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Vol. 96, No. 44
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By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
Sticking with tradition, the Repub-
lican candidates made a clean
sweep in the Back Mountain’s gen-
eral election last Tuesday, despite
the fact that the Democrats swept
the County with the exception of the
offices of State Senator, 20th Dis-
trict; and Luzerne County Common
Pleas Judge. :
LUZERNE COUNTY
Gifford Cappellini received a total
of 10,134 votes to his opponent
Michael J. Collins 5,665 in the 120th
District which includes all of the
Back Mountain communities. Cap-
pellini, a trial lawyer for three
decades, successfully defeated Col-
lins for Judge of Court of Common
Pleas.
Atty. Charles D. Lemmond, Jr.,
resident of Dallas, successfully
defeated his Democrat opponent,
Joseph M. Bilbow, for Senator of the
General Assembly, 20th State Sena-
torial Distrit. Back Mountain voters
supported Lemmond by a 3-1
margin.
The turnout at the polls was light
with most of the interest focused on
the races above. However, in some
local areas there was strong compe-
-Al Yascavage
tition for municipal or school board
seats.
DALLAS SCHOOL DISTRICT
In the Dallas School District
where school directors are elected
at large, Republicans James Rich-
ardson and Thomas Landon, new-
comers, joined incumbents Tex
Wilson and Dr. William Camp as
the voters choices to fill the four
vacant seats on the Dallas Board of
Directors. All four will serve four
year terms. Completing their terms
in December are Joseph O’Donnell
and John Cleary. Cleary was
appointed to the board to serve out
the vacancy left by former Director
Barbara Mead’s resignation.
LAKE-LEHMAN SCHOOL
BOARD
In the Lake-Lehman School Board
contest where the directors are
elected by Regions, incumbent Bing
Wolfe, Region 1, was the winner. In
Region 2, Deomcrat Charles Nafus
defeated the incumbent Daniel
Hudzik in the bid for the two-year
term and in Region 3 where there
were two-four year terms vacant,
incumbents Joseph ‘Red’ Jones
and Edward Mark were voted into
the two seats on the Board while
newcomer Thomas Yoniski, Jr. lost
by only 39 votes. Newcomer Robert
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By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
Albert Yascavage of Hunlock
Creek spends his days and many of
his nights devoted entirely to mem-
bers of the retired community. He is
owner, publisher, editor, advertising
manager, production manager and
circulation manager of the Senior
Citizens News.
The Senior Citizens News is
Northeastern Pennsylvania’s only
newspaper devoted entirely to
senior citizens. A free publication to
senior citizens and retirees, Yasca-
vage, a former electronics engineer,
started publication of the monthly
paper in March of this year. In his
travels, he came in contact with
many senior citizens and from them
all he heard the same comment,
that no one cared about them.
Yascavage decided that these
people needed something with good
news, reports on health helps avail-
able, elderly housing programs,
medicare and supplemental health
insurance, nutrition information,
federal and state legislation, social
security, investment tips and any
other news information to make life
easier for these senior citizens. He
Dallas Band
wins sixth
The Atlantic Coast Championships
were held at Langhorne, Pa. over
the weekend. The two day event
saw 100 of the nation’s best march-
ing bands gather for the final com-
Group II competition was held on
Saturday with 24 bands from New
York, New Jersey, Maryland, Dela-
ware and Pennsylvania competiting
for top honors. Nine of these bands
were from Pennsylvania; Dallas,
the Chapter VII Group II champions
wer among those present.
With a score of 85.65, their highest
mark of the season, the Dallas band
achieved a sixth place overall in
their respective groups. Their high
score has earned the band the
distinction and honor of being Penn-
sylvania’s Number One Band in
Group II competition.
Since the marching season began
in September, the Dallas band was
awarded 31 first place trophies.
With the marching season at a
close, the band is busy preparing
for a Christmas concert which will
be held on Sunday, Dec. 8, starting
School.
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discussed the idea with his wife and
family and with their approval
decided to go ahead with his
project.
He started with about $35.00
investment, some scratch off (trans-
fer) letters, and arrangements with
a printer to print his tabloid size
publication at a minimal cost.
“The printer has been good to
me,” said Yascavage. “They have
given me a lot of helpful tips to cut
costs, some of their old layout books
and advice whenever I have needed
it.?
Several doctors wrote articles for
the March issue, some of the adver-
tisers he contacted wrote some
informative news articles and Yas-
cavage wrote some himself. He
spent hours on the telephone and
hours pounding the pavement sell-
ing advertising. The March issue
was completed and Al and his wife
distributed copies at no charge to
all high-rises, doctors offices, hospi-
tals, and other buildings in the
Services held
CHARLES LEMMOND
Emory of Region 2, which covers
Ross and part of Lehman Townships
was named to the four-year term in
that area defeating William George,
Democrat.
HARVEYS LAKE
T. Joseph Boyle, Democrat,
defeated Robert DeRemer, Republi-
can, for the office of Mayor in
Harveys Lake Borough. Democrat
Terry Jones defeated Carolyn Scull,
Republican, for tax collector.
Republican George Gwilliam
defeated Sandra Dobrowalski for
the two-year-term on council, but
Democrats Edward Kelly, Raymond
Jones and Richard Boice defeated
Frank Coulton, John Pimm and
Betty Casterline for the three four-
year terms on Council.
