Vol. 112. No. # Dallas, Pennsylvania SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF THE DALLAS & LAKE-LEHMAN SCHOOL DISTRICTS 50 Cents April 4 to April 10, 2001 1 Four local Girl Scouts are honored with the prestigious Silver Award By HEATHER B. JONES Post Staff SHAVERTOWN - Girl Scouts promise to serve their country and to help people at all times. Four members of Cadette Troop 665 have turned those words into actions. Katie Blanchard, Christine Muscavage, Stephanie Miller and Megan Riley have each earned the highest award a Cadette Girl Scout achieve. Each cadette had to complete four requirements which build skills, explore careers, gain leadership, and make a com- mitment to selfimprovement be- fore they could do a final ser- vice project to earn the award. “I've wanted to be a writer since I was 10 years old, “ said Katie, a sophomore at Dallas High School. “I wanted to put my tallents to use.” So for Katie's Silver Award project, she created a program called the “Young Writers Workshop” and for about six weeks met with Miss Carolyn Cooper's fourth grade class at Dallas Elemen- tary School. Katie said when she first told the students she was there to help them with basic writing and composition, the class was- n't too excited. “At first, they didn't think they'd have any- See GIRL SCOUTS, page 3 Album on page 6. A sprinkle of ® 3 And the stage is set for DHS production April 6 & 7 The director, Mr. Harry McKeown, is very proud of the cast and crew consisting of three seniors, nine juniors and two sophomores. “This is the hardest show we have done so far,” he said. biggest challenge is for our teens to assume the “The stance of their senior citizen characters, and to understand the characters as they say their lines. By SANDY PEOPLES Post Correspondent DALLAS - On April 6 and 7, the stage in the au- ditorium at Dallas High School will be converted & n° the Victorian living room of the old Brewster home in Brooklyn, N.Y. Abby and Martha Brewster, played by Rebekah Burke and Kristen Vodzak, occupy the home with their nephew, Teddy, who is played by Michael Miller. The story is about two charming and innocent ladies who populate their cellar with the remains of socially and religiously “acceptable” roomers, and the antics of their nephew, Teddy, who thinks &“ is Teddy Roosevelt. Burke. child.” POST PHOTO/HEATHER B. JONES eo" Pheresis recruiters, Merlyn Fletcher and Diane Piekanski per- form a very important job in finding platelet donors for the Ameri- can Red Cross’s Pheresis Donation Program. They have come a long way since the beginning of rehearsals. They have worked very hard and every- one is having a good time." Several cast members were asked what the play means to them and how they feel about being a part of it. “I love every minute of it,” said Rebekah “I love working with all of the other people,” Meredith Nagy said. “We get to be with all of our friends, and we look out for one another.” Kristen Vodzak said, “I love to be on stage. It's my nature. I've enjoy it since I was a very small An animated Michael Miller said, “I am having so See ARSENIC, OLD LACE, page 8 (1 Back Mt. blood donors say they enjoy helping others By HEATHER B. JONES Post Staff DALLAS - As Erin Heffron drove past the Meadows Nursing facility last Wednesday after- noon, she saw a sign that alert- ed her to an American Red Cross Blood Drive. She was on her way to work at Girl Scouts take home four silvers POST PHOTO/JIM PHILLIPS Diana Glicini lights the candles for the awards ceremony for the Girl Scouts at the Shavertown United Methodist Church. For more photos, see the Community Photo Collecting cans for kids with cancer 3 Raising funds to help build A Home of Their Own’ BY SANDY PEOPLES Post Correspondent DALLAS - Jared Kukosky, a first grader at Gate of Heaven School in Dallas is collecting aluminum cans to help build a “Home of Their Own” at Hershey Medical Center. It will be a house where par- ents and children can stay to- gether in a sterile environment while the children are recover- ing from bone marrow trans- plants to fight childhood cancer. The cans will be collected by Jared and his dad, Tom, on Sat., April 7 at 10 a.m. at the Gate of Heaven School parking lot on Machell Avenue in Dallas. They will" also accept checks payable to the “Libby Schomas Fund.” This project is a memorial to Libby who died of cancer at the tender age of only 16 months. Her parents, Blake and Mona Schomas, have initiated this project as an outlet for their What: Fund- grief. raiser in honor Little of Li'l Libby Libby had Schomas a profound : affect’ "on When. Sat, everyone April 7, I0a.m. who met | Where: Gateof her, and | Heaven School they appre- ciate all the help they are getting from friends and people they don’t even know. Tom Kukosky met Libby’s fa- ther, Blake, at work in 1994. There was much joy when Libby was born, but that joy soon See FUNDRAISER, page 8 Breathing new life into Dallas Rotary Club [1 Rotarian Karen Martin says the club is looking for a good men and women By HEATHER B. JONES Post Staff DALLAS - Two years ago the last thing Karen Martin wanted was to be a Rotarian. The Rotary was not her idea of a goed time, but with some arm twisting she became Dallas Ro- tary Club’s third female mem- ber. (Rotarians run in her hus- bands family with her father-in- law, Spencer Martin, a 41 year member and her husband, Eric ‘arsenic,’ a touch of ‘old lace’ From left, seated; Rebekah Burke and Kristen Vodzak. Standing; Michael Miller and Meredith Nagy. Giving is ‘the right thing to do’ the Baseball Academy in Kingston and decided she had time to spare to make a differ- ence by donating blood. “It’s the right thing to do and it helps other people,” she said. Heffron has donated a few times in the past, but doesn’t consider her- self a regular donor like Joan Luksa - who donates about three times a year. As a regular donor, Luksa said it was the card she received in the mail from the American Red Cross that had brought her out to give blood. “The first time I gave, I was 17 and in college,” Luksa said. She's been givirig POST PHOTO/SANDY PEOPLES blood ever since. Diane Piekanski and Merlyn Fletcher, pheresis recruiters for the American Red Cross, were on hand looking for very special donors. “Pheresis donations are| when your donating just your platelets. They are then used for| cancer, leukemia and aplastic| | anemia patients,” Piekanski| said. Cancer patients, who are about 99 percent of pheresis platelets recipients, are given the platelets after chemotherapy as, a body supplement. “Cancer pa-| See DONORS, page 3| . Martin previously a Dallas and Wilkes-Barre Rotarian). In the face of an aging mem- bership Karen said, “Essentially, all the old Rotarians were told ‘it's your responsibility to re- place yourself.” That was when she was recruited. “The mem- bership has dwindled,” she said, “and I think the challenge now is to see Dallas Rotary grow back to a strong membership and have a very strong presence in the Back Mountain.” As it was pointed out to Karen, owner of Spectrum Graphics in Luzerne, “when youre in business, it's good to put back into the community.” So that was another reason Karen and her husband Eric be- came the first husband and wife team to join the Dallas Rotary. 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