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want to inform you about the Back
Mountain area.
Some of the changes that have
already taken place in The Post are
the addition of a ‘‘Business’’ page,
to inform you of businesses as well
as business people in your area; a
“Community Calendar’ to keep you
posted on the upcoming events in
your area; an increase in feature
stories to provide you with some
lighter reading; and updated cover-
age of what’s happening in the local
school districts.
J.P. Doodles, a notable cartoon
character, has returned to the
delight of Post readers and will
appear periodically in our newspa-
per. We have also instituted a “Let-
ters Policy’, encouraging our read-
ers to voice their opinions on our
Perspective Page.
In the very near future, you will
notice even more changes. Soon we
will be using pictures and telephone
numbers of our correspondents who
write weekly ‘‘neighborhood news’
“columns. We hope you will take
advantage of this service and keep
our correspondents informed about
what’s going on in your life. Even
the smallest details, such as birth-
days and anniversaries, are of inter-
est to your neighbors.
As a weekly community newspa-
per, we don’t pretend to compete
with the daily newspapers. We
can’t! But, we can give you the kind
of news coverage for which the
daily papers don’t have room. We
can tell you who’s celebrating a
birthday, who’s being honored on
their wedding anniversary, who’s
vacationing in Hawaii and who’s got
the biggest tomatoes in their back-
yard garden.
We want to be a personal newspa-
per for you - the link between you
and your neighbors. We want to be
‘your’ newspaper.
All of our writers, to whom you
will be introduced following this
message, are Back Mountain resi-
dents just like you. They are your
neighbors and they want to bring
you the news about your commu-
nity. This can only be done if you,
the readers, will look upon them
and upon The Dallas Post as “your”
voice in the community.
In the three short months that I
have been employed at The Dallas
Post, I have found the people of the
Back Mountain area the most pleas-
ant to work with. And, I have
learned, there are an awful lot of
interesting people living here and
an awful lot of interesting things
happening.
I thoroughly enjoy working with
the people of this area, but my job
is made easier if, and only if, our
readers keep me and my correspon-
dents informed and only if our
readers ‘‘voice’ their opinions on
what pleases them and what doesn’t
please them about The Dallas Post.
We are not opposed to making
changes if our readers are not
satisfied with the product they are
receiving.
We have an ‘‘open-door policy’ at
The Dallas Post and would like to
hear from you. Please feel free to
stop by and visit us (we are located
in the Jean Shop Building on Route
415), call us (675-5211) or drop us a
line (P.O. Box 366, Dallas, Pa.
18612). Remember, we are here to
serve you. We want to be “your”
newspaper.
The following people are those
who will be bringing Back Mountain
news to your home every week.
Together, they have years and
years of experience in newspaper
reporting and we would like to
publicly commend them ior the job
they have done in the past. Their
work, however, is cut out for them
as we attempt to bring you a “new
and better’’ Dallas Post.
FOR
JANE C. BOLGER
Jane C. Bolger has been writing
about the people of the Back Moun-
tain since she moved to Dallas from
Brooklyn, N.Y., 18 years ago.
Following her writing and public
relations work in New York City,
Mrs. Bolger started working for The
Dallas Post with Mrs. T.M.B. Hicks.
She then went on to write for the
Suburban News, the Sunday Inde-
pendent, Penn State University-
Wilkes-Barre Campus and The
Times-Journal before returning to
The Post.
Mrs. Bolger and her husband,
Jim, reside at' 40 Midland Drive,
Dallas. They have three children,
Kathie, Jimmy and Brianne.
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JOAN KINGSBURY
Joan Kingsbury of Overbrook
Road, Dallas, has been a Dallas
Post correspondent for seven years.
Joan, who has also written for the
Suburban News, is the Cookbook
editor and feature writer for The
Post.
Mrs. Kingsbury is president of the
Westmoreland Parent-Teacher
Organization (PTO), does publicity
for the Gate of Heaven Altar and
Rosary Society, and is the assistant
leader of Junior Girl Scout Troop
633.
She and her husband, Bill, have
three children, Nicole, age 11;
Nancy, age 9%»; and Billy, age 3%.
