2 The Dallas Post
Friday, August 15, 2003
Burn ban
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elderly couldn’t afford to hire
others to remove yard waste.
“You can’t ask a teenager to
haul branches for ten dollars,”
she read.
She also said she conducted
some research and found that,
according to the Environmental
Protection Agency, 91 percent
of air pollution is from cars.
Since car exhaust is odorless,
“people don’t think it’s bad,”
she said.
Shaver stated a need for the
township to provide pickup
services and suggested setting
up specific dates for burning,
such as Tuesdays, Thursdays,
and Saturdays from dawn to
dusk as an alternative until
curbside service is available.
“We should have the right to
burn,” she said.
Nancy Williams said the
board should allow burning of
identity-sensitive items such as
canceled checks and credit card
applications and statements.
Although she has a paper
shredder, Williams said that
some people don’t own one.
Several residents expressed
their dislike over the smoke
created by fires left to smolder.
Ronald Barnoski mentioned
that two of his neighbors have
trouble breathing when the air
quality declines and he found
that two-thirds of his neighbors
are for the ban. “The laws
should reflect the majority,” he
said.
But Tom Evans noted that
more garbage would go to land-
fills if residents can’t burn it.
“There are lots of valid reasons
to burn,” Evans said. “You
shouldn’t ban it just because of
a few inconsiderate people.”
Concerns over agricultural
areas, known A-1 zones,
prompted Bob Martin, who
runs a tree removal business, to
create his own petition asking
to protect the right to burn in
such areas. He explained that
he recycles as much as possible
but some can’t be recycled.
Exeter Township Supervisor
Robert Soska said the burning
ban could affect those with
large properties, adding the
economic burden of removing
large amounts ‘of yard waste.
He said that a footage provi-
sion, such as requiring burning
areas to be at least 300 feet
from buildings, would disallow
burning in more populated ar-
eas without affecting agricul
tural properties.
John Salinsky, who has a con-
tained burning area on his 26-
acre property, agreed about tak-
ing the proximity between
houses into consideration. But
he pointed out that people may
find ways to circumvent any
burning bans. “You're going to
have people building campfires
every night,” Salinsky said.
But not having the ban could
create unnecessary costs to tax-
payers, said Jim Reino. As well
as expenses stemming from the
police and fire departments re-
sponding to problems with
burning, “taxpayers could foot
the bill from health cases,” he
said. He also mentioned that
national studies exist showing
the dangers from smoke and
from contaminants that don’t
completely burn away. He said
that perhaps as a compromise,
the township could allow burn-
ing to occur one day per quar-
ter or set up curbside collection
of yard waste.
Resident Mary Lofing asked
if the issue could be put on the
ballot in November. Township
Manager Eddie O'Neill said
that if residents don’t like the
supervisors’ final decision, they
could call a recall and then
have a vote, but Supervisor
Neil Allen said a referendum
would be the same as passing
the buck.
Another usually benign ele-
ment was also on the minds of
many township residents.
Stormwater runoff has been
flooding homes and yards at
Meadowcrest Drive and High-
land and Terrace avenues in
Trucksville.
Jack Haines said that the wa-
ter problem has “increased 10-
fold in volume and magnitude”
in the 20 years he has lived in
the area. He presented digital
photos to the supervisors,
showing the muddy deluge
flowing down his driveway. He
said that during the past the
winter, he could not use his
driveway because water from
runoffs froze.
Highland Avenue resident
Bill Steraitiff also has water
flowing down his driveway —
after it floods his garage. “I
could have taken a rowboat
through there,” he said, noting
that water has been “spurting
out” of the ground as well.
Township engineer Christo-
pher Borton explained that the
existing drainage ditches are
not graded properly and sug-
gested either lowering the
ditches or installing pipes to
channel the water.
Doris Jeffrey said that she
had 100 feet of 18-inch pipe in-
stalled on her Terrace Avenue
property but garbage = from
Highland Avenue keeps clog-
ging the pipe. During Monday’s
heavy rainstorm, a tire blocked
the pipe, causing excessive wa-
ter flow to wash away the top-
soil in her yard, she said.
A resident of Meadowcrest
Drive claimed that when she
called the township to com-
plain about an overflowing
drainage ditch near her proper-
ty, she was told that it was a
state problem. But when she
tried to contact the state, she
was met with busy signals.
