ly, ur SUSO Vol. 76 No. 4 January 28, 1976 Susquehanna Times & The Mount Joy Bulletin MARIETTA & MOUNT JOY, PA. From left to right are: Ronald Alleman, 1974 DSA winner; Thomas Meckley, 1975 DSA winner; and William Bower, president of the Mount Joy Jaycees. Meckley, Kopf & ambulance crew win Mount Joy Jaycee awards The Mount Joy Jaycees presented this year’s Distinguished Service Award to Thomas Meckley. Special Recognition Awards went to Nancy Kopf and the Friendship Fire Co. Ambulance Committee. The Distinguished Service Award is presented each year to a young man whose service te the community has been outstanding. The Special Recognition Awards ge to community members who don’t qualify for the DSA because of age or sex. Jaycee’s president William Bower presents Tom Meckley won the DSA for his active member- ship in St. Mark’s United Methodist Church, the Board of Directors of the Norlance Medical Center, the Mount Joy Bicentennial Commission, and the Donegal Scheol Board. Nancy Kopf won the Special Recognition Award for her sixteen years of service to the Girl Scouts of Mount Joy, Maytown and Marietta. The Ambulance Commit- tee received a Special Recegnition Award for their Recognition Award to Nancy Kopf. Special lifesaving efforts over the past year. The Jaycees noted that the ambulance crew answered 300 calls and devoted thousands of hours to work and training last year. The awards were pre- sented last weekend at a banquet at the Mount Joy Legion. Vote to begin for Mount Joy king & queen by La Von Harnish Voting for Mount Joy's 1976 Sweetheart King and Queen will begin this Friday, January 30. Residents may vote for their faverite child by _ placing money in the canis- ter near the child's photo- graph. Relatives and friends are urged te lock for their child’s picture at these local businesses; Union National Bank, National Central Bank, Stehman’s IGA , Hy-Le, and Hostetter Hardware. The contest will run from January 30 until Friday, February 13, when the votes will be tallied. The names of the winners will not be revealed until the crowning ceremonies on February 14, 10:30 AM, at Borough Hall. Any parents who have not yet entered their child, age nine months through three years inclusive, may do sc by bringing the child's picture to 24S Marietta Ave. by January 28. UEHANNA TIMES FIFTEEN CENTS Three year old Sherry Brewer communicates with sign language. Worried mothers organize after federal gov’t cutback hits program for deaf kids Scheol officials say there is no cause for alarm, but mothers of deaf children are worried anyway. Members of the Friendship Ambulance Committee received a Special Recognition Award from the Mount Joy Jaycees last weekend. Photo shows, from left to right, ambulance members Mary Jane Wargo, Ronald Alleman, Mary Hoffmaster, Gary Maxwell, Don Alleman, Mike Wargo and Judy Maxwell. Federal funds for LU. 13's program {or chidren with hearing and speech problems have been slashed by 2/3. Mothers like Mrs. Peggy Brewer of Marietta are sending letters to every state representative in the LLU. 13 area, asking the state to take over the federal government's program. Mrs. Brewer is also distributing the letters at Herr's Market in Marietta, so that other citizens can send them. Peggy's daughter, three- year-old Sherry Brewer, has been almost deaf since she caught German measles when she was a baby. When Sherry was two she began sign-language train- ing with L.U. 13's Project CHILD (Children with hear- ing Impairment and/or Lan- guage Delay). Mrs. Brewer also attends sign language classes. Mother and daughter can communicate. Sherry is learning language at the same age as a normal child. Studies show that children [continued on page 3]
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