| Fret : The Dallas Post Dallas, PA Wednesday, March 4, 1992 ® Letters ‘Striving to stay in business isn't unreasonable i Editor: . In response to your editorial “dated Feb. 19, 1992. DAMA critics expect the unrea- ‘sonable. Is it so unreasonable to ‘want to stay in business after 20 ‘years of putting your hear and ‘soul into it. "®¥The issue is not the price of a bag of garbage or the importance of trash justice. The issue is con- tinuing in our business so we can pay our bills, put food on my family table and continue doing business in the Back Mt. with the local businesses where we buy parts, tires, gas and other things neces- sary in our business. I hope you and your family are never in the situation in which our Supervisors have placed us. Just because we are in the gar- bage business that does not give anyone the right to treat us as such and then try to justify the devastation they have placed upon us by saying it is for the health, safety and welfare of the people. Now that is garbage. Margaret Searles Kingston Township A. Case for conservation ‘Wendell Berry puts conservation in verse BY ALENE N. CASE March has been designated etry Month for one very good #@ason. Who wants to begin a long ‘nbvel at this time of year? Anna Karenina can wait for long sum- mer days under the beach um- ella or for January nights by a cozy fire. But, as we anxiously wait for spring, snippets of poetry are ‘best read and digested. Or, as Wendell Berry puts it in his poem “Goods,” the green growth the mind takes from the pastures in March.” Wendell Berry is one of those rare individuals who has chosen farming as an occupation and who ‘has the creative skill to communi- ‘cate his love of the land to the rest ‘of us. He lives with his wife, Tanya, in an old house overlooking the Sentucky River. In his poetry, Berry ers to himself as “the Mad armer” but his deep feelings for ‘this spot of earth are revealed in every line. As he told one inter- viewer, “When you live in your subject, you can no longer think of it as raw material unless you're a monster.” I only wish that the inhabitants of the whole planet could cease to think of this place as “raw material!” “Better than any argument is to rise at dawn /and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.” This is the heart- felt sentiment of a man who could have any Professorship of Litera- ture in the country. Instead, he has chosen to farm with his team of horses and pass along his wis- dom in small books of verse. Some examples - “Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire." “Put your hands into the mire./they will learn the kinship/ofthe shaped and the unshapen./the living and the dead.” “But work clarifies /the vision of rest. In rest/the vision of rest is lost.” ; Obviously, a newspaper article cannot do justice to the writings of a quarter century; it can only arouse your curiosity. Go to the local library and look for his Col- lected Poems or one of his many short books such as The Country of Marriage or The Wheel. You will discover that he has also written collections of essays and a novel or two. But, begin your journey with Wendell Berry's poetry. One re- viewer sums it up this way, “The order ‘Berry makes of nature through the practice of farming he also makes of human experience through the practice of poetry.” Another Descent Through the weeks of deep snow we walked above the ground on fallen sky, as though we did not come of root and leaf, as though we had only air and weather for our difficult home. But now as March warms, and the rivu- lets run like birdsong on the slopes, and the branches of light sing in the hills, slowly we return to earth. (from A Part 1980) | Library news Library board has elected By NANCY KOZEMCHAK ‘The Back Mountain Memorial Library Board of Directors held the annual meeting of the library and elected officers for the year of 1992; President, Dr. Durelle Scott; Vice president, Joseph Stager; Sece- Lary, Pauline Kutz and Treasurer, a¢.imuel Perry. Also, at the meeting {the 1992 library auction dates were announced. The auction will be held Thursday through Sunday, July 9, 10, 11 and 12. Chairman of the 1992 auction will be Connie "Scott; who is presently at work “lining up committee heads for the various aspects of the auction. ‘Members of the community who _ would like to become involved with . the auction are invited to call the . library, and attend the auction planning meeting in March. ' ‘The Dance-A-Thon to benefit the “library sponsored by The Stretch ¢.Qut exercise studio of Shavertown will be held at Gate of Heaven “gymnasium in Dallas from 2 to 5 ~ip:m., on Sunday, March 29. Fur- ther information is available at the “library. New books at the library: “Crim- son" by Shirley Conran is a novel of the world of high glamour, ro- ‘mance, and passinate intrigue; a sexy, sensational novel of three Sisters raised by their grand- _mother-aninternationally success- ful romance novelist-to believe in love and tradition and a woman's ‘identity. Clare, Annabel and Mi- “randa, the granddaughters, are “raised with care and deep affec- ‘tion, preparing them to be gra- cious wives of powerful men. Clare is smart and headstrong; Annabel finds success as a model; and Miranda is independent and fei- sty. “The Pelican Briel® by John Grisham is a Book Club purchase and an irresistible story that be- gins with the simultaneous assas- sinations of two Supreme Court Justices. Late one October night 91 year old Justice Abe Rosenberg is shot in the head while sleeping in his Georgetown home. Two hours later, Glenn Jensen, the Court's youngest and most conservative justice is strangled, possibly by the same assassin. The country is stunned and ballled; the FBI has no clues. The novel is filled with new officers the unique mix of legal intrigue and suspense. “Rising Sun" by Michael Crich- ton is fast, furious, riveting breath- taking suspense and cutting-edge technology-at its most explosive. On the 44th floor of the Nakamoto Tower in downtown L.A.- the new American headquarters of the immense Japanese conglomerate- a grand opening celebration is in full swing. On the 46th floor, in an empty conference room, the dead body of a beautiful young woman is discovered. The investigation begins...and immediately becomes a headlong chase through a twist- ing maze of industrial intrigue. Trucksville UMC opens a nearly-new shop for children As an extension of the ongoing “Campaign for Children”, the women of the United Methodist Church of Trucksville have opened a “Nearly-New" Kids Shop. Open every Saturday morning {rom 9 to 11 a.m., the shop offers used cloth- ing in good condition at very rea- sonable prices. A large selection, ranging in sizes from infants to size 14, include such items as jeans, knit pants, knit tops, paja- mas, dresses and shirts. The shop is located in the Memorial Room (Church Base- ment) of the Trucksville United Church, Church Road. All proceeds will be donated to the Back Mountain Food Bank. Meadows seeks volunteers Volunteers are needed at the Meadows Nursing Center, Dallas, for the following assignments: Transporting residents to physi- cal therapy and beauty shop on a substitute basis - morning or af- ternoon hours; assist with bed making from 9:30 to 11 a.m.; fill residents water pitchers - flexible morning and afternoon hours daily; polishing fingernails for residents - flexible afternoon hours; and friendly visiting - flexible afternoon and evening hours. For more information or tomake an appointment for an interview, call the Volunteer Office at 675- 8600, Ext. 115. engineers. Notso... "| began my first two years of college at Penn State Wilkes-Barre as a Finance major and served as Student Govern- ment president at the Campus. I'm now at University Park where next year I'll simultaneously receive my baccalaure- ate and master's degrees in Public Policy Analysis." E. J. Shaffer Tunkhannock Student Representative to Penn State Board of Trustees Age 21 Not so... 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