O’Neill said the township can
contact PennDOT on residents’
behalf but pointed out that un-
known to some homeowners,
swales are sometimes written
into deeds. At Sabol’s sugges-
tion, the board and the resi-
dents agreed to meet at 9 a.m.
on Sunday, August 17, to view
problem areas.
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A parent has question the safety of having schoolchildren walk up Ondish Road to a bus stop
at the intersection with Roosevelt Street.
Bus stop
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families and 18 children live
in the new development, and
10 more families moved in
over the summer, the trans-
portation department told him
that buses will not enter the
area.
Solicitor Ben Jones asked .
Kornak if the roads in the de-
velopment had yet been taken
over by the township. Kornak
said they hadn’t.
“It’s not a matter of being
precluded (from being able to
run buses on the road). We can
certainly run on open undedi-
cated roads, but the issue is
one of road maintenance.”
Jones said if there were in-
clement weather, for instance,
and the road had not been
cleared, then it would be un-
certain what the bus driver
should do.
Jones suggested that Kornak
go to the next Dallas Township
Board of Supervisors meeting
and “nudge along the process”
of having the roads turned
over to the township, possibly
before the start of school.
Kornak requested that an-
other safer bus stop be added.
“We’ll have our contractor
take a look at it and then get
back to you,” said board mem-
ber Tom Russ.
In other news, the board vot-
ed unanimously that a resolu-
tion be adopted for a settle-
ment agreement between The
Dallas School District and an
unspecified special needs stu-
dent and family.
The board appointed three
temporary professional em-
ployee, long-term substitutes.
Rachel Havrilla as 4th grade
teacher in Dallas Elementary
School, Crystal King as 4th
grade teacher at Wycallis Ele-
mentary and James Casey for
learning support at Wycallis
Elementary.
Correction
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Library Photo Contest were incorrect. The correct information, with the photos, appears here. The
Post regrets the error.
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Honorable mention, by Doreen Rhoads
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we can make decisions,”
DeCesaris suggested, “because
I don’t like not knowing what's
going on.”
Nearly shouting, board mem-
ber Moderno Rossi said, “She
has to put everything else aside
and get this done by next
week.” 8
With tensions high, Solicitor
Charles Coslett requested
Board President Michelle
Coombs call an executive ses-
sion, saying he needed to say
his piece.
The board returned with one
more budget question, con-
cerning History Day, which
most board members have con-
sidered among Lake-Lehman’s
most valuable programs.
Williams told the board that
she was asked to pull discre-
tionary funds, so she did.
tory Day happened to fall i
the field trip category, whic
was pulled. Because the board
didn’t specifically ask about’;
History Day, she never told"
them.
In other business, the district
is following up on questions of
a bus route in Jackson Town-
ship. J. Wilkes, Jackson Town-
ship Supervisor, told the dis-
trict the township did not have
plans to work on that road, and
it was not fit for a bus to drive.
This leaves two young girls to
walk, less then a half mile, to
the end of the road to catch the
bus, which board member
Joseph Kapitula feels is unac-
ceptable. :
School psychologist Sharon
John requested permission to
attend a “Childhood Develop-
mental Disorders” conference.
She had requested earlier in
the year that the district pay
for that, however with funds
being cut for educational ad-
vancement this year, her
quest was denied. Now John
submitted, saying she’ll pay for
it herself, but requesting the
day off.
Doug Trumbower, district ar-
chitect gave his report, which
could lead to yet another finan-
cial burden for the district. The
parking lot at the senior high
school could need “up to
$40,000 in additional work to
make it safer for the student
drivers, buses and teachers.
The board was presented with
several proposals and will fur-
ther discuss and vote at the
next meeting.
The next regular meeting
general purpose will be held
Tuesday, August 19, at 7 p.m.
in the Music Room of Lehman-
Jackson Elementary School.
Back Mountain Food Pantry needs donations to restock shelves
pork and beans. Other items needed are: canned hams, corned
beef, Spam, peanut butter, jelly, dry potato mixes and breakfast ce-
Many months have gone by since the Boy Scouts and postal
workers had food drives to collect non-perishable food items to re-
stock the shelves at the Back Mountain Food Pantry.
A recent inventory revealed that the following items are in short
supply: canned peaches, pears, pineapple, applesauce, carrots,
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