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EXETER A one-year wagefreeze proposed by the WyomingArea School District is a primarysticking point in contract nega-tions with its teachers union.
If the two sides cant come toan agreement, the teachers willstrike on Sept. 3.
Both sides made their cases to
the public at the joint work ses-sion/regular monthly meetingTuesday night at the WyomingSecondary Center.
The sides last met on Aug. 13.Talks broke down when distri ctofficials walked out of the sessionbecause the union wouldnt agreeto a one-year wage freeze.
The distri ct represented bylabor lawyer John Dean, districtSolicitor Jarrett Ferentino and
Business Manager Tom Melone presented a 13-page summaryof the most recent proposals pre-sented on Aug. 13.
The union said that wasnt afair gauge, because several of itsprevious plans had more savings.
Youre misleading the pub-lic by only showing the Aug. 13proposals, Dolman said. It sayswe have not made concessions inhealth care and we have.
The distri ct says health careand salary are linked becausesavings in one can be used in theother.
A complete package was neveraccepted, Dean said. What wesave in wages we can pay in healthcare. What we save in health care,we can pay in wages. We cantpick and choose. Everything is
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HARRISBURG UGI-PennNatural Gas has agreed to pay $1million to settle a case regardingan improperly repaired gas line inWilkes-Barre Township that couldhave led to a disaster.
Although no serious conse-quences resulted from this inci-dent, the potential for seriousconsequences to occur was sig-nificant, according to the 47-page
report dated Aug. 16 and filedon the PUCs website Tuesday.Therefore, (the Bureau ofInvestigations and Enforcement)submits that UGI-PNG s allegedconduct is of a serious nature andwas considered in arriving at thesubstantial civil penalty in thissettlement.
Though the findings of factand signed agreement was filedwith the state Public UtilityCommission, PUC spokeswoman
Jennifer R. Kocher said it is upto the board to accept, reject ormodify the settlement at a futuremeeting this fall.
Whistle blowerKocher pointed out the inves-
tigation was launched thanks toa UGI-Penn Natural Gas whistleblower who reported that improp-er clamps were used to repair aleak on a high pressure gas distri-
bution line along Business Route309 in the vicinity of the Sheetzgas station last year. The reportfound clamps meant to handlegas mains with a maximum 100pounds per square inch were usedon pipes with a flow of 320 poundsper square inch.
The lengthy report details aseries of events related to thesection of 50-year old gas pipethat included leaks, repairs and asubsequent investigation that thePUCs Bureau of Investigationsand Enforcement found to be inad-equate.
UGIhitwith$1millionneImproper clamps installed on gas line inW-B Twp. a potential disaster, report says
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Traffic on the Veterans Memorial Bridgeswitched lanes Tuesday, and traffic willremain one lanein eachdirection until sum-mer of 2014.
According to Mike Taluto, PennDOTspokesman, traffic over the span crossingthe Susquehanna River connecting Wilkes-Barre and Kingston was moved to the com-
pleted new deck while work commenced onthe other two lanes of the four-lane bridge.
Taluto said minor delays can be expectedand flaggers would be used to control anddirect traffic.
Drivers should pay attention to the flag-gers and all signs, Taluto said.
The $6 million project is expected to becompleted by mid-2014, he said. The proj-ect will also include excavation, pavement,temporary traffic control, concrete median
barrier, cement concrete curb and sidewalk,pavement markings, removal of portion ofexisting bridge, traffic control beneath thebridge, concrete repair and other miscella-neous construction.
Fahs ConstructionGroupof Binghamton,N.Y., is the contractor.
Hazleton projectMeanwhile, in Hazleton the Broad Street
$28 million reconstruction project will con-tinue to the end of the construction seasonand into next spring.
SCRANTON President Barack Obamastwo-day trek through NewYork and Pennsylvaniathatends Friday in Scrantonwill promote affordableeducation and job growth.
According to a releaseissued Tuesday by the
White House, the presi-dent and Vice PresidentJoe Biden will deliverremarks laying out aplan to make college moreaffordable, tackle risingcosts, and improve valueforstudents and their fami-lies.
The event, scheduledfor 4:55 p.m. Friday insidethe Lackawanna StudentUnion Gymnasium, 500Vine St., is a continuationof his Better Bargaintheme he initiated withstops in Illinois andMissouri last month.
Im pleased that thepresident and vice presi-dentwillbeinNortheastern
Pennsylvania and spe-cifically at LackawannaCollegeto discussthe needto focus on jobcreationandeconomic growth, saidU.S. Sen. Bob Casey, wholike Biden is a Scrantonnative. LackawannaCollege is a great exampleof an institution that givesgraduates the skills theyneed to compete for goodpaying jobs.
Obamasvisittofocusonjobs, education
President will bejoined by VicePresident Bidenduring Fridays visitto Scranton
ANDREWM. [email protected]
Lanes change, but hassle still the sameOngoingVeteransMemorial Bridge workone of several PennDOTprojects
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Teachers in the Wyoming Area School District gather outside Wyoming Area High School on Tuesday before the start of the final school board meeting before the newschool year begins next week.
Wage freeze stallsWyomingArea talksJOE [email protected]
Six more applicantss ubmitted res ume sTuesday to fill WalterGriffiths remainingLuzerne County control-
ler term through the endof the year, ending con-cern that County Councilwont have choices.
Carolee MedicoOlenginski and KarenCeppa-Hirko also hadapplied, but both said theyare strongly consideringwithdrawing their names.
Medico Olenginski hassaid she doesnt want tobe accused of receivingan unfair advantage nowthat the Republican Partyhas placed her on the bal-
lot in the controllers racein November. An appoint-ment to the temporaryseat would provide publicexposure. Ceppa-Hirkohas said she is reconsid-ering because she did notreceive the ballot nomina-tion.
The followingRepublicans applied byTuesdays 4:30 p.m. d ead-line: Michael Caravaggio,
Mountain Top; AaronKaufer, Kingston; WalterMitchell, Bear CreekVillage; John Sokolowski,Plains Township; PeterGagliardi, Wilkes-Barre;and Malcolm Hudgeon,Wilkes-Barre.
Heres a summary ofthe educational and workexperience from resumessubmitted by the six newapplicants:
Caravaggio has an
Several apply for countycontroller vacancy
County Council willselect
a Republican to llWalter
Grithsremaining term
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Traffic was switched Tuesday to the newly reconstructed deck of the VeteransMemorial Bridge. Delays on the span connecting Kingston andWilkes-Barre can beexpected to last a while longer.
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NEW YORK Al-JazeeraAmerica signed on with a briskhello from anchor Tony Harrisbefore he got down to businesswith his networks first stories:continued turmoil in Egypt,
shots fired at an Atlanta elemen-tary school and more wildfiresin the West.
Wi th that, the networkentered the cable-news fray longdominated by CNN, MSNBCand Fox News Channel.
The Qatar-based Al-JazeeraMedia Network launched itsU.S. outlet only eight monthsafter announcing the new ven-ture, which on Tuesday replacedAl Gores Current TV in morethan 45 million TV homes.
An hour before settling intoits regular schedule at 4 p.m.Eastern time, the network aireda preview of its programming
and goals. We are here to tellthe story the way it happens,as it happens, said anchorAntonio Mora as the previewbegan.
At the same time, the
Al-Jazeera English network wassuspended. It had been availablesince 2006 online and in a smat-tering of cable systems.
Headquartered in New York,Al-Jazeera America has vowed
to provide unbiased, in-depthdomestic and global news.
The network hired a numberof veterans of U.S. television,including Harris, an alumnusof CNN, and Mora, previouslyat ABC News. Other familiarfaces include Sheila MacVicar,Soledad OBrien, Joie Chen and
John Seigenthaler.Scheduled programs includea nightly newscast anchored bySeigenthaler; Consider This,a current-affairs hour hostedby Mora; America Tonight,a newsmagazine described asthe networks flagship telecastanchored by Chen; and RealMoney with Ali Velshi.
Besides New York, domes-tic bureaus are located inWashington, Los Angeles, SanFrancisco, Dallas, Detroit,Chicago, Denver, Miami,Seattle, Nashville, Tenn., andNew Orleans.
The new network will also
draw from the 70 bureaus par-ent Al-Jazeera operates globally.
Al-Jazeera Media claimedan instant U.S. foothold withits $500 million purchase ofCurrent TV and the cable distri-bution of that little-watched net-work. Al-Jazeera America is alsoavailable from satellite provid-ers DirecTV and Dish Network.
Thanks to the dee p pockets of
itsparent,the newnetwork com-mands considerable resourceswith no urgent need to turn aprofit, as evidenced by a statedpolicy to air only six minutesof commercials each hour, lessthan half the usual time devotedto advertising by most commer-cial networks.
