= The Dallas Post. SI=IEAVAN ICTR | =HOI@1\Y, |, [8] NIB RI=ISHO) Sie I or | =H BD VAY SARC 3 IVAN of = I =f 0 1\V PAV SCHOOL DESH B21 (OF RS - @ Vol. 105 No. 42 Dallas, Pennsylvania Global teaching careers start here By JACK HILSHER Post Correspondent Soyou've gotyour new teach- ing certificate and are raring to get started - somewhere with a decent salary, good benefits and classes without guns and drugs, or’ at least, not very many. Where to look first? Probably not South Wilkes-Barre, cer- tainly not South Bronx, but ~ howabout the Back Mountain? ~~ Good choice, especially since Oldfield Road resident John Magagna recently moved his placement agency here and can help locate your dream job just about anywhere in the world. In fact, his company's logo reads, “Spanning The Globe - With A Personal Touch.” Magagna says that his firm ~ Search Associates” has placed hundreds of teachers and ad- ministrators in over one hundred American-Interna- tional schools in countries from A to Z. Look, for example, at some of these locations: Argen- tina, Belgium, China, Egypt, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mex- ico, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Venezuela and Zaire. In these and dozens of other spots world-wide are hundreds ofiseliools employing thousands of teachers and administrators. The ILanguage is English. Academic standards are high. Discipline problems do not exist...one single druggie or gun toter would be impossible to find. Salaries and benefits are excellent, and lifestyles are exciting - what's more, teach- ers are respected and appreci- ated in the community. Most contracts are for two years and include round trip air fare! (Can -you hear the shouts? Let's go!) One who went is Bridget Mc- - Namer of Washington, D.C. Br- idget has a Masters Degree from Harvard in International Rela- tions and is a typical Magagna REALL YLONG DISTANCE - From his office in Dallas, John Magagna places teachers and adminis- trators in jobs at schools around the globe. A veteran international administrator himself, Magagna saw the need for his firm after a stint in Indonesia. fan. (Perhaps not so typical are Bridget's siblings - a brother and three sisters, all graduated from Harvard!) She wanted overseas experience and got it by attending a Search Associ- ates Job Fair - more about those later. Bridget's post was in Eng- lish LitinJakarta International School in Indonesia. Actually she had many more than one offer and was able to take her pick. McNamer - the name is Irish in case you were wondering - POST PHOTO/JACK HILSHER gives total credit to John Magagna, saying, “He is very good at what he does. He has an uncanny ability to match people to job requirements, and besides that, he has a mind like a steel trap. He even could recall details about me which I had forgotten!” : It would be difficult to con- struct a more suitable back- ground for doing his thing than Magagna’s actual experiences. He was so impressed with his See TEACHING, pg 2 & tests. By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff ~~ The sale of Yalick's farm in Dallas Township is back to square one. A $75,000 bid offered by the Conyngham family at the October 4 auction for the three-acre parcel where the family’s produce mar- ket once stood has been rejected, according to the Yalicks' attor- ney, Patrick J. Aregood. The larger 46-acre parcel had been withdrawn from the auction because no bids had been offered. “There is definite interest in the land,” Aregood said. “We'll decide where to go with it once we receive a reasonable bid. We have had inquiries from a mixture of local and out-of-town people.” He had advised the family to withdraw the larger parcel from the auction and to pursue the sale privately with several prospective buyers, Aregood said. Straddling Route 415 and front- ing on Rte. 118, the farm was offered for sale at a private auc- tion October 4 by Douglas Cle- mens of the Traiman Auction Co., a Philadelphia-based realtor spe- cializing in selling prime land to a wide market. The three-acre parcel is zoned Bid for Yalick farm property rejected partially residential and partially commercial, while the 46-acre parcel is zoned agricultural, ex- cept fora 300-foot-wide stripalong both highways, which is zoned commercial. The Yalick family operated a well-known market stand on Rte. 415, where they sold the produce which they grew on their farm for many years. "Water companies face tight rules ‘By GRACE R. DOVE ‘Post Staff Contrary to popular opinion, @ vater companies don't simply drill a well, pump water to people's homes then sit back and collect ‘the money, according to General ‘Waterworks manager Mike Coyle. Navigating through a maze of state and federal regulations alone is very. complicated, before includ- ing maintenance, repairs, upgrad- ing existing systems and the ever- increasing number of mandatory Different requirements for well water and water from a reservoir only complicate the issue. “We follow the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, which the Department of Environmentral Resources (DER) also uses,” Coyle said. “DER can also set local stan- dards if it feels that they're neces- sary.” (Every year new quality stan- & dards and tests for contaminants are released, forcing water com- panies to constantly redesign their systems to remain in compliance, Coyle said. “Our engineers study upcom- ing regulations and constantly evaluate our systems with an idea of twhat future regulations will require, so that we'll be "able to satisfy the needs of our custom- ers and fire departments — good quality and sufficient pressure and quantity,” he said. “It's an ongo- ing process. You can't just wait until new regfulations are adopted Water meeting Thurs., Oct. 20, 7 p.m. Fortinsky Auditorium at Penn State, Lehman. Sponsored by Back Mountain Citizens' Council and then go out and redesign your water system. We're fortu- nate to have our own in-house engineers who know our systems very well.” Bacteria, sediments (turbidity), lead, copper and pesticides are only a few of the tests required of water companies. Poisons, silver, benzene compounds, PCB's...each set of tests on the seemingly endless list of more than 90 chemi- cal and biological contaminants must be performed during spe- cific time periods. All community water systems, even those