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Vol. 96, No. 33
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STUFFERS
Harveys Lake, treasurer of the EVAC.
By JOHN F. KILDUFF
Staff writer
The Harveys Lake Environmental
Advisory Council (EVAC) has
launched a fund-raising drive to pay
for water quality studies of the lake.
In a special session last Thursday,
the EVAC began preparing more
an 3,000 question and answer
booklets it is sending to Harveys
Lake property owners.
The EVAC is asking the land
owners to help pay.for a year-round
study estimated to cost between
$40,000 and $60,000.
“We are looking for financial help
from anyone who wishes to help,”
said EVAC member Ron Debalko.
“The 3000 pamphlets on Harveys
Lake that we send out this week, we
hope, will send a message to prop-
erty owners to get involved with
studying the lake.”
Debalko, who currently is seated
on the EVAC for a two-year term as
liason between the EVAC and Har-
veys Lake borough council, said the
the pamphlets entitled, ‘Harveys
Lake, questions and answers on
Watershed problems,” are intended
to give property owners a general
idea about the lake’s current water
problems.
Dallas borough council this past week unani-
mously agreed to pay for a legal notice in the
Dallas Post requesting ‘information and mention-
ing a $500 reward for anyone who can supply
police with information resulting in the convic-
tion of vandals defacing the property of Edward
and Bernadine Weiss of 141 Elizabeth St., Dallas.
The notice will run today and on Sept. 4. It
suggests that anyone with information should
contact Dallas borough police.
The $500 reward is being offered privately ‘by
the Weiss family. Dallas borough has nothing to
do with dispersing the reward should the vandal
or vandals be identified. The reward is subject to
the prosecution and conviction of the vandals.
“This vandalism has been going on for a long
time,” said Dallas borough solicitor John
Morris. “I knew of one’ getasgicn’ when. the
mayer (Paul Labar) stayed out one night near
the Weiss home until 3 a.m. trying to identify the
vandals.
“The Weiss’ came to the council meeting (July
20) asking for guidance as to how to actually
offer the $500 reward,” Morris explained.
“I was then, of course, commissioned by
council to send the ad into the newspaper.”
“The reward itself is a private matter,”
Morris explained. ‘‘Of course the issue of vandal-
ism is'not a private matter, with the police,
mayor and everyone else involved.”
The Dallas Borough Crime Watch Project has
six new and five re-certified Cardiopulmonary
Resuscitation (CPR) members, Polly Michael,
Crime Watch coordinator has announced.
At a CPR training and testing session,’ spon-
sored by the American Heart Association, at
College Misericordia the following members of
the Dallas Borough Crime Watch project were
certified to administer CPR:
Edward and Bernadine Weiss, of 141 Elizabeth
St., Dallas; Herbert and Jan Dreher of 140
Elizabeth St., Dallas; Frank Sr. Michael, Frank
Jr. Michael, Tracey Michael and Tricia Michael,
all of 35 Michael Dr., Dallas; and Heide Funke,
Ann Marie Cox and Sandy King, all College
Misericordia students.
“Since our Crime Watch program is talking
about safety,” said Michael, “this (CPR train-
ing) is just an example of what people in our
neighborhood can do.”
“It is really important to show people in our
neighborhood that you do not have to be a
doctor, a nurse or anything like that to be
certified in CPR,”’ Michael said.
Dallas borough Crime Watch program.
“Anyone can blow air into someone’s lungs,
and push on their chest as long as they know
what they arc doing.”
According to Michael the new CPR members
brings the Dallas borough Crime Watch figure to
13 certified CPR members. These members,
Michael stressed, are vital to insuring the safety
of neighbors.
“If someone is in trouble whether it be
chocking or whatever, we will be there to help,”
said Michael, who is also a nursing instructor at
College Misericordia.
“It is neighbors taking care of neighbors,”
Michael said. “CPR is just another way to help.”
Michael said she hopes the CPR members, of
which . four are neighborhood captains for the
Crime Watch project, will create an interest for
other Dallas borough residents to get involved.
“I think when other people see their neighbors,
who are also just ordinary people, doing CPR
they might get involved themselves,” Michael
said. “What we are doing is basically setting an
example for the Crime Watch program in Dallas
borough,” Michael said.
“Council has been very good to us and we
defivitely appreciate their efforts in an attempt
to sol're our prokiam,” said Bernadine Weiss.
Dallas borough police chief Ed Lyons said,
“Dallas borough police will continue to monitor
the area (near the Weiss home) to the best of
our ability and manpower.”
The Weiss’ have been victims of vandalism for
nearly 14 months. Incidents of smashed win-
dows, bags of paint thrown on their home’s
aluminum siding and roof and shrubery damage
have left police authorities without a single clue.
Both the Weiss family and Dallas police
officers are frustrated with the case.
The Weiss’ say they will prosecute and sue
whomever is responsible for the vandalism acts.
