i ! There are very few things in life today that are free. Old tires are free. Discarded telephone poles and conveyor belts are free. With a little imagination and a whk¥e lot of enthusiasm, Herbert Simon, of the Wilkes College art department, and his contemporary design classes are proving to the children at the Miners Mills Trailer Camp that the best tings in life are free. Each week at the scheduled class meeting, the Wilkes students and their instructor meet at the Miners Mills Trailer Camp to construct playground equipment for the children from materials such as old tires, old telephone poles and cable spools that they collect free. And the children respond enthusiastically. According to Mr. Simon, ‘‘These kids helped build the equipment, paint it by Mrs. Ray Kelly Mr.#jd Mrs. Lauren Sayre spent Trianksgiving at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Boyer at Maryland. Mr. and Mrs. David Coole, Vicky, and William Hawkins, Shippensville, spent the week- end at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Coole. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Shalata entertained their family at dinner Thursday. Guests were Mr. and Mrs. Dana Field, Denise and Michelle, James- town, ic §.Y.; Mr. and Mrs. Er- nest Daley and family, Shaw- neese; Mr. and Mrs. Tom Shalata and family, Harveys Lake; Mr. and Mrs. William Shalata, Billy and Terry, Noxen; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Shalata Jr. and family, Tunk- hannock, RD 2; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Thomas and family, Hun- lock Creek. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Territo spent Thursday at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lorenzo Territo, Wyoming. A family dinner was held in obser- vance of the senior Mr. Territo’s 75th birthday. Recent guests at the Harry Bigelows were their son Charles and family of Barker, N.Y., and Mr. and Mrs. George Pellitiere and Yvette of Trenton, N.J. PSEA Schedules Semi-annual Session Thes semiannual meeting of the EWee of Delegates, the 1200-member governing body of the Pennsylvania State Educa- tion Association (PSEA), the state’s largest teacher organ- ization, will be held Dec. 8-10 at the Host Farm, it was an- nounced today by Richard A. de Bethizy, PSEA president. Key feature of the three-day meeting will be adoption of the PSEA legislative program for 1973, which is expected to cover over 125 items ranging from the need for a professional stand- ards commission which would prescribe standards for teacher certification and regulate teacher education programs, to expansion of the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board, which administers Act 195, the public employe bargaining law. TheAist of speakers is high- lightd with appearances by Catharine Barrett, president of the 1.2 million member National Education Association; Acting NEA Executive Secretary Allen M. West, PSEA President de Secretary Robert E. Phelps. —1 ; To assure publication, send your news in early. Call your local correspondent or The Dallas Post, 675-5211. PAT GIRARD © QUALITY JEWELER Located next to Wyoming Bank Wyoming, Pa. Open Daily 9 to 5:30 Thursday & Friday to 8:30 Myrtle MacMillan and daughter Joan had as dinner guests recently Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Vilasi and family of Binghamton and Mr. and Mrs. George Jurista and family, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sober and family, Little Meadows, spent the holiday with her mother, Mrs. Albert Jones. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Crispell are visiting at the home of their son Elvin and family at Del- avan, Wisc. Mr. and Mrs. Warren Beahm, Elizabethtown, visited Mr. and Mrs. Ray Kelly Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Elmore Pogar, Glenside, spent the holiday with her sisters, Mariel and Agnes Lutes. Mrs. J. Elmore Turrell is spending the winter at Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Mrs. Richard Hefferan of Tunkhannock ac- companied her and will spend the winter with her. Mr. and Mrs. Leland Case and Becky, Wharton, N.J., spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Glen Patton and also visited Mrs. Loren Case, a patient at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mun- the holiday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Mun- katchy. Judy Lee, a student at Mans- field State College, spent the holiday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Fielding. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Allen and family, Vestal, N.Y., and Mrs. William Dayton, Pompano Beach, Fla., were holiday guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Lord. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Rubel and family, Levittown, were weekend guests. Mr. and Mrs. David Hopkins, Vienna, N.J., spent the holiday here with her father, Harry Siglin. Chester Visneski underwent surgery at the General Hospital last week. a ™ ~b % \, 7” completed.” idea from Paul Hogan, who is working in conjunction with V.ESTA;, ‘constructing ‘playgrounds for free” throughout the United States. the students each week, sup- plying the necessary technical knowledge and materials. The entire playground idea constant additions and money toward elaborate playground material, a com- munity is able to direct funds toward skilled instructors whe in turn would direct the children in building a safe, and thoroughly something in which the children can take pride. The whole project starts out on the drawing board. Members of the contemporary design class start out with a series of drawings and concepts. These concepts are then translated into reality with the collection of materials and the construction of safe, active playground equipment. The Miners Mills Trailer Camp presented a natural location for the ‘playground for free’ in the Wyoming Valley. There is a slight hill with a tree, ideal for a tree house and climbing. Discarded telephone poles, coupled with old conveyor belts form the ideal trampolene, which the children named ‘‘the bed.” This ‘‘free playground” supplies a much needed diversion for children in