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Sep 3, 2012

Barb Grady, beloved volleyball coach and teacher, died Sunday – The York Daily Record

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Memorial service for Barbra Grady will be September 29th at 2 PM at Dover High School.

Grady was the coolest of cool teachers.  She told us students we could call her Grady but if administration was around, call her Ms. Grady.

She hung out with us in the mornings for breakfast and no one felt like she was “babysitting” until homeroom.

We were encouraged to make an attempt at all the sports in her gym class and never made to feel inferior if we sucked ass.

She laughed with us and lent a shoulder when we needed to cry.

Grady…..your enthusiasm for life, sports and lifting the spirits of high school students will be greatly missed.  You were more than just a teacher, you were our friend.

One morning she saved me from certain embarrassment.  My brother Joe had pinned a pig’s tail on the back of my jean jacket after the yearly pig slaughter on my grandparent’s farm.  Grady stopped me in the hall and asked what the heck was on my back.  Removing the tell tail, I explained and we laughed between the two of us as I thanked her from saving me from certain ridicule.

God Bless and rest in peace Grady.  You were a shining star in the halls of great Dover High!

~P.

Barb Grady, beloved volleyball coach and teacher, died Sunday – The York Daily Record.

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Aug 19, 2012

Mercury VS Signal Pole

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A Mercury Mountaineer collided head-on with the signal pole at the intersection of Route 74 (Carlisle Rd) and Emigsville Road at 2:41 PM.  The impact caused the large light signal to fall into the center of Carlisle Road and the small signal became stuck, facing the ground.

The driver, an elderly man and his wife were taken by the West York Ambulance Club to the hospital.  Carlisle Road was closed on both sides for approximately an hour.  There was no word of the couples condition.

Met-Ed is on scene and the immediate intersection may remain closed for the signal light repairs.

Signal pole always wins.

~P.

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Aug 12, 2012

Friday Night Fights in York, PA

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The big news was Beeper lost.  Not fighting for 19 months and the strain of trouble with the law and domestic problems may have given fighter Ramesis Gil the edge he needed to take the win against Beeper.

Before the decision was announced, the faces were grim around the boxing ring.  I had watched the fight closely and was “pretty sure” my friend Beeper was going to have his first loss.  Everyone wanted our hometown boxer to remain undefeated but it just wasn’t in the cards.  Beeper and Gil gave a great match and perhaps if Beeper had been feeling better it would have gone in his favor.  The fact is, eventually, every boxer does suffer a loss.

I spoke to him after the fight, impressed that he remembered me from my days of training at Lincolnway Sports Center with Julio Alvarez.  He was just a kid of about 15 then but I was the only female at the time.  I had just started boxing at 29 for exercise and now he is 29 and thinking about possibly retiring his gloves.

I told him it was a good fight and the usual shit you say to someone who lost.  He seemed to be taking the loss rather well and deep down, probably knew before the decision was made that he had not taken the purse.  His beautiful girlfriend was by his side which gives me hope that things are improving in his personal life.

The amateur and professional matches prior to Beeper’s match are note-worthy.   Stand-outs from Lincolnway were Chase McGowan, Benjamin Carter and Koedee Gordon, all taking the win in the ring.  From Harrisburg Boxing Gym was Terrance Williams and Josh Bowles and Baltimore Boxing Club’s Stephon Morris.

After the matches I spoke to Julio’s wife, Sheri and told her they need to promote the fights more on Facebook.  Had I not read in the York Daily Record about Beeper’s warrant, I wouldn’t have known there were fights scheduled at the Valencia.  She agreed and while the crowd at the ballroom was large, it was far from sold out.

Enjoy my photos and videos from Battle of York VI.  I look forward to the next.  The link at the end of this post is The York Daily Records column on the fights.

 

http://www.youtube.com/my_videos  <~~~~Click here to go to my YouTube channel for videos of the fights!!

I hope I got the fighters names right.  There were no match cards to easily keep track.

Great night at the fights in York, PA  ~P.

