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Chances are you know someone suffering from diabetes that needs insulin to maintain their lives. Diabetes impacts over half a billion people worldwide and claimed the lives of 6.7 million

Type 1 diabetes impacts almost half a billion people worldwide. The disease can ravage the body in many ways and requires constant monitoring and injections of life-saving insulin.

Only 8.7% of the students who took the Advanced Placement (AP) Physics 1 test earlier this school year scored a perfect 5, and Derry Area High School senior David McElfresh was one of them. He also finished in the 19% of the students who scored a perfect 5 in the Calculus AB test. “We are very proud of him,” said Jennifer Welty, a teacher in the Derry Area School District’s gifted supports program. McElfresh, 17, the son of Michael and Kim McElfresh of Derry Borough, has been an ...