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HAZLETON U.S. Rep. Lou Barlettahas emerged as a go-to guy for nationalmedia to interview on immigration in re-cent months.
He became versed on the subject asHazleton mayor when his city passed anordinance that sought to impose penaltiesto curb the flow of illegal immigrants intothe city. That experience has made him aknowledgeable media source.
Barletta, 57, R-Hazleton, appeared onThis Week with George Stephanopou-los in February, and he has been on more
than a dozen national radio shows. He alsowas featured on the cover of Roll Call lastweek.
A two-term congressman, he has comeout strong against legislation being de-bated in the Senate and House of Repre-sentatives proposed by a Gang of 8 ineach hall of Congress. The Gangs of 8 are
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Day two of the Wilkes-Barre Cherry Blossom Festival drew crowds to Kirby Park on Sunday for the food, musicand fun. The weather cooperated and the blossoms were still evident on the trees throughout the park forthe festival held annually in early spring. Vendors set up their food stands offering a variety of treats. Childrenclimbed aboard the kiddie rides and performers took center stage under the pavilion.
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Carlos Jair Gonzalez, 29, left, gives guidance to a newcomer
at the Padre Chava migrant shelter in the northern bordercity of Tijuana.
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Area U.S. Rep. Barletta talking immigration and getting noticed
SAN DIEGO Carlos Gon-zalez has lived nearly all his 29
years in a country he considershome butnow findshimself onthe wrong side of the border and the wrong sideof a pro-
posed overhaul of the U.S. im-
migration system that wouldgrant legal status to millionsof people.
Gonzalez was deported toTijuana, Mexico, from SantaBarbara in December, one ofnearly 2 million removals fromthe United States since BarackObama was first elected presi-dent.
I have nobody here, saidGonzalez, who serves break-fasts in a Tijuana migrant shel-
>> YOU BETTER LIKE THIS SHOW: Time was, if somementioned the words theater and Mike Tyson in thesame sentence, youd expect them to be followed by brawl,paramedic and head trauma. But not anymore. Tysons anew man these days and the star of a one-man show calledMike Tyson: Undisputed Truth. And he just so happens tobe headed to the F.M. Kirby Center this Wednesday. The showstarts at 7:30 p.m. and will be the best show youve ever seen.Completely wonderful. Better than anything ever! (See, Mike. I
said good things. Dont hurt me.)>> PLAYOFF VETERANS: Quick quiz: In the 14 seasons
since 1999, how many times have the Wilkes-Barre/ScrantonPenguins failed to make the playoffs? ARRRRRRR! Sorry.Thank you for playing. The correct answer is TWO. (1999-2000 and 2001-02) OK, OK, so 16 out of the 30 AHL teammake the postseason, but its still a pretty good track record.If youd like to cheer on the Pens in this years playoffs, theyllbe home against the Senators Thursday and Saturday. Bothgames start at 7:05 p.m.
>> I FEEL A BREEZE: Theres noeasy way to say this, but Friday isNo Pants Day. Yes. There is a daydevoted to the public shedding ofyour lower garments. Now, I knowwhat youre saying, OK, 5 ThingsGuy. Ive been taking my pants offin public for years and I usually endup in custody or in one of thosespecial hospitals. How will Friday bedifferent. Well, because this isan official holiday. Just produce acalendar, proudly point to May 3 andshow those officers where it says
No Pants Day. That oughta do it.
>> SOME SERIOUS METAL: Ahhh.
To be Tony Stark. Hes a billionaire. A genius. A playboy. Andhe gets to canoodle with Gwyneth Paltrow. If it wasnt for get-ting chased around by maniacal supervillains in robot suits,hed pretty much have the life. Luckily, he put his genius andbillionaireness to good use and invented his own robot suit tobattle the bad guys. He IS Iron Man, after all. Stark suits upon screen for the fourth time this Friday when Iron Man 3opens. (See, he was also in The Avengers, so thats where
the 4-3 thing comes in.)
>> THINK INK: Just for a second,stop reading this and turn to Page6C. Whats that? You stopped read-ing a while ago? Nevermind. Justturn to Page 6C. Those are the com-ics. Its a page youve probably readthousands of times, but did you everstop to think about who draws them?Of course not. Well, this Sunday, youhave no more excuses. Its Cartoon-ists Day, meant to celebrate theanniversary of the first color comic,The Yellow Kid, in 1895, and to ap-
preciate those ink-stained artists whomake us laugh everyday.
5THINGSYOU NEEDTO KNOWTHIS WEEK
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ByELLIOTSPAGAT
Associated Press
WILKES-BARRE How themembers of the U.S. SupremeCourt interpret the Constitutionis open to interpretation, and pro-fessor Noah Feldman did just thatSunday night, offering his thoughtson the the courts workings.
Feldman, the Bemis ProfessorInternational Law at Harvard Uni-
versity, delivered the 32nd annualMax Rosenn Lecture in Law andHumanities at Wilkes University.
Feldman, who told the morethan 100 people in attendance atthe Dorothy Dickson Darte for the
Performing Arts that his grand-father was from Old Forge, wasa law clerk for Associate JusticeDavid Souter and has written andlectured extensively about the Su-preme Court.
Its fundamentally differentfrom the legislative and executivebranches of government, he ex-plained at the start of his nearly45-minute talk.
It takes our Constitution and itinterprets that Constitution in thelight of what its members considerto be the correct meaning of thatdocument, Feldman said.
However, rather than resortingto a dictionary to search for themeanings of the words in the docu-ment, they have taken different
Professor judges
high courts waysnah Felma frm Harvarputs Supreme Curts wrkigs
i fcus i Max Rse Lecture.
By JERRYLYNOTT
BOSTON In photos of her asa younger woman, Zubeidat Tsar-naeva wears a low-cut blouse andhas her hair teased like a 1980srock star. After she arrived in theU.S. fromRussia in 2002, shewentto beauty school and did facials ata suburban day spa.
But in recent years, people no-ticed a change. She began wear-ing a hijab and cited conspiracytheories about 9/11 being a plotagainst Muslims.
Now known as the angry and
grieving motherof the BostonMarathon bomb-
ing suspects,Tsarnaeva isdrawing in-creased atten-tion after federalofficials say Rus-sian authori-ties intercepted
her phone calls, including one inwhich she vaguely discussed jihadwith her elder son. In another, shewas recorded talking to someonein southern Russia who is underFBI investigation in an unrelatedcase, U.S. officials said.
Bomb suspects motherdenies terrorist linksZubeiat Tsaraeva sas she
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Noah Feldman, Harvard University professor of International Law,delivers the 32nd annual Max Rosenn Lecture in Law & Humani-ties at Wilkes Universitys Dorothy Dickson Darte Center.
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Ann C. RitcheyApril 27, 2013
Ann C. Ritchey, 97, formerly ofBarney Street, Wilkes-Barre,anda resident of Hampton House,Hanover Township, for the pastseveral years, passed away Satur-day morning.
Ann was born in Connellsville,Pa., on Nov. 10, 1915. She wasthe daughter of the late Fred andAmelia Swankler.
Ann had practical nurse train-ing and was employed as a seam-stress in the local garment indus-try for many years.
Ann was preceded in death bysisters, Matilda Torbik, VirginiaNiemenski and Freda McDer-mott; her beloved best friend andlife-long companion, Henry Kurel-lo, who died April 23, 2013.
Surviving are a daughter,Penny A. Davis; grandchildren,Robert, Drew and Jeffery Davis;,five great-grandchildren and onegreat-great granddaughter, Arey-anna, and also numerous niecesand nephews of the Torbik andthe Niemenski families.
Funeral services for Ann willbe held on Wednesday at 9:30a.m. from the George A. Strish
Inc. Funeral Home, 105 N. MainSt., Ashley. A Mass of ChristianBurial is at 10 a.m. in St. RobertBellarmine Parish at St. AloysiusChurch, Barney and Divisionstreets, Wilkes-Barre. Interment
will be held at a later date in St.Marys Cemetery, Hanover Town-ship. Family and friends may callon Tuesday from 5 to 8 p.m. andon Wednesday from 8:30 to 9:30a.m.
In lieu of flowers, donations inher memory may be made to theSaint Robert Bellarmine Parishbuilding fund.
Mary AnzaloneApril 27, 2013
Mary Anzalone, a residentof Pittston, died Saturday,April 27, 2013, at home.
She was born Nov. 25, 1921, inDunmore, a daughter of the lateGaetano and Maria Grazia (Cali)Anzalone. She was a member ofthe ILGWU.
Surviving are sister TheresaAnzalone, Pittston; brother PaulAnzalone, Meshoppen; sister-in-law Arlene Anzalone, Fairfax,Va.; lovely nieces and nephews,great-nieces and great-nephws;great-great-nieces and great-great-nephews and one great-great-great-niece; brothers JosephAnzalone, Cataldo Anzalone andSalvatore Sam Anzalone; sis-ters, Sarah Maruzzielli and Isabel-
la Falzone; sister-in-law MaryannAnzalone.
