x SEC. I, PAGE EIGHT THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1980 ~~ “Wedigthe Back Mt.” WORK COMPETITION--Putting up snow fences as they get the Fall Fair Grounds ready for this year’s event are members of the Back Mountain Service Clubs who competed against one another in getting the work done. (Photo by Mark Moran) - READY FOR THE FAIR--These workers are getting the grounds ready for the annual Luzerne County Fall Fair. There's a lot to be done but the volunteers are busy evenings at the grounds. (Photo by Mark Moran) GROUNDBREAKING--The theme ‘Change Place With God Sunday’ at Victory Baptist Bible Church, Sunday, June 1,-was the theme for the church’s annual special building fund offering day. The congregation was urged months in advance that on June 1 they keep the tithe of their weekly income and give the 90 percent balance to God with the balance of that received above the weekly budget going into the church’s building fund. The congregation responded generously and above is the first step in the building of a structure to house the new and growing church. At the ground- breaking for the one-story building which will have an auditorium, children’s church room, nursery, rest rooms, furnace room and coat room are deacons Lee Dodson, Paul Taylor, building foreman Richard London, Rev. Wayne Reese, youth director David Wildoner and church pianist Roberta Ann Morgan BRIDGE IS OUT--The Franklin Street bridge goes out as workers for the Dallas- ~ Shavertown Water Company and the Kingston Township Road Department went to « work on tearing it out early Tuesday morning. (Photo by Mark Moran) CT employees get awards - Three Central area Traffic Engineering division engineering .employees of Com- Associate. Over the past manager, outside plant “monwealth Telephone 40 years he has held such network planning Company recently ‘celebrated service an- -. niversaries. Howard Johns, traffic * engineer for the telephone “utility, recorded 40 years of service. Robert H. Bolton, network planning manager, marks 25 years with the company, and Joyce M. Sickler has ‘worked for Com- monwealth 20 years. © A native of Kingston, Johns joined Com- ~monwealth in 1940 as a varied positions as wire chief, district plant manager, installation and repair manager and dial administration superv- isor. He and his wife, Jennie Mae, presently reside in Dallas. Bolton joined the company in 1955 as a draftsman. During his career with the telephone positions of district plant engineer, transmission staff engineer, southern manager and plant ex- tension staff manager. A native of Dallas, he resides with his wife, Lois, and their two sons, Robert Jr. and Jeff. Mrs. Sickler presently works in the company’s Data Processing Department as a steno clerk. A native of Nor- wood, Ohio, she resides with her husband, Harry, in Dallas. They have three children, Patricia, Tom and Brian. we Eh = DALLAS TOWNSHIP ATHLETIC FIELD : Performances: 26 s. - | THURS. | JUNE 30 and 8:00 P.M. financial officer; David L. Tressler, president and chief executive officer; Robert J. Keating, chairman of the board; Justin Bergman, Jr., member of bank’s board of directors; and Gerard J. Ferrario, member, bank’s board of directors. (Photo by Mark Moran) BANK GROUNDBREAKING--Northeastern Bank of- ficials at the groundbreaking for the bank’s Back Mountain Branch are shown as they turned over the ground at the building site on Route 309. “Left to right, with shovels, are Glenn Howell, manager of Dallas of- fice; William Lees, executive vice president and chief Clubs aid Fair The setting was the grounds behind the Back on Rte. 118, Lehman. for live coverage. Thirty-one eager men awaited with shovels, picks, and a post hole driver. The back hoe was in position. Everyone was ready to begin the two- hour task of driving posts into the ground, hanging snow fencing, digging a trench from the medical building to the new fair grounds site, bailing hay and cleaning out the barn which sets in the right hand field. Due to the inclement weather on Monday evening, the grounds were too wet to be staked before the competition, therefore, the winners were determined by the largest count of working members present on the site. The Kingston Township Lions took a roaring lead with 11--The Back Mountain Jaycees jumped into second place with eight members and the Dallas Rotary, Dallas Kiwanis and Bk. Mt. Kiwanis tied up third with six members each. After two long hours, the work was complete due to the volunteer efforts of these dedicated men. The following members participated in the competition on June 10, Kingston Twp. Lions-- Dick Mattie, Len Cook, Joe Campbell, Tom