wo ns Sa J - - EEE EERE EEN EEE EEENEEEE 4 » py AH XX So~ %ode® ne LAS' OST Vol. 10! - Dallas, PA Wednesday, April 8, 1992 35 Ce ts Spring coloring contest continues. Page 8 Baseball previews or page. Student leaders will participate in Junior Leadership Wilkes-Barre. Page 14 Dallas Shopping Center celebrates grand "re-opening. Page 9-11. Japanese restaurant coming to Dallas. Page 10. ‘Easter bunny photos this weekend. Page 6 Calendar............. 20 Classified........ 18-19 Editonials.............. 4 Obituaries............ 17 Police report.......... 2 Property transfers..2 School............. 14-15 ‘CALL 675-5211 ‘FOR HOME DELIVERY, NEWS OR ADVERTISING Reading is fun Gayle DeCesaris, a volunteer reader at the Back Mountain Memorial Library's toddler story hour, _ entertained her son, Wayne and Sue Balkin and daughter Trisha recently. Volunteers help provide needed services while keeping costs down for the local library. This is National Library Week, See page 5 for other activities. (Post photo/Charlotte Bartizek) Amphitheater could net Harveys Lake tax windfal By ERIC FOSTER Post Staff Most people don't like paying taxes and will avoid it if at all possible. But concert promoter Thom Greco has welcomed the tax man ~=provided be's no’ too hungry. At a press conference April 1 to announce the construction of a 4,000 seat amphitheater at the former Hanson's Amusement Park in Harveys Lake, Greco offered to pay the borough a 2% amusement Water Co. IS changing Its meters By ERIC FOSTER Post Staff If you're a customer of the Dallas /Shavertown Water Company and your water meter is more than 20 years old, you may be getting a phone call soon from D/B Water Specialties. D/B Water Specialties of Bloomsburg has been con- tracted to change 790 older water meters to new meters, according to Paula Walp, of the Dallas/Shavertown Wa- ter Company. Company representatives will be calling homes with older meters to make an appointment to have them changed. The new meters will See METERS pg. 12 Legislators join fight on prison water By ERIC FOSTER Post Staff Area state legislators have joined the Citizens Advisory Committee for the state Correctional Institu- tion at Dallas in calling for the prison to use a pipeline from the Ceasetown Reservoir as the prison’s primary water source instead of wells. “Why would they put the water line in if they aren't going to use it full time. Why just a backup?” asked Pat Rusiloski, president of the Citizens Advisory Committee, at the committees meeting with prison officials on April 3. State representatives George - Hasay, Phyllis Mundy, and Stanley Jarolin attended the meeting and agreed. State Sen. Charles See PIPELINE pg. 2 tax to help cover the costs the borough might incur, both in lia- bility and increased police needed for the traffic and crowds. Based on selling 4,000 tickets at $20 each, the borough would make $1,600 per concert. Greco isaid that at least tep concerts’ are planned [or 1992, which would mean the borough stands to gain $16,000 for the season. Harveys Lake's amusement tax now only applies to arcade games. Pleased with the prospect of gaining some revenue, the bor- ough's council will have to decide if 2% is enough. “I like the idea, we're not greedy people, but we need to offset the cost once 4,000 people pull out of the parking lot,” said borough council president Richard Boice. “We're going to need extra police.” “All we're trying to do is make it safe for the community.” said councilman Edward Kelly. “If 2% makes it safe then 2% will be fine. HOW IT FEELS - Mike Casey, assisted by Ronald Ernst of NASA tries on a space suit at an assembly on the space program at Lake- Noxen School Thursday, April 2. (Post photo/Grace R. Dove) TAKING HIM DOWN - Tina Sidonio of Shavertown is shown in action. The 15-year-old won first place in the Pennsylvania State Junior Women's Free Fighting martial arts competitions. By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff Back Mountain [irefighters kicked off the brush fire season by extinguishing five brush fires dur- ing the past week. Three occurred within two hours of one another. Shortly before noon on Monday, April 6, twelve Lake Silkworth fire- fighters with rakes, shovels and Indian tanks battled a nasty little fire that had quickly spread from a resident's backyard debris piletoa neighbor's woodpile, threatening a nearby house and a shed. Firefighters returned to wet the scene down when it [lared up again around 5 p.m. Lehman Fire Company had sent an engine to assist Lake Silkworth, but the call was cancelled when the fire was brought under con- trol. But less than an hour