Township Manager Barbara Wilson says township officials didn't know the ropes were there when news of the accident broke Monday afternoon. Anthony DeRosa of Glenn Avenue, his sister and two friends were swimming in Yellow Breeches Creek just downstream from the Mountain Road bridge Monday afternoon when DeRosa fell from a rope swing suspended from a tree. He apparently had not swung out far enough from the bank when a stick supporting his weight broke. He says he fell six or seven feet into the water and hit his head on a rock just under the surface. Beginning in January the group will begin raising money to expand its Center for Industrial Training on Silver Spring Road in Hampden Township.
Plans call for the number of truck bays to be increased from four to six.
Park program successful Damon Carey had an unusual response when asked what he did over the summer. Then he put the egg inside a cup, also carefully padded inside and out. The cup was dropped and unsealed to reveal that the egg had survived the crash. That engineering feat won a prize for Carey and partner Jonathan Evans, 7. It was just one of the things they did this summer during the Carlisle Recreation Department's summer playground program at Memorial Park.