York Daily Record/Sunday News
Body of missing 10-year-old kayaker found in Yellow Breeches Creek
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- Body of missing 10-year-old kayaker found in Yellow Breeches Creek
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- 2 years ago
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- Saturday afternoon, a group of family and friends - three adults and four children - embarked on a kayaking excursion on the Yellow Breeches, starting the mile-and-a-half-long trip at Sheepford Road.
( video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2024/08/14/body-of-missing-kayaker-found-in-yellow-breeches-creek/74795084007/
Moments after entering the water, at about 5 p.m., the party ran into heavy debris, some from the recent visit of the remnants of Tropical Storm Debbie and some that had been in the creek for years, stirred up by the fast-moving moving water in the wake of the storm.
Most of the kayakers made it to the bank, but one of the party, a 10-year-old boy, was swept under the water. He did not resurface, the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission reported.
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- A 3-course meal at the York Fair for under $25? Yes! Here's what to try
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- 2 years ago
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- Despite the heat, and now plenty of rain, Yorkers and out-of-towners are once again enjoying the smell of fried funnel cake, chicken on a stick and festivities at this year’s York State Fair.
Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/life/food/2024/07/23/york-state-fair-2024-guide-to-what-to-eat-on-a-budget/74504712007/
Most years we find ourselves beating the heat, and while this year is no exception, at least there's rain to balance everything out. But I didn't let either of those factors keep me from venturing out for some good eats Monday.
Last year, I tried a plate of General Tso’s Brussel Sprouts, followed by a delightful Philly Cheesesteak egg roll that oozed with cheese, and for dessert a deep-fried ball of chocolate. This year I set out to see if I could enjoy an appetizer, meal and dessert for under $25, and to my surprise, I did!
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- See what the gamer sees: Virtual reality park opens in West Manchester Township.
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- There's a new entertainment venue in town, and it's perfect for families.
Hassan Sall recently opened Another World Virtual Reality Park in West Manchester Township as a way to give families something to do together.
Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2024/07/24/virtual-reality-park-opens-in-west-manchester-twp-pa/74498252007/
"This isn't a place where mom and dad can take the kids to run around and bounce on trampolines while they sit back and just watch," Sall said. "York has enough of those places. We wanted to give people something new and bridge that gap that allows families to have fun doing the same activity together. This is an experience that the whole family can enjoy."
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- Red Lion neighborhood organization found the good in people to promote nature preserve
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Nikki Wever stood on her deck overlooking the former Red Lion Country Club property and described a nature preserve that a recently formed group proposes for its future.
Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2024/08/02/former-red-lion-country-club-could-be-saved-for-a-nature-preserve/74632786007/
It would offer outdoor classroom facilities for students to learn how ecosystems work. It would provide a cross-country course for runners. And it would give residents open space.
The idea includes uniting the open spaces, including Fairmount Park and the Red Lion Mile, to create a network that runs through the community.
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- Bro2Go, Family First Health: A healthy re-start program focuses on mind, body for ex-offenders
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- The people who ex-offenders cross paths with the days and weeks after they leave prison is crucial to their success. Bro2Go, an empowerment organization for those who have served time and at-risk youth, has partnered with Family First Health to help launch a healthy start for these men and women.
( Video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2024/07/18/bro2go-and-family-first-health-partner-for-former-prison-inmates/74444227007/
“It’s vitally important to have organizations … family members, friends that are connecting with their loved ones that are incarcerated, because everyone makes a mistake, everyone goes down the wrong road,” Da’Laine Simpson, founder and CEO of Bro2Go said while launching a partnership with Family First Health.
Simpson said that he is in York County and Dauphin County prison on a weekly basis.
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- Moon Dancer Winery, after lengthy litigation, closed 7/18/24, perhaps for good
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- 2 years ago
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- Jim Leaman stopped by the Moon Dancer Vineyard & Winery at noon on Thursday, wondering whether his band, Travelers, could get another gig at the venue.
( video by Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2024/07/18/moon-dancer-winery-after-litigation-closed-thursday/74457405007/
The six-piece band, which plays country blues and folk, had performed at the winery, just south of Wrightsville on Klines Run Road, and Leaman wondered whether they could get a return date.
Leaman had heard about the winery’s legal issues – a neighbor had sued the winery over violating the deed restrictions in the rural development – and wasn’t sure whether it was going to remain open.
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- Susquehanna River inspires man to paddle 444 miles and artist Rob Evans to paint, curate
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Paddling through the final days of a 444-mile journey down the length of the Susquehanna River, Jim Snyder paused in York County on June 26 to bring attention to the Susquehanna National Heritage Area’s Visions of the Susquehanna Art Collection, as a donor, and meet artist and long-time curator Rob Evans along the bank of the river at the Zimmerman Center for Heritage.
