8 The Dallas Post Dallas, PA Wednesday, March 25, 1998 Insurance (continued from page 1) fessional employees may choose either plan and service personnel only have the option of First Prior- ity. She said the district cur- rently has no plans to join the Dallas School District and a num- ber of other districts in a pro- posed trust created to bring down the rates of all districts involved. Rose Ragnacci of the Lake- - Lehman Education Association did not respond to a request from The Dallas Post for comment. The Dallas School District spends approximately $1 million for 190 full-time employees and 21 retirees. The district will spend 8831,000 on Blue Cross/Blue Shield coverage and $195,000 for First Priority coverage, not includ- ing dental or retirees. ~The monthly rate for Blue Cross/Blue Shield without den- tal is $448.01 for a family and $163.62 for a single person. First Priority costs $386.17 for a family and $136.89 for single coverage. What Health Insurance Costs Vision $11,065 Dental All HMQ’s cover prescriptions. single with no dental monthly plan. LAKE-LEHMAN First Priority 19 family 10 single $111,141 yearly BC/BS 126 family ~~ 34 single $978,651 yearly Total $1,089,792 Retirees 16 family 6 single $142,766 yearly all under BC with dental and vision Dental/vision included into total-could not break down. $164,906 annually 126 families have dental/vision. 78 singles have dental/vision. Blue Cross does not have a specific prescription plan. DALLAS First Priority 7 single - 41 family - $195,000 yearly w/o dental (Dallas has no vision ; coverage) BC/BC 30 single 112 family $870,000 BC/BS would cost $448 for family with no dental and $164 for No specific prescription plan on BC—HM®O’s have prescription (Included in total above) Total $1,065,000 Harveys Lake (continued from page 1) Road begins, in Lehman Town- ship, theroad is called Boyle Road. “I don’t want the problem of changing things over” said Ber- nard Ferdo. “It has been called Briarcrest Road for over 70 years,” argued Robert Sutherland. “I can’t see why it has to be changed now,” said Ada Berdy. Wayne Smith added that he spoke to an attorney who told him that road name changes need to be done in court. “Recent published accounts had suggested that Joseph Boyle, a previous mayor of Harveys Lake, had influenced the decision to rename, but Boyle, supported by several friends and relatives, spoke to discount that accusa- tion. “I had nothing to do with renaming that road,” said Boyle. “Ithought that it was an attack on all elected officials.” After a brief break, the council returned with a surprise vote to retain Briarcrest Road as the name. Council members Francis Kopko, William Wilson, George Andrews, Dennis Hogan and Ed- ward Kelly voted to pass the mo- tion. Betty Jane West and council president Martin Noon voted against the measure. “You're confusing the issue for emergency vehicles,” Noon said. “I think the motion is os us backward.” Ex-mayor Boyle appeared 1 un- moved by the concluding vote on the matter, although several resi- dents of Briarcrest Road expressed their relief at the reinstatement of their road’s name. “Thank you very much for keeping it Briarcrest * Road,” said Sutherland. Offset mulls new warehouse, ‘adds printing capacity here Offset Paperback is not plan- ning to move any of its facilities from the Back Mountain, but is considering an expanded ware- house in the Hanover Industrial Park. : The Luzerne County commis- sioners have offered a $200,000 grant to the Greater Wilkes-Barre Industrial Fund to be used to extend a railroad’ spur to the Hanover property. The commis- sioners also voted to give Offset tax breaks valued at about 8750,000 over nine years if the company builds the distribution facility, which could replace a ° building in Laflin. Joseph Makarewioz, Offset ex- ecutive Wice president, said the company had added recently manufacturing capacity at its Dallas printing facility, because an existing client had give it more business. The new building, if built, will be used only for ware- housing and distribution, he said. . John Matusek, director of the Luzerne County Community De- velopment Office, said if built, the new facility could add 100 jobs: But Makarewicz said Offset has made no commitment to the project at this time. By Ronald Bartizek : Irene Brislin, Lakeside Drive, spoke on the problems she has witnessed regarding overflowing sewer lines. In January, Brislin said, she saw “feminine hygiene products come out” and flow di- rectly toward the lake. “This is totally unacceptable,” Brislin ar- gued. Mayor Boice commented that the problem is being worked on, but it is not yet resolved. Brislin countered that the work may be “pouring good into bad” because the same firm has been working on the sewers since 1993. In other matters, the council announced the hiring of Kimberly Sims as a crossing guard, and also announced June 6 as the date of the spring cleanup. The next council meeting will be April 21, at 7:30 p.m. Low-cost rabies clinic to be held April 19 Valley Cat Rescue, in conjunc- tion with Pittston Animal Hospi- tal, will sponsor a Low- Cost Ra- bies Clinic for cats and degs on Sun., April 19 from noon to 4 p.m. The clinic will be held at Balester Optical Company at 388 North River Street in Wilkes-Barre. Plenty of free off-street parking is available. No appointment is necessary. Rabies shots will cost $5 per ani- mal, and will be administered by Dr. I.H. Kathio of Pittston Animal Hospital. 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Luzerne County is very interested.” Conyngham believes the Luzerne County tax system is in- equitable and that reliance on property taxes should be reevalu- GFWC to hold Community night The GFWC Harveys Lake will be holding their annual Commu- nity Night, April 2 at 8 p.m. at the Lake-Noxen Elementary School, Harveys Lake. The public is cordially invited to attend along with Community Leaders to honor Lake-Lehman High School's Top 10 students of this year’s Senior Class. Chairmen of the event are: Suzanne DePrimo, Community Night Chairman and JoAnna Jones, Education Chairman. ated. “Better ways to raise rev- enues should be found. It should be less measurable on ownership of real estate,” he said. A third issue is his approach to employment. Conyngham said because the district surrounds an old developed area, it makes sense to take a more regional ap- proach to employment, rather than only focusing on the district. The 117th District encom- passes a large area that includes both suburban and rural munici- palities. The district forms a huge circle around the Wyoming Val- ley. It goes from Franklin Town- ship to Salem Township, curves around to Dorrance, Rice, Bear Creek and part of Plains. “] cannot just ask what I can do for the district, but what I can do for the district and region. = It makes sense to bring jobs to a place where industry is already built. Since the district surrounds the Valley, where all the jobs are, we should concentrate on that area and not disrupt the rural areas,” he said. “My intention is to work closely with other state representatives from the region to bring better jobs to the region that would benefit everybody.” Conyngham said he is excited about the possibility of the job, but that it is new territory. “De- ciding to do this is like stepping off into the air and hoping there's something there to support me,” he said, with a laugh. He said there have been two standard re-. sponses to his running for state representative, “Hey, that's great,” and “What, are you nuts?” He knows he needs to get more familiar with the rest of the dis- trict. “I'm well-known in the Back Mountain and that’s not the case in the rest of the district. I need to become much more familiar with that area.” Books (continued from page 1) less is more. We want our stu- dents interacting, using teamwork and doing hands-on learning. A lot of the texts are general. 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