The channel a lso has challe ng-es ahead. It will have to win overviewers to the serious news-casting it promises to deliver,as well as overcome suspicionsome Americans might feel fora news organization controlledby a foreign government or evensee as anti-American.
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DETROIT Hewas themas-ter of his genre, the Dickens ofDetroit, the Chaucer of Crime.
Pretty much every novelElmore Leonard wrote fromthe mid-1980s on was a best-seller, and every fan of crimestories knew his name. GeorgeClooney was an admirer. Sowere Quentin Tarantino, SaulBellow and Stephen King andmillions of ordinary readers.
Leonard, who died Tuesdayat age 87, helped achieve forcrime writing what King didfor horror and Ray Bradburyfor science fiction. He made ithip, and he made it respectable.
When the public flocked towatch John Travolta in themovie version of Get Shortyin 1995, its author became thedarling of Hollywoods hottestyoung directors. Book criticsand literary stars, prone to dis-missing crime novels as lightentertainment, competed foradjectives to praise him. Lastfall, he became the first crimewriter to receive an honoraryNational Book Award, a prizegiven in the past to Philip Roth,Norman Mailer and ArthurMiller.
Few writers so memorablytraveled the low road. His morethan 40 novels were peopled bypathetic schemers, clever con-men and casual killers. Each
was characterized by moralambivalence about crime, black
humor and wickedly acutedepictions of human nature:the greedy dreams of ArmandDegas in Killshot, the wise-cracking cool of Chili Palmerin Get Shorty, Jack Belmontslust for notoriety in The HotKid.
Leonards novels and shortstories were turned into dozensof feature films, TV movies andseries, including the current FXshow Justified, which stars
Timothy Olyphan t as one ofLeonards signature characters,the cool-under-pressure U.S.marshal Raylan Givens.
Critics loved Leonards flaw-lessly unadorned, colloquialstyle, as well as how real hischaracters sounded when theyspoke.
People always say, Wheredo you get (your characters)words? And I say, Cant youremember people talking orthink up people talking in yourhead? Thats all it is. I dontknow why that seems such awonder to people, he told TheAssociated Press last year.
Leonard spent much of hischildhood in Detroit and setmany of his novels in the city.Others were set in Miami near
his North Palm Beach, Fla.,vacation home.
He died at his home in theDetroit suburb of Bloomfield
Township, where he did muchof his writing, from complica-tions of a stroke he suffered afew weeks ago, according to hisresearcher, Gregg Sutter.
Crime novelist James LeeBurke said Leonard was agentleman of the old schoolwhose stylistic techniques andexperimentation with point ofview and narrative voice hadan enormous influence on hun-dreds of publishing writers.
Leonards work containedmoral and political themeswithout being didactic, Burkesaid. And he was able to writesocial satire disguised as acrime novel, or he could write acrime novel disguised as socialsatire.
Leonard didnt have a best-seller until he was 60, andfew critics took him seriouslybefore the 1990s. Now theLibrary of America, whichpublishes hardcover editionsof classic American writing, isplanning a three-volume set ofhis work.
He had some minor success-es in the 1950s and 60s writ-ing Western stories and novels,
a couple of which were madeinto movies. But when inter-
est in the Western dried up, heturned to writing scripts foreducational and industrial filmswhile trying his hand at anoth-er genre: crime novels.
The first, The Big Bounc e,was rejected many times beforeit was published as a paperbackin 1969. Hollywood came call-ing again, paying $50,000 forthe rights and turning it intoa movie starring Ryan ONealthat even Leonard called ter-rible.
He followed up with severalmore fast-paced crime nov-els, including Swag (1976).Leonard was already followingthe advice he would later giveto young writers: Try to leaveout the parts that people skip.
In 1978, he was commis-sioned to write an article aboutthe Detroit Police Departmentand shadowed p ol ice offi-cers for nearly three months.Starting with City Primeval
i n 1980, h is cri me nov el sgained a new authenticity, with
quirky but believable charactersand crisp, slangy dialogue. Butsales remained light.
Donald I. Fine, an editor atArbor House, thought theydeserved better and promisedto put the muscle of his public-ity department behind them.He delivered: In 1985, Glitz,a stylish novel of vengeanceset in Atlantic City, becameLeonards first best-seller.
Hollywood rediscovered him,churning out a succession ofbad movies, including 52 Pick-up starring Roy Scheider.
It took Barry Sonnenfeld tofinally show Hollywood howto turn a Leonard novel into areally good movie. Get Shortywas the first to feel and soundlike a true Leonard story.
Then Quentin Tarantin o to oka turn with Rum Punch, turn-ing it into Jackie Brown, acampy film starring Pam Grier.But Steven Soderbergh stayed
faithful to Leonards story anddialogue with Out of Sight.
AP file photoAuthorElmore Leonardsmilesduringa 2012interviewat hishomein BloomfieldTownship, Mich. Leonard died at 87 on Tuesday.
Best-sellingauthorElmoreLeonarddiesat87Detroit native known forhis crime novels receivedan honorary NationalBook Award last year
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WILKES-BARRE A LuzerneCounty judge has denied the requestof a Philadelphia man who asked thatcharges against him be dismissed orhe be given a new trial in the robberyof a Plymouth Township strip club.
Judge Michael Vough on Tuesdaydenied the request by KevinWilliams, 31, who was sentencedon July 8 to 10 to 20 years in prisonafter being convicted by a LuzerneCounty jury in May of several relatedcharges.
Williams claimed in a filing
Monday he should be given a newtrial or charges should be dismissedbecause of inconsistent and contra-dictory testimony during his trial.
Vough said in a one-page orderthat Williams had 10 days from thetime he was sentenced to make anypost-sentence requests and he did sobeyond the 10-day period.
Also on Tuesday, Vough scheduledthe trial for Williams co-defendant,William Gronosky, on related andunrelated charges to begin Sept. 3 at10:15 a.m.
LEONARD ON THE SILVER SCREENWhile Elmore Leonard is best known as an award-winningwriter,some peoplemightbe more familiarwith himthanks to themoviesbased on hisbooks.Here is a list ofsome ofthe more successful ones:Outof Sight (1998)GetShorty(1995)3:10 to Yuma(1957/2007)
Jackie Brown(1997 basedon the bookRum Punch)Freaky Deaky(2012)
HAZLETON A malejuvenile from Hazletonreported at noon on Sundayhe wa s stab bed by a nunknown person in the south-central part of Hazleton.
He was subsequently treat-ed for a wound that was notlife-threatening. Anyone withinformation should call policeat 459-4940 or via 911.
WILKES-BARRE Amale juvenile was truck by acar while crossing the street
Tuesday night.Police sai d Jennifer
Gabriel, of Forty Fort, toldthem she was driving northnear 829 S. Franklin St. atabout 8:15 p.m. when the boysuddenly entered the road-way and she was unable toavoid striking him with hervehicle.
Wilkes-Barre Medic 3 trans-ported the boy to GeisingerWyoming Valley MedicalCenter in Plains Township.
Police said the investigation isongoing and no further infor-mation was available.
WILKES-BARRE TWP.
Frances Faciana reportedat 1:19 p.m. Monday thatsomeone stole her pursefrom inside her vehicle whileit was parked in the park-ing lot of Comfort Keepers,224 Wilkes-Barre TownshipBoulevard.
Estimated value of thetheft is $74.
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Lackawanna College PresidentMark Volk said the appearanceis one he and others are lookingforward to. He added that usingLackawanna College as a focalpoint on the national talk aboutthe ties between education andthe economy is a valid example.
President Obama has spokenon many occasions about theincreased importance of two-year colleges in meeting our
countrys needs for the future.And, we know that the cost ofeducation is of critical interest tothe president and to us all. As anexceptionally cost-effective col-lege with high quality programsand a proven track record of suc-cess, Lackawanna represents theNew American Model for HigherEducation, Volk said.
The joint appearance, as far asCasey can recall, is the first onefor the pairin Pennsylvania sincethey were elected.
This is quite the rare event,Casey, a Democrat, said. Mostcommunities dont get this kindof opportunity.
Casey said he received a callabout two weeks ago from Biden,whosaid the president wasgoingto be traveling throughNew Yorkand Northeastern Pennsylvaniaand was looking for a venue inthis region that was a commu-nity college in an urban setting.Casey suggested LackawannaCollege.
Obama will start his four-city speaking tour Thursdaywhen he will deliver remarksat the University at Buffalo andthen Henninger High School inSyracuse, N.Y. On Friday, thepresident will participate in atown hall event at BinghamtonUniversity before heading southto Scranton. Biden is not expect-ed to join Obama at any of theNew York stops.
