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JULY 14, 2021
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXXIV • NO 2
Harrisburg Has A New Women’s Tackle Football Team BY FRANCINE FULTON
A Genius At Scouts Practice CPR, First Aid Skills Scouts of Troop 97 in Londonderry Genealogy Township recently gathered for a weekend of first aid and CPR training. First aid skills are reinforced at every level of a Scout’s journey. A Tenderfoot Scout learns how to properly treat simple cuts, blisters, insect bites, and minor burns. Advancement to the Second Class rank is dependent in part upon understanding how to treat emergency cases, such as someone who has stopped breathing, has had a stroke, or has severe bleeding, a
BY FRANCINE FULTON
Eric Schubert, a student at Elizabethtown College who is serving as an intern this summer at the Hershey History Center, began studying genealogy at the age of 10 as a hobby. In the decade since then, Schubert has helped adoptees find their birth parents, created family trees for those interested in their ancestry and has even helped law enforcement to solve cold cases. Schubert has started his own company, ES Genealogy, which offers family tree mapping and
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Troop 97 members (kneeling, from left) Scout David Salazar, Assistant Scoutmaster Mike Harris, and First Class Scout Bryson Harris roll Scout Logan Nissley onto a stretcher made from a tarp and tent poles.
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“Women can do whatever they want to do. My ladies are here to show that it can be done,” said Tiffany Thomas, owner of the Harrisburg Havoc, a new competitive women’s full tackle football team. The team is currently seeking female players age 18 and over to join the team in its inaugural season. “The season will start next spring, but the ladies have started agility and conditioning now,” said Tiffany. “They will play in full pads and go by college rules, so there will be 11 girls on the field.” Tiffany noted that games will most likely be played at Harrisburg and Steelton-Highspire high schools. The schedule will be released in October or November. The Harrisburg Havoc is part of the Women’s Football Alliance (WFA), which has teams throughout the United States. Teams include the Tampa Bay Inferno, the Boston Renegades and the Minnesota Vixen. Teams in Pennsylvania include the Pittsburgh Passion. “There was another team in the
Harrisburg area, and they folded. They did not have a season in two years. That is why I started the new team,” Tiffany explained. “I have a lot of returning players (from that team).” Currently, the Havoc is holding evening practices at South Side Elementary School in Harrisburg on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6 p.m. “(The team members) are from all over central PA. I have ladies that travel from the Lehigh Valley, Marietta, Lancaster and Lackawanna County,” Tiffany noted. Tiffany’s daughter, Kaeli, 23, has been playing women’s tackle football for the past five years. She said that female football players are just as competitive as their male counterparts. “I think the one big thing is showing the boys we can do what they do; we can hit just as hard as they do,” said Kaeli. Kaeli, who plays right guard on the offensive line, has been injured while playing tackle football. “In my second season, I broke my hand. It got stuck in another girl’s helmet,” she recalled. “When you have a cast, (they) wrap it in foam, and I stilled played.” Members of the Harrisburg Havoc, including (from left) Reba Trinta, Kaeli Thomas, Terrance Parsons See Harrisburg Havoc pg 12 and Lesly Trinta, volunteered at a “Feed the Children” event with the Parsons Foundation.
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