wr 5 OD 0 0 Vol. 104 No. 29 Water rate cut slashed By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff Water rates will go down for customers of General Waterworks at the end of the year, but not as much as had previously been expected. According to a press release from the Public Utility Commis- sion (PUC), the PUC approved a smaller rate decrease of $341,000, rather than the $420,800 origi- nally requested by General Wa- terworks, owner of the Dallas, Shavertown, Noxen and Harveys Lake water companies which serv- ice 2,900 area customers. Average yearly bills will be reduced from $446 to $315, in- stead of the proposed $232, ex- cept for Harveys Lake customers, where bills will drop from $262 to $224, instead of $255. The rate reduction came about after General Waterworks asked the PUC for permission to merge . with the Dauphin Consolidated Water Supply Company, which services 28,200 customers in portions of Dauphin, York, Perry and Cumberland counties. The rate reduction comes on the heels of a substantial rate increase which the PUC approved for General Waterworks custom- ers December 12, 1992, hiking water rates 100 percent in Har- veys Lake, 61.6 percent in Dallas and Dallas Township, 32.4 per- cent in Noxen and 5.57 percentin Shavertown. General Waterworks’ general manager Mike Coyle said that the rate hike had been necessary because General Waterworks was merging four separate water compaines which weren't operat- ing profitably. Under the terms of the latest settlement, General Waterworks may not file for another rate hike before April 1, 1994. KT trailer park owner wants pipe paid for By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff Michael Kester, Sr., and his son, Michael, Jr., owners of Echo Valley Trailer Park in Kingston Township want the township's supervisors to reimburse them for a drainage pipe that they say the township told them to install, and are prepared to go to court to get their money. Kingston Township manager Jeff Box says that the township never told Kester to install a new drainage pipe. At the supervisors’ regular meeting Wednesday, July 14, Michael Kester, Sr., asked for $1,850 as reimbursement for the pipe, which he installed to acco- modate a creek running across the trailer park's property and underneath its access road. Kester said that he had first approached the supervisors in the fall of 1992 about reimbursement for the pipe, and made a second request in June. “Mr. Box sent me a letter that my request was denied because the pipe is on private property, although the supervisors never took any formal action at a public meeting on my request,” Kester said. “I am very displeased about this.” Kester said that the two-foot diameter pipe had become “over- taxed” from runoff from develop- ments along Harris Hill Road, See TRAILER PARK, pg 14 Dallas, Pennsylvania POST PHOTO/GRACE R. DOVE “ZOO-RIFFIC ARK PARK” — Rachell Hiller, Hilary Koehl and Cheryl Kirkwood show off the duck marionettes that they made at the Back Mountain's first ecumenical vacation Bible School, based on the creation story and held July 12-16 at Gate of Heaven Church. Gate of Heaven hosts region's first ecumenical Bible school By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff Back Mountain kids from five rchurches made history last week with a visit to the “Zoo-riffic Ark Park,”, the area's first-ever ecu- menical vacation Bible school, based on universal Christian themes centered around the crea- tion story and our animal friends. Representing Gate of Heaven, St. Therese's, St. Paul's Lutheran, Prince of Peace Episcopal and Shavertown United Methodist churches, 234 kids from pre- school to sixth grade met at Gate of Heaven for a week of Bible lessons, games, crafts and snacks. Although they said the Lord's Prayer differently and did differ- ent things in church, the chiidren found that their faiths actually had a lot in common. “It didn't matter that we all go to different churches,” said Mark Liparela, 12, of St. Therese's par- ish. “We all believe in God and everybody knows Jesus.” Mark also helped to look out for the younger children and espe- cially enjoyed helping with the refreshments. “I loved to serve the other kids,” he said. Andrew Volpetti, 11, from Shavertown United Methodist, enjoyed “reading about God,” the creation story and the story of Noah's Ark. “The music was great,” he said, singing a phrase from “I Got That Joy in my Heart.” Nine year-old George Sprague, also from St. Therese's, especially enjoyed hearing a tape of Bill Cosby's version of Noah's Ark. “It made me laugh and helped me to remember it better,” he said. Megan Lipski, 5, from Gate of Heaven, said that she liked the crafts and coloring posters of animals. “God made them. It was nice of Him to give us animal friends,” she said. Amy Roberts, 9, of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, looked forward to seeing the