Vol. 118 No. 19 THE BACK MOUNTAIN'S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1889 May 20 - 26, 2007 *The DALLAS POST: SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF THE DALLAS AND LAKE-LEHMAN SCHOOL DISTRICTS Community rallies for police officer who is ill ntil eight months ago, life for Sgt. Scott Da- vis was pretty typical. He and his wife, Laura, had been married for 15 years. They had three children. And Scott was a police officer with the Jackson Township Police Department. That changed quickly. When doctors discovered a tu- mor in Davis’ brain September 2006, his life was forever altered. During an operation in October 2006, the tumor was discovered to be filled with fluid. The tumor burst during the procedure, da- maging Scott’s pituitary and adre- Frank Brodi and John Stucker manned the kitchen stove at a dinner for Scott Davis at the Jackson Twp. Fire Hall. nal glands. Laura Davis. “They are terrible be- “He’s been suffering from severe cause his whole body seizes up.” muscular seizures ever since,” said Davis’ doctors are unsure what “I cried when I found out. I couldn’t believe his friends did this for him.” Laura Davis Wife of Sgt. Scott Davis li CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK/ FOR THE DALLAS POST Marilyn Benza, Chase Manor, gives some encouragement to Sgt. Scott Davis who suffers from undiagnosed spasms due to a brain tumor. We love you, Scott! By GENELLE HOBAN For The Dallas Post causes the seizures, which can last up to three hours and are prevent- ing him from returning to his post as a police officer. “Thankfully, Scott’s parents, Maggie and Jim, live next door to us and have been helping out with the three children,” Laura said. “My sister, Denise, has been bend- ing over backwards running er- rands and helping me with house work through all of this.” To help raise money to pay for medical bills, friends of the Davis family recently held a spaghetti dinner in Scott’s honor at the Jack- son Township Fire Hall “I cried when I found out,” Lau- ra said of the benefit dinner. “I couldn’t believe his friends did this for him. It was overwhelming.” “I've known Scott for 15 years See SCOTT, Page 10 Students send their principal to the roof By DOTTY MARTIN For The Dallas Post She may be in her mid-50s, but Marilyn Glogowski has almost as much energy as the elementary school charges she leads at the Leh- man-Jackson Elementary School. Glogowski, principal at the school, challenged students there to read as many books as they could. When the students rose to the occa- sion by reading over 1200 books, Mrs. Glogowski kept up her end of the bargain. This past Wednesday, right in the middle of a rainstorm, she hoisted herself (with the help of an electronic bucket) to the roof of the school on Market Street and read a story and a poem to the students. And did they love it! Because of the inclement weather, Glogowski tried to end her rooftop appearance after reading one story but the stu- dents wouldn’t have it. They hooted and hollered until their beloved prin- | cipal agreed to Their ex- read 8 poem, 100. citement err excite ment and enthusi- and enthu- asm took away all = gjasm took my nervousness,” Glogowski said af- away all ter making her my nerv- pay safely doh gusness. It was thrilling to was thrill see them so excit- od” ing to see Sponsored by them so the Lehman-Jack- : " son PTO, the ©XcCited. Reading Is Funda- Marilyn mental Program Glogowski asked students to Lehman-Jackson fill out a Racing Elementary Sneaker with the School principal name of every book they read. Because the last day of the program was called “Mixed Up” Reading Race & Free Book Distribution Day, the sneakers were collected and added to a line of sneakers that circled the school - starting, of course and in keeping with the mixed-up theme, at the finish line and making its way to the starting line. It was a mixed-up day all the way around at Lehman-Jackson on Wednesday with everybody from the school secretary to students to teachers to parents doing everything backwards. Instead of welcoming the students with “Good Morning,” Glogowski cheerily called out “Good Night” when the students came to school in the morning. The book she read from the roof was titled “Backwards Day” and she followed that with a See MIX, Page 10 They put the ‘wow’ in Pow-Wow By CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK For The Dallas Post For the more than 700 people who went to Crazy Crow’s First Intertribal Pow-Wow at the Nox- en Fire Company grounds last weekend, the pow-wow was WOW. “There is a feeling here of a lot of good spiritual energy” one ven- dor remarked. Maybe the good spirits come m the 9,000-year-old hiero- wlyphics or the burial mounds, both off of Route 29 in Noxen. “A very important Shawnee chief is buried next to the small cemetery in Noxen,” says Murph “Spirit Bird” Conrad Hislop from Harvey’s Lake. “Maybe it’s the community support”. “The (Noxen) Fire Company is just so nice to us they can’t seem to do enough,” one vendor said. The grounds have been regraded, reseeded and equipped with extra electrical hook-ups for the event and everyone appreciated the ice- cream they sold. Observers of the pow-wow probably wanted to jump right in and participate, but this is an American Indian ceremonial pow-wow and here, the Indians are in charge. There is an inherent distance when someone who is not of American Indian ancestry goes to a ceremonial pow wow or celebra- tion. There are rules of conduct that non-Indians don’t understand. The rules aren’t written down. In- dian languages have no alphabets and some languages have been lost forever. But, events run gracefully by word of mouth and there are storytellers at the pow- wow who have a mandate from the creator to tell the history of the people. See WOW, Page 10 #7 AE Ctl komt an senna sein iy CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK/FOR THE DALLAS POST Robert "Turkey Dancer’ Brown | of Noxen led the intertribal dance at Crazy Crow's First Intertribal Pow “| Wow in Noxen.
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