The Scranton stop will takeplacein the Lackawanna Student
Union Gymnasium, which Caseysaid he reminded Biden was theCatholic Youth Center whenBiden was a boy.
Casey will be at the event,though its unclear if hell have aspeaking role. He said he hopesthe president makes a clear cor-relation between the importanceof an educationand employment.
Its not just a talking point ora speech, Caseysaid. Its essen-tial for job growth and economystrength.
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KINGSTON WyomingValley West School Districtteacher union President LindaHouck said Tuesday she is intheprocess of filing labor griev-ances over changes in elemen-tary music education whichshe has been teaching andelimination of a middle schoollibrarian position.
Houck said that, while shefelt the cuts would hurt stu-dents, the grievances werebased on timing, andnot on thecuts themselves. Any changeshad to be announced by the
end of April under both statelaw and the union contract, shesaid, but that deadline was notmet.
They called me yesterday
(Monday) and told me theyhave decided to eliminate myfull-time elementary position,Houck said.
Houck said the middleschool librarian decision wasalmost as abrupt, contendingthe School Board did men-tion plans to eliminate thepost at the end of June, butthen agreed to reconsiderafter the union raised severalissues. Yet the librarian, JoannPrushinski, didnt learn theresults of that reconsiderationuntil last week, Houck said.
The board voted inDecember on the elemen-tary school music program.
Critics contended the votewas to eliminate elementarymusic classes, but the board,and Superintendent CharlesSuppon, repeatedly insisted
the vote was only to studypotential changes.
But Houck said the changesshe was told about were dra-matic. She has been teach-ing about 35 hours of musiclessons in five elementaryschools, with a high schoolteacher chipping in anotherfour or five hours. Under thenew proposal, Houck said, shewould be switched to full-timemusic teacher at the middleschool a job made avail-able by the retirement of herhusband, also a music teacher and three other teacherswould cover elementary schoollessons.
Houck said her understand-ing is that lessons would bereduced to about 12 hoursa week total among the five
schools. There is no way theycancoverthe thingsI covered.
The librarian issue beganwith the retirement of anelementary school librarian
earlier this year. Houck saidthe district has four: two at therecently enlarged State StreetElementary, one full-time atDana Street Elementary, and afourthsplittingtime among theother three schools.
The board posted to refillthe position, but apparentlychanged its mind, announc-ing at the end of June thatPrushinski would take on theduties. Houck said she pointedout the need of a librarian atthe large middle school andhighlighted studies that showstudents in schools with certi-fied librarians score better instandardized tests, and theboard agreed to reconsider.
Both changes are going tobe grieved, Houck said. Theidea is that we dont fly by the
seat of our pants, and that par-ents know what to expect.
Board President GordonDussinger said the changeswere strictly a response to
a tight budget, and that thedelay in making final decisionsstemmedfrom therapidly shift-ing landscape.
Sometimes you expectthings to happen and theydont, and school is about toopen and other factors comein, Dussinger said, concedingHouck may have grounds forfiling a grievance. Sometimesyou say We just have to letthem grieve it and go to anarbitrator, someone whos neu-tral, to hear both sides.
Dussinger stressed no teach-erswere furloughed andno pro-grams cut, adding that an aidelikely will be appointed to helpat the middle school library.Were trying to do the bestwe can in a situation withoutreally hurting any programs,
he said. Were trying to keepeverything going. I think theteachers deserve a lot of cred-it. They step in and help plugholes.
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WILKES-BARRE
6th District GOPcommittee to meet
The 6th District RepublicanCommittee will meet Tuesday at 7p.m. at Norms Pizza & Eatery, 275 N.Sherman St.
Pat Umbra is the Executive Secretaryof the committee.
SCRANTON
Violence prevention
event set for todayVolunteers from Organizing for
Action-PA will host a gun violence pre-vention event at S crantons CourthouseSquare at 1 p.m. today.
The group, a non-profit spin-off ofPresident Barack Obamas re-electioncampaign, said in a release the eventis designed to tell Congress that they
wont stop fighting to protect our chil-dren and protect our communities andwont let leaders in Washington forgetthat they can act to make our communi-ties safer.
Volunteers will gather on the NorthWashington Avenue side of the square.
WILKES-BARRE
Attorneys le mental
inrmity defenseAs promised, attorneys representing
a Forty Fort woman charged in connec-tion with a fatal hit-and-run in 2008 havefiled court papers notifying the courtand prosecutors that they will be using amental infirmity defense.
Megan Panowicz, 28, is chargedin the August 2008 death of SharonShaughnessy, whowas killedon WyomingAvenue in Kingston when shewas report-edly struckby three vehicles. Panowicz isscheduled to be tried Sept. 23.
Panowiczs attorneys, her father,Robert Panowicz, and Basil Russin, saidin a filing Tuesday that Megan Panowiczsuffers from post traumatic stress dis-order caused by the accident that killedShaughnessy.
The events which caused her to havepost traumatic stress rendered her inca-pable of appreciating the significance orconsequences of her behavior and affect-ed her ability to determine what wasright or wrong at that crucial moment,the attorneys wrote.
Panowicz has a longstanding disor-
der that causes her to avoid stressful sit-uations by attempting to over self con-trol. The attorneys said they intend oncalling two doctors as well as Panowiczand her mother, Cheryl Panowicz, toprove the infirmity defense.
Prosecutors will have a chance torespond to the filing. A hearing will thenbe scheduled.
OLD FORGE
Major trac
delays expectedMajor traffic delays are expected in
the area around the Main Street Bridgein Old Forge and a route leading to itfrom Interstate 81 today and Thursday.
The Pennsylvania Department ofTransportation announced that each daycrews willdeliver fourbeamsfor thenewMain Street Bridge, taking Davis StreetExit 182 from Interstate 81 to UnionStreet, and then taking Keyser Avenueto Drakes Lane, where they will meet upwith Main Street and back down to thebridge.
The first beam is expected to arrive stafter noon. Motorists areadvisedto takealternate routes when possible.
NOXEN
Intertribal Powwow
spots are availableSpots are available for vendors, volun-
teers and drummers at the ninth annualIntertribal Powwow on Sept. 28 and 29on the Noxen Fire Co. grounds at 3493Stull Road in Noxen, Wyoming County.
Gates open at 10 a.m. and close at 6p.m. both days. The event is a gather-ing of all Nations, with a Grand Entryof dignitaries and dancers in full regaliaat noon. The event is open to the publicwith no admission fee.
Meals will be provided for all dancersand vendors. There will be a chili cook-ing contest Friday night with a cash prizeto be determined by votes at$1 perplate.Saturday will be pot luck, so bring a dishto share. Sunday breakfast and dinnerwill be provided, but participants shouldbring their own place settings.
Camping is free, but there will be a$7-per-day charge for electricity. Anyoneinterested in volunteering or being avendor or a drummer should call NatalieWisteria at 570-947-2097 or email [email protected] for more informa-tion.
WVWcuts spawn labor grievancesTeachers union president says timing
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KINGSTON Thismunicipality ended itsemergency dispatchingservices in August 2010,but that has not stoppedsome residents from mis-
takenly calling the policedepartment seeking aidrather than the county-operated 911 system.
Sgt. Michael Krzywickiurges residents of theWest Side community whoencounter an emergency tocall Luzerne County 911.
The police departmentreceives six or more directcalls a day for a variety ofemergencies, he estimated,with some callers leavingthe information on voicemail.
Some of the calls arefor service, and when theydirectly call our depart-ment, there is a three-
to-four-minute delay inresponse, Krzywicki said.Residents need to call911, which dispatches ourdepartment and fire.
For examp le, s ai dKrzywicki, one womanrecently called the depart-ment and left a voice mailmessageabout a suspiciousperson riding a bicycle andtrying to open car doors.By the time police receivedthe message, the banditbicyclist was long gone.If the woman had called911 directly, he said, anofficer would have imme-diately been dispatchedto the street, significantly
increasing the odds theculprit would have beencaptured.
Also,due toa recent rashof car break-ins, Krzywickiurged residents to removevaluable items from theirvehicles and to lock them.
Kingston was the lastmunicipality in LuzerneCounty to have its ownemergency dispatchingservices, which endednearly three years agowhen Luzerne County 911took over on Sept. 1, 2010.
The demand for state-mandated training andt echn ical stand ard s,including having two cer-tified dispatchers on-dutyat all t imes, promptedKingston to turn over dis-patching to the county.
