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Vol. 121 No. 43 THE BACK MOUNTAIN'S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1889

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December 30 - January 5, 2012

WILKES-BARRE, PA.

For the second year in a row,hurricane winds descended onthe Back Mountain, causing

widespread damage and poweroutages for many residents. InHarveys Lake, a bitter disputeabout whetheror notto move theboroughspolice department waspart of almost every meeting inthatboroughfor nearlya year andthe termination of a legendaryhighschoolfootballcoachhad ev-eryone in town talking.

Heres a month-by-month lookat life in the Back Mountain dur-

ing the year 2012:

JANUARY

The Knights of the Round Ta-bleprogram gearedup forits sec-ond year in the Lake-LehmanSchool District. The programstartedlastyear asa wayto honorLake-Lehman alums and presentstudents with examples of localleaders.

Lake-LehmanHigh School stu-dents tookfriends, family andfel-low classmates on a culinary triparound the world. The humani-ties students participated in aninternational dinner as part of aclass project in which they creat-ed a menu, assembled costumes

andperformed a skitto representtheir choice of country.Out of more than 900 entries,

Wycallis Elementary fifth-graderEmily Bogdon was one of 22 stu-dentsin the stateto winthestateDepartment of TransportationAviation Art Contest. Bogdonsdrawingdepicted a girl holding apaper airplane as a real aviationcraft flewabove her. Bogdon saidherfatherhelpedher developtheidea for the drawing.

Harveys Lake Borough Coun-cil adopted a $1,313,525 budgetfor2012without raisingtaxes. In-stead, council members voted toforegotheirmonthlystipendsforthe year to help eliminate a def-icit. The seven council members

are paid a total of $13,105 a year.Liz Martin was sworn in as a

Dallas Township supervisor andwas appointed vice chairman ofthe board of supervisors.

Charles Youngman was swornin as a first-time council memberin Dallas Boroughwhile LeeEck-ert and Chris Matus were swornin for another term.

Kelly Martin Johnson, ofTrucksville, replaced Mary JoHromchak as head coach of theDallas High School girls basket-ball team and Doug Miller, of

Exeter, was named headcoach ofthe Mountaineers boys basket-ballteam after Ted Jackson Jr. re-signedin November from the po-sition hehad heldforsevenyears.

The Dallas School Board dis-cussed an expansion of the highschool schedulethat would allowstudentsto take onextracourses.Superintendent Frank Galickisaid the board was consideringswitching from the four-periodblock-style schedule to a five-pe-riod schedule.

Chief Gathering LLC won anappeal to the Dallas TownshipZoning Hearing Board for themodification of one of the condi-

tions theboard stipulated whenitapproved the companys applica-tion for a natural gas meteringstation in December. The condi-tion Chief appealed, which wasoneof seven postedto thecompa-nys project, involved the con-structionand maintenance of a 6-foot high fence with barbed wireto be no less than 315 feet at allpoints surrounding the meteringfacility.

Friendlys restaurant, locatedat the intersection of Routes 309and415,closed itsdoorsonJan.8after 26 years in business

Rick Connors, of Bunker HillRoad, used over 18,000 lights tocomplete his holiday presenta-

tion and was awarded first placein the Kingston Township Holi-day House Contest.

BillGrant,a 26-yearresident ofDallas Township, was named tothe board of supervisors, joiningLiz Martin and Frank Wagner.

The third seat on the board wasleft vacant in December whenlongtime supervisor Phil Walterabruptly resigned.

A natural gas metering stationwould be located in Dallas Town-ship as the zoning hearing boardapproved Williams Field ServiceLLCs request to build a facilityoffLowerDemundsRoad.Thefa-cility, opposed by several localresidents, would be located on4.29 acres about 2682 feet from

the Dallas School District cam-pus.

FEBRUARY

The Dallas School Boardvotedto keep the position of head foot-ball coach open. The vote cametwo days after a lengthy hearingfor former coach Ted Jackson Sr.

Students on the Wilkes-Barrecampus of Penn State Universityin Lehman Township weremourningthe lossof one oftheirown after the recent passing oflongtime football coach Joe Pa-

terno of lung cancer.Jeff Box was sworn in a for athird termas KingstonTownshipsupervisor but the appointment

was a bit unexpected. Box didntrun for re-election in 2011 noteven in the primary. He won theseat left vacant by former super-

visor John Solinsky after resi-dents wrote his name on the bal-lot more than anyone elses mo-niker.

Lake Townwship was gearingup to become a member of theBack Mountain CommunityPartnership as members dis-cussed the townships inclusionat a meeting.

Less thana month after leavinga career sheheld for 271/2years,

Marilyn Gregorski admitted shewould be back at The MeadowsNursing Center in Dallas Town-ship. She had been asked to help

with Market on the Pond, thecenters largest fundraisingevent. The 71-year--old doesntlikethewordretirementandre-ferred to her recent departurefrom her position as director of

volunteers at the nursing centeras a leap of faith.

Teachers in the Lake-LehmanSchool District adopted dressdown days and paid $5 to wearlessformattireto work everyoth-er Wednesday with the moneyfunding book scholarships forgraduating seniors as well as

schoolfunctions such as theLastKnight Lock-In. Language artsteacher Cathy Wolfe started theprogram as a way to wear com-fortable clothing to work whilealso paying homage to formerLake-Lehmanemployees and stu-dents. Each dress down day hon-ors a deceased member of theLake-Lehman family.

After more than 20 years of re-maining anonymous, Sue Hand,of Dallas, admitted to being thePhantomValentinerwho secretlytaped paper hearts on doors ofDallas businesses with the helpof her family.

Longtime Dallas High Schoolfootball coach Ted Jackson Sr.saw his career ended when the

school board voted 7-2 to hireRobert Zaruta as the head coachfor the 2012-2013 season.

Kingston Township supervi-sorsadopted an updatedcompre-hensive plan. After several yearsof working with consulting firmsand the planning commission,the board of supervisors adopteda final version of the townshipscomprehensive plan.

Eleven-month-old Mia Ellissawherfather for just thesecond

time in her young life when Den-nis Ellis, of Dallas, a corporal intheU.S. Marine Corps flewhomeafter a yearlong deployment inAfghanistan. Four generations ofthe Ellis family, as well as closefriends, were at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton InternationalAirport to welcome home theirfavorite military man.

To honor the memory of Tho-mas E. Lynch, 18, of HarveysLake, a senior at Dallas HighSchool who died from injuriessustainedin a motor vehicleacci-dent in Dallas Township, the

Thomas Lynch Scout Scholar-ship Fund was createdto providefinancial assistance to currentand future Boy Scouts.

Twenty-two-year-old Beth Ca-rey, of Dallas, participated in thePenn State THON fortheseventh

time. THON is a dancemarathonthat raises money for the pediat-ric cancer support organization,the Four DiamondsFund, associ-atedwiththe Penn State HersheyChildrens Hospital. Careydanced with the Womens ClubBasketball the same organiza-tion that danced in her honor

when she was a 15-year-old bat-

tling non-Hodgkins lymphoma,atype of cancer that affects thelymph glands and bone marrow.

Elementary sports in theLake-Lehman School District weresuspended following an alterca-tion between two Ross Elemen-tary fifth and sixth-grade boysbasketball coaches that escalatedto a point of concern. Superin-tendent James McGovern wassatisfied with the league presi-dents decision as to what actionto take against theadults respon-sible but would not provide de-tails. Hesaid theleaguewouldal-so develop a parents guide,coaches guide and a mission forthe program.

MARCHDue to overwhelming vol-

umes, the Dallas Area Municipal

Authority increased its recyclingcollection to every two weeks.Larry Spaciano, executive direc-tor of DAMA, attributed the in-crease in recycling collection totheauthoritys newsinglestreamrecycling program. Customersno longer had to seaprate materi-als like plastic, glass and card-board, making recycling easier

than ever.The rivalry between the Dallasand Lake-Lehman high schoolswimming and diving teams gota little friendlier than one mightthink. The Lake-Lehman team,

which started competing in theWyoming Valley Conference in2007, entered into an agreement

with Dallas this year to utilize itspool for home meets.

REMEMBERING 2012Another hurricane, a bitter dispute over a police

move and a new senior center top years headlinesBy DOTTY MARTIN

dmartin@mydallaspost.com

CHARLOTTEBARTIZEKFILE PHOTO/FOR THEDALLASPOST

Harveys Lake Borough Police Chief Charles Musial thinks the present police station in Harveys Lake is not secure, not up to code and

needs too many repairs to save.


Marie Belasco watches as a tree from her yard is cut up and power restored to her home on Machell

Avenue.


Grammar school friends Leona Huntz and Helen Franklin meet togo into the new Dallas Senior Center in the Stacks Complex.

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From deer wearing

Santa hats to smil-

ing Grinches and

blow-up snowmen, houses

all around the Back Moun-tain are decorated in their

holiday best, continuing to

show their spiritas theholi-

days wind down.

