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In The News...
War hits home for Mt. Airy family
Celeste Zappala lost her son to the Iraq war.
Fearing "the gates of hell have been opened," she wants
citizens to "wake up" and the Bush administration to start
"dealing in the truth."
by MICHAEL J. MISHAK
As outrage over a "wardrobe malfunction"
registered in homes across the nation, as Celeste Zappala sat with
her son, Sherwood Baker, watching the half-time show on Super Bowl
Sunday at the Fort Dix military base in New Jersey. Scanning the
faces of 200 Iraq-bound soldiers, she thought to herself, "Someone
in this room is doomed." Zappala never thought it would be
her own son. Three months later, Sherwood Baker, a sergeant in the
Pennsylvania Army National Guard, was killed on a security detail
when a suspected chemical warehouse exploded in Baghdad. His April
26 death came seven weeks to the day after he arrived in Iraq.
Baker, 30, became the first member of the State Guard
to die in combat since 1945, a long-standing record that had afforded
his mother some peace. In the weeks following her loss, Zappala,
57, has struggled to "give meaning" to Sherwood's death
during what she calls "the...
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In Sports...
Another win over Lions gets GA to lax finals
by TOM UTESCHER
In their second lacrosse match at Germantown Academy in
less than a week, the Springside School Lions came away one goal closer,
but still one goal short.
On May 8, the Patriots clinched the 2004 Girls Inter-Ac
League championship (determined by best record in the full round of league
games) with a 13-11 victory over visiting Springside. For the newly-minted
postseason tournament in the league, fourth-seeded Springside had to travel
to GA again last Thursday to meet the number one Pats in a semifinal contest.
In the home stretch of this rematch, Germantown again led
by two goals, 11-9, and after Springside converted on one of three free-position
opportunities in the last 36 seconds the Patriots had survived, 11-10.
GA moved on to the tourney final to face Episcopal, a 14-8 winner over
visiting...
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In LocalLife...
Hill’s only former
Scotland Yard detective
Crime-solving skills now
used for business clients
by LEN LEAR
If they ever have a reunion of former
Scotland Yard detectives who are now living in the Chestnut
Hill area, it’s a pretty safe bet that silver-maned,
distinguished-looking Anthony Watkins, 64, a Chestnut
Hill resident for 20 years (Moreland Avenue), would be
the only person showing up. Sherlock Holmes would never
even make it over the Benjamin Franklin Bridge.
Watkins, who recently moved to Andorra
(although he’s still as much a part of the bar scene
at Chestnut Grill and Solaris Grill as the furniture),
is like the genie who can fit into any bottle. He grew
up in a part of Wales where coal mining was pretty much
the only occupation for young men. Most of his adult male
relatives were coal miners, but Watkins was determined
to avoid the soot and coal dust and black lung disease
that attacked so many others, so he signed up for the
British Navy at the age of 15.
The hard-working teenage seaman eventually
earned the right to take flight training,...
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