Sunday, July 1, 2012 EDITORIAL PAGE 6 The Dallas Post www.mydallaspost.com Community Newspaper Group THE TIMES LEADER 15 N. Main St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18711 ® 570-675-521 news@mydallaspost.com Joe Butkiewicz Dotty Martin EXECUTIVE EDITOR EDITOR 829-7249 970-7440 3 jbutkiewicz@timesleader.com dmartin@mydallaspost.com - Diane McGee ADVERTISING 970-7153 dmcgee@timesleader.com LETTER TO THE EDITOR Foundation is grateful for many contributions Dear Editor: Thank you to all those who made contributions to The Memorial Day Foundation and to those who remember the heroic men and wom- en who paid the ultimate price for our freedom. Your generosity provided for nearly 3,000 bouquets of red flowers, symbolic of the bloodshed. With profound dignity, men, women and children assisted in placing flower bouquets at 10 War Memorials in the National Mall, Washington D.C. | In a solemn ceremony, four women representing the foundation as- sisted in placing a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at The | National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia. | Throughout the year, the foundation supports the Wounded War- rior Project as a result of your contribution. The Washington activities were consistent with the respect and honor the warriors so rightly deserve. The ceremonies included rever- ent prayer, a moment of silence and the bugler’s heart piercing sound of taps. The foundation is grateful for your support and invites you to visit www.memorialdayfoundation.org. YOUR SPACE pt ) Dallas Post photographer Bill Tarutis shot this photo. The flower diameter is about one-half inch. Bill says he's pretty sure the flower is a daisy fleabane and the insect is some sort of wasp, although he admits species identification has never been his thing. should include a self-addressed/stamped envelope. Items will be published in the or- der in which they are received. | The editor of The Dallas Post reserves the right to reject any items submitted for publi- cation. "YOUR SPACE" is reserved specifically for Dallas Post readers who have something they'd like to share with fellow readers. Submitted items may include photo- graphs or short stories and should be sent via e-mail to news@mydallaspost.com, by fax to 675-3650 or by mail to The Dallas Post, 15 N. Main St., Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711. Information must include the submitting person's name, address and telephone num- ber in the event we have questions. Readers wishing to have their photos returned Gordon Dershimer Memorial Day Foundation 20 YEARS AGO —1992 The Wilkes-Barre campus of brother, Donald, still at Lake las District Girl Scout Day | Harveys Lake Lake-Noxen students who re- Penn State University held its Lehman, will assist. Camp. Claudia, whose pleasant Flurry of activity at BMT library this week The Back Mountain Memorial Library will be closed for busi- ness on Wednesday, July 4 to cel- ebrate Independence Day, but make no mistake, there will be a flurry of activity this week as the library staff prepares for the 66th Annual Back Mountain Memo- rial Library Auction. This year’s auction will be held on Thursday, July 5 through Sun- day, July 8 on the library grounds, 96 Huntsville Road, Dallas. Rain date is Monday, July 9. The library will close early at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 5; Friday, July 6 and Saturday, July 7. The Slightly Read Bookshop is now closed to prepare for the auc- tion and will re-open at 5 p.m. on the first night of the auction (Thursday, July 5). Individual booths, including Nearly Olde, Book Tent, Odds & Ends Flea Market Tent, Christ- mas Tent, Plant Booth, Chil- dren’s Games and Sand Art, Bake Sale Tent, Basket Raffle, Tiskit-a- Tasket Basket Booth, Grandma’s Attic, Slightly Used Furniture Tent and food booths will be open each day from 5 to 11 p.m. Bid- ding for items on the auction block will begin at 6 p.m. each night. For convenience in parking, a shuttle bus will provide contin- uous pick-ups from the vacant parking lot near Senator Baker’s office in the Dallas Shopping Center on Memorial Highway. Set-up dates for the auction are from noon to 4 p.m. today, July 1 and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Mon- day and Tuesday, July 2 and 3. A light lunch will be provided. To volunteer, either to help with set-up or to work a few hours at one of the booths, call the li- brary at 675-1182 or contact Dia- na Berry, volunteer coordinator, at 675-0167. Many Back Mountain resi- dents are already inquiring about the Library’s Annual Farmers’ Market which will begin on Sat- urday, July 14 and continue every Saturday until Oct. 6. Hours of the market are from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. ceived the President’s Physical Fitness Award at an assembly in- cluded Mike Ely, Kim Halowich, Mia Policare, Brian Smigielski, Micah Hendershott, Sam Saylor, Chad Sorber, Justin Harris, James Web- er and Eric Sickler. Students in grade 6-B > at Lehman- "Jackson Elementary School cele- brated the last day of school by painting their art teacher’s car. Mrs. Susan Roese’s pupils had earned special points for cooper- ation, good conduct, work done neatly and assignments handed in on time during the second se- mester. Among the students who earned the honor of paint- ing the car were Carrie Race and Joe Tamagnini. YESTERDAY 30 YEARS AGO —- 1982 Dallas Junior Woman’s Club held an induction of new mem- bers recently at Prince of Peace Church, Dallas. Valerie Gialanel- la, membership chairman, and Kathy Oravitz, president, in- ducted the following new mem- bers: Cindy Harrison, Rebecca Offshack, Linda Kane, Mary Kay Babetski and Mary Wilkes. Boy Scout Troop 281, Dallas United Methodist Church, re- cently held an Eagle Court of Honor. Recipients of the Eagle Scout award were Stephen J. Strazdus and Kurt J. Fetterman. 