This turn-of-the-century house on North Main Street in Shavertown is pretty in pastels.

Homes in the Elmcrest development in Dallas are decorated merry and bright for Christmas.

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Roushey Street in Shavertown shows its holiday spirit.

This barn in Lehman is decorated for Christmas. At this house on Monroe Avenue in Dallas, even the Grinch is happy.

These deer, spotted on the corner of Krispen Road and Mount Olivet Road in Shavertown, are ready

for the holiday.

Mike Dzanko puts finishing touches on the Christmas decorations at his house.

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Carole and George Pyle, of Dallas, fill their plates during the Back

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Transco interstate pipeline thattwo replacements of the line

would begin in July and concludein mid-September. Transco

would replace a 2,044-foot sec-tion that runs underneath Hilde-

brandt Road and a 193-foot sec-tion that runs between YalickRoad and Highland Boulevard.

Though the Dallas TownshipPolice Departments monitoringof seatbelts among minors wasending, Chief Robert Jolley saidofficers would still patrol aroundthe Dallas School District cam-pus. The department began pa-trolling the district campus inFebruaryto enforceaspectsof La-ceys Law, which was signed intolaw late last year. Laceys Lawstates that drivers under the ageof18 canbe cited for notwearinga seatbelt. For adults, not wear-ing a seatbelt is a secondary of-fense.

Nine-year-old JackFarrell, whoplayed fortheKnightsin the Dal-las Youth Basketball League, hada whopper of a game. His team

won, 44-39, in the semi-finalsagainst the Celtics and Farrellscored all 44 winningpoints.TheDallas Elementary School stu-dents father, Mark, played ballinhighschooland collegeand remi-nisced about the time he scored34points onhis ownwhen DallasHigh School advanced to the dis-trict championships in 1985.

The state Department ofTransportation completed re-pairs on the Overbrook Roadoverpass earlier than initially ex-pected.Concretecovering beamsunderneath the 72-year-old

bridge fell onto Route 309 andthe agency had planed to close aportion of Route 309 at night fortwoweeks toconductthe repairs.All the loose concrete was re-moved from underneath thebridge and replaced within a 10-hour period.

A Dallas Township supervisorsmeeting ended with the town-ships two fire companies ex-changingheated wordsaboutdis-puted territories. Dallas Fire andAmbulance addressed the boardabout contested boundaries

within thetownship aftertwo for-mer supervisors did not approvesuggestionsmadeby boththefirecompanies and Luzerne County911.

Local governments and theDallas School District were stillfooting the bill for the D.A.R.E.(Drug Abuse Resistance Educa-tion) program in the Dallas ele-mentary and middle schools,though costs have increased indifficult economic times. The

year, the cost of maintaining theD.A.R.E. program at Dallas in-creased by nearly 25 percent, acostshared bythe districtand the

municipalitieslocatedwithin thedistrict, which include DallasBorough and Dallas, Franklinand Kingston townships.

The Dallas School Board ap-proved changes to course offer-ings at the high school and mid-dle school for the 2012-13 school

year. At the high school, majorchanges included the addition ofseveral classes to accommodatethe opportunities made availablesince the completion of the newhighschoolbuilding lastSeptem-

ber. Atthe middleschool,twofor-eign language courses offered ineighth grade conversationalFrench and introductory French

would be eliminated.With a new executive director,

the month-old Back MountainChamber of Commerce wasgrowing membership and gain-ing a strong foothold in the BackMountain community and be-

yond. Clare Parkhurst, owner ofBlack Sheep Advertising in

Trucksville, was hired as thechambers part-time executive di-rector.

Two municipalitiesin the BackMountain were awarded grantmoney from gaming fund reve-nues for projects that would ben-efitthe entirecommunity. Oneofthe big-ticket items to receivefunding was the Back MountainCommunity Partnerships plansfor a regional emergency man-agement canter was $975,000

was allocated toward that pro-ject. Harveys Lake Borough re-ceived $78,220 torenovatean un-used recreation center for policedepartment use. Council Presi-dent Larry Radel said no solidplans had been put into place forthe project and there were noplans to pursue it if the grantmoney had not been awarded.

The KingstonTownship Boardof Supervisors voted to join theBack Mountain Regional Emer-

gency Management Agency. Theagency, which also includes Dal-las Borough and Dallas, Jacksonand Lehman townships, was cre-ated in late 2010 as a formalagreement between emergencyresponders to work together inthe event of emergencies.

The Dallas Senior Centerclosed dueto safety and visibilityconcerns and local seniors were

worried another center wouldntcome soon enough. The center

was a tenant at the 22 Rice St.,Dallas location for about 25

years. The building was once thesiteof theBack MountainMemo-rial Library Auction and the sur-rounding grounds were used forfiremens bazaars.

Despite parents requests, theLake-Lehman School Board

would not make changes to thisyears academic schedule.A reso-lution tochangethe calendarwasprintedon theagendafora boardmeeting but SuperintendentJames McGovern said it was re-moved form the recommendedaction list because of a lack ofboard support.

Gary Booth was unanimously

appointed Deputy EmergencyManagement Coordinator to rep-resent Lake Township in theBackMountainEmergencyMan-agement Agency.

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The Dallas Postfooled its read-ers with an April Fools editionannouncing that former Indiana-polis Colts quarterback PeytonManning would take hiscareertoa new level by traveling east toMisericordia University wherehe would play in the Cougarsfirst Division III football season.

Back Mountain emergency re-sponders gave the new LuzerneCounty administration two

weeks to resolve an ongoing dis-pute with county 911 officials be-fore bringing things to a head

with county council. Emergencyresponders from seven BackMountain communitiesattendeda press conference called by Har-

veys Lake Borough officials tomake the public aware of prob-lemstheywerehavingwithcoun-ty 911dispatch protocols.

Andrew Duda, of Grasonville,Md.,announced his hopes to pre-serve 17 undeveloped lots onPineview Road that were ownedby his recently-deceased brother,Paul, by creating a wildlife sanc-tuary that could be maintainedby the community.

The Dallas Township Board ofSupervisors mulled the purchaseof emergency notification soft-

ware to update residents duringemergency situations. AlanPugh, township emergency man-agement coordinator, spokeabout the Wireless EmergencyNotification system (WENS) at a

work session.The Back Mountain Chamber

of Commerce held its first busi-ness mixer at Eye Care Special-ists in Dallas. More than 100 peo-pleattended theeventwhich washeld to celebrate the opening ofthe new Eye Care Specialists of-

fice in the Dallas Shopping Cen-ter.

Membersof HarveysLake Bor-ough Council expressed con-cerns about plans to relocate thepolice department to LittleLeague Road and a public hear-ing was scheduled to further dis-cuss the issue. The borough re-ceive a $78,200 grant from gam-ingfundrevenuesto move thepo-lice department from its currentlocationon Route 415 to a formerrecreation building on LittleLeagueRoadnear thepublicboatlaunch and Lake-Noxen Elemen-tary School.

Later in the month, HarveysLake Borough Council members

voted4-2 in favorof the projecttorelocate the boroughs police de-partment. Council members Lar-ry Radel, Boyd Barber, FrankKopko and Amy Williams votedfor continuing with the project

while Michelle Boice and Tho-masKehler voted againstthe mo-tion.

Kingston Township officials,residents and businesses pre-pared for the start of the EastCenter Street Bridge replace-ment project a project that hadbeen 12 years in the making. Thesection of East Center Street be-tween State Route 309 and MainStreet would be closed throughlate October. The project wouldreplace the bridge, widen theroad and create a turning lanefrom East Center Street to thesouthbound lane on Route 309.

Lake-Lehman senior MatthewGorski, of Shavertown, was therecipient of the Lake-LehmanFoundations first John PeterFar-rell Memorial Scholarship. Thescholarship, given to a gradua-tionseniorat thefoundations teaevent, wasnamed forFarrell whohad served on the Lake-Lehman

School board since2008 andwhodied on April 15, 2011 as a resultof a car accident on State Route29 in Noxen Township.

TheDallas Postearned threeof24 Keystone Press Awards wonby Impressions Media newspa-pers this year for news, featureandsportsstories,photos andco-lumns, special projects and de-sign in 2011. Staff writer SarahHite captured first place in thegeneral newscategoryforher sto-ry about the 2010 Kingston

Township Holiday House Light-ing Contest. Photographer Bill

Tarutis took first place in the Fea-ture Photo category for a photoaccompanying a story called

Count & Care. He also cap-tured an honorable mention forSports Photo titled Huge winforthe Mountaineers.

Dallas Township supervisorsadopted a firearms ordinancethatregulatesthe firing ofguns inthe township. Spurred by safetyconcernsrelatedto gaslinedevel-

opment, the ordinance prohibitsthe discharge of a firearm within150 yards of any dwelling, house,school building, above groundnatural gas facility or storage lo-cation, across public roads, incemeteries or burial places, as

well as on another persons prop-erty.