Department remindsresidents to call 911when reporting trouble,seeking help
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Dr. David Cooper brought plane down safely despite failure of electrical system, landing gear
WILKES-BARRE Dr. David Cooper
saidhe wasnt scaredat all, even thoughtheplane he was piloting had lost power andhe had to make an emergency landing withits landing gear unable to lock last week.
It was like being up there all alonelike (Charles) Lindbergh, Cooper saidTuesday. I just had to get it on the groundwithout bumping into another airplane.
Cooper made the emergency landingat Harrisburg International Airport inMiddletown late Thursday afternoon. Hewas traveling alone.
Cooper, an orthopedic surgeon whoowns The Knee Center on Kidder Street,was on his way to Hershey, where he hadscheduled surgeries on Friday appoint-ments he kept despite the harrowing expe-rience.
For most of the 25-minute flight fromWilkes-Barre/Scranton International
Airport to Harrisburg, Cooper said it wasuneventful. He was at about 8,000 feet andhad just received clearance to go to 6,000feet for his approach into Harrisburg about 10 minutes away.
After that, things started to go bad realquickly, he said.
His single, jet-engine Beech Bonanza converted from a piston-driven engine began to oscillate and the electrical systembegan toshut down.In a matter ofminutes,Cooper said, the plane, valued at $750,000and one of only 40 in the world, was with-out electrical power.
He said the jet engine never lost power,but he was flying an aircraft with no com-munication that was undetectable on radar.The airport couldnt track him and otherplanes in the air would not know he wasthere.
Cooper used a hand-held radio to notifythe airport he was going to make an emer-gency landing. He used a hand-held GPSdevice to help get him to the airport. Healso was able to use the towers at Three
Mile Island, located adjacent to the airport,to guide him.
Cooper said he was able to keep theplane levelas he manually crankedthe land-ing gear down. However, he was unable toknow if the gear locked in place. When hehit the runway, the landing gear collapsedbecause it wasnt locked.
I felt the best thing was to get the planeon the ground, he said. I had a normalapproach and the airport had the fireengines out in case of a problem.
Cooper said the landing went well,despite being unable to use flaps to slowthe plane. He said the plane veered slightlyoff the runway and sparks caused a smallgrass fire.
I came in at a higher speed than nor-mal, he said. I was uninjured, but theplane sustained between $100,00 and$200,000 worth of damage.
Cooper said sheet metal was damaged,
but the largest expense will be in tear-ing down the engine. He said the FederalAviation Administration will investigate todetermine what caused the electrical sys-tem to quit.
The 25-year licensed pilot said it willtake four months to repair the aircraft atSeamans Airport in Factoryville.
Cooper said he flies all over the U.S. andcant wait to get back into the air.
Pilots, like surgeons, solve problems,he said. In this case, you accept your fateand make the most of it.
What will Cooper take away from thisexperience? He said he was concernedabout encountering another aircraft.
Well, you learn how you react in anemergency, he said. Its interesting; Ididnt panic and I had no fear just deter-mination. I was confident I was going toget the plane and myself on the groundsafely.
Amanda Hrycyna | ForThe Times Leader
Applebees waitresses Ariel Swartz and Sharell Mccollum fill up glasses with lemonade to give out to fellow employees Tuesday as part of theNational Lemonade Toast, celebrating the partnership between Applebees and Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation launched in 2005. The RoseGroup, which operates 58 Applebees restaurants in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, has raised more than $260,000 since itbegan participating in the event in 2005.
Local surgeonmakes emergency landing in Harrisburg
BILL OBOYLE
Clark Van Orden | The Times Leader
Dr. David Cooper talks about having to make an emergency landing last week in the Harrisburg areawhile piloting his private plane.
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CAIRO Egypts military-backed authorities arrested thesupreme leader of the coun-trys Muslim Brotherhood onTuesday, dealing a seriousblowto the Islamist group at a timewhenit is strugglingto keepupstreet protests against the oust-er of President MohammedMorsi inthefaceof a harsh gov-ernment crackdown.
The Brotherhoods spiri-tual guide, Mohammed Badie,was arrested in an apartmentin the Cairo district of NasrCity, close to the site of a sit-inencampment that was forciblycleared by security forces lastweek, triggering violence thatkilled hundreds of people.
Badies arrest is the latestmove in an escalating crack-down by authorities on the
Brotherhood, which has seenhundreds of its members takeninto custody.
The groups near-daily pro-tests since Morsis ouster havediminishedin recentdays,withscattered demonstrations inCairo and elsewhere attractingmere hundreds, or even doz-ens, of protesters. On Tuesday,several hundred Morsisupport-ers staged protests in Helwan,an industrial suburb north ofCairo,and in Ein Shams,a resi-dential district on the oppositeend of the city, shortly beforethe nighttime curfew went intoeffect at 7.
Morsi has been detained inan undisclosed location sincethe July 3 coup that oustedhim, after protests by millionsof Egyptians against his rule.He is facing accusations ofconspiring with the militantPalestinian Hamas group to
escape from prison during the2011 uprising and complicityin thekilling andtorture of pro-testers outside his Cairo palacein December.
Badies last public appear-ance was at the Nasr City pro-test encampment last month,when he delivered a fieryspeech from a makeshift stagein which he denouncedthe mil-itarys removal of Morsi. Hisarrest followed the killing ofhis son Ammar, who was shotdead during violent clashesbetween security forces andMorsi supporters in Cairo onFriday.
Badie and his powerful dep-uty, Khairat el-Shater, are to betried later this month on charg-es of complicity in the killingin June of eight protesters out-side the Brotherhoods nationalheadquarters in Cairo.
Badie was taken to Torahprison in a suburb south ofCairo, where a team of pros-ecutors was questioning him,security officials said, speak-
ing on condition of anonymitybecause they were not autho-rized to talk to the media.
Torah is the same sprawlingcomplex where ex-presidentHosni Mubarak, ousted in the2011 popular uprising, is beingheld, along with his two sons.Several Mubarak-era figuresare also imprisoned there, asare several Brotherhood lead-
ers and other Islamists.Meanwhile, the Brotherhood
released the text of Badiesweekly message to the groupsfollowers.Quotingheavily fromthe Quran, he warned that any-one who supports the currentoppression, suppression andbloodshed including Araband foreign governments will soon regret their stand.
FORT HOOD, Texas
Hasan to mount
defense, maybeMilitary prosecutors rested their case
Tuesday against the Army psychiatristaccused of killing 13 people during the2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood.
After calling nearly 90 witnesses in 11days, prosecutors said they had complet-ed their case during Maj. Nidal Hasanstrial. Hasan also is accused of woundingmore than 30 people at the Texas Armypost during the attack, which was theworst mass shooting ever on a U.S. mili-tary base.
The judge adjourned the hearing afterprosecutors rested, meaning Hasan
could begin his defense today butwhether he will seize the opportunityremains to be seen. Hasan is acting ashis own defense attorney.
RaWaLPINDI, PakIsTaN
Ex-leader pleads
not guilty of murderIn an unprecedented ruling that tests
the militarys aura of inviolability, a courtindicted former president and army chiefPervez Musharraf Tuesday on murdercharges stemming from the 2007 assas-sination of ex-Prime Minister BenazirBhutto.
Musharraf, who became a key U.S. allyin the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror
attacks, pleaded not guilty.Thedecisionby thecourt inRawalpindi
marked the first time a current or formerarmy chief in Pakistan has been chargedwith a crime.
Musharraf, a 70-year-old former com-mando who took power in a 1999 coupandstepped down from office in disgracenearly a decade later, now faces a stringof legal problems that in many ways chal-lenge the militarys sacrosanct status inPakistani society.
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at naval baseAn explosion during boat maintenance
at a New Jersey Naval base injured eightsailors and civilian employees Tuesdaymorning, one of them seriously.
The blast happened at the Earle NavalWeapons Station in Middletown ataround 9 a.m. andwas confined to a boat-house where the routine maintenancewas being done, Navy spokeswomanBeth Baker said. She did not have detailson the nature of the work that was beingconducted.
One sailor was hospitalized with seri-ousinjuries. Seven other sailors andcivil-ian employees sustained minor injuries.
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Spacewalker details
panicked momentsThe Italian astronaut who nearly
drowned in his helmet during a space-walk last month is sharing more detailsabout the terrifying experience, reveal-ing how he felt all alone and franticallytried to come up with a plan to save him-self.
Luca Parmitano wrote in his onlineblog, posted Tuesday, that he could nolonger see as the water sloshed aroundin his helmet outside the InternationalSpace Station.
But worse than that, the water coversmynose a really awful sensationthatImake worse by my vain attemptsto movethe water by shaking my head, the for-mer test pilot wrote. By now, the upperpart of the helmet is full of water and Icant even be sure that the next time Ibreathe I will fill my lungs with air andnot liquid.
