By: TODD RUTH Review Sports Editor truth.eph@lnpnews.com, Staff Writer

Daniel Hinerdeer has a nice collection of gold medals, and recently, the 14-year-old Ephrata youth earned three more while competing at the 42nd annual Special Olympics of Pennsylvania Summer Games held at Penn State University June 9-11.

Competing in the 25 freestyle, 50 freestyle and 25 backstroke, Hinerdeer took first place in all three events, which included a gold in the 25 free for the third-straight year.

The Ephrata High School sophomore-to-be, who does his training at Universal Fitness, called his latest feat, "Pretty exciting."

This was the third-straight year Hinerdeer has competed at the PA Summer Games and his latest performance was his best to date.

"One of the things he does to prepare is over the winter," Hinerdeer’s father Scott said. "He swims with the (Ephrata) Tidal Waves. And then the training starts for Special Olympics in mid-February. We have drills that we run and I’m actually one of the coaches."

The Ephrata Pride midget baseball team has earned the second seed in the upcoming New Era Tournament to be held at Clipper Magazine Stadium in Lancaster.

Ephrata, which finished up the regular season last Wednesday at home with an 11-6 loss to Donegal, closed out the year with a 12-3-0 mark to tie St. Leo (12-3-0) for second place overall behind champion Hempfield Black (11-1-3).

The Pride, which captured the New Era championship in 2009, open up tourney play Friday night at 5:15 p.m. at the Clip. Ephrata will face seventh-seeded Lititz Oddfellows (7-6-2) in the first round.

Other first round match-ups include: Hempfield vs. SWS (Thurs., 5:15 p.m.); Donegal vs. Solanco Gray (Thurs., 20 minutes after first game); and St. Leo vs. Manheim Township (Friday, 20 minutes after first game).

All winners will advance to next Monday’s semifinals (5:15 p.m. first game), with the finals set for Tuesday night (7 p.m.) back at the Clip.

By: TODD RUTH Review Sports Editor truth.eph@lnpnews.com, Staff Writer

Numbers-wise, Adamstown may not be the deepest team in the league. But of the swimmers it does have penciled into its roster, they all delivered when it counted Saturday at the Division Two Swimming Championships held at Adamstown Pool.

The host team had seven swimmers win two individual events each while a few other added relay victories. In the end, it all added up to 776 points, which was more than enough to capture the overall team championship. Mountville was a distant second with 435 points, while Conestoga Valley (430), Ephrata (404) and Hempfield (387.5) rounded out the top five.

When asked about the number of swimmers who performed well for her team, Adamstown Coach Kim Evans said that solid depth throughout the lineup was the key to their championship on Saturday.

"Absolutely," she said. "We have a great team of dedicated swimmers who really made an effort to attend practices and work hard this season, and it really paid off. We’re very excited to win Divisionals. It was our goal as coaches after winning the first few dual meets (earlier this year)."

By: GARY KLINGER Review Correspondent, Staff Writer

Denver Borough Council members were informed at Monday night’s meeting that the borough will be billed an additional $17,410.22 above the budgeted $508,000 for police coverage through the regional police force.

While council members were united in a call for a more thorough explanation of the overage, some, including council president Kevin Brandt, expressed support for the quality of protection afforded.

"I think the (police) chief needs to explain this," said Brandt. "But I am not opposed to it. I would just like to better understand what happened so that we can avoid this in the future."

Both Brandt and Mayor Adam Webber said they are very satisfied with the degree of police presence, noting they feel very safe and secure.

The joint police force provides protection for East and West Cocalico townships as well as Denver and Adamstown boroughs. Each year those municipalities budget for their portion of the overall police bill based on tabulations supplied by the force. The portion each municipality pays is based half on population figures and half on the numbers of calls for service the year before.

By: MICHELLE REIFF Review Staff mreiff.eph@lnpnews.com, Staff Writer

More than 40 students, teachers and counselors who gathered together on Friday watched the life of Lauren Trefny flash across the screen in a DVD she had produced Friday — a life which had so tragically been taken away from her earlier that day.

The Cocalico senior-to-be was struck by a vehicle July 21, on Locust Street, while jogging and died as a result of her injuries in the hospital early July 22, East Cocalico Township police said.

Trefny, 17, was jogging west on the sidewalk around 9:30 a.m. last Thursday when she made a left to cross Locust Street in Denver, just past the intersection of Fifth Street. According to police, she crossed in front of the vehicle of Vicki Spence, 56, also of Denver, who was traveling on Locust Street in the same direction, and was struck.

