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The GFWC Luzerne County Federation of Women’s
Clubs will sponsor its Third Annual Federation Day on
Saturday, March -17, at Boscov’s Department Store,
Wilkes-Barre.
Federation Day is a fund-raising effort to benefit a
community agency. Hospice Saint John, a non-denomi-
national home care program for the terminally ill and
their families, is the agency selected to receive this
year’s funds.
The funds received from Federation Day will be
used to furnish and equip a six to eight in-patient unit.
The unit can be used as an alternative to hospitaliza-
tion.
Various clubs have planned special activities
throughout Boscov’s for Federation Day.
Kiddee City will amuse the younger set with games,
clowns, magicians, face painting and jugglers. Special
appearances will be made by Care Bears, Darth
Vader and Yoda.
Booths featuring pierogies, hot dogs and sauerkraut,
whimpies, funnel cakes and other items will be found
in three locations throughout the store.
St. Patty’s
Dance set
Plans have been finalized for the
St. Patrick’s Day Dance to be held
Saturday, March 17, at the Harveys
Lake Pub. Sponsored by the Har-
veys Lake Protective Association,
the dance will continue from 8 to
midnight with music provided by
“Response.” The dance is open to
the public and admission will be
$3.00.
Tickets may be purchased in
advance at the Borough Building,
Javer’s Store, Taft’s Market, and
Drury’s Deli, or at the door on the
evening of the dance. Shown in the
photo are committee members.
From left, Marian DeBalko, Pat
Giordano and JoAnna Feddock,
chairman.
Delaney baby
A Merchandise and Celebrity Auction will be held on
the fourth floor with all of the items on the auction
block being donated by local businessmen and noted
celebrities. :
Some lucky person will win an all-expense paid trip
to London or Nassau for two or a trip for four to
Disney World-Epcot. Tickets are available at Boscov’s
or from any federated women’s club member.
Hospice volunteers will be selling Welsh cookies
made by their members and also will have cookbooks
available. om
Local radio and television personalities and notable
political figures will make appearances throughout the
day.
Members of the following clubs are taking part in
the day’s activities: Avoca, Bear Creek, Dallas Area,
Dallas Juniors, Duryea, Greater Pittston, West Pitts-
ton, West Side, West Side Evening, West Side Juniors
and Wyoming. ;
Sandra Timko is Federation Day chairman, assisted
by Betty Doran. Bernardine Borinski, GFWC presi-
dent, honorary chairman.
~ Kathryn Ann Delaney, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. “P.J.”
was christened March 3 by Rev.
George Jeffrey in Our Lady of
Victory Church, Harveys Lake.
Godparents are Maureen Dillon,
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Kathryn Ann was born January 20
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By JANE C. BOLGER
Staft Correspondent
If you’ve been watching the Pro
Bowlers Tournament on TV or plan
to watch the Summer Olympics,
then you’ll be proud to know Joe
Balkan is a Back Mountain resident.
Twenty-six year old Joe, who lives
at Pole 296, Harveys Lake, is pri-
marily responsible for all the fast
camera work for these and count-
less other major sports events like
the World Series, N.F.L. games and
the Fiesta Bowl.
Balkan who says, ‘I've never
lived further than 25 miles from
Wilkes-Barre,” is a graduate of
Pittston Area High School and Penn
State-Scranton Campus where he
majored in Electrical Engineering.
From there, traveling coast to coast
as the working Vice President and
General Manager of North East
Productions’ ‘Super Shooters’’, an
affiliate of Channel 16, was a series
of giant steps for Joe Balkan.
Balkan’s career started in 1975
when as a high school student he
landed a part-time job with WVIA-
TV, Channel 44 often acting as a
‘‘go-between” to WNEP-TV as tapes
were transferred.
“They got to know my face,” he
said. And when Channel 16
expanded to live instant cameras in
1978, they needed an electronic
technician and Joe got the job.
For the next two years he did
‘the live news engineering and
remotes on location,” but then he
“got bored” and ‘‘wanted to get into
TV on a larger scale.” The eventual
result was the now four-year-old
company which lists Tom Shelburne
Sales Manager.
“The Super Shooters” do weekly
and daily national TV shows for all
three major channels as well as
HBO and ESPN, the cable sports
network. They have their equipment
housed in a $2% million trailer
especially designed with such fea-
tures as seven cameras worth $120,-
000, three machines for instant
replays and slow motion, an audio-
intercom service and a self-con-
tained telephone system.
The technically-perfect truck is
just one of the reasons Joe Balkan
will be at the Summer Olympics in
L.A. this year, another is just plain
hard work - Balkan estimates he
“puts in 80 hours a week’ on the
job. A typical day was last Friday
when Joe called this reporter from
the sound truck on location in Cleve-
land, prior to starting preparations
for filming the Pro-Bowlers Tour.
“I'll get to sleep at 7 (p.m.) then
get up and work from midnight
straight through - 19% or 20 hours
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Under a contractural agreement
with ABC, Joe will be filming the
canoeing and rowing Olympic com-
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He explained, “The cameras will
be on boats or on platforms in the
water along the 2500 meter course -
be on each of two boats.” Ii
Joe estimates he spends ‘about
270 days a year on the road.” In
between, however, he can some-
times be found running his 19-foot
speed boat around Harveys Lake.
More often he spends his recrea-
tional time wtching TV as he has a
giant satellite disc, cabable of
receiving 120 channels, mounted on
the roof of his boat house.
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