Parmitano, 36, a major in the ItalianAir Force, was making only his secondspacewalk.
AP photo
MohammedBadie,the supremeleaderof theMuslimBrotherhood,is seenTuesday after being detained by Egyptian security in Cairo.
AP photo
A Franklin covered is a Franklin preservedWorkmen wrapa statue of Benjamin Franklinin protectivecovering Tuesday in preparationfor upcoming construction at theThe Frank-lin Institutein Philadelphia.The museumplansto adjointhe memorialto thenewNicholas andAthena Karabots Pavilion.TheKarabots donated $10million to the instituteto fundexpansionfor education,conferenceand exhibitionspace.
EgyptquestionsBrotherhoodstopleaderinprisonArrest of Mohammed Badie just latest movein crackdown by authorities on group
HAMZAHENDAWI
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Blood pressurefalls with easieraccess to care
CHICAGO New researchsuggests giving patients easier-
to-take medicine and no-copaymedical visits can help drivedown high blood pressure,a major contributor to poorhealth and untimely deathsnationwide.
Those efforts were part of abig health care providers eight-year program, involving morethan 300,000 patients withhigh blood pressure. At thebeginning, less than half hadbrought their blood pressureunder control. That increasedto a remarkable 80 percent, wellabove the national average, theresearchers said.
The research involved KaiserPerm an en te in NorthernCalifornia, a network of 21 hos-
pitals and 73 doctors offices,which makes coordinatingtreatment easier than in inde-pendent physicians offices.
The number of heart attacksand strokes among NorthernCalifornia members fell sub-stantially during roughly thesame time as the 2001-09 study.Dr. Marc Jaffe, the lead authorand leader of a Kaiser heart dis-ease risk reduction program,said its impossible to know ifthe blood pressure program canbe credited for those declines,but he thinks it at least contrib-uted.
Reductions continued evenafter the study ended; in 2011,87 percent of roughly 350,000
Kaiser patients had recom-mended blood pressure levels.The study was publis hed
Tuesday in the Journal of theAmerican Medical Association.
Whats unique about this isthe sheer scale of what theyvedone, said Dr. Goutham Rao,a family medicine special-ist at NorthShore UniversityHealthSystem, a group of fourhospitals in Chicagos north-ern suburbs. Rao is involved inresearch on reducing obesityand other risks for heart dis-ease.
Ifwewereableto keepevery-ones blood pressure undercontrol in the United States,the number of new strokes and
heart attacks would go downjust exponentia lly, he said.High blood pressure affects
1 in 3 U.S. adults, or 67 mil-lion people, and the condi-tion caused or contributed tomore than 348,000 deaths in2009, according to the Centersfor Disease C on tro l andPrevention.
Normal blood pressure is con-sidered a reading of less than120 over 80; high blood pres-sure is 140 over 90 or higher.High blood pressure typicallycauses no symptoms, at leastinitially, and can sometimes bemanaged with a healthy life-style, including physical activ-ity plus avoiding salty foods,heavy drinking and excessweight. But two or more pre-scription drugs are often need-ed to bring high blood pressureunder control.
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DECATUR A suspect was in cus-tody after gunfire at an Atlanta-areaelementary school where dramatic televi-sion footage showed young students rac-ingoutof thebuilding, beingescorted byteachers and police. No one was injuredand all students and teachers were
accounted for and safe, authorities said.Television footage showed stu-dents being evacuated from Ronald E.McNair Discovery Learning Academy inDecatur, a few miles east of Atlanta, andsitting outside in a field about 1:30 p.m.School buses were taking them to theirwaiting parents and relatives at a nearbyWalmart.
According to WSB-TVs website, awoman inthe school officecalledto sayagunman asked her to contact the Atlanta
station and police. WSB said that duringthe call, shots were heard in the back-ground.
Numerous police are at the school andSWAT was there for a time. The suspectis a man in his mid-20s and didnt havean obvious connection to the school,DeKalb County schools SuperintendentMichael Thurmond told The AssociatedPress.
WSB-TV assignment editor LaceyLecroy said she spoke with the womanin the schools front office who said shewas alone with the suspect andthe mansgun was visible.
It didnt take long to know that thiswoman wasserious, Lecroy said.Shotswere one of the last things I heard. I wasso worried for her.
Jonessia White, the mother of a kin-dergartner at the school, told AP shetalked to her sons teacher shortly after
most students were evacuated. Whitesaid the teacher told her they were stillinside the building shortly after 2 p.m.
When I hear hes safely out of thebuilding, Ill be OK, White said, add-ing she learned of the shooting when afriend called to say helicopters were hov-ering over the school.
DeKalb County Police Departmentspokeswoman Mekka Parish said, Were
just trying to calm the nerves of parents.Police had strung yellowtape up block-ing intersections near the school whilechildren waited to be taken to Walmart,where hundreds of people were waiting.
Regional superintendent RachelZeigler used a megaphone to say chil-dren would be loaded onto buses bygrade level and that each bus would alsobe carrying an administrator, a teacherand a Georgia Bureau of Investigationofficer.
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Nicole Webb cries while waiting to be reunited with her 9-year-old son, a student at Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy in Decatur, Ga.,
after a gunman was reported on the property.
Gunman in custody after Ga. school evacuated
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AssociatedPress
Summer has beenbuggier thannormal
WASHINGTON Thetiny mosquito all too often hasman onthe run. And this sum-mer, it seems even worse thanusual.
You cant get from the carto inside our house withoutgetting attacked, its that bad,high school teacher RyanMiller said from his home inArlington, Va. Minutes earlier,he saw a mosquito circlinghis 4-month-old daughter indoors.
Experts say its been a bug-gier-than-normal summer inmany places around the U.S.because of a combination ofdrought, heavy rain and heat.
It may be worst in theSoutheast, which is getting hitwith three years worthof bugsin one summer, said JonathanDay, whostudies insects attheUniversity of Florida.
Two years of drought werefollowed by incredibly heavyrain this year. During dry
spells, mosquito eggs oftendidnt get wet enough tohatch. This years rain revivedthose, along with the normal2013 batch.
In parts of Connecticut thissummer, mosquito traps haddouble the usual number ofbugs. Minnesota traps in Julyhad about triple the 10-yearaverage. And in centralCalifornia, traps had five timesas many of one key species asthe recent average.
Humans have been bat-tling the blood-drinking bugsfor thousands of years, anddespite mans hugeadvantagesin technology and size, peopleare notgetting theupperhand.Just lots of bites on the hand.
We have to keep fightingjust to hold our own, saidTom Wilmot, past presidentof the Mosquito Control
Association and a Michiganmosquito control districtchief. And in some places, hesaid, the mosquitoes are win-ning.
In southwestern Floridaaround Fort Myers, LeeCounty mosquito controlwas getting more than 300
calls per day from residentsat times this summer, a muchhigher count than usual. Butthe more impressive tally wasthe number of bugs landingon inspectors unprotectedlegs: more than 100 a minutein some hotspots, said deputydirector Shelly Radovan.
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Afemaleyellowfevermosquito probes a pieceof Limburger cheese,oneof few known mosquito attractants. Despite our size and technologicaladvantages, humans still cant seem to win our ancient blood battlewith the pesky and lethal mosquito.
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DENVER Want to bein the legal pot industryin Colorado? Open yourcheckbook.
Colorados pot regula-tors opened three daysof hearings Tuesday tolay out licensing specificsbefore retail sales begin inJanuary.
The proposed rulesrequirewould-be ganjapre-neurs to pay up to $5,000
just to apply to be in therecreational pot business.Operational licenses costanother $2,750 to $14,000.
Successful applicantsmust also pass a gauntletof criminal backgroundchecks and residencyrequirements.
The result is expectedto be an industry that willhave as much red tape asgreen leaves. Coloradois trying to show it canstrictly regulate and con-trol a drug that has beenoperating in the shadowsfor decades, despite theadvent of medical marijua-na more than a decade ago.
Officials say steep appli-cation fees are needed toproperly screen marijuanaworkers, checking finger-prints and checking forrecent drug felons andpeople with possible tiesto criminal drug cartels.
Colorado will also bescreening future marijuanabusinesses to make sure noowners live out of state, arequirement set forth bystate lawmakers earlierthis year. The residencyrequirements whichapply from owners all theway down to so-calledbud-tenders who manthe counters and measure
out marijuana are aholdover from Coloradosexisting medical marijuanaindustry.
The hefty operationallicense fees, according tostate officials, are neededto pay for enforcement ofthe nascent industry. Planscall for an ambitious seed-to-sale tracking systemin which Colorado willrequire video surveillanceof all plants as they growand are prepared, pack-aged and sold to custom-ers.
