PAGE 4 THE POST COMMUNITY Sunday, April 8, 2007 Friends will welcome spring To welcome the arrival of springtime, the Friends of the Back Mountain Memorial Li- brary will hold their annual “Lun- cheon with a Special Author” at 11 a.m. on Thursday, April 26, at the Appletree Terrace at Newber- ry Estate. The event will com- mence with hospitality, followed by the luncheon at 11:45 a.m. This year, the program will fea- ture author and entrepreneur, Barbara Kline, with the discus- sion of her book, “White House Nannies, “beginning at 1:15 p.m. The cost of the luncheon is $22.50 and reservations are be- ing accepted at the library until April 16. ® 00 There are a few openings for the next American Red Cross ba- bysitting course from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 28. The $40 course fee must be paid in ad- vance at the main desk of the li- brary. Teens ages 11 through 15 are welcome to attend. ® oO Parents registered for the Spring Parent/Child Workshop are reminded that the sessions begin at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, April 10 and will continue on April 17 and 24 and May 1. The first guest speaker is Lori Waskovich, a diet- ician specializing in children’s nutrition. | ® 00 It is also time for another Back Mountain Memorial Library Open Mic Night (formerly known as WordHorde) which will be held at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 28 at the ArtsYOUniverse Building, 50 Lake Street, Dallas (near the Old House Café). LIBRARY NEWS This popular event continues to expand each time it is offered and we are proud to report that our last performance hosted an audience of 53 people listening to a variety of music and enjoying coffee and light refreshments. As word continues to spread, our performers have included local area musicians (both amateur and professional), singers, writ- ers and even a little bit of comedy. The venue is open to anyone age 18 and over wanting an opportu- nity to showcase their talent for a captive audience. Performers may pre-register by calling Krista Connolly at 675-1182. Be sure to mark your calendars and tell your friends, about this lively and free fun night. ® 0 9 After a night of relaxing and re- charging, you may want to tackle that “spring cleaning” project that you have been postponing. The library is now accepting any unused or unwanted items for use in our Nearly Old and Collec- tible Booth at the annual library auction to be held on July 5-8. Vintage items (jewelry, hand- bags, hatboxes, kitchenware, etc.) are of special interest, but other items will be greatly appre- ciated as well. If, however, you are looking to add to your Spring collection of decorations, be sure to visit the continuing Spring Sale located in the foyer of the library, which in- cludes an array of flower arrange- ments and porcelain collectibles. TT hues - jade and scarlet - signal swelling buds and the arrival of spring, shimmering just beyond reach, just beyond reach, FOR THE DALLAS POST/CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK 8 5 Author of ‘White House Nannies” speaks at luncheon The Friends of the Back Mountain Memorial Library will host its 19th an- nual luncheon April 26 at the Apple- tree Terrace, Newberry Estate in Dal- las. The event begins at 11 a.m. and lunch will be served at 11:45 a.m. The guest speaker will be Barbara Gold- stein Kline, a former resident of King- ston, who lives in Chevy Chase, Mary- land. She is the founder and president of the capital's premier nanny place- ment agency and the author of “White House Nannies: True Tales from the Other Department of Homeland Secu- rity.” Her book has been on the Wash- ington Post bestseller list and will soon become a situation comedy. The cost is $22.50 with proceeds ben- efiting the library. Tables of eight ‘are encouraged and may be reserved by calling 675-1182. Checks should’’be made payable to the Back Mo i Memorial Library and must received no later than April 16. Additional reser- vation forms will be available at the li- brary, Huntsville Road in Dallas. MOMENTS IN TIME The History Channel ® On April 12,1633, the inquisition of physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei for holding the heretical belief that the Earth revolves around the Sun begins. Galileo agreed not to teach the heresy any- more and spent the rest of his life under house arrest. It took more than 300 years for the Church to admit that Galileo was right and to clear his name of heresy. ® On April 9,1859, a 23-year-old Missouri youth named Samuel Langhorne Clemens receives his steamboat pilot's license. During his time as a pilot, he picked up the term “Mark Twain,” a boatman'’s call noting that the river was only two fathoms deep, the minimum depth for safe navigation. In 1861 he wrote a humorous travel letter signed by “Mark Twain" and continued to use the pseudonym for nearly 50 years. ® On April 15,1924, Rand McNally releases its first comprehensive road atlas. Today Rand McNally is the world's largest maker of atlas- es in print and electronic media. * On April 