8 The Dallas Post Dallas, PA Wednesday, August 19, 1992 DAMA (continued from page 1) Nowhere in their Complaint do Plaintiffs allege the manner of impropriety conducted by Town- ship Defendants.” Attorney Phil Medico, represent- ing Searles and C&K, was out of town and unavailable for comment on the ruling. During oral arguments held before Judge Gifford Cappelini on April 30, Medico said that the suit would have been more detailed, but charged that much of the supporting evidence was unavail- able because municipal officials discussed the garbage plan in executive session. Medico also charged that the real reason that - DAMA was given responsibility for solid waste disposal in Dallas Borough, Dallas Township, and ~ Kingston Township, is that it is deeply troubled financially. Arguing against the suit, Attor- ney Benjamin Jones Ill said at the April 30 hearing that the suit jumps to the conclusion that the garbage plan was a malicious attempt to hurt the small haulers’ business, without providing any supporting evidence. Jones argues that the state Legislature has given municipali- ties the power to make exclusive contracts. Attorney Robert Opel II, repre- senting Kingston Township, pointed out that while Medico charged that discussions about the garbage contract were made in executive sessions, he did not include those allegations in the lawsuit. Attorneys Ted Krohn from Dal- las Borough and Frank Townend from Dallas Township refuted Medico's assertion that DAMA's poor financial health was the rea- son for the garbage contract, call- ing it “nonsense.” Attorney David Heisler, also represented the three municipalities at the hearing on behalf of their insurance company. The lawsuit had five counts, each asking for compensatory damages in excess of $20,000. Suits which ask for less than $20,000 are not eligible to go to trial, but go through arbitration instead. Big Leaguers (continued from page 1) in two days,” said assistant coach Rich Conrad. 3 Facing more experienced teams | in the U.S. Regional Competition in Prince Frederick, MD, last week, the girls won their first game against the Mid-Atlantic team 4-3 in 11 innings. Heather Ruger wowed specta- | tors with a spectacular overhead | catch at a dead run, duplicated later in the game by Noel Brooks. ~ Ann Faulls made good on an 11th inning promise of a home run to a girl sitting in the stands who had been accidentally hit by a ball | that Ann had thrown from the outfield early in the game. In addi- ~ tion to the winning home run, Ann | earlier hitatriple thatdrove Cherub Honeywell home from first base. Although they lost their next ~ two games, 4-2 against New York and 9-6 against Southern Mary- land, the Back Mountain girls ~ played excellent baseball, Conrad | said. Shortstop Heather Gray exe- | cuted a beautiful fake in the sec- | ond game, preventing a Southern ~ Maryland girl on second from steal- | ing third. “That fake deserved an Academy Award,” Conrad laughed. ~~ And Cherub Honeywell kept Southern Maryland on their toes by grabbing an unexpected hot line drive. : “They were like young David going up against mighty Goliath - a two-year-old small town team playing against well-trained, expe- rienced county and state teams with a large talent base to draw from. They gave more than 100 per cent in whatever we asked them to do,” Conrad continued. Organized last year, the all-star team is comprised of fourteen young women, age 16-18, from Dallas, Lake-Lehman and North- west Area school districts and the Bob Horlacher League. Team members included Carra Giardina, Christina Conrad, Julie Babcock, Ann Faulls, Jennifer Smith, Karen Stafanowicz, Heather Ruger, Rene Lukasavage, Bridget Hozempa, Cherub Honeywell, Heather Gray, Mindy Main, Kelly Janosky and Noel Brooks. Robert Gray, assisted by Rich Conrad, coached the team, while Joan Conrad was scorekeeper. The girls developed a special routine to psych themselves up for each game, Conrad said. After French-braiding one another's hair, they blasted tapes of the hit songs “Wipeout” and “La Bamba” on the vans’ stereo systems for good luck while shifting in their seats to rock the van. Conrad said that one of the girls’ greatest strengths is their versatil- ity in being able to play more than one position very well, filling in wherever they were needed. Strong pitchers and hitters, catchers able to handle balls whiz- - zing into the plate at more than 60 m.p.h. and well-coordinated field- ing help to make up the special mix that is a winning team, ac- cording to Keith Kittle, Kay Krothe- Wolfe and Gary Birt, who have seen these young women develop their baseball skills since they began playing in Little League. “We couldn't have done it with- out three very special people,” Conrad continued. “Back Moun- tain president Larry Lettie has done everything possible to help us. Flossie Finn and my wife Joan have worked very hard for the past two years, setting up baseball clin- ics for the girls and starting a minor league program for eight to ten-year-old girls to learn baseball basics.” Parents and friends had waited more than two hours in damp weather Saturday night at the Dallas Little League field for the girls to return, watching as the firefighters lined up their trucks for the drive to the end of the Cross-Valley Expressway. “Is this enough engines for you, or doyou want more?” joked Shav- ertown’s deputy chiefJerry Paxton, jumping from the cab of his sleek, yellow truck. Finally the call that everyone had waited for came over the CB radio from observers along the highway: “Break 1-9 for anyone at that Little League field - here they come!” And eight fire engines screamed into Dallas, bringing the champi- ons home. Con Coon Fon i 9-13 ¢ Wednesday thru Sunday Dallas-Lehman (on Rt. 118) Wednesday, Sept. 9 NEW GTTITUDE onccpesrom reo Sept. 10 UTHBOUND on stage 8 P.M. QUEEN CONTEST on main stage 6 P.M. S & S Amusements features $5.00 Ride all the Rides from 5 to 9 P.M. Frida t.11 tHE PO ETS on stage 8:30 P.M. Saturday, Sept. 12 TWicC ICE SHY on stage 8 P.M. "ae Sept. 13 acos BROTH ERS on stage 3 & 4:30 P.M. a STANKY & HIS CADETS on stage 6:30 P.M. FAIRY PRINCESS COMPETITION on main stage 12 NOON S & S Amusements features $5.00 Ride all the Rides from 1 to5 P.M. Entries Pick up 9 P.M. to 11 P.M. Sunday - None Earlier! Admission: $3.00 - Children under 10 free. Free Parking Lake-Lehman plans many changes this year By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff Beginning