By Sharon Skochen
Post Correspondent
With summer just weeks away,
peoples’ thoughts turn te hours
spent in their pools swimming: But,
“spends much of thal ‘tire 11a pool,
yracticing and competing. Alisa is a
witreshman at: Clarion State College
and a member of the ‘swim team -
there.
And, all the practice has paid off.
In March, Alisa accompanied the
swim team and their coach Rebecca
Rutt (to Long Beach, California
where they participated in National
competitions. Clarion took an excit-
ing win over the Air Force team in
the match, Air Force was leading
until’ Clarion took the final event;
the 400 yard freestyle relay to win
by six points and take the NCAA
(National College Athletic Asscia-
tion). title.
Since Alisa has been on the team;
she has won three national plaques.
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It takes a lot of hard work to win
that kind of awards. Swimmers
must be in excellent shape so they
do other types of exercises to build
up strength and endurance. They
run five miles a day and lift weights
three times a ‘week. Six days a
week, they swim for two hours in
the- morning and two ‘In the.after-
noon. Hey aisodde pusiiups; sit ups
and land exercises.
With a schedule like that, it is
evident that dedication is important,
and Alisa is certainly a dedicated
swimmer. She's been swimming for
13 years. She: started swimming at
the age of six because her brother
Robert and sister, Laurie liked the
sport. She was on the Bishop Hoban
team for four years.
This is Alisa’s first year on the
Clarion team. She plans to compete
for three more years. After college,
she’d like a career working with
computers in . the ' business field.
Computer Science is her major.
When not away at school, Alisa
resides in Trucksyville with her
mom, Catherine.
The possible closing of the Dallas
Borough School and the Trucksville
Elementary School are presently
under consideration by the Dallas
School Board. The decision to close
either one or both schools would be
an economic measure taken to bal-
ance the Dallas School District
budget and prevent an exorbitant
millage increase. ;
The enrollment at the Dallas Bor-
ough School, including Kindergarten
is presently 141 students, while 132
others are attending classes that
range to the fourth grade at Trucks-
ville Elementary. Both schools are
reported to have several empty
classrooms. The overall enrollment
in’ the ‘Dallas School District. is
down, according to Dr. Richard A.
Shipe, district school superintend-
ent. Shipe reports the present stu-
dent number is approximately 3,000
which is a decrease of over 500
students in the past five years.
In the event the decision is made
to close the schools, these students
attending the Borough School on
Huntsville Road would be assigned
to the Dallas Township School at the
top of Church Street with the possi-
bility that some fourth grade
classes would move to the Dallas
Intermediate School on Hildebrandt
Road, presently housing fifth and
sixth grades for the entire school
district. Students from the Trucks-
ville Elementary School on Oak
Street would be transferred to the
Westmoreland School on South
Lehigh Street, also in Trucksville.
Assorted pieces of information
about the possible school closings
appear to be known by many people
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in the community as if by osmosis.
The overall reaction to closing
schools does not seem as violent as
it presently is in the surrounding
areas such as Kingston. This is a
change from the furor raised sev-
eral years ago when, in a surprise
move, the Shavertown Elementary
School was suddenly closed and the
highway property sold to Burger
King. Indeed, more than one person
has expressed the hope that these
schools ‘could be sold and perhaps
converted into apartments or nurs-
ing home, thereby balancing the
budget for years to come. :
The budget seems to be the main
concern of school district officials,
board members and most of all the
taxpayers. With the millage pres-
ently at 111, and an expensive three
year teachers contract signed, tax-
Sesquicentennial.
Vicedman. (Dan Walsh: photo)
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The Dallas Junior High Track and
Field Team recently concluded its
outstanding season with an impres-
sive day at the District II Champi-
onships on ‘May 14 at Scranton
Memorial Stadium.
The girls’ team ended the day as
overall District II Champions in the
team standings with 52 points to
runner-up Meyers’ 37 points. Indi-
vidual champions were Linda King
in the 400 meter dash, Karen Vloed-
man in the high jump and Carla
Orlando in the triple jump. The girls
ended the regular season with an 8-0
record.
The boys’ team finished second
overall in the district championship
team standings to a strong Pittston
{
were Mark Richardson in the 800
meter run and the 1600 meter run;
Steve Brace in the 110m hurdles and
165 m. hurdles.
For the day, the boys and girls
brought home 28 medals, more than
any school in the entire District IT.
are David Jiunta, head coach, Bob
Mitkus and Lew Isaac, assistants.
BY JANE BOLGER
A ‘reapplication to build town
houses in Dallas: Township in the
triangular area bounded by Church
Street, Center Hill Road and Claude
Street has been made by developers
Sobeck and Lindquist. The firm,
site owned by the Samuels family,
has been turned down last Mareh by
the Dallas Township Zoning Board
the site.
