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Slain wildlife officer mourned
Program from Norway prizes peace
David L. Grove, 31, was dogged in his pursuit of poachers but also tried to teach, a friend said. By Amy Worden
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Students at Pennbrook Middle School in Upper Gwynedd listen to a presentation on bullying. John Halligan of Vermont, whose son committed
suicide after being bullied, praised the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program, which has had success there and at other schools in the region.
Rising up to stop bullying By Dan Hardy
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Scott Arnold’s daughter, a seventh grader, had been subjected to taunting and name calling last spring and earlier this fall by a boy on her school bus in Montgomery County. Arnold had already started to talk to the boy’s parents when new allies unexpectedly emerged. One day last month, the girl came home from school and told him that four students on the bus had come up to her after school and “apologized for not helping out until then,” Arnold recalled. “She was thrilled. I was thrilled,” he said. The bullying has stopped. It was a small victory in a big battle. The students got involved because a popular, internationally
Pennbrook counselor Jesse Clancy and students discuss bullying. The
Olweus program stresses bystander action and schoolwide training.
used anti-bullying program had been introduced that day at the North Penn School District’s Pennbrook Middle School in Upper Gwynedd. The children were being taught that bystanders who witness bullying should help the victim. That’s a key principle of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program, used by dozens of schools in the Philadelphia area and hundreds throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Many schools say it has made a difference. The Clementon School District’s elementary school reported a “drastic change” after it launched an Olweus program. “Our numbers were reduced,” said Lynn Marcus, the school principal and district superintendent. Started in Norway in the 1970s, See BULLYING on B2
Brothers Boyle: Outsiders now on the inside As a rowhouse kid in Olney, Kevin Boyle begged for bunk beds in the room he shared with his older brother, Brendan. But their mother rejected the request, terrified her boys would fall and get hurt. Imagine, then, the fear consuming Eileen Boyle now that both of her sons are swimming the treacherous waters of Pennsylvania politics. Democratic State Rep. Brendan Boyle, 33, got smacked around the polls twice before convincing voters in 2008 that he was a reformer the legislature needed. Fellow Democrat Kevin Boyle, 30, just ousted former House Speaker John Perzel, a victory made sweeter since Kevin had been shunned by the political machine. Come January, the Brothers Boyle will make history as the first siblings to serve simultaneously in the Pennsylvania House. (A state archivist confirmed the feat, noting that the Costa family has one brother in the House and one in the Senate.) The Boyles are as excited as their foes are unmoved. Political insiders hate nothing more than ambitious upstarts who bust down the door and invite other unsancSee BROTHERS on B6
Coming Thursday
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Philadelphia’s Kevin and Brendan Boyle (right) will make history as
the first siblings to serve simultaneously in the Pennsylvania House.
Evans fights power shift
Inside
A westerner vies for his House Appropriations post.
A wife still inspires her husband of 68 years despite illness. Kevin
By Angela Couloumbis and Tracie Mauriello HARRISBURG BUREAU
HARRISBURG — The West is getting the upper hand. Pennsylvania’s governor-elect, the two highest-ranking Republican House members, and the Senate president now hail from the state’s western half. And a contentious House Democratic caucus leadership election Tuesday could wrench even more power from the Philadelphia region. Rep. Dwight Evans is facing a serious challenge as the ranking Democrat on the powerful House Appropriations Committee, a position he has held for two decades. The long-serving Philadelphian has become the prime target in what is shaping
FAIRFIELD, Pa. — When Tom Stoner thinks about his friend David L. Grove, the state wildlife conservation officer fatally shot on patrol a few miles from here Thursday night, the stories come spilling out. He recounts how Grove, 31, once found two young boys illegally using bait to hunt deer in his territory 50 miles west of Harrisburg. He apprehended them and then tracked down their father. “The father was teaching the kids to break the law,” Stoner said. “David recognized Grove is that. He used a the first commonsense approach and Pa. game got the guy reofficer sponsible.” Grove wasn’t killed in afraid to prosecute people, the line of but he tried to duty since educate them, too, said Ston- 1915. er, who had shared his 180-acre hunting ground in western Adams County with Grove for the last three years. Stoner dropped into a chair Saturday at the Fairfield Inn across the street from where Grove once lived, disturbed about losing his friend, shaking his head and calling the crime “useless” and Grove’s death “senseless.” Police say Grove, a Pennsylvania State University graduate deputized as a conservation officer in 2008, was shot in the head by Christopher L. Johnson, 27, of Fairfield, during a nighttime altercation over illegal deer hunting. Johnson is held in the Adams County jail, charged with first-degree murder. Grove is being remembered as the first conservation officer slain in Pennsylvania in the line of duty since 1915. Gerald Feaser, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Game Commission, said that the funeral would be Sunday in Waynesboro and that conservation officer delegations from almost every state were expected See OFFICER on B5
up as a revolt against the Democratic old guard by a number of rank-and-file legislators. They are angry at their crushing losses this month at the polls, where they lost their majority in the House. And they believe their Rep. Dwight leaders don’t play fair. Evans has held Evans has become post for years. the symbol of their discontent. “Maybe we’re at a point here in time where a new broom will sweep clean,” said Rep. See EVANS on B7
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Robbery at SugarHouse defeated tight security By Allison Steele
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
With 24-hour security patrols inside and out, a state police outpost, regular checks from city officers, and more than 500 surveillance cameras, SugarHouse Casino might be one of the most thoroughly policed areas in the city. And when three women were robbed by two men at gunpoint early Friday in the parking lot on their way into the casino, SugarHouse officials said, a security vehicle was patrolling nearby. The robbery, the first reported at SugarHouse’s 45,000-square-foot
property on the Delaware River since it opened in September, according to police, happened quickly — possibly in less than a minute, said Anthony DiLacqua, the casino’s head of security. By the time security officials arrived, the robbers had fled in a silver Pontiac. Though the robbery was captured on video, no arrests had been made. “This was a horrible thing to happen, and we’re very upset,” said DiLacqua, a former chief inspector with city police. “Our goal is to provide the safest environment possible for our guests, See CASINO on B4