PAGE 4 EDITORIAL Sunday, September 7, 2008 Library welcomes speaker As your calendars become filled with school activities, parent- teacher meetings, fall frolics and an endless schedule of sports games to attend, be sure to leave a little time to enjoy this fall's special of- ferings at the Back Mountain Memorial Library. e000 “Benjamin Franklin, Printer of Philadelphia” will be presented by Commonwealth speaker Dr. George Boudreau at 7 p.m. on Monday, Sept.15. Dr. Bordeau has been a popular Commonwealth speaker since 2000 and has been awarded a number of special honors for his work in History, in particular, Early American Studies. His free program will explore the life of Pennsylvania’s most noted colonial. Professor Bordeau examines the characters Benjamin Franklin cre- ated in his published work (Poor Richard, Silence Dogood) and the way Franklin literally recreated his own persona in the numerous por- traits for which he sat. Franklin was one of the first Americans to market himself and to understand the importance of public percep- tion for personal success. Slides of Franklin and his contemporaries, as well as the world in which they lived, will illustrate this talk. This presentation is a program of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, sponsored in part by a grant from the Pennsylvania Histor- ical and Museum Commission. Pre-registration is required and you may reserve your space by call- ing the library at 675-1182. oo 0 The Back Mountain Memorial Library will once again participate in the Dallas Days Harvest Festival with our popular Mini-Auction. The mini-auction will be held at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 14, in the same location as previous years, the Dallas Borough Garage. This special sale will include antiques, new goods and decorative glass- ware. A Master Gardeners’ program, “The Top Ten Questions Asked by Gardeners” will be held at the library at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 27. Master Gardeners Roseanne Nardone and Jean Kolojejchick will teach this free presentation and offer their solutions to various gar- dening issues. Space is limited in our Community Room, so pre-regis- tration is required. Call the library at 675-1182 to reserve your spot today! “An Etiquette Sampler” class will be offered for children and teens ages 8 and up from 6 to 7 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 22. The class will showcase basic communication skills, proper introductions and greetings, social etiquette and table manners. The class is limited to 12 students and will be held in the Children’s Wing of the library. The fee to attend the class is $18 and must be paid at the time of pre-registration. [NN J A final reminder to area children who have participated in our “Catch the Reading Bug” summer reading program: If you have not already done so, please stop by the Children’s Room to collect your bug jars. oe 0 Registrations for Fall Story hours will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 1. You may either call the library beginning at 9:30 a.m. or stop in the Children’s Room to register in person. Story hours will begin the week of October 12 and end the week of December 1. The schedule will be as follows: Toddlers (2 years old) from 10 to 10:30 a.m. or from 11 to 11:30 a.m. on Tuesdays. Three to five year olds will meet from 9:45 t0 10:45 a.m. or 11 a.m. to noon on Wednesdays or from 10 to 11 a.m. on Thursdays. SUBMITTED PHOTO Mrs. Jill Kryston of Defining Matters will present "An Etiquette Sampler" for children ages 8 and up from 6 to 7 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 22, in the Children's Room of the Back Mountain Memorial Library. ETIQUETTE CLASS OFFERED “An Etiquette Sampler” will be held with'Mrs. Jill Kryston from 6 to 7 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 22, in the Children’s Room of the Back Mountain Memorial Library. Children ages 8 and up will learn table manners, social eti- quette and communication skills in association with “Defining Manners: A School of Contemporary Protocol.” Participants are asked to reserve their place in class by coming to the main desk of the library to pre-register and pay the $18.00 fee. Checks may be written to “Defining Manners.” Attire for the class is casual dress. Parents may call the library at 675-182 for more information.. The Dallas Post