Vol. 122 No.1
THE BACK MOUNTAIN'S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1889
March 4 - 10, 2012
AS POST.
WILKES-BARRE, PA.
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AN EDITION OF THE TIMES LEADER
Seatbelts monitoring ends today, patrols continue
Lacey's Law states drivers under the age of 18 can be cited for
Program targeting driving-age students got its start
day after DHS senior was killed in vehicle accident.
By SARAH HITE
shite@mydallaspost.com
Though the Dallas Township
Police Department’s monitoring
of seatbelts among minors is
technically ending today, Chief
Robert Jolley said officers will
still patrol around the Dallas
School District campus.
“We're doing our seatbelt pro-
gram until March 4, then we
start our aggressive driving
campaign, but we’ll still be pa-
trolling for everything,” said Jol-
ley.
The department began pa-
trolling the district campus on
Feb. 14 to enforce aspects of La-
cey’s Law, which was signed in-
to law late last year.
Lacey’s Law states drivers un-
der the age of 18 can be cited for
not wearing a seatbelt. For
adults, not wearing a seatbelt is
a secondary offense.
The program, which included
a presentation to driving-age
students, got its start the day
after 18-year-old Thomas Lynch,
of Harveys Lake, a senior at Dal-
las High School, was killed in a
crash on Kunkle-Alderson Road.
“We contemplated not doing
the program,” said Jolley. “But
we decided that we had to do
it.”
not wearing a seatbelt. For adults, not wearing a seatbelt is a
secondary offense.
Jolley said it still has not been
determined whether Lynch was
wearing a seatbelt at the time,
but he said incidents such as
this can make young drivers
pause and reflect on their own
driving habits.
“It definitely has an effect,” he
said. “It brings things home.”
The project was made possi-
ble through a $1,000 grant for
the state police’s Buckle Up PA
program.
Dallas School District Super-
intendent Frank Galicki said the
high school’s Emergency Re-
sponse Team, a club in which
students are taught emergency
preparedness and safety skills,
also aided in getting the pro-
gram started.
Jolley said officers wrote 17
citations in three weeks.
“We were trying to hit times
that persons under the age of 18,
those covered under Lacey's
Law, would be driving,” he said.
“Maybe this will get young driv-
ers more attuned to buckling
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up.
Jolley said the statistics on
teen driver accidents are stag-
gering, and he hopes programs
like this across the country can
See PATROLS, Page 13
Jack Farrell
scores 44 points
} on DYB victory
By SARAH HITE
shite@mydallaspost.com
When 9-year-old Jack Farrell
steps on the court to play basket-
ball, he means business.
The Dallas Elementary stu-
dent plays for the Knicks in the
Dallas Youth Basketball third and
fourth-grade league, and last
weekend he had a whopper of a
game.
The team won, 44-39, in the
semi-finals last Saturday against
Celtics, and Farrell scored all
Y/inning points.
“He had no idea,” Chad Lojew-
ski, the Knicks’ coach, said of Far-
rell’s performance. “My daughter
fills out the score book, and with
two minutes left in the game she
said, ‘Dad, look at this.”
Farrell’s father, Mark, said bas-
ketball is in his son’s blood. Mark
Farrell played ball in high school
and college, and still reminisces
about the time he scored 34
points on his own when Dallas
High School made the district
championships in 1985. Despite
Mark Farrell's efforts, that game
ended in a loss for the Mountain-
eers.
“A family member made a CD
What: Dallas Youth Basketball
third and fourth-grade boys’
league championship game
Who: Knicks vs. Suns
When: Today at 115 p.m.
Where: Dallas High School gym
of the radio broadcast of that
game, and he listens to it all the
time,” said Farrell's wife, Donna.
But Jack Farrell's sights aren’t
set on the glory of the game. Lo-
jewski said the young player of-
ten asks to be placed in the game
so he can pass the ball to others
on the team.
Last Friday during the quarter-
finals against the Hornets, Farrell
scored 18 points and, near the
end of the game, continued pass-
ing to Lojewski’s son, Drew, who
scored 12 points of his own.
“Drew wouldnt have had 12
points without Jack’s help,” said
Lojewski. “But believe me, Drew
won't stop talking about his 12
points.”
And last Saturday’s record-
breaking game for Farrell was the
one his parents weren’t able to at-
tend. The couple was visiting
friends in Maryland on a trip they
See FARRELL, Page 13
BILL TARUTIS/ FOR THE DALLAS POST
Dallas Youth Basketball player Jack Farrell, 9, left, stands with
Knicks Coach Chad Lojewski.
rial Library.
Old cards make
new placemats
By SARAH HITE
shite@mydallaspost.com
Phyllis Bullock’s favorite
pastime is cutting circles
from old greeting cards
while sitting in front of the
TV.
“American Idol’ and
‘Dancing with the Stars’ is
how I pass my time,” said
the Dallas resident.
But it’s not in vain. Bull-
ock’s cutting skills only aid
her when she’s making
homemade placemats from
those recycled images.
And others find Bullock’s
artwork so interesting they
wanted to learn the craft
themselves.
The Back Mountain Me-
morial Library held a class
for those wanting to learn
the art of placemat-making
- just a month after Bull-
ock’s placemats were on
display in the library.
Bullock, who’s been mak-
ing the decorative place-
mats for more than 20
years, led the class and dis-
played examples of her
work, including snowmen,
Elvis Presley and angel-
“There are so many nice
pictures; it's a shame to
throw them away."
Phyllis Bullock
About homemade placemats
themed settings.
“l never thought about
showing them at the li-
brary,” said Bullock. “I
asked a woman from the li-
brary to save the cards they
receive for me. She asked
me why, and now I'm teach-
ing a class.”
Bullock never saved
greeting cards before she
started making placemats
after a friend gave her a tu-
torial. Now, she said, it’s a
great way to recycle those
cards sent from friends and
family.
“There are so many nice
pictures; it’s a shame to
throw them away,” she
said.
Bullock even immortal-
ized the greeting cards for
a friend’s 90th birthday.
She cut the cards along
with the notes inside them
to make a set of six place-
mats out of the more than
CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK PHOTOS/ FOR THE DALLAS POST
Phyllis Bullock shows one of her handmade placemats featuring an Elvis Presley theme at a workshop at the Back Mountain Memo-
Yvonne Marshall, of Dallas, uses an oval pattern to make her
card cut-outs during a craft class at the Back Mountain Memo-
rial Library.
80 cards
ceived.
“She cried when I showed
them to her,” said Bullock.
She said cutting the im-
ages is a relaxing way to
spend time before working
on the designs of her place-
mats. She lays the card cut-
outs onto a piece of poster
board before covering the
whole project with contact
paper.
Yvonne Marshall, of Dal-
las, had some Christmas
cards lying around the
house when she heard
about the class.
“It’s a way to be creative,
and to give these beautiful
cards some practical use,”
she said.
her friend re-
Ellen Whipple, of Lacey-
ville, makes ornaments and
other decorations out of
greeting cards, and thought
the class would be another
way to utilize the images
on the cards sent to her
through the years.
“My theme for the place-
mats is flowers and butter-
flies,” said Whipple. “I'm
thinking spring.”
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