Palisades Plans Prom, Graduation in Person High School to Install Weather Station Cliff Lebowitz
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April 15, 2021 44 pages, four sections including Homes Day in the field A5 Volume 19 www.buckscountyherald.com Number 28 [email protected] Palisades plans prom, graduation in person High school to install weather station Cliff Lebowitz With rave reviews already in hand from school board members and their constituents, the Palisades School District will be holding two pandem- ic-adjusted, in-person senior student milestone events this spring. At the April 7 dial-in public school board meeting, Student Representa- tive Drew Camp announced that the prom for senior class students would be held on Friday, May 21, under a large tent in the high school stadium. After the meeting, Superintendent GORDON NIEBURG Bridget O’Connell elaborated that masking, social distancing, and other health and safety guidelines will be in Earth Day preview place for the two-hour outdoor event. Dressed for the outdoors, eager visitors wait for Bucks County Audubon Society’s Earth Day Festival to open Saturday at Honey Students will be seated at tables in Hollow in Solebury Township. The sixth annual event featured artisan vendors, environmental programs and nature walks. Earth “pods” to maintain contact tracing, Day this year, April 22, is 51 years old. and the group will be able to move through stations, such as posed pic- tures, dessert trucks, and games, with high school personnel supervising the event. “As juniors last year, these students Quakertown makes start on bigger and better playground were not able to experience a prom,” she added. “Of course, even though Joe Ferry Health Network added $10,000 to sponsor The rest of the money is expected to come we have had both face to face and on- the swing set. Robert Ganter Contractors from individual donations, including a “Buy line educational opportunities for our For 27 years, Panther Playground provid- Inc, Nexus Financial, Maye Dental Associ- a Brick” program, although some equipment students, ed thousands of kids in the Quakertown area ates, and Calvary Church have all committed sponsorships are still available. “Covid has impacted many aspects and beyond with a fun place to burn off their to this project. “This type of collaboration between pri- of the school year. We hope that our youthful energy. students in the Class of 2021 enjoy But with the passage of time, the massive, their end-of-year milestones responsi- mostly wooden structure built by hundreds bly, and we are happy to afford them of volunteers over five days in May 1993 these opportunities.” deteriorated to the point where it became a Graduation for the Class of 2021 is safety hazard, forcing the borough to demol- scheduled for Friday, June 11, with ish it last year. Continued on page C6 Even as the playground was nearing the end of its useful life, however, borough of- ficials were making plans for an even bigger and better playground to provide youngsters Central Bucks of all ages and abilities with another place to slay imaginary dragons and track down all sorts of evildoers. superintendent Last week, those plans took a major step toward reality with a ceremonial ground- has resigned breaking and an official name: QuiNBy’s Playground at Memorial Park, thanks to a Dr. John J. Kopicki resigned from $250,000 naming rights sponsorship from his position as superintendent of QNB Bank. schools for the Central Bucks School To meet the $1 million estimated total cost, District on April 2. the borough kicked in $500,000, the state During the regularly scheduled provided a $250,000 grant, and St. Luke’s meeting on April 13, the Central Bucks School District’s (CBSD) Continued on page C7 QuiNBy’s Playground will provide updated facilities for all ages. Board of School Directors will con- sider the appointment of CBSD As- sistant Superintendent for Secondary Education Dr. Abram Lucabaugh as Comment period open for Dublin Post Office relocation Central Bucks’ interim superintendent The U.S. Postal Service has notified Dub- use of public parking and town center park- current site until all necessary preparations are of schools, effective April 2. lin residents and businesses that it is moving ing within the borough limits. The proposed completed at the new location. Lucabaugh has 17 years of service becuse it lost its lease with a new building new facility will maintain the same level of “Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, instead of to the Central Bucks School District, project in Dublin Town Center. service. a public meeting, we are inviting you to send having served as principal of Central “We were unable to conduct our ongoing If the reestablishment is approved, postal your comments on the proposal to the fol- Bucks High School East