Vol. 121 No. 21
THE BACK MOUNTAIN'S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1889 I , duly 22 - 28, 2012
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WILKES-BARRE, PA.
Deanna Szabo, 17, of Pikes Creek, demonstrates advanced flag Lacey Carey, 12, of Noxen, practices her flag twirling during color
twirling techniques at the color guard camp.
Learning to be
a color guard
By SARAH HITE
shite@mydallaspost.com
@ tossing and staying
in step is harder than it looks.
Lake-Lehman students
learned that for themselves at a
color guard camp presented by
two seniors July 16-21.
Color guard is flag spinning
combined with dance move-
ments, and performances during
the outdoor season interpret mu-
sic played by the marching band.
During the indoor season,
sometimes called winter guard,
dances are choreographed to se-
lected music and are performed
in a gymnasium setting.
Guard members spin and toss
igs, rifles and sabers — whatev-
r prop is deemed appropriate
for the selected routine.
Deanna Szabo, 17, of Pikes
Creek, has been part of color
guard since she was in sixth
grade. She and friend Jessica
Campbell, 17, of Lehman, orga-
Guard members spin and toss
flags, rifles and sabers - what-
ever prop is deemed appropri-
ate for the selected routine.
nized the camp as part of their
senior projects.
“I was bored and it looked like
fun,” said Campbell about join-
ing color guard five years ago. “I
liked all the bright colors and
equipment.”
Nearly 10 students attended
the camp looking to learn more
about the guard or to improve on
the skills they've already
learned.
Twelve-year-old Lacey Carey,
of Noxen, has been in color
guard for a year and can already
toss with the best of them. She
and friend Mikayla Kidd, 12, of
Harveys Lake, demonstrated
their skills during the camp.
“When 1 joined, I thought it
See GUARD, Page 10
guard camp at Lake-Lehman High School.
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Lake-Lehman senior Deanna Szabo, front right, of Pikes Creek, meets with 10 students ages 8-13 to begin the color guard camp at the
high school gymnasium.
Pay increases approved
for super and his assistant
By SARAH HITE
shite@mydallaspost.com
The Lake-Lehman School
Board avoided a Sunshine Act vi-
olation and approved a raise for
the superintendent and his as-
sistant at a meeting Monday.
The board voted 5-2 to ratify
the Lake-Lehman Education As-
sociation and Lake-Lehman Edu-
cational Support Personnel As-
sociation agreements, extending
contracts for another two years.
The contracts were approved
at a special meeting in June, but
that meeting was not advertised
24 hours beforehand, so the
board had to revote on the issue
to avoid a Sunshine Law viola-
tion.
Board President Mark Kornos-
ki and board member Karen
Masters voted against the mea-
sures while board members An-
drew Salko, Walter Glogowski,
James Welby, Richard Bombic
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“I think it's a terrible thing to do to the tax-
payers.”
Mark Kornoski
Lake-Lehman School Board member on administrators’ raises
and Kevin Carey voted for the
motions.
Board members Bo Kreller
and David Paulauskas were ab-
sent.
Kornoski also said teachers
will received a 2.6 percent raise
and “free health care” with this
agreement.
“I think it’s a terrible thing to
do to the taxpayers,” he said.
Kornoski also asked Solicitor
John Audi if members could vote
for the contracts if they have
family members employed by
the district.
Audi said the state ethics com-
mission ruled that as long as
board members were not voting
on individual family members’
salaries, it was ethical.
Kornoski said he believed
Bombick and Welby have family
members employed by the dis-
trict.
The board approved a 3.5 per-
cent raise for Superintendent
i James McGovern, which will
change his annual salary to
$116,763.53.
A $0.60 per hour raise was ap-
proved for Assistant to the Su-
perintendent Mary Jo Casaldi,
increasing her salary to
$40,081.60. A similar raise was
approved for secretaries in the
support staff contract, but Casal-
di’s position is not included in
that negotiating body.
Kornoski said those positions
are separate contracts from most
other administrative positions
covered by Act 93, a section. of
the state school code that per-
tains to administrative wages.
He said the superintendent
and his assistant participated in
a pay freeze last year.
The board also awarded a bid
to Premium Builders of Wilkes-
Barre for the alterations to Leh-
man-Jackson Elementary School
for a childcare facility in the
amount of $156,570.
See PAY, Page 10
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Joey Kraynak of Pack 106, Mountain Top, right, receives the first-place trophy from Scoutmaster
John Sepcoski of Troop 316, Avoca, after his race car traveled a record-breaking 457 feet.
Derby
records
By SARAH HITE
shite@mydallaspost.com
Youngsters started their engi-
ness - sort of - at the EBS Derby
Day 2012 at Misericordia Uni-
versity on June 16.
There were no motors in
these racers as Scouts from
throughout northeastern Penn-
sylvania raced weighted wood-
en cars on a pinewood derby
Track official James Qu
track built to drive its way into
the Guinness Book of World Re-
ick, of Ashley, records the distance of a
fisherman race car after a Pinewood Derby heat.
track at about 460 feet, and a few
Scouts were able to break the
Guinness Book K of World Re-
ge
See DERBY, Page 10
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