sabota. "I thought, 'I'm not going to
jump, I don't like the looks of it, and
besides
my
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propellor
began
functioning just as she thought she
way so they could be
destroyed, or used for parts,"
explains Sabota. When there were
"more reparable" problems, the
women often flew without instruments, or with holes in the body of
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school and for the B-29 electrical
guns. She also tested the B-26s after
they had gone through maintenance to make sure the problems
were repaired
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Sabota flew seven days a week,
two four-hour flights a day. These
flights were dangerous. "That was
live ammunition they were using,"
says Sabota. These long shifts in the
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men were
fire their
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the
learning to
fly
at the same time.
time for them to be
guns
first
target for
and firing. I tov^-ed the
them to shoot at. Also,
they w'ere
stiU
in the air
cal
Stretch
every other day.
''The
perfecting the electri-
guns for the B-29, which
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towed
targets
for.""
says Sabota.
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hung
just
20 yards behind
Sabotas aircraft.
Another task Sabota performed
vcas to check the men -^ho remrned
from overseas to insure they knew
the specific procedures used at
Laredo, and that they w^ere safe
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didn't
want
Sabota to perform any of her typical
duties during the flight. "I pulled the
wheels up when he told me to and
then turned and looked out the win-
dow. I thought to myself, 'If you
dont want me to fly or do anything.
I won't do an\thingl"" As they continued to fly. the oil began to conmale pilot didnt know
geal. The
what ^as wrong. Sabota realized the
problem, but said nothing, knowing
he wouldn't listen. After an emergenc%' landing, she
flight
w as
over.
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thankful this
Sabota and other pilots stand on
top of a B-26 on their last day at
Laredo.
The next day, how^ever, she -was
assigned to fly with him again. She
reports that he had the same attitude as the previous day. After he
inspected the plane, (he wouldn't
let
her do
they took off. This
looked out the winand saw gasoline spewing
it)
time, Sabota
dow
from the tank on the wing. They
had to take another emergency'
landing. "Those were two mistakes
in that
airplane that
you do not
make. We are lucky ^^e survived
one mistake, but tu-o?"
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Thirt\'-eight
active duty while the
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existence.
pro-
Although
they were serving the war effort,
they were civilians and not given
any recognition for dying for their
country.
After training at
Sabota's
flying
Avenger Field,
Lea Ola
partner.
McDonald, was stationed in El Paso,
Texas. Upon returning from a three-
week
leave, she
was assigned
to fly a
Helldixen She had plans to resign the
following day in order to get married.
She
felt
uneas\- about flying in this
"diinger ship", according to
an unfin-
was -writing
to Sabota.
ished lener she
Sirectram
which led her to the
and Germany. There,
she worked in recreation centers as
the administrative assistant program
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McDonald requested someone
to fly
with her, but the request was denied.
When she was ready to land she hit
wrong
the
flaps
which caused the
plane to dive. She called for help, but
her throat mike malfunctioned, makto receive any
from the ground. The
Helldiver went down directly above
the field and McDonald did not survive. McDonald's death occurred
exactly one year after Sabota's husband was killed.
ing
impossible
it
moved
money
to collect
said
to
send her home,"
The women had no
Sabota.
insurance or benefits.
women
the
of the
insurance
were dropped when they
policies
began
Many
personal
pilots'
flying for the
women
program, leaving
completely uninsured.
WASPs had no
rights to a military bur-
The American flag could not be
used on their coffins, and their families could not display the Gold Star
ial.
medal and an honorable
service medal.
Although WASPs are
now
tled to Veteran's benefits,
enti-
such as
to
GI housing, a military burial and a
Moody, Georgia where she became
grave marker, Sabota believes the
center
most important aspect of this is the
recognition of the accomplishments
and services the WASPs provided.
There is still debate on the
appropriateness of w^omen in com-
director.
a
Sabota
recreation
she retired
in
then
director
In
1979-
until
1987 she
returned to the area and has lived
instruction
"My best friend was killed in a
crash, and we [the other WASPs] had
a victory
in MiUville since.
Today, almost 700
still
alive,
WASPs
are
and every two years they
gather at reunions.
In
1977,
the
WASP program
recognition
members
finally
they
of the
gained
deserved
President Carter signed a
bill
the
when
grant-
them Veteran Status, 35 years
after Worid War II ended. This classified the WASP program as equivaing
lent to active military duty.
It
also
allowed the eligible members to
receive an official Honorable Discharge. Every WASP who was in
good standing at the time the program was disbanded also received
bat situations but today, 99 percent
of Air Force positions are open to
women. For the first time in U.S. history women, are trained and available for air combat.
In the navy,
women pilots and flight engineers
are now based on carriers, flying the
same missions
WASPs
as the
men.
did something that had
never been done before, and they
proved
that they
were capable of
much more than was expected.
WASPs proved they could handle
the toughest planes of the time,
and
they are a testament that the sky
the
limit.
is
S
symbolizing the death of a family
member
while serving their country.
part of the mil-
"We were never
says Sabota. "We trained in
same way as the men, and had
the same rules as a military unit
itary,"
the
would.
We
military,
took our orders from the
but we took our pay from
Tlic
Costume SMof
Fantasies
by Rebecca
the Civil Service."
On December 20, 1944
WASPs were disbanded because
the
the
war was coming to an end. Sabota
was still working in Laredo at the
time. "It was a shock," says Sabota.
"Up until that moment we got the
letter,
we
really
would become
until the end of
had hopes that we
military and stay
the war."
After disbanding,
WASPs wanted
a
some of
the
to fly for China with
group of Americans called the
Flying Tigers, but President
ordered that no women could leave
country unless they worked
with the armed forces or the Red
the
Cross.
After
her service
Sabota chose to
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Spiked
Springs
By Caroline Glassic
In
December
1974, a sampling
of water flowing from several major
was
Roadside springs.
conducted by the
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources (now known as
the Department of Environmental
Passing motorists and neighbor-
Protection). "In almost
springs
ing residents often enjoy this free
[springs]
flowing water -with a naivete that
tible
Mother Earth
will
bring
them no
harm.
But
five years ago, a local
trickled
down
a concrete channel
from which he sought refreshment.
The spring water that spills down
the hillside off Route 6l, near
Tharptown, was contaminated with
fecal coliform bacteria. Although
too late for this man, a sign has
been posted at the site by a nearby
resident warning other unsuspect-
bacterial
all
to
cases, the
be suscep-
contamination,"
If less
than 40 samples are
collected per month,
no more than
sample can contain coliform bacteria. If 40 or more samples are collected per month, no more than 5%
can contain coliform bacteria.
According to Harry Wilson, president of Wilson Testing Laboratories,
Shamokin, springs -which contain
1
according to Jeff Hoover, a compli-
runoff surface water, like the spring
ance
described above, are especially sus-
man
died after ingesting the water that
to
were shown
monthly.
specialist
Hoover
with the DEP.
said the
most
common
type of bacteria found in the samplings
total
was
"total coliform."
coliform
itself is
Though
not necessari-
does indicate the
likelihood of pathogenic bacteria,"
says Hoover. Consequently, public
drinking water systems regulated by
the DEP must monitor for coliform
ly
problematic,
"it
ceptible
two kinds of
and fecal
to
fecal streptococci
"Although
less,
some
bacteria are harm-
and some are
human
survival,
ogenic
bacteria:
coliform.
essential
for
such forms of path-
bacteria
could
potentially
lead to life-threatening illnesses like
typhoid,
and
cholera,
giardisis,"
severe dysentery
explains Wilson.
m
ing passers-by of the "unsafe drinking water."
Many
springs
can be spotted
throughout Pennsylvania. Chances
are, these springs are also "spiked."
Flowing surface and groundwater
up contaminants, including bacnitrates and pesticides which
can be carried below the ground and
pick
teria,
deposited in the w^ater table from
which spring water
is
discharged.
Contaminants may make this
Wapwallopen spring, lilte others
in our area, much safer to lool<
at than to drink from.
Spectrum
Surface water tends to
draw
in
from se'wage,
contaminants
these
systems"
A
manure and other wastes. According
"Decaying
Wilson,
to
vegetation
would be the source of non-fecal
coliform, and fecal coliform results
from human and animal waste."
The site where the spring water
is
discharged also contributes to the
quality of the water. According to
Bowling, hydrogeologist
with the DEP, "Coliform bacteria
w^ill
most definitely appear in
springs because of a lack of soil or
rock above the "water table that
could otherwise filter out some
commonly
down
drift
groundwater
and
through the
into the water table."
the filtering capabilities of the
protect groundwater from
to
soil
human
contamination by
above ground.
more
are
unsafe
contain
to
likely
activities
springs
But,
amounts of bacteria because they
tap the highest level of groundwaGroundwater within 20 feet of
ter.
the surface
is
defined
public of piped water for
consumption,
such system has
if
at
connections or reg-
least 15 service
ularly serves
human
an average of
25 individuals daily
at least
60 days
at least
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being a police officer
Imagine
who
isn't
authorized to write
or
an auto mechanic
tickets
denied
access
to
and
wrenches
Today, nurse practitioners are
involved in all aspects of medical
of
having to keep books according to
rules made by the American Bar
patients.
This
faced
by
nurse
is
dilemma
the
practitioners
in
Pennsylvania.
Nurse
Registered
Certified
and the care
and chronic
care including research
spark plugs. Imagine accountants
Association.
The
of the expertise of a physician.
all
adult,
pediatric,
restrictions aren't limited to
how an NP
duties.
In
"One of
the most important dif-
we
Medicare or
bill must go
companies,
ance
Instead, the
through a physician or hospital.
Nurse practitioners are
the time that
is
medical
NPs are
by insur-
not reimbursed directly
Medicaid.
ferences to patients
performs
Pennsylvania,
trained
can spend with them," says
Sharon Haymaker, R.N., Ph.D. "The
to
work with
to
operate independently.
average time of a doctor's
can work in areas that have trouble
visit is six
seven minutes," says Haymaker,
a physician but also
An NP
and deal
Practitioners
(CRNPs or NPs for
one of several kind of
Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs)
who have received special training
that allows them to perform duties
for which most registered nurses
to
short) are
"we're usually with a patient from
with patients
15 to 20 minutes or longer as the
everyday ailments that
patient requires."
nothing more than a prescription of
aren't qualified.
take the time to talk to the parents,"
be
Depending upon the laws of
where they practice, NPs
can see patients, order and interpret
laboratory tests and X-rays, and
Haymaker says. "We can explain to
them why they're doing what we've
asked them to do and make sure
approval.
perform some diagnoses.
leave."
the state
But not
they're
particularly important in
"We can
comfortable
really
before
antibiotics.
ing
is
of
used
But
have the kind of
may
require
this additional train-
little
use
without
if
a
it
cannot
physician's
According to the Alliance of
they
Advanced Practice Nurses (AAPN),
the problem stems from their regulating body. In Pennsylvania, NPs
Nurse practitioners are involved
unlike nurse anesthetists or nurse
midwives, are under the dual con-
admit
promotion and illness prevention.
But they are not involved in
a hospital without a
the decisions that will affect the
of the Board of Nursing (BON)
and the Board of Medicine (BOM).
The BON can issue regulations
for NPs but they must be approved
by the BOM which has been slow
to grant any prescriptive freedom
to APNs.
"We want the right to be self
Melinda
Dr.
says
regulating,"
Jenkins, an NP for 15 years and the
head of the AAPN. "I came here
from Missouri and when I saw the
restrictions that advanced practice
nurses face in Pennsylvania, it was
that
to
prescribe
into
is
who
in teaching nursing students, hea-
in Pennsylvania.
commonwealth, it's not
simple. NPs don't have the power
In this
patients
This
dealing with children.
attracting full-time doctors
medication
or
physician's approval despite the fact
that these are basic parts of
future of their
own
profession.
With the exception of
an NP's
Illinois,
every state allows nurse practition-
job in 39 states in the U.S.
The nurse practitioner
was developed in 1965
lth
position
at
the
University of Colorado to alleviate
the shortage of doctors, especially
ers
to
medications that
prescribe
would fall within the NP's training
and their scope of practice (Pediatric NPs, for instance, would not
in pediatrics. The nurse practitioner
would serve in the gap between
nurses and physicians, performing
be prescribing
tasks that are outside the traditional
so severe the
sc-ope of nursing yet don't require
independence.
in
several
of
fertility
those
drugs). But
states,
the
restrictions that limit this ability are
NP
loses almost
all
trol
very shocking."
Spectrum
The AAPN encompasses
all
of
the advanced practice nurses in the
commonwealth.
down
take
mission
Its
is
group of nurses from using the
full
range of their training. Right
means lobbying
that
for
a
change in their regulatory body to
the Board of Nursing alone.
"I know a nurse -who came here
from California and took a job in
western Pennsylvania. She said to
me, 'This is like trying to practice
with one hand tied behind my
says
back',"
Christine
Filipovich,
Pennsylvania Nursing Association's
Nursing Practice Administrator.