10,1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt establishes the Civilian Conservation Corps, a federally funded organization that put Americans to work on conservation projects during the Great De- pression. From 1933 to 1942, the CCC employed more than 3 million men. ® On April 1,1945, the American Third Army liberates the Buchen- wald concentration camp, near Weimar, Germany. Among those saved by the Americans was Elie Wiesel, who would go on to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. ® On April 14,1975, the American airlift of Vietnamese orphans to the United States ends after 2,600 children are transported to Amer- ica. Operation Baby Lift was initiated to bring South Vietnamese orphans to the United States for adoption by American parents. (c) 2007 King Features Synd., Inc. > Ww STRANGE BUT TRUE ¢ Considering the fact that the United States has about 1 million new cases of skin cancer every year, as the summer sunbathing season approaches you might want to consider an addition to your wardrobe: the UV-alarm bathing suit. A Canadian company called Solestrom last year began marketing a $190 bikini that has a UV meter built into its belt. The meter displays a readout of the intensity of the current ultraviolet radiation on a scale of O to 20. When the UV level gets into the danger zone, the meter beeps to let the wearer know to seek out some shade. e It is still unknown who made the following observation: “Life without danger is simply a waste of oxygen.” * [t's been reported, though not confirmed, that the first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer. * When she was a child, famed aviator Amelia Earhart was a seri- ous tomboy. Wearing pants before it was acceptable for girls to do so, she loved fishing and hiking. She even built a wooden roller coaster in her backyard so she could practice riding it without falling off. Small wonder, perhaps, that she became such a dominating figure in what was considered to be a man's profession. * The average human body conducts about one-seventh of its respiration through the skin. ® & 0 Thought for the Day: “Remember one thing about democracy: We can have anything we want, and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve." - Edward Albee (c) 2007 King Features Synd., Inc. The Dallas Post TIMES® LEADER Community Newspaper Group 15 N. Main St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18711 ® 570-829-7248 news@mydallaspost.com Richard L. Connor PUBLISHER David C. KonopkKi EDITOR Liz Ayers ADVERTISING 70 YEARS AGO April 8, 1937 ATHLETIC TEAMS HONORED AT DINNER Boys and girls from the athlet- ic teams of Dallas Borough High School will be guests of honor at a dinner to be spon- sored by the Dallas Bor- ough Par- ent-Teacher ONLY Association at the Dal- YESTERDAY Ins. Moatho. dist Church next Wednesday at 6 p.m. A farce comedy in three acts, “The Blue Bag” by J.D. McMul- len, will be given in Kingston Township High School tonight by the Brotherhood of Saint Paul’s Lutheran Church. Mem- bers of the cast include Arthur Plieskatt, Fritz Ellis, Arlene Glass, Amelia Noss, Jack Al- worth, Arthur Parker, Audrey Miller, Donald Kersteen, Elsie Koup, Gladys Gessner and Char- lie Jacobson. Miss Elizabeth Culbert of Dal- las Borough High School faculty accompanied the senior class of the school on a trip to Blooms- burg State Teachers’ College on Monday. The group attended morning assembly, had lun- cheon, visited classes and ob- served the operation of the col- lege. The most pleasing news of the week is that green beans and peas are back to normal prices for the season. Iceberg lettuce too should soon be lower in price. 60 YEARS AGO April 4, 1947 STUDENTS TRAVEL TO CUBA FOR WEEK Feeling that the only way to learn the Spanish language and customs is to go where both are prevalent, Nelson E. Nelson, Dallas, Naomi Hons, Shaver- town, and Henry W. Anderson, formerly of Dallas, left from the Lehigh Valley Railroad Station with forty-five student of the Spanish department of Bucknell Junior College for a week’s edu- cational tour of Havana, Cuba. Three auctioneers — Howard Sands of Tunkhannock and Her- man and Ralph Sands of Carver- ton — will handle the Library Auction on June 7th, members of the general committee learned at their meeting in the Back Mountain Memorial Library. Junior and primary depart- ments of Saint Paul’s Lutheran Church, Shavertown, will hold their Easter program Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. The follow- ing will take part in the program: Jack Eck, Marlyn Lifent, Carol Reed, Janet Reed, Gladys and David Ell, Alice Louise Thomas, Maureen Edwards, Wayne Seig- er, Charles Malkemes, Thomas Kelly, Marilyn Eck, Brenda Claus, Dorothy Eck, Ralph Ben- tley, Sandra Lee and Arthur Zim- merman. 