Matthew Brennan has added the Grand Prix de Lillers to his list of victories The 19-year-old Brit was the fastest in the sprint just a day after his triumph in Le Tour des 100 Communes he secured his second victory of the season in as many days Team Visma | Lease a Bike Development concluded their French double-header in Lillers. The Grand Prix de Lillers featured a long race of just under 200 kilometres. After Saturday’s win in Le Tour des 100 Communes with Brennan the team lined up once again with high ambitions Team Visma | Lease a Bike took responsibility in the peloton First-year U23 riders Ian Kings and Elliot Rowe put in a strong effort to close the gap to the leaders who joined Team Visma | Lease a Bike’s WorldTour squad this season claimed his second victory of the weekend in dominant fashion “It’s very satisfying to execute a plan and see it come together perfectly I have to thank the team for their hard work this weekend We can be really proud of what we’ve achieved here.”   Sports director Robert Wagner also looked back proudly on a successful weekend Riders like Elliot and Ian have just stepped up to the U23 category this year and are already making an impact Everyone played a key role in today’s victory “Matthew has been part of the WorldTour team since this season but we must not forget that he is still only nineteen,” Wagner added “It’s good for both him and the team that he competes in U23 races like this Subscribe yourself for the Team Visma | Lease a Bike newsletter and receive previews for races Please select what you would like included for printing: Copy the text below and then paste that into your favorite email application he was the son of the late Prentice and Vivette (Reed) Liller He was a graduate of Tucker County High School Class of 1986 Rodney worked for Mineral Fabrication in Keyser for over 28 years His expertise in his work made him a jack of all trades to everyone who knew him Hannah Liller-Lewis and husband Dylan; the mother of his daughter Josh Herron and wife Nikki; two grandchildren Jake Herron and Nelson Herron; three siblings Stanley Kisamore and wife Darlene of Keyser and Kenny Kisamore of Indiana; a special niece Sheila Canan and husband Bob; and a brother in law A special thank you for the wonderful care given to Rodney from Lori and RJ Rodney's request for cremation was honored from 2 to 4 PM at the Hinkle-Fenner Funeral Home to share memories and honor Rodney's life The Hinkle-Fenner Funeral Home is honored to be serving the Liller family Enter your phone number above to have directions sent via text This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors By Kevin Carroll kcarroll@timesleader.com Ryley Liller poses with her collection of powerlifting medals a team captain for the Pittston Area Powerlifting Club turned to powerlifting to help her get healthy and build strength as a gymnast took third place as a team last month at the Teenage State Championships held at Parkland High School The club’s medal haul included four state champions and an unofficial state record in deadlift set by Nathan Zielinski Powerlifting wasn’t always part of the plan for Pittston Area senior Ryley Liller Liller was laser-focused on her budding career as a gymnast a journey that landed her in rarefied air with a Division 1 scholarship in the sport But when a few nagging injuries had Liller looking for ways to get healthy and gain some strength she turned to Pittston Area’s Powerlifting Club “I was looking to recover and to build strength,” Liller said of her decision to enter the world of powerlifting “I just fell in love with it.” In just a few short years since its founding coach Ed Straub has built the Powerlifting Club into a serious competitor at every level The club has become a constant presence at state and national powerlifting tournaments most recently bringing home an impressive medal haul at the Teenage State Championships on Feb Liller was right in the mix amongst her teammates at states winning a third-place medal in her division and achieving personal records on the bench and in the deadlift she admitted in an interview that it hadn’t been her best day and she’s got the resume to prove it: Liller is a returning runner-up from last year’s High School Nationals tournament in New Orleans a trip she got to make with several of her Powerlifting Club teammates “I love being with my teammates … being a part of this team has been amazing,” Liller said Liller’s successful foray into the world of competitive lifting hasn’t come at the expense of her gymnastics career however — it’s been quite the opposite With the strength and discipline she’s added from her work with the Powerlifting Club Liller’s been able to bounce back from those injuries and continue to get better at her first passion Liller earned a Division 1 scholarship to Long Island University to continue her gymnastics career She credits powerlifting with helping her work through a pair of knee injuries that had her sidelined “I was out of the gym for a couple months I lost so much strength in my legs,” Liller said “The strength training really helped me … it’s a different kind of discipline.” Ryley’s mother Mallory Liller has gotten a front-row seat to watch her daughter become a bona fide two-sport star at Pittston Area She’s seen just how one sport benefits the other with Ryley’s work in powerlifting strengthening her as a gymnast and earning her a scholarship “Ryley had a lifelong dream of becoming a collegiate athlete Powerlifting helped her to reach that goal and stand out through the recruiting process,” Mallory Liller said “What was once meant to be extra strength