pr a te Dallas, PA Wednesday, October 4, 1995 4 The Dallas Post fo" LS SSE The Dallas Post ~~ EDITORIALS Special teachers live on in their students Many adults, years after leaving school, recall a special teacher, one who went beyond the classroom routine to inspire students both in the subject matter and a love of learning itself. Lolly Larkins, who died last month after a long battle with cancer, was one of those teachers. Mrs. Larkins and her special projects designed to spark “children’s interest in reading had been the subject of several articles in The Dallas Post in recent years. In all that time, she never mentioned her affliction, preferring to keep reporters focused on the children who were the center of her life. Those students enjoyed all the special methods she used to convey her love of reading, including The Polar Express, which has become an annual event for Lake-Noxen School first graders. “She considered every new book to be an adventure, not simply something to be read in class,” said Barbara Wall, the school’s librarian and a long-time friend. That was evident in the way she attempted to make stories come alive, complete with props and projects that gave her students a deeper understanding of the material. Sometimes it was celebrating the birthday of Dr. Seuss, others it was making quilts or bringing a bread-making machine to class, always with the goal of reaching beyond the printed page to help youngsters gain knowledge and, yes, a sense of adventure. There are teachers who teach the same year 20 times. There are others, like Lolly Larkins, who bring a freshness to each new class, and impart the joy of discovery to their new charges each September. They are to be cherished and honored. That is exactly what the faculty of Lake-Noxen School has done, by creating the Lolly Larkins Reading Corner, a place where students can go to relax and read their favorite books. If you would like to help, send a contribution to: The Lolly Larkins Reading Corner, Lake-Noxen Elementary School, RR 3, Box 270, Harveys Lake PA 18618. Back Mountain needs a light industry park ~ Congratulations to Mountaintop and everyone who worked to snare a new computer chip manufacturing plant that Harris Corporation says will be built in the Crestwood Industrial Park. The 300 or so jobs that will be created are amuch-needed boost to the Luzerne County economy. The Back Mountain could use a boost, too. Now that the Cross Valley Expressway is complete, this area should be more attractive to businesses that want to locate in scenic surround- ings with easy access to major transportation routes. But we lack a location that invites serious consideration as the site for clean manufacturing or high-quality offices. Surely there are officials and individuals in the Back Mountain who can get together to create a well-planned light industry park, one that can not only attract good jobs but situate them in such a way as to inflict the least harm on the environment which is one of our greatest assets. + Mountaintop won the Harris plant over other areas because it offered a ready-to-use location, and a willing work force. We have the latter but not the former, and in today’s competitive word, we need both. No place here for illegal hunting : “The annual fall ritual has begun, with bow and arrow deer season opening September 30. Whether or not you approve of hunting in general, everyone with a sense of honor can support efforts to stop illegal hunting, and to catch poachers and others who go beyond the bounds of hunting laws, safety and common sense. - Among the worst abuses are shooting from a car, and jacklighting, in which a spotlight is used to freeze a deer so it can be easily shot. The two often go together, with jacklighters driving slowly and upon spotting a deer shining a bright light at it. Beyond being illegal, the action is dangerous — because it’s dark, the shooter often doesn’t if a home or other building is behind the deer. “Responsible hunters abhor these practices, and the mem- bers of the Harveys Lake Rod & Gun Club have gone even further, donating a deer decoy to the state Game Commission, to be used to catch illegal hunting. The rest of us can help too, by reporting improper hunting to the Game Commission whenever we see it. Do you agree? Disagree? 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EXEC Paul Rismiller Olga Kostrobala PRODUCTION MANAGER CLASSIFIED/TYPESETTING Jill Gruver OFFICE MANAGER 2) PRINTED WITH NIN we SOY INK ASSOCIATION PER INEWSPAPER Sok LETTERS Teacher support needed for school change Editor: : The Dallas School Board will be voting on a new scheduling con- figuration for the Senior High School at the Monday, October 9th meeting. The District refers to this as “intensified scheduling”, which basically translates into four classroom periods a day of approximately 83-90 minutes in length, coupled with a 75-minute “flex” period to accommodate lunch /activities. Present year- long course offerings, such as most major subjects, would be con- verted to a semester basis. District administration