PAGE 4 THE DALLAS POST Sunday, September 9, 2012 CHURCH BRIEF Spanish Bible Study every Sunday Back Mountain Harvest Assembly offers a Spanish Bible Study from 9:45 to 10:45 a.m. every Sunday at the church, 340 Carverton Road, Trucksville. For more information, call the church office at 696-1128 or Luis/Stefano Rosario at 706- 1005. Choir performs at Cross Creek Church Children of the World In- ternational Children’s Choir will perform at 9 and 10:45 a.m. today, Sept. 9 at Cross Creek Community Church, 370 Carverton Road, Trucks- ville. Admission is free and a love offering will be taken during the performance. St. Paul's returns to regular schedule St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, a member of the ELCA and located at 474 Yalick Road (Route 118), Dallas, will return to its regular worship schedule today, Sept. 9 with worship services at 8:30 and 11 a.m. Sunday School Rally Day will also be held at 9:45 a.m. that day. Regular Saturday worship continues at 5:30 p.m. weekly. For more information, call 675-3859. Sunday School begins at TUMC Sunday School at Trucks- ville United Methodist Church, 40 Knob Hill Road, Trucksville, will be held from 9:45 to 10:45 a.m. beginning today, Sept. 9. SUMC plans S community yard sale A Community Yard Sale will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 15 in the Aicher Parking Lot of the Shavertown United Methodist Church. Spaces are available for $10 for a 15-foot space. Anyone interested in securing a vendor space may call Sandy Michali- sin at 696-9079. A variety of items will be available along with food and baked goods on the day of the sale. Homemade soups served at NUMC Homemade soups, all served with bread and butter, bever- age and dessert, will be avail- able from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 22 at the Nox- en United Methodist Church, Route 29, Noxen. A free will offering will be taken. Last yard sale of the year slated The Huntsville United Methodist Church, 2355 Huntsville Road, Shavertown, will hold its last Community Yard Sale of the year from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept 22. Vendor spaces are$10 each. Food and a bake sale will also be available. Call 477-3748 to reserve your space. Fine Arts Committee plans concert The Fine Arts Committee of Shavertown United Methodist Church will begin its 10th season of concerts with Steve Green, Christian recording artist, at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 23. Tickets for the concert are $20. Call the SUMC office at 675-3616 or Deb Kelleher at 881-9468. SENIOR CENTER MENU Senior Citizens Centers sponsored by the Area Agency on Aging for Luzerne and Wyoming Counties offer hot noon meals Monday through Friday to people 60 years of age or older. Donations from participants are gratefully accepted and needed in order to expand this program. The following is the menu for the week of September 10, 2012: MONDAY: Baked fish, lemon dill green beans, cream of broccoli and cheddar soup, crackers, ketchup, tartar sauce, whole wheat bread, tapioca pudding, margarine, milk and coffee. TUESDAY: Stuffed pepper, zucchini and summer squash me- dley, mashed potatoes, whole wheat dinner roll, fresh peach, mar- garine, milk and coffee. WEDNESDAY: Chicken parmesan, mixed greens salad with whole wheat pasta, Italian bread, chilled pears, margarine, milk and coffee. THURSDAY: Bag lunch - Turkey and ham with American cheese on marbled rye FRIDAY: Meatloaf, gravy, broccoli, oven roasted potatoes, whole wheat dinner roll, pistachio pudding, margarine, milk and coffee. For further information, contact the Area Agency on Aging for Luzerne/ Wyoming Counties Nutrition Program or call the Senior Center nearest your home. por ¥ Latter-day Saint teens stepped back in time to experience the handcart trek endured by their Mormon Pioneer forebears. Dallas siblings give up modern day for spiritual | It was 165 years ago that Brigh- am Young led the first company of Mormon Pioneers on an arduous, perilous trek across the Great Plains and into the heart of the Rocky Mountains. But to Jess and Nell Adams, of Dallas, the experience felt very re- al and recent. They, with 139 other teens from congregations of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints throughout Eastern Pennsylva- nia, put aside the conveniences of modern living and stepped back in time for a physically taxing but spiritually enriching local re-en- actment of the great pioneer trek of 1847 in the Michaux Forest at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Theyoung people assembled at a youth camp owned by the church adjacent to the forest and each was assigned to a pioneer “family” — an adult “ma” and “pa” and 11 to 14 young men and wom- en, ages 14 to 18. Replicating the experience of companies of 19th- century handcart pioneers who lacked the advantage of ox-drawn covered wagons, they packed their belongings into wooden handcarts designed after those pushed, pulled and persuaded across rivers, over the plains and up the mountains by their fore- bears and set out on their shorter route. As a society, “we are very tech centered,” observed Jess Adams, 18, a 2012 graduate of Dallas High School who begins his