By LAUREN CAPPUCCIO
@LCappuccioPO
SHIPPENSBURG — In an event to bring arts into focus, the 6th Annual ArtSHIP Festival is scheduled for Saturday, June 1st from 12 to 5 p.m. on the campus of Shippensburg University.
The event features local artists, wine and microbrew tastings, food from area restaurants and live music. A $20 wristband must be purchased for the wine and beer sampling and includes a souvenir wine or beer glass.
A change for this year, according to Robin Dolbin, member of the ArtSHIP committee, is that the event is being moved to …

By AMBER SOUTH
@ShipNewsGirl
SOUTHAMPTON TOWNSHIP — A British invasion of sorts is promoting growth and changes in a Shippensburg youth soccer program.
Shippensburg AYSO has developed new traveling tournament teams, is using new techniques to help players build their skills, and is tightening its tie to the community. Standing beside the organization through all of it is Wayne Philp, a certified coach and trainer with UK International Soccer.
Philp has traveled the world and has worked with world-class athletes as a performance coach. He’s been in Shippensburg for the spring AYSO …

By AMBER SOUTH
SHIPPENSBURG — Tory Ann McCardle is stuck on duct tape.
The Shippensburg Area Senior High School senior admits she’s had a “weird fascination” with the durable adhesive since middle school. She makes bags and wallets out of duct tape “all the time,” she said, and has at least 20 rolls.
McCardle is taking her hobby to the next level.
She and her date will attend SASHS’s prom Saturday decked out in duct-tape duds. While duct-tape prom attire can be considered a trend, her participation could make her $5,000 richer.
McCardle is participating …

By AMBER SOUTH
@ShipNewsGirl
Bill Ruud ended his presidential reign at Shippensburg University with what is for him one the most rewarding aspects of his job.
For the seventh year, he shook the hands of about 1,000 graduates Saturday as they walked across the commencement stage toward the beginning of the rest of their lives.
He has shaken the hands of 10,257 brand new SU alumni so far. It will be the third time Ruud will see students come full cycle, from wide-eyed incoming freshmen to educated and cultured graduating seniors.
“There’s …

By LAUREN CAPPUCCIO
@LCappuccioPO
SHIPPENSBURG — A rainy Saturday meant some wet hikers and wet dogs, but approximately 20 people and their four-legged friends made their way out to Saturday’s Hike for the Homeless on Dykeman Trail to raise money for the animals living in the Cumberland Valley Animal Shelter, Chambersburg.
“It poured but they still went on the hike,” said Jennifer Vanderau, communications director of CVAS. “Our supporters are amazing.”
The trail, about three miles, took the hikers, who raised money by sponsors, through moderately difficult country terrain.
Event founder Linda Asper started Hike …

By BRIAN HALL
@bkhallpo
SHIPPENSBURG – In one week, students in Kristoffer Rhinehart’s advanced placement U.S. history class will find out how they measure up against the rest of the country.
The odds are in the students’ favor.
Students in Rhinehart’s class, which condenses the history of the United States from the arrival of Christopher Columbus to present-day events, have performed significantly higher than the U.S. average the previous two years.
“If I wasn’t getting those results, I’d change something,” said Rhinehart. “The test itself is changing next year. They’ve been working on remaking the …

By AMBER SOUTH
@ShipNewsGirl
Jackson Yeager had to choose an artist and emulate his work, for a class assignment.
The outcome was a painting of a slab of beef, drenched in blood.
Though Yeager doesn’t think so, his classmates told him it is a very close replicate of the work of his chosen artist, Chaim Soutine.
According to Yeager, the Lithuanian artist fell over the edge of insanity, bought a hunk of meat at the market and depicted it in paint over and over again, dousing it in blood to keep it …

By AMBER SOUTH
@ShipNewsGirl
“Let’s do it!”
These words sparked a standing ovation as they started Ann Hinkle’s quest toward getting Shippensburg’s senior center a permanent, exclusive home.
As the director of Southampton Place, the senior center located in the multipurpose building at 56 Cleversburg Road for several hours every weekday since November 2006, Hinkle made it her responsibility to tell the 200-plus members and guests that use the center every week why “The Place” where they eat lunch every day and keep active with a large menu of activities would …

By AMBER SOUTH
@ShipNewsGirl
A Shippensburg University senior and Greencastle native will study the Korean language this summer in South Korea under a highly competitive scholarship that aims to expand American use of widely unused languages.
Ethan Goldbach was one of about 610 undergraduate and graduate students nationwide to get the U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship for 2013.
He will spend eight weeks this summer in intensive language studies in Wonju, South Korea. Citing state department information, an SU news release stated that Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, …

Shippensburg Band will feature the winners of the recent Young Artist Competition in concert at 2:30 p.m. May 5 at Shippensburg Area Senior High School.
Soloist winner is Isabelle Macioce will be playthe rondo movement of the Mozart Concerto for clarinet. She attends Big Spring Middle School and her clarinet instructor is Carl Sponenberg.
The G.W.S.W. clarinet quartet won the ensemble competition with their rendition of the first movement of the Divertimento for clarinet by Alfred Uhl. The members of the quartet are Anne R. Griggs from Carlisle …