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© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Andrew Breault, 7 of York Township, stands up in his saddle atop his horse Clover, with assistance from Leg Up Farm equine director Megan Giordano, to strengthen his core and leg muscles on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012. Breault was born with epilepsy and suffers developmental delay, low muscle tone and partial chromosomal deletion. He has gone about 1.5 years without seizures, and in addition to horse therapy at Leg Up, receives speech, physical and occupational therapies elsewhere.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Andrew Breault, 7, right, outstretches his hand for his father Dave to hold as he steers his battery-powered ATV down the family’s York Township street on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. Andrew Breault used to ram his tricycle into objects, but since he began his horse therapy at Leg Up Farm, his steering ability has improved. The Breaults bought him the ATV after seeing how well he was steering one at a friend’s birthday party and deciding it would help reinforce the motions he learns during horse therapy.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Dave Breault administers medicine to his son Andrew, 7, as he and mother Kathleen watch a TV show about large vehicles on Netflix after dinner on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. Andrew Breault’s favorite things are emergency vehicles, but even a show about street sweepers was enough to distract him as his father gave him several different medicines.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Kathleen Breault waits for her son Andrew, 7, to finish steering a toy police cruiser down the stair railing as they get ready to go to Andrew’s horse therapy at Leg Up Farm on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. Andrew’s fascination with emergency and police vehicles extends to a large collection of toy cars on display in his bedroom.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Christopher Breault, 4, and his mother Kathleen wave to Christopher’s brother Andrew through a large viewing window as Andrew undergoes his horse therapy session at Leg Up Farm on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. Father Dave Breault watches from Kathleen’s left.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Kathleen and Dave Breault sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” with their son Andrew, 7, as he holds up a small American flag in his bedroom at bedtime on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. Thanks to a slew of therapies, Andrew Breault can now form three- and four-word sentences, but is able to sing the national anthem — his favorite song — because his parents would sing it to him every night.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Volunteer Tina Yeager serves a plate of Thanksgiving dinner to Betty Shawver, 82, who came to the event with her brother-in-law Dave Baughman, 83, and her son Craig Edwards, right, on Thanksgiving Day on Thursday, NOv. 22, 2012, at St. Stephen’s United Church of Christ. A group of 10 friends, calling themselves the “Thanksgiving Dinner Committee,” organized a second annual Thanksgiving dinner for shut-ins and the West York community. Organizer Jean Firestone said volunteers roasted nine turkeys and made 150 pounds of mashed potatoes in anticipation of about 100 people coming to St. Stephen’s United Church of Christ, which offered a venue for the event.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. For the third year in a row, Bobby Brunner of York is camping in a tent outside Re-Source York on Carlisle Avenue for his foundation “Neighbors Helping Neighbors” and to gather donations for the needy. Brunner began camping on Monday, Nov. 19, and plans to do so through Sunday, Nov. 25.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Fran Monbray of West York and her daughter Stefanie Moyar of Spring Garden Township react after finding a Thomas the Tank Engine figurine for less at the West Manchester Township Toys R Us than it is on Amazon.com, on Thanksgiving night on Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012. Moyar said she is shopping for her son and two nieces, and has spent the past week comparing ads. Big box stores have extended Black Friday sales into Thanksgiving night, encouraging shoppers to have early Thanksgiving dinners, study ads, get in lines or all of the above.

Awning from a neighboring mobile home flew off and sailed this rod into the wall of Carolyn and Kendall Coleman’s mobile home around 9:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in the Tall Oak Estates mobile home park in Dover Township, York County, Pa. Carolyn Coleman, 69, who has lived in this home with her husband for 13 years, said she had been in the other end of the mobile home when “the trailer shook and then I heard the bang and then the crash.” After commenting she wouldn’t be able to replace the wallpaper and the shattered mirror — which she has had for 13 years — she and her husband joked about keeping the rod in place and using it to store toilet paper.

