Vol.121 No.3 THE BACK MOUNTAIN'S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1889 February 7 - 13, 2010 The DALLAS POST. Serving the communities of the Dallas and Lake-Lehman School Districts www.mydallaspost.com Tv = Beebo he Selig gy Rt Rains. > bg i By REBECCA BRIA rbria@timesleader.com Mary Garrity Slaby, Ph.D., discovered a family secret a few years ago while doing ge- nealogy research. Garrity Slaby, 54, of Dallas, was shocked to learn that her great-grandmother, Catherine McCafferty, was the aunt of Alex Campbell, a member of the Molly Maguires, a secret Irish organization. Campbell was one of four men hanged for allegedly killing two mine op- eratives in Mauch Chunk, lo- Mary Slaby holds a copy of her award-winning book, "Call Me Kate." cated in Carbon County. It was Garrity Slaby’s geneal- ogy research and her aunt, Margaret Bonner, who in- spired her to write a book for young adults called “Call Me Kate: Meeting the Molly Ma- guires.” The book, published in 2008, was recently named a silver re- cipient for historical fiction in the young adult books catego- ry in the 2010 Mom’s Choice Awards. The Mom’s Choice Awards recognize authors, inventors, companies, parents and others for their efforts in creating quality family-friendly media, products and services. Award recipients receive a lapel pin, seals for the winning product and a certificate. Set in the 1860s, “Call Me Kate: Meeting the Molly Ma- guires” is a historical fictional story centered on 14-year-old Catherine McCafferty, a char- acter named after Garrity Sla- by’s great-grandmother. In the story, McCafferty’s best friend joins the Molly Maguires and McCafferty wants to intervene. Garrity Slaby says she ap- plied for the Mom’s Choice Awards but wasn’t sure if she would win. “I didn’t know really because I thought the book is different than a lot of books being writ- ten for young adults these days,” she said. Dallas author wins ‘Mom's Choice Award Garrity Slaby wrote the book under the pen name Molly Roe because she thought it would be better to have a pen name for fictional writing in case she does more academic writing. She says Mollyroe is the name of the town land in Ireland where her great-grandfather Peter Bonner lived before mov- ing to Pennsylvania. “I thought it was a suitable way to memorialize my ances- tors and posthumously thank him for being smart enough to put the town on his naturaliza- tion papers!” Garrity Slaby said. “Having the town land helped me find the actual loca- See AUTHOR, Page 12 First-time bus riders By REBECCA BRIA rbria@timesleader.com Four-year-old Zachery Rager couldn’t wait to take a ride on a school bus. Zachery, of Harveys Lake, said he was excited to get on a bus for the first time because, unlike a car, a bus has no seat belts. Zachery and 13 other soon-to- be kindergarteners at Lake-Nox- en Elementary School had the opportunity to take a ride on a school bus without their parents on Feb 3. The bus ride was part of the Lake-Lehman School District’s Kindergarten Readiness Pro- gram. The program is meant for children entering kindergarten during the upcoming school year and for their parents. Four segments are held during e current school year at each “of the elementary schools to pre- pare the children and their par- ents for kindergarten. Activities are provided for both the parents and the children “to instill a sense of comfort and familiarity for their first elementary experi- ence.” Topics covered include nutri- tion and health readiness, read- ing and math readiness and bus safety. Pre-registration materials are also distributed. Sandy Dobrowolski, transpor- tation coordinator for Lake-Leh- man, and Lori Kucewicz, a kin- Lehman-Jackson Elementary School: Monday, Feb. 22, starting at 9 a.m. 675-2165 Lake-Noxen Elementary School: Tuesday, Feb. 23, starting at 9 a.m. 639-129 Ross Elementary School: Wednesday, Feb. 24, starting at © a.m. 477-5050 e Parents will be required to pro- vide their child's birth certificate, two proofs of residency (driver's license and utility bill and immuni- zations. The child must accompa- ny the parent to registration. dergarten teacher at I.ake-Nox- en, led the children outside of the school while the parents stayed behind to pre-register. Despite being apart from their parents, none of the youngsters cried. Before allowing the students on the bus, Dobrowolski re- viewed bus safety with the chil- dren. The children were shown yellow flashing lights and red flashing lights and were instruct- ed not to begin to walk toward the bus until they see the red lights. They also learned to stay in front of the yellow stop arm that comes out in front of the bus so they are visible to the driver. The children then got on the bus