Sunday, February 14, 2010 THE DALLAS POST PAGE 9 Loved ones remembered with books The following memorial/hon- or books have been added to the shelves of the Back Mountain Me- morial Library, 96 Huntsville Rd., Dallas, for the month of January 10: In memory of Shirley Shandra, “Dawn Light” by Diane Acker- man, presented by Janet Mar- chakitus In memory of J. Borton, “Drive” by Daniel H. Pink, presented by Kingston Township Supervisors In memory of Nancy LaBar, “Fearless Color Gardens” by Keeyla Meadows, presented by Jack and Jennie Martin In memory of Roseann Rodzin- ski, “Hands of My Father” by Myr- on Uhlberg, presented by Betsy Sorber In memory of Dr. Wook Hun Koo, “The NPR Listener’s Ency- clopedia of Classical Music” by Ted Libbey, presented by Dr. Dale Wilkie and “In the Cockpit: Inside 50 History Making Aircraft,” pre- sented by Dr. and Mrs. William Wilkie In memory of Bubbles Martin, “Auto Repair for Dummies” by Deanna Sclar, presented by Mary Ann and Bob Wintersteen In memory of Mary Ann Yat- sko, “Speecherise: A Musical Workout for your Mouth” (Ages 3-6+), and “Speecherise: A Musi- cal Workout for your Mouth” (Ag- es 5-9), presented by The Snedek- er Family In memory of Shirley Davis, “The Next Generation of Women Leaders” by Selena Rezvan, pre- sented by Shirley Forney In memory of Mary McDade, “Japanese War Brides in Ameri- ca: An Oral History” by Miki Ward Crawford, presented by The Hufnagle Family: Mark, Matt, Steve & Ted and “The Comprehensive Guide to Skin Care” by Rebecca B. Campen, presented by Charlene Cook In memory of Janice Garner, “Dogtown” by Stefan Bechtel, presented by Jack and Jennie Martin In memory of my brother, Mer- le, “Snow Buddies” (DVD), pre- sented by Cheryl Newberry The following DVDs are in memory of Nicole Spencer and are presented by Anne Holmes and Frouke de Quillettes: “Fies- tal,” “Jonah: A Veggie Tale Mo- vie” and “Growing Up with Win- nie the Pooh: Friends Forever” In honor of the 80th birthday of Cliff Parker, “The Pyramid” by Henning Mankell, presented by Florence Anne and Frank Berna, “The Eleventh Victim” by Nancy Grace, presented by Jim and Evelyn Kersey, “Heat Wave” by Richard Castle, pre- sented by Mrs. Ray (Ruth) Major, Miss Ruth F. Major and Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Major and “Skeleton Justice” by Mi- chael M. Baden, presented by Mrs. Ray (Ruth) Major, Miss Ruth FE. Major, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Major In honor of Marty Curfman and Betty Lyons in becoming Life Masters in Bridge, “Just Listen” by Mark Goulston, presented by Kim and Richard Michelstein In honor of my colleagues in the Dallas School District: Paul Reinart, Jeffrey Shaffer, Matthew Barrett, Thomas Traver, Thomas Duffy, Mark Kraynack, Ron Gaylord, Grant Palfey, Frank Mariano, Brian Bradshaw, Sandy Pesavento and Bill Gartell, “The Fourth Part of the World” by Toby Lester, presented by Kathleen McCarthy I'M BIG NOW STUDENTS PREPARE FOR OPEN HOUSE Students at I'm Big Now preschool/kindergarten are preparing for the school’s 15th Annual Art/Science Show and Open House from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 25, at the school on North Memorial Highway in Dallas. Attendees will have an opportunity to meet the teachers and view Dr. Seuss-inspired art and science projects. Students in the pre-school class are, from left, Max Castellino, Lydia Barberio, Parker Bolesta, Aiden Fennell, Michael Battin, Kamryn Hutchins, Ella Jenkins, Hannah Letwinsky and Natalie Conrad. SCHOOL BRIEFS Seminary schools ost Visitation Day e Wyoming Seminary Up- per School in Kingston and Lower School in Forty Fort are offering a Visitation Day for area elementary, middle and high school students and their fam- ilies on Monday, Feb. 15. Registration will begin at 8 a.m. at the Lower School and at 8:30 a.m. at the Upper School. Visiting students will attend classes, tour campus and have lunch. Parent tours also will be available. For more information or to schedule a visit, call the Lower School Admission Office at 718-6610 and the Upper School Admission Office at 270-2160. DHS Lock-In Committee will meet The Dallas High School 2010 Graduation Lock-In Committee will meet at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb.18, in the Dallas High School Library. Grocery certificates for Mr. Z’s and Thomas’ Family Market will be sold in increments of $50 at this meeting. Students are now being asked to -mail a baby or toddler photo and a photo from senior year to lockin- pics@comcast.net for the Lock- In video. Photos will be return- ed the night of the Lock-In. Schoenberg Festival at Seminary Wyoming Seminary Upper School will present a special Schoenberg Festival, offering instrumental and vocal music by Arnold Schoenberg, at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 20, and Tuesday, Feb. 23, in the Great Hall of Wyoming Seminary, 228 Wyom- ing Ave., just north of Kingston Corners. The Saturday concert will present Schoenberg’s piano trio “Verklaerte Nacht” and several short pieces by Schoenberg’s student Anton von Webern: The Tuesday