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Page 6 Childcare center gets new playgroundPage 6 Neighborhood watch prepares for

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Page 7 Scranton City Council approves borrowing

Page 7 National Letter Carriers host food drive

13 ARTSPage 14 The Avengers hit the big screen

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Page 23 Scranton Cultural Center hosts

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tain on May12. See page20.

Overeaters Anonymous meet-ings, First Presbyterian Church,201 Stone Ave., Clarks Summit,weekly, Mon. and Wed., 7 p.m.;Tues. and Thurs., 9:30 a.m. andSun., 4 p.m. Info: (570) 587-4313.

Coal Mining info sought, CarlOrechovsky, research editor ofAnthracite Archives, Old Forge, isseeking information about thecoal mining industry during the1950s and 60s in Old Forge.Anyone interested with informa-tion or photos of mine openings,buildings, miners, breakers orstories of life and workings in themines can contact Orechovskyevenings at 702.4217 or [email protected] enough information is collected,there will be a public forum in May

on The Last Days of Coal Miningin Old Forge.

Fifth Annual St. Marys Classic

golf tournament, presented byQueen of Apostles Parish, will beheld at1 p.m. on Sun., May 6 atPine Hills Golf Course, Taylor. Thisyears tourney will be played inmemory of Tom Bennie Sr. Thecost, which is $80.For more information, contact theparish office at 457.3412, or email

[email protected] .

Car show, The Scranton Schoolfor the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing

Children will host its annual carshow on Sun., May 6 from 10 a.m.to 3 p.m.The event will feature vendorsoffering crafts, food, prizes andgames throughout the day.For more information, call497.9238.A military hiring expo will beheld on Wednesday, May 9, at theKingston Armory. The event willstart at 10 a.m. with a resumepreparation and interview skillsworkshop, followed by the job fair,which will run from 11 a.m. to 2

p.m.For more information, call717.861.2640 or email [email protected].

To register, visit pa.ng.mil/offices/EmploymentOutreach.

The Fourth Annual Mayors PingPong Tournament will be held onSat., May 12 in the gym at WestonField starting at 9:30 a.m.This free event is open to thepublic with playing divisionsstarting at 12 years old and ex-tending to an open division forthe more serious competitor.Trophies will be given for the toptwo finalists in each age division.Those interested are asked toregister by Thurs., May 10.For more information, call348.4186 or email [email protected] with yourname, age, address and age.The Lackawanna County Out ofthe Darkness Walk for SuicidePrevention planning meeting willbe held on Tuesday, May 15 at 5p.m. at The Advocacy Alliance,823 Jefferson Ave., Scranton.Anyone interested is welcome to

attend. For more information, call207.9199.The National Association ofWomen Business Owners (NAW-

BO) of NEPA is hosting the Top25 Women in Business CocktailParty at POSH at Scranton Club,404 North Washington Ave.,Scranton, on Thursday, May 17 at6 p.m.The event is to celebrate theachievements and success of the25 women that will be honored onJune 15 at the Hilton in Scranton.Info: email [email protected] is celebrating NationalFoster Care Month with an openhouse on Friday, May 18 from 1 to 5p.m. KidsPeace is located at101Pittston Ave., Scranton. For moreinformation, 342.5444.

Catholic Choral Society springconcert will be held on Fri., May 18at 7:30 p.m. at Immaculate Con-ception Church, 801 Taylor Ave.,Scranton and on Sun., May 20 at 7p.m. at St. Ignatius Church, 339North Maple St., KingstonFor more information, call587.2753 or visit www.cathol-icchoralsociety.org.

The Big Blue Devil Golf Classicwill take place May 20 at the Blue

Ridge Trail Golf Club.To register, e-mail [email protected] or call 650-9356. Scholarship sponsorshipsare available for $250, hole spon-sorships at $100 and $50 patronsponsorships are also available.

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Even if you think you

know a lot about lo-

cal history, you may

end up bested by a high

school student.

Valley View and RiversideHigh School students began

meeting in February to

search the achieves of the

Lackawanna Historical So-

ciety to craft questions for

the societys third annual

You Live Here You Should

Know This! local history

game show on May 11 and12

from 6-9p.m. at the Scranton

Cultural Centers Shopland

Hall. Proceeds benefit the

Historical Society.

WNEP television personalityRyan Leckey will be hosting theevent Friday and EntercomCommunications Tony Bartoc-ci will cover Saturday. Teams offour will answer questions infive categories land, industry,people, recreation, and a miscel-laneous category that will in-clude photo questions in aFamily Feud-style format.

2009 champions CatherineCullen, Dominick Keating, andformer Scranton Mayor DavidWenzel, along with 2010 cham-pion Margo Azzarelli, will re-turn as competitors while for-mernews personality David De-Cosmo, actor and Behold!

Scranton creator ConorMcGuigan, and State SenatorJohn Blake will join the show,which will againbe broadcastonElectric City Television.

While they may be the publicface of the show, LackawannaHistorical Society Director Ma-ry Ann Moran-Savakinus wasquick to give credit to the stu-dents behind the scenes.

They have to do a lot of re-search. Its time-consuming.

They do get very involved in andtheyknowthingsabouttowns inLackawannaCounty thatI never

knew about. And they have funwhile theyre doing it, so its awin-win for everybody, saidMoran-Savakinus .

The Historical Society winsbecause we get this great enter-taining program, plus we get towork with young people andhopefully instill a value in theirlocal history interest whiletheyre young so theyll contin-ue that as they get older. Andthen they win because they get

to learn in an entertaining wayand really create somethingbrand, new, I think, so its fun.

Shawn P. Murphy, fourthgrade teacher and public rela-tions coordinator at RiversideElementary West School,served as advisor to the River-side students and helped selectthose who would be involved.

I look back at students thatIm familiarwiththatI know areinterested in this kind of stuff

and are good students. Theyhave leadership skills andtheyre reliable. Some of them I

have taught, andsomeof them Ijust know from around theschool district, Murphy said.

Its kind of like enjoying thefruits of the labor because someof the kids that participate in itwere either in my class play,which is a local Taylor historyplay, ordid things on anelemen-tary level. Its nice to see themall grown up and basically reac-hing the next level of all thiskind of stuff,whichis research.

Students often learn nationaland world history throughouttheir academiccareers, butMur-phy believes it is just as impor-tant for students to understandtheir own local roots as well.

If you can learn about yourown area where youre from, Ithink then you can make thatconnection to the rest of thecountry and worldIts one ofmany programs that our schooldistrict is involved where the

students can go out into thecommunity and learn, and notjust learn, but also contribute to

the community. Were takingsomething, were learning fromthese resources, and were alsoleaving something behind,Murphy said.

We hope they take away aninterest in local history, first andforemost. We hope they learnabout their own local history astheyre doing it, and we hopethatthey see thatitcanbe fun toget involved in a local organiza-tion, Moran-Savakinus added.

The students and the contes-tants, they noted, wont be theonly ones learning something,as the audience often remarksabout what they took awayfromprevious shows. Responding di-rectly to questionnaires filledout by previous audience mem-bers, the show has developedand become increasingly di-versein its knowledgebase overthe last three years.

Maybe there wasnt a

Gouldsboro question or maybethere wasnt a Madisonvillequestion well, there will be

this year, Murphy pointed out.All of the students had about

five municipalities to cover andthey had so many questions foreach municipality, so we feel itsmore well-balanced across thecounty this year...The audiencemembers are going to learn lotswhen theyre there. Thats a

great thing.Murphy admitted that he

learned much about the arearight along with the students,particularly about Luna Park,which suffered a fire in 1916 thatled to its closure.

Luna Park seemed so aheadof our time the different ridesthat they had there, the ornatelook to the parkIts amazingwhen drive down Interstate 81and youre looking across andyou can see Nay Aug Park andyoure thinking, Wow, Im driv-ingthrough what used to be Lu-na Park. It blows my mind, ac-tually, he said.

Another neat thing is theGer-trude Hawk (Chocolates) story. Idont wantto give toomuch infor-mation because well be givinganswers to our questions!

While we live in a fast-pacedworld, he continued, he feels

that all residents should take amoment to recognize how wearrived at where we are today.

Youre in a car and youredriving around and you justdont pay attention to anythingalongthe way. I thinkthis opensup their minds to what the areaused to be like and maybe getsthem thinking, What can it belike in the future? Murphysaid.

Its always good to know

where you come from. Its niceto get anyone, especially ouryouth, to appreciate the past.

