JUST ONE YEAR AGO this
column was created.
Several weeks of ‘“‘pondering”’
over a perfect heading finally
“Just call it Back Mountain on
the move.”
I thought about it for a few
seconds and I agreed, moving
meant people, growth, progress,
success, all the things I wanted
to write about.
One thing I didn’t realize it
meant was “friendship.” The
friendships I’ve made through
this column are very special to
me, you who support it, read it
weekly, stop by my counter at
Stapinski’s with your com-
ments, and offer me so much
info have made it the pleasure
to write that it is.
One year later I just want to
say “thank you” to all of you, I
hope you had a joyous Christ-
mas and may your New Year
have something very special in
it for you.
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A VERY SPECIAL WEL-
COME HOME TO KEN
THOMPSON. Ken spent the past
several weeks in NPW hospital,
has gone through two major
surgeries, and is now home
recuperating with his family.
"A very heartfelt Christmas
wish and New Year blessing
goes to Ken and his family. May
1987 be filled with health and
happiness in abundance for all
of you.
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CONGRATULATIONS are in
order for two licensed practical
nurses in our Back Mountain
Area.
Mary Gulitus of Harveys Lake
and Barbara Kasper of Sweet
Valley graduated from Pringle
Vo Tech school recently. Both of
these lovely ladies are now
licensed in their field and will
continue to share their knowl-
edge and friendly smiles to their
patients.
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MRS. EVELYN WINTERS-
TEEN of the Meadows, Dallas,
left on the 19th of December to
fly to her son’s home in Illinois
for Christmas.
Mrs. Wintersteen, whom we
all remember as the lady who
owned the Merry Go Round and
those authentic wooden horses
Jean
HILLARD
at Hanson’s, was so excited
about spending Christmas with
her son and family.
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IT WAS PARTY TIME at the
Maculloch’s home in Haddon-
field Hills on Monday night.
George who is manager at
Merchants Bank in Shavertown,
and his wife, Barb entertained
the staff for an evening of
relaxing and fun before the
holidays.
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MRS. MARION KERN, a resi-
dent of the Meadows, was enter-
tained last Sunday by her
family at her son ‘‘Lum’s
Place” in Fernbrook.
Mrs. Kern’s children and 26
grandchildren all joined
together to honor their Mom
and grandmother at this special
time of year.
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DID YOU HEAR SLEIGH
BELLS ringing on Monday eve-
ning? Did you think you saw
Santa and his elves walking
around looking in windows,
checking on who’s naughty or
nice?
I’ll bet it wasn’t a dream after
after all. We heard bells, we
saw Elves and Santa Claus
came right in our house with
presents for our grandchildren.
What a nice thing to do for the
children! Thanks goes to the
Jack Wartella family who got
the message through to North
Pole about all those good kids in
Haddonfield Hills.
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THE HARVEYS LAKE BOR-
OUGH BUILDING has been a
busy place lately I'm told. Two
weeks ago on a Saturday over
250 kids were guests of the
Harveys. Lake Protective Asso-
ciation.
Each child received a gift, lots
of items were raffled off and
every one had a lot to eat and a
very good time at the Christmas
party.
The Harveys Lake Protective
Association sponsored Santa
Claus while Mayor T.J. Boyle,
Harveyw Lake Police Dept.,
Harveys Lake Borough Council
and Harveys Lake Sewer
Authority sponsored the event
itself.
Dave 'Wehrer and Gloria
Evans did the head work and
planning while the kids made it
a great success.
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ON DEC. 27TH the Harveys
Lake Recreation Committee
sponsored a dance for the teen-
agers at the recreation building
and it was free admission.
Another nice gesture on their
part to Support: their teenagers.
DEC. 20TH the Harveys Lake
Borough building was the set-
ting for some 57 guests, all
affiliated with the borough, for
a Christmas party.
Dancing was to the tunes of
the Zodiac and dinner was
enjoyed by all. This event was
arranged by Gloria Evans.
GET WELL WISHES go to a
Dallas Senior High student,
Heide Scholz who is a patient in
Nesbitt Hospital. Heide will
probably be spending New
Years in the hospital, so please
send her a card to help make
her stay a little brighter.
Heide is in room 101, Pedia-
trics. All your friends send you
get well wishes, Heide. They
miss you in school.
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AS I CLOSE MY COLUMN
this week and this year I'm
thinking of a very dear lady,
Mrs. Virginia Davis of Dallas.
