The Dallas Post Dallas, PA Wednesday, April 3, 1996 3 By GRACE R. DOVE n, 2 Post Staff DALLAS TOWNSHIP - Two Dallas Middle School students are on manda- + tory probation for six to 12 months and will be required to submit to periodic 0 [+ drug tests after admitting they smoked . marijuana in a school lavatory. Police confiscated a glassine envelope ‘Middle School students caught with marijuana for their services. In expulsion cases, the district usually recommends transferring the student to another school before he or she is ex- pelled, Wycallis said. “In the past we have had several par- ents agree to transfer their children be- fore we expel them,” he said. “The last time we expelled middle school students for similar offenses was about four or five containing a vegetable substance and ' two small pipes — one improvised from a + Paper-Mate pen and the other froma 15/ q ® 32" socket from a socket wrench set — -.}- from two boys, 14 and 15 years old, ~ March 4 after an intensive investigation by school authorities and police. According to principal Anthony Martinelli, a teacher making a routine check of the lavatory smelled an odd, sweet-smelling smoke and alerted him. : Martinelli called police, who conlfis- cated the envelope and pipes and sent them to the Pennsylvania State Police crime lab for processing, police said. “I would like to commend Officer Den- nis for the professional way in which he handled the investigation,” Martinelli said. i ? Police charged the boys with two viola- tions of the Controlled Substance and Cosmetics Act: use of a controlled sub- stance and possession of drug parapher- nalia. They have been petitioned to - Luzerne County Juvenile Court and were * suspended from school for 10 days. “We want to make a statement to the school and community that we have a zero tolerance policy for students doing drugs,” said investigating officer Jeff Den- ' nis. “Bringing marijuana to school and smoking it on the grounds is a serious offense. It makes the school atmosphere hot hard on the other students and will not be said. tolerated. We will arrest anyone caught with drugs or using drugs at school. There will be no breaks for anyone.” The boys are first-time offenders, he added. “This is the first time in my 3 1/2 years as a principal that students in my building have been caught with drugs,” Further punishment could include expul- sion from school, homebound instruction, referral to Luzerne Intermediate Unit 18's alternative education program or sending the student to another school, according to superintendent Gerald Wycallis. “We're waiting for advice from our solici- tor and recommendations from the board,” he said. “Mr. Martinelli met with the solici- tor, but we don’t have anything in writing yet. Until the board makes a decision, the boys will be tutored at home as part of our homebound instruction program.” Homebound instruction is provided by district teachers, who earn $20 per hour from the district. Each student may receive up to five hours per week, Wycallis said. The district also picks up the tab for alternative education programs, which runs approximately $5,000 per year. It is the parents’ responsibility to pay for expelled students’ tuition at other schools, Wycallis said. Some public schools, as well as all private and parochial schools, charge years ago.” Drug use among the younger set has increased and moved into the f(ifth and sixth grades, according to prevention edu- cation supervisor Stefanie Wolownik at Wyoming Valley Alcohol and Drug. “Kids will tell you they can get any drug they want on the street - and they're correct,” she said. "Something happens with this age group which makes them forget all the pledges they made to avoid cigarettes, alcohol and drugs. All they want is to be accepted, and among their peers; if it means using drugs, tobacco or alcohol, they will.” Fifth and sixth graders start abusing inhalants (the slang term is “huffing,” and soon graduate to over-the-counter drugs. By the time the kids get to high school, the drugs of choice become mari- juana or heroin, which now comes in a more “socially acceptable” form which can be snorted (inhaled through the nose) instead of injected into the veins. “Kids use the way they see their par- ents using, for example by taking lots of pills or by drinking, sometimes as young as age seven,” Wolownik said. “They're bombarded by it in the media — commer- cials for cigarettes and alcohol in maga- zines and drug use on TV shows. The entire community must become involved in the war on drugs.” Martinelli ¢ » HAPPY Hunting I Kim Reisch, left, and Alicia : Kaiser. 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Aretired civilengineer and con- tractor, Granger is a native of Wyoming, PA, who moved to the township in 1989. Granger had been appointed to the commis- sion October 9 by the previous board of supervisors, then re- placed after the November elec- tion. In other planning commission matters, the supervisors unani- mously voted to stagger the terms of newly appointed commission members so that the terms of no more than two expire at the end of any year. The term of Frank Hilstolsky will be for two years, while Lee Clark's term will be three years. The supervisors also unani- mously voted to have secretary Davida Roberts attest to theJanu- ary ordinance which added two more members to the three-mem- ber planning commission. It had been passed but the former secre- tary had not signed and sealed it, according to chairman Bill Miller. The supervisors and planning commission will hold a special work session April 10at 6:30 p.m. at the fire hall to update the spe- cial exception and nonconform- ing use sections of the zoning ordinance. A second special meeting will be scheduled with John Giambra, developer of Bella Mundana, and officials [rom Exeter Township to finalize Giambra's development plan and the agreement on the development between the two townships. Bella Mundana is a 25-lot subdivision, which has 18 lots in Franklin Township and seven lots and a proposed sewage treatment plant on Sutton Creek in Exeter Township. 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