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Parents and Kids (PAK) recent!
to the Dallas
chner, PAK.
By JOAN KINGSBURY
Staff Correspondent
PAK, a program of parents
and kids working together in the
Back Mountain, has been instru-
mental in the implementation of
a drug and alcohol abuse preven-
Dallas Post/Rod Kaye
y made a monetary donation
Shown during the
tion program within the Dallas
School System.
Organized last April, PAK has
as its main objectives to promote
educational and recreational pro-
grams for young people in the
Back Mountain area. The initial
meeting, held at Trinity Presby-
(See PAK, page 8)
Leading the mass
The Most Reverend John J. O
‘Connor, D.D., newly installed
Bishop O’
Connor
His Excellency, Most Reverend
John J. O’Connor, D.D. newly
installed Bishop of Scranton, visited
Bishop O’Reilly High School in
Kingston on Sept. 2 to celebrate
Mass for the beginning of the school
year.
The Mass was the culmination of
a week’s activities where teachers
and staff gathered at a meeting to
prepare for the school’s 29th aca-
demic year. Bishop O'Reilly is the
oldest centralized Catholic high
school in the Scranton Diocese.
Seventh, eighth and ninth grade
students reported for orientation
and class assignments on Tuesday,
Sept. 6. The entire school body
attended classes on Sept.. 7. The
tudents were welcomed by Rev.
Theodore Marcinko, newly installed
Principal of the west side school. In
his address, Father Marcinko told
the students that he welcomed the
opportunity to act as principal at an
institution so rich in tradition and
history. He asked them for their
help in enabling them to reach their
full potentials.
Bernard Popson, Dean of Stu-
dents, spoke to the students about
their responsibilities as young
Christian men and women, and Miss
Margaret Chulvick, Director of Stu-
dent Activities, encouraged them to
- become involved in the multitude of
sports and extra-curricular aectivi-
ties available at he school. Chulvick
stressed to the students that success
lay in their hands, and that having
pride in the school and participating
in its activities was the path to
success.
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By SHEILA HODGES
Statf Correspondent
Boy Scout Troop 281, sponsored by
the Dallas United Methodist Church,
is celebrating its 50th year and
plans to announce a special anniver-
sary celebration in the near future.
The troop’s 1983-84 season will
begin Thursday, Sept. 15, with its
opening meeting scheduled for 7:30
p.m. at the Dallas United Methodist
Church.
Scoutmaster Henry Steuben of
Dallas currently has 28 active mem-
bers in his troop as the Dallas troop
has accepted some members from
the recently-disbanded Shavertown
troop.
Steuben became Scoutmaster of
Troop 281 earlier this year after the
former scoutmaster, Bob Schooley,
left the area. For a while, the troop
was without a leader and was con-
tinued by volunteer fathers. Steu-
ben, whose son Greg has recently
joined the troop, was approached
for the job and has since found it to
be a very rewarding challenge.
Steuben and his assistants,
Eugene Gingo and Barry Brown,
are currently planning fall activities
which will kick off with. a Fall
Camporee in October. The Campo-
ree is followed by a Polar Bear
Camp in February and a swimming
competition during the winter
months. All of these activities are
designed to sharpen the competitive
spirit of the troop as a number of
scout troops in District 2 are
involved in them.
The scouts of Troop 281 were hard
at work at the Luzerne County Fall
Fair acting as parking lot attend-
ants, a project they undertake every
year as part of their community
service scheme to earn credit
Misericordia -
receives aid
By JANE C. BOLGER
Staff Correspondent
College Misericordia has received
a $24,250 State Department of
Energy Grant to cover the latest
energy conservation project taking
place on the Dallas campus. The
grant will cover the changing of the
air conditioning unit at McHale
Dormitory from steam conversion
to electricity at an estimated yearly
savings of $9,307 with the unit
than four years.
This is planned as the first step in
utlimately shutting down the central
gas steam conversion plant which
serves the entire campus and
replacing it with more efficient indi-
vidual building units for hot water
and cooling. This would allow the
complete turning off of units not in
use during the summer months,
according to Kevin McGovern,
Coordinator of Grants at College
Misericordia.
Another energy conservation
project planned at the local college,
according to McGovern, iS uni-
formly replacing all roofs with two-
inch insulated foam roofing as is
presently being done at the Merrick
Student Center. Changing campus
lighting to high intensity sodium
lamps is another energy saver
which in the case of McCauley-
Walsh Hall, McGovern estimated
would reduce electric consumption
500 percent. z
College Misericordia, which won
the Governors Energy Council
Award in 1981 for savings realized
then, has been involved continu-
ously in energy conservation. Last
year, a complete on-campus energy
audit was conducted which will be
used as the basis of a large number
of future projects.
Hearing is set
in Gabriel case
A public hearing for John Gabriel,
building and grounds. supervisor for
the Dallas School District, will be
held Thursday, Sept. 15, at 7 p.m. in
the District Administration Build-
ing, Church St., Dallas.
The Sept. 15 hearing will probably
be only the first of what could drag
out to be 10 or 15 hearings or a
possible 40 plus hours of testimony.
The entire Dallas School Board
will sit as a panel of judges at all
the hearings and will be represented
by Atty. Charles Lemmond who has
been appointed Special Counsel to
the Board in this matter.
