L Vol. 121 No. 48 THE BACK MOUNTAIN'S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1889 February 3 - 9, 2013 The DALLAS POST. | a PA. www.mydallaspost.com AN EDITION OF THE TIMES LEADER Lehman plans ‘Knight of Mayhem Day-long fundraiser will raise money for new turf on district's playing field. By SUSAN DENNEY Dallas Post Correspondent Lake-Lehman School District booster clubs are uniting for a day-long fundraiser on June 1. The “Knight of Mayhem” fun- draiser is intended to raise money for new turf for the district’s play- ing field. According to district superin- ndent James McGovern, 13 dif- pnt programs and several com- ity groups use the surface. “The turf is constantly used,” he said, adding that it must be re- placed for the safety of the stu- dents. The “Knight of Mayhem” fun- draiser will run from 10 a.m. into the evening. The main activity of the fun- draiser will be a novel game called Cow Pie Bingo. A fundraiser that has been used by other charitable organizations and which is grow- ing in popularity, Cow Pie Bingo involves selling two by two foot square deeds to a field. A cow is let loose in the field. The player who holds the ticket to the square littered by the cow is the winner. CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK/ FOR THE DALLAS POST Lake-Lehman Superintendent Jim McGovern posts samples of what the proposed sports field at the senior high school will look like prior to a meeting of parent sponsors and supporters. The winner gets 10 percent of the total deed sales. McGovern also said that there will be a carnival, including games of chance, games for small children and food. A disc jockey will provide music and the dis- trict’s theater group will produce an outdoor program. The facility goal for the day is 2,500 to 3,000 people. “We will also have a silent auc- tion and a youth basketball tour- nament,” McGovern said, adding that a giant flag football tourna- ment is also planned. The goal is for this one event to meet the yearly debt schedule for the update to the field. The super- intendent said it will cost about $500,000 to replace the turf. Al- though the track will not be re- placed, it will be re-sprayed. The total cost of the field will be determined after bids are re- ceived and sponsorships have been solicited. For $15,000, spon- sors can place their emblem or message on a five by five yard area along the side of the field. “Everybody thinks you can buy success. But the foundation of intelli- gence is independent thought.” Jim McGovern Lake-Lehman superintendent McGovern wants the field to be unique. It will be black. “We're going to call it “The Black Hole,” he said. McGovern hopes the distinc- tive field will be unique enough to attract sponsors and create more community stakeholders in the project. For him, the field repre- sents far more than a place for ac- tivities. “You're teaching coping skills and perseverance. It doesn’t mat- ter which sport,” he said, adding that he believes sports teach inde- pendence, generosity and com- munity in equal parts. For McGovern, education is more than classroom learning. “All that intelligence and mastery doesn’t mean that you're a good person,” he said. “Everybody thinks you can buy success,” he added. “But the foun- dation of intelligence is independ- ent thought.” BILL TARUTIS PHOTOS/ FOR THE DALLAS POST Three-year-old Brayden Makowski, of Dallas, rides ‘Sparky’ from Pony Party Paradise as her mom, Katie, walks alongside. Winterfest continues today @ at The Lands at Hill- Wie Farms, which was held last weekend, yesterday and ends to- day, features barn tours, tractor rides, Alpaca fiber-spinning dem- onstrations, educational lec- tures, children’s games and homemade food. The farm on Hillside Road is home to a variety of dairy cows, oxen, sheep, goats, pigs, chick- ens, ducks and donkeys. On any given day, visitors might be lucky enough to witness the birth of a calf or the milking process, the latter of which takes place daily from 6 to 7:30 a.m., Today is the final day of the four- day Winterfest event at The Lands at Hillside Farms which will be held from noon to 4 p.m. Admission is $1. For more information, call 696-4500. then again 12 hours later. An aver- age of 50 to 60 cows are milked each day. More than 350,000 people visit the sustainable, working farm each year. (0 Robbie Ashford, 10, of Hanover Township, pets a sheep a HI t The Lands at Hillside Farms Winterfest. CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK FILE PHOTO/ FOR THE DALLAS POST | This highway sign on Rout 415 in Dallas next to the entrance to the Eimcrest development will be repaired soon. Several people step up to repair sign Thanks to several people who have responded to a story publish- ed in the Jan. 27 edition of The Dallas Post, the sign on Memorial Highway will be repaired. Dan Duffy, of Shavertown, was the first to call about the sign. His son, Connor, a ninth-grade student at Dallas High School and a member of Boy Scout Troop 146 in Jackson Township, will take on the challenge of repairing the sign as part of his Eagle Scout pro- ject. Tony Hudak, proprietor of AJH services and a Marine Corps vet, has offered to lend his construction expertise and will assist Con- nor with the project. Joseph Gimble, of Larksville, said the story about the sign caught his eye. A former corrections officer at the State Correction- al Institute in Dallas, Gimble was a student at the GI Carpenters School on Dorrance Street in Kingston in 1956 and remembers the sign being constructed there by veterans attending school n the GI bill. John Emil, commander of the American Legion Daddow-Isaacs Post 672 in Dallas and American Legion district commander, says Legion members put flags on top of the sign every year. He remembers a Boy Scout named Brian Grezzi painted the sign as part of a Scout project one year and says that, in 1967 the sign was knocked down and repaired by members of the American legion. Emil also reported that the sign was originally installed by a gen- tleman named John Blackman who dedicated it not only to mili- tary veterans but to Back Mountain heroes like firefighters, EMTs and police officers. He added that the sign was damaged by a snow plow during a snowstorm this winter. The Dallas Post will monitor progress of the sign repair and con- tinue to update its readers on the issue. Volunteer groups to receive grant money Volunteer emergency re- sponse organizations in the 117th Legislative District will benefit from more than $365,000, thanks to grants of- fered by the Office of State Fire Commissioner. The grants are part of the Vol- unteer Fire Company and Vol- unteer Ambulance Service Grant Program created almost a decade ago. Last session, the program was extended and ex- panded to offer a total of $30 million statewide. Funds are derived from gam- ing proceeds and not general tax revenue. The following is a list of Back Mountain fire and ambulance companies and the amount of their grant awards: Benton Volunteer Fire Com- pany - $11,500 for fire services and $6,651 for ambulance ser- vices Dallas Fire and Ambulance Inc. — $13,116 for fire services and $6,651 for ambulance ser- vices Franklin Township Volunteer Fire Company - $11,721 Franklin/Northmoreland Townships Ambulance Associ- ation — $6,241 Harveys Lake Fire and Ambu- lance Company - $11,822 for fire services and $6,651 for am- bulance services Hunlock Creek Volunteer Ambulance Association - $6,651 Hunlock Creek Volunteer Fire Company — $11,500 Jonathan R. Davis Volunteer Fire Department - $11,500 Kunkle Fire Company - $12,469 for fire services and $6,651 for ambulance services Northmoreland Township Volunteer Fire Company - $13,116 Noxen Community Ambu- lance Association - $6,651 Noxen Volunteer Fire Com- pany — $12,469 Sweet Valley Volunteer Fire Company - $13,116 The grants can be used for a variety of purposes, including the construction or renovation of a fire or ambulance company facility, purchase or repair equipment, training or mitiga- tion of existing debt. 0981512007 OO oo
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