PAGE4 THE POST E DITO RIAL Sunday, December 2, 2007 Homework help available on BMT library's website Although area students are anticipating more snow days and the upcoming holidays, parents and teachers alike know that there is a still a lot of schoolwork to do between now and that last day before winter break. Back Mountain Memorial Library would like to remind students (and frus- trated parents!) to discover an easy and educational way to receive help with homework. By visiting our website at www.backmountainlibra- ry.org and clicking on the link for Live Homework Help, your students in grades 4 through 12 can receive help from per- sonal tutors right at home via the Internet. Tutors are avail- able in all subjects. Spanish- speaking tutors are also avail- able. After clicking on the homework help icon, students enter their grade level and subject and they will instantly be connected to an expert tu- tor. This service is available from 3 to 10 p.m. every day. Holiday Open House planned Students are not the only people busy at this time of year, though. The library staff is already planning for the up- coming winter holidays. Our Annual Holiday Open House is scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 19 and 20. Be sure to schedule a peaceful break amidst your shopping and baking and stop by the li- brary to relax and enjoy light refreshments on those days. While you’re here, you may even find a book that has just the perfect idea for a holiday celebration! Excellent gift ideas If you are searching for gifts for those hard-to-shop for peo- ple on your shopping list, re- member that the library offers a few unique ideas. We are once again selling the North- east Pennsylvania edition of Entertainment books, which includes discount coupons for area restaurants and business- es. The price of each book is only $20. Stop in soon before our limited supply is gone! Bricks make great gifts Another meaningful gift idea is to purchase an en- graved brick in memory of or in honor of a special person. The cost of a brick is $100 and includes three lines of engrav- ing. Names of family members or friends whom you wish to commemorate or honor on the brick will then be added to the walkway outside the front en- trance of the library. Order forms are available at the li- brary or you may call 675-1182 for more information. Holiday books, greeting cards available Don’t forget to also visit our Slightly Read Bookshop down- stairs to check out the great se- lection of holiday books and greeting cards. From holiday cookbooks to great winter reading, the bookshop offers the best bargains in the Back Mountain! The bookshop will be open during its regular hours (from 1to 7 p.m., 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesdays and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays) through De- cember 22. It will then be closed for two weeks and will re-open on Saturday, Jan. 5. Holiday hours The Back Mountain Memo- rial library will be closed on both Monday, Dec. 24 (Christ- mas Eve) and Tuesday, Dec. 25, to celebrate Christmas and on Monday, Dec. 31 (New Year’s Eve) and Tuesday, Jan. 1, to celebrate New Year’s Day. It will re-open on Wednesday, Jan. 2 for normal hours. GOLD AWARD PROJECT AIDS LIBRARY Heather Mines, a senior at Dallas High School, recently re- ceived the Girl Scout Gold Award by helping the Back Mountain Memorial Library in two ways. She designed and created a room for the Haunted Library fundraiser and collected and donated numerous arts and craft supplies for the story hour programs in the Children's Room. Mines raised the money by conducting a bake sale at a local grocery store. In addition, she placed collec- tion boxes within the library for patrons to contribute new and extra craft supplies to her cause. Story hour volunteers were thrilled to see the amount and variety of articles available to them for story hour crafts like construction paper, foamies of every shape and size, glue, markers, chenille stems and stickers. Mines has been a Girl Scout for 13 years and was a member of "Asta" was 5 years old when his family took this delightful picture of him while walking in Frances Slocum State Park. Today, Asta, a Rough Coat Collie mix like Lassie, is 10 years old. His name comes from the "Thin Man" movie series his owners, Joseph Fauzio and Donna Scott-Fauzio of Idetown Road in Dallas, watched as kids on WVIA-TV/Channel 44. The lead characters in the show, Nick and Nora Charles, owned a rat terrier which inspired the Fauzios to choose the name. Joseph and Donna claim Asta is very affectionate and (mostly) obedient and admit he is a "one in a million dog." Who's your best friend? if your very best friend in the whole wide world is your pet, we want to know about it. Send us a picture of your pet - whether it be a lovable puppy, a slimy iguana or a parrot with an extensive vo- cabulary - and we'll share it with readers of The Dallas Post. Tell us your name and