Quiz show tests local history knowledge

ARE YOU SMARTER THAN AN 11TH GRADER?ByRICH [email protected]

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The Scranton Cultural Center will host You Live Here You Should Know This! on May 11and 12.

What: You Live Here You ShouldKnow This! Local History GameShowWhere: Scranton Cultural Cen-ters Shopland Hall, 420 N. Wash-ington Ave.When: May11 and12, 6-9 p.m.Cost: $10, $5 for students, food

and drinks available for purchaseCall: (570) 344-3841 for addition-al details.

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B

akers from all across

Northeastern Penn-

sylvania, and some

outside the area, found their

way to Scranton last week

ready to put their cakes up to

the challenge.

The Great Chefs XXII Cake

Challenge, a fundraiser for the

Womens Resource Center,

was held on Wednesday, May

2, at the Radisson Lackawan-na Station Hotel, 700 Lacka-

wanna Ave., Scranton.

Eighteen bakers competed inthree categories, beginner, inter-mediate and advanced, in thisevent. Each designed a cake based

on this years theme, Around theWorld.

I think they are gorgeous, saidMarita Lawrence, chairperson for

Great Chefs Cake Challenge. Ithink we are so lucky to have allthese talented bakers. I think eachyear it gets better and better.

Lawrence explained that whilethis is the 22nd Great Chefs, thecake decorating competition issomething added only a few yearsago. In the past the Womens Re-source Center invited prominentchefs in the area to do demonstra-tions, but the group changed it tocake decorating and have received

positive feedback from the public.Its fairly new. Its just been go-

ing on a couple of years, with thecake decorating, but I think thepublic is really excited about this,said Lawrence.

Theylove seeing thecakes.Andthey can also vote for their favoritecake (for the Peoples Choice

Award), so I think thats funfor peo-ple to do.

Sandy Chesak of My MothersDelicacies won the Peo-

ples Choice Awardthis year.Awards were al-

so given out tobakers who fin-ishedin first placein the beginner, in-termediate and ad-vanced levels. Winnerswerechosen by judgesKim Morrison, a certi-fied master sugar art-ist, and Colette

Peters, thegrand prize winner ofthe Food Net-works CakeChallenge.

The cakes werejudged on a num-

Scranton baker among winners of cake challengeByDONMCGLYNN

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Paula

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Alison and Lizzie Samudio helped out at this years Great Chefs XXII Cake Challenge.

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Go Lackawanna asked six fifth-grade students at Charles Sumner Elementary School in West Scranton if they thought the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre

Yankees baseball team should change their name in 2013, and what should it be changed to?

MAN ON THE STREET

I think theyshould change it tothe Cheetahs, be-cause theyre reallyfast, and theyre allconfident.

Peyton Cook, 10

I think theyshould keep it theYankees, becauseits a cool name,and the (New York)Yankees have themost World Series.

Jeremy Seymour, 10

Its been theirname for centuriesso they shouldntreally change it.

Noble Ramirez,11

Yes, they shouldchange the name toLighting Bolt, be-cause they canscore really fast,and they are reallyfast.

Geno Salmond,11

They should keepit because theyreknown as the Yan-kees.

Mia Dantone,10

Yes and no. I likethe name Yankees,but if I were tochange it, I wouldcall it the Sparks,(because of) theElectric City.

Collin Amaya,11

MOOSIC Mandalay Base-ball Properties chief executiveofficer Art Matin promisedthat the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees will try to con-nect with northeastern Penn-sylvanias baseball history

while starting a new era at PNCField.

The groundbreaking for the

reconstruction of the 23-year-old stadium, held on Monday,April 30, was hailed as a newbeginning by local politiciansas well as the New York Yan-kees and Mandalay, the twoparties that purchased thebaseball franchise from Lacka-

wanna C ounty last week.Today we celebrate north-

eastern Pennsylvanias richbaseball legacy and begin toadd a new chapter, Lackawan-na County commissioner Co-rey OBrien said, referencingearlier minor league teams andsix baseball Hall of Famersfrom the region.

Mandalay joined the NewYork Yankees in forming SWBYankees LLC, which boughtthe franchisefrom LackawannaCounty, producing some of thefunds needed for the renova-tion and, in turn committingto

a 30-year lease and future

Rebirth ofbaseballBy TOM ROBINSON

For Go Lackawanna

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SCRANTON -

Thefield, lowerbowland afew otheritemswill remain, but when PNC Field reopens in2013, it willlook like a different stadium.

This is a stadium re-creation, architect

Craig J.Schmittsaid during his presentationat a public hearing regarding the sale of theScranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees and the re-

latedstadiumproject. This is nota new sta-dium, but when we are done, for all intentsandpurposes,it isgoing tolookbrand new.

Approximately85 percent of the existingfacility is going to be demolished and re-placed with a new facility that is a smaller,more-intimate venue than what exists to-

day.Creatingan open-air feel is among theex-

tensive changes in a $43-millionreconstruct-

ionprojectthat began April 27and continuedthroughout theweek with steps such as rip-ping out seats. The process is expected tomove to major demolition work in the next

week or two. The entire project was on holduntil funds became available when Lacka-

wannaCountysoldthe franchisetoSWBYan-

kees LLCon April 26. SWB YankeesLLC, in

ABINGTON JOURNALPHOTO/JASON RIEDMILLER

Officials from Lackawanna County, the Multi-Purpose Stadium Authority, the New York Yankees and Mandalay Baseball Proper-

ties hosted a ground-breaking ceremony for the reconstruction project on PNC Field in Moosic. From left: Anthony Zaleski, Greg

Butz, Larry West, Harry Forbes, Gary Mayse, Jim Wansacz, Lonn Trost, Art Matin, Corey OBrien, Patrick OMalley II, Patrick

OMalley, James Timlin, Joe DeAntona and Eugene Prusinski .

PREPARING FOR CHANGEPNC Field will have new look and feel in 2013By TOM ROBINSON

For Go Lackawanna

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Children at the Bellevue ChildcareCenter of the United NeighborhoodCenters of Northeastern Pennsylvania

will have a new playgro und tha nks tothe dogged persistence of a group ofUniversity of S cranton students led bysenior Kaitlin Dolan, a communica-tion major from Olyphant.

Last year, Dolan and a group of stu-dents participating in the Universityof Scrantons Students in Free Enter-prise (SIFE) program attempted to ob-tain a grant for a playground at theUnited Neighborhood Center (UNC)on Emmett Street in Scranton. Whentheir grant application failed to re-ceive funding, Dolan took it upon her-

self to apply for a Pepsi ChallengeGrant. Although it was one of the pro-

ject s selec ted to comp ete for fun dingin the national grant initiative, and de-spite generating much communitysupport for the proposal, the projectdidnt win the competition.

Still determined to secure fundingfor the playground, Dolan and a sec-ond group of SIFE students competedfor a Lowes Grant awarded through aSIFE organization competition. Thiseffort paid off. The students won a

$2,000 grant from Lowes for the play-ground, which will be built this sum-mer.

Michael Hanley, executive directorof UNC, said during a recent ground-breaking ceremony for the playgroundthat a playground had been plannedsince the center was built, however,the center never had the funding toconstruct it.

Dolan, junior Caroline Bligh ofBasking Ridge, N.J., senior Jacqueline

Sembor of Thompson, Conn., and oth-er students in the SIFE program ar-ranged for the groundbreaking cere-mony.

Breaking ground for a playground at the

Bellevue Childcare Center are, from left,

Todd Kurilla, Michael Hanley, KaitlinDolan, Michael McHale and Margaret

Adolfson.

Persistence

PAYS OFFUniversity of Scrantonstudents win grant

Members of the West Scranton HydePark Neighborhood Watch were foundserving the community in a different

way than theyre used to last week.

Several members of the group tookpartin a Guest BartenderFundraiser onMonday,April 30 at Kilcoynes in Scran-ton.

Its our first fundraiser of the year,said West Scranton Hyde Park Neigh-borhood Watch President Karin Foster.We have several new members so wethought it would be a good way for ev-eryone to socialize andget to know oneanother.

The group was able to raise close to$500 during theeventfrom tips and sell-

ing 50/50 raffle tickets. The moneyraised willgo toward the second annual

West Scranton Hyde Park CommunityDay scheduled for Saturday, May 12from 8 a.m. to noon at Jackson StreetSkate Park.

The Community Day will include aused tire collection, bicycle safetycourse, plant sale and a shreddingevent, with shredding provided by All-Shred.

We have to pay for the paper shred-der to come, this will defray the cost,and the paper shredder will be free tothe public, said Foster.