( Video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2024/06/27/rob-evans-meets-with-susquehanna-river-art-donor-on-444-mile-kayak-trip/74217868007/
Three paintings donated by Snyder that day, originally painted by Evans, were part of the estate of the late Jay Cook of Roundtop, who commissioned the paintings. The majestic home visible from the Susquehanna River Evans described as looking like “a castle or a hotel,” was part of his early years.
The oil on panel paintings view the river from the lofty top of the mansion from the east, west and northern pers...
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- Menchey Music strikes a chord with York County customers for 88 Years
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- On any given day, 20,000 band and orchestra instruments are waiting to be rented or repaired at Menchey Music’s operations center in Hanover.
( video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2024/06/19/menchey-music-strikes-chord-with-york-county-pa-customers-for-88-years/74003291007/
It’s a far cry from the business’ humble beginnings in 1936 when J. Robert Menchey bought a saxophone for $25, repaired it in his mother’s sewing room and sold it for $40.
Today, owner and CEO Joel Robert Menchey — bearing the same initials as his grandfather — described the company’s growth as “slow and sustained” over the past 88 years, to reach $20 million in annual revenue.
Menchey Music, in addition to Hanover’s home base of operations on Barnhart Drive, now operates eight shops including locations in York and Lancaster — plus three in Maryland, and it has developed relationships with band directors and m...
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- I cooked an egg on my dashboard using just the sun during the heatwave in York, Pennsylvania.
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- The surface temperature of the dashboard reached over 200 F degrees. A pan with oil in it was left in a closed car for an hour before the egg was added.
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- Industrial food waste FPRs is often used as fertilizer. People link it to illnesses
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Ken Sechrist, who likens manure to a perfume, was still unprepared for a drive through Cumberland County farmland likely fertilized with food processing residuals.
(video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2024/06/13/food-processing-residual-regulations-pitched-in-pennsylvania-house-bill/73218300007/
"It was the most godawful thing I've ever smelled in my life," said Sechrist, a regional organization director for a Pennsylvania Farm Bureau division in the south-central part of the state. "If they did that next to my house, I'd be selling my house."
Pennsylvanians who've had similar or worse experiences with food processing residuals are counting on a new state task force to regulate this increasingly common component of the commonwealth's agriculture industry.
A 1994 Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection manual characterizes food processing residuals as the organic byproducts of provisions for eith...
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- Soup Dragon: Homemade pies, comforting soups and more at York Central Market's newest stand
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- You might feel like you've stepped back in time to the Renaissance when you walk up to the Soup Dragon, Central Market's newest stand.
( video by Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2024/06/10/central-markets-soup-dragon-serves-up-homemade-soup-pies-more/73972081007/
Homemade soup made with local produce is served from cauldrons, electric flame lamps lit during the day provide a warm ambience, and old quilt patches even hang side-by-side across the top of the stand. And if the smell of freshly baked pies doesn't enchant you, the sound of Renaissance music might.
As for the name of the business, it came from Alison Welch's love of the Renaissance Fair and the time period. She loves it so much, she and her husband David even considered working there one season.
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- Rash of deadly motorcycle crashes in York County prompts share-the-road message
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Motorcycle crashes have claimed the lives of at least nine people in the area in the past three months, and the Center for Traffic Safety along with law enforcement discussed ways motorists can share the road and to help prevent wrecks and deaths.
( video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2024/06/12/deadly-motorcycle-crashes-in-york-county-prompt-sharing-the-road-tips/74049785007/
A news conference on motorcycle safety and awareness was held Tuesday morning at Eisenhauer's York Harley-Davidson along Route 30 in Manchester Township. It was called in response to the recent surge in motorcycle crashes throughout York County and surrounding areas.
The recommendations included free educational programs and tips to help prevent collisions.
"We want to have everyone have a safe riding experience while they're out there and to enjoy what they're doing while they're riding," said Heather Goodwin, controller for th...
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- Doc Guinan, the first trainer for York County high school athletics, calls it a career.
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Rick “Doc” Guinan remembers it like yesterday. It’s something he’ll never forget.
( video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/sports/2024/06/13/doc-guinan-1st-trainer-for-york-county-high-school-athletics-retires/74050302007/
He was just two years into his career as an athletic trainer at William Penn Senior High School on Sept. 8, 1989, a Friday night, on the sidelines of the Bearcats’ game at Central Dauphin, just northeast of Harrisburg.