Funeral Services have beenentrusted to Graziano FuneralHome Inc., Pittston Township .
Viewing hours will be privateand at the convenience of thefamily.
A Mass of Christian Burialwill be held on Saturday from St.Joseph Marello Parish, WilliamStreet, Pittston, at 9:30 a.m.
Private interment services willbe held in St. Marys Cemetery,Hanover Township.
For further information orto express your condolences toMarys family, please visit www.GrazianoFuneralHome.com.
Mary Irene Elizabeth Brace OddoApril 23, 2013
Mary Irene Elizabeth BraceOddo passed away on April
23, 2013 in Kingston.She was born on July 28, 1922
in Bristol, Pa., to Harold VanBuren Brace and Regina AileenBrace (nee Keider). She was adescendant of Stephen Brace,a founding settler of Hartford,Conn. She graduated from St.Nicholas High School in Wilkes-Barre. During World War II, she
worked for Curtis-Wright Aero-nautical in Passaic, N.J. In 1966,she and her husband, Joseph J.Oddo, founded the West Milford
Township Independent newspa-per in West Milford, N.J. She re-tired to Wilkes-Barre in 1980.
She was preceded in death byher late husband of 56 years, Jo-seph J. Oddo
She is survived by her son,
John; daughter, Jo-Ann; stepsonsVincent and Joseph; sister, Regina(Jean) Toole; seven grandchil-
dren; 11 great-grandchildren; twogreat-great-grandchildren; sev-eral step-grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be pri-vate and there are no callinghours.
Arrangements are by the Wil-liam A. Reese Funeral Chapel, 56Gaylord Ave., Plymouth.
John Yurkanin Jr.
April 27, 2013
Mr. John Yurkanin Jr., of Dur-yea, passed away Saturdayat his home.
Born in Duryea, he was the sonof the late John and Mary SkaskoYurkanin He attended Duryeaschools. He was last employedby Mid Way Tool, Plains Town-ship. He was formerly employedat Topps Chewing Gum Co.,Duryea. He once served with the109th Infantry, West Pittston, as
a sergeant. He was a member ofSt. Michaels Byzantine CatholicChurch, Pittston; Teamsters Lo-cal.
He was a former coach for theDuryea VFW Little League Teamand the Duryea Wildcats minifootball team. He was an avidsportsman and bowler.
He and his wife, the formerCynthia Moluski, would of cel-ebrated their 53 wedding anniver-sary on May 6.
Surviving, in addition to hiswife, are son, John A Yurkanin,Duryea; daughter, Mrs Lori Wa-
sik, and husband Matthew, ofDuryea; grandson, Timothy Wil-liams, and wife Alisea; grand-daughter, Nicole Grochal, andhusband Nicholas; great-grand-sons, Matthew and Jacob; sisters,Mrs Marie Kobal of Old Forge;Mrs Irene Dunay and husbandMartin, of Duryea; Mrs Anna MaeDunay and husband Paul, of Shel-ton, Conn.; nieces and nephews.
Funeral Mass will
be held Thursday at 10a.m. in St Michaels Byz-
antine Catholic Church, NorthMain Street, Pittston, celebratedby Father Joseph Bertha, Ph.D,pastor. Family and friends areasked to go directly to church
Thursday morning. Friends maycall Wednesday from 5 to 8 p.m.at the Bernard J. Piontek FuneralHome, 204 Main St., Duryea.
To leave the family an onlinecondolence or for further infor-mation, please visit the funeralhomes website www.piontekfu-neralhome.com.
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Tania Gronkowski of Nanticoke gets a modified Celtic crossreading done with rune cards by Mystic Jim (James Roberts) ofWest Hazleton who has been doing reading over 20 years at theWhole Earth Holistic and Psychic Fair held in Plains Townshipover the weekend.
8th Annual Psychic Faira predictable success
PLAINS TWP. The curi-ous and believers from through-out Northeastern Pennsylvnaiacame out to The 8th Annual
Whole Earth Holistic and Psy-chic Fair held at the Hilton Gar-den Inn over the weekend.
This is our eighth year hold-ing the fair and the responsekeeps growing, said the eventorganizer, who did not want togive her name. I feel theres ahuge need for this kind of expe-
rience in this area.The event featured psychic
mediums, Tarot card reading,Reiki and massage therapy and
a number vendors and crafts-
men offering mystic crystals,oils and all manner of Holisticand New Age merchandise.
The keynote speaker at thefair was noted certified profes-sionalpsychic medium CharleneSchine-Gorman who offeredprivate reading throughout the
weekend, as well as a groupsessions titled Whispers fromHeaven.
Organizers said well over 300people attended the two-dayevent and many commented onthe positive energy imbuingthe festivities.
We get a lot of repeat at-tendees, offered the event or-ganizer.
We tryto offer people a holis-tic experience. Its a lot of workbut well definitely be back next
year.
WILKES-BARRE To helpeducate people in the newhands-only CPR method, the
city and WilkesUniversitynurs-ing students are offering free,hands-on training programs.
The sessions run 11 a.m. to 1p.m. Tuesday at the Barnes &Noble Wilkes-Kings bookstoreat 7 S. Main St. and the HenryStudent Center at 84 W. SouthSt. on the Wilkes campus.
Ted Kross, the citys healthdepartment director, said thecardiopulmonary resuscitationtraining is part of the effort toreach 250,000 people through-out the state in time for EMS
Week beginning May 26.Were trying to alleviate
the fear of the community do-ing CPR, Kross said. Everysecond counts and for everyminute of delayed time in CPRtheres a 10-percent decrease intheir chance of surviving.
The new method does notrequire mouth-to-mouth resus-
citation, a practice that likelykept some people from learn-ing the life-saving technique.
The only direct contact withthe patient is with the handsused for chest compressions,Kross explained. The com-pressions circulate the blood,
which contains oxygen, headded.
He outlined the basic stepsto follow: Establish someoneis unresponsive and not breath-ing and without a heartbeat;call 911; and do chest com-
pressions, 100 times per min-ute deep and fast between thenipples. If the person revives,discontinue the compressions.
Kross said the mouth-to-mouth is still part of CPR train-ing, but the new method aimsto have a wider reach.
This simplifies it so much,and it should encourage any-
body to do CPR, he said.The schools nursing stu-
dents, city fire department,health and emergency servicespersonnel are participating inthe training. It takes approxi-mately five minutes and partic-ipants can have additional timeto practice on mannequins.
The training is open to anyonefrom 13 and older.
Participants will receivea card recognizing that they
were trained in the hands onlymethod.
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By JERRY LYNOTT
WILKES-BARRE A three-alarm fire that destroyed a va-cant apartment building at 120Carlisle St. on Sunday is underinvestigation.
Firefighters received the callat 1:55 a.m. and arrived to seeheavy fire on the first floor ofthe two-story building, said
Wilkes-Barre Fire DepartmentChief Jay Delaney.
They brought it under con-trol nearly nine hours later.
We brought all on-duty fire-fighters and paramedics andcalled nine off-duty firefighters,
Delaney said.Heavy smoke spread acrossthe city prompting residents tocall for firefighters to investi-gate. There were no other fires,Delaney said.
One firefighter suffered afoot injury, the chief said.
There were no utilities intothe building, Delaney said atthe scene late Sunday after-noon with city fire inspectorCapt. Alan Klapat.
Its under investigation for
now, Delaney said.Firefighters attacked theblaze from inside at first andretreated to the outside tak-ing a defensive approach, heexplained. The roof collapsedonto the second floor, makingit hard to fight. Firefightershad to wait for the fire to burnthrough the roof in order to getat it from above.
Someshingleson an adjacenthouse were damaged by watersprayed on the burning build-
ing. But the house and anothervacant apartment building onthe other were spared from ma-
jor damage because firefightersset up what Delaney said werewater curtains between thebuildings as protection.
The chief said the fire causedextensive damage, compromis-ing the structural integrity ofthe building.
The city code enforcementwill be down here tomorrowmorning, he said.
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A two-story structure at 120 Carlisle St. in Wilkes-Barre wasravaged by fire early Sunday morning.
By JERRY LYNOTT
The evet featured mediums,
Tart card readig, Reiki ad
massage thera.
By STEVEN FONDO
Times Leader Correspondent
PoliCe BlotteRJEFFERSON TWP. State
police are investigating the re-ported theft of more than 200feet of copper wire from a prop-ertyalong SalemRoad in Lacka-
wanna County.
The theft occurred betweenApril 16 and 25, state policesaid. The wire is one quarterinch in diameter and coated
with aluminum and not usedin common applications. Any-one with information about thetheft is asked to contact statepolice at Dunmore at 570 963-3156.
HAZLETON City policereported the following:
Police are investigating atheft of several items from a
vehicle parked in the 400 blockof Samuels Avenue between 6p.m. Saturday and 8 a.m. Sun-day.
Christian Apolaya, 36, wascited with disorderly conductafter an incident in the 1000block of Lincoln Street at 5:12a.m. Sunday.