DALLAS BOROUGH
Paul LaBar, Republican, was
elected Mayor of Dallas Borough
and Thomas Reese, Republican was
elected tax collector. Both ran unop-
posed. Elected to four year terms
on the borough council were Repub-
licans Timothy Carroll, Donald
Shaffer and William Berti. elected
to the two-year terms were Carroll,
Shaffer and Russell Stone. Since
Carroll and Shaffer cannot serve
both the four-year and two-year
terms, the new council will appoint
someone to fill two of the terms.
DALLAS TOWNSHIP
Philip Walter, incumbent, was
unopposed for the vacant position of
supervisor in Dallas Township.
Walter is a Republican. Leonard
Kozick, incumbent was re-elected
tax collector and Loren Crispell was
GIFFORD CAPPELLINI
elected auditor. Both Republicans
were unopposed.
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP
In Franklin Township, Republican
Robert Redmond was elected super-
visor for a six-year term; Timothy
Dymond, Republican, to a four year
term; and Andrew Prebola, Repub-
Motorists traveling down Lake
Street toward Memorial Highway,
Dallas, can avoid long waits for the
light to change by pulling up to the
white line. During the past several
Ed Lyons has received complaints
from motorists who have waited
impatiently for the stop light at that
intersection to turn green and
reported the problem to Borough
officials.
weeks, Dallas Borough Police Chief
Dallas Post/Charlot M. Denmon
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Chief Lyons explained during the
past week that there isn’t a problem
with the light, but that a month ago
a computer mechanism was
installed to control the traffic lights.
A trigger system was installed
under the road surface of Lake
Street that indicates to the. com-
puter mechanism that cars are at
the light waiting for it to turn.
The problem is that motorists
traveling down Lake Street have
been accumstomed to stopping
behind the access road that enters
Lake Street from Memorial High-
way. This causes a problem since
the cars are too far back to trigger
the computer system which “tells”
the light to change.
Chief Lyons explained that the
problem is easily resolved by the
lead car going past the access road
and pulling up to the white line as
indicated on the large sign attached
to the pole on the right side of the
street. This will trigger the light
cycle and give motorists on Lake
Street their turn to enter Memorial
Highway.
Lyons also said that only the lead
car needs to pull up to the white line
to trigger the mechanism and that
the access road should still be left
open for cars entering or exiting
from it.
A PennDQT engineer investigated
the difficulty. According to Chief
Lyons, as motorists become aware
of the computerized mechanism and
follow the instructions when
approaching the intersection, the
problem will be resolved.
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lican, was elected to the two-year
term as supervisor. Joy L. Daubert
was elected tax collector and John
Zarno, Republican, was elected aud-
itor.
KINGSTON TOWNSHIP
Ambrose Gavigan and Edward
Price, Republican incumbents, were
re-elected as Kingston Township
supervisors. Republicans Albert
Holcomb defeated Democrat George
Sabaluski, Jr., for the office of
supervisor in Ross Township. Louise
Evans, Republican, defeated Mary
Konopinski, Democrat, for the office
of tax collector.
JACKSON TOWNSHIP
Thomas Adams, Republican,
defeated Robert Cooper, Democrat,
for the office of supervisor in Jack-
son Township. Democrat Jacqueline
Latosek défeated Republican David
Yankowski for tax collector by a
mere 15 votes, and Joan Conrad,
Repubican, defeated Mitchell
Wojtowicz, Democrat, for the audi-
tor’s position.
LAKE TOWNSHIP
Democrat Robert Grey was
elected supervisor in Lake Town-
ship. Ruth Orloski, Republican, was
re-elected tax collector and Joann
Wascalus, Democrat, was elected
auditor.
Marching
Knights
Traveling to Neshaminy-Lan-
ghorne | High School in Langhorne,
Pa., the Lake-Lehman Marching
Band presented its 1985 field show
at the “Tournament of Bands Atlan-
tic Coast Championships” before a
capacity crowd of band enthusiasts.
Competing in Group III with 23
other bands’ from Virginia, Mary-
land, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
New York, Lake-Lehman with a
score of 95.3 came within 2/10 of one
point of capturing the championship
again this year, losing to Kearney
High School of Kearney, New
Jersey, whose score of 95.5 was
enough to take first place.
Lake-Lehman’s score of 95.3 was
the fourth highest overall score of 85
bands competing in all four groups
in the competition. :
In the “Special Awards’ cate-
gory, Lake-Lehman won a first
place trophy for ‘Best Music” an
took a second place trophy for
“Best Marching and Maneuvering.”
The Tournament of Bands Atlan-
tic Coast Division is composed of
over 300 high school bands, compris-
ing over 21,000 high school students,
who compete in 12 local chapters for
the honor of attending the Atlantic
Coast Chapter Championships.
All band parents, sponsors and
friends are requested to attend the
Band Sponsors’ meeting on Tues-
day, Nov. 19, at 7:30 in the high
school. 3
Reps sought
Community representatives are
being sought for ASSE International
Student Exchange Programs, a
U.S., non-profit, high school
exchange program, affiliated with
the Swedish and Finnish Depart-
ments of Education and a partici-
pant in the President’s International
Youth Exchange Initiative.
Please call collect 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
and 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.) for further
information and to set up a local
interview: Dorris Keen, Pennsyl-
vania Coordinator, ASSE Interna-
tional Student Exchange Programs,
120 Verna Road, Lewisburg, Pa
17837, 717-523-6616.
Inside The Post
Calendar .......... 19,20
Classified ......... 21,22
Commentary .......... 6
Cookbook ................ 8
Crossword ............. 2
Obituaries ............. 2
People ............. 10,1
School ................. 7,8
Sports ......113,14,15,16
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