play “Balaam and his Donkey," to be performed by a See BIBLE SCHOOL, pg 14 SIS EAA INCH Bp | =HOI@1\V/[\V/ [S\N BR I=ISHO] mi No | =5 BVA E WARS S Wal (=H =o LV AO RS el (ele) pI SRI Si [03 KS Wednesday, July 21, 1993 | DAMA preps for next trash, recycling pact By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff The Dallas Area Municipal Authority (DAMA) will soon be seeking bids for its trash and recycling program, as the initial 30-months of the program wind down. Six months from the end of the present contract, DAMA is break- ing even hauling household trash and recyclables from three Back Mountain communities, even though delinquencies are running at three times the estimated rate. Serving 5,600 homes in Dallas Borough, Dallas Township and Kingston Township, DAMA con- tracted with Danella Environ- mental Technologies of Taylor to begin collecting trash and re- cyclablesJuly 1, 1991, inresponse to state-mandated recycling in the two townships. Dallas Borough joined the program because it operates at a cost below what individual haulers were charging borough residents. With a 15 percent delinquency rate and 45 hardship cases who - pay a reduced monthly rate of $7.87 instead of the regular monthly rate of $11.25, DAMA's executive director Tom Bagley said that the authority is “at best break- ing even.” DAMA, Danella and the municipalities where the eligible families live each contribute $1.11 to make up the difference for the 45 hardship cases, Bagley said. A recent survey of non-payers found 60 percent of them used Ea A 2 BE SR AR 1 the service. That is a problem for DAMA, but not for Danella, ac-- cording to Mike Kon, general. manager of the Taylor firm. Kon" said Danella contracted tobe paid - for serving a specified number of homes, and is paid whether or not the residents pay DAMA. i The authority recently submit- | ted the draft of a bid proposal to the three participating munici- . palities, with three contract peri- ods: January 1, 1994-December - 31, 1996, January 1, 1997-De- cember 31, 1998 and January 1, 1999-December 31, 2000. 2 The last two contract periods are optional, according to the bid = proposal. Any hauler will be eli- gible to bid on the contract, once ° it is advertised in September, Bagley said. : Bagley said that operational costs, such as those covering recycling, equipment and other costs, are borne by Danella, who islockedintoits bid price of $10.12 monthly per household for the duration of the present contract. “Certainly the glut on the re- cyclables market, particularly in newsprint, has affected the haul- ers, but I think that it's a lot cheaper for them to use a proces- sor who handles commingled re- cyclables, rather than separating everything by hand first,” Bagley said. Kon agreed that recycling is not the business it once was thought to become. “I don't think See DAMA, pg 14 Alan Landis gains Fulbright fellowship to Colombia He's one of only 700 nationwide KT cop appears on national ad 'She laughed.’ His wife's reaction? By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff When Kingston Township Patrolman Frank Ziegler's pic- ture appeared on a nationwide ad for safety equipment, he endured several weeks of good- natured ribbing from his fellow officers. Although Kingston Township has many photogenic police- men, Ziegler said that he was selected simply by having been at the right place at the right time. “When I came in to work at 2 p.m. one day last year, Chief Sabol told me that had to have my picture taken,” he said. “He gave me a tie and sent me out- side with the photographer. Luckily I had just gotten a hair- cut.” The ad promotes a potent defensive spray commonly known as “pepper mace,” con- sisting of powdered red-hot pepper, which can disable ag- gressive people, dogs or drunks. Ziegler, who has been certi- fied to use the spray through Defense Tactics Institute, said that he had to pose for several different shots and “sign my life away” in releases for the ad, which he did for free. Defense Tactics Institute's owner, Dave Berman, has con- ducted training and certifica- See KT COP, pg 14 0 TNY TTR OT AYO GIT a Bid POSTER GUY - Kingston Township patrolman Frank Ziegler appears on the front of a 4-page flyer for pepper mace, a personal protection spray. Ziegler's 4-color image has been distributed throughout the United States. By DAVE KONOPKI Post Correspondent Most young Americans would never even notice. And even if they did, most young Americans probably wouldn't even care. But when Shavertown resident Alan Landis heard about the bombing of a building in Bogota, Colombia that killed 12 people, his heart began to beat a little faster. That's because for one year, beginning on July 28, Bogota will be home for the Dallas High School graduate. Landis, a recent graduate of the University of Scranton, has been awarded a J. 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