performance will fea- ture Schoenberg’s melodrama “Pierrot Lunaire.” Both concerts are free and open to the public. Program addresses elder abuse The Luzerne-Wyoming Coun- ties Elder Abuse Task Force of Pennsylvania will host two free elder financial abuse education programs, “Protecting Yourself from Elder Financial Fraud: Don’t Become a Victim!” from 10 a.m. to noon on Monday, March 8, in Sandy and Marlene Insalaco Hall at Misericordia University. To register, call 822-1158. Lunch will be served following the noon workshop and light refreshments will be available at the evening program. Deadline for registration is March 1. MU sets Movie Night The Misericordia University Student Activities Department has announced the campus will begin to offer movies in the recently renovated Lemmond Theater in Walsh Hall. The schedule includes “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” at 3 and 8 p.m. on Sunday, March 14. Admission is $1 for Miser- icordia students with ID and $2 for the general public. For more information, call 674-6411. LL Band Sponsors plan craft show The Lake Lehman Band Spon- sors will sponsor their annual Spring Craft Show from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 27, at the Lake-Lehman Jr. /Sr. High School, Old Route 115, Lehman. Over 100 vendors will offer a variety of handmade jewelry, wood crafts, wreaths, candles, candy, fudge, soaps, lotions, doll clothes, quilted/crocheted piec- es, purses, apparel, folk art, hand-painted and pet-related items. A Chinese auction will feature items donated by all vendors. There will also be a bake sale and a variety of hot foods served in the cafeteria. Admission is free and pro- ceeds will benefit all Lake Leh- man Jr/Sr High School Band/ music students. For more information, call 574-6325. Lock-In fundraiser at T.G.l. Friday's Back Mountain residents are asked to support the Dallas High School Grad Lock-In by eating in or taking food out at T.G.I. Friday’s in Wilkes-Barre any Wednesday or Thursday until May 20, 2010. A portion of sales will be donated to the Lock-In and coupons must be presented to servers. Coupons can be printed from the Dallas School District Web site.. Pastie sale planned A pastie sale will be held on Thursday, Feb. 18, at the Maple Grove United Metho- dist Church, Main Road in Sweet Valley. Cost is $4 each. Call Karen at 477-2450 or the parsonage at 477-5216 to place orders. Pick-up will be between noon and 2 p.m. CHURCH BRIEFS LIUM youth plan breakfast The youth group of the Leh- man-Idetown United Methodist Church will sponsor an all-you- can-eat breakfast from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Feb.27. Cost is $6 for adults and $3 for children 12 years and under. The Dallas LockIn Com- mittee was forced to resche- dule its fundraiser at Friend- ly’s Restaurant in Dallas due to last week's snowstorm. The fundraiser will now be held from 5 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb.16. : A percentage of all eat-in Lock-In fundraiser 1s rescheduled and take-out sales from that time will be donated to the Lock-In. The Dallas High School Lock- In is an alcohol-free, drug-free, fully chaperoned, all-night party for the graduating class. This year’s event will be held on June 4. A new Boy Scout troop is forming in the Back Mountain. Interested boys ages 11-18, in- cluding former Scouts and crossing-over fifth-grade Webe- New Boy Scout troop is forming in BMT los Scouts and older, are encour- aged to register with Troop 146 from 7 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 23, at the Jackson Township VFD, 1160 Chase Rd., Shavertown. | RECYCLING Continued from Page 3 problem is occurring after 10 o'clock at night.” Hours at the recycling center are 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. the first and third Tuesday of every month. The program is open only to township residents. ~The township's recycling is col- lected by Exeter Borough which costs the township approximate- ly $10,000 annually. Wilkes said the DEP warning is only for Jackson Township and would not affect Exeter Bor- ough’s recycling program. In an attempt to stop people from dumping trash and non-re- cyclable items, the supervisors are moving the recycling center to land adjacent to the municipal building they recently pur- chased. They plan to fence in the center and lock it during non-re- cycling days and hours in order to correct the problem. The township is also applying 6% JACKSON TOWNSHIP RECYCLING DROP OFF LAOCAUON os CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK/ FOR THE DALLAS POST The Jackson Township Recycling Center has seen an increase in illegal dumping. Officials plan more camera surveillance and an additional fenced area to carefully monitor the area. for a grant from the DEP to pur- chase a new surveillance system. “We are just looking at every ef- fort that we could possibly do to » get the corrections made, Wilkes said. “We don’t want to lose the program. Our residents don’t want to lose the program.” | CHANGE Continued from Page 3 hour. The resignation of Ryan