RUSH TOWNSHIP — It is a sad week for a family that ran a golf course for four decades in Northumberland County. They had to close the Cherokee Golf Course near Danville last fall for economic reasons.  Now the place is being plowed over to turn it into farmland.

One by one they fall, dozens and dozens of trees that lined the fairways at Cherokee Golf Course near Danville are coming down.

“There’s a whole lot of good memories here that are being knocked down.”

Kevin Brouse and his family planted all those trees over the past four decades.  They nurtured and cared for this course that their dad and mom started for all those years. Now work is being done to turn it into farmland.  The family is leasing it to Furmano Foods from Northumberland.

SELINSGROVE — People lined up Wednesday to buy Powerball tickets in Snyder County and some have their fingers crossed that they have the winning numbers.

People waited in line at Smoker’s Express in Selinsgrove with one thing on their minds.

“I’d like a Powerball ticket!”

The Powerball jackpot has reached $360 million.  That has a lot of people buying tickets.

“I do feel lucky.  I think I’ve got the winner,” said Sharon Arnold of Selinsgrove

“When it gets up there, we get pretty crazy.  Every person that walks up to this counter, pretty much, buys a Powerball ticket,” said Moe Lenhardt of Smoker’s Express.

Some people have a strategy for picking the winning numbers.

“They’re my children’s birthdays and a random number,” said Kevin Kinney/of Selinsgrove

Others leave it to fate.

MILTON — Loretta Claiborne has traveled all over the world, competing in the Special Olympics, and sharing her story of beating the odds. She told a group of students in the Milton Area School District she could not talk or walk until she was four, and was bullied at her school in York.

“‘That’s a dumb kid!’ Kids can be very cruel. It went from that kind of talk to pushing me around,” Claiborne said.

Claiborne spoke to students in Milton about overcoming adversity. She says the Special Olympics turned her life around.

“I always say that was my dream and it became a reality,” Claiborne said.

Loretta went from not being able to walk to running in 26 marathons. She started participating in the Special Olympics in 1970 and today, 43 years later, she is still active in the games.