Matthew Campbell, 24, wastaken in custody after a traf-fic stop at 1:26 a.m. Sunday. Arecords check indicated Camp-bell was wanted on a warrantfrom Mifflin County. He wastransported to and held at theLuzerne County CorrectionalFacility.
WILKES-BARRE Policesaidtwo people facedrug charg-es after they admitted Saturdaythat they bought heroin at theSherman Hills apartment com-plex.
Police said Nicholas Kulp,22, and Amy Kulp, 23, showedsigns of intoxication and wereunable to stand without sway-ing in the Sheetz parking loton Wilkes-Barre Township Bou-levard. Police said they foundseven packets of heroin and ahypodermic needle on AmyKulp.
They weretaken into custody.
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TCMC t hst schThe Commonwealth Medical Col-
lege will host Jan-ke Gustafsson, MD,Ph.D., director of the Center for Nucle-ar Receptors and Cell Signaling at Uni-
versity of Houston on May 8.He will present his research titled
Biology and Pathology of EstrogenReceptor Beta during a seminar from12:15 to 1:15 p.m. at the Medical Sci-ences Building auditorium.
Gustafsson is most well known forhis longstanding accomplishments inthe field of nuclear receptors, includ-ing his discovery of the previously un-known estrogen receptor- Today, drugsare being developed to stimulate thatreceptor to battle a number of diseasesincluding breast, prostate and lung can-cers.
Gustafsson received his MD and PhD
from Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm,Sweden, and currently holds two paral-lel professorships, including Robert A.
Welch Professor of Biology and Bio-chemistry at University of Houston andSenior Professor at Karolinska Institu-tet.
A leading scientist in the fields ofmedicine and natural sciences, Gus-tafsson has received numerous inter-national and national scientific awards,honorary doctorates and professorshipsincluding the Nordic Fernstrom Prize,often referred to as the Little NobelPrize. He is the founder of the NovumResearch Park and Karo Bio AB, a bio-tech company listed on the StockholmStock Exchange. Dr. Gustafsson servedas a member of the Nobel Prize Assem-
bly, having served as its vice-chairmanin 2001 and as chairman in 2002.
HARRISBURG
Gt im t st hlthThe state Department of Public Wel-
fare is offering $200,000 in mini-grantsto child care centers to work towardachieving higher quality environmentalhealth standards.
The new Pennsylvania Early Careand Education Healthy and Green Ini-tiative is jointly funded by the HeinzEndowments and is aimed at promot-ing healthy early childhood develop-ment.
Itwillhelp fundenvironmentalhealthimprovements in child care programsparticipating in the Keystone STARS
program, a voluntary quality improve-ment program for child care and HeadStart programs. Each child care center
will be eligible to apply for up to $5,000to make environmental health improve-ments.
For more information about the ini-tiative and mini-grants program, visit
www.pakeys.org.
WILKES-BARRE
Stutsw t ftuWilkes Universitys Integrative Media
and Art Department will host an openhouse of its newly renovated facilitiesin Bedford Hall from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.Friday.
The annual integrative media seniorcelebration will be held at the event and
student creative work will be showcased.Musical entertainment and refreshments
will be featured. Bedford Hall is locatedon the Wilkes campus at the intersectionof South and South River streets. Theevent is free and open to the public.
The Integrative Media and Art De-partment provides Wilkes students witheducation in design for print, digitalF/X, web, video, motion graphics andanimation. Minors in studio art and arthistory are also available to students inboth integrative media and those major-ing in other programs at the university.
The studio art minor includes two-di-mensional design in a variety of media,including drawing, painting, ceramicsand sculpture.
The newly refurbished Bedford Hall
features fiveart studiosfor study inpaint-ing, printmaking, drawing, sculpture anddesign. A ceramics studio is in the adja-cent Bedford Annex. New track lightinghas been installed in a gallery area on thefirst floor to spotlight student and fac-ulty work displayed there. Faculty officesare found on the upper floors. A colorscheme for the interiors designed by As-sociate Professor of Art Sharon Cosgroveis featured throughout the building. Digi-tal classrooms for the integrative mediamajor are found in Breiseth Hall.
PLAINS TWP.
Cim Wtch mtigThe Plains Neighborhood Crime
Watch will hold its monthly meetingat 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Fox Hill Fire-
house, 50 Second St. Refreshments willbe served.
I N B R I E F
Stuts i with lic tPRINGLE Seniors in the
law enforcement/police scienceprogram at West Side Careerand Technology Center left theclassroom for some real-lifeexperience shadowing policeofficers in Kingston and Wilkes-Barre.
The week-long internship in
its 10th year put seniors nextto officers investigating numer-ous types of crimes, includingbounced checks, drunken driv-
ers and in one students case, ahomicide. Other students tookpartin correctional services andsecurity.
Robert Arnold, 19, of Plym-outh, was riding along with a
Wilkes-Barre officer Thursdaynight when a shooting was re-ported on Reno Lane. One man
was found on the street witha fatal gunshot wound to thehead.
I didnt expect to see abody lying in the middle of thestreet, Arnold said. There
were people yelling, crying.He said he stayed next to the
cruiser while numerous officerstried to settlea chaoticsituationon Reno Lane. He saidhe stayedfor about five minutes and went
with the officer to the hospitalfollowing the ambulance.
Emily Mansilla, 17, of Plym-outh, who was assigned toKingston police for the week,said she did not know that po-lice investigate bad checks.
Mansilla said she becameinterested in law enforcementfrom a coloring project whenshe was in grade school.
When I was little, we hada coloring assignment in classand we were told to color what
we want to be and I colored apolice officer, Mansilla said.Ever since then, Ive been inter-
ested in police.She said she is getting a head
ByEDWARDLEWIS
West Side CTC students get
a look at real-life police
work in internship.
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Senior students in law enforcement/police science program atWest Side Career and Technology Center finished a week long in-ternship shadowing police officers in Kingston and Wilkes-Barre.From left, Kingston police Officer Ian Urbanski, West Side CareerPrincipal Richard Rava, Kingston police Sgt. Don Stevens, ChrisOsborn, Emily Mansilla, Cassie Hivish, Robert Arnold, Wilkes-Barre police Officer Robert Collins, and instructor William Bevan.
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Industrial and philanthropicleaders are collaborating on a listof quality standards for gas drill-ers with the intent to make natu-ral gas a lasting resource.
The Center for Sustainable
Shale Development, or CSSD,is looking to provide third-partyapproval for drilling companies,certifying those that meet its 15quality standards.
Heavy hitters in resource de-velopment such as Chevron,Shell and Consol Energy havepartnered with environmentaland philanthropic groups such asthe Heinz Endowment, Clean Air
Task Force and the EnvironmentalDefense Fund to define, apply andaudit these standards for drillingcompanies to lessen environmen-tal impact for the decades of shaledrilling to come in the Appala-chian Basin, said Andrew Place,the centers interim executive di-rector.
The center, basedin Pittsburgh,focuses its current 15 standardson the Appalachian Basin theMarcellus, Utica and Devonianshale deposits because, Placesaid, the geography, geology andclimate of the region are uniqueand call for different standardsthan, say, on the Texas plains.
Place also said that by startingwith a discreet set of tasks, defin-ing only best practices for ground-
water protection and air-emis-sions control, the group can seethat those standards are properlyimplemented before moving on.
The group has to put togetherwhat Place called the proverbialparking lot for other industryconcerns such as employee safety.
We said, Lets put those in abox and, as soon as we finish ver-sion one, well go ahead and tack-le these, Place said.
In an industry that is still devel-oping, these partnering organiza-tions create adaptive standardsthat are intuitive to technologyand procedure advances, Placesaid. He said collaboration hasbeen invaluable.
We find critical mass in havingtheseexperts fromthese disparategroups in the same room pushingthese concepts, Place said.
Launched officially March 20,Place said at the center the grouphopes to begin certifying drillingcompanies by summer. He saidcertification will give those com-
panies social license to operateand, he hopes, to see local govern-
KINGSTON Some members of the
Jewishfaith wear their heart right on theirsleeve. Others, like those whogatheredto-gether in Kingston on Sunday to celebratethe holiday of Lag BaOmer, go the extramile.
Their collective heart was made mani-fest in the form of a giant red valentine-shaped float in the back of a flatbed truck,surrounded by hand-painted banners ex-tolling such virtues as wisdom, kindness,generosity and happiness.
Up ahead, girls and boys marched atthe front of the procession, hoisting upsigns declaring Jewish pride. Behind,
three young menwearing kippot sang andlaughed, dancing arm-in-arm with RabbiPinchusLevitin inthe middleof thestreet.
This day began almost 2,000 yearsago. It commemorates Rabbi Shimon barYochai, the author of the Zohar, the maintext for Jewish mysticism, who passedaway on this day. It is the 33rd day of theCounting of the Omer, the counting of thedays between theholidaysof Passover andShavuot, Levitin said.
