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73 YEARS A NEWSPAPER i TWO EASY TO REMEMBER
Oldest Business Institution Telephone Numbers
Back of the Mountain ; 674-5656 674-7676
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Library Service
Up A Third In
July And August
Board Defers Action
On Appointment Of
A New Librarian
Circulation of books and number
of borrowers at Back Mountain
Memorial Library increased by
thirty percent during July and
August over a year ago, Mrs. Al-
bert Jones, librarian, reported at
the meeting of Directors Tuesday
night at the Library Annex.
Of the 5,998 books circulated in
August, 2,419 were adult and 3,579
children’s volumes. There were 482
more borrowers than in August
1961. July! circulation was' also up
1,325 more books and there was
an increase of 356 borrowers.
Mrs. Jones also reported that she
had attended the Americanism pro-
gram of Daddow-Isaacs Post Ameri-
can Legion last week and had re-
ceived for the Library a volume of
the American Credo by Stuart
Chase. Similar books were given
by the Legion to other school and
college libraries of the area.
Treasurer Homer Moyer reported
a checking account balance of $24,
329.32 on September 1; $5,000 of
this amount representing matured
U. S. Government Bonds.
Mr. Moyer indicated that the 1962
Auction net income will be approxi-
mately $16,500 when all bills are
paid and all accounts receivable are
in and most of these have now
been closed.
Invest $5,000
The Finance Committee recom-
mended the investment of $10,000;
$5,000 immediately in 100 shares
of Pittsburgh Plate Glass at ap-
proximately $50 per share. The
remaining $5,000 will be invested
in securities to be recommended
at the October meeting.
Current investments include:
$5,0u0 1n U.S. 1reasury 2% % Bonds
due 8/15,°63; $3,000 U. S. Bonds
2% % ‘due 1970/65; $12,000 U. S.
Bonds 4 7/8% due 11/10/64; 33V
shares . Commonwealth Telephone;
100 shares General Motors; 100
shares Miners National Bank; 30
shares J.J. Newberry; 100 shares
Pennsylvania Gas & Water Co.; 100
shares Standard Oil of New Jersey;
100 shares KF. 'W. Woolworth; 331
shares ' Wellington Fund and/ 100
shares Parke Davis. Co. =
Report On Insurance
D. T. Scott, chairman Insurance
Committee, recommended retention
of present insurance coverage with
a complete inventory of books to
be made as soon as a new librarian
is appointed. A survey made by
Henry Peterson, former Library
Director, and Mr. Scott, indicates
that the following coverage is ade-
quate; $17,500 Main Library Build-
ing, $25,000 Annex; $58,000 on con-
tents of both buildings. The latter
policy covers the movement of books
irom one building to another or in
either building.
Stefan Hellersperk of the Buildings
and Grounds Committee, . indicated
that rotted posts in the railing in
front of the main building can be re-
paired for approximately $100, the
work of reinforcing posts with steel
and resetting them will be done by
Donald Weidner, custodian.
Improvement To Be Made
Mrs. Paul Gross, chairman of the
House Committee, suggested the clos-
ing of a cellar stairway in the main
reading room of the ‘Annex and us-
ing the then available closet space
for the storage of chairs and tables.
Another stairway from the kitchen
is still available. This was approved
by the Board. ‘
Ralph Hazeltine of the Buildings
and Grounds Committee, announced
that contracts have been let to Dallas
Engineers for installation of a new
furnace in the Main Library Building
to replace’ the present inadequate
Coal-O-Matic stoker, and to Mack-
inrow Company for roof repairs. The
work will be completed before the
October meeting.
Mrs. Mitchell Jenkins, president
of the Book Club, reported that 314
“Thank You Notes” had been mailed
to Auction contributors. She also
complimented Mr. Hazeltine on his
fine talk before the Club on biograph-
ical research or “How To Look Up
Your Family Tree” and offered the
suggestion that the Club would like
to have talks by other members of
the Board.
On a question raised by Mr. Hazel-
tine there was considerable Board
discussion on the exact term each
Auction Chairman should serve on
the~Board, this never having been
made ‘ “exactly clear” according to
Robert Bachman. It was decided that
the Advisory Committee would meet
before the October meeting and pre-
sent recommendations later to the
Board.