ad- dress, your pet's name, his or her age, his or her breed and anything else you'd like ev- eryone to know about your pet. Be sure to include your telephone number in the event we have questions. © Send everything to "Man and Beast," c/o The Dallas Post, 15 N. Main St., Wilkes- Barre, PA 18702 or e-mail the picture to us at news@mydal- laspost.com. If you send a picture and would like to have it returned, be sure to include a self-ad- dressed/stamped envelope. We'll publish the pictures in the order in which we receive them. Reader horrified over ‘hacked off” limbs of two beautiful old maple trees troops 2929 and 2627. She is currently a Juliette Girl Scout. Richard L. Connor PUBLISHER The Dallas Post TIMES® LEADER Community Newspaper Group ¢ 15 N. Main St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18711 ® 570-970-7440 news@mydallaspost.com Dotty Martin EDITOR Matt Smith ADVERTISING Dear Editor: our way to make development A favorite vision of mine has and chipper; condemned in- “Quality of Life” is an elusive like this as painful to the eye as always been a couple of beauti- nocents, beaten, humiliated, term; it means different things possible. ful, old maple trees I pass down bleeding, now looking forward to different people and very few Beauty is cheap. It does not the road from my house. They to the coupe de grace that will communities actually write have to be expensive. All it are huge, perfectly shaped and end this torture. down a definition of it. takes is a little thought. When healthy as they are not crowd- The one beautiful feature to For me, one major compo- you think of “Home Sweet ed by any other surrounding balance out the drabness of t nent of quality of life is beauty. Home” do you picture that trees. I watch them blossom in non-descript house they were Of course, beauty is also de- concrete bench under the mer- the spring, cast enormous in front of is now gone forever. scribed in various ways by cury vapor light overlooking shadows of shade in the sum- Now that house is nothing, just various beholders; “Eye Wash” the paved parking lot next to mer and turn bright colors in another strip-mall with nothing by the military or “curb-appeal” - the major-chain drugstore? I the fall. They are like a loving to distinguish it from the rest of by real estate people. didn’t think so. couple growing old gracefully the houses near it. Whatever What few people seem to One of the things I love side by side. They are absolute- the reasons were that made the realize is that the most abun- about Pennsylvania is the pleth- ly lovely, great for the envi- owner cut those trees down, I dant beauty of our life is very ora of back roads. It is one of ronment and without cost of doubt that I would be con- often our own world, “natural- the reasons that I moved here.I any kind. vinced of the necessity. ly.” It never ceases to amaze me live on a back road and it is This is why I was horrified to So much for the Quality of how adept humans are at mak- always enjoyable to drive and pass them last week and see all Life in the Back Mountain. ing our surroundings down- gaze at the natural beauty. of their limbs hacked off. Their George Trovato right ugly. Does anyone really ~~ There is always something robust trunks still standing side Lower Dems Road believe that strip malls are different and comfortable on by side, stripped, naked, wait- Bla beautiful? We seem to go out of the eye. ing the return of the chainsaws 20 YEARS AGO the jointure and, in fact, the first ing of the Association. Nelson Ashburner, secretary; The seat belt legislation man- Democrat to serve on a Dallas and Art Mauer, treasurer. dating their use in Pennsylvania, School Board since Ralph Elston 50 YEARS AGO Movies playing this week at signed by Gov. Robert P. Casey Was elected to the Dallas Town- py,11.¢ Branch of Miners Bank the Shaver Theater, Shaver- last week, brings varied reaction Ship board in1937. is a busy place any day in the OW included "The Hucksters” from motorists in the Back _ Ihe Seventeen Fashion Board _. i but Saturday morningitre- Starring Clark Gable, Deborah Mountain area. from Lazarus Department Store ally hummed. Sixteen young- Kerr, Sidney Greenstreet and The Junior High Youth Fel modeled many beautiful fash- gos rom the art department of Av2 Gabor; “The Macomber Af: lowship of ionsintherecentcard partyand p.11o¢ Area schools c onverged fair” starring Gregory Peck, Joan Huntsville fashion show sponsored by the 4.101 +0 do alittle Christ. Bennett and Robert Preston; and Christian Church is ~ holdingaho- liday movie matinee ONLY perform- YESTERDAY ance of “It’s A Wonder- ful Life” on Sunday at Penn State Wilkes-Barre Campus’ Hayfield House. Planners included Dawn Hando, Stacey Yanalunas, Amanda Marshall, Barbie Camp- bell, Noell Brooks, Heather Isaac, John Russell, Jason Bow- en, Dave Larkins, Harry Haas, Mike Twichell and Matt Camp- bell. Gate of Heaven School, Ma- chell Avenue, Dallas, has been notified