2s | 4 a. TWuwivH liea rE VwLHGU VALLE © 2 0 AVHUIDIVD DS S00 F 2. m 106 No. 40 Win $1,000 " Details on page 14 ote lo By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff . DALLAS - Dallas school super- LJ intendent Gerald Wycallis says teachers will be offered adequate training to adapt to a new four- period high school day. | |-. But a statement Wycallis made “at .the school board's October 2 work session contained a warn- ing to teachers who balk at the hange. “If we can’t get some teachers to cooperate, we'll have to con- ® sider moving them,” Wycallis said. The school board is expected to vote on the switch to “intensified scheduling” at its October 9 meet- ing, which begins at 8 p.m. in the administration building on Church Street. A one-hour work session will precede the meeting. Both sessions are open to the public. After the Oct. 2 meeting Wycal- lis pointed out the key issue is to provide adequate staff develop- ment (training) for the teachers. “I have the authority to transfer any teacher in the district to another Dallas, Pennsylvania Monday, Oct. 9, 8 p.m. Work Session at 7 p-m. Administration Building, Church Street, Dallas position,” Wycallis said. “We'll have many staff develop- ment opportunities available for them - in-service courses during the school year and summer courses. We have sufficient per- sonnel to move teachers - many in both the high school and middle school are certified to teach sev- eral subjects.” The section of the plan to which Wycallis referred reads, “Staff members who decline the oppor- tunity for staff development may be transferred. This will allow other staff members the opportu- nity to participate in the educa- tional reform movement.” 'Reading Corner’ will honor beloved teacher By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff ‘ 'HARVEYS LAKE - In a corner - of the Lake-Noxen school's library is an empty space which soon will be transformed into the Lolly ‘Larkins Reading Corner, a living ‘memorial to a first grade teacher loved by students and faculty. Lolly (Emily) Larkins, 53, of Chase, died September 25 at the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital after a long battle with cancer. Librarian Barbara Wall began to organize the Reading Corner Blter consulting with the Larkins “It will be a special, nice place for the younger students to sit, relax in beanbag chairs and read their favorite books,” Wall said. © “Lolly requested several books for it~ The Polar Express, No Dragons * On My Quilt and the Clifford se- ries. I also plan to add the Dr. Seuss books and several others Lolly used in class. She consid- ered every new book her students | read tobe an adventure, not simply something to be read in class.” ‘As president of the Lake- . Lehman Education Association, Wall sent letters to all the dis- .trict’s teachers requesting dona- “tions. _ “It's the best way to honor Lolly - and show how we felt about her,” Wall said. Principal Robert Kunkle made a special announcement about her passing over the loudspeaker to the students September 26 and read them a poem which had always inspired Larkins. : “She wanted her students to love learning and books as much as she did.” Susan Yogodzinski Teacher and friend Fifth-graders Jack Yogodzinski, he Mike Mully, Kim Jones and Sheena Kocher remember their first grade teacher as “a very nice person.” They sald theyll miss her, and smiled as they recalled their best memories of the year they spentin Mrs. Larkins's class. *She would always help us if we had problems or in reading groups,” Mike said. When his class read No Dragons On My Quilt, they made stuffed pillows from quilt blocks. His pillow, containing a moose he made himself, sits on his nightstand. "My pillow has a bear on it,” Kim said. "We had lots of fun with See TEACHER, pg 12 Lolly Larkins, a first grade teacher at the | ake-Noxen school, passed away September 25. Several years ago she arranged to bring the Moon rocks, studied through a microscope by Dan Whitehead, to Lake-Noxen: POST PHOTO/GRAGE R. Dove : The Public Utility Commission has'scheduled hearings to receive public comment on the proposed sale of Pennsylvania Gas and Water Co.'s water division to Pennsylvania-American Water Co. Administrative LawJudge Rich- ard M. Lovenwirth will hold ses- sions at: Wilkes-Barre on Oct. 11 at 7:15 p.m. and Oct. 13 at 1 p.m. in the Sports and Conference Ben Wolle gardens in water : By JACK HILSHER Post Correspondent Chances are good - make that very good - that Ben Wolfe of Lehman, age 14 and about to lenter 9th grade, knows exactly ‘what he wants to be upon com- ipleting his education. And ‘chances are he can’t wait...tobe a horticulturist! That mouthful of 14 letters and '5 syllables comes from only two Latin words: hortus, meaning garden and cultura, meaning cultivation. Exactly what Ben Wolfe has been doing, only not with dirt but with water. Ben designed and built (with See GARDEN, pg 15 Center (Room 214) of the Arnaud C. Marts Building at Wilkes Uni- versity, 274 S. Franklin St. Customer testimony will be- come part of the record on which the commission will base its deci- sion in the case. Last April PG&W, a subsidiary of Pennsylvania Enterprises, Inc., and