Elect New Directors
Richard Hogoboom having resigned
shortly after his appointment as a
Director some months ago, Mrs. Paul
Gross and Mrs. Eloise Titman,’serv-
ing on a committee, presented the
name of Richard Harter Patterson,
‘Sutton Road, son-in-law of Mr. and
Mrs. Clinton Ide, for election to the
Board.
In the discussion, Howard Risley
raised the question of the recognition
of Auction chairmen for Board mem-
bership with particular reference to
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| different routes to the field.
Round Table To
Discuss Battle
100 Years Ago
Public Is Invited
To Take Part In
Antietam Program
Five members who attended the
100th anniversary reenactment of
the Battle of Antietam last week-
end will take part in a special Com-
memorative Discussion tonight at 8
at the meeting of Back Mountain
Civil War Round Table in the Li-
brary Annex.
Richard Garman, president, has
extended a cordial welcome to all
members of the community who
are interested in history and good
discussion to attend this meeting.
“You don’t have to be a student
of the Civil War in order to enjoy
these informal gatherings,” he said.
The Round Table moderator will
be Howard W. Risley.
Among those who will take part
in the discussion are Judge Ben-
jamin R. Jones, Mrs. Thomas Heffer-
\ nan, Thomas Cully, Mrs. Carl Goer-
inger, Mr. Garman and others.
Mr. Garman, Mr. Cully, Mrs,
Goeringer and her sons and Howard
Risley attended the reenactment
program at Sharpsburg, following
Some
visited Harper's Ferry, others the
South Mountain passes and some
approached the field from Hagers-
town - where they also saw the
pageant, Hills of Glory.
Gettysburg Trip
Plans are now being made for an
overnight visit to Gettysburg early
in October. The approach to the
field will be along the route of Lee's
army from Chambersburg to Cash-
town with an overnight stop Satur-
day night at the Log Cabin at Cal-
donia Furnace in Caldonia State
Park. After a smorgasbord ‘supper,
there will be a talk ‘on the concen-
tration of the armies on Gettysburg
in the lounge of the Log Cabin.
Sunday morning the group will
proceed to Gettysburg for a study
of the first day's fighting along the
Chambersburg Road where General
Reynolds was killed and where Lu-
zerne and Susquehanna County
regiments played a leading part be-
side the Pennsylvania Bucktails and
renowned Iron Brigade.
The cost for the entire trip in-
for transportation which will be in
individual cars, will not exceed $25
per couple. Reservations cannot ex-
ceed eleven couples, or twenty-five
individuals.
His Father Was
At Sharpsburg
The 100th anniversary of the Bat-
tle of Antietam has added. signifi-
cance for a Goss Manor man, George
Elwood Shepherd, whose father, the
late William Henry Shepherd, was at
Sharpsburg eleven years before
George wsa born.
Mr. Shepherd expects to attend
the Back Mountain Civil War Round
Table meeting tonight.
His father, a Philadelphian born
in 1838, joined Company E, First
Regiment, Gray Reserves, when Gen-
eral Lee began his invasion of Mary-
land.
Later he moved to Wilkes-Barre.
Another of his sons, the late William
Carver Shepherd also lived in Dallas
on Machell Avenue.
George E. Shepherd is the last sur-
viving member of a family of four
brothers and one sister and is one of
the oldest living members of the
Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of
the Revolution. His heritage comes
to him not only from his father’s
side but from his mother who was
Lydia A. Ziegler of Zieglersville, Pa.
Like his father, he, too, enlisted
when his country needed men. A
graduate engineer from Lehigh Un-
iversity he enlisted as a captain in
the Engineer's Corps in July 1917.
After duty in Washington and Vir-
ginia, he went overseas in January
1918, first to England and then to
Allerey, France, where he was en-
gineer in charge of construction of
Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd and two
of their daughters live on Saginaw
Avenue, Goss Manor.
Tools Valued }
$1,000 Stolen
For the second time in two years
Bruce Renard has been robbed of
$1,000 worth of tools from his gar-
age, on Route 29 near Sorber Mount-
ain.
Entry was gained by smashing
a window the weekend of September
8. All of Renard’s stock of transits,
carpenter tools, electric drills, plumb-
ing tools, and an air compressor
were taken.
