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I 7 "fciMJ Lumber Yard closes in Shippensburg I jrULff -See B6 Thursday, November 30, 2000 B1 -West Shore New Cumberland 9 Autopsy confirms friends' fear Notable events for Friday, December 1, 2000, include: 7 p.m. "Let it Snow," Dickinson College Department of Conservation and Nat said Wednesday the partially decom state game lands by an unidentifie hunter around 10:45 a.m. Monday the same area police and several doze Brass Ensemble Christmas concert held volunteers had searched for Starker. HARRISBURG (AP) Authorities have confirmed that a body found Monday by a deer hunter in a remote area of Middle Paxton Township is that of a missing New Cumberland resident. The Dauphin County coroner's office ural Resources, had last been heard from on Sept.

10. Friends and family said they believed he had gone hiking in the wooded area east of Dauphin Borough. Starker's remains were found on posed body was identified as that of Michael Starker using dental records. After an autopsy, the cause of death was listed as complications from diabetes. Starker, 40, a surveyor with the state in Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center Friends had feared he might hav suffered a medical emergency whil hiking or bird watching.

for the Arts, on High Carlisle. 7:30 p.m. "Rosetta," shown as part of Hollywood on High film series at Carlisle Theater, 44 W. High Carlisle. Carlisle Shippensburg man wins football contest i A Shippensburg man won the $200 prize in Week 12 of The Sentinel foot ball contest.

Paul N. Varner Jr. submitted one of the three entries that correctly picked all but three of the 20 games in the con test. 1 The first tie-breaker determined Yarn er was the winner. The contest's next installment, which will appear in a future issue of The i Sentinel, will be limited to college bowl I' "3 jffi Math and Computet Science rJU FT II IB fc Physics and Astronomy 10 i i LI LI Sentmelfilear 1 L' TTTj Above, workers watch as equipment is loaded into the planetarium at Dickinson College's new science center, right.

A public open house is scheduled 1 rf''' Science fun will draw kids game and professional football games in late December. i I You'd better behave at Newville's park Want to ride a horse, hit golf balls, shoot a bow and arrow or fly a model airplane? i Don't try it at Newville Community Park. i An ordinance has been adopted that I sets up rules and regulations for the protection of the equipment added at the end of the summer, the park and i park visitors. Park hours are set at 7 a.m. to 1 0 i P-m.

Alcoholic beverages and weapons are prohibited. A11 animals must be on a leash and attended to while at the park. Animals are banned from the playground area. Damaging or defacing anything in the park is prohibited. Loud and offensive behavior is prohibited.

Climbing or hanging from park pavilion rafters or fences and climbing By John Hilton Sentinel Reporter its rider continue to move at the same velocity. The slight jolt the rider feels as the wheels hit the floor is designed to ingrain Newton's First Law in memo- i ry. That law states that "an object in motion continues in motion, unless acted upon by an external force." In another experiment, visitors will be videotaped running or jumping and faculty will offer a "digital video analysis," Ms. Laws says. Using the resulting Quick-Time video segment and VideoPoint software, professors and students will analyze movement for a number of factors including speed, length of stride and height of jump.

See Science, B3 The kinesthetic carts are just one prop of many used by Dickinson's physics department where professors do not give lectures, instead teach curriculum through experiments. "We hope students will "understand the laws of mechanics by riding in these carts," Ms. Laws explains. One model of the cart is actually two carts in one each with four wheels. The lower cart slides in underneath the top cart and between its wheels.

A "coupler" behaves much like a wooden peg sliding into a hole through both carts to keep them in place. Once the coupler is removed as the rider approaches a block fastened to the floor the lower cart strikes the block and stops, but the upper cart and "It's a family thing," she says of the event. "We really want to interest children in science." The VolkswagenMack Truck experiment is designed to erase misconceptions about Newton's Third Law, namely, that "for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." In the experiment, a light person will ride in one cart, while a heavier person, or two people ride in a second cart. Mounted with a bumper of soda cans, the carts will crash into one another head-on. Although the lighter cart will be repelled backwards due to its smaller size, Ms.

Laws explains the cans will be crushed equally just as Sir Isaac Newton first noted more than 300 years ago. Dickinson College physics profcs- sors are looking for volunteers to slip into a "human slingshot" or perhaps drive a kinesthetic cart in a mock "collision" between a Volkswagen and a Mack Truck. The experiments are just two of many planned during Saturday's free open house at the science building. Included are tours of the $13.3 million building, planetarium shows and views of Mars and the Sun through a 24-inch telescope in the observatory. The faculty and students participating in the open house especially hope children attend, says physics professor Priscilla Laws.

on the outside of playground equipment tube slides and tower are prohibited. Minimum penalties for non-criminal violation of the rules includes suspension from the park for a period of two weeks for a first offense, suspension for Mechanicsburg Area School District three months andor up to 30 hours of community service for a second offense, and banishment from the park after a third offense with reinstatement possible after a year. Signs outlining the rules and regulations will be posted at the park. 13 nominated Volunteer policy still changing After serving 10 hours. Level I vol A Level I volunteer would provide require supervisors to meet with vol By Joseph Cress Sentinel Reporter to military academies A move to require background checks for volunteers in the Mechanicsburg Area School District is on hold while board members consider adding orientation on emergency procedures.