In the second quarter of what was William Penn’s first game of the season, the Bearcats’ star running back Lewis “Lewie” Atwater III collapsed on the field. A few plays earlier, Atwater had taken a vicious hit from a CD player, but he seemed OK, until he collapsed.
Most recently with Central York High School
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- Soup Dragon: Homemade pies, comforting soups and more at Central Market's newest stand.
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- You might feel like you've stepped back in time to the Renaissance when you walk up to the Soup Dragon, Central Market's newest stand.
( video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story:
Homemade soup made with local produce is served from cauldrons, electric flame lamps lit during the day provide a warm ambience, and old quilt patches even hang side-by-side across the top of the stand. And if the smell of freshly baked pies doesn't enchant you, the sound of Renaissance music might.
As for the name of the business, it came from Alison Welch's love of the Renaissance Fair and the time period. She loves it so much, she and her husband David even considered working there one season.
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- More revelations about Camp Security dig, a Revolutionary War POW camp near York Pennsylvania
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In a farm field on a hill east of York, volunteers and archeologists have been digging for some years now, looking for clues that would reveal the location and dimensions of Camp Security, a prisoner of war camp that housed combatants in America's first war, the Revolution that led to the founding of this nation.
( video by Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2024/05/29/you-will-have-a-chance-to-check-out-the-camp-security-site-next-week/73890850007/
The dig has led to some interesting revelations about the camp. Two years ago, the dig revealed post holes that indicated the perimeter of the stockade that housed Revolutionary War prisoners between 1781 and 1783. This year, with the help of ground penetrating radar, they believe they have found the outline of the stockade, a mystery buried under the soil for nearly 250 years.
"I like what I'm seeing so far," said John Crawmer, the lead archeologist on the project.
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- West York middle school kids learn about science from America's Got Talent magician
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- 2 years ago
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- David Hagerman, a science-based wizard, was invited to West York Area Middle School it inspire kids to learn about science.
“Technically, I’m a real modern-day wizard, using science and math to achieve illusions,” said Hagerman. “Through my spectacle and performance, my real goal is to wow and inspire kids to consider science and mathematics as a future. It can be hard to get kids excited about STEM fields today and considering that science and technology are our future right now, through wizardry, I am happy to show them the awe and wonder behind the science and math.”
Hagerman brought students on stage while explaining the building blocks of physics and chemical reactions that occurred before their eyes.
David Hagerman was invited to be on America's Got Talent 2021 season.
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- York Water Company celebrates rehabilitated Lake Williams dam by pouring water over it
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- On a gorgeous Monday morning, York Water Company officials, state and local leaders and business representatives gathered to re-dedicate and celebrate the newly-rehabilitated Lake Williams Dam.
( video by Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2024/06/04/york-water-company-celebrates-reconstructed-dam-by-pouring-water-over-it/73953749007/
Instead of a ribbon-cutting, the water company held a "wetting down." Employees, officials and others poured glasses of water collected from the original, 1816 water source for York — a spring at Penn State York — over the reconstructed dam.
It marked the blending of the past, present and future, JT Hand, president and CEO of the York Water Company, said during the celebration.
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- From York to Puerto Rico to York: Elvia's Braids and More is Springettsbury's newest salon
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Elvia Almonte has been doing hair since she was 11 years old.
It started out as a hobby when she was a child, braiding her cousin's and neighborhood friends' hair was a fun pastime, but Almonte never anticipated opening her own salon.
( Video by Paul Kuehnel ). Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2024/06/06/elvia-braids-and-more-offers-braiding-services-hair-styling-and-more/73892345007/
Born in York, she split her time between here and Puerto Rico as a child, eventually earning her bachelor of nursing degree in Puerto Rico, where she worked for five years before returning to her hometown.
Almonte wanted to pursue another field where she could still help people, but through a more creative outlet.
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- Dallastown dad turns trauma into advocacy after his 15-year-old daughter Brianna's suicide
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- It was the afternoon of Dec. 3, 2020, and Matt Dorgan found himself lying in his driveway in his jeans and T-shirt, no shoes, no socks.
( video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2024/05/22/building-bridges-for-brianna-works-to-prevent-teen-suicide/73676139007/
That Thursday afternoon was chilly, but he didn’t feel the cold. He felt nothing. He remembers lying there. He remembers the police arriving. He remembers talking to the police officers who arrived at the house and watching one walk inside only to emerge a few moments later. He remembers asking him, “Is she gone?” He remembers the officer answering with a slight nod of his head.
He remembers later, driving away from the house with his son, John.
He remembers everything.
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- A tale of two street rods at the annual meet in York: Different cars, similar car guys
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- This is the tale of two street rods, and two street rodders.
