11 PAGE 14 THE DALLAS POST Sunday, May 16, 2010 CADET Continued from Page 1 eyes, you can kind of picture what the music is about.” “Stampede,” which is pro- gram music, begins very slowly, Stanley explained. In the dis- tance, a rumble can be heard and it becomes louder and loud- er. “You can almost imagine this huge stampede of animals com- ing,” he said. The band students then stomp their feet and the direc- tor turns to the audience and in- vites them to participate as well, Stanley said. The music then slowly dissipates and slows down to near tranquility just as it started. Stanley said each sheet of The band's spring concert will be held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, May 19, in the Lake-Lehman Junior/Senior High School auditori- um. Admission to the concert is free and it is open to the public. Donations will be accepted. music for “Stampede” ever printed will indicate the piece was commissioned by the Lake- Lehman Cadet Band. “The kids really appreciate it,” he said. “They will always be able to hold onto that music and know they were able to be the first ones to perform it.” Following the cadet band’s performance at its spring con- cert, there will be an intermis- sion. Then an elementary per- cussion group, high school per- cussion group and the high school color guard will per- form. Two days after the spring concert, the Lake-Lehman Ca- det Band will compete in the “Music in the Park” band com- petition in Allentown. Eventually, Stanley would like to submit an audition tape of the band for the All State Mu- sic Conference, explaining that the audition tape is required one year in advance. That is dif- ficult, however, because new fifth-graders enter the band and sixth-graders leave each year. “They perform very well for fifth and sixth-grade students and I'm always trying to come up with different ways to show- case them,” the director said. CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK/ FOR THE DALLAS POST Patrick Stanley leads members of the Cadet Band at Lehman-Jackson Elementary School. CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK/ FOR THE DALLAS POST Teachers Kelly Dougherty and Kim Chopyak lead a voluntary after-school fitness class at Ross Elementary School to prevent childhood obesity. FIT Continued from Page 1 tive and recently won the Lake- Lehman School District employ- ee weight loss challenge, drop- ping from a size 4 to a size 0. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, results from the 2007-2008 Na- tional Health and Nutrition Ex- amination Survey indicate an es- timated 17 percent of children and adolescents ages 2 to 19 are obese. Dougherty pointed out that a lot of the students arent over- weight but like still enjoy partici- pating in Fit Club. “I signed up because my teach- er’s in it (Dougherty) and it seemed like fun,” said fourth- grader Skylar Sutton. Fourth-graders Mackenzie Love, Chloe VanGorder, and Cole Schuler; fifth-grader Kaitlyn Hutchins, and sixth-graders Ma- rie Johns, Sara Schuler and Sam Rosencrans agreed. “I'm glad the teachers had this this year,” Johns said. “They make it fun.” Hunter Nice, a sixth-grader, joined the club because he wants to lose weight. “I thought it would be fun,” he said. “We do really cool dances.” Most of the students want to be up front near Chopyak and Dougherty, so the teachers have to rotate the students’ position in the gym based on their grade lev- els. The students get a drink break after every three songs and can sit out any time they need to, al- though they are encouraged to do some type of movement, even if they just walk in place. Many of the members said if it weren't for the Fit Club, they would be at home watching tele- vision. “Youre actually doing some- thing (at Fit Club) and at home you're doing whatever, watching TV,” said Keara Gallagher, a fourth-grader. In June, the Fit Club will per- form a dance routine in the school’s talent show in front of the entire school. Although the club is new, Cho- pyak said it has received good re- views from the student participa- nts and their parents as well as teachers. “The parents have been so sup- portive with this,” she said. “They are here right on time and they come if we call them and say the kids are sick.” Chopyak and Dougherty are al- ready discussing continuing the club next year and are consider- ing the possibility of extending the club to third-graders and to hold it year round. “It seems like the kids are real- ly into it...they love it,” Chopyak said. “They have so much fun. It’s nice the kids are interacting with each other and it’s a positive thing.” CHOPYAK Continued from Page 1 took classes, including spinning, Zumba, a Latin fitness program; BODYPUMP, which involves weightlifting; BODYCOMBAT, moves and stances from self-de- fense disciplines; and a class called 30-20-10, consisting of 30 minutes of cardio, 20 minutes of toning and 10 minutes of abdom- inal work. She also ate the exact same foods at the same times every day. She consumed a cup of oat- meal and three egg whites for breakfast; an ounce of almonds for a morning snack; a cup of greens, a raw vegetable and six ounces of lean protein for lunch, eight ounces of yogurt for an af- ternoon snack; the same lunch she had for dinner plus a potato and more egg whites before bed. Chopyak suspected she would win the contest because she was working really hard. “It was so funny because I am very competitive with things,” she said. “It (the final day of the challenge) was the day before Easter break and that morning I went to the gym an hour before work