By DOTTY MARTIN
Associate Editor
Since last Thursday night, residents of the
Back Mountain area have heard honking horns,
screaming cheerleaders and over-anxious
young athletes.
It was a history-making weekend for mem-
bers of both the Dallas and Lake-Lehman
chool Districts as athletic teams from both of
hose schools captured presiigions honors last
week.
It all started Thursday evening when the
Dallas boys’ basketball team grabbed the
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By JOAN KINGSBURY
Staff Correspondent
Teryl Farinola is a beautiful, well-adjusted first
grader. Bouncy, bubbly, and full of energy, Teryl is
the picture of a healthy, happy child.
Two years ago, however, Teryl, at the age of
four, had cancer. Doctors removed her kidney,
where a malignant tumor had developed and Tery!l
underwent multiple chemotherapy. Today, she is
living a full happy life.
Cancer is sometimes a most dreaded word.
Both Veronica and Michael Farinola, Teryl’s
parents will admit their first thought was, ‘How
can this be happening to our child?’’ As Veronica
explained, “We had always tried to place important
things first, such as church and family. Our
children had good eating habits, regular sleeping
hours, .a normal schedule and still, Teryl got
cancer.”
. Accepting the fact is hard as Michael noted.
‘“Hyveryone goes through a certain amount of anger,
District 2 Class AAA title from Bishop Hoban.
Hoban, the highly favored team in the annual
clash, was stunned at Dallas’ bone-chilling
victory while Dallas Coach Clarence 0zgo
tasted the sweetest victory yet of his young
coaching career.
The fun continued on Saturday evening when
the Lady Knights of Lake-Lehman ran to a 47-
39 victory over Scranton Prep to win the
District 2 Class AA championship. The title, the
first of its kind for the Lehman girls, was the
goal of the female cagers since the onset of the
1983-84 basketball season. Joe Martini, Lehman
coach, had his head in the clouds after the win
and had a difficult time grasping reality for a
while.
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frustration, fear and then, finally hope. You accept
things the way they are and try to get through it.”
When one person in the family is afflicted with
cancer, it seems every other member of the family
is, too, according to Veronica, because every
member i is affected in one way or another.
When Teryl’s tumor was discovered, the Fari-
nola’s daughter Emlyn was only 1% years old and
Veronica was expecting the couple’s youngest
daughter, Corrine, now 19 months. For Emlyn, who
is four years old, it was a period of difficult
adjustment, as she had to act much more grown up
than the baby she was. Fortunately, Emlyn
adjusted well.
How does a four year old respond to cancer
treatment?
Veronica and Michael both say it was Teryl’s
attitude that helped them make it through the
ordeal. Teryl speaks freely of her operation, about
the doctors and about the hospital with no apparent
fear. Her recovery from the operation itself was
remarkable as she was operated on Saturday
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Get me out of here!
By JANE C. BOLGER
Staff Correspondent,
There is just one fire hydrant in
all of Shavertown, just one usable
fire hydrant in all of Trucksville
and approximately 30 to 50 hydrants
in Dallas. As a result, two out of the
three Back Mountain volunteer fire
departments, out of necessity, use a
combination of tankers, pumpers
and hoses to pull water from creeks,
ponds and swimming pools to fight
fires.
The one fire hydrant in Shaver-
town is located behind the Acme in
the Shavertown Shopping Center,
according to Fire Chief Gary Beisel.
“There are three others put in by
a private developer on Wellington
and Kenilworth Drives,’”’ Beisel
said. “But they are not sufficient to
even put out a brush fire.”
And the fun went on through the weekend as
seven Lake-Lehman wrestlers captured
regional honors at the Class AA High School
Regional Wrestling Tournament held at Wil-
liamsport High School. The Knights, who saw
10 District 2 champions participate in regional
action, had eight winners after the final round
and brought home two regional medals, adv-
ancing seven wrestlers to State competition. As
the entire team picked up 92 points for first
place, the honors continued as Lehman Coach
Ed Ladamus was presented with the Coaches
Award.
It was five solid days of proud moments,
cries of victory and tears of ecstasy. It was five
days that belonged to the Back Mountain - to
its athletes, to its coaches and to its supporters.
Those five days are something of which all
these Back Mountain athletes can be mighty
proud.
The Dallas Post salutes all the fine athletes
who participated in these five days of reckon--
ing. We salute the coaches and we salute the
fans of these two schools. And we offer the best
wishes as these athletes continue in post-season
competition.
(For the stories, complete results and photos
of these record-making events, see this week’s
sports section.)
25 Cents
By WALLY KOCHER
Staff Correspondent
It has been years since prayers
have risen to the heavens from the
classrooms, however, due to the
work of some of our legislators in
Washington, D.C., this may soon
change.
Since the initial action was taken
two decades ago to prohibit prayer
in school, the issue was debated
many times among private citizens.
Government, however, hesitated to
take a definite stand on the matter
until now.
