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MANSFIELD — More than two dozen educators and other officials from around the region attended a school safety symposium Aug. 12 at Mansfield Uni-versity just before the start of school next week.

Keynote speaker was Scott Robinson, chief exec-utive officer for Measured Response Group of Millers-burg.

Robinson is a former FBI director of the agen-cy’s Intelligence Terrorism Threat Forecasting Unit, in Washington, D.C. Since his 2016 retirement, Robinson founded the SRTactical, specializing in concealed firearms training for pri-vate citizens. His current company, MRG, Inc., works with businesses, houses of worship and individuals to create pre-emptive strate-gies to prevent crises.

Troy School district teacher, firefighter and EMT Tara Freeman organized Tuesday’s symposium after hearing Robinson speak at another event.

Freeman worked with Scott Henry, director of the university’s police and safety and director of the municipal police academy.

Freeman said she was extremely happy with the turn-out, which included representatives from public and private schools in Ly-coming and Tioga counties and the county probation

department.“We targeted this time

specifically because it’s right before school starts,” she said.

Robinson said it is im-portant for school districts especially, to “always have a plan,” in place.

“We need to be open to new processes and new techniques” to protect chil-dren, said Robinson.

“Active shooter training makes us blind to what is coming. Shooters will be the least of our problems,” he said.

At the southern U.S. border, Robinson said that jihadists from overseas countries have been caught coming into the country with the influx of migrants. And their favorite weapons?

“Bombs,” he said. “Bul-lets are not dramatic enough. We are likely to see a terrorist attack on our schools that will make 9-11 a distant memory.”

Robinson noted that ter-rorists, both foreign and do-mestic, are always looking for ways to take out young people, because he said “If you kill a kid, you get a headline, if you kill a bunch of kids, you dominate the news, and that is what they want.”

Robinson said that schools and other gun-free zones, are easy targets for those looking to kill people.

“Schools will be the tar-gets of terrorism,” he said,


Raising money for a fire department that just lost ev-erything in a fire is a big job, said event organizer Shan-non Stone.

Lawrenceville Fire De-partment lost everything in the equipment bays on July 28 when a fire broke out in

one of the bays.Among the losses was a

$700,000 fire truck. Though insured, insurance will pay nowhere near the cost of a replacement truck.

“They are only getting $140,000 for it and that doesn’t include the hoses and apparatus on it,” Stone said.

“Reimbursement for an-

other truck is only $500,000. All the gear is all gone, they have to start from scratch,” she said.

So far, community fund-raisers and donations have raised more than $11,000, but much more is needed, Stone said.

Stone, a social member of the fire department, and her husband and family

are fairly new to the com-munity. She said she is all in with helping the depart-ment get back on its feet.

“Right now we are work-ing in conjunction with Community Day Sept. 21,” Stone said.

“At that event, there will be a chance auction, a live auction with Randy Jelliff, and state Rep. Clint Owlett

will be in the dunk booth. We also have a motorcycle run that day,” she added.

The control truck was at the fair, Saturday, Aug. 10 with T-shirts for sale and on Sept. 7, a chicken barbecue and a cornhole tournament are planned in Tioga.

“We also plan on having

Department ‘feeling the love’ after fire

photobyNATALIEKENNEDYFaith Brueilly of Middlebury Center gets in the pen with her sheep at the Tioga County Fair. For more fair photos, see inside this paper or visit www.tiogapublish-ing.com. The results of the competitions and shows will be published in the Aug. 29 edition.

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Former FBI director:

Schools need plan to keep students safe

By Natalie [email protected]

A police pursuit that be-gan a few minutes before noon this past Thursday started because of a dog.

Wellsboro police chief Jim Bodine said his officers went to a Wellsboro resi-dence Aug. 8 because of a loose dog. Two men from Philadelphia were staying in the house and reportedly allowed the animal to go outside and run loose.

When police knocked on the door to address the loose dog, the pair exited the house from the back and took off on foot. While police were searching, the men got into a car and drove away.

A patrol unit tried to stop the vehicle for a broken tail light, and that’s when the

pursuit be-gan, said Bodine.