"We
know
Pennsylvania
is
a
for
fact
that
less attractive to qual-
advanced practice nurses than
other states," adds Filipovich. Many
ified
of the best
and
NPs obtain dual
practice
Pennsylvania's
York,
New
in
border
Jersey,
licensing
another
and
collect
state.
states-New^
Delavv^are-
allow greater prescriptive freedoms
money
an
impasse.
offered
this
two boards
In
NPs
The
authority.
ed
limited
BON
They
BOM
prescriptive
initially
it
was
have not met. Several meetings
have been set, but the BOM has
canceled each time. Ho'wever, new
administrations for both Boards
have just taken office and in March
agreed to resume meetings to
vJur
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directly.
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SILENT
The
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1993,
ABOUT
6:45 A.M.,
main gate of
the Three Mile Island (TMI) Nuclear Power Station,
Middletown. "We didn't know if it was a confused
person or someone with evil intentions. We just
didn't know," recalls Mary Wells, head of public
relations at TMI. Nye hit the turbine building and
four hours until Security could find him and turn
Pierce Nye's car crashed through the
hid inside for
him over
to the State Police.
This security breech
had been
plant that
drew
attention
once again to a
relatively quiet since the
dent. But this time the focus
was on
1979 acci-
security at
all
The disturbance affected a
and unheard.
Security at the PP&L Susquehanna Steam Electric
Station (SSES), about five miles north of Berwick, is one
power
nuclear
plants.
department which
of the
first
is
primarily unseen
visible safety features.
But behind the scenes
and
way. "We normally don't give a lot
of information out about security because that's the
way we do business," says Roland M. Ferentz, SSES
security operations supervisor. "We keep everything
very generic and very brief for the simple fact of safelies
a part of security the public doesn't see,
Security likes
it
that
guards."
Security
increasing
events
are
growing
"of
numbers throughout the
concern
and
country," says Paul
Gunter, director of the the Reactor Watchdog Project
the
Nuclear
Information
Washington, D.C.
many
This
and Resource Service
rise
in incidents
at
in
has caused
plants to reinforce their security programs, either
the set of 8-foot fences, says Richard Gaudreau, former
SSES plant security coordinator and security training
supervisor. "When tripped, the field starts a camera,
two videotape recorders, and the alarm. A security officer in the control booth immediately dispatches anoth-
and sees what is happening on his screen,"
Gaudreau explains.
The security officer at the scene is updated about
the situation by radio. "The officer in the booth uses
movable cameras to watch the action and the dispatched officer would be out of his vehicle, using it as
a defense barrier in case the intruder were to fire [a
weapon]," says Gaudreau. If the intruder makes it past
the second fence, the officer "is going to challenge the
intruder by telling him to halt, warn him that he is trespassing on private property, and if he does not remove
himself, he 'will be removed by force," Gaudreau says.
If the perpetrator has knowledge of where to go to
accomplish an objective, and "if the security officer fails
to detain or capture him, then another one [officer]
would be sent," Gaudreau says, noting "all of our proer officer
through mandated orders or by choice.
tected areas are well covered."
The 108-acre protected area at SSES, where the
main reactor building and two cooling towers are located, is surrounded by two rows of barbed wire fence 20
Gaudreau, who was also in Air Force security prior
working for PP&L, says there are few differences
between nuclear protected areas and Air Force bomb
dumps. Most of the security measures are common to
both private industry and armed forces. "[The training]
works just as well in one as it does the other," he says.
Precautions are also taken to guard against assault by
automobile. Every vehicle that enters the site, even PP&L
vehicles, undergoes a thorough search by security officers, as mandated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Code of Federal Regulations. Entering the
first gate, the vehicle is driven onto an open grate.
Security Officers check all areas of the vehicle.
apart. Motion detector devices line the area
between the fences and will sound alarms if movement
by anything as small as a bird is detected. The fence
line and interior of the protected area is monitored by
closed circuit television cameras mounted high on lattice work poles. If the plant were to lose power, an
Uninterruptable Power Supply battery and diesel generator backups are available to keep these systems
feet
working.
An
intruder
the area
that sense
22
who
known
climbs the
first
fence would enter
as the "E-Field," a set of eight wires
motion or objects within the area between
to
Following the TMI incident, the
situation
and determined
that they
NRC
evaluated the
should change the
Spectrum
the
protected area is gained
through one of two heavily-moni-
Nuclear Power Plant
design basis
tJireat,
They decided that
for power reactor
against
tect
it
says Ferentz.
was important
pro-
facilities to
vehicle
tored gate houses.
From
side, these buildings
look more
tourist
information
the out-
centers
like
than
coded with information about the
holder are issued to personnel, and
used to unlock the turnstiles and
various doors in the plant. "Personnel are allowed into certain areas
penetrations.
entrances
"We sent out a generic letter
demanding that nuclear power
Inside are
activities,"
tors,
keycard, the Security Data Manage-
plants install better gate devices,"
machines.
says Paul Swetland, project engi-
neer for the SSES, working out of
NRC
the
regional office, Williams-
SSES responded by installing
stronger secondary gates at the
entrances of the plant.
port.
to
nuclear
a
facility.
rows of explosive detecmetal detectors and X-Ray
prior
to
access to the plant.
When
a visitor
be searched, employees park outside the fence and walk to the
an officer
compares information provided for
the advance check with information
on a photo I.D. People in the past
have failed the check and were
denied access to the plant, but they
had no problems when they were
informed. "They must know what's
in their background that didn't
allow them to go into the plant,"
says Elaine Panella, SSES senior
plant.
public information specialist.
The plant's 1,200 employees
must go through a variety of secu-
entering the protected area
Once
inside the protected area,
vehicles are escorted
by armed
security
mobile
who
officers
in
units
lock the steering wheel to the
brake pedal, when the vehicle is
parked. Because all vehicles must
rity
searches every day. Access to
Spring 1997
arrives at the gate house,
The
of
last line
locked
of defense before
turnstiles.
is
a set
Keycards
controls
plant
is
and work
their clearances
says Ferentz. With the
ment System (SDMS)
on all
granting them
Security conducts a check
visitors
based on
access
computer
throughout
the
and monitors where everyone
while inside the plant, Ferentz
explains.
Because keycarding
strictly
is such a
enforced security procedure,
tailgating
is
not permitted.
the plant with
their
ing
own
and
I
keycard and
use
"If
I'm in
someone who has
my
we
are talk-
keycard but the
other person forgets and follows
through the open door,
me
that's tailgat-
ing," Panella explains. If an emergency inside the plant would occur,
the person who tailgated would be
Security officers check all vehicles before they are allowed to
enter the protected area.
23
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1 00-yard firing
Nuclear Power Plant
team
"You just
endangered a whole team of securiunaccounted
would be
ty
officers
for
and a
security
dispatched.
a plant emergency,"
in
says Panella. Officers train extensively to
deal with such emergencies.
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at least
minimum
of a high school
diploma. The majority of security
personnel
at
SSES
now
range for practice.
Security personnel carry .40 cal-
have
col-
HK semi-automatic pistols.
iber
also
bomb
threats to hostage situations to
bomb-laden vehicles. We graded our
teams on how they responded to the
situations."
To prevent
lege degrees in law enforcement or
ring
criminal justice.
They
equipped with 12-gauge
shotguns and AR-15 rifles. Several
4x4 personnel carriers and armored
Chevy Blazers are also used.
Gaudreau says the security team
trains "on a range of scenarios, from
are
training
mistakes, a reoccur-
cycle
requiring
32
secu-
hours of training every five weeks
three phases of training
must be completed. Phase I consists of 240 hours of combined
classroom and performance training. Phases II and III require performance/observation based training including response actions,
equipment familiarization and uti-
Everyone who enters the plant
must pass through the gatehouse
and a variety of security checks,
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qualification, cru-
security task certification
security
for
of
facilities
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personnel training
are used
The
where all
is
by
off-site
security
conducted. The
Security Annex, also located off-site,
contains
a
physical
fitness
center
and an area for training during
inclement weather SSES also has a
24
built
into
the
work
schedule.
Personnel also go through about
300 hours of recertification/
retrain-
ing a year.
"We have
that
training.
"White House"
is
and
outside training.
A variety
including a bomb sniffer, metal
detector, and X-ray machine.
we
a lot of procedures
follo'w," says Ferentz,
"and
once it's in the procedures, that's
what you follow." A committee is in
place to make sure any procedures
changed are not degraded. "There
are so many approvals and reviews
it goes through to make sure nothing
is
missed," says Barry Bechtold,
security shift supervisor
PP&L
also
Spectrum
The reinforced secondary gate
is
the
entrance to the protected
area. The gate was installed after
Pierce Nye broke through the
gates at TMI.
A
inspection.
runs
of the
regional assist team
during a small-scale
drills
Safeguards Readiness Eval-
tional
uation (OSRE)
when
test
The Opera-
organization.
a larger scale
is
special forces are
used
drill
to test
The NRC will also "come
unannounced to see how we're
security.
in
complying with their laws," says
Ferentz. It can request any information
during
these
routine
inspections.
Beneath clouds of steam and
the roar of the generators of the
SSES
plant
silence of a
has
its
"audit
the
up
auditing department that
programs other than what
NRC would
to
make
sure we're
to speed," says Ferentz.
NRC
personnel, augmented by
engineers and special forces, con-
duct large and small-scale inspec-
and
"They cover so
much material, they'll send an itinerary," Ferentz says. But little
advanced notice is given so Security can't change things for the
tions
tests.
lies
group
a vital
role
symbol
of
Ferentz
says
at
a
silence.
The
that quietly plays
the largest visible
power
the
in
area.
SSES is
happy to stay behind the scenes
because, "sometimes a low profile
is
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ON
Everyone
A COLD FEBRUARY
afternoon at the
Sunbury Ice Rink,
two hockey players
fought for control of
the puck.
One
player checked the
other with a forearm to the head.
Steamed, the second player responded with a slash-proving that on
the
Amanda Hemsarth can fend
ice,
for herself.
The
17-year-old
School junior
er
in
the
is
Millville
High
the only female play-
Susquehanna Valley Ice
"It's an unusual sport
Hockey League.
for a
girl
to play,"
says Hemsarth,
makes it even more fun."
Most girls who play hockey join
field hockey team and leave the
"that
a
ice to the guys.
hockey
sion
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is
Amanda
plays field
as well, but her true pasfor the ice.
Amanda's family
Her
Bruce, and younger brother,
in
shares her love for ice hockey.
father,
Greg, also play in the league.
The Susquehanna Valley Ice
Hockey League consists of eight
teams. Players range in age from 14
their 50s. Amanda is used to
being the only female on the ice
because all of her hockey experience has been against guys. When
to
she was growing up, her father's
came over to play pond
hockey. "We played for four hours
friends
every
and Sunday,"
Amanda.
When she was 12, she began
playing organized hockey in open
games at the rink. "My father and I
were on opposite teams," says
Amanda, "That made it really
Saturday
explains
competitive."
At
15,
she joined the league
and got her first experience of
organized hockey. The league
allowed checking and the games
were more intense than the pond
hockey games.
Players
from
Hershey and even Canada came to
play in this league. Everybody took
the game seriously and Amanda
didn't
know how
would
react to a female playing
her teammates
on
their team.
"I
don't think there
was
a lot of
resentment, they really didn't
what
know
Amanda. "After
they all went out
to think," says
they got used to
way
it
encourage me."
Teammate, Dick Laroche says
of their
that
to
anybody
onto the
to play.
ice
"It
is
willing to step out
given a
chance
fair
doesn't matter
if
you're
male or female, if you can stand on
skates you can play," he says.
Although it's now a non-checkSpectrum
Ice
Hockep
and they dropped the gloves,"
Amanda, "They were on
each other the whole game and
ended up getting kicked out."
recalls
Amanda's
ing league, during
year checking
was
first
allowed. That
year was a proving ground for
first
Amanda
show
to
she could
that
handle the physical play.
"During one game the
go and
letting things
were
refs
guy
a
hit
me
in
the head with his forearm," says
Amanda, "so I slashed him back
with
my
was
a girl he kept apologizing."
stick.
When
he found out
I
Amanda is the only
make her exempt
hit. "When I put my
Amanda
during
her
league.
The
shot;
scored her
first
wrist shot
is
goal
first
season
in
the
her best
however, she scores most of
her goals by posting in front of the
and knocking in rebounds.
like to hang in front of the
net and catch the goakender out of
position," says Amanda. She plays
net
"I
from getting
hair up under my helmet the players don't even know there's a girl
the game with an aggressive style,
whether chasing loose pucks or
fearlessly going into the boards.
"She can handle the puck pretty
good and maneuver well on her
on the
skates," says Laroche.
Just because
female doesn't
says
Amanda. The
first
was on
ice,"
the receiving
end
of a cheap shot she
was more
sur-
prised than angry.
"I
time she
thought to
myself, 'What a creep,
back
later.'
didn't forget
didn't get
I
it,"
recalls
get
I'll
mad
him
but
I
Amanda.
