Newspaper Since 1889 ~The Dallas Post . i | } Vol. 105 No. 24 i CRS = Wednesday, June 15, 1994 Q Dallas, Pennsylvania N Lr (w He blames media, council, residents for failure to open By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff ' “With the summer season in full swing, concert promoter Thom Greco has booked several shows, but has no plans to open the Harveys Lake amphitheater. - “It's still up in the air,” he said. “I don’t have plans to open at the lake - if necessary I can move the shows to the Montage amphithea- ” ter. Greco, who said that he has invested approximately $1 /2 mil- lion in building the Harveys Lake amphitheater and renovations to the former Hanson's amusement park where it is located, blamed the press, the borough govern- ment and residents for his deci- sion. “We have had a lot of unfair coverage by some reporters,” he said. “There’s also been a lot of unfair rap from the people at the lake — maybe 50 out of 500 resi- dents are against the amphithea- ter. This means that ten percent of the people are getting more than their share of the press.” Greco called the Harveys Lake borough council a “mixed bag,” accusing some council members of reneging on their support of his operations at the lake. “I want to do positive things for the community,” he said. “The amphitheater needs the entire community to embrace it. I have gotten a raw deal here, when all that I have tried to do is improve the quality of life in the area.” Accusing mayor Richard Boice of using the amphitheater as “a political football,” Greco said that he fears that Boice will abuse his authority as supervisor of the police dedpartment against the amphitheater. “I honestly don't know how I could possibly do that,” Boice said. “I cannot force the police to make arrests and issue citations. If I did, this same police department could arrest me for obstructing justice. As the mayor, I also have laws to uphold.” In response to Greco's accusa- tions that Boice has broken his word to Greco several times, Boice See GRECO, pg 3 Civil War comes alive in Lehman . By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff Company K of the 81st Regi- ment of the Pennsylvania Vol- unteer Infantry set up camp in the rain June 11 at the Lake- Lehman Middle Level building todepict life in a Civil War Army camp. . Complete with museum- quality replicas of tents, weap- ons and utensils, the re-enact- ment featured soldiers, civil- jans, the camp cook, sutler (trading post) and a sarsparilla bar. Soldiers demonstrated their weapons; cap-and-ball percus- sion black-powder rifles which used .58 caliber Mine balls, blunt-tipped projectiles in- vented by the French soldier Mine. damage — they could shatter a man’s leg on impact,” said Cor- poral Armonde Casagrande. “They were much more accu- rate than the older round lead shot used in flintlocks.” Despite the showers and drizzle, Bill “Cookie” Kelly sliced large loaves of bread under his canvas tarp while coffee and ham cooked over an open fire and steel. from scratch,” he grinned proudly. “Cookie” is also the camp's supplied the soldiers with “The Mine balls did a lot of which he had started using flint “I baked the bread myself sutler, who during the Civil War candles and items which they used around the camp. The men either paid him in Army See CIVIL WAR, pg 10 POST PHOTO/GRACE R. DOVE ENLIST HERE —- Ted Dombroski and Private Dennis Rightmire of Company K of the 81st Regi- ment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers observed activities during a Civil War reenactment June 11 at the Lake-Lehman Middle Level Building. § . Exchange student honors > 'Mayor of Shavertown' By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff The Kingston Township super- visors received a special com- memorative plaque from Portena, Cordoba, Argentina, presented by ‘Rotary foreign exchange student ‘Marikena Etchegoncelay, at their June 8 meeting. Made of engraved brass mounted on wood, the plaque sends “greetings from Portena’s mayor, Marikena Etchegoncelay to the mayor of Shavertown,” where Marikena has been living with Mrs. Rebecca Sickert since Janu- ary. | Portena is Marikena's home- town. Accepting the plaque on behalf through ambassador liam Tippett said that he would hang it on the wall of the township offices. “This is the first time that the township has received such an honor,” said township manager Jeff Box. The supervisors approved the first reading of an amendment to the animal nuisance ordinance act, governing the behavior of dogs. Under the amendment, dog owners may be fined if their pets bark continuously for more than ten minutes or intermittently for more than 30 minutes, or relieve themselves in public parks or along the sides of roadways. Finesrange from $25to $1,000 per occurrence, with an additional jail term of five to 90 days for Bank office closing The Dallas branch of PNC Bank will close Friday, with business moving to the present First Eastern office at the Route 309/415 intersection. PNC manager Ed Mott will become assistant manager of the combined office, which will be managed by Frank Wengen, formerly of First Eastern. Carlton Chase, now manager of the First reco has io plans for amphitheater this year POST PHOTO/GRACE R. DOVE NO ACTION - The Tijuana Bar and other businesses at Harveys Lake are closed and may remain that way. Charges to be filed in hit-run By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff Timothy Potoeski, 29, of Sweet Valley will face multiple charges stemming from a hit-and-run accidentJune 7 in Trucksville. He has been identified by Kingston Township police as the driver of a tractor-trailer cab that was drag- ging a downed utility pole which struck twowomen, knocking them unconscious. Patricia Zikor walks along Carverton Road almost every day with her friend Virginia “Ginger” Ritts. But their daily exercise jaunt turned tragic June 7 when both were struck by the pole, which was pulled down after its wires were snagged by the truck. The dragging pole hit Zikor and Ritts as they walked on the south berm of the road approximately 550 feet east of Tamanini Drive, the main entrance to Sunrise Estates. Police said that the rig had snagged its exhaust stack on an overhanging wire while traveling through the parking lot of the Checkerboard Inn, snapped off the pole and dragged it as the truck continued through the park- ing lot and headed east down Carverton Road. The pole hit two cars parked in the Checkerboard's parking lot before striking the unsuspecting women. The cars were a 1993 Plymouth Sundance owned by Novella Kush and a 1989 Toyota Camry owned by David Jones. The cab unit of a 1993 White See HIT-RUN, pg 10 Rag soaked with oil blamed for house fire By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff A smoky fire shortly after noon June 9 which gutted a Harris Street, Dallas Township home owned by Edward and Genevieve Endrusick has been ruled acci- dental by the fire marshal. According to Dallas fire chief Brett Slocum, the fire was caused a linseed oil-soaked rag lying on the back deck which spontane- ously ignited. The stubborn fire spread quickly through the older wood- frame home, which was heavily involved by the time that firefight- ers arrived, Slocum said. “A fire like this likes to get into the wall spaces and hide in differ- ent places,” he said. “It had gotten a good start.” Before firefighters arrived, neighbors reported hearing a loud noise and seeing heavy black smoke coming from the home. “I heard a loud squeal like someone's car brakes had locked up,” said neighbor Bob Williams of Lower Demunds Road. “I came outside, saw the smoke and called 911.” Another neighbor, who identi- fied himself as Andy, said that he had also heard the squealing noise from his Lower Demunds Road home. “Atfirst] thought that someone had hit a dog with their car,” he said. The men said that neighbors used a sledge hammer to break See FIRE, pg 2 Hl Top of the CLASS A special pull-out section of Dallas High School academic award and scholarship winners, appears in this week's issue. 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