At that time, 16 two story, three
bedroom town houses were planned.
The new plan is reported to have
been changed to 14 units to comply
with zoning regulations. The area
where the project, christened “The
Park Town Houses at Dallas’, will
be built, is zoned R-3, allowing for
construction of - multiple dwelling
units despite the fact that the entire
surrounding area is zoned only for
single homes. %
Access to the development would
be from Carden Road, an existing
right-of-way running between two
homes on Center Hill, Road three or
four houses up from the intersection
of Midland Drive. The proposed
road would come to a dead end
inside the development with a turn
around built between the three clus-
ters of attached town houses.
The approximate cost of each
town house, which will be con-
structed of brick and siding, is
estimated to be in the low forties.
The revised plans are scheduled to
be presented to the Dallas Township
Board for approval. at its regularly
scheduled June 8 meeting. An
advertised Public Hearing is not
required in this case because of the
longstanding R-3 zoning designation.
BY JANE BOLGER
Plans are underway to build a
new medical clinic housing three
doctors on Old Lake Road in Dallas
in the vicinity of The Meadows,
senior citizen apartment develop-
ment. Scheduled to have offices in
the new’ clinic, which will be a
satellite of Mercy Hospital, are Dr.
Harry A. Gallagher, Dr. Clinton
Lehman and a pediatrician, yet to
be named.
Both Dr, Gallagher and Dr.
Lehman presently have private
practices in the Back Mountain, the
first at 35 Lake Street in Dallas, the
second at 242 Memorial Highway in
Shavertown. In addition to the three
doctors’ offices and waiting rooms,
the new, one story building will also
provide an X-ray facility and a
physical therapy section.
The cost of building the 5,400
square feet Group Family Practice
"Building is estimated to be approxi-
mately $400,000. Pyros and Sander-
son who are the architects and
planners of the new facility are
expected to present full plans at the
June 8 meeting of the Dallas Town-
ship Zoning Hearing Board. They
are requesting a Special Exemption
to proceed with the project.
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Questions remaining however, if
over. Will a large staff cut be
necessary or will it be made up by
attrition when teachers retire.
Another question compares the cost
of busing students, some of whom
now walk, to schools that are much
further away.
Obviously, the decision is one
which cannot be made easily, con-
sidering it may adversely affect
some people. But nor can the Dallas
School District spend more than it is
getting and some ‘way ‘must be.
found to reduce costs. Whether or
not this will be the ultimate solutio
remains to be seen. :
Election
Results
Results of local races from the
May 17 primary election are as
follows:
DALLAS SCHOOL BOARD
Republican nominees for five
four-year seats on the Dallas School
Board are Harry Sickler, Ernest
Ashbridge, John George, Albert Pis-
aneschi and Donald Jones. Losing in
their quest for a Republican nomi-
nation were Patricia Gregory,
Shawn Murphy, an incumbent; Wil-
liam Clewell, John J. Thomas and
Reese Finn.
Democratic nominations were
earned by. Gregory, Murphy, Pisa. |
nese, George: and’ Siekler.
Defeated in their bids on the Detno-
cratic ticket were Ashbridge,
Thomas, Jones and Clewell. h
George was nominated for a two-
year seat on both the Democratic
and Republican ballots, defeating
Richard Morgan and LaRoy Ziegler.
LAKE-LEHMAN SCHOOL
BOARD
While confusion exists in the
Lake-Lehman School Board race
due to the counting of paper ballots
in the Noxen area, official results
from Region One were not available
at press time,
In Region Two, incumbent Gilbert
Tough and Vincent Marchakitus
garnered Republican nominations
while Kenneth Sorber and Marchak-
itus, who cross-filed, grabbed the
Democratic nominations.
Incumbent Donald Jones defeated
Stanley Gierczynski for the Republi-
can nomination in Region 3 while
Gierczynski gathered enough votes
fo earn
that nomination.
(More Election Results on p. 3)
Pranks in KT
Apparently persons in Kingston
Township have their seasons mixed
up, with police reporting a rash of
Halloween type ineidents. The first
the side door of the Trucksville
Elementary School on Oak Street
was painted with obscenities and
two small cans of paint were left at
the scene.
Then, a 1975 Ford Grenada owned
by Natalie Kennan, 224 Holly Street
was soaped with graffiti passages
and the headlights of the vehicle
were painted with a black water
base paint. In another reported inci-
dent, obscenities were written on
the hood of a 1983 Chevrolet Station
Wagon while it was parked in the
driveway at 221 Maple Street. The
owner Richard Dickson .also
reported that the headlights on the
station wagon were painted black.
In a seemingly unrelated bit of
Criminal Mischief, a window was
broken af the Penn Fern Service
Station at 39 North Memorial High-
way, Trucksville. Police, who are
continuing the investigation, report
that the damage was done with a
blunt object. \
weekend.