"Hockey
is
game
a
intimidation," says Laroche,
off, she'll
come
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good chemistry and play well
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Bruce moves up to center
with his children on the wings to
form the "Hemsarth Family
Line."
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idea of her playing in the league.
"He thought
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"[My father]
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make
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and
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too crowded.
little
While Amanda has succeeded
in the
men's league, she didn't stop
Two summers
there.
attended Ice Hockey
camp
ago
Camp
at
she
Penn
The week-long
University.
State
consisted of conditioning and
training
drills
school players
designed for high
who
w^ant to play at
the college level. Coincidently, she
was
the only female there as well.
"They helped
training
she says.
every time
will
this
greatest
hoops, and
That's nice dear,'"
like.
one inconvenience. Most ice
one locker room,
so Amanda has to change in the
ladies'
restroom. According to
Amanda three more girls are going
is still
rinks have only
to start playing in the league
one of the League's leading
Another teammate, her
14,
at
is
scorers.
brother Greg,
right
playing with the guys, there
laughs Amanda.
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ice,"
me
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such as shooting with the
and with things on the
she explains.
Although
ice
hockey
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her true
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i hese two alumna have helped
of
mater with a portion
love,
Amanda
doesn't limit herself to one sport. She
also plays basketball, softball,
naments
in the
for Millville
and
field
hockey
tour-
High School. She coaches a team
American Youth Soccer Organization with her
friend Allyson Gatski.
When
to
Although she would
hockey, she says
it
she chooses a college.
academic reasons
like to
"I
first,"
want
I
when
go to a college for
explains Amanda, "having
never played against other
how good
continue playing ice
won't be the deciding factor
to
girls,
I
really don't
know
was so
a
playing.
"I'll
would love
find a recreational league to play
to play
hockey
in college, but
any farther than a recreational league
if I
they
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special to them, but their stories
will
remain a
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from the Hemsarth family to play in the men's league.
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By Robin Weidner
BEVERLY CRAWFORD
when nearby
IS
USED
residents
to being awakened
begin their drunken
journeys home. Because it was St. Patrick's
Day, she expected it to be a little louder than usual.
Crawford rolled over and went back to sleep, only to
morning her hand-made decorative
and the pole had been stolen from her front
porch on Bloomsburg's Iron Street.
Crawford says this wasn't the first time something
like this happened. "My husband brings the flags in
every night now before we go to bed, or else people
find that the next
flag
Beverly Crawford has made more
than 100 flags in the past five years.
would
steal
them,
she says. Although these incidents
"
are discouraging,
it
favorite pasttime of
doesn't stop Crawford from her
making
She began creating
flags.
about five years ago after
New England and saw
them for sale. "I thought they'd be easy enough to
make," she says. They were an instant success. Since
she began making flags, many local residents have
nick-named her "the flag-lady."
Crawford works at Weis Markets and acts as secretary for the Bloomsburg Bowling League and the
Association of Bowlers. Still she finds time to sew. At
the end of the day she says she relaxes by working
on her flags.
she visited a
"At night
craft
sew
show
in
when I am done washing
husband goes
to
flags
in to
watch
television
the dishes,
and
I
go
for the rest of the night," she says.
has a special
room
set aside just to
work on
She spends about three nights on each
upon the difficulty of
make a simple flag in as
ing
complex
flag,
my
upstairs
Crawford
the flags.
depend-
the pattern. Crawford can
little
as
two hours.
pattterns take four or five hours.
More
She makes
about 40-50 flags a year.
Crawford buys most of her patterns at craft stores,
but when she can't find a specific pattern, she and
Craig, her daughter Amy's huband, create their own.
can draw the pattern, but my
is a draftsman by trade
and he helps to size them for me,"
Crawford says. Most of the flags
she makes are 3 feet by 5 feet.
Unlike many of the nylon massproduced flags on the market,
Crawford uses a material called trigger
The previous
"I
son-in-law
The material is heavier than
nylon and keeps the flag from blowing away when it is windy outside.
People let Crawford know
when it's time for the weekly ritual
of changing the flag. "They walk by
my house and say we've seen that
poplan.
flag
long enough," she says.
Because Crawford's house
bend
porch
is
the
they drive
One
down
"was
many
see as
Iron Street to work.
for
Stacy
who showed
a lamb
a
Longenberger
flag
Bloomsburg
the
Fair.
Longen-
who w^as nine at the
won third prize for Good
berger,
time,
at a
of Crawford's most recent
projects
at
thing
first
is
on her
in the road, the flag
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had a
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By Vicki Harrison
A MIDDLE-AGED
DAVE*,
from Montour
once
down
sat
BUSINESSMAN
county,
to read to
However, he lacked
his daughter.
the necessary reading skills to even
bedtime story.
read a
This was quickly pointed out to
him by his preschool daughter in
one simple sentence that has
haunted him ever since "Daddy,
children's
—
you
can't read."
One-third of Pennsylvania's 12
reading
skills,
adequate
lack
residents
million
according to a 1994
adults, representing 50 million
peo-
were functioning at Level 2,
involving more varied, but still quite
These staglimited reading skills.
gering statistics become even more
ple,
through
is
one such
individual
received a high school diplo-
believes
teachers
the
knew he
in
his
couldn't read,
and
The only "help" he remembers
receiving was being sat at the back
of the room by an elementary
school teacher so he would not
have to participate, and having
tests read to him by certain high
Northumberland
counties),
beyond
school
according to
the
Esther
ninth
grade,
Ann
Zabitz,
coordinator of Susquehanna Valley
Adult
Cooperative.
Literacy
quite possible
ly illiterate;
many
"It's
are functional-
someone who
doesn't
have enough reading and writing
to function
skills
in
today's soci-
A
fies
functionally
United
illiterate,
States
49th
and ranks the
out
of
156
The National
nations in literacy.
Literacy
Survey
(NALS),
administered nation'wide in
1994,
found 21-23 percent of the adult
population functioning
skill
Level
1,
at
reading
capable of performing
"brief,
uncomplicated text."
Another 25-28 percent of American
only
*Dave's real identity
32
did not help him.
school teachers.
tests] if
far
Dave,
is
"I'd
you'd read
as taking a
reading
it,
I
it
[the
Diane
I
-was
OK
participating
O'Neil,
as
(in
assistant
coordinator of Susquehanna Valley
Adult Literacy Cooperative, recognizes
personality
the
traits
Dave
exemplified in school as two of
three different
means by which
stu-
dents with reading difficulties some-
mask
many
cases slip virtually undetected
teachers]
their
problems, and in
through the school system.
Dave's
show
traits
behavioral
patterns
what
of
O'Neil
describes as the "model student"
the school didn't know,
a
problem only recog-
few decades by the educa-
tional system.
In a person suffer-
ing from dyslexia, a "switch" in the
brain
that
times
nized and properly tested within
last
was
[the
it
however, was that Dave's reading
problems stemmed from difficulty
hearing short sounds and from
the
life
I
me, but as
pass
to
book home and
do it," recalls
they
my
as
sports)."
it."
dyslexia,
long
couldn't
"and
What
United Nations study identi-
90 million American adults as
Adult
stUl
knew
ety," says Zabitz.
mind
He
Dave
who
(Columbia, Montour, Union, Snyder
21,708 adults never finished high
may
Although some messages
not connect properly in his
ma, yet lacked adequate reading
skills.
"It's the most false piece of
paper ever given to me," says Dave.
fact that
graduated from high school.
school
and
connected,"
not
that's
explains Dave.
due to dyslexia, certain messages
Dave received from the high school
he attended did connect. Those
messages left Dave with the
assumption that as long as he
behaved and "was involved in
sports, he would get by in school
regardless of whether or not he
could read. Dave concedes, "I felt
when coupled with the
many of these adults have
disturbing
by the Education Testing
Service. In a five county area
report
switch
doesn't
function
properly,
and the "jock." The model student
is one who is well mannered who
gains extra credit from teachers for
good behavior that boost their otherwise unsatisfactory grades. The
"jock"
w^ho receives
in
activities.
extracurricular
Although
Dave
could not be certain that his grades
were
and numbers backwards.
his
a
a student
involvement
sports
leading that person to see letters
"It's
is
passing grades to ensure his or her
actually
enhanced because of
involvement
in
sports,
he
not revealed because of career concerns
Spectrum
admits,
you have
playing
think
"I
helped."
sports
O'Neil confirms, "We've
So
multiple choice.
it's
Adult Illiteracy
test,"
statistically
a chance of passing that
gram, he says
much
many
edge he has
in his field
may
non-readers use
law.'"
problems. "Most of our non-read-
A
third type
who
problems
behavioral
keep
of smdent
is
the
exemplifies
order
in
to
reading disabilities hidden.
such children are pushed
through the school system in an
educators
dismiss their
to
unwanted
behavior.
However
that
different these
may
ioral habits
some common
between
all
behav-
be, O'Neil believes
threads exist
of them, as well as in
the school systems that allow these
problems
reading
students'
to
remain undetected. The forms of
used in classrooms do
testing often
little
to
detect reading difficulty.
"Many times
is
given
it
is
in school,
The
-
when
a test
either true or false, or
when
the teacher asks a question,
they can respond very well."
Many non-readers
exceptional
listeners;
what
I
because
Dave
ters
really
I
says.
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John Pickin, 38, Danville, says
he has also used similar survival
skills to compensate for his reading
deficiencies. "My other skills were
skills
sharpened,"
says
Pickin,
•
"I
could watch someone and just listen to them, and not be in the con-
and how
know what
but
versation,
to
do
to
do
it."
Gloria Phillips, 33, Mifflinburg,
agrees
her
that
learn
to
ability
through watching others also
helped her, in spite of not being
able
to
"tactile,
read.
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Phillips
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is
a
according
to her reading tutor, Karol Weaver,
Mifflinburg.
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Although he
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says O'Neil. She also believes
that the survival techniques
had several students "who say, 'I
was the jock. I was above the
"problem child"
uted his inventory.
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school than a lack of encourage-
Adult Illiteracy
your
neighbor
as
we
will
at
Penn
Like
continue
supporting
our
community
ment. "What hurt
kids
many
"They
non-readers, Phillips
ment the ones
school, never forming any lasting
they thought
with
because she
students
other
like
felt
an outcast.
low
Phillips attributes this to a
self-
esteem that she believes developed from two major obstacles she
faced.
more
being a bank
She claims the
There's
to
than loans,
receiving.
fers
and
special
rates. There's
a
responsibility to
the community.
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who
also suf-
from dyslexia, was placed in a
education program after
mutual funds
interest
obstacle
first
involved the education she was
failing first grade.
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says Phillips.
She believes
hindered her
ability to learn
more by turning her
nature
even
naturally shy
outright
into
ridicule
withdrawal
had low selfesteem, and when someone would
tear me down, I would get hurt
and
isolation.
more," she
"I
recalls.
Floyd Walters of Bloomsburg,
principal and former reading liai-
son
Middle
Le'wisburg
the
for
School,
correctly
points out that
education has been improving
in
needs students are not subjected to
such ridicule. "We don't pull children out of class anymore," says
Phillips
says
that
taught only basic
were
and never
students
skills,
Instead, Walters explains,
Walters.
excel.
"now vv^e have chapter teachers
moving through the grades with
children. They are in the room giv-
says Phillips.
room
allowed to
try
Nevertheless,
higher
levels
of
the
rudimentary
level of education Phillips received
earned her a high school diploma
but, like Dave, she also couldn't
read when she graduated. Phillips
blames this on not being given any
incentive. "Because I thought I was
just slow at learning, I kind of
eased back," says Phillips, "What-
ing support to the regular classteacher, rather than pulling
By keeping
the child out."
these
students involved in regular class-
room
"we've eliminated
activities,
the stigma of 'Hey, you're special',"
says Walters.
"Chi" Walthery, 47, Lewis-
P.S.
burg, a former educator in
New
Jersey, Florida
and Ohio, and
for-
mer program
consultant
the
for
me was
Association for Retarded Citizens
fine
because I was not ever going
make anything of my life."
Dr. Ben Van Horn, superinten-
(ARC), describes this form of edu-
to
cation as inclusion,
ever they wanted to teach
dent for the Mifflinburg school dision.
disagrees with Phillips's opin-
"From
my knowledge
of the
est trends in
one of the
lat-
education where spe-
needs smdents are kept in reg"The program can be successful if it has
cial
ular classroom activities.
daily activities of the special edu-
enough of
cation teachers, they're very
dili-
Walthery,
about challenging the
stu-
dents,
gent
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but was allowed to
would enable them to
"They just figured I had the
basics and could make it in life,"
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move on
either,
learning that
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says
thought they could
just
describes herself as being shy in
friendships
me
me,"
teasing
State University.
a support team," says
"if
those involved, stu-
dents academically, and providing
educated, and
them with a good transition into
the work place," says Van Horn.
However, Phillips says she
faced an even greater problem in
are
"If
and
teachers
made
if
parents,
are
proper materials
available."
