ea se a ay PAGE 12 THE DALLAS POST Sunday, March 18, 2012 BOARD Continued from Page 3 two consecutive years. Wega said out of about 3,500 school buildings in the state eli- gible for Title I funding, only 97 are nominated for the honor. e Approved a new metal de- tector policy for the high school. The policy states screenings will be conducted on groups or at random to avoid discrimination issues. If there is suspicion of the presence of a weapon, the school resource officer will be present at the time of the screen- ing. The policy also states signs will alert students and visitors about unannounced screenings. ¢ Approved the resignation of Teresa Pizzo, middle school classroom aide, effective March 2. e Appointed the following personnel: Caroline Engel as Dallas Elementary personal care assistant at a rate of $8.10 per hour, Richard Mikulka as se- nior high school hall monitor at a rate of $8.10 per hour, Crystal Hettes as Wycallis Elementary personal care assistant and classroom aide at a rate of $8.10 per hour. ¢ Tabled the following main- tenance appointments effective Feb. 27: Tex Wilson from Labor- er 4 to Middle School Custodian 4 at arate of $11.43 per hour and Michael Coombs from Middle School Custodian 4 to High School Custodian 5 at a rate of $10.98 per hour. e Passed a resolution to pay for the cost of the 2011-12 ad- vanced placement tests for stu- dents enrolled in applicable classes with the understanding that the student will be respon- sible for the cost if he or she fails to take the exam without a legit- imate excuse. e Approved a donation to the Luzerne Intermediate Unit 18 Performing Arts Scholarship in the amount of $1,000 for stu- dents to attend the Performing Arts Institute Summer Pro- gram. e Approved the WVIA V- Media school program agree- ment for the 2012-13 school year at a cost of $1,500. e Approved a donation of $5,000 toward the 2012 gradua- tion lock-in. e Approved a sabbatical leave of absence for Sarah Kashatus for the 2012-13 school year. e Changed the status of Jo- nathan Stucker from student technical aide to technical aide at a rate of $10 per hour. e Appointed Diana Alichnie as chairperson of the business, computers and information technology department. ¢ Approved the resignation of Holly Brauns, Dallas Elemen- tary classroom and office aide, effective March 23. ¢ Approved a leave of absence for high school science teacher Emma Healey for the period of April 11 through June 13. e Appointed the following employees: LuAnn Brace as high school hall monitor, Tho- mas Burkhardt as mini-bus van driver, Joseph Lombardi as mini-bus van driver, Anita Gro- hoski as mini-bus van driver and Charles Siglin as mini-bus van driver. e Approved an extended leave of absence for Crystal Sei- del, Dallas Elementary teacher, to continue through June 13, and appointed Diana Burns- Snyder as a long-term substitute for that period. e Approved the resignations of Daniel Nestorick, History Day co-advisor, and Craig Hay- wood, assistant football coach. ¢ Appointed Kasey Corbett as volunteer softball coach. e Approved a $750 donation to the high school girls’ softball team for its annual trip to Flor- ida. The board noted that last year, $1,500 was contributed to the trip. ¢ Hired Greg Miller as assist- ant football coach with a stipend of $3,976. eo The next Dallas School Board meeting will be held at 7 p.m. April 2 in the administra- tion building. PLUNGE Continued from Page 3 said Williams. Sabol plunged in the past just to be able to say she did. “It’s just a crazy thing to do,” she said. The founder of the event, Alli- son Boris, was a member of the Lake-Lehman swim team and started the tradition in memory of her father, Buddy, of Harveys Lake, who died of cancer when Alison was a junior at Lake-Leh- man. Stevens, of Harveys Lake, said her grandmother is a cancer sur- vivor, and Williams said she’d be hard pressed to find someone who hasn’t been affected by the disease. “So many people have been impacted by cancer and it’s im- portant to support treatments and to find a cure,” said Wil- liams. The event wasn’t held last year because no students want- ed to take on the project, said Stevens. She said she’s found young members of the swim team to keep the tradition going next year. In 2010, the event raised more than $4,000 for the American Cancer Society, and the three girls are hoping this year’s event will be even more successful. “It’s for a good cause and it’s