Before he passed away, he said weshouldnt be sad he was passing away. Weshould be happy because he was going di-rectly to God. So ever since then its beena a day of celebration. Its a day of unity,Levitin said.
The celebratory spiritwas indeedon fulldisplay as the Lag BaOmer parade snakedits way from the parking lot of the UnitedHebrew Institute building off 3rd Avenueto the Church Street Playground, where itblossomed into a full-blown festival.
The event was organized by the Bais
Menachem Youth Development Programof Wilkes-Barre, in conjunction with OhavZedek Synagogue of Wilkes-Barre andChabads Jewish Discovery Center ofClarks Summit. There, families from theJewish faith and others mingled to enjoykosher food, kiddie rides, carnival gamesand live music.
The latter included traditional Hebrewsongs, covers of songs by Hasidic reggaeartist Matisyahu and a performance byformer Americas Got Talent contestantDavid Darwin.
Libbie Hershkop, a mother of threefrom Kingston, was among those whobrought her children to the event.
Its great for the kids. They get to seetheirfriendsandtheyhavefunall day. Butits great for all of us. It brings us togetherand allows us to hang out together as acommunity, Hershkop said, before add-ing with a laugh, Facebook only gets youso far, right?
Fiv hv li f cuty gis stFive people ap-
plied for the LuzerneCounty chief engineerposition vacated byJoe Gibbons depar-ture for a job outsidethe region, accordingto the county human
resources office.Friday was Gibbons last day of coun-
ty employment.* Richard Cardamone starts work to-
day as the countys new budget/financedivision head.
* County Manager Robert Lawtonsaid interviews continue for the fiveremaining division head positions. Hetold council he might reach a decisionthis week on one or more applicants. If
so, council will call a special meetingnext week to vote on confirming them.
Lawton must choose division headsto oversee the prison system, judicial
records, operations, administrative ser-vices and human services.
* The county-owned Valley CrestNursing Home in Plains Township cansit vacant about five more years beforedemolition will be the only option, Gib-bons told council last week in a reporton unused county government proper-ties.
Demolition is estimated to costaround $1 million, the report said.
The county has unsuccessfully triedto sell the 62.35-acre property since the
private nursing-home operator movedinto a new facility in 2010.
Gibbons supports partially demolish-ing the structure to create a center for
county government offices but said thatmay not be possible with the countys$430 million in outstanding debt. Otheroptions:continuetryingto sellthe prop-erty or subdivide the property to try tosell the land and building separately.
* The state Department of Environ-mental Protection takes exception withthecountys attemptto negotiate permitfee forgiveness in exchange for allowingthe agency to access county-owned landto address a flooding issue, said agencyspokeswoman Colleen Connolly.
DEP told county officials it is resort-ing to forced entry on county land inHanover Township because the countyrefused access. The state wants to drillnew boreholes to drain water from anunderground mine to prevent potential
flooding in the townships Lee Park sec-tion.
PETE G> WILCOX/THE TIMES LEADER
Rabbi Zvi Perlman of Kingston, right, clips a lock of Yisroel Feivels hair during his upsherin, or first haircut, a cere-mony held when a Jewish boy is 3 years old, at the Lag BaOmer carnival at the Church Street Playground in Kingstonon Sunday. Looking on is Yisroels dad, Shmuel Zhelezniak of Kingston, left, and uncle Menachem Baruch of New York.
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Times Leader Correspondent
Members of the community gather in
Kingston to celebrate the holiday
of Lag BaOmer.
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Gibbons has said the statesdecision was premature becausethe county was negotiating anaccess agreement to protect thecounty from liability and possi-bly eliminate other permit feesthe county believes are unwar-ranted between two governmententities.
Connolly said fees were nev-er an item up for negotiation
because her agency only waivesfees for emergencies, such asflooding. She said it is extreme-ly rare for a government entity
to refuse DEP access to com-plete a flood-control project.
* The county administrationput a court hearing about FloodProtection Authority boardseats on hold last week to try to
work out an agreement to endthe litigation.
The action asked a judge todetermine if three unpaid citi-zen authority board membersshould remain in their seats due
to an authority incorporationpaperwork matter that had noth-ing to do with them.
One solution would be sub-
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Wyoming Valley Levee and oth-er flood-control projects.
* As part of a discussion onworkforce standards, councilsstrategic initiatives committeeis proposing switching employ-ees to a combined leave pro-gram providing a set number ofdays off without labeling themas sick, vacation or personal.
ments and landowners calling forCSSD certification before open-ing their borders to drillers.
Hanger, who works for the lawfirm Eckert Seamans supportingits energy and environment-mind-ed legal services, had started thecenter under a different nameas he prepared to leave his statepost.
Hanger said he cherry-pickedorganizations to be a part of theInstitute forDrilling Excellence, aself-governingbody with12 boardmembers fourfrom the drillingindustry, four environmentalistsand fournon-affiliatedrepresenta-tives.
Place said the drilling compa-nies are essential because theyare the drilling-process special-ists, but Hanger said they are theminority with their vote counting
only for a third of the decisions.Some disagree
While the center promisesheightened attention to respon-sible industry, it has been called aBand-Aid on a gaping wound bythe Sierra Club and a marketingploy by some environmentalistgroups.
Because, legally, a drilling com-pany is not required to have cer-tification from the CSSD, whichis a non-governmental agency,it could sue for drilling access ifa land owner or municipality de-mands CSSD certification, saidGas Drilling Awareness Coalitionspokesman Tom Jiunta.
The thing has no teeth to it.Its all voluntary, Jiunta said.They could go into a town, ifanyone denies them drilling, theycould sue them.
Jiunta referred to a statementfrom Paul Goodfellow, a vicepresident for Shells U.S. oil oper-ations, who, in a Financial Timesarticle, saidThebig thingis find-
ing a way togive the publican un-derstanding and a confidence in
what we are doingJiunta said the statement
shows that the center is more in-terested in keeping drillers repu-tations clean than encouragingclean drilling.
Their goal is not to makeit safer. Their goal is to make itmore acceptable, Jiunta said.
State Department of Environ-mental Protection Deputy PressSecretaryKevin Sunday said DEPsupports the center and said itsstandards, with a few exceptions,exceed the states.
If you violate our regulations,theres a chance for environmen-tal impact, Sunday said. He saidthat if a gas company shoots foreven higher standards, they maynever get close to violating thedepartments.
Jiunta also said best prac-tices arrive a little too late. Witharound 12,000 well permits cur-rently issued in the state and
seven toeightnew permits issuedeach day, by the time standardsareimplemented anddrillers seekcertification, too many holes willbe in the ground, he said.
Requiring certificationSunday confirmed that obliga-
tory CSSD certification wouldhave to be mandated at a state orfederal level andhe said he wasntsure legislators even had powerto do it. But, Hanger said, legisla-tionaside, he foresees municipali-ties, landowners and gas custom-ers alike demanding companiesfollow the centers standards.
Its going to be harder andharder for a gas company to ex-plain why they dont have certifi-cation, Hanger said.
Though best practices mayhold gas companies accountableto safer operatingstandards, Jiun-ta said they inspire a false senseof security for an intrinsically ir-responsible form of extraction.
I think its dangerous, Jiuntasaid. It could be misleading.
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SAVAR, Bangladesh Thefugitive owner of an allegedlyillegally constructed buildingthat collapsed in Bangladeshin a deadly heap last week wascaptured Sunday at a bordercrossing with India by mem-bers of a commando force.
Mohammed Sohel Ranawas arrested in Benapole inwestern Bangladesh, just ashe was about to flee into In-dias West Bengal state, saidJahangir Kabir Nanak, juniorminister for local government.Rana was brought back by he-licopter to the capital Dhaka
where he faced charges of neg-
ligence.Ranas capture by the Rap-
id Action Battalion broughtcheers and applause whenit was announced on a loud-speaker at the site of the col-
lapsed building in the Dhakasuburb of Savar, where searchand rescue operations werecontinuing through the night.
At least 377 people are con-firmed to have died in the col-lapse of the right-story build-ing on Wednesday. Three ofits floors were built illegally.
The death toll is expected torisebut itis alreadythe deadli-est tragedy to hit Bangladeshsgarment industry, which is
worth $20 billion annually andis a mainstay of the economy.
The collapse and previousdisasters in garment factorieshave focused attention on thepoor working conditions of
workers who toil for as littleas $38 a month to produceclothing for top internationalbrands.
Rana was presented beforethe media briefly at the com-
mando forces headquartersin Dhaka. Wearing a printedshirt, an exhausted and di-sheveled Rana was sweatingas two security officers heldhim by his arms. A securityofficial helped him to drink
water after he gestured he wasthirsty. He did not speak tothe media during the 10-min-ute appearance after which he
was taken away. He is likelyto be handed over to local po-lice who will have to chargehim and produce him in court
within 24 hours.A small-time politician from
the ruling party, Rana hadbeen on the run since Wednes-
day. He last appeared in publicin front of his Rana Plaza on
Tuesday after huge cracks ap-pearedin the building. Howev-
er, he assured tenants, includ-ingfive garmentfactories,thatthe building was safe, accord-ing to witnesses.