She cautions,
these programs are implement-
ed without proper planning
doomed
to failure,
they're
because they
Spectrum
However,
Adult liiiteracy
with Dave,
people off to inclusion by
turn
Walters says that the chapter
program
successful in the Lewis-
is
He
burg schools.
believes
and allows students
tion,
it
more one-on-one
students
same
the
way,
this
on paper and
couldn't
I
out of a book," says Dave.
it
Dave
believes that learning to read
to learn
his wife
is
a teacher,
personal responsibility he
himself. Therefore,
on
own.
his
is
owed
a
to
he sought help
Unfortunately,
for
at their
own
assured
a
children
that
grasping what
much
is
Intermediate
founded
to
more
adults
was
(CSIU),
by
and
Zabitz.
It
instruction
through
students
its
grants
obtained by CSIU from the
Department of
Pennsylvania
Education and other govern-
mental
Anyone at
no longer
agencies.
least 17 years old, or
high
attending
are
school,
can
seek confidential, one-on-one
program
tutorial services
gram.
for kids," says Walters, "since
it's
Unit
1982
in
offers free materials
being taught.
better
where
from Columbia, Montour, Union,
Snyder, and Northumberland counties.
The program, sponsored
through
Central
Susquehanna
Walters.
are
Literacy
work with
volunteer tutors
and teachers can be
pace,
"It's
it
could-
Although
children
allowed to learn
put
read
I
Susquehanna Valley Adult
Cooperative, Montandon,
time, in the
same book," explains
In
interest -was there, but
offers
developmental stages. "They
don't all have to be on the same
at
existed.
atten-
in
page,
n't
says that his ambi-
leam has always
tion to
"My
their errors."
was not the case
this
who
from
this pro-
Tutoring sessions take
place in public settings, and at
child sensitive."
However, Walthery believes
that the whole developmental
process of a child's growth must
the request of the students can
be addressed. "No one is monitoring the whole development
of a child," says Walthery. She
"Most
explains
ment
whatever subject
in
teacher
particular
is
the child's growth.
teachers
Literacy
to
Perhaps
teaching
acy
this
distinguishing
who
truly
Dr. Frank Laubach
says Walthery.
would
between students
have learning problems,
By
that refuse to learn.
looking
the child's entire devel-
opment, social and emotional
problems that sometimes cause
children to rebuke against an education may also be recognized.
Unfortunately, even when all these
factors
tion,
are
there
taken into considerastill
are students
are disruptive, refuse to learn,
who
and
blame everyone but themselves
their failure.
Spring 1997
students
as
(ESL).
a
Liter-
American-
are
for
many years
his persistent search for
help with his reading
was met with
ESL students are individ-
born
ed
several different occasions,
of
the
are interest-
skills.
In 1996, 312 students enrolled
in the
program. Of 196 literacy stuwere high school gradu"We have a lot of students
ates.
who are
who come
former school teachers. However,
in each instance he was either
level,"
denied assistance, or promised
help that never developed. "I
always pursued this, but the only
real help I got was through CSIU,"
in the
form of
high
to us
school
on
graduates
a second grade
says O'Neil. These statistics
sound only too familiar to Phillips,
Pickin, and Dave, w^ho all received
high school diplomas, yet lacked
the necessary reading
skills to
even
read them.
More
Dave.
That help came
who
improving their English
in
language
Dave sought help from reading
instructors, physicians, and even
recalls
outside
dents, 50
disappointment.
On
skills.
uals
United States
Benton native and founder of
Laubach Literacy International
approach to
aid teachers in
and those
at
English
born, with low level reading
be
aware of looking at a child as a
complete package, rather than
in isolation,"
and
Second Language
of
"Dedicated
need
alv/ays
towns.
self-con-
about their reading
so we're very
accommodating," says O'Neil.
Students in the program are
classified in two basic groups.
that
rest
are
deficiency
teaching,
and doesn't consider the
home
their
students
scious
a child's develop-
deals with
of
side
teacher often
a
that
be arranged to take place out-
startling
is
Robert Berkheimer,
the case of
58,
Danville,
35
he moved to a job
in the hospital's
garage
food
Adult illiteracy
who
his alphabet
when he
problem, Berkheimer,
in a special education
ABC's,
Fortunately,
a farm,
and
I
knew
notliing."
vocation, often keeping
from school to do
Dad kept me home
so.
to help
this practice is
today's
Berkheimer's case,
a job
on the
Pickin
and Dave
it
disadvantages in children, such as
dyslexia and attention deficit disor-
to find help with
Regardless of improvements in
education,
with adequate reading
tional
skills.
Berkheimer, and Dave
in
helped him get
dairy farm at Danville
reading
disorder
tion of schools with
records]
there
proper educational testing did not
[the
"It
preoccupa-
good standing
out there," says Dave,
way
because
is
Hov/ever,
may be
I
my
can say
some school
trying
to
out
it's
wife teaches."
districts
overcome
this
by initiating propromote literacy. For
the Warrior Run school
preoccupation
grams
which
17 years.
is
"and the only
problems.
in
the educapreoccupied
the expense of ade-
contrast,
dyslexia
a
at
quate educating.
State Hospital
is
them
gets
"The schools, all the way through,
helped me as much as they could,"
he explains. Unfortunately, along
with Phillips and Dave, Pickin's
where he worked for
Once the dairy was closed.
too
is
to teach-
he attended attempted to help
his
Dave believes
system
with having good records, and often
let
Pickin believes that the school dis-
him with
30 years as an edu"I have seen
our professional ability develop to
identify more problems."
systems that failed to provide them
trict
his
Walters says,
cator,
opposing opinions on the school
my
not encouraged
During
der.
problems from Susquehanna Valley Adult Literacy Cooperative. However, the four have
Alth-
educational system,
today's
of Phillips,
them down when it came
ing them to read. In
him on
school.
that
fol-
has
believe the educational system
wasn't
"I
the farm," says Berkheimer.
in
in the footsteps
Phillips,
him the
him home
learning anything in school, so
ough
lowed
Berkheimer lived on
his father taught
left
believes
to recognize the causes of learning
Berkheimer
his reading
program. How^ever, he did not
receive even the rudimentary skills
that she did. "I really didn't know
anything," says Berkheimer, "I didn't
know my
Walters
service.
Today,
like Phillips,
he
exist until after
his
school systems are better equipped
left.
from an acute speech
Suffering
was placed
know
until
retirement after almost 36 years of
attended high school until the
tenth grade, but didn't even
delivering
that
instance, in
district
students are offered incen-
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read through reading con-
tives to
tests,
which
in
special needs stu-
dents are encouraged to participate
in as well.
"Through our
library,
we
have reading contests for all reading levels to promote literacy," says
Kov/alski,
principal
at
Sarah
Warrior Run High School.
John Klusman, Bloomsburg
High School principal, says that
special needs students are given
tutoring for classes that require a
lot
of reading, and are assisted by
w^hen tests are given.
Because of these types of assisinstructors
tance,
Klusman
"Every stu-
says,
dent graduating from here
spokesperson
Corbe,
Adult illiteracy
liter-
is
the
for
don't think that everyone
She adds that funding is targeted towards adults with the most
educational need. "In general, both
state and federal funding is to be
used for the most uneducated or
undereducated adults," says Corbe.
She adds, "The objective is to have
the services tailored to each individual adult's needs." However, as
read
cation.
a
whole,
adult
students
literacy
need community support as w^ell,
according to Corbe. "Communities
have to understand and respond to
the literacy needs within their own
quality
specific areas to structure
programs
insufficient
who have
adults
for
literacy
says
skills,"
one degree or another, but
there are some students who have
Corbe.
lower levels
resources are necessary to provide
ate to
of
literacy
[due
to
learning disadvantages]."
grams aimed
eracy
reducing adult
at
illit-
promoted.
link to such
not properly
is
Therefore,
illiteracy's
and economic concerns as
unemployment, crime, poverty and
domestic problems remains unchanged. The U.S. loses over $225 billion a year in productivity due to
Almost $5 billion a year
illiteracy.
is spent on welfare and unemployment because of illiteracy. "People
have to learn to read, or we're
social
going to become a two-tier society," says O'Neil.
In spite of these statistics, gov-
programs like
Susquehanna Valley Adult Literacy
Cooperative, and aid in the devel-
opment of new
Kirk
ernment support often fails to provide adequate funding for proat
reducing the
a
in
"There's been
government to
is
outreach
work
to
"Local
expand the
of local literacy pro-
and
recruit
train vol-
unteer mtors, and then match mtors
with students
who need
To ensure
funding
that
help."
adult
continues,
tion that lobbies
is
literacy
on behalf of the
"The lobbying
campaign.
an outgrowth of organizing
dents
on behalf
stu-
of themselves,"
says Zabitz. "The biggest advocates
are the adult students themselves,"
she adds, "and
that's
how
it
should
be."
One
is
Gov. Tom Ridge's proposed
budget for this year calls for only a
three percent increase in funding
for adult education,
adult literacy,
which includes
according to
Chris
can't
else," says Pickin.
Certainly, it was not "skid row
bums" that Benton native Dr. Frank
C. Laubach envisioned when he
embarked on a worldwide literacy
campaign in the early part of this
century. While working as a mis-
Moro
sionary with the
tribe in the
province
Philippine
Lanao,
of
Laubach developed his one-to-one
teaching method, and mastered the
idea of using phonetics as the core
people to read.
for teaching
After
funding was discontinued, Laubach
found
that
the
who had
JVIoros
ers.
his
literacy
globe in his 40 years of service.
Founded
Literacy
900 local literacy proUnited States, and an
additional 33 programs in other
countries. One such program is
in the
Susquehanna Valley Adult
Cooperative,
where
donated
I'll
take a couple of days and
to Washington, D.C., to
lobby so
Literacy
volunteer
7,936
hours
to
teaching others to read in 1996.
"They are the backbone of
our
of the
pro-
group,"
says
gram's tutors.
O'Neil
Many housewives
have become tutors, says O'Neil,
but it is the former students who
become tutors that she is most
proud of.
Dave is one of these former students, who embodies the "Each
one, teach one" motto, by being a
illiterate
lit-
presently
sponsors
grams
his
eracy program, has gone on to help
others through lobbying. "A lot of
Laubach
1955,
in
International
coming
helping himself
teach
this dis-
and led Laubach to expand
campaign around the
covery,
tutor to
after
one,
"Each
Laubach's
one" motto formed from
who,
learn to read with the aid of the
go
going to
of these student advocates
Pickin
times,
who
row bum ^vho's never
learn how to do anything
a skid
tutors
government
students have formed an organiza-
reduce funding for adult education," says Zabitz.
Spring 1997
needed
funding
grams which
adds,
Shisler
politics.
push
big
Laubach Literacy
for
International.
of fund
director
illiter-
acy problem. O'Neil concedes that
change
resources
educational
because of
materials, according
Shisler,
development
literacy
grams aimed
more governmental
However,
to
is
learned to read were teaching oth-
training to localized
Unfortunately, support for pro-
and representatives
senators
that
Pennsylvania Department of Edu-
adults.
reading
perhaps Dave can
By
over-
deficiencies,
finally lay to rest
words his daughter
once spoke, and replace them with
"Daddy, you
the new affirmation
can read."S
those
tell-tale
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HARD TO IMAGINE A TIME
The Iron Guards were named
when mules pulled men up
IT'S
canal
next
and down
Bloomsburg at the time. The men wore
uniforms paid for by local citizens
who donated $1,500 to the cause in
a
the
to
ever,
May
7,
built
Susquehanna.
that
was
How-
the case
on
when the Rolling Wave,
boat owned by William T.
1861,
a canal
from Bloomsburg's Port Noble, carrying all 77
men of the Iron Guards from
Columbia County. Their destination
Coleman,
departed
was Camp
The
Curtin, Harrisburg.
Iron
Guards
organized
themselves within a week after the
fall of Fort Sumter and formed three
volunteer companies to fight in the
Civil War.
after the iron industry in
just a
few days. They were trained
by Capt. William T. Ricketts, who
had spent time at West Point.
Armed with supplies and a
small cornet band, the Iron Guards
set out for Camp Curtin where other
Pennsylvania volunteers were gathering. A number of citizens accompanied the volunteers on their trip.
Lt. Charles B. Brockway commented on the mood of the men in
a letter he wrote home a few days
later: "It was not regret for what we
had done that saddened our
but
thoughts,
the
reflection
some and perhaps
bidding
final
and
friends
all
that
of us were
adieus to weeping
many
that
of us were
beholding the spires of Bloomsburg for the last time."
His
letter also
documented
the
Camp Curtin in detail. Along
way they stopped at the
Catawissa Bridge to greet the many
people who assembled. They also
greeted
them, anel
a
barrel
of tar
was
burned so
that people
could see the
volunteers
boat passing
Many
of those peo-
ple provided the party with milk,
bread and supplies.
When
in
the Iron Guards arrived
Harrisburg the next afternoon,
the governor, legislature,
ous military
company
the
of
On
nized on
to
their
tom of
the boat
and others
slept
on
Run,
16,
home
nic) the
retired
They fought
Bull
June
returned
send them on their way.
