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SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
World War II veteran marks 100 years with a look back BY CATHY MOLITORIS
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Former Farm Show queens invited to reunion BY CATHY MOLITORIS
The Manheim Farm Show will turn 70 this year, and in honor of that anniversary, all former Farm Show queens are invited to a reunion.
“ We would like all former queens to come to the opening ceremonies on Monday, Oct. 7, at 6:30 p.m. to be recognized as former queens,” said Denise Hess, junior queen coordinator and member of the Farm See Queens pg 6
The queen and her court at a previous Manheim Farm Show
Compass Mark aims to stop addiction before it starts Bob Emberger with some of the birthday cards from students he taught 50 years ago.
always worked when the instructor was there. So, finally, I just let it bounce out, and the instructor came over and said, ‘I thought we were going to have to shoot you down.’” It turned out the underseat parachute in the plane had shifted forward, preventing Bob from fully pulling back on the yoke to land the plane smoothly. Bob moved up to open cockpit
planes and four-engine B-24 planes. He received his wings and officer’s commission Oct. 18, 1944, in Corpus Christi, Texas, and then was sent to Jacksonville, Fla., where he flew a Catalina seaplane on anti-submarine and Air-Sea Rescue patrols. Bob was deployed to Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, where he continued to f ly throughout the Pacific
BY JEFF FALK
Compass Mark wants to be an ideological lightning rod and a guiding light in the community. The nonprofit approaches its mission through three guiding principles - “follow the science,” “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” and “the sooner the better.” The ultimate goal is to manage and curb addiction or control
the behavioral part of it that can be controlled. “Compass Mark can help you get to where you want to go in life; we can keep you on the right path,” said Teri Miller-Landon, Compass Mark’s director of programs. “There’s so much science out there on what leads kids to addiction. We’re not preaching abstinence. We’re trying to delay use as much as possible. We’re teaching them to make other See Compass Mark pg 2
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20-year resident of Masonic Village in Elizabethtown, Robert “Bob” Emberger Sr. celebrated his 100th birthday on July 9. As he reached this milestone, he reflected back on his life, including serving in World War II. After graduating from high school, Bob, who lived in Philadelphia at the time, signed up for naval aviation, because it sounded fun. He didn’t think he’d be accepted, but he did so well on the entrance tests, he earned a spot in a training program. “I was not a good student in high school. I could have been, but I was interested in sports,” he said. “I had no background to push me into aviation.” In fact, Bob had never been in an airplane. He didn’t even have a driver’s license. But the lure of the skies was appealing, he said. “It sounded pretty good to me,” he stated. “I was a young guy, and this really appealed to me.” Bob enrolled in West Chester State Teachers College, now West Chester University, while awaiting assignment to an aviator training class. After his freshman year, he joined a Naval cadet training unit at the University of Pennsylvania, entering active duty on March 4, 1943. He then moved to Mount St. Mary’s in Maryland, where he flew his first solo flight in a Piper Cub. “ W hen I went to l and, I bounced all over the place,” he recalled. “I couldn’t figure out what was happening, because it
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