presen- tations to the public on the four- period day took place on April 27 and July 10, 1995. A video from Hatboro-Horsham School District was used at the April meeting, while in July, guidance counsel- ors from Hatboro-Horsham and Towanda high schools spoke on their school’s positive experiences. Hatboro-Horsham has used this type of schooling for three years, while Towanda had just completed their first year. . Parameters such as lowered school absenteeism and discipli- nary referrals as well as jumps in honor roll students have been mentioned as some of the benefits of the four-period day. “The stu- dents love it,” the Hatboro-Hor- sham video told us, with reasons ranging from being responsible for work in only three to four subjects, to the advantage of more classroom time to get help from the teacher. This method of sched- uling may clearly have potential. Yet, there is a flip side to all of this. Concern has been voiced as to why we are considering this "LIBRARY NEWS By NANCY KOZEMCHAK The Back Mountain Memorial Library display case is showing an interesting display of stamps borrowed from Christopher Cos- lett of Hunlock Creek. Chris is 12 years old and in 7th grade at Lake-Lehman middle level. He has a brother, Nick, who is in 10th grade. The month of Octo- ber is National Stamp Collecting Month, which seemed a fitting time for this display. Chris’s grandfather, Cy Chad- wick of Shavertown, is an avid stamp collector and he created an interest in stamp collecting for Chris five years ago. Cy gave Chris a starter collection to begin his personal hobby. Chris re- ceives some stamps from Cy after he takes them off envelopes and after Cy gets his first pick. Chris received some special stamps from change when there seems to be a lack of “hard-core” data, i.e. test scores, to support its effective- ness. Certainly a variety of teach- ing methods of a participatory nature will be needed to make good use of such a lengthy class- room period, as opposed to a lec- ture format. High school science. teachers pointed out at the April meeting that they would lose some 50 hours of instructional time on a semester basis, thus forcing an adjustment in content. Ques- tions as to the effect of taking sequenced foreign language or mathematics courses with con- ceivably a two semester prepara- tion have been posed. But let me cut to the point on which the success of this venture rests - and that is the sentiment/ commitment on the part of the senior high school teachers to embrace this four period program. The teachers visited Hatboro- Horsham as well as Lake Wal- lenpaupack high schools over the past year, expressly to gain expo- sure to this concept and see it in action. Presumably they came away unconvinced and with many questions, as an 11 undecided, 29 no and 2 yes vote of June, 1995 indicates. At the board's August meeting, senior high department chairper- sons were present and expressed some concerns and ultimately requested that a plan be formu- lated by the administration that would spell out the specifics of the implementation of this concept. To this end, the teachers, by department, submitted their list- ings of needed equipment/tech- nology, staff development, and curriculum adjustments. Subse- quent meetings have been held with department heads during September on the topic of intensi- fied scheduling. The teachers have requested that they have adequate time to review the completed plan before the October 9th school board meeting and may well vote again to indicate their current status in regard to the plan. Parents of Dallas Middle School students and Dallas Senior High School students: Do you have comments or questions that have been unanswered about the four period day? Would you like a chance to read over the admini- stration’s plan to implement this scheduling change in the 1996- 97 school year? If so, you need to speak up during the visitor's segment of the October 9th school board meet- ing. The board meets at 8:00 p.m. in the Administration Building on Church Street near the ball fields, and is preceded by a 7:00 p.m. work session at which this issue might be discussed. Those unable to attend the meeting could send comments to Dr. Richard Coslett, the Chair- person of the Board, or the indi- vidual board members before the October 9th meeting. This is the only way that the school board members will have the benefit of input from students, parents, and the community per se. Lucy F. Messersmith Dallas Fascinating stamp collection visits library Cy and buys some at stamp shows when he attends with his grand- father. This is definitely a Gettysburg stamp display. The display in- cludes a Civil War stamp collec- tion which is standing in the rear of the display. There are special Civil War postcards in the display which can be used for mailing. There is included in the display a replica of a letter with a man going to battle. There is a Civil War Centennial special page of stamps dated 1961-1965. A prize possession is the Civil War Classic Collection, First day of issue. Chris attended the first day