The Dallas Post a] = mA VA EA [C THE (SOL, [\VISHUBEI=SH®] i Bo | = 5 VAY WARSI AN = = | VAN BS 0 2 [OO ER BI ECH Bl 21 (OF BS) ; June 11 thru June 17, 1997 Vol. 108 No. 24 Dallas, Pennsylvania 50¢ From Wales fo Lehman, with antiques By KYLIE SHAFFERKOETTER Post Staff LEHMAN - Everything has a story. That's what Glyndwr Bessant says about an- tiques. He should know, he and his wife, Mary, have been collecting them for almost 30 years. Mr. Bessant, who is originally from Wales and an avid lover of antique clocks, tells a particular ‘diamond in the rough’ story that pin- points the thrill of discover- ing antiques. He would often visit a Welsh dealer in hopes of finding a grandfather’s clock. Each time he came to see the dealer, he was always out of luck. Finally, one day, Mr. Bessant walked into the shop and saw the long sought grandfather’s clock. Although it was black with grime, he knew he would buy it right then and there. But, he played it cool and pretended not to notice. (If you're too excited about something, the price seems to rise for the occasion.) When he asked his usual question, the dealer in- formed him about the clock he had just passed. Mr. Bessant bought it on the spot and with a little elbow grease and polish, turned it into a majestic piece of functional art that now stands dutifully in one room of The Barn, their antique shop in Lehman. “Whenever I would see that man, he would always say, ‘I sold that clock for too ",” said Mr. Bessant cheap’, See THE BARN, pg 7 Amish roofers repaired and repainted the metal roof on The Barn in Lehman. Under new ownership, the shop continues to sell antiques. POST PHOTO/CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK ‘No. 1 Trucker Buddy' visits his Lake-Noxen penpals By CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK Post Staff HARVEYS LAKE - Standing tall and rigid in the front of the classroom, Wayne Frederici stoops uncomfortably and strains to hear the small voices, the some- times “silly” questions that come from the first graders at Lake- Noxen Elementary School. Wayne is more comfortable roll- ing down the interstate at all hours of the day and night, hauling cheese to Maine for instance, or sometimes even hauling candy, he explains to the delight of these children. But today he has come for a special visit to Lake Noxen Elementary School. Frederici, a long distance truck driver for Transtar, a hauling com- pany in Wisconsin, is part of a unique program set up by the company in conjunction with schools. The intent is to familiar- ize children with the transporta- tion industry while providing driv- ers a back-home connection while they are on the road. The program also promotes reading and writing in the schools. Deanna Dragon Lake-Noxen first grader Wayne writes and sends the chil- dren postcards from each state that he passes through. He tells the children what he is carrying in his truck, talks about the road and the weather. The postcards came from New York, Ohio, Florida., Virginia, and the Carolinas, says first grade teacher Mary Foltz. “How many times has your truck broken down?” asks Matthew Lucarino. “Have you ever had an accident and do you ever run out of gas?” Wayne assures the audience that breakdowns rarely occur since the trucks are never more than two years old and are in excellent repair. And he hasn't run out of gas since he was a very young man. Besides the truck is See TRUCKER, pg 7 Commonwealth at 100 Employees enjoyed the challenge of keeping up with technology By KYLIE SHAFFERKOETTER Post Staff DALLAS - It’s breathtaking to think that in just 100 years technology has come so far. As Commonwealth Tele- phone marks its centennial year, some past employees took a look back and shed light on just how much has changed. ‘When Betty Hutchenson of Dallas started working as an operator in 1938, a streetcar ran where Rt. 309 is today and people generated their own en- ergy toreach the operator with a hand crank on the side of rectangular wooden box phone of the time. “Any- thing that you do today on your phone was all done manually then,” explained Hutchenson, whoretired 11 years ago. “The operator used to do everything for you.” It’s hard for us now to imagine a party line, in which many families were on the same line. “You might have 13 or 14 people on one line,” said Hutchenson. “Today there might be a phone in every room. But, back then there might be one phone on a street. Back then it was a luxury, now it's a necessity.” Commonwealth was one of the first phone companies to become 100 per- cent digital. But long before that happened the operator had quite a busy job that required patience. Hutchenson likens connecting a long distance call to figuring out a road map. If someone wanted to make a call from Dallas to Chicago, the opera- tor would have to connect with many switchboards along the way in order to get to the destination. “Sometimes lines were busy and it took a lot of See COMMONWEALTH, pg 8 Placin Wh calls, in the Dallas "toll center." Missionary thanks | local church for support inAfrica By KYLIE SHAFFERKOETTER Post Staff SHAVERTOWN - Many of us wish we could help end the wars in the world. We see images on our television sets of young men shooting and dying and refugee children left hungry and lost. Some people may feel they couldn’t possibly do anything to help others so far away, especially when their countries are in such political unrest. Or maybe the images cease to seem real any- more with the line between trag- edy and entertainment being blurred on the small screen in recent years. One unique woman proves that we can make a difference and stands as proof that the images Teen works way to stint at Tanglewood Institute By JENNIFER JUDGE Post Correspondent SHAVERTOWN - Brianna Win- ters is just $600 away from reach- ing her goal to raise $3,600 to attend Boston University's Tanglewood Institute. Tanglewood Institute is a six week summer music camp held in Lenox, Massachusetts. The camp, which is open to students age 13-18, begins June 21. Winters, 17, who lives in Shavertown with her mother, bubbles with excitement as she describes the camp. Along with attending classes and re- hearsals, she will attend master classes, which are “small groups of people taught by a wonderful By KYLIE SHAFFERKOETTER Post Staff DALLAS - Paul Degillio of Quad Three Group, Inc. presented the _ Dallas School Board with a pre- liminary floor plan of the new Gerald Wycallis Elementary School at its regular meeting on June 9. The proposed plan is designed with room for expansion and is subject to change. “We're starting to work with the plan now,” said Degillio. An Act 34 public hearing will be held on BRIANNA WINTERS seen on our televisions are very | real. Sister Sponsa Beltran, 72, a: Franciscan sister, has run a clinic . for the poor in Liberia, West Africa | for the past 20 years. Born in" Wilkes-Barre, she graduated with - a nursing degree from College . Misericordia in 1962. By 1970 she found herself working as a See MISSIONARY, pg 2 teacher,” she explained. Students will also have the opportunity to see many well- known musicians play in the vi- cinity during their. stay. “Some-. one performs every nightandalot ! of learning comes out of that.” The re- cent gradu- ate of Wyo- ming Valley West will have the opportunity to have her singing cri- tiqued by peers and by a teacher in a classroom setting. “They work 5 See TANGLEWOOD, pg 8 School board gets floor plan for new elementary school June 30 at 7 p.m. at the adminis- tration building. Everyone will be given a four minute time period to give their opinion of the plan. Design Development Booklets that list every single room, its square footage and use, are now avail- able to the public. The board voted 4-3 to allow Reilly Associates to survey all the underground utilities in the en- tire site. Board members John Litz, James Richardson and Reese See NEW SCHOOL, pg 8 Hats Off! \ to Dallas and Lake-Lehman graduats, and the Top of the Class. 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