VOL. 12 NO. 38
THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2008
In battle over illness, the music is winning
NEWS HEADLINES Nanticoke Derby is Saturday Nanticoke Health Services will be hosting the 22nd annual Dinner and Auction on April 19 at the Heritage Shores Clubhouse. Page 13
Young flute player ‘refuses to take no for an answer’
HONORING OLD MEMBERS, LOOKING FOR NEW - Broad Creek Grange, more than a century old, hopes to continue its long history. Page 4 ART AUCTION - Area library hopes to raise $50,000 to benefit construction project. And the auction will include works by a local artist. Page 16 CLEANUP WEEK - Citizens will have chance to get rid of some rubbish. Page 17 NO MORE FLYING - After flight that ‘scared him to death,’ World War II veteran refuses to get in a plane. Page 8 MARKING PASSOVER - Traditional Jewish Seder dishes can be enjoyed by all. See Practical Gourmet, page 18 COMEBACK WIN - The Laurel varsity baseball team rallied in the sixth and seventh innings to defeat Polytech last Friday. Page 41 STARS OF THE WEEK - A Laurel baseball player, two Laurel track athletes, and a Delmar baseball player are this week’s Laurel Stars of the Week. Page 43 SOFTBALL WINS - The Laurel and Delmar softball teams each earned a conference win last week. Coverage begins on page 41.
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By Lynn R. Parks Jessica Morgan can trace her passion for playing and teaching music to one day. “I was in the sixth grade and was in the band room at the middle school,” said Morgan, 21, Laurel. “I was looking at [teacher Jason] Rogers, the sun was coming in on my face, and I suddenly knew this that was what I wanted to do the rest of my life.” And she has stuck with that, despite being diagnosed last year with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue immuno-deficiency syndrome, both of which can cause extreme pain and exhaustion. “My muscles feel like they’re eating my bones, at which point I feel like a skeleton with my muscles separated,” Morgan said, in describing her illnesses. “I feel like I’m chained to the ground and have to literally command my legs to move. My eyeballs feel like they’ve been punched from the inside out and I feel like someone slammed a brick into the base of my skull.” Despite all that, Morgan, daughter of Patricia Morgan, Laurel, and granddaughter of Doris Morgan, Laurel, and the late Joseph Morgan, is a senior at Salisbury University, set to graduate in December 2009 with majors in flute performance and music education. She will give her senior recital May 2 with a program that will include music by Bach, Debussy and Hindemith, as well as a concertino by Cecile Chaminade that she will play again, in a different arrangement, May 8 with the university concert band, with which she is principal flute player. “Music is so much a part of me, when I got sick I wouldn’t take no for an answer,” said Morgan. “To be able to make other people laugh or cry with my music is one of the more powerful things I can do.” Morgan started treatment with the Fibromyalgia and Fatigue Center near Philadelphia in October. Since then, with vitamin therapy and sleep medica-
Jessica Morgan, who graduated from Laurel High School in 2004, will give her senior recital Friday, May 2, at Salisbury University, Salisbury, Md. She has continued to study the flute despite illnesses that cause pain and exhaustion.
tion, “I have seen improvement in how I feel,” she said. Staying well “is a matter of balance of vitamins and sleep,” she said. “If
one thing gets out of whack, everything goes.” She now has full mobility in her Continued to page five