One is a retired pipefitter who worked at oil refineries in Delaware, the other is a retired firefighter and arson investigator from Rochester, New York.
( video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2024/05/30/a-tale-of-two-street-rods-in-york-pa-different-cars-similar-guys/73896843007/
One has a car that could not be described as a street rod and may not exactly fit the definition of one. The other has a car he built from the rubber up.
Fred Downs, the 65-year-old pipefitter from Delaware, was polishing the chrome front bumper of his 1957 Chevy Bel Air Nomad Thursday afternoon, trying to beat the spotty rain that would fall a little later.
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- Dover middle school students nominate their heroes, tell them why in their own words
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Dover Area Middle School students invited their heroes to school on May 22 to hear, in their own words, why they were chosen. Parents, teachers, coaches and soldiers were among those chosen by students.
( video paul kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/education/2024/05/23/dover-area-middle-school-students-choose-heroes-and-tell-them-why/73805651007/
Students wrote the essays ahead of time and then invited their heroes to the assembly where students sat at long tables with their heroes to hear why they were chosen.
Brody Wise took to the podium to read his nomination of his father Andrew Wise, "Have you ever heard of a hero without a cape? Well I have one… He might have some mental scars from serving, but there isn’t anything in the world that I would be grateful for more than him," citing his service to the Marine Corps. “He put his life on the line to give us the freedom of walking the earth.”
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- York Water Company celebrates rehabilitated dam by pouring water over it in a 'wetting down'
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- On a gorgeous Monday morning, York Water Company officials, state and local leaders and business representatives gathered to re-dedicate and celebrate the newly-rehabilitated Lake Williams Dam.
( video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2024/06/04/york-water-company-celebrates-reconstructed-dam-by-pouring-water-over-it/73953749007/
Instead of a ribbon-cutting, the water company held a "wetting down." Employees, officials and others poured glasses of water collected from the original, 1816 water source for York — a spring at Penn State York — over the reconstructed dam.
It marked the blending of the past, present and future, JT Hand, president and CEO of the York Water Company, said during the celebration.
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- 5 York County brothers who served during WWII all came home. But the war took its toll
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- During the height of World War II, five of her 10 sons – she also had four daughters – served in the military, all of them dispatched all over the world engulfed in the conflict.
( video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2024/05/23/5-york-county-pa-brothers-survived-wwii-but-the-war-took-its-toll/73790600007/
While her boys were overseas, Edith would lead expeditions into downtown York, which was quite an excursion from their homestead north of town. She and her daughters would buy candy bars and cookies and other treats to box up and send to the boys serving in the Pacific and the Atlantic theaters.
Edith never let on that she worried about her boys. For one thing, her youngest daughter, Mary, recalled, she was too busy. She ran the household and, in those days, it was more than full-time work. She didn’t talk about her worries or her feelings much. You didn’t do that, and as Mary said much later, she was “too...
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- The Yorktown community garden is renewed with the help of volunteers
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- 2 years ago
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- The City of York joined with Ciocca Subaru of York and the Subaru Ambassadors to highlight the Yorktown Community Garden off Kelly Drive, where residents are encouraged to pick and volunteer.
( video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2024/05/15/the-yorktown-community-garden-is-renewed-with-subaru-volunteers/73687447007/
According to Tom Landis, York's supervisor of parks, the community garden was originally created in 2013 during a funded overhaul of the playground equipment. This year, the city stained the boxes, refreshed the compacted walkways and refreshed the soil at the garden behind the Yorktown Community Center.
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- New Bargain Binz store at York Galleria is like a treasure hunt - prices drop $1 each day
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- A new business focused on giving customers great deals and paying its employees a livable wage has opened in the York Galleria Mall.
(video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2024/05/08/new-bargain-binz-store-at-york-pa-gallery-is-like-a-treasure-hunt/73544219007/
The price is $7 an item, no matter how much the item cost originally, on new stock days, which are Saturday. The price then decreases by $1 per day, until Friday when it’s $1 per item. What doesn’t sell is donated to charity and the cycle begins again.
"The idea of this was wonderful because you're not just a fixed price from the beginning and you're not like every other retail store walking in hoping there's a sale. Every day is a sale," Smith said.
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- The keys to success: Klepper’s has secured and unlocked York for more than a century
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Since 1940, the shop at 117 East King Street has been called Klepper’s.
(video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2024/05/16/kleppers-security-source-has-served-york-pa-for-more-than-a-century/73586173007/
A giant key-shaped sign juts out from the second story, reading, “Klepper’s Key Shop.” That was the shop’s original name — but technically, it’s called “Klepper’s Security Source” today.