Kear- ney, assistant track coach, was ac- cepted. Back taxes Paul Sedeski, of 53 Spring St., Shavertown, asked the board to rescind his previous request to forgive back taxes from 2007 through 2009 on a property he purchased. Sedeski purchased 51 Spring St. in Shavertown last November. Sedeski said the property had been previously condemned and was appraised at $12,000. In January, Sedeski asked the board to forgive $4,377.11 in back taxes on the property. Instead of forgiving all of the taxes, Sedeski asked the board to instead consider allowing him to pay only the face value on the back taxes and not the $2,095.45 in penalties. Goeringer said the matter is something board members will have to discuss among them- selves at another time and said they will get back to Sedeski. Students of the quarter Four Dallas High School stu- dents were recognized as stu- dents of the quarter for the sec- ond marking period. They are David Balmer, grade 12, creative student; Sara Skam- mer, grade 11, citizen student; Kevin Barry, grade 12, school spirit student; and Irina Acker- man, grade 12, student achiever. SECOND Continued from Page 1 Blarney Stone at Blarney Cas- tle and she was going up. The two got to know each other better during the Ire- land trip. “I got to thinking she’s a ve- ry attractive woman and a ve- ry thoughtful person and all these nice things about her,” John said. After the Ireland trip, the lo- cal people who attended the trip decided to meet and share vacation photos. It was at that get together that John asked Bette on a date and she said yes. John took her to dinner at the Castle Inn and then they went back to her house to talk. “We have a lot of the same interests and our priorities were always the same,” Bette said. The Gillespies continued to date and, over time, John met Bette’s children. By the fall, the relationship was serious. Bette’s mother-in-law from her first marriage, Mimi Se- grave-Daly, was still alive at the time. Unsure of what her reaction would be, Bette told Mimi about John. Mimi, also a widow, said it was wonderful and noted she always wished she had someone herself. “It just made me feel good,” Be- tte said of the time John met Mi- mi. John had also received approval of another relationship from his first wife. Having been ill for sever- al years before she died, Joan told John that it wasn’t just okay for him to see someone else, but she would send him someone good. John and Bette eventually start- ed talking marriage and became engaged. “We went to a friend’s house one evening and we were both sitting on the couch and, all of a sudden, he falls down off the couch on one knee and I thought, ‘Are you OK?’ and he proposed,” Bette said. The two were married on April 17,1997 at Gate of Heaven Church in Dallas, followed by a reception at the Appletree Terrace at New- berry Estates. John’s favorite memory of the wedding was when he saw Bette walking down the aisle at the church. “When I turned and I looked down, she had a son on both arms and three in the back and I thought she was so beautiful,” John said. The Gillespies have spent their marriage active in social activ- ities. They enjoy baking, exercis- ing, travel and friends and are members of the Donegal Society and the Big Band Society. John loves the New York Yankees and Notre Dame football. Both are also Eucharistic min- isters at Gate of Heaven Church and have since learned they were in the same Eucharistic minister training class in Scranton in 1980. John and Bette dress as Mr. and Mrs. Claus every Christmas and visit area children and senior citi- zens. John started dressing as Santa at age 20 when he learned some children in his neighborhood were not visited by Santa and re- ceived no presents at Christmas. The tradition stuck and Bette lat- er joined him in his venture as Mrs. Claus. The two also spend a lot of time with family. Bette has 10 living children and 17 grandchildren, whom John says he loves like his own. During the course of their mar- riage, the Gillespies have met with two other couples from Gate of Heaven Church who were con- sidering marriage. “You have to talk about things and you have to compromise,” Bette said. “We don’t always agree on everything.” Bette also has a message for widows: Be open to meeting peo- ple and don’t be afraid. SURPRISED Continued from Page 1 10 months of work and she bought fingernail polish. While enjoying a measure of financial security today, Mohr has not forgotten her heritage or her leaner younger years. “To be born Welsh is not to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth but rather music in your blood and poetry in your soul,” she said. Along those lines, her birthday dress is a satin gown she has worn before and on which she has hand-sewn pearl decorations.and she recalls that the favorite part of her teaching day was the after- noon when she would read aloud to her class the poems of Henry Longfellow Mohr’s 3-year-old grandson, Chance Janosky of Harrisburg, will offer a prayer at the birthday party.
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