> & & s +B» bo 644 9 b> 4°46 9H >. WEE oss & : 1 r Vol. 104 No. 40 2 face arson charges More arrests In the works, police say By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff Two weeks after Rocky Koziel moved out of the house which he had rented, a fire gutted its sec- ond story. The previous December, Koziel and his next-door neighbor, Barry Miller, had lost cars in fires within . several hours of one another. A month before Miller's car burned, his mother, Alice Miller, also lost a car in a fire November 28. Last week Koziel and Miller were arrested and charged with arson in connection with the May 22 fire at Koziel's former residence at 92 Harris Street, owned by Paul Joseph Ungvarsky, and another fire March 28 at a vacant home owned by William Bower, at 87-B Washington Street in Dallas Township's Roushey Plot section., According to a press release from the Pennsylvania State Po- lice Wyoming Barracks, Alfred “Rocky” Koziel, 34, was arrested September 29 at the Susquehanna +» County Prison, where he is locked up for a parole violation and viola- tion of the uniform Firearms Act, n Was charged with four counts of arson and related offenses in connection with the fires at the Ungvarsky and Bower homes. Charged September 28 with two counts ofarson in connection with the May 22 fire at the Ungvarsky home, Miller has been released on his own recognizance on $10,000 bail, the press release said. Their preliminary hearing be- fore District Magistrate Earl Gre- gory on those charges will be held Thursday, October 7, at 10 a.m. Five suspicious fires occurred between November 28, 1992, and May 22, 1993, all clustered in a See ARSON, pg 14 Dallas, PA Pensive moment While the Lake-Lehman Black Knights were having an easy time of it on the football field, things were less certain in the bandbox. Junior High band members Amy Cebrick, left, and Michelle Boltz were caught in a thoughtful pose. POST PHOTO/CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK Politics replace leaves as fall focus in Franklin Twp. By DAVE KONOPKI Post Correspondent Being the center of attention in the fall is nothing new to Franklin Township, the Back Mountain's smallest community. The town- ship, population of only a bit over 1,400, is honeycombed by coun- try roads lined with picturesque scenery during October and No- vember. But this fall, the focus in the township will be on a hotly con- tested political race for township supervisor, not on its fall foliage. Republican candidate William H. Miller and Democratic candi- dateJosephd. O'Donnell are vying for one seat on the township's board of supervisors. They will fill the seat of Andrew Prebola, who was defeated by Miller by more than a 2-1 margin in last May's Republican primary election. Republicans have had a strangle- hold on the board of supervisors for decades. Most of the noise in the race is being raised by O'Donnell, a newcomer to politics and the area. O'Donnell, who moved to the Back Mountain nearly 18 months ago, initially became interested in the supervisors position while trving to have roads paved in the Crown Alene Case, DAMA win environmental honors By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff People working together for the environment is the theme of the Environmental Partnership Awards, presented to individuals or groups in Northeastern Penn- sylvania for excellence in environ- mental conservation and preser- vation. This year a Trucksville resident and an area municipal authority were among eight persons and groups who received framed paint- ings by Tunkhannock artist Janet Chaffee, at a reception October 4, hosted by the Pennsylvania Envi- ronmental Council at Wilkes University. Alene Case When Wilkes University's Dr. Robert Heaman called to tell Alene Case that she had won the Envi- ronmental Partnership Award, his voice was so grave that at first she thought that something bad had happened. “I was totally floored — and of course flattered — simply to have been nominated,” she said. “I never thought that I would win. I'm very honored.” After her husband, Dr. Michael Case, a professor at Wilkes Uni- versity's School of Environmental Studies, had nominated her in May, Case had forgotten about it. “Mike is, of course, very sur- prised and pleased,” she said. “I couldn't have done it without a lot of help from him and from our two sons, Alex and Berit.” In order for Case to follow her dream of becoming a writer, she had to quit her day job as the head lab technician in the water qual- ity lab at Wilkes University. See HONORS, pg 14 Hill development. “We. will be getting roads in Crown Hill,” said O'Donnell, who is a real estate property manager of the Donald Zucker Co. “We've accomplished alot already. want to make the residents here under- stand what I can accomplish and what they are entitled to.” O'Donnell, who has appeared on local television and radio shows, has been outspoken when it comes to politics and current incumbent supervisors Ken Dymond and Robert Redmond. “Look what they've been doing up here,” said O'Donnell, who said he has received threats as well as ALENE N. CASE property damage because of his outspokenness. “For 30 to 50 years there have been people who have passed office from father to son and father to daughter with complete disregard to others. “I'm working to have the two incumbents removed from office,” said O'Donnell, who resides with his wife Maryann, son Joseph IV and daughter, Jennifer. “They are in a lot of hot water. I feel they would be best off resigning at this time. They have lied to people and even tried to change their records See POLITICS, pg 14 Gallagher wins Emmy award By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff When Dallas native Neal Gal- lagher saw his first professional photo published in The Dallas Post more than 20 years ago, the high school student never dreamed that his skill with a camera would eventually win him an Emmy award. Even after the awards banquet, he didn’t know that he had won a technical award until his wife, Kathi, brought home a copy of an Associated Press story from her office. He had to work the day of the ceremony. And his parents didn't believe him at first when he called with the good news. A free-lance cameraman, Gal- lagher was part of the 15-person team which won a technical award for filming the David Copperfield special, “Fires of Passion,” which aired last March. Filmed in California, “Fires of Passion” is the same show which Copperfield had previously per- formed live at the Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre. “It was a great-looking show, very well-done,” Gallagher said. “We were working with several TOP OF HIS PROFESSION - Dallas native Neal Gallagher won an cameras, videotapes and other equipment. Many people are in- volved in making a television show look the way it does - it's a real group effort. The award went toall of us, from the technical director to the camera operators.” The son of Dr. and Mrs. Henry Gallagher of Dallas and a 1976 | graduate of Bishop O'Reilly High School, Gallagher studied com- mercial art at Luzerne County Community College and filmmak- ing at Bloomsburg University. After working from 1983 until 1986 as a news photographer at WNEP-TV, where he met his wife, news journalist Kathi Belich Gal- lagher, he moved to St. Peters- burg, Florida, to go into free-lance work. “At first I did a lot of corporate training videos and sports,” he said. tune” in 1990 led to other work on A job filming “Wheel of For- the Disney Channel, in sports, “Circus of the Stars” and other network shows and the ABC drama “Loving.” “A technical Emmy is some- thing that you aspire to as a cameraman,” Gallagher said. “It's Emmy award for his television camera work. He is shown in the studio in Florida. See EMMY, pg 14 | H It's Home Improvement Time Check out the articles and advertisements in our 12-page special section designed to take the sting out of winter weather. 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