this school year, Lake-Lehman students will see changes in their schools, includ- ing new courses and new ways of teaching old subjects, according to superintendent Nancy Davis. The addition of another kinder- garten class at Lehman-Jackson reflects an increase in enrollment, Mrs. Davis said. The half-day Head Start class at Lake-Noxen will expand to include an afternoon session for 17 new students, starting in January. Instead of separate classes in English and reading, Junior High School students will take language arts courses combining both, Mrs. Davis said. A new junior high study skills course, emphasizing specific study techniques, maximum utilization of library resources and choosing the most appropriate research references also has been added. Students in classrooms enjoyed working with aides from the Foster . Grandparents program last year, Mrs. Davis said. The program will continue this year. Aides help teachers in classroom activities or work with special needs students in the elementary and Junior High schools. High school students still will be on an eight-period day, with more “Tech Prep” courses added, Mrs. Davis said. Applied biology/chemistry courses combining hands-on vo- cational skills with academic knowledge will help to prepare students for occupations in the medical field. Applied communi- cations will expand computer knowledge to the Secretarinl and business fields. “We are still \Sachiiig the ba- sics, but the basics are changing,” Mrs. Davis said. “Today's students must be prepared either to enter directly into technical occupations after graduation or goon to further specialized training in a two-year technical school, junior college or a four-year college program. 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And thedistrict is exploring state and federal grants for two early childhood projects, a before and after-school day care program and a family-centered program for Head Start students and their parents. The School-Age Child Care Site Grant funds supervised activities for children ages four to twelve whose parents cannot be home before or after school. The grant funds personnel, while the district provides space for the program. “Thisisn’'tjust babysitting,” Mrs. Davis said. “The children are in- volved in educational activities.” Available to all students in the district with fees on an income- based sliding scale, the child care program is aimed at families in which both parents work but still are classified as low-income. The second grant, the Family- Centered Program, is aimed at families of Head Start students, training parents to help teach their children the basic skills necessary to start school. Teachers also will spend time this year planning the changes necessary for the district to gradu- ally move into outcome-based education during the next five years, Mrs. Davis said. OIL VALVOLINE Featuring Valvoline® Motor Oil SALE PRICE CASE OF 12 #141 10W40 YOUR COST AFTER REBATE ead. GRAND REOPENING DALLAS DALLAS SHOPPING CENTER MEMORIAL HIGHWAY * PRICES GOOD AT ALL LOCATIONS « PEOPLE WHO KNOW USE Grand Openin Oil Change Special FINAL COST $11.28 A CASE Mail-in the Grand Opening Buyer's Check and save on your Valvoline oil change Offer ends 8 - 25 - Teaching (continued from page 1) from similar eye-opening experi- ences. That's one of the reasons that Coslett is eager to have the district implement the state's new out- come based education rules. “We want to get away from just covering the curriculum to making sure that that curriculum is learned,” said Coslett. “Boy Scout merit badges, that's all outcome based education. When you have completed a set of goals success- fully, then you earn the merit badge.” In a nutshell, outcome based education is a list of goals that must be met before a student can pass on to the next level. Under the new regulations, it won't be enough for a student to have been taught something, they have to learn it. “Outcome based education takes a look at what you've been doing and adds one more component to it,” said Dr. Gilbert Griffiths, assis- tant superintendent for curricu- lum and instruction at Dallas. “You look at what you have written as a curriculum, what you're going to teach, You look at what you're going to test. The third component is the revision component.” “There are a numbers of stu- dents who have just put in their time, get their credits and walk out the door and really haven't learned a given body of knowledge,” said Griffiths. “What we're going todo is change our focus from the credits to what the student is supposed to know.” Under the new rules, said Grif- fiths, students who have mastered the basic material will be given additional enrichment studies to work on for two or three days. The students who have not mastered the basic material will get some more help with it. “If the student still hasn’tlearned the material, then there are two different paths," said Griffiths, "One, notes are taken, and the student gets extra help in the area as they more forward with the class. The other is that the student works at the area until the material is mastered.” The goals — the given body of knowledge that students are sup- posed to know — haven't been es- tablished in their final form by the state yet. Since the beginning of the year, the outcomes, or goals have been pared down from 140 to 58, said Coslett. Many of the goals aren't much different than what you would expect to find in schools. Students must be proficient in math, be able to write, speak, understand sci- ence. ; Others have come under fire from columnists, some state legis- lators and taxpayer groups. For instance, the new rules state that students should understand and appreciate others. Is this teaching academics, or attitudes?, the crit- ics ask. “The state regs aren't in stone yet. People have reviewed them and looked at them and said some of them are very ambiguous and some of them need to have more specificity to them,” said Griffiths. “Others are a little too specific.” Dallas plans to start work on outcomes based education with the nuts and bolts, mathematics. This summer, the district used a $10,000 grant to introduce 18 of its math teachers to the new edu- cation rules. Another $10,000 been budgeted to introduce E¥%z- lish and history teachers to out- come based education next sum- mer. “Districts throughout the state are put into different waves. 1, 2, 3 and 4. 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