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WAYNESBORO, PA. - Amanda K. Bowders was remembered Thursday as a sweet-spirited young woman whose smile could "light up a room. " The 19-year-old Waynesboro resident died Wednesday night as the result of a sledding accident at Hooverville Elementary School on Pa. 16 east of town. Emergency workers who responded to the call at 9:34 p.m. said they found Bowders unconscious after her sled hit a pole that supports playground equipment. Washington Township police provided first aid until emergency medical technicians arrived and took Bowders to Waynesboro Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 10:09 p.m. An autopsy will be performed today at Lehigh Valley Medical Center in Allentown, Pa., Franklin County Coroner Jeffrey R. Conner said.

BLUE RIDGE SUMMIT, Pa. -- "We know there is truly a heaven or Mandy would not be gone," Donna Willard said Saturday, mastering her emotions as she spoke of the late Amanda K. "Mandy" Bowders to a crowd gathered in Blue Ridge Summit at a garden dedicated in Bowders' honor. It has been nearly two years since a sledding accident claimed the life of 19-year-old Mandy Bowders, but to those whose lives she affected, it was as if Mandy was there Saturday night, smiling and laughing while the community honored her spirit through stories, song and prayer.

charlestown@herald-mail.com A 12-year-old boy was flown to Children's Hospital in Washington, D.C., and a second boy was taken to Jefferson Memorial Hospital after they collided with a car while sledding along Avon Bend Road on Thursday afternoon, a West Virginia State Police sergeant said. The boys were riding separate sleds down a driveway at a house about 1:15 p.m. when they traveled into the path of a Toyota Camry driven by David L. Athey, 68, Sgt. E.D. Anderson said.

12-year-old dies in sledding accident By STACEY DANZUSO / Staff Writer, Chambersburg MERCERSBURG, Pa. - A Warren Township, Pa., youngster was pronounced dead Tuesday morning following a sledding accident Monday afternoon, according to Pennsylvania State Police. Marvin Michael Busby, 12, was sledding down a hill near his home with his brother at around 3:55 p.m. Monday when he entered the path of a pickup truck on Little Cove Road, Trooper Terry Pennington said. The youngster was taken to York County (Pa.)

Few footprints of the 21st century disturb the snowy countryside along Sharpsburg Pike. Here, just a sled skid from Antietam National Battlefield, a winter storm has covered everything in white, burying old stone walls and wooden fences. Without the frantic rhythm of traffic and noise, time seems to stand still. And that suits Susan Stoy just fine. Inside her nearby home, Stoy is recapturing a simpler lifestyle. She's baking bread. The day before, she made butter.

Efforts to protect families at Memorial Park snowballed Wednesday as the Waynesboro Borough Council discussed a broader ban on sledding. After some deliberation, the council unanimously placed a ban on sledding at Memorial Park until early February while the borough staff reviews safety options. That decision was tied to concerns about sledders hitting a new fence at the park. “I'm concerned someone is going to be injured,” Borough Manager Lloyd Hamberger said. Some borough officials expressed worries about similar problems with a fence at Northside Pool, which has a hill adjacent to it. Councilman Craig Newcomer said he recently watched sledders near the Northside Pool fence and thought about a fatal sledding accident at Hooverville Elementary School.

Much like “Jack and Jill” in the age-old nursery rhyme, participants in the Wild & Wacky Cardboard Sled Derby often came tumbling down the hill Sunday as their sleds fell apart. The eighth annual fundraiser for Cedar Ridge Ministries found teams falling, slipping, sliding and laughing their way down the snow-tubing hill at Whitetail Resort. A dozen young people from Cito United Methodist Church and SMA Youth Ministries in Fulton County, Pa., spent eight hours creating their sled.

katec@herald-mail.com Winter doesn't officially begin until Monday, Dec. 22, but the season's first snow already has come and gone. So has the season's second snow. If you believe J. Gruber's Hagers-Town Town and Country Almanack, the second-oldest continuously published almanac in the United States, we're in for more. The publication is warning that we'll get nearly as much snow as we had last year. Have some fun. Go sledding. You can sled almost anywhere there's snow and an incline.