This is a presentation that was given in Plymouth Pennsylvania, on Thursday, May 30, 2013, at the Plymouth Historical Society. I discuss why I got interested in gas drilling, the problems associated with it, and my suggestions on what we need to do to fix the problems.
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This is a presentation that was given in Plymouth Pennsylvania, on Thursday, May 30, 2013, at the Plymouth Historical Society. I discuss why I got interested in gas drilling, the problems associated with it, and my suggestions on what we need to do to fix the problems.
This is a presentation that was given in Plymouth Pennsylvania, on Thursday, May 30, 2013, at the Plymouth Historical Society. I discuss why I got interested in gas drilling, the problems associated with it, and my suggestions on what we need to do to fix the problems.
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This is a presentation that was given in Plymouth Pennsylvania, on Thursday, May 30, 2013, at the Plymouth Historical Society. I discuss why I got interested in gas drilling, the problems associated with it, and my suggestions on what we need to do to fix the problems.
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WEST PITTSTON -- Paul Brace wanted to end his high school football career with some showboating Wednesday night.
The Dallas receiver fell a yard short trying, but did more than enough to be named the MVP of the 61st annual UNICO All-Star Classic.
Brace caught three passes for 84 yards and a touchdown as the West defeated the East for a sixth consecutive time, 27-14 at Wyoming Area's Anthony "Jake" Sobeski Stadium.
Brace caught a pass from Berwick's Jared Pierce and tried to end a certain touchdown reception by doing a midair somersault into the end zone. He landed at the 1-yard line, and the West scored on the next play.
"I celebrated too early. I always wanted to do that. I didn't get a chance to do that with Teddy," said Brace, referring to Dallas coach Ted Jackson. "I wanted to do Reggie Bush one time."
Brace did get into the end zone in the fourth quarter as he and Eugene Lewis ended up running right to the middle of the end zone on a pass from Tunkhannock's Luke Seaberg. The two outjumped defenders and Brace came down with the ball for a 37-yard score.
Lewis finished his final high school game locally with 39 yards rushing and three receptions for 35 yards. The Wyoming Valley West standout also dispelled rumors that he has changed his verbal commitment to Penn State.
"The last game I was up there was the Nebraska game," Lewis said. "I'm still committed to Penn State. I'm looking forward to Penn State.
"I talk to coach (Dick) Anderson still weekly. He said just be patient and we're going to see what's going to happen when the season is over."
The season ended for just about everyone else on the field Wednesday night. Four players had their careers come to an abrupt halt after being ejected.
Otherwise, the game went as expected, with the West controlling it for the mostpart.
Dallas' Jim Roccograndi opened the scoring with a 7-yard run in the first quarter to give the West a 7-0 lead. Pierce's 1-yard run after Brace's short landing on his somersault gave the West a 14-0 lead the halftime.
Coughlin's Joe Parsnik returned the second-half kickoff 76 yards for an East score, cutting the deficit to 14-7.
The West, though, regained control quickly and scored two more times -- on a 1-yard run by Northwest's Gunner Majer and Brace's 37-yard TD reception.
The East finished off the scoring with its first offensive touchdown since the 2009 game. Hazleton Area's Chad Hoffman hooked up with Holy Redeemer's David Gawlas for a 17-yard touchdown with 4:20 left in the game.
"It was a great, great experience," said West coach Mike Barrett of the West. "Number one was the talent. But they were very respectful kids. It was a pleasure. Anything we asked of them they did. And the fact the proceeds are going to help the flood victims is a great thing."
read more: http://www.timesleader.com/news/West-beat-East.html?searchterm=UNICo#ixzz1edQh0fVP
Grenadiers keep rolling, score eight first-half TDs in rout of Trojans
JIMMY FISHER For the Times Leader
WILKES-BARRE — It was a scoring frenzy for the GAR Grenadiers as they defeated Nanticoke 68-0.
The Grenadiers (8-1) wasted little time getting on the scoreboard going up 14-0 early in the first quarter before two special teams miscues by the Trojans (2-6) gave GAR good field position inside the Nanticoke 20. GAR took advantage of opportunities and scored two more touchdowns to go up 27-0.
GAR eventually held a 55-0 lead going into the half.
"We didn't really make much adjustment at all," Nanticoke coach Ron Bruza said. "We tried to control the football. That was our goal of the game. We started off well, and then the wheels just came off the bus."
GAR senior quarterback Darrell Crawford led the offensive charge, as he accounted for 214 total yards of offense. Crawford rushed seven times for 169 yards for two touchdowns and went 2-for-3 passing for 45 yards and a touchdown, including a 37-yard strike to senior wide receiver Shaliek Powell.
"Phenomenal job by Darrell," GAR coach Paul Wiedlich Jr. said. "Just a class act, heck of an athlete. He's a competitor."
Despite being a weapon on offense, Crawford proved he is dangerous on special teams as well, returning back-to-back punts for touchdowns -- the first for 69 yards and the second for 68 yards.