in trailer parks, must send water samples to a DER- certified lab for testing, according to DER sanitarian Chas Spacek. The labs send the test results to DER and the water supplier, and monthly violation reports directly to DER, Spacek said. Maintenance is a big headache for companies with older systems. While General Waterworks has continued to replace older water lines, it still occasionally finds a surprise when construction crews See WATER, pg 16 40 water companies in region Water in the Back Mountain comes from a patchwork of public and private suppliers of varying sizes. The following information was provided by Ronald Ptashkinski, sanitarian supervisor at the Bureau of Water Supply and Community Health at the Department of Environmental Resources. Name KINGSTON TOWNSHIP Echo Valley Mobile Home Park Maple Crest Water Association Hillcrest Water Co. Trucksville Water Co. Brown Manor Water Co. Shavertown/Kingston Water Co. Shavertown Water Company Meadowcrest Water Co. Midway Manor Water Co. (two separate suppliers) Sunrise Estates Water Co. Skytop Woodridge Il Water Co. Cedar Lanes Associates Hillside. water treatment plant # Customers Owner(s) 240 Michael Kester 56 association 153 PG&W 750 PG&W 91 Robert A. Brown 358 PG&W 3,035 General Waterworks 1,000 Jack and Bernard Banks 575 National Utilities 162 Alfred Tamamini 30 Michael Corgan 25 John Moreck 18,982 PG&W (Most customers outside of Back Mountain) LEHMAN TOWNSHIP Bryant's Mobile Home Park Country Crest Mobile Home Pk. Oak Hill Water Co. Town and Country Water Co. Ceasetown Water Co. 75 Dave Bryant 87 Bob Goodling 486 National Utilities 100 association 87,069 PG&W (Most customers outside of Back Mountain) HARVEYS LAKE BOROUGH Country Manor Water Co. Blue Jay Mobile Home Park Rhodes Terrace Water Co. Warden Place Water Co. Harveys Lake Water Co. JACKSON TOWNSHIP Fieldcrest Water Association Chase Manor Water Association 31 Homer Baker 126 Dolanent, Inc. 180 National Utilities 275 National Utilities 200 General Waterworks 95 association 100 association See 40 COMPANIES, pg 16 Oct. 19 thru Oct. 25, 1994 Sewer rates By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff After the Dallas Area Munici- pal Authority tied its new force main into the Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority last year, it received an unpleasant surprise: a $20 per customer increase in the amount it must pay WVSA to treat its sewage. “We didn't know that it was coming,” said DAMA executive director Tom Bagley, who an- nounced last week that sewer rates willincrease 16 percent, from $188 _ per year to $218 as of January 1. “This is our first rate increase in the past six years.” Serving 5,700 customers in Dallas Borough and Dallas, King- ston, Jackson and Lehman town- ships, DAMA has provided secon- dary sewage treatment to the Back Mountain since 1972. Last year DAMA completed a $5 million force main project, to tie into WVSA, which has up- graded its sewage treatment facil- ity to tertiary treatment, which removes 97 percent of the pollut- ants from sewage before it's re- leased into the Susquehanna River. will rise $30 What DAMA sewer service costs » Dallas Borough and Dallas and Kingston townships: $188, soon to increase to $218. « Lehman Township: $288. « Jackson Township: $380. » Harveys Lake: $450. Where it goes This is how the present $188 from customers in the 3 mem- ber towns is spent «+ $92.12 paid to Wyoming Valley, « $68 paid towards the 1972 bond and « $27.88 paid towards DAMA’s operating costs. Located in Hanover Township, WVSA is the area's primary pro- vider of wastewater treatment. “If we had chosen to upgrade our plant to one similar to Wyo- ming Valley's, it initially would have cost us the same amount,” See SEWER RATES, pg 16 L-L middle school additionon hold By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff Strapped for space in the middle level building and facing estimates higher than originally planned for, the Lake-Lehman school board tabled action on a $135,000 addi- tion at its regular October 11 meeting. The board had originally budg- eted $150,000 for capital improve- ments involving replacing the 22- year-old modular classrooms at the middle level building, repair- ing several roads and bringing several oil storage tanks up to state specifications, according to financial manager Ray Bowersox. To eliminate the problem of students having to walk outside to the modular rooms in bad weather, the district had consid- ered setting them up closer to the main building, he said. “We found out that replacing the modular buildings alone would have gone way over budget and cost about $150,000,” Bowersox said. “It would have involved setting up foundations and enclosed walkways to the building and installing electrical connections and heating units. Our architect suggested looking at a site-built addition, expected to cost a maxi- mum of $130,000, which would blend in better with the building's architecture.” While surveying the building for possible additions, the archi- tects found another problem - the roof over the gym leaks. The board has asked Bowersox to prepare a cost breakdown and to list the advantages and disad- vantages of a site-built addition versus replacing the modulars for its next meeting, he said. “While some people might ques- tion the feasibility of investing in a building which we plan to re- place anyway, it’s the only way to go without raising taxes,” Bower- sox said. “We'd need a good 12 to 15 mills for a new building now. We're better off waiting until 2000 or 2001, when our debts for the Lake-Noxen building and renova- tions to other buildings will be paid off. Then we won't have to raise taxes to fund it.” Bowersox added that although the board had budgeted the teach- ers’ raises and the hiring of an emotional support class teacher in the special education depart- ment, it hadn't counted on the necessity ofhiring a second learn- ing support teacher, which could cost the district an additional $30,000, depending on the teacher's education and experi- ence. “We'll have to take it from the general fund, but it won't affect the middle level building's addi- tion,” he said. HM Get fit, stay healthy with our special pages. Page 8-9. BM Yawn. Dallas runs around, over and through Nanticoke for seventh win of season. 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