Words and Light

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Maria Martinez of York hugs her husband Angel Santiago as they wait for Budget Mobile agent Rose West, lower right, tries to activate the cell phone for which Santiago applied on Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012, in York. Santiago and Martinez are both on fixed incomes due to medical and health conditions, and their 2.5-year-old son Jeremiah has heart murmurs. Santiago said because he has no phone and no car, he has had to walk the eight blocks to York Hospital from his home, with Jeremiah in a stroller, just to make appointments for Jeremiah. Earlier in the day, Martinez tested positive for a second pregnancy, which means Santiago will need the new cell phone even more to make more appointments. Cell phone company Budget Mobile is working with the federal government to provide free cell phones with 250 free minutes per month for low-income persons. The booth is set up in the corridor between Stadium Grill and Labor Ready near C-Town Supermarket. About 1,500 refurbished phones have been given away in the several weeks that the program has been in place.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. A Midsummer Night’s Dream cast members Camryn Hayward, 10; Natalie Chamberlain, 9; and Annie Bova, 9, get dressed in their fairy costumes outside the Brown’s Orchards and Farm Market pavilion on Saturday, July 21, 2012. DreamWrights Youth Family Theatre’s annual summer Theatre Under the Trees program produced eight free performances of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. A cast member’s copy of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream – complete with sticky notes – sits amid blueberries, eyeglasses and other items on a picnic table at the Brown’s Orchards and Farm Market pavilion before DreamWrights Youth Family Theatre’s Theatre Under the Tree’s production on Saturday, July 21, 2012. Since 1998, Theatre Under the Trees has produced Shakespeare plays for free at various York County parks. This year, the program held its opening night performance at Brown’s Orchards and Farm Market after the first performance – scheduled to be at Gifford Pinchot State Park – was rained out.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. A Midsummer Night’s Dream cast members Wilder Harrison-O’Neill, Julia Levis and Devin Palmieri stretch with the rest of the cast and crew outside the Brown’s Orchards and Farm Market pavilion before starting their production on Saturday, July 21, 2012.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Performing as the characters Demetrius and Lysander respectively, Nathaniel Tyson and Joey Miller duke it out over the woman their characters now rival for love in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as fairy king Oberon – played by Devin Palmieri – observes from afar and spurned lover Hermia – played by Theresa Strange – protests in confusion, on Saturday, July 21, 2012, at the Brown’s Orchards and Farm Market pavilion.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Lantern in hand, Taylor Hayward — playing a fairy — makes her way to the pavilion at Brown’s Orchards and Farm Market for a closing scene of A Midsummer Night’s Dream on Saturday, July 21, 2012.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Howard Daniels of Mount Wolf, right, hugs his son Howard Daniels III of Spring Grove in greeting on Saturday, June 30, 2012, at the Paradise Township intersection of Canal and East Berlin Roads where Daniels’ daughter Jennifer (Daniels III’s sister) was killed in a car crash nine years ago. Every year since her death, her parents — who were divorced before she died — join family and friends on the anniversary of her death at the cross they erected at the intersection. “It’s really tough for us, after nine years,” Daniels’ dad Howard said. “It’s a hole that never gets filled.”

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Howard Daniels III of Spring Grove holds his wife Elizabeth and daughter Hannah close after they and other family and friends released balloons in memory of Daniels’ sister Jennifer, who was killed nine years ago in a car crash, on Saturday, June 30, 2012.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Friends and family release balloons at the intersection of Canal and East Berlin Roads in Paradise Township on the ninth anniversary of Jennifer Dawn Daniels’ death in a car accident at that intersection, on Saturday, June 30, 2012.