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Vol. 103 No. 48
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Support for Turchins
By GRACE R. DOVE
Post Staff
A tidal wave of community
support for Jackson Township
resident Eddie Turchin and his
family has surprised the staff at
the Philadelphia hospital where
Eddie has been a patient since
October 1.
Noless surprising is the 18 year-
.old Lake-Lehman graduate’s battle
against complications following
brain surgery.
“Eddie gets the most mail of any
patient in the Univeristy of
Pennsylvania Hospital,” said his
mother, Bonnie Turchin. “We have
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The Dallas Post will move
this week to new quarters at
45 Main Road in Dallas Town-
ship. Most equipment will be
moved Wednesday, Decem-
ber 2 and the entire newspa-
per operation will be at the
new location Thursday, De-
cember 3.
An open house will be held
Saturday, December 5 from
12 Noon t0' 3 :p.m., for the
community to visit the new
facility. There is parking both
behind and in front of the
building, which was formerly
a private residence. There will
be door prizes and free gifts.
The Post has been in its
present office for five years. In
the past 20 years, the news-
paper has occupied several
rented offices, all in Dallas
Borough.
The Post's mailing address
and telephone number re-
main the same: P.O. Box 366,
Dallas PA 18612 and 675-
5211. Items for publication
may be brought to our pres-
ent office on Wednesday, and
to the new location after that.
Sutton Farms sewer plan gets supervisors' approval
By GRACE R. DOVE
Post Staff
Jackson Township supervisors
discussed an apparent Catch-22
situation between Jackson
Township, the Department of
Environmental Resources (DER)
and Dale & Dale Contractors at its
regular work session Monday,
November 30.
A representative of Dale & Dale,
contractors for the Sutton Farms
development, told the supervisors
read him every one of the hundreds
of cards and letters that people
have sent and hang them up all
over his room.”
Since his October 1 operation to
repair an anuerism — a sort of
balloon — in a major blood vessel
leading to the brain, Eddie has
successfully battled a blood clot,
cardiac arrest, pneumonia and
operations to repair abdominal
bleeding and intestinal blockages.
‘He also spent several weeks in a
coma, Bonnie Turchin said.
“I don't know how we would
have made it this far without the
prayers and support of our friends
in the Back Mountain, who have
even sent us care packages of
snacks while we have been in
Philadelphia,” she added.
These aren't the first Ilife-
threatening problems which Eddie
has successfully beaten. When he
was eight years old, doctors found
a malignant tumor the size of a
walnut on his pituitary gland.
Although a four-hour operation
and 30 heavy doses of radiation
stopped the tumor’s growth, Eddie
has had to take medications to
STEPPING UP - Sergeant James Balavage will take over as chief of
the Kingston Township Police Department, succeeding Paul Sabol
who is retiring. (Post photo/Grace R. Dove)
that the company needs a letter
from the township, stating that the
supervisors approve the use of
individual septic units for the
homes tobe built there before DER
will finally approve the plan.
Construction at the development
had been temporarily halted until
the contractor obtained approval
from both the supervisors and
DER.
Although the development's
original plan — approved in 1979
by both Jackson Township and
Lake-Lehman expands
reading is FUN program
By GRACE R. DOVE
Post Staff
First, second and third graders
at Lehman-Jackson School started
off the second year of the Reading
is FUNdamental program at an
assembly Monday, November 30.
The students listened attentively
as principal Charles James read
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble , an
amusing story about a boy who
finds a magical shiny, red pebble
that grants his every wish.
Alter the assembly, the children
returned to their classrooms to
select new books and hear special
stories read to them by guests
from the community.
Jackson Township firefighter
John Hutchins read The Little Fire
Engine to Mrs. Theresa Fraley's
second grade class, where four
children decided that they want to
be firefighters when they grow up.
Assisted by PTA mother Mrs.
Lisa Schutz, each child selected a
book lo take home and read.
“I like roadrunners the best,”
said Angelo Georgetti, selectirs a
book about desert animals.
Beth Mariner chose a book about
lions and tigers, while Patty
Manzoni became engrossed in a
book about house cats.
Chris Harrison of Common-
wealth Telephone visited Mrs.
Bohr's third-grade to read a book
about telephones and discuss tele-
phone courtesy. “The students
were very attentive,” he said. “I
really enjoyed the visit.”
