Estate Planning

Business briefs The Shook Home and The Quarters at The Shook CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - The Shook Home and The Quarters at The Shook has named Josephine Poe, personal care attendant, the Fall Employee of the Season. The Fayetteville, Pa., resident was chosen from among more than 100 employees. She has worked there for a year and-a-half. Jack Gaughen Realtor ERA WAYNESBORO, Pa. - A sales associate with Jack Gaughen Realtor ERA, Waynesboro, has reached a significant milestone.

WAYNESBORO, Pa. - Potomac Shopping Center, built 37 years ago to serve Waynesboro's south end, has been sold to two local men, the owner of the 13-store complex said Wednesday. Nickson Oyer said he sold the shopping center to Dr. Robert G. Zimmerman, a dentist, and Paul Gunder, a real estate agent, for $1.182 million. Oyer said he sold the property because he is getting up in years and wants to do some estate planning. He and his wife, Alma Oyer, built the center in 1962. It was built for Builders and Developers Inc., their development company, he said.

As obituary writers and eulogists searched to find the words to praise the late Robert Irsay, owner of the Indianapolis Colts football team, we have to believe that some members of his family were grumbling to themselves about what he's left behind for them to clean up. We recount it here, not to bad-mouth a man whose name has been "mud" ever since he stripped Baltimore of its beloved Colts, but as a warning to those who've been putting off...