Newspaper Since 1889 ~The Dallas Post STI SAVAIN ICTR = [=H O1@1\V | \V/ {81 WINE I =ESN ©] oil Bo |= B VAY 8 BVANS Hr G WAN of =5 I = o 1 \V/ VAY SCHOOL DISTRICTS Vol. 106 No. 7 Dallas, Pennsylvania Rogers Shows the way By LEN KRYESKI . Sports Writer Watch Amy Rogers on the basketball court. Intent. Focused. Deter- mined. Always in position and oh, so smooth. Amy is also very relaxed and takes the time to smile. That's because the captain for the Lake-Lehman girls team plays basketball the way it was meant .. to be. Go all out on the court, ® ., yet maintain the wisdom to keep things in perspective - it's only a game. Amy's attitude and person- ality have drawn cheers from ~ Lake-Lehman students, fans, administration and the coaches. One of her biggest boosters is head coach Dick Morgan. “Amy is a very good basket- ‘ball player, but even a better person,” Morgan said. See ROGERS, pg 9 POST PHOTO/LYNN SHEEHAN Amy Rogers was honored at Lake-Lehman's last T hursday's final home game of the season. She was accompanied by her grandmother, Irene Gildea, and her father, Warren Rogers. Sidewalk ramps *may not be needed By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff The Kingston Township super- visors have voted to spend about $1,200 fixing a sidewalk which the township may not need. According to township man- ager Jeff Box, the township must add wheelchair ramps to the walkway of a bridge over Toby's Creek on Franklin Street in Shav- ertown because they are required by the federal Americans With Disabilities Act. However, Franklin Street has no sidewalks on either side of the bridge. The bridge's walkway - ‘the only sidewalk under the town- “Ship's jurisdiction - starts in the parking lot of a radiator shop and ends in a dirt road. It doesn't go anywhere. - Neighbors say only two or three people use it. “We need to repair the walkway anyway,” Box said. “Investing ‘another $1,200 to comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act will ensure that we avoid any ‘possible future problems.” Palmer cited for donating 8 gallons of blood ‘By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff | Desmond Palmer has been sharing part of himself with the rest of the area since 1968. ! He recently received a plaque from the Back Mountain Busi- mess and Industrial Blood Coun- cil and the American Red Cross for donating eight gallons - 64 ‘pints — of blood during the past 27 years. When asked why he's been so generous, he wisecracked, “It's just because I like those peanut ~ butter crackers they give you when you're done.” Palmer, 63, first began donat- ing blood where he worked in his hometown of Scranton. When he came to Native Textiles as its controller in 1979, he continued to do something which he sees as “just something you do.” “This is a very impressive ac- complishment,” said John Maday of the Red Cross Regional Blood Center. “Itdemonstrates Desmond T= See PALMER, pg. 8 i GH x fon He estimated the entire job, sidewalk repair job and addition of the ramps, at about $5,000. No one has filed a complaint about the Franklin Street bridge, Box said. Municipalities don’t have to create sidewalks where none al- ready exist, according to U.S. Department of Justice special assistant Liz Savage. “We can't tell a municipality what to do. It's up to the township to judge whether or not this is a pedestrian walkway which needs modifica- tion under the act,” she said. If installing wheelchair ramps will cause undue expense or a significant financial burden to a municipality, it ean request an exception, she added. Kingston Township's only other sidewalks are on Carverton Road and are under the jurisdiction of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) to maintain, Box said. Most other township facilities are already handicapped-acces- sible, he added. POST -PHOTO/GRACE R. DOVE BRIDGE TO NOWHERE - Merle Bigelow and Joe Kubek stand on a bridge over Toby's Creek on Franklin St., Shavertown, near Bigelow’s garage, which may have its walkway adapted for wheel- chair access even though there are no sidewalks on either end. POST PHOTO/GRACE R. DOVE EIGHT-GALLON DONOR - Native Textiles employee Desmond Palmer recently received a plaque from the Red Cross and the Back Mountain Business/Industrial Blood Council