LT RES TOR TAA dan TRE A, FE ce ori JE Lonel TSE © TE a) AE crear, 56, AER ARTI 0 $5 ppd Lina ARE | Seen SN ads | SEN, tll gd rot Xo ' l and Noi i800 £7 WFNS on NE RX ca) vi NT rie pont SEKIREI 4 a Oe a : ae HE a yl or i Se se aise ea pha & ~The Dallas Post Dallas, PA Wednesday, December 30, 1992 5 i —— aN n a Library news By NANCY KOZEMCHAK yy : a Abe Jobe ~The Back Mountain Memorial Library staff and members of the .. Board of Directors wish everyone a . very Happy New Year and a hope that 1993 is filled with peace, love and happiness. .. The Back Mountain Memorial [@Hrary cookbook, ‘Chefs and Art- ists’ is still available for purchase at the library. The cookbook sells , for $12.95 and features many de- licious recipes for kinds of main dishes, vegetables and breads. Included also are chapters on Tid- _ Bits, The Salad Bar, Sweets and Treats, the Cookie Tray and Pot- pourri. The center of today’s family life is most often the kitchen. Realiz- ing this, we have gathered the best from the chefs and the artists of our area, as well as from our Back untain neighbors. Each recipe , @®lects love—love of cooking, love +, ou sharing, love for each other. - Some special recipes include: I &" Bars by Barbara Rush; “Ei (v disielsoiquiacsl! Uo dav Ad : L Governor Casey's Chocolate Cake by Ellen Casey; Scallops Beaumon- aie by Wolfgang Puck of San Fran- cisco and Oyster Stew Ol' Bay Head by Bay Head Yacht Club of New Jersey. These cookbooks are avail- able for purchase at the informa- tion desk at the library and would make a special gift for someone you know. Another book available for pur- chase at the library is “The Flood That Came To Grandma's House” written by Linda Stallone and il- lustrated by Joan Schooley. This is a unique book for anyone who knows about the flood or would be interested in learning about it. A percentage of the sale of these books will benefit the library. The book sells for $10.55. The Book Club of the library held its Christmas Party on Mon- day, the 21st of December and enjoyed a very exciting program of music presented by Ernest Wolfe as played with bones. This talent is an unusual treat and created much interest after the program with Chefs and Artists still available at library questions and answers about the music. The group enjoyed Christ- mas carols and singing and shared refreshments and conversation. The Book Club does not meet in January or February and will meet again on Monday, March 15, 1993. New books at the library: “A Dubious Legacy” by Mary Wesley begins on a midsummer weekend in 1954 when James and Mat- thew, two rather priggish young Englishmen take their girls, Bar- bara and Antonia, on a short holi- day in order to propose marriage. The charming country house of their friend and the extravagant dinner party he has promoted has promised them seem the ideal surroundings. However, none of the guests is prepared for the romantic drama that is about to unfold about them—and that will spin itself out over the next four decades. Before the drama is over, both men will discover their young women are not as unworldly as they appear. Water G (continued from page 1) Noxen Water Company's customers will pay an additional 32 percent, bringing their average $237 to $313, while Shavertown Water Company's customers face only a six percent increase, from $397 to $419. Pennsylvania Gas and Water's (PG&W) rates for customers of the .@pmpany's five Back Mountain ' "¥ater companies average $141.84 per year, or $35.46 quarterly, for the typical customer using 5,000 . gallons, according to PG&W spokesperson June Ann Greco. PG&W owns Trucksville, Kingston Township, Hillcrest, Homesite and Shavertown water companies. (General Waterworks also owns a Shavertown Water Company.) t “Our water bills were the highest \. in the area anyway,” said Marie . Barbose, a customer of General - Waterworks’ Shavertown Water < Company, whose old rate of $397 + increased six percent to $419. f x ht ¥ - 3 “We have a water filter to clean out the taste; the quality isn't too bad,” she continued. “It’s a lot, but we don’t have a choice. We need it.” Although Gavigan figures that drilling a well to save money on water bills could pay foritself within three years, a Kingston township ordinance states that residents who live within a water company’s service area and can be serviced must tie into it, according to zoning officer Ben Gorey. Some of the newer subdivisions are serviced by their own private water companies, Gorey said. He noted that certain areas of the township, particularly sections of Bunker Hill, aren't served by any water companies. Homeowners must follow all Department of Environmental Resources regulations when drilling their own wells, he said. Dallas Borough, Dallas Township and Harveys Lake Borough don't have similar well ordinances, according to their respective zoning officers. “Although I thought that the water rates here were low, the rate increase isn't good for people who can't afford it,” said Lora Freifeld, who moved to the area from Philadelphia four years ago. ; “But on the other hand, a water company must constantly test and monitor its water to make sure that it doesn't contain anything that could make people sick. You have to make an investment if you want good quality water.” Steve Werner, who has noticed a great disparity between the different companies’ water rates, also considered both sides of the issue. “They have made improvements in the water lines and the billing system, and improvements cost money,” he said. “But I would like to study the PUC’s ruling and the criteria that they used to determine the new rates.” PENNSTATE 1 Ret Campus on 7, on UM Pa Wilkes-Barre Even if you've applied Je for financial aid before, : you need to come to the FINANCIAL AID INFORMATION NIGHT Wednesday, January 6 — 6:30 p.m. at PENN STATE WILKES-BARRE Campus in Lehman — Science Auditorium — NEW RULES IN EFFECT AS OF JANUARY 1983 — v — MORE PEOPLE NOW ELIGIBLE FOR FINANCIAL AID — bi For more information, call the Financial Aid Office at Penn