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NEW YORK
Plane part from Boeing jetA rusted piece of airplane landing gear
discovered wedged between a mosqueand an apartment building and believedto be fromone of the hijacked planesthatdestroyedthe nearby WorldTrade Centeron Sept. 11 has been confirmed as com-ing from the type of Boeing jet used inthe attacks.
Police said Saturday that detectiveshad been in contact with officials at Chi-cago-based Boeing Co. who confirmedthe wreckage was from a Boeing 767.Police have said the landing gear had aclearly visible Boeingidentification num-ber.
The American Airlines and UnitedAirlines planes hijacked by Islamic ex-tremists in 2001 were Boeing 767s. Boe-ing spokesman John Dern said he couldnot confirm whether the ID matched theAmerican Airlines plane or the UnitedAirlines plane.
NEW YORK
Air traffic to be normalThe Federal Aviation Administration
said that the U.S. air traffic system willresume normal operations by Sundayevening after lawmakers rushed a billthrough Congress allowing the agency to
withdraw furloughs of air traffic control-lers and other workers.
The FAA said Saturday that it has sus-pended all employee furloughs and thattraffic facilities will begin returning toregular staffing levels over the next 24hours. The furloughs were fallout fromthe $85 billion in automatic-across-the-board spending cuts this spring. The bill,passedon Friday, allows theFAAto moveas much as $253 million within its bud-get to areas that will allow it to preventreduced operations and staffing.
The furloughs started to hit air trafficcontrollers this past week, causing flightdelays that left thousands of travelersfrustrated and furious.
ROME
ShootingmarspoliticaleventItalys new government was sworn in
Sunday, ending weeks of political stale-mate, but the ceremony was overshad-owed by a shooting outside the prime
ministers office.Two policemen were injured outsidePalazzo Chigi when six shots werefired as the swearing-in ceremony washeld at the nearby presidential palace,news reports said.
The suspect, identified as a 49-year-old Italian man with no criminal re-cord, was apprehended. A pregnantpasser-by was grazed by a stray bullet.
Investigators described the shootingas an act of despair by an unemployed,divorcedman andsaid he hadintendedto kill the police officers deployed infront of the seat of the government.
PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN
Blasts kill at least 11Bomb blasts targeting the election of-
fices of two candidates in northwest Paki-
stan killed at least 11 people and injured30Sunday, thelatest ina stringof terroristattacks thathave casta shadow over parlia-mentary elections scheduled for mid-May.
In recent weeks, Pakistan has beenrocked by bombings directed primarilyat candidates and backers of three liberal,secular parties, the Awami National Partybased in the countrys northwest, Presi-dent Asif Ali Zardaris Pakistan PeoplesParty, which led the civilian governmentfor the last five years, and the MuttahidaQaumi Movement, the ruling party in Ka-rachi, the countrys largest city.
The bombings have been occurring al-most daily, and have included attacks oncandidates headquarters, small campaigngatherings and candidates as they drivefrom one campaign event to another. Sev-eral weeks ago, the Pakistani Taliban had
warned they would attack candidates andleaders of the ANP, PPP and MQM be-cause it regards those parties as enemiesof Islam.
I N B R I E F
AP PHOTO
Mohammed Sohel Rana, the fugitive owner of a buildingthat collapsed last week in Bangladesh, is shown to the me-dia Sunday in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Rana was arrested justas he was about to flee into India.
AP PHOTO
Worker rights sought in LebanonMigrant domestic workers demand thesame basic labor rights as Lebaneseworkers Sunday during a march atBeiruts seaside. More than 200,000workers, mostly women from Asia andAfrica, work as maids in a country of4 million people. Many also come fromplaces as far away as Madagascar andNepal, but the majority are from SriLanka, the Philippines, Ethiopia andEritrea.
Collapsed building owner nabbedMohammed Sohel Rana was
arrested just as he was
about to flee into India.
TheAssociated Press
Methanereportstirs morecontroversy
PITTSBURGH The Envi-ronmental Protection Agencyhas dramatically lowered its es-timate of how much of a potentheat-trapping gas leaks duringnatural gas production, in a shift
with major implications for adebate that has divided environ-mentalists:Does the recent boom
in fracking help or hurt the fightagainst climate change?
Oil and gas drilling companieshad pushed for the change, butthere have been differing scien-tific estimates of the amount ofmethane that leaks from wells,pipelines and other facilitiesduring production and delivery.Methane is the main componentof natural gas.
The new EPA data is kindof an earthquake in the debateover drilling, said Michael Shel-lenberger, the president of theBreakthrough Institute, an envi-ronmental group based in Oak-land, Calif. This is great newsfor anybody concerned about
the climate and strong proof thatexisting technologies can be de-ployed to reduce methane leaks.
The scope of the EPAs revisionwas vast. In a mid-April report ongreenhouse emissions, the agen-cy nowsays that tighter pollutioncontrols instituted by the indus-try resulted in an average annualdecrease of 41.6 million metrictons of methane emissions from1990 through 2010, or more than850 million metric tons overall.
Thats about a 20 percent reduc-tion from previous estimates.
The agency converts the meth-ane emissions into their equiva-lent in carbon dioxide, followingstandard scientific practice.
The EPA revisions came eventhough natural gas productionhas grown by nearly 40 percentsince 1990. The industry hasboomed in recent years, thanksto a stunning expansion of drill-ing in previously untapped areasbecause of the use of hydraulicfracturing, or fracking, which in-
jects sand, water and chemicalsto break apart rock and free thegas inside.
Experts on both sides of thedebate say the leaks can be con-trolled by fixes such as bettergas-kets, maintenance and monitor-ing. Such fixes are also thoughtto be cost-effective, since theindustry ends up with more prod-uct to sell.
Representatives of the oil andgas industry said the EPA revi-sions show emissions from thefracking boom can be managed
Feds lower estimate of how
much of heat-trapping gas leaks
during natural gas drilling.
ByKEVIN BEGOS
Associated Press
WASHINGTON Syrias stockpileof chemical weapons could be a great-er threat after that nations presidentleaves power and could end up target-ing Americans at home, lawmakers
warned Sunday as they considered aU.S. response that stops short of send-ing military forces there.
U.S. officials last week declared thatthe Syrian government probably hadusedchemical weaponstwice in March.
The U.S. assessment followed simi-lar conclusions from Britain, France,
Israel and Qatar key allies eager fora more aggressive response to the Syr-ian conflict.
President Barack Obama has saidSyrias likely action or the transferof President Bashar Assads stockpilesto terrorists would cross a red line
that wouldcompelthe UnitedStates toact.Lawmakers sought to remindviewers
on Sunday news programs of Obamasdeclaration while discouraging a U.S.foothold on the ground there.
The president has laid down theline,and itcant bea dottedline. It cantbe anything other than a red line, saidHouse Intelligence Committee Chair-man Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich. Andmore than just Syria, Iran is paying at-tention to this. North Korea is payingattention to this.
Added Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga.:For America to sit on thesidelines anddo nothing is a huge mistake.
Obama has insisted that any use ofchemical weapons would change histhinking about the United States rolein Syria but said he didnt have enough
information to order aggressive action.For theSyrian government to utilizechemicalweapons on itspeoplecrossesa line that will change my calculus andhow the United States approachesthese issues, Obama said Friday.
But Rep. Jan Schakowsky, an IllinoisDemocrat, said Sunday the UnitedStates needs to consider those weap-ons.
She said that when Assad leavespower, his opponentscould have accessto thoseweapons or they could fall intothe hands of U.S. enemies.
AP PHOTO
Members of the free Syrian Army prepare their weapons in Aleppo. The White House disclosure on Thursday thatthe Syrian government has twice used chemical weapons still leaves the Obama administration stuck with a limitedchoice of military options.
Syria weapons raise warningSome lawmakers say that Syrian
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Associated Press
Gun background check backers turn to voters
OLYMPIA, Wash. Afterstrugglingto sway bothstateandfederal lawmakers, proponentsofexpanding background checksfor gun sales are now exploring
whether theywillhavemore suc-cess by taking the issue directlyto voters.
Whileadvocates generallypre-fer that new gun laws be passedthrough the legislative process,especially at the national level,they are also concerned abouthow much sway the NationalRifle Association has with law-makers. Washington Rep. Jamie
Pedersen, a Democrat who hadsponsored unsuccessful legisla-tionon backgroundchecks at thestate level, said a winning ballotinitiative would make a state-mentwith broad implications.
Its more powerful if the vot-ers doit asopposedto our do-ingit, Pedersensaid.
Today, proponents of univer-sal background checks in Wash-ington will announce their planto launch a statewide initiativecampaign that would require thecollectionof about 300,000 signa-tures, according to a person in-
volvedin the initiativeplanning.Ballot measures may be an
option elsewhere, too. HildySaizow, president of Arizonansfor Gun Safety, said an initiativeisoneof thethingsthe group willbe considering as it reconsidersstrategies.
