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Vol. 97, No. 12
By JOHN HOINSKI
Staff Writer
Boxcar Willie, World Ambassador
of the Hobos and spokesman for the
historic Knights of the Road, will be
the featured performer at the
annual Luzerne County Fair next
Fall.
Although the festival is still five
months away, preparations and
entertainment are now underway
for the event which is scheduled for
September 3-7.
Other acts that have been booked
include ‘Shotgun Red’, a nationally
known puppeteer artist, and the
Leahy Family, a song and dance
group from Canada which has also
entertained internationally. But the
big draw will be Boxcar Willie, who
will open the Fair on Wednesday
with two shows.
“We think he will bring in a huge
crowd for the opening,” Fall Chair-
man Ray Hillman said. ‘He will put
on two 45-minute shows on Wednes-
day and I think the people will
really be pleased with him. Then on
Thursday. night we’ll have the
Leahy Family from Canada. They
dance, sing, play the fiddle, that
sort of thing, and are a very tal-
ented group from what I’ve been
told.
“Then on Sunday afternoon, we’ll
have Shotgun Red,” Hillman contin-
ued. ‘“He’s a puppeteer and that
should be a real hit with families.
He’s been on Hee-Haw and on
national cable television. They are
the shows we have booked so far
and we're still working on other
ideas.”
Aside from the entertainment
projects, volunteers from local
municipalities have been working
on the Fair Grounds, including the
construction of two horse barn
buildings.
“We’ve been doing a lot of work
up here,” Hillman noted. ‘‘Actually
it’s become a year-round job. After
the Fair is over, about 30 days later
we start preparing for the next one.
Now, we are putting up two strue-
tures that will house 60 horses and
we're also doing some leveling off
so people won’t have to walk up and
down hills so much.”
Excavation will continue for the
next few weeks with the leveled
fields to eventually be donated for
the Little League and soccer teams
in the Back Mountain.
The Fair is owned and operated
by 13 service clubs, and the way it
works is that no organization can
make money on the festival. The
profits made either go back into the
fair or into the community.
The event was originally known
as the Dallas Rotary Fair before
being changed to the Dallas Fall
Fair, and is now presently called
the Luzerne County Fair.
The municipality of Kingston
Township, in conjunction with the
Shavertown Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment and the Trucksville Volunteer
Fire Department has placed a ban
on all open burning in the township.
No permits will be issued by the
Township of Kingston for open burn-
ing until conditions improve.
Township fire officials have noted
a marked increase in the amount of
brush fires over the last week. Fire
Volunteer Fire Department and
Fire Chief William Eck of the
Trucksville Volunteer Fire Depart
ment have reported that their
departments have been busy during
the past weeks combating brush
fires which have spawned due fo
excessively dry conditions and
strong winds.
Township Police Chief Paul M.
Sabol has advised township patrols
to strictly enforce the open burning
ban. Citations for violations of the
Township open burning laws will be
issued to any individual found in
violation of the ban.
Run for the money
week.
Diagnostic centers to detect
Alzheimer’s Disease will soon be
operating at 11 hospitals around the
state, according to Secretary of
Aging Alma R. Jacobs.
The project, under the guidance of
Governor Dick Thornburgh’s
Human Resources Committee of the
Cabinet, will provide funds to the
hospitals for training personnel that
will staff the centers.
Township officials
The Luzerne County Conservation
District has chosen Kingston Town-
trict’s 1986 Municipality of the year.
Since 1975, the Conservation Dis-
trict has presented an annual award
to a Luzerne County farmer that
utilizes sound soil conservation
practices on his land in an effort to
protect our soil and water
resources. 1986 will be the first year
the Conservation District honors a
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municipality for its efforts in the
field of conservation.
In a letter to Kingston Township
Board of Supervisors Chairman Wil-
lard Piatt, Joanne Nardone, Conser-
vation District Manager stated
“Kingston Township, which contin-
ually demonstrates a keen interest
in the environment through its
stream improvement projects,
reclamation projects, and planning
and zoning decisions will be the first
recipient of this new award.”
The announcement of Kingston
Township’s selection as the 1986
Municipality of the Year will be
officially made at the annual Tri-Ag
Banquet which will be held at the
Town Hill United Methodist Church
in Huntington Township on Tuesday,
April 15, 1986 at 7 p.m.