State Wilkes-Barre, (717) 675-9242. Jackson (continued from page 1) $179,787.54, or $42,452.30 over last year’s expenses. Failure to follow road maintenance guidelines compiled 19 years ago, when paving materials were a third of their present cost, has left large sections of the township's 26 miles of roads in poor condition, according to supervisor Joe Stager. Other expenditures include a four percent cost-of-living increase for road department employees, who didn't receive a raise in 1992, and approximately $19,000 for a new police cruiser. Even if the township had hot been faced with a $300,000 bill to clean up six leaking oil tanks and many tons of contaminated soil unexpectedly found in front of the new municipal building, taxes still would have had to go up to pay for road repairs, Stager said. “There is no way that Jackson Township could have continued to operate on 3.5 mills,” he said. “I said that I would try not to raise taxes during my term, but reality hits. It's tough to stretch the penny. Everyone must begin to pay their fair share.” : With property taxes at 13 mills, one mill will generate} approximately $7,000 of income, Stager said. With an average assessed valuation of $2,500, the average homeowner will pay $32.50 in property taxes instead of the $9 that he paid out when it was 3.5 | mills, he said. 1 ye i] 3} oO # Lehman (continued from page 1) to double to $800. Lehman Township has only two or three active liquor licenses. Cash on hand at the beginning of the year is anticipated to be $15,000, a decrease of $10,000 from last year. General expenses have tripled, from last year's $1,500 to $4,500, due to the state grant which will pay for a computer for the township, while local tax collection expenses have increased 19 percent, or $800, to $5,000. Cragle expects premiums for workmen's compensation insurance to drastically increase, by as much as 70 percent for road workers and ambulance drivers, 18.4 percent for volunteer firefighters and 45 percent for policemen, as insurance policies are renewed in 1993. In other business, the supervisors agreed to post additional “Watch for Children” signs on Pine Drive in the Oak Hill section, after John and Cathy Harrington presented a petition with 24 signatures of Oak Hill residents requesting speed bumps to help slow down traffic. | The supervisors said that speed | bumps would interfere with | snowplows in winter and asked | drivers traveling through Oak Hill | to drive slower and be alert for | children. 4 The supervisors accepted the resignation of emergency management coordinator Al Babetski, appointing Gail Ide to succeed him. Mrs. Ide formerly | served as deputy coordinator with Babetski. 9] The economic viewpoint How to improve local government services By HOWARD J. GROSSMAN In a book which should be read by every local governmental offi- cial across the nation, David Osborne and Ted Gaebler have transformed staid and traditional government to the entrepreneurial spirit. The book is titled “Re-in- venting Government” and includes 405 pages of exciting and innova- tive ideas suggestions and recom- mendations as to how government can compete in the 21st century. Their theme is that government should steer and not row. In other words, government should set a thematic charter, should adopt performance management, should adopt total quality management, and should take an outcomes approach rather than approach which says how many people they serve or other so-called measure- ments of that nature. The authors, talk about com- petitive government in which the array of options available to gov- ernments are extensively utilized in order to maximize service deliv- ery to customers (citizens) and to be as cost effective as possible in light of declining revenue sources The 1993 Lexus SC 300 225 HP 24 Valve 6 Cylinder Engine « 5-Speed or Automatic Transmission » Sumptuous Leather Interior » Anti-Lock Brakes * Dual Air Bags Available Options « Tilt & Slide Moonroof » Memory Seat System « 12-Disc CD Changer Heated Front Seats » Hands Free Cellular Phone TARTING $37,400 and the complexities and difficul- ties facing higher levels of govern- ment. They suggest the entrepre- neurial government is the govern- ment of the present and the future and that the examples where en- trepreneurial government has al- ready taken place is the way in which government will be proc- essed in the future. The book points to St. Paul, Minnesota, Indianapolis, Indiana and Lowell, Massachusetts as communities who developed a stra- tegic vision and plan. For example, in Lowell, Massachusetts, an agree- ment was reached that every im- portant business in town would do a major project to improve Lowell. They claim that “these efforts helped transform Lowell, in 10 years, from a city of 16% unem- ployment to a city of 3% unem- ployment”. In a ten page appendix, the authors outline alternative serv- ices options. Two examples include the fol- lowing: Quasi-Public or Private Corpo- rations. When entrepreneurial governments want to accomplish tasks that are economic in nature, they often create private, nonprofit| corporations, or the virtually iden-| tical quasi-public corporations. Baltimore pioneered the use of private, nonprofit development corporations to redevelop its Inner Harbor area. St. Paul created the Lowertown Development Corpora-| tion, the District Heating Develop- ment Corporation, and the Energy, Resource Corporation, which per-| formed energy audits and made loans to owners and landlords for; investment in energy conservation. Phoenix created a nonprofit corpo-| ration to run a homeless shelter. Tax Policy, State and local gov- ernments offer tax breaks to entire, industries to move into or expand within their boundaries. Pennsyl vania encourages firms to hire welfare recipients by offering them a tax credit. On the other hand, governments often tax activity the want to discourage. The most common examples are “sin taxes’ on items such as cigarettes and alcohol. 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