By virtue of sheer weight of the
booty, the: thief -must have had a
truck.
Lake Township Police Chief Edgar
Hughes and State Police are investi-
gating.
About a year ago, thieves made off
with $4,000 worth of materials when
Renard’s barn was entered,
cluding meals and lodging, but not |
the 10,000 bed Allerey Base Hospital. |
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
It's Been A Good Year For Pheasants,
Sportsmen Look Forward To Hunting
From every point of view, says
Ed Gdosky, State Game Protector
for the area west of the Susquehanna
in Luzerne County, it has been a
good year for breeding pheasants,
and the outlook for hunting is fine.
Chicks hatched from eggs in the
incubators at Moatoursville have
been raised successfully by seven
area farmers, in lots of 500 each,
and the wild breeding season is
phenomenal. Mr. Gdosky says the
dry weather which plagued farmers
was exactly right for young phea-
sants, and the survey shows a lot
of them.
Added to the native wild life are
the 2,800 birds recently released
throughout this section. Hatched
around the first of June, they are
now ready to make their own way.
Game protectors select places for
freeing the birds where thy can
find plenty of grain, to induce them
to remain nearby instead of roam-
ing top far afield from land open
to hunters.
Each farmer who contracts to
raise pheasants is given five pounds
of chick feed to get him started.
The switch to grains guitable for
making more mature growth is
made when the chicks are six weeks
old. | :
Regulations call for 25 square
feet of elbow room for each phea-
Part of the 500 twelve week old
pén on Sutton Creek Road are ready
to be herded into a stockade, cap-
in crates for transport to places
munity . Taken completely by
dangled skilfully by chairman
James Halpin,
was principal speaker, taking as
youth.
Scoutmaster John
John Butler instructs John Jr.
Parker look on.
»
John F. Butler, Scout Master ex-
traordinary, has won many awards,
but the one that pleases him most
is the completely unexpected plaque
received from his Honor Scouts, at
a meeting where the limelight, fo-
cussed upon the boys, was suddenly
shifted and trained on the Scout
12-Weeks Old, Ready To Leave Breeding Pen
Buckley, who presided for the last time.
post in October, when James Davenport will be installed.
sponsored by Daddow Isaacs
State this summer, spoke of his experience at Penn State, when he,
among hundreds of other boys from all over Pennsylvania, were
given a first hand view of legislative processes.
William Kays, former 11th District Commander from Dunmore,
on flying rings,
sant in the holding pens.
Farmers who annually take on
the job of raising the pheasant
chicks are folks who know their
pheasants, and they are repeaters.
The first year, there is expense in
building the holding pens, but the
$1 apiéce paid for twelve-weeks old
birds counts up over the years, and
the pleasure in augmenting the
game supply is a fringe benefit.
Nobody bothers with rearing birds
unless he likes wild things.
Pete Fritsky has been in the bus-
Road. Ken Rice, at Orchard Farms,
has been raising pheasants over
six years. In the same category are
Ray Harned of Mulenburg, Henry
Verbinski of Shickshinny Mountain,
and Mrs. Esther Johnson of Hunting-
ton Mills. Ray Dunbar, also of
Huntington Mills, has been raising
pheasants for over three years,
over four.
These territories are covered:
| Franklin, Exter, Pittston, Fairmont,
Hunlock, Union, Dallas, Kingston,
Lake, Lehman, Ross, and Hunting-
ton Townships. - On the other side
of the Susquehanna, the same pro-
gram is being carried out. Dallas
is headquarters for the Northeastern
District of Pennsylvania State Game
Commission.
| where they will be released. Sur-
Harned, John Beitel, Andy Bushkar,
(and Charlie Stockage, food and
sion.
surprise were John Butler andj
Robert Parry, lured to Saturday night's meeting by a variety of bait,
Tom Reese and Commander Ed
He will relinquish his
Post for Boys’
his topic America’s challenge to
Butler In Action
Eddie Trexler and Tom
Butler Emphasises Responsibility,
Self-Reliance, And Physical Fitness
| Master..
| The plague, presented by Honor
Scout Blessing, reads: “To All-Time
Honor Scout John F., Butler, from
| those who are the better for having
| known him.”
