Midge Morse, age 85, has competed in basketball, softball, tennis, golf and bowling. Today she takes home the silver for shuffleboard during the 8th Annual York County Senior Games.
Morse said that she started exercising regularly in 1970.
Midge, your my inspiration to get to the gym. Good health will get you further than any investment and will get you by when every financial investment fails.
3,827: Number of property maintenance complaints received by the city in 2008
2,717: Number of complaints that were resolved
Broken community: A York yard in shambles. Owner occupied transitioning to rentals, destructive renters, abandoning owners, foreclosure and people gaming the system.
Self-interest, corporate and banking systems gone amok sucking the life out of the people who gave them their power.
Survival
People who loose the vision to love their community.
A U.S. symbol ties a family and school together across 6000 miles.
The American flag raised at Orendorf Elementary School in Manchester was sent home by Dominick Versace as a thank you for support he has received over the past year.
Sometimes the path of commerce getting smaller is a good way to evolve.
East Market Street in York started out as a path for early inhabitants to pass though the woods, evolved into a congested main artery for local, rail and cross-country traffic and now serves as a route from a historical urban core.
Bill Schintz, a property owner and resident of East Market Street for the past 35 years would like to see the three lane, one-way street revert back to a two-way to cut down speed and racing by weekend loop traffic.
Human energy seeing basic nutrients from the clay that gives and takes life.
Sixty years ago Americans banded together to raise Victory Gardens for the war effort.
With more people losing jobs, produce from Grace United Methodist Church's garden will help demand at food pantries and other ministries in southern York County.
I met four people this weekend that define peace.
William Jenkins, a WWII draftee, found himself in a German POW camp for his 19th birthday. He came home to Hanover and married a German woman.
Dalea Lynn's house was gutted by a fire and her husband was killed by police while in their custody in Springettsbury Township. She likes her Wrightsville neighborhood and has a poster on her front lawn supporting the local police.
James Abram, of South Carolina, and Bill Hoff, a resident of Jefferson, became lifelong friends in 1966 while fighting the Vietnam War. Sunday, the two men were followed by a combined family of 28 people.
Friends since the Vietnam War, Bill Hoff and James Abram walk in the Jefferson Community Memorial Day parade.
Back in 1965, when Abram got to An Khe in South Vietnam, he was scared. They had little in common, the black man from South Carolina and the white man from Jefferson, but that didn't matter. "I just gravitated toward Bill," Abram said. "I needed a friend. He was withdrawn and didn't want to talk. I made it my business to talk to him"
It's not that Hoff had anything against Abram. Before they went to Vietnam, their boot camp instructors warned them not to get too close to anyone.
If you made a close friend and he got killed, they were told, that could mess you up. You wouldn't be able to concentrate, and you'd be a danger to yourself and the men serving with you.
Caught during a ydr live stream, Dorothy appears before a district attorney candidate debate. I normally edit really tight... but hell, dreaming takes some time when performing in front of two hardened justice workers. And I was dreaming of a week of vacation.
Corine Bensel, a student at West York Area High School, promotes the York County High School Theater Awards during a Rotary lunch at the Yorktowne Hotel. Bensel sang a song from the Wizard of Oz.
Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
And the dreams that you dreamed of
Once in a lullaby
Croquet is part pool, part chess and part golf.
The TV show "The Office" has a cult-like following.
So does croquet, a local expert said.
Imagine the two combined.
That's the concept Steve Fluder, owner of Manchester Township-based Croquet Your Way, said can help employees work better together to be more productive.
Fluder said a croquet course can be set up at a business or park to teach staff how to break barriers and build working relationships.
For voters who have been closely following the contested Republican primary race for York County district attorney, Wednesday's debate between the candidates offered little new.
The Republican opponents, longtime incumbent Stan Rebert and challenger Tom Kearney, took the opportunity to reiterate their platforms at the Rotary Club of York meeting.
For voters who haven't followed the race, the debate, which was streamed live on the Daily Record/Sunday News Web site, was the first and possibly the only opportunity to see the longtime foes go head to head.
The PA Nonbelivers and Heritage Baptist Church stand between the crowds at the Olde York Street Fair. The Rev, Jim Grove, of the Heritage Baptist Church and Steven Neubauer, president of the PA Nonbelievers give their views.
He might not wear the traditional charro suit or have live guitar and trumpet players providing backup music, but when Augustin Mariche opens his mouth, the pint-sized singer can belt out mariachi tunes with the best of them.
Emmanuel United Methodist Church holds their first service in their new building after the 108-year-old congregation moved from Windsor to Windsor Township.
Dan Kidd regained his speech during worship after a stroke left him speechless for five years.
York College of Pennsylvania students explore their own minds during Scholarship Day Mosiacs with the help of their professor Rebecca Quattrone.
When Cindy Arnold picked up the mail one day in early March, there was a large manila envelope in the It was a handwritten note from President Barack Obama. In it, he told her he would watch out for her son, who is in the Army.
"It was very overwhelming," Arnold said.
The Stewartstown, Pa woman wrote a letter to the president Jan. 20. It was the day she talked to her son, Pvt. Matthew J. Arnold, as he filled out paperwork detailing with should happen to him if he were hurt or killed.
Cigar box guitars were born out of necessity according to Shane Speal of West York.
During the early part of the last century when the wooden boxes were as popular as the cigars people smoked, the free container became the basis for many artistic kids looking to strum their way into music on a budget.
Today, the no rules instrument, tells a story of innovation, self-reliance and personal expression.