www.mydallaspost.com Community Newspaper Group THE TIMES LEADER 15 N. Main St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18711 ® 570-675-521 news@mydallaspost.com Dotty Martin EDITOR 970-7440 dmartin@mydallaspost.com ~ Richard L. Connor PUBLISHER 829-7202 rconnor@timesleader.com Christie Delicati ADVERTISING 970-7111 cdelicati@timesleader.com Man & Beast Tango is a 2-year-old mixed Sia- mese adopted by Pat and Guy Giorda- no of Harveys Lake from the Halifax Humane Society last November after their 3-year-old cat suddenly died from an unknown cause. Tango is all of 20 pounds and is the most lovable) cat with a personality all his own. He loves to lay in the window, watching for his feathered friends and actually “talks” to them. Cantelope is one of his favorite treats. SHARE YOUR PET PICTURES WITH OUR READERS Who's your best friend? If your ve- ‘ry 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 vocabulary - and we'll share it with readers of The Dallas Post. Tell us your name and address, your pet's name, his or her age, his or her breed and anything else you'd like everyone to know about your pet. Be sure to include your tele- phone 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 1871 or e- mail the picture to us at news@my- dallaspost.com. If you send a picture and would like to have it returned, be sure to in- clude a self-addressed/stamped en- velope. We'll publish the pictures in the or- der in which we receive them. 1938 — 70 YEARS AGO Hopes for a modern sewage disposal system for Dallas Bor- ough, aroused by council investi- gation during the last two months, waned Wednesday eve- ning when councilmen voted to table the proposition. The latest council move, which appears to be virtual abandon- ment of any steps to- wards a sewage Sys- tem, may provoke action from the State Board of Health. Kingston Township school board voted Tuesday night to ac- cept PWA Project 2086 in the construction of the new Trucks- ville Grade School building. The project carries a federal grant of $27,901 which will defray 45 per- cent of the costs of construction. Actual work on the building is scheduled to begin on or about October 1and it is estimated that the job will be finished within ten months after it has begun. The new structure will be built on the site of the old building which burned down last winter. YESTERDAY 1948 - 60 YEARS AGO Borough and State Police have clues to the identity of sneak thieves who entered the home of Murray Scureman on Huntsville Road sometime Saturday night or Sunday morning and stole a valuable camera and small change bank. One of the most attractive au- tomobile sales rooms in the county was thrown open for in- spection last night when Ho- ward Isaacs entertained Chrys- ler-Plymouth dealers and offi- cials of Chrysler Corporation in his newly-completed building in Trucksville. Movies playing at the Sandy Beach Drive-In Theatre includ- ed “Bells of San Angelo” starring Roy Rogers and Trigger and Dale Evans; “Love And Learn” star- ring Jack Carson, Robert Hut- ton, Martha Vickers and Janis Paige; and “Mr. District Attor- ney” starring Dennis O'Keefe. 1958 — 50 YEARS AGO A former Noxen boy now liv- ing in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has invented a safety device for twirlers who throw the flaming baton. Willard Jones, who has a record of many inventions and patents dating back almost to his high school days in Noxen, came up with a coated coil-wire device to replace the soaked kerosene wicks commonly used by twir- lers putting on night shows. A Dallas Air Reserve officer and his father are two of the best rifle shots on the North Ameri- can continent. The officer, 1st Lt. Loren W. Samsel Jr., of Dallas, recently assigned to the 953rd Air reserve Squadron, Wilkes- Barre, came in twelfth in the grand aggregate of the National Small Bore Rifle Matches at Camp Perry, Ohio in August. His father, Loren W. Samsel Sr., also of Dallas, came in first in the Canadian National Small Bore Rifle Championships at Ottawa in August. A Dallas lad of seven and one of eleven placed in the quarter- midget races at Berwick on La- bor Day. Both Drew Bittenben- der and Chuck Stevens have been practicing at Dallas Open- Air Theater track all summer. Drew took second place in one of the fifteen-lap races at Berwick, and came within a tenth of a sec- ond of equaling the time record of 11.8. Chuck placed first in thir- ty-five lap race and first in a fif- teen lapper. 