14 The Dallas Post Dallas, PA Wednesday, October 6, 1993 Earn National Merit commendations David L. Davies, academic dean at Wyoming Seminary College Preparatory School, Kingston, and Bryan Rutledge, director of col- lege guidance, announced recently the names of National Merit semi- finalists and six commended stu- dents. Among the commended students are Vinod Dasa, Shaver- town and Sonia Kimm, Shaver- town. Arson (continued from page 1) one-block area of the quiet hill- side neighborhood known as Roushey Plot. Residents say that the fires were all within 500 feet of one another. “Miller and Koziel were present when the fire at 92 Harris Street started,” said Dallas Township police chief Carl Miers. “We don't believe that Miller had anything to do with the March 28 fire on Washington Street.” Miers said that he knows that Koziel has nothing to do with three other suspicious fires: the June 2 arson atJ&J Electric's warehouse at the old feed mill in Fern Brook, theJune 6 attempted arson at the garage of a Shaver Ave. home or the June 10 arson at the vacant Frank Hilstolsky residence on Mount Olivet Road in Kingston Township. “He couldn't have set them. He was already in jail up in Susquehanna County,” Miers said. Further arrests are pending, police said. Wyoming Sem Homecoming Queen Holly Zug of Dallas was crowned Homecoming Queen of Wyo- ming Seminary’s class of 1994 during half-time of the school’s football game October 2. Shown above are the homecoming queen candidates. From left, Jennifer Eidam, Sonia Kimm, Na- talya Sharp, Holly Zug, Molly Shea. Honors (continued from page 1) “We suffered financially, but the boys have been a great help through it all, reading and giving me feedback on my columns,” she said. Author of “A. Case for Conser- vation” in The Dallas Post, Case has put her talents to work in some unusual ways. Her column suggesting that discarded Christmas trees be chipped up for mulch instead of being burned, resulted in King- ston Township's policy of dispos- ing of the trees. Township residents now have access to free mulch from the trees. Case is also a member of ECOLOGIA, an organization formed to work with non-govern- mental organizations, such as the Sierra Club and the Audubon Society, to obtain grants to fund environmental improvement proj- ects in the emerging nations of Eastern Europe. Last year she worked with ECOLOGIA on one such project funded by the Regional Environ- mental Center in Budapest. The organization is currently pursuing grants for water quality monitoring in the Baltic states of Estonia and Lithuania. The Dallas Area Municipal Authority (DAMA) Originally formed as a waste- water treatment plant, DAMA began to operate a curbside recy- We Buy Used Pianos Call toll free 1-800-216-8742 National Music Co., ALGER SET) WET BASEMENT? “Lifetime” Warranty We will eliminate all water’ leakage problems. Free Estimates Birchwood Waterproofing Co. Plains, PA 829-3752 cling and solid waste collection program and a program to collect waste oil and used car batteries in 1991. “This is a very prestigious award, which wouldn't have been possible without the cooperation of the businesses and residents of the Back Mountain,” said recy- cling coordinator Larry Spaciano. Noting that recovering the lead in used automotive batteries saves money by recycling, Spaciano said that more than 500 batteries have been collected to date. “Recycling keeps the batteries’ lead and acids away from the environment,” he said. Spaciano is equally proud of the waste oil program, one of the state's few successful efforts, which he said has collected more than 2,700 gallons of used motor oil. Formerly the noxious stuff would have been dumped into the garbage, onto the ground or into the sewers. Nearly 70 percent of recycled oil can be reused in motors, while the rest can be used as fuel oil or made into asphalt. “Recycling motor oil was a common practice years ago,” he said. “It makes sense — it would take 42 gallons of crude oil to produce 2.5 quarts of motor oil. It takes only a gallon of recycled motor oil to do the same job.” The winners were selected from a list of nominees from commu- nity members, according to nomi- nating committee chairman Bill Everhart, PhD, of Proctor & Gamble. “The important thing is that they have gotten people to over- come differences and barriers and work together for the environ- ment,” he said. The Environmental Partnership Awards are sponsored by Wilkes University, the Economic Devel- opment Council of Northeast Pennsylvania, the Northeastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the World Future Society and the Proctor & Gamble Paper Products Company. Road, tax disputes top Franklin Twp. meeting By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff Amid shouting matches, accu- * sations of people misquoting one another, a refusal by the tax col- lector to turn in township taxes and a call for their resignations, the Franklin Township supervi- sors attempted to carry on busi- ness as usual at their regular meeting Monday, October 4. They were only marginally successful. Denying accusations from Crown Hill Village resident and candidate for council Joseph O'Donnell that they were “chang- ing their story again,” supervisor Robert Redmond attempted to explain the snafu over the paving of Race Road. : Originally the paving was to ‘have been paid for with a portion of a federal block grant, until the Luzerne County Office of Com- munity Development found out that the average income of Race Road's residents was too high to qualify for the money, Redmond said. “It was a human