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Press And Journal
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2013
VOLUME 123 - NO. 47
14 PAGES
NEW SCHOOL, NO NEW TAXES?
NEWS Fund-raiser scheduled for fire victims The Lamp Post Inn on East Main Street in Middletown will host vendors for a fund-raising event for the Radabaugh family, who were injured in a fire at their Spring Street home in October. The money-raising rally will be held from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 23 and feature shopping and food. Vendors will donate items for a raffle, and the restaurant will donate a portion of its proceeds to the family as well as a fee charged to each vendor.
By Daniel Walmer Press And Journal Staff
Please See NEW SCHOOL, Page A6
Write-in votes fill seats in Royalton, Steelton-Highspire By Noelle Barrett
Press And Journal Staff
Three seats on Royalton Borough Council and a seat on the Steelton-Highspire School Board appear to be filled by write-in votes cast in the general election on Tuesday, Nov. 5. In Royalton, council member Joyce Vigilante and newcomer Steven Sell received enough write-ins to fill two vacancies in the Second Ward, according to unofficial results from the Dauphin County Bureau of Elections and Voter Registration. Vigilante received eight votes, while Sell received 6. If one of them refuses to serve, the seat could be taken by council member Carl Hrescak, who received four write-in votes. Sell said he decided to try to get write-in votes after no one else emerged as a candidate.
Black Friday crush hits Amish country
That CHAMPIONSHIP FEELING Photos by Noelle Barrett
Celebrating their second consecutive state title in field hockey are Lower Dauphin players Taylor Lister (2), Delani Higgins (8), Devyn Barry (16) and Maggie Mostoller (42).
LD wins back-to-back titles in field hockey, sets record
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ower Dauphin won its second consecutive state title in field hockey, beating Emmaus 2-1 on Saturday, Nov. 16 to claim the crown and set a school record with its back-to-back Class AAA championships. The Falcons capped a 25-1 season with the championship, the sixth title under Coach Linda Kreiser. Lower Dauphin led throughout the game, taking a 2-0 lead in the first half, then holding off the Green Hornets, who scored with less than a minute left in the game. Read more about Lower Dauphin’s landmark victory on B1.
Lower Dauphin players hold the state title banner after the game.
Suspect leads police on high-speed chase through town
“Office’’ star now asks Big Questions about life By Jim Lewis
The pursuit began at East Main and Pine streets and ended in Steelton.
Press And Journal Staff
After nine seasons on the hit TV show, “The Office,’’ actor Rainn Wilson is going on tour to ask people Big Questions about their journey through life. It would seem just the opposite of what his “Office’’character, egotistical paper salesman Dwight Schrute, would do, posing weighty questions about spirituality, love and our existence – or, in Wilson’s words, “what it is to be a human being’’ – to college students Rainn Wilson at campus appearances and visitors to his website, SoulPancake.com. But Wilson is not Dwight Schrute. He appeared at Penn State Harrisburg on Friday, Nov. 15, sporting a beard and dressed casually in jeans and a blue sports coat – “Now I get recognized as Mandy Patinkin,’’ he joked – and pacing a makeshift stage in the campus gymnasium for a discussion on life that, he admits, sometimes freaks out fans of the TV show. “It’s kind of the culmination of who I am as a person and my life’s journey,’’ he told a large crowd of students and faculty. He led a discussion intended “to re-explore the concept of spirituality – I think it gets a bum rap,’’ using his own experience bouncing from one religion to another and struggling in his career as an actor, as one journey to find spiritual satisfaction and happiness in life. It was a discussion peppered with jokes, particularly about the venue. The gymnasium at the Capital Union Building features block walls painted beige, and metal bleachers, and marked the first time Wilson had appeared in a gymnasium, he said. “It’s like 1968 threw up and formed a gymnasium,’’ he said jokingly. “It’s nice. Love what you’ve done with the place.’’ Before “The Office,’’ which ended its popular run after its ninth season, Wilson appeared in the popular HBO series “Six Feet Under,’’ and has appeared in a variety of movies ranging from the 2007 hit “Juno,’’ where he played a drugstore clerk, to Rob Zombie’s “House of 1,000 Corpses.’’ He studied acting in New York, where he met his wife – but
The Black Friday shopping frenzy will hit Amish country. Lancaster’s Tanger Outlets will open at 10 p.m. on Thanksgiving night – Thursday, Nov. 28 – and remain open until 9 p.m. on Black Friday, Nov. 29. The outlets will even run a shuttle from the parking lot of nearby Dutch Wonderland to accommodate the crush of shoppers it is anticipating.