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Rock Solid Academy, a bud-ding K-8 Christian school in theBack Mountain, was set to holdits first open house and officialsannounced a more than $2,000decrease in tuition rates for the2012-13 school year. Head ofSchool Mark DiPippa said Phase

I of the school building project,which included construction of a

lobby, front offices and a modelclassroom,was recently complet-ed.

Misericordia University Presi-dent Michael MacDowell an-nounced he would maintain resi-dency in Harveys Lake Borough

with his wife, Tina, once he re-tires on June 30, 2013. The 12thpresident of LuzerneCountys ol-dest collegeannouncedhis retire-ment on April 19 after14 years inthe position.

The Back Mountain Commu-nity Partnership continued itsdiscussion about plans for a re-gional emergency managementagency building to be construct-ed in LehmanTownship. Lehman

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Marine Corporal Dennis Ellis, of Dallas, sees his 10-month-old daughter, Mia, for just the second time as he returns home from a tour of

active duty in Afghanistan as a truck mechanic.


About 150 participants started the Fourth Annual Spencer Martin Memorial Bike Race at Penn

State Wilkes-Barre campus in Lehman, including Martins granddaughter, Amanda Martin.


Rock Solid Academy Head of School Mark DiPippa, is excited by

the construction progress in the Twin Stacks Complex , Dallas.

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Lake-Lehman junior Ashlee Barker, left, and senior Zack Titus

arrive at the Lake-Lehman prom.

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By SamanthaWeaver It was Albert Einstein who offered the following explanation of

relativity: Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seemslike an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a min-ute. Thats relativity.

In Singapore, one of the colorful customs is training birds forsinging competitions. Its not always just a hobby, though; for some,its a serious - and costly - business. A single well-trained bird mightsell for as much as $60,000.

If youre an oenophile - thats an aficionado of wine - you prob-ably wont be surprised to learn that as the cost of a wine goes up, sodoes a drinkers appreciation of that wine. It seems that its not allabout the quality of the vintage, though: In a recent study, tasterswere offered two samples of the same wine, but each sample waslabeled with a different price. The tasters overwhelmingly preferredthe more expensive vintage.

Only one-fifth of homes in America are not air-conditioned. Inthe sweltering South, a mere 5 percent lack that vital amenity.

Those who study such things say that the wind power in anaverage hurricane is equivalent to 1.5 trillion watts. Thats the same

amount of power that is generated by fully half of the entire worldsgenerating capacity. The works of Agatha Christie have been translated more times

into other languages than those of any other author in history. Many people see dogs as doing heroic work in tandem with law

enforcement and the military, but theyre not the only animals put tosuch use. In Mozambique, sniffer rats are being used to find unex-ploded land mines so experts can disarm them. Theyre known asHeroRATs.

S T R A N G E B U T T R U E

20 YEARS AGO 1992

Members of the Riders of theLost Ark 4-H Club of Dallas en-

tertained residents of DallasBoroughs conservation area

with Christmas carolslast week.

Members included SnowWhite the

pony, JeanLori, Kristi-

na Lori, An-na Lloyd,

Emily Bost,

Rachael Pu-gliese, Mike

Keating,Jocelyn

Kozick, Fritz the pony, MissyDymond, Kelly Harris, Angela

Pugliese, Veronica McRipley,Lindsey Dymond, Abbrey Bud-zyn, Alisa Harris, Nettie Ginoc-

chetti, Erin Loughney, CarrieCololin, Lori Bonomo, and Liz

Keating.

30 YEARS AGO 1982

Tracy Karuza, 11, of Trucks-

ville received an extra specialChristmas gift this year from

Coscias Restaurant. Tracy wasthe winner of Coscias 15 foot

stockingfilled withtoysand sur-

prises.When Penn State goes to the

Sugar Bowl in New Orleans,New Years Day to play Georgia

for the National Championship,

twolocalpeople will betravelingwith them as members of the

Penn State Blue Band. KarenWilliams and John Milauskas III

aresecond year studentsat PennState Main Campus and have

been members of the Blue Bandfor as many years.

40 YEARS AGO - 1972

The Chansonairs, a talentedgroup of high school students

from the Back Mountain area,

presented a seasonal concert atthe Main Office of the First Na-

tional Bank of Eastern Pennsyl-

vania in Wilkes-Barre. Groupmembers are: Julie Evans, Bill

Cutter, David Schooley, Wayne

Long, Gerry Brague, EdwardJohnson Jr., Eric Manfin, Barba-

ra Berti, Maureen Muessig, Bar-

baraPichert, JulieSwepston,Ka-ren Murray, Jack Kloeber Jr.,

Phillip Miller, Dave Morgan, Ga-ry Cutter, Walter Roberts, Steve

Hartman, Marilyn Miller, Pam

Porter, Dagmar Moravec, Diane

Leapline, Bonnie Baird andKathleen Johnson.

50 YEARS AGO - 1962

Alana Matter, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. William Frey of OakHill, was chosen as Girl of the

Month by Lehman Womans

Club. Mrs. Mark Grimm, chair-man of education, introduced

Miss Matter to the club mem-

bers andpresented herwitha sil-ver bracelet, inscribed.

The death of Howard Risely

early Wednesday morningstruck the Back Mountain a

crushing blow. He was the one

man in the community whocould notbe spared, thefocus of

life in the Back Mountain. Forover thirty years, ever since he

acquired theDallasPostin 1930,

his every thought had centeredabout his chosen community.

Risely died at Nesbitt Hospital

after having a sudden heart at-tack while enjoying Christmas

dinner at the home of his sister.

60 YEARS AGO - 1952

Lucy and Marion Courtright,

HarrisHill Road,Trucksville,en-

tertained members of the Major

Circle of Shavertown Methodist

Church at their home recently.

Present were Mrs. Howard Ap-

pleton, Mrs. Horton Averett,

Pearl Averett, Mrs. Oscar Dy-

mond, Mrs. William Dodson,

Mrs. Paul Eckert, Mrs. Carol

Hontz, Mrs. Henry Isaacs, Mrs.

Francis Dougherty, Mrs. Ste-

phen Johnson, Mrs. Harry Ma-

jor, Mrs. W.Martin Porter, Ethel

Vivian, Alice Vivian, Mrs. Ross

Williams and Mrs. Blanche Kell-er.

Daddow Isaacs American Le-

gion Post 672 played host to 93

children of the community on

Saturday night, when it staged

itsannualChristmaspartyat the

home on Huntsville Road. A

door-prize, Lionel Electric train,

was won by Carol Ann Rother,

Dallas.

70 YEARS AGO - 1942

The Case of the Laughing

Dwarf, a mystery in three acts,

was presented by the Dallas

Township senior last week. The

cast included Shirley Goss, Ed-

ith Spencer, Isabelle Veitch, Jim

Harfman, Marion Jackson, Law-

renceSmith, WilliamColvin, Be-

tty Kriedler, Robert Patrick, Ha-

rold Dymond, Irene Stofila and

Chuck McManus.

Information for Only Yester-day istaken frombackcopies of

The Dallas Post which is 121

years ago. The information here

is printed exactly as it originally

appeared.

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YESTERDAY

D O Y O U G O O U T O N N E W Y E A R S E V E ?

No, because Ive gottwo small children athome and Im in bed

by 9:30.Christine Somers

Dallas

I visit with my family.My mom bangs potsand pans outside after

midnight.Jeff Passetti

Nanticoke

I celebrate withfriends at a friendshouse. We hang out

and watch the balldrop.

WhitneyEllenberg

Dallas

Oh, yeah. I go down-town to drink and goto the clubs.

Sal Saraniti

Dallas

I go bowling atChackos. For oneprice, you get a lane

for the whole nightand free pizza.

Anna Nole

Tunkhannock

I actually might begoing to my room-mates for New Years

Eve. He lives some-where south on theSusquehanna River.

Matt BottaDallas

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Jessica Martin, a seventh-grade student at Lake Lehman, willdisplayher Harry Potter collectionat theBack Mountain Memo-rial Library during the month of January. When asked how shegotstartedcollectingthis favoritecharactersmemorabilia,Jes-sica said she, read the books with my aunt and loved them somuch I started to collect Harry Potter things. It all began in2007 at Christmas whenshe received a collectors trunk of theseries hardcovers and a Hogwarts robe. Now, Jessica also pur-chasesitemsfor her collection whilestill receivingsome as gifts.Hercollection includes thewands anda Lego replica ofthe Hog-warts castle. Jessica and her family vacationed in Florida andvisited the Wizarding World of HarryPotterat UniversalStudios.While there, the seventh movie was releasedat the studios andthey viewed it in the studio on a huge screen. Jessica said shelikes both the movies andthe books but prefersthe books evenmorebecause there is moredetail anda storyto them. Jessicalivesin LakeTownship with her parents,Terry and Jennifer Mar-tin.

