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Sweet Valley fish salvage
offsets contamination loss
Residents in land-locked
northeastern Pennsylvania are
not likely to think of themselves
as being affected by mercury
contamination in fish, but the
fact is that the ramifications of
such pollution extend even to
the Back Mountain community.
A week ago Wednesday, the
supervisor and assistant
supervisor of Region III of
Pennsylvania’s fish commis-
sion worked with fish culturists
at Harris Pond in Sweet Valley
in a salvage operation which
will ultimately provide fish for
The Luzerne County Coun-
selors Association has an-
nounced its spring dinner will
be held Friday at Gus Genetti’s
Towne and Country Room,
Route 309, Hazleton. Nomina-
“tion and election of officers will
be held. Thomas Carr, guidance
counselor of Dallas Area School
District, is chairman of the
‘nominating committee.
Charles Gallagher, member
Westmoreland PTA
meets board candidates
Westmoreland Elementary
PTA met Monday night in the
school auditorium.
Mrs. Thomas Visigilio con-
ducted the business meeting
and presented the teachers with
gifts of appreciation.
Harry Lefko, president of the
school board, conducted the in-
stallation of officers . for the
1971-1972 school year, which are
Stanley McMinn, president;
Mrs. Earl Gregory, vice presi-
dent; Mrs. George Coolbaugh,
secretary, and Georgiana
Weidner, treasurer.
Grace Fries introduced the
candidates for the school board
who spoke briefly on their quali-
fications and reasons for can-
didacy.
Refreshments were served by
fouth grade mothers under the
direction of Roberta Carey.
ponds and lakes all over the
State.
Clair Fleeger, fish com-
mission supervisor. at Sweet
valley, explains that in the past,
Pennsylvania obtained fresh
water fish from Pymaturning
Dam in Crawford County and
Lake Erie. With the disclosure
that mercury poison is endemic
in the fish population of the
Great Lakes, however, the
State’s fish commissioners
decided it wise to discontinue
purchasing the contaminated
fish. .. The practice of
“salvaging” fish from com-
counselors will meet
to elect new officers
of the staff at West Hazleton
High School, is the present
president of the association.
Other officers are Gordon R.
Schlier, Dallas Area, vice presi-
dent; Grace Schell, West Hazle-
ton High School, secretary;
Sylvia Bator, Lake-Lehman
‘High School, treasurer.
Guest speaker will be James
Shaughesey, assistant super-
intendent of schools, Groton,
Conn. His topic is ‘“Guidance—
A Challenge.” Musical selec-
tions will be provided by West
Hazleton High School Concert
Choir directed by Miriam
Howells, choral director of the
high school.
mission-owned ponds was thus
instituted.
To date this spring, Mr.
Fleeger estimates that between
15,000 to 18,000 fish have been
netted and taken from Harris
Pond. More exact information
will be available after hatchery
experts have sized, counted,
segregated by species the
fish which have been transfer-
red to Pleasant Mount Fish Hat-
chery in Wayne County. From
there, the fish will be re-distri-
buted to community ponds
throughout the State.
Incredibly, fish mortality has
been extraordinarily low during
these transfers. Supervisor
Fleeger attributes this not only
to careful handling but to low
water temperatures (if fish are
handled in warm water, the
supervisor explains, the
development of a lethal fungus
on the fish’s scales is almost
assured). In the most recent
haul last Wednesday, only two
out of more than 2,500 fish—one
golden shiner and one perch—
failed to survive the transfer.
Because of these unique sal-
vage operations, Harris Pond
has been closed to fisherman—a
fact the anglers are likely to rue
when they learn that bass
weighing over seven pounds
have been taken from its
waters. The consolation for this
loss is that sportsmen in other
communities will have a plenti-
ful supply of fish which are not
contaminated with the deadly
mercury. At least, not yet.
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The Dallas Post (ALEX REBAR)
Over 2,500 fish were transferred last Wednesday from Harris
Pond in Sweet Valley to the Pleasant Mount Fish Hatchery in
Wayne County. Pictured above as they empty net loads of fish
into the fish commission’s tanker truck are, from left to right,
Walter Lazusky, assistant supervisor; Clair Fleeger, super-
visor; Lawrence Davis and Walter Terry, fish culturists.
senior citizens
invited to meet
All people in the Back Moun-
tain area interested in forming
a Senior Citizen’s Group are in-
vited to attend a meeting at St.
Paul’s Lutheran Church,
Shavertown, May 3, at 1:30 p.m.
The proposed meeting is the
result of an extensive survey
conducted by the Back Moun-
tain clergy and is in response to
the interest indicated from
members who filled in and
returned the survey.
It is hoped that this meeting
will initiate a regular program
for senior citizens in the Back
Mountain. There will be two
short speeches, one by Sister
Ann Paye, College Misericor-
dia, describing a July workshop
to be conducted at the college,
and the second by Margaret
Spencer from the Bureau of the
Aging.
Coordinators of the Senior
Citizen Program are the Rev.
Douglas Akers, the Rev. Dr.
Laurence Beers, and Intern
Pastor Chris Dahlberg.
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