SHER ICS Lani e Tl Lx LR Sea, Se : aie RRS SR BE PR Pel EE Sede Ls a Ey kL Dallas, Pennsylvania The Back Mountain's Newspaper Since 1889 January 3 to January 9, 2002 United We Stand Vol. 13. No. 1 COMMUNITY Dallas UMC group puts on a holi- day show. Pg 9. SCHOOL toys for tots. Pg 8. Wyecallis students collect SPORTS Lake-Lehman girls crush Lack- awanna Trail. Pg 7. 50 Cents It was certainly a year to re- member, although there are plen- ty of things we’d prefer didn’t oc- cur. Here's a brief review of 2001 in the Back Mountain, with apolo- gies for anything important left out. KX, January 3: TRUCKSVILLE - V olunteers at the Back Moun- tain Food Bank thanked donors who filled its shelves just in time for the holidays. Three large ve- hicles were needed to transport the food from donation sites to the storage area. DALLAS - Dallas students were learning math with a new “Everyday Math.” Mrs. Bonnie Palmatier's first grade class at Wycallis Elemen- tary enthusiastically = demon- strated the system. SPORTS - Danielle Kern scored 16 points as the Lake- Lehman girls pounded Lack- awanna Trail 51-38. January 10: DALLAS - The former Free Methodist Church campground in Dallas was on 3 a market. The 34 acre proper- ty dotted with 37 cabins and other outbuildings was priced at $425,000. JACKSON TWP. - Jackson Township supervisor Michael Lando, who had been absent from meetings several times due to work-related travel, handed in his resignation. HARVEYS LAKE - A $157,000 Growing Greener grant was an- nounced that would be used to repair the road and drainage in the Hemlock Gardens develop- ment. Millie Monk had led a campaign to have repairs made. January 17: KINGSTON TWP. - After drawn-out hearings, the township planning commission recommended that Nextel Part- ners be denied a conditional use application for a cellular phone tower near the Woodridge devel- opment. DALLAS - Melissa Valeski, riding “Collective Soul,” placed 5th out of 29 entries in her class at the prestigious Devon Horse Show in Devon, PA. SPORTS - Charlie Kern was inducted into the Lake-Lehman Basketball Hall of Fame. The Black Knights’ first 1,000 point January 17: Zack Casterline was pulled by “sled dogs” during the “Iditarod” race at Lake-Noxen Elementary School. The dogs, from left; Ethan Shaw, Michael Snyder and Autumn Galka. scorer, Kern averaged 26.7 points per game in his senior year. He also was the pitcher for the 1962 Back Mountain Little League team that won the state championship. January 24: REGION - Four Wyoming Seminary students who play on the hockey team re- Holiday house 4 5 Ai) fd * » fie aae LER EY EY woofs ax A : * * - p LJ] : * L Ld * - Ld Ld » . » » ing counted their experiences during a trip to the Czech Republic. Chris . Eckman, Erik Kowalek, Matt Katyl and Chris Katyl found the game less violent, but the fans more enthusiastic. SPORTS - Local football nota- bles named their picks for the Super Bowl. Greg Manusky, te | EE EL EET TL LTTE PT LTT Crp Sables 1984 Dallas High graduate and NFL veteran, picked the Balti- more Ravens, as did Bob Lan- gan, Lake-Lehman head coach. Dallas coach Ted Jackson, ath- letic director Jack Wolensky and former Lehman coach Rich Gor- gone liked the New York Giants. The rest was history. HARVEYS LAKE - Richard Haas was sworn in as the newest member of borough council, replacing Daniel Han- son, who had resigned. January 31: KINGSTON TWP - The planning commission vot- ed unanimously to approve a preliminary development plan forr a new Sheetz' gas station/convenience store, de- spite complaints from neighbors and others opposed to overdevel- opment. DALLAS - A trio of women cel- ebrated 95th birthdays at the Meadows Manor. Minerva Sauers, Irene Mappes and Elda Shaver talked about the changes they had seen since the early years of the century. SPORTS - Shannon Thomas led a balanced scoring attack as * on A $ J A LJ LPL] 5% LE; #5 * J es¥e eo pi * & ¥ $e ed a) » La da PTTL ER PY aad) »3 vy (2 WY # POST PHOTO/RON BARTIZEK George and Tina Monaghan's home at 15 Circle Drive is the first place winner in the Kingston Township holiday decorating contest. This frame shows only the main focus of their extensive effort; more decorations, including a manger scene, fill the vest of their lot. George Mon achan said it took about four days to put up the lights and statues, starting just after Thanksgiving. While they've been decorating for all of the 13 vears they've lived in the house, “it keeps gettihg bigger and bigger,” he said. It surely delights their daughters, Alvssa and Kelly. BY KENNETH P. VOGEL pecial to The Dallas Post U. S. Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer John P. Lemmond, son of State Sen. Charles D. Lemmond Jr., is likely spending the holi- days near the front lines of Op- eration Swift Freedom in Afghanistan, where he is con- structing bases, roads, prisons, "airfields and just about anything else required by the armed forces. The middle son of three sons (Lemmond and his wife Barbara also have a daughter), John Lemmond enlisted in the Navy “the day after he graduated from West Side Vo-Tech,” his dad Co The 38-year-old, who has two children of his own, is not al- lowed to disclose his precise whereabouts so his family anx- lously awaits news from desert battlefields half a world away. “Everybody's nervous,” Lem- mond said, adding that he and Barbara rely mostly on sporadic e-mails, sent on the rare occa- sions John has a free moment. They first learned John was in Afghanistan late last month. A family friend spotted a picture taken by an Associated Press photographer in southern Afghanistan showing a group of soldiers standing outside the wall of a barracks on which crude spray-painted letters spelled out “Seabees 133," John Lemmond'’s battalion. Sen. Lemmond, R-Dallas, im- mediately spotted his son in the picture. As a 20-year member of the Seabees, formally called Naval Mobile Construction Battalion, John Lemmond has: “Afghanistan continues to grow colder and the work seems never-ending.” John Lemmond In an e-mail home * built mountain roads in Crete e expanded a base on the tiny Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia, which was used for refu- eling jets mounting strikes against Iraqi forces during Oper- ation Desert Storm ¢ served a tour of duty at Camp David, the U.S. presidential re- treat in Maryland, where he had his picture taken with then- President Bill Clinton. Though Sen. Lemmond keeps a copy of the picture in his of- fice, the 17-year Republican lawmaker joked “I don't show my Republicans friends that.” John Lemmond’s battalion, based in Gulfport, Miss., had been deployed to Guam, but the Biloxi (Miss.) Sun Herald report- ed that the Gulfport Seabees were transferred Nov. 29 to Afghanistan. Lemmond’'s unit was initially charged with expanding a make- shift base near the last Taliban stronghold in Kandahar, the Sun Herald reported. Two weeks later, after the fall of the Taliban, the Lemmonds got an e-mail saying John had moved out of Kandahar to else- where in Afghanistan. “Afghanistan continues to grow colder and the work seems Somewhere in Afghanistan, John Lemmond is hard at work never-ending,” he wrote. Lemmond said his son has been in dangerous situations be- fore. “I'm confident he'll be okay,” Lemmond said, adding that his son will have a stocking full of treats waiting for him when he returns. Lemmond, 72, served inthe U.S. Army of Occupation from 1946 to 1947, first in Italy then in international Trieste. He went on to get degrees from two Ivy League schools and serve as a judge. “I'm a big supporter of military service. For some kids, it's a su- perb place to continue their edu- cation, mature, and get the op- portunity for some good job training,” said Lemmond, a member of the Senate Military and Veterans Affairs. Kenneth P. Vogel is Harrisburg reporter for the Times Leader. «2001: A Back Mountain year in words and pictures the Dallas girls basketball team avenged an early-season loss to Lehman. February 7: DALLAS - The de- sign of the Gerald J. Wycallis El- ementary School was noted for design excellence in the 2000 Architectural Portfolio. It was one of only eight buildings to re- ceive recognition. SHAVERTOWN - Naresh Shah M.D. watched in horror at the devastation caused by an earth- quake that was centered near his native home in India. He had visited only three weeks before. SPORTS - Tim Crossin reached the 1,500 point mile- stone for his basketball career at Gate of Heaven School. February 14: IDETOWN - Friends organized a benefit con- , cert for Zachary and Kaleb Tay- lor, twin boys who were born with cystic fibrosis. DALLAS - Renovation§ to the Dallas Middle School were ex- pected to take until 2003 and cost $18.1 million, said project leaders. Renovations include ad- dition of a swimming pool. Continued on page 3 January 31: Alyson Bevan tried to coax her mount into action during the annual donkey basket- ball game at Lake-Lehman. Crossword.............s.eivese 10 EQHOraIS.........o. viva igrvnes 6 ObItURTFIES.......cccvitis oriss A SONODL.......ciivinvninnseessviiiss 11 SDOMS.......cieonnismiiurive 9-10 CALL 675-5211 FOR HOME DELIVERY, NEWS OR ADVERTISING E-mail: dallaspost@leader.net The Dallas Post 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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