by the Governing Board of Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools that they have been awarded certification. Members of the school’s action committee are: Mary Grace Cas- cio, Kathleen McCarthy, Janet Furman, Teresa Rutkoski, Sr. M. Davida Morgan, RSM, principal, Deborah Wysocki and Abe Si- mon. 30 YEARS AGO Dallas Kiwanis Club is observ- ing their 50th anniversary this year. The local club was founded as t he Mt. Greenwood Kiwanis Club in 1927. Members of the club who are taking part in anni- versary programs are: George McCutcheon, Bob Lawhorn, Paul Hession, Robert Dolbear, Walter Kozemchak, Arch Austio and Reese Pelton. Basil Russin of Dallas is the first registered Democrat elect- ed to serve on the Dallas School District Board of Directors since Dallas Junior Woman's Club at Gate of Heaven Church, Dallas. Co-Chairmen of the event were Mrs. Genie Wartella and Mrs. Linda Vozniak. 40 YEARS AGO Members of the Dallas Wom- an’s Club Chorale have been re- hearsing for the past ten weeks to bring to the people of Wyom- ing Valley a beautiful Christmas Program. As in the past, the cho- rale started to sing on December 1st and will entertain at lun- cheons, dinners, civic and ser- vice dinners and holiday parties through December 22. Members of the chorale are: Mrs. Al Turner, Mrs. George Yat- sko, Mrs. Charles Mahler, Mrs. William Jones, Paul Lauer, Mrs. Glen Case, Mrs. Willis Hape- man, Mrs. Robert Carey, Mrs. William Carroll, Mrs. Donald Law, Mrs. John Williams, Mrs. Leo Mohen, Mrs. John Brown, Mrs. Joseph Kaminski, Mrs. Robert Kirchner, Mrs. Robert Spears, Mrs. Lamont Hold- sworth, Mrs. John McGoey, Mrs. Joseph Katyl, Mrs. William Walp, Mrs. Victor Cross, Mrs. Ralph Fitch and Mrs. Walter Davdison. Edgar Lashford was elected president of the Lake-Lehman School Board at Monday night's organization meeting. J. Fran- klin Patton took the post of vice president. Henry M. Laing Fire Company will have a new fire truck pum- per. The latest piece of equip- ment for the volunteers who pro- tect the homes in a wide area of the Back Mountain, will arrive sometime in the summer, the or- der being placed at the last meet- mas decorating. They were un- der the direction of Mrs. Do- rothy T. Whithey, School Art Su- pervisor. Before the day was over they had decorated the tempora- ry partitions between the old and new bank structure with na- tivity and holiday scenes. Among the painters were: Sha- ron Pickauski, Janey Kelly, Sha- ron Evans, Sharon Phillips, Judy Bergstrasser, William Baker, Jean Fleming, Susan Smith, Lin- da Davies, Ann Mulhern, Sher- rill Owens, Robert Brown, Wil- liam Ziegenfus, Paula Scott and Georgia McCutcheon. A Dallas Township widow learned the hard way Tuesday morning that you can’t eat veni- son out of season without a fine, even if the deer was fattened on your garden vegetables and young apple trees. Mrs. Dorothy Babchalk, who makes a living from her orchards, found the deer under one of her apple trees. It had been struck and killed by a public utility truck. She assumed that the carcass was hers since it had died on her property. She cut some of it up and naively invited any and all neighbors to share the meat. Someone must have been over- looked and offended. On Mon- day morning, four representa- tives from the State Game Com- mission called at the Babchalk front door and fined the widow $100. 60 YEARS AGO The Young Men's Class of Kunkle Methodist Sunday School elected the following offi- cers: David Parsons, president; Calvin Myers, vice president; A J “Last Frontier Uprising” star- ring Monte Hale and Adrian Booth. 70 YEARS AGO A semi-formal dance is being planned by the Girl Reserves of Dallas Borough High School on December 28 in the high school auditorium. Miss Helen Himm- ler is the newly elected advisor of the club. Committee mem- bers include Alberta Harvey, Ma- ry Templin, Florence Dempski, Ann Sutton, Beverly Wagner, Gertrude Kintz, Veronica Wi Audrey O’Kane, Dorothy Horn, Louise Space, Mary Jeter, Jean Hayden, Ruth Kresge, Ma- rion Eipper and Jane Coolbaugh. Defying pickets who have been conducting a strike against JB. Carr Biscuit Company, Wilkes-Barre, about sixty per- sons of this section have accept- ed jobs at the plant and are es- corted to work in a protected car- avan every morning. Piano pupils of Miss Lillian Rood of Dallas gave a lovely re- cital at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L.V. Lacy of Shavertown on Mon- day night. Youthful pianists who played were Charles Cook, Nao- mi Hons, Louise Dodson, Dick Case, Janice Lacy, Janet Post, Ralph Templin, Ernestine Baker, Prentice Lacy, Claire June Mal- kemes, Margarat Davis, Louise Hazletine, Dorothy Smith, June Benning and Marian Jones. Information for “Only Yester- day” is taken from past issues of The Dallas Post, which is 1 vears old. The information LJ printed here exactly as it ap- peared in the newspaper vears ago.
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