Community Day is one of several

eventsthe neighborhood watch current-lyhas inthe works.A low-costsprayandneuter clinic is scheduled for Tuesday,May 15 and June12from8 a.m.to noonat the Jackson Street Skate Park.

They are also putting together teamsof cycliststo ridein theHeritageExplor-ers Bike Touron June16at MellowParkin Peckville.

Riders are being asked to seek dona-tions from the public to support thisevent, which will create awareness ofthe neighborhood watch to a much

larger area.In addition to the ride on June 16,

team members, as well as members ofthe community, have been going onneighborhood bike rides every Mondaystarting at 6:30 p.m. Locations for thebike ridestarting points arepostedeach

week on the groups Facebook page.The bike rides are being done in an ef-

fort to maintain a clean and safe com-

munity, which serves the overall mis-sion of the neighborhood watch, whichis to assist the Scranton Police Depart-ment by reporting criminal and suspi-cious activities,as well as providethe ci-tizens a conduit of communication to

voice their concerns to local officials.Since its inception, the group has ac-

cumulated over200 members, andin aneffortto keep thatnumbergrowing,Fos-ter has made the process of becoming amember as easy as possible.

Theres no membership fee, its freeto the public, and all they have to do is

Neighborhood watch gets ready for community day with guest bartending

GO LACKAWANNA/DON MCGLYNN

Tom Coyne and Karin Foster were serving drinks at the neighborhood watchs Guest Bartender Fundraiser on Monday.

Serving the communityBy Don McGlynn

[email protected]

Tom Borthwick, of West Scranton wasa guest bartender.

What: the second annual West ScrantonHyde Park Community DayWhen: Saturday, May 12, 8 a.m. to noonWhere: Jackson Street Skate Park, 1304Jackson St., ScrantonInfo: http://hydeparkneighbor-

watch.wordpress.com/

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Library Express, located on the

second floor of the Mall at Steam-town, will welcome award-winningjournalist, author and teacher TomWilber to discuss his new book,Under the Surface: Fracking, For-

tunes, and theFate of MarcellusShale,scheduledforrelease in Mayfrom Cornell Uni-

versity Press, onThursday, May 10from 7 to 9 p.m.

The book is thefirst book-length

journalistic overview of shale gasdevelopment and the controversiessurrounding it.

Wilber, a former environmentalreporter who hasbeen coveringthefracking debate from the begin-ning, combines a storytellers ear

with a journalists eye, offering asensitive and timely take on the is-sue.

For a full authorbio,visit http://tomwilber.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html

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Tom Wilber

SCRANTON City Council unani-mously approved the first reading ofunfunded debt legislation that will ap-prove up to $26.6 million in borrow-ing and refinancing during their May

3 meeting, but not before discussingthe importance of the citys now lateRevised Recovery Plan and how it willplay into the citys financial future.

In order to pay back 2011 debt, thecity was approved to borrow $9.85million by the Lackawanna CountyCourt of Common Pleas on Jan. 27,and the legislation approves this bor-rowing as well as the refinancing of$8.6 million in existing debt for a to-tal of $18.45 million. Up to $26.6 mil-lion could be approved depending oninterest rates, the pricing on thebonds, and other factors.

Councilman Pat Rogan was absentfrom the meeting, so the first reading

was approv ed with a vote of 4-0. It isexpected to be given final approval

with a seco nd and third readi ng atcouncils meeting on Thursday, May10.

Councilman Bob McGoff said thatwhi le he was glad to see the un-funded borrowing on the agenda, hebelieves the citys Revised RecoveryPlan must be tackled immediately, asit was due by April 30.

I believe that the next step, thenext thing that we need to do, is toconfront the Recovery Plan. Demandsare being made on the city to imple-ment a Recovery Plan and I know wedont want to rush into somethingthat we dont agree withbut I believethat if we dont begin to act, if wedont become very proactive with this

Recovery Plan and we dont put some-thing in line that the future of thebudget is in jeopardy and I think thatthe future economic status of the cityis in great jeopardy, McGoff empha-sized.

Also, I think we ourselves start tobecome liable for the failures since wedid include it in the budget.

At the request of the lending institu-tions, legislation passed during a spe-

cial meeting of council on Jan. 30 re-quired council to work closely withthe mayor and the citys Act 47 coor-dinator, the Pennsylvania EconomyLeague, on a Revised Recovery Plan inorder to secure a $11.5 million 2012

Tax Ant icipa tion Note . The city de-clared Act 47 distressed status in1992, last revising its Recovery Planin 2002.

Council President Janet Evans saidthat because the plan has rarely beenadhered to in the past, she feels the

SCRANTON CITY COUNCIL

Recovery Plan remains incompleteCouncil approves borrowingByRICH HOWELLS

[email protected]

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show upandsigna form.(Then)theyre a member, said Foster.

The West ScrantonHyde ParkNeighborhood Watch meets thethird Thursday of every monthat All Saints Auditorium, 1403Jackson St., behind St. PatricksChurch. The next meeting isscheduled for Thursday, May 17at 7 p.m.

For more information, visithttp://hydeparkneighbor-watch.wordpress.com/.

SERVINGContinued from page 6

The Scranton City Fire De-partment was able to stop a fire

that broke outat 303 WillowSt.,Scranton on Monday morning,April 30.

Crews arrived on the scene at5:11 a.m., andthe fire was undercontrol by 6:17 a.m., accordingto Scranton Fire Chief Tom Da-vis.

Davis said the fire, which isbelieved to have started in thebasement, wasruledan arson bycity fire inspector Shaun Flynn.

The house was vacant, and noone was hurt during the fire.

Area fireruled arson

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The Scranton City Fire De-partment was able to stop a

fire that broke out at 303

Willow St. on Monday

CampbellSoup Company andthe National Association of Let-terCarrierswillteamup on Sat-urday, May12, to tryand StampOut Hunger.

Now in its 20th year, StampOut Hunger is a food drive,held on the second Saturday inMay.

In 2011, Americans donated70.2 million pounds of food tothe food drive, which markedthe eighth consecutive year thatat least 70 million pounds werecollected by letter carriers.

To participate, leave a sturdybag containing non-perishablefoods, such as canned soup,canned vegetables,pasta,riceorcereal next to your mailbox pri-orto thetime ofregular mailde-livery on Saturday, May 12.

Letter carriers willcollect thefood donations as they deliverthemail andtake them toa localFeeding America food bank orhunger-relief organization

For more information aboutthe annual Stamp Out Hungerfood drive, visit www.helpstam-pouthunger.com or www.face-book.com/StampOutHunger.

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MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY INDUCTS

BIOLOGY HONOR SOCIETY MEMBERS

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ineteen students in the Misericordia Universitys biology program were

inducted into the Beta Beta Beta (TriBeta) National Biological Honor Socie-ty during an induction ceremony. Inducted into the national honor society are,first row, from left, Chelsea Bonetti, Massapequa, N.Y.; Caitlynn Watkins, Pitt-ston; Shelby Giblin, Honesdale; Amanda Lazzeri, Honesdale; Amanda Lee, Turn-ersville, N.J.; Anna Konstas, Montrose; second row, Amelia Poplawski, Wilkes-Barre; Jacqueline Kochmer, Forest City; Moran Romesberg, York; Andrea Carr,Dallas; Jessica Pavlikowski, Old Forge; third row, Jonathan Weiss, Minersville;Danielle Yurko, Sweet Valley; Jena Hassinger, Sunbury; Christopher Tiffany,Laceyville and Bryant Barnhart, Apalachin, N.Y.

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rea residents came

out in full force for

Tour de Scranton 9 on

Sunday, April 29.

Founded in 2004 by Hill

Section residents Tom and

Betty Moreken, the Tour de

Scranton serves as a fun-

draiser for the Erin Jessica

Moreken Drug and Alco-

hol Treatment Fund.

The fund was establish-

ed in 2002, shortly after

Erin Morekens death at

age 28 from a heroin over-

dose.

An estimated 450 riders

met at Scranton High School

for the bike ride on Sunday

morning and raised about

$15,000 after expenses.

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banks are more interestedin the citys audit beingcompleted on time, as the2010 budget was not re-leased until 2012 and hashistorically been late. Ac-cording to the citys HomeRule Charter, the budgetm ust be com pl eted byMay 31; the city expectscompletion of the 2011 au-dit by July, Council VicePre si de nt Frank Joyce

added.Evans also insisted that

some form of a paymentplan for the Oct. 19, 2011state Supreme Court rul-ing regarding delayed col-lective bargaining awardsthat are estimated to costup to half of the citys an-nual ope rati ng budge tmust be included in therevised plan as well.