The ve-hicle fled the bor-ough at an “extremely high rate of speed” on Charleston

Road, entered Route 6 and turned off, said Bodine. His officers followed, but stopped pursuit due to the heavy traffic congestion on Charleston Road due to the Tioga County Fair.

State police picked up the


The Rev. Dr. Eugene Charsky, who died Jan. 20, 2018, was memorialized with a special bench ded-ication at the Green Home Friday, Aug. 9.

The bench, which was purchased entirely with donations, according to ad-ministrator Bob Coppadge, was placed in the garden area behind the facility on Central Avenue with Char-sky’s widow, sons and ex-tended family members present, as well as at least 50 residents, staff, doc-tors, community members and former state Rep. Matt Baker.

Memorial bench dedicated to late hospice pastor

photobyCHERYLA.CLARKEA bench dedicated to the late Rev. dr. Eugene Charsky was held Friday at the green Home in the garden be-hind the facility. shown are Charsky’s widow Marion and the couple’s three sons, Kevin, Brett and Bruce.

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WELLSBORO — Council here adopted a resolution to allow municipal police to enforce speed limits using radar.

Council adopted the res-olution at its Aug. 12 meet-ing in response to Senate Bill 607, which was approved 49-1 in June. The measure moved to the House, where a similar bill died last year.

Wellsboro police chief Jim Bodine said Pennsylva-nia is the only state in the nation that prohibits munic-ipal police to use the same speed timing equipment used by state police.

Currently, municipal po-lice use the Visual Average Speed Computer and Re-corder to monitor speeds in the borough, said Bodine. It cannot be used in areas with tight streets.

“With radar, we will be able to get in some ar-eas where there are a lot of crashes and speed com-plaints and address it more effectively,” said Bodine.

Senate Bill 607 would require municipalities to adopt an ordinance to al-low for police to use radar. It bars motorists from be-ing ticketed unless their vehicle’s speed is recorded at more than 10 mph above the limit and caps the reve-nue a municipality can col-lect from speeding tickets at 20% of the municipal bud-get. Any revenue collected above that amount would be deposited in the state’s Motor License Fund, which is used to fund road and bridge improvements and state police operations.

The bill has the support of the police chiefs and mayors association, as well as state police.

According to the reso-

lution adopted by council, 85% of all speeding-related fatalities occur on local roads with posted speeds of 55 mph or less. According to statistics compiled by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for 2015, Pennsylvania had the fourth highest number of speeding-related fatalities in the nation and the sec-ond highest percentage of speeding-related fatalities on local roads.

In other business, coun-cil:

• Appointed Kathleen Eastridge to the Wellsboro Planning Commision to complete the term of Rudolf Scharf, which expires Dec. 31, 2021.

• Agreed to proceed with a zoning map change to add cattle to the per-mitted animals list in the borough. If adopted, cattle would have the same acre-age restrictions that cur-rently exist for horses which is a minimum of 10 acres for up to three horses and 15 acres if a fourth animal is added.

• Approved a request from the Wellsboro Area Education Foundation to ex-onorate the 2019 real estate taxes for the property at 104 Nichols Street. The prop-erty is the site of a house being built by students from Wellsboro Area High School.

• Agreed to purchase a Pelican street sweeper from A&H Equipment for $150,000.

• Thanked the Wells-boro Social Club for donat-ing $500 to replace fencing at the Meade Street ball-fields.

• Agreed to hire Da-vid Statts as a laborer for the Department of Public Works. Councilman John Sticklin opposed the hire.

Borough resolution supports local police use of radar

a couple booths at Tioga Old Home Day to sell T-shirts,” she added.

At Lawrenceville’s Community Day there will also be a pig roast, a car show, inflatable bounce houses, vendors and fireworks, fire trucks, a parade, a smoke house, Life Flight helicopter, live music and a DJ, Stone said.

“A lot of other people are doing things, too. The North Shore Boat Club is holding a barbecue cook-off and a car show, and we have other things going on too. After community days we are talking about a football tournament and golf tournament in October,” she added.

All the donations are being deposited in a sepa-rate account, and accord-ing to Stone, “they are pouring in.”