"I just saw a crease and Dwayne (Wright) threw two blocks on both of those punt returns to get me into the end zone," Crawford said.
The Grenadiers defense did its part as well, shutting out the Trojans and holding them to 91 total yards. Shaliek Powell contributed to the effort with an interception to stall the Trojans only drive that reached the red zone.
Already qualified for the District 2 playoffs, Wiedlich is keeping his team focused on playing good football.
"Hopefully we have a couple more games left in us," Wiedlich said. "The motivation is there, they know we have a job to do, and we have to be a well-oiled machine going into the playoffs."
The Grenadiers close out the regular season at Meyers next Saturday, while the Trojans play at Hanover Area on Friday.
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More video on the flash flood in Plymouth and Plymouth Township, Pennsylvania
Flat Road, Coal Street
PLYMOUTH — Feet of mud and rocks — some a foot-and-a-half across — tore down several streets in Plymouth on Sunday afternoon, burying cars, ripping up sidewalks and the road and damaging houses.
Torrential rains that began early Sunday morning and stormed off-and-on throughout the day pushed creeks over capacity.
"The creek grabbed a lot of debris, clogged up on one of the bridges, and it ripped out the bridge," borough Manager Joe Mazur said of the Coal Street damage.
On Coal Street, cars were swept down the hill, trucks overturned and foundations taken out, he said. On Poplar Street, it appeared an underground creek that carries water from the top of the hill to the Susquehanna River, washed out.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has been called in and officials are doing "whatever we can," to clean up, Mazur said. Crews began cleaning up the debris Sunday night, but the real work will begin Monday when the damage can be seen more clearly. According to 911 reports, 100 to 150 homes sustained some type of damage.
The American Red Cross had workers on the scene in Plymouth to assist residents.
By around 6:30 p.m., the water, rocks and debris ripped through the ground underneath Janice Lamb's Poplar Street home, moving entire blocks of walkway several feet and buckling the roadway where a white van sat. The family had been in the backyard, enjoying a picnic by the pool, when it started.
"My girlfriend went out on the porch for a smoke, and it all burst out of there," she said, pointing to a muddy, rocky area where a portion of a telephone pole stuck out of the ground.
Eleanor Ferkel, who lives across the street from Lamb, was at an outing and received a call from her daughter to get home immediately.
"Evidently, I don't know if the (Ceasetown) dam overflooded, but it just hit like a bomb," she said. "It's like it just exploded.
Neither Ferkel or Lamb knew if the damage would be covered by insurance, because neither have flooding coverage. "We live on a hill. Why would you have flood insurance if you live on a hill?" Ferkel said.
Daniel Barton lives next door to Lamb, and said they've been complaining to the borough about problems with the creek and drainage system for years.
"We've been fighting this for 30 years," he said. "The borough would pass it off to the government, to two different agencies, one was the county, one was the state, and we were going around in circles."
This isn't the first time a disaster of this kind has occurred on Coal Street, Mazur said. In 1947, the creek caused similar flooding.
"When you build your house on a creek or you build it by a river you can expect floods at some point in your life," he said.
In addition to the Poplar Street flooding and damage, state Route 11 by the Plymouth Flats and Dundee Road and the Sans Souci Parkway, both in Hanover Township, flooded and were blocked from traffic.
Power was reported out in Plymouth due to the damage, but exact numbers were not available late Sunday night. UGI Electric spokesman Don Brominski said about 100 customers reported outages in the region, many because of lightening.
A fantastic ending to a great basketball game.
UNICO Game Highlights 2010 From Wyoming Area Stadium on November 24, 2010. Wyoming Valley Conference High School All Star Football
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One group held "Tom Corbett for governor" signs while another group from the Gas Drilling Awareness Coalition held "no fracking" signs. Some of their signs read "Tom Corporate," referring to the more than $800,000 in political contributions he received from the gas drilling industry.
Kingston resident Paula Chaiken of the Gas Drilling Awareness Coalition, who joined others at a protest which began on Public Square, said she believes natural gas drilling is a health and safety risk which is "detrimental to our quality of life and problematic for our children and for the future of our region."
"He (Corbett) needs to realize that it's people over corporations," Chaiken said.
As Corbett got off the bus, Chaiken and other residents concerned about natural gas drilling loudly chanted, "Protect our water!" Corbett did not address the protesters, but spoke to a group inside Republican headquarters that included state Sen. Lisa Baker, retired state Sen. Charles Lemmond; Terry Casey, chair of the Luzerne County Republican Party; Dan Meuser, president of Pride Mobility and Hal Flack, president of Diamond Manufacturing.
Corbett, the state attorney general, spoke about he wants to cut wasteful spending and reform state government.
When asked about the residents' concerns about natural gas drilling, Corbett said he wants to convene a meeting with everyone involved in natural gas drilling, including people in the industry, environmentalists and the public to "come up with a reasonable, rational plan to develop this safely, protect the environment and grow the jobs in Pennsylvania."
