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Local 16-Year-Old
Sets Powerlifting
W orld R ecords
Blair Garrett
Breaking one world record can
take a lifetime of dedication and
hard work.
Holding two world records is a
distant dream for most athletes.
For sixteen-year-old Tristan Rice,
that dream has become a reality.
After spending just fi ve
months training and working
out, Rice took his talents to
Las Vegas, Nevada, to take his
shot at powerlifting glory in the
International Powerlifting League
Drug Tested World Championship.
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Ca tocti n’s
V OL un teer of
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John Dowling Receives Awards for his Volunteer Work
James Rada, Jr.
2018 was quite a year for John
Dowling, age seventy-fi ve, of
Thurmont. The Thurmont Lions
Club, Thurmont Grange, and
Mother Seton School all recognized
his abundant volunteer work in the
area.
“I guess I’m involved just about
everywhere,” Dowling said. “It’s in
my blood.”
Last fall, Dowling’s work was
recognized three times.
Mother Seton School recognized
him for his thirty-six years of
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The young athlete’s short but
fruitful powerlifting career began
through success in other sports.
Rice, a dual-sport athlete, took a
break from football and track and
fi eld to face a new challenge and to
accomplish something he had never
done before.
“I started powerlifting during
football and shot put,” Rice said.
“There was always something I
enjoyed about it.”
From the beginning, Rice found
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work at the Mother Seton School
annual carnival. Dowling and his
wife, Kathryn, got involved with
the carnival when their children
attended the school. Besides helping
to start the carnival at the school,
the Dowlings also launched the
successful bingo and auction
fundraisers for the school. The
work started as a way to reduce the
tuition at Mother Seton School for
their children, but it turned into a
labor of love, even after their kids
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Introduction
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ENEMY
ENEMY
Deb Abraham Spalding
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Addiction Knows No Boundariesddiction Knows No Boundariesddiction Knows No Boundaries
Locally, we’re at war. We’re not
in an obvious battle, it’s a hushed
one. Our casualties are many. Our
enemy is addiction. Through the
efforts of the Thurmont Addiction
Commission (TAC), and several
other groups and individuals,
we’re starting to fi ght back in the
Catoctin area.
Chris Schildt of Thurmont
wasn’t our area’s fi rst casualty of
addiction, but his death was one
that inspired collective action to
do something to help and prevent
addiction. In his case, a street
drug addiction began after using
prescribed drugs for a sports injury.
Chris had a bright future ahead
of him. He was an athlete, a 2009
graduate of Catoctin High School,
a 2015 graduate of Shepherd
University, he had a job, he coached
youth sports, and he had recently
become a father, when he died in
June 2016 from an overdose, or
bad batch, of heroin.
Chris didn’t want to die, but
addiction has no geographic,
demographic, moral, fi nancial, age,
or racial boundaries. We honor
him, all who have passed, and all
who battle addiction, by seeking
solutions and resources in the
Catoctin Community. It’s time that
we all become proactive in attack
to defeat this enemy from which no
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one is safe, because even if we don’t
have an addiction ourselves, we
may have a family member, friend,
or neighbor who does.
believed to be caused by a genetic
Addiction is a disease that is
predisposition that can react
to stimulants and immediately
cause addiction. The reference to
addiction in this article is not only
on drugs since addiction comes in
many forms, with drugs, smoking,
drinking, and eating being the most
obvious, and sex, tanning, pulling
out your hair, and social media
being examples of the less obvious.
Chris’ death was the spark of
intention for his father and mother,
Ed and Karen Schildt of Thurmont,
who joined in the efforts of others
who had already started fi ghting,
healing, and helping to deal with
this enemy they never saw coming.
The Schildts’ path to recovery in
mourning was to do something,
anything.
Ed said, “We were supported
tremendously when our son passed.
We stood in a receiving line at
Stauffer Funeral Home for ten
straight hours with Chris’ death.
We were supported during the days
and weeks and months afterward.
When clarity came back, we said,
‘What can we do? How do we
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