freshman year at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, this month. “The Trek experience made me realize that, although we don’t have to live like the pioneers did, we can pull ourselves away from the world and realize what’s impor- tant.” The first day the modern pio- neers covered 12 miles of terrain selected by the activity’s organiz- . ers to mimic the challenges faced by their predecessors. Each trekk- er’s food ration for that rigorous march was one apple and one bis- cuit, witha dinner of beefbouillon and a roll awaiting them at the end of the day. Arising early the next morning, they breakfasted on mush and hit the trail again. While food was sparse, water was readily available and, with tem- peratures reaching as high as 98 degrees, the trekkers downed 500 gallons of it over the three-day event. To give the participants an ap- preciation for the sacrifice and or- deal experienced by some of the female pioneers who made the original trek alone or with young children and without a husband, father or other adult male, one particularly challenging part of the route was reserved for the “women’s pull.” The young men in the company were required to step aside, offering encourage- ment but no physical assistance, as the young women strained to push and pull the carts to the apex of a steep hill. “It opened my eyes to what women had to go through back then and just how strong and self- sufficient women can be,” Jess ex- plained. Like the original handcart pio- neers, the trekkers found them- selves exposed to the vagaries of nature. A tornado warning and approaching 70-mph winds led to a change in course, a shared expe- rience of prayer and a renewal of faith as the storm bypassed the group. The second day’s march ended at mid-day and the trekkers found a menu of activities awaiting them that exposed them to the practicalities and pleasures of pio- neer life. They participated in pio- neer games and square dancing, washed their hair with old-fash- ioned bar soap, made candles by a creek, shot cotton balls from peri- od musket firearms and cooked dinner in Dutch ovens. The final day brought a two- hour hike with the handcarts back to the starting point where cheer- ing parents gave the weary mod- ern pioneers a renewed burst of energy as they completed their trek. A barbeque brought the ac- tivity to a close. Nell Adams, 16, Jess’ sister and also a student at Dallas High School, spoke of the new perspec- tive she gained from the experi- ence. “It’s not just about dressing Jess Adams, of Dallas, joined the Pioneer Trek. up in funny clothes and win ff) to pull handcarts,” she said. “We .didn’t do it just because we were made to but because we wanted to see what it was like. We had fun even though we were hurting the whole time. The best part was be- .ing away from the world and ac- tually experiencing for myself what the pioneers went through rather than just hearing about it.” Ninety-two of the teen trekkers came from the nine congrega- tions that constitute the Scranton Pennsylvania Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints and 49 from the Wail liamsport Pennsylvania ‘B seven congregations. In addi to the Adams siblings, participa- nts from the Wilkes-Barre Ward, which meets in the Latter-day Saints chapel on Manor Drive in Trucksville, included Connor Jones from Dallas, Casey Bartoli from Exeter, Amy Alder and Theresa Mitten from Harding, Virgina Myrkalo from Inkerman, Wake Schepman from Hunlock Creek, Brian Schappert and Sean Webb from Kingston, Nicholas and Samantha Kohlert from Mountaintop, Sarah Scherer from Shavertown and Katy Dy- mond from Wyoming. OBITUARIES ARNOLD - Stephan E., 43, of Harveys Lake, died Sunday, Sep- tember 2, 2012, at his residence. He was born in Queens, N.Y., and was a plumber with Yenason Plumbing. Surviving are his wife, Noelle; and four children, Delila, Bran- don and Katelyn Arnold; and step-daughter, Jessica. BROWN -Francis, 73, formerly of Shavertown and a resident of Allied Services, Scranton, died Monday, August 27, 2012, at Moses Taylor Hospital, Scran- ton. He was born in Wilkes-Barre on December 6, 1938, was of the Catholic faith and loved by the staff at Allied for his good nature. FERDO - Dolores M. “Dee" (Lukach), 84, of Boyle Drive, Dallas, died Wednesday, August 29, 2012, in the inpatient unit of Hospice Community Care at Geisinger South Wilkes-Barre following a prolonged illness. She was born August 4, 1928, in Wilkes-Barre, and was a for- mer resident of the Brookside section of the city, previously at- tending the former Sacred Heart of Jesus Roman Catholic Church, North Wilkes-Barre. Educated in city schools, she was a graduate of the James M. Coughlin High School, Class of 1946. Until her retirement in 1989, she had been employed by the Office of Hearings and Appeals as the office manager for over 17 years. Previously, she was em- ployed by the former Muskin Pools Company, Wilkes-Barre. Surviving are her husband, Bernard, with whom she would have celebrated her 64th wed- ding anniversary on Sept. 25; her children, Mark B., Harveys Lake; Carole Matthews, Glendale; Joan Hand, Penn Yan, N.Y.; Lois Scott, Forty Fort; six grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; broth- ers, Dr. Carl