Vol. 121 No. 38 THE BACK MOUNTAIN'S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1889 November 25 - December 1, 2012 'eThe PatrASs Post. WILKES-BARRE, PA. www.mydallaspost.com AN EDITION OF THE TIMES LEADER Facebook helped the Chinikaylo family find Lillie. Lillie's home - thanks to Facebook By MEGAN SCHNEIDER .mschneider@mydallaspost.com One local family recently learned that Facebook can be a valuable tool in time of need. On Halloween night, the Chinikaylo family from Church Road in Lehman Township, lost Lillie, its 3- year-old Border Collie/Labra- dor mix. Seventeen-year-old Vladi- mir Chinikaylo had the family dog in the yard and made the mistake of setting off fire- crackers. Lillie was frightened and ran off. That was about 8 p.m. and a search began, last- ing well in to the night. “You wake up in the morning and it’s like a bad dream and then you think, oh man, my dog really is missing.” Anna Chinikaylo Lehman Township “The first thing I did was to put it on Facebook,” said Anna Chinikaylo, telling how she posted a picture of Lillie and asked for people to keep their eyes out for her. Then the family took to the streets, on foot and by car, armed with flashlights on a frantic search for its pet. The family lives near the Hunst- ville Dam and searched the en- tire area. According to Chini- kaylo, family members went from Hillside Farms towards Penn State Lehman campus, up and Down Huntsville Road and everywhere in between. Chinikaylo said Lillie knows where she lives because she frequently goes for walks and never with a leash. “She is very well trained,” Chinikaylo said. Lillie doesn’t wear a collar so there would be no way to identify her. The family was very worried about its dog, especially given the extreme cold on that night, and came home around mid- night empty-handed. “You wake up in the morn- ing and it’s like a bad dream,” Chinikaylo said, “and then you think, oh man, my dog really is missing.” But what the family didn’t know that night was that Lillie had been rescued almost im- mediately after leaving her yard. A Domino’s Pizza deliv- ery driver had seen Lillie on the road near the Huntsville See FACEBOOK, Page 7 Going where Delp Is needed By MEGAN SCHNEIDER mschneider @mydallaspost.com Thanks to support from Mi- sericordia University students and alumni, New York and New Jersey residents are not left alone to pick up pieces from the devastation caused by Hurri- cane Sandy. Representatives from Miser- icordia University spent the weekend of Nov. 9 delivering re- lief supplies and lending a help- &: hand to residents of New York’s Staten Island. Donations of food, water, cleaning supplies and other items were collected at the university, loaded into a van and driven to Staten Island. Jim Miller, a senior in the Oc- cupational Therapy program at Misericordia, didn’t realize right away that the group was in the damaged area. “The main street seemed fine but then you looked down a side street and there would be a boat in the middle of a street,” he said. “It was so bad,” said Kellyann Gough, Misericordia student from Chester, New York. Gough is originally from Staten Island “They were still in shock. | just don't think it hit them yet that their entire homes were gone." Caroline Landen Misericordia sophomore and has family affected during the storm. “I've been to the area we were at hundreds of thou- sands of times and it was very upsetting,” she said about hur- ricane damage. Gough said, thankfully, her family members were not put out due to storm damage but their power was just returned late last week. The students described the mess left in the wake of Sandy. They talked about homes caked with mud. “You would see a glove on the sidewalk just cov- ered with debris,” said Gough. A dog was crated outside be- cause his owners feared if he were indoors he might become ill from eating the debris. Police, fire companies and See HELP, Page 7 Misericordia University students Caroline Landen, left, and Kellyann Gough rip water-soaked drywall out of a home on Staten Island. BILL TARUTIS PHOTOS/ FOR THE DALLAS POST Seven-year-old Georgina Pugh, of Tunkhannock, carries donations from Tunkhannock Assembly of God for Operation Christmas Child into Cross Creek Community Church as her mom, Hope, watches. Ensuring all a happy and festive holiday By MEGAN SCHNEIDER mschneider@mydallaspost.com Samaritan’s Purse, an interna- tional relief organization based in Boone, N.C, is being helped in its mission this holiday season by Back Mountain residents. The far-reaching charitable hand of the organization’s holiday drive, dubbed Operation Christmas Child, gets support from smaller, more local roots. Cross Creek Community Church on Carverton Road in Shavertown is a relay center for this year’s collection, marking the third year the local church has been a collection center for the Back Mountain. Operation Christmas Child isa shoebox collection. Participants fill a shoebox or small plastic tote with items for children ages 2-14 in countries all over the world. The boxes are stuffed with neces- sities such as soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes, bandages and clothing. Some of them include small toys, hard candies, note- books and pencils or other small, non-food and non-liquid items. Each family or organization can stuff its box with whatever its members would like. Many of the local churches that participate in- clude a letter from the church to the child. Some have even gotten thank-you notes from the recip- ients. Once the boxes are filled, they are taken to a relay center, like Cross Creek, where they are packed for shipping. “Our goal is to put at least 14 in Laura Sarnak, left, of Exeter, and Robert and Nancy Bonning, of Shavertown, box Christmas presents for distribution at Cross Creek Community Church in Kingston Township. a shipping box,” said Tammy Gray, a volunteer at the church. “The plastic containers are har- der to pack but I think they have more value. Kids can use them to carry water and things like that.” Gray said church members heard a story about a young girl whose village was flooded. Fortu- nately, the girl’s Bible and her pre- cious possessions were saved be- cause she had kept them in a plas- tic container in which she had re- ceived gifts. Jenn Sgori, another volunteer at Cross Creek, put a paddleball, toy cars, a toothbrush, tooth See HOLIDAY, Page 7 09815120079 on
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