New employees
Elizabeth Jones, Noxen.
Twelve new people joined the
Meadows Nursing Center staff on
Sept. 26 and were assigned directly
to nursing care duties.
The new personnel, all of whom
have had previous nursing home
experience, received instructions in
the Center’s policies, procedures,
and services from Mrs. Judith Har-
ding, R.N. Director of Nursing and
nel.
Stockholders
call meeting
Directors of First Eastern Corp.
have called a special meeting of
stockholders for Wednesday morn-
ing, Oct. 26 at 9:30 at the Gus
Genetti Motor Inn, Wilkes-Barre.
Richard M. Ross, Jr., president
and chief executive officer, said the
general purpose of the matters to be
considered at the special meeting is
to “insure that the First Eastern
Corp. and its principle asset, First
Eastern Bank, N.A., continue to be
the types of organizations that the
stockholders, directors and officers
want them to be.”
Ross said stockholders are being
proposal -that would inerease the
authorized stock to 15 million
shares. The stock would consist of
five million shares of no par value
preferred and 10 million shares of
$10 par value common stock. There
are presently outstanding 964,883
shares of common stock.
“The additional authorized stock
will give us the resources we needed:
to acquire other compatible finan-
cial institutions as well as rais
capital on a basis that is fair to the
present stockholders,”” Ross
explained. He added that with the
additional authorized common stock
available the directors have decided
to consider a 50 percent stock divi-
dend payable to stockholders early
in 1984. 3
“There are no plans for any
mergers or for raising additional
capital at the present time,” Ross
added.
Dividends declared
Harold J. Rose, Jr., President and
Chief Executive Officer of the Wyo-
ming National Bank of Wilkes-
Barre, has announced that the
Board of Directors has declared a
third quarter dividend of 50 cents
per share on its common stock
outstanding. This dividend is an
increase of five cents over the
previous quarter.
This dividend is the 375th regular
dividend declared by the Wyoming
National Bank. :
The main offices of the Wyoming
National Bank are located on West
Market Street in downtown Wilkes-
Barre. The bank also maintains 10
branch offices.
Nursing Center Administrator
Thomas J. Sweeney noted that the
additional personnel bring the total
full-time and part-time staff to 75.
Of the 12 new additions, six come
from the Back Mountain Area:
The Meadows Nursing Center is a
facility for skilled and intermediate
nursing care and accepts short and
long-term patients. It is owned and
operated by Ecumenical Enter-
Gary Baker
is certified
Gary S. Baker, manager of Back
Mountain Wood Stoves, Lehman,
recently received certification as a
Solid Fuel Safety Technician.
Baker’s certification, assigned by
the Wood Heating Education and
Research Foundation, Washington,
D.C., applies to the safe and proper
installation of all wood and coal
stoves and their chimneys.
The testing material used by the
Wood Heating Education and
Research Foundation was in con-
junction with The American Insur-
ance Association, The Tennessee
Valley Authority, The National
Chimney Sweeps Guild, The U.S.
Consumer Product Safety Commis-
sion, The American Vocational
Association, and The Wood Heating
Baker, who is starting his sixth
year as manager of Back Mountain
Stoves, feels the Solid Fuel Safety
Technician Program is a positive
step for the residents of Northeast-
ern Pennsylvania. He is available
for participation in seminar and
safety programs involving the safe
and proper installation and mainte-
multi-fuel burning equipment. He is
also available for private inspection
work.
prises, local
Inc. - a non-profit
corporation sponsored by the First
Presbyterian Church of Wilkes-
Barre, the Roman Catholic Diocese
of Scranton, the Jewish Federation
of Greater Wilkes-Barre, and the
Metropolitian Lutheran Council of
Wyoming Valley. Attorney Sol
Lubin is President of EEL.
CEO administers
Operation Share
UGI Corp. has said it has selected
the Commission on Economic
Opportunity to administer its Opera-
tion Share fund in Luzerne County.
Operation Share is an emergency
fund that UGI established in August
with an initial company contribution
of $50,000 to help its needy residen-
tial customers finding themselves
unable to pay their energy bills, due
to a crisis situation. Beyond the
initial contribution, UGI will con-
tribute one dollar for each two
dollars contributed to the fund by
cusfomers and company employees
up to $25,000. This fund will be
allocated to the Gas and Electric
Utility Divisons in proportion to the
number of customers in each divi-
sion.
Fred Hartwigsen, UGI’s manager
of consumer relations, said CEO,
located at 211 South Main Street,
Wilkes-Barre, is prepared to begin
accepting and processing applica-
tions for the energy grants this
week.
“Applications must be made in
person,’ Hartwigsen noted, ‘‘as
none will be accepted by phone.”
Both residential heating and non-
heating customers of UGI are eligi-
ble for the financial assistance.
Under Operation Share, one-time
grants of up to $200 may be
‘awarded to electric heating custom-
ers and up to $50 may go to persons
using electricity for other than heat-
involved the Optometric
care in the specialty of con-
tact lens fitting, sports vi-
sion, and general Optom-
etry.
