| il yd ii i ! ki Bh *® Sunday, April 22, 2012 THE DALLAS POST PAGE 3 DALLAS BOROUGH By SARAH HITE shite@mydallaspost.com Concerns about the ongoing road work on Huntsville Road caused residents to speak out at the Dallas Borough Council meeting on Wednesday evening. Resident Dave Hozempa and a neighbor expressed concerns about the ever-changing project, which got its start last year, and asked whether storm water is- sues would result in changing the height of the curbs. Borough Manager Tracey Carr said Huntsville Road is owned by Luzerne County and the state De- partment of Transportation is al- so involved in the project. She said the project includes widening the road, installing overlay, replacing some side- walks and making storm water infrastructure improvements. Carr planned to discuss resi- dents’ concerns with county and state officials on Thursday and hopes to meet with affected resi- dents soon. Council authorized Carr to de- velop project specifications for storm water infrastructure im- provements to Fawn Drive, Hick- ory Road and Whitetail Drive, contingent upon project approval from PennDOT to use state lig- uid fuels funds. Carr said the area is prone to storm water issues and residents’ complaints have spurred the ac- tion. In other news, council ... e Approved an ordinance au- thorizing Dallas Fire and Ambu- lance Inc. to recover costs and ex- penses from property owners for its services through its insurance policies. Carr said at a previous meeting some materials used by the fire department are very costly to re- place, and this action will only be taken if it is covered by property owners’ insurance policies and will not apply to every resident. e Approved an ordinance to create uniform requirements for contributors into the borough wastewater collection and treat- ment system that will be admin- istered and enforced by the Wyoming Valley Sanitary Au- thority. The ordinance will also set fees for the administration and oper- ation of an industrial pre-treat- ment program and establish pe- nalties for violations. e Approved Kingston Town- ship as an addition to the Back Mountain Regional Emergency Management Agency with John Turner as an assistant coordina- tor representing the township. ¢ Approved the purchase of six portable radios for the police de- partment, including upgraded batteries and remote speakers at the state purchasing program price of $3,576 proposed by Pu- rosky & Tuckerman. ¢ Approved the execution of an agreement with Stell Enterprises Inc. for the agreed-upon costs for 40-yard waste containers and hauling fees in conjunction with the 2012 Spring Cleanup Project. ¢ Acknowledged receipt of the Audited Financial Statements for 2011 and authorized payment to Kovalchik, Kollar & Co. in the amount of $4,125 for the work. e Approved the 2012 summer recreation program announce- ment, registration procedure, program information and rules and regulations, including the participation of up to 100 Dallas Township resident children. Dal- las Township supervisors have pledged to equally share the costs of the program. Residents express concerns about ongoing work e Acknowledged the receipt of the 2012 state liquid fuels tax fund payment in the amount of $69,674.77 received on April 2. e Authorized Carr to submit surveys completed by residents to the Luzerne County Office of Community Development in sup- port of securing a Community Development Block Grant to im- prove Wellington Avenue. ® Accepted the resignation of part-time road department work- er Frank Stanish and authorized Carr to seek applicants and con- duct interviews for the position. e The next Dallas Borough Council meeting will be held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, May 16 in the municipal building. LAKE-LEHMAN SCHOOL DISTRICT Students recognized, five district positions opened By SARAH HITE shite@mydallaspost.com Several student athletes were recognized and five district po- sitions were opened at a school board meeting on Monday. Superintendent James McGovern recognized the fol- lowing student athletes: Mat- thew Edkins, a freshman who | red sixth at the state District i heet at Bucknell University; “Austin Harry, a wrestler with a record of 394 who placed high in several regional and district championships; and students on the girls’ basketball team, which reached the District II playoffs for the third consecu- tive year. The following wrestlers were also recognized at the meeting for placing at the PIAA District II championships and for mak- ing the Wrestling Coaches Asso- ciation All-Academic team: Bryan Carter, Jake Winters, Nick Shelley, Jimmy Stuart, Tomasura, Curt Barbacci, dy Butler, Derek Dragon, Josh Winters and Josh Sayre. McGovern praised students’ accomplishments in the region- al History Day competition. Lake-Lehman won the Out- standing School Award for the 13th consecutive year. He also announced students Catherine Rose and Jason Field received first-place honors at the regional Science Olympiad competition in the “Disease De- tective” event and junior Mark Navin recently achieved the rank of Eagle Scout. The Lake-Lehman School Board approved the retirement of Leonard Kislavage, high school custodian, and Linda O'Dell, Ross Elementary cafete- ria manager, and authorized hu- man resources to advertise for those positions. The board also accepted the resignation of Tiffany Hettes, head girls’ volleyball coach, and approved the release from em- ployment of Michelle Keiper, part-time custodian and food service worker. Both positions will also be advertised. Amy Thomas, elementary reading teacher, was approved for a compensated professional leave for