something unique,” said Sabol, of Shavertown. “I don’t know of many other places that have a plunge.” CHAMBER Continued from Page 1 off my plate.” Morgan said the chamber initially did a vast search for an executive director, but found qualified candidates from out of the area that might not be able to meet the needs of the community. “They didn’t have the con- text and didn’t have the love for the Back Mountain,” said Morgan. “That was huge.” Parkhurst applied for the po- sition because of her own ties to the community — she was born and raised in the area, met her husband in the Back Mountain and set up her home and business in the communi- “qt was kind of a natural fit,” said Morgan. Parkhurst’s main focus is membership — and members are pouring in from all over the area. Morgan said the orga- nization has members from outside the Back Mountain for the first time ever. “We've got new members from Swoyersville, Bear Creek, Wilkes-Barre, Pittston — it’s not just Back Mountain business members,” he said. “We have to be a community, even though they're outside of our geographic jurisdiction.” The chamber is also working to improve relations with the community. Morgan said the Back Mountain Chamber of Commerce is the first in the country to include govern- ments, schools, cultural ven- ues, churches and civic orga- nizations. “It’s not just commerce to commerce,” said Morgan. “People are spending money elsewhere when they should be spending it right here in the Back Mountain.” Morgan said the chamber plans to offer community sur- veys to understand why fam- ilies are doing their grocery and other shopping outside the area. The feedback will help improve business in the area, he said. Now the organization is busy planning its first business expo as a chamber at Misericordia University on April 18. The group partnered with the Back Mountain Historical Associ- ation’s bi-annual program, which will be about the former Hanson’s Amusement Park that was located in Harveys Lake. Morgan said the idea was to draw more people to both events. He said there are plans to offer food throughout the expo that would have been of- fered at Hanson’s, like French fries, pizza and cotton candy. GAMING Continued from Page 1 the event of an emergency, not just the six member municipal- ities. “There are no borders in an emergency,” he said. The partnership consists of Dallas Borough and Dallas, Franklin, Jackson, Kingston and Lehman townships. The project was developed after the series of natural disas- ters throughout the northeast, including tropical storms Irene and Lee. “After the events of last year, we saw a huge potential for the Back Mountain to be severed off from the rest of the county during emergencies,” said Part- nership Chairman James Reino Jr. “This will make disaster- handling a much easier func- tion and we'll have a much more rapid deployment of re- sources.” Harveys Lake Borough re- ceived $78,220 to renovate an unused recreation center for police department use. Council President Larry Ra- del said no solid plans have been put into place for the pro- ject, and there were no plans to pursue it if the grant money wasn’t awarded. Radel said the plan is to ren- ovate the building and move the police headquarters to the site, located near Lake-Noxen Elementary School, a Little League field and the municipal garage. “It kind of makes sense to relocate the police department to an area that requires surveil- lance and makes it a safer envi- ronment for children,” said Ra- del. Mayor Clarence Hogan said the building itself is made of cinder blocks and concrete, which will also provide a safer environment for officers. “The building theyre in now, it’s served us very well, but it’s just not safe enough to have the office in there, in a wooden structure,” he said. “It is more ideal to move them into the (recreation) building.” He said much of the work needed to complete the project will be on the interior, noting the building recently had a roof replacement. Hogan said the building was constructed in the late 1970s and has been vacant for about a year. Hogan and Radel said the building will offer a better work environment for officers, including interrogation rooms, upgraded facilities and other perks. Radel said the borough is “on a tight budget” already, but he hopes the project will get off the ground before summer. Dallas Jr. Mounts program schedules fall registration The Dallas Jr. Mounts