"Everybody is concerned," Corbett said. "I'm concerned that we do it right."
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Aniak's terminally ill fire chief holds a goodbye bash Hundreds of people attend life celebration for Pete Brown, 64
ANCHORAGE - The fire chief of Aniak isn't one to wait around for his own funeral. When he found out he didn't have long to live, he held a goodbye bash.
Hundreds of people attended the bash for Pete Brown at the high school on Saturday night. Aniak has a population of just under 500 people.
"My father, he doesn't want folks dwelling over his passing," Brown's son Jeremiah said Friday. "He'd rather see everybody happy. He'd rather be able to see everybody."
Brown started a volunteer fire-rescue squad called the Dragon Slayers in the village. Most of the squad was made up of high school girls. In the process, he saved lives up and down the Kuskokwim River, and trained two decades of teenagers to do the same.
Brown is 64 years old and has terminal cancer.
"The doctor advised me to do something real quick, as far as the funeral goes," he said. "So this seemed like the way to do it."
Brown declined treatment in Seattle for his cancer that could have briefly extended his life, said Gwen Brock, a longtime friend who organized Saturday's celebration.
"He chose to come home ... that way he was able to say goodbye to everybody," she said.
Brown moved to Aniak in 1973 and worked as a fishing guide. He built homes. He worked in law enforcement. He was a firefighter.
"He's pretty much touched everybody's lives in this area of Alaska," Jeremiah said.
It was a four-wheeler accident in the early 1990s when someone hit Jeremiah going roughly 45 miles per hour in Aniak that showed Brown how much the village needed ambulance service. He led the effort to start an emergency medical system. That led to a training program for teenagers.
There were rules: No drinking or drugs. You had to keep your grades up.
Jeremiah was one of the first. The boys gave the team its name - the Dragon Slayers - but soon they graduated or quit. Then the girls took over.
After 200 hours of training, the 13- to 16-year-olds began joining the town medics on 911 calls.
They responded to suicide attempts. They gave oxygen to elders.
Trooper Sgt. Mike Duxbury worked in Aniak from about 2002 to 2004. He first met the Dragon Slayers when a village parade was interrupted by a call for help. Someone had crashed a four-wheeler.
The girls arrived like a swarm of bees, Duxbury said.
"They helped each other out. Gave each other encouragement. They worked as a team," he said.
He later watched the squad give a demonstration to younger students from other western Alaska villages. Afterward, kids poured from the stands, asking the young medics to sign Dragon Slayer posters.
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Richard Hughes is a lifelong resident of Luzerne County. At age 47 he resides in Mountain Top, Pennsylvania with his wife, Ruth, and three children, Callie age 19, Ellen age 17, and Richard IV age 11.
He is a graduate of Lafayette College with a BA in Classics and The Washington and Lee University School of Law. Upon graduation from Law School in 1986, Richard returned to Luzerne County to join his father in a law practice that his father had established in 1946, immediately following service in War World II. He and his father practiced together for five years until his fathers death in 1991. During his years of practice with his father he ran a general practice office, handling a wide variety of cases involving real estate, estate planning, estates, domestic relations, and criminal defense.
Always a believer in public service, Richard became an attorney for Legal Services of Northeastern Pennsylvania, running the Organizations Hazleton office as it provided legal services at no charge for the Countys indigent population. During his years with Legal Services, he practiced in areas that most commonly affect the poor and fought for the rights of these individuals.
He continued his commitment to public service when in 1988 he was appointed Assistant District Attorney for Luzerne County by the Honorable Correale Stevens. He served in that capacity for five years. After 21 years of practicing law, he most recently has returned part-time to the District Attorneys Office, having been appointed in January 2008 by District Attorney Jacqueline Musto Carroll. He has tried over 30 jury trials to verdict, including the prosecution of three Defendants for first-degree murder of whom all are presently serving life in prison without the right of parole.
Richard currently emphasizes his practice in the areas of estate planning, estate administration, real estate, municipal law, and civil litigation. He serves as the Solicitor for municipalities and Zoning Hearing Boards. He has tried cases in state and federal courts and has argued before the Commonwealth Court and Superior Court of Pennsylvania.
A community activist, Richard serves on the Boards of Luzerne Foundation, Forty Fort Cemetery, Hollenback Cemetery, Wyoming Seminary, Davis and Elkins College, Wyoming Commemorative Association, Glen Summit Chapel Association, and The Home for Homeless Women. He is a past Board member of the Northeast Counseling and the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society. He serves as a volunteer attorney for the pro bono program for Legal Services and is a member of the Wilkes-Barre Law and Library Association where he is Chairman of the Fine and Forfeiture Committee and is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association.
Richard has a love for the outdoors and spends his free time with his family, who are all active in sports. Richard is active in each of his childrens academic and extra-curricular activities. He has coached youth soccer for each of his childrens teams and has coached a competitive high school mock trial team.


