Jonathan Swab, Carol Gerloch, Rusty Geesey, David Deitrich
Riverview School studies eye care
by Dorcas Knorr
For the past two years the
fourth grade sections of the
Riverview and Maytown
schools of the Donegal
School district have been
studying eye health and
safety under the direction of
Mrs. Dorcas Knorr, the
school nurse.
The program is sponsored
by the Lancaster Co. Blind
Association with the coop-
eration of the Marietta Lions
Club which picks up the tab
for supplies, materials, and
prises for the poster contest.
The special guest for
today’s program was Mr.
Hennig from Manheim and
his ‘‘seeing eye’’dog,
Konia.
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The winners of the poster
contest were as follows:
Ist prize ($5.00), David
Deitrich; 2nd prize ($4.00),
Rusty Geesey;) 3rd prize
($3.00), Carol Gerloch; and
honorable mention ($1.00),
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Nature in
by Ralph Miller
Can you imagine anyone
growing up in an area
bounded only by brick,
concrete, asphalt, glass and
steel, with the nearest
greenery, an oasis of grass
and trees several miles
away, seldom to be visited,
and the only wildlife consis-
ting of flies, cockroaches,
dirty pigeons, a few house
sparrows, and rats in the
darker places? Where one
has to stretch his head and
neck upward for the sight
of a small patch of occasion-
al blue sky and to see a gull
and hear its refreshing cry!
Essentially, this is life for
hundreds of thousands of
New Yorkers. Actually,
there is more of nature’s
varieties to be seen by those
who seek and look, as
attested to in books written
by several distinguished
naturalists on natural life in
and around New York.
How much more fortunate
are we who live here in
these natural surroundings
of lawns, shrubs and trees,
of field, orchards and small
woods, of small streams, of
the river and its bordering
hills. Nature’s gifts are so
lavish that we too tend to
overlook many of them or
pay scant attention to them.
Any boy or girl growing
up in this area can under-
take a study of any number
of natural history subjects in
a veritable laboratory sur-
rounding him or her, whe-
ther it be tracing the growth
of frogs from egg to tadpole
to adult, of butterflies and
moths from egg through
caterpillar, pupa and then
adult, or from eggs to
fledgling nestlings to
adult birds, to name a few.
Flowers, plants, shrubs and
trees are profuse in number
May 28, 1975
your own backyard
and could provide a lifetime
of work. There is still room
for study on the mammals in
the area, and as for fish,
they always seem to get a
front. In form somewhat like
a cardinal, these are crest-
ed, brown birds with a broad
band of yellow on the end of
the tail. In succeeding
proportionately smaller amount weeks, we saw a band of
of attention. Insects?
Where does one begin?
For those a little further in
life, there is much pleasure
to be had, as well as a form
of education, in seeing and
enjoying what we have.
Some are aware of this and
prominent among the plea-
sures enjoyed apparently is
that of watching birds, for
quite a few people around
Marietta give occasional
time to it. For any others
who might wish to indulge
in this peaceable and
pleasant pasttime, an inex-
pensive bird guide will
greatly increase their enjoy-
ment, for there is a certain
satisfaction to be derived
from being able to identify
some new bird, or even an
old one whose name was not
known before.
The Susquehanna River
valley is part of the great
migration route for birds on
the east coast. And here on
Fairview Avenue we are
fortunate to have sufficient
lawns with trees and shrubs
to attract some of the
migrating birds as well as to
induce a few resident birds
to nest.
In late March, our usual
residents, consisting of blue
jays, cardinals, grackles,
white-throated sparrows,
juncos and others, were
unexepectedly joined in the
evening hours by a cedar
waxwing in the tall pyrocan-
thus by the library window.
The following day we saw 12
to 15 of these handsome
birds in one of the maples in’
four or five of these birds
about on the trees. Then, on
the 10th of May, we found
one of the cedar waxwings
lying in the middle of the
lawn badly wounded about
the head with the right top
half of its skull exposed,
possibly mauled by a cat. It
survived for 24 hours in a
box filled with dry grass,
water, and seed, but its
ultimate death was a fore-
gone conclusion. Since then
we have seen no more
waxwings.
In early March, the
woodpeckers were arriving
or passing through, inclu-
ding the downy and hairy
woodpeckers, yellow-bellied
sapsuckers, and flickers, the
last of three or four of which
have apparently decided to
make their home in this
vicinity. At the same time, a
number of golden-crowned
kinglets and ruby-crowned
kinglets spent some weeks
here and in a rather rare
occurrence, the ruby-
crowned kinglet was in song
on several occasions. Its
song is mellow and flute-like
and its warble is intricate in
design. The song is so loud
that one expects to see a
large bird instead of a
diminutive four-inch bird,
almost half of which is tail.
And if one doesn’t move too
quickly, the kinglet will flit
from branch to branch,
moving closer each time
until it is within three or four
feet of the observer’s head,
as if it decided to look you
over too.
(To be continued)
Triangle Realty, Inc.,
1576 Lititz Pike, Lancaster,
announces the association of
Robert E. Hoffer. Mr.
Hoffer is a licensed Real
Estate Salesman and is
actively engaged in the sale
of Residential Real Estate.
He is a graduate of Donegal
High School and the Dale
Carnegie Sales Course
where he was awarded the
Human Relation Award.
Bob’s hobbies include
basketball, tennis, and golf.
He is a member of St.
Mark’s United Methodist
Church where he serves as
stewart.
Bob is a Realtor Associate
with the Greater Lancaster
Board of Realtors and
received Real Estate train-
ing from Penn State Univer-
sity, Continuing Education,
on the York Campus.