Mrs. Davis left to visit her
family in Reading on Monday.
She was driving, alone, to be
with them for Christmas.
As she stopped by my counter,
she wished me a Merry Christ-
mas and said ‘‘she hoped to
make it ot Reading for Christ-
mas. I’m leaving now but I
know I'll get lost.” I hope she
made it.
Merry Christmas and Happy
New Year Mrs. Davis, and
everyone out there in the Back
Mountain ‘“‘wherever you are.”
(Jean Hillard, a Back Moun-
tain resident, is a columnist for
The Dallas Post. Her column
appears regularly.)
By NANCY KOZEMCHAK
Library Correspondent
The Back Mountain Memorial
Library will be featuring in the
display case for the next four
months a collection of American
Flyer S gauge trains borrowed
from Cliff Garris of Dallas.
There is an American Flyer
Circus train which is 30 years
old including an engine, tender
and two flat cars carrying a
tractor with two cages filled
with animals. There are two
dock-siders, a black one and a
blue one. There is a Franklin
engine and tender in red and
green and a George Washington
set in gold, red and blue. *
Also included in the display is
a yellow handcar; a green
switcher; a black No. 322
Hudson steam engine with
tender and an Atlantic No. 302
engine. There is a New Haven
No. 497 diesel; a Comet No. 446
diesel; and The Royal Blue
engine and tender. All of these
trains are at least 20 years old.
We are displaying part of
Cliff’s collection and he has
about 60 more of these at home.
He had five trains to start with
and began collecting them as a
hobby in 1980. He belongs to the
Train Collectors Association,
Northeastern division and
Atlantic division. He does repair
work at his home on American
Flyer engines. This makes an
interesting display and will be a
the library until January 14th.
The Book Club of the library
held its Christmas meeting at
the library and had a very
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Marilyn Rudolph and Nancy
Kozemchak, librarians,
presented a program on Teddy
Bears, which included a story
titled, “A Toy that Bears with
us’.
Most of us know that the teddy
bear was born in 1903 as the
result of a hunting trip taken by
our 26th president, Theodore
Roosevelt, but the story derived
from that incident is most inter-
esting. We had a copy of the
original Steiff Teddy Bear to tie
in with the story; a children’s
book called, ‘“This is the Bear’’;
and the new Rudi Bear to con-
clude the program.
(Nancy Kozemchak is the
assistant librarian at the Back
Mountain Memorial Library.
Her column appears regularly
in The Dallas Post.)
By JOHN HOINSKI
Staff Writer
There is more to winning a
game than outpointing your
opponent on the scoreboard.
How a team wins could be just
as important as the victories
themselves. Just ask Dallas
coach Clarence Ozgo.
Coming off a close six-point
decision over Meyers nine days
ago, the Mountaineers improved
their record to 2-1 in Wyoming
Valley Conference Division 11
play with another heart-stop-
ping 66-64 win at home over
Seton Catholic on Tuesday
night. But, had Dallas lost, the
effect might have been devas-
tating.
“If we lost that game it would
have been tough to bring them
back,” said Dallas coach Clar-
ence 0zgo. “It would have been
different if they had the lead
and we lost. That’s one thing.
But it was just the opposite and
we barely held on for the win.”
Indeed they did. In fact,
Seton’s Paul Orzel could have
sent the game into overtime
with a shot from the corner with
two seconds remaining. His 15-
footer was off the mark, how-
ever, to guarantee the Mount
win.
But it never should have been
that close. Dallas held a 13-point
lead after the first quarter and
an 11-point margin at the half
and the end of the third quarter.
“We lost a little poise in the
third quarter,” Ozgo explained.
“We missed three layups that
could have put the game away.
But we didn’t convert and: then
they started to come back.
Fortunately for the Mounts
the effort fell short. But despite
turning the game from a breeze
to a breathtaker, 0Ozgo is
pleased with his teams perform-
ance.
“They (Seton) were a pretty
good team,” he said. “In fact
Mike Hopkins (Seton’s coach)
was saying this could be his
best team since he’s been there.
“But I’m pleased for the most
part on_ how _we have been
playing. In tne Meyers game we
were leading by one when
Luksic (Mike) picked up his
third foul with five minutes left
in the second quarter. Then they
scored 13 points in a row. We
went up from one up to 12
down,’’ Ozgo continued.
“It did hurt that we lost him.