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© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Emanuel Poznanski exercises his arms and legs amid the swirling waters of the therapy pool at the Harmony Ridge Wellness Center in the Cross Keys Village retirement community in New Oxford on Friday, Aug. 17. 2012. Because of his post-polio syndrome symptoms, Poznanski has lost much mobility and motor control in his arms and legs.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. With Harmony Ridge Wellness Center wellness director Erika Nevins at the controls, Emanuel Poznanski is lifted out of the therapy pool at the Harmony Ridge Wellness Center in the Cross Keys Village retirement community in New Oxford via an aquatic lift chair on Friday, Aug. 17, 2012. Emanuel Poznanski of Las Vegas, Nev., was diagnosed with polio when he was four months old and, after years of treatments and hospital stays, seemed to recover from the symptoms by adolescence. Now in his 60s, Poznanski said post-polio syndrome — a second wave of symptoms — began affecting him in 2003, limiting his ability to walk and perform other functions. Poznanski, who attended York Suburban, returns to the York area every summer to visit friends.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Emanuel Poznanski relies on his scooter and power wheelchair to get around, but he strongly asserts his independence and typically refuses help with non-automated doors. Here, he lets himself inside the Motor Inn in New Oxford where he has stayed for the past month while visiting friends in York, on Friday, Aug. 17, 2012.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Emanuel Poznanski stands briefly in his room at the Motor Inn in New Oxford as he transfers himself from his scooter, right, to his power wheelchair on Friday, Aug. 17, 2012.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Natalie Claghorn, 2.5 years old and of West Manchester Township, stands up in the pumpkin wagon as her parents Melissa and Dave cut another pumpkin off the vine at Barefoot Farm on Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Barefoot Farm, which has grown about 40 varieties of pumpkins and gourds this year, has opened its pumpkin patch for pick-your-own in Dover Township.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Dave Semple of Dover Township offers a “Colin-sized pumpkin” to his 18-month-old son Colin at Barefoot Farm on Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. With headphones plugged into a CD player, Emily Ryktarczyk of Harrisburg reclines amid a Dominus Cervix StarGate — a geometric arrangement of 24 “orbs” that is supposed to amplify musical frequencies and enhance the meditation experience — on Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012, at the 12th annual Celebration of Life! Holistic Expo and Conference in the York Expo Center’s Memorial Hall East. The expo featured about 100 vendors offering massages, selling jewelry and clothes and providing psychic readings, among other services.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. (Left to right) D.J. Wilt, Heather Sweitzer and Jason Sweitzer work to get the spinner machine set up to spin roving into yarn in their Springfield Township fiber mill on Saturday, March 3, 2012. Heather Sweitzer, who owns a yarn shop just outside of Seven Valleys, recently opened a fiber mill nearby with her husband Jason and Jason’s cousin D.J. Wilt. Heather Sweitzer said people from all over Pennsylvania have sent in different types of animals’ fiber to be spun into yarn, but they have also received orders from Oregon and Wisconsin. Working in the mill is still a part-time job for Jason Sweitzer and Wilt, but they said they hope to quit their day jobs and work full-time in the mill once business picks up. Heather Sweitzer hopes to one day use her entire storefront for yarn made in the mill, and keep the back rooms stocked with yarn made elsewhere.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. D.J. Wilt uses a hanging scale to measure out semi-raw alpaca fiber before loading it onto the carding machine in the Springfield Township fiber mill he owns with his cousin Jason Sweitzer and Jason’s wife Heather, on Saturday, March 3, 2012.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. The storefront window of Heather Sweitzer’s Countryside Yarn Store in Springfield Township.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Pole Zen Fitness instructor Kimberly Kerr demonstrates a technique to a Level II pole exercise student, Andrea Miller of Mount Wolf, on Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012, at the Manchester Township studio. Kerr opened the Pole Zen Fitness studio in May after teaching herself to exercise on a pole and getting certified. She and other instructors offer classes of varying difficulty in pole exercise.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. (Left to right) Maria Kostalas of Spring Garden Township, Erica Kunkle of Manchester Township and Harriet Gray of Springettsbury Township take a breather during their “Intro to Pole” pole exercise class on Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012, at Pole Zen Fitness in Manchester Township.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. (Left to right) “Intro to Pole” students Maria Kostalas of Spring Garden Township, Tanika Vaughan of York, Harriet Gray of Springettsbury Township and Erica Kunkle of Manchester Township arch their backs against their poles during their pole exercise class on Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012, at Pole Zen Fitness in Manchester Township.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Pole Zen Fitness instructor Kimberly Kerr, center, leads the “Intro to Pole” class in a few pole exercises on Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. (Left to right) Hira Ahmed, 13; Ohanna Mohammad, 13; and Sanya Ahmed, 12, all of York Township, eat dessert together in the women’s section in the Masjid At-Tawheed mosque on Saturday, July 21, 2012. Sunni Muslims in the York area gathered for communal dinners each Saturday during Ramadan at Masjid At-Tawheed in York, for the breaking of the fast.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. (Left to right, starting with the pink hijab) Runi Yasmin of York Township, Shaika Rizal of Mechanicsburg, Yasmin’s 9-year-old daughter Ibnat Irteeza, Beauty Ishaq of York and Kamrun Nahar of York break fast and eat dinner together in the women’s area in the Masjid At-Tawheed mosque on Saturday, July 21, 2012.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Abul Hasan of Springettsbury Township helps serve the men and boys at a communal dinner to break the fast during Ramadan on Saturday, July 21, 2012, at the mosque Masjid At-Tawheed.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Ibna Irteez, 9 of York Township, sits in the back of the women’s section as the older women prostrate in prayer at the conclusion of a communal dinner to break fast during Ramadan on Saturday, July 21, 2012, at the mosque Masjid At-Tawheed.

© 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.