1968 — 40 YEARS AGO John Pickett will go to Mexico this year as a member of the U.S. Olympic Canoe and Kayak Team, earning a berth on the team when he finished second in the K-1 1,000 meter events on Monday. : Few people in Dallas realized that Mayor Thomas Morgan was eighty years old. It came as a shock to them when they learned that he had died Satur- day night at General Hospital where he had been admitted a short time earlier. Thomas Hugh Morgan was appointed Burgess of Dallas ten years ago, following the unex- pected death of Burgess Norti Berti. He was re-elected at the end of his term in office. A plane bound from Chicago, making a beeline from White Plains, met a terrific turbulence over Dallas Township, a storm with tornado-like winds moving * in from the west on Labor Day around 2 p.m. Fragments of the plane were scattered over a four-mile area. What was left of the plane had passed under a power line and hit a pile of boulders in an open field near New Goss Manor. Three victims died instantly. One of the crew of the Dallas am- bulance said he knew there were three “because we found six arms and six legs.” 1978 — 30 YEARS AGO Elwood Whitesell of Dallas is eligible to win a free trip to Scot- land and $1,000 as a result of scoring a hole-in-one at the Ea- gles Mere Country Club. White- sell's ace qualified him for the 18th annual Rusty Nail Hole-In- One Sweepstakes, a national competition sponsored by the Drambuie Liqueur Company of Edinburg, Scotland. The winner will be announced early next year. Thomas McAvoy of Shaver- town is among 169 students who have earned distinction as “Uni- versity Scholars” for the 1978-79 academic year at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, PA. Press-Enterprise Inc., Blooms-| burg, Pa. and Pennaprint, In Dallas, Pa. today ri et merger plans which will estab lish one of the largest newspaper circulation concentrations in’ Northeastern Pennsylvania. The group will include Press-Enter- prise’s Bloomsburg Morning Press, Berwick Enterprise and TOMAC controlled circulation newspaper and six Pennaprint weekly newspapers, including The Dallas Post, and a Penna- print advertising guide. 1988 — 20 YEARS AGO People are already lining up for a place at the Hi-Meadows Apartments complex in Dallas which i isin the finishing stages of construction and should be com- pleted by November. These apartments are part of the Mead- ows complex which contain the Meadows Nursing Center and Meadows Apartments for low- income elderly. The Hi-Meadows are for low and moderate income elderly with rentals subsidized through S40 4 the Farmer’s Home fusing Pr | : tion, Rural Renting Housing Pr gram. Friends and family of the. Ite Mark Wiener hosted a dedica- tion ceremony at the Kingston Township Municipal Building on September 4 where a foun- tain recently was erected in Wiener’s memory. Wiener was a resident of Trucksville until his death in 1987 from bone cancer at the age of 30. Joe Dwinchek was welcomed into the Dallas Lions Club by past president Robert Fino and sponsor Tom Reese. Information for “Only Yester- day” is taken from past issues of The Dallas Post, which is 119 vears old. The wformation is printed here exactly as it ap- peared in the newspaper vears ago. WHAT DO YOU LUZERNE COUNTY FAIR? “The rides are fun; it's so much fun. We walk around and see the animals. | like the horses but my mom espe- cially likes the pigs.” Allison Spencer Shavertown “I like to see all my friends there. It's good socializ- ing. I usually see my cou- sins and aunt who have a booth there every year.” Ashlyn Van Deutsch Trucksville “| like to take my grandson. We enjoy steak sandwiches, potato pan-_. cakes sprin- kled with pow- dered sugar.” Rose Stravinski Dallas “| enjoy watching the animals and playing games +|there. And cakes and es~ ‘| “don't they pecially funnel have a coal exhibit there? | like seeing that.” Joe Stravinski Dallas » . “I like that it's local. You're seeing your neighbors ‘there and the farmers from the area. | like the crafts, food and pro- duce winners." Suzanne Rhoads Courtdale “The animals, the farm ex- hibits and the $ | ¢ horses. Last year Tommy Turvey, a horse trainer, was there. We like horses because we have some.” Elaine Smith Hunlock Creek - ¥
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