| It is' a very modest plaque, but
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iness some years on Sutton Creek |
Charles Patla of Sweet Valley for
“>,
las Township Supervisors
Eny Time, Any Thing, Eny Where, That's Bill
Dean Ralston, Wilkes College; Al- | O. Myers and Earl Phillips beam as | service clubs at Irem Temple [Country
fred Ackerson, Jerome Gardner, Rob- { Mr. Wright accepts the Outstanding | Club Thursday right.
ert Maturi, William Wright, Richard | Citizen Award presented by three |
VOL. 74, NO. 38, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1962
PHOTO BY KOZEMCHAK
Dallas was prey to vandalism,
this week. A local merchant lost two
expensive plate-glass windows. Air
was let out of twenty-six tires.
Ray Daring arrived at his super-
market, Memorial Highway, early
Tuesday morning, and soon after
was informed by one of his men
that someone had knocked out one
4 by 9 foot window with a rock,
and cracked another. The rock was
thrown sometime after Daring’s 9
o'clock closing hour.
With characteristic good humor,
Daring said: “Somebody thought it
wouldn’t look right if both me and
Gosart’s didn't come out even in
the week”. Last week Gosart’s
store, Daring’s competitor, lost three
windows when an area man drove
his car ‘into the front of the ap-
pliance-center.
Daring also noted that future
#adalism might be curtailed if Dal-
heeded
Police Chief Frank Laing’s sugges-
tion that there should be a curfew
pheasants in Pete Fritsky’s holding | veying the beautiful birds are Ray |on young people under age 18.
Sunday night, perhaps in a cele-
bration of school opening, the air
tured carefully by hand, and placed | cover men for the Game Commis- | was let out of twenty-six tires on
school-buses parked overnight at
Jones.
made,
wick, coaches.
the benediction. |
and guests.
He likes people, especially kids,
and that is why he is so popular
with the Little League and as
manager of Shavertown Acme Store.
He has been in the retail food
business since 1941, with time out
for three years service in the China-
Burma theater of war, and since
1952 he has been up to-his ears in
baseball.
That just about sums up Robert
William Parry, who hasn't time to
breathe during the Little League
season. The duties of president are
taxing, especially this year when the
Back Mountain Champs went hawg-
wild, stormed into the championship
of Pennsylvania, and mopped up a
prize team in Medford, Massachues-
etts for the New England crown. They
were stopped by Pitman, New
Jersey, but they had gone miles
farther than any other champion-
ship team from the Back Mountain,
And who was in the stands at
Medford? Robert Parry, watching
his son Robert make Back Mountain
history. Robert, now 12, will be
too old for’ Little League next sum-
mer, but he will play “with the
Teen-Age League. Mr. Parry took
a week off from the Shavertown
Acme that crucial week, dismissing
pork chops and oranges from his
mind in the interests of baseball.
Located ten years ago in the
old Acme across the highway where
Shavertown Postoffice is now oper-
ating, Mr. Parry was unable to re-
sist the lure of baseball. That was
when the Little League Field was
right there in central Shavertown
When Charles Steinhauer suggested
that he get into the ‘act, it was
like shooting fish in a barrel.
As a boy, in Plymouth, Bob had
played sandlot baseball, and at
std tne
Vandals Break Plate Glass Panes
And Deflate 26 School Bus Tires
Orchard Farms Restaurant.
Borough Police Chief Russell Hon-
eywell ‘is. investigating. Stephen
Emanuel, owner of the buses, gen-
erally parks about twenty-four of
them at Orchard Farms Restaurant.
Thursday night someone prowled
in Anthony Hudak’s tool-shed, Had-
donfield, but took nothing.
“Besecker For President’
Jim's Sendofi From Avoca
It was a gala occasion at Avoca
Airport Sunday morning, + when
friends and well-wishers, complete
with banners and confetti, saw a
favorite son off for White Sulphur
Springs, ‘Some wag even had ‘Be-
secker for President” chalked on
a large streamer. )
James Besecker, Jr., after spend-
ing the week at the Monroe Calcu-
lating Machine Co. Convention as
standard bearer; having won an
over 100 percent quota for sales;
will be - home - again - tomorrow.
