Iron

Dan Younker welds steel beams Wednesday on a replacement iron truss bridge over the C&O Canal at Williamsport. The original Bollman Bridge was built in 1879.

koelble@herald-mail.com Brandon Sheaffer shot a 92 in the inaugural Junior Masters Tour tournament at Beaver Creek Country Club on June 17. A likely choice to win the Masters championship based on that performance? Slim, at that time. However, Sheaffer's game has come full cycle over six weeks, evidenced by his 5-over-par 77 on Thursday to become the first champion to have his name engraved on the Masters plaque, which will hang on the walls in the Beaver Creek pro shop.

Richard Stouffer, who is visiting from Fredonia, NY, collects leaves Tuesday at Pen Mar County Park. He preserves the leaves with a warm iron and wax paper, and mails them to his daughter in Arizona, to remind her of fall foliage in the East.

koelble@herald-mail.com If he comes down off Cloud Nine in time to play in today's Tri-State Junior Golf Championship, Waynesboro's Kevin Reiber is the likely favorite after the 16-year-old captured the 20th WACO Open championship at Beaver Creek Sunday. Tied with golf buddy Kenny Smith, of Waynesboro, entering the final round following 4-under par 68s Saturday, Reiber put up a self-defense screen on the back nine to ward off several comers in the heat of battle. Not until the final putt of the tournament on the par-4, 370-yard 18th hole did Reiber clinch the title, letting out a sigh of relief as the gallery cheered the youngest champion in WACO history.

chambersburg@herald-mail.com CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - His first foundry was a crude contraption, but that cannot be said of the work Foster McNew has turned out over the past three decades. "I made a little furnace out of a grease bucket and a propane tank and a motor off a sewing machine" to power the blower, McNew said Thursday. "It would blow enough hot air to melt aluminum. " McNew became good enough at casting to go into business full time until a fire destroyed the building in which he rented space for his shop and put him back on the road.

gregs@herald-mail.com THURMONT, Md. - Mark Spurrier, a naturalist and storyteller at Cunningham Falls State Park, puckered his face and blew. "Crprhshhhhhhhhhh! That's what it sounded like all the time," Spurrier said Saturday afternoon standing outside the remains of the "Isabella" furnace, a few steps off U.S. 15 north of Frederick, Md. If you were unlucky enough to be one of the hundreds of workers - either slaves or poor immigrants - at the Catoctin Furnace Iron Works, Spurrier said, probably the only thing you would hear with any regularity was the rush of hot air produced from hundreds of pounds of coal melting iron ore. The ore, once refined, was shipped up and down the East Coast from 1774 to 1903.

In the Bible of Maryland Democrats is the verse: "What the governor hath created, let no judge put asunder. " Last week the judges asundered. The court redrew the state's legislative boundaries, after concluding that those handed down by the governor last winter were politically inspired and contorted to the point of illegality. This was something of a shock. Minority parties always sue over redistricting plans and they always lose. Except that this time they didn't. Still, when the courts declared the governor's plan indefensible last month, conventional wisdom had it that the judges might tinker with some of the Baltimore area's districts, but would never extend the long arm of the bench into the hinterlands like Washington County which, to people sitting in the City of Baltimore, may or may not exist.

Dwayne Flohr was getting a bit of a history lesson Saturday at Valley Mall. Dwayne, 13, was checking out the antique tractors on display with his father, stopping at each tractor to listen to his father talk about his experiences or offer opinions about the machinery. "I worked with a lot of this stuff back in 1958, '59, '60," said Merle Flohr, 56, of the Martinsburg, W.Va., area. The "stuff" Flohr referred to was the tractors that had been on display for the past week throughout the mall, ending Saturday.

Scrap iron man collects metal in Waynesboro By RICHARD F. BELISLE / Staff Writer, Waynesboro photo: RICHARD T. MEAGHER / staff photographer WAYNESBORO, Pa. - Charlie Reynolds remembers when scrap iron paid top dollar. Reynolds, 47, of Waynesboro, makes his living driving around Franklin County, Pa., and parts of Washington county collecting scrap iron and other metals in his 32-year-old, beat-up Ford pickup. continued He hauls the material to recyclers in the area.

Iron is an important nutrient for athletes Whether pumping iron, training for the Iron Man Marathon or just trying to stay fit, iron is one nutrient that needs to be in balance for peak performance. Iron-deficiency anemia is relatively common among teenage girls and women. It's even more common among female athletes, especially runners and ballet dancers. When women with marginal iron stores stop menstruating as their bodies attempt to conserve iron, they may be setting themselves up for the early onset of osteoporosis.