Festive
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Day. The cheerleaders had pins
of five colors, a special color for
each class-freshman, sopho-
more, junior -and senior, and the
fifth for faculty. The money
raised from the sale of the pins,
$181.45, went to the S.A.D.D.
fund. The senior class sold the
most pins, thus earning points
for their class.
Thursday was Black & Gold
Day. Everyone had to wear
black and gold and the highest
percentage of colors worn by a
class won points for that class.
Friday was Color Dress-Up &
Sign Day and also day of the
pep rally. Students were to
dress up in good clothes and
also wear the color assigned to
their class such as red for
freshmen; yellow for sopho-
mores; green for juniors; blue
for seniors and pink for faculty.
The class with the highest per-
centage in each category was
awarded points on a large ther-
mometer in the cafeteria where
each day’s winners were
awarded their points. Highest
number of points would receive
the school’s Spirit Stick.
Each class made signs for the
Lake-Lehman/Crestwood game
and winner of this competition,
judged at the Pep Rally, was
the sophomore class. Their sign
was fastened to the Knights’
fence on the football field. In a
cheering contest held during the
pep rally, the seniors were
declared winners for cheering
the loudest and the senior class
won the Spirit Stick for accumu-
lating the most points during
the weeklong competition.
Mrs. Susie Snyder, cheer-
leader advisor, interrupted the
homecoming court members’:
conversation to tell them the
festivities were to begin.
The girls were escorted to
cars chauffered by members of
the King’s Court and were
driven slowly around the track.
In the meantime, their parents
were escorted by a cheerleaders
honor guard onto the field, fath-
ers on the far side, mothers on
the side toward Lake-Lehman’s
home side of the field.
Last year’s Queen, Susie Red-
mond, escorted by King Brian
James, rode in the last car. As
the cars stopped on the opposite
side of the field members of the
king’s court, Ed Dubil, Barry
Gately, Mark Lopasky and Bill
Walsh escorted the girls to their
fathers, who, in turn, presented
the girls to their mothers. Par-
ents then stood side by side with
their daughters. Last year’s
queen, Susie Redmond, was
escorted to the group by Ed
Dubil.
While the girls waited anx-
iously, each girl was introduced
with her parents. Finally, the
big moment — Dee Dee Barber,
was named runnner-up; then
Kyra Koflanovich was named
Homecoming Queen. She was
crowned ‘‘Miss Homecoming
Queen’ by Miss Redmond with
yellow flowers.
The new homecoming queen is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Ronald Koflanovich, RD 5,
Shavertown. She was a member
of the high school field hockey
team, on student council and is
active in the school’s S.A.D.D.
program. She hopes to attend
college and major in communi-
cations.
The crowning was complete,
the girls and their parents left
the field and as they did, the
cheerleaders released large
black and gold balloons into the
air, heralding the naming of a
new Homecoming Queen at
Lake-Lehman High School.
House
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We did, to the kitchen where
four witches encircled a huge
iron cauldron brewing over a
flame. Vials of blood, frogs legs,
eyes from something and other
ingredients were nearby. As I
watched, the witches added var-
ious ingredients to the brew and
my eyes opened wide as a green
hand attached to a green arm
rose slowly over the edge of the
large cauldron. Time to move
on!
Following the black-robed
spectre up a high, narrow flight
of steps, we went into a room
where a brown-robed monk
offered to tell my fortune with
the Tarot Cards. He laid them
out — one for romance. one for
money, one for friction and the
fourth for death. I turned to
leave the room and, as I thought
I had heard before, something
or someone was following me. I
tried to catch a glimpse of
whatever it was, but couldn’t.
We went down the hall to a
dark room where there was a
glowing outline of a person on
the floor. This was the room
where Damien had been mur-
dered by his sisters.
Suddenly, ghouls came into
the room from nowhere. With
my guide, we made a quick exit
into a room where an obviously
deranged girl sat in a chair
rocking a child while she sang a
song about Damien and his
coming. She got up from the
rocker which continued rocking
and went to the window. As she
screamed, a chalk-white face
with large green eyes appeared
in the window, watching our
every move.