CHARLOT M. DENMON
Charlot M. Denmon of Dallas has
been an employee of The Dallas
Post for 15 years. Beginning her
career at The Post as assistant to
the publisher, Mrs. Denmon later
served as News Editor for several
years and as Associate Editor for
one year.
Previously employed in Public
Relations with the Scranton Pocono
Girl Scout Council, the United Fund
and Penn State University-Wilkes-
Barre Campus, Mrs. Denmon is now
employed as an assistant in the
office ‘of Catherine Wilson, DPM,
Shavertown.
Married to Andrew Denmon, Sr.,
Charlot is the mother of three sons,
Warren, Fairfax, Va.; Andrew Jr.,
Dallas and Del, Evans Falls.
Mrs. Denmon covers the Lake-
Lehman School Board and writes
news and sports for The Dallas
Post.
Where you get a phone can be
almost as important as the phone
itself. Why?
For one thing. it takes a lot more
than phones to put your calls through
So your phone should work perfectly
with the system to which it's
connected
Commonwealth Telephone
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can buy or lease a phone and get all
the services you need
JOSEPH GULA
Joseph Gula, 20 Frederick St.,
Swoyersville, is the West Side Cor-
respondent for The Dallas Post.
Gula has 25 years experience in
the newspaper business, spending 12
years with the Sunday Independent,
10 years with Wyoming Valley
Observer and four years with The
Dallas Post.
In addition to covering West Side
news, Gula is a photographer and
advertising representative for The
Post. He also writes a weekly
column, entitled ‘‘Here and There.”
He and his wife, the former
Johanna Yarina of West Wyoming,
have two children, ‘Ronald, Plym-
outh; and Marianne Maticic, King-
man, Arizona. They also have three
grandchildren.
"LEE L. RICHARDS
Woman injured
A Connecticut woman was injured
on Aug. 28 when the car she was
driving collided with a station
wagon driven by Thomas Lamar
Peeler III, of 123 Warden Ave.,
Trucksville. The accident occurred
at the intersection of Wyoming
Avenue and Covert Street, Kingston.
Mary Hyde, of 23 Simon Place,
West Haven, Conn., was treated and
released at Nesbitt Memorial Hospi-
tal, Kingston.
Guardrail erected
The State Department of Trans-
portation put up a guardrail Aug. 29
across a Meadowcrest Manor Road,
disallowing residents of the housing
development use of the road.
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Lee L. Richards has been a sports
columnist for The Dallas Post for
eight years.
A Wilkes-Barre resident, Richards
was formerly employed as Sports
Editor of the Port Jervis Union
Gazette, Assistant Sports Editor of
the Centre Daily Times, State Col-
lege and Sports Editor of the
Sunday Independent.
Richards is currently the Public-
ity Director for the Eastern Wres-
tling League, a position he has held
for four years, and a staff writer for
Eastern Football Magazine where
he handles recruiting stories and
selected the All-East team.
Employed as a Tenant Relations
Director for the Housing Authority
of the County of Luzerne and Collec-
National Bank, Richards is: married
to the former Kathleen M. Schaefer.
SHEILA HODGES
Sheila Hodges, 258 Church St.,
Dallas, ‘is the circulation manager
for The Dallas Post and has been
writing for the newspaper for 18
months.
A native of Devonshire, England,
Mrs. Hodges has resided in the
Back Mountain area for 3!» years.
She and her husband, Paul, have
four children, Martin of Letchworth,
England; Christopher, a student at
Totnes High School, Devonshire,
England; Shari, Ocean City, N.J.;
and Alastair, at home.
Mrs. Hodges writes sports and
feature stories for The Post.
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PennDOT contends the project
owner, Anthony Garbush of Shaver-
town, has not obtained permits for
three roads within the development.
Garbush was granted road occu-
pancy permits for two of the three
roads in the early 1970’s but those
permits were revoked in 1980 due to
drainage problems in the area.
Garbush applied for the necessary
permits in 1981 but was denied them
because of the same drainage prob-
lem.
PennDOT wants Garbush to
install a storm water drainage
system in the 25-home development
and put in larger pipes to carry
water under the state highway. Gar-
bush’s attorney, Howeard Berman,
contends that fixing the drainage is
the responsibility of Jackson Twp.
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