7% Vol. 106 No. 13 By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff 9 LEHMAN TOWNSHIP - It leaks. They patch it. It leaks again. They patch it again. It leaks again. : Residents of Lehman Township's Oak Hill section have had to deal with a water company described by one homeowner as “run like a bunch of gypsies” for several years. Neighbors say the water company, National Utilities, Inc., hasn't fixed a leak first reported before Thanksgiving, has torn up the shoulders of two roads while replacing water mains and hasn't repaired them properly. One resident has seen her front yard torn up to fix leaks 30 times in the past 10 years. Two homeowners have become so dis- gusted that they have drilled wells, while others have quit paying their water bills. Lehman Township supervisor Doug Ide describes the repair work on the shoulders of Park and Oak Drive as “a disaster.” : Dallas, Pennsylvania “My nine-year-old son could have done a better job.” Joseph Pagoda Oak Hill resident “When National Utilities replaced sev- eral water mains, they didn't fill the trenches back in properly,” he said. “It looks like they just shovelled the dirt that they had dug out back in. They should have backfilled the trenches with several layers of compacted modified sand SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF THE DALLAS & LAKE-LEHMAN SCHOOL DISTRICTS | | March 29 thru April 4, 1995 | and gravel.” Approximately 300 feet of road shoul- der must be redone, he said. The company also cut into the pave- ment in several places and covered it with cold patch asphalt, which has no- ticeably sunk below the level of the pave- ment, Ide said. “They should dig the cold patch up and redo it properly with regular as- phalt,” he said. “The asphalt plant has been open for a week.” Park Drive resident Joseph Pagoda plans to file a formal complaint against National Utilities with the Public Utilities’ Commision (PUC). ; The road shoulders are so muddy and rutted that neighbors are concerned their rural route carrier won't be able to get to their mailboxes alongside the road. ; “They didn't fill in their trenches prop- erly,” Pagoda said. “My nine-year-old son could have done a better job.” He said he reported a leak on Vine Street in November, which still hasn't been fixed. Water from the leak contin- § ak Hill water co. ires customers, town See WATER, pg 14 | he Area schools await lunch plan changes By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff BACK MOUNTAIN - For nearly halfa century, the National School Lunch and Breakfast Program has meant at least one nutritious meal a day for many school children from low-income families. If the federal government replaces it with state block grants for nutrition, it faces either major changes or outright elimination. As part of the Republican “Contract with Amer- ica,” the House of p—————— Representatives passed the Personal Responsibility Act March 24, a welfare overhaul plan de- signed to save $66 billion over the next five years. The act combines the school nutrition programs into a single program, in which the federal gov- ernment would give money to the states, who would design their own block grants to consoli- date more than 40 separate programs covering school nutrition, family nutrition (Women, Infants and Children or WIC), food stamps, cash welfare bene- fits, medical services and child care. The Personal Responsibility Act will now go before the Senate for approval. “The federal government is basically giving the money to the states to divide up into two block grants,” said Lake-Lehman food service director Joyce Coolbaugh. “We don't know yet whether we'll gain or lose money.” Lake-Lehman operates its own food service, with each of the district's five schools preparing student meals in its own kitchen. The menu is the same for all schools. Of the district's 2,242 students, 36 percent or 807 students are eligible for free or reduced-rate lunches. Of the 807 eligible students, 510 actually make use of the free and reduced lunch program. The district serves 1,400 lunches each day. The Lake-Noxen and Ross Township schools qualify for the government designation of “distressed” because at least 40 percent of their students qualify for subsidized lunches, Coolbaugh said. The situation is different in Dallas, where 267, or 11.5 percent, of the district's 2,329 students qualify for subsidized lunches, according to food services director Jacqueline Neare. “In some cases, these lunches are probably the only decent meal the children will have all day that we know of.” Joyce Coolbaugh Lake-Lehman food service director See LUNCH PLAN, pg 14 GENTLEMAN, START YOUR ENGINE - Ed Kubasti demonstrates how to start the 4.2 horse- power motor of his bright yellow SNJAT-6 Texan model airplane, a replica of a Wrold War II trainer complete with pilot in the cockpit, which took him an entire winter to build from scratch. Model aces will put on show By JACK HILSHER Post Correspondent DALLAS - Want a chance to indulge your favorite flying fantasy? The one where you piloted a B-17 bomber through heavy flak over Dresden? Or perhaps the dogfight when your P-38 downed a German Ace in his Messer- schmidt? If so then you'd better get to the West Side . Mall on Saturday, April 1. There the Wyoming Valley Radio Control