Dallas, PA Wednesday, May 6, 1992 ®5] Cleanups May 11-16 Page 2. Dallas Middle School pfionor Roll Page 12. | | ‘Students win @n science Page 12. Lake ' business group elects new board Page 6. . Dallas tops #Northwest / Sports page. Red Cross blood drive Wed., May 13, 11 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Dallas United Methodist Church, Parsonage Street, Dallas. Call 823-7161 for appts., walk-ins welcome. Calendar.>............ 16 Classified........ 14-15 Editorials......... ee Obituaries............ 9 i Police repott.......... 2 | Property transfers..2 11 School... 12-13 CALL 675-5211 FOR HOME DELIVERY, § NEWS OR ADVERTISING Some cash-saving ideas for Lake-Lehman By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff Ifthe Lake-LLehman school board accepts superintendent Nancy Davis's budget suggestions, the district's taxpayers could avoid 10- 12 mills of tax increase next year. Faced with an $89,000 cut in state tuition reimbursement, aloss of $65,000 in interest income, and recent double-digit millage in- creases, the district is examining any possible ways to save money and keep taxes down. Superintendent lists priorities for a tight-budget year | “In these difficult times, formu- lating a school budget is often like flying an airplane while trying to redesign it at the same time,” Mrs. Davis explained. “Every dollar that we spend means making a pro- gram decision somewhere.” Mrs. Davis’ suggestions, pre- sented to the school board at a work session Thursday, April 30, include a major change in the busing schedule which could pos- sibly save the district $250,000 for 1992-93. Implementing a two-tier sched- ule, in which students in grades 7- 12 would be bused to school first, with grades K-6 being picked up an hour later, would cut back in the number of buses needed, Mrs. Davis said. Schedules and provi- sions for delays due to weather are currently being studied. “Implementing a two-tier Bus- Making a playground Helen Roderick and her son Rob assemble part of the fitness module of the playground equipment donated by the school’s PTA at Lehman-Jackson Elementary School. (Post photo/Grace R. Dove) Delays plague Jackson building By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff After having spent $200,000 to remove contaminated soil from the property, Jackson Township offi- cials now must overcome a recalci- trant contractor before they can move into the new township mu- nicipal building. The remaining obstacles are a “punch list” and $10,000. A punch list is a list of finishing touches, such as adjusting pieces of moulding, fixing a door that won't close or touching up chipped paint, which must be completed as Pt of the contract before the township accepts the building, said solicitor Blythe Evans. Until the items on the punch list are completed, the contractor, Tri- City of Allentown, will not receive a $10,000 retainer fee, Evans said. “Tri-City was supposed to finish this building in late 1991," Super- visor Joe Stager added. “The con- tractor’s incomplete work has de- layed us moving in for two or three months.” To complicate matters, Tri-City did not respond to several commu- Penn State professor to pay students not to drive By ERIC FOSTER Post Staff On * most days Dr. Thomas Winter runs to work, five and half - miles from his home in Shaver- town to Penn State's Lehman cam- pus where he’s a professor of phys- ics. Some days he bicycles. Too often, he's alone in his trav- els. “I have seen very few people commuting either by running or biking,” said Winter. So far this se- mester, Winter hasn't seen any runners or cyclists heading to Penn State. To help change that Winter is personally providing two $1,500 scholarships for the 1992-93 aca- demic year to two students who will forego the use of a single-occu- pancy automobile for at least 80% of their commutes to the campus next year. “Part of it is to save the students money and part of it is for environ- mentalreasons,” said Winter. “Cars cause a lot of pollution, take up a lot of space on the road and use a lot of energy.” Another of Winter's goals in of- fering the “Alternative Transporta- tion' scholarships is to demon- strate how fitness can be com- bined with practical everyday liv- ing that is also good for the envi- ronment. “We need to bring back exercise that's worked into our daily rou- tine. It's kind of crazy thi ue average person drive. © car to the gym, works ou: {ur ain © .r and drives home." To qualify for the scholarship, a student must live at least a mile from the campus in Lehman Town- ship. Winter prefers the scholar- ship recipient to be a bicyclist, but other alternatives are allowable, even roller-skating. To demonstrate how much energy can be saved by avoiding driving alone in an automobile Winter has computed how many calories (a unit of energy) are con- sumed per mile traveled by differ- ent means of transportation. Bicycling is the most efficient, taking only 35 calories to travel a mile; walking and running take 100 calories. In contrast, a single person in an automobile takes 1,860 calo- ries to travel a mile, 53 times more than bicycling. Winter figures that so far this semester alone, he's saved about $200 in the cost of gasoline by driving as little as possible to school. But he adds, the savings are much greater, because he hasn't had to buy a second car for his family. The recipient of the scholarship must keep a log of his or her trips to the campus, indicating the mode of transportation, the