The Department ofRevenue aimed to useseed-to-sale tracking forColorados medical mari-
juana business, but theagency ran out of moneybefore getting the programfully operational. TheDepartment doesnt planto make the same mistaketwice, so operational feesare high. Retail storeswill have to pay $3,750 to$14,000 a year, dependingon their size. Growers willpay $2,750 a year.
Retail potstores will alsohave to submit detailedfloor plans to show theyremeeting security require-ments. Theyll have to getsurety bonds to ensurecontract completion in theevent of contractor default.
HARRISBURG Sixty five municipalitiesin Luzerne County havereceived their share offunds collected by thestate from Feb. 1-July31 through state liquor
license fees.Overall, the countyreceived $118,240, rang-ing from $23,400 forWilkes-Barre to $50 forSlocum Township.
License fees are basedon the type of licenseand the population of themunicipality in which it islocated, Stacy Kriedeman,the state liquor controlboard spokeswoman, saidTuesday.
The fees a re dis tributedtwice a year to munici-palities. In the previousround, which includedAug. 1 through Jan. 31,$55,600 was distrib-uted to Luzerne Countymunicipalities. Statewide,from Feb. 1-July 31, $2.4million was distributed to
a total of 1,418 munici-palities.Under the Pennsylvania
Liquor Code, fees are col-lected whenever a liquorlicense application,renew-al or validation is submit-ted. Once approved, themoney is distributed tothe municipality in whichthe licensee is located tohelp defray the cost oflocal law enforcement.
Heres a breakdown of
how which local munici-palities received funds,and how much they got:
CitiesHazleton: $13,500Nanticoke: $5,200Pittston: $2,690Wilkes-Barre: $23,400BoroughsAshley: $1,200
Avoca: $1,550Conyngham: $400Dallas: $1,500Dupont: $1,850Duryea: $1,450Edwardsville: $1,800Exeter: $2,200Forty Fort: $400Freeland: $1,850Harveys Lake: $1,600Hughestown: $300Kingston: $5,500Larksville: $1,400Luzerne: $2,100
Nescopeck: $300Nuangola: $150Plymouth: $2,800Pringle: $450Shickshinny: $150Sugar Notch: $150Swoyersville: $1,850Warrior Run $150West Hazleton: $2,300Weast Pittston: $200
West Wyoming: $250White Haven $500Wyoming: $1,600Yatesville: $150TownshipsBear Creek: $1,200Black Creek: $650Buck: $150Butler: $1,800Conyngham: $100Dallas: $1,600Dennison: $300Dorrance: $400Exeter: $400
Fairmount: $300Fairview: $1,400Foster: $450Franklin $200Hanover: $5,150Hazle: $2,050Hunlock: $800Huntington: $200Jackson: $200Jenkins: $1,300
Kingston: $1,400Lake: $400Lehman: $600Newport: $1,100Pittston: $1,200Plains: $5,900Plymouth: $400Rice: $250Slocum: $50Sugarloaf: $1,400Union: $600Wilkes-Barre: $4,950Wright: $400Total $118,240
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Marie Lauck, 94, of WestPittston, passed away on Aug.20, 2013, at Mercy Center inDallas.
Marie was born in Exeteron Feb. 14, 1919. She was agraduate of Exeter High Schooland, prior to retirement, wasemployed by the cigar industryin West Pittston.
She was a former member ofSt. Casimirs Church, Pittston,and was presently a member ofSt. John the Evangelist Church,Pittston, and its Altar andRosary Society.
Marie was a member ofthe Knights of LithuaniaCouncil 143, Pittston, and theLithuanian Womans Club ofLuzerne County.
Marie was an original mem-ber of Meals on Wheels ofGreater Pittston and served 45years with the organization.She was presented with thePresidential Volunteer ServiceAward by President George W.Bush. She was also recognizedin 2005 by The Times Leaderfor being a gracious giver andfor dedicated and committedservice to others. She was a RedCross volunteer for 25 years.
Marie was preceded in deathby her husband, Paul Lauck, in
1990; her parents; her brothersPete, Tony, George, Clem andher twin, Joseph; and sisters,Dinah, Mildred and Julia.
She is survived by daugh-ters, Mary and her husband,John Metz, Harveys Lake, andAnne Powers, West Pittston;sons, Paul and his wife, Connie,Colorado Springs, Colo., andRobert and his wife, Rachel,Bloomsburg; grandchildren,Emily, Sara and Chris Walla,Melanie and Rory Regan,
Matthew and Jamie Powers,and Rose Marie, Samantha,Robert Jr. and Juliet Lauck;great-grandchildren, Avery andEmmitt Walla; brother Al andhis wife, Angeline, Exeter; sis-ter-in-law, Helen Parulis, Exeter;and nieces and nephews.
The family thanks andacknowledges the dedicatedstaff of Mercy Center, Dallas,and also Janine Messengerof Erwine Healthcare for thecomfort and care they providedMarie.
The funeral will be held 9a.m. Friday at Kizis-LokutaFuneral Home, 134 Church St.,Pittston.
A Mass of Christian Burialwill be celebrated at 9:30 a.m.
at St. John the EvangelistChurch, William Street,Pittston. Interment will be in St.Casimirs Cemetery, Pittston.Family and friends may call 4 to8 p.m. Thursday at the funeralhome.
In lieu of flowers, the fam-ily requests memorial contri-butions be made to Meals onWheels of Greater Pittston, 59S. Main St., Pittston, PA 18640;or to Mercy Center, 301 LakeSt., Dallas, PA 18612.
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PHILADELPHIA APennsylvania court willhear arguments nextmonth on the governorsattempt to stop a countyoutside Philadelphia fromissuing same-sex marriagelicenses.
The state Common-wealth Court scheduledoral arguments for Sept. 4in Harrisburg.
Republi can Gov.Tom Corbetts admin-istration contends that
Montgomery Countyofficials are violating the
states one-man, one-wom-an marriage law and thestate Health Departmentis seeking a court order tohalt the practice.
However, Democraticofficials in the affluentcounty near Philadelphiabelieve the law definingmarriage as the union ofone man and one womanis unconstitutional.
They began issuingsame-sex marriage licens-es on July 24.
Pa.courttoheargaymarriageargumentsSept.4
ThreAssociated Press
Colorados pot industry: Legal,not cheapFees for growers to sellers will be hey to helpstate regulate and control marijuana business
KRISTENWYATT
AssociatedPress
GRANTS PASS, Ore. Wildfires burning inOregon, Idahoand Montanaare taxing national firefight-ingresources andhelping topush spending past $1 bil-lion for the year.
The National InteragencyFire Center in Boise uppedthe national wildfire pre-paredness level Tuesday tothe highest level for the firsttime in five years.
The center lists two cen-tral Idaho wildfires as thecountrys top priorities,helping provide crews andresources for the Beaver
Creek fire, which forcedthe evacuation of 1,250homes in the resort area ofKetchum and Sun Valleyand has cost nearly $12 mil-lion so far.
President Barack Obamawas briefed Tuesday morn-ing on the wildfires by hishomeland security adviser,Lisa Monaco. The WhiteHouse said the administra-tions focus is on supportingstate andlocal first respond-ers and that Obamas team
is in ongoing contact with
federal and local partners.More than 40 uncon-
tained, active and large wild-fires dot the U.S. map fromArizona to Washingtonstate and Alaska, the WhiteHouse said. About 17,800peoplehave beendispatchedto the fires.
Steve Gage, assistantdirector of operations forthe fire center, said theycant fill all the requests forcrews and equipment fromthe 48 fires that remain
uncontained around the
country.Gage said that as fire
season progresses, the cen-ter moves crews around towhere the greatest assetssuch as houses are threat-ened, and tries to havecrews positioned to catchnew fires when they aresmall.
In Oregon, winds thatdraw windsurfers to theColumbia Gorge havedoubled the size of a wild-fire to 10 square miles.
The Government Flat fireburned two homes andthreatens 150 more on thenorthern flanks of MountHood. Four days into thebattle the cost has topped$1 million, said OregonDepartment of Forestryspokesman Dave Morman.About 50 homes have evac-uated in the area of canyons10 miles southwest of TheDalles.
Thats one of the chal-lenges when the fire getsinto these long canyons, itsvery, very difficult for fire-fighters, he said.
The boost in priorityfor Idahos Beaver Creekfire gave fire managersresources they needed
to start attacking the firemore directly, said firespokesman Rudy Evenson.Weather conditions werealso improving. The firewas 9 percent containedafter burning 160 squaremiles and had 1,750 per-sonnel. The cost throughMonday was $11.6 million.