HARRY POTTER

MEMORABILIA DISPLAYED

AT LIBRARY

The History Channel On Jan. 4, 1965, in his State of the Union address, President

Lyndon Johnson lays out for Congress a list of legislation neededto achieve his plan for a Great Society. His list included the cre-ation of Medicare/Medicaid, Head Start, the Voting Rights Actand the Civil Rights Act.

OnDec.31,1972, Roberto Clemente,futureHallofFamebase-ballplayer, iskilledalongwithfour otherswhen thecargo plane in

which he is traveling crashes off the coast of Puerto Rico. At the

endof September, Clemente hadgotten his3,000thhit in thefinalgame of the season for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

On Jan. 2, 1980, in response to the December 1979 Soviet in-vasion of Afghanistan, President Jimmy Carterasks the Senate topostpone action on the SALT II nuclear weapons treaty. Carterfeared that the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan could lead to theUSSR gaining control over much of the worlds oil supplies.

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Township was awarded a$975,000 grant from gamingfunds onbehalfof thepartnershipfor the project.

Trula Hollywood, director fortheArea Agency onAging forLu-zerne and Wyoming Counties,said requests for proposals were

currently being sought for a newDallas Senior Center.

The Dallas Foundation in-stalled a sign in front of DallasElementary School off Hilde-brandtRoadto track theprogressof its first major project the in-stallation of another sign. Thegroup hoped to raise enoughfunds to install a state-of-the-artelectronic sign on State Route309 to replace the current signthat dates back to 1962.

Dallas Township supervisorstold residents about new plansproposed by the State Depart-ment of Transportation that

would remedy traffic flow issueson Upper Demunds Road. Thenew plan would feature athroughway from Upper De-munds Road through townshipproperty to State Route 309

which wouldhave a trafficlight atthe intersection.

It was announced that formerDallas High School footballcoach Ted Jackson Sr. would behonored at a reunion of Moun-taineer football players spanninghis career from 1985-2011. After

watching her husband coachyouth sports nearly ever yearsince the 19702, Sandy Jacksonsaid thefamilyhad hada difficulttime dealing with the transition.She and her son, Ted Jr., wereplanning the reunion for May 27at Irem Country Club.

John Miliaskas, of Dallas, wasinducted into the PennsylvaniaMusic Educators AssociationHall of Fame at the PMEA An-nual In-Service ConferenceAwards Luncheon in Lancaster.During his 35-year tenure atLake-Lehman High School, Mi-liauskas repeatedly producedaward winners in parade, con-cert,field showand indoor guardin competition after competitionup and down the east coast.

Concerned about the effectsthat drilling mud spills may haveon several wells near natural gassites, Dallas Township residentsandofficialssaid theywanted the

water tested. Representativesfrom thestate Departmentof En-

vironmental Protection andChief Gathering/PVR Partnersfielded questions regarding re-cent incidents during which wa-ter, containing bentonite clay,

erupted through the ground.Damp weather and a few dark

clouds couldnt keep about 135youths and their families fromparticipating in the Sixth AnnualKids Fishing Day hosted by theBack Mountain Police Associ-ation at Frances Slocum StatePark in KingstonTownship. RossPiazza,Back MountainPolice As-sociation vice president, said theevent is sponsored by local busi-nesses and residents to provide aday of fishing and activities for

children at no cost.The Fourth Annual Spencer

Martin Memorial Bike Ride forHabitat in memory of long-timedevoted volunteer for WyomingValley Habitat for Humanity.Martin volunteered for many

yearsat Habitatwork sites and onthe board of directors.

JUNE

Standing near a proposed hik-ing/bicycling trail route that

would went its way between sev-eral tombstones in the SacredHeart Cemetery off DorchesterDrive in Dallas, MaryJean Taran-tini, of Harveys Lake, urged fam-ilies who have plots on the prop-erty to contact Diocese of Scran-ton officials and request the trailbe rerouted away from this sa-cred place. Tarantini was joinedby more than 30 people collec-tively calling themselves theConcerned Families of SacredHeart Cemetery. She said thegroup did not know about ongo-ing discussions for a potentialtrail right-of-way through thecemeteryuntilreadingaboutit ina newspaper last Decenber.

The Waterfront Banquet Cen-ter became a Nautical Night

when 336 students attended theDallas High School Junior/Se-nior Prom. Chloe Alles was se-lected as Prom Queen while Lo-gan Bullock was named Prom

King.The Lake-Lehman Junior/Se-

niorPromwasheld atGenettis inWilkes-Barrewith a beach themeand the venue was decorated

with glass centerpieces that heldsand and candles, shells, starfishand netting. Kyle Fine was votedProm King and Lindsey Bennett

was named Prom Queen.Sandy Cooper worried she

wouldnt be able to show respectforfamily membersburied in theChapel Lawn Memorial Park inDallas Township as the flowersshe buys for graves kept disap-pearing. The latest event hap-pened on Mothers Day. A ChapelLawn maintenance employeeposted signswarningtrespassersof video surveillance in an at-tempt to preventflowersfrom be-ing stolen.

Four new members were in-ducted into the Knights of the

Roundtable during a brunch atIrem Temple Country Club. Theprogram in its second year, aimsto honor former Lake-Lehmanstudents and employees whohave had a positive effect on thecommunity to inspire currentstudents to become better citi-zens. Inductees included JohnMiliauskas, former band direc-tor; Joseph Lopasky, a standoutfootball player; Ricky Bonomo, aformer wrestler; and Brian Kelly,a soccer star.

Officials, community leaders,former constituents and friendsmourned the loss of a long-timecontributor to the Back Moun-tain, whether it was through hisduties as state senator, a judge,an attorney or a friend when for-merstateSen.Charles Lemmonddied on May 30 at the age of 83.Lemmond was a state senatorfrom 1986 until 2006 when hisprotg,Lisa Baker, took office.

Visually-impaired students inthe Dallas School District got achance to mingle with childrenfrom Scranton and have fun attheir inaugural field day on theDallas campus. Visual teacherBridge Gavin coordinated with afriend from the Scranton SchoolDistrictto havevisually-impairedstudentsfromthat districtattendthe event.

Longtime employees of theDallas School District said theirfinalgoodbyesat a school boardmeeting. Five faculty retirees

with a combined 115 years of ser-vice were honored by the boardand given theopportunityto talkabout their experiences at thedistrict.Retiring were Dallas Ele-mentary kindergarten teacherLucy Callahan, high school En-glish and language arts teacherCandyce Fike, high school banddirector Todd Hunter, middleschool librarian Louie Robertsand Dallas Elementary gifted in-

structor Linda Doughton.The Dallas School Board ap-

proved its $32.9 million budgetfor the 2012-13 school year withcalls for a 2.1 percent millage in-crease to 11.8052 mills. The bud-get also includeda per capital taxof $10, an earned income tax of1percentsplitwithdistrictmunici-palities andan emergency servic-es tax of $52, $5 of which is dis-trict funds.

All the squawking about rais-ing chickens in Kingston Town-ship came toan abrupthaltas su-pervisors voted against changingthezoningordinanceto allowthekeeping of fowl in residential ar-eas. Supervisors James Reino Jr.,Jeffrey Box and Shirley Moyer

voted against changing the ordi-nance while Gary Mathers re-mained the lone supporter. Resi-dent Chris Mathers, of Trucks-

ville, wifeof Gary Mathers,cham-pioned the issue a few monthsago and presented research onthe topic for the board to digest.

Trinity Presbyterian Church,Irem Road, Dallas, marked its50thanniversary on June 10 withmore than 170 members andfriends attending a special ser-

vice of worship, remembranceand celebration.

It was all pomp and circum-stance in the Back Mountain asthe class of 2012 from Lake-Leh-man High School received its di-

plomason June13andtheMoun-taineers of Dallas High Schoolgraduated on June 15.

The Lake-Lehman SchoolBoard narrowly approved thebudget for the 2012-13 school

year which includes funds to de-velop a district-run daycare cen-ter, decreased health care costs

for teachers and other spendingstrategies. The $26.8 millionspendingplan raisestaxesto 9.27mills, a 4.26 percent increase forLuzerne County taxpayers with-in the district.

Family and friends joined em-ployees of Frontier Communica-tions to host the annual AlexsLemonade Stand at the BackMountain Little League Field.

The event raises funds andawareness for the battle againstchildhood cancer.

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MadisonCrawn, of Exeter, canhardly believe shecaught thisvery large brown trout at theSixth

Annual KidsFishingDaysponsoredby theBack Mountain Police Association.


Sunglasseswere theorder of the dayfor Dallas HighSchoolseniorsentering Mountaineer Stadium

for the51st commencement.


PennDOT placed these signs on Route 309in Shavertown,closing

themainhighway to allow crews to repair theOverbook Avenue

bridge which hadbeen crumbling.


Eight-year-oldWycallis Elementary student MadisonCarlsson of

Trucksville reaches for a flip-flop-decorated Vienna Finger cookie.

