L Dallas, Pennsylvania The Back Mountain's Newspaper Since 1889 August 29 to September 4, 2002 United We Stand Vol. 113. No. 35 50 Cents SPORTS i CALENDAR COMMUNITY Teams tune up for opening day. Julie Heffer’s art on display at Students attend Rotary Leaders Pg il. King’s gallery. Pg 10. Camp. Pg 5. Dead birds raise fear virus could hit Back Mountain q okay steps a County official says several have been found By ERIN YOUNGMAN Post Staff As two workers from the Luzerne County Environ- ‘mental Special Projects Office wrapped up a dead crow in Lehman Township Monday, the resident If you find a dead bird (OF: CK R EVAVISY [oY o J = gd POe I 4 TELS o M1 Call 826-3066 any other hours said in the eight years she has lived in her home, she has never found a dead crow there before. Since the discovery of two infected birds in | Butler Township earlier in the month, Ron Rugletic, Luzerne County's West Nile Virus Coordinator, said that he’s “been inundated” with calls from people in the Back Mountain area who have found dead crows and want to know what they should do with them. So far the virus, which can be deadly, has b found only in two locations within Luzerne lt \ Wilkes-Barre City and Butler Township, with new birds being tested every day. According to a Times Leader article published August 14, State Depart- ment of Health spokesman Richard McGarvey said 20 out of 67 counties within Pennsylvania reported having the virus. The Lehman resident found the crow near her Golf Course Road home around 12:30 p.m. Monday and called it in to the West Nile Virus Coordinator. She See CROW FOUND, pg 8 into top job at L-LHS By ELIZABETH ANDERSON Post Correspondent LEHMAN TWP. — The new principal at Lake-Lehman High School is ready o who found the bird (who declined to give her name) to spark a thirst for knowledge among students, and he has the background to do it. Students and parents, teachers and staff, administrators and perhaps even his predecessor have anxiously awaited the arrival of John Oliver's replacement as the Lake-Lehman High School Prin- cipal, since Oliver retired in June after 36 years as an educator. Superintendent Robert Roberts intro- duced Michael Gokay at the July school board meeting, and several stu- dents and staff have dropped by Junior See PRINCIPAL, pg 8 Deal hatched in teacher’s garage didn’t hold together By KALEN CHURCHER Special to The Dallas Post The American flag waved proudly from the grill of the 1927 Mack fire C | truck that is still used by the Dallas Fire & Ambulance Company dur- ing a parade celebrating the organization’s 75th anniver- @ sary. POST PHOTO/JIM PHILLIPS With a teachers strike looming, Lake- Lehman School Board member James Mahon thought he had a plan. Forget the attorneys. Leave egos be- hind. Go try to talk sense with the teachers over pizza and soda. So, in a teacher's garage, Mahon, three other board members and three representatives of the teachers union discussed, parried and bargained. Then they came up with something that had eluded attorneys for more than a year of hostile talks. They had a deal. thought they did. That was weeks ago. At least they See DEAL, pg 3 20 Pages, 2 Sections By M.B. GILLIGAN Post Correspondent unteers usually get paid in recognition,” said Lem- mond as he presented a citation, which stated, in part: “The Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl- “I wanted to give something DALLAS TWP. — Dallas Fire and Ambulance As- back to my community. ” vania congratulates Dallas Fire and Ambulance, Calendar... is Da 20 sociation celebrated its 75th Anniversary Sunday : Inc. as it recommits itself to the ideals and tradi- Classified 16-19 with a parade followed by an open house at the fire ‘Tasha Hennings tions which have sustained it for seventy-five years: Crogsword nl ara 12 hall. | Dallas Junior Firefighter offers best wishes for continued success as it moves ele es agg Twenty-two pieces of apparatus participated in : aa toward further thresholds of excellence.” Editorials IP RR SRR Sata 8 the parade, which proceeded from Offset Paperback- “We've been planning this for over a year,” said The well-attended open house provided safety in- Obituaries.............5i...ceres 2 ’s parking lot up Route 415 and onto Church Street. Bob Fernandez, chairman of the event. “We've ad- formation for adults and children. Fingerprinting Schoo... iin iia 13 Personnel from 15 different fire and emergency vertised in all of the papers, have signs up in many kits were available for the children who were also SPOMS.....cokveiin ivrinse 11-12 local businesses and we invited all the local fire de- partments.” The open house featured several guest speakers, including State Senator Charles D. Lemmond. “Vol- medical service companies from the Back Mountain and Wyoming Valley participated in the parade and the Life Flight helicopter landed in the Dallas Little League field during the afternoon’s activities. treated to rides in the vintage 1927 Mack fire en- gine, which is still in service. Car owners could have See DALLAS FIRE & AMBULANCE, pg 4 * CALL 675-5211 FOR HOME DELIVERY, NEWS OR ADVERTISING E-mail: dallaspost@leader.net Visioning group gets to work DALLAS - About 70 people turned out August 22 for the second public meeting in the “Our Dallas: Today and Tomorrow” visioning process, and they quickly got down to work in task forces assigned to address each of four topic areas. The participants were called to their tasks by Michael McDavid, Regional Director for the Penn State Coopera- tive Extension, who gave a brief overview of results from a survey con- ducted at the group's first public meeting in May. After the responses from 138 people were combined by like subjects, four major concerns were identified. They are: e Updating master plans in individ- ual Back Mountain communities and creating a comprehensive regional master plan. e Revitalizing the traditional down- See VISIONING, pg 3 St. Paul’s hosts joint e Vacation Bible School By SANDY PEOPLES Post Correspondent DALLAS - More than 140 children made a lot of noise as they laughed and played and ran through the hallways of St. Paul's Lutheran Church last week. They were all there for the annual Community Vaca- tion Bible School sponsored by St. Paul's, Shavertown United Methodist Church, Prince of Peace Episcopal Church, Trinity Presbyterian Church and Dallas Unit- ed Methodist Church. @ The Vacation Bible School is a well-established tra- dition,” said Charles Grube, Pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, “and we are pleased to have it here this year. We wanted our new building to be a re- source for the community, and we are delighted to play host to this event which has been taking place for more than 10 years.” The theme for this year was a continuation of last year’s theme, “Jesus to the Rescue, Part 2.” Each day the children became eyewitnesses to the many ways ur community helps out with our everyday lives and responds in emergency situations. They explored Please enclose this label with any address changes, and mail to The Dallas Post P.O. Box 366, Dallas, PA 18612-0366 POST PHOTO/SANDY PEOPLES Rev. Doug Clark from Shavertown United Methodist Church and Hannah Grube tell the children about the Back Mountain Food See VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL, pg 15 Pantry and the need to “fill it up.”
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