Team passes out wrist bands to opponents at meets to stop the madness

At first the Western High School gymnastics team was skeptical about an idea their coach had. They thought the opposing teams would think that they were crazy, fake or trying to portray themselves as “better” than others. That was not the case.

After some thought, the gymnastics team agreed that something was needed to be done to stop the madness with school drama and bullying.

This was not to say that there was a major problem on the Western team. It was a wake-up call after seeing how much society had changed. Coach Margie Lea said she has noticed a change over her 30 years of coaching gymnastics and it wasn’t for the good.

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Jordan Brown and three other volunteers provided inspiration Wednesday at the United Way of Lebanon County’s first report meeting for the 2010 campaign.

Brown, an 11-year-old South Lebanon Township boy, is selling olive-green “Hang Tough” wristbands to raise money for a monument to be built in Normandy, France, to honor Maj. Dick Winters and all the men who served there on D-Day. Winters, who lives in Hershey, assumed command of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, shortly after parachuting into France in the early morning hours of D-Day, June 6, 1944. Easy Company fought across Europe and eventually captured Hitler’s “Eagle’s Nest.”

Brown announced his effort has raised $20,000. Forlocations to buy a bracelet or for more information, visit the website hangtough6644.org.

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By Ben Orcutt

FRONT ROYAL — Area residents are rallying around Debbie Llewellyn, a former community activist who is paralyzed from the shoulders down.

Family and friends have formed the group “Team Debbie” and have been raising funds to help defray costs she and her husband, Charlie Llewellyn, have incurred since she became paralyzed following an April 7 surgery in Reston.

Llewellyn, who like his wife is 55, said his wife had five herniated discs in her spinal column and that while surgery on April 5 was successful the surgeon does not know what went wrong following a second operation on April 7.

However, Llewellyn said his wife’s spirit is strong and he’s had staff at the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in West Orange, N.J. — the same facility that treated the late actor Christopher Reeve following his horse-riding accident — tell him that his wife’s room is the only one they walk into where the patient asks them how they’re doing.

“That’s just her nature,” Llewellyn said.

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