SAAT SS i Cd ! 14 The Dallas Post Dallas, PA Wednesday, May 7, 1997 pring cleanups May 5-10 Kingston Township Spring Cleanup will be held May 5 through 10, at the Kingston Township Public Works Facility, East Center Street, Shavertown. Hours will be Mon.-Fri. 8 am.to7 pm. and Sat, 8am. to 4 p.m. Residents with full size vans, pickup trucks, utility trailers, and trucks arger than a regular pickup truck bed must obtain an Admission Coupon rom the Kingston Township Municipal Building, Mon. through Fr., 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Coupons for the full size vans, pickup trucks and utility railers are free of charge and are limited to one per township residence. Residents are defined as the owner/occupant of single family dwellings and individuals who occupy rental housing, not the owners of rental housing. Coupons for trucks larger than pickup trucks, such as U-Haul Jans, small dump trucks and stake body trucks, are available for a fee of 35. Proof of residency, such as a tax bill or a driver's license, is required 0 receive a coupon. Commercial property owners are not to participate in he cleanup. | Washers, dryers, furnaces, stoves, refrigerators, water heaters, or other arge appliances, household garbage, recyclable materials, commercial onstruction debris, or medical waste will notbe accepted. Tires are limited two per residence. No toxic substances such as paint, solvents, : ertilizers, or automotive fluids will be accepted. : Residents with passenger cars or other vehicles not described above ist show proof of residency to police officers on duty atthe entrance of clean- -up. Police officers will A59 collect admission coupons . Any Dallas Borough resident can n bring unwarfed e located behind the Borough garage, 25 Mains The Back Mountain Garden Bloomers Club Front row, from left: Florence Hallstead, Audrey Angelella, Lora Marcolina Freifeld, Linda Thoma, Diane Kopcha Katlic, Phyllis Mundy; 2nd row, Beverly Johnston, Corrine Pawling, Petsye Huyghe, Beverly Turner, Claudette Banks, Mae Rome, Lucile Parker. BMT Bloomers win state national awards Research, Cincinnati, OH. tions, Cincinnati, OH. Stephanie Laura Reese and Robert Edward Miller Stepanie Reese to marry Robert Edward Miller Mr. and Mrs. Alan Reese of Dallas, announce the engagement of their daughter, Stephanie Laura to Robert Edward Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Miller of Middletown, OH. The bride-to-be is a 1991 graduate of Dallas High School. Ms. Reese is also a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology. She is employed as a Project Assistant at Cooper The future groom is a 1991 graduate of Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan, Old Tappan, NJ. Miller is also a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Admin- istration. He is an editor in the Book Division at F&W Publica- The couple will be united in marriage on July 19, 1997 at the Forty Fort United Methodist Church, Forty Fort. The Garden Club Federation of Pennsylvania at its State Conven- tion announced that the Back Mountain Garden Bloomers Club of Dallas, staging the NEPA Flower Show for the past four years, was a Standard Flower Show State and National Award winner. The Garden Club,was awarded the Green and Gold Superior Flower Show Award Ribbon (a first place award in the State) and the Na- tional Council of State Garden Clubs Flower Show Achievement Award. “The Purple Rosette” (a first place National Award). The awards were presented for the 1996 Northeast Pennsylvania Flower Show, “Celebrate the Gar- den”, which was held at the King- ston Armory last April. This show was judged and evaluated by ac- credited federation judges. The show must score 95 points or above and win the State Award before an application is made to the National Council of State Gar- den Clubs, Inc. for the National Award. Each state federation may award up to four Green and Gold Rosettes, and the National Coun- cil may award to those four win- ners a Purple Rossette. The cat- egories are based on club mem- bership size. The Bloomers’ awards were merited for a club whose membership size is 21-49. The Bloomers also won the Penn- sylvania Staging Award and the Flower Show Schedule Award. The 1997 Northeast Pennsyl- vania Flower Show “Moments in Time”, will be held at The 109th Field Artillery Armory located at 280 Market Street in Kingston. Show hours are Friday and Sat- urday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. and Sun- day, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Admission is $6 for adults and $3 for children under 12. Horticultural entries from the public will be accepted at the main entrance of the Armory. To obtain an exhibitor’s sched- ule with rules and awards, call Quest Consulting Group at 717- 283-6959. The 1997 Northeast Pennsyl- vania Flower Show is a Standard Flower Show presented by the Back Mountain Bloomers Garden Club and sponsored by the North- east Pennsylvania Philharmonic. Send The Dallas Post to a friend. It makes a great gift. Call 675-5211 for information. 