New Jersey man found dead in icy pool near Marsha Brown’s

Olivia Harrison

Staff Writer

On Jan. 22 a man was found dead in an icy pool between the Mansion Inn and Marsha Brown's.  

     A construction worker working near the premise reportedly found the body at 2 p.m. The Bucks County coroner’s office was assisted by The Eagle Fire Company to help cut the body from the icy pool.  New Hope police and Bucks County detectives identified the man as Jose Quiroz Marcial of Lambertville, NJ.

      The New Hope Free Press reported that he had been missing since  December 18. According New Hope Free press, friends said they were worried that he had been detained by U.S. immigration and Customs enforcement.

     The pool where his body was found has not been used for several years and was guarded by high wooden fences. Investigators are still trying to find out why the man was in the pool and how he climbed over the fence.

     The Bucks County coroner's office thinks he might have been intoxicated.  Toxicology results are still pending according to district attorney James O’ Malley.

     The autopsy revealed that Marcial died because of an accidental drowning and hypothermia. The Bucks County District Attorney's office and coroner’s office ruled his death accidental. Marcial was an employee at the Lambertville Station Inn. He had worked his way from dishwasher to a sauté cook at the popular restaurant.

Adopt-a-Child event is a success

Laney Heffelfinger
Staff Writer

Giving can oftentimes be the best gift of all during the holiday season. Multiple homerooms at our school chose to raise funds for an amazing cause, the New Hope-Solebury Adopt-a-Child event, which involves homerooms in grades 9-12 raising money, selecting a child and their wishlist (or a senior citizen!), and sending a select few individuals to retrieve what the child asked for within the class’ budget. This year was extremely successful, all thanks to the generous donations of homeroom students, New Hope citizens, homeroom students who shopped for the event, and of course all of the students and administrators involved in Key Club who made this year’s event possible.  A total of two hundred and thirty eight children’s lists were adopted this year, along with thirty-one senior citizen lists getting adopted. Each one of the homerooms that participated made an effort to ensure that their adopted children or seniors had the best Christmas they possibly could.
    I was a part of a group that shopped for this incredible event, and my group and I decided to do all of our shopping at Target, and due to the great generosity of my classmates, the two items on the list that I found most important being a winter jacket and snow pants were quickly purchased. We supplied a brand name jacket by Champion, seeing as it was the warmest thing we could find, along with a set of snow pants on the same brand. We proceeded to buy the girl we were shopping for plenty of clothes according to the things she said she liked in her description on her list. We added some personality to the gifts, with some unicorn themed pajamas and clothes after we were told that she liked,”anything with unicorns.” We had a bit of a hard time managing to make up an entire new bedspread set appropriate for a little girl within our budget, while still getting the rest of our list. We ended up at checkout with plenty of outfits, board games, a watch, a jacket and snowpants, a brand new bedspread, and more, completing her entire list. After the cashier recounted the cash we gave her about three times, we ended up being a dollar under budget.
  The shopping experience was a ton of fun and made each of us very excited and glad to have not only donated but participated in selecting what a little girl gets for Christmas and helping an underprivileged family. The last steps of the Adopt-A-Child donation process was now the gift drop off. Thanks to teachers and administrators running the event as well as the amazing Key Club volunteers or “elves.”
The Gift Drop-off was a stress free and simple process. Students who did the shopping simply had to walk into the school on Dec. 12, 2018, check with Ms. Schwander or another teacher and explain who their homeroom teacher was, and hand in a garbage bag filled with goodies for the child or senior citizen that they shopped for. The volunteers would then take everything from there, helping to carry gifts from cars to the check-in, as well as bagging and packaging gifts to carry to trucks. We hope that each and every of the two-hundred sixty-nine kids and senior citizens are happy with their gifts, and a big thanks to everyone who shopped, donated, or volunteered to make this event possible!  Many members in our school and community have helped with this event and it had a very successful turn out!

Shutdowns, Shootings, and Social Dominate 2018

Krupa Shah

Editor-in-chief

2018 was a wonderful year filled with highs and lows. Politically it was a historic year from the various summits, protests, and unprecedented wins. From natural disasters, political scandals, and deaths to major pop culture moments and political wins, 2018 was one of the most chaotic and tumultuous years. It was filled with cultural and and diverse unity amongst all members. While 2018 was a turbulent year, it was extremely rewarding for all of the hard-workers, the movers and shakers who strived to make the best out of the year. 2018 was amazing but 2019 will be even better.

January

· Federal government shutdown over DACA

· 2017-18 flu seasons results in dozens of deaths

· Tsunami alert is released for those in Alaska and the surrounding area after an 8.0 magnitude earthquake strikes the state

February

· 2018 Winter Olympics are held in Pyeongchang, South Korea

· Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida kills 17 and injures 17 others

· Rick Gates admits to conspiracy and lying to investigators a part of a plea deal

· Paul Manafort is indicted with five federal criminal charges including money laundering and lobbying violations

· “Black Panther” is released in theaters

· Philadelphia Eagles win their first Super-Bowl title

March

· Democrat Conor Lamb wins the special Congressional election in Pennsylvania’s 18th district.