But we still were getting the
right shots from the right
people. But we only shot 13-49
from the floor. And anytime you
shoot 28 per cent from the field
you aren’t going to win many
basketball games.”
That wasn’t the case gainst
Seton. John Mokychic knocked
in 16 points from the outside
while Luksic canned 24 from the
inside to go along with Tom
Shalata’s 16-point, 11 rebound
performance. In adition, John
Thomas dished out 11 assists
and pulled down some key
rebounds as did Jerome Mattey.
Still, Ozgo says the team
needs to improve defensively if
they are to be a factor in the
conference. ‘“‘We are too slow,”
he said. ‘We have been doing’ a
better job againt the press on
offense, but defensively we need
HAPPY NEW YEAR! I just
can’t believe we are entering a
new year. It’s always fun to
make New Year’s resolutions
(and try not to break them); it’s
also fun to look back on the past
year and reflect on all the nice
things that happened.
To all our readers, my family
and friends, may 1987 be a year
of grea blessings and joy.
ALTHOUGH CHRISTMAS
vacation is drawing to a close, I
must mention two fine holiday
programs I attended during the
holiday season.
The first one I not only
attended but participated in,
too. Trinity Nursery School held
its annual Christmas program,
featuring more than 50 three
and four year olds. I know that
sounds like loads of children,
but they behaved very well
(thank goodness), no one cried,
everyone sang.
All the children were very
cute but one little fellow stole
the show. As all the other .chil-
dren faced the audience, this
the beautiful manger scene that
was set up on the altar, he spent
the entire performance with his
back to the audience, enjoying
the beautiful creche.
Such seasonal favorites as
Rudolph the Red Nosed Rein-
deer (complete with antlers and
red noses), I'm A Star on a
Christmas Tree, and We Are
Santa’s Helpers were enjoyed
by all.
Following the great perform-
ance, the children were
rewarded with a visit from
Santa Claus.
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GATE OF HEAVEN SCHOOL
presented its annual Christmas
Pageant featuring a Christmas
Operetta, The Stockings Were
Hung.
A marvelous cast told this
cute story about a little mouse
and Santa’s Elf, who are looking
over all the toys Santa will be
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bringing a family for Christ-
mas.
I also think that the chorus,
under the direction of Mrs. .
Diane Wojciechowski was
superb. (Our son Bill partici-
pated along with other first,
second, third and fourth grade
students.)
Special thanks to Mrs. Wojcie-
chowski and to Sister Gracia,
who directed the play, for this
fine Christmas Program.
A CHORAL GROUP of ele-
mentary students from the
Dallas School District called the
Peacemakers spread Christmas
cheers throughout the Wyoming
Valley this holiday season.
to improve.”
Under the direction of Mrs.
Marilyn O’Connell, these young-
sters, performed 22 times,
bringing happiness to all who
were fortunate enough to hear
them.
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I'LL CLOSE my column with
a funny story about children.
Holiday time or not, children
are always the same. Many
children like certain foods, pre-
pared a certain way.
Before Christmas vacation at
our cafeteria at Gate of Heaven
School, the menu called for
pizza burgers to be served.
Sounds good, doesn’t it? Adults
might think so.
As the children were going
through the line one little girl
looked particularly sad, the
reason: was that she didn’t
think the extra topping looked
very appealing. Her comment,
“I don’t want any icing on my
hamburger.”
Mountain resident, is a column-
ist for The Dallas Post. Her
column appears regularly.)
R. DeRemer rolled 223 (506)
to lead the Road Runners in
shutting out Alley Cats in the
Native Textile League, while T.
Drago’s 174 (474) was high for
the losing five. J. Brady, Sr.’s
203 (508) paced the Ringers to
blanking Bad News Bowlers,
whose R. Clemow hit 213 (520).
In the Sunday Nite Couples
League M. Matthews hit 176-178
(508) to aid Superstrikers in
shutting out Shaver’s Bangers,
whose Anne W. rolled 174.
Wilson’s Menaces picked up
three points from Piccilo aided
by Donna B.’s 471.
Fashion Vending blanked G.H.
Harris in the Ladies Country
League sparked by D. Garnett’s
180-176 (506) and Back Mt. Bowl
clinched the first half title by
shutting out Gordon Insurance.
In the Idetown Compacts
League LaBarons took four
from the Lancers and Citations
took all from the Firebirds. The
Mazdas picked up three ‘from
the Capris, Pintos earned three
from the Camaros and the Cor-
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