Georgia has been employing her
spare time this week digging up ‘the
perennals and - transplanting them
to the-other side of the yard. - No
cooking.
Butler And Parry Receive Legion Awards
Americanism Night at the American Legion Home saw two
solid citizens receiving awards for outstanding service to the com-
Receiving books from Daddow-Isaacs Post for Dallas Schools
was Edgar Hughes; Gate of Heaven and College Misericordia, Rev.
Francis A. Kane; Back Mountain Memorial Library,
Mrs. Albert
Presentation of the Little League Championship Pennant was
The royal blue flag will fly under” the
Little League field. On.hand to accept it, in addition to Mr: Parry,
president of Little League, were William Sponseller and John Best-
American flag on
Rev. Norman Tiffany gave the invocation, Rev. Francis A. Kane
American Legion Auxiliary served a buffet supper to members
i
‘Robert Parry Is Mr. Little League
To Little League Players In Area
i
ROBERT W. PARRY
school had played on both football
and basketball teams. He ~ admits
he’s a good bowler, too, but he no
longer has that kind of time.
He coached the Shavertown Little
League for two years (says it was
a lousy job) and was then elected
vice president of the association. For
the past four years he has been
president, and in the season it takes
a lot of time, even when the champs
don’t go to town as they did this
year.
Son ‘Robert will still have Dad’s
interest, even if he is no longer
able to play in Little League. The
organization, about 300 strong,
takes in the 8 to 12 year olds, the
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Schoonover Body
Still Not Found
Canadian Lake Is
Dragged For Victim
At press time, the body of Clar-
ence Schoonover, Center Moreland,
had not yet been recovered from
the Canadian Lake where he had
been fishing on Tuesday with two
friends. Until the icy waters of
Lake Sharbat, Ontario, give up their
dead, the question of whether the
sixty-two year old man suffered a
heart attack and died before the
boat upset, or wether he was
drowned, will not be answered.
The lake was being dragged on
Wednesday.
All three men were thrown into
the water when Mr. Schoonover
started to rise to his feet, apparently
suffering extreme pain. According
to William Story, 51, his brother
Lloyd was supporting Mr. Schoon-
over when the boat oventuined.. id
Lloyd, 46, of Nanticoke, made it |
to shore, wondered if his older
brother William was drowned, found
him close behind. There was no
trace of Mr. Schoonover.
“Wiliam called his wife,’ in Center-
Moreland, “who relayed the news
to Stacy Schoonover, son of the
victim, also resident of Center More-
land. Stacy broke the mews to his
mother. and his sister Mrs. Curtis
Edwards of East Dallas. Stacy and
Mrs. William Story left Tuesday
evening for Canada.
Have Coin Card
Ready Saturday
Members of Dallas Community
Ambulance “Association ' andy Dr.
Henry M. Laing Fire Company will
begin their collection of coin cards
September 22nd. As in past years
a favorable response is anticipated.
Through the medium of coin cards
the two organizations are enabled
to meet operating expenses and at
the same time lay aside moneys for
capital expenses and eventual pur-
chase of new apparatus, eliminating
the necessity of large scale drivers.
Members of these two companies
appreciate the support which has
been given them,
Collection at this time will in-
clude coin cards in the Kunkle area
for ambulance purposes only.
Dallas Adult Evening
School Starts Monday |
Enrollment in Dallas Adult Even-
ing School is 169. Registration,
taken Monday and Tuesday evenings
in the Senior High School -cafe-
teria, is expected to increase dur-
ing the coming week. Classes start
on Monday, are scheduled for Mon-
day through Thursday.
Shoplifter Caught
At Shavertown Acme
A 57 year old Eagles Mere woman
was - prosecuted by Kingston Town- |
ship Police. before Justice of the |
Peace Beatrice L. Williams for shop-
lifting from iShavertown Acme yes-
terday. Chief of Police Herbert Up-
dyke prosecuted, assisted by lAssist-
ant Chief Jesse A. Coslett.
Lake-Lehman Opens Mon.
The mew Lake-Lehman High
School Building will definitely open
for classes on Monday morning. Bus
schedules appear elsewhere in this
paper.