the Wyoming Valley area who are living in trailers and have been displaced by the record flooding of the Susquehanna River in June. Many of these children are in an area that is totally foreign to them, and the playground provides the necessary atmosphere for forming lasting friendships. Parents have expressed an interest in the project, often offering help in the actual construction. Even after the trailer ¢amp is no longer © needed, = the playground will remain, for it is a part of the regular city playground. Joyce Andrejko, a fine arts major at Wilkes, is helping in the project. She is a regular playground assistant. Also assisting the project is a Wilkes , graduate, Robert Burnside, who is currently employed by HUD. There are currently 28 Wilkes College fine arts majors in- volved in this program and for each individual it is an ex- perience they will never forget. (OR SST 5 3 Rove Re SIRGAY Phone 655-4911 C.11972 At Gate of Heaven Church, the Christmas season will celebrate the first Sunday of Advent when the Rev. Thomas Jordan, pastor, lights the first candle on the advent wreath. The advent wreath, an an- cient German custom, consists of four candles nestled on a bed of greens and is usually placed on the dining room or kitchen table. Three candles are purple and one is pink for the three penitential Sundays and Gaudate, or joyous Sunday. The wreath is a symbol of the neverending circle of love for God and the awaiting for His arrival. On each of the four Sundays of Advent one candle is lighted and special prayers are said in anticipation of the coming of Christmas. So begins the season of short days and long nights awaiting the joyous and miraculous birth of Christ. Preparations in the classrooms at Gate of Heaven School take place all of December and emphasis is put on the spiritual side of this Holy time. The priests and faculty the true meaning of Christmas. To the children, Christmas means Christ’s birthday first. Each classroom has a tiny crib and a gaily decorated tree. Sister Ligouri and Sister ‘oN £3 Nod J NN p Evangelist are working en- dlessly with the first graders, preparing the children’s play which will be presented on the last day of school. Noel, Jingle Bells and Silent Night ring through the hallways and small voices can be heard repeating the words of the shepherds as they visit the new born babe. Finally they stand, shiny and bright on the stage presenting their gift to all the school. Father Jordon, Father McGough, Sister Melanie, the and students gather to see the annual ‘Christmas Play’. The sight and sounds of seventy tiny, beaming choris- ters spread a special Christmas feeling in the saddest and wear- distributes small gifts to all of mas vacation begins. Meanwhile preparations have been taking place in the church itself. As a good housekeeper prepares her home for the coming of an honored guest, good women from the congre- gation prepare the church, cleaning and polishing for the coming of the baby Jesus. The sextons place the large replica of the stable at Bethlehem in the front near the altar. Lifelike figures surrounding the tiny with twinkling lights and flickering candles complete the preparations of the church. At midnight on Christmas eve a special mass is celebrated and the church choir culminates many hours of rehearsal with familiar and ancient Christmas songs. Masses are celebrated on Christmas day on a Sunday schedule so that families and friends may pay their respects to the Baby Jesus on His bir- thday. : Food baskets have been distributed, gifts and greetings exchanged in the spirit of love and giving that are the true and real meaning of Christmas at Gate of Heaven Church. The early bird gets the space! Get news in the day after it happens. Page 11 Susan, Cheryl, and Linda. The family will reside in Clarks Summit. ; Other officers of Greenstreet News Co. are J. R. Freeman, vice president and managing editor; William W. Davis, vice president, marketing; and Doris Mallin, secretary-trea- surer. Several other appointments were announced in conjunction with that of Mr. Bush. Carl T. Davies, Clarks Summit, has been named editor of the Mountaintop Eagle; Angela G. Bell, editor of the Abington Journal; and Dan Koze, adver- tising manager of the Dallas Post. Mr. Davies, a native of the Abington area, has been with Greenstreet News since March 1972. He is a graduate of Girard College, Philadelphia, and Le- high University, Bethlehem. He received his master’s degree in English and education from Lehigh and was a teacher in the Palisades School District, Upper Bucks County, Pa., be- fore pursuing a career in journalism. Mrs. Bell, a native of Harris- burg who came to Northeastern Pennsylvania in 1969, received her bachelor of arts degree in English from the Pennsylvania State University. A member of the Pennsylvania Women’s Press Association and Sigma street News Co. as news editor of the Journal in February, 1971. She resides in Clarks Green with her husband, Wallace R. Bell, an instructor at (continued from PAGE ONE) the Penn State Campus in Scranton. Mr. Koze has been with the suburban newspaper group since autumn of 1971. He is a re- tired U. S. Navy information officer who gained much of his experience in journalism with newspapers in Providence, R.I. He is a native of the suburban Wilkes-Barre area who resides with his wife Josephine and their three children in Ashley. Mr. Bush noted that corpora- tion headquarters will remain at 41 Lehman Ave., Dallas, with principal offices serving the following locations: the Abing- ton Journal, 415 S. State St., Clarks Summit; the Dallas Post, 41 Lehman Ave.; and the Mountaintop Eagle, Old Hazle- ton Highway, Mountaintop. Society Plans Christmas Party The annual Christmas party for St. Therese’s Altar and Rosary Society will be held Dec. 7 at 6:30 p.m. at the Continental Inn. A turkey dinner will’ be served. : Entertainment will be provided by the Dallas Women’s Club Chorale. Dollar gifts will be exchanged. Reservations will be accepted after all Masses. New officers for the year will be installed by the Rev. 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