the 2012-13 school year. Two campus improvement projects were approved at no cost to the district. The Lake- Lehman Band Alumni will fund the materials needed to dedi- cate the road from the junior/ senior high school to Lehman- Jackson Elementary as John Mi- liauskas Way. Miliauskas is considered to be the “father of Lake-Lehman band” and there will be a pre- sentation at the high school in June to honor him. The board approved a project proposed by prospective Eagle Scout Nicholas Egan of Troop 241 in Lehman Township. Egan plans to restore the out- door basketball court at Leh- man-Jackson Elementary School with new poles, baskets, rims and nets. He will also cover the costs for repairs to the as- phalt and the installation of a 15- foot aluminum bench. In other news, the board ... e Appointed the following volunteer coaches for the 2011- 12 school year: Robert Ambrose, of Harveys Lake, as junior high assistant softball coach and Tyl- er Calkins, of Shickshinny, as as- sistant track coach. ® Authorized administration to renew the agreement with Luzerne Intermediate Unit No. 18 to provide kindergarten through 12th grade Discovery Education Streaming for the 2012-13 school year at a cost of $0.77 per student. ¢ Authorized administration to renew the student placement agreement between the Lake- Lehman School District and Bloomsburg University. e Authorized administration to execute the departments of Public Welfare and Education Project MOM/Young Father- hood Initiative grant. e Authorized administration to renew the collaborative agreement between the Lake- Lehman School District and Lu- zerne County Head Start Inc. e Ratified authority to admin- istration to submit a member- ship form to the Keystone Pur- chasing Network. e Approved a statement of as- surance for the operation of spe- cial education services and pro- grams for the 2012 through 2015 school years. ® Authorized administration to enter into an agreement with American School Planner, Gar- den Grove, Calif., to provide 1,200 school planners at a cost of $2 per planner plus shipping and handling for a three-year pe- riod beginning with the 2012-13 school year. ® The next combined meet- ing of the Lake-Lehman School Board will be held at 7 p.m. on Monday, M ay 21 in the junior/ senior high school library. Students embrace opportunity to learn from one of the best By APRIL DULSKY Special to The Dallas Post Internationally-known author and journalist Carl Bernstein spoke to a select group of Miser- icordia University students about the Watergate scandal and “The Cult and Culture of Washington: An American Problem that Must Be Solved.” Bernstein and fellow journalist Bob Woodward, reporters for the Washington Post at the time, helped expose the Watergate scandal which caused President Richard Nixon to resign. Bernstein also opened the floor to students’ questions and con- cerns about politics and other hot-topic issues. “The class was designed to en- able class leaders from the com- munications, English and history departments to immensely bene- fit from interacting with a promi- nent figure in journalism histo- ry,” said Melissa Sgroi, Commu- nications department chair and professor. Bernstein gave background on the Watergate scandal and how he and Woodward worked with the Post to break the story about the national scandal that won a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1973. Some students were asked by Bernstein to give a brief defini- tion of the Watergate scandal at the beginning of class. Gia Ma- zur, of Dickson City, talked can- didly about the scandal and gave historical insight about how American citizens felt at the time about their government. “Oh man, how do I define it to you?” said Mazur. “Someone was tapping the phone lines and Pres- ident Nixon was doing some- thing that he shouldn’t have been doing; I know that. People lost faith in their government be- cause they couldn’t trust any- body.” “Washington is a broken place,” he said. “The system is broken, broken fundamentally, I believe, by the single branch of government, which is almost to- tally dysfunctional, the legisla- tive branch congress of the Unit- ed States.” Ellen Hoffman, of Kingston, re- alized she needs to become more educated about politics. “There is so much out there that I realized I don’t know about and really should,” she said. “It opened my eyes to just how im- portant politics are and how they shape our lives.” Other topics discussed during the class included the national debt, investigative journalism and student loans. Bernstein also talked about news sources and urged students to take a step back from social media and look to oth- er media platforms for their news. He suggested reading newspapers either online or in print to receive the most reliable information. “Our generation is so focused on social media,” said Gabrielle Gattuso, of Mountain Top. “I know sometimes I forget that there are legitimate sources of news out there. I'm definitely go- ing to start reading The New York Times and not completely relying on social media for news.” “I liked the question and an- swer session but I felt there were a lot of questions left unanswer- ed, not that I expected Bernstein to have all the answers,” said No- el Sidorek, of Beaumont. “I would have really liked him to give us some advice on how we as a gen- eration can fix and avoid the prob- lems of the generations before us.” Some stsudents believed the Internationally-known author and journalist Carl Bernstein speaks to a master class at Misericordia University. master class could have provided more guidance and information about how the current generation can improve