· In response to the lack of gun violence legislation, the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida organized a school walkout which triggered thousands more across the country

· In over 900 cities, including those internationally, millions of people participated in protests and demonstrations against gun violence and the recent slew of mass shootings, especially those in schools. The protests called for stronger gun laws and would eventually be called “The March for Our Lives.”

April

· “Avengers: Infinity War” is released in theaters.

· Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, testifies before several US Senate committees in a joint session after it was revealed that private Facebook user data had been mishandled by tech company, Cambridge Analytica.

· Former CIA Director Mike Pompeo is confirmed as the next Secretary of State after former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was ousted.

· Kim Jong-un crosses into South Korea to meet with President Moon Jae-in marking a historic visit.

· Beyonce makes history as the first black female artist to headline at Coachella.

· Former First Lady Barbara Bush passes away

  

May

· Prince Harry and Meghan Markle wed at St. George’s Chapel in England officially becoming the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

· President Trump announces his desire to pull out of the Iran Nuclear Agreement.

· Kilauea volcano erupts in Hawaii forcing many to evacuate

· School shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas claims the lives of ten individuals while ten others are injured.

· ABC TV cancels the reboot of “Roseanne” after lead actress Roseanne Barr tweets a racist comment that compared former Obama administration member, Valerie Jarrett, to an ape.

June

· North Korea and United States Summit is held in Singapore. This is the first summit between North Korean and American leaders.

· Anthony Bourdain passes away

· “Oceans 8”, “Incredibles 2”, and “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” are released in theaters.

· Supreme Court rules on the Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission case in which a baker refused to bake a custom wedding cake for a gay couple. In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Colorado baker saying that his First Amendment rights had been infringed upon.

July

· The longest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century occurs.

· Scott Pruitt resigns as the Administrator of the EPA.

· President Trump nominates Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court

· President Trump attends the NATO Summit in Brussels.

· Mueller charges twelve Russian intelligence officers with hacking during the 2016 Presidential Election.

· President Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin for closed discussions in Helsinki, Finland.

· “Ant-Man and the Wasp” and “Mission: Impossible-Fallout” are released in theaters.

August

· Aretha Franklin passes away

· Ongoing wildfires in California are declared the largest in state history.

· Former Trump lawyer, Michael Cohen, pleads guilty to eight charges including tax evasion, making false statements to a financial institution, willfully causing an unlawful corporate contribution, and making an excessive campaign contribution at the request of a candidate or campaign.

· Former Senator John McCain passes away

September

· Christine Blasey Ford testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee after she and others alleged that Justice Brett Kavanaugh engaged in some sort of sexual misconduct.

· A 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes Sulawesi, Indonesia which caused a tsunami that killed at least 2,256 people and injured more than 10,679 others.

· India’s Supreme Court decriminalizes homosexuality.

· Hurricane Florence becomes the first major hurricane of the 2018 hurricane season.

October

· “Washington Post” journalist Jamal Khashoggi is murder inside the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.

· Senate confirms Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court with a close vote of 50-48.

· Hurricane Michael makes landfall in Mexico Beach, Florida with winds of 155 mph making it the most intense hurricane to make landfall in the continental United States since Hurricane Camille in 1969.

· Nikki Haley, a senior Trump cabinet member and America’s ambassador to the UN, resigns.

· A bomb is found at George Soros's home with other suspected explosives being sent to former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Packages containing suspicious powder are addressed to former CIA Director John Brennan. Other packages were found addressed to other high profile individuals. Later, another suspicious package was addressed to actor Robert De Niro while two others were addressed to former Vice President Joe Biden. A suspect was later detained by the FBI who is believed to have sent the packages.

· A mass shooting occurs at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania which claims the lives of eleven. A 46-year-old suspect is arrested.

· 800 soldiers are deployed to the Mexico-US Border in order to reinforce protection as a result of the incoming migrant caravans.

November

· Midterm elections that changed the scope of politics where democrats gained a majority in the House but lost two seats in the Senate.

· Attorney General Jeff Sessions is ousted by President Trump.

· Camp Fire ignites in California becoming the state’s deadliest and most destructive wildfire.

· Michael Cohen pleads guilty to lying to Congress in relation to the Russia probe.

· Former President George H.W. Bush passes away

December

· The Yellow Vest protests in France unfold where it is evident that the nation is facing its worst period of civil unrest in decades

· The Dow Jones closes at 22,445.37 points, the worst week in history since 2008

· “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” “Mary Poppins Returns,” and “Aquaman” are released in theaters

· The United States enters a partial government shut down after budget negotiations in Congress fail.

· Senator Elizabeth Warren announces her intention to run in the 2020 presidential election.