recognizing the eight gallons — 64 pints — of blood which he has donated since 1968. At the presentation were, front row David Hoffman, Back Mountain Blood Council chairman and Palmer; back row: JoAnn Eckrote, Native Textiles; James Koprowski, American Asphalt; John Maday, Red Cross; Charles Kishbaugh, Systematics; Mary Klein, Commonwealth Communications, and Marjorie Culp, Irem Temple. Absent from photo: Anna Niznick, C/TEC Cable Group; John Lloyd, ENCON; Barbara Eyet, Offset Paperback; Steven Gauntlet, Payne Printery and Steven Ross, Penn State Seed. { 4 Feb. 15 thru Feb. 21, 1995 County will fix Crown Hill roads, If town takes over By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff The Franklin Township super- visors reported at their regular February 6 meeting that they have received an offer from Luzerne County to pave one road in Crown Hill Village and bring the develop- ment’s two other roads up to state gravel road specifications if the township will then take them over. The officials plan to meet to discuss the matter, according to township secretary Sandy Race. Located between West Eighth Street and Coon Road, the devel- opment and its narrow dirt roads have been a continuing headache for residents since Crown Hill was first developed in 1955. When the residents asked the township and Luzerne County to upgrade the roads in late 1993, county officials learned that no one knew who actually owned the development's roads - Franklin Township, the county or someone else. Someone had deeded the de- velopment, except for a group of lots, to a corporation, which then allowed the lots to go for tax sale. No one knew that the group of lots was actually three roads - Crown, Hill and Farmview drives —- which don't appear on either Luzerne County's or Franklin Township's road dockets. Although Luzerne County had offered then to bring the three roads up to minimum state stan- dards of 18-foot wide roadways covered with sixinches of crushed stone, the township's minimum standards are 20-foot wide paved" roads. : Luzerne County engineer Jim Brozena had estimated in 1993 that bringing the three roads up to minimum state specifications could cost roughly $15,000, de- pending on their condition. The Crown Hill subdivision was set .up in .1955, before either See ROADS, pg 8 b! 3 H | | | Scouts gain insight | into school board By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff After sitting through two hours of the Dallas school board's com- mittee-of-the-whole and regular monthly meetings, six Cub Scouts from Troop 281 were ready for a break. Attending the meeting to learn about the school board is one of the requirements to earn a Webe- los pin in local government. “I didn’t know they had to sit through such long meetings,” said John Nutche. “I think it could get boring.” : “They have to make a lot of hard decisions,” added James Delaney. “I didn't know that.” Cash flow was on the minds of Josh Halbing, Steve and Dave Neiman and Jim Larson. “Ididn’t know they use people’s tax money to pay for our books and paper,” said Steve. “I'll be more careful how I use them in class.” “It sure costs a lot of money to run a school,” Dave chimed in. “I didn’t know anyone checked on how they spend the money,” Josh added, referring to a report of an audit of the 1993-94 school year which the board discussed and accepted at the meeting. See SCOUTS, pg 8 Lessons in government “They have to make a lot of hard decisions.” James Delaney “I didn’t know they use people’s tax money to pay for our books and paper. I'll be more careful how I use them in class.” Steve Neiman “It sure costs a lot i of money to run a school.” Dave Neiman “Yeah, they should spend lots more money on a football field and a pool for the swim team.” Jim Larson HM Learning to help Explorer Scouts are taking a turn at John Heinz Institute to learn about health care. Page 3. HB Districts next Lake-Lehman and Dallas send wrestlers to district meet. Page 10. 14 Pages 2 Sections Calendar................... 14 CALL 675-5211 FOR HOME DELIVERY, EWS OR ADVERTISING y address changes, The Dallas Post , Dallas PA 18612-0366 MAILING LABEL- Please enclose this label with an and mail to The Dallas Post, P.O. Box 366
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