By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
Lake-Lehman School Board announced its pro-
posed budget of $7.4 million for the 1984-85 school
year at last Tuesday’s meeting held in Lake-
Noxen School. The meeting was held at the
regular time of 8 p.m., despite a notice published
in error by a Wyoming Valley newspaper that it
was scheduled for 5 p.m.
Raymond Bowersox, business manager of the
Lake-Lehman School District, explained that
natices sent to all media listed the time as 8 p.m.
i it was obviously a printing error in the
newspaper.
The tentative $7.4 budget adopted by a 6-2 vote
sets ‘the real estate millage at 113 mills for
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mills.
A mill is a tax of $1 on each $1,000 of assessed
property valuation. At the 113 millage, owner of
real estate assessed at $5,000 for tax purposes
will have to pay $565 for 1984-85, up from $535 the
same property owner would have paid in taxes
for the 1983-84 school year.
In Noxen Township, owner of real estate
assessed at $5,000 will have to pay $595 for the
1984-85 school year, up $60 over the $535 thé same
property owner would have paid for the 1983-84
school year.
According to Bowersox, the district is required
by law to equalize the millage rate which should
have been done last year. This is because the
percentage of assessed market value of real
estate is not equal in Luzerne and Wyoming
Counties.
The difference in percentage of the millage is
calculated by the State Tax Equalization Board.
The local school districts or counties have no
jurisdiction in the matter.
Last year’s budget called for a 20-mill increase
but the board finally adopted a nine-mill increase
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Jeffrey, Pastor; George J. Alles, Jr.
parish building
Our Lady of Victory Church of Harveys Lake
began the formal construction of its new parish
community center with the blessing of the site
and the turning over of the first shovel of dirt by
Father George A. Jeffrey, Pastor, and other
parish leaders and principals in the building
program.
The expansion project will cost in excess of
$500,000 and will include a 265 seat parish center.
The daily chapel will accommodate 45 people for
Mass and will also serve as additional space to
accommodate overflow crowds during the
summer months and on Sundays. The lower
level of the parish center will house parish,
religious education and youth ministry offices.
Other features incorporated in this uniquely
designed bi-level center include a quiet room,
child care room, reconciliation room, religious
education classrooms, meeting room, a center
for social activities and a rectory.
Renovations to the 60-year-old church are to
include installation of new roof covering, new
church kneelers, new church carpeting, relead-
ing of the stained glass windows and installation
of lexan storm windows.
The program was necessary because of the
rapid growth of the parish and because of the
lack of any substantial space for the proper
development of a true faith community, and
finally to conduet parish social activities. Our
more than 350 families of permanent residence
increasing ‘by hundreds more during the
summer months.
Work will begin immediately in clearing the
large tract of land on which the parish eommu-
nity center will be built.
Father Jeffrey requested that parishioners
offer special prayers during the construction
phase of the parish, that all work might begin
with God’s blessing and be brought to prompt
completion with His assistance; and also that
the spiritual growth of the people who-are the
Church may continue to grow as the physical
plant continues to expand.
Lady of Victory Parish Community numbers
Dallas Post/Ed Campbell
By DOTTY MARTIN
Associate Editor
Street in Dallas, happened upon the
tombstone when organizing the attic
of the building to be used for
Tombstone found
ment’s resident,
returned to its resting place.
Dallas Post/Ed Campbell
a tombstone.
storage. Not knowing where to turn
at that point, she contacted The
Dallas Post and informed us of her
predicament.
“I think it’s a shame,” Miss
Graham said of the misplaced
tombstone.
family just may have noticed it
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By WALLY KOCHER
Staff Correspondent
An innovative public information
campaign using the resources of
55,000 community pharmacies, and
120,000 pharmacists across the ecoun-
try to help educate parents on the
health dangers of illicit drug use by
their children was launched
recently in Pennsylvania and the
rest of the nation.
The program, called Pharmacists
Against Drug Abuse (PADA) was
created by McNeil Pharmaceutical
and the Johnson & Johnson Family
of Companies. It is built around a
free brochure, ‘‘The Kinds of Drugs
Kinds Are Getting Into.” PADA
focuses on alerting the public to the
dangers of such commonly abused
“gateway” drugs as marijuana and
alcohol.
The program was deveioped using
pharmacists because local pharma-
academic ‘raining ‘and
professional expertise, arefexperts
in drugs and an ‘excellent source of
information on drug abuse.
Many pharmacists in ‘the Back
Mountain have also become actively
involved in the PADA program. One
in particular is Dominic Fino,
owner of Fino’s Pharmacy of
Dallas.
Fino explained what exactly the
pharmacists are being asked to do.
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“We have been sent some pam-
phlets that are filled with a lot of
information” on drug abuse,” he
said. ‘We are passing on to parents ht
or even kids who want to learn
more about the effects vof drug
abuse.
“We've always had a policy to
refuse sale of certain items that
might get the kids in trouble, like
cigarette papers, to minors,” Fino
added.
(See PREVENT, page 8)
By WALLY KOCHER
Staff Correspondent
(EDITOR’S NOTE: The month of
May has been designated as “Older
American’s Month.” The Dallas
Post has decided to honor these
individuals by featuring an Older
American in each week’s issue
during the month of May. We hope
to show that there is life, quality
life, after 65. We have chosen Mr.
Bill Davis, of Kunkle, as this week’s
honorary Older American.)
If there were ever a contest in
which the contestants had to be
judged on sincerity, kindness, opti-
mism and their sense of love for
their community, Bill Davis, 70,
would win hands down.
Many Dallas residents knew Mr.
Davis as’ the happy-go-lucky co-
owner of Davis’ Market on Memo-
rial Highway until it closed about
five years ago. Now, he is the
BILL DAVIS
manager at Chicken Plus which is
located in the same building in
which his market was located.
(See OLDER, page 8)
Officials from the Department of
Environmental Resources inspected
both the property of John Brdaric
on Bunker Hill Road and the Kings-
ton Township garage on Center
Street last Friday, but found no
wrongdoing at either location.
DER was checking the Brdaric
property following a complaint
about illegal dumping of demolition
waste and the township garage after
a complaint about illegal junkn
burning.
DER reported there was no evi-
dence of illegal dumping at the
Brdaric property and Kingston
Township manager - Mark Kunkle
the township garage.
Brdaric, who has appealed a court
decision concerning his filing for a
township permit to establish a land-
fill at 230 Bunker Hill Road, wants
to dump rubble from the buildings
his firm tears down. A hearing,
been postponed in order to give both
sides more time to arrange for
testimony.
Kunkle said the material that was i
buring at the township garage was A
branches and debris from the town-
ships’ annual spring cleanup,
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