L Dallas, Pennsylvania The Back Mountain's Newspaper Since 1889 July 18 to July 24, 2002 United We Stand Vol. 113. No. 29 DALLAS POST 50 Cents SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF THE DALLAS & LAKE-LEHMAN SCHOOL DISTRICTS SPORTS Baseball and softball is in playoff mode. Pg 9. SCHOOL Diversity award winners at Penn State Wilkes-Barre. Pg 12. COMMUNITY Lions support Back Mountain Library. Pg 5. 4 Benefits for a family that hosts ‘city kid’ By ELIZABETH ANDERSON Post Correspondent Last week, 7-year-old Dezhanae Gillett saw a cow “in person” for the first time. It could happen where she lives in Brooklyn in New York City — after all, it is a city known for its offbeat and fast-paced lifestyle — but probably not with the same pastoral beauty found here in the Back Mountain. . Dezhanae is a Fresh Air Fund kid, who spent two . weeks with her host family, the Moskaluks, in Lehman Township. For 37 years, families in the Wilkes- Barre and Scranton areas have been participating in the Fresh Air Fund Friend- ly Towns program and giv- ing summer vacations to inner city kids. The Fresh Air Fund was begun in 1877 by a pastor in Sherman, PA who asked his parishioners to provide children from the inner city with summer vaca- POST PHOTO/ELIZABETH ANDERSON ""She brought the 'Fresh Air' to us," said Denise Moskaluk, host mom of her Fresh Air Fund child, Dezhanae Gillett . Jenna Moskaluk and Dezhanae Gillett ride bikes in the driveway of the Moskaluk home. In background, from left to right; Denise , Kiefer, and Randy watch See FRESH AIR, pg 8 Council vows action ¢ against those who pipe runoff into sewer BY TIMOTHY J. RAUB Post Staff HARVEYS LAKE — The borough council will be taking an active role to eliminate the possibility of increased sewage bills and human waste polluting the lake during heavy rainstorms. Council members heard arguments from Jay Niskey, a member of the Harveys Lake Protective As- sociation, who said he has video footage of manhole covers coming off the manholes and water and hu- man waste spilling out onto the road and into the lake. Niskey also said he has witnessed clean-up crews hosing the waste off the road and into the lake. Bringin’ it on Sara Swepston wound up for a pitch Tuesday night. The Back Mountian Ju- nior League Girls Softball team held off Plains to win the district championship. Story, more pho- tos on sports pages. POST PHOTO/ JIM PHILLIPS See HARVEYS LAKE, pg 4 LL UZERNE NPN ie] NPV = VN NTs the two girls. Jordan is away at camp. POST PHOTO/ELIZABETH ANDERSON Superintendent Robert O. Roberts talks to some concerned parents after Tues- day's school board meeting. Changing schedule times and the transferring of some elementary school students from Lehman-Jackson to the recently com- pleted Ross Elementary School is causing concerns for many parents. Parents irate over juggled elementary schools, schedules By ELIZABETH ANDERSON Post Correspondent LEHMAN TWP. — Parents’ emo- tions ran high at the Lake-Lehman School Board meeting Tuesday night. More than 70 parents and grand- parents of students affected by changes in school starting times and the transfer of children to Ross Ele- mentary School from Lehman-Jack- son Elementary School voiced their concerns over the emotional health and physical safety of their children. With the recent completion of the Ross Elementary School, some 43 * NO MONTHLY FEES * NO MINIMUM BALANCE * NO KIDDING! students will be transferred from Lehman-Jackson to Ross. Mirroring the concerns of many of the other parents who spoke at the school board: meeting were district residents Ron and Judy Swingle and Rick and Lisa Swanson. The Swingles and the Swansons have a 9-year-old daughter and a 10-year-old son, re- spectively, who are being pulled from Lehman-Jackson Elementary to at- tend Ross Elementary this school year. Both couples said until they re- ceived a letter in the mail, they did See LAKE-LEHMAN, pg 3 Township plans to pave roads in Sunrise Estates BY TIMOTHY J. RAUB Post Staff KINGSTON TWP. — The Board of Supervisors unanimously voted July 8 to award Kaminski Brothers a bid for roadway improvements in Sun- rise Estates. But Supervisor Christopher Yankovich wants some clarification before paving begins. Yankovich questioned awarding the bid of $76,633, and allowing subsequent paving of the roads be- fore developer John Halbing has had a chance to upgrade the water company for a later connection to the proposed Windsor Farms subdi- vision. _ Yankovich said it didn't seem right to have the paving done if Hal- bing planned to cut up the road to work on the water lines, and that the township needed to contact the developer before any paving work was to begin. Halbing, contacted Friday, said he has no plans to upgrade any lines in the right-of-way in Sunrise Estates, and will only be adding a booster pump to a pump house close to the Windsor Farms/Sunrise Estates property line, so he can provide do- mestic water to the homes in his new development. Halbing purchased the water company in June after the company told him it couldn't provide a do- mestic water supply to the subdivi- sion in its current state. The township requires developers to connect to a community water See KINGSTON TWP. pg 8 Luzerne 288-4511 - Plains 829-3900 Swoyersville 287-1141 - Dallas 674-5442 Public Square 822-4211 - Wyoming 613-0966 Officials fret about Adelphia fee payments A Company official says not to worry - just slowed by bankruptcy BY TIMOTHY J. RAUB Post Staff The current financial problems facing Adelphia Cable, and the company’s move into Chapter 11 bankruptcy has some Back Mountain municipalities wonder- ing if they'll be faced with a bud- getary shortfall this year. The troubled cable provider, which has operations in Kingston, Lehman, Franklin and Dallas townships, and the bor- oughs of Harveys Lake and Dal- las, filed for Chapter 11 bank- ruptcy within the past month, and owes money collected in franchise fees to almost all mu- nicipalities — money most of the, municipalities figured into their 2002 budget. Kingston Township Supervisor Neil Allen made the Board of Su- pervisors aware last week that Adelphia has only given the town- ship approximately $11,000 in, franchise fees in 2001, but the company has not paid any of the $45,000 figured into the 2002 township budget. Attempts to reach Allen for fur- ther comment were unsuccessful. A franchise fee is money col- lected by the cable companies and paid to municipalities for the privilege of allowing the company See CABLE FEES, pg 8 16 Pages, 2 Sections Calendar................cixesns 16 Classified.................. 13-15 Crossword..............ise.s 10 Editorials... ...... ihe ied: 6 Obituaries.............caeccvinnes 2 SCNOON ir fens ruiiss eosbive 11 SDONS......oo0ikavhicin iat 9-10 CALL 675-5211 FOR HOME DELIVERY, NEWS OR ADVERTISING E-mail: dallaspost@Ileader.net Vi Please enclose this label with any address changes, and mail to The Dallas Post P.O. Box 366, Dallas, PA 18612-0366 MEMBER
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