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2010 Cedar Crest grad killed in crash

Charles Kyeremeh Jr., 20, died in an accident on Route 125, just outside of Donaldson. At least one other person was hurt, according to the Pottsville Republican-Herald newspaper website.

Kyeremeh was the son of Charles and Bertha Kyeremeh, Acorn Drive, North Cornwall Township.

State police at Schuylkill Haven had not released a report of the crash this morning, but Trooper Jeffrey A. Hummel told the Pottsville-Republican-Herald the accident occurred as a group of people on 10 motorcycles were hanging out near Good Spring Creek when a man on a motorcycle started speeding up the road.

Michael Scheib, assistant fire chief for Donaldson Fire Co., told the newspaper that the man went down the road, turned around and then came back up at a high rate of speed.

Hummel said the riders didn't know the 11th motorcyclist, but he was accelerating toward them and lost control of the bike.

"We don't know what speed he was going, but we have witnesses that said he was moving," Hummel told the newspaper.

Most of the riders were either able to get their motorcycles out of the way or to jump off their bikes.

One man, however, was injured when the motorcycle crashed into the parked bikes.

The driver was thrown from his bike, hit the sign for the creek and a steel pole near the riders and then was thrown into the woods, according to the Pottsville Republican.

Scheib said the injured rider was transported by Tremont ambulance to Schuylkill Medical Center-East Norwegian Street, Pottsville.

Hummel said most of the motorcyclists were from either Newmanstown or Lebanon.

Kyeremeh was remembered as one of the Cedar Crest football team's outstanding players.

Head coach Tom Waranavage once called him one of the "hardest-working and most unselfish players."

Kyeremeh had continued his academic and football career at the University of Maine.

After hearing the news Sunday evening, Waranavage said, "He was a great young man with a big heart. One of the things I remember about him the most was his smile. He always had a great big smile."

Kyeremeh served as a team captain. Waranavage added, "One of the things I told his parents was that a lot of people cared about him because of how they raised their son.

Mommy Mentions » Bidding adieu bittersweet

Today’s edition of The Republican-Herald (Thursday, May 26) features the annual graduation supplement. Headshot photos of each high school senior in the newspaper’s coverage area are included, along with short stories detailing graduation and end-of-year activities.

Beginning next Wednesday, June 1, with the Schuylkill Intermediate Unit 29′s Center for Exceptional Children graduating 22 students from its program, these seniors will march into commencement exercises to the strains of “Pomp and Circumstance” and cheers and flashbulbs from families’ and friends’ cameras. Diplomas received and tassels turned, they will head out into the world for college, trade school, military or work.

At the same time, they will be saying goodbye to familiarity — friends, teachers and a school that they have grown to know and, in some cases, love, over the past four years and beyond. Saying goodbye has such sweet sorrows.

I felt the same thing when I learned Wednesday afternoon and read in today’s newspaper that the Trinity Center for Children in Pottsville is closing its doors as of June 3. Declining enrollment and financial troubles were cited as the reasons behind the school that has operated from Trinity Episcopal Church on South Centre Street in Pottsville since 1991.

My daughter attended Trinity Center’s program for a year before she started kindergarten. She only went two days a week due to financial constraints in our family budget, but she loved it, and I couldn’t have been more pleased with the school’s program and offerings.

The teachers and aides were excellent educators, caring and nurturing. Amber made several friends there. Even the parents grew familiar with each other through school events, activities and even birthday parties. We were like a little family.

Even Jacob was loved and accepted there. I would often have him with me when dropping Amber off, and the children would surround him and fuss over him in his car seat carrier, as would the teachers and aides.

When Amber finished her school year at Trinity, the school presented a closing program. It was bittersweet, of course because my little girl was growing up and would be starting kindergarten the next year, but also because we were parting ways with the school and all its familiarities. Amber did go back once or twice to visit to say hello and see everything again, and we see some of her former classmates and parents while out and about.

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