Richard E. Grubb, Secretary of
the Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture, will be the featured
speaker at the banquet.
Authorities say there may be at
least 60 different kinds of ailments
and diseases with Alzheimer’s
symptoms. These diseases must
first be ruled out through tests and
observations.
Funding for training the hospital
teams is coming from a $500,000
special appropriation by the state
legislature to aid Alzheimer’s vic-
tims and their families.
Heart
disease
ranks high
Statistics released by the North-
east Pennsylvania Chapter of the
American Heart Association last
week revealed that more than half
the deaths recorded in Luzerne
County over a 10-year period have
been related to some form of heart
disease.
Information compiled from data
obtained through the Pennsylvania
Department of Health’s Data Statis-
tics Bureau showed that 52.6 per
cent of the deaths in our area from
1975 to 1984 were cardiovascular
related. In comparison, Luzerne
ranked slightly lower than 16 of the
20 counties encompassing the study,
although the percentage is still
mildly higher than the national
average of 48 per cent.
The statistics do not atempt to
establish trends, provide scientific
analysis or predict future cardiovas-
cular mortality percentages, rather,
the figures are used primarily to
enlighten people of the gravity of
the disease that is one of the top two
killers in the United States.
“Our purpose isn’t to scare
anyone with these statistics,” John
Abood, director of communications
for the northeast chapter, said. “We
just want to give people a better
understanding of how serious a
problem heart disease is.”
Although figures reveal the high-
est number of fatalities in the 65
and up bracket, the disease actually
starts at a much earlier age.
“] remember reading an article
on the autopsies that were per-
formed on men who were Killed in
battle during the Vietnam war, and
it was found that a very high
percentage of them had already
begun to show some form of heart
disease,”” Abood explained. “So it’s
not something that only affects the
elderly. It often starts at an early
age.”
In an effort to educate young
people about the heart and its func-
tion, the Association last year began
a program for pre-schoolers in the
Scranton area and have now intro-
(See HEART, page 2)
25 Cents
By JOHN HOINSKI
Staff Writer
A Lehman Township man who
held police at bay for over four
hours Saturday night while holed up
inside his home with a .44 magnum
rifle has been turned over to proper
authorities for psychiatric evalua-
tion.
Ronald Quarteroni, 32, of 395
Huntsville-Idetown Road was com-
mitted Sunday to a mental health
facility for treatment.
According to reports, the incident
developed - early Saturday night
after an alleged domestic dispute
took place between Quarteroni and
his wife, Patsy.
After apparently having been
later returned with a rifle and broke
down a door to gain entrance. He
then confronted his wife and fired a
shot towards the ceiling. At this
point in the investigation, it has not
been determined whether the dis-
charge was accidental or not.
Mrs. Quarteroni then fled the
premises at some point while her
husband remained inside and
refused to come out when local law
enforcement authorities arrived
shortly after 6:30 p.m..
Personnel from the newly formed
Wilkes-Barre SWAT unit were
called to assist police from Lehman
Township, Lake Township, Harveys
Lake, Jackson Township and
Wilkes-Barre. Fire and ambulance
units from Back Mountain commun-
ities were also placed on standby
during the standoff.
Police blocked off much of the
Huntsville-Idetown road .to traffic
and instructed residents in nearby
homes to extinguish outside lighting
to cut off Quarteroni’s visibility.
Lehman Township Police Chief
Paul Goodwin was in charge of the
case and was assisted by Wilkes-
Barre officer Patrick Rushton who
played a major role in negotiations
with the distraught man.
Rushton recently completed a
two-week course in hostage negotia-
tions at the Prince George's County
Police Department in Riverdale,
Md. After several tense moments,
Quarteroni finally surrendered
around 11 p.m. without incident.
No criminal charges have been
filed in the case.
Mrs. Quarteroni, who had joined
with negotiators after she fled the
house, later told District Attorney
Bernard Podcasy in an interview
that she did not feel threatened at
any time and that she was not
assaulted during the confrontation.