Lukach, Wilming- ton, Del.; Vincent Lukach, West Chester; sisters, Ann Connolly, Belmont; Carolyn Murray, De- troit, Mich.; nieces, nephews and her special companion, “Holly.” Memorial donations to Saint Mary’s Byzantine Catholic Church, 695 N. Main St., Wilkes- Barre, PA 18705; Hospice Com- munity Care, 601 Wyoming Ave., Kingston, PA 18704; or the Alz- heimer’s Association , 58 N. Fran- klin St., Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701. HEADLEY - Thomas Joseph, 62, of Center Moreland, died Wednesday, August 29, 2012, in Commonwealth Home Health & Hospice of NEPA. He was born September 9, 1949, in Kingston. He was a life- long resident of Center More- land, was a graduate of Tunkhan- nock High School and attended the Penn State Drafting Pro- gram. He was a machinist and a member of the International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers. He had been employed prior to his illness at Ashley Machine and Tool, Wyoming. He formerly had worked at Procter & Gamble, Meshoppen. He was a member of the NRA. Surviving are two daughters, Sarah Checho, Jessup; Jennifer Ritzco, Montdale; brother, John, Center Moreland; sister, Joyce Coolbaugh, Lehman; two grand- daughters. Memorial contributions to DaVita Dialysis, 5950 SR 6 West, Tunkhannock, PA 18657. HERBERT - Timothy E., 69, of Dallas, died Monday, August 28, 2012, at Meadows Nursing Cen- ter, Dallas. He was born in Kingston and was a graduate of Larksville High School. He was employed with The Okonite Company in N.J. and lat- er worked as a construction elec- trician with IBEW Local 163, re- tiring in 2003. He served in the Army in Viet- nam. He was a member of Gate of Heaven Church, Dallas. Surviving are his wife, the for- mer Ruth Miller, with whom he would have celebrated his 46th wedding anniversary in Novem- ber; a son, Timothy FE. Jr., Dover, Del.; daughters, Mary Herbert, Dallas; Amy Herbert Collura, Swoyersville; three grandchil- dren; brother, George, Larksville; nieces and nephews. Memorial donations to the Alzheimer’s Association, c/o 57 N. Franklin St., Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701. HUGHES - Robert J., 83, of Dallas died Thursday, August 30, 2012, in the Celtic Health Care Inpatient Unit at Geisinger South Wilkes-Barre after a short battle with cancer. He was born in Kingston, was a graduate of Dallas Township High School, class of 1947, and attended Wyoming Seminary and Wilkes College. A U.S. Army veteran of the Ko- rean War, he served in the 147th Field Artillery Battalion sta- tioned in Fort Carson, Colo. and also in Alaska. He was a principal in the fam- ily-owned businesses, Hughes Corporation and Home Fuel Cor- poration. He was a member of the Lu- zerne Bank Board for 35 years, serving as chairman for five years. He was a member of the Westmoreland Club and Hunts- ville Golf Club. He was a member of Gate of Heaven Church, Dallas. Surviving are his wife, the for- mer Sylvia Adams, with whom he would have celebrated 55 years of marriage on October 26, 2012; son, Peter D., Wilkes-Barre; two granddaughters; three great- grandchildren; brothers, Joseph and John, both of Dallas; nieces and nephews. Memorial donations to WVIA, 100 WVIA Way, Pittston, PA 18640. KOTTLER - Cathleen Lynn, 21, of Hunlock Creek, died unex- pectedly Wednesday, August 29, 2012, at the Wilkes-Barre Gener- al Hospital. She was born January 25, 1991 in Kingston. Surviving are her parents, John P. and Carolyn Carden Kot- tler, of Hunlock Creek; her chil- dren, Alaina, Mason and Aubria- na, all at home; two brothers and five sisters. MCcGAVIN - Darla , of Tunk- hannock, died unexpectedly Au- gust 28, 2012 at Tyler Memorial Hospital. She was born in Tunkhannock June 27, 1947. Surviving are her daughters, Sherry McGavin Popiwchak and Denise McGavin Patton; com- panion, Allan Perez; sisters, Son- ja Rau, Colleen Anderson, Pat Ayers; three grandchildren; one great-granddaughter. VASKAS - Ruth M., 82, of Dal- las and Leesburg, Florida, died Thursday, August 30, 2012, at the residence of her son in Dal- las. She was born November 1, 1929, and was a graduate of Lu- zerne High School, Class of 1947. She later earned an Associate’s Degree from Keystone College and was Admissions Director at Valley Crest Nursing Home in Plains Township for many years. She was a member and Past Worthy Matron of the .Dallas Chapter Order of the Eastern Star. She was a member of the Kun- kle United Methodist Church, where she taught Sunday School and was active in the United Methodist Women. She was elected and served as Democratic State Committee member for the Pa. 20th Senato- rial District. She was a member of Daddow Isaacs American Le- gion Auxiliary and the Wyoming Valley Lithuanian Club. * She was also a Licensed Practi- cal Nurse and was active in the early years of Hospice and a member of the National Hospice Organization. Surviving are a son, Peter Cal- kins, PE, Dallas; four grandchil- dren; one great-grandson; nieces and nephews. Memorial donations to Kunkle United Methodist Church, 177 Old Highway Road, Dallas, PA 18612 or The Kunkle Fire Department, 3943 State Route 309, Dallas, PA 18612. km BS sa gE
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