*PAGE 10 THE DALLAS POST Sunday, November 9, 2008 Trucksville woman hopes to bring back Kingston Twp. Lions Club By REBECCA BRIA rbria@timesleader.com The Kingston Township Lions Club is important to Patty Os- chal. The Trucksville resident was a member of the club for sev- eral years and never gave up on it, even after it fell apart. But the club no longer exists. That's why Oschal and several others are looking for new people to restart it. Anyone interested in joining the Kingston Township Lions Club is asked to meet at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 11, at Pizza Perfect in Trucksville. Both men and women are welcome to join and children are allowed at the meet- ing. Kingston Township residen- cy is not required to become a member. “I enjoy community service,” Oschal said. “I always liked help- ing people and I'm very charita- ble. I like doing fundraisers and donating to the needy and our club does all that.” Twenty people must join the Kingston Township Lions Club in order for it to become char- tered. “A community such as King- ston Township, with 7,500 resi- dents, should have a viable, oper- ating Lions Club within its bor- ders,” said Walter Bechtold, Dis- trict 14-W Governor of the Lions Clubs International, which is comprised of Luzerne County. “District 14-W is asking anyone who is interested or just plain cu- rious to please stop by, meet your neighbors, make some new friends, learn what Lionism is all about and maybe join a commu- nity-minded service organiza- tion.” According to Bechtold, the pri- mary mission of Lions Clubs is and has traditionally been sight and blindness prevention. Today, many clubs have additional ef- forts to aid youth through schol- arships and the Quest Program which teaches life and coping skills to students. The Lions also help veterans, the elderly and those less fortunate. Bechtold, a member of the Jen- kins Township Lions Club, says the Kingston Township Lions Club existed for many years but disbanded for reasons he does not know. The club was re-char- tered on June 21, 2003. Steve Crane assumed the role of presi- dent, but died unexpectedly at age 45 in January 2005. Members grieved his death and the club fell apart once again. “One of the ex-members (Os- chal) who is helping keep this thing going described him to me as a Lion’s lion,” Bechtold said of Crane. “This guy just lived and breathed Lionism and it was just devastating when he passed away.” Several women raised funds for the Lions White Cane Days under the reorganizing Kingston Township Lions Club on Satur- day, Nov. 1. Oschal, Joan Milli- gan, past district 14-W governor and a member of the Plains JLW Mountain Laurel Lions Club, Cabinet Secretary Mary Lou Bechtold of the Jenkins Town- ship Lions Club and Patty War- wick of the Swoyersville Lions collected money for the fund out- side of Thomas’ Family Market in Shavertown. The women also took the names of over half a doz- en new people who want to sign up for the club. While the women were at Tho- mas’ Market, Bechtold and Jeff Smith, District 14-W Region 3 Chairperson and a member of the Harveys Lake Lions Club, walked through Back Mountain neigh- borhoods in an attempt to recruit members and garner interest in the club. “I really kind of fell in love with the area,” Bechtold said. “We on- ly had one person who shut the door on us. We had a lot of people that were really interested, espe- cially young people with chil- dren.” The Kingston Township Lions Club is restarting with a meeting for interested persons at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 1l, at Pizza Per- fect. On Saturday, Nov. 1, several women raised funds for the Li- ons White Cane Days at Thomas’ Family Market in Shavertown. Shown during that fundraiser are, from left, Lions Club past Dis- trict 14-W Governor Joan Milligan, Plains JLW Mountain Laurel Lions Club; Cabinet Secretary Mary Lou Bechtold, Jenkins Town- ship Lions Club; District 14-W Vice Governor Patty Warwick, Swoyersville Lions Club; and Patty Oschal, representing the new Kingston Township Lions Club. are volunteers Kathy Waltos, left, and Rita Balberchak. BOOKSHOP Continued from Page 1 tion to the library in the mid-1990s, he included room be- low it for a used bookstore. The bookshop opened in No- vember 1998 with Ruth Tetschn- er, a retired principal from the former Westmoreland Elemen- tary School, as manager. Krohle, 73, of Lake Township, started volunteering at the bookshop in 2000. In the spring of 2002, Tetschner moved out of the Back Mountain and asked Krohle to take over as manager. Since Krohle was retired and worked as a reference librarian for 33 years at Wilkes Universi- ty, he agreed to take the posi- tion. “Naturally, it was a perfect fit there,” Krohle said. “I didn’t have anything to do; I was re- tired. So I said, T1l give it a shot.” And here I am six years later still managing things.” The Slightly Read Bookshop relies entirely on donated books and items. One-half of the shop contains fiction books while the other 50 percent is non-fiction. Customers will find many genres of adult books, including mystery, science fiction, west- erns, horror, romance, spy thrill- ers, history, biography, classical authors, cookbooks and craft CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK/FOR THE DALLAS POST Keeping the shelves straight at the Back Mountain Memorial Library's Slightly Read Bookshop books. There is a wide variety of children’s softcover and hard- cover books that range from young child through teenagers. Large print books, audiobooks, DVDs, VHS tapes, puzzles and collectible books are also avail- able. According to Krohle, the bookshop raises about $12,000 a year for the library’s general budget. Twenty volunteers, made up of mostly retirees and a schoolteacher, run the shop. At least eight of the volunteers have been working at the book- shop the entire 10 years it has been open. “For one thing, T like meeting people and, in a situation like this, you have both regular and new customers coming in the store,” he said of why he enjoys volunteering. “You get to talk with them and we have interest- ing discussions sometimes, es- pecially around Election Day. You get a lot of camaraderie.” The Slightly Read Bookshop is open from 1to 7 p.m. on Mon- days, 10 am. to 7 p.m. on Wednesdays and 10 am. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays. During July and August, the bookshop is on- ly open 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sat- urdays. CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK/ FOR THE DALLAS POST Christin Snyder exercises in the comfort of her home in Shavertown. Snyder has started an online exercise support group. WEIGHT Continued from Page 1 down to a healthy weight. But when Snyder became preg- nant with her first child, she gained 50 pounds and spent three years overweight until she or- dered a workout DVD. 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