JULY

Recent Dallas High Schoolgraduate Sarah Bilski learnedthat she was the recipient of theRoy W. Piper Charitable TrustScholarship, which awards her$60,000, or $15,000 each for four

years, when she attends PennState University. Piper was aWyoming County businessmanwho died in 2007. He set upscholarships for high school se-niors in Wyoming, Luzerne andLackawanna counties six yearsbeforehe died. Trusteesadminis-tering the scholarships take intoconsideration financial need,community service and citizen-ship.

A zoning hearingfor theDallasAreaMunicipal Authoritysappli-cation tocreatea compostfacilityat the State Correctional Insti-tute at Dallas was cancelled dueto DAMAsapplication withdraw-al. Ata supervisorsmeetingearli-er in themonth,residentshad ex-pressed concerns about noise,

traffic and security at the pro-posed site.

Andrew Duda, of Maryland,told a groupof volunteersthatall17 lots had been acquired for aproposed wildlife sanctuary,

which has beennamed WoodlandSprings, but zoning require-ments may be an issue.

The Dallas High School Stu-dent Leadership in Civics groupunveiled its mostrecent projecta military honor wall. The wallfeatures two plaques with nameplates one for Dallas-area mili-tary personnel who have earnedthePurpleHeartand onefor fam-ilies of service men and women

who have received the Gold Star.The 66th Annual Back Moun-

tain Memorial Library Auctioncame to an end when local artistSue Hands painting of the auc-tiongrounds went across theauc-tion block and garnered $4,600for the library.

Friends and family of 22-year-old Paige Selenski werent exact-ly surprised when the 2008 Dal-las High School graduate was re-centlynamedto theU.S.OlympicFieldHockey Team. ForSelenski,a University of Virginia seniormajoring in English, making theteam was a long time coming.

The Lake-Lehman SchoolBoard approved a raise forthe su-perintendent and his assistant.

The boardapproved a 3.5 percentraise for Superintendent JamesMcGovernwhichchanged hisan-

nual salary to $116,763.53. A$0.60 per hour raise was ap-provedfor Assistantto theSuper-intendent Mary Jo Casaldi, in-creasingher salary to $40,081.60.

AUGUST

PVR Partners, formerly ChiefGathering LLC, donated a Pola-ris Ranger 800EFall-terrainvehi-cle to Dallas Fire & AmbulanceInc. The vehicle will be fitted

with equipment that will enableresponders to reach wooded ar-eas.

The Collie Club of Northeast-ern Pennsylvania donated threepet oxygen masks to the Jackson

Township Volunteer Fire Depart-ment.

The Back Mountain communi-ty mourned the loss of a youngman considered by many of hisfriends as the strongest person

they know. Corey Ehret, 18, ofDallas, died July 22 after a three-

year battle with embryonal rhab-domyo sarcoma.

After four months of construc-tion, Hillside Road in Jackson

Township was about to reopentothe public but officials warnednearby residents that the bridgereplacement project does notmean the area is no longer proneto flooding.

The Back Mountain continuedto rally around Paige Selenski, anative of Shavertown and 21008graduate of Dallas High School,

who was playing on the UnitedStatesOlympicfieldhockey teamin London, showing its supportin many ways. Employees at TheLands at Hillside Farms createdThe Paige sundae, consisting

of vanilla ice cream, strawberryand blueberry topping, whippedcream and a cherry on top.

Theformer CastleInn was soldtothe Triangle24 HourClub,Inc.and would serve as a meetingspace for recovering alcoholics,addicts and their families. Ac-cording to county property re-cords, thehistorical landmark lo-cated onStateRoute415 wassoldto the non profit recovery groupfor $307,000.

Dallas Township supervisorscontinued discussion about

whetherto contributetowardtheKingstonTownship-runD.A.R.E.(Drug Abuse Resistance Educa-tion) program. Kingston Town-ship asked Dallas Township to

donate $2,500 toward the pro-gram. The program cost is divid-ed between Kingston, Dallas andFranklin townships, Dallas Bor-ough and the Dallas School Dis-trict.

The life of 22-year-old KelciGibbons was celebrated at theHarveys Lake Beach Club bythose who knew her and lovedher. A 2008 graduate of DallasHigh School where she was amember of the 2007 state cham-pionship soccer team, Gibbons

was killed in an automobile acci-dent on July 24.

Dallas Township supervisorsunanimously adopted a resolu-tion to appoint a committee tobegin drafting a new comprehen-siveplan forthe townships antic-

ipated growth over the next fewyears.

Schools opened on Aug. 28 for

students in the Lake-LehmanSchool District and on Aug. 29for students in the Dallas SchoolDistrict.

SEPTEMBER

The Luzerne County Fair, heldevery year at the fair grounds onRoute118 in Lehman, enjoyed its50th year.

The long-awaited news thatthe senior center in Dallas wasscheduled to reopen in the TwinStacksCenteronMemorialHigh-

way came.After receivingseveralresponses to its latest requestforproposals,the Luzerne& Wyom-ing Counties Area Agency on Ag-ing presented andgainedapprov-al for the lease of the new seniorcenter at the Twin Stacks Centerfrom the Luzerne County Coun-

cil.The largest private team in the

Susan G. Komen Race for theCure in Scranton consisted ofabout 35 Back Mountain resi-dents, including breast cancersurvivors Chris Ostroski andKathy Bufalino, both of Shaver-town.

The Dallas Harvest Festival,theannualblock party heldalongMain Street in the borough, cele-brated its 10th anniversary.Eighty vendors from all over theBack Mountain took part in theevent that also hosted specialguests Cherie and Dave, clownsfrom the Ringling Bros. and Bar-num & Bailey Circus.

Members of the Harveys Lake

Borough Council scrapped pansto build a new police station onLittleLeagueRoad whenthe mo-tion to open bids for the project

was made but not carried. Allcouncil members except Vicepresident Francis Kopko carriedthemotionmadeby councilwom-an Michelle Boice.

The Dallas School Boardadopted the Pennsylvania De-partment of Educations careermentoringprogram as partof thedistricts curriculum. The pro-gram is based on area businessprofessionals volunteering asmentors to work with students,giving them early exposure to

what they mind find upon enter-ing the work force.

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OCTOBER

A mixer on the deck at MetroBar & Grill in the Twin StacksCenter, Dallas, introduced theBack Mountain Young Profes-sionals Association, a newbranch of the Back MountainChamber. The intention of the

new group is to attract youngerprofessionals to the communityto gather and share ideas while

working together to build an en-vironment for both families andbusinesses.

Members of Boy Scout Troop381in Dallas honoredthe memo-ry of Eagle Scout Thomas Lynch

who was killed in an automobileaccident on his way to school onFeb. 3. Lynch had left behind anunfinished Scout project and fel-lowScoutCaseyMcAndrewdovein to finish building informationkiosks at three locations on theBack Mountain Trail.

Seniors from the Back Moun-taingreeted oneanotherwith ex-citementand hugs at theopeningof the new Senior Center in the

Twin Stacks building in Dallas.Childrenof allages enjoyedthearray of equipment and vehicleson display at the first-ever Dallas

Township Fall Roll Out held onthe municipal grounds on Route309.

The Dallas School Board ap-proved a trial agreement for cyb-er services with Seneca ValleySchool District.DallaswouldpaySeneca Valley $8,750 for 25 part-time seats and unlimited full-time seats in a cyber school pro-gram.

Kingston Township supervi-sors approved a requestfromFab-cor Inc. for a time extension onthe East Center Street Bridgeproject. Township ManagerKathleen Sebastian stated that

Fabcor planned to have thebridge open to the public in De-cember.

Residents ofHarveys Lake Bor-ough expressed their concernsabout the possible moving andrenovation of the police station.Council informed the public thatthecurrentbuilding would be as-sessedby an engineer as was dis-cussed at a previous meeting.

Michael Novrocki,SocialStud-ies teacher and National HistoryDay coordinator at Lake-LehmanHigh School, received the Cen-tennial Medal Award for Excel-lent in Education from Philadel-phiaUniversity. Theawardis pre-sented to educators fortheir ded-ication in preparing their

students for college.

NOVEMBER

Scouts from Boy Scout Troop155 led a group in the Pledge ofAllegiance at a candlelight vigiland prayer session at The Mead-ows Nursing and RehabilitationCenter in Dallas. Reverends Dr.Robert Zanicki and Gideon Gae-tano led the audience in prayerand song.

The Back Mountain Commu-nity Partnership discussed emer-gency trailers that were being

purchased. The partnership pur-chased equipment with previousgrant money for emergency re-sponse crews and was looking tomake accessibility to that equip-mentquick and easyso emergen-cycrewscanbeonsceneasfastaspossible.

The Dallas Foundation an-nounced results of its contest todetermine the location of a Dal-las School District sign. There

were 2,134 votes cast and 62.5percent of thepeople voted tore-place the existing sign at the in-tersection of Route 309 and Hil-debrandt/UpperDemunds Road.

The new sign is expected to ar-rive in January 2013.