As the cornet band
beds of straw strewn along the bot-
to
at
the
Gettysburg,
Antietam, and Fredericksburg.
berland where citizens gathered to
some volunteers
the
and
The Iron Guards went on
battles
played,
drilled
serve an extensive three-year tour
of the South.
Danville and Northum-
best
lent of the military police.
the
at
vari-
equipped that had come to Harrisburg. Because of their prior training with Ricketts, the Iron Guards
were given responsibilities equiva-
trip to
docked
and
men pronounced
1864,
the
men
to a repast (or pic-
town of Bloomsburg orgathe
court
house lawn.
They honored the soldiers who
returned and remembered the 14
who died and 27 were wounded. S
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the deck. Just about the time things
began
ties
to
calm
down and
the reali-
of war began to enter the men's
thoughts, the Rolling
Selinsgrove.
Wave reached
Although
it
was
the
middle of the night, a brass band
Abridged by Robin Weidner from War
Letters from Soldiers and Citizens of
Columbia County, Pennsylvania. Edited
by George Turner, Published by The
Columbia County Historical
1996.
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EDITORIAL
ing, and a picture may be
worth far more than a thousand words.
Stephanie Kreamer, a
junior at Bloomsburg
University and Spectrum's art
Managing Editor
Steve Kleinfelter
Associate Editor
Lenore Olsen
Production Manager
Tammy Benscoter
Art Director
Stephanie Kreamer
Assistant Editor
Heather Williams
Editorial Assistants
Jim Seip
director, created this issue's
cover-and none of it exists,
except in her fertile imagina-
and creative soul.
The road and tree exist, but
in a different form in Hemlock
Twp. It was a photograph
tion
Tom Venesky
Vicki Harrison
J
taken in the early Fall by
Loraine Letkiewicz. Stephanie
BUSINESS
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Promotion Director
added snow and ice and overlayed it with a background
texture to winterize
it.
Caroline Glassic
The
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leaf in the upper right corner
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The vase
and
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aren't
even
Carissa Foley
digitized.
exists,
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it
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done not on canvas, but on
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and of our centerspread story
about roses in winter.
It's just one of the many stories in this issue. Enjoy them.
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Contents
BINGO!
by Heather Williams
Some
BINGO
local hotspots for
enthusiasts
On The
6
by Steven
Ice
Kleinfelter
& Tom Venesky
Tips for heating up a popular
winter sport
Shedding New Light
by Steve
Keeping
"at
Kleinfelter
school
risk" kids in
Bent Feather of The Flock
by Karyn Gandenberger
One
mother's struggle with
Rose
ADD
'Petaler'
by Caroline Classic &
Karyn Candenberger
Rob
Dillon carries
'Til
by
a122 year
Violence
tradition
Do us
part
Vicki Harrison
Clothesline project raises awareness
about domestic violence.
Walk Like A Man
A
look at abuse, from the eyes of the
young
O/^
Dying
^^
in
Bloomsburg
by Jim Seip
A
look at a local dye
company
with
NationalAcclamation
Cover Design by
Stephanie Kreamer
The Tracks
28
of History
by Tammy Benscoter
A
look at local railroads
when
trains
roamed the countryside
Spectrum
BINGO!
"We
other,
pretty
all
and
it's
much know each
always a good time,"
who
says Annette Cooper, Danville,
has been playing at the Washington
Company
Fire
(Washies) in Danville
every Wednesday night for 25 years.
can
"It
add up,"
really
says
Cooper, "but there are also cash prizes
larity
more than sim-
involves
showing up
play the game.
to
numerous multicolored "dabbers" to mark the numbags, hold
bers called and tote plastic figurines
for
Markers, boards, and good luck
charms are
all
part of
BINGO
at
the Catawissa Fire Hall.
good luck.
"You must have an elephant,"
worth hundreds of
According
to the players
BINGO
games
at
Ever
or a "postage stamp"
hour"?
at
Ever pay $60
averaging about 100
sidered small,
local halls attract over
400
some
local
"That's nice, but
fun out of
called.
it
really takes the
Cooper
game."
it,"
the original
says. "It's not
The game of BINGO,
first
record-
ed in 1778, was originally an English
game
The
"Keno"
or "Kino," dates from the early nine-
tions.
teenth century.
player can win several ways,
BINGO"
traditional
by covering
a straight line.
five
"straight
numbers
in
The "postage stamp"
covers four numbers in each comer of
the card and "bull in the ring" is won
by covering the squares around the
center or "free" space.
BINGO games range from
$60 a
night,
$15 to
depending on the color of
The Moose
Lodge in Bloomsburg charges $25 to
$100 for packages ranging from 30 to
90 games respectively.
the card a player chooses.
Winter-1998
since
it
reopened for
BINGO
"BINGO
is
what keeps
this place
The average person
running," he says.
spends close to $40 a night, according
The
Sorber.
go
profits
American Legion and
the
to
charity organi-
earliest
won
called "Lotto."
American form,
called
The game gradually
recognition as "Beano," "Lucky,"
each
nights
other
players attend
regularly
well
and know
enough
to
joke
reached the height of
"People like to yell things to the
caller
and some of the
fold papers and throw
women
them on
will
stage,"
he says.
But the jackpot still creates the
most excitement. "The people really
get into
it
when
they are playing for
the thousand dollars," Sorber says.
"Radio," or "Fortune."
It
BINGO
around.
are held at local churches or fire sta-
the
retired
a
zations such as Bloomsburg's Easter
television screen
children's
A
Lodge
to
BINGO halls attract nearly 700 people
weekly. Many of these BINGO nights
including
Sorber,
postal worker, has been playing at the
Egg Hunt.
The majority of the
as a tradition at birthday parties
that
games on Sunday and
the
nights.
games" that utilize a
to show the numbers
people regard the ages-old
unaware
who runs
Monday
out $2,300 to $2,400 a
James Sorber, Bloomsburg,
people a night, playing "high-tech
games? If not, then you're probnot aware these are popular
games on BINGO nights.
or fairs,
"We pay
night," says
"happy
ably
game
Many
at
to play
these
Many
one game known as "The Jackpot"
Moose Lodge.
places like the
the
are con-
people a night.
played a "bull in the ring"
dollars.
nights in 1983.
says Cooper, "they are lucky."
Washies, the
by Heather Williams
winning cash and prizes
their luck at
of the players carry canvas
BINGO
cards
with their admission tickets, then tried
Today, players can win $1,000 in
BINGO
Many
BINGO
patrons received free
over $200."
ply
during the Great Depression.
The game then became known as
"Screeno" and was played in movie
theatres. One night of the week
its
popu-
S
Photos by Joan Heifer
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by Steven
Kleinfelter
and
Tom Venesky
Although the temperature may be below freezing,
winter can be a hot time for fishing.
Ice fishing requires little angling skill and is a great outdoor activity for the whole family. The equipment is basic,
easy to find and inexpensive. The necessary tools are a
tipup, a jigging pole, an awl, an ice scoop,
and either a man-
ually operated or gasoline-powered auger.
The auger
operated auger
is
used to
is less
drill
a hole in the ice.
A manually
expensive; however, a gasoline-pow-
ered auger saves time and energy.
No
matter what type,
according to Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission regulation, the hole may not exceed 10 inches in diameter,
Once
ice
to
the hole is drilled, the scoop
from the
hole.
It is
is
used to remove loose
important to keep the hole free of ice
prevent sharp pieces from cutting the fishing Une.
After the hole
is
cleared, the baited line can be dropped.
There are two types of setups
line.
that
can be used to work the
A tipup is a reel of line mounted on a tripod that stands
over the hole. The line
is
depth and a signal flag
is
bites, the flag is released
baited and lowered to the proper
attached to a catch.
When
a fish
and pops up.
The other type of pole is a jigging pole, a short rod
about two or three feet long. The pole is baited
now
or small jig and worked up and
utes to attract fish.
setups.
Many
down
every
anglers choose both
According to Fish Commission
rules,
an anglefinay
use a
maximum
of five devices and no more than two jig-
ging poles.
The awl
is
a
wooden device
that is
worn around an
angler's neck. If anglers falls through the ice, they can
break the awl into separate parts revealing a spike
end.
The spikes
at
each
are placed into the ice, giving grips to the
anglers so they can pull themselves out of the water.
"I also strongly
Photos by
Tim Flanigan
recommend
County Waterways Conservation
Mark
Pisko,
officer.
Pisko also recommends ice fishermen
ice to see
how
ice because
strong
it's
it is.
wear a
Columbia
that ice fishermen
personal floatation device," says
Clear ice
is
test opacity
of
stronger than cloudy
newer.
"Always go with a buddy," says Frank Cann,
assistant
regional supervisor for the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat
Commission's northern headquarters in Sweet Valley. "Stay
away from docks, rocks, dams and stumps."
Factors underneath the ice can also dictate
is.
how
safe
it
Rotting vegetation and large schools of fish generate
Spectrum
Ice Fishing
Although Lake ChiUasquaque
heat that can melt the ice from the bottom.
"People often overestimate the thickness of the
ice,"
is
not stocked with trout,
Pisko says there are good opportunities for panfish, bass,
owned by
says Pisko. "I've seen guys walking on ice so thin that
and northern pike. Lake ChiUasquaque
every time they step down, the water seeps through their
auger holes."
Pennsylvania Power and Light, but managed by the Fish
In
Columbia and Montour
counties,
Pisko recom-
mends
Briar Creek Lake, north of Berwick; and Lake
ChiUasquaque in the Montour County Preserve.
Briar Creek Lake offers good opportunities for panfish
and
trout.
The lake
stocked with trout in October,
is
November, and February. The October and November
Many
Commission, and
is
unique because a section of
is
it
is
set
aside as a refuge.
"The refuge portion of
the lake
says Kevin Drewencki, land
for the preserve.
He
children because
it
want
to
is
only for ice fishing."
management superintendent
says the lake
is
a great place to bring
holds an abundance of panfish.
keep the lake as a family
fishery.
We
""We
improve the
of the
panfish habitat by putting out porcupine reefs every year."
from these months will be left over for the winter season. The February stocking is part of the Late WinterExtended Season program started by the commission two
Porcupine reefs are structures made of wood and block that
stockings are part of the
fall
stocking program.
trout
years ago.
Trout is in season at Briar Creek Lake until March 31.
The limit is three daily with a minimum size of seven inches. Along with a fishing license, a trout stamp is required.
Photo below: A tipup and a jigging rod are
two devices winter anglers can use to
catch their limits. Gas powered augers
make
drilling
photo on
holes
right.)
in ice
a breeze. (See
provide shelter for panfish. In order to fish there a permit
must be obtained from PP&L. Permits are
obtained by calling 437-3131
Ice fishing
many outdoor
remember
to
is
a great
way
to
free,
and can be
overcome cabin fever for
enthusiasts during the winter months. Just
be
safe,
have fun and stay warm,
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Keeping
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'at
Risk' Students in School
Kleinfelter
back
to the
home
school to be re-evaluated to find a more
appropriate solution. Lee explains two unwritten rules she
Discipline problems, poor attendance records and academic underachievement usually buy students trips to the
principal's office. In the six school districts of Columbia
County, students get a
"The shed," the
tive education
trip to "the
better
program,
is
"Show your
also advocates.
Donna
known synonym
for the alterna-
who
designed for students
teacher
Lee,
at
the
Alternative School. She explains that
your igno-
Doug Wolf,
17,
Bloomsburg, a third-year student of the
alternative education program, says that although the stu-
shed."
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can't
"stigmatized,"
are
tion has helped him.
Columbia-Montour
the nickname origi-
he asked to
intelligence,
ignorance.
the trailer has been replaced by a building with four class-
was
"I
crowd.
previously sat beside Crispin Field in Berwick. This year
move
Wolf says
to the
program
three years ago.
not your
nated because of the trailer that housed the program, which
he
believes that alternative educa-
deal with the structure of a regular classroom environment,
says
intelligence, not
rance," says Lee. And, students must "use their manners."
back
I
[to
in
with the wrong
really don't
my home
want
to
go
school], but
I
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rooms, each with a capacity of 10 students. There
office, a
"A
common
is
area and a student store.
large portion of the kids have failed and
guess
also an
I
were held
to
(CSIU) took over an alternative education program that had
been run by Union and Snyder counties, says Kathy
Bohinski, director of educational initiative at the CSIU.
hard.
keeps a
faculty of four teachers and one teacher's aide
maximum
enrollment of 40 students. Participants
are considered "at risk" of dropping out of school.
often have problems with
They
school attendance, academic
have
to. I
teachers [at
Bloom and
Everyone here
to
felt like
Bloomsburg High
can go to just about any." says Wolf. "I talk
they're like 'you go to that shed
school' and I'm like 'no, man, everybody
Wolf hopes
never
go
is
smart.'
It's like
down
there tries
being in a family."
to college after he graduates.