later, We don't want to go overboard like other townships have done in the past.” “If you're going to have 2%, why not 3, or 4%?" said councilman William Wilson. “I think that it's nice that the guy offered.” "Comncilman David Abod said that @% appears to be enough to cover the borough's expenses. What the borough has to do now, said Abod, is decide whether or not the tax should be used to generate extra revenues that would go into NASA rep space to classrooms By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff Students at Lake-Noxen School blasted off into space April 2 to explore strange, new worlds and to boldly go where no student has gone before. As part of a month-long schoolwide study of the solar sys- tem and outer space, the students took an imaginary guided tour of different planets in morning as- semblies conducted by NASA rep- resentative Ronald P. Ernst. “When you land on Venus, the atmospheric pressure will be so heavy that you'll end up as flat as a pancake,” Ernst explained, ac- companied by a chorus of giggles. “It will be so hot that your body will start to cook down into a liquid. But you won't feel anything be- cause you'll be laughing so hard — the atmosphere is mostly nitrous oxide.” Shavertown teen wins state martial arts title By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff Her petite size has not prevented Tina Sidonio of Shavertown from excelling at a very physical sport. After only two years of study, the fifteen-year-old Lake-Lehman ninth grader recently earned a first place trophy in her first competi- tion, the JuniorWomen's {ree-fight- ing division of the Pennsylvania State Karate Championship com- petition. A student of Grand Master Sang E. Ko, a native of Korea who holds an eighth-degree black belt and is vice president of the American Tae Kwan Do Federation, Tina has already earned her red bell with one black stripe and is prolicient in all styles of karate: Tae Kwon Do, Hap Ki Do, Ju Do, self-defense and three different lypes of martial arts weapons. “Master Ko has me working out Brush fires still a danger Wind, sun dry out grass Lehman was called oul to a brus fire on Fedor Road. “The homeowner was burnin papers, which sent sparks into th woods, igniting the leaves,” eX plained Lehman Fire Chief Harol Coolbaugh. “We sent out two e gines and 10 firefighters.” Less than two hours later, seve Jackson Township firefighters an one engine responded to a res dence on Huntsville Road, where backyard debris fire ignited t grass, according toJackson Tow: ship Fire Chief Rollie Evans. All three fires, caused home owners burning yard dd bris or old newspapers, sudden flared up and spread out of contd when the wind came up, the fif chiefs said Dallas Fire Chief Bob Beseckag See BRUSH FIRES pg. 19 the general fund. The council will be discussin Greco's proposal, with the ne regular meeting on April21 at 7:3 p.m. in the borough building. At the press conference, Grec warned that a 10% amusemen tax like Moosic enacted in an af tempt to generate revenue fro concerts at the Multi Purpos Stadium is a real show stopper. Harveys Lake Borough counc See TAX WINDFALL pg. 1 brings Students were fascinated b Ernst’'s description of life in ze gravity, where liquids turn in Jello-like balls and solid objec float around ifthey're not tied do He also detailed the spaq shuttle program and NASA's [ ture plans, which include construg tion of a space station (“Spaq Station Freedom”) in 1995 to 'H manned by an international tea of astronauts and scientists, se ting up bases on the moon withi ten years, and a manned Ma landing slated for July 20, 2019 the 50th anniversary of the gia leap for mankind, Neil Armstrong moon landing. Students asked Ernst question ranging from when ordinary peopl will be able to live in outer space ( how astronauts use the bathroo in zero gravity. See NASA pg. 1 in class with 20-year-old guys Tina said. “I workout 1-1/2 hou a day, five days a week, and som Saturdays. My teacher expects lot from his students, but onl allows us to compete when he feel that we are ready." Tina is the daughter of Margarg and Gabriel Sidonio of Shavertow and has a younger brother, Gabg “It takes courage for Tina { compete,” commented her mothej “If she isn't quick enough or doesn block the opponent's move prop erly, she might get hurt. Karate i a rough sport, requiring partici pants to wear a mouth guard ang protection for the body, arms, heag and legs. But we're very proud Tina, knowing how much she love] ith The study of martial arts ha also helped Tina in her persona life, See KARATE pg. 12
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