Gabriel is being represented by
Atty. Arthur Piccone.
Gabriel, who went to court to
dispute the Dallas School Board's
Aug. 8 action firing him from the
position of building and grounds
supervisor, has continued working
in his current capacity pending the
outcome of this hearing. i
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Asst. Scoutmaster.
toward summer activities.
Steuben, who is trying to get the
older boys more involved as poten-
tial leaders, feels this is what
modern day Scouting is all about.
The senior patrol leaders now have
more ‘ideas of how they would like
“The patrol system should work
more-as a small group with adult
Carnival family
supervision and guidance,”’ the
scoutmaster said.
Steuben explained that Scouting
continues throughout the year but
that there tends to be little activity
following Summer Camp at the end
of July.
Troop 281 was especially success-
ful at camps this summer as a
number of younger scouts, involved
By JANE C. BOLGER
Staff Correspondent
Behind the scenes at the Fall Fair
last week were people brushing
their teeth with water from paper
cups, washing diapers, shaving,
knitting, feeding their dogs, and
reading the paper. They were the
workers - ‘the traveling carnies’’ -
who, year after year in town after
town, make the magic that the
people crowd to see.
While hundreds of children
thrilled to the attractions at the 1983
Luzerne County Fall Fair, the
youngest one there, Miss Justine
Lynn Swika who was just 18 days
old on the fair’s opening day, didn’t
join in the festivities. Justine spent
most of her time napping in the
family trailer at the edge of the fair
grounds off Route 118 in Lehman,
while three other generations of her
family were working the rides,
amusements, and concession on the
midway.
Her great grandfather Steve
Swika, who started the family busi-
ness 60 years ago during the depres-
sion with one concession in Peck-
ville, was working in the office
along with his wife Regina who acts
as secretary. Grandpa Steve Swika
i
Jr., who managers S & S Amuse-
ments, was trouble shooting out on
the grounds while his wife, Jackie,
who doubles as Show Secretary, was
running the French Fry concession.
Steve III, who proudly greeted his
first child August 20, was supervis-
ing the rides while the new mother
Christine looked after the baby and
her sister stood in for her by run-
ning the Candy Booth Game. The
young couple, who just bought a
winter house in Montdale, met two
years ago when Steve was working
the Norristown Firemen’s Fair
which Christine attended as a
female firefighter of the Springmill
Fire Company.
The Waffle and Ice Cream Con-
cession is run by Steve’s sister
her 14-month-old son, Adam, who is
just learning the business. All the
trailers belonging to the family
members are clustered together
with lawn chairs set out and the
family dogs tied in the shade. Steve
III presently has two dogs - a beagle
given to him at the Hartford Fair
last summer and a German Shep-
herd pup another fair goer gave him
earlier this year in Clarks Summit.
The Swika family, who now owns
26 rides plus concessions, are hard
(See SWIKA, page 8)
Shi Me
in scouting for the first time, quali-
fied in fields ranging from swim-
ming to basketry to geology. He
45 merit badges and 23 skill awards.
These awards were presented at a
camp fire meeting held recently
where the boys entertained their
parents with ‘songs and anecdotes
from camp.
‘Carni man’
is watching
By JANE C. BOLGER
Staff Correspondent
When you are at a fair and
suspiciously watching ‘“‘the pitch-
man’ who has taken your money, it
may come as a surprise to know he
may also be watching you and
making some judgements of his
own.
“The guy who spends the most
money is the greediest one,” said
Joe Sheldon who has been in the
business of running carnival games
for 25 years.
“Some people just want some-
thing for nothing and they're the
first to say the game’s not honest,”
continued Sheldon who ran such
games as The Duck Pond, The Fish
Bowl, Darts, Pitch and Live Rabbits
“at the Luzerne County Fall Fair last
week. ‘‘Some people who come to
these fairs are stupid, some are
smart, they’re just like us - ‘“‘car-
nies” are people, too” he continued
defensively waving his arms in the
air.
Two of Sheldon’s employees who
had previously been talking to a
reporter about life with the fair
stood by nodding their heads as
“the boss’ sounded off about the
people who attend fairs.
One was 21-year-old Terry, a
clean cut platinum haired youth
who joined the troup five years ago
when it passed through his home-
town of Massillon, Ohio. At age 16,
Terry ‘just packed up’ and has
since traveled continuously from
New York to Pompano Beach, Flor-
ida, an experience he described as
‘like camping out all the time.”
His buddy, 20-year-old Ed Shay,
who originally hailed from Reading,
was hired by Sheldon Amusements
a year and a half ago when he
attended a fair in Newfoundland. He
said, “I’m having a good time, I’m
not tied down.”
“My guys come from every walk
of life,” Sheldon said. ‘It’s not a
bad life for a single person, it’s
better than welfare. There's a lot of
unemployment out there. Every-
body here is working...so, they only
stay for a year or so...they get paid
while they’re here. We have water
and electricity, we shave, we get
washed up, we shower before the
shows, we change our clothes, we're
just like you people.” 3
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Calendar .............. 16
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Obituaries ............ 3
People ............ 12,13
Perspective ............ 4
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