Dallas, Pennsylvania The Back Mountain's Newspaper Since 1889 April 10 to April 16, 2003 L 7s ah ES foo) T \| 1A IN Vol. 114 No. 15 SPORTS DALLAS POST They got at least one game in! Pg 9. SCHOOL Growing knowledge at Dallas Middle School. Pg 11 50 Cents COMMUNITY Dallas Rotary names Paul Harris Fellows at 76th celebration. Pg 4. Seabee’s family waits sanxiously at home By ERIN YOUNGMAN Post Staff TRUCKSVILLE — “We are all proud of him,” said Judi Ross, wife of de- ployed Navy seabee Christopher Ross. “He supports everything. Never once did he complain about going. He said it was what he signed up to do.” Judi and Christopher were barely in their new home before Christopher re- ceived orders that he would be de- ployed for a year in the Middle East and then shipped out five days later. The couple, married nine years, has two children, Jacob, age 4 and Christo- pher, age 6. : They bought their Trucksville home in August and after extensive renova- tions — many that Christopher did himself — they moved in in October. “He is handy,” said Judi about her usband. Apparently so, as a Navy construc- tion electrician, Christopher is working to make spaces inhabitable and use- able for segments of the armed forces. Judi said despite her realizing early on that Christopher would probably be called to duty, she wasn’t quite pre- pared for the reality. “I understood he had to go, I just didn’t want to believe it.” “It is just now beginning to settle in,” See SEABEE, pg 8 POST PHOTO/ERIN YOUNGMAN Judi Ross helped her sons, Chrisopher, 5, left, and Jacob, 4, fill in the calendar they made to keep track of the time their father, Christopher, is away on duty in the Middle East. Brownies live up to their Girl Scout motto with help for soldiers By ERIN YOUNGMAN Post Staff SWEET VALLEY — Some local first through third grade Brownie Girls Scouts are living up to their goodwill slogan and are having a good time while they do so. ; In February, Troop 600 from Ross ele- mentary started sending Valentines and cookies to troops stationed in Kuwait. Now they have a full scale relief effort of letters and supplies going overseas. “We've basically looked at it like a reaching out, an extension of our call of being girls scouts and brownies,” said Ellen Maccarone, troop 600 leader. She said the Girl Scout law outlines being considerate and caring while the Girl Scout slogan calls each child to “do a good turn daily.” “We've really focused on the service aspect of scouting this month. We've probably done more this month than most scouts do in a year,” said Mac- carone. At last week's meeting, the girls gath- ered in the Ross Elementary School cafeteria, formed a line several tables long and stuffed medium sized boxes with donated goods like toiletries, flea collars, Kool Ade, cookies and writing paper. By the time they were done packing their most recent round of letters and supplies, they had 16 boxes of requested items wrapped and addressed to sol- diers in the Middle East. Several of the girls speculated about See BROWNIES, pg 8 Visioning project honored By ERIN YOUNGMAN Post Staff “Our Dallas: Today and Tomor- “progressive” work. Chamber of Commerce present- ed the annual Northeastern Pennsylvania Progress Award to project lead- ers at its legislative breakfast Thursday. This is the fourth year the chamber has presented DALLAS — The work of the Ww” visioning project has been onored with an award for its The Greater Wilkes-Barre Community the award. “We were really impressed with the progressive and for- ward-thinking attitude of this visioning process,” Williams, Chamber's Government Affairs Committee, the body for the award. states: “The annual award rec- ognizes divisions of local gov- ernment that through coopera- tive efforts improve the quality said Tom a member of the nominating release A chamber press Sa HE = John Mishanski, center, is pictured with Physics and Math teacher Richard Morgan, left, and Mimi Koch, Math and AP Calculus teacher at Lake-Lehman High School. It all adds up for L-L senior By M.B. GILLIGAN Post Correspondent Determination, hard work, and lots of carly morning study sessions paid off for Lake- Lehman High School senior John Mishanski, who won last week's Math Competition spon- sored by the Luzerne County Council of Teachers of Mathe- matics (LCCTM). The prize at the end of that rainbow is a full-tuition scholar- ship to Wilkes University. John is the son of Jack and Lisa Mis- hanski of Pike's Creek. “He's really earned it,” said his mother, Lisa. “After he placed fourth last year in the junior di- vision he said he was going to win this year, and he’s done a lot of extra studying all year.” This was the 55th year that the LCCTM has sponsored this contest and over 100 juniors and seniors from local high schools competed in two divi- sions. A full-tuition scholarship to Wilkes is awarded to the top scorer in each and since there was a four-way tie for first place “Last year I spent about two months studying before the test and only came in fourth, so this year I started a lot earlier.” John Mishanski Lake-L.ehman senior Lake’s water no cleaner By ERIN YOUNGMAN Post Staff HARVEYS LAKE — The state’s largest natural lake is fer- tile ground for local student's studies — maybe too fertile. Last fall students from Wilkes University professor Dr. Michael Case’s Limnology class (study of lakes and rivers) ventured out of the classroom to gain first-hand experience in their environmen- tal science majors. Their work revealed that efforts to cut phos- phorus levels have been unsuc- cessful thus far. The finding could mean that an ordinance banning the use of fertilizers containing phosphorus’ around the lake has made no difference since its creation six years ago. The ordinance banning the use of phosphate fertilizers was enacted by Harveys Lake Bor- See WATER, pg 3 The Post wins three state press awards The Dallas Post has been hon- ored with three awards in the 2003 Keystone Press Awards contest, sponsored by the Penn- sylvania Newspaper Foundation. Erin Youngman, staff reporter, won two second-place awards for news writing. An article about a Lake Township family’s struggle to attain consistent ed- ucation for their autistic son won second place in the Spot News category. Youngman also won second place in the Ongoing News Cov- erage category for a series of ar- ticles about accidents and safety on Route 309. The articles, writ- See AWARDS, pg 7 16 Pages, 2 Sections Calendar Classified Crossword at the junior level this year, each of those students was granted a scholarship. The test, given in two sections, is composed by members of the University’s Math and Computer Science De- partment and is corrected by members of LCCTM. “There is an affiliated teacher at each of the 13 schools that participated and they nominate up to 10 students in each divi- sion,” said Dr. John Harrison, associate professor of Math and See MATH, pg 7 of life, general welfare of their residents and/or institute pro- grams that better utilize govern- ment resources on a regional or ulti-community basis.” illiams said Dallas stood out See VISIONING, pg 7 By KALEN CHURCHER Special to The Dallas Post LEHMAN TWP. — Back Mountain Recreation, Inc. is one of three parties interested in the Lake-Lehman School District's Middle Education Building, but the district remains undecided if it will sell or refurbish the struc- ture. School Board member Moder- no Rossi said Dave Sutton of Back Mountain Recreation has expressed interest in the build- ing and Business Manager Kath- leen Williams said two other in- quiries have been made, though she would not disclose them. The future of the building, re- cently appraised at approximate- ly $245,000, has caused some debate. Some board members believe the building could be uti- lized for its gymnasium and oth- er rooms, while others believe it is too costly a piece of real es- Rec Center among 3 parties interested in old middle school tate. Last month, Buildings and Grounds Supervisor Ben Schall reported it would cost $75,620 to keep the vacant building open. That figure does not in- clude any custodial personnel or See LEHMAN, pg 7 CALL 675-5211 FOR HOME DELIVERY, NEWS OR ADVERTISING E-mail: dallaspost@Ileader.net 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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