Vol. 103 $ (24) 9.0.0 OX Dallas, PA Wednesday, November 11, 1992 35 Cents Craft show a Our Lady of Victory. Page & Friday Flicks at Penn State. Page 7. Heritage ® worship at Shaver town Methodist. Page 7. ‘We know the Slayers, do you know the band?. Page 5. - SCHOOL | Mary Nulton named to 'Who's Who in Education’ Page 9. SPORTS '0Old Shoe’ game preview. Sports Page. Matt Samuel medals at state cross rcountry meet. Sports page. Red Cross Blood drive Thursday, Nov. 12 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Penn State Wilkes-Barre. Call 823-7164 for appoint- ments. 16 Pages 1 Section Calendar.............. 12 Classified........ 13-15 Editorials................ 4 Opituaries............ 13 Police repott.......... 2 Property transfers..2 School. ...o.. 00 9 CALL 675-5211 FOR HOME DELIVERY, NEWS OR ADVERTISING - HOW IT’S DONE - Firefighter/EMT Bill Mcintosh, left, and Captain J. R. Sperl, right, of J. R. Davis Fire Company, Idetown, practice on an indoor simulated roof at Shavertown Fire Hall during a fire safety school November 7-8. (Post Photo/Grace R. Dove) Firefighters train for the real thing By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff Nearly 100 firefighters and junior firefighters from 10 Back Mountain fire companies attended a fire training school November 7-8, sponsored by the Back Mountain Firefighters’ Association. Classes included safety, structure fires, relay pumping, nozzles, ventilation, roof training and the smoke maze. “Good training is necessary for all fire person- nel,” said association president Jack Dodson. “I feel that this fire school was very successful. We hope to offer special classes for our people every year.” Idetown. Training sites included a smoke maze at the Haunted Barn in Lehman, an indoor roof course at Shavertown Fire Hall, pumping and nozzle class at the pond behin#Compionwealth Telephone Com- pany and ventilation and structure fire practice at Lawrence. HUNTSVILLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Huntsville Methodist Church to note 115th anniversary By BILL HARPER Post Staff A special service honoring the 115th anniversary of the Huntsville Methodist Church is set for the November 15 worship service. The church first opened its doors to the community in November, 1877. A special 9:15 A.M. service featuring a communion and aviolin solo by the church's pastor Dr. Rudolph Libeck will help to celebrate the event. In addition, the service will feature a guest sermon by Methodist Superintendent Dr. William Reverend Harriet Santos of the Shavertown United Methodist Church will assist in the communion service which the church will hold. “There will also be special music and the church's new piano will be played for the first time,” church member Louise Arnold said. The pianowas a gift to the church by member Hazel Fielding in honor of her husband John who passed away last year, Arnold said. The piano will be played for the first time by Ross Santos, Libeck said. The church is located on the site of the area’s first log schoolhouse and was built at a time when Huntsville was a thriving metropolis Arnold said. According . to Libeck, the building on Huntsville Road was originally See CHURCH, pg 16 Spencer, Laura Vodzak, Renee Lavin, and Maria Bednash. (Post photo/Bill Harper) More lights on 309 '99% sure’ 3 intersections to get signals By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff Three additional traffic lights on the Route 309-415 corridor in the Back Mountain are “99 percent sure” of approval, according to Faith Ann Liuzzo, Pensylvania Department of Transportation community relations coodinator. The traffic lights, at Route 309 and Hillside Road, Route 309 and Main Street by Offset Paperback, and Route 415 and Center Hill Road at Pickett's Charge will be Back Mountain voter discussed at a meeting of the Transportation Management Association Thursday, November 12, at the Penn State-Lehman campus. Liuzzo and Alan J. King, Jr., of Borton-Lawson Engineering, designer of the highway project, said that the association will determine which lights should be installed first, based upon their importance. See LIGHTS, pg 16 chose Bush, Mundy By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff If all of America was like the Back Mountain, George Bush would be planning his second term instead of fishing trips. The Republican presidential ticket of Bush and Dan Quayle carried the Back Mountain hand- ily over Democrats Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the Tuesday, November 3 election. But ticket-splitters abounded as incumbent 120th District State +-=Representative Phyllis Mundy, a Democrat, beat Republican chal- lenger Keith Coslett in all but one American Education Week voting district. Overall, Mundy garnered 57 percent of the vote. In the Presidential race, Bush pulled 52 percent of the vote to Clinton's 32 percent. Independent Ross Perot received 16 percent Back Mountain votes. Fifteen voters chose the Liber- tarian presidential slate of Andre See VOTERS, pg 16 Dallas invites parents into schools By BILL HARPER Post Staff Parents and the community are invited to take a look at what the area schools have to offer when American Education Week begins on November 15. A number of activities are planned in the Dallas and Lehman school districts. Also, work by Dallas students will be on display at the Weis Market on Route 309 in Dallas beginning on November 9. Dallas PTO president Kathleen Savage said that education week is a really a showcase of what the school district has to offer to the students. Parents and the community will have the opportunity to see their childrens’ schools in two ways according to Dallas second grade teacher Bev Bunny “We will hold parent-teacher conferences on November 16 and the school’s November 17 open house will begin with a short PTO meeting at 7 p.m.,” Bunny said. Westmoreland Elementary School in Trucksville is planning an open house for the school, but with a little twist. Principal Sam Barbose said that each class will have an open house on a particular day of the week. Parents with students in the first and fourth grades will be invited tovisit classes on November 17: November 18 is set aside for parents with children in kindergarten and third grades, and the parents of fifth grade students are invited to visit Westmoreland during the afternoon on November 19. Barbose said that this format was developed to fit the parents’ schedule. “Some people have two or three students at Westmoreland and if we had everything on one night, some parents might miss the opportunity to talk with a teacher,” Barbose said. The school will also host its “Donuts with Dad” breakfast on November 18 from 6:30 a.m. to 8a.m. Barbose said that mothers and fathers who will not be able to attend one of the open houses will have the chance to see their children’s classroom and meet with the school’s principal. “This is a real popular event in which 40 to 50 parents attend every year,” Barbose said. Barbose said that the school also has invited members of the Dallas School Board and See WEEK, pg 16 CLASS PROJECTS ON DISPLAY-During the November 17 open house, parents will have a chance to see the projects and artwork which Dallas Elementary students have worked on since the beginning of dedicated on November 22, 1877. the school year. Students in Fred Wesley's third grade class recently completed their community studies unit in which they built models of landmarks including Hillside Dairy, the post office, and a baseball stadium. Pictured from left to right are members of Wesley's class: Fred Morgan, Jordie
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