We cant keep raisingtaxes. We have to generatem oney withi n our owncity, and the re s m any

ways to do it and manyways that were overlo okedfor yearsIm definitelydiscouraged with havingto look at borrowing thatamount of m oney, and

wha t disc ourage d me a lit-tle bit is the fact that (it)doesnt include the arbi-

tration awards, Council-man Jack Loscombeagreed.

Im really worried be-c au se w ere j um pi ng through hoops to borrowt his , s o I d ont kn ow

where were going to getthat money.

Council again discussedchanging the classifica-tion of the city from a sec-ond class A city to a third

class city, which will allowthe city to implement acommuter tax as well aspossibly change the struc-ture of city government. Acommuter tax will be im-portant to the citys re-

vise d p lan, Evans said , butGov. Tom Corbett has notresponded to at least tworequests from council tocertify the citys census re-sul ts from the l ast two

years , whic h is legal ly re-q ui re d t o m ak in g t hechange.

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Hilton Scranton Hotel and Conference Center re-

cently hosted the third annual Electric CityTat-

too Convention.

Eighty-six artists, from as far away as Utah

and South Carolina and as close as Philadel-

phia andNew Jersey, wereon hand tattooing

at the convention, held April 27 to 29.

In addition tattoo artists, the event fea-tureda numberof activitiesforthefam-

ily, including Juggler Robert Smith,

Magician Phil Crosson, tattoo, hula

hoop, and pie eating contests; raf-

fles; and art demonstrations.

Woody Wodock,

Jemola Addley

and Ben Krzy-

kowski

Matt Hiller and Chris

Kearney, of Scranton,

were at the third annual

Electric City Tattoo

Convention.

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MISERICORDIA STUDENTS INDUCTED

INTO SIGMA TAU DELTA

The Department of English at Misericordia University inducted 10 students into the Sigma

Tau Delta International English Honor Society during an induction ceremony. Participa-

ting in the ceremony, seated from, from left, Sarah Hauze, Sweet Valley; Amber Gulla,

Plains Township; Nicole Mostik, Shamokin; Carissa Stonier, New Milford; standing, Aura-

leah Grega, Wapwallopen; Lisa Matriccino, West Hazleton; Gayle Sekel, Harding; Dennis

Halpin, New Hartford, N.Y.; Marina Orrson, Shavertown; Laura Thomas, Scranton and Dr.

Amanda Caleb, assistant professor of English.

ber of different criteria, includ-ing how well they correspond

with the theme.Winners in this years cake

challenge were Cindy Lepo, ad-vanced; Lynn Mazzga, interme-diate; and Abby Somers, begin-ner.

Somers, a Scranton resident,opened her own bakery, Babby

Cakes, out of her home in Janu-ary. She first heard about thecompetitionlast year, anddecid-ed to enter this year.

She said she was surprised togo home a winner her first timeentering the event.

Itwas exciting. Imstillexcit-ed, said S omers.

It was a lot of fun to be thereand to be able to tell peopleabout my business.

Somers, and the rest of thisyears winners, were presentedtheir awards in front of thecrowd of over 400 people in at-

tendance for this years event,which also featured a silent auc-

tion.All the proceeds from thenight went to the Womans Re-source Center, a private non-profit organization founded in1976, serving survivors of do-mestic violence and sexual as-sault in Lackawanna and Sus-

quehanna Counties in North-eastern Pennsylvania.

We are an organization thatprovides shelter for abusedwomen and children, and we al-so have an advocacy program,said Lawrence.

For more information on theWomens Resource Center, visitwww.wrcnepa.org.

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Old Forge Police CaptainJames Krenitsky, 34, of OldForge,who hasbeen accused ofmolesting a 15-year-old girl in2005, was arraigned Thursday,May3, andremanded to Lacka-

wanna County Prison in lieu of$25,000 bail.

Krenitsky was arrested byPennsylvania State Police on

Wednesday, May 2, and hasbeen charged with involuntary

deviate sexual intercourse, in-decent assault and corruptionof a minor.

The woman accusing Krenit-sky went to the LackawannaCountydistrict attorneys officeon Wednesday, May 2, to report

thatwhenshe was 15 she was avictim of sexual assault by a

member of the Old Forge Bor-ough Police Department, ac-cording to a criminal com-plaint.

Thecomplaint states thatthevictim, now 23, became a mem-ber of the Old Forge Fire De-partment in September of2004.The fire department islo-cated at 310 S. Main St, OldForge,and isattachedto thepo-lice station.

Duringhertimeas a member

of the fire department, the vic-tim allegedly became friends

with Krenitsky, and the rela-tionship became sexual in early2005. A preliminaryhearing forKrenitsky has been scheduledfor Monday, May 9 at 11 a.m.

Police captain arrestedBy Don McGlynn

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Riverside Junior Senior High

Schools life skills students had

an in-houseprom on Wednesday,

May 2. Students took a limousine bus to

theRadisson Lackawanna Station Hotel,

700 Lackawanna Ave., Scranton for photos

and then drove back to the high school for

lunch and dancing.

The prom was arranged by the family and

consumer science class.

Charles "Chick" Hebden, 20, Taylor and Sam

Donohughe, 17, Taylor.

Kim Weidow, Stephanie McManus, Bernadine

Sabia, Deb Marchetta and Katie Onyon.

A day toREMEMBER

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Students who participated in the prom included Ana Sottile, Sam Lomeo, Ronnie Surplus, BreannBarr, Tiffany Brady, Troy Kempa, Larissa Petrosk, Christian Rivera, Kellie Nash, Amy Thubborn,

Adam Oakley, Charles (Chick) Hebden, Sam Donahue, Chris Delayo, Joe Gula, Julie Matthews,

Jamie Hallock, Cassie Staretz, Jason Shoemaker and Mary Margaret Smith

turn, agreed to lease the sta-dium for 30 years.

You wont have an en-closed,dark corridor with noview to the field, which is, ofcourse, what you have now,Schmittsaid.

Schmitt compared the an-ticipated look to the popularCoca-Cola Parkin Allentown,home of the InternationalLeague rival Lehigh ValleyIron Pigs, who replaced the

former Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons as the topaffiliate of the PhiladelphiaPhillies.

A power point presenta-tion helped Schmitt create apicture of thenew stadiumina more than half-hour de-scription of the project at thepublic hearing at the Scran-ton Cultural Center on April25.

Not much will remain of

the previous PNC Field,which originally opened asLackawanna County Stadi-um in1989.

Although the seats willbe removed andthe concretein the area will be refur-bished, the lower bowl struc-ture will remainin place.

The playing field, whichwas replaced two years ago,will remain as is.

The five-year-old homelocker room will be pre-served.

The parking lots and ex-isting utilities will be kept.

A groundskeepers bun-ker inleftfield also willbe re-tained.

Everything else will benew, Schmitt said. Gonewill be the entire existinghulking, steel structure andconcrete ramps.

Among what will be mis-sing will be the entire upperdeck and itssteep steps.

Apartylevel,includinglux-urysuitesand clubseats,willbe added where the currentluxurybox andpressboxlevelexists.

Schmittsaidthe designob-jectives were to create a 360-degree concourse, eliminatetheupper deck andprovide achoice of seating optionswhileimprovingthefan expe-riencewhile creating a signa-ture feature.

Thatsignaturefeature willbeblendingtheoutfieldwalk-wayintothe sideofthemoun-tain,whichprovidestheback-drop beyond theoutfield.

What we believe the sig-nature feature is now is theview out beyond the outfieldwall, Schmitt said. In thenew ballpark, we aim to en-hance thatfeature by extend-ing the main concoursearoundthe outfield, connect-ing it to the hillside, literallymarrying the hillside withthe ballpark.

So,thehillsideis notonlya backdrop but a part of thestadium.

Without the upper deck,the stadium seating will bereduced but the addition ofrailviewingand outfield lawnseating willleave itwitha ca-pacity of 10,000, matchingthe International Leaguesminimum requirement.

The lawn areas will be oneach side of the batters eye,thesolidwallbeyondthe cen-ter-field fence to create abackdrop for hitters. There

will also be a playgroundalong theconcourse incenterfield.

The rail viewing will beprovided alongside the con-coursearound the outfield.

There will be 7,500 fixedseats, Schmitt said. Thebalance will be made up bylawn seats and standing ar-eas.

The three sections behind

home plate will be premiumseatingthatis22incheswide.Those sections will beflanked with 20-inch wideseats. Beyond the dugouts,further down the foul lines,the seats will be 19 incheswide.

