Sunday, December 22, 2013
THE DALLAS POST
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LAKE-LEHMAN SCHOOL DISTRICT
SUSAN DENNEY
Dallas Post Correspondent
The Lake-Lehman
school Board won't be
@: in 2014. At
cember’s board meet-
ing, the group announced
its yearly meeting sched-
ule. In the past, the board
had met at different cam-
puses throughout the dis-
trict. But in the coming
year, all meetings will be
held at the Lake-Lehman
SUSAN DENNEY
Junior-Senior High
School.
Meetings have been set
for the second Monday
of every month except
for the June, July, August
and December meetings
which will be held on
the third Monday of the
month.
Lake-Lehman School
Board members rescinded
their vote in 2012 to pro-
mote Sandra Dobrowolski
to the position of trans-
Mother Amanda Faux is
portation supervisor, an
administrative position.
The board also rescind-
ed the motion in 2012
which revised the job
description for the posi-
tion of transportation
Supervisor.
According to Board
President Mark Kornoski,
a union grievance
was filed against the
motions which promoted
Dobrowolski to the posi-
tion of administrator.
income for families in pov-
Kornoski said the arbi-
tration upheld the union’s
grievance. He said, “The
arbitrator ruled against
us. We must put her back
to her original salary per
contract.”
Board member Andrew
Salko voted against the
motion which changed
the job description for
the post. Board member
Richard Bombick voted
against both motions but
declined to comment on
his vote after the meeting.
The board also tabled
two items which would
renew its contract with
DeHey Mc Andrew, LLC
for services related to the
administration of the dis-
trict’s 403(B) employee
retirement savings plans
and section 125 employee
benefit plans.
Kornoski said that the
board is “looking into
other options.”
In other business,
Young boy reaches out to help others
Dallas Post Correspondent
Jeremiah Faux learned
that some children go hun-
gry and he wanted to do
something about it. The
8-year-old with a big smile
and a wiggly tooth spent a
day at the Banks Student
Life Center at Misericordia
University raising money to
help needy children through
Heifer International.
; remiah is a second-
er at Allied Services
ePaul School in Scranton.
He lives on the Misericordia
campus with his mom who
participates in the Women
with Children program
there. The program sup-
ports single mothers with
young children so the moth-
ers can attend college.
a health care management
major and minor in geron-
tology.
Jeremiah got the idea
when he and his mom
attended a hunger dinner
on campus and were shown
a video about hungry chil
dren.
“I was shocked!” Jeremiah
said of what he learned from
the video. “Lots of kids
died.”
Jeremiah’s immediate
idea was to box up food
and send to children in
need but his mom guided
him into donating to Heifer
International, a program
which provides training and
livestock to poverty-stricken
families.
The livestock given by
Heifer International provide
erty. The program is self-
sustaining. For each animal
received, families agree to
pass on the offspring of that
animal to another person in
need. In that act, families
become the cycle of positive
change. According to Heifer
International, there are
some places where 22 gen-
erations of Heifer animals
can be traced.
Jeremiah’s favorite sub-
ject is math and he had
drawn a poster with a big
thermometer with his goal
amount and colored it in as
the day progressed. His goal
was to raise $850 so that he
could buy a camel.
Heifer International pro-
vides a scale of gift dona-
tions. A gift of $20 will
provide chicks, ducklings or
goslings to a person in need
but a camel carries a big
price tag.
Why did Jeremiah choose
a camel? “Camels give milk.
They give transportation,”
he said.
Jeremiah worries about
people who live in the des-
ert. “They don’t have much
Jeremiah Faux of Dallas, left, a second-grader at Allied Services
dePaul School for Dyslexia, talks about his fund-raising project
for Heifer International with Misericordia’s Women with Children
Program Director Katherine Pohlidal, right, prospective student
April Lennon and her friend Joe Walker at the Banks Student
Center on the Misericordia campus.
food where they live.”
Katherine Pohlidal,
director of the Women
with Children program at
Misericordia ~~ University,
was at the start of Jeremiah’s
fundraising day to give sup-
port.
“The campus community
is aware and completely sup-
portive,” she said. “It goes
along with our charisms
here.”
Charisms are graces
given to individuals for the
good of others. The four
charisms of Misericordia
are mercy, service, justice
and hospitality.
Pohlidal said the children
in the Women with Children
program experience a ripple
effect. “We encourage our
moms to perform commu-
nity service every semes-
ter. And the kids are influ-
enced by this and want to
help and give back as well.”
Board to hold all 2014 meetings at high school
the board appointed
Christopher Gerlin
as Indoor Percussion
Advisor while accepting
with regret the resigna-
tion of David Gambal, the
previous advisor.
The board also hired
Matthew Duffy as a sec-
ondary Social Studies
teacher.
The following teach-
ers will become elemen-
tary school department
heads at a salary of $1,
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5557 i each: Richard
Cronin, Mathematics;
Donna Richards, Science;
Carrie McDonald,
Language Arts; and Linda
VanOrden, Social Studies.
The board appointed
the following coaches for
the 2013-2014 school year:
Reginall Gensel, volunteer
wrestling coach; Kathryn
Pelleschi, volunteer girls
basketball coach; and
Beau Colatosti, volunteer
boys basketball coach.
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Second-grader Jeremiah Faux, right, of Dallas, checks out a color-
ing sheet he is working on as he and his mom Amanda wait for
passersby at Misericordia University.
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