training and injury prevention ultimately mixed with her fierce competitive nature and led her to the powerlifting team.” Powerlifting Club excels at state tournament While Liller was certainly a key cog in the machine Pittston Area’s Powerlifting Club is anything but a one-person show — as demonstrated by the group’s performance last month Straub and his lifters traveled down to Parkland High School for the Teen State Championships and came home with a treasure trove of medals Pittston Area finished third in the state despite having to forfeit several weight classes The Patriots had four state champs and four other lifters finishing third or fourth place in their divisions “I just wanted to get their feet wet,” Straub said Kayden Walker and Nathan Zielinski won state championships in their divisions Zielinski managed to top even winning a state title: he set an unofficial state record with a 460-pound deadlift while Matt D’Aiello and Demetrious Louis each finished in fourth place to round out the Pittston Area Powerlifting Club’s medalist crew It was the latest in a line of standout performances from Pittston Area at these types of events — none bigger than the club’s showing at last year’s High School Nationals in New Orleans the boys and the mixed squads won national team championships while the girls team finished as a national runner-up “I was hoping to place 10th. That was my goal,” Straub said at the time. “We wound up winning a national championship.” This year’s High School Nationals are set for April 10 in Milwaukee she was the daughter of the late Saul and Doris Parks Alice worked as a head start teacher in Tucker County She was very passionate about volunteering and enjoyed volunteer singing with her church group at the nursing home Connie Auvil and husband Terry of Bradenton WV; 12 grandchildren; 30 great grandchildren; and 3 great-great grandchildren she was preceded in death by her husband of 62 years Friends will be received at the C&S Fredlock Funeral A funeral service will follow at 12 PM with Pastor John Skipper officiating Interment will follow in the Fairview Cemetery The C&S Fredlock Funeral Home is honored to be serving the Liller family at this time View Visitation & Service details > of Lancaster went to be with the Lord on December 29 She was the loving wife of the late Paul J she was the daughter of the late Walter and Naomi (Bechtel) Rohrer She graduated from Paradise Highschool and later Millersville University where she obtained an Associates Degree Sally worked with special needs children in the Lancaster City School District and later became the first director of LARC she was a case worker for the Big Brothers/ Big Sisters of Lancaster County She and her husband were closely involved with the activities of their grandchildren of whom they adored She was a lifetime member of the Calvary Church and enjoyed going to church with her family and Steven Liller (Janet); her grandchildren Billy Trimble Alice Trimble and Courtney Liller; her siblings Norman Rohrer and Florence Lee; and her beloved cat Prescott Funeral services will be held at the convenience of the family. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to Calvary Church Global Ministries at calvarychurch.org/giving Condolence Message: Be sure to include your name Please note that your condolence will not appear on this page until it is reviewed Condolences usually appear within 24 hours of being submitted Janet Candie & family,  my heart broke for you all.  I left a message to wish her a happy birthday Jan 2 My mom told me… Sally (Mom) was definitely a light in this world She taught me to do the same.  I cherished our calls and visits for 20 years Cherish those memories.  She  sure did love her family.  Love from Cindy Fox I’m so sorry to hear about your mom Candie I Just wanted you to know I’m thinking about you and your family and wish you all the best Liller to be a kind soul and wonderful role model Our seven funeral homes in Lancaster and Lebanon Counties makes it easy and convenient to make arrangements and host services close to home This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Community Safety Department Director To Resign Amid Tension With Cambridge Police Department From Lab to Startup: Harvard’s Office of Technology Development Paves the Way for Research Commercialization People’s Forum on Graduation Readiness Held After Vote to Eliminate MCAS 8 Takeaways From Harvard’s Task Force Reports Former Harvard Astronomy professor and Adams House Master William Liller ’48 couldn’t take his eyes off the stars Liller could be found early in the morning at Harvard College Observatory measuring the sizes of stars putting in “more than his share of the work” each day to aid his graduate students “You would get there at 10 … and there would be this long list of plates that he’d already been through,” Forman said he was just showing us that he was doing it William Liller was born in 1927 in Philadelphia His undergraduate career at Harvard was altered by the effects of World War II rationing cards were collected to be used in dining halls Liller wrote in Adams House’s alumni magazine "The Gold Coaster," in its spring 2011 issue which at the time was “very much depleted by the war effort was missing several of [its] best known professors,” he wrote Liller was drafted as a Navy radio technician in July 1945 which halted his undergraduate career for almost a year Liller graduated from the College in 1949 with a degree in Astronomy from the University of Michigan on the topic of planetary nebulae in 1953 and remained there as an associate professor until 1960 With the offer