Club will have models of all your favorite planes on display to help propel your fantasies along. The club mem- bers will also answer all your questions about model airplane building and flying. Club president Ed Kubasti of Lincoln Road in Fernbrook has arranged for a monster POST PHOTO/GRACE R. DOVE display of models made and flown by club members. Another model plane group, the “Black Sheep Squadron” will also be on hand. Kubasti, who has been flying since his early teens, says, “This year’s display will be our best ever. We'll be showing planes from World War I up to the Persian Gulf War. Just to mention a few, I'll have my B-17 bomber, Tom Lowrie his Sopwith, which has a 10-foot wing span, Tom Parick his P-38 and Larry Wright his A-4 Skyhawk.” In addition, John Rynkiewicz's show team, the “Expos” will show how to build and fly models. The club's secretary will also be there to field questions about dues ($4.00 per month) and meetings (3rd Tuesday each See ACES, pg 2 2 withdraw from Harveys | Lake ballot By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff WILKES-BARRE - In the latest round of pre- primary election moves, two Back Mountain candi- dates have withdrawn their nominating petitions and a Kingston Township supervisor has decided not to run for office. Republican Sharon Britt and Democrat Lynn Coury, candidates for the Harveys Lake Borough council, have withdrawn their nominating petitions, according to the Luzerne County Bureau of Elec- tions. T Seats on council held by Martin Noon, Joseph - Miscavage, Thomas Kehler and David Abod must be filled. Neither Kehler nor Abod filed nominating peti- tions for the May primary. There are now four Demo- crats and three Republicans in the running. In Kingston Township, seats on the board of supervisors held by Republicans Daniel Wisnieski, Herbert Hill and William Tippett must be filled. Wisnieski, a supervisor for the past 20 years, said he | doesn't plan to run again, while Hill and Tippett have filed nominating petitions. “If no one runs for the seat, they'll probably have "to appoint someone,” Wisnieski said, adding that he would refuse an appointment to fill his old seat if it was offered to him. Wisnieski refused to give any reasons for not running for office again, but said he is proud that ~ Kingston Township is in good enough financial condition to abolish the property tax, keep the road equipment up to date and hire an extra patrolman. Orloski's plan: moving ahead « Fag By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff DALLAS BOROUGH - The Back Mountain will soon be the home of the country’s first combination gas station, car wash, convenience store and bank. According to owner ; Edward F. Orloski, site preparation and con- struction will begin at Artist's drawing of new facility, the future business near the Route 309/ pg 3 415 intersection by mid-April, now that Dallas Bor- 4 ¥ i 3; CR a iY 3 ND i Native daughter's art adorns children’s book By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff DALLAS BOROUGH - Al- though she now lives in San Fran- cisco, Dallas native Elizabeth Scott's artistic gift and whimsical sense of humor have returned home to the Back Mountain in a unique way. Scott illustrated Edgar's Wild Day, recently donated to the chil- dren's room of the Back Mountain Memorial Library. The daughter of Dr. Durelle Scott of Dallas and Jeanie How- ard of Kingston, Beth has been drawing and painting since she was a child, studying with Mari- lyn Hoffman in Wilkes-Barre and Sue Hand in Dallas. When she went to Syracuse University in 1987, it didn't take her long to switch her major from French to change program with the Univer- sity of London, where she studied for a semester in 1990. “My little angel came back very Bohemian,” Dr. Scott chuckled. “When | met her at the airport, there she was in her flowered skirt, sitting on her duffel bag.” Beth works mainly in watercol- ors and acrylics, but her specialty is illustration. Five years ago she did a two-person show in San Francisco, Dr. Scott said. For his 50th birthday Beth painted him a beautiful still life with flowers, which is proudly displayed with several other ex- amples of her work in a gallery in the Scott home. She also loves kids, her father recalled. “Beth taught at day care cen- ters and tutored young kids at the YMCA while she was in school,” art, Dr. Scott said. While at Syracuse, Beth took advantage of the university's ex- See ART, pg 14 ~~ PROUD FAMILY - Dallas residents Durelle and children’s librarian Marilyn Rudolph show off Edgar's Wild Day, “which Durelle Scott's daughter, Elizabeth Scott, illustrated. students and teacher will spend 10 days touring Europe. Page 3. BM Smash, jump 14 Pages 1 Section Bm Oft to gay Paree A group of Lake-Lehman Dallas and Lehman prep for tennis, track season. Page 3. The Dallas Post Calendar................... 11 Classified............. 12-13 Crossword................ 11 Editorials................. 4 Obituaries................. 12 SCHOOL ..oci iii 7 Sos... a 9,10 POST PHOTO/GRACE R. DOVE CALL 675-5211 Connie Scott and FOR HOME DELIVERY, NEWS OR ADVERTISING MAILING LABEL- Please enclose this label with any address changes, and mail to The Dallas Post, P.O. Box 366, Dallas PA 18612-0366
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