“The first T-shirt drive that Kathy Hugick did raised $11,610. And we had a little boy in West-field that sold Kool-aid for 50 cents a cup and made $150 and gave us the check at the meeting we had Thursday, Aug. 8,” Stone said.

FEELING...Continued from Page 1A adding that 95% of schools are vulnerable

to terrorist attacks.Robinson noted that what has changed

in recent years is the glorification of vio-lence by Hollywood, video game manufac-turers and the media.

“Violence has become acceptable, why do we allow that in our society?” he said.

Robinson, who is an expert in identify-ing common traits of those who commit violent acts, said that mental health evalu-ations should begin before age 14. Overdi-agnosing ADHD, autism and medications added to the problem.

“Parents are afraid to let their kids fail, which they need to do in order to learn,” Robinson added. As a result, kids are not learning how to cope with disagreements or failure, he said.

On top of it, the opioid crisis is getting worse, and kids sitting indoors and playing violent video games and movies contrib-utes to obesity, lack of exercise and emo-tional issues, Robinson added.

“Social media platforms are designed to be addictive, and then kids don’t sleep, and they develop a hypersensitivity to ‘per-ceived injustices and anger,” he said.

According to Robinson, kids need to be outdoors more, and learning coping and decision making classes in school.

“All violence is predictable,” he said, not-ing that kids who become killers have sev-eral behaviors.

“There are so many warning signs: de-pression, suicidal thoughts, a feeling like they are failures, which turns into hatred and rage,” Robinson said.

They lose all feelings of emotion, and be-come numb to the violence they are perpe-trating against others, he added.

Robinson suggested that schools hire re-source officers to create a law enforcement presence, but he is not for arming teachers. He also said that political rhetoric contrib-utes to the problem, but not in a major way.

For more information contact robinson at www.measuredresponsegroup.com

SAFETY...Continued from Page 1A

Coppadge and two oth-ers gave comments before the bench was dedicated with a prayer given by Cop-padge.

“It is ironic we are dedi-cating a bench for someone who never sat still,” Cop-padge said, to laughter from the audience.

Coppadge noted that each time he would ask if he could visit with Charsky, he would tell him he just didn’t have time but he always did it with a smile.

Dr. Edmund Guelig, who served with Charsky in the hospice ministry, which Charsky helped initiate in 1994, said Charsky was the chaplain at Soldiers + Sail-ors Memorial Hospital for many years before serving as chaplain at the Green Home until his death at 84.

“He looked at hospice care as spiritual work, and he would pray for his pa-tients, and their families,” Guelig said. “He would want us to come to rest, col-lect our thoughts, and be at peace on this bench.”

Candace Callahan, activ-ities director at the Green Home, said that the resi-dents there loved him, and once a week he would have lunch with them, alternat-ing floors every other week.

“He lit up the room when he entered it, like a light bulb. He really listened to our problems and joys and always was ready to share the good news of the Bible,” Callahan said.

“He was terrific,” she added, “and I miss him. We all do.”

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chase near the Mansfield exchange of Route 15 as the vehicle headed south. The pursuit ended near Bloss-burg when municipal police stopped the vehicle.

“It’s unknown if the de-fendant’s car started to die or if they gave up due to the fact that there were a lot of officers,” said Bodine.

Both men, Thurston

Wells, 27, and Paris Bald-win, 26, both of Philadel-phia, were transported to Wellsboro for question-ing. Wells, the driver, was charged with a felony count of fleeing and attempting to elude police and viola-tions of driving at an unsafe speed, passing in a no pass-ing zone, failure to drive on the right side of the road, failing to obey stop and yield signs, driving while operating privileges are suspended, careless driv-ing and operating a vehicle with unsafe equipment.

He was remanded to

Tioga County Prison on $50,000 bail.

No charges were filed on the passenger.

Wells posted bond. Both he and Baldwin are be-lieved to have left the area, said Bodine.

The incident is still under investigation. Police did not recover anything in a search of the vehicle, although $1,500 in cash was found on Wells’ person at the jail.

As for the dog, humane officer Krys Knect and an assistant captured it. The dog is being cared for at an-other site, said Bodine.

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