Other guest readers included
Paul Malak, Tracy McDonald, John
Wizeman and Vince DiGuisto of
UGI Corporation; security guard
Thomas Ohl; Brian Coombs; pas-
tor emeritus Rev. Andrew Pillarella
of Trinity Presbyterian Church, and
Mrs. Edith Pillarella, teacher emeri-
tus of Wyominhg Seminary Lower
School.
Funded by UGI and the PTA/
PTO organizations, Lake-Lehman's
R.I.LF. program began in Septem-
ber, 1991, in first-grade classes at
Ross Township School. The pro-
gram was added to the district's
other first grades at Lehman-
Jackson in February, 1992, and
Lake-Noxen in March, 1992.
This year R.I.F. has expanded to
See READING, pg 10
Sutton
DER — provided for individual
septic units, DER approved an
amended plan in 1991. That
scheme called for the homes in
Sutton Farms to tie into the
township's sewer system by
obtaining an easement from the
homeowners’ association of the
adjoining Sutton Hills
development, allowing the sewer
tie-in to run through Sutton Hills.
DER approved the plan before
the easement was granted. The
Hills homeowners
LIONS, TIGERS AND HOUSE CATS - Second-graders Beth Mariner, Patty Manzoni and Lorraine
Lovecchio choose books about animals during the R.1.F. book distribution at Lehman-Jackson. (Post
Photo/Grace R. Dove)
pours in
correct related health problems for
the past ten years.
Doctors found the aneurism
during a routine examination in
June.
Friends from the community
have joined forces to hold a series
of fundraising events to help the
family with the many expenses
which they have incurred the past
two months in Philadelphia.
Bonnie Turchin’s colleagues at
Lake-Lehman School District and
Ed Turchin, Sr.’s co-workers at
Tobyhanna Depot have taken up
See TURCHIN, pg 10
Balavage moving up
to Kingston Twp. chief
By GRACE R. DOVE
Post Staff
Sergeant James Balavage has
been appointed to succeed retiring
police chief Paul Sabol in Kingston
Township.
A 13-yearveteran of the Kingston
Township police department,
Balavage will assume his new
duties February 1, 1993. He began
serving at Kingston Township as a
part-time patrolman in 1979,
became a full-time officer in 1981
and was promoted to sergeant in
1988.
“The selection process was
extremely competitive,” Balavage
said. “there were seven other
applicants. I felt very relieved last
Wednesday (November 25) when I
got the phone call.”
Balavage said that he began to
prepare to take on more
responsibility three years ago,
when Chief Paul Sabol asked him
to participate in the discussion
and implementation of new ideas
and policies which have now
become normal departmental
procedure.
During the next three months,
he expects to continue in his
current duties, while learning the
many other procedures involved in
being a police chief.
“I want to build on the firm
foundation of the efficient police
association refused to grant it.
The supervisors had given Dale
& Dale verbal approval of the
individual septic units at their
November 4 meeting. DER wanted
it in writing.
The supervisors directed
township secretary Henry Zbiek to
give Dale & Dale a copy of the
minutes from the November 4
meeting showing the supervisors’
approval of the individual septic
units.
In other business,
the
EDDIE TURCHIN
force which Chief Sabol has.
established,” he said.
As sergeant, Balavage'’s present
duties include keeping all |
departmental records, supervising |
the patrolmen, acting as the Back
Mountain coordinator for the Mid-
Valley Drug Task Force,
investigating crimes, handling |
public relations, speaking to
various civic groups, helping design
the department's new computer
system and training his fellow
officers to use it.
“I'm glad that most of the guys
are already computer-literate,” he
laughed.
Police work isn't simply enforcing
the laws, Balavage said. He plans
to keep the department's personal
touch, which Chief Sabol has
become well-known for, including
investigating accidents, helping
sick people, finding lost children |
and handling dog cases.
“The only way to learn to deal |
with and take care of the people
whom you're paid to protect is on
the job,” he said. “The personal
element must always be first and
foremost.”
Although Balavage has helped
break up two burglary rings
operating in the Back Mountain
and the valley, assisted in the
See KT CHIEF, pg 10
supervisors discussed doing a
feasability study at no cost to the
taxpayers to determine whether or |
not a regional police force would]
benefit Jackson Township. Two,
other municipalities, Lehman]
Township and Dallas Borough, |
have expressed an interest,]
according to supervisor Walter
Glogowski. |
“The study may indicate that we|
don't need a regional police force. | |
Ii
See SUTTON FARMS, pg 10 |