PAGE 6 Sunday, February 21,2010 | | The Dallas Post www.mydallaspost.com EDITORIAL YOUR SPACE Community Newspaper Group THE TIMES LEADER 15 N. Main St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18711 ® 570-675-521 news@mydallaspost.com Richard L. Connor PUBLISHER 829-7202 rconnor@timesleader.com Christie Delicati ADVERTISING 970-7111 cdelicati@timesleader.com Dotty Martin EDITOR 970-7440 dmartin@mydallaspost.com Books, Wine and Music event scheduled at library The Back Mountain Memorial Library will hold a very special af- ternoon of Books, Wine and Mu- sic to applaud our dedicated vol- unteers and also to encourage anyone who may be interested in becoming a future volunteer. This event, set for 4 to 7 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 28, will include a sampling of wines from Pavlick Hill Vineyards of Lehman. Appro- priate food pairings, cheese and hors d’ouevres will also be avail- able as participants mingle amidst the library setting, en- hanced by a musical background. Opportunities to view the new art wall, learn more about the li- brary and its many upcoming programs will all provide a relax- ing, informative afternoon. Please RSVP by calling the li- brary at 675-1182. Following is a list of events to be held in March with more infor- mation available by contacting the library: e Gaming Event, Saturday March 6, 1 to 4 pm. Area “tweens and teens” ages 10 to 14 are invited to a free Game Day, including Wii games, Guitar Hero and board games. Refreshments will be provided. Space is limited. * A jewelry making class will be offered from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 18. Informa- tion and cost for the return of this popular class will be forthcom- ing. ¢ A free delightful demonstra- tion of Dance and Dress during the Civil War will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 24. Come hear the music and see the fashions of the Civil War ball- room come to life. e “Container Gardening,” a free program presented by Mas- ter Gardeners, Jean Kolojechick and Rosemary Nardone, will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 27. This program will of- fer expert tips on growing vegeta- bles, herbs and bulbs in various containers. Pre-registration, required for all of these programs, may be made by calling the library at 675-1182. In other news, the Slightly Read Bookshop is extending its Presidents’ Sale of a special selec- tion of hard cover titles for 50 cents each or three for $1 and an additional selection of books, currently priced with blue dots, on sale for 75 cents each or three for $2. This sale will now contin- ue to the end of February. COMMUNITY ART SHOW ON DISPLAY AT LIBRARY The February exhibit at the Back Mountain Memorial Library's Art Display Wall is a Community Art Show coordinated by Shawni Scott, above right, and Angel Milazzo, above left, both senior stu- dents at Lake-Lehman Junior/Senior High School. Scott and Mi- lazzo chose the idea of a Community Art Show to showcase local artists who may not otherwise have an opportunity to display their artwork. The girls obtained various items from the artists and then prepared the pieces for hanging on the Art Display Wall. The exhibit includes both paintings and photographs by the fol- lowing local artists: Lyle Brace, Robyn Noelle, Bonnie Coveleski, Ellen McNeil and Jackie Eury. Jill Spencer, of Lehman Township, took this picture while riding along a stream in Central Pennsylvania. "YOUR SPACE" is reserved specifically for Dallas Post readers who have something they'd like to share with fellow readers. Submitted items may include photos or short stories and should be sent via e-mail to news@mydallaspost.com, by fax at 675- 3650 or by mail to The Dallas Post, 15 N. Main St., Wilkes-Barre, PA 1871. Information must include the submitting person's name, address and a telephone number in the event we have questions. Readers wishing to have their photos re- turned should include a self-addressed/ stamped envelope. Items will be published in the order in which they are received. The editor of The ~ Dallas Post reserves the right to reject any items submitted for publication. 20 YEARS AGO A newly-formed Girl Scout Troop has been originated in our area. Designed for girls, ages 5-6, Daisy Troop 639 meets weekly at Lehman-Jack- son Elementary School (there has never before been a Daisy Troop for kindergarten girls of the Lake-Lehman School Dis- trict). The new scouts are: Joanna Oliver, Jacklyn Schaffner, Hol- lie Nichols, Vanessa Goss, Gi- na Coombs, Theresa Kamaru- nas, Lindsey Shaw and Ashley Yanchik. Sharon Schaefer of Shaver- town, was the recent recipient of “The Volunteer of the Year” award by Northeastern Penn- sylvania Branch of the Nation- al Multiple Sclerosis Society. A dinner was held in her honor at the Belle Vista Restaurant in Montage as part of the month long “Thanks A Million” thank you campaign by the society. 30 YEARS AGO Officers were recently elect- ed for the newly-organized Dallas Township Elementary Parent Teacher Organization. They are Joan Ogurkis, presi- dent; Elaine Moran, first vice- president; Jean Utter, second vice-president; Mary Shandra, treasurer; and Lynn Romano, secretary. Principal of the school is Ruth Husband. Participants in the recent arts and crafts con- test of the Harvey's Lake Women’s Club in- cluded Ruth Sen- nett, chairman, Faye Birdsall, Dot- tie Reynolds, Madelyn Blaine, Ruth Ide, Elsie Rauch, Vera Loomis, Pat Sandsturm, Maria Razawich, Olive McDonald, June Swanson, Betty Challis, YESTERDAY Esther Samsel, Dorothy Strat- ford, Beverly Vespico Chris Col- lura, and Ferne Smith. Winners in the poster contest held by Dallas Basketball Organi- zation were Joe Darling, Pat Lun- dy, Mark Oster and Matt Medura. 