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Vol. 96, No. 51
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New Year's Eve
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
Tomorrow night is New Year’s
Eve and residents of the Back
Mountain have plans well set for
ushering out the Old Year and
ringing in the New Year — 1986.
While many persons are planning to
welcome in the New Year at area
clubs and restaurants, others are
celebrating in an entirely different
manner.
A multitude of Back Mountain
residents are leaving or have left
the area today (Monday) for the
sunny south. You've guessed it, they
are the loyal Penn State fans
‘“fanatics’’ headed for Miami and
the Orange Bowl to support their
No. 1-ranked Nittany Lions take on
the Oklahoma Sooners in their quest
for the national title.
Departing by air on a chartered
morning, the group was scheduled
to arrive in Miami at 10:30 a.m.
They will stay at the Newport
Beach Hotel for the four days they
are in Miami, celebrating New
Year’s Eve there or, in some
instances, visiting friends in the
area prior to the New Year’s Day
game.
Some couples have made reserva-
tions at Back Mountain dining spots,
such as Countryside Inn, Brittany
House, Pickett’s Charge, Castle Inn,
Checkerboard, Overbrook Restau-
rant, Pinebrook Inn, or the Crab’s
Claw. Following dinner, some. are
planning theaiie parties while
others will return to the home of a
member of their group to enjoy an
evening of hospitality and a game of
cards, Trivial Pursuit, and yes,
Monopoly.
Others have planned to make a
full evening by traveling to the
Fireside Restaurant in the Poconos,
to Maxim’s in either Plains or
Scranton and a select few had the
foresignt to make reservations at
Villa Virella in the Poconos. Shera-
ton Crossgates, The Station,
Genetti’s or Cobble Street in the
Wyoming Valley Mall are among
the choices of other Back Mountain
residents. In most cases, parties of
four, six or eight have made reser-
vations for dining out.
If any of eur readers are planning
to go out for dinner, we recommend
you call immediately for reserva-
tions since most restaurant person-
nel to whom we talked told us they
had only a few openings available.
Some were booked to capacity and
taking no more reservations.
Some families have decided to
Imaginary
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Following are
some imaginary New Year’s Reso-
lutions for some of our friends and
neighbors. These ‘resolutions’ are
meant only in fun to add to the
holiday spirit and, in most cases,
should be taken lightly. They are in
no way meant to poke fun at er
ridicule anyone.)
MARGE - Not to have anymore
cocktail parties without an elevator.
DOLLY NELSON - To see White
Christmas only once a week, on her
VCR.
JACKIE - To walk five miles
every morning.
JOHN CLINE - To stay longer
than one month in an apartment.
BETTY - To check all her car
parts the first of the year.
SWEET WILLIAM - To get a good
ice-chopping system.
JEAN AMODEI - To find all the
duck molds she can.
SANDY SHEEHAN - To have
Christmas in July next year.
JANE CUMMINGS - To find a
large map of the area.
MIKE - To develop a happy ati-
tude for the coming year.
ED CAMPBELL - To find more
time for snowmobiling.
JEFF BANKS - To make at least
one purchase his wife suggests.
LIZ REICH - To live a less hectic
life.
JUNE SUPEY - To be as success-
ful in 1986 as she has been in 1985.
COREY SIMKO - To get a dog
just like Sport.
JEAN BRUTKO - To get her very
own real live Koala Bear,
ARLENE KOZICK - To become
the winningest coach at King’s Col-
lege.
ELLEN BUSH - To become the
winningest assistant coach at
Wilkes College.
many
spend a quiet night at home with
members of their family. They will
have a late dinner of either seafood
or prime rib, then usher in the New
Year by watching specials on televi-
sion or playing some of their favor-
ite games. Still others plan to
observe a ‘‘second’” Christmas with
relatives, who come in from out of
town — those sons or daughters and
their families who couldn’t come in
for Christmas but wanted to visit
their parents over the Yuletide holi-
day. !
There are others who will spend a
quiet night tying together loose ends
and last minute ‘things to do” as
they make ready to leave for the
Southland where they will spend the
remaining months of winter.
House parties are popular this
New Years and stores and seafood
places have been busy with shop-
pers buying last minute food and
beverage items for their guests.
Hors d’oeuvres, shrimp (fantastic
prices), salads, cold cuts, cheeses,
beef, steaks, pork (a New Year's
tradition), sparkling burgundy Asti
Spumante, white or pink cham-
pagne, are filling the larders of
many Back Mountain homes as
hosts and hostesses rush around
making last minute preparations.
Noisemakers, hats and favors are in
abundance to be distributed in time
to ring in the New Year.