While advocates have hadrecent success on backgroundchecks in places like Connecti
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Washington initiative
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ByMIKE BAKER
Associated Press
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CATHERINE KENNEDY, ofHanover Township, passed awaySunday morning in St. LukesVilla, Wilkes-Barre.
Funeral arrangementsare pending from the LehmanFamily Funeral Service Inc.,689 Hazle Ave., Wilkes-Barre.For more information, visit thefuneral home website at www.lehmanfuneralhome.com.
KATHLEEN JANUSZKO,69, of Shavertown, died Sundayat home.
Funeral arrangementsare pending from the YeosockFuneral Home, 40 S. Main St.,Plains.
Lester H. HooverApril 28, 2013
Lester H. Hoover, of Idetown,passed away Sunday, April 28,2013 at the Hospice CommunityCare, Wilkes-Barre.
M r. Hoover was born inIdetown on Nov. 27, 1924 and
was the son of the late Elmer andMable Ide Hoover.
Lester graduated from LehmanHigh School in 1942. After serv-ing in the U.S. Army during World
War II under General Patton as aT-5 in the 301st Signal OperationBattalion, 3rd Army E.T.O, he wasemployed by Linear Corp., Dallas;Blue Ribbon Bakery, Kingston,and retired from Offset Paper-back, Dallas. He also worked as acertified electrician in the Wilkes-Barre area.
In addition to his parents, hewas preceded in death by brother,Floyd Hoover.
Mr. Hoover is survived by hiswife of 61 years, the former Vir-ginia Wolfe; daughters, CherylSumma and her husband, David,of Lehman, and Joann Hoover ofChugiak, Ark., and son, Curtis J.Hoover of Reading; sister, RoxieHaines, and her husband, PastorDavid of Quakertown; grandchil-dren, Samantha Fisher of Wasilla,Ark.; Kristin and Scott Summa;great-granddaughter, Lillian Fish-er.
Funeral services willbe held Tuesday at 11a.m. from the Curtis L.
Swanson Funeral Home Inc., cor-ner of routes 29 and 118, Pikes
Creek, with the Rev. Robert M.Ryder of the Lehman-IdetownUnited Methodist Church and theRev. James Pall of the HuntsvilleUnited Methodist Church officiat-ing.
Friends may call from 10 to 11a.m. prior to the service on Tues-day.
Interment will be in ChapelLawn Memorial Park, Dallas.
In lieu of flowers, the family re-quests memorial contributions tobe made to Hospice CommunityCare, 25 Church St. Wilkes-Barre,PA 18765 or the Lehman-IdetownUnited Methodist Church, POBox 1, Lehman, PA 18627.
The family would like to thankthecaregivers at HospiceCommu-nity Care and the Visiting NursesAssociation for the exceptionalcare that was provided for Lester.Online condolences can be madeat clswansonfuneralhome.com
Frank Louis KiwakApril 27, 2013
Frank Louis Kiwak, 66, ofKingston passed away unex-pectedly but peacefully Saturday,April 27, 2013 at his home.
Born Dec. 22, 1946 in Swoyers-ville, Frank was the son of HelenStroinski Kiwak, Luzerne, and thelate Frank Kiwak.
He was a graduate of Swoyers-ville High School, Class of 1964,and continued his education at
Kings College.Frank was a U. S. Army Reserv-ist from 1966 to 1972. He was apast commander of the BlackDiamond Post American Legionin Kingston and later belonged toPost 644, Swoyersville.
Frank was a member of theKnights of Columbus, the Kings-ton Rotary and a recipient of itsPaul Harris Award.
Frank was a dedicated employ-ee with Anderson Material Han-dling for many years.
He was known for his love ofsports, specifically the New YorkYankees; his gardening; his mas-tery in the kitchen, especially hissoup, and for his caring and sensi-tive nature.
Frank was passionate about hispool, golf and the beach. He was
an avid reader and usually hadmultiple books going at one time.Frank adored his granddaugh-
ters, and they idolized him. Hisloyal dog, Jill, was his partner incrime; she never left his side.
Frank was a very loving, com-passionate and caring husband,father, son, brother, pop-pop andfriend.
He was extremely proud of hisfamily and loved each of them un-conditionally.
Surviving, in addition to hismother, are his wife of 44 years,the former Margaret Gimber,Kingston; daughter, Tracy KiwakBlannett, and husband, Joseph,
Chalfont, Pa.; son, Frank Kiwak,and wife, Abbe, Chalfont, Pa.;granddaughters, Samantha, Mal-lory, Ava and Meredith; sister,Irene Patty Galletti, and husbandBill; brother, Larry Kiwak, and
wife Joann, all of Swoyersville;many nieces and nephews.
Funeral services willbe held Wednesday at10 a.m. from the HaroldC. Snowdon Home for
Funerals Inc., 420 Wyoming Ave.Kingston.
A Mass of Christian Burial willfollow at 10:30 a.m. in the Churchof St. Ignatius Loyola, 335 N. Ma-
ple St., Kingston.The Rev. Richard Cirba will of-
ficiate.Friends may call Tuesday from
5 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home.In lieu of flowers, the family
respectfully requests memorialdonation be made to the Ameri-can Heart Association in supportof his granddaughter, Samantha.Donations may be made onlineat http://heartwalk.kintera.org/philly/forloveofpoppop or checkscan be made payable to AHA andsent to the following address:3215 Berry Brow Drive, Chalfont,PA 18914.
BEDNARSKI - John, Mass ofChristian Burial 10 a.m. today inHoly Family Parish, 574 BennettSt., Luzerne.BERNARDONI - Ruth, funeral8:30 a.m. today at GubbiottiFuneral Home, 1030 Wyoming Ave.,Exeter. Mass of Christian Burial
9 a.m. at St. Anthony of PaduaChurch, St. Barbara Parish, 28Memorial St., Exeter.CONNORS - Martin, funeral 9 a.m.today at Peter J. Adonizio FuneralHome, 251 William St., Pittston.Mass of Christian Burial 9:30 a.m.in St. John the Evangelist Church,35 William St., Pittston.CONWAY - Jeanne, Mass ofChristian Burial 9:30 a.m. today inImmaculate Conception Church,605 Luzerne Ave., West Pittston.DONOWSKI - Violet, Mass ofChristian Burial 1 p.m. today inthe Church of the Nativity BVM,Tunkhannock.FEDOR - John, Mass of ChristianBurial 11 a.m. today in St. NicholasChurch, 226 S. Washington St.,Wilkes-Barre.FRANTZ - Bernard, funeral 9 a.m.Tuesday at the Corcoran Funeral
Home Inc., 20 S. Main St., Plains.Mass of Christian Burial 9:30 a.m.in Ss. Peter & Paul Church, Plains.Friends may call 5 to 8 p.m. todayat the funeral home.HARRING - Elizabeth, funeral 10a.m. Tuesday at the Nat & GawlasFuneral Home, 89 Park Ave.,Wilkes-Barre. Friends may call 5 to8 p.m. today at the funeral home.HIMLIN - James, funeral 9 a.m.Tuesday at the Peter J. AdonizioFuneral Home, 251 William St.,Pittston. Friends may call 5 to 8p.m. at the funeral home today.KANE - Sister Margaret Mary,funeral 11 a.m. today with Mass ofChristian Burial at the IHM Center,2300 Adams Ave., Scranton.KARSTEN - Marion, funeral 11 a.m.Wednesday in Ss. Clement & PeterEpiscopal Church, 165 Hanover St.,Wilkes-Barre.KAYE - Margaret, graveside ser-
vices 11:15 a.m. today in Mt. OlivetCemetery, Carverton.LEWIS - Shirley, funeral 10 a.m.today at the Clarke Piatt FuneralHome Inc 6 Sunset Lake Road
Hunlock Creek. Friends may call 9a.m. until the time of service.LYMAN - James, funeral 10 a.m.Tuesday at Sheldon-KukuchkaFuneral Home Inc., 73 W. TiogaSt., Tunkhannock. Friends may call4 to 7 p.m. today at the funeralhome.
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O B I T U A RY P O L I C Y
Joyce E. HooverApril 27, 2013
Joyce E. Hoover, 82, of the Out-let section of Lake Township,passed away Saturday, April 27,2013 at the Meadows NursingCenter, Dallas.
Miss Hoover was born in LakeTownship on Oct. 28, 1930 andwas the daughter of the late Rus-sell and Elsie Sorber Hoover.
Joyce graduated from theformer Laketon High Schoolin 1947 as valedictorian of herclass and received her bachelorsdegree from Roberts WesleyanCollege in New York. She taughthigh school in New York andPennsylvania. Joyce was a life-time member of the Outlet FreeMethodist Church. She enjoyedtraveling extensively in manycountries throughout the world.
In addition to her parents,Joyce was preceded in death bybrothers, Ellis Hoover and theRev. Warren Hoover.