The renovations includeone that will have an impacton play.

Outfield dimensions re-main the same, but the wall

heightwillbe altered from itsexisting 14 feet to 8 feet, 5inches, the height at YankeeStadiumin NewYork.

Lowering the heightmakes it that much more ofan intimate experience forfans enjoying the gameagainst the rail in the out-field, Schmitt said, and, itdoes provide an opportunitythat doesnotexist todayforaplayerto takea stabat one ofthose dramatic plays wherehe robs a home run by reac-hing over thefence.

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payments for maintenanceandimprovements to the stadium.As the company brought in tomanage the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees, Mandalay hasbeen criticizedfor itsrolein de-clining attendance and a fail-ure to connect with local fans.

Matin insistedthosedaysaregone and, in a commitmentthat was not part of last weekspublic meetings about the sta-dium, said the rebuilt stadium

will honor the history of whichOBrien spoke.

We look at it and see this asa great marketing opportuni-ty, Matin said. Theres suchagreat baseball history.

Were actually in the newballpark going to build a heri-tage wall that reflects all thatall the way back to the variousteams that have played here,highlighting some of the play-ers and some of the special

events.Attendance reached its low-

est point in the 22-year historyof International League base-ball in the region during 2011and the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees are spendingthe entire 2012 season on theroadwhile borrowing tempora-ry home stadiums in six othercities.

The view of the 2013 season,

however, involved nothing butpromise Monday.This is a great day for Lack-

awanna County because itmarks the beginning of the re-birth of baseball in northeast-ern Pennsylvania along with acontinued partnership with

Mandalay Baseball and theNewYorkYankees, Lackawan-na County commissioner JimWansacz said.

Matinand NewYorkYankeeschief operating officer LonnTrost were among those whojoined local officials for theevent.

The parties worked throughlengthy negotiations to revisethe sales agreement for theteam to make it workas wellaspossible for all parties in-volved. Trost said this wasdone because it is somethingthat is important to the citi-zens, its importantto theecon-omy and its important for the

players that we are going tobring through our system.

We dont just want a placefor them to be and a place forthem to play. We want them tobe comfortable in an area.

Trost said the Yankees willseek public input to see if theteam should keep the nameYankees. If the public wants achange, he said the publicwould be polled a second timefor suggested names.

Matin said the search for thenext teampresident andgener-al manager is underway. He ishandling those responsibilitiesin the interim, in place of Kris-ten Rose, who has taken a newposition within Mandalay.

Its a very important role forthe team president to be out inthecommunityandbe more ac-cessible, Matin said, in a com-mitment to another change

from past Mandalay practices.Matin said the commitmentis in place for the constructioncrews to complete work by theApril 4, 2013 season openingwithout any need to ask the In-ternational League for sched-ule adjustments.

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Someone is going toget in big trouble for thisone.

They fell a sleep at thewheel. They z igged l eftwhen t hey s hould havezagged right. They just

plain messed up.Hollywood let The Avengers slip out.You see, certain executives with deep

pockets and shallow imaginations workvery ha rd to ruin perfectly good movies.

How many times have you gone into afilm based on an exciting trailer, only to

find the plot goes off on bizarre tangentswhile they s lap you wit h dial ogue writ-ten by a kindergartener? Just when youthought youd get a great action scene, itlasts only a few short moments. Justwhen you thought they f inally adaptedyour f avorite book or c omic a ccurately,

they add some useless character whocontributes nothing or take a beloved

one and suck all of his personality out.Thats thes e genius es at work .While yo ure thinking about a co hesive

story, well-developed characters, and asatisfying payoff, theyre thinking aboutdemographics, profit margins, and a verydifferent kind of payoff. They want tomaximize revenue while taking yourfavorite narrative and turning into abrand name they can slap on merchan-dise. Nobody understands this mentalitymore than comic book fans, who have

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Gary R. Rymans three-dec-adecareeras a firefightermayhave given him pride and awealt h of know ledge to passo n t o h i s s on , b ut i t a l soearned him a lot of stories.

The seco nd of three gener -ations of firefighters, the 50-year-o ld Sco tt Twp. resid entspent over 30 years riskinglife and limb in several states,including a run as chief of theScott Twp. Hose Company,and has been employed as afire protection engineer forover 25years. Nowin thetwi-light of his career as fire-fighter, Ryman spent aboutfour years chronicling hisfamilys tales in the Fire

Men: Stories from Three Gen-erations of a FirefightingFam-ily, released in April 2011.

I wanted to write downsome of the stories, some ofmy stories and some of thestories from my father, essen-tially just to capture them. Ihad no re al reason, and Ithought maybe it would besomethingdown theroad thatmy kids and maybe their kidswould ulti matel y be inte rest-

ed in. So I kept writing down

the individual stories, andwhen I had a littl e over 100pages and a lot more storiesyet to tell, it star ted to dawnon me that maybe this was re-ally just a book trying to getout, Ryman explained.

I was exposed to (firefight-ing) as I was growing up. Itwas some thin g that I alwayswant ed to do, enjoy ed immen -sely once I was able to get in-volv ed wi th i t, and some thin gthat I just continued to do ev-er since.

With a bach elor s d egree inFire Science from the Univer-sity of Maryland, he spent hisearly career in upstate NewYork learning from his firechief father, later battledflames in thesuburbsof Wash-

ington, D.C., and presentlymentors his son in the familybusiness.

Everyarea canhave uniquechallenges. I think, for exam-ple, in the area that I was inwhen I went to sch ool in Ma-ryland,we hada lotmore mul-tiple residencies in otherwords , garden apar tmentbuildings, townhouses, high-rise apartment buildings, andthe like. That can be contrast-

e d with Scott Township ,

where one of the major issu esthat we have to deal with iswater beca use of lack of firehydrants, Ryman noted.

Friends of mine who are inthe fire service have read itand they liked it because itmade them remember theirown experiences and theirown stories, and it brought

back things for them. Ive hadpeople read it without fire ser-vice experi ence and wha tthey liked about it was essen-tially being able to learn whatwe reall y do and some of thethings that we really see thatthe y had no e arthly i de aabout.

Despite his accomplish-ments, he admitted that hedidnt believehis bookwas go-ing to be published until he

wrote his name on the con-

tract after several changes inagents, editors, and publish-ers, finally publishing withTribute Boo ks in Archb ald.

There were a lot of storiesthat arent in the book that Iwrote . I just trie d to pick theones that I thought wouldhelp to paint the overall pic-ture. Obviously, some arehopefully amusing, some aretragic, and some are kind of inbetween. That was also partof it, trying to get a balance ora mix. It wasnt designed, ob-viou sly, to be a comp lete hu-mor book, but on the other

side of the coin, I dont think

anybody would want to sitdown and read a book thatwas just fille d with acc iden tand trauma after accident andtrauma, he recalled aboutthe writing process.

I think anybody in the fireservice that experiences anykind of serious incident, par-

A story worth tellingCareer firefighter participates in Writers Showcase at New Visions

Gary R. Ryman has been a

firefighter for three decades.

ByRICH HOWELLS

[email protected]: Writers Showcase withGary R. Ryman, Anne Henry,Patricia Florio, David Elliott, TomBlomain, and Bethany Gagas,hosted by Brian Fanelli and JasonLucarelliWhere: New Visions Studio andGalleryWhen: Saturday, May 12, 7 p.m.

Cost: Free, donations encouraged

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Dining out on a budgetdoesnt require coupons, espe-cially when local restaurants areslashing prices up to 50 percentduring Electric City Restaurant

Week.Modeled after New York

Citys Restaurant Week, ElectricCity Restaurant Week startedon Friday, May 4 and will runthrough Friday, May 18. Partici-pating restaurants throughoutthe Electric City area will beoffering a three-course fixed

meal for under $32, not in-cluding tax and gratuity.Prices will be guaranteed to

fit your budget with breakfast

meals under $8, lunch under$15 and three-course dinnersunder $32 per person. With 17restaurants participating, this isa great opportunity to try localrestaurants at a discountedprice.

The restaurants participatingare Anna Marias, Bella Faccias,Carl Von Lugers, Carmens,Caseys Corner, City Cafe, Doc

Magrogans Oyster House,Kellys Pub & Eatery, KildaresIrish Pub, Longworths FamilyRestaurant, Martinin Grill &Lounge, Posh at Scranton Club,Sambuca Italian Grille & Bar,

The Banshee Pub, TrolleysBistro and Whiskey Dicks.

