2 THE DALLAS POST, WEDN
Dallas resident
ESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1984
.. Richard M. Ross, Jr., chairman of
the board and chief executive offi-
cer of First. Eastern Bank, N.A.,
recently announced that William R.
Mainwaring was elected to the
office of president of that institu-
‘tion. Ross said further that Main-
waring, a resident of the Back
Mountain who began his banking
career with First Eastern in June of
1965, will also serve as executive
«vice president of First Eastern
Corp., the bank’s parent firm.
' Ross noted that Mainwaring ‘‘has
< proved himself to ‘be an able, dedi-
‘cated, imaginative and hard work-
ing banker...since starting out as a
Wilkes College intern.” The new
president worked his way through
the credit and commercial loan
banking functions of First Eastern
, and was executive vice president in
charge of the Commercial Banking,
Finance and Investment Group at
the time of his promotion.
Ross said that, in his new posi-
tion, Mainwaring will involve him-
self even further in policy making
‘and planning and will assume
greater responsibility in the super-
'vising of those areas of the bank
that are not currently reporting to
him.
Mainwaring also serves as presi-
dent of First Eastern Life Insurance
Company and is executive vice
»president of Keystone Equipment
Leasing Co., two wholly owned sub-
‘sidiaries of First Eastern Bank,
.N.A.
WILLIAM R. MAINWARING
A 1961 graduate of Plains High
School, Mainwaring received a
from Wilkes College in 1965 and his
MBA from the same institution in
1972. He also was graduated from
the ‘American Bankers Association
Lending School at the University of
Oklahoma and the Stonier Graduate
School of Banking at Rutgers Uni-
versity.
Mainwaring’s present affiliations
burg; and Irem Temple, Dallas. He
is a member and ‘past president of
the Wyoming Valley Chapter, Amer-
ican Institute of Banking and is a
member of Trucksville United
Methodist Church and the Newberry
Country Club.
Mainwaring resides at Lake
Louise, Dallas, with his wife, Judy,
and children Jonnell, 16, and Rob,
13, both students at Wyoming Semi-
nary.
New truck arrives
Police Chief Paul Sabol of the
Kingston Township Police Depart-
ment would like to inform residents
that beginning November 1, the
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winter parking ordinance will go
into effect. This ordinance prohibits
the parking of vehicles on all public
streets between the hours of 2 a.m.
and 6 a.m. Residents are requested
to place their vehicles in their own
driveways to permit the plowing of
Snow.
Beginning Monday, Nov. 12,
through Monday Nov. 19, the Kings-
ton Township Road Deparpment
will be conducting a ‘leaf pickup
program. Residents are requested
to place their leaves in standard
garbagd bags and place them on the
curbs by 7 a.m. Raking leaves into
the storm drains of the streets is
prohibited. Placing leaves in the
gutters will block the storm drain-
age systems and cause flooding of
the streets. It is also illegal to burn
any leaves in the gutters of the
streets due to the damage it causes
to the asphalt.
The Kingston Township Municipal
Offices will be closed on Tuesday,
Nov. 6, for Election Day. The office
will be open on Wednesday, Nov. 7.
The ninth annual Luzerne County
Folk Festival is coming! From
October 25 through 28 at the 109th
F.A. Armory in Kingston, there will
be a celebration of the ethnic heri-
tage of Northeastern Pennsylvania
with 26 ethnic groups represented.
A showcase for the arts, crafts,
music, dance, traditions and food
specialties of many lands, the Folk
Festival is Northeastern Pennsyl-
vania’s only full scale multi-ethnic
celebration of the regional heritage.
Each day of the Festial offers a
different folk performance by a
major out-of-area ensembles. Open-
ing night, Thursday, Oct. 25, will
feature traditional American talent,
while a Chinese company will high-
Penn office.
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light the Friday evening schedule.
Saturday evening performances will
feature the Czechoslovak Moravan
Dancers of Endicott, N.Y., the
Ukrainian Dance Ensemble of Asto-
ria, N.Y. and the Grandinele Lithu-
anian Company of Ohio. On Sunday
afternoon at 2:30 p.m., the famed
Duquesne Tamburitzans ‘will per-
form the song, dance and music of
Eastern Europe. y
Admission is $3.50 for adults, $1.00
for students and children under 12
years of age are admitted free.
Hours are 6 to 10 p.m. on Thurs-
day, Oct. 25 and Friday, Oct. 26; 1
to 10 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 27; and
1 to 7 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 28.
Littlest fireman?
Kenny Jim Hoover may grow up to be a fireman someday,
but .in the meantime, Kenny Jim got some practice at
fighting fires when he participated in a fire prevention
program at the Trinity Nursery School last week. Bob
Besecker, fire chief, and Brett Slocum, fire captain of the
Dallas Fire Co., presented a program on how to prevent
fires to the students of the nursery school at the Trinity
Presbyterian Church last week in conjunction with Fire
Prevention Week. Kenny Jim, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth
Hoover of Shrine Acres, had an opportunity to wear a real
fire hat-and feel like a real fireman. Ms. Audrey Lockhart is
coordinator of the nursery school.
Ryan is named chairman
Dr. James Ryan of Penn State
Wilkes-Barre, is serving as chair-
man of Leadership Wilkes-Barre for
1984-85. He succeeds Fred Hartwig-
sen of UGL Other _new offices are
Helen Patellas of John Heinz Insti-
tute, vice chairman; and Wilmer
Williams of George Ruckno, Com-
Sue Kluger is the executive direc-
tor.
Leadership Wilkes-Barre is an
independent, non-profit organization
operated by the Board of Directors
in cooperation with the Greater
Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Com-
merce.
The next Board of Directors m i
ing is at 7 p.m. on November 13 #¢'
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