She is survived by her sister,Faith Dinger, and her husband,LaMar, of Lake Township; manynieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be heldWednesday at 11 a.m. from theCurtis L. SwansonFuneralHome
Inc., corner of routes 29 and 118,with Pastor Matt Riley of theOutlet Free Methodist Churchand the Rev. Warren Major of theGods Missionary Church, Jack-son Township, officiating.
Friends may call Wednesdayfrom 10 to 11 a.m. prior to theservice.
Interment will be in the Ko-cher Cemetery, Lake Township.
Online condolences can bemade at clswansonfuneralhome.com.
Dayle SwisherApril 27, 2013
D a y l eH e m i n g w a y S w i s h e r ,Clarks Sum-mit, diedSaturday atRegional Hos-pital of Scran-ton.
Her husband of 38 years isCharles L. Swisher, M.D.
Born in Kingston on Nov. 9,1946, she was the daughter ofthe late Robert Hemingway andEsther Banks Parkinson. Daylegraduated from Kingston HighSchool, received her diplomain Nursing from Nesbitt Hospi-tal School of Nursing, and herB.S.N. from Wilkes College.She then moved to the Wash-ington, D.C., area, where she
was a nurse at the GeorgetownUniversity Hospital. Thereafter,she worked at Arlington Hospi-tal in Virginia, where she mether loving husband, Charles. Shereturned to Northeastern Penn-sylvania in 1975, where she andher husband raised their threechildren and devotedly followedall of their school and athleticactivities. When her husbandhad a private medical practicein West Scranton, she worked ashis nurse.
Dayle made friends easily. Sheloved reading, eating out and fol-lowing her favorite sports teams,the New York Yankees and the
Washington Redskins.Also surviving are two sons,
William F. Swisher and wifeBethany; Mark H. Swisher; herdaughter, Devon E. Swisher, andhusband Justin A. Santi; twograndchildren, Avery Grace and
William Charles Swisher; a sis-ter, Marilyn Daily, and husbandMark H. Swenson; as well asmany loving cousins, nieces andnephews.
Dayle was also preceded indeath by her stepfather, WilliamParkinson.
Friends may call today from
5 to 8 p.m. at the Lawrence E.Young Funeral Home and Cre-mation Services, 418 S. State St.,Clarks Summit.
The funeral service will beheld Tuesday at 10 a.m. from thefuneral home. Interment will fol-low in Clarks Green Cemetery.
Memorial contributions maybe made to the First Presbyte-rian Church of Clarks Summit,300 School St., Clarks Summit.For directions or to send anonline condolence please visit
www.l awre ncee youn gfun eral -home.com.
Jean Harrison GregoryApril 26,2013
Jean Harrison Gregory, 99,passed away Friday, April 26,2013 at North Penn Manor, Wil-kes-Barre.
Born in Plains, Nov. 16, 1913,she was the daughter of the lateHugh and Helena LaValley Harri-son. She was a graduate of PlainsHigh School and the former Wil-kes-Barre Business College.
Mrs. Gregory had been a pro-
fessional dancer, traveling withher mother and dancing teacher,the late Terrance J. Tracey. Shehad been a model for childrensclothing for the former McWil-liams Department Store and inlater years for the former LazarusDepartment Store. Mrs. Gregoryhad been employed by the formerIsaac Long Department Storeand also worked with the Fos-ter Grandparent Program for 18
years at the White Haven Centerand later in schools working as ateachers aide within the SpecialEducation Program.
Preceding her in death, in ad-dition to her parents, were hus-band, Charles W. Gregory; broth-ers, Harold L. Harrison and HughHarrison Jr.; son-in-law, JosephBartley Sr.;great-grandson, Benja-
min Bartley; companion, StephenFindora.Surviving are her daughter,
Jean Bartley, Bear Creek Town-ship; sons, Charles H. Gregory,Elliottsburg, Pa.; Gilbert A. Greg-ory and wife Carol, Federal Way,
Wash.; five grandchildren; ninegreat-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be heldThursday at 10 a.m. in St. Ste-phens Episcopal Church, 35 S.Franklin St., Wilkes-Barre. En-tombment will be made in OakLawn Cemeterys Mausoleum,Hanover Township.
In lieu of flowers, memorialdonations may be made to St.Stephens Episcopal Church, 35S. Franklin St., Wilkes-Barre, PA18701.
The Gregory family wishesto thank the staff of North PennManor for their outstanding care
and also to thank the SouthernCare Hospice for their kindness.
Arrangements have been en-trusted to the Harold C. SnowdonHome for Funerals, Inc., 420 Wyo-ming Ave., Kingston, PA 18704.
Lena GregoriApril 28, 2013
Lena Gregori, 100, formerly ofWest Pittston and more re-cently a resident of Golden Liv-ing Center, Wilkes-Barre, passedaway Sunday, April 28, 2013 atGeisinger Wyoming Valley Medi-cal Center, Plains Township.
Lena was born March 7, 1913,in Pistoia, Italy, daughter of thelate Alfredo and Giuditta Tosi,and immigrated to America onthe ship Duca Di Abruzzi in 1915.
Lena was predeceased by herhusband, Gregorio Gregori, inMarch 1950, as well as her sonPrivate Joseph Gregori (MIA-KIA) in Korea in November 1950.Josephs remains were recovered
in Korea and identified througha DNA match in Hawaii and re-turned for burial in West Pittstonin August 2006.
Also preceding her in deathwere her grandson Keith Dzanis;brothers AnthonyTosi andJosephLiberati Sr.; sisters, Elizabeth La-Nunziata, Mary Scelba and DoraLiberati.
Lena was formerly employed atAmelia Blouse Co. and NardonesRestaurant, both in West Pittston.
Lenas favorite hobbies weregardening, crocheting and doinganything creative.
Surviving are her son Alfred,
Enfield, Conn.; daughters, Mar-
garet Dzanis, Dallas, and NormaFrushon, Holmdel, N.J.; brother
Julio Liberati, Easton; seven
grandchildren; nine great-grand-
children; nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held
Wednesday at 10 a.m. at the An-
thony Recupero Funeral Home,
406 Susquehanna Ave., West
Pittston, with Monsignor John
Sempa officiating.
Interment will follow in in
West Pittston Cemetery. Friends
may call Tuesday from 3 to 7 p.m.
at the funeral home.
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H. Jane
Waskiewicz
April 25,2013
Mrs. H. Jane Waskiewicz,of Bear Creek Township,passed away Thursday, April 25,2013, at Hospice CommunityCare Inpatient Unit at GeisingerSouth Wilkes-Barre surroundedby family.
Born Aug. 21, 1916 in Wilkes-Barre Township, she was thedaughter of the late Andrew andMamie Glasson Searfoss and thesecond oldest of 11 children.
Jane attended Laurel RunSchool. She was employed bythe area silk mills and McCrorysDepartment Store in Wilkes-Barre. She was a member of theLaurel Run Primitive MethodistChurch for more than 65 years,40 of which she taught Sunday
School and sang in the choir.She enjoyed a variety of hand-crafts and sewing, and was anavid reader.
She was preceded in death byher husband, Peter Waskiewicz,in 1974; brothers Jim, William,Richard and Gerald Searfoss; sis-ters Mamie Dominick Chopak,Elizabeth Kolis and Bessie Zen-dzion.
She is survived by her daugh-ter, Nancy J. Waskiewicz, BearCreek; son, Peter P. Waskiewicz,and his wife, Rhonda, also ofBear Creek; grandchildren, Jen-nifer Elliott and her husband,Derek, of Bear Creek; Peter P.
Waskiewicz Jr. of Portland, Ore.,and Sara Alsaleh of Bear Creekand her fianc, Samuel Closic, of
Wilmington, Del.; great-grand-
children, Derek (DJ) P. ElliottJr., Kieran M. Elliott and Tate M.Elliott; sister Joan A. Searfossof Bear Creek; brothers AndrewJ. Searfoss and Arthur Searfoss,both of Buck Township.
Funeral services will be heldTuesday at 1 p.m. in Laurel RunPM Church, 3835 Laurel RunRoad, Wilkes-Barre, with theRevs. Wayne Yarnall and GeorgeKropp officiating. Interment willfollow in Oak Lawn Cemetery,
Wilkes-Barre. Family and friendsmay call at the church from noonuntil the time of services. Me-morial donations may be madein lieu of flowers to the LaurelRun Church in memory of Jane.Arrangements were entrustedto the Jendrzejewski FuneralHome, Wilkes-Barre.
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The Rev.
Dr. MartinLutr King,Jr., ad adp affinityfor t Old
Tstamntpropt Isa-
ia, wo fortold of t daywn a cild would lad twolf, lopard, and lion witoutfar and tr would b pacon art and goodwill towardsall craturs.
Only Kings ision was ral-izd aftr nlistd African-Amrican studnts to join is1963 campaign to dsgrgatBirmingam, Ala.