Its a good idea to call andreserve seating to ensure theElectric City Restaurant Weekprice. For example, Posh atScranton Club is offering adiscounted $19.95 pre fix din-

ner menu from 5 to 6 p.m.including a salad, entree anddessert.

To view the special menu for

all restaurants, visit ElectricCi-tyRW.com.

I have mentioned in the pasthow important it is to supportlocal businesses, especiallyrestaurants. This is a greatopportunity for people to trysome of the top local restau-rants while staying on a budget.So grab some friends and sup-port local restaurants whilesatisfying your taste buds andgrabbing a great deal.

If youve been to any of the

restaurants participating inElectric City Restaurant Weekshare your thoughts about them

with us at facebook.com/go-

lackawanna.Posh at Scranton Club is

selling lunch for $9, dinner for$19.95; City Caf, lunch $15;Carl Van Lugers, lunch $15,dinner $32; Bella Faccias, lunch$15; Hilton, breakfast buffet $8,lunch $10, dinner $29; DocMagrogans, lunch $15, dinner$28; Carmens, dinner $32;Kellys Pub & Eatery, lunch $15;Kildares, lunch $15, dinner $25;Sambuca Italian Grille & Bar,dinner $32; Martini Grill, din-

ner $32; The Banshee Pub,lunch $13.50, dinner $24 andStinkys Chili Prix Fixe Meal$6.95.

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endured over a decade of non-stopblockbuster adaptations of their fa-

vorite superheroes and villain stomixed results. Sometimes we getIron Man, but most times we getSpider-Man 3.

Even with the best of the best ofthese movies, we make certain com-promises with the big-screen por-trayals of these beloved icons. Weaccept the excuses from suits all thetime who say, Well, this cant be likethe comic because We accept thattheyre two different storytelling me-diums. We accept budgetary limits,time constraints, and simply thattheyre going to change things. Wemust not accept these as the stan-dard. Not anymore.

Writer/Director Joss W hedon isone of us, and it shows. The Aven-gers is two hours and 22 minutes ofexactly what fans have been askingfor. Its funny, its sad, its shocking,its heartfelt, and its fun. Its not somemigraine-inducing, sloppy mess that

warrants an in stant reboot two yea rs

later. Its not some mishmash of ideasby 15 different script writers directedby some hack known for buddy come-dies or cheesy kids movies. But Idigress this is a time to celebrate,not to dwell on past grievances.

The Avengers, as if you hadntalready heard, is the story of how sixheroes, each introduced in previousMarvel Studios films, must band to-gether under the direction of a secre-tive law enforcement agency calledS.H.I.E.L.D. to fight an invading alien

army that was brought to Earth by apower-hungry madman with god-likepowers. As Im sure youve also heard,

this is kind of a big deal because thisis the first time this has ever beendone with the rights to many comiccharacters spread out across manydifferent studios, it has been legallyimpossible for most characters tomeet in the same movie, and while

crossovers are common in the s ourcematerial, theyre usually too busytelling one person or teams tale infilm to add any more characters todeal with.

This movie not only does so, butdoes it well. Each Avenger is given amoment to shine, and some in ways

you w ouldnt antic ipate. The a rrogantIron Man shows that hes vulnerable.Bruce Banner, a.k.a. the Hulk, findsthat being sad and lonely isnt all itscracked up to be. Black Widow provesthat women dont always have to beportrayed as sensitive, defenselesseye-candy. Hawkeye has an interest-ing role in the first half of the filmthat I wont spoil, and he spends therest of the time proving that archersare actually quite useful on a teamthat can harness lightning and crushbuildings. Even tough guy Nick Furyshows that he has a conscience.

To to p it all o ff, Captain America istrying to adapt to a world hes dec-

ades removed from while Thor ishoping to reconnect and reason withhis adopted brother, Loki, who ishell-bent on destroying the world heloves. Combine all these subplots

with the fact that none of t hese peo-ple can just get along long enough tosave the world and youve got all thedramatic struggles and flaws thathave been built into these charactersfor decades on full display. Ive knownthem for that long, yet I was still gen-uinely surprised throughout the dura-

tion of the film, completely thrown offtime after time with few moments torecover.

Its also one of the only movies Iveseen that looks and feels more like acomic book rather than an actionmovie starring su perheroes. We notonly get absolutely epic action se-quences where each ch aractersunique traits and abilities are on dis-

play, but we also get to see heroesbattling each other before taking onthe bad guys, a standard in the comicsthan always keeps readers debating

who would win in a fight . Th ey al ldon costumes that actually resembletheir comic counterparts, and theiractions exemplify what makes eachindividual great.

Most importantly, the heroes arereally good and the villains are reallybad. The stakes are high and casu-alties are suffered. The one -liners aregenuinely witty, and the plot and itsmany subplots remain interesting.You may think these would be givens,but theyre really not anymore. It alsocompletely avoids the usual clichstory arc of:

1. Hero gets or discovers powers.2. Hero learns to deal with these

powers.3. Hero meets villain, who is usu-

ally someone his or her alter ego isconnected to.

4. Villain also comes into power,but uses it for evil or is driven mad byit.

5. Hero reluctantly fights villain.6. Villain dies so he or she cant

come back for a sequel for no goodreason.

Its not perfect, of course, as TheAvengers takes for granted that

youve s een a ll th e previo us f ilmsleading up to it and can easily losethose who dont speak science fictionmumbo jumbo in parts. After an ac-

tion-filled opening, the first act startsout slow until it punches into hy-perdrive, which can be overwhelming

at times, but usually in a good way.And while the main conflict is actual-ly quite simple, theres so little tonitpick because therere just so manymemorable moments thrown at youthat you dont care. Ive been on rol-lercoasters that were less exciting and

emotionally stimulating than thiswas, so w hen Whedon throws in ad d-ed bonuses like the S.H.I.E.L.D. Hel-icarrier and a hidden villain, you trulycant ask for more.

Well, maybe you c an, but not fromthis installment in franchise film-making. As I said before, this is atriumph for the filmmakers, cast, andcrew, but Hollywood screwed up

when they released this one b ecaus e,from now on, these types of movies

will consta ntly be h eld u p the specta -cle that is The Avengers. Theyllactually have to hire real screenwrit-ers now with real directors to bringthese ambitious scripts to life. Theaction sequences will no longer be afew punches followed by a few explo-sions. The actors will all have to seemlike they were born to play their rolesas they deliver lines that will be quot-ed throughout pop culture for gener-ations to come.

Thats wi shful thinki ng, of c ourse,

but considering the overwhelmingfinancial success of the movie duringis opening weekend, combined withrecord-setting reception in overseasmarkets, I think a few of those emptysuits will be forced to take notice. Youcan pump out Green Lantern orGhost Rider and make a few quickbucks, sure, but if you want the kindof haul that would make Donald

Trump enviou s, y ouve got to bu ckconventions and give the peoplesomething they havent seen before.

At the very least, give us anotherone of th ese. Weve waited longenough.

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It may come as a surprise tomany that Rob Zombie, theseven-time Grammy-nomi-nated musician known forsongs like Dragula andLiving Dead Girl and ac-

claimed filmmaker behindHouse of 1,000 Corpses, TheDevils Rejects, and twosuccess-ful reinterpretations of the culthorror film franchise Hallo-ween, doesnt really celebratethat very holiday, even though it

also happens to be his own wed-ding anniversary.

Neither of ushave even thoughtabout it, Zombieadmitted during arecent phone inter-view,referring to hiswife. Probablysomewhere aroundthe 29th of Octoberwell go, Oh, crap,you know what? 10years! We kindof al-ways forget.

Neither can beblamed, however,considering how much the Boo-gieManhasbeenuptolately.Lastyear, he was busy shooting TheLords of Salem, an upcominghorror movie about a coven ofwitches in Salem, Mass. that isslated to be released sometimethis year.

Itisverydifferent.Igottogeth-er with my cinematographer andwe talked about it for an endlessamountof time beforewestarted.Mostly it was just the approachstylistically. The other films Iveshot for the most part, especiallyDevils Rejects and HalloweenII,wereverygritty.IshotthemonSuper 16; it was all handheld. Itwas supposed to feel really raw,but because of not wanting to re-peat myself, I didnt necessarily

think that style would fit the mo-vie I was making this time be-cause it wasa much more deliber-

ately paced, slow burn of a mo-vie, said Zombie.It wasnt this sort of in-your-

face, violent movie, so we wentfor a more just stylized approach,art direction-wise and camera-wise, wherethecamera isntshak-ing and sort of flying around. Ev-erythings very symmetrical andcomposed andsmoothand differ-ent.