As previously reported by The Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era, Trefny suffered an injury to her neck and throat and multiple abrasions, emergency responders said. She initially was conscious and able to walk after being struck, but then had difficulty breathing and went into cardiac arrest. She was transported to the Reading Hospital, where Dr. Eugene Reilly pronounced her dead at 1:16 a.m. on Friday, more than 15 hours later, according to a spokeswoman at the Berks County coroner’s office.

By: GARY P. KLINGER Review Correspondent, Staff Writer

It appears there may be some truth to the giant rumors around town that a new Giant Grocery Store could be coming to Ephrata.

While plans are still in the very preliminary stages, The Ephrata Review has been able to confirm that Giant Foods is working with township officials and have every intention of moving forward with a new store to be built on East Main Street, in the area between Pleasant Valley Road and Wal-Mart. It has also been confirmed that the corporation is working through real estate developer William A. Aiello, of WAM Enterprises based in Lemoyne.

"I would say the project is not a definite go but the developers seem very committed at this point," noted township manager Steve Sawyer.

The developer has already completed a traffic study of the area and submitted the findings to PennDOT for further consideration. The plan calls for a new grocery store with two additional retail sites included in the complex. Several of the properties along Route 322 would likely be removed and re-subdivided to become three outparcels.

According to township supervisor John Weber, there is speculation that one of those outparcel plots could become a branch bank location.

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Gerald L. “Jerry” Snavely, 69, of Lititz, passed away suddenly on July 17, 2011 at Heart of Lancaster Regional Medical Center.

He was born in Denver to the late Lincoln Miles and Viola G. (Wiest) Snavely and was the husband of Dawn E. (Reinhart) Simpson Snavely, to whom he recently wed.

Jerry was an active member of the Ephrata Church of the Brethren. He enjoyed hunting, traveling and collecting antique John Deere tractors. He also bred and raised alpacas. He was an avid motorcyclist and fulfilled his lifelong ambition in 2009 where he rode to Alaska and back. He also instructed a motorcycle safety program.

Jerry farmed and owned a trucking company with his brother Ben. Then he was the president of Snavely’s Mill Inc. from 1985 until his retirement in 2009. He purchased the mill from L. M. Snavely in 1985 when the mill was destroyed by a fire. Under Jerry’s direction, the mill was rebuilt into what we know it to be today — a thriving modern mill.

By: BETH KACHEL Review Correspondents, Staff Writer

Fresh Air Child Yvette and her host Jodi Prosser enjoy homemade smoothies.Fresh Air Child Yvette and her host Jodi Prosser enjoy homemade smoothies.

Fresh Air. Bare feet. Bike rides. Swimming. Sounds like a normal summer day in the country.

But for a kid growing up in New York City where gunshots, asphalt and broken glass abound, it’s like a scene from another world.

Enter the Fresh Air Fund, which has brought these two worlds together for 1.9 million children since 1877 by matching kids from disadvantaged inner city homes with rural families across the Northeast.

Close to 5,000 children will have a Fresh Air Fund vacation this summer, about 150 of that group coming to Lancaster County, said Barb Horst, Fund representative for the County. Still, she added, there are 900 more children who have signed up, but are waiting for lack of a host family.

Yvette, 10, hailing from the Bronx, is one of the lucky ones. She has stayed with Lonnie and Gale Prosser, Ephrata, with their children, Jodi, 20, and Chris, 18, as a Fresh Air child for the past two summers.

By: JACQUELINE WATSON Review Correspondent, Staff Writer

The Clay Township board of supervisors gave an update at their July 11 meeting on the current status of the move toward the possibility of police regionalization.

Clay Township has been holding regular meetings in collaboration with Penn and Warwick townships regarding a possible regionalized police force covering the three municipalities. A recent meeting included 13 supervisors from the respective townships.

Clay Township Manager Bruce Leisey said he originally hoped the three townships would be ready to hold a public hearing in August, but it now appears that they will not be ready until September. When asked what the current stage of the process was, Leisey informed those present that the three townships were in the process of finalizing details such as the charter and potential contract issues. The charter will include the by-laws of the organization.

"The feeling is, if we’re going to have a public meeting, we want to tie it into approval of the charter which would basically be when you sort of agree that you’re going forward," Leisey said. "So, it might seem simple, but it takes a lot of time to get this charter finalized."