Moyer, Tim Moyer, Walt Meade, Fran Hoover, John Sobeck, Bob Zukowski, Gary Hozempa, and Pat Connelly. Back Mountain Jaycees--Jon Pomrinke, Don Rood, Joe Stager, Sumner Bachman, Burleigh, Lee Johnson and Michael Lupinski. Dallas Rotary--Wayne Koch, Kerry Freeman, Buck Albert, Al “Landis, Craig Martin, and Paul Frantz. Dallas Kiwanis-- Ray Hillman and Reese Pelton. Back Mountain bill Coburn, Jim. Snyder, Art Parks and Joe McDonald. A note of interest for all community ~~ members-- anyone interested in participating in these projects may come out on Tuesday nights and give a helping hand. The next competition will be held on Tuesday evening between the Dallas township and Kingston township police departments. Com- The world is like a board ‘with holes in it, and the Square men get into the round holes.--Sydney Smith. ae registered for the opening of the Daily Vacation noon for children of the Carverton and Orange United Methodist termoreland United Methodist Church was placed there in honor of ~ Cheerio Class of Orange United Methodist Church is holding a hoagie sale Bible School, which Churches. Classes will be. Timothy Lee Rogers, son today. Proceeds will be opened Monday morning held at the Orange UM . of Mr. and Mrs. Lee used to purchase choir at Centermoreland United Church. Rogers. He was born on robes. Methodist Church. The new chairs in the May 21. Annual Daily Vacation Classes will continue this morning and conclude tomorrow at noon. Mrs. Stanley (Joan) Krzanowski of Carverton came home on Sunday choir loft of the Carverton UM Church were presented by Mrs. Mary Glahn and the Prynn family in memory of their mother. Harold Ross of East Dallas is home after a stay at Pittstan Hospital because of a heart attack. Flowers on the altar for Sunday morning's wor- Bible School, co- sponsored by the Harding Church of Christ and Mount Zion United Methodist Church at the latter church this week, after undergoing minor Administrative boards ship service in East Will conclude tomorrow at surgery on Thursday in of the Carverton United Dallas United Methodist noon. Mrs. Brenda Bitters Nesbitt Memorial Methodist Charge will Church were in memory and Mrs. Peggy Thomas Hospital. meet Tuesday evening at of the Ben Brace family. are in charge of plans. Robert Rinker of Mount = 7:30 at the Carverton UM Miss Leslie Wolfe of Communion will be Zion continues to show Church. Carverton has completed administered at the improvement at Nesbitt Memorial Hospital, Kingston, where he has been a patient since June 6 when he suffered a heart attack. * Sincere sympathy is away on Tuesday, June 10. Vacation Bible School will be held Monday through Friday of next week from 9:30 through Barbecue Plans for the annual barbecue and auction of Centermoreland United Methodist Church are well underway. Frank G. Williams is chairman of grounds in Cen- termoreland. Thr rose on the altar for Sunday morning's’ wor- in Cen- her freshman year at Shippensburg State College and is spending the summer as a life guard at the Frances Slocum State Park. Membership and meet Tuesday evening at 7:30 at the church. A meeting of the Cen- termoreland UM Church trustees will be held Wednesday evening at 8. morning worship service in the three United Methodist Churches that comprise the Carverton UM Church on Sunday, July 6, Rev. Dr. Allan Cease, pastor, has an- POPULAR w ACRES OF 100 MINUTES 100 extended the family of the this year’s barbecue and Evangelism Committees nounced. PRICES TENTS THRILLS ¢ LAUGHS late Mrs. Mary Coolbaugh auction, which is of Centermoreland United Plans for a yard sale to FOR CHOICE SEATS — COME EARLY of Mount Zion, who passed scheduled for ‘early Methodist Church will be held at the Orange fire hall on August 16 from 10 to 4 are being completed. Mary Ann Sigworth is chairperson for the benefit: affair, which is Orange UM Church. Rev. Hugh McGroarty, pastor of St. Frances X. Cabrini R.C. Church at Carverton and Blessed Sacrament R.C. Church at Centermoreland, is attending the priests’ retreat this week at St. Pius Seminary in Dalton. Rev. Father Pereira, OFM, is offering masses this week at both chur- ches. ~ Plans are being com- pleted for a parish mission, workshop and Summer Bible School at Frances X. Cabrini R.C. Church, beginning July 6 PAS \% mm v ~ weeks. Plans for the mission-workshop and school will be completed at a meeting to be held Tuesday evening, July 1. Ice Cream Social ‘Members of Carverton United Methodist Church are completing plans for a benefit strawberry and ice cream social to be held on the church grounds on (Continued on P. 16) / rd
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