Did we leave? We did and I
again tried to turn quickly to
see who was following us. I saw
no one. We went into a dark
room and as we stepped inside,
the door slammed shut and
monsters came from all cor-
ners. After trying every door
and finding more monsters
behind them, the outer door
finally opened.
Downstairs we went and who
should appear in front of us but
a ghost and a large, caged
monster. The guide beckoned
me to go out the back door into
the yard. Just as I stepped out,
the outside cellar doors opened
and we went down into the
cellar which was damp and
black.
Suddenly, a bright light came
on and, out of the darkness,
came Damien and other ghouls
with chain saws shouting ‘‘Rest
in peace.” That was my cue to
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exit. Up the cellar steps I came
and as I turned to leave the
yard with cheerleader advisor,
Mrs. Sheila Bonawitz, the last
words I heard were “You're
lucky you picked Dallas to
win!”
The Dallas Cheerleaders
“Haunted House” was enjoyed
by all who visited it, even the
Wyoming Seminary ‘ghost bust-
ers’ who were unable to fulfill
their name. Instead, they were
spooked by the ‘spooks’.
The cheerleaders achieved
their goal and cleared $887.00 to
help pay expenses for their
entrance in the Universal
Cheerleading Competition, Dec.
13, at Rutgers University, where
they hope to qualify for the
National Competition in Florida.
Correction
Jessica Richards was incor-
rectly identified in a photo
Halloween Parade last week.
Jessica, a fifth grade student at
the Dallas Elementary School,
was one of the winners in the
most original category.
Jessica, age 10, is the daugh-
ter of Pamela Richards, of
Claude Street, Dallas.
The semi annual PSACF
meeting was hosted by the Luz-
erne County Fair Association on
October 25 at the Holiday Inn,
Wilkes-Barre.
Robert Cartier, Luzerne
County president, welcomed
approximately 100 guests of the
fair association and special
guest Senator Charles Lem-
mond.
Senator Lemmond spoke on
the bills that are pending in the
senate to benefit county fairs,
his role in helping our fairs, and
the role the fairs play in benefit-
ing the community.
‘I’d like to give you two things
— the tools in which to make
the fairs work (matching funds)
but not tell you how to use them
and to meet your needs, but not
request anything in return
(complicated paperwork),”’
Lemmond said.
an act being submitted request-
ing $1,500,000 be made available
for matching funds to State
Fairs.
A report was given on the
automotive legislation pending
for State Fairs. House Bill 2770,
Senate Bill 1674 will allow auto-
motives to be displayed at fairs.
This subject includes almost
anything mobile such as ATV’s,
cycles, mobile homes, recrea-
tion vehicles, farm equipment,
snowmobiles, cars, trucks,
riding mowers, etc.
Back Mountain residents
attending were Robert Cartier,
President; Dave Crissman, vice
president; Jean Hillard, secre-
tary; Donna Cupinski, assistant
secretary. All four are officers
of the Luzerne County Fair
Association.
Crunch
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its residents must pay, bringing
in nearly $500,000 per year.
“Right now we're hurting,”
Dallas Borough president
Donald Shaffer said. “We prob-
ably have enough to balance the
budget for this year, but we
can’t go on like this. We're
going to have to raise taxes.
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“We did work on storm drains
in the summer and we would
like to pave some other roads,
but we don’t have the money to
do it. Kingston Township even
offered us the use of their equip-
ment to do the paving. All we
had to do was pay for the
blacktop. But we can’t even
afford that.”
Shaffer said that for the past
10 years the Borough was able
to put part of the revenue shar-
ing money in the bank where it
collected interest and then the
borough would draw on it when
needed. ‘“We have reached the
point where there just isn’t any
money left,” Shaffer explained.
“The government says people
will save money on their federal
and state income tax,” Shaffer
added. “But it is really the
money they are taking away
from local governments. So we
end up raising taxes and the
people wind up paying
anyway.”
Ray Jones, Harveys Lake Bor-
ough finance chairman, the
Harveys Lake Council is also
trying to deal with the cutbacks.
Kingston Township manager
Fred Potzer says that its com-
munity won’t really notice the
crunch because revenue sharing
money in the past was used for
non-essential equipment.
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