8 The Dallas Post Dallas, PA ' Wednesday, December 20, 2000 Glasses (continued from page 1) Cite Soleil, the most impover- ished slum of Port-au-Prince. Disease is rampant in Haiti, particularly AIDS and tuberculo- sis, and medical care is unavail- able to the vast majority of people in the slums because they simply ‘can’t afford it. Fr. Lambert said the number one killer of children is diarrhea, due to the substan- dard water quality. “One of the | aims of the work Fr. Tom does is to educate the people,” Fr. Lam- bert said; teaching them about hygiene, disease prevention and certain living skills can help im- prove their quality of life. - Dr. Kurt Moody, an optometrist with Eye Care Specialists, is one of the parishioners who will be’ volunteering in the free clinic, giv- ing eye exams. “I'm going to be seeing between 60 and 100 pa- tients per day,” he estimates, “be- cause the need is so great.” Gate of Heaven has taken up a ‘collection of used eyeglasses. They ‘can be dropped off in the church - vestibule at any time. The collec- tion will run until the volunteers leave on Jan. 13. Dr. Moody said the. more eyeglasses people do- nate, the better; it doesn’t matter what the prescription is. “The big- ger variety of glasses we can take over to Haiti, the better chances are we can find a prescription that fits,” he said. “Most of these people have nothing. You're dealing with terrible poverty. If we can get them pretty darn close, we'll be glad.” In the meantime Dr. Moody is pro- cessing the glasses already re- ceived by determining their pre- scription and strength. The other members of the par- ish who will be going to Haiti to volunteer are Sister Marilyn Karas, Paulette Zerfoss, Jack Callahan, Kathy Lewis, and Dr. John Tomedi, an MD, who will also be working in the medical clinic. . POST PHOTOS/CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK Helping others at Christmas : Kindergarten students in Carris Snell's class at Lake-Noxen School worked on a project to help other people they don't even know last week. Taking off on the children's story of Franklin's Christmas Gift, they make cards for bus drivers and school staff, decorations for the post office and apple cinnamon ornaments for children and families served by Tender Loving Care/Staff Builders Home Health Agency. Garrity Realty donated the paper for the cards, families of K-3 students donated supplies, and homeroom mothers Mary Lou Kocher and Mary Anne Sallaway, along with TLC/Staff Builders employees Christine Snell and Diane Lavelle volunteered to help the children. In top photo, Carrie Snell was surrounded by students (from left) A.J. King, Patrick OBrien and Ivey Rose Reynolds. Mary Anne Sallaway helped Jacob Nlcosi, (above left), who worked carefully, above right photo. Zoning requests get okay By ELIZABETH SKRAPITS Post staff KINGSTON TWP. - The board of supervisors accepted the plan- ning commission’s recommenda- tion to approve the Pendragon preliminary major subdivision plan at the meeting on Dec. 13. The plan divides the Pendragon site in Trucksville into three lots, one of which Sheetz intends to use fora gas station /convenience store. On aside note, Benjamin Gorey, Kingston Twp. Zoning Officer, wishes it to be known that Sheetz + is not receiving any sort of special - treatment from the township; its applications are being given the same considerations as would any other. The 22 items in need of correction on the preliminary land development application: are in the process of being remedied, and it will not be submitted to the planning commission until later. He said Kingston Twp. is not “over- looking” the items — many of which are minor — butis request- ing the corrections be made be- fore submission, and Sheetz is fully willing to cooperate with the township in every respect. During the meeting, the board accepted public comments on the rezoning of the Marion Sands property at 1525 8th St., which . was to be rezoned from A-1 Agri- cultural to B-2 General Business, - but is going to be rezoned as B-1 Neighborhood Business instead. Jerome Kane has purchased the property, which was parceled off from the main Sands property and contains a farmhouse, with the possible intent of building of- fices on it. Attorney John O’Connor, rep- resenting Dr. Victor Ambruso, who has purchased the remainder of the Sands property, objected to the rezoning of the 1.9 acre parcel on the grounds that the area was primarily residential and agricul- tural, except for Kane’s car deal- ership across the street. “There is ~ no commercial use on 8th St. that this board should consider,” he ' said, adding, “Legally, I think this ” is a classic case of ‘spot zoning. Twp. Solicitor Benjamin Jones III said “The planning commis- sion did consider the issue of ‘spot zoning,” but it was not the case, as the property in question did not form a “wedge or a bulge” into the agricultural area; furthermore, the land across the street was zoned B-1, even though it was not developed as such except for Kane’s dealership. The annual reorganization meeting will be held on Jan. 2; the next regular meeting of the board of supervisors will be on Jan. 10. 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