40 YEARS AGO -1972 annual graduation dinner-dance recently at the Hotel Sterling, Wilkes-Barre. Back Mountain residents who were among the students and guests who attend- ed the affair included Ed Steltz, Barbara Moen and Diane Chad- wick. Dallas Junior Woman's Club welcomed seven new members at a Tea held recently at Prince of Peace Church, Dallas: Mrs. R. Dana Ide, Mrs. Paul Manzi, Mrs. Hank Wasilewski, Mrs. James Beidleman, . Mrs. . Paul Blan- chard, Mrs. Alan Landis and Mrs. Richard Long. 50 YEARS AGO -1962 The Boy Scout experiment in mulch farming is going great guns out on Huntsville Road, where Troop 232, under instruc- tion of Mrs. Joan Brobst, is try- ing out some revolutionary methods of planting and culture. The mulch has proved one thing already: It conserves what little moisture is in the ground and prevents drying out during the unusually hot weather. Garden- ers are: Mike and Jim McCoog, Robert Glen, John Butler, Carl Brobst, Bill Dougherty, Jay and Jim Borton, Paul and James Gates, Ed Friar Jr, Charles Glawe, Eugene Pryor, Norbert Schneider, Matt Gillis, Jack Kitchen, Bill Fetterman and Lau- ren Dymond. Dick Stroud, who graduated from Lake-Lehman High School two week ago, is taking on the management of his grandfa- ther’s fruit farm on the Rickett’s Glen Highway. His younger 60 YEARS AGO -1952 A Jackson Township boy placed third in the Poultry Judg- ing contest conducted as part of the annual State Future Farmers of America Convention held at Pennsylvania State College last week. Darrel Major, son of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Major of Trucksville will participate in the national FFA Convention at Kansas City this fall as a result of his outstanding performance in a field of 132 contestants. i= Dallas Kiwanis will celebrate its 25th anniversary tonight with a dinner for the wives at the Irem Temple Country Club. Kenneth Rice, president, announced that the speaker will be Attorney Enoch Thomas Sr., Harveys Lake, and Fred Anderson will give a history of the club. 70 YEARS AGO -1942 Miss Claudia Cooke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Cooke, of Shavertown, will be in charge of the waterfront at Wildwood, Dal- personality has won her legions Township High School 4) of friends, is a graduate of D Stroudsburg State Teachers’ College, class of 1942, where she received a BS degree in physical education. Miss Vera Whitesell of Leh- man will present her piano pu- pils in an annual recital at Leh- man Church at 8 o'clock Tuesday evening. Pupils taking part are: Priscilla Abbott, Mary Lou El- ston, Alice Ehret, Polly Lou Cooper, Priscilla Cooper, Janet Wright, Betty Leis, Betty Sutton, Arlene Wentzel, Stella Cease Ja- net Lamoreaux, Dilys Hunter, Ir- ma Calkins, Vera Rogers, Be dine Krawiewic, Marie off) Eleanor Ide, Leonard Ide, G win Tough, Tommy Elston, Ro- nald Kittle and Frank Roese. Information for “Only Yester- day” is taken from past issues of The Dallas Post which is 122 vears old. The wformation is printed here exactly as it ap- peared mn the newspaper vears ago. MOMENTS IN TIME The History Channel ® On July 5, 1921, a trial be- gins in the case of seven Chica- go White Sox baseball players accused of throwing the 1919 World Series. The conspiracy trial was just for show, and signed confessions from some of the players mysteriously dis- appeared from police custody. The jury acquitted all of the ac- cused players and then celebrat- ed with them at a nearby restau- rant. e On July 8, 1949, Wolfgang Puck, the celebrity chef and offi- cial caterer for the Academy Awards Governors Ball, is born in Austria. e On July 7, 1983, Samantha Smith, an 11-year-old American girl, begins a two-week visit to the Soviet Union at the invita- tion of Soviet leader Yuri An- dropov. He invited Smith after she wrote him a letter as part of a school project. “No, | think they just pointed to the name book and it was the first name they saw.” Keith Cusma Dallas “WERE YOU NAMED AFTER “After my father but I'm not a junior be- cause our middle names are different.” Jim Amarando Dallas “St. Arnold. My par- ents picked it. I'm go- ing to research it now and find out where he's from.” Arnie Brodhead Shavertown ANYONE OR ANYTHING?" “No but years ago it was a different name that no one had ever head of." Heather Pitcavage Shavertown “I'm 100% Polish and the priest said | would be named after St. Geneffa because Jean was not a saint's name.” Jean Mikulis Dallas “| think I'm named after someone ona TV show but I'm not sure which one it was.” Allie Bru Hl EE EE EEE E————— \ Dallas
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