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Police ask anyone with information to call 249-2121. Police say a red-haired man with a goatee used a knife Sunday night to rob the Qwik Fill service station along York Road in South Middleton Township. The 19-year-old female sales clerk was not injured. State police in Carlisle say the man entered the store between 9 and 9:30 p.m. and took cash and cigarettes before fleeing south on Route 74 in a blue sedan.

Police say they do not know if he drove onto Interstate 81 or continued south on Route 74. Police describe the man as being 6-foot to 6-foot-3 with short red hair. He was unshaven and may have had a short mustache in addition to the goatee. The man wore a dark knit cap, 3 3 'i-r' If 4 Vl'i" vAv-v, Mom forced to use 'tough love' She could not force her daughter to use mental health services. IT vH By Tiffany Pakkala Sentinel Reporter tpakkalacumberlink.com I IV IS t's.

i 1 Susan Manwaring checked out of a Philadelphia psychiatric ward against her doctor's advice on Christmas Eve 1997, with just enough money for a train ticket to go home for the holidays. But when she arrived at her Carlisle apartment, her parents wouldn't help her buy food. Her brother wouldn't return her cat. Police were warned to keep an eye on her apartment in case she trashed it again. Susan rejected gifts from her parents and ended Christmas night by making collect calls to family in search of sympathy.

"That was not an unusual Christmas for us for about five years," her mother recalls, flipping through a journal she kept. Janet Manwaring had a hard time using "tough love" with her daughter, but refusing to help Susan was the only way to make her vol- 6 Jason MinickThe Sentinel mmm tiutfreness ween Charred debris lies on the ground at the back of the town-house as firefighters check for hotspots early this morning. Upper Allex Township 5lv homeless ram untarily rely on the mental health system. By law, no one could force Susan to go to a hospital unless she became dangerous. Over the next few years, there were occasional flashbacks of the old Susan when treatment helped her overcome depression and bipolar disor- Second of a series In this second installment focusing on mental illness, reporter Tiffany Pakkala relates a mother's perspective of the years of suffering that led up to her daughter's death, along with the catch-22s that advocates debate in treatment procedures and the rights of patients.

Sunday's first part focused on the myths of mental disorders along with the stories of consumers who are under treatment and living within the A stove fire engulfed their townhouse. By Crystal Owens Sentinel Reporter cowenscumberiink.com ing smoke billow out of the windows. Everyone escaped the fire without injury, he said. Police and fire officials credit the smoke detector with saving the family's life. "It could have been a lot worse," Gill said.

He said the townhouse can be refurbished, but an estimate of damage was unknown at press time. The Red Cross and Cumberland Pointe are helping to place the family in a temporary home until the damage is repaired, the fire chief said. The Browns have a young son and a daughter in college. Management at Cumberland Pointe ask that anyone who would like to make a donation to the family should call 697-7200. Upper Allen Township Fire Department was assisted on the scene by Lower Allen, Mechanicsburg, and Camp Hill Fire departments.

Susan Manwaring is shown in a family photo at Christmastime in 1 992. A collar bone injury added to her misery and she was placed on heavy pain-killers in addition to anti-depression and sleeping pills. Finally, in 2000, Janet Manwaring found her 40-year-old daughter in a ragged, old nightgown propped up on the sofa in her Chambersburg apartment. She was dead. "I knew when I saw her body that it wasn't suicide, though I wouldn't have blamed her at that point," she says.

"She would have dressed more presentable if it had been suicide and none of the (pill) bottles had been emptied." An autopsy later revealed toxic levels of three different drugs in Susan's system. "She just took too many (medications) too close together," Janet says. As she re-examines the years of illness her daughter endured, Janet has come to believe her daughter would be alive and in recovery today if the" mental health system was different. See System, A4 A family was left homeless today after Upper Allen Township Fire Chief Kevin Gill said a stove fire engulfed a townhouse. The fire at the home of Derrick and Andrea Brown of Cumberland Pointe CircleT started around 6:15 a.m.

when water was put on to boil and left unattended, Officer Brian Sunday of the UpperAllen Township Police Department said. "She said she put the water on for coffee and went upstairs to do her hair and a few minutes later heard the smoke detector," Sunday said. When he arrived on the scene, Sunday said neighbors, who lived on either side of the Brown family, were outside. Derrick Brown also was standing across the street from his home watch der, but her condition would soon worsen again amidst constant changes in doctors and medication. Susan transformed from a vibrant, artistic woman to a heavy-set, unmotivated victim of an illness that kept winning.

Suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome, she didn't have the energy to wash her hair or bathe. "Police knew her name well. She was so out of touch with reality," her mother says. "She was hearing voices people talking about committing murder and she wrote sprawling notes on the walls and kitchen cupboards about how nobody cared, the whole world had abandoned She was suicidal During 20 years of struggling with her illness, Susan checked out of hospitals repeatedly and attempted to commit suicide seven times, by slitting her wrists or overdosing on pills. Cumberland County Cooperative Extension Service or Duncan to leave a 9 helm The 4-H enthusiast has held the post for 36 years A By Linda Franz Sentinel Reporter Kranzcumberiink.com ent varieties of tomatoes as a test plot for extension in his second or third year as a 4-H'er, and he went on to join the campus 4-H club at Penn State.

He got his first job in extension and met his future wife when he worked as a summer assistant in Lawrence County between his junior and senior years. Donna Walters was completing a practicum at the same office. They married the following year. Throughout his years in extension. Duncan kept his love of 4-H.

His favorite part of the job has been "working with the 4-H program and seeing young people develop into leaders." One of four He is just the fourth extension director in Cumberland County. Paul L. Edingcr was the first county agent from 1917-22 and again from 1924-28. See Duncan, A4 After 36 years at the helm of the Cumberland County Cooperative Extension Service, Duane Duncan, 66, will retire at the end of October. What will he miss? "Everything," Duncan says.

"I'll miss the people." Duncan took his first job with Penn State Cooperative Extension 45 years ago in Adams County. He started work in June 1958, just two days after he graduated from Penn State. The Erie County native was a 4-H'er who focused on tomatoes and swine. Duncan raised a dozen differ- 1 nk I Wally ShankThe Sentinel Duane Duncan, right, and Sheldon Brymesser look at the latter's corn crop on Brymesser's farm in Monroe Township. Indi: Tomorrow Primed on recycled new spnnl ink Ct-f Sunday Pageant plans Carlisle native Starr Hol-ley dreams of being in the Miss Pennsylvania USA pageant and becoming a nurse.

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