50 YEARS AGO April 5, 1957 ELAINE KOZEMCHAK NAMED DELEGATE Elaine Kozemchak, Hunts- ville, has been chosen vice presi- dent of the Luzerne- Lackawan- na and Columbia Counties Christian Youth Fellowship and will be one of eighty delegates from all over the state to repre- sent them at a two-day meeting at Williamsport. Sweet Valley Volunteer Fire Company which operates on an annual budget of $1,900 is con- ducting its annual campaign for funds in Ross, Hunlock and Fair- mont Townships. The goal is $3,000, more than half of which will be set aside in a fund to take care of future capital expendi- tures. Mr. & Mrs. Curtis Prothero entertained the 1957 Dallastow- nian staff Wednesday evening. Present were: Sally Heslop, Bar- bara Cheney, Mae Kingsbury, Marie Goodman, Sandra Baird, Patricia Whittaker, Pamela Par- sons, Robert Coolbaugh, Donald Jones, David Emmanuel, John Sholtis, Thomas Goddard, Ri- chard Joos and Bradley Updyke. Dallas Shoe Repair will vacate its Main Street location and move to the Phil Walter Calso Service Station building in Sha- vertown. The building now oc- cupied by Dallas Shoe Repair will be razed to make way for the new addition to Dallas Branch Miners National Bank. 40 YEARS AGO April 6, 1967 SIXTH GRADERS KNIT AFGHAN A class unit in the “Indians of Peru” generated interest in the knitting of an afghan by the thir- ty-five students of the Dallas sixth grade. Several boys and girls followed up with ski head bands, bedroom slippers and sweaters under the “Knit One, Purl One” directions of the teacher, Mrs. Oce Beryl Austin. The class plans to send the fin- ished products to the American Junior Red Cross. The six man board ior the new Joint Sewer Authority for Dallas Township, Dallas Borough and Kingston Township will be ready for action when Kingston Town- ship appoints its representative on Thursday evening at a special meeting. Already named are Traver Nobel and Ted McGuire, Dallas Township, and R.G. Dick- inson and Frances Dixon, Dallas Borough. Eugene P. Pryor, Dallas, was recently honored by officials of The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, Inc. upon comple- tion of 25 years of service with the nation’s leading food chain. Mr. Pryor was presented with a suitably engraved plaque signed by Byron Jay, A & P president, and a cash award. Edward S. Augustine, a mem- ber of the Mathematic depart- ment at Dallas Senior High School, has been selected as a participant in a National Science foundation sponsored sequen- tial institute at the University of Buffalo. The grant is for four summers’ duration leading to an M.S. in Mathematics education. " 30 YEARS AGO April 7, 1977 FIRE AND AMBULANCE ASSN. HOLDS DINNER The Dallas Fire and Ambu- lance Association recently held their third annual Dinner- Dance for the installation of officers at Newberry Estates. The event was the first in a series of affairs that will be held to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Fire Company. Elected and appoint- ed officers for the coming year are: Theodore Wright, captain, Robert Cartier, ambulance crew captain, G. Wesley Cave, ambu- lance chief, James Davies, assist- ant fire chief and crew chief, Lynn Sheehan, captain and sec- retary of the corporation, Father Stephen McGough, chaplain and engineer, Robert Richard- son, assistant fire chief and presi- dent of the corporation, Edwin Roth, ambulance crew chief, Do- nald Shaffer, fire chief, Kay Wright, corresponding secreta- ry, Timothy Carroll, vice presi- dent of the corporation, i. Sitar, engineer, and Willi Ward, William Baker and Do- nald Bulford, Board of Control, Back Mountain shoe factory workers were among the more than 1,500 employees and man- agement personnel who demon- strated on Public Square against shoe imports, The closing of Heavenly Shoe Company aff ed about 30 employees from the Back Mountain. 3 Midge Robinson of Dallas was the recipient of Wyoming Se nary’s “Gold Award” at the p school’s recent winter sport awards assembly. She earn four letters in swimming duri her four years at Sem, with thr of those letters for varsity acti The students of Dallas Inte - mediate School began soliciti Back Mountain residents for t Heidi Anderson Walk-A-Tho, . More than 300 fifth and six graders plan to walk for Heidi, a Dallas student stricken with Hodgkins Disease. 20 YEARS AGO April 8, 1987 CHEERLEADERS COMPETE IN FLORIDA The Dallas High School V: ty Cheerleaders recently co. peted i in a national competitig in Florida where they plac 28th among 69 squads. Mer bers who participated are: Marie Danna, Meg Gorgo Mollie Grasso, Heather Lawley, Eileen Nagy, Tracy Richardson, Toirran Batony, Erin Cleary, Kim Hall, Amy Cutter, Michelle Kirschner, Shauna Griffin, Lisa Gorman, Kathy Farrell, Susan Wells and Shannon Cleary. : Paul Gaffney of Trucksville, announced his candidacy for ie Democratic nomination to the Board of Supervisors, Kingst Township. T Routine remodeling at Burger King, Shavertown, took plage over a two-day period last week. Soccer players from the Dallas area will travel to Ottowa, - da on July 29 to participate in the Seventh Annual Gloucester In- ternational Soccer Tourname Members of the soccer team are: Jonathan Ursiak, Shane Fegley, Kenny Kozel, Brad Wall, bard Morris, Mike Haggerty, x Fetterman, Tom Shone, B Weaver, Jim Evans, Brent Shov- elin and Wayne Marhelski. | §
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