Local boxer Carney “Beeper” Bowman suffers first professional loss – The York Daily Record.

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Aug 5, 2012

Rest in peace, Cookie

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Today, in 1986, a friend of mine named Betty Jean “Cookie” Hollis was found dead at a pavilion in a local park. Her clothes were on inside out, she showed signs of rape and was strangled. The night before, my mother’s boyfriend’s cousin showed up at our door at 12:45 AM in a state of panic, his clothes were inside out, and he asked to talk to my mom’s boyfriend. Of course, he was sleeping on the sofa recovering from a party that night that involved grain alcohol, PCP, marijuana and cocaine that took place in my mother’s home where I lived. I told him that my mother’s boyfriend was sleeping. He asked me to tell him once he got up in the morning that he had been to visit. When Cookie was found, I knew that the visit was somehow involved. Against my mother’s advice not to be “a snitch” or a “narc”, I went to the police station and told them what had happened that night when he showed up at the door.

Two weeks later he was arrested for murder and rape, but he got out on bail. For the next two months, until he was convicted in September of 1987, he constantly threatened to kill me and often banged on windows and the air conditioner asking me to open the door and talk to him. I called the police every single time it happened. I testified in court about what time he came to the door, what he was wearing, and answered a stupid question from the defense lawyer. After he was convicted and sentenced to 25-45 years in prison, he called me through my mother’s boyfriend and told me that he was going to kill me at soon as he got out. I have never forgotten that. All my life I made sure to have private unlisted phone numbers.

Now that we have technology and for a price anyone, I MEAN ANYONE, can get my address, phone number, credit report, background check, and other personal information on the internet. On this day, every year, I take a moment to remember Cookie and to remain vigilant that one day I may get a very unpleasant knock on my door. There is nothing I can do to keep my address and personal information out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have it. Think about that the next time privacy laws get shelved or are not voted on by your representative in the House and Senate. I do every single day. Rest in peace, Cookie, you are not forgotten.

By Michele Kalis
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Aug 5, 2012

Vast international child-porn network uncovered

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Vast international child-porn network uncovered – The York Daily Record.

This is the most disturbing news article I have ever read.

These vile men deserve an immediate death sentence.

~P.

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Jul 31, 2012

Lancaster pastor ‘terrorized’ kids

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DA: Lancaster pastor ‘terrorized’ kids – The York Daily Record.

I’m not sure what to think about this Lancaster pastor.  Good intentions gone wrong would sum it up.

I understand what their goal was: to educate and bring awareness to what could happen on a missionary trip in a foreign country.

I’ve been on a missionary trip with a huge group of teenagers.  We traveled as a group and rarely separated into groups of less than three.  This was for our own protection.

(As a side note I will add that after our flight to California we went to eat at a fast food restaurant.  When I came out of the restroom, I realized our entire missionary group had left in the two rented vans.  Thank God it was me who was left behind because I don’t know how a teenager would have reacted.  No one told us what hotel we were staying at and it took quite some time for me to even find our group and have them come back for me.  Poor planning…everyone should have know what hotel we were staying at before continuing on to Mexico.)

Foreign countries are unpredictable.  What this pastor staged has the real possibility of happening on a missionary trip.  It takes faith in God to leave your home and enter foreign territory to spread His word.

What this Assembly of God  Church should have done was inform the parents and youth what was going to happen.  Even knowing it is staged would still get the point across.  After the staged kidnapping, a discussion on how to react to capture should have taken place.

In my humble opinion, no teenagers should be taken to a hostile country for missionary purposes.  Adult missionaries risk their lives to spread God’s word and understand the risks they are taking.

Teenagers believe they are indestructible.

~P.

 

 

 

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Jul 28, 2012

9-year-old’s reign of terror

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Day care rampage caught on tape 9-year-old’s reign of terror – YouTube.

Shouldn’t this boy be charged with something?  Yes, the daycare worker wasn’t paying attention and has been charged for her lack of it, but this boy needs to learn what he did was wrong.  He also needs some therapy and counseling or he will wind up behind bars.