The nine-hour CPR course was directed by
Clara Williams, a Misericordia nursing faculty
member as well as a Pennsylvania Affiliate
Faculty member of the American Heart Associa-
tion out of the Scranton office.
Williams says the CPR program works and is
a legitimate life-saver.
Williams said learning CPR is very important
because you never know when you are going to
have to respond to an emergency.
The CPR certification is good for one year at
which time the individual must be re-certified.
Certification includes a written test, practical
exercises on a human ‘dummy’ and actual
practice on class members.
According to Williams, the first four minutes a
person is suffering from breathing difficulties is
the crucial time element.
Williams said a human brain can function up
to four minutes without oxygen. The five to six
minutes range is when the brain suffers inrepair-
able brain damage. After six minutes the brain
is considered clinically dead.
GOP senator Frank J. O’connell
has resigned his 20th State Senato-
rial District seat, effective Aug. 31.
O’connell, who has represented
the 20thiDistrict since 1966, told
GOP leaders of his decision to
resign on Aug. 20, stating in a news
release, “I have no further com-
ments beyond the fact that my
resignation is for personal reasons.”
O’connell went on to say, “It was
my pleasure to serve the people in
government for 30. I shall remem-
ber these years fondly and they will
always have a special place in my
heart.”
0’connell could not be reached for
further comment after repeated
attempts to reach him at his offices
in Harrisburg and Kingston.
Speculation along political fronts
indicate that O’connells’ slot will be
filled in the upcoming ‘November
general election by either former
Rep. James Nelligan of Forty-Fort
or Dallas resident and attorney
Charles Lemmond.
Nelligan, an 11th congressional
district representative following
Dan Flood’s resignation in 1980, is
the first GOP candidate to indicate
that he would like to run for the
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On July 2 the state Department of
Environmental Resources (DER)
issued a Swimming Advisory at the
lake because of high levels of a
simple form of bacteria known as
‘‘cyano-bacteria’’ or more com-
monly known as the ‘“anabaena’”
bloom.
The DER swimming advisory
lasted until July 22 when it was
lifted following a “copper sulfate’
treatment on July 16 by Ecoscience
Inc. of Moscow.
The DER swimming advisory and
subsequent ‘‘greenish tint’’ of Har-
veys Lake water, sparked an outcry
from area businesses and vaction-
ers. Harveys Lake borough council
then held a special meeting with
officials from the Pennsylvania Fish
Commission, DER and concerned
citizens to find an answer to the
lake water quality problems. The
EVAC was created by the Harveys
Lake borough council two weeks
later.
“We have been given estimates
by water consultants in the area of
$40,000 a year and up,” said
Debalko. “It is going to cost a great
deal of money to study the lake and
that is exactly why we are now
using a fund-raising drive.”
Debalko said the EVAC is initially
asking Harveys Lake property
owners for contributions but will
also seek and accept donations from
concerned citizens who simply use
the lake or live in the watershed
areas.
“We will definitely accept funds
from anyone who feels they are
responsible for the lake and wants
to help,” said Debalko. “There are
people out there who use the lake,
and maybe they do not live on the
lake-front, but they would like to
help,” Debalko explained. ‘These
are the people we (EVAC) need in
order to fund the lake study.”
Debalko, who is also the president
of the Harveys Lake Protective
Association, said that the Protective
the EVAC fund and also paid for the
postage charges involved in mailing
out the 3000 pamphlets.
Debalko said that the EVAC does
anticipate the availability of federal
and state funding for the project,
however a percentage (approxi-
mately 20 percent) must be raised
by the EVAC. :
“The problem is that much of the
Debalko. “There probably is a fund-
ing source out there somewhere, but
it takes time to apply for the
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Fashionable
vacated slot. Lemmond, a former
Luzerne County Court Judge, is
reportedly O’Connell’s personal
choice if he should choose to run.
Luzerne County GOP Chairman
Ted Warkomski is organizing a
political convention to officially
endorse a GOP candidate. The con-
vention will be similar to the 1980
special election following Flood’s
resignation.
The 20th Senatorial district
includes all of Luzerne, Wyoming,
Susquehanna, Pike, Wayne and part
of Monroe counties. GOP chairmen
within these counties will also par-
ticipate in the selection of a candi-
date to face the Democrat chal-
lenger.
O’connell’s resignation follows the
controversial land sale deal involv-
ing the Hanover Area School Dis-
trict and a real estate company, of
which O’connell was a part-owner.
Hanover Area solicitor Al Florio
recently held hearings at the dis-
trict’s new school to determine if
the school district paid too much for
the land whre the senior high school
was built. O’connell had said from
the beginning of the hearings that
the land sold to Hanover Area was
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properly appraised.
O’connell began his political
career in the early 1960s as a
Kingston borough councilman
before being elected to the 20th
Senatorial district in 1966.
Inside the Post
Calendar .............. 11
Classified ..... 13,14,15
Commentary ......... 6
Cookbook ............... 7
Crossword ............. 2
Obituaries ............. 2
People ................ 3,4
(Police .....oiciiivines
Sports ................i 9
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