government and the political system in the future. “I really wish he could have provided the students with more specifics on the cult and culture of Washington, like the class was supposed to and really provide us with some guidance as to how we can alleviate the problems in our government,” said Julia Truax, of Millville. The master class brought stu- dents and professionals from their field of study together where they could interact and re- ceive valuable information. Tru- ax said bringing events to the campus provides students oppor- tunities they. would otherwise not have. Bernstein concluded the day with a free public lecture at Mi- sericordia University about “His Holiness, John Paul I1.” April Dulsky, of Dallas, 1s a se- nior communications and En- glish major at Misericordia Umi versity and web editor of The Highlander, the campus’ student newspaper. The Dallas Post wins three Keystone awards By Dallas Post Staff The Dallas Post earned three of 24 Keystone Press Awards won by Impressions Media newspapers this year for news, feature and sports stories, pho- tos and columns, special pro- jects and design in 2011. Competing in Division VII for non-dailies with circulation un- der 5,000, Dallas Post staff writ- er Sarah Hite captured first place in the general news category for her story about the 2010 King- ston Township Holiday House lighting contest. Photographer Bill Tarutis took first place in the Feature Photo category for the photo ac- companying a story called “Count & Care,” published in The Dallas Post last May. Tarutis captured an honorable mention Sports Photo titled “Huge Wi for the Mountaineers.” Tarutis also won a first-place Sports Photo award for a photo in Go Lackawanna and first place for a photo story in The Sunday Dispatch. The Times Leader took home three first-place awards, while weekly newspaper Go Lacka- wanna in Scranton captured nine awards and The Abington Journal in Clarks Summit and The Sunday Dispatch in Pittston each won four. The Abington Journal also was named the Sweepstakes winner for its division. “We're proud to see all the news organizations of Impres- sions Media be recognized in the 2012 Keystone Press Awards. Our news organizations won a total of 24awards, including an- other sweepstakes award for The Abington Journal. That’s a three-peat for the Journal, the third year in a row that publica- tion won the most award points in the division,” said Executive Editor Joe Butkiewicz. Butkiewicz said Times Leader staff “should take pride in win- ning first-place awards for the biggest stories of the year, win- ning two top awards for our out- standing news coverage of the Photographer Bill Tarutis and Staff Writer Sarah Hite won 2012 Keystone Press Awards for work they had published in The Dal- las Post. flooding of last September. And a remote newsroom set up at a CLARK VAN ORDEN/THE TIMES LEADER sports staffer Derek Levarse won a first-place award for his coverage of the Joe Paterno/ Penn State football events.” Times Leader staff won first place in the Spot News category for “Edge of Disaster” - a story with multiple sidebars publish- ed on Sept. 9 about the evacua- tion and emergency prepara- tions occurring throughout the Wyoming Valley in anticipation of severe flooding. Newspaper staff continued coverage the following day from local hotel on For coverage of the Flood of 2011 and its aftermath, beginning with the Sept. 10 sto- ry “MOVE OVER, AGNES,” The Times Leader won a first-place award in the Ongoing News Cov- erage category. Levarse won first place in the Sports Event Coverage category for his reporting on the Nittany Lions returning to the field after the ouster of iconic head football coach Joe Paterno in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal. DALLAS TOWNSHIP Firearms law adopted By Susan Bettinger Dallas Post Correspondent Supervisors adopted a fire arms ordinance that regulates the firing of guns in the town- ship at their meeting Tuesday evening. The ordinance, spurred by safety concerns related to gas line development, prohibits the discharge of a firearm within 150 yards of any dwelling house, school building, above ground natural gas facility or storage lo- cation, across public roads, in cemeteries or burial places, as well as on another person's property. The discharge of firearms is permitted by law enforcement officials, hunting when adhering to the Pennsylvania Game Com- mission rules, in gun clubs, at private outdoor target and shooting ranges, private proper- ty, including basements, as long as there is compliance with Na- tional Rifle Association stan- dards and rules, when there is a need to protect life or property, RE i a i i i i i OD I BH or for protection against a dan- gerous animal. These same rules apply to the discharging of bow and arrow and similar de- vices, except the prohibited area is reduced to 50 yards. Anyone who violates the ordi- nance would be guilty of a sum- mary offense and face a fine of up to $200 plus court costs. Co- pies of the ordinance are avail- able at the municipal building. The supervisors also ap- proved a resolution to call for the reform of the Pennsylvania Prevailing Wage Law. The reso- lution requires that workers on public construction, recon- struction, demolition, alter- ation, or repair projects with an estimated cost greater than $25,000 be paid a wage set by the Secretary of Labor, rather than the local market rates. The resolution is the result of a re- quest by both the Back Moun- tain Community Partnership and the Pennsylvania State As- sociation of Township Supervi- SOrS. See LAW, Page 12
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