ceremony held at the Na- tional Park Headquarters in Get- tysbuyrg, June 29, 1995. This was a very exciting and historic day for Chris. The display is a re- minder of an important time in our history. It will be at the li- brary until October 25. New books at the library: “Lis for Lawless” by Sue Grafton could be called, Kinsey Millhone in bad company. Call it a mystery with- { Ki = out a murder, a treasure hunt without a map, a quest novel with truly mixed-up motives. Call it the return of Kinsey as bad girl— quick-witted and quick silvery, smart-mouthed and smart alecky, poking her nose in dirty laundry. “Don’t Cry Now” by Joy Field- ing is a novel that once again unfurls her extraordinary talent to keep us turning pages—with all the lights on and the doors bolted. In this poweful domestic thriller she delivers a chilling story in which terror and devotion spar for a place in a mother's heart. This is a stunning psychological thriller. “Dead Man's Walk” by Larry McMurtry is the story of the early days of Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call, the heroes of Larry McMurtry’'s novel, ‘Lonesome Dove’. He now takes the reader back to the days when two of the most beloved figures in American fiction were young Texas Rang- ers, first experiencing the wild frontier that will form their char- acters. "YESTERDAY 60 Years Ago - Oct. 11, 1935 FEDS PROMISE MANY JOBS FOR AREA ei Is a A bond retirement fund of $3,650 was set up in First Nas tional Bank of Dallas for Dallas Borough School Board this ‘weék' to meet obligations of the local! district. Through the fund, tous! pons amounting to $825 ‘due’ December 30 and June 30, 1936 will be paid and $2,000 worth'6F bonds due on the same date will be retired. ve You could get- Chuck roast’ 17¢ Ib.; ground beef, 2 lbs. 33¢; €ggs,~ 2 doz. 59 ¢; sweet potatoes, 101bs/" 19¢; bananas, 4 lbs. 19¢. =o! SBIEINS 50 Years Ago - Oct. 12,1945" AREA CELEBRATES NEW: LIBRARY'S OPENING ~ Rain or shine, the Back Vif tain Memorial Library will be dedi®’ cated this Sunday afternoon'with colorful outdoor patriotic cererh6™* nies. Daddow-Isaacs Post Ameri: can Legion and all members of ‘the! armed forces home on furlough or’ discharged will meet in front ‘of Dr. F. Budd Schooley’s home on’ Lake Street. From there they: ye march behind the Dr. Henry M. Laing Corin! nity Band to the library where the . Legion will take part in a’ ee raising ceremony. - £m £ie er p 2: 40 Years Ago - Oct. 7,1955 « += - Ec3 COPS SAY HAULERS .* SN MUST COVER TRUCKS -- State and local police are a : ing on a number of angles that’ may in time lead to the solution ‘of: the theft last Thursday morning! of rifles, shells and knives ‘fromv Dallas Hardware & Supply.’ The: first break came last Thursday: when Wilkes-Barre police notifed: Chief Russell Honeywell that a- box of .35 high-power rifle shells had been found in a’ Plymouth! sedan on Morgus’ Parking’ lot LJ » ¢ opposite Hotel Sterling. HST TE Chief Russ Honeywell was ‘iri? structed to arrest any garbage man who does not provide a can- w vas cover for his truck at a brief} : meeting of Borough Council Tdes=* day. Numerous complaints arg, being heard throughout the Back © Mountain area that garbage" 46 4 strewn along residential and ru- ral highways. Sa 30 Years Ago - Oct. 7, 1965 -. ASST. CHIEF GENSEL QUITS JACKSON LICE: Resignation of Roland Gensel as asstant police chief of Jackson:: Township as of Nov. 1 came as something of a blow to the board> of supervisors thisweek and leaves Jackson without a day officer.oni weekdays. The board agreed that he should be called out for duty when needed until that date and- Wes Lamoreaux might be called | out after that as a constable, state office which he retains. ) With Trucksville Fire Gom- i “o | o 4 i ¢ ! i pany's tanker broken down and | beyond repair, a serious situation has arisen in this area, requiring the interest of all citizens. A spe- cial meeting was held at Kingston Township Municipal Building, at which time committees were appointed to obtain bids on new equipment and prepare for. a a, fundraising drive. 20 Years Ago - Oct. 9,1975 AREA HONORS DAN FLOOD FORSERVICE =~ The Dallas Post this week an- nounced plans to move its local business and publishing offices toanew location at 44 Main Street, | a building formerly occupied by the Grace T. Cave Store and owned bydJohn Shinal, Dominic Fino and Gene DeStefano. The new site is reported to to be the same one occupied by The Post during the £ early years of the century. ~~. Officials of the Back Mountain Protective Association announced: this week that U.S. Rep. Dan Flood will be the recipient of the prestig- ious Back Mountain Community Service Award during banquet ceremonies atIrem Temple Coun- Dr. F. Budd try Club, Oct. 31. Schooley, president of the Protec- tive Association said Flood re- ! ceived the overwhelming majority of nominations for the award which is given for an “outstanding record of community service above 2 selfin the Wilkes-Barre, i nfs Valley and Greater Back Moris) PF tain Area. |
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