"(Volunteers) need to know as much as the paid staff," board member Mar support to students outside the direct supervision of a professional staff member; a Level II volunteer must always be in the presence of a classroom teacher or other staff member. If approved, the policy would require Level I volunteers to undergo a state police criminal background check as well as clearance from the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare under the child protective service law, district solicitor Donna Wel-don said. unteers would be eligible for reimbursement from the district for the cost of obtaining clearance, district director of elementary education Joanne Musselman said. She added background checks would cost the district an estimated $1,000 to $1,200 for the 50 to 60 Level I volunteers. Aside from the clearances, policy revisions would require all volunteers to undergo a tuberculosis examination in accordance with regulations of the Advisory Health Board.

unteers to clearly define their duties and responsibilities and provide feedback on performance, she said. Mrs. Kortze also recommended volunteers be required to document time spent working with students in case the district would like to recognize them later for their efforts. As for background checks, the proposed policy changes would classify volunteers into two categories to determine who would need to undergo such a check. garet Kortze said during Tuesday's work session.

Language also should be included to Carlisle Shippensburg Soap goes online A baker's dozen high school students in the 19th Congressional district have been nominated by U.S. Rep. Bill Goodling, R-19, to attend one of four U.S. military academies. All applicants to the academies must secure a congressional nomination, although such a nomination does not guarantee acceptance.

Goodling's nominees to the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, include: Beth Lynn Barrick, Big Spring High School; Eric S. Gons, Camp Hill High School; Amanda Lee Storms, Northern York Senior High School; Jennifer Ann Bacior, Red Land High School, and Richard S. Kerr, Shippensburg High School. Nominees attending the U.S.

Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., include: Brandon Drobenak, Biglerville High School; Brittney K. Mehring, Carlisle High School; Jessica N. Snyder, Cedar Cliff High School; Micah S. Smith, Cumberland Valley High School, and Daniel Wilcox, West Perry High School. Nominees to the U.S.

Naval Academy, Annapolis, include Caroline Kosco of Carlisle and Kenneth S. Hardy, Jr. of Red Land. John C. Adams of Shippensburg was nominated to the U.S.

Merchant Marine Academy, King's Point, N.Y. Police set sights on accreditation By Tracy Stellino Sentinel Reporter 3 Hoping to further improve law enforcement, the Carlisle Police Department will soon begin the process of obtaining certification through the National Commission of Accreditation of Law Enforcement Agencies. If successful, the department will be the fifth in the area to earn such accreditation. Currently, Lower Allen Town By Jeff Cronin Sentinel Reporter Arcadia, N.Y., has not been the same since the Centennial Fire of 1909. Nearly 100 years later, the fires still burn in the passion and hatred among its residents, all of whom are controlled by a Shippensburg University freshman.

Heather Dry, 1 8. of Liberty in Lycoming County, recently was named a featured author by the on-line magazine "Episodic" for her Internet soap opera. There are currently 13 different featured web operas with titles like "Romance Towers" and "Victoria's Legacy." She created "Arcadia Burning" in March after collaborating with a fellow web author, but ventured out on her own to create this new world of characters. The writer just happened upon this genre while surfing the web. "It was a fluke," she says.

Miss Dry discovered a link to the delivery of law enforcement services." The insurance industry has concluded CALEA certification deters lawsuits, thus Margeson says he hopes the department's insurance premiums would fall. "The process is designed to promote police operations, to get the most for your money," says Mayor Kirk Wilson. "It will certainly benefit future operations because of the requirements the department will have to make to meet the criteria." Wilson says CALEA will "bring the department to the highest of professionally recognized standards." The idea of attempting accreditation is not new. "We've been talking about it within our department on and off for several years," Margeson says. The talks became more serious between Margeson and Wilson within the past one to two years.

ship, Harrisburg City, Deny Township and the Pennsylvania State Police are accredited by CALEA. It) CALEA was formed in 1979 by the four major law enforcement associa tions at the time International Chiefs of Police, National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, National Sheriff's Association and Police Executive Research Forum. Jeit Cronin-! he scnuncl Heather Dry site of another web opera and liked what she read. While perusing the text, she came up with an idea for another See Soaps, B3 Business B6-7 Comics B8-9 Editorial B4 Farm B5 L.M. Boyd B8 Life Times BIO-11 Obituaries B2 Police reports B2 Science B12 TV highlights B9 There's benefits for the department and the community," says Carlisle Police Chief Steve Margeson.

"The whole emphasis here is to improve the See Certification, B3.