Bppointed Librarian
Mrs. John Landis, Oak Hill, has
been appointed temporary librarian
at the new [Lake-Lehman High
|a cup of coffee and a
William Wright
Wins Award For
Citizenship
Three Service Clubs
Agree Unanimously
That It Is Deserved
Three service clubs of Dallas voted
unanimously to name William
Wright, 1962 Citizen of the Year.
After the plaque had been pre-
sented Thursday night at the joint
‘annual meeting of Dallas Lions,
Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs, Robert
Maturi, who made the presentation
remarked, ‘Any ‘time, anything,
anywhere, Bill's the man. You can
always count on Bill.”
It was this quality of dependa-
bility and community spirit that
won Bill the award, inscribed:
“1962 Citizens Award presented to
William Wright for outstanding
community service by the service
clubs «of Dallas, Pa., Rotary, Lions
and Kiwanis, at the Second Annual
Service Club Dinner September 13,
1962.” /
Mr. Wright, New Goss Manor,
member of Kiwanis Club, has been
the backbone of Dallas School Board
through the storms of reorganiza-
tion into a Union School District,
always acting as a balance wheel.
The Kiwanis Key Club trip to
Denver was promoted by Bill, who
was in on the original conference
which set wheels in motion. And
Bill went along to Denver to en-
joy the Key Club Drill Team
triumph at Kiwanis International
Convention. He is vice president
of Wyoming Valley Technical Insti-
tute a lay minister and former ves-
tryman at Prince of Peace Episcops’
Church, where he takes the pulpit
once a month; past president of
Kiwanis; past president of Dallas
Ambulance and Chyrch League
basketball, :
Bill was Library Auction chair=
man some years ago. He's one of
the people the Auction couldn't
get along without. His whole family
works on it faithfully. Thirteen
years ago they came to the com-
munity from Long Island, and they
have been busy ever gince.
And on Bloodmobile Day, there
is Bill, stretched out full length,
giving his pint. He won his gallon-
Plus pin in May. i
About 120 persons attended the
joint meeting. Kiwanis won the at-
tendance wn. Last yeast | t was the
Lions, on a percentage basis. ui
Rotarians John Landis and James
Alexander arranged for the dinner
at Irem Country Club. Rev. An-
drew Pillarella gave the invocation,
Rev. John S. Prater the benediction.
Alfred Ackerson spoke briefly for
Kiwanis, introducing members of
the Inter Service Council. Earl Phil-
lips, toastmagster, introduced presi-
dents of the three clubs.
George Ralston, Dean of Men at
Wilkes College contrasted the
power of Love with the power of
the Atom.
Bloodmobile Date
October 5, YMCA
Blood Assurance Plan
Keeps Community Safe
October 5 is the date set for the
fall blood donation, to insure enough
blood in the bank in case of emer-
gency. PTA sponsorship means that
10 percent of the membership of a
group must. give blood in order to
keep the unit solvent at the Red
Cross Blood Bank.
The Bloodmobile will be stationed
at Shavertown YMCA building Fri-
day, October 5, from 11:45 to 6.
The quota is 100 pints. This means
that more than 100 persons must
appear on that day, because there
are - always a few rejects when a
prospective donor has a cold or
is not in condition to give blood.
Attendants see to it that each
donor sits quietly for a time, having
sandwich,
after the ' blood has been taken.
Transportation is available, both to
and from the Bloodmobile station.
There is a tendency to, permit
the same donors to give blood time
after time. To more easily distri-
bute the burden, new donors are
needed. It takes about an hour to
sign the register, be inspected by the
doctor in charge, to give the actual
blood, and to sit at a table with a
cup of tea or coffee before starting
home.
Linear and College
have their own highly
Bloodmobile” days.
Since Dallas Borough school start-
ed cafeteria service in its gymnasium
last year, the blood donation has
been taken at the Town and Country
YMCA building, with equally good
Misericordia
successful
response. Each PTA has a Blood
Donation chairman whose respon-
sibility it is: to telephone enough
donors in advance, to insure filling
the quota.
Fall Starts On Sunday
If you are one of those who be-
lieve that fall starts invariably on
September 21, winter on Docember
21, spring on March 21, and summer
on June 21, we have news for you.
Fall starts this year September '23
School.
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