Nationally, federal agen-cies have spent more than$1 billion so far this year,about half last years totalof $1.9 billion, according to
the fire center. There havebeen 33,000 fires that haveburned 3.4 million acres.
Whether costs top the10-year average of $1.4billion or the $1.9 billionspent in 2012 and 2006 willdepend on the rest of thewildfire season, which tra-ditionallygets very activeinSouthern California as lateas October, said Gage.
Professor NormanChristensen of DukeUniversitys NicholasSchool of the Environment,an expert in the environ-mental impacts of forestfires, said fires have beenparticularly intense inColorado, California andIdaho this year.
Certainly drought insome areas has contributedto the numberand intensityof fire events, he said in anemail.Butmany ofthe fireshave been in highly populat-ed, wilderness-urban inter-face areas such as ColoradoSprings, Sun Valley, Idaho,and the west slope of theSierra Nevada. That addsgreatly to costs since somany more resources arerequired to protect builtstructures.
Hot, dry summerpusheswildfre spending past $1B
JEFFBARNARD
AssociatedPress
AP photo
Firefighters with the private contract company Great Basin Firemop up part of the 104,457-acre Beaver Creek Fire in the BakerCreek, north of Ketchum, Idaho, on Monday.
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BALASH - Eva,funeral 9 a.m.todayat Yeosock Funeral Home,40 S.Main St.,PlainsTownship.Requiemservice9:30 a.m.in
St JohnsOrthodox Church,Edwardsville.
BENSON - Esther, memorialservice11 a.m.SaturdayinDorrancetonUnited MethodistChurch,549 WyomingAve.,Kingston.
CHMIL - PaulSr., funeral 10 a.m.todayin St.Nicholas RussianOrthodoxChurch,58 Seneca St.,Wilkes-Barre. Friendsmay call9 a.m.to servicesat SimonS.Russin Funeral Home, 136MaettSt., PlainsTownship.
CONNELL - Jeremiah, Mass1p.m.Thursday in St.NicholasChurch,Wilkes-Barre.
DEVLIN - Thomas,funeral 10:30a.m. Fridayat Howell-LussiFuneral Home,509 WyomingAve.,WestPittston. Services11 a.m.in Second Presbyterian
Church,Parsonage Street,Pittston. Friendsmaycall 4 to 7p.m.Thursday or 10 to10:30 a.m.Fridayat thefuneralhome.
GUDZ - Stanley funeral 9:30
a.m.todayat Kiesinger FuneralServicesInc.,255 McAlpineSt.,Duryea.Mass of Christian Burial10a.m. in Queen of theApostles
Church,Hawthorne Street,Avoca.JUDZIKOWSKI - Judith,funeral10a.m. today at S.J. GrontkowskiFuneral Home,Plymouth.
KESTER - Edward,friends maycall 10to 11a.m.today atRichardH.DisqueFuneral HomeInc.,2940 Memorial Highway, Dallas.Funeral serviceto follow at BethelHill Cemetery, SweetValley.
KOCHAN - Arlene,gravesideservices11:30a.m. SaturdayinSt. Francis Cemetery, Nanticoke.
KOZIC - Gerard,celebrationoflife10 a.m.Saturdayat KresgeFuneral Home, 1763 Route 209,Brodheadsville. Friendsmay call9 a.m.to service.
LISPI - Brenda,funeral 9 a.m.Thursdayat GrazianoFuneralHome Inc.,Pittston Township.Massof Christian Burial 9:30a.m.in St.Joseph Marello Parish,WilliamStreet, Pittston.Friendsmaycall 5 to8 p.m.todayatthefuneralhome
MACKIEWICZ - Frances,Mass ofChristian Burial 10a.m. today inSt.Basils Church,Dushore.
MAKUCH - Catherine,funeral
9:30a.m.Friday at Nat& GawlasFuneral Home, 89ParkAve.,Wilkes-Barre.Mass of ChristianBurial10 a.m.in Our Lady ofFatimaParish at St.MarysChurchof theImmaculateConception,134 S.WashingtonSt.,Wilkes-Barre.Friends may call2to 4and6 to8 p.m.Thursdayatthefuneralhome.
PETROSKY - Jane, funeral 9 a.m.Thursdayat Kizis-Lokuta FuneralHome, 134ChurchSt.,Pittston.Massof Christian Burial 9:30a.m.in St.MariaGorettiChurch,Lain.Friendsmaycall5 to8 p.m.today at thefuneralhome.
RICKEY - Michael,memorialservice11 a.m.Saturdayin SweetValleyChurch of Christ,5439Main Road,Sweet Valley. Friendsmaycall 10a.m. to service.
SABA - James,memorial andreception 3 p.m. Sundayat Sabafamily home, 198IdetownRoad,Dallas.
SPERNOGA -Anna Mass of
Christian Burial 9:30a.m.today
in St.Andre BessetteParish,
St. StanislausKostka Church,Wilkes-Barre.
TACCONELLI - Hazel,funeral9:30a.m.today at Palermo&
ZawackiFuneral HomeInc.,409N.Main St.,OldForge. Massof
Christian Burial 10 a.m.in Prince
of Peace Parish,GraceandLawrencestreets,Old Forge.
WACLAWSKI - Veronica, funeral9:30a.m.Thursdayat George
A.StrishInc.Funeral Home, 211W.MainSt., GlenLyon. Massof
Christian Burial 10 a.m.in Holy
Spirit Parish/St.AdalbertsChurch,Glen Lyon. Friendsmay
call 6 to8 p.m.today.
WALSH - Ray, funeral Mass10:30
a.m.Friday in Divine Mercy Parishat St.JosephsChurch,312 Davis
St., Scranton.
WORTH - DelbertJr.,funeral6:30p.m.todayat AndrewStrish
FuneralHome,11 Wilson St.,Larksville.Friendsmay call4 p.m.
to services
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BRENDAA.JAMES LISPIAug.18, 2013
Brenda A. James Lispi, ofPittston, passed away Sunday,Aug. 18, 2013, at home with herhusband, Raymond, by her side.
She was born June 9, 1955, adaughter of the late Mary Ann(Duke) James Daley and ChalpJames Jr.
She was a gradu ate of Pittston Area High School andPenn State University.
Brenda worked as a seniorcenter services director forthe Area Agency on Aging
for Luzerne and WyomingCounties.Surviving, in addition to
her husband, are her son, Lee,and Sarah Lispi, Swoyersville;daughter, Tina Lispi, and herfiance, Donald Bird, ClarksSummit; grandchildren, AriaRose Lispi and Enzo RaymondLispi; brothers, Mark Jamesand Sam Daley; sisters, EvaSartorio Calia, Diana Lowe,Anita Amundson and MicheleWagner; and many aunts,uncles, nieces, nephews andcousins.
Funeral services have beenentrusted to Graziano FuneralHome Inc., Pittston Township.
The viewing will be 5 to 8 p.m.today at the funeral home.
Funeral services will begin at9 a.m. Thursday at the funeralhome. A Mass of ChristianBurial will be held 9:30 a.m.
Thursday in St. Joseph MarelloParish, William Street, Pittston.Interment services will takeplace in Italian IndependentCemetery, West Wyoming.
Memorial donations may bemade to Hospice of the SacredHeart, 600 Baltimore Drive,Wilkes-Barre; or the PittstonMemorial Library Fund, 47Broad St., Pittston.
For directions to the funeralhome or to express condolencesto Brendas family, please visitwww.grazianofuneralhome.com.
EDWIN OLSHEFSKIAug.20,2013
Edwin Olshefski, 86, aresident of Bethel Hill Road,Shickshinny, passed away athis home on Tuesday, Aug. 20,2013.
He was born Oct. 15, 1926,in Nanticoke, a son of the lateBenjaminand MarthaJankowskiOlshefski.
Edwin was a member of St.Marthas Church, Stillwater.
He was employed for morethan 40 years at Wholesale
Auto Parts, Central Warehouse,Scranton.
His favorite hobby was enjoy-ing Northwest basketball andPenn State football, and alsoshowing love for his family andpet companion, dog, Rosco.
He was preceded in death bygrandson, Kyle Strish.
He is survived by his wife of56 years, the former ElizabethOpishinski; son, Edwin J.Olshefski, and his wife, Deana,Carbondale; daughters, BrendaObeid and her husband, Charles,Pittston;Cheryl Madajewski andher husband, David, Nanticoke;Linda Wharton and her hus-band, Vincent, Shickshinny;Elizabeth Strish and her hus-band, Norman, Shickshinny;and Sandra Olshefski, Wilkes-
Barre; grandchildren, Brian andAmanda Madajewski, CourtneyWharton, Kaelyn and Ashton
Strish, Matthew and MeganObeid, and Devin Olshefski.