Quarteroni was taken to the
Lehman Township Municipal Build-
ing where he was reportedly later
transferred to the Hazleton-Nanti-
coke Mental Health/Mental Retar-
dation Center.
By JOHN HOINSKI
Staff Writer
Lake-Lehman High School
annually produces a group of per-
formers that are as good as any in
the state. If you need more of a
hint, this group can always be found
entertaining at Black Knight foot-
ball games. But now the school has
another squad that is so good that,
well, they have a team to beat the
‘band.
The Lake-Lehman boys’volleyball
team, currently ranked second in
the state behind Farrell High School
of Pittsburgh, has breezed through
the Wyoming Valley Conference
over the years, losing just three
games in the last nine seasons. In
that span, the team has won six
conference championships, been to
the states seven times, has has not
lost more than one game in any
given season since 1976.
Last week, coach John Bara-
nowski’s team, which went through
the 1985 conference schedule
unscathed at 12-0, opened defense of
its WVC title with a convincing
victory over arch-rival Dallas Area
and once again figures to be the
cream of the crop this year, too.
“We have a lot of experience on
this team and we should have
another good season this year,”
Baranowski said. ‘But, you can
never tell what’s going to happen
over the course of a year. Just last
week, one of our key players hurt
his ankle in a tournament but,
fortunately, it was nothing serious.”
Tunkhannock and North Pocono
figure to provide the stiffest tests,
but nevertheless, Lake-Lehman,
which has an overall conference
record of 89-9 since the teams incep-
tion back in 1976, should be sitting
atop the standings at the end of the
year.
Although the Black Knights lost
only two players from last year’s
team, they were key performers in
all-scholastic setter Dave Jachi-
mowicz and outside-hitter Dave
Mosier. Baranowski will have
plenty of firepower returning, how-
ever, in senior co-captains Chris
Kukosky, who was named MVP in
the prestigious Bethlehem Liberty
tournament last week, and Greg
Javer, who was an honorable men-
tion.
“We always play those guys at
opposite ends,’”’” Baranowski
explained. ‘“When one is up front
the other is in the back row. That’s
the way we set up our rotation.”
Others counted on will be seniors
Mark Vandermark, a three year
starter, along with Pat Hozempa
and Mark Yaple, both two year
starters, and sophomore Alex Fred-
erick.
Waiting in the wings will be key
substitutes Kevin Gibson, a senior
who has suffered from injuries over
the last two years, Rocky Lopasky,
a sophomore defensive specialist
and backup setter Mark Major.
Lake-Lehman, which finished
second in the final Eastern state
balloting and sixth overall last year,
have achieved their highest ranking
ever with their current second place
position.
“The way the teams are rated are
really two-fold,” Baranowski
explained. ‘The coaches from the
eastern part of the state vote on
who they think are the top ten
teams in the east and are tabulated
at York. The coaches from the
western part of the state do the
same thing involving their teams,
only their choices are called into
Plum, Pa. in that part of the state.
Then the two are sort of meshed
together and they come up with an
overall rating.”
The Black Knights proved just
how good they are when they trav-
eled to Bethlehem Liberty High
School where the top 10 teams in the
east squared off against one another
with Lake-Lehman emerging as the
champion, vaulting them to the No.2
spot in the state.
But despite their success, not
even Baranowski can say for sure
why the program has been so suc-
cessful.
“I can’t really say why we have
been so good,” Baranowski said.
“We practice hard and the kids are
very dedicatd. But one thing we do
have going in our favor, and the
school officials have been very sup-
portive in this, is that we travel a
lot to compete against some of the
best teams in the state. Erie, York
and teams from Western Pennsyl-
vania are the hot-beds for volley-
ball, but we have been going up
against some very good competi- |,
tion.” {
Don’t look for Lehman to slide
much, if at all, next year, either.
While the Black Knights varsity
team was competing in the Allen-
town area last week, the JV’s were
participating in a tournament at
Coughlin with the varsity clubs of
other Wyoming Valley Conference
teams. They finished second.
And that’s the name of that tune.
Inside The Post
Calendar .............. 16
Classified ......... 13,14
Commentary ......... 6
cookbook ............... 7
Obituaries ............. 2
People ................... 8
Sehool .............. 11,12
Sporis.............. 9,10