Dallas Township residentswereinvited to participatein a se-

ries of public visioning sessions.As the next step in a process be-gun in 2008, township officials

would work to complete theComprehensive Plan over thecourse of the next severalmonths.

Thousands of Back Mountainresidents were left without pow-er in the wake of HurricaneSandy. Downed trees and powerlines made clean up and repair anon-stopjob for utility crews andfamilies throughout the area.

The most devastating storm indecades left millions or peopleacross the country without pow-er as thousands fled their water-damaged homes.

Two Dallas artist had theirwork chosen for display during

the nations largest juried exhibitand sale of works by artists withcognitive, physical, hearing and

visual disabilities. The BrynMawr Rehab Hospitals AnnualArt Ability Exhibit selected 33-

year-old Billy Sukus for his pieceentitled26 Fe Iron and 35-year-old Pat Cleary for his piece entit-led Beadweaver.

Dallas HighSchoolannouncedplans to open a student-operatedstore called Mountaineer Mar-ket. The store would serve as afundraising tool for the schooland a hands-on classroom wherestudents could learn job skillssuchas keepinginventory, practi-cal math, cash handling and

work-related social skills.

Ross Elementary School inSweet Valley hosted a Dads Day,a dayfor fathersto volunteer partof their day to participate in funactivities with their childrensclass. Fifty-threefatherstook partin theday,some of them multipletimes for multiple children.

The Back Mountain saw itsfirst taste of snow on Nov. 27,causing the Dallas School Dis-trict to call for a two-hour delay

while the Lake-Lehman SchoolDistrict remained on its regularschedule.

DECEMBER

Thanksto Facebook, the Chini-kaylofamilyfromChurchRoadinLehman Township was able tofind Lillie, its 3-year-old BorderCollie/Labradormix thathad be-come frightened by firecrackersand ran out of the familys back-

yard. A posting on Facebook bysomeone who had found Lilliegot her back to her family with-out incident.

Cross Creek CommunityChurch on Carverton Road in

Trucksville participated in Oper-ation Children Child, a shoeboxcollection whereby participantsfilled a shoebox or small plastictote with items for children ages2-14 in countries all around the

world.A special meeting was held by

the Harveys Lake Protective As-sociationto hearbothsidesof thepolice move issue. County Presi-dent Larry Radel gave the posi-tion to move the department

while Councilwoman MichelleBoice took the opposing posti-ion,sayingthepolicedepartmentshould remain at the boroughsmain entrance. A straw poll ofresidents who attended the meet-ing was taken. The unanimousdecision was to keep the depart-metn at its present site.

Residents of Dallas Townshipand members of the townshipsplanningboardmet withJack Va-ralyfrom Varaly Associates to be-ginthe processof buildinga com-prehensiveplan forthe township.Varalywas hired by thetownshiptohelp preparea plan tomap outa vision for the future.

Fashion designer Jay McCar-roll, a native of Lehman and win-

ner of the first season of ProjectRunway, returned to the BackMountainto participate in a holi-day-themed fashioned show at

Misericordia University.Dallas Borough Council ap-

proved the proposed -013 budgetof $1,140,000 and authorized itsadvertisement.

At the Dallas School Board re-

organization meeting, Dr. Ri-chard Coslett was elected presi-dent and Dr. Bruce Goeringer

was named vice president. Mark

Kornoski was re-elected presi-dent by one vote over AndrewSalko on the Lake-LehmanSchool Board while Walter Glo-gowski was named fistvice presi-dent and Dr. Kevin Carey was

elected second vice president.Dallas Elementary students

got anearly starton theirseason-al shopping lists during an an-nual holiday shopping event atthe school. Youngsters and theirparents perused the various

wares and vendors at the event,

which included items for every-one in ones family from brotherto godmother.

Furry friends and their ownersflocked to Dymonds Farm in Or-ange to have their photos taken

with Santa Claus and raise mon-eyfor animals in need.Theevent

was organized by Blue ChipFarms Animal Refuge, located

just downthe streetfrom thefam-ily farm.

The Kukuchka family in Tunk-hannock revived its Christmasholiday display, setting up morethan 18,000 lights at the familybusiness, Creekside Gardens.

The Dallas School Districtsboard of directors discussed al-ternativeapproaches to updatingDallas Elementary School whichis in need of maintenance and re-pair. A water main break at theschool earlierin theyear prompt-ed a study to determine thestateof the building and possible op-tions for rehabilitating it.

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David Harris visits his daughter Jennifers kindergarten class at Ross Elementary School as part of

a special Dads in School program. Harris had just recently returned home from military duty.


Lorraine Farrell, widow of John Peter Farrell, pauses to reflect at

the Lake-Lehman Foundation annual tea and scholarship awards

banquet.


Marilyn Gregorski relaxes at her home in Dallas after retiring as

director of volunteers at The Meadows Nursing Center.


Lauren and Ryan Finlay, right, had help with their lemonade stand

from friends Maya Rosenthal and Olivia Stevens, left.

Two named todeans list at RIT

Anna Kammen, of Shaver-town, and Catherine Sullivan, ofLehman, have been named tothe deans list for the fall 2012quarter at Rochester Institute of

Technology.Kammen is a second-year

student in RITs National Tech-nical Institute for the Deaf whileSullivan is a fifth-year student inRITs B. Thomas Golisano Col-lege of Computing and Informa-tion Sciences.

Nicholas is recipientof scholarship

Kyle Nichols, of Tunkhan-nock, a current first-year studentat Gettysburg College, wasawarded a David Wills Scholar-ship by the College.

The David Wills Scholarshipgoes to top-ranking applicants

based upon their grade-pointaverage, class rank, and SAT orACT scores.

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Sports

Longtime Dallas High Schoolfootball coach Ted Jackson Sr.found himselfout of a jobafterre-ceiving an unsatisfactory per-formance review.

Dallas High School graduatePaige Selenski made the BackMountain proud when she be-came a member of the UnitedStates Olympic Field Hockey

Team, prompting employees attheLands at Hillside Farms to of-fer the Paige Sundae.

Misericordia University cele-bratedseveralfirstswhen bothitsmens and womens basketballteams turned in championshipseasons and its newly-formedfootballteam took tothe fieldforthe first time.

All in all, it was a busy year forsports in the Back Mountain.

Heres a review of some of the ar-eas athletic accomplishments in2012.

JANUARY

Wyoming Seminary UpperSchool named Back Mountainathletes who received Most Valu-able Player, Coaches Awards andGold Awards for the fall season.Frank Henry, of Dallas, a golfer,received the Most Valuable Gol-ferAward; JaneHenry, of Shaver-town, a tennis player, receivedthe Blue Knight Award; Alannah

Trombetta, of Dallas, a crosscountry runner, received theMost Valuable Runner Award;andEmma Spath, ofShavertown,a tennisplayer, received theGold

Award.Rock S olid AAU Boys

17U/11th grade basketball teamcompleted its fifth season with arecord of 28-4. Members of theteam were Eugene Lewis, ShaneDunn, Bobby Saba, Ryan Hoin-ski, James McCann, TravisBuckner, Frank Vito, Paul BraceandJon Gimble. DougMillerwashead coach ofthe team andJesseFrancis was assistant coach.

The Dallas Youth BasketballFourth-Grade Travel Team cap-tured the championship in theBack Court Hoops Holiday Bas-ketball Tournament.Members ofthe team were Sam Nocito, JackLukasavage, Matt Dolan, JackFarrell, Dylan Schuster, Lenny

Kelley, Brett Ostroski and TomPhillips.

The Dallas Mountaineer Aq-uatics Club remained undefeatedin the Northeast PA Age GroupSwim League season with an im-pressive win at Abington.

Dallas diver Sarah Zerfoss re-corded scores of 6 and 6 as theMountaineers earned a 96-90 vic-tory over Pittston Area at home.Joining Zerfoss in the winningcategory were Kendra Vaneskoand Patrick Maday.

FEBRUARY

Owen Kiluk of Dallas won the100back in a 118-39 Mountaineer

win over Lake-Lehman. JakeChielli took first in the 50 freeand 500 free. Matthew Edkinstook first in diving for the BlackKnights lone with. Connor Dalybroke a school record in the 200IM with a time of 2:25.89.

Eric Berley and Dean Shavercombined for 18 points to leadthe Hornets to victory whileBrett Ostroski scored 19 pointsfor the Cavs in a losing effort inDallas Youth Basketball action.

Winners of the 2012 FatherOLeary Knights of ColumbusFree Throw Championship wereDonnie Faux, Nicole Cavanaugh,Nick Kocher, Lee Eckert and Jo-nathan Wilson.

Lake-Lehmans Josh Sayrepinned Eric Young of Dallas inthe finale of an intense dual infront of a near-capacity crowd atLake-Lehman, pushingthe BlackKnights to a 32-31 victory overtheir arch-rivals in a Wyoming

Valley Conference Division IImeet.Shane Dunn of Dallas signed a

letter of intent to pay football atEast Stroudsburg Univerity.