Providing structure and stability
is
one of the ways the
program is effective. "Many of these kids come from broken homes or have no real family structure," Lee says.
"People think these kids are bad," says Bohinski.
"Some have done
bad, but
some come from
situations that
they were never taught right from wrong."
work and conduct.
For
I
people from
back a year or so," says Lee. The program began about 10
years ago when the Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit
The
my
could go up to any of
School]. Here
I
this reason, students are required to sign a contract
Students benefit from the predictability of the school.
of 19 rules Students are also under another contract from
the
home
Photo by Karyn Gandenberger
school.
"The home school keeps a contract of why
they are here," says Lee. They must abide by that
contract. If a student
is
referred to the alternative
education program for attendance problems and
the
problem continues, the student
Levy Whitesell,
14,
is
brought
Berwick;
Doug Wolf, 17, Bloomsburg; and
Andy Sweigert, 16, Millville (left to
right) benefit from instruction on
computers, one of the many indi-
vidualized programs at the alternative school in Berwick.
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Alternative E
They know what
them, Lee says.
to expect
and
"I think it's better than
it's
my
The program has been in place since August 1 986, says
Ray Boccardi, a teacher at the alternative school who
began teaching there two months after it opened.
The school day at the alternative school is slightly
a safe environment for
old school," says
Andy
Sweigert, 16, Millville. "It's not as bad as people think
modified. Students take the bus from the
it is.
The
goals for the
improve academic
priate behavior,
students
skills,
make informed
of the program are to
decisions about their goals
These goals are
met through the behavior modification program.
their actions.
"We have
Students reach higher "levels," says Lee. Through correct
During
behavior students can earn days that turn into weeks
that eventually
become
keep behavior on
track.
to
be on a certain level
to deal with the
to eat in
start at
also
work
a certain level and proceed
He
at their
with the
pace, says
ties
done
plastic
at the alternative
education
Muchler.
"We
Some
Lee explains that students used to be involved
Cross. They are now involved with putting
bags over parking meters in the winter for free park-
"Once you
of the activi-
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participate in 10 to 15 hours of
feel like
you've reached your level you can
go back," says Wolf.
is
to return the student to the
home
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like chess or football.
baggage the student brings with them."
Lee says students
a regular school setting.
BED
our lessons."
ing and taking Halloween decorations to retirement homes.
starts at
Muchler, Intermediate Unit supervisor.
in
own
projects.
points out the
"Everyone
start
Students are also required to do community service
educational levels. Students
math lessons for example.
book one," says Wolf. "They move
book four, and then they go to the hard book."
Each student's program is different, according to Tom
Wolf.
to
at different
we
work with computers,
self-esteem work, getting along with others
and team building
"open" lunch with the other students.
They
games
"We do
Each level is designed to
These levels become privileges.
9:00, then
that until
their free time, students
take part in
levels.
For instance, students have
school to
the
respond to situations with appro-
and accept responsibility for
home
Columbia Montour Area Vocational Technical School.
They then get on a bus provided by the Berwick school district to transport them to the alternative education building.
"The morning is our free time," says Levi Whitesell,
14, a second year student from the Berwick school district.
a normal school, just smaller."
It's like
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"We had
graduation.
says Boccardi.
seven graduating seniors
"If they hadn't
last year,"
been here they would have
quit school or failed."
alter-
native education program, agrees. After graduating in 1992
she attended Penn State University, Hazleton.
Bloomsburg
House believes
She has
University.
the alternative education
program
is
important to prevent dropouts.
"High school
is
of the beneof the alterna-
school
tive
Joanna House, Berwick, a former student of the
since transferred to
One
fits
tough. There
is
is
smaller class size.
Donna Lee, one of
the four teachers
the
school,
at
instructions Andy
Sweigert.
a lot of pressure to con-
form, and peers can be very judgmental," says House. "The
alternative education school provided
at
me
a second chance
education in a smaller, more supportive atmosphere.
doubt that
I
would be where
I
am
I
Photo by Karyn Gandenberger
today without their supto
port."
Both the school
district
and the alternative education
program help students
try to get
that students graduate
from
back on
their
own
track.
Parker says
high school, not the
succeed
at
work. The program has between an 80 and 90
percent success rate, according to Boccardi.
"It's
into a
rewarding when I'm out
former student
who
is
in the
community and run
doing well, doing something
alternative education program.
they enjoy and they aren't a burden on society," says
Lee explains that students are usually involved in the
program for two or three years. The program accepts students from 13 to 19 years old.
For those who do not plan to enter college, the alternative education program gives students the skills to go on
Boccardi.
The
to
teachers are the strength of the system, according
House.
"I think
about the teachers
"They mean so much
to
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ittentiofl Deficit
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parents left
the
me
by Karyn Gandenberger
behind
at
Horn
Big
Little
V
i m. Monument Park
Montana when I was eight years
in
old. I
had been distracted by an Indian chief
while the rest of
my
Why
can you be so
you pay
can't
always act
like
attention
Why
your head
symptoms
ADD
tests,
above average
has been
in
a
in aptitude
only
in
report cards had the
much and
talked too
I
all
could not
was
I
fidgety and
sit still.
I tried to
be good,
I
I
didn't think
I
just couldn't stop
cookie-cutter society of the
my
prob-
lems stemmed from anything other
My
than disobedience.
out.
I
or simply
was frequently
left
out because
left
I
brain than
its
excuse clothed
Scientists rightly get upset
extravagant claims
Among
lished.
up
to
many myths
is
25 percent of our population
my
I
son started to display
was
afraid he
personality flaw.
and
guilt
felt
I
Dr.
an
Danny Waldrop,
was
I
read about
symptoms
for
It
report cards.
my
I
son's and
in
listed
ADD,
as if reading the teacher's
ments from
it
and
com-
my own
could not believe
how
they had
a pediatrician at
We
a long and tedious series of
began
tests, that
took over a year to complete, but
we
we were
not
to
make
sure that
blaming a disease instead of being
r]p\
newspaper.
article in a
eight or nine
it
when
little
Geisinger Medical Center.
responsible parents.
rest-
ADD.
was extremely out of date. I found a
support group which directed me to
frustra-
because of his
mistakenly
reluctant to pro-
What
The
had never heard of ADD until he
10,
was
vide any material.
inherit-
was overwhelming.
I
My
contacted his school, the
administration
iLy
r.
Alice
J.
Sheflin Zal, a family
physician
ADD.
process,
ior
people
always present with
had
and impulsive behav-
less, inattentive
many
is
When we
wanted
ADD.
When my
have been around a
Winter-1998
these
pub-
are
suffers
and disorders
(ADD)
is not a new disorder. Dr. Edward M.
Hallowell, a psychiatrist who suffers
in neurological, sci-
language for any inappropriate
entific
behavior.
was about
Attention Deficit Disorder
a
They
to identify diseases
that
it
a catch
have been coined
long time under various labels.
existence, considering
to
become
ed
is
not
"flavor-of-the-month" disease.
tion
considered a subgroup of ADD.
son did not display any hyperactivity,
effort.
feel this diagnosis has
that
abnormal, hyperactive behavior, and
is
believe
behind
known about the
ever before, and new names
Today, more
of
which
symptoms,
distracted and forgetful.
deficit
many people
to tune
was often
Disorder
includes
he sudden popularity of ADD has
believe
teachers, par-
and siblings soon learned
They have
been told they suffer from a
t:caused
with
Hyperactivity
have been shamed, beaten,
motivation and
class-
Deficit
and
punished and humiliated.
when
talking and thinking.
1960s didn't consider that
is
ADHD.
or
Attention
names: laziness,
ADD
the
in
For decades, children
with
all
was being bad, but
child
rooms.
along,
worthlessness."
out of
instead of following along with the
of the class:
the
"It
has been called by
it
different
I
I
The
he responds,
the diag-
nosis because
under our noses
was a daydreamer and didn't
pay attention in class; I jumped ahead
turn;
High IQ can mask or delay
these
all
and
same teacher remarks every marking
period:
learning disability at the age of 12.
up with work
placing in the "high" group.
My
call
and offices and homes all
over the world, right
managed to get good grades until
homework assignments became more
frequent.
we now
people ask him where
stupidity, rottenness,
tested
was experiencing.
He was diagnosed as having a
I
stu-
cloud?"
I
similar to what
ADD." When
symptoms coincided
these
with what
able to keep
do you
is
closely
classrooms
they scolded
later,
"How
severely.
states,
age syndrome' was used to describe
has been
parents returned to the
stay with the family?
me
dam-
years,
pid?
ents
as the
raced to the souvenir shop.
park several hours
rest
"As long ago
1940s, the term 'minimal brain
When my
ters
me
brothers and sis-
ADD
from
explains
if
who
specializes
that
the
in
testing
done properly, invohes
input from teachers, counselors, par-
and other relatives.
This is
accomplished by ha\"ing them fill out
ents,
a detailed questionnaire regarding the
attention span and behavior.
These questionnaires ask the respondent to indicate the degree to which
child's
the
child
displays
the
patterns
of
for
ADD.
It
took three months for the school
were completed.
questionnaires
The responses from
of his
several
teachers were wildly different from
other
further
Medication
is
like a pair of
enhancing
beneficial in about
ADD
80 percent of
u
needed
told
he
stronger
As long ago
These
drugs
include
stimulants like
Ritalin, antide-
1940s, the term ^minimal
disci
damage syndrome^
brain
of "babying"
'^
times
we
felt
they
treat his
step
included a physical
work.
efforts to identify
problem.
The next
physical problems.
in
process
the
exam
with blood
This
is
mimic symptoms of ADD.
The test results came back normal, so
we made an appointment for the next
step in the diagnostic process.
A neuropsychological
and
ability
to
logic,
organize
Impulsive behavior
tasks.
included not thinking before acting;
saying things before thinking about
appropriateness.
Dr.
tester
needs
tell
to
says
the
that
whole
watch the
score
story; the
client
to
determine whether he or she becomes
easily distracted.
He
says,
"We
even
include a simple motor test that measures
how
their finger.
was
obstacle
the local
and
ation
we
and
Many
of the teachers are willing to
high-
school
face every
accommodate
year.
but have a heavy
us,
blood pressure
class load, or face a lack of reference
medicines like
material and lack of support from the
C
administration
a
t
a p
r
e
s
.
Dr.
to
influencing
of
levels
vices.
and counseling
These factors hinder
ser-
efforts to
create an environment conducive to
who
learning for students
are diag-
(Patients with
ADD
my
with
we decided
but
son,
to
Treatment of ADD must be multi-
and includes educating the
-Jkii. -CiLaanoii±:
JittMS-tn
S
S
to
tt£.ici.nt
or tciiooL
emphasize a more structured and con-
atmosphere
trolled
remember
do
to
help
to
chores,
his
him
home-
aqz chiLaizn
arfsctea.
ais.
i^hiatiiiicaluj
3
to
4 houi ate aiaq-
etc.
The medicine helped, but
method
the
the schools used to dispense
made him feel
ridicule.
Comments
noisa uriinn ciTrJ^J^ for zustu qiiL
<^v{antj j-zmaizi. aiihlau a airfsieni
prescribed medications
singled out for
from teachers did not help
his self-
One
teacher
perception
either.
remarked
him
straps,"
to
that all he
needed
students
ADHD
ment
their
with
ADD
They had
to write
LJvet kali or tks ckddian diaqn.oi.ed
(viih c:pt-C>-C> ujUL
continue to naue
aJxiLtkood.
or
down
vjitfi
c^2i2i
aaeraqe 01 akoue aueiaqe
fiave
intelli-
assignments and have the teacher
them
for each class.
However,
few extra
minutes before class was over
accomplish
get
tnETEfoi£ qo undetected.
jiiobLemi thiouak adoleicence and
was to give them an assign-
the teachers did not allow a
to
ana mau
the school offered for
diagnosed
sheet.
conitsllation or dirricaLtUi.
to
which he didn't understand.
The only help
initial
are
ciJjouj C. ommon Lli
This allows the
more effectively.
was used for a short time
Ritalin
are not.)
'i^'ii^idual
start.
The major
to focus
quickly a person can tap
very good at this; depressed patients
faceted
fresh
a chance at a
slate,
Elavil,
do was "pull himself up by the boot-
Hallowell
alone does not
mind
was
battery
measure memory,
impulsivity
complex
meant a clean
Trofranil
These medica-
external and internal.
work,
given which included standard written
that
For him,
simply replied, "Relieved."
it
brain inhibit extraneous stimuli, both
essential
because thyroid disease and other dis-
tests
like
felt
it
school district and the lack of cooper-
according
Hallowell, by
asked what
I
when he was diagnosed with ADD, he
key neurotransmitters which helps the
This ruled out other possible
orders can
work,
tions
were sabotaging our
When
feel over-
like
some
was used to describe
continued symptoms similar to what
throughout seventh grade and at we now call ADD.
and further behind on his
pressants
Their unco-
him.
operative attitude
and
focus.
the
as
mental
sharpening
He would get
son faced every day.
homework until he would
whelmed and just give up.
eye glasses for the brain,
and
pline and accused
us
working
cases,
with children
deal
to
experiencing the types of problems
my
cases, medication.
was uninformed and
faculty
ill-equipped
some
same
teachers
that
to
coaching,
structured,
and from our own.
teachers
These
changes
lifestyle
therapy and social training, and in
and another month before
to respond,
the
making
become more
der,
behavior that are considered markers
The
and teachers about the disor-
friends,
Attention Deficit Disordei
the
would be
this,
so
assignments
late for his
if
my
in
qence abiLiiu.
cJ\unL
in ike ramiuei.