Yet, to many Yorkers, it’s simply “Klepper’s.” The name has stuck over the years — and outlived founder Charles E. Klepper. In fact, there’s no longer a Klepper employed by Klepper’s. But the locksmithing tradition lives on — and has given rise to a slate of additional services that Charles Klepper never could have predicted a century ago.
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- Watch what can happen when a person smokes while on oxygen in this demonstration in Hanover, Pa.
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Watch as Hanover Area Fire & Rescue Chief Tony Clousher and his firefighters set up a demonstration of what can happen when a person smokes while on oxygen. ( video by Harrison Jones )
Read more about how a $4.45 device could have helped prevent these fires, here: https://www.eveningsun.com/story/news/2024/05/07/thermal-fuses-prevent-oxygen-smoking-fire-deaths-why-arent-they-mandated-hanover-york/72672654007/
Studies have found smoking on home oxygen kills an average of one person every four days around the country. This year alone, three in York County were killed, including a four-year-old.
Read more about the demonstration, and what happens during one of these incidents, here: https://www.eveningsun.com/story/news/local/2024/05/07/hanover-pa-firefighters-show-what-can-happen-when-you-smoke-on-oxygen/73108064007/
It seems obvious that smoking while on oxygen can result in grave injury or death. Hearing about such a horrific case, m...
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- Russy's Sweet Treats: How this York Central Market vendor is 'pouring into our youth'
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In 2017, Russalina Nolden started making smoothies in Penn Park, despite never having made one before.
( video Paul Kuehnel ) Full Story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2024/04/25/russys-sweets-in-central-market-is-giving-youth-new-opportunities/73373591007/
"I didn't know anything about textures or fruit, and they weren't all pretty back then," she joked.But she's a fast learner, and aside from the appearance, they tasted good. Without knowing it, that day was the start of an unexpected journey that would lead her to open her own business and impact the youth in her community.
“Then it was like, OK, I make smoothies now – and I never stopped.”Her leap of faith paid off, earning her a new title “the Smoothie queen.” She would then continue to vend at sporting events all through York City for several years until opening her stand at Central Market.
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- Gun crime in York: He used to be the problem. Now he's part of the solution with GVI
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- When Tiff Lowe was looking for a new staffer for the Group Violence Intervention program in York, she received 57 resumes.
( video by Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2024/04/23/he-used-to-commit-gun-crimes-in-york-pa-now-he-works-to-prevent-it-gvi-luis-berrio/73404890007/
The resumes were impressive, representing people who had college degrees and experience in the social services. Those skills are good, she said, but for the position, the resumes lacked something. “Where’s your life experience?” Lowe, project manager for the GVI, asked. “We had 57 people apply. Guess how many of them I interviewed.”
Zero.
The person she wound up hiring was someone who had been around, who had stopped by the organization’s weekly Friday morning meetings, asking what he could do to help.
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- The York County History Center will move 300 years of archives this week
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- The York County History Center archive move this week will help preserve 300 years of local history into perpetuity.
( video by Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2024/04/24/archives-moving-300-years-of-york-county-pa-history-to-new-home/73425754007/
“We are excited to be in this place, seven years in the making,” said Joan Mummert, president/CEO of the York County History Center, on Tuesday April 23, the second day of moving the massive archive. It’s expected to take seven days.
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- Janelle Stelson to face off against Rep. Scott Perry in 10th Congressional District race
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Janelle Stelson greeted voters at the polling place at the Manchester Township building Tuesday afternoon like they were old friends.
( video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/politics/2024/04/23/10-pa-congressional-district-watch-for-latest-primary-results/73413699007/
And some of them were, having known Stelson from her decades of anchoring the evening news at WGAL-TV.
“Hey, you!” she’d shout as she greeted voters and then engage them in conversation. She shook hands and hugged voters, whispering in their ears as she did.
One voter, Rich Helfrich, a retired floor installer from Emigsville, greeted her by saying, "You're a TV star." Stelson responded, "I used to be. Now, I'm going to be a congressional star."
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- Twelve new trees and a cleanup day bring Earth Day to Penn Park in York
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- The City of York planted twelve new trees, with the Garden Club of York and WellSpan Health at Penn Park on April 22 in celebration of Arbor Day.
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- The Watchmaker's Daughter: This downtown York gem has stood the test of time at 79 years
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- The retro neon sign at 22 N. Beaver St. in York has been overhead as long as Karen Reiss Staub can remember. “Reiss Jeweler” glows in green and red, with a big yellow arrow pointing toward the tiny jewelry shop.
