By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
“It was a fascinating sight — hundreds and
hundreds of whales came in to the Stellwagen Shelves
at Gloucester, Massachusetts,” said Judy Silvers.
“There were about 10 varieties, the majority of them
* humpbacks (singing whales), fins (fastest) and blue
fish. Most of those we saw were fins.”
Judy said the group of 24 residents of the Back
Mountain, who made the trip to Gloucester, chartered
a large boat this year and the whales did not come as
close as they did to the small boats in prior years
when Judy and her husband Sid went to the Whale
Watch.
Twelve of the 24 persons. in the group left Saturday,
June 29, in a large van. The others went by car or flew
and the entire group met at a previously arranged site
on Cape Ann where they camped out in tents.
“The weather was beautiful and we left at 8:30 a.m.
in the morning to go out in the boat. It was a beautiful
sight to see all those whales coming into the Shelves to
feed. They pushed pools of fish ahead of them, then
scooped them up and strained them through what
looked like teeth. One of the whales scooped up a sea
gull accidentally and instead of swallowing it, the
whale just tossed it back out on the water. The whales
would breach (leap up in the air) in the water. That’s
how they would play,” said Judy.
Tens of thousands of people from all over the
country travel to Gloucester from March to October to
watch the whales, who migrate from the warmer
waters of the Caribbean to feed off the shelves at
Gloucester. After they feed, the whales travel back to
the Caribbean, many of them pregnant. They carry
their young for about a year before giving birth,
according to Judy.
Each whale is marked differently on its tail. One
woman, who had paid to adopt a whale last season,
saw that same whale again this year. Marine biolo-
gists are on the boats and explain the parts of the
whale, characteristics and how each whale feeds.
Along the East Coast, the humpbacks and fins are
predominant while along the West Coast the gray
whales are more popular. These travel from the West
Coast to Alaska.
Gloucester is a non-commercial area and when the
local group went, it was Festival time - St. Peter’s
Festival ‘Fisherman of the Sea.” Primarily a popula-
tion of Portugese and Italian, most of the residents are
fishermen. During festival time, they do not take out
their boats and the Archbishop comes to the area and
blesses all of the boats and the fishermen.
Among the festivities while the local group were
there were dory races, greased log competition, other
water skills competition and fishing. In addition, all
kinds of foods wer sold at the various stands.
Camping on Cape Ann, the local group was right on
the beach and enjoyed swimming and fishing. One
member of the group chartered a fishing boat and,
while out, caught a 58-1b. fish.
One evening, they had a fish fry with flounder, sea
bass and hardshells.
“It’s a seven hour trip,” said Judy, “but it’s worth
every minute. This is the third year that Sid and I
have gone. We plan to make it an annual event. This
time we were there from Saturday through Monday,
next year I would like to stay longer. For a quiet,
relaxing vacation, it’s wonderful.”
‘DALLAS TOWNSHIP
- A Tunkhannock resident com-
plained of head pains following a
rear-end collision on Route 309,
Dallas Township, Sunday afternoon,
police reports indicate.
Injured was Cheryl Ann Sick of
RD 5, Tunkhannock. Police say she
drove herself to a local hospital
following the accident.
According to the Dallas Township
police report, Sick’s vehicle had
stopped in the southbound lane near
the entrance of Coscia’s restaurant
waiting to make a lefthand turn into
their lot when a vehicle operated by
Lewis F. Lee of 46 Division Street,
Wilkes-Barre pleaded guilty to driv-
ing in the wrong lane and waived a
hearing on a Driving while Under
the Influence of alcohol (DUI)
charge, Magistrate Earl Gregory
reported Tuesday.
According to Gregory, Lee paid a
total of $47.50 in fines for the traffic
violation on the 24th of June. Lee
subsequently waived his July 3
hearing at Gregory’s office and was
moved to Luzerne County Court.
Lee is expected to participate in
the county’s Accellerated Rehabili-
tation program (ARD), if found
guilty of the DUI charge.
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James Robert Koziel of 189 S.
Memorial Highway, Trucksville was
forwarded to Luzerne County Court
this past week where he will face a
Driving while Under the Influence
(DUI) charge, The Post learned
Tuesday.
Koziel waived his hearing before
magistrate Earl Gregory on July 3.
An additional charge of wreckless
driving was dismissed by Gregory.
A ribbon cutting ceremony will
take place today at 10 a.m. at
Merchants Bank’s new drive-up
facility on Route 309, Eaton Town-
ship in Tunkhannock.
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Earl C. Bryant of 3303 55th Avenue,
North Street, Pete, Florida crashed
into the rear of Sick’s vehicle.
Bryant was not injured and said
that he did not see the Sick vehicle
come to a stop until the collision
occured.
DALLAS BOROUGH
Dallas Borough Police Chief Ed
Lyons said Tuesday there will be
“No Parking” and “Parking’’ signs
posted along borough streets for the
upcoming Back Mountain Library
Auction scheduled for July 11 thru
14.
Lyons said that, “There is abso-
lutely no parking along Franklin,
Rice, Ridge Streets and Huntsville
Road,” during the auction.
Parking along Lehman, Pinecrest,
Machell avenue and other borough
streets will be subject to the appro-
priate signs posted.
Said Lyons, ‘Where the ‘No
Parking’’ signs are posted, obey
them or pay them (parking fines).”’
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Sol Lubin, Harold J. Rose, Jr.,
Msgr
“For God...For Man,” a capital
gifts campaign to raise funds for
development of a chapel at the
Meadows Nursing Center in Dallas,
was discussed at a joint meeting of
the Board of Directors of Ecumeni-
cal Enterprises, Inc. (EEI) and the
community representatives of the
Chapel Development Committee on
June 26 at the center.
The meeting was chaired by
Attorney Sol Lubin, president of
EET’s board, and included presenta-
tions by Dr. Ellis W. Roberts and
Ray Condo, EEI vice-president and
executive director, respectively.
EEI is the private, non-profit corpo-
ration which owns and operates the
Meadows Nursing Center.
Through its first-ever fund-raising
effort, EEI hopes to realize a goal
of $100,000 to install a combination
chapel-meditation area on the first
floor of the nursing center. Accord-
ing to Condo, the chapel will provide
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Community representatives who
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