In some homes, cowbells and
other noise-making instruments will
be used by residents, willing to
brave the predicted near-zero tem-
peratures. If bells are heard, it’s not
your imagination. wat church bells,
and, in some municipalities, whis-
tles will welcome in 1986.
For those who have reservations
for gala New Year’s Eve parties,
they had a variety of prices and
opportunities. Those attending the
annual New Year’s Eve celebration
at Irem Temple Country Club are
doing so at $25 per person. The
evening begins at 7:30 p.m. and
continties until 2 am. The price
includes a full course surf and turf
dinner, breakfast served from 1 to 2
a.m., drinks, music by the “Mas-
querades’’ featuring Ann Marie,
hats and noisemakers. If you
haven’t made a reservation, forget
it — the club is completely booked.
Those joining the gala night at
The Station are doing so for $29 per
person which includes buffet,
favors, noisemakers and open bar.
The New Year’s Eve party at The
Barrels in Wyoming Valley Mall
begins at 9 p.m. A buffet is availa-
ble and musical entertainment will
be by the hottest band around *‘Sto-
(See EVE, page 2)
Dallas Post/Ed Campbell
ED LYONS - To have a crime-free
Dallas Borough.
HARRY REICH - To make his
new plastic surgery operation at
Nesbitt Hospital a success.
DAVID MARTIN - To quit shovel-
ing snow for everyone in the neigh-
borhood.
CORNELIA DAVIS - To enjoy the
best of health in 1986.
DOLORES TAMANINI - To enjoy
as much success with Back Moun-
tain Video in 1986 as she and her
parents enjoyed in 1985.
JULIE GEIGER - To make more
friends at Franklin's Restaurant.
SISTER DAVIDA - To increase
enrollment at Gate of Heaven
School.
JEAN WILSON - To organize the
administration in the Dallas School
District.
MARILYN MASLOW - To devote
more time to herself, instead of
devoting all her time to non-profit
organizations.
MARY LEE SOWGA - To obtain
as much publicity as possible for
the Dallas High School Band.
PEGGY POYNTON - To learn to
like her job.
CLAYTON BEAN - To stop having
parties in wintery weather.
SUSAN DADURKA - To become a
lifetime member.
ANN MARIE FOWLER - To see
as many Kenny Rogers’ concerts as
possible.
ROSEMARY ISOPI - To be as
good an employee in 1986 as she was
in 1985.
OLGA KOSTROBALA - To work
in an office with an efficient heating
system. 3
DAVID CUMMINGS - To be as
devilish as he possibly can.
MIKE DANOWSKI - To buy a car
than runs.
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CHERYL DENMON - To avoid
deer on Back Mountain roads.
KATIE DELANEY - To drive
Mom and Dad as crazy as possible.
P.J. DELANEY - To obtain a
season’s pass to the Philadelphias
76ers basketball games.
CATHY DELANEY - To stop P.J.
from attending 76er games.
DEBBEY WYSOCKI - She’s still
trying to get to Hollywood so we’ll
wish her the best of luck - again.
JOHN BAUR - To get out of the
ice-cream business.
GINO - To stay in the shoe busi-
Hess.
JIM DAVIS - To soak in a jacuzzi
for hours on end.
DAVE CONNER - To find more
time to SELL, SELL, SELL!.
JUDY DALEY - To educate the
staff at College Misericordia as to
how the media works.
KAREN SPUDIS - To expand her
bakery business.
BRUCE PITTS - To have less
trouble bagging a deer next year.
DOTTY MARTIN - To get a door
on her office.
LAURA SAMUELS - To enjoy
better health in 1986.
ROXANNE OPALICKI - To
become successful in the retail busi-
ness.
HERB - To make his way to
Burger King.
PAT JONES - To keep her viva-
cious personality all year long.
CHARLOT DENMON - To know
even more of what’s going on in the
Back Mountain.
TIMMY CARROLL -
straighten out Dallas Borough.
DIANE BRYANT - To tone up all
the bodies in the Back Mountain.
JIM VERAS - To buy up more
land and construct more buildin
in the Back Mountain. ¥
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WILL CONYNGHAM - To make
Hillside Dairy ice cream No. 1 in
the nation,
JIM DRURY - To get people to go
to Harveys Lake in the wintertime.
JOE PAGLIANITE - To own all of
Harveys Lake.
FLORENCE CAMPBELL - To
develop a system whereby she can
keep track of all her kids at the
same time.
CHERYL CAMPBELL - To win
more beauty contests.
SANDRA PEREZ - To gain some
good publicity for Harveys Lake.
GUY GIORDANO - To have
another successful year in the boat-
ing business.
JEAN HILLARD - To start writ-
ing again. :
RUSS MAJOR - To become the
three-wheeling dealer of the world.
ANDY DENMON - To make it
through the cold weather.
JOHN GORDA - To keep all his
plaza tenants happy.