to get my last chance. I felt like I was on “The Biggest Loser.” For winning the challenge, Chopyak will receive a half a day off from work, compliments of district Superintendent James McGovern who will teach her class for the half day she is away. McGovern also participated in the contest and lost 16 pounds. “I truly enjoy working with stu- CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK/ FOR THE DALLAS POST Kim Chopyak, a first-grade teacher at Ross Elementary School, recently won a weight loss challenge in the Lake-Lehman School District. dents,” said McGovern, who is looking forward to spending time in Chopyak’s classroom. “If there is one part of this job that I do not enjoy (it) is that I do not spend the amount of time with students as I did as a teacher or even a building level administrator. The job of an educator is extremely stressful and demanding. Howev- er, there is an intrinsic satisfac- tion with the profession that is unparalleled with any other occu- pation.” Chopyak is still following her diet in hopes of losing an addi- tional five pounds and develop- ing more muscle definition. And she’s not alone As a result of the competition, McGovern has raised a new chal- lenge for each employee to walk 100 miles before graduation, which is June 8. “The goal of 100 miles by grad- uation is something tangible,” the superintendent said. “I would like to set a few challenges for summer and start a fitness club for the fall. The health of our teachers is also beneficial to the educational process. If we aver- ~ age one less sick day per year, we save thousands of dollars. It would also generate nearly 900 hours of instruction covered by the regular classroom teacher in lieu of a substitute ”» S. JOHN WILKIN/THE DALLAS POST After being in existence for not quite one school year, the Dallas High School Student Leadership in Civics Club has received the President's Volunteer Service Gold Award for completing over 1,000 hours of service. The club is comprised of eight students and four teachers. From left, bot- tom row, are Drew Schaub, Katelyn Reinert, Lance Machovec, Adrienne Box and Ryan Hogan. Top row, Tom Gilroy, Chris Dailey, Dan Nestorick, Anne Butler and Joanne Drayer. DALLAS Continued from Page 1 12 local veterans who served from World War II to the pre- sent to attend the program and participate in a panel. Ma- chovec and Schaub moderat- ed the panel. The program, which was open to the community, at- tracted about 250 to 300 peo- ple even though school was not in session that day, Gilroy said. The students said one mem- orable veteran was James Pi- us, a Vietnam veteran who is blind. Pius, of Wilkes-Barre Township, spoke about how Vietnam veterans were forgot- ten for a while and how he wants to be sure no veteran is ever forgotten again. Another veteran in the audi- ence who was not part of the panel broke down in tears be- cause his wife had just died. A man sitting next to him in the crowd, whom he did not know, comforted him. “I think Veterans Day was one (project) where people could connect more because there were actually people talk- ing about it,” Schaub said. Following the ceremony, the students held a luncheon at the school for the veterans. Several months later, they visited them at the Veterans Affairs Center, sharing coffee and doughnuts with them. “We enjoyed that more’ than the ceremony because we actual- ly talked to them,” Machovec said. “The one thing I never realized is they rarely have contact with their family,” Box said, adding that the veterans often hear from their families only once a month. In January, the SLIC Club cre- ated an educational assembly for the school about Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movements of yesterday and to- day. Although a Martin Luther King Day assembly is held each year, the club wanted to make it better. | “I think it really speaks to what this group has been trying to ful- fill all year,” Butler said. “They saw a need and they fulfilled it.” The club’s third project was a voter registration drive for se- niors who will be age 18 and eligi- ble to vote in the upcoming pri- mary election on May 18. The stu- dents in the club gave personal in- vitations to those they knew were eligible. Gilroy said out of 131 seniors el- igible to register, 73 did, a num- ber somewhat surprising to members of the club. “I thought it was going t6 bea waste of our time,” Machovec said. 7 SLIC Club members were scheduled to conduct their final project of the year on May 8: The club was slated to help Anne So- beski, a letter carrier, pick up food donations on her route in Wilkes-Barre as part of the U.S. Postal Service’s Stamp Out Hun- ger Food Drive. Gilroy wants to keep the club to seven or eight students who are juniors and seniors and fore- sees the club working on even more projects next year. DI “Witnessing all the good that the students and the moderators were doing for not only our school but the larger community as a whole was awe inspiring, for never once were they expecting something in return,” Gilroy said. “Rather, they felt it was their mission to further the idea of citizenship in our local com- munity.” BOND Continued from Page 4 for residents only Prior to the meeting, town- ship road superintendent Don Fritzges asked a reporter to re- mind people that the drop-off of brush, leaves and grass at the compost site at the public works department building is for township residents only. DRILLING Continued from Page 4 these agencies give me their information,” he said. 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