GEORGE D. SHUMAN: Author of “18 SECONDS” & “LAST BREATH” Part 1

LAUREL MOUNTAIN BOROUGH NEWSLETTER

GEORGE D. SHUMAN: Author of “18 SECONDS” & “LAST BREATH”

Part 1

George D. Shuman, author of the murder mystery “18 Seconds,” had his second book in the mystery series released August 7, 2007. Check your bookstores for “Last Breath.” In honor of his work, the Beanery Writers Online Literary Magazine is reposting a two-part article on Shuman.
Shuman, a twenty-year veteran of the Washington D. C. Metropolitan Police Force, said he would have been a writer no matter what his career was.
“18 Seconds” is his first published book. “Lost Girls,” the third book, became available in August 2008.

SHUMAN’S BACKGROUND
As a high school and college student Shuman was not the stellar performer. For whatever reason, he found classes, even literature, tedious. His first jobs following school were in the steel mills in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He was laid off when the industry began to decline. Then he could only find work on the State Road Crew in Somerset County.
Like most youth, he needed to “get out of”

WESTMORELAND UNOFFICIAL ELECTION RESULTS FOR LMB

Office / Candidates	Votes
	PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
	State Wide (4 year)
	John McCain (Rep)	64
	Barack Obama (Dem)	44
	Bob Barr (Lib)	0
	Ralph Nader (Ind)	0
	ATTORNEY GENERAL
	State Wide (4 year)
	Tom Corbett (Rep)	72
	John M. Morganelli (Dem)	31
	Marakay J. Rogers (Lib)	3
	AUDITOR GENERAL
	State Wide (4 year)
	Chet Beiler (Rep)	56
	Jack Wagner (Dem)	45
	Betsy Summers (Lib)	4
	STATE TREASURER
	State Wide (4 year)
	Tom Ellis (Rep)	60
	Robert McCord (Dem)	42
	Berlie Etzel (Lib)	4
	WATER & SEWAGE
	State Wide
	STATEWIDE REFERENDUM (YES)	66
	STATEWIDE REFERENDUM (NO)	33
	REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS
	Congressional District
	18 (2 year)
	Tim Murphy (Rep)	65
	Steve O’Donnell (Dem)	38
	SENATOR IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
	Senatorial District
	41 (4 year)
	Don White (Dem)	100
	REPRESENTATIVE IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
	Legislative District
	59 (2 year)
	Mike Reese (Rep)	80
	Michael J. O’Barto (Dem)	29

OUT & ABOUT OCTOBER 2008

October 2, 2008: I apologize for not posting in September. However, I was out of town from the first to the twenty-eighth, traveling up the New England coast by way of Philadelphia, and returning home by way of northern New York. I’m back now, and hope to keep this site up better than I have been doing…NOTE: It’s BEAR TIME! The first bear sighting I’ve heard about occurred last night. The O’Brien’s sensor light went on and Amy rolled over and saw a bear. Dan said it was a couple hundred pounds, with no tags. The bear bolted, he said. Amy said the bear returned. They have paw print smudges on their living room window. It’s time to TAKE YOUR BIRD FEEDERS INSIDE at night…There are four “for sale” signs at the front entrance to the borough, although one of the houses, on Maple Rd., has added a “SOLD” sign.