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Dallas Post/George Poynton
Back Mountain Cosmos, Champi-
ons of the EPYSA U-16 Traveling
Soccer League, earned another title
Saturday as they defeated Back
Mountain Rowdies in a very excit-
ing game in the Luzerne County
Recreational Cup Tournament U-16
Division played at Kirby Park.
After regulation play the score was
tied at 1-1.
The first half of the game was
controlled by the Cosmos with the
score coming after an unintentional
foul inside the penalty box which
resulted in an indirect free kick on
the 7-yard line. Scott Marshall saw
that Danny Holdredge was
unmarked and tapped the ball to
him. Holdredge was able to pump
the ball through the wall formed by
the Rowdies on the goal line.
Early in the second half, the
Rowdies tied up the game after
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own the right wing and, seeing that
the direction of play was concen-
Misericordia
men’s schedule
Following is the College Miseri]
cordia men’s basketball schedule:
Friday, Nov. 23, 6 p.m. at Baptist
Bible College, Turkey Tournament
Saturday, Nov. 24, 8 p.m., af
Baptist Bible College, Turkey Tour
nament
Monday, Nov. 26, 7 p.m., St,
Thomas Aquinas
Wednesday, Nov.!28, 8 p.m., af
Bloomfield College
Friday, Nov. 30, 8 p.m., Neuman
College
Thursday, Dec. 6, 9 p.m., Cabrini
College
Saturday, Dec. 8, 8 p.m., at SUNY
IBinghamtom
Tuesday, Jan. 15, 8 p.m., Eastern
College
Saturday, Jan. 19, 2 p.m., Penn
State Capitol
Monday, Jan. 21, 8 p.m., at Alver-
' Friday, Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m., at
Neuman College
Saturday, Jan. 26, 1 p.m., at
Beaver College
Tuesday, Jan. 29, 7:30 p.m., at
[Penn State Capitol
Thursday, Jan. 31, 8:30 p.m., at
[Dominican College
Saturday, Feb. 2, 1 p.m., Beaver
College
Thursday, Feb. 7, 8 p.m., King’s
College
Monday, Feb. 11, 7:30 p.m.,
Eastern College
Thursday, Feb. 14, 8 p.m., Spring
Garden College
Saturday, Feb.
Gwynedd Mercy
Sunday, Feb. 17, 6 p.m.,, Alvernia
College
Friday, Feb. 22, TBA, KAC Tour-
hament
Saturday,
Tournament
Friday, March 1, TBA, NAIA Dis-
trict 19 Tournament
Monday, March 4, TBA, NAIA
istrict 19 Tournament
Wednesday, March 6, TBA, NAIA
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16,6. p.m., "at
Feb. 23, TBA, KAC
District 19 Tournament
trated on the right side, passed to
Eric Rosental on the left who
popped the ball in from the 6-yard
line. The Rowdies continued to play
possession soccer, but couldn’t find
the net to get the winning goal.
The Cosmos played a strong
defensive game with Reese Finn
who was very controlled as a roving
center half and the Marshall broth-
ers Scott and Eric both playing a
very intelligent game kept them at
bay. Kris Justus (playing with a
hroken finger) was very courageous
in his attempts at keeping the ball
out of the net.
With the light fading, there was
no time left to get in a period of
overtime so it was decided the
teams would go straight to a shoot-
out. The Cosmos won on goals from
Chris Scharff, Eric Marshall and
Jon Strange. The Rowdies replied
with two goals from Paul Melone
and Mark Richardson.
Dallas booters
By HOWARD J. GROSSMAN
Special to The Dallas Post
Over the last decade, many
attempts have been made to consi-
der the feasibility of constructing a
new public facility such as a con-
vention center, civic arena, stadium
or combination thereof.
The latest announcement by the
Lackawanna County Commissioners
of their commitment to a baseball
stadium and a AAA minor league
professional baseball franchise to be
housed in that stadium needs the
support of Northeastern Pennsyl-
vania: its community leaders and
citizens.
The Lackawanna County Commis-
sioners have committed within the
1985 Lackawanna County budget,
funding for facility design work.
Efforts are underway to secure
advanced commitments from 2,000
citizens who would provide funds
toward a first year participation in
support of the baseball franchise
with the monies to be escrowed in
an account and to be returned if the
fund raising effort is unsuccessful.
A stadium capable of serving the
Pocono Northeast, not only for a
franchise, but for other types of
outdoor functions is an important
goal toward the broadening of
Northeastern Pennsylvania market
shed to help provide a better quality
of life.
In September, 1980, an organiza-
tion called the Multi-Purpose Sta-
dium Research Organization of
Northeastern Pennsylvania received
a final report from Gladstone Asso-
ciates, an economic consultant from
Boston, Massachusetts titled Sta-
tium Feasibility Analysis: North-
eastern Pennsylvania. Noting that
the location of such a facility is
critical to its success, the report
concluded that ‘“a new multi-pur-
pose stadium in the Northeast Penn-
sylvania area is judged feasible
both from a market and financial
prospective.”