and sat two in a seat for a ride around Harveys Lake. CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK/ FOR THE DALLAS POST Ava Gubbioti, left, and Lanie Weaver are all eyes and ears on a school bus during a program offered to future kindergarten students at the Lake-Noxen Elementary School. Both girls are first-time school bus riders. Rylie Bucknavage, 5, took a seat next to her friend, Faye Post, 4, whom she knows from Sunflower Sprouts Learning Center in Harveys Lake. It was a first school bus ride for both girls, who also both live in Har- veys Lake. “I've been on a bus before, but not a school bus,” Faye told Ry- lie. “It didn’t have seatbelts, ei- ther, but my mom and daddy rode with me so I didn’t fall off.” Rylie said she liked the bus be- cause of its windows. Kucewicz led the children through several verses of the song “The Wheels on the Bus.” Not long after they finished the song, the children asked if they could sing some more. Kucewicz also pointed out things such as ice on the lake, a man fishing and road construc- tion. Faye wanted to know why ducks were out on the lake in the middle of winter. “What are they doing out there?” she asked. “It’s so cold. And they put their heads under water.” In response to Faye’s com- ments, Rylie said, “One time I put corn in there and they ate it and they thought it was fish.” “That’s the funniest thing I ev- er heard!” Faye replied, obvious- ly amused. Belle Boice, who drove the bus, thinks the bus ride is a good idea to help preparechildren for kindergarten. Boice’s = grand- daughter, Lanie Weaver, was one of the children on the bus. “It’s not so scary when the bus rolls up to the stop (on the first day of school),” Boice said. Special bond between them began at birth “The babies are special. It's one of my favorite things to do to calf out cows. It's quite an impres- sive thing to witness and be a part of." By REBECCA BRIA rbria@timesleader.com All seemed normal on Jan. 27 at The Lands at Hillside Farms when Buttercup went into labor. A 2-year-old Jersey heifer, Butter- cup delivered a calf, Lilac, after about an hour of labor. Although Li- lac seemed a bit small, all was well until Amy Deome, a teamster at the farm, noticed Buttercup was livering a second calf. The staff unaware Buttercup was carry- ing twins. The second calf, named Lily, was not breathing and was quickly hung upside down to help rid her 6809815120079 7 NE AR LE Amy Deome Credited with saving calf’s life lungs of her mother’s amniotic fluid. When Lily still didn’t take a breath, Deome took matters into her own hands. “I put my hand over the nostrils and the mouth and I put my mouth over one of her nostrils and blew in- to it,” Deome said. “Then she took her first breath and we put a piece of hay in her nose to stimulate a sneeze response.” Deome, 38, of Shavertown, the wife of Chuck Deome, farm manag- er at The Lands at Hillside Farms, learned the procedure from a Mas- sachusetts veterinarian named Dr. Tom Ray. She agrees that her own mother- Sh EE EF RRA SA ly instincts helped save little Lily. The Deomes have five children “I think that plays a part in it,” Deome said. “The babies are spe- cial. It’s one of my favorite things to do to calf out cows. It’s quite an im- pressive thing to witness and be a part of.” Deome says it is fairly unusual for aheifer to give birth to twins, es- pecially two females. Usually in the event of twins, one calf and one bull calf are born. Lilac, 15 pounds, and Lily, 25 pounds, were immediately taken away from their mother. For the first week, they were each fed two bottles oftheir mother’s milk. They were then switched to two bottles a day each of a milk formula. Deome explained that cows to- day are designed to milk more than a calf should be fed. If the cows nat- urally fed their calves, the calves would be overfed and the moms would be under milked, causing both moms and babies to become sick. Lilac and Lily now join a herd of about 100 cows, 75 of whom are milking cows. Jersey heifer cows live to be about 9 years old at The Lands at Hillside Farms, but they only live tobe about 5 on an average farm, Deome said. According to Deome, the cows are bred at the farm beginning at a year to a year and a half old and car- ry their young for nine months. Many of the cows are pregnant and 10 are expected to give birth this month alone. “Theyre like our family, too,” to treat it.” Co Sl se . MM 4 z X tion tec CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK/ FOR THE DALLAS POST Amy Deome, a teamster at The Lands at Hillside Farms, Shaver- she said. “That’s the way you have town, rescued "Lily," a newborn calf at birth by using a resuscita- hnique. ) Ea
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