for 11 years operations and suspended them,” USPS noti- retail services will remain in the community at lowing address within the next 30 days: Attn: before his appointment as assistant su- fied the Herald. a different physical location within the same Borough of Dublin PA, United States Postal perintendent of secondary education Customers can still retrieve their mail in geographical ZIP code area. There will be no Service, P.O. Box 27497, Greensboro, NC. in June of 2018. He began his career the box lobby of 123 N. Main St. in Dublin. changes to mail delivery, customers’ address- 27498-1103,” the postal service announced. in education as a classroom teacher at The USPS proposes moving to a space es or post office boxes because of the reestab- The postal service receives no tax dollars Hatboro Horsham High School. of approximately 1,800 square feet with the lishment. Retail services will continue at the for operating expenses. For a letter from Lucabaugh on the district’s website, visit cbsd.org. The board is grateful to Kopicki for his five years of service to the students, Demoted Bucks County prosecutor submits resignation faculty and staff of the Central Bucks Jodi Spiegel Arthur man said the DA’s office would not comment working in public service. School District and wishes him well as further because it is a personnel matter. The DA said at the time that Shore had he pursues other professional opportu- Former First Assistant District Attorney Bucks County District Attorney Matt used his accrued vacation time to repay the nities. He will continue to serve in a Gregg Shore, who was demoted last month Weintraub said last month that Shore had county the money he earned working the consulting capacity for the remainder to deputy district attorney for making Door been making the Door Dash deliveries on side job during normal business hours. of the 2020-2021 school year. Dash food deliveries during county work county time. Weintraub expressed his dis- Weintraub appointed Jennifer Schorn,who The timeline and details of the hours, has resigned. appointment in Shore but said he believed served as chief of Trials and chief of the search process are forthcoming. The former second-in-command reportedly Shore deserved another chance to prove Grand Jury Division, to replace Shore as first As the district and the entire com- turned in his resignation Tuesday. A spokes- himself because of his more than 20 years assistant district attorney. munity continue to emerge from the Continued on page C7 NOVA honors trauma vic- Bucks Beautiful kicks off Chatterbox A2 Classified C6 tims, survivors with vigil daffodil photo contest Op-ed A6,7 Crossword C7 Sports B1 Arts C8 With white candles and white carna- Take in some fresh air, by visiting tions as a backdrop, Bucks County’s one of Bucks Beautiful’s Bulbs for Police B11 Entertainment Network of Victim Assistance held its Bucks planting sites. Snap pictures Dining C2 C9,10 annual vigil to honor trauma victims, with the BB daffodils and share your Business C3 Real Estate survivors and their loved ones online favorite on social media to enter. Three Obituaries C4 Classified this year. winners will receive two tickets to Calendar C5 Homes Section Page A3 BB’s June 13 Garden Tour. Contemporary art C8 Page A4 Page A2 (2) Bucks County Herald April 15, 2021 New Hope-Solebury from West Chester University. H. Yerkes for 54 years as a mem- He is the son of Gretchen and ber of the Middle Bucks Area Vo- alumnus earns social Dudley Rice of Solebury. cational Technical School Author- worker license Greg Rice said he got in- ity. volved in social work because Yerkes first became associated Greg Rice, a case supervisor he was fortunate to have a fam- with the school in April 1967 when for Court Appointed Special ily that was very positive and the property now known as Middle Advocates (CASA) in the Ches- supportive. Bucks Institute of Technology was ter County program, recently “I met people who had very a farm field. He was influential in became a licensed social work- opposite backgrounds when I overseeing the construction of the er. was a teenager and it opened my school, which first opened in 1969 Rice’s excellence is seen in eyes to how different reality can and subsequent building projects as his one-on-one interactions with be for many children,” he said. well. youth, in the way he trains and “I recognized that I had the abil- Through his role as chairperson supports community volunteers, ity to help.” for the Authority, Yerkes has al- and in the court room where he ways been very conscientious to provides a strong voice advocat- GREG RICE make fiscally responsible and re- ing for children to ensure their MBIT recognizes flective decisions on matters related best interests are heard. named the Probation Officer of William Yerkes to the school building and property.