17 MARLA KARALUNAS Marla Karalunas becomes area rep for Welcome Wagon Marla Karalunas has completed training as a Welcome Wagon Rep- resentative and will soon be greet- ing families moving into the Back Mountain with her trademark Welcome Wagon basket filled with civic and cultural information as well as free gifts and special offers from local businesses and profes- sionals. The announcement was made by Susan Gross, Welcome Wagon International, Inc.'s national vice president of sales. Of the ap- pointment, Ms. Gross said, “Our representatives all feel that be- coming part of the Welcome Wagon family means sharing in a great American tradition. We are proud to have another civic-minded per- son on board making America's new movers feel at home in their new communities.” Welcome Wagon International is the largest greeting service and the only whose representatives make home visits. Since its found- ing 67 years ago, Welcome Wagon has greeted more than 50 million new movers, new parents, newly engaged couples and new U.S. citizens. Visits can be requested by callin g 675-0298 or through Wel- come Wagon’s toll-free number (800) 77-WELCOME. Founded in Memphis, Tenneseee in 1928, the company derived its famous name from the Conestoga wagons of frontier days. Back then, early townspeople sent wagons filled with supplies to passing wagon trains as a mes- sage of greeting and with the hope of enticing the travelers to remain in the community. Back [ Hozempa is honored for service The Catherine McAuley Center hosted its annual spring volun- teer appreciation luncheon in Mercy’s Medical Arts Building, Wilkes-Barre. The luncheon was sponsored by the Mission Depart- ment of the Mercy Health System and catered by Metz & Associates. Volunteers from both Luzerne and Lackawanna counties attended the affair. This year the Center honored Mrs. Florence Hozempa for her dedicated years of service. © Mrs. Hozempa has supported the Center's mission to shelter home- less women and children since 1992 when she became the “gen- eral chairperson” of Mothers on a chairperson of the Elementary Language Arts Curriculum Com- ‘mittee and in 1988 was named chairperson of the Language Arts Textbook Selection Committee. She was named a Fellow for a national writing project at the Uni- versity of California at Berkeley in 1988. In 1991 she was selected to a three-year term with the Na- tional Confer- ence of Teachers of English. Hozempa has been married for the past 45 years to Dr. Standley Hozempa, a prominent op- tometrist in the Wyoming Valley. She has two daughters, Lisa and Ann and four grandchil- dren. Mission, 8 fm Mrs. Hozempa and St. Mes. raising commit- ; Hozempa and tee that supports Therese Marques, director her husband re- the Center's pro- of McAuley Center side in grams. Shavertown. Hozempa is a graduate of Col- lege Misericordia where she re- ceived her Bachelor's Degree. She received her Masters Degree from Wilkes College and also attained her reading specialist certifica- tion from Lehigh University. She retired in June 1992 from Wyoming Valley West where she served as a Chapter 1 Reading Specialist since 1972. Prior to that she taught in elementary schools in Pennsylva- nia, New Jersey and Illinois. In 1986, Hozempa was named Not only was Hozempa a volun- teer for the Catherine McAuley Center, she was active with Mead- ows Nursing Center, Meals on Wheels, and currently Prison Min- istry. During her years with the Catherine McAuley Center," Hozempa helped coordinate ma- jor fund raising walks, special appeals and special events. Mrs. Hozempa is pictured with Sr. Therese Marques, Executive Director of the Catherine McAuley Center. Senior Citizen Centers spon- sored by the Luzerne/Wyoming Counties Bureau for the Aging offer hot noon meals Monday through Friday to people 60 years of age or older. Donations from participants are gratefully ac- cepted and needed in order to expand this program. The following is the menu for the week of May 12. All menus include margarine, milk and cof- fee. MONDAY - Polish Day - Stuffed cabbage rolls w/tomato sauce, whipped potatoes, green beans, V8, rice pudding, whole wheat bread. TUESDAY - Liver and onions, whipped potatoes, wax beans, whole wheat bread Oreo cookies. WEDNESDAY - Bake ham w/ pineapple, au gratin potatoes, broccoli w/lemon butter, rye bread, fruited gelatin. THURSDAY - Chopped steak w/gravy, baked potato, parslied carrots, white bread, banana. FRIDAY - Baked fish au gratin, risi bisi, stewed tomatoes, dinner roll, birthday cake. Troops learn the law Recently the Boy Scout Troops of the Back Mountain held the first annual Law Awareness Days in conjunction with Magistrate Tupper’s office. The event was held over the course of a month to allow the boys time to prepare their cases. Magistrate Tupper prepared a fictional DUI ‘case in which the boys had to research the details of the law and how to defend and prosecute the case. Several boys were named to the jury while others were chosen to be lawyers, the defendant and the arresting officers. Bursting with The Dallas Post a hometown paper you can feel good about Some of the public officials who helped the boys prepare for the event were the Luzerne County District Attorney’s office, Wayman Myers of Dallas Township Police Department and of course Magistrate Tupper. Pictured above, from left are, James Yozwiak, from Troop 693, Harveys Lake, Judge for the Day; Magistrate Tupper and Dave Neiman, from Troop 281, Dallas, bailiff for the day. Movniain news ~ or ® | ). - | -»l al wf)
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