Todd Phillips scored 22 pointsto lead the Suns while NathanielSpare added10 forthe winnersasthe Sunsdefeated theLakers, 40-29, in Dallas YouthBasketball ac-tion.

The Dallas Middle School sev-enth-grade girls basketball teamcaptured the championship inthe Wyoming Valley Seventh-Grade Basketball League with aperfect 11-0 record. Members ofthe team were Lauren Dotter,Breezy Coolbaugh, Maria Bed-nar, Talia Kosierowski, Carley

perloff, Jackie Dotter, SamanthaDelamater, Maddie Kelly, Court-ney Devens, Sara Lojewski, Da-nielle Walsh, Miranda Roche,Paige Evans, Catherine Dillonand Kaitlyn Pelcher.

MARCH

Nanticoke broke open a one-point game midway through thethird quarter to defeat Lake-Leh-man, 60-42, in the Wyoming Val-ley Conference Division III girlsbasketball championship at HolyRedeemer High School.

Dallas had three payers reachdouble figures to defeat Tunk-hannock, 49-45, to capture the

Wyoming Valley Conference Di-vision II boys basketball title at

Lake-Lehman High School.It was a 2-fer at Misericordia

University when the mens andwomens basketball teams bothwon Freedom Conference cham-pionships thewomenby defeat-ingKings College,64-54,and themen by earning a 69-42 win over

Wilkes University.Jake Wilson, Bryan Carter and

Nick Shelley all won by decisionfor the Lake-Lehman wrestlingteam after Dallas Dominick De-Grabastarted the daywitha win.

The Knightscame away with theteamtitle in thewrestlingtourna-ment.

Alison Piatt, of Pikes Creek, is

so dedicated to the sport of curl-ing, she volunteered to officiateat the2012USA Curling NationalChampionships at the Ice WorksSkating Complex in Aston.

Sikhmail Mathon poured in 20pointsto lead theSpursto a 55-38

win over the Magic in the cham-pionship game of the 7th/8th

grade boys division of the DallasYouth Basketball League.

Co-captains Tim Piatt, of Leh-man, and Robbie Hoffman, ofShavertown, joined fellow team-mate senior Mike Cutts, of Scott

Township, to lead Summit Chris-tian Academy Patriots to a sec-ond-place finish in the NyPennChristian League Tournament.

Ray Ostroski and Spencer Bo-

wanko scored 124 points apieceto lead Dallas to a 45-27 victoryover Berwick in the champion-shipgameof theWyomingValleyConference 8th Grade BasketballLeague.

James Flores, 14, of Shaver-town, made his first hole in oneon the pare 3, number 17 at IremCountryClub. Floreswas playingthe back nine with his mother

when he teed off at the hole. Hehas played golf since he was 11

years old and is a member of theDallasHigh School golf teamandIrem Country Club.

Lee Eckert won first place intheKnightsof Columbus Basket-ball Regional Free Throw Shoot-ing Competition in Cresco.

APRIL

Mallory Wilson scored sevengoals and registered a pair of as-sists but the Lake-Lehman girlslacrosse team fell one shy, losingto Bethlehem Freedom at Lake-Lehman. Alyssa Adams recordedsix goals and Amelia Jenkins to-taled four goals and two assistsfor the LadyKnightswhile LydiaForster accounted for 14 saves inthe net.

The Dallas High School trackand field team entertained Pitt-ston Area at the school districtsnewly-constructed track. ShaneJacobsen threw the discus,JasonSimonovich competed in the tri-ple jump and Regan Rome and

Alex Zubko ran, her in the 1-milerun and him in the 4 x 800-meterrelay.

The Back Mountain Banditshosted Mountain Top forthe firstgameof the season andcameouton the short end of a 6-4 score.Scoring goals for the Bandits

wereRicky Morgan, MichaelSan-tora,RyanCohenand Stone Man-nello.The Dallas Youth Basket-ball fourth-grade travel team won

the Wyoming Area CatholicMarch Madness Tournament bydefeating Pittston Area, 39-18, inthe title game. Members of thetam were Sam Nocito, Brett Os-troski, MattDolan, Jack Lukasav-age, Lenny Kelley, Todd Phillips,Dylan Schuster and Jack Farrell.

The Lake-Lehman volleyballteam defeated arch-rival Dallas,25-16, 25-23 and 25-23, to grab a3-1 on-the-road victory. KevinFine led the victors with 21 killsand four digs. Teammate KevinMasters had 10 kills and sixblocks while Zack Doran had sixservice points and seven digs.Kyle Morgan led the Mountain-eers with 40 assists and three ac-es.

F.J. Costantino, of Dallas HighSchool,signed a letterof intenttoplayfootball at WilkesUniversity.

The Dallas High School girlslacrosse team won the battle ofthe Back Mountain arch rivals

with a 14-67 victory over Lake-Lehman. Dallas goals werescored by Melissa Tucker, 4;Maddie Mulhern, 3; Lynn Vier-cinski,3; Emily Capitano, 2; CaraPricher, 1; and Sarah Stewart, 1.Alyssa Adams scored five of Leh-mans goals while the sixth wasscored by Amelia Jenkins.

MAY

The Back Mountain Black-hawks finished the NEPASHL

varsity ice hockey season in firstplace with a 10-2-2 record. Mem-bers of the team were Sean Jen-kins, Corey McAndrew,Eric Yen-

chak,PaulCiacci, EricSmith, Lo-gan Obes, Patrick Newhart, DonHockenbury,Jimmy Loefflad,Er-

ic Anderson, Tyler Steve, JohnnyYenchak, Dylan Pilger, CaseyMcAndrew, Eric Gotoweski, Le-

wis Hackling, David Payne, Ken-ny Burkhardt, Hunter Hacklingand Alex Hoyt.

Back Mountain Bandits girls7/8 lacrosseteamparticipated inthe 2012 Queen of the TurfClinic & Tournament at Blooms-burg University. Attending wereSam Delamater, Jordan Kelly,Grace Butler and Katie Strohl.

Anthony Grandinetti hit awalk-off single in the bottom ofthe seventh sinning as the Asbeat the Astros, 6-5, in BackMountain Baseball action. Ma-son Gattuso was the winningpitcheras hegaveup onehitin 1.1

innings.

THE YEAR IN SPORTSFrom the downfall of a longtime football coach to an Olympic

hero to a couple of firsts at the local university

ByDOTTYMARTIN



Emotions ran the gamutfor former coach TedJackson Sr. at the

Dallas football reunion.

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DallasAaronWeir, right, taps the ballover the netbutLake-Lehmans ScottJudson is there for the block.


Tommy Williams, of Lake-Lehman,andDallas Jesse Goode tangle in the130 lb. bracket as the arch-

rivals battle on thewresling mat.


Brogan Stec, 14, swimsthe breast strokein theboys 14& under

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Sandy Jackson, wife of formerDallas High School football coch

Ted JacksonSr., and her son, TedJackson Jr. were organizing aMountaineer football player re-union spanning Ted Sr.s careerfrom 1985-2011 to be held at theIrem Temple Country Club.

Members of the Dallas La-crosse Booster Club honored se-nior members of the Dallas HighSchool boys and lacrosse teamsprior to the teams game againstLake-Lehman. Senior membersof the Dallas team were MorganCohen, Karsten Leu, Aaron Liss-es, Jake Piskorick, Brett Wanek,Zack Taylor, Emiy Capitano,Brooke Evans, Aubrey Gryskiew-icz, Dana Jolley, Kaylin Russell,Sarah Stewart, Melissa Tuckerand Lynn Viercinski.

Brian D. Stanchak, Penn StateWilkes-Barre Director of Athlet-ics, announced this years induc-tees into the Penn State Wilkes-Barre Athletics Wall of Fame.

They are Charles Boughton, Jill

Chocallo, James Miliauskas andPhillips Navola.

JUNE

Jake Chielli, of theDallasHighSchool swim team, and SarahZerfoss, a member of the divingteam, wonthe PIAAOutstandingSwimmerand Outstanding DiverAwards, respectively, for the2011-2012 season.

The Lady Mountaineers fromDallas High School hung tightand nipped arch-rival Lake-Leh-man, 2-1, in the District 2 springgirls soccer seminal game.

Hundreds of former DallasHighSchool footballplayers aged20, 30 and 40 attended a footballreunion honoring Ted Jacksons

27-year career at Irem TempleCountry Club. Jacksons positionas the Dallas High School headfootball coach was opened to thepublic due to an unsatisfactoryperformance review in late 2011and, after a hearing on the mat-ter, the board opted to hire Sha-

vertown resident Bob Zaruta tofillthe position. But thehundredsof former football players at thereunion gave Jackson a differentreview.

Lake-Lehmans Jacob Bevansigned a letter of intent to attendKeystone College to continuehisacademicand runningcareer. Be-

van was the District 2 AA 800 me-ter champion, qualifying forstates in both the 800 meter run

and the high jump.Dave Schuster picked up hisfourth win of theseason,holdingthe Athletics to four hits whilestriking out nine as the Yankssnuck by the As, 5-4, in BackMountain Baseball action.