miles trav- eled, and in the case of motorized transit, the number of students in the vehicle and the vehicle's fuel economy in miles per gallon. Anyone interesting in a scholar- ship can contact Mary Ghilani in the admissions office. nications from the township, and has not paid two subcontractors who installed a wheelchair lift and did electrical work on the building, claiming that Jackson Township never paid Tri-City. “All that we owe Tri-City is the $10,000, which they'll get when they finish the work,” Stager con- tinued. “I've never seen a contrac- tor walk away like this from a job before.” Subcontractors who have not been paid by Tri-City cannot sue See BUILDING DELAYS, pg 10 READY TO RUN — Thomas Winter at Penn State Wilkes- Barre which he commutes to by foot and bicycle. ing schedule will give us the foun- dation for meaningful, construc- tive and creative ways to restruc- ture school programs to best meet the students’ needs, while still being cost-effective,” she said. The two-tier schedule can give teachers a block of time, either at the start or the end of the school day, for department meetings and continuing education. Other suggestions include: Water rates could double By ERIC FOSTER Post Staff Nearly 2,000 Back Mountain households may soon be paying twice as much or more for their water. The Dallas, Harveys Lake, Noxen and Shavertown Water Companies have asked the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to be allowed to consolidate and toincrease water rates effective June 30, 1992. The largest percentage increase would be for the 58 customers of the Harveys Lake Water Company, jumping 338.94%, or from $32.74 t0$118.70a quaries for the typical customer. The next highest increase would ‘be for the 1,800 customers of the Dallas Water Company," rising 98.90%, or from $68.93 to $136. 04 quarterly. For the 980 customers of the Shavertown Water Company, the average quarterly bill would rise 27.93%, or from $99.27 t0 $127.02. Noxen customers would see their JEREMIAH VAN ORDEN Charlot Denmon Memorial Scholarship winners named The recipients of the Charlot Denmon Memorial Scholarship will be Jeremiah Van Orden from Dal- las High School and Jennifer Smith from Lake-Lehman High School. Each student will receive a little over $700 towards their college education. The winners were cho- sen with the help of school person- nel based on a combination of their athletic and academic achieve- ment. Van Orden, the son of Linda Rowett and Clark Van Orden, plans to attend East Stroudsburg State University where he will study physical education. I love physical activity,” Dallas School said discuss their budget May 11 The Dallas School Board will hold its first meeting on the dis- trict's 1992-93 budget on May 11 starting at 7 p.m. during the time of the Committee of the Whole Meeting. School districts are required to approve a tentative budget 30 days before the final budget is approved, and must have their budgets completed by June 30. The agenda for the district's education committee meeting on May 8 starting at 6 p.m. includes discussion of dress codes, discipli- p i | 4 | Bi | » Restructuring programs lo | avoid replacing retired teachers or, those out of school on sabbatical’ leave. Al » Creating a junior first- grade \ class to give extra help to students 3 who are at risk of having difficulty | I in regular first grade. A currently. | employed teacher would be used, | at no extra cost to the district. See SCHOOL SAVINGS, pg 10. 1 A i! i rey “ — bill rise 61.74%, or from $59. orl $95.82. Revenues for General Water- | works Corporation, which owns ! the smaller companies, would) increase by $532,389 for the Dal-] las Water Company; $27,715 fo t) the Harveys Lake Water Company; $15,695 for the Noxen Water] Company; and $101,886 for the, Shavertown Water Company. The rate increase is necessary because of improvements made {0 the system since General Water- works purchased the companies ; in May of 1990 said Michael Coyle, manager of the water companies | “Our expenses have sine along with capital improvements| on the system,” Coyle said. gl Some of the changes includ | replacing old meters with new ones | which can be read from oe ‘the home; construction of a new tank and wells, and adding a aeration tower to the Shaverionn] water system. See WATER RATES, pg 10 | <| I | | | | JENNIFER SMITH Van Orden, who played football for | | four years at Dallas, ran on the | track team for three years, and | played basketball for two years.” | “I'll probably just play football | in college,” he said.. | Besides his involvement in | school and sports, Van Orden | delivers newspapers for both the Times Leader and Citizens Voice. | Van Orden’s favorite activities | are spending time outside, fishing, | or just walking in the woods. i Jennifer Smith, the daughter of | Pam Sadowski and George Smith, | plans to study occupational ther- | J See DENMON AWARD, pg 10 | Board will nary policies, department testing, | group meetings for math at the i elementary schools and Middle. School, and the district's long range | plan, announced superintendent | Gerald Wycallis. | Both meetings are scheduled to i be held in the administration build- ing. Wycallis also announced that | the district was working on start- ing a voice mailbox system which | would allow people to call a tele- | phone number to find out about meetings and special events hap- | pening at the schools, ga
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