WAL WCRI Vol. 109 No. 7 Dallas, Pennsylvania 50¢ Sis sAIN CRE: [=NeiollV\VISINI FRI SSHel = THE DAY BARC WAN (= =o 1, AVN RST 0] 5 [0] BR BI EST | 21 [03 BS . February 18 thru February 24, 1998 Cheering "® squad adds ve @ 9 @9 Go & » » Foreign scam letters turn up in Back Mountain mailboxes anew dimension By JESSICA APPOLO Post Staff LEHMAN - The Lake-Lehman cheerleading squad is leaping to new heights with the addition of two not-so-typical cheerleaders named Eric Pimm and Matt ‘Hinton. “Although it’s rare here in the North to see boys on the cheerleading squad, it’s very com- mon and popular in the South,” said Lehman cheerleading coach Sandy Dobrowolski. A member of the Universal Cheerleading Asso- ciation, Dobrowolski just returned from observing the National High School Championship competi- tion held in Orlando, Florida. Until now the Lehman squad, like nearly all high school squads in our area, was limited to certain stunts for lack of strength and members. On an all-girl cheerleading squad, most stunts require two girls, a spotter and a flyer. A co-ed cheerleadjng squad allows the team to attempt more dfficult and elaborate stunts. C&- ed stunts use fewer members to base a mount, which ‘allows for more mounts and a more difficult routine. Team members have been very supportive and enthusiastic about Eric and Matt joining the squad, but everyone had some adjust- ments to make. “It was awkward at first touching the girls, having to, lift them,” Eric, now in his second season cheerleading, says. In turn, the girls had to adjust to having less privacy with a male around at practices and busrides, this year two of them since Hinton, a freshman, joined the Lehman cheerleaders. Both Matt and Eric had to try Cheers! POST PHOTO/CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK Matt Hinton, foreground, and Eric Pimm held Kelly Cave up during a break in the Dallas-Lehman basketball game last week. The boys have added new mounts to the Black Knight cheerleading routine. out for the team just as the girls do, with the only restriction for boys being dancing. Eric and Matt were required to learn sev- eral cheers, chants, routines and jumps like toe touches. Both boys are anxious to learn more gymnastics. Eric is working on back flips and back tucks. Team members say he has no fear and learns very fagt because he’s not afraid to try anything. Eric is planning to attend a cheerleading camp this summer to improve stunt work and if pos- sible he'll also attend a gymnas- See CHEERING, pg 8 Pay dispute halts discipline program Union insists on full-time pay, benefits By KYLIE SHAFFERKOETTER Post Staff DALLAS - An in-school sus- pension program has been can- celled by the Dallas administra- tion after the district and Dallas Education Association (DEA) could not agree on how to pay the supervisor of the students. The district hired a PA certified teacher at S60 a day with no benefits. The DEA’s contention was that the district should pay the “professional employee” a “pro- fessional salary.” Gil Griffiths, superintendent, said after discussing the issue with Bill Wagner, DEA president, the union presented a proposed memorandum of understanding that the administration could not accept. Wagner said the memorandum told the board of directors the union would file a grievance if they did not pay the supervisor a “It would've been beneficial Jor students and teachers in both the middle and high schools.” Dr. Gil Griffiths Dallas superintendent teacher's salary by September. “We were going to meet them half way. We said they could keep paying him $60 a day for the rest of the year. But, come Septem- ber, they should pay him a profes- sional salary. They didn’t want to do that,” said Wagner. He estimated that a professional salary would be around $25,000 per year, plus benefits. Wagner said the teacher was working 40 hours per week. See SUSPENSION, pg 8 Lake-Lehman wiring schools to cyberspace By KYLIE SHAFFERKOETTER Post Staff LEHMAN - Lake-Lehman School District's next step in Gov. Tom Ridge’s Link-to-Learn pro- gram is to get Lehman-Jackson Elementary on-line to the Internet. The three-year program pro- vides Lake-Lehman with $44,000 a year, to upgrade computers and provide related teacher training. The district does not have tomatch the non-competitive grant. Ridge visited the school last January to personally present the first of three checks. The money is part of $121 million awarded to 297 public school districts state- wide. “The program is doing very well,” said Roseanne Ragnacci, technology coordinator for Lake- Lehman High School. She said the school networked a computer lab with internet access within the high school last year. “This year we plan to give Leh- man-Jackson its own access. We will run fiber optic lines from the See LAKE-LEHMAN, pg 8 Kingston Township offices will move to the new municipal building Feb. 23. Township offices, police move to new digs next week By KYLIE SHAFFERKOETTER Post Staff KINGSTON TWP. - Township administrators and police will op- erate out of the new municipal building beginning Monday, Feb. 23. The new $7.5 million building at 180 E. Center St. will house the administration offices, zoning of- ficer and tax collector in the upper level. The police department will occupy the lower level. : All meetings of the Board of Supervisors and commissions will take place at the new building. Telephone numbers remain the same: Administration Office, 696- 3809; Police, 696-1175; Fax, 696- 3411. The township has entered into a lease agreement with the Back Mountain Regional Land Trust for office space at the present municipal building at 11 Carverton Rd. Jeff Box, township See KINGSTON TWP., pg 8 Businesses in the Back Moun- tain have become the target of a scam attempt that has surfaced over the past few weeks in other areas of the nation. Name here, of the Dallas Post Office, said dozens of letters post- marked in Lagos, Nigeria had re- cently arrived, each addressed in neat handwriting to a local busi- ness. Inside the brown envelope, recipients found a typewritten let- ter from a Dr. Duro Akosa, claim- ing to be a management consult- ant in the Directorate of Petro- leum Resources (DPR). The letter explains that a se- ries of contracts executed by a “Consortium of Multinationals” has been fully paid for, but the contracts were deliberately un- derstated by $27,350,000 U.S., and that money is available to transfer to the recipient's bank account “for subsequent disburse- ment.” The business accepting this offer will be paid 25 percent of the sum, plus 5 percent for inci- dental expenses. The writer requests confidenti- ality, claiming that he has spent 20 years in the civil service of Nigeria and “am very much averse to having, my image and career dented.” The letter includes telephone and fax numbers in Lagos, and asks that the recipient reply im- mediately, preferably by fax, one assumes with a bank account number. by Ronald Bartizek Letters like this one have been turning up in business mail in the Back Mountain, and around the nation. They contain a scam that asks for the business's bank account numbers. 14 Pages, 2 Sections Calendar................... 14 Classilied............. 12-13 Crossword.s...........u 14 Editorials. .......i...ciis 4 Obituaries............l... 12 Schooli i... ivi, 11 Sports... hn 9-10 CALL 675-5211 FOR HOME DELIVERY, NEWS OR ADVERTISING The Dallas Post MAILING LABEL- Please enclose this label with any address changes, and mail to The Dallas Post, P.O. Box 366, Dallas PA 18612-0366
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