40 YEARS AGO Joseph W. Frye, 113 Davis St., Trucksville, is general chairman for the 18th annual “Parade of Quartets” concert to be present- ed in March by the Wilkes-Barre chapter, Society for the Preserva- tion and Encouragement of Bar- bershop Quartet Singing in America. Ten students from Dallas Se- nior High School and Lake Leh- man High School were among se- niors and sophomores from 21 ar- ea high schools who received awards in ceremonies held last Thursday afternoon in the Penn State Wilkes-Barre campus Hay- field House. Seven Dallas students and three Lake Lehman students re- ceived certificates of merit for scholastic achievement in engi- neering and science courses by the Luzerne County Chapter of the Pennsylvania Society of Pro- fessional Engineers. Students from the two Back Mountain schools who received the awards are Dave Haines, sophomore, Lake Lehman; Rob- ert Kocher and John Myers, se- niors, Lake Lehman; Curtis Britt, Donald Voelker, E.F. Charles La- Berge, Harry Goeringer and James W. Pichert, seniors, Dal- las; John J. LaBerge and Robert Goeringer, sophomores, Dallas. 50 YEARS AGO Nine new members were wel- comed at the meeting of Library Book Club held at the Annex on Monday. They are Mesdames Aa- ron Schlesinger, Emil Bauman, William King, Boyd White, John Hayt, Robert Bauman, Ray Ack- erman, Robert Tippett and Mary Margaret O'Donnell. Dallas Girl Scout Troop 169, held a tea for mothers at Dallas Methodist Church Saturday. Mrs. Stanley Davies awarded sec- ond-class badges to Pamela Bak- er, Myra Berti, Carol Calkins, Lin- da Farrar, Christine Grose, Linda McCarty, Valerie Mallin, Susan Moore, Kerry Roberts, Linda Wil- liams, Gail Doughton, Mimi Moore, Helen Jacobs, Donna Long, Linda Nowackowski and Karen Tag. Child Care and Housekeeper badges went to Bonnie Brobst, Sharon Brobst, Patsy David, Don- na Demmy, Janet Kelly, Pamela Lesser, Linda Parry, Pat Pieffer, Peggy Reese, Judy Schneider, Nancy Davis and Sandra Turner. The newly formed Harvey's Lake Lions Club now has a mem- bership of thirty-five with fifteen more names on the approved list. It had been originally planned to limit the membership to thirty- five. Officers elected were: Calvin McHose, president; Dean Shaver, secretary; Joe McCaffrey, treasur- er; Sheldon Cave, first vice presi- dent; H.S. Donnelly, second vice president; James O’Connell, third vice president; David Ge- raghty, tail twister; Thomas Gar- rity, Lion tamer; and Herman Kern, song leader. Directors for two years are: Alfred Runstall and Andrew Kizis. Directors for one year are: Jim Huston and Wal- bridge Leinthal. Merrill Thomas lost a nine- month old Holstein bull, Satur- day, apparently from poisoning. He turned the bull out to pasture with fourteen heifers and about two hours later found the bull ly- ing dead. None of the other ani- mals was affected. About the same time, Eugene Hindrichs of Elmcrest found his young Irish setter acting pecu- liarly. The dog and bull had been in the same vicinity near where water from Natona Mills enters Toby’s Creek on the Warden Farms. Dr. EE. Davis, Nanticoke Vet- erinarian, was called and ® nosed the dog’s trouble as strych- nine poisoning. Immediate treat- ment pulled the dog through, but his heart may have been affected by the poison. It is believed that a dog poison- er has been at work in that vicin- ity and, if so, Mir. Hindrichs is pre- pared to go to the limit with pros- ecution. Severe penalties are at- tached to the use of strychnine for such purposes. 70 YEARS AGO He knew Dallas when people | still referred to it occasionally as | Bedford Township. He drove a | _ wagon along Main Street when | | ©. the mud was axle-deep in the | 60 YEARS AGO + = spring, and when a return trip to | Wilkes-Barre took the best part of | a day. As a boy of 12, he admired the | local reserves drilling after Abe | Lincoln had called for volunteers, | and he watched men march off to | the civil war. He is B. Frank Bulford of Huntsville, one of the oldest resi- | dents of this section and the last | survivor among the 52 men who, | sixty years ago, signed the char- | ter which founded Dallas Bor-| ough. In October he will be g&. years old. ) Under sunny-blue skies which | were in sharp contrast to the’ snow-laden clouds of the day be- fore, Dallas and its vicinity la- bored tirelessly yesterday to dig its way out of the drifted 14 Y-inch snowfall which rode into Northeastern Pennsylvania on the wings of a 40-mile-an-hour wind Wednesday. Although the lashing gale piled drifts ten feet high in some sec- tions, the snowfall was set offi- cially at 14 %2 inches at the Hunts- ville filter plant of Spring Brook Water Co., where accurate re- cords are kept. Information for “Only Yester- day” is taken from past issues of The Dallas Post which 1s 121 vears old. The information 1s printed her exactly as it appeared in the newspaper years ago. “Wasn't he just the president in 1900 something. I'm not sure.” David Chopyak Dallas CE ESI SHEE Si eB EY “Because he freed the slaves during the Civil War or maybe he was the first president.” David Cooper Swoyersville “DO YOU KNOW WHY WE CELE or “Because he was the first president.” Jack Gallis Dallas BRATE GEORGE WASH ha poy # “Because he was the first president.” Jaclyn Hodle Dallas INGTON'S BIRTHDAY?" “Because he loved our country and state but died of some illness.” Amanda May Hunlock Creek “Oh, that's because they named George Washington, D.C. after him.” Kylie Nevell Sweet Valley
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