( video Paul Kuehnel ) Full Story: https://www.ydr.com/story/money/business/2024/04/22/79-years-the-watchmakers-daughter-in-york-has-stood-the-test-of-time/73353048007/
Staub believes the sign dates back to 1965, when her grandfather, George Reiss, and father Max Reiss relocated to the 400-square-foot shop for its prime location — near the bustling downtown Central Market stands.Inside, some of the jewelry cases offer timeless, traditional gold watches, diamond wedding bands and eclectic estate jewelry — similar to those her father and grandfather carried over the past seven, nearly eight decades. Others showcase newer, artistic styles — some created by Staub’s own hand.
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- She was hit by a drunk driver on I-83, got out to help, was hit by a car & lost both legs
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- On April 16, 2022, a Saturday, Oni Slacum was driving home to York from her job as a catering manager in Maryland when her life changed.
( video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2024/04/17/oni-stacum-lost-2-legs-in-a-crash-just-do-it-just-dont-give-up/73339197007/
After finishing with work, she picked up her sister, who had spent the evening in Baltimore, and was driving home on Interstate 83 near Timonium when it happened. It was about 1 a.m.
“I was just driving when the next thing I knew, my car was spinning,” she recalled. “I told my sister, ‘We got hit.’”
A Honda Civic slammed into the rear of her Kia Sportage. The impact was so violent that her SUV was propelled half-a-mile down the highway before coming to a rest. She learned later that the driver of the Honda was doing 99 mph when he hit her car.
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- 'Goosh': York County teacher publishes his first book, more on the way
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Seth McLane spends his weekdays teaching his students at Spring Grove Area Middle School about literature. When he’s not in the classroom, he’s spending time with his family, coaching York Thunder Basketball and watching a game on TV.
(video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2024/04/16/goosh-spring-grove-pa-middle-school-teacher-publishes-first-book-seth-mclane/73331350007/
In his eighth-grade classroom, his students' desks are surrounded by middle grade books spanning nonfiction, fiction, empathy and mystery, among a variety of other genres.
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- His family built Bloomingdale mansion, York, Pa, threatened by development. He'd like to preserve it
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- 2 years ago
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- Rob S. Frey, Jr. choked up recently as he talked about the historic Bloomingdale house in Springettsbury Township that his great-grandfather built as a summer home and that subsequent generations, including himself, enjoyed living in.
( video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2024/04/15/preserving-the-history-of-bloomingdale-modernaire-motel-in-springettsbury-township/73128252007/
He shared memories of crawling on a big stone underneath the building, lowering plastic toy soldiers with a string from the third to the first floor and playing in the huge attic that had old Victrolas and furniture.
The large white house at 3405 E. Market St. is one of several historic structures, including the Modernaire Motel, that will be razed if plans for a shopping center with a Wawa, restaurants and apartments come to fruition.
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- Dottie's at a crossroads: Warehouse, roundabout, eminent domain talk swirls around market
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- 2 years ago
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- Dottie’s Family Market already sits at one of the busiest intersections in the Dover area – Canal and Bull roads.
( video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2024/04/10/warehouse-roundabout-eminent-domain-talk-swirls-at-dotties/73183370007/
But a proposed Dover Township warehouse complex and its potential ripple effect — via traffic on what are essentially country roads connected to the I-83 and U.S. Route 30 arteries — has the local market’s customers concerned for the future of the York County landmark. Many feel the community market will be sacrificed in the process.
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- 'It's amazing': York Suburban elementary students near York, Pa. witness the awe of solar eclipse
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- 2 years ago
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- Students at Indian Rock Elementary in the York Suburban School District sat outside, wore solar eclipse glasses and stared up at the sun as the light dimmed around them.
( video by Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2024/04/08/york-suburban-pa-elementary-students-call-eclipse-amazing/73228100007/
"It's amazing," fourth-grader Justice Lanson said. "It's not going to happen for another like 20 years or so, so I feel like it's cool to see."
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- Pennsylvania man, 100, survived 39 air missions in WW II. His grandson died in Afghanistan
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- 2 years ago
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- Quentin Stambaugh thinks it was a Sunday morning in early June 12 years ago that the strange car pulled into the driveway of his ranch home in the Pigeon Hills, just over the hill from where he grew up and has spent all his life.
( video by Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2024/02/13/pa-man-100-survived-39-pacific-air-missions-in-world-war-ii-greatest-generation-quentin-stambaugh/72498131007/
He saw them pull up, two men in a nondescript car, and he met them in the driveway. It was early, but he is an early riser. He looked at them and they looked at him. He knew why they were there.
“I knew exactly what happened,” he said. “I knew it was bad.”
They had bad news – his grandson, Cameron Stambaugh, his hunting and fishing buddy, a young man who idolized him and who had signed up for the military, in part, to honor his service, was dead, killed in Afghanistan.
