By: JACQUELINE WATSON Review Correspondent, Staff Writer

Daily activities for this lively centenarian include getting exercise by cleaning her two-story home. (Photo by Stan Hall)

On the verge of turning 100, Irma Schlott does not manifest signs of her age unless it is in the wisdom and life experience she has attained. With her firm handshake and keen mind, she is not what is expected of someone who has lived for a century.

Born May 18, 1912, Irma has lived through many decades and historic events, but it is family that seems to help define her personal history.

"Everything that you experience, I think, determines the way you go more or less, but I can’t say any one thing," commented Irma on what events shaped her.

Irma’s

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By: NOELLE BARRETT Review Correspondent, Staff Writer

The fate of the Ephrata state police barracks remains unknown after a joint state House Judiciary Committee and Senate Law and Justice Committee hearing Monday. State police Commissioner Frank Noonan said a decision to close the law enforcement outpost would be made within a month.

As part of the proposed troop realignment of state police, Noonan suggested eliminating the Ephrata barracks, which patrols Elizabeth, Caernarvon, Brecknock, and the northern part of Salisburg townships. Those areas would be covered by Lancaster station.

"(Ephrata station) has lost over 50 percent of the geographic coverage area that they were responsible for, and that has resulted in a drop in more than 50 percent of the incidence," said Lt. Colonel George Bivens, deputy commissioner of operations for the state police. "The bottom line is we now have a station that is greatly overstaffed," he said.

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