vol. 22, no. 2 serving clarion, clearfield, elk, forest...
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VOL. 22, NO. 2 SERVING CLARION, CLEARFIELD, ELK, FOREST AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES JANUARY 10, 2016
Classified ............................... D1
Crossword ............................ C5
Entertainment .................... C6
Finance .................................. D1
Food ....................................... C1
Health/Fitness ..................... C4
Lottery ................................... A8
Opinion ................................. A6
Outdoors .............................. B5
Public Notices ..................... D2
Scoreboard .......................... B4
Socials .................................... C3
Sports ..................................... B1
• George Brady, 79• Helen Gabor, 90• C. Thomas Woodel, 70• Arlene Clinton, 69• Jean Hendricks, 83• Margaret Krebs, 88• Flora Siple, 76• Laura Winters, 84• Lawrence McCracken, 75• Netta Mottern, 80
INDEX28 pages
ObituariesPage A2
DuBOIS — The Du-Bois City Police were notiied by DuBois Area School Police of a threat made against the dis-trict Friday.
It was reported a truancy oficer was pre-forming a house check on North Church Street.
While speaking with Michael Vetter, 65, he said he “wants to blow up and shoot up the school.” He also said he would have friends help him and per-sonal information is easy to ind on the Internet. DuBois City Police ob-tained an arrest warrant for Vetter for terroristic threats. He was taken into custody at his residence without incident.
Vetter was arraigned and released on $25,000 and ordered not to pos-
Police arrest
man who
threatens
DuBois Area
School District
Elk Countyboys roll pastSt. Marys
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Page A3By Elaine Haskins
DuBOIS — Students and their teacher in the DuBois Central Catholic’s Med Tech Course spent Thursday morning with two investigators from the state police learning about crime scene investigation and some of the basic forensic tests that they perform while solving crimes.
Trooper Shawn Compton of the Punxsutaw-ney-based state police forensics unit and Cpl. Robert Logan of the crime unit, also based in Punxsutawney, discussed their work with the students currently studying the topic of forensics under the direction of DCC’s science instructor Jenn Graeca, who made arrangements for the “in-house” demonstration.
The yearlong Med Tech Course prepares stu-dents to explore the ever-changing opportunities and challenges that the 21st century medical ield promises. Topics include sports medicine, physical therapy, athletic training, pharmacol-ogy, forensics, dentistry, cardiology, and patho-gens and diseases, Graeca said.
“What’s nice about this course is that there are no standards out there,” Graeca said. “It’s not like I have to teach all this because I’m go-ing to test you on all this. This is learning for just the sake of learning, introducing them to as many different optins that are out there.”
The class has been studying forensics – relat-ing to the use of scientiic knowledge or methods in solving crimes – for the last 11 weeks, Graeca said.
“The students have done ingerprinting, blood anaylsis, bullet trajectory, they did fake skulls and reconstructed the face,” Graeca said. “They will have one culminating lab where they will have to do a urinalysis, ingerprinting analysis, handwriting analysis and things like that.”
Learning crime scene investigation
$1.75
Sunday
SavingsYear to date
savings: $367
$17500
DuBois Central Christian students, from left, Lexi Thomas, Maura Baronick, Trisha Gupta, Sadie Peck, Alexsis Kosko, Lauren Holdren, Hope Martin and Libby Maurer watched as Trooper Shawn Compton of the state police forensics unit based in Punxsutawney demonstrated one of the methods he uses to solve crimes. (Photo by Elaine Haskins)
By Katie Weidenboerner
EMPORIUM — Movie goers locking to local venues this week-end to see the new adventure-sur-vival ilm “The Revenant” should pay close attention to the longrile brandished by Leonardo DiCaprio as it is locally made.
Working in the foothills of “The Land of Endless Mountains,” Ron
Luckenbill, a retired state police trooper, custom builds about a doz-en quality longriles each year from scratch in his garage, turned work-shop, in Emporium.
Marked with his business’ name “Recreating History,” the balmy wood-heated garage where he works has uninished walls posted with historic photographs and pictures of Luckenbill smiling with game he bagged, as well as walls lined with
hand tools of all shapes and sizes.Luckenbill said while the hobby
of muzzleloader building is grow-ing, there are probably less than 200 custom builders who produce on the scale that he does in the United States.
Despite having decades of expe-rience under his belt, he is still in disbelief when he recalls the day a woman from 20th Century Fox called his home, inquiring about
some of the riles he had for sale on his website, www.recreatinghis-tory.com.
Luckenbill admits that when he and his wife irst received the call in mid-July of 2014 they thought it was a scam. After checking the names provided with social media proiles, they realized the opportu-nity was real.
FROM
Local shop TO THE
Big Screen
See Investigation, A4
See Arrest, A2
Ron Luckenbill holds a replica of the Bucks County style rifle he crafted for use in the new survival-adventure drama “The Revenant.” In the background is an autograph of the film’s star Leonardo DiCaprio holding Luckenbill’s build. (Photo by Katie Weidenboerner)
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A1 Front Page
DuBois Mall Next To JC Penney’s