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Dallas, PA Wednesday, March 6, 1996 3
By GRACE R. DOVE
Post Staff
DALLAS - Eighth-grader
Michael Davies likes math “be-
cause it has actual answers in-
stead of ideas.”
The son of Sally and Stevan
Davies of Dallas, Michael recently
finished second overall and third
in the countdown round in the
Math Counts competition held at
Penn State Wilkes-Barre. He will
compete in the statewide Math
Counts March 15-16 in Carlisle.
“Some of the questions were
hard - I couldn't imagine anyone
getting the answers,” he said.
He attended Math Counts with
teammates Norah Krakosky,
Amanda Jenkins and Morgan
McOwen, alternates Jacob
Swartwood and Heather Vodzak,
and team coach Kathy Farrell.
The competition, mostly word
problems which require the use of
algebra to find a solution, con-
sisted of four rounds.
In the Sprint Round, students
individually answered 30 ques-
tions in 30 minutes, while in the
Target Round they tackled two
problems every six minutes for a
total of eight problems.
The top 10 students from these
rounds made it to the Countdown
Round, which Farrell described
as “a very tense time.” The stu-
dents went one-on-one solving
problems projected onto a screen,
using only scratch work. No cal-
culators were allowed. With an
overallindividual score that placed
him second, Davies and Morgan
McOwen, whose individual score
was tenth, competed in this round.
Davies finished third in the Count-
down.
A sample problem from the
team’s workbook reads: “A bas-
ketball game has 32 minutes of
playing time. What percent of the
game is over if half of the remain-
ing time is a third of the time
played?”
The teams worked together
during the Team Round to solve
10 questions in 20 minutes. “We
tried to split up but we couldn't do
the problems,” Davies said. “We
ended up working together. 1 got
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in Franklin Twp. code
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By GRACE R. DOVE
Post Staff
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP - After
a heated discussion during a pub-
lic hearing before the regular meet-
ing, the supervisors adopted a
controversial set of minimum lot
sizes March 4 — the second since
the new zoning ordinance was
passed in December, 1995.
The amendments enlarged
minimum lot sizes from two to
three acres in agricultural (A-1)
districts, from 1.5 to two acres in
one-family residential (R-1) dis-
tricts and from three to four acres
in conservation (C-1) districts.
“It's not right when someone
can tell me what to do with my
land,” said Larry Brace, whose
family has owned 150 acres for
more than 200 years. “You can do
: whatever you want with my prop-
erty and I don't have a say in it.
How many townships in Pennsyl-
vania have three acres” A good
real estate lawyer will chew this
up!”
“The township doesn't need
larger lot sizes,” added Ted
Dymond. “We already have some
of the largest lot sizes in the Back
Mountain.”
“You're discriminating against
the middle class,” said Ann Marie
McAvoy, owner of Chadsford Es-
tatesIandll. “At $30,000 an acre,
the only ones who will be able to
afford land here are those with
money, money, money."
Sandra and Bill Race gave the
supervisors a letter objecting to
the changes because the town-
ship didn't make any comprehen-
sive studies justifying them and
hasn't prepared along-range plan
defining what is best for the com-
munity for the next five to 20
years.
In addition, the township didn't
give the residents proper notice of
the proposed changes by placing
signs notifying residents of the
changes throughout the township.
“You are penalizing those who
have previously acquired and held
onto the largest tracts of land,”
they wrote. “You are financially
crippling those same residents. A
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They added that concerns about
septic systems contaminating
wells can easily be prevented by
the township denying building
permits to owners of land where
on-lot septic units aren't feasible.
“The primary reason for the
larger lots is to protect the water
from pollution,” said Jay Futch,
who presented a petition with 300
signatures favoring the larger lot
sizes to the supervisors last year.
“The last two planning commis-
sions recommended the supervi-
sors approve the larger lots. The
majority of the people I spoke to
were overwhelmingly for it.”
After the meeting Futch said
that the 300 signatures were from
homeowners, not renters. “The
township has about 500 homes.
We surveyed about 300, or 60
percent, and only 10 or 12 people
declined to sign the petition,” he
said. :
Newly elected supervisor Mar-
tin Murray ran for office and won
on a platform supporting larger
lot sizes and protecting the water
supply, he added.
“There are lots of areas in the
township where you can build on
one or two acres,” said David Car-
penter. :
The supervisors passed the
changes with Robert Redmond
casting the lone dissenting vote.
“This is an illegal action,” he
said. “When this township get sued
over this, I will hold (township
solicitor) Susan Mazza, (planning
commission solicitor) Charles
McCormick, Martin Murray and
Bill Miller personally responsible.
Mr. McCormick says he thinks he
can defend it in court. I will per-
sonally sue the four of you to
recover the court costs to the town-
ship.”
three answers, the other kids got
two more and we filled in three
more with guesses.”
Preparation for the competi-
tion involved coming in Tuesdays
and Thursdays at 7 a.m. for 45
minutes of practice before school
started. For practice, the teams
receive workbooks containing
questions similar to those in the
competition.
Davies, 13, takes high school
Algebra 2 with a class of sopho-
mores, holding a solid B average
for the year. When he isn't an-
swering his E-mail or working on
Netscape or playing the CD-ROM
games “Myst” or “Day of the Ten-
tacle” (a cartoon game requiring
the player to save the world from
the terrible Tentacles) on the
family’s computer, he enjoys play-
ing soccer and taking acoustic
guitar lessons [rom Jason Santos.
He also likes alternative music.
Farrell has coached the Dallas
Middle School team for three years
and was math team coach at Holy
Saviour School for a year before
coming to Dallas.
“Mike has areal knack for work
problems,” she said. “He's the
smartest Math Counts student
I've ever coached.”
Surviving a piano lesson
ichael Davies makes "Math Count’ in statewide contest
POST PHOTO/GRACE R. DOVE
Michael Davies and math coach Kathy Farrell work on sample problems to prepare Michael for
the statewide Math Counts competiton. He came in second at the Math Counts competition recently
held at Penn State Wilkes-Barre.
POST PHOTO/GRACE R. DOVE
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