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Commerce. Second row, Chuck Mattei,
Company.
A Back Mountain Regional Breakfast meeting was
held by the Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Com-
merce to enhance the involvement of Back Mountain
businesses in the activities and programs offered by
the Chamber.
Twelve business representatives attended the meet-
ing which featured an overview of the Chamber’s
programs occurring in the next four to six weeks.
Louis F. Goeringer, Chairman of the Board of
Directors of the Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of
Commerce, explained the comittee and task force
structure of the Chamber which addresses the various
needs of the greater Wilkes-Barre community. Andrew
Mamary, Chairman of the Membership Development
Division, and Jack Krogulski, Chairman of the Small
Business council, were on hand to discuss the func-
tions and activities of their respective groups.
The regional Chamber breakfast was attended by
Charles Mattei, a representative from the Pennsyl-
vania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) who
unveiled to the breakfast attendees PennDOT’s multi-
million dollar plan to add a fifth lane to the existing
of 1987 and is to be completed by Labor Day. ¥
“Everyone who lives or works in the Back Mountain
area will be either personally or professinally affected
ever, PennDOT has decided to divide the construction
area into three sections to elivate traffic flow prob-
lems. In addition, 12 and 16-hour work shifts will be in
effect.”
The added fifth lane, a middle lane for left turns,
will extend from Shavertown to Dallas with the
exception of one area, the Overbrook bridge. Mattei
stated that improved drainage systems will be added
and retaining walls will be repaired. The fifth land,
PennDOT hopes, will help control the number of
collisions and accidents which, at the present time,
occur rather frequently.
Mattei confirmed that a regional transportation
meeting will be held to discuss the probject with
Dallas, Shavertown, and other businesses and resi-
dents. “PennDOT,” Mattei said, “is looking for input
on this matter.”
Addressing another subject, Mattei announced that
by 1990 the Crossvalley Expressway should be com-
pleted which would allow motorists to travel from
Interstate 81 to the Carverton Road without any
interference from a stop light.
Dr. Joseph Fink of College Misericordia, Mattei said,
“Curbing will be installed to control the ingress and
egress of traffic on business fronts which should add to
the safety of pedestrians.”
Drugs
Watch out, folks! Here comes
Toby Coleman and she’s going to
make you think.
Coleman, a resident of Dallas
since July, joins The Dallas Post
as a columnist next week. Author
of a column entitled, ‘‘Something
to Think About,” Coleman takes
“every day ordinary subjects that
we all have an opinion on and
writes about them. You may find
she’s writing exactly what you’re
thinking and, then again, you
may find her thinking differs
entirely from yours.
A former resident of Wilkes-
Barre and Kingston, Toby can
remember being interested in
writing ever since she served as
editor, publisher and senior staff
writer of the Hoyt Street School
Journal when she was in sixth
grade.
After graduating from high
school, she studied journalism at
Penn State, University Park,
where she also wrote for the
school newspaper.
Currently employed as a com-
panion to the elderly, Toby also
does volunteer work at Wilkes-
Barre General Hospital.
Her column begins next week
in The Dallas Post. You won't
want to miss it - she just might
be hitting the nail on the head as
far as you're concerned. But,
then she might be missing the
point altogether.
Read next week’s issue to find
out!
TOBY COLEMAN
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year, there were a select few who
were doing cocaine at their lockers.
But those kids are gone this year.
You don’t have the heavy drugs
now. And the kids who do use them
aren’t very well liked, so they really
those who don’t use drugs.”
Most students do agree there is a
drug problem in the country and, to
some extent, in the schools, but all
far as the high school setting is
concerned and may even be. having
an adverse effect.
“I thought the drug situation in
our school was getting better,” said
a junior from Dallas. “But now you
hear so much about drugs that it
makes students curious enough to
want to try it to see what it’s like.
Kids who used to smoke pot before,
but have gone to alcohol are all of a
sudden hearing about drugs again
and it reminds them about the times
they used to smoke.”
Still, students say the overriding
problem is alcohol. Many use it,
some abuse it and most eventually
find themselves in a situation where
they have to make a choice to use it
or not.
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accepted you will give in,”’ said a
Lehman student. “You see your
friends doing it and you don’t see
anything wrong with them, so you
do it, too.”
Another student, a junior girl
from Dallas who said she does not
use alcohol, sees the situation in a
different light, however.
“There is not much peer pressure
here,” she explained. “It’s not like
if you're at a party you say, ‘Oh,
my God! I have to drink.” People
don’t realize that you will be
accepted even if you don’t drink. I
remember somebody came up to
me at a party once and said, ‘You
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know, I admire you for not drink-
ing.)
So. why do so many kids use
alcohol?
“I don’t think students see alcohol
as a drug,” said a Dallas junior. ‘If
you mention drugs, they know they
are illegal, but alcohol is sort of
accepted.”
The best way to curb drug and
alcohol abuse, all agree, is by going
into the elementary schools and
educating children when they are
impressionable, a program that
both Dallas and Lehman already
have.
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Host Families are being sought
for 25 high school students from
Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Fin-
land, Holland, Belgium, Austria,
Switzerland, Germany, Spain,
France, Italy, Ecuador, Australia
and Japan for the school year 1987-
88 in a program sponsored by the
American Intercultural Student
Exchange (AISE).
The students, age 15 through 17,
will arrive in the United States in
August 1987, attend a local high
school, and return to their home
countries in June 1988. The students,
all fluent in English, have been
screened by their school representa-
tives in their home countries and
have spending money and medical
insurance.
Host families may deduct $50 per
month for income tax purposes.
AISE is also seeking American
High School students age 15 through
17, who would like to spend a high
school year in Sweden, Norway,
Denmark, Germany, Switzerland,
France, Spain or Australia or par-
ticipate in a five week summer host
family stay throughout Western
Europe.
Families interested in this pro-
gram should contact the State Coor-
dinator- or telephone toll free: 1-800-
SIBLING.
“Residents of Kingston Township
interested in having an old shed or
similar wooden structure removed
from their property are advised that
the Board of Supervisors will be
accepting applications for such
work through October 15, 1986.
The Board of Supervisors intends
fo make a formal application to the
Department of Environmental
Resources under the Rat Source
Elimination Grant Program, if
enough interest is generated in the
program. Under the grant program,
the State will provide funding for
the demolition and removal of the
blighted structures which lend
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The demolition of these unsightly
structures also enhances the beauty
of the community.
Kingston Township
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the Township Manager’s Office at
696-3809, Monday through Friday,
from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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