Cherry remembered as a man who made a difference
16.01.10
Many knew him as a untiring advocate for the men and women of the county's volunteer fire service. The people of Jarales knew him as their fire chief, and for 18 years, and the people served by the county's nine fire districts knew him in his r of fire marshal.
Now, after a year-long battle with cancer, John W. Cherry's one's nearest is remembering him as all those things and much, much more.
For his wife, Rae, he was a lover, friend, caretaker and eternal cheerleader during her own two bouts with cancer. To his children, he was the man who taught them to drudgery hard and play hard, do things right and was always there for them. He was a grandfather and considerable-grandfather.
John was also a man who could charm a dog onto water skies.
"He taught our German guide, Yankee, how to ski," son John laughs. "I'm not sure how he did that."
Just two days after his yen, on a sunny Thursday morning, the Jarales home of the Cherrys for the history 40 years was filled with laughter as Rae, John and other kinsmen members remembered and told stories. The joy of remembrance was interspersed with moments of stillness reflection and tears.
Source: Valencia County News Bulletin
When assessing slope conditions, topside is what counts
22.01.10
Last weekend's rainstorms pink many people with the feeling that the area's ski resorts saw their snow wash away.
That's principled not so, according to Jim Dailey, general manager at Blue Mountain in Palmerton, and Mary Shoemaker, marketing head at Bear Creek in Macungie.
While the rain and temperatures in the 40s certainly stiff the surface of the snow for skiing and boarding, the snow on the mountains was not washed away.
''The insufferable is equivalent to how much snow is on the mountain,'' Shoemaker said. ''We typically exposed the mountain for the season after 90 hours of snowmaking, which puts our infrastructure at 24-30 inches, and we're continuing to make snow all season until Cortege.
''It's important to start the season with a well-established base,'' Dailey said. ''A skier basically only cares about the fa, the top two or three inches or so. The rest of it is survivability. The base recedes as it gets ardent or wet, and increases when it snows.
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Source: Allentown Morning Call