of a full professorship and the chairmanship of Harvard’s Astronomy department He chaired the department from 1960 to 1964 and from 1965 to 1966 In 1959, Liller and other astronomy professors began working on a project for NASA to create and launch a satellite that would monitor the sun; he continued the project at Harvard. A failure came in 1964 when a fire started in the rocket that destroyed it Liller served as an advisor to seven Astronomy Ph.D most of whom became distinguished scholars in the field performed astronomical research and observations alongside Liller they co-wrote several papers on unfolding research in x-ray astronomy Jones — now a senior astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory — remembered that during one research trip to Chile Liller welcomed the former president of Chile at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory Liller decided to give the guest a tour of the southern sky directing the view of the telescope so the president could see all that was the best to see physics and astronomy professor emeritus and former provost of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recalled Liller as an “easy-going” and helpful advisor during his Ph.D who visited Liller post-graduation when conducting research in Chile recollected that his former advisor was “well-respected” by colleagues and peers Carney added that Liller helped connect him with luminaries in the field when those academics came to Cambridge Even with all the work he put in for his advisees Liller always wanted to assure the credit went to the students “He was never willing to be the first author of the paper,” Forman said “He always thought that was the appropriate role of the student credits Liller with helping to launch both his and his wife’s careers he was “down to earth” and “very approachable,” Forman added Forman attributed this partly to Liller’s role as a House Master — a position now called Faculty Dean — of Adams House for several years during which listening to the concerns of students was a top priority An Adams House resident during his own undergraduate years Liller quickly re-entered the House’s community when he returned to Cambridge first serving as a non-resident tutor and then a House associate When offered the House Master position in 1968 Liller accepted and he and his family moved into Adams’s Apthorp House Liller was the first person ever to be Master of their own undergraduate House Liller oversaw the first co-ed residence in the University’s history Liller corresponded with Law School professor Richard Baxter then the Master of Radcliffe College’s all-female South House about the possibility of a co-ed experiment The two sent a proposal to then-University President Nathan M for 25 female students from South House — now Cabot House — to swap places with 25 male residents of Adams House After an advisory committee convened by Pusey voted in overwhelming favor of integrated housing decided not to opt into the program because Radcliffe dorms were conveniently close to Harvard College Observatory she said the program was “a very good change.” Academically in some of her upper-level physics classes she was one of few women and found it hard to join a study group with most of her classmates living in male-only dorms “Other members were doing homework together in groups I wasn’t doing that because I didn’t have people from my dorm who were in those classes,” she said “It was just too hard to become a part of a study group that was only young men meeting in their dorms.” Liller expressed satisfaction with the co-ed experiment asserting that the historic swap had enhanced the living experience from the library to the Friday afternoon teas overall spirit and civil manners were improved.” one of the 25 South House residents who moved to Adams House in 1970 said the move felt like a delayed integration into authentic Harvard life emphasizing that Radcliffe felt isolated from campus activities we felt exiled — all the women clustered up at Radcliffe the long march across the Commons to classes,” she said Stieber said that the “semi-permeable” nature of Adams House’s suites — with back doors and balconies — enhanced students’ ability to connect and spend time with one another “It was moving into a rather magical environment,” she said Liller relinquished his position as Master in 1973 — deciding to instead dedicate more time to his astronomy research Liller decided to leave Harvard for good to become the associate director of an astronomy center called Instituto Isaac Newton in Chile I really needed a change,” Liller wrote in the Gold Coaster NASA offered Liller the chance to observe Halley’s Comet on Easter Island He became a member of the Easter Island Foundation and served as a Director Emeritus of the foundation at the time of his death With nearly five dozen night-sky discoveries to his credit his fascination with discovery was undulled He continued to use his “little NASA-supplied telescope” in the backyard of his home in Chile “to look for comets novas and other things that pop up unannounced in the night.” for my entire life I had been enamored with the cosmos,” Liller wrote —Staff writer Isabella B. 