Words and Light

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Community activist Rebecca Moore speaks to a Fox 43 reporter at a rally against crime at the intersection of West King and South West Streets on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011. Joanne Borders, a community resource liaison with the York City police, organized the rally, which took place about four blocks from the area where a man was shot and robbed of his SUV on Wednesday, Oct. 5.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Community activist Rebecca Moore watches from her front porch as a car pulls up along the curb of Parkway Boulevard at dusk on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011. Moore is a resident on Parkway Boulevard, where she has seen the level of crime and violence rise in the past six years. She has since formed Operation Stand Up - an organization that assists residents and police officers at crime scenes - and become an outspoken member of the community against the Parkway Gang's activities.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. A "No Trespassing" sign is one of several posted around the fringes of the Parkway neighborhood. The neighborhood, which is owned by the York Housing Authority, is restricted only to residents and their guests, for whom residents are to be held accountable.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Tah'ryzma Holland, 3, looks up at her grandmother Rebecca Moore as Moore prepares to leave the house for a while on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011. The girl, known as Nana to friends and family, and her father live with Moore on Parkway Boulevard. Nana calls Moore "Mommy" and gets separation anxiety whenever Moore leaves the house without her. When asked if she fears retaliation for her boldness, Moore said she is not afraid. When asked if she fears retaliation upon her loved ones, Moore said her loved ones are why she refuses to back down.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Community activist Rebecca Moore, in orange, and her family gather around a groaning table of food as her mother Mary Tyler, back and seated, says a prayer before the family dinner meal on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011, at Moore's house. Every Sunday, members of Moore's family come to her house for family dinner, although attendance varies during the football season.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Cake topper in hand, community activist Rebecca Moore surprises her new fiance Andy after she said yes on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011, to his proposal for marriage the day before. Moore teased Andy by presenting him with a sheet cake with three toppers and telling him that two of the toppers said "no" and one topper said "yes" - and that whichever topper he picked would be her answer to his proposal. In fact, Moore had written "yes" on all three toppers.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Dave Peterson of Shrewsbury walks down a rural cul-de-sac, at the end of which he is allowed to hunt, on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011, in northern Baltimore County, Md. Under Pennsylvania law, hunting is not permitted on Sundays. Dave Peterson of Shrewsbury is licensed to hunt in both Pennsylvania and Maryland, and likes hunting in Maryland because of the state's fewer restrictions.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Friends and family of York County Judge Chuck Patterson watch as balloons they just released float up into the sky in front of the York County Judicial Center on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011. The funeral procession for Patterson stopped briefly in front of the judicial center after the service, where a police officer played the bagpipes and a moment of silence was observed.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Members of the York County Quick Response Team arrive at the intersection of Chestnut Run Road and Primrose Lane, near the 2730 block of Chestnut Run, in response to an alleged hostage situation on Friday, Nov. 25, 2011. The standoff was not in fact a hostage situation, but rather a man alone in his home who fired off several gunshots and refused to exit his house in a nine-hour standoff. The man exited his home peacefully and was taken to Central Booking at 8:45 p.m.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Joey Duffy, 18 months, throws a teddy bear in the air as baby formula is pumped into his stomach via a tube in his family's Springettsbury Township home on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. The Duffy family lost electricity in their Springettsbury Township home during the snowstorm on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. Because their youngest son Joey is fed via a feeding tube due to esophogeal stricture, Tom Duffy purchased a generator in Dec. 2010 to power the feeding tube pump in case the house lost power. When their block lost power, the Duffy family rotated the generator to power Joey's feeding tube, the refrigerator and the house's heat in turns.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Patches, a 5-year-old cat belonging to Carol Bishop and her mother Mary of East Manchester Township, hisses at veterinarian Lisa Wade just as Wade asked her to open her mouth during a routine check-up on Friday, Oct. 28, 2011, at Shiloh Veterinary Hospital East. Carol Bishop said Patches wasn't very happy about going to the vet, and an assistant had to throw a towel over Patches' head and hold the cat in place while wearing welder's gloves as Wade gave Patches a rabies shot in the rump. Capital BlueCross is now offering insurance for pets through a partnership with pet insurer Petplan.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. This photo shows the wound sustained by Witten, a 19-year-old Belgian horse owned by Amy Burkholder of Paradise Township, several days after he was shot in his right hindquarter while grazing on a Peach Bottom Township pasture on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011. Burkholder said the muscular horse, who measures at 18 hands and is a retired Amish workhorse, probably felt the bullet as a bee sting and was still standing when she discovered the bullet wound the next day. Burkholder has owned Witten for about a year and said she cleaned the wound and expects the scar tissue to eventually push the bullet out.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Dallastown shooting team assistant coach Gregory Zampier adjusts the airtube intake valve of an air rifle in need of repair at the first annual Dallastown Marine JROTC Fall Shoot Out competition on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Erica Mannino, 12 of York Township, eyes her mother Daniela after Daniela tried on (and decided on) a Dutch-themed costume in the dressing room in the York Little Theatre costume shop on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011. The costume shop at York Little Theatre has thousands of costumes that it is renting out in the weeks leading up to Halloween. Costume shop coordinator Judi Miller recommended that customers know what they want to dress up as before they come to the costume shop, due to the large variety of costumes available.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. St. Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church music director and organist Jonathan Noel, right, talks with church members Dale and Lois Grove of West Manchester Township on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2011, about the church's new organ that is being installed as part of the church's $4 million renovation. Noel said the organ will have a warmer tone and will be dedicated on Nov. 13. St. Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church dedicated its $4 million addition and renovation on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2011, that was in the works for about six years. The renovations include a larger pipe organ, a double-sided elevator, an updated child-care area, an expanded parking area and a lobby off a new main entrance from West Market Street.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. The steeple of St. Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church is now visible from the interior of the building's new lobby via a triangular window.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Paige Carbaugh, whose son Justin was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and abuse of a corpse, speaks to the media on Friday, Oct. 7, 2011, outside the York County Judicial Center after the verdict was announced. Justin Carbaugh was convicted of killing his older brother and Paige's son Brandon and dismembering his fingers and one of his legs in Aug. 2010. Following the verdict, Paige Carbaugh expressed gratitude to defense attorney Steve Rice. "People who know me know I would never make up something or lie about one of my children to save another one," said Carbaugh, who said she was satisfied with the verdict.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. A view of the York Fair attractions, taken on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011, at the Toyota Grandstand.