Currently, he is on a co-headlin-ing tour with Megadeth, which

will bemakinga stopat theToyo-ta Pavilion at Mon-tage Mountain inScranton on May12.This marks the firsttime the heavy met-al acts have touredtogether since the90s, although thistime will likely be amuch more enjoya-ble experience forthe hardrock singer.

I guess bothbands have run outof people to tourwith. We both went

down our list on their list, thelast person was Rob Zombie, andmylist,IguessthelastpersonwasMegadeth. I said, Lets do it, hejoked.

Back in thosefew shows I didwithMegadeth, thats when I wasin White Zombie,whichwas, you

know, even at its best moments,never that fun, truthfully, andnow its great, so I think rightnow, the band I have and every-thingwedo and our showandthewhole world around us is just amillion times better than it everwas, so its all good.

Unlike his first band, Zombieexudes excitement when he talksabout theline-upof hisspectacle-laden solo act.

I have a band where everybo-

dy is a freak, essentially. Its hard SUBMITTED PHOTO

Rob Zombie will be performing at Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain on May 12.

ZOMBIENEVER SLEEPSRocker coming to Pavilion May 12By RICHHOWELLS [email protected]

See ZOMBIE, Page 22

What: Rob Zom-bie, Megadeth,and Lacuna CoilWhere: ToyotaPavilion at Mon-tage Mountain,1000 MontageMountainRd,Scranton

When: May12, 8p.m.Cost: $44-66.50

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Ave., Scranton. Info: (570)969-1040, www.artistsforar-t.org.

Intramurals,10 artists refereed byChristopher Moss, continuesthrough May.

ArtWorks Gallery and Studio,503 Lackawanna Ave., Scran-ton. Info: (570) 207-1815,www.artworksnepa.com.

Round Two: sculptures and paint-ings from recycled materials byShirley Thomas.

Bs Floral Design, Inc. 131 Penn

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The Bog, 341 Adams Ave., Scran-ton. Info: (570) 341-6761,www.thebogscranton.com.

Spirited Animals work by TroyWeston.

Chocolate Creations, CangianosItalian Specialties, FerroneWinery, and Realty NetworkGroup, 400 Spruce St., Scran-ton. Info: (570) 207-2667,www.mycangianos.com.

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jewelry.City Caf, 116 N. Washington

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Urban Impressions featuringmixed media, watercolor por-trait commissions by MarishaLozada.

Duffy Accessories, 218 LindenSt., Scranton. Info: (570)941-0411.

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Electric City Tattoo Gallery, 618

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Asian Fusion, works by MikeFrenchko.

The Fanciful Fox, 342 AdamsAve., Scranton. Info: (570)558-3001, www.fancifulfox-

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Spinyl Vinyl a collection of work

made out of reconstructedvinyl records created by Mary-wood University students.

Hilton Scranton and ConferenceCenter,100 Adams Ave.,Scranton. Info: (570) 343-3000, www.hilton.com.

Works by Josef Selvin.Jersey Style Subs, 401 Spruce

St., Scranton. Info: (570)955-0282, www.jerseystyle-subs.comcastbiz.net.

Art on the Wall, works by EdwardKucha and Joseph Paciotti.

The Keys, 244 Penn Ave.,Scranton. Info: (570) 344-3388, www.thekeysscran-ton.com.

Flesh and Bone, works of SeanCostello.

Kildares Irish Pub, 119 JeffersonAve., Scranton. Info: (570)344-4030, www.kildaresirish-pub.com.

Works of Jessica Smallwood.Laura Craig Gallery, 307 Linden

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American Heartland pastels and

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Living in Colour by Denise Tho-mas.

Mission Yoga, 544 Spruce St.,Scranton. Info: (570) 346-9642, www.mission-yo-ga.com.

Splintered, works of Tory Utt.New Visions Studio and Gallery,

201Vine St., Scranton. Info:(570) 878-3970, www.new-

visionsstudio.com.Scratchboard illustrations by Bri

Hermanson, blown glass sculp-tures by Michael Swanson andphotographs by Timmy Walsh.

Pierres Fine Clothing and Ac-cessories, 424 Spruce St.,Scranton. Info: (570) 346-0779.

Material Girl, works by SarahEdwards.

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Works by William Freeman.

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A SOCIAL STATE PLAYS 570 FEST

Scranton based band A Social State will be one of 15bands performing at the 570 Fest on Sunday, May 6

at The Wilkes Barre Jewish Community Center. Theconcert will start at noon. Cost is $6, a portion of theproceeds raised will go towards a fund to send chil-dren to summer camp.


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finding band members because

you need many things fromthem. First off, the easiest thingis to find somebody who canplay their instrument well.Thats the easiest thing becausetheres a million great guitarplayers and a million greatdrummers wherever. But thenyouve got to find somebodywho you can getalong withandthen youve got to find some-body who looks cool onstage

and knows howto performandthen somebody who gets thevibe of what youre doing, heexplained.

Nobody has toput on an act to bepart of the band.Theyre all genuine-ly just a bunch ofweirdoes. Theyreall super talented,too, so on top ofthat, I get the best

bassplayer, the bestguitar player, andthe best drummerIveeverhad,so Ivereallyhitthejackpotonthisone.It really felt like pulling a slotmachine boom, boom boom.

Riding those positives vibes,heplansto jump rightbackintothestudio to record onehis dar-kest and heaviest albums yet asa follow-up to the long-awaitedHellbilly Deluxe2.

IthinkImatapointinmyca-reer that a lot of people get atwhere we go out and play are-nas, tour huge, make tons ofmoney, andit doesnt even mat-ter if we ever even make a re-cord. Youre sort of established.Youve got enough songs andenough records through thepipeline that it doesnt mat-terIts the best time tosayLets just make a (exple-

tive) crazy record! he en-thused.Not that we havent done

thatinthepast,butinthepast,itwas more of a thought like, youknow, youre trying to get yourvideo on MTV. Youre trying toget a song played on the radio.Youre tryingto do these thingsbecauseyoure sortof still build-ing your career then, and I feellikeImalwaysbuildingit, butacertain chunk of it now seems

very solid And it also seemslike that weird thing, like rightat the moment where you go,

Were going to make a crazy,(expletive) record, thats the re-cord that becomes your big re-cord.

As when he was creating hisfirst album,he now feels likehehas the creative freedom to go

down whatever dark path hechooses.

Theres always demands puton you becauseonceyoureon arecord label, youre selling re-cords and theyre giving youmoney andyouresortof part ofthemachine. Thereis an expec-tation to deliver. Thats just thereality of it all. And now I dontfeel that way anymore, so I feellike somehow, and this goes

back to the guys in the band, itjust seems like the perfect timeto make the perfect record.

With music, movies, anima-tion, and televisioncommercials underhis belt and an up-coming web serieson the NerdistYouTube channelon theway,it seemshis creativityknows no limits.

I always talkaboutthis. I haventmade any attemptsto do this yet, al-

though I might at somepoint.Ireally thinkthat House of1,000Corpseswouldmakefor a greatBroadway play, a musical, be-cause its so ridiculous that I re-ally think that it falls right per-fectly somewhere in betweenHairspray and Young Franken-steinand Rocky HorrorPicture

Show. So thats a goal for oneday, he said.

Zombies legacy, however, heleaves up to his macabre audi-ence,ashehonestlydoesntcarewhat hes ultimately remem-bered for.

It really doesnt matter tome. Onething for sure ispeopleremember its amazing whatpeople remember. Thats thefunniestthingIwasthinkingasI

wassittingin thekitcheneatingand a Charlie Chaplin moviecameonTVandImlike,OhmyGod,silentmoviesright on TV,he recalled.

It seems like nothing is everforgotten, even obscure things.You see kids walking aroundwearingt-shirtsof obscurepunkrock bands that broke up 20years ago that you cant believethey everevenheard of.So, youknow, whatever. Someday they

build a drive-in theater on themoon, itll be good theyllshow allmy movies.

ZOMBIEContinued from page 20

Nobody has toput on an act to

be part of theband. Theyreall genuinely

just a bunch ofweirdoes.

F

irst Friday Scranton held its monthly artwalk this past Friday, May 4, and a new

addition to the event was a special per-formance by the Jason Miller Playwright

Project (JMPP).JMPP performedthe shortplay"I I I MeMe Me

I I I" four times Friday night. The play tells thestory of four characters dealing with the impend-ing end of the world. Each is dealing with this intheir own way, and they are so wrapped up inthemselves,and their ownissues,theyrenot com-municating with each other.