error,” said township engineer Tom Doughton. “First the county approved the road in writing. Then it approved the bidding documents in writing. Later the county caught the mis- take.” He explained that the town- ship really didn't lose the money - it can be used for other road proj- ects but not for the paving of Race Road. “We wouldn't have paved the road if it didn't qualify,” Redmond said. “The county made the mis- take.” During a discussion of the road problems in Crown Hill Village, Redmond said that the Luzerne County Commissioners had re- ferred him to county engineer Jim Brozena. Crown Hill's three badly rutted dirt roads are in legal limbo until Luzerne County figures out who is really responsible for them. The county appears to have inherited them in a tax sale, but the matter is still being researched. Until that is decided, neither the county nor the township will repair the roads due to liability concerns. Although Brozena says that he will upgrade the roads to meet minimum state standards for dirt roads, the township wants the roads paved and a 20-foot wide roadway before it accepts them. Nearly a dozen Crown Hill resi- dents attended the meeting to voice their frustration over the legal wrangling. Shaking his finger at the audi- ence, Redmond said, “If you don't like it, don't vote for us next time. I just want you to know that we're not as bad as you think we are. We're negotiating with the county.” The supervisors also read a letter from tax collector Joy Daubert, who complained that she never receives copies of building per- mits or mobile home permits so that she can update her records and collect the proper taxes. “This information does no good sitting in a file folder,” she said. “This information should come to me. I have three people right here who have never paid a penny in taxes.” She also asked the supervisors to help settle a problem in Valley View Trailer Park, part of which is in Franklin Township and the rest in Dallas Township. Dallas Town- ship gets all of the park's taxes and Franklin Township gets none, she said. Protesting the township's not giving her more than 12 stamps peryear for office postage, Daubert said that she didn't turn in town- ship taxes from June, July and August until September. Daubert also said that she had overpaid the per capita tax to township and hadn't received a refund yet. “The township audi- tors should have picked it up,” she said. Before the meeting adjourned, O'Donnell told the supervisors that they should resign. Emmy (continued from page 1) awarded by our peers in the in- dustry, the National Television Academy of Arts and Sciences.” The Emmy is television's equivalent of the Oscar or the Pulitzer Prize, he noted. “When Neal first called to tell us that he had won, we didn't quite believe it,” his mother said. “Later he called with official con- firmation and we were very happy. Neal is very outgoing, very aggres- sive. He works on a lot of things and does his work well.” “My family is very modest about my accomplishment,” Gallagher said. “My wife is very proud of » me. Gallagher hopes that his first Emmy will enhance his career as a free-lance cameraman. After filming NBC's World Cup Golfin November, he is scheduled to work on the syndicated coun- try music show “Countdown at the Neon Armadillo” at MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida. Politics (continued from page 1) to hide their lies. They improperly obtained money and used it even though they knew it was wrong.” O'Donnell, who says he has the backing of the Democratic and Republican Luzerne County Commissioners and Congressman Paul Kanjorski, would like to bring a 911 service to the township, improve communications between the ambulance department and the local hospitals, build arecrea- tion park with Little League and softball fields and wants to im- prove the amount of fire protec- tion afforded the residents of the township. Meanwhile, on the Republican side, Miller refuses to get involved in the battle between O'Donnell and the current supervisors. “I've been keeping a close eye on everything, but I really don't want to get involved,” said Miller, ‘who has experience in highway maintenance and construction work and who is currently em- ployed by Coon Industries. “But he (O'Donnell) is out of hand. He's already cost the township $18,000. There's more in this township to worry about other than roads. That's all he's con- cerned about. “I want to make sure things are done right,” said Miller, who re- sides in Orange with his wife Sandra, daughterJessicaand son William, Jr. “Some spending has to be cut. They have wasted a lot of money. But I can't change things overnight.” Although he knows he won't see eye to eye with them on every issue, Miller thinks he can have a working relationship with the current supervisors. “l think I can get along with them,” said Miller. “I have my own ideas of how things should be done. I'm sure we'll have a lot of 2-1 votes until I get settled in. I've known both of them for a long time.” PUBLIC NOTICE June 16, 1993 the LAKE-LEHMAN SCHOOL BOARD adopted Policy 810.3 entitled Video Cameras on School Buses: PURPOSE - Surveillance systems misconduct while they are being transported. AUTHORITY - School buses will be equipped with housings capable of utilizing camera surveillance of the passengers. From day-to-day, only District officials and the contractor will know which bus actually con- tains a camera. Tapes will be viewed by an administrative team with appropriate action toward misbehavior implemented. 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