Foot- ball and Cheerleading Program will hold registration for the fall 2012 football season from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 31 and from 6 to 9 p.m. on Thurs- day, April 12 at the Dallas Amer- ican Legion. Registrants are asked to bring a photo of themselves, copies of their birth certificate, medical insurance card and two proofs of residency. For more information, log on- to www.dallasjuniormount- s.com. OLYMPIAD Continued from Page 1 thought that every day you can discover something new, and if there’s a theory that’s been pro- ven right, you might be able to prove it wrong,” she said. Jean Lipki, Lake-Lehman gift- ed education teacher and Sci- ence Olympiad advisor, said the program allows young students to learn certain life skills while learning about scientific princi- ples. “I think it’s great — it teaches them creativity, time manage- ment, teamwork, stress manage- ment, competition,” she said. Lipski said the aspect she looks most forward to is not any particular event, like “Bottle Rockets” or “Thermodynamics” — it’s listening to the younger kids’ reactions to the day. “It’s fun for them because it’s so exuberant and they get to in- teract with other kids on a col- lege campus,” she said. Lipski said the two Lake-Leh- man teams had prepped for the Olympiad since December with the help of science and shop teachers at the school. Dustin Zeiler, 17, of Dallas, was a newcomer to the event — a friend on the Lake-Lehman team needed his help because Zeiler knew how to play an instrument. For the “Sounds of Music” event, participants had to create musical instruments and play them at the competition. Zeiler plays the trumpet, but he ended up making a clay oboe. “We tried to make an ocarina, but it didn’t work out,” he said. Zeiler was more laid back dur- ing the day and said the event was “a nice break from school.” Dallas High School team member Amber Habib, 15, of Dallas, was a bit more on edge during the competition while watching her teammates per- form and getting ready for her own events — “Forensics,” Grav- ity Vehicle,” and “Protein Mod- el.” “I'm equally nervous for all of them,” said Habib. “Some of Ya : CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK PHOTOS/ FOR THE DALLAS POST Lake-Lehman High School students Jasmine Moku, left, Jason Field, center, and James Cichocki tackle advanced math problems at the regional Science Olympiad held at Penn State Wilkes Barre. 2012 REGIONAL SCIENCE OLYMPIAD WINNERS DIVISION B (Middle school) 1st - Stroudsburg Junior High School 2nd - Wayne Highlands Middle School 3rd - Park Forest Middle School 4th - J.T. Lambert Intermediate School 5th - Mount Nittany Middle School 6th - Abington Heights Middle School Tth - Wilkes-Barre Academy DIVISION C (High schools) 1st = Athens Area High School 2nd - East Stroudsburg High School South 3rd - Stroudsburg High School 4th - North Pocono High School 5th - Lehighton High School 6th - Nanticoke High School Lake-Lehman High School seventh-grade student Devin Lindley shows off her bridge model at the regional Science Olympiad. them are harder than others. But my team is doing well.” Habib has been been involved in Science Olympiad for the last three years, and she enjoys the challenge of the various events that her team prepares for all year. “We work hard but it pays off in the end,” she said. DES wrestlers represent Rock Solid Berndt, Newell, Lucas and Volpetti racking up victories on the mats. Dallas Elementary School students Ayden Berndt, Steven Newell, Lucas Shultz and Lu- kas Volpetti have been busy on the mats wrestling for Rock Solid Wrestling. Recently, Berndt took sec- ond place in Canton with a thrilling match where he gained a reversal with seconds left in the match to win, 9-7. He followed that up with a first- place finish at the Abington Heights round robin, including a couple pins. Newell placed first at the Pa. Junior Wrestling district qual- ifier held in Tunkhannock and advanced to the Area X region- al in Williamsport set for to- day. Shultz and Volpetti wrestled in the Middle Atlantic Wres- tling Association district qual- ifier in Johnson City, N.Y. Volpetti placed third and Shultz took first, including a 3-2 victory in the finals where he earned a one-point escape with four seconds remaining in the match. Both advance to the north- ern regional championships to be held in Shamokin on April 6. 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