- it
a
cliiLd kai.
order
son did
initialed,
he
it,
tken there
fiaxent
ii
a qreatez chance a
mau nave
tkc di±oxder
next class.
and his or her family.
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90.000 Americans had abandoned
the
syndromes of the brain we must learn
to
The
example of
just one
is
getting
at
ways.
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Carrie
tos by Joan Heifer and Caroline Classic
ji19 Tradition
•
When
#•
the winter air whirls at night
in
Bloomsburg, a familiar patch of light shines
above the greenhouses at Dillon Floral Corp.,
marking the ground where roses bloom year
round.
Those roses wouldn't
brighten
Bloomsburg's days and nights had it not been
for John Lloyd Dillon's bright ideas in 1875.
Dillon, founder of Dillon's, built his first
greenhouse on land he rented from his father
consumer need of vegetaThe greenhouse was 20 feet
by 60 feet and first housed lettuce plants
which grew all winter at a lower cost than hot
beds. Dillon built the greenhouse on cement
which led to greater efficiency and productivity,
there-by helping him to expand the company.
after learning of the
bles
In
in
the area.
1879, he bought 10 acres of land on
where Bloomsburg University now
built what was originally named
the Normal Hill Greenhouses. By 1914, the
business expanded to 15 greenhouses with
Normal
lies.
Hill,
There, he
100,000 square feet under glass on
Fifth
Street.
In
the mid-1 890's, vegetables, Dillon's val-
were soon accompaintroduced steam to
heat the greenhouses using a furnace and
boiler. Others had considered his idea to be a
ued greenhouse
nied by roses
crop,
when he
worthless experiment, yet Dillon became the
first person in the country to successfully use
steam
talized
to heat a
on
greenhouse.
this idea
He
roses year-round.
With
spark
this
of ingenuity.
Dillon contributed to what
largest rose
producer
is
today the
in the state
and
one of the few remaining rose growers
the nation as well as the largest
in
"Roses can have
capi-
and began growing
Alsteroemeria grower on the east
ed
to the glass ceilings of the green-
houses with
Currently
its
main crop, approxi-
mately 2.8 million roses are sold year-
1,000-watt bulbs
in
each.
some
Dillon's has also instituted
new growing mediums which
are an
experimental concept in the rose
industry.
coast.
24 hours a
light
They just keep growing," says
Dillon. Over 100 lights are connect-
day.
perlite
The
substrate,
traditional
and peat moss has recently
been met with two more productive
including rockwool and
According
"Labor
Dillon,
to
costs less in a day than
an hour." Labor
it
does for us
ly.
"For Valentine's Day, about a quar-
substrates,
ter
of a million roses are distributed,"
coconut byproduct.
expense for Dillon's, and,heating the
greenhouse comes second.
and
"They have just discovered roses
to grow in coconut," says
Dillon. Coconut byproduct bears a
biodegradable property, whereas
introduced some of today's advanced
rockwool absorbs water especially
Ecuador, suffer a loss in the quality
and efficiently controls the
of their roses during the passage
says
Rob
Dillon,
of
president
Dillon has
inherited
his
renaissance
great-
spirit
horticultural technology
and flower-
well
growing mediums
company
nutrient supply to the roses.
to the
in
order to maintain a competitive edge.
overseas.
Dillon's greenhouses also feature
largest
identify this
South American
as an unfair loss.
countries,
the
is
While Dillon's may
love
Dillon's.
grandfather's
in
such as Colombia and
Inspection conducted by
U.S. customs and the
USDA adverse-
the
"environmental computers" which
ly
high-pressure sodium lights which
control temperature, humidity, light,
drawn-out and disruptive shipping
induce photosynthesis, thereby yield-
and carbon dioxide.
These advancements
process which the roses must endure.
One such implementation was
ing
more roses
in the winter.
strate
not
demon-
only Dillons' long-held
Walt Deitrick checks roses to be certain of their
high quality.
affects
the quality,
Home-grown Alsteroemeria
company because of
nature, but also their
ty
that
now
overseas
begun
market
has
because
of
countries
According
environment provides a warm
welcome, so Dillon's has been shiftthe
ing to flowers that don't ship well in
response.
Carnations
among
where the climate
discontinued.
is
growth.
rose
South
In
America,
to Dillon, the flower-
growing business has been shifting to
the equator for the past decade where
closer to the equator
highly conducive to
says
Dillon.
in
production in
foreign
more
flowers and thicker stems,"
to
trade
shrunk to 40 per-
rose
are
due
In America, the
cent
"Our Alsteroemeria
open, have longer laterals with more
the mid-1970s.
rose
poor quali-
the
of Alsteroemeria flowers grown
extends
international
policies
is
overseas.
supply
rose
rent
does the
another promising flower for the
innovative business
response to the cur-
as
Though
been
and
pom
pons are
the flowers that Dillon's has
trade policies have not
in their favor, Dillon's
"We
sisted.
are
more
has per-
interested in
Colombian growers
quality and customer retention," says
produce a rose crop
Dillon.
at
nearly one fifth
This continual philosophy and
the cost of domestic
their
markets and export
have assured their existence
them
flower industry.
to
America.
innovative business practices
in the
S
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Clothesline Project Raises Awareness about Domestic Violence
Story and Photos by Vicki Harrison
A
makeshift clothesline, stretching
"The
across
Washington,
Women's Rights
Mall"
D.C.,
in
a
at
a couple
rally
of
years ago displayed a host of brightly
colored
of the
shirt
shirts. In spite
shirts, a
of the vibrancy
simple white, cotton T-
stood out from the
on
blood
be precise.
red, to
The only
was red
rest.
bright color
this shirt
Nicole Brown Simpson was the
owner of the shirt. As part of a nationwide Clothesline Project that contin-
ues
today,
gruesomely
shirt
this
Other
tation.
included in the
shirts
Clothesline Project are decorated by
children
—
the consequent victims of
violence against
women.
"They're therapeutic for the
first-hand account of abuse
made by
by
either a survivor of violence or
someone who cares
for that person.
Sylvia Costa, educational coordinator of the
Bloomsburg Women's
Center, explains that the shirts are
decorated to represent a particular
woman's experience and color coded
to define the type of abuse that
woman
Costa's
experienced.
is
each
For instance,
a yellow T-shirt, signifying
that she has
been battered or assaulted
violence
(
nity is uncomfortable
are
silent
by the presence
women from
deters
speaking out
The
non-judgmental
in a
'~'"~^^^^^~^^"^~
tify
to
harsh
that
won Y he
against
in
many
domestic
let
forms, ranging
violence,
rape,
makes us pause and think
lives," says Russell.
or
lavender
for
and
women
attacked because of their sexual orien20
stay in these abusive
relationships,
and subject them-
becoming
selves to the possibility of
one of the 2,000
to
show
who
die with nothing
for their lives but a white shirt
women who have no
about the tremendous
and violence against
toll that
women
crimes
take on
control
over the violence they have been sub-
question should be
reality
violence
Other color codes include red, pink, or
incest or childhood sexual abuse
die each year as a
jected
who
why
her go,
women
to,
them-
allow
selves
stay
to
abusive
of domestic violence, sexual assault
purple
women
Yet,
the
Brown Simpson's, represents a
woman who has died from violence.
survivors of
women
direct result of battering.
vari-
tion that
women
spousal
Other sources suggest that
colored
enced different types of violence. For
example, a white shirt, like that of
green represents
women
by
sustained
injuries
abuse.
The question shouldn't
shirts also tesbe why does she stay. The
ous
crimination. "It's a dramatic presenta-
raped or sexually assaulted blue or
hearings
million
represent
do so
to
atmosphere.
have experi-
have been
Judiciary
them
molestation, and violent acts of dis-
women who
Senate
revealed that one
ing, but the Clothesline Project allows
from
orange for
The
hanging on a Clothesline Project.
While some of the other colored shirts
about the violence they are experienc-
cat-
Nicole
1993
study.
commu-
of victims," says Russell. This often
free."
women who
according to a
American Medical Association
about 2,000
oth crimes of sexual assault and
women comes
egories of
tell
their story in order to heal.
and reads, "You said you were sorry
again and again and again, now I am
Other colors signify different
her lifetime,
for
in their lives." Russell
explains that victims often need to
crimes, and in both cases the
a
is
enced violence
B«'domestic
is
women
expected to be abused by a partner in
every year require medical attention
depicts the horrors of violence against
from one of these clotheslines
victims of
are
severe assauh by boyfriends and hus-
women and children who have experi-
women.
In fact, every shirt that hangs
women
four million
bands; about one in four
"The T-shirts make a statement,"
says Kathlene Russell, executive
director of the Bloomsburg Women's
Center and survivor of domestic violence.
cer deaths combined. Each year, about
in
relation-
ships are often seen
as having the con-
'
trol to
avoid the vio-
lence they're experiencing. However,
control
is
the very chains that hold
them captive
"Who
to their abuser.
has the power?
one who needs
to
be
Who
in control
the
is
within
that relationship or that family?" asks
Costa. "It's usually the male
who
has
dominance," she says.
that
But she's quick
men
to point out that
abuse women. "There are
The 1992 U.S. Senate Judiciary
Committee report recognized violence
not
as the primary public health risk to
not batter," says Costa, "but the ones
adult
women
proved
to
in the
be more
United States.
common
It
than auto-
mobile accidents, muggings and can-
all
some wonderful men out
who
do,
there
who do
do so because they want
to
maintain power and control."
This need for power and control
Spectrum
Econo
Lodge
The Women's Center Clothesline Project is a graphic depicAbout one-fourth of all American
women will be abused by a boyfriend or husband.
m>
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tion of violence in society.
has
stemmed from a
will tend to
tality,"
history of sexist
and viewpoints. "A batterer
values
buy
into that sexist
men-
profile of an abuser
often includes acts of jealousy. Quite
often, this characteristic will crop
in
teen
relationships,
Unfortunately,
Costa.
predecessor of abuse
tected.
"A
lot
up
"It
leaves scars here and here,"
I
heart.
Emotional abuse
mental control over
and, thus,
common
"The number one reason
why they stay is fear and threats," says
Costa. These threats can be toward
this
may go unde-
think that's a real
situations.
own
their
lives or
Costa.
threats like, 'If
from these character flaws of
controlling jealousy that a continuum
of violence can progress.
that violence will escalate
"We know
over time
and become more frequent," says
start
what breeds
causes them to stay in these violent
dren, she says.
What may
is
women
according to
of students equate jeal-
ousy with love, and
Costa.
emotional
abuse.
naive thing females tend to do," says
It is
from
out as a push,
may advance
toward
will use
get a penny, everything's in
You won't
my
name.
get the house, you'll have
"
nothing.'
Women
relationship
often stay in an abusive
out of desperation and
fear that are products of the abuser's
control over them. In fact, the mental
weapons over time.
However, these
control that an abuser has over his vicviolent acts usual-
tim has been equated with the same
develop over a long period of time,
type of mental manipulation used to
down
prisoners of war, accord-
with emotional abuse throughout the
break
progression. "It just doesn't start out
ing to Costa.
where they are a wonderful couple
and he just hits her one day," says
Costa, "There's going to be something
strong people
their will,
going on as emotional abuse."
Although some who emotionally
mind games and physical abuse," says
Russell. "Well, that's what we've been
abuse do not physically abuse,
many
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"He's got
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"It
then.
Maybe once
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As one
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lot.
a week.
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would
about
assumed
he
just pick
along.
took the time to
me much
I teach
If
up things
that
I
"Don't marry a redhead."
didn't need to
to
work.
Mom
me
tell
that
back twelve hours
men
got
and
tired
later,
He didn't talk about it much,
when he did I could tell he didn't
grumpy.
but
like
running
my
ass
like
a creek
down
the crack of
and for what? ").
Dad sometimes
said, "I could' ve
short-lived term in school.
got straight A's
until
when his father
work the farm.
pulled
In
said he
grade
eighth
him out
the years I've
all
He
to
known my
dad, however, he never did anything
to
improve
home
his
situation.
brought
I
information about G.E.D.
ing, but
he wasn't interested.
He
test-
anything these days but the
n't read
I
guess he lost something somewhere
along the
line,
or something
was taken
from him. I'm not sure which.
learned that the
man
is
taught
when
son
me
yell
Men
The man's
wife
^ man's
//
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encompass
on
time,
desk chair back
was on
I
the floor fitting a
bunch of building blocks together
the boss of
soft-spoken and submis-
Ining
wanted you.
