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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
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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.”
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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.
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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.”
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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
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these agencies give me their
information,” he said.
Once the guidelines are
completed and adopted by the
supervisors, a public meeting
will be arranged for all resi-
dents.
“We are doing the best we
can with the resources availa-
ble,” Dobinick said, indicating he
hopes the comprehensive plan
will act as a “template for the rest
of the county.”
In other news, a free electron-
ics recycling collection program
will be held on June 5 at the But-
ler Township Fire Hall in Drums
and on June 12 at the Hanover Ar-
ea Junior Senior High School in
Hanover Township for Luzerne
County residents only.
For more information about
the program, residents can call 1-
800-820-7654.
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