He served in the Pacific d...
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- York WW II veteran and POW, 100, shares harrowing tale of being shot down over Germany World War II
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- 2 years ago
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- ( video Paul Kuehnel )
Don’t panic. Those words came to Harold Pressel moments after flak from German anti-aircraft fire ripped through the left wing of his B-24 Liberator over Germany, hitting the heavy bomber between the two massive prop engines, piercing the fuel tank. Pressel was perched over a pair of .50-caliber guns in a Plexiglas turret mounted on the aircraft’s tail when the flak hit. That was his job, tail gunner.
Full story here: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2024/02/01/ww-ii-veteran-tells-tale-of-surviving-his-plane-being-shot-down-greatest-generation-harold-presser/72338087007/
It was Feb. 7, 1945. The crew had just finished its bomb run, dropping its four tons of bombs on a refinery in Floridsdorf, just across the Danube from Vienna, Austria. Pressel remembers seeing the Danube, a sight that remained lodged in his memory, the river romanticized by the classical piece by Johann Strauss II “The Blue Danube.”Pressel was born ...
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- Big trucks aren't allowed to use this narrow, winding York County road. They won't stop
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Signs posted on the state-owned road that runs parallel to Interstate 83 warn that trucks with trailers over 30 feet in length are prohibited − except for local deliveries. ( video Paul Kuehnel )
But the tractor-trailers just keep coming − traveling to and from the I-83 interchange at Zions View/Strinestown and the warehouses in neighboring municipalities. Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2024/04/01/trucks-using-prohibited-road-in-conewago-township-to-reach-warehouses/72975161007/
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- York County SPCA in 'Full-on crisis mode' with stray dogs
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- 2 years ago
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- The York County SPCA is in “full-on crisis mode,” Kristen Dempwolf Communications Director York County SPCA said on Thursday as the shelter in Manchester Township has had an unprecedented intake of stray dogs. ( video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2024/03/29/york-county-pa-spca-in-full-on-crisis-mode-with-stray-dogs/73135939007/
Last year saw a 34% increase in stray canine intake at the shelter from 2022, and the trend is only getting worse, Dempwolf said. In March of 2024, 101 dogs have been taken in so far, compared to 88 in March of 2023.
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- Total solar eclipse traveller: 'Oh my God, this is the most amazing thing I have ever seen'
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- 2 years ago
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- Chris Davis has always been interested in astronomy and has traveled the world to witness total solar eclipses. He's headed to upstate NY on April 8.
( Video by Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2024/03/28/york-pa-doctor-travels-far-and-wide-to-see-the-breathtaking-eclipses/73019823007/
In 1999, Chris Davis planned a European family vacation around a solar eclipse.
He had been interested in astronomy since he got a telescope for Christmas when he was about 7 years old. He got away from it while going to college and then medical school, but by the turn of the century, his interest was rekindled, and he wanted to witness a total eclipse of the sun. Among the best spots to see the celestial spectacle that year was in Munich, Germany.
They spent five days in Venice and then traveled to Munich for the eclipse. The day of the eclipse, Aug. 11, thousands of people gathered in a huge park in the city. A beer garden...
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- Love for yard, estate sales for vintage clothing turned into business at Feral Heart Club
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Ariel Linebaugh opened Feral Heart Club with a love for vintage clothing. (video by Paul Kuehnel) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2024/03/28/feral-heart-club-is-downtown-york-pas-newest-vintage-boutique/73106215007/
Walking down North Beaver Street, if you spot a cheetah-print rug, alongside racks of colorful vintage clothing, you've made your way to Feral Heart Club, downtown York's newest vintage clothing shop.
Outside the tiny storefront, you'll find bright pink dresses, cool orange pants, jumpsuits from the '70s, '80s, '90s, and yes, early 2000s. And inside, there’s so much more.
You’re greeted by Pierre, a handsome rescue dog often dressed in a patterned scarf, who guards his mom’s store, and greets guests – except the mailman – as they browse hundreds of second-hand pieces.
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- 'I wish I had the time... to do more for people' Allan M. Dameshek said during 2008 event
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- 2 years ago
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- Allan M. Dameshek came to York 67 years ago starting in the shoe business. People describe his legacy as a community and religious leader. Dameshek died on March 23 at the age of 89. (video by Paul Kuehnel) Full story:https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2024/03/27/allan-dameshek-former-director-of-the-york-jcc-has-passed-away/73117314007/
When Allan Dameshek resigned from York City Council in 1974, one of the local newspapers ran an editorial headlined, “The Dum-Dum Who Cared Too Much.”
