Bermudian wins crown

The Bermudian Springs baseball squad made

school history Friday, becoming the first to win
a team state title. The Eagles beat Martinsburg
Central, 5-3, for the PIAA Class AA crown.
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Project vandalized
Grant Dubé, 17, of York
Township, stands next to the
debris left after vandals
removed railings from a
wooden bridge he built. The
bridge crosses a gully off East
Boundary Avenue on
An Eagle Scout’s wooden bridge — part of an environmental Dallastown Area School
restoration project —has been wrecked twice recently. District property.

By TED CZECH decade, started restoring the gully — off East

Daily Record/Sunday News Call police
Boundary Avenue — in April 2009.
Call York Area Regional
Twice in the past month, someone has van- “I knew it needed to be fixed, and I wanted Police at 741-1259 or 911
dalized a wooden bridge, built on Dallastown to do something to benefit people . . . to use it with information.
Area School District property as part of an for years to come,” he said. DAILY RECORD/SUNDAY NEWS — KATE PENN

Eagle Scout project to restore an eroding

gully.
Grant Dubé, 17, of York Township, who has
been involved with scouting for nearly a
The gully, which cuts the land between During his project, Dubé acquired thou- cluding a small wooden bridge he built to
several soccer fields and a parking lot, hand- sands in donations, found a mentor and en- help people cross the gully.
les rainwater run-off and had been eroding listed the help of a local construction • • •
for quite a while, Dubé said. company. He nearly had everything done, in- See PROJECT, page 6A

Bonusgate conviction
Time to let go
Veon
jailed
at once
In addition to serving six to
14 years, he must pay $137K
in restitution and fines.
By PETER JACKSON
Associated Press
HARRISBURG — Mike Veon, once an in-
fluential power broker in the Pennsylvania
Legislature, was sentenced to at least six
years in prison Friday for his role in a scheme
that used taxpayer resources for election cam-
paigns and paid bonuses to state employees
who helped Democrats win control of the
DAILY RECORD / SUNDAY NEWS — KATE PENN House of Representatives four years ago.
York Area Regional Police Officer Michael Sampere gives a final salute to Ike, a retired K-9 with the Springettsbury Township Police Dauphin County Judge Richard Lewis sen-
Department. Fellow K-9 handlers, friends and others gathered at the Dover Area Animal Hospital Friday night to pay their respects. tenced Veon to six to 14 years and ordered
him to pay $100,000 in resti-

Officers say farewell to K-9

Ike worked for
six years with
Springettsbury
Township Police.
By TERESA ANN BOECKEL
Daily Record/Sunday News
Police officers and K-9s
lined Route 74 outside the
Dover Area Animal Hospital
Friday evening to say goodbye
to one of their own — Ike.
The German Shepherd had
worked for the Springettsbury
Township Police Department
for six years — from 2003 to
2009. He helped find missing
people, sniff out drugs and
catch criminals.
Ike retired in December,
and his health had since deteri-
orated. His handler, Officer
William Poliz-
zotto, made
the decision
Watch at that it was
ydr.com time to let him
go.
Polizzotto drove Ike to the
Dover Area Animal Hospital in
the Springettsbury Township
Police Department’s K-9 car.
The car passed the lineup
before pulling into the hospital.
• • •
See IKE, page 6A
tution and $37,000 in fines.
Inside The judge denied
York County Veon’s request for bail. He
lawmakers was taken initially to the
react to Dauphin County Prison in
sentencing, Harrisburg, then trans-
6A. ferred to the nearby state
prison in Camp Hill for
processing, said the county prison warden,
Dominick DeRose.
Annamarie Perretta-Rosepink, who ran
Veon’s former district office in Beaver Falls,
received a three- to six-month jail term and
two years’ probation and was ordered to pay
$25,000 in restitution. She was granted $25,000
bail pending an appeal.
The judge told Veon his actions consti-
tuted “a clear and damning violation of the
public trust” and “a flagrant and glaring
abuse of power” that subverted the electoral
process and damaged the Legislature’s repu-
DAILY RECORD / SUNDAY NEWS — KATE PENN tation.
Springettsbury Township supervisor Julie Landis reaches out to the Lewis said Perretta-Rosepink violated the
decal on Officer William Polizzotto’s cruiser after the retired K-9 Ike law by recruiting volunteers for Veon’s and
was put to sleep Friday at the Dover Area Animal Hospital. other legislative campaigns, conducting on-
going political fundraising on state time and
personally profiting from the illegal bonuses.

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Police: After snack, burglar left ID
Market They said a man who stole Once inside, he
spent the night, sleep-
City Police Officer James Knarr ob-
tained an arrest warrant for the drifter,
Dow: +16.47
from a church pantry for ing in the hallway, whose last known address was Gaithers-
eating and then leaving burg, Md. Police also issued an all-points
For the day the needy left his birth with some petty cash, bulletin for Dawes.
certificate at the scene. police said. He dined He was arrested in New Jersey by the
Index How about a little on Shur Fine Corn Atlantic County Sheriff’s Office on June
By MIKE HOOVER Flakes from the pantry, 8. He waived extradition and was
BIRTHS
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beer bonding? Daily Record/Sunday News which is dedicated to brought back to York County to face his
Celebrate Father’s Day while im- Dawes offering free food to the charges. He is being held on $16,000 bail.
COMICS 7C
proving your brew IQ by cracking
After eating cereal and smoking ciga- needy. Pastor Gene Reichel counted the
MOVIES 3C open a cold one and kicking rettes at a York church, a burglar left During the investigation, police found church and congregation’s blessings that
OBITUARIES 5A back with Pops. 1C behind an obvious clue that led to his the half-eaten box of cereal, cigarette the man, who stayed such a long time in
OPINION 4A identity and later his capture — his birth butts and some of Dawes personal be- the building, did not do more damage.
TELEVISION 6C
Nation certificate. longings he had brought inside, includ- Reichel said he understood Dawes
Now that man, identified by police as
BP employees face Allen Larry Dawes, 28, no fixed address,
ing his birth certificate, Lt. Tim Utley
said.
might have had problems, but there
were alternative ways to get help other
harsh backlash is being held at York County Prison on Besides the cash and cereal, police than breaking both man’s and God’s
Year 214, No. 146; York, Pa. Public scorn has been so harsh charges of burglary, theft and institution- and church officials believe nothing else laws.
C 2010 York Daily Record since the spill that the company al vandalism. was taken. And the damage was limited At the time of the break-in, Reichel
issued a memo to employees Police allege that on May 11, Dawes to a rear-door window Dawes allegedly said the church would press charges,
warning them to keep a low broke into First St. John’s Church, 140 broke to get inside. and Dawes would be provided for at the
profile. 2A
W. King St., York. Three days after the break-in, York prison.

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