The Dallas Post Dallas, PA November 8, 2001 ommunit Doing the thing ommunity service meant pulling on work gloves and. rolling up sleeves Sunday, as neighbors pitched in to spruce up a home on Rice Street, Dal- las Borough - the only home 85-year-old Merle Thomas has ever known. Thomas’s grandfather built the 150-year-old house, which still displays evidence of its former grandeur in paneled doors decorated with etched glass and carved wood. “I was born there,” Thomas said, as he surveyed the volunteers who were tearing down a dilapidated shed porch at the rear of the house. They also cut down dead trees and brush and gave the yard a good cleanup. Dallas Mayor Timothy Carroll arranged the cleanup, as a project of his not-for-profit “Mayor's Club.” He also arranged to have electricity to the home turned back on. The volunteers were assisted by R.N. Fitch & Sons and Carroll Construction, which donated the use of a chain- saw, weed whacker and a tractor; Apex Waste Service, which donated a large dumpster. Thomas was pleased. “Well, I think it’s great,” he said of the project. “I give all the credit to Tim Carroll.” POST PHOTOS/RON BARTIZEK The front door of Merle Thomas's home retains the etched glass Tim Carroll, Mayor of Dallas Borough, got the chainsaw and carved wood trim of an earlier day. going. lic Karissa Donahue, left, and Christine Treiber loaded up trash to be ) § tossed in the dumpster.
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