Sunday, December 5, 2010 THE DALLAS POST PAGE 11 CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK/ FOR THE DALLAS POST Lisa Lindquist, in her backyard garden in West Wyoming, is the 201 garden tour chairperson for the Back Mountain Bloomers. GARDEN Continued from Page 1 for gardens mostly comprised of flowers, but gardens featur- ing trees and shrubs are also in- cluded. Water features such as ponds and fountains are also part of the criteria, allowing club members to educate the public on all different sorts of garden accents. “We have normally gardens of every level, every style out re,” said Lindquist. “We try have a real varied lineup.” In addition to the gardens, horticulture and gardening speakers are scheduled to pre- sent at the different locations to continue in the group’s mission of education. Lindquist feels the tour satis- fies gardeners’ natural curiosity. “If youre a garden freak, that’s what you want to do — you want to get in there and nose around,” she said. The most important aspect of choosing a garden doesn’t in- volve plant types or waterfalls — it’s parking. The 2009 tour at- tracted over 450 people and parking can be an issue in small neighborhoods. “We've had a number of gar: A “We have normally gardens of every level, every style out there. We try to have a real varied li- neup.” Lisa Lindquist 201 tour chairwoman dens (suggested) from Harveys Lake and parking is a problem there,” said Mattas. Planning the tour takes over a year which is why the event is held every other year. The chairpersons visit suggested gardens a year prior to the event and take photographs so they know what will be in bloom at the time of the tour. One member of the Bloomers is an ace at identifying plants and Lindquist says she is an irre- placeable part of the planning process. “We identify up to 150 plants in each garden,” said Lindquist. “We label them and make a list available to the public.” Tour locations are kept secret until the day of the tour - and for good reason. Lindquist says there is so much anticipation among garden-goers, some homeowners would receive un- expected guests in their back- yards weeks before the tour. “People are out there having ‘a family - barbeque - saying, ‘Who's that in my yard?” laughed Lindquist. “We're try- ing to protect the privacy of people who are nice enough to open up their gardens to us.” Growing and tending flowers hasn’t always been easy for Lindquist — before she moved to West Wyoming, she lived in Wilkes-Barre for over 30 years with just a small patch of grass “about the size of an SUV.” “I learned how to grow verti- cally,” she said. Now her 80 by 120-foot backyard is abloom with flowers, shrubbery, foun- tains, an arbor and some stub- born pigeons she’s convinced have followed her and her hus- band from the city. They haven't stopped her from blos- soming her potential as a gar- dener, though. “We're optimists,” she said. “Anybody that could put a bulb in the ground in the fall and sit there and hope and wait for it to grow for six or seven months — that’s what it means to be an op- timist.” | RANCH Continued from Page 1 Lake, an equestrian and educa- tional center that will offer horse riding therapy for dis- abled veterans. “Horses are veterans,” she said. She said too often horses e mistreated or abandoned, d this is why she plans to use mostly rescue horses for the pro- gram, set to start in May 2011. Funding is currently Basal yga’s main concern. She’s also fo- cused on finding the right horses to be trained for the pro- gram. While it’s possible to pur- chase horses with the appropri- ate training, Basalyga said res- cue horses need the most help and can offer veterans a bonding experience. Basalyga said the program will not only help injured veter- ans with physical therapy, but the horses can provide emotion- al and psychological support, as well. “Horses will not accept you if you are not acting like yourself,” she said. “A veteran with a dis- ability tends to hide (his or her disability) in order to cope with it” Basalyga has never served in the military, but even at a young age she was fascinated with sol- diers at war. “As part of the human condi- tion, we try to avoid confronta- tion,” she said. “A soldier looks at danger and runs full speed to- wards it. It blows my mind.” It was seeing the Twin Towers fall on September 11, 2001 while e was working as a manager at ime Warner that sealed the deal for Basalyga. She was work- ing at a cable service station in Myrtle Beach, S.C., with over 50 TVs lining the parameters of the room at the time. “I thought it was an accident at first,” she said. Not being able to speak be- cause the hundreds of customer service representatives were an- swering phones, she wrote a message for her employees on a white board. as Basalyga, who hosts an an- Reins Ranch in Harveys Lake. “I told them, ‘Don’t let whoev- er did this win. Keep going,” she recounted. When the United States en- tered into Iraq and Afghanistan, Basalyga displayed an American flag that is still hanging in front of her Clarks Summit house, where her son now lives. “(The flag) is like the military. It’s still hanging even though it’s beaten up,” she said. She takes the flag down once in a while to sew tears and patch holes, but she won’t remove it completely until the war is over. “It shows you that freedom isn’t free,” she said The equine therapy program, still in its planning stages, was not something Basalyga expect- ed to do. Just two years ago she was liv- ing in Clarks Summit with her son and was on the verge of opening a sporting goods con- signment shop called Experi- enced Gear. “I'was just about to open. I had everything on the shelves,” she said. A ranch became available, and she said she had to take the chance. “I had to jump on it,” she said. “I told people, ‘(The store) will open eventually, just not now.” BILL TARUTIS/ FOR THE DALLAS POST Shadow, a mix Morgan-Paint horse breed, will be used in an equine therapy program for disabled veterans at the Liberty SOARS ict Volunteer Alexis Holena of Dickson City cleans up the stables at Liberty Reins Ranch in Harveys Lake. nual Veterans Day party for friends and family, hopes her passion for horses will provide aid and comfort to service men and women. “I never got to shake any of their hands,” she said. “We have to reward them somehow.” CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK/ FOR THE DALLAS POST Coming from as far away as Ohio was 1987 Dallas High School alumnus Chris Piatkowski Shovlin and her children, Sam and Hannah, for the annual alumni soccer game at Cleary Field. COACH Continued from Page 1 cer world. “Hey, Hot Rocks!” shouted one man. “You saw your name in lights!” shouted another. “What happens when John would shout, ‘Mr. Referee!’?” asked Sheehan. The young soccer players were stumped, and by the end of half time, those wearing dark blue were ahead by four goals. Kenneth McCafferty, McCaf- ferty’s brother who resides in Scotland, came to the game with his brother’s widow, Les- lie. He said his brother had a challenge when he started the team 30 years ago, but was met with lively players who were willing to learn. “I thought it was absolutely brilliant at the time, and there was potential for something to grow,” said Kenneth. “These guys are the salt of the earth.” Leslie, who admits to not be- ing a sports fan despite her hus- band’s interests, appreciates the Joe Lipo was the captain of the first Dallas Senior High School soccer team in 1981, of which John McCafferty was the coach. support of her husband’s former players. “This game means very much to those who ‘love him,” she said. “They're carrying his lega- cy for the younger kids to apply John’s lessons.” Joe Lipo, who resides in Ma- ryland, was captain of the first Dallas High School soccer team in 1981. He had only attended one alumni game before, but felt it was important to attend the 2010 game as a tribute to his former coach. “He was no nonsense, but you could tell he cared, even though we lost all of our games that first season,” said Lipo of the late coach. “I'm very sad- dened; he’s done so much for the team.” Continued from Page 10 ers, including fans, family mem- bers and friends who cheered runners on at the race to faze him this year, but he learned that lesson the hard way in his first race. During his first run through the course, he gave high-fives to children and acknowledged the crowd throughout the race, which left him pretty exhausted by the time he finished. “People get caught up in it,” he said. “You can’t waste energy.” He was well-prepared to take on the challenge this year, enjoy- ing the long run in optimal weather. He even came within a minute of his best, finishing in four hours and 45 minutes. 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