State House approves Payne’s bill to allow 50/50 drawings
Please See ELECTION, Page A6
Please See WILSON, Page A6
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New Middletown Area High School can be built without a property tax hike, experts say About 40 people attended a Middletown Area School Board public hearing on Monday, Nov. 18 to advocate for and against a proposed new $40.3 million high school, construction of which may begin next spring. The hearing, held in an auditorium at the current Middletown Area High School, was required as part of a process that districts must complete if they desire state funding for a major construction project. After the hearing and a period for submittal of written public comments that lasts until Dec. 18, the board can submit PlanCon Part D, which deals with estimated project costs, to the state. “This is, give or take, the 60 percent mark [of planning],” said Jeffrey Straub of Crabtree, Rohrbaugh and Associates, the district’s engineer.
See B-8 for details
By Press And Journal Staff
Press And Journal Photos by Jim Lewis
Rainn Wilson shakes hands with Penn State Harrisburg students as he leaves the gymnasium.
A Harrisburg man wanted on unspecified charges led Middletown police on a high-speed chase on Tuesday, Nov. 12 that began at East Main and Pine streets and ended in Steelton, reaching a speed of 125 miles an hour, according to a source in the police department. The fleeing vehicle nearly struck workers in a construction zone in Middletown, and the pursuit reached 125 mph on Interstate 283, the source said. Michael Evans-Turner, 30, was arrested in Steelton after authorities placed spike strips on Front Street in Steelton. It was not clear what charges Evans-Turner faced before the chase began. MIddletown police knew where Evans-Turner would be in town, and he was spotted driving in the borough by officers around noon on Tuesday afternoon. A fellow police officer had a plan of action to stop him, but one officer turned on his cruiser’s flashing lights and alerted the suspect, who fled, the source said. Video of the pursuit was taken, the source said. A Middletown cruiser was damaged when it rammed Evans-Turner’s vehicle, the source said. One tire was punctured by a spike strip in Steelton, the source said. A bystander’s vehicle was sideswiped during the chase, Dauphin County officials told television station WHTM. Neither Police Chief Steven Wheeler nor Chris Courogen, borough secretary and director of communications, returned calls by the Press And Journal for information about the chase.
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The state House of Representatives approved a bill introduced by Rep. John Payne, R-106th District, to legalize 50/50 drawings at minor league home games and expand small games of chance. The House approved the bill by a vote of 102-96 on Thursday, Nov. 14. It now goes to the Senate for a concurrence vote. Payne’s bill began as a five-page proposal, but was amended into a 33-page proposal that also would allow restaurants and taverns to apply for a license to operate pull-tab games, daily drawings and raffles. It would require 60 percent of proceeds from those games to be distributed to the state’s General Fund. Five percent of the proceeds would be distributed to local governments to be used for various purposes, such as enforcement.
Bound pit bull found in creek Lower Swatara Twp police are investigating an incident of animal cruelty after a pit bull whose front legs were bound was discovered in the Swatara Creek near the Vine Street bridge on Monday, Nov. 11. A construction worker discovered the dog, which was taken to an animal hospital and survived the incident, according to Police Chief Richard Brandt. “Pit bulls are tough, and this one came through with flying colors,” Brandt said. Police have an unnamed suspect in the case and will likely arrest the suspect on animal cruelty charges, he said.
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