Tear down the communications barrier

Gettysburg Area School District made a well-intentioned effort Sunday with a parent and student welcoming session at the St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church school. Administrators, teachers and interpreters attempted to tell Latino parents about their children’s upcoming first days of class.
Maybe 10 Latino families were represented in the SFX Elementary School cafeteria. Most parents, for [...]

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The true cost of volunteer services

In another place, probably 15 years ago, the volunteer ambulance service that had served residents longer than most of those then living could remember was shut down.
Was it better to maintain the tradition of volunteers, which clearly was less expensive, at least to the taxpayers?
Or was there more advantage to paying taxes for a service [...]

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Pay no attention to what’s behind the (Bamboo) Curtain

It is a fantastic quadrennial display of human beauty, strength and ingenuity. There is something to say for persistence. These athletes begin at a very early age to practice the skills and endurance that will get them to the Olympics.
And make no mistake: being there puts the participants in a pretty heady crowd. U.S. swimmer [...]

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