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BY GLEN HOFFMAN
The president of Haddonfield
Hills Homeowners Association
(HHHA) is heading the discussion
of starting a neighborhood crime
watch organization.
The HHHA which includes
Haddonfield and Shrine Acres
neighborhoods comprises 65
member families. Bill Kalinowski
has been president of the 20-year-
old association for the last two
Pars.
“We are concerned about the
increasing crime rate in our neigh-
borhoods,”’ said Kalinowski. ‘We
would start a neighborhood watch
“Neither rain, not sleet, nor snow
shall stay the mailman...”
from making his rounds also ap-
plies to little Erin Gilbert of Dallas,
a Times-Leader newspaper carrier.
Seven or eight inches of snow
everywhere and there she was. To
top it off, Erin wasn’t feeling well at
all. Her mother was with her and
she wasn’t well either. But there
they were. At least the mailman
gets sick pay.
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Bitter cold has many effects. One
If them, sometimes, is bringing out
that separates man and nature and
thus draw. closer to others. On the
other hand, some hearts become as
Five of a kind
organization if we could gather
enough participants.”
A neighborhood watch
organization is the systematic
observation of a determined area
by its trained neighbors.
The participating neighbords,
who would take scheduled shifts of
watch, would be trained on how to
look for any unusual activities,
procedures for calling the police to
properly informing them of the
possible unfolding of crimes, and
how to avoid creating opportunity
for crime.
Dallas Twp. Police Chief Carl
Miers spoke at the last meeting of
HHHA in November describing the
best ways to avoid creating op-
portunity for crime.
“The landscaping nearest a home
should be sparse which avoids
giving coverage to a thief,” said
Miers. ‘‘Homeowners should install
timers to turn lights off and on when
they may be gone for a long
duration.”
“Most importantly, when a neigh-
borhood suspects that a crime may
be in the process of being com-
mitted, the neighbor should call the
police and not take any other ac-
tion,”’ said Miers.
Kalinowski announced that
HHHA may hold its next meeting in
January.
hard and cold as the ice that
abounds. We know of an elderly
lady who has been the customer of a
fuel oil company (not in the Back
Mountain and we don’t want to
offend a potential advertiser by
saying whom) for nearly twenty
years. She is on some sort of a fuel
budget plan and has always paid
her bill. But when she last called for
fuel there was some question as to
the timeliness of the eurrent budget
process and she was refused
delivery. “Call CEO,” (the Com-
mission of Economic Opportunity)
she was told. “They will give you a
hundred gallons.”
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“Why don’t you put in your paper
that Police Chief Lionel Bulford’s
wife had an accident?” Well, here it
is. So what’s the big deal?
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Speaking of Harveys Lake, it is
rumored that police picked up a dog
that had broken loose from its chain
and had then locked the dog-in the
police office while continuing their
rounds. Upon their return it is said
the office looked as though a
hurricane struck. The dog’s owners
weren’t too happy about the implied
possibility of having to pay...
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The bouncy checks at Coscia’s
(not their’s! their customers!)
certainly caused comment. The
trouble was readers read the lem
wrong--the checks being bounced
were from customers but, as we
said, they were firmed up even-
tually.
‘Frozen’ for posterity are Frank Ciehoski, Kingston, and
Bruce and Helen Lazar, Forty Fort. (Photo by Paul
BY GLEN HOFFMAN
When Chet Pollick, Jr. goes
fishing he hardly needs mosquito
repellant or sunscreen lotion. The
veteran sportsman uses neither
pole nor boat. His equipment
consists of a tent, warm clothing,
and a simple line that he drops
through a six inch hole in the ice at
Harveys Lake. :
A Dallas resident Pollick Jr. has
been an ice fisherman all of his life.
“I enjoy winter fishing more than
summer fishing because it is
healthier for me breathing fresh
clean air, and there are not a lot of
noisy people on the ice in the middle
of the lake,” said Chet.
“When I go ice fishing I get a
peaceful and relaxing feeling. ‘But
it is exciting to think that I am
standing right above a hundred feet
or more of water,” he said.
The ice fishing season at Harveys
Lake usually begins in late
December and ends in the latter
days of March. During the season,
thousands of fishermen will try
their luck.
“Ice fishing is great fun,” said
Chet, “and not just because you
catch fish. You see everything out
there: people shooting off sky-
rockets and firecrackers when they
catch smelts, perch, and pickerel.
“Last year a person from New
York landed his helicopter in the
middle of the lake just to ask us how
the fishing was going,” continued
Chet. “I also saw some motorcyclist
pulling a boat around on the ice.”
Chet, who is 37, pointed out that
he and his friend Joe Shonis of
Harveys Lake fished and slept on
the ice all night, about 14 years ago.
To keep warm they built a hut made
of cardboard, plastic and news-
paper.
“During the most popular time of
the season, in late January and
February you’ll see about 150 tents
and about 300 fisherman in one
night. The fishermen make-up a
little community ‘that we ‘call
“Smelt City.”
“I have ice fished in Beach Lake,
Dutch Lake, and in many lakes 1n
New York, but I think Harveys
Lake is the best for ice fishing.”
Chet Pollick Jr.
‘Different strokes...’
Reports of 18 to 20 below zero were not uncommon in some areas of
the Back Mountain Sunday evening. Monday morning it was -3 at
Franklin First Federal and across the street at WNB, it was -8. The
difference is that the Franklin temperature is computed from Public
Square, Wilkes-Barre. At United Penn Bank, Dallas, it was minus 1
at 8:30 Monday morning. (Paul Strasser Photo)