Just my thoughts,

~P.

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Jul 24, 2012

Penn State’s Punishment

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The punishment for allowing a child molester to roam freely on a college campus has been handed down by the NCAA.

It seems everyone has an opinion on whether the sanctions were fair.  The millions in fines and millions lost in revenue from bowl games and bobble-heads of JoePa…yes it’s going to be tough.  But, it doesn’t have to ruin the college.  Really, if anyone is guilty of ruining the college’s sparkling reputation, it’s the people who were employed there.

“Nicole Lord, a senior, questioned why Penn State’s student body, and especially its athletes, should be punished “for the wrongs of three men and a monster.”

“They keep breaking our hearts and breaking our hearts and breaking our hearts,” she said. (AP)

Well Nicole, if you think your heart is breaking, how do you think those little boys felt when that barracuda-looking man, Sandusky was raping them in the shower?  Not only were their hearts breaking, their childhood was stolen and taken by a man they thought could be trusted.  Even worse was the discovery of this serial rapist in the act who was then quietly ushered out of the football program and given his own charity to hand-pick even more victims.  His superiors made this happen for him and he must have been elated.  Not only did he get mucho bucks to retire, they gave him all kinds of “extras” making his sickness even easier for him to enjoy.

Penn State is taking a pass on fighting the sanctions.  A very wise choice.  The Paterno family would be wise to let things rest, as JoePa now is.

“Penn State meekly accepted its punishment, pledging to hold itself to high standards of honesty and integrity.” (AP)

My question: Where the fuck was that pledge in 1998?

At least one person, granted a graduate, gets why this punishment is so important for the victims and their families.

“Our heritage, our legacy has been tainted and damaged,” said Troy Cromwell, a wide receiver on the 1986 team that won the second of Paterno’s two national championships. Cromwell said he felt bad for current and incoming players, “but at the end of the day, there were still those kids, those poor kids, and those victims, and we have to think about them first in everything that we do.” (AP)

I’ve attended PS football games and enjoyed myself but can’t say I was frothing-at-the-mouth fan.  It’s just a game.  A GAME with a winning team and a losing team.  People are upset that the college has been stripped of their wins from 1998-2011.  Boohoo…the boys didn’t want to be stripped and raped either but it happened.  It happened and many people knew yet they wanted to be humane to the child rapist.  How can being humane to a child rapist even make sense to these college-educated men?  One doesn’t even have to be college-educated to realize there is no such thing.

So the rapist was concealed and given the freedom to continue his sick sexual desires on the campus for years after he was discovered.  Paterno wasn’t happy about that as we all learned in Freeh Report,  but did he step up and really try to stop Sandusky?  Hell no.

No one wanted to be the whistle-blower.  The wave-maker in Happy Valley.  The sticking-my-neck-out for the innocent children handed to the campus pervert.  It wasn’t until they had no choice because the truth was coming out no matter what they tried to hide.  The BOT certainly had an inkling that Sandusky had a penchant for little boys….but they turned their heads too.

I don’t want to hear any whining or complaining that all those years and wins were just erased like they never happened.  They happened alright….and all those boys who fell into the hands of a sick, sick man who felt he could get away with anything…well they know they were raped and their childhood taken.

Penn State earned those wins over the years while harboring a serial rapist.  The team, coaches, staff, etc. won games while children lost their innocence.

In the long run and in stark reality, there was no winning…..only loss.

This punishment could have been much worse for the college and still never make up for what Sandusky did.

Let the healing begin,

~P.

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Jul 17, 2012

UFO’s over the New Freedom Carnival in York, PA

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UFO’s over the New Freedom Carnival in York, PA – YouTube.

http://www.ydr.com/mike/ci_21040354/mike-argento-ufos-at-new-freedom-carnival

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Jul 14, 2012

They wanted to burn a homeless man alive

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These people have not been caught.  Please share this story on your social networks.

This man did nothing to this car load of 5 people.

This world is a mess!

~P.

Appalachian Trail hiker burned by Gettysburg group – The York Daily Record.

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