L Dallas, Pennsylvania The Back Mountain's Newspaper Since 1889 January 17 to January 23, 2002 United We Stand it ; : Vol. 113. No. 3 Cas A SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF THE DALLAS & LAKE-LEHMAN SCHOOL DISTRICTS 50 Cents COMMUNITY Sue Hand to open new exhibit Jan. 23 at King’s. Pg 35. SPORTS Dallas swimmers fall to Wyoming Seminary. Pg 9. SCHOOL John Gilligan 1s perfect on SAT verbal. Pg 7. District still unsure of financia position q Lake-Lehman might save $100,000 by bond refinancing, but does it need more? o This Is one work, family, farming and causes By ELIZABETH ANDERSON Post Correspondent KINGSTON TWP. - Marianne Kar- alunas, ‘of Kingston Township, is a very busy woman. As the newest farm director appointed to the Luzerne County Conservation District, she is a community leader, passionate about water conservation and hoping to make other people more aware of wa- tershed issues. She is a farmer, wearing the hats of accountant, business manager, envi- 2 ronmentalist and entrepreneur; to name but a few. On Saturday afternoon, she is play- ing veterinarian, her husband holding a mare's head as she struggles to put the antibiotic ointment into the horse’s infected eye. Horses have very strong eyelids she says. It is getting dark. Sundown comes early in these harsh winter days. “Can you come By ELIZABETH ANDERSON Post Correspondent LEHMAN - By taking advantage of fa- vorable interest rates, the Lake- Lehman school board has the opportu- nity to save the district's taxpayers $100,000 if they strike while the iron is hot, by refinancing bond money. A re- quest from Ray Lowery, of PNC Capital Market, for a meeting with the board and bond counsel to implement the re- financing sparked a debate about whether extra funds should be bor- rowed at the same time. The exchange took place at Tuesday's meeting of the board. over here and hold the flashlight for S$ me? Try not to shine it directly in her eyes,” she asks. Karalunas actually worked for a veterinarian for 10 years. “The only time any- body in farming makes ‘any money is when they quit.” Marianne Karalunas Kingston Twp. She is also a wife, mother, sister and daughter. With her husband, Ray, she shares a love for horses. They have 13 presently. When she can fit it into her schedule, riding her horses is a relaxing pastime. In a good POST PHOTO/ELIZABETH ANDERSON Marianne Karalunas and Rio. The stallion has a strange quirk — he holds water in his mouth after drinking and spits it out at people. year, they grow all the hay, corn and oats for their animals. In a not so good year, like the last dry summer, feed must be bought. She has made a few dollars with bedding plants from her greenhouse, her specialty being geraniums. She designed her own house with the help of an Amish car- penter. He frowned on a luxurious bathroom but she held firm for the rose-colored spa bathtub. In the past, she has been involved with Farm City Day and farm tours, showing urban- ites what life on a farm is like. With her sister, she raises a herd of about 50 beef cattle. Last calving sea- son added 27 more calves to the 402 that have been born on the family farm. This year, 22 of the cows have been bred. Most of her cows go to in- dividuals. Last Memorial Day, she sold cattle to a man who had acquired a piece of property in Mansfield and wanted to try his hand at cattle farm- ing for the first time. “What made me feel really good was he called me to wish me a Merry Christmas and tell me how pleased he was with the ani- mals he had bought,” she says. “He “was very happy.” Her great-grandparents bought the farm when they arrived in the area from Europe. “In the 30s, during the Depression, when my grandparents took the farm over, my grandfather knew a lot of people from down in the town who would come out and help him, work for him. He would give them food, even though he was dirt poor,” she says. Farms were more See BUSY LADY, pg 4 Dallas wins oI5t half “Rosalyn Wentko of Dallas tried to block a pass by Nanticoke's Arielle Phillips during the Moun- taineers’ stirring win over the Tro- @ ances. Wentko took a charge in the waning moments of the game and the play gave Dallas the win- ning advantage. The victory clinched the first- half champi- Wonship for Dallas and assured them of a playoff berth when the regular season ends. FRED ADAMS/ FOR THE DALLAS POST $150,000 state grant will fund Board member Angelo DeCesaris said he has a problem going forward with the refinancing before having a more accurate picture of the school district's financial numbers. “I have questions still outstanding that I have not had answered yet,” DeCesaris said. “What's important is to get a good number, not just any number. I started asking this question back in October,” he remind- ed the board. “I'm not questioning the need to refinance,” DeCesaris added. “My only concern is do we need to add money to this refinancing to get the athletic field done properly.” The business manager, Kathleen Williams, has been working to reconcile her figure of $1.9, discussed at the last meeting, to the $900,000 sum DeCe- saris came up with, but needs until the end of the week to complete her finan- See LAKE-LEHMAN, pg 8 16 Pages, 2 Sections study of Toby Creek flooding BY TIMOTHY J. RAUB Post Staff BACK MOUNTAIN — Three Back Mountain municipalities have received state funding to help eliminate flood and erosion problems along Toby Creek. : Senator Charles J. Lemmond an- nounced last week, “the release of $150,000 by Governor Mark Schweik- er's Office to undertake pre-engineer- ing work for flood damage reduction measures along the creek in Dallas Township, Dallas Borough and Kingston Township.” “The money is coming from the De- partment of Environmental Protection,” said Lemmond in a prepared state- ment. “The money will be for a pre-en- gineering study to develop the scope of the work for the project.” “These kind of programs are a step in the right direction towards helping to clean up our creeks and streams,” said Joe Moskovitz, Dallas Borough Manager. “It has taken eight months to get the ball rolling, so we are anxious to get started on the survey.” Toby Creek has long been an issue in See TOBY CREEK, pg 8 Borough to tackle 911 addressing BY TIMOTHY J. RAUB Post Staff HARVEYS LAKE — Harveys Lake Borough Councilwoman Betty West has a large task before of her over the next few months. West will head the 911 addressing committee, which will look into the best possible addressing system for residents around the lake. “I will be sending letters out to local organizations asking for their help,” said West after she was unanimously elected to the committee by the bor- ough council. Councilwoman Ruth Eaton nominat- ed West for the position, saying that she wanted what was best for the con- stituents of Harveys Lake Borough. Many members of the borough brought up possible ideas for the ad- dressing plans, but “no decision will be made until the committee has looked into all possible solutions,” said West. Two of the more argued possibilities have been a numbering system based on a footage system, and the use of a pole number with some sort of distinc- tion for each individual property. The footage system is what the postal service uses throughout most of the country, while the pole system would be a variation of what is already in existence around the lake. 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