The report’s conclusion was condi-
tioned on a number of variables
including the following:
1. Delineation of site selection
criteria and identification of candi-
date sites that might be screened
against these criteria. Once a poten-
tial site(s) can be identified, then
preliminary engineering analysis
and cost estimating can be under-
taken.
2. Facility design work should be
pursued as an immediate next step
with an eye toward establishing
reasonable design alternatives
(size, configuration, ancillary facili-
ties etc.) and refining cost “esti-
mates associated therewith.
3. The Stadium Research Organi-
zation’s fund raising campaign
should be continued, but with a
heavier emphasis on the public
sector in this round. Included here
would be preliminary explorations
and follow up with regard to poten-
tial state and federal appropria-
tions, public sector bond issues,
local fund raising, and debt or
equity contributions by a major
league baseball organization.
4. The establishment, funding, and
filling of a project director position
is strongly recommended for pur-
poses of carrying the stadium pro-
posal forward into refined planning
studies and ultimately into imple-
mentation. Such a position will
require high managerial skills to
track all of the issues involved and
to bring together the variety of
interest groups needed for success-
ful completion of the project.
The report estimates that aver-
ages annual attendance levels for a
AAA baseball operation would
range from 160,000 to 180,000 and
would likely generate total revenue
potentials, (tickets, concessions,
etc.) on the order of $400,000 to
$480,000, and an average of six
commercial concerts, with average
attendance at 12,000 persons per
event, could be staged annually
assuming successful negotiations
with professional promoters and
could generate total expenditures of
$750,000 per annum. Other potential
users in terms of revenue flow
would include occasional shows or
exhibitions, large group meetings,
other periodic professional sportin-
gevents, and community group
users.
The report suggests that a sepa-
rate full-time operation staff would
likely incur costs of around $130,000
annually. It points out, however,
that in other cases, cooperative
management among a baseball
franchise, existing public works
employees and other existing public
facility management-maintenance
staff have been successfully carried
out and resulted in substantial cost
savings with regard to stadium
operations.
Capital costs for the stadium are
considered in the analysis. Perma-
nent seating capacity for 8,000 to
10,000 is recommended with seating
for fqotball and possibly soccer
events representing a mnimum
seating capacity of 4,000 to 5,000. An
artificial turf is recommended since
it carries with it lower annual main-
tenance costs and a higher level of
flexibility insofar as maximizing
stadium usage and seating capacity.
A restaurant facility is also recom-
mended along with lighting, locker
rooms, office space and parking.
While in the construction budget
in 1980 was shown as $4 to $4.5
million, these figures are probably
higher today and will be higher in
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the future and need to be adjusted
accordingly.
To support the capital construc-
tion needs, the consultants recom-
mended such funding sources as:
(1) local bond issue or other form of
public debt; (2) special state appro-
priations; (3) federal grants; (4)
local fund raising; (5) special loans
negotiated with a major league
baseball affiliated. .
Noting that economic feasibility
requires that the level of any public
debt (necessitating annual debt
service) be justified or offset by
economic benefits accruing to the
interest group responsible for such
initial debt, the consultants suggest
any gap between supportable or
justifiable debt and total construc-
tion requirements must be funded
by some form of grant or local fund
raising monies, not subject to
annual debt service or capital
recovery.
Other likely economic benefits
noted in the report include the
following:
1. Direct public sector receipts
from various tax levees would
range between $115,000 and $165,000
annually. The consultant notes tha
this range could support a public
debt level of approximately $1.1 to
$1.6 million.
2. The stadium will contribute to
area recreational-entertainment
opportunities.
3. Intangible area economic devel-
opment gains through the presence
of a minor league team.
4. Potential qualitative benefits
with regard to improved convention-
tourist business and industrial loca-
tion decisions are likely.
The baseball franchise is sug-
gested for ownership and operation
by a public or quasi public group
and all franchise ‘‘profit” above
normal rental levels would be con-
tributed toward debt service
requirements.
The Economic Development Coun-
cil of Northeastern Pennsylvania
passed a resolution and policy state-
ment sometime back encouraging
one or more public facilities to be
established in the marketshed of
Northeastern Pennsylvania. The
latest stadium proposal deserves
careful scrutiny and the support of
the public and private sectors in the
region to enable such a stadium to
finally become reality and to add to
the marketing tools which are cru-
cial to economic success in the
Pocono Northeast.
For those who wish more detailed
information concerning the stadium
feasibility analysis of September,
1980, information can be secured by
writing the Economic Development
Council, 1151 Oak Street, Pittston,
Pa. 18640-3795.
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The award was part of Rural
Health’s Wellness Program ‘for
Industry. The Program is aimed at
increasing awareness of health risk
factors adn encouraging workers to
stay healthy. It is based on the fact
that the health status of employees
in business and industry can be
improved by encouraging them to
wins award
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and lower health services use and,
therefore, costs.
In developing its industrial well-
ness program, Rural Health Corpo-
ration first gave each of its employ-
ees an opportunity to complete a
computerized Health Risk
Appraisal. Done privately, staff
members received their own risk
profile which identified areas in
which improvements would lead to
increased chances for a longer,
healthier life.
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