The gist of the editorial was that he was stretched too thin. Between running his business, Newswanger’s Shoe Store on Continental Square, and establishing the city’s Human Relations Commission, and working with the Codorus Creek Redevelopment Authority, and the various other projects he was involved in, his problem was that he cared too much, that no matter what the project, that it was too much work for one man. “It ate him up,” his daughter Margie Rosenberg sai...
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- Forum: Democrats hoping to unseat Scott Perry agree on 1 thing: They all say he has to go
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- 2 years ago
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- It was a candidates’ forum, sponsored by WITF, the York Daily Record, York Dispatch and Pennlive for the six Democrats hoping to unseat Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Scott Perry. (video Paul Kuehnel) It included Jenelle Stelson, Mike O'Brien, Blake Lynch, Shamaine Daniels, Rick Coplen, and John Broadhurst. Read full story here https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2024/03/26/democratic-candidates-say-election-is-about-who-can-beat-scott-perry/73101221007/
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- Meet Tyree Bowie, accused of child's death, acquitted 'I just wish I understood'
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- 'Still have nightmares': Tyree Bowie speaks out 1 year after Mullinix murder acquittal. Bowie was accused in the beating death of Dante Mullinix in 2018. He spent four years in jail before he was acquitted of murdering the 2 year old. ( Video Paul Kuehnel ) Full Story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/crime/2024/02/28/tyree-bowie-speaks-out-year-after-dante-mullinix-murder-acquittal/72612775007/
Tyree Bowie spent four years in York County Prison awaiting trial on charges that he murdered 2-year-old Dante Mullinix. In December 2022, a York County Jury found Bowie not guilty of those charges. Now, one year after his acquittal and as he prepares to sue over alleged malicious prosecution, he sat down with the York Daily Record to tell his story and how the case affected his life.
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- 'Light years ahead': York County guitar phenom Alex Lee Warner, 15, warms up
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Warner is going to Memphis for the International Blues Challenge. ( video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2024/01/18/15-year-old-guitar-prodigy-plays-at-the-international-blues-challenge-memphis-alex-warner/72231788007/
A couple of years back, Quentin Jones was doing an online guitar seminar when he was introduced to Alex Lee Warner.
It was during the pandemic, and Quentin, who is a touring guitarist based in central Pennsylvania, having been on the road with acts as varied as Herman’s Hermits, Bow Wow Wow, and Marshall Crenshaw, was doing some online work, teaching and offering guitar seminars.
During one of those seminars, he heard Alex play, and from the first note, Quentin said, “I knew he had something special.”
It was something about Alex’s skill and phrasing and just his natural talent that caught his ear. “The kid is a natural,” Quentin said. “He has all the skills.
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- In the back of Tom’s Music Trade in Red Lion is a museum of Rock music history
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- 2 years ago
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- Tom Anderton has a massive collection of rock memorabilia. So he put some of his collection on display at the rear of his Red Lion record shop. (Video: Paul Kuehnel) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2024/02/28/this-red-lion-pa-rock-museum-is-packed-with-memorabilia-toms-music-trade-anderton/72748500007/
The most interesting − and most talked about − item in Tom Anderton’s massive collection of rock memorabilia is a pair of panties.
They are a pair of white Victoria Secret panties with a blue snowflake-like pattern encased in a frame, behind glass. There is a Sharpie autograph close to the waistband. It reads, if you look closely enough, Amy Lee.
Lee is the lead singer and primary songwriter of the Evanescence, an eclectic, Grammy-award winning hard rock band that had hits, including “Bring Me to Life” and “My Immortal” in the early 2000s, songs that cemented the group’s reputation of, as Rolling Stone observed, “a muc...
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- Retired Red Lion wrestling coach wants people to smile at his gorilla
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Retired Red Lion teacher and wrestling coach Tom Sinibaldi wants to make people smile with a gorilla he received for Christmas. ( Video Paul Kuehnel ) Full Story:https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2024/03/07/whats-up-with-the-gorilla-on-cape-horn-road-heres-the-answer/72865038007/
Tom Sinibaldi wanted the gorilla from the first time he saw him, about 40 years ago.
The fiberglass statue, a hulking gorilla standing 5-foot-6 on all fours and weighing about 130 pounds, drew Sinibaldi in. "He’s not big for a gorilla,” Sinibaldi said.
He’s always liked gorillas, ever since high school when his nickname, earned during his heavyweight wrestling days, was Silverback. (“I was hairy,” he said.)
Tom Sinibaldi with the gorilla he received for Christmas before he painted the eyes and teeth.
The gorilla had been the property of a man who lived on Camp Betty Washington Road, not far from Mount Rose Avenue, nestled among a menagerie of...