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Subscribe to our email newsletter. -- Honesty Liller knows her life story has helped other people but she never imagined it would become a best-selling book A Diary of a Woman in Recovery,” tells the story of Liller’s 14-year battle with opiate addiction It's a journey that Liller began when she was just 12 years old and started smoking marijuana to fit in with her peers We were just going to get heroin so we wouldn’t get dope sick.” Thrust into a world of drugs and depression Liller didn’t see hope in her life until she gave birth to her daughter at the age of 21 Liller says climbing the steep hill to recovery was extremely difficult with many relapses “The stuff I went through was hard and traumatic but the stuff I put my daughter through was another whole level,” Liller says Liller is a Certified Peer Recovery Specialist and CEO of the McShin Foundation in Henrico County “It was definitely traumatic writing the book There was a lot of stuff in the book that I thought I had already worked through in my recovery process,” Liller says “There was a lot of trauma that happened throughout my life Liller says she wanted her book to be authentic and to resonate with other addicts and families who are struggling with addiction more than 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses between May 2020 and April 2021 The unprecedented data also indicates that most of the deaths were caused by opioids Ellen and Michael Long of Henrico County credit peer-to-peer counseling for helping both of their children “They are just really good advocates because they’ve walked the walk and they know,” Michael Long says Ellen Long says she got emotional reading Liller’s story and credits her with helping educate families about the disease of addiction so they can respond with love and healthy boundaries “The book is amazing and she’s amazing,” Long says seeing what she’s contributing to our community the power of how she’s done all the hard work to really pull herself through to the other side.” says she fears for young people as heroin and other drugs preventing several from ever getting the help they need “That’s what terrifies me right now for people going into adulthood You might think that’s so far away when you’re a young child or going through high school and you see everybody drinking and smoking weed but heroin is insidious and it will reach everybody eventually,” Long says Liller says she hopes that people battling addiction will reach out for support and treatment She believes her story is proof that surviving addiction is possible “I believe that we’re hope dealers,” Liller says “People are passing away and family members need answers and the humans who are addicted need answers.” Liller will be speaking and signing copies of her book on March 25 from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the McShin Foundation as part of CARE TALKS, celebrating women’s history month. The in-person event will be at 2300 Dumbarton Road in Richmond. To watch live, visit the CARE Talks and the McShin Facebook pages Get important news about your town as it happens Get the top stories from across our network Are you sure you want to unsubscribe from daily updates Friends and well-wishers are coming together to help a Maryland woman move forward after tragedy struck her Hagerstown family repeatedly The community has raised thousands of dollars on behalf of Kim Liller continuing a tragic trend of family members unexpectedly dying Jason Liller died on Friday, Jan. 10, following the death of his sister, Erica, in 2021, and daughter 13-year-old Jane "Jason would be the first to say that his life didn't really start until he became a father in 2010," his obituary states "The second most important event was meeting the love of his life with whom he spent the last nine wonderful years." Kim Liller is looking to leave their home behind and move forward as best she can "I am setting this up to help raise funds for my sister in law who recently lost her rock," Jesse Liller wrote in a GoFundMe set up for her "Jason is survived by his wife Kim who plans on leaving the home she lost both a daughter and husband in as soon as financially possible," he added "We are raising funds to assist with this by liquidating assets and online donations."  On social media, Jesse Liller said that "there has been nothing but tragedy there and she deserves to move forward from a very tough chapter in life," he posted along with a link to the GoFundMe "Jason was a great soul inside just completely lost for the past couple of years," he continued "When his daughter died I really wasn’t sure if we would get him back."  The GoFundMe can be found here Recent release “Threat to National Security,” from Page Publishing author Harry Liller is the riveting true story that follows the author's life including his time serving in the Marine Corp and the various incidents and people that shaped his career Readers will discover an enthralling memoir that will stay with them long after its exciting conclusion has announced her candidacy for Judge of the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas Liller is running on both the Democrat and Republican ballots in the May primary where she serves as chair of the firm’s Family Law Section Liller has 20 years’ experience practicing in the Court of Common Pleas She started her legal career as an assistant district attorney where she prosecuted cases including child abuse and has handled every type of case in Family Court She also worked within the mental health system as an assistant solicitor for the Bucks County Department of Mental Health Liller was a social worker with Children & Youth Services in Pittsburgh Liller just completed a term as the chair of the Women Lawyers’ Division of the Bucks County Bar Association and she also serves on the Board of Directors at the Bucks County Children’s Museum Join our readers whose generous donations are making it possible for you to read our news coverage. 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