Pennsylvania-American, a subsidiary of American Water Works Co., Inc., filed a joint appli- cation for the sale of PG&W’s water operations and related assets, including 10 water treatment plants, 36 reservoirs and about 7,000 acres of watershed land, for approximately $409 million. PG&W headquartered in Wilkes-Barre, provides water serv- ice to 132,000 customers in 11 o Public hearings on PG&W land sale slated for Oct. 11 northeastern counties. Hershey- based Pennsylvania-American provides service to 378,420 cus- tomers in 218 communities across the commonwealth. Asubstantial portion of PG&W's land is located in the Back Moun- tain, including nearly one-third or Lehman Township. It also operates the Ceasetown and Huntsville reservoirs. POST PHOTO/CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK Ben Wolfe, of Harveys Lake, is an avid water gardener at age 14. He built this water garden complete with goldfish, floating plants and a waterfall, with some help from his dad, Bing Wolfe. ooms on eo hes school day The board will decide October © ~ whether or not to change the high school's schedule from a seven- period day to a four-period day, also known as intensified sched- uling. Instead of taking seven 50- minute classes, students would have four 85-minute classes, with half of their subjects taught each semester. The 42 high school teachers had voted in June by secret ballot on the radical change. Two voted for it, 29 were againstand 11 were undecided. At that time the board / [Oniober 4 hn 10, 1995 LL, AS had told the teachers it wouldiit adopt intensified scheduling if they didn't want it, according to Dallas Education Association president William Wagner. Wycallis gave board members a copy of the proposed plan last weekend. It will be presented to the teachers October 4 at a fac- ulty meeting, then to the public at the October 9 regular board meet- ing. Wagner, a high school biology See 4-PERIODS, pg 12. Planning board member ousted Hilstolsky voted out 2-1, Dorrance had resigned prior to meeting By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP - In a meeting described by several resi- dents as “a joke” and one supervi- sor as “very dirty politics,” two supervisors voted to oust Frank Hilstolsky from the planning commission. Chairman Robert Redmond cast the tie-breaker to get rid of Hilstolsky after Tim Dymond voted to remove him and William Miller voted to keep him. Redmond had previously called for Hilstolsky and planning com- mission chairman Ed Dorranceto resign. Dorrance resigned Sep- tember 25 “for the good of the township.” The supervisors said they were concerned Hilstolsky wouldn't be able to render unbiased decisions regarding subdivision applica- tions and other land development plans submitted by Ann Marie McAvoy to the planning commis- sion. Hilstolsky's brothers, David and Charles, are presently in- volved in a civil lawsuit against McAvoy, whose Chadds Ford I and II subdivisions adjoin their land. See PLANNING, pg 15 Love of library is expressed in winning cross-stitch work By CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK Post Staff “I've always loved the library,” says Jane Newberry Swire of Harveys Lake, which explains why she and her husband Dan came to create an original cross-stitch design for the Back Mountain Memorial Library. The piece, which also won best of show and first place at this year’s Luzerne County Fair, is on display at the library. Beth Rosenthal -chairs the committee planning the library's 50th anniversary celebration, which begins next week. “I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the design at the fair,” she said. “I had been living and dreaming the 50th anniversary celebration, and there was the cross-stitch piece and its theme was the library's 50th.” Jane Swire had intended all along to donate the work to the library; entering it in the fair was an afterthought. Designed by Dan and executed by Jane, the piece includes illustrations that pertain to the library, books, and themes of science, art and mathematics. Once she decided what to do, Jane said she roped Dan into" making the design and building a handmade frame. This kind of effort is not new to this artistic couple, who enjoy photography, design, crafts and handworks. It seems there isn’t anything they won't tackle. For this item, Dan drew the design on graph paper and Jane did the cross-stitching. The Swires also had donated a sampler for last year's library auction. Jane traces her love of ibrasits and books to her childhood in Beaumont where she lived on a See CROSS-STITCH, pg 5 HB Dee-fense Dallas crushed Hoban 57-6, in a tuneup for Friday's show- down with Meyers. Pg 13. H Paint the town. Girl Scout troop 624 wants to dress up area mail- boxes with stencils. Pg 3 18 Pages 2 Sections Calendar..................... 18 Classified............... 16-17 Crossword.................. 18 EdiOrnals..........oeenneens 4 Obituaries..........cocuv... 15 CALL 675-5211 FOR HOME DELIVERY, NEWS OR ADVERTISING The Dallas Post MAILING LABEL- Please enclose this label with any address changes, and mail to The Dallas Post, P.O. Box 366, Dallas PA 18612-0366 Ironically, Redmond, who cast
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