The Dallas Post Dallas, PA Wednesday, January 31, 1996 3 > | Our disaster, their calling f @ By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff DALLAS TOWNSHIP - Local disasters are a call for help to Southern Baptist church volun- teers who have set up a mess hall in the parking lot of the Dallas Baptist Church. Their first visit to Northeastern Pennsylvania was prompted by this month's flooding. They aren't accustomed to the cold or the altitude. Ice has formed on their 3 equipment and work area. But none of these conditions matter to 15 volunteers from the Kilpatrick Baptist Association Di- saster Relief Team, who arrived at the local church Thursday to cook meals for flood victims. “Part of our Christian commit- ment is doing disaster relief work in the name of Jesus,” said team coordinator Garry Adams. The Kilpatrick team is one of two Southern Baptist teams which set up mobile kitchens in the «3 church's parking lot to cook two hot meals per day for the Red i Cross to take to the Wyoming Valley. Ready to respond on a moment's notice, they drove 860 miles in 17 hours to get here. Each hot meal, consisting of a meat, a vegetable, two fruits and "hot and cold drinks, is prepared from food provided by the Red Cross. The Baptists provide the mobile kitchen, experience and | anpower. '.~. Hailing from southeastern Georgia, the Kilpatrick team goes E o terorer it's needed. It has been 1 ie ® ‘to the California earthquakes, | ‘flooding from Tropical Storm of | Alberto in south Georgia, Hurri- : ‘cane Opal in Alabama, Hurricane “Andrew in Miami and tornadoes in northern Georgia. | Their mobile kitchen is set up ‘to cook between 10,000 and 112,000 meals per day. Today they made 700 hot lunches. | “The main challenge here is | @ stayingwarm,” Adamssaid. “We're not used to the cold weather and have never worked in snow be- ‘fore. This is the farthest north we have ever come to work.” Rebecca Miller, daugher of Rev. and Mrs. Daniel Miller of " Trucksville, has been selected as an entrant in the 1996 Pennsylvania's Perfect Teen Pag- es eant, a Carvern Production, to be held in the Sheraton Innin Cherry Hill; New Jersey, February 3 and 4. © The State Pageant will select 2 ‘Pennsylvania's representative to Lj #) the national America’s Perfect ‘Teen Pageant, this summer in ‘Orlando, Florida. Miller, who was ‘selected at an entrant-at-large, ‘will compete with girls from all ‘over the Keystone State for the | ‘title of Pennsylvania's Perfect Teen. She is a student at Dallas Area ‘Senior High School. Her interests -including singing, acting, writing ‘short stories, and working with | . POST PHOTO/GRACE R. DOVE Nick Nichols, Albert Strother, Jack Williford and Bruce Poss were among the 15 volunteers from Georgia who cooked meals for flood victims in a mobile kitchen set up in the parking lot of the Dallas Baptist Church last week. = i hs i i, “I just called in and told my boss I'm going and will be back sometime.” Rev. Elwood Ulmer Disaster team coordinator “We're not used to walking like penguins,” wisecracked Nick Nichols, imitating the careful way one walks on ice. Neither did they anticipate hav- ing ice form on their equipment or having the altitude affect their propane burners. No two disaster projects are alike, Adams said. Al Strother, who has worked on every project but Hurricane An- drew, said he'll never forgeta man he met, a volunteer like himself, during the California earthquake. “He pinned this on my shoul- der with such love,” he said, Miller to compeie in PA Perfect Teen pageant the homeless in New York City. She enjoys playing various sports and is very active in the Out Of Bounds Youth Ministries at her church. Her sponsors to the Pennsylvania's Perfect Teen Pag- eant are: Mary Lou's Model and Talent Mgmt.; The Revolution; Curtis L. Swanson Funeral Home; American Asphalt Paving Co.; Out of Bounds Youth Ministries; The Highlands at Newberry Estate; J&J Deli; Salavantis Development; Small Wonders, Inc.; Back Moun- tain Auto Specialists; Trucksville Pharmacy; Pizza Perfect, Inc.; Russ Majors Sales and Service; Country Deli; Lester E. Stuck, Inc.; Keister's Keys; Keister Con- struction, Inc.; Gertrude Hawk Chocolates, and friends and fam- ily. proudly showing off a tiny white liberty bell sporting a Red Cross emblem. Tl probably never see him again.” The ‘96 flood was the first di- saster project for another team from the Northeast Baptist Con- sortium, which covers New York, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylva- nia, southern New Jersey and New England. After setting up Tuesday after- noon, they cooked nearly 2,000 meals for the Red Cross before leaving Thursday afternoon for Williamsport. “We came in on the power of prayer,” said coordinator Rev. Elwood Ulmer. “We were prepared to cook 500 meals without a prob- lem, but the Red Cross told us they needed 1,000. We prayed for guidance and relied on the Lord to get us through.” Like their counterparts from Georgia, this group of 11 volun- teers is composed of people of all REBECCA MILLER LE UE TE More News, More Abs, More Protos. Reap THE DALLAS Post EacH WEEK. “We're just simple people trying to serve the Lord.” Garry Adams Disaster team coordinator ages and from all backgrounds. Many took time off from work to come here. “I just called in and told my boss I'm going and will be back sometime,” Ulmer said. “I took this job with the indersianding that if there's an emergency, must leave.” Why are the volunteers leaving their families and jobs to help people they don't know and will probably never meet? “There's a need,” Ulmer said. “Each of us felt called by the Lord to minister to the flood victims.” SKI TIP #15 PP Se SE Wyoming Seminary's AREA EIGHTH AND NINTH-GRADE students are encouraged to register for Wyoming School turns ‘Super’ for a day By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff STEELERSBURGH - Although the Dallas Cowboys won, the Dal- las Elementary School changed its name for the dayJanuary 26 in honor of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ appearance in Super Bowl XXX. Visitors to the school were greeted by large banners on the front of the building renaming the school “Steelersburgh Elemen- tary,” while more Super Bowl signs decorated the halls. The lighthearted rechristening was the brainchild of fifth grade teacher Mrs. Sharon Hartshorne and the students of the school’s KIDS morning in-school radio show, who coordinated the vote. The entire school voted on whether to keep the school’s name or rename it “Steelersburgh El- ementary” for the day, with 59 percent of the student body vot- ing for the name change. Super Bowl fever also spread to Mrs. Kathleen Reiss’s fifth grade class, which received a packet of letters from a fifth grade class in Plano, TX, whose students wished the Steelers good luck in the game. The Texas teacher, Ms. Amy = W . BY She enclosed a map locating Plano, which is about 15 miles north of Dallas, and a clipping from their local newspaper on one of the Steelers. Ms. Rice's student, Bridge Chalmers, wrote, “In Texas some- times winters are so hot you could wear shorts! Other times it's freezing....Thereis a cityin Texas, named Pittsburg, that has changed (its name) to Cowboy, Texas, but not until after. the game.” Brianne wrote she also enjo 7s playing soccer and watching or attending hockey games. “.7." Mrs. Reiss said her students will write replies to the Texas stu- dents in spelling class. Ly Rice, who was trying to tie current events and special interest into her social studies curriculum, also suggested her students become pen pals with Mrs. Reiss’s class. “My students were very inter- ested in all the snow, the prob- lems associated with this and now the flooding happening in the Northeast (not to mention the football game and the fact that there is a city named Dallas in Pennsylvania),” she wrote. 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