President Reagan has presented a
resolution, Joint Senate Resolution
73, to the Senate and Congress. The
resolution favors prayer in schools.
In a telephone interview with The
Dallas Post, Steve Galebach,
Deputy Assistant Director for Legal
Policy in the Office of Policy at the
White House, explained exactly
what President Reagan’s resolution
includes.
“The basic idea of the resolution
is to restore balance between those
students of majority faiths, minority
faiths, and those students who are
objectors,” said Galebach. ‘‘The
three points of the resolution are: 1)
to allow both vocal and silent pray-
ers, 2) to prevent government man-
dated prayer, and 3) to give the
same public facilities and privileges
to non-religious groups and religious
groups.
According to Galebach, there are
six ways in which these goals can
be met.
“Each class can have a different
student volunteer pray out loud
each day, or the school can have the
student volunteer pray over the
P.A, system,” he said. ‘‘Also, a
'PWP group meets
Brenda Zahorsky, Dallas.
Trucksville.
Paul J. LaBar, Jean Duda, Dallas; and
Clinton A. Murdoch, Shavertown and Carole Loberg,
Single parenting has become a
part of today’s life and almost every
one knows a single parent or two.
The one '‘tunctional fire hydrant
in Trucksville,” according to Fire
Chief Gerald Kapral, is in Meadow-
crest and pumps approximately 400
gallons a minute.
“The other two Meadowcrest
hydrants draw from the same water
system so there is no use even
opening them,” said Kapral. ‘And
two others, installed years ago by
the Meadowcrest Water Company
have been taken out.”
Efficiency of the fire hydrants in
Dallas varies greatly according to
Fire Chief Robert Besecker.
“The ones by the school are good,
so is the one by the First Eastern
Bank that pumps 1,000 a minute,”
said Besecker. ‘But the one in
Shrine View only pumps 50 gallons a
minute and the ones around Daven-
port Street and the Heights are very
low, too.
“The new ay Hydeants are great
Kevin Wagner, a teller at the Dailas Branch of United Penn
Bank, put in more hours than he expected to last Thursday
when the lock on his drive-in bank booth jammed. Kevin,
shown here watching a locksmith try his best, never got out
of the booth until 7 p.m. And getting out was no picnic,
either. After having no luck with the lock on the outside of
the door, the locksmith cut out the window in the door and
crawled in the booth to work from the inside. When the door
still wouldn’t open, the locksmith crawled back out the
window and Kevin crawled out after him. We hope Kevin
didn’t have any important plans for after work that night.
But, we're also wondering if the bank is going to pay him
overtime.
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This week, March 11-18, has been
proclaimed ‘National Single Parent
Week,” a public service campaign
that is designed to create an
increased awareness of the single
parent community.
Parents Without Partners (PWP)
provides information and organized
programs for single parents and
their families - a caring, sharing,
learning, growing type of environ-
ment that seeks to make being a
single parent a bit less lonely.
Educational and social programs
are provided for the single parent.
The Parents Without Partners
Organization has been committed to
helping make single parent families
stronger for nearly 26 years. There
are currently 200,000 members in
more than 1,000 PWP chapters
throughout the United States and
Canada.
The Wilkes-Barre Area Chapter of
Parents Without Partners will held
an open house on Sunday, Mareh 18,
from 2 to 5 p.m. at St.. Therese's
Church, Old River Road.
The local PWP chapter meets on
the third Wednesday of each month.
The chapter may be contacted
through the blue pages of the tele-
phone directory or by writing to
Parents Without Partners, P.O. Box
1452, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18702.
We had the first one four years
ago,” Besecker added. ‘‘There is
one at Newberry Estates and one at
the Meadows complex. They have
pipes under the pond a few feet
from the bottom and you can suck
the water out.”
Maintenance of the other Dallas
hydrants and the one in Shavertown -
is primarily the responsibility of the
Dallas-Shavertown Water Company.
The charge, according to Water
Company Manager Joseph Falla is
approximately $21 per quarter, per
hydrant, paid by the municipality.
“Dallas High School, Country
Club Apartments and Common-
wealth Telephone Company have
theiz own and are responsible for
maintenance,” Falla said. “We just
provide water service.
‘Dallas has sufficient storage
capacity,” added Falla. “But Shav-
ertown has no storage capacity.
Dallas has 250,000 gallons stored in
the Culver Stand Pipe near the high
school; 210,000 gallons in the Natona
Stand above Stone Hedge; 70,000
gallons in the Machell Stand Pipe;
and Country Club Apartments has
45,000 gallons in the inground con-
crete reservoir.
‘The Dallas-Shavertown Water
Company requests all fire compa-
nies to notify us when the hydrants
are in use,” he added, ‘‘so we can
keep watch on the supply.”
“Depending ‘on where the fire is,
we run hoses to the creek, to
Frances Slocum, to swimming pools
- anywhere we can get ‘it,’ said
Chief Kapral of Trucksville.