3 Dallas, Pennsylvania The Back Mountain's Newspaper Since 1889 May 2 to May 8, 2002 United We Stand Vol. 113. No. 18 Lake-Lehman, Dallas meet on the field. Pg 11. SCHOOL Sasha Bloch wins spelling bee. Pg 15. COMMUNITY Offset Paperback donates calendars. Pg 6. POST PHOTO/JIM PHILLIPS *» Spring sports? Don’t believe it Robin Razawich and Hillary Adams try to shield themselves from the cold at Monday's Dallas track and field meet. Cool tempera- tures and frequent rain have made attending — and participating in — spring sports more of a chore than usual. Photos of last week's events on the sports pages. 3 Now there are 5 Kingston Township fills roster of supervisors By TIMOTHY J. RAUB and JOE STEC Post Staff KINGSTON TWP. — The Board of Su- pervisors appointed Christopher Yanko- vich to fill the vacant fifth seat on the Board Thursday by a 3-1 vote. The vacancy came following the death of former supervisor William Tippett on March 14. Board Vice-Chairman J. Carl Goodwin nominated Shavertown Fire Chief and former Kingston Township Po- lice officer Gary Biesel, but supervisors Paul Sabol, John Versari and Cornelius Allen voted in favor of Yankovich. “I think (Yankovich) is a fine young man, and I think Biesel is a fine young man as well,” said Sabol. “When more than one person is involved some (people) are going to be upset.” Yankovich, a resident of the township for 36 years, has served 'as captain and treasurer of the Trucksville Fire Depart- ment, and has owned and operated Chris’s Auto Repair in Dallas for 14 years. Sabol explained that Yankovich well represents the average Kingston Town- ship resident — a main factor in his deci- sion. “He has the feeling of the people,” said Sabol. Goodwin said that even though he nom- inated Biesel, he accepts the selection of Yankovich. “Biesel possesses all characteristics as well, and would be an asset to the board,” said Goodwin. “I'm looking forward to working cooperatively with him to help in the creation of a long-range township planning committee. “His volunteer fire status will help with that.” “I hope we could address the land de- velopments and water,” said Yankovich. “I think it is a very important situation we could address.” See KINGSTON TWP., pg 10 50 Cents SPRING CLEANUPS Next week in many local communities. Pg 3. Disruptions in students’ lives kept to minimum By ELIZABETH ANDERSON Post Correspondent LEHMAN TWP. — After a question and answer session with Lake- Lehman School District's superin- tendent, Robert Roberts, Lindsay Boris, student council president at Lake-Lehman High School and other representative members of the stu- dent body feel reassured they will not suffer from the dispute between the teachers’ union and the admin- istration. Boris, a senior, a member of the student council all of her four years at Lake-Lehman and a matriculate of Brown University, says with ru- mors flying last week that the union had decided to stop all extracurricu- “The teachers and school board members have been extremely helpful. Everyone is | getting dlong.” Lindsay Boris Lake-Lehman senior lar work and activities, students were concerned they would be in the middle of a battle they had not asked for. “It was shocking at first just because we didn't know what See STUDENTS, pg 10 Second gas station closes Ud Sheetz to blame, says Pump ‘n’ Pantry By JOE STEC Dallas Post intern DALLAS BOROUGH The Pump and Pantry located on the Dallas Memorial Highway closed May 1. The chain decided not to re- new its lease with the landlord, Frank McManus. Pump and Pantry operated at that location for seven years. The reason for the closing was simple — it was not a profitable venture for the company. Scott Quigg, president of the chain, blamed one major factor; “The Sheetz store moving to the area, and their almost predatory practices of selling petroleum.” Pump and Pantry has no plans to relocate in the Dallas area, but maintains a store in Pikes Creek. This was the second gasoline out- let to close within several weeks. The Sunoco station at the center of Dallas closed abruptly early last month and remains boarded up. “I have contacted owners -of the Sunoco property,” said Joe Moskovitz, Dallas Borough Manag- er. “The borough has some plans with the Sunoco. We would like to see nothing done with the property because of the high volume inter- section.” The station last year had new fuel pumps installed at a great expense due to newer regulations. This may end up being a financial hurdle in the borough's plan. “My concern in terms of having it removed is the owner is looking to recoup the investment,” said Moskovitz. Although both stations closed within a short time of each other, Moskovitz does not believe it is a re- See STATIONS, pg 10 Jared Salla stands near his exhibit and reads from copies of actual correspon- dence of Mother Jones. POST PHOTO/ ELIZABETH ANDERSON J 29 Back Mountain students will go to state History Day competition By ELIZABETH ANDERSON Post Correspondent The National History Day (NHD) state competition is coming up and 29 high school students from the Back Mountain will be taking the trip to State College this weekend to match their academic strengths against Pennsylvania's finest young historians in a race to the national competition. Students delve into the past Lake-Lehman and Dallas high schools will be sending 20 and nine regional winners, respectively, to the state competition at the main campus of Penn State on May 8-9 — and opti- mistically, on to the national competi- tion at the University of Maryland in June. This year’s theme of “Revolution, Re- action, Reform In History” was the source of many intriguing topics, among them Jared Salla’s “Mother Jones: A Rebel Voice of Labor” (Lake- Lehman) and Kim Reisch’s “Keeping the Pledge: Women on the Home Front During WWII” (Dallas). Both students See HISTORY, pg 7 20 Pages, 2 Sections Calendar... .osronvussiss 20 Classified.................. 16-19 CrossWord..........ssciseneesss 12 Editorials......................... 8 Obituaries..............iciseueess 2 SChOOL........coiiei iveiness 14-15 SPOMS...........cccic iis 11-12 CALL 675-5211 FOR HOME DELIVERY, NEWS OR ADVERTISING E-mail: dallaspost@Ileader.net Church to dedicate new organ this weekend By SANDY PEOPLES Post Correspondent SHAVERTOWN - The old organ picked a fine time to quit. “It couldn’t have happened at a busier time in the life of our church,” said Deb Kelleher, the organist at Shavertown United Methodist Church. “It was Good Friday morning, last year, just before the Back Mountain Minis- terium ecumenical service was about to begin at noon in our sanctuary. We turned the organ on and the whole electrical sys- tem went out. At that point, we didn't know what we were going to do to get through the Easter season, so we called the Rodgers Organ Company for help.” 1 A representative from the com- pany came immediately that af- ternoon to try to repair the old or- gan, but it refused to cooperate. He thought he might have a chance to fix it, but that wouldn’t happen until after Easter when he could look into the availability of the needed parts. “The organ company made a quick decision to give us a re- placement organ and speakers to get us through the Easter week- end,” said Kelleher. “The congre- gation heard the new digital sound on Easter morning, and the rest, as they say, is history.” A committee was formed in short order to look at purchasing a new organ and speakers. That single timely event on Easter Sunday set in motion the formal dedication that will unfold this weekend. The committee, composed of 12 volunteers and the organist, met for five months under the leader- ship of church member Ken Getz. “Our church has such a long his- tory of wonderful music,” he said. “We asked ourselves what it was going to take to restore that rich heritage to our congregation.” The committee looked at three different organ companies and traveled to several local churches to hear organs manufactured by those companies. “We wanted to compare the per- formance of the organs and the See ORGAN, pg 3 Organist Deb Kelleher practiced before the choir arrived last Wednesday evening. POST PHOTO/SANDY PEOPLES 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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