MINOTTI’S - To enjoy as much
success in Edwardsville as they
have in Dallas and Wyoming.
DIANE MALONIS - To keep sell-
ing all the stuff she doesn’t want.
LYNN SHEEHAN, JR. - To con-
tinue looking like Julian Lennon.
MEGAN SHEEHAN - To sell
more ‘stuff’ than her classmates
or fellow Girl Scouts.
ALL BACK MOUNTAIN RESI-
DENTS - A joyous and prosperous
New Year.
Two Back Mountain residents,
Thomas E. Reese, Dallas, and Lisa
J. Baker, Lehman, were recently
appointed to the staff of State Sena-
tor Charles D. Lemmond, Jr., (R-
20).
Reese will serve as an Adminis-
trative Assistant to Senator Lem-
mond on a part-time basis, and
Baker was appointed to the position
of Administrative Officer in the
Kingston District Office.
Reese, a graduate of Dallas Bor-
ough High School, received a Bache-
lor of Arts degree in Commerce and
Finance from Wilkes College. He is
the former owner of the Glenview
Coal Company, Dallas, and cur-
rently serves as the Tax Collector in
Dallas Borough.
He and his wife, Martha, are the
parents of three children: Thomas
J. Reese, Shirley Shoff and Priscilla
Liput. He is the son of Thomas G.
Reese, Dallas.
A graduate of Dallas High School,
Baker received a Bachelor of Arts
degree in Government Administra-
tion from Shippensbuyrg University,
where she was a member of Pi
Sigma Alpha National Political Sci-
ence Honor Society, and president
and recording secretary of Delta
Rho Social Service Sorority.
Prior to joining Lemmond’s staff,
Baker served as the Public Infor-
mation-Alumni Coordinator of Luz-
A past member of the Cumber-
land County Young Republicans and
the Capitol Hill Council of Republi-
of Attorney and Mrs. Edward W.
Jones II, Dallas. She resides in
Lehman wih her husband, Gary.
Through 1985
Business
remains
constant
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
Back Mountain retailers, for the
through the “ups and downs” of
1985, with no huge gains and no
huge losses.
These same business people are
looking forward to 1986 with
guarded optimism. They are not
expecting a recession, but they are
concerned about cutbacks in
employment and the increase in
discount stores.
Most of the retailers surveyed
said business was about the same or
a little better than in 1984, but
several pointed to the fact that their
sales volume was offset by lower
profit margins.
James Eason, owner of Dallas
Centre Hardware, Main Street, said
his business increased during 1985.
“I can’t attribute the increase in
business to any one factor but it’s
probably due to good pricing, serv-
ice and better promotion. I also
believe that our new rear entrance
and better access to parking has
helped,” said Eason. He believes
that 1986 will be an even better
year. Despite businesses in the Wyo-
ming Valley area closing or laying
off employees, Eason said the Back
Mountain is a unique area. “It’s a
growing community, real estate is a
hot item now with more and more
pecple wantiag to live back here,”
said Eason.
Ray Daring of Daring’s Market
said he did less business in 1985
than in 1984.
“©pr summer business was
dow’ 8aid Daring. “It could have
been cue fo the highway repairs
during this past summer.” Daring
pointed out that PennDOT spent a
and there were many times custom-
ers hat difficulty finding access to
his store. ;
Daring’: business in October and
November increased which helped,
bit he said next summer could be
worse since PennDOT will be
© prairing the highway from the
Back Mountain to Luzerne, which
will be a factor in cutting down
summer traffic. Daring did not lay
off any of his employees, but did cut
back on part-time employees’ hours.
The grocer is doubtful that busi-
ness will increase in 1986 since
restaurants are his main competi-
tion. It appears the trend is that
more and more people are dining
out, according to Daring.
Marsha Landis, who is co-owner
of Back Mountain Lumber and
Hardware with - her husband, Al
Landis, said their volume of busi-
ness in 1985 was less than in 1984.
She attributes the decrease to the
fact that people are not spending as
much money in the Back Mountain
area, increased layoffs and more
competition.
“We also have a large number of
retired peoplé in the Back Moun-
tain,” said Mrs. Landis. “A lot of
them shop for sales so this cuts into
our profit. A lot of these people used
to shop locally, but now they're
looking for bargains in discount
houses.”
Mrs. Landis said the trend this
year seemed to be less gift buying,
but that it is difficult to judge
because this year they did not carry
toys in the store as they have done
in other years.
She is hopeful that 1986 will be
better since Back Mountain Hard-
ware has cut expenses and prices to
be competitive. They also have cut
back on personnel and they give
away less ‘‘free-bees.”
Pauline Roth of Roth Jewelry
Store said they do about 30 percent
(See BUSINESS, page 2)
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