The Rev. Marion Haynes-Weller releases a butterfly during the children's sermon Sunday at Kreutz Creek Presbyterian Church. The butterflies symbolize new life, she told the congregation during Sunday's Easter service.
When you wake up every day, who thinks about this? People take it for granted that the sun's there every day. It hits a little closer to home.
-JoAnn Graham, York Township.
Before dawn Wednesday, more than 75 people gathered inside Temple Beth Israel in York Township to celebrate the heavens' return to their positions at the beginning of time.
The blessing of the sun, or Birchat HaChama in Hebrew, comes 'round once every 28 years on the Jewish calendar.
Environmental concerns, including awareness about global warming, helped bring global attention to the event, which until this year was little known outside the Orthodox Jewish community.
The foal bucked on its spidery legs in a hay-lined stall as its mother and a cat named Gomez looked on.
"That's Mister Bulletproof," said Fran Langrall, the owner.
The 3-day-old colt was lucky to be alive. The mother -- a 14-year-old thoroughbred named Trisha Banner -- was shot in December on the Langrall's Codorus Township farm.
Thirty years ago today, on March 29, 1979, Sheryll Ewell gave birth to a baby girl at York Hospital while newscasters warned of impending danger from the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant.
A partial meltdown had occurred the day before in Unit 2 of the plant, which sits in the middle of the Susquehanna River between Dauphin and York counties.
Hail and winds in York County occurred when a belt of thunderstorms moving in from the southwest collided with a warm front that had settled over the area.
York County 911 reported that the Springettsbury and Hellam areas were apparently hit hardest. Immediately after the storm, emergency responders handled multiple incidents of transformer and wire fires, rushing water flooding roadways, downed trees and debris blocking roadways.
York Country Day students build a container that will protect an egg after it falls ten feet during the All-School Engineering Project. Each group was given 25 wrapped plastic drinking straws and six-feet of masking tape.
The exercise teaches that a given project often has limited resources.
Long before food production became monopolized and globalized, a farmer could do a bit of everything and get by. If it was a bad year for wheat, maybe milk prices would be up or the pigs would get a good price at market.
Today, a farmer must compete with huge retail outlets commanding a price for their goods fed by consumers who grab the reward of low price and quickly wheel away what they think is a cheap deal.
A concentrated animal feeding operation, or CAFO, the type of farm that has drawn heated concerns from environmentalists and instilled fear in neighbors is the evolution of this market. The farmer, or corporation, sees a way of minimizing costs by specializing and creating a "machine" that churns out huge quantities of a product.
It can be a risky operation for the farmer and neighbors surrounding the operation.
Loans are often needed to fund such an operation and if the market is down for one specific product than the lack of farming diversity shines through.
Concentrating thousands of any creature in a small space creates a problem of removing waste that will generally overtax the local environment because limiting the impact would exceed the profit of the operation.
It's easy to pick sides in this argument of farmer verses homeowner, verses local and federal government, but the solution to this problem lies in consumers understanding and caring about the impact of their purchasing decisions.
The New Church, or, formally, the General Church of the New Jerusalem is a Christian based faith follows the teachings that Emanuel Swedenborg, an 18th-century, Swedish scientist and theologian.
Followers -- often called Swedenborgians -- have just six congregations in Pennsylvania, including their mother church in Bryn Athyn outside Philadelphia where the church maintains headquarters and a theological school.
Diana Shanko kneels next to a sign her neighbor put out about a year ago. Six homes on Sage Hill Drive in York Township are missing part of their backyards, where a sediment pond sits. The developer and home builder each say it is the other's responsibility to fill in the remainder of the backyards.
It is the crux of the private verses socialized medicine argument.
Sean Brame, age 13, a quadrilateral amputee from septic shock, sat beneath a huge poster from the 1990's in Sen. Arlen Spector's office - "Bill Clinton's Liberal, Big, Government, Health Care Plan". The boy listened to what the aid of the republican senator had to say and then began speaking from his own perspective.
Brame said that if kids have arms and legs they can reach their dreams, get jobs, pay taxes and be productive; their artificial limbs are an investment in the future and keep people off of tax funded welfare.
If private health insurance was responsible for the people who fall though the cracks instead of taxpayers who also must contribute to the profit of health insurance companies, there would be lobbyists in Washington to help promote health programs that promote fully productive people.
Perhaps if the total cost of ever consolidating drug company monopolies, and health care networks were the sole responsibility of private health insurance instead of passing along to consumers and their tax dollars the cost for everything not covered there would be a motivation to reduce costs.
It hit me in that room sitting on the floor with a kid who was fighting for his future beneath a poster probably erected before he was born that the fear of socialized medicine should probably be directed more at the leaching of taxpayer funded social services currently taking place by private insurers.
How incredibly ineffective is a health care system that can never take into account the whole picture of health care when it has no economic interest or responsibility to help those most in need.
Members of the York YMCA Junior Girls Volleyball program train in the pool.
Darla Pennewill, head coach of the 15 & under team, said such workouts are meant to increase a player's strength and endurance. If water exercises are done frequently, an athlete can add 6 inches to their vertical jump.
Fred Lorenz, who lives in a typical suburban home, has dreamed of living in a cave house and getting milk from his own goat.
He is inspired when he sees laundry hanging outside, remarking that " it would have been free" instead of using a dryer.
Today he is bringing home chickens.
Penn State-York students model for fun, build confidence.
The Nittany Catwalk Models, a group of college students interested in fashion, modeling, dance and strutting their stuff on stage. They perform at college and community events, mixing dance and modeling poses with stylish duds and high-energy music in themed performances.
