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The Drive To Achieve CVHS Graduate Will Join Space Force BY ANN MEAD ASH in June 2021, when she was still “He said he had never worked 17. Rappa began taking practice with anyone who got in,” said hen Gabrielle Rappa was a Armed Services Vocational Apti- Rappa. “Right when he said that, I junior at Conestoga Valley tude Battery (ASVAB) evaluations. thought, ‘I want to do it.’” Rappa High School (CVHS) in the She noted that she would have to applied, completing essay quesspring of 2021, she was going meet a weight requirement, and tions and sending in clearances. through a tough time. “ When she started going to the gym. Her In May, she received the call letCOVID-19 hit, we were doing grades improved. “I was dedicat- ting her know she was accepted. online schooling, and I lost motiva- ing myself. It was something I “I cried because I had overcome so tion,” recalled Rappa, whose grade really wanted to do,” she said. In much,” said Rappa. Following basic training, Rappa point average hit a low point. “I was October 2021, Rappa took a PiCAT, which she called “an will be sent to a technical school doubting myself.” Rappa noted that she had never adjusted version of the ASVAB,” at an Air Force base in been interested in going to college, and she locked in her scores. She Vandenberg, Calif., where she will but she had thought about entering also visited the Military Entrance study space system operations, the military. “It was in the back of Processing Station for an in-depth which will involve detecting and my mind,” she said. “When I hit physical to be sure she had no tracking missiles. “I am excited,” rock bottom, I knew I needed to do issues that would disqualify her said Rappa, who noted that one from the military. Before the end reason she applied was to encoursomething to back myself up.” Now, Rappa is preparing to head of 2021, she took an oath of age young women to consider the to Lackland, Texas, at the end of enlistment for the delayed-entry military, which she said is still a male-dominated field. “I want to August to begin her basic training program. In February 2022, Rappa and excel and move up in rank, not with the Space Force. She is recognized as the first Lancaster County her recruiter began looking at only for me, but for little girls resident to be accepted into this career training choices. “I enjoy out there. You can do anything,” making connections and talking she said. branch of the military. Rappa’s change in destiny can to people,” said Rappa, who was be traced to her first conversa- told by her recruiter that the tions with an Air Force recruiter Space Force was very selective. Gabrielle Rappa
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When paleontologist Chris Haefner of West Hempfield found a fossil in a church yard in York, he suspected he had uncovered something special. “It was an unusual creature,” said Haefner, who eventually learned the fossil represented an animal previously unknown to mankind. “It was not just a new species. It was a new genus - a new family,” said Haefner.
Long’s Park Amphitheater Foundation Plans Gala BY ANN MEAD ASH Hub, SWAN (Scaling Walls A Note at a Time), Lancaster Farmland The Long’s Park Trust, Lancaster Conservancy, Amphitheater Foundation and the Spanish American Civic is known for attracting up Association have been invited to to 6,000 visitors to each of have a part at upcoming concerts, its summer concerts - and the art festival will feature up 30,000 for the July Fourth to five up-and-coming new area celebration - as well as artists. “After 60 years, people are offering an annual art festi- aware of our summer concerts val, but looking ahead, the and our art festival, and now if organization would like to we can just extend that reach to be seen as more collabora- other great community resources, tive with other organiza- that is a blessing for everyone,” Janice Henry (left) and Tom Ellis display tions. Toward that goal, the said Tom Ellis, interim president the “amphi-feeder” bird feeder that will be Lancaster County Food of the foundation.
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auctioned at the Long’s Park Amphitheater Foundation gala in September.
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