Still feeling the afterglow of his 12th birthday three days prior, on Aug. 20, West Perry Middle School student Chris Bowersox went to a football scrimmage. His mom’s phone rang again and again, but it wasn’t until after the game that they heard the news: Chris had been drawn by the Pennsylvania Game Commission for an elk hunting license.
When he got home, he found out that not only did he get an elk tag, but that his tag was for antlered elk during the general season. He had won the lottery, being one of only 31 recipients of such a tag this year.
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