Staging "I I I Me Me Me I I I" seemed appropri-ate with Apocalypse being the theme for theJMPPs second annual local playwrights invita-

tional, Dyonisia 12, which will run the last twoweeks of September.

First Friday also gave the group a platform toannounce the fall event, and a chance to encour-agelocal writers to submit one-pageproposals forDyonisia 12, for their own short play with thesame theme.

In betweenperformances,volunteers wereseenhanding out flyers with program guidelines and alist of other upcoming events.

The deadline for Dyonisia 12 proposals is Sun-day, May 20. In addition to proposals for shortplays, JMPP is also interested in proposals for

multimediapiecesand scripts forfull-lengthplaysfor its 2013 season.

For moreinformation on Dyonisia12, or anyof

JMPPs future productions, visit http://nepa-playwrights.wordpress.com or email [email protected].

Melissa Homboski and Troy Weston at the Bog. Kathy Fox and Maria Lawrence at Fanciful Fox.

First Friday welcomes JMPP

GO LACKAWANNA/JASONRIEDMILLER

Maggie OBrien, Jenny Hill and Andrea Talarico performed in "I I I Me Me Me I I I.

Kayleigh Cornell on Adams Ave., Scranton.


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First Friday Scranton Exec-utive Director Jeff Borissaid he thinks its going to

be hard for someone to leave thethird annual First Friday Scran-ton Art Auction at the ScrantonCultural Center, on Friday, May11, empty handed.

Boris prediction is fueledmainly by the abundance of itemsthose in attendance will have to

choose from, including an esti-mated 40 pieces of art on theauction block, a silent auctionfeaturing gift certificates andmerchandise and a wine pull.

If you show up to the auc-tion, for the most part, I wouldsay (almost) every single per-son will come away with some-thing, said Boris.

The art auction serves as afundraiser for First Friday

Scranton, with a portion of theproceeds raised going to theartists of the pieces being auc-tioned off and First FridayScranton collecting the rest.In addition to a monthly art

walk, held the first Friday of ev-ery month with art galleries andbusinesses around downtownScranton displaying work, thenot-for-profit organization alsoprovides trolley bus service and amonthly guide for First Friday.

Now in its third year, First Fri-day Scranton has done what theycan to keep the art auction fresh.This year that meant moving thelocation of the auction from theMAC Gallery on Wyoming Ave.,in Scranton, where the event washeld its first two years, to the

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Michael Lamberts "Under Wa-

ter" will be up for auction at FirstFriday Scranton Art Auction.

Cultural Center hostsFirst Friday Art

Auction

By Don McGlynn

[email protected]

What: FirstFriday ScrantonArt AuctionWhen: Friday,May11 from 6 to9 p.m.Where: ScrantonCultural Center,Cost: $10Info: www.first-

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Laws and Institutions

must go hand in hand with

the progress of the human

mind, Sir Francis Bacon.

Laws can be found in

institutions such as librar-

ies. This is a good thing

because public libraries,

often called The Peoples

University, are open toeveryone free-of-charge

regardless of background

or income.

The Albright Memorial Li-brary makes it possible foreveryone, attorneys or laymen,to find law resources quicklyand easily. Law publicationssuch as the U.S Code, Code of

Federal Regulations, PurdonsPennsylvania Statutes andConsolidated Statutes Annotat-ed, Pennsylvania Code, West-law, and other titles can all befound in the Reference Depart-ment.

The Albright Memorial Li-brary has been a governmentdocuments library since 1895so we have a wide array ofFederal legal resources.

The United States Code is acollection of books of the per-manent laws of the UnitedStates. The Code of FederalRegulations is another federalgovernment legal resource thatcontains permanent regula-tions of different agencies inthe government. The libraryalso has United States Reportsstarting in 1936 which containcases presented before TheUnited States Supreme Court.

The last of the federal govern-ment legal resources are theStatutes at Large. Every law,public and private, ever enact-ed by the Congress is publish-ed in this resource in order ofthe date of its passage. Thelibrarys collection begins withthe 1960 edition and continuesthrough the present.

The library also has a greatcollection of Pennsylvania legal

resources. One of the mostpopular is the Purdons Penn-sylvania Statutes, which con-

tain legislative branch actions.

Another series of books called

the Pennsylvania Code con-

tains judicial and executive

rules and regulations. The

Pennsylvania Reporter can be

used to find cases heard before

the Supreme Court, Superior

Court and District Courts.Other state resources available

in the Reference Department

include the Pennsylvania Ten-

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Pennsylvania Domestic Rela-

tions Lawsource.

Something many may not

know is that the popular online

legal database, Westlaw, is

available for free at the library.

Westlaw allows the user online

access to state and federal law

cases that can be searched by

case citation or by keyword.

Law forms and some of the

librarys print collection are

also accessible through West-

law. One of the most useful

features of Westlaw feature is

the nutshell books on legal

materials. These books are

reference sources that providequick and to-the-point informa-

tion about legal issues. Some of

the topics covered include real

estate finance, American legal

system, and elder law.

The library has many other

legal titles, both in the Refer-

ence Department and in the

Adult Departments circulating

collection. Upcoming additions

to the Reference collection

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Yourself in Court: How to Pre-

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If you have any questions

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All of these services are free

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get one today.

Albright is the placefor legal resources

500 VINE

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ctors Circle will

present NightMother starting

Thursday, May 10 at the

Providence Playhouse in

Scranton.

Written by Marsha Nor-

man, Night Mother,

winner of the 1983 Pulitz-

er Prize, explores the sub-

jectsof suicideand a tensemother-daughter rela-

tionship.

The play tells the story ofThelma Cates, who is settling

downfor anordinary,comfort-able evening with her di-

vorced daughter, Jessie, whoannounces that at the end ofthe evening, she plans to killherself.

Thelmatries everything shecan think of to get Jessie tochange her mind, and Jessietries equally hard to get hermotherto accepther decision,and be prepared for the after-math.

Along the way, the twowome n prob e int o the irpast and into every phase of

their relationship, with re-sults that are by turns sur-

prising, moving, and evenhumorous.

Directed by John McIner-ney, Actors Circle will stagethe show Friday through Sat-urday, May 11 to 13 and 18 to20, there will also be a pre-

view show Thursday, May 10.Thursday, Friday and Satur-day shows begin at 8 p.m.,Sunday shows begin at2 p.m.

Cost is $12 for general ad-mission, $10 for senior citi-zens and $8 for students.

For more information, call342.9707.

Actors Circle presents Night Mother

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Curtain call

Studio.comPenns Peak, 325 Maury Rd.,

Jim Thorpe, Info: (866)605-7325, pennspeak.com.

Dennis DeYoung, May12, 8 p.m.,

Cost: $42.75-$48.25.Toyota Pavilion at Montage

Mountain, 1000 Montage

Mountain Rd., Scranton.

Dave Matthews Band, May 28, 7p.m., $53.35-$89.90.

Taylor Community Library, 710

South Main St., Taylor. Info:

562.1234

Local author John J. Zelenskiwill have a reading from his

book Walkers Vale on Sat-urday, May 19 from 1 to 3 p.m.Following the reading Zelenskiwill take part in a discussion,question and answer sessionand a book signing. The bookis a work of fiction which takesplace in Pennsylvania and is asupernatural thriller. Copies ofthe book will be available forpurchase.

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Marywood University will present a group exhibition featuring five graduate students in

Mahady Gallery located on the first floor of the Shields Center for Visual Arts on theUniversitys campus. The exhibition will be on display through June 15. The group exhibi-tion features Master of Fine Arts candidates John Kolbek and Kelly Ufkin, painting; Sar-rah F. Dibble, art education; Niko J. Kallianiotis, photography and Georgia Test, ceramics.Summer gallery hours are Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more informationor directions, call 348.6211 ext. 2428 or visit www.marywood.edu/galleries.

ticularly those involving

children or neighbors orpeople they know or any-thing like that, is affected byit in one way or another. Ithink that to a certain de-gree it, and I talked aboutthis in the book a little bit,h ard en s y ou t o c er ta inthings, and on the othersideof the coin, it makes you

want to avoi d cert ain thi ngs.For example, you have to

work thro ugh the se inc i-dents and you have to re-main focused on them in or-der to do the job, but be-cause of doing all thi s, Iguess, I dont find movies or

TV sho ws whe re the boy sdog gets shot entertaining.Sad things like that I justavoid because I ve see nenough real world tragedythat I really dont go lookingfor it on TV for entertain-

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