At t tim, t dcision toxpos cildrn to iolnc
was arsly criticizd by botblacks and wits. But 50 yarslatr, t so-calld CildrnsCrusad is considrd byistorians to b a piotal ntof t modrn ciil rigtsmomnt.
Birmingam was a racialpowdr kg in t arly 1960s.Forty prcnt black, t city
was rigidly sgrgatd alongracial and class lins. Only 10prcnt of t African-Amri-can rsidnts wr rgistrdto ot. Blacks wr rstrictdto manual labor in Birming-ams stl mills arning lsstan alf t salary of wits.And public and commrcial fa-
cilitis wr lgally sgrgatd.Sinc t National Associa-tion for t Adancmnt ofColord Popl was outlawdin t stat of Alabama, blacksad littl rcours. If ty at-tmptd to protst, ty wrmt wit iolnt rtribution by
wit suprmacists or t Bir-mingam Polic Dpartmnt.In fact, Polic Commissionreugn Bull Connr, onc ammbr of t Ku Klux Klan,lookd t otr way as nolss tan fifty unsold raciallymotiatd bombings took placbtwn 1945 and 1962.
King blid tat a cam-paign in Birmingam wouldsurly b t tougst figt
of t ciil rigts momnt.But if is Soutrn CristianLadrsip Confrnc wassuccssful, it could brak tback of sgrgation across tSout.
T Birmingam campaignbgan on April 3, 1962 wnt SCLC launcd a boycott
to prssur wit businss
ladrs to ir popl of allracs and nd sgrgation inpublic facilitis, rstaurants,and stors. Wn wit busi-nsss rsistd, t SCLCinitiatd a sris of sit-ins andmarcs intndd to prookmass arrsts.
By April 12, btwn four tofi undrd mn and womn,including King imslf, wrincarcratd for dfying a courtinjunction ordring an ndto t dmonstrations. Witadult protstrs in sort supplyand intrst in t campaign
waning, King, in a risky mo,dirctd t SCLC to rcruitlocal studnts to continu tnon-iolnt dmonstration.
Dont worry about your cil-drn, King told t parntsof t young oluntrs aftris rlas from jail. Ty argoing to b alrigt. Dont oldtm back if ty want to goto jail, for ty ar not onlydoing a job for tmsls, butfor all of Amrica and for all of
mankind.
On May 2, mor tan atousand black studnts som as young as six skippd classs to participatin a marc. As ty approacdpolic lins, undrds wrarrstd and carrid off to jailin paddy wagons and scoolbuss. Initially, Connr in-structd t polic not to armt young protstors in ordrto rduc public sympaty fortm. But lost patinc tfollowing day wn undrdsmor gatrd for anotrmarc. Connr immdiatlyordrd t polic and fir d-partmnts to us forc to altt dmonstration.
Imags of cildrn bing
blastd by ig-prssur fiross, clubbd by polic of-ficrs, and attackd by K-9sappard on tlision and innwspaprs, triggring outragacross t nation.
Trougout t attacks tcildrn rmaind non-iolnt,undrscoring t brutality of
t local polic. T orrificscn forcd Prsidnt JonF. Knndy to snd JusticDpartmnt officials down toBirmingam to put an nd tot iolnc.
By May 6, no fwr tan2,500 dmonstrators adultsand cildrn swampd tBirmingam jail. Four dayslatr, t campaign ndd
wn t city promisd todsgrgat downtown storsand rlas all protstors from-
jail if t SCLC agrd to ndt dmonstrations.
Sortly aftr, B irmingams
board of ducation dfiantlyannouncd tat all studntswo participatd in t marc-s would b itr suspnddor xplld; a dcision upldby t local fdral districtcourt.
But on May 22, t Fift Cir-cuit Court of Appals rrsdt dcision and condmndt board of ducation forits action. T CildrnsCrusad of May 2-3, 1963 notonly forcd dsgrgation inBirmingam, but inspird tMarc on Wasington andpad t way for t CiilRigts Act of 1964, proibitingracial discrimination in iringpractics and public srics in
t Unitd Stats. Dr. King andt cildrn of Birmingamad takn a calculatd risk and
won.
William Kashatusisa historianand
writer. He can be contacted at bill@
historylive.net
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Just minuts bfor U.S.Prsidnt Barack Obama- wrapping up a tr-day
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Turkis Prim Ministr RcpTayyip erdogan a ring.
Aftr a fwformalitis,Obamaandd t pon to PrimMinistr Binyamin Ntanyau,
wo procdd to apologiz fort tragic rsults of classbtwn IDF soldirs and pro-hamas Turkis actiists on tMai Marmara in May 2010.
Isral xprsss rgrt ort injuris and loss of lif, N-tanyau told erdogan.
erdogans opn ostility to-ward Isral is a common tacticusd by Muslim ladrs to boostpopularity at om and troug-out t rgion. Turky undrIslamist ladrsip sids withamas, a trrorist organizationddicatd to t dstruction of
t Jwis stat, bcaus of tAKPs idological affinity wit
hamas and bcaus t Gaza-basd rgim is part of a broadrMuslim Brotrood-affiliatdrsurgnc taking plac in egyptand Tunisia and praps willspradto Libya,Jordan andpost-Assad Syria.
Turkys rpatd attmptsto obstruct fforts by Isral toimpro tis wit NATO aranotr aspct of tis opnlyanti-Isral approac. Undr tcircumstancs, Ntanyausapology ad littl canc of r-
rsing t dirction of socialundrcurrnts driing Istanbulsforign policy.
In t aftrmat of t apol-ogy tr as bn no significantcang in Turkys attitud. Us-ing t Turkis airbas couldman t diffrnc btwn Is-rali succss and failur, an IDFsourc told t Sunday Tims. IfNtanyaus apology facilitatdtis stratgic acimnt, it
was wort it.The Jerusalem Post
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O
ur politicians ar onlyforstalling t inita-bl by rfusing to facup to t istoric cal-
lngs in alt funding.Saping up on ABC1s Q&A
on Monday, fdral halt Min-istr Tanya Plibrsk and r op-position countrpart Ptr Dut-ton wr quickly boggd downin t minutia of political diag-noss and scond opinions.
Sur, t blam gam btwnstat and fdral gornmntsor alt as not ndd, andsur, it is difficult to dtrmin
wr snsibl support for pri-at alt insuranc nds andmiddl-class wlfar bgins. Butpoliticians could go from t u-midity crib to t palliati carbd trying to outbid ac otr
wil aoiding t main issu.Tis wks Grattan Institut
rport about t budgt prs-surs on Australian gornmntspointd out tat 19 prcnt ofxpnditur was spnt on alt.
Accss to xpnsi tcnol-
ogy kicks in n bfor con-cption troug IvF, and mayimpro our lis troug lasrsurgry and subsidizd mdi-cins, bfor nw procdursand drugs xtnd our twiligt
yars and smoot our passing.Potntial alt xpnss fromcradl to gra ar almost limit-lss.
At som stag, politicians willa to grappl wit t tougcoics about wat sould bstandard car and wat is not.Glib lins about ryon aingaccss to t worlds bst carmay sound lik social justic butt promis, in rality, is not d-lirabl.
Incrasingly t critical qus-tions will b about t unirsalstandard gornmnts ar pr-
pard to offr public patints,wtr co-paymnts may playa rol for som tratmnts, andow priat insuranc can con-strain t burdn on t publicsystm.
The Australian, Sydney
Muslim community merits
credit for thwarting plotA
s t sock of Canadasbrus wit an allgdAl Qada-dirctd tr-ror plot rcds, its
comforting to larn tat a promi-nnt Toronto Muslim clricplayd a ky rol in foiling tattack. Mor tan a yar ago alrtd t autoritis to som-on flt was an xtrmist wo
was radicalizing young popl.Tat spaks to somting ry
Canadian: T sns tat w cancount on ac otr to do trigt ting for t widr com-munity, tat w ar all in tis to-gtr. T vIA Rail passngr
trains tat t Royal CanadianMountd Polic say t allgdplottrsad in tir sigtsmigt
just as asily a bn carry-ing innocnt Muslim passngrsas anyon ls. T imam wospok up was motiatd by asns of ciic duty and a concrnfor uman lif alus t astmajority of Canadas 650,000Muslims sar wit tir nig-
bours, but for wic ty ar notalways gin crdit.
Rcntly, muc attntion asfocusd on radicalism amongMuslim yout, following rportstat t RCMP is instigatingCanadians at t forfront oftrror attacks in Algria and So-malia tat lft scors dad. Andt Toronto 18 also planndcarnag r. T problm isundniably a ral on. But its farfrom bing t ntir story.
Sinc 9/11 t Muslim com-munity as bn working ryclosly wit gornmnt agn-cis, including t RCMP and
polic forcs, says Yusuf Ba-dat, an imam and dirctor ofrligious affairs for t IslamicFoundation of Toronto.
Or as anotr Toronto Muslimladr, Muammad Robrt hft,put it, Canada is our country .our trib. W want safty for allCanadians rgardlss of tir r-ligion.
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