He is a graduate of Wyom-
ing Valley West High School
and Wilkes College; and a
recent graduate of the Penn-
sylvania Oollegs of Op-
tometry in Philadelphia,
where he became a life
/ ember, of the Bota Sigma
Kappa Honor raternity.
tor ay has served
several internships, these in-
cluded: the Eye Institute of
the Pennsylvania College of
Optometry; Veteran's Ad-
ministration Medical Cen-
ter; and Biernacki Eye
Associates. He is also a
member of the Northeastern
Pennsylvania Optometric
Association, the American
Optomsezle Association.
tor Moody is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Fred B. Moody
‘of Forty Fort. He currently
resides in the Forty Fort
area.
Cof C
drive
begins
John McNelis, Bell of Pennsyl-
vania and Chairman for the Greater
Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Com-
merce 1983 Star Team, announced
recently that 50 people will partici-
pate in this year’s sales blitz.
Participants include Rick Allan,
Allan Industries; Sandy Bartosh,
Kidder Peabody; Bob Brittian,
PG&W; Joseph Butcher, PG&W;
Gerald Calderone, Friedmans
Express, Inc.; James Campbell,
Penn State University; Terry
Casey, Sr., Penn East Real Estate
Co.; Steve Cicak, Atlantic Insurance
Services, Co.; Eileen M. Connolly;
Mike Cook, Merrill Lynch; Dave
Davis, The Times Leader; Michael
Demko, United Penn Bank;
Anthony Dombroski, N.E. PA Red
Cross; David Drasnin, Prudential-
Bache; Michael Duricko, United
Penn Bank; Bob Ell, King’s Col-
lege; Don Gaetono, MONY; Carl
Goeringer, Jr., Century 21 Real
Estate; Fred Hartwigsen, UGI Cor-
poration.
Also, Joseph Hunt, Patient Care
Corp.; Clayton Karambelas, C.K.
Coffee Service; Joseph Krincek,
Krincek Catering; Peter Mailloux,
InterMetro; William Mainwaring,
First Eastern Bank; Andrew
Mamary, A&M Supply, Robert
Maturi; Norris Mcgowan, UGI Cor-
poration; Bernie Mengeringhausen,
United Penn Bank; George Moses,
Mozip Sign; Diane Myers, League
of Women Voters; Bill Newman,
United Penn Bank; Richard Santee,
PG&W; Louis Shaffer, Esq.; Lynn
Sheehan, American Bell; George
Shore, Cardiilo-Shore Associates;
Bernie Slusarz, First Eastern Bank;
Peter Steve Jr., Custom Manage-
ment Corp.; George Stozenski,
PP&L; Delores Temerantz, A&M
Supply; Marjorie Trethaway,
Franklin First Federal Savings &
Loan; Carl Urbanski, O0.D.; and
Gary Williams, Fist Eastern Bank.
The Star Team consists of Cham-
two-day telethon blitz at King’s Col-
lege in an effort to raise the total
membership of the Greater Wilkes-
Barre Chamber of Commerce to
1,000 members.
The Star Team participants will
meet at King’s College on Oct. 13
and 14 where they will place over
2,000 telephone calls to prospective
new members.
New sign displayed
Dallas,
left, Nursing Center
EE:
The Meadows Nursing Center,
Dallas, got its name in lights as
workmen recently completed
installing a 3'%’x10’ illuminated sign
in the foreground of the Center’s
front kntrance. The sign, which can
be seen easily from Route 415 and
West Center Hill Road, displays the
distinctive green ‘Meadows’ logo
that has become the symbol of both
the Nursing Center and the adjacent
Meadows Apartments.
Situated directly across from Col-
lege Misericordia, the Nursing
Center opened officially on Aug. 31.
At present it has reached one third
occupancy of its 120 beds. The
Nursing Center is a facility for
skilled and intermediate nursing
care on a long-term basis.
Both the Nursing Center and the
by Ecumenical Enterprises, Inc.
tion sponsored by the First Presby-
terian Church of Wilkes-Barre, the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Scran-
ton, the Jewish Federation of
Greater Wilkes-Barre and the Met-
ropolitan Lutheran Council of Wyo-
ming Valley.
Walter E. Wint of Wilkes-Barre
and Frank Townend of Dallas Town-
ship joined 140 other county emer-
gency management executives at
the 1983 Annual Conference con-
ducted by the Pennsylvania Emer-
gency Management Agency in
Wilkes-Barre, Sept. 12-14.
The three-day conference is an
annual meeting of county, state and
federal emergency management
personnel to review community
disaster preparedness programs in
the Commonwealth.
Federal, state and county officials
addressed a range of subjects
including federal policies and per-
ceptions of emergency manage-
ment. Workshop topics included
community hazard and vulnerabil-
ity analysis, a review of Pennsyl-
fire safety education programs.
The conference was federally
funded by the Federal Emergency
Management Agency with all ‘costs
for attendance by County officials
reimbursed.
Robert Behlke, of 182 Parrish St.,
Dallas, has become a registered
representative of Lutheran Brother-
hood Securities Corp. (LBSC).
As a registered representative,
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Behlke is now qualified to sell the
five mutual funds distributed by
LBSC. LBSC is. a subsidiary of
insuranee society. Both corporations
are headquartered in Minneapolis.
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