The Olshefski family extendsits gratitude to Wanda andChristine for the kindness andcompassion shown to Edwin.
Funeral services will be 9:30a.m. Saturday at Clarke PiattFuneral Home Inc., 6 SunsetLake Road, Hunlock Creek, fol-lowed by a Mass of ChristianBurial at 10:30 a.m. at St.Marthas Church, Stillwater,with the Rev. Louis T. Kaminskiofficiating. Interment will followin St. Marthas Parish Cemetery,Stillwater. Visitation will be atthe funeral home 6 to 8 p.m.Friday.
Memorial contributions may
be made to Blue Chip FarmsAnimal Refuge, 974 LockvilleRoad, Dallas, PA 18612.
ROBERT E. HOLTZJR.Aug.17, 2013
Robert E. Holtz Jr., 52, ofWyoming, passed awaySaturdayevening in Jackson Townshipafter a deadly motorcycle acci-dent.
Born in Pittston, he was a sonof Doris Baker Holtz of WestPittston and the late RobertHoltz Sr. He was a graduate ofWyoming Area, class of 1978.
For many years, he wasemployed as a partssalesman forKellyAutoParts ofWyoming.Hewas a member of the WyomingValley Motorcycle Club and theSons of the American LegionHanover Township Post 609.
Surviving are his daughters,Cassandra Holtz, Philadelphia,and Nicole Holtz, HunlockCreek; sister, Sheree Stack,Parsons; nephew, JonathanStack, Parsons.
Funeral services will be at
the convenience of the fam-ily from the Metcalfe-Shaver-Kopcza Funeral Home Inc.,
504 Wyoming Ave., Wyoming.Interment wil l be in theMountain View Burial Park,Exeter Township. Friends maycall 5 to 7 p.m. today at thefuneral home.
In lieu of flowers, memorialcontributions may be made tothe Wyoming Valley Motorcycle
Club, Bikes for Tykes Run, P.O.Box 2014, Wilkes-Barre, PA18705.
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JUNEE. BRUDNICKI,74, of Mountain Top, passedaway peacefully on Tuesday, Aug.20, 2013, at Hospice CommunityCare at Geisinger South Wilkes-Barre. She was born in Hanover
Township, a daughter of thelate Milton and Ellen Hughes.June was a graduate of Hanover
Township High School, class of1959. She was employed by DanaPerfumes,whereshe workedfor afew years. She is survived by herhusband, Eugene; son, Robert,Mountain Top; and one grand-daughter, Kaitlyn.
Funeral serviceswill be heldat a later date at the convenience
of the family.
DOLORES GRABKO,84, of Wilkes-Barre, was killed ina head-on collision on Saturdayon Route 29 in Wyoming County.
Funeral arrangementsare pending from the YeosockFuneral Home, 40 S. Main St.,Plains Township.
TERRANCE F. TERRYWIEDLICH,
70,a residentof Plymouth,passedaway peacefully on Mondayevening at Hospice CommunityCare, Inpatient Unit, GeisingerSouth Wilkes-Barre, surroundedby his family. His loving wife isKaren L. (Andrews) Wiedlich.
Together, Terry and Karen cel-ebrated their 39th wedding anni-
versary on April 4, 2013.Funeral arrangements are
pending and have been entrustedto the care of the WroblewskiFuneral Home Inc., 1442Wyoming Ave., Forty Fort. Acomplete obituary will appear in
Thursdays newspaper.
JOHN MARTINZIMNICKYAug.16, 2013
John Martin Zimnicky, 84,of Shavertown, passed awayon Friday, Aug. 16, 2013, atthe Veterans AdministrationMedical Center, Plains
Township.Mr. Zimnicky was born May
29, 1929, in Luzerne, and wasa son of the late Alexander andEva Zimnicky.
John was a graduate ofLuzerne High School andattended both St. LouisUniversity and North CarolinaState University on footballscholarships.
Fondly referred to as bigJack by friends and family, heserved in the U.S. Navy duringthe Korean Conflict.
As a member of theCarpenters Union Local 514,Wilkes-Barre, he was employedas a master carpenter, retiringin 1991.
Mr. Zimnicky was a member
of the American Legion Post967, Harveys Lake.
John is survived by his wifeof 48 years, the former JeanMcLean; daughter, CherylDragon, Harveys Lake; grand-children, Deanna, Mirina andDerek Dragon; numerous niec-es and nephews.
Friends may call6 to 8 p.m. Friday atCurtis L. Swanson
Funeral Home Inc.,corner of routes 29 and 118,Pikes Creek, for a time of visi-tation with Johns family.
Funeral service will be pri-vate.
In lieu of flowers, the familyrequests memorial contribu-tions be sent to the SPCA ofLuzerne County, 524 E. MainSt., Wilkes-Barre.
Online condolences can bemade at www.clswansonfuner-alhome.com.
CECELIAM.
SCHMIDTAug.19, 2013
Cecelia M. Schmidt, 71, ofMountain Top, went to the Lordon Monday in the Hospice Unitof Geisinger South Wilkes-Barreafter a valiant fight with cancer.
Born in Elizabeth, N.J.,she was a daughter of the late
William and Janet (Jankowski)Beym. She loved to cross-stitch,garden and cook for her family.
Cecelia raised six children andtook care of her family above allelse. Everyone loved and respect-ed her and called her Ma.
Prior to retirement, sheworked at the Mr. Donut shop inMountain Top for 10 years.
Preceding her in death, inaddition to her parents, wereher sons, Joseph and WilliamSchmidt.
Surviving are her husbandof 51 years and her loving highschool sweetheart, EdwardSchmidt; children, Lisa Beaverand her husband, Dennis,Canadensis; Edward Jr. Ace,at home; Karen Olimpaito andher husband, James, Piscataway,
N.J.; and Mary Schwar and herhusband, James, Annandale,N.J.; daughter-in-law, TracySchmidt, Mountain Top; sister,Janet Walz, Parlin, N.J.; broth-er, Robert Beym and his wife,Nancy, Columbia, S.C.; sevengrandchildren, Shannon, Tiffany,Joseph, Jamie, Brandon, Cortneyand Ryan; and many nieces andnephews.
Funeral services will be held11 a.m. Thursday at McCuneFuneral Home, 80 S. MountainBlvd., Mountain Top. Intermentwill follow in Albert Cemetery.Friends may call 9 a.m. until ser-vices Thursday.
FLORENCEWARDELL
Aug.17, 2013
Florence Wardell, 63, ofDupont, passed away after a longand courageous battle with can-cer on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013,at Hospice Community CareCenter, Dunmore.
She was born in Pittston onAug. 5, 1950, a daughter of thelate Charles and Janet (Spencer)Edwards.
In addition to her parents, shewas precededin deathby herhus-band, John Wardell, who died in1998; and her brothers, Thomasand George Edwards.
Florence is survived by hersons, Robert and James, bothof Pittston, and Jeff, Dupont;daughters, Lisa and VioletWardell, both of Pittston; broth-ers, Bruce, Pittston; Charles,Kingston; Robert, Scranton; andJack, Las Vegas, Nev.; sisters,Janet Sweeney, New Jersey; JoanOlmstead, Wilkes-Barre; AudreyMorris, Yatesville; MargaretBosak, Duryea; and VioletOBrien, Pittston; eight grand-children; two great-grandchil-dren; and numerous nieces andnephews.
Funeral services will be held7 p.m. Thursday at KiesingerFuneral Services Inc., 255McAlpine St., Duryea. The Rev.Michael Shambora of the BradleyMemorial United MethodistChurch, Dickson City, will offici-ate. Friends may call 5 p.m. untilservices.In lieuof flowers,memo-rial contributionsmaybe made toHospice of the Sacred Heart, 600Baltimore Drive, Wilkes-Barre,PA 18702.
Online condolences may bemade to www.kiesingerfuner-alservices com
CATHERINE A. (MARKO) MAKUCHAug.18, 2013
Catherine A. (Marko)Makuch, 92, of Wilkes-Barre,passed away peacefully with herson and daughter at her sideon Sunday at the Wilkes-BarreGeneral Hospital.
She was born in Wilkes-Barreon March 3, 1921, a daughter ofthe late John and Mary HudakSwatkoski. Catherine was agraduate of Coughlin HighSchool, class of 1939. Prior toretirement, she was employed
by the RCA Corp., MountainTop.
Catherine was a devotedCatholic and attended dailyMass. She was a member ofOur Lady of Fatima Parishat St. Marys Church of theImmaculate Conception, Wilkes-Barre, and a long