I
havin' kids."
He
at least four
me
to
hours a night and not to
talk with the family
value.
TV
He
watch television
taught
pay
to steal the
channels, as long as
I
didn't get
watch sexy movies;
and
to
blow
off going
my
hope for
I
to put
learned that
men
or
something
in
didn't.
right in the eye.
better to
me
tell
said
mom
was done
I
told
I
didn't understand
hope
at the time. I
it
made him
it
feel
that.
Another time when
I
was
still
a
child, he said, "you're a yellow-belly.
You're never gonna amount
in'.
You know
that?
to noth-
Huh? You know
that?"
believe that
I
spanked
It
me
was when
began
I
to
wasn't the times he
or yelled at me. Those
been forgotten. Again
remember him
say-
about spirituality or of eternal value.
and again those words would come
He showed me
back
"You don't
listen.
You're
that
men
only need to
to
follow their conscience as long as
man's wife makes him angry,
convenient and does not make them
my
uncomfortable.
doubting
she should be put in her place.
If
she
does something dumb, she should cer-
be told about
it.
Don't be afraid
her in front of other
her she's
fat,
and when
If
a
lie is
it
is
necessary to
keep oneself out of a jam, then
it
is
learned that
me, not always consciously,
life
It
questioning
my
was
my
worth and
I
value
lived
and
ability.
Mom who gave me spiritMom who taught me to
ual guidance.
expected.
I
all
but would efface themselves as
your mother."
tell
He
me that when I
eight. He was sitting on
his garage, looking me
despise him.
don't need to
was too
I
to understand.
no uncertain terms, "Your
was seven
about anything of
me
young
times have
respectfully.
make fun of
me when
to
was a shoe. It was dad's. I looked
up. He was leaning forward in his
chair. "I told you to push that chair
back when you were done," he said.
ll
/l_^
pray with their family, to talk to them
him
people,
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from
and responded
to
out of her thirties.
hands. In the center of the pile of plas-
taught
are all
I
to disrespect
sive
tainly
older than me;
in
He
brothers
was Mom's last
grasp for motherhood. Her other sons
were out of the house before she was
much
I
tic
was helping him
I
My
garage.
his
in
was going to give him.
After working on it for over half an
hour, I watched it fly to bits in my
a structure
financial gain in a lotto jackpot.
If a
into
caught; to read dirty joke books; to
to listen.
ing to me,
to
in after sit-
supposed
just like
I
in
forgot
I
one day while
this
keep them
to
is
One
line.
it.
Her
all else.
role with the children,
gathered,
his
responsibility to
to provide for her.
is
to church;
I
need
good cooks, who don't
are
responsibilities
ting
women
your young
back and who don't require expla-
nations.
his
to
the family and his wife and kids are
Mom was
my
fine to insult her
it's
driving around.
who
wives
does-
paper and word-search puzzles.
I
He
dignity by leering at sensual
push
been a brain surgeon," referencing his
the waitresses
mother."
("/ stand there all day, sweat
it
tell
things like, "people think she's
and pointing them out
(I didn't.)
him up five
days a week at 4 a.m., fed him some
oatmeal and sent him off. He'd come
need
you're out with her,
we went
did get one thing distinctly:
I
He
as
life. I
IVLaiv
men need
to instill
their children a sense of worth.
He
did
pray, taught
asked
Dad
me
to fear
to pray at
God.
(I
once
supper and he
Spectrum
Mom
yelled at me.)
encouraged me,
me, showed me she
loved me. She went overboard, actually, to make up for my father's near-
showed
interest in
me
away with
tyranny, and
let
being
undisciplined.
very
"
learned
'
But
I
^
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inherit
from
about
I remember looking at Dad one
day not too long ago and thinking, "/
am more
than you."
—
=»».«»™,
man,
of manhood.
about
.
Mom.
being a good man, from
My
most shocking lesson came
after
moved
all
but
the
others,
after
I'd
can look
at
want
never knew. As he spoke about the
hard to find.
my
father, I
saw where Dad
learned about masculinity.
had
I
better
grown.
to admit,
my
was a
dad. He had
man than his
He had moved
My
enough.
on.
I
want
to
and
to
But not
far
brother said, "you can't
blame Dad. He did the best he could."
Maybe one day I'll agree, but today I
don't. Today I say, "Bullshit. He could
have done better. He could have been
say,
live right
I
want
be assertive
be strong
to
be
like
like that. I
like that.
want
I
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Littlewood leans over
like he's
years.
He
done for the
is
that hold the culmination
on the wall
of weeks of work.
He
straightens his
back and points to a box that contains
a lump of yellow fibers. "I bet you
me what
can't
tell
used
for,"
that's
going to be
he says confidently.
1869, G.J. Littlewoood
In
moved
his business a short dis-
Manayunk, PhilaThe company is now
one of the few private, familyowned, commissioned, rawtance
to
dephia.
stocked, textile dye houses in
the country.
After he waits a few moments, he
reveals that this handful of fibers will
eventually
be processed into paint
been
"It's
says.
The company expanded
Littlewood
nuts
examthe
ines
of the boxes
around
and
points indiscriminately from one
box
to another.
"This will be fake fur that will end
up
in apparel,"
he says. Each box of
colored fibers has a destination
yam,
carpet, stockings for profession-
al sports,
coats and
scarves, sweaters, bath mats,
filters.
isn't certain
for.
Bob
moved
later,
Littlewood
to the
10
area
although he's been
for his
family's
company
much longer than 21 years. The same
company his great-great-grandfather
started in the 1860s has shaped his
life
since high school.
He began working in
Manayunk plant when he was
the
a 16-
year-old high school student. After
He
graduation he went to a textile school
what the
fibers will
be
but he believes they'll even-
end up in children's toys.
According to family legend.
tually
Littlewood's great-great-grandfather
founded G.J. Littlewood and Son
in
1863 in Wissahicken, Philadelphia.
One of
sions
months
working
Magee
Carpet Co. dye house.
Littlewood points to
a pile of florescent yellow fibers.
used
—
to
It's leased the old
and pigment."
he
moves
machinery.
water, steam, temperature
him
while
is
operation
its
Bloomsburg in September 1976, when it
and bolts of the
operation
rest
family's
the
bread and butter," Littlewood
"^^^^^^
rollers. ~~^^^^^^^"^^^^
'It's not rocket science. The
then
busi-
both blue and gray uniforms.
surround-
ed by four-inch square boxes mounted
good
nessman. G.J. Littlewood dyed
the company's first commiswas dying uniforms during the
Robert Littlewood checks
samples of fibers in his office
at the G.J. Littlewood & Son
Dye company, Bloomsburg.
for
two years while he continued
to
"We do
a unique
thing
here,"
Littlewood says. "Most people could
how it's done or the
bulk of material we dye. The trick is to
never imagine
take a 50 to 100
shade from the
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gram sample of a
lab,
and turn
J.
Hancock, Optometrist
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,000 pounds of colored fiber."
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60,000 to 100,000 pounds of fiber
in
a week.
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Bloomsburg
The Tracks
of History
A Look
Tammy
by
at the
Benscoter
Development of Local Railroads
Company
Railroad
took control of the
operation. After financial trouble in
Although
no passenger
trains
Columbia County, at
one time the county was the
cross
1838, the
company completed
the rail
nected
at
brought the
and
The Catawissa group purchased
In
first train to
Bloomsburg,
1860
in
However,
in 1854.
Catawissa.
in
to
1858,
it
Northumberland.
1881, the
Lackawanna
took over the railroad.
hub of a
large transportation industry,
the railroad in 1860. Sixty-three miles
The North and West Branch
with as
many
of track transversed three tunnels and
Railroad was built from Catawissa to
as a
dozen passenger
making stops daily.
The first Pennsylvania
trains
was proposed
in
1822 by Christian
Catawissa.
Brobst,
authorized until
eight bridges and trestles.
railroad
but
1831.
The
first
rail
from Port Clinton, through
Catawissa, and arrived at Milton.
Brobst, however, died before
its
com-
pletion.
1833,
a
15-ton
locomotive
was to carry it had not been
was kept in Tamaqua until the
track that
laid. It
Catawissa, Williamsport,
and Erie
Running
it
cov-
Wilkes-Barre about the same time.
ran
By
was
first
It
passenger train in 1882,
the Pennsylvania Railroad system.
The Bloomsburg and Sullivan
Catawissa in 1864. Previously, repairs
were done
to trains
its
and by 1886 was under the control of
Railroad repair shops opened in
in
Railroad was completed in 1888.
Tamaqua.
1871, the Catawissa Railroad
extended
Williamsport.
arrived from England, although the
to Rupert,
ered 30 miles.
was not
it
stretched
In
from Port Clinton
It
from Milton
became part of
to
the
Pennsylvania and Reading the following year.
In 1857, the Lackawanna and
Bloomsburg Railroad was completed
to Rupert, and was eventually con-
It
ran along Fishing Creek and ended in
Bloomsburg it met
Lackawanna, and
Western (D.L.&W.) Railroad.
The increase of automobile sales
Jamison
the
City. In
Delaware,
reduced the need of passenger
trains.
The Bloomsburg and Sullivan made
its last
run in 1926.
One
year
later,
the
Ten cabooses that Walt Gosciminski has restored
to their natural color are currently on display at the
Catawissa Train Station.
photos by Karyn Gandeuberger
Once owned by Berwick
Forge and Fabrication,
engine is used by
Walt Gosciminsl at
"Whistle
Stop"
in
Catawissa to reposition
this
the cabooses on
the
railroad tracks he has
rebuilt for his display.
restored
railroad
and
museum
a
Catawissa
cabooses
the
at
Since
station.
1996, 400 feet of tracks have
been
freight trains also stopped running.
In
After being sold to the Reading
Railroad
at a sheriff's sale in
Catawissa,
1930,
Catawissa
Bloomsburg and Sullivan ran
again. However, by 1969 both passenger and freight services again
the
to preserve
tracks
in 1981, the tracks in
in
time,
fol-
train station in
some of
old
the
it
was nothing
Today,
an attempt
today.
Gosciminski
has
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$5.00 Off
any new or transferredprescription
at the Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy
not valid on third party prescriptions plans
that
do are
ing local businesses.
Winter-T^Sa
freight
As
trains are
is
trying to
capture and preserve their nostalgia.
Ironically,
he
is
doing so in the same
posed his
J.
idea.
S
David Ferro,
R. Ph.
<^%ny
25%
Off
any Medicine Shoppe brand
non-prescription item at the
Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy
expires 6-30-98
J
9am-6pm lUon,-Fri.
9am-lpm Sat.
to
only a few cars, serv-
woe
I
com-
run through the area
trains
Those
forgotten, Gosciminski
ten
In the Market Street Shopping Center
to
Catawissa
place that Christian Brobst
1000 South Market Street
Bloomsburg, PA 17815
.Vi
He hopes
from
trains, pulling
to see trains four
wrMinrrjurmuvy wusivwam
expires 6-30-98
Few
the local history.
Shopped
^tX^
laid.
tracks
Rupert, about 1.1 miles.
times a day."
lowed.
BrianJ.Jaffin, R. Ph
purchased
plete
Gosciminski. "The tracks were only
a block apart from each other. At that
1971;
Catawissa
Gosciminski,
was raised between both the
Pennsy and Reading lines," says
of the Bloomsburg
and Sullivan were removed
Walt
"I
ceased.
The
1979,
We accept all major third party plans
784-9382
first
pro-
xatn
1907, Rush Harrison
About
of land
purchased a
plot
start a store.
to
Soon
after the
stopped
became
into the store
in
new
the
When
and Harrison
became
the pro-
moter, stockholder, director and sec-
company. Harrison also
retary of the
published the Forks Bulletin!, a
small pamphlet he began in 1911 that
In 1979,
Neil Harrison took over the
responsibilities after the death of his
in
A second
1935. However,
when
Emma Harrison
daughter of Rush Harrison,
v.
family business that gained
store
opened
the trains
Burrus,
rote
its
pc
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Fxiriiisliiiigs
eee Old BenAjid< Rd
Blooms burg. PA
717-78*3299
The
Wade&
She is the curowner of both the Forks train
station
and the Harrison store located
beside the station. Both buildings
remain standing, although today they
are used for storage.
suc-
photos by Karyn Gandenberger
cess from the railroad that ran close
by.
In
1
980, fire struck the store,
sparked by electrical wiring, and gut-
The empty
bed has since grown
full
railroad
with grass,
just like tracks throughout
most of
the county.
The memories of
the past are also
Used Furniture
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vivid for Jean Harrison Hiie, daughter of Neil Harrison.
rent
and Times of a Country
Merchant, the detailed story of the
ted the inside.
he circulated to customers.
father in 1919.
;gers.
Life
postmaster.
telephone service arrived
1908, Harrison
by the passe
Shortly after, the store closed.
store opened, the postal service
moved
1971, so did a portion of
in
the sales brought
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