Children gather
Mrs. Theresa Gwilliam,
program coordinator,
Volunteers who knock on Wyo-
ming Valley doors during the
Annual Cancer Crusade held in
April will be intent on saving lives
as well as raising funds.
They will offer to every resident a
pamphlet entitled “Eating to Live,”
which discusses what food may help
reduce the risk of cancer.
Dates for the door-to-door phase
of the Annual drive are April 17
through April 28. However, prior to
that time, the volunteers must be
recruited and trained.
used in
The Residential Unit is in need of
captains and neighborhood crusad-
ers. If you can spare a few hours to
help save lives, please call your
local American Cancer Society at
825-7763.
Officials
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of Kingston Township and that
project would take another several
years. He said he strongly recom-
mended approval of the drainage
project since the developer recently
applied for two new building per-
mits.
supervisors should table the agree-
ment pending further evaluation by
the supervisors, but Planning Com-
mission representative John Filip
said that the stipulated state limita-
tion of 60 days is now up, and
Woodridge Associates would be
given approval under the state regu-
lations irregardless of the supervi-
sors action.
Thomas Adams then moved to
accept the agreement which was
seconded by Charles Cigarski and
the agreement was accepted unani-
mously by the three supervisors.
Evans then presented a proposed
agreement relative to the Wood-
ridge project’s road maintenance
and stated that a recommendation
from PennDOT said the township
would be reimbursed from the
liquid fuel funds if it maintained the
development’s roads.
Despite Filip’s report that the
roads were acceptable for taking
over by the township, Zincavage
again expressed concern over the
stipulations of the proposed resolu-
tion and stood fast on tabling the
issue for further study.
A proposal submited to Solicitor
Evans by Township Tax Collector
Jacqueline Latosek to deposit tax
revenue in a savings account in
First Eastern Bank where the
money could earn interest was ques-
tioned as to its legality by Evans.
He told Mrs. Latosek he appre-
ciated that she wanted to earn
additional revenue through interest
on the funds, but he wanted time to
research the validity of such an
account since the tax monies depos-
ited include township, county and
school district funds and earned
interest would be on all three.
Police Chief Donald Jones
reported that during the past
month, there were two accidents,
four arrests and 26 complaints
answered by the police department.
Jones also said that three months
ago, the supervisors agreed on a
request to purchase a new police
cruiser through a state program.
Jones said since that time, he has
checked on the status of the state
program and learned that the state
is in litigation with its supplier and
the future of such a program is
uncertain.
Jones recommended that the
supervisors advertise for bids on a
1986 vehicle from local dealers
using the state police specifications
with a few minor changes suggested
by the township police. The board
unanimously approved a resolution
authorizing the secretary to adver-
tise the bids for a 1986 vehicle as
soon as possible.
Chairman Zincavage reported
that since the February meeting the
bidder on the 1974 township truck
has increased his bid from $1800 to
$3,000. Evans recommended that
they accept the $3,000 and transfer
the truck to the bidder upon receipt
of the check in the amount of $3,000.
John Filip told the supervisors
that residents of Sutton Hill develop-
ment requested the township accept
full responsibility for maintenance
of the development roads and other
facilities. Chairman Zincavage
asked Filip to submit a letter to the
supervisors explaining specifically
the requests of Sutton Hills resi-
dents.
Kanjorski
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“We have begun to turn it around
and we are now beginning to thrive.
Follwing his early morning
speech, he also made announce-
ments at Hazleton City Hall, the
Wise-Borden plant in Berwick and
at the Paxinos cogeneration facility
in Shamokin.
Kanjorski sits on the the commit-
tee of House Veterans Affairs, and
the Banking, Finance and Urban
Affairs Committee in addition to the
Democratic and Steering Commit-
tee.
— JOHN HOINSKI
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“Kids Come in Special Flavors” is a handicap
awareness program that has been renewed by staff
and volunteer members of the Wyoming Valley
Children’s Association.
The program, which was first introduced two years
ago by two staff members of the Association, is aimed
at fostering outsiders understanding of the handi-
capped children by having them “walk a mile in
someone else’s moccasins.” :
Just as ice cream is basically the same but comes in
different flavors, representatives of the Wyoming
Valley Children’s Association share that same philoso-
phy by promoting the fact that people are basically
the same but each one unique.
Mrs. Theresa Gwilliam of Harveys Lake and other
volunteers have presented the program to more than
200 groups since it has been renewed several months
ago. Most of their demonstrations have been before
Brownie Troops and other youth organizations, for the
most part ranging in age from six to nine years of age.
When Ellen Bujnowski and Bonnie Margo, members
of the Association’s staff, initiated the program ‘Kids
Come in Special Flavors” two years ago when the
demand for their appearance before groups became so
overwhelming that they had to drop the program due
to lack of time.
Mrs. Gwilliam, who has a young daughter, Cori,
with a hearing and speech handicap, became involved
after speaking at a school with the Wyoming Valley
Children’s Association’s Program Director, Sue Janos.
She heard about the former “Kids” program and
expressed an interest in reviving it. X
No sooner siad than her offer was accepted and soon
Mrs. Gwilliam and a core of volunteers began to
present the program. Their aim is to create an
awareness among the members of the audience that
the handicapped children are different but alike just
as flavors of ice cream are different but basically
alike.
They do not lecture, but present an audience
participation program whereby the members of the
audience take part in such exercises as trying to
transpose Braille, try to hear what one of the
volunteers are saying when they turn their back on the
children and whisper rather than speak aloud directly
to them. The volunteers also let members of the
audience put on braces to learn what it is like to walk
with them on, to hold their tongue against the roof of
their mouth and try to speak distinctly and also how to
sit in and operate a wheelchair.
Through these various exercises those children
without handicaps learn that the handicapped chil-
dren, although unique in some respects, are basically
the same as their peers.
Children in the audience are also given a kit of
written projects originated and put together by the
volunteers which shares such information with them
as things they couldn’t do if blind, or how to
communicate with others if deaf. The audience partici-
pants also learn how to read lips, or how to use sign
language, how to use the Braille chart, how to use
walkers, crutches or man-made feet or arms. They
are also taught what it is like to have a learning
problem and how it can be corrected.
The bottom line of each program is to teach the
children without handicaps to realize that the handi-
capped child is basically the same as they are and
that they want to be treated the same.
Usually, four volunteers go to each group appear-
ance in order to cover the physically handicapped —
blindness, hearing, mental retardation and dyslexia
(seeing things in reverse). The members of the
Association hope by making more children aware of
the handicapped, the handicapped or disabled children
can better reach their potential.
The Wyoming Valley Children’s Association (form-
erly the Wyoming Valley Crippled Children) founded
in 1924, has a therapy program and a pre-school
program, both provided five days a week. There are
all degrees of disability and the children attend the
pre-school or have therapy according to their needs.
Theresa Gwilliam, as coordinator of the program, is
in charge of all publicity, and all literature pertaining
to the “Kids Come in Special Flavors” program.
Nancy Dorzinsky and Alexias Edwards are the core
members of the group. As an R.N., Theresa is familiar
with handicaps and when her daughter, Cori, returned
to her home two and a half years ago, after spending
two and a half years as a patient in a hospital,
Theresa became invovled in the Wyoming Valley
Children’s Association. Cori’s hearing disability is now
normal with the use of a hearing aid and is learning to
speak through therapy.
She also attends the pre-school classes.
The Association is presently contacting the colleges
for volunteers for their program and will welcome any
students who are interested.
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