A recent coaches poll of theCentral Susquehanna LacrosseLeague selected three Dallasplayers and one Lake-Lehmanplayer to first team All Confer-ence honors. John Butchko, a se-nior at Lake-Lehman was select-ed as first team defense and firstteamlongstickmidfielderfor thesecond year in a row. First teamattackman MorganCohen,a Dal-las senior, was second in theleague in scoring with 31 goalsand 24 assists. Senior defense-man Zack Taylor was the anchorof the Dallas defense and led histeam in takeaways and scoredthree goals this season. GeorgePfeiffer, a sophomore goaliefromDallas, led the league in goalsagain by only allowing 54 goalsthis season.

JULY

Lake-Lehman Tiff Oplingerdoubledto centerto start thebot-tomof thefirstinningin the 33rdAnnual Robert L. Dolbear All-Stars Softball Game sponsoredby the Kiwanis Club of Dallas.Oplinger and her West team-mates trounced the East, 12-2, inthe game at the Back MountainLittle League field.

The Back Mountain Yankeescompleted the season with a 15-1

winning streak and an overall re-cord of 6-5 to capture the Back

Mountain Major League Cham-pionship with an 11-3 win overthePhillies.Members of the Yan-kees team were Bobby Bogumil,JosephFioti, BeaudynLewis,De-rek Answini, Darren Kerdesky,Dylan Schuster, Mark Roginski,Joseph Brennan, Carl Markow-ski, David Schuster, Collin Pertland Michael Doggett.

Sarah Zerfoss, a 2012 graduateof Dallas High School, an-nounced she would continue heracademic and diving career atClarion University majoring incommunications. Caitlin Barry, aDallas High School swim teamcaptain, decided to continue heracademic and athletic career at

Westminster College in New Wil-

mington while Dallas HighSchool senior Erica Luzetskiwould continue her diving andacademic careers at Ithaca Col-lege.

Friends and family of 22-year-old Paige Selenski werent exact-ly surprised when the 2008 Dal-las High School graduate was re-centlynamedto theU.S.OlympicField HockeyTeam.For Selenski,a University of Virginia seniormajoring in English, making theteam was a long time coming.Brian Selenski said his daughter

was first introduced to the sportas a seventh-grader at DallasMiddleSchoolby herlatemotherJudys suggestion to join a fieldhockey camp,

BackMountain Americanheldoff an improbable rally by GreenRidge to hang on for a 10-9 victo-ry to win the Section 5 LittleLeague major baseball tourna-ment anda spot inthe stateplay-offs.

AUGUST

It was a great ride for the BobHorlacher 9-10 year-old softballteam but a heartbreaking 3-2 de-feat to Canal of Delaware in theEastern Regional Tournament

was a bit hard to take.Two quadragenarians raced to

first-place finishes in the 31st an-nual Wilkes-Barre Triathlon,known for its tricky Back Moun-tain hills and unpredictable

weather. Sean Robbins, 43, ofShavertown, and Amy Rummel,41, of Kalamazzo, Mich., crossedthe finish line first in the mensand womens divisions, respec-tively.

The Dallas High School foot-ball team, under new head coachBob Zaruta, waspreparingfor itsregular season opener against

Wyoming Valley West whileLake-Lehman, under the direc-tion of head coach Jerry Gilsky,

was ready for its home openeragainst Old Forge High School.

JackSnyder wasrecognized byhis fellow Back Mountain LittleLeague Board members and waspresentedwith a senatorial docu-mentissued by Senator Lisa Bak-

er, congratulatinghim on over 35years of service to the organiza-tion.

Logan Paczewski, 8, of Dallas,finished in the top 10 for the sec-ond consecutive year at the U.S.Kids Golf World Championship,placing ninth of 115 golfers from18countriescanacrosstheU.S.inhisagegroup. Heplacedfourthin

2011.

SEPTEMBER

The Dallas Jr. Mounts contin-ued their winning ways with a32-8 win over the Plymouth Indi-ans in Wyoming Valley YouthFootball Conference action. Ja-cob Esposito opened the scoringfor the Jr. Mounts with a 15-yardrun around theright side. StevenNewell added another with a runaround theleft behindkey blocksby Sean Cuba and Blaine Rex.

Wyoming Valley West juniorquarterback Mike Baur ran forthreetouchdownsand accountedfor 25 yards of offense as Wyom-ing Valley West knocked off Dal-las, 28-14, spoiling the debut ofMountaineer coach Bob Zaruta.

Although Lake-Lehman andOldForgeweretiedin theclosingminutes of the first half, thingsfell apart so quickly for the BlackKnightsthat itseemedOld Forgedrove the ball into the end zone

just as fast as the Black Knightsgave it away. The Blue Devilsscored four touchdowns, all offturnovers, to turn a three-pointleadat halftime into a 50-14victo-ry at Lake-Lehman High School.

The 2012 Wyoming Valley

Flames 1-U girls fast pitch teamfinished a successful 2012 seasonby winning The Vipers Back toSchool Bash in Dallas. Membersofthe teamwere AlessiaMangan,Aleigha Parnell, Gabby Rakow-ski, ErinDunn, Elizabeth Mendr-zycki, Madison Stashak, Sarah

Tuzinski, Lauren Mullery, Sa-mantha Kern,EmileeBobos, Jen-na Simmons, Kaehler Kivler and

Tiffany Eustice.The newly-formed Misericor-

dia University football teammade history just by settingfooton MangelsdorfField in frontof about 2,200 fans. Not even a67-0 thrashing by Widener coulddampen the spirits of the Miser-icordia faithful. The Cougars

were held to just 170 yards of of-fense while Widener amassed al-most700yards.ThelossdroppedMisericordia to0-3 onthe season.

OCTOBER

Children from ages 3-13 andseveral parentsranThe RingatNewberry Estate, including thehill by the No. 1 hole, around thescenic pondwith quackingducksand returning to cheers from allat the pavilion. Hunter Landon

was the first runner to completetheone mile ring throughNew-berry.He wasfollowedclosely byLiz Shoemaker.

Molly VanScoy was crownedthe 2012 Lake-Lehman Home-coming Queen prior to the Black

Knights football game withMeyers. The Black Knightsscored 30 third-quarter points,erasing a halftimedeficit and anyhopes of a Meyers upset in their50-29 victory. Lehman improvedto 4-1 overall, maintaining its topspot atop the Wyoming ValleyConference Division 2A-A andDistrict 2 Class 2A standings.

Plans were underway for theSixth Annual Cheer for a Cause

with proceeds to be splitbetweenCandys Placeand Childrens Car-diomyopathy Foundation. Theevent was started in 2007 by twoLake-Lehman studentswhen oneof the Junior Knights coaches

was diagnosed with breast can-cer. This year, Ashlee Barker and

Sommer Sereka, seniors at Lake-Lehman, took on Cheer for aCause aspart oftheirseniorgrad-uation project.

Dallas High School footballcaptains Logan Bullock, KrisRoccograndi, Zach Macosky andBuddy Shutlock presented a

wreathto the captainsof the Pitt-stonAreateam inmemoryof tworecent Pittston Area suicide vic-tims. The Mountaineers reachedout to their Pittston Area coun-terparts prior to the Dallas HighSchool Homecoming game.

Dallas dominated every aspectof itsHomecoming game againstPittston Area, handling thePatri-ots a 35-0 loss in a Wyoming Val-ley Conference Division 3A con-

test. Jenna Morgan was crowned2012 Homecoming Queen andBuddy Shutlockwas named 2012Homecoming King.

Dallas native Laura Canfield,now of Langhorne, was inductedinto the 2012 United States Ten-nisAssociationMiddle StateTen-nis Hall of Fame at the SauconValley Country Club in Bethle-hem. Canfield is the only femaleplayer to capture back-to-back

Wyoming Valley championships(triple crowns), winning singles,doublesandmixeddoublesin thesame year.

NOVEMBER

Kieran Sutton, a senior atLake-Lehman, crossed the finish

linefirst intheboysAA District2cross country meet at Elk LakeHigh School, beating Dominic

DeLucaof Dallasby justninesec-onds. Regan Rome of Dallas fin-ished first in the AA girls divi-sion, running the 3.1 mile coursein 20:17.

TheDallas Jr.Mounts conclud-ed their fifth straight perfect sea-son with their fifth consecutiveSuper Bowlchampionship by de-feating the WWWE Panthers,

14-6.AshleyDunbarhit a milestone,

scoring four times to reach 100goals forher soccer careerat Dal-las High School in a 12-0 route ofthe Preppers of MMI Prep.

Dallas defensive tackle LoganBullock and Buddy Shutlock leda defensethat held Lake-Lehmanto minus 17 yards on 31 carriersas Dallas posted a 51-6 victory toclinch the final District 2 Class3Aspotandearntheright totakethe coveted Old Shoe trophyback to Mountaineer territory.

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