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Pennsylvania National about 20.4 feet, which is below facilities, 3A mal routine is the name of the Guard troops assisted with traffic the natural flood stage. • Farmers not defeated 3A game. control and contractors using Bekanich said emergency • Businesses back to work, 3A • Supplies collected, loans And that even meant deliver- heavy equipment and dump management workers were field- available, 4A ing mail on Sunday in areas that trucks worked in the hardest hit ing resource requests, and most • Wilkes-Barre update, 5A hadn’t been accessible over the neighborhoods. people in areas not protected by • La. man living here remind- past few days. For the first time in days, the levee system were returning ed of Katrina, 5A • Flood doesn’t stop love, 5A Cleanup got under way in ear- County Emergency Manage- to their homes, with the excep- • Images from area, 6A BILL TARUTIS/FOR THE TIMES LEADER nest from West Pittston to Shick- ment Coordinator Stephen Be- • Road closures, 12A Residents of River Road in Falls, Wyoming County, look over what shinny in all the areas affected by kanich said Sunday, there hadn’t SeeFLOOD, Page 5A once were riverfront homes on Sunday afternoon. Adecade later, Sept. 11 attacks marked locally, nationally, globally CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK/FOR TIMES LEADER Jeff Doggett and his son Michael attended the vigil. Mass, vigil marks 9/11 anniversary By CAMILLE FIOTI Times Leader Correspondent DALLAS TWP. – More than 150 students, faculty, staff and members of the community packed the University Chapel at Misericordia University to mark the 10th anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, during a special remembrance Mass, followed by a candle- light vigil at the Peace Pool. “This day is calling us to re- member the tragic events of Sept.11,” said university chap- AP PHOTO lain Don Williams. “We will Awoman at the National Sept. 11 Memorial in New York on Sunday mourns the loss of her son, who died in the attacks at the World Trade Center on honor those who died by our Sept. 11,2001. generous acts of charity.” He asked attendees to join him in blessing the 51 student members of the campus min- istry as they gathered on the altar. One by one, the mem- Ten years of tears bers introduced themselves and described the charitable work they do in the communi- ty. By SAMANTHA GROSS In New York, Washington and lost to her family and her friends,” Williams also asked for and LARRY NEUMEISTER Pennsylvania, across the United INSIDE Rhodes said after she read a segment prayers for the victims of the Associated Press States and the world, people carried • Images of the day, 7A of the list of the dead at ground zero. recent flooding. More than EW YORK — Deter- out rituals now as familiar as they are • Show of faith with good works, “Today we honor her by letting go of 500 Misericordia students mined never to for- heartbreaking: American flags un- 8A the sadness over losing her and em- volunteered to help at the furled at the new World Trade Center • Hazleton event honors 9/11, 8A bracing the joy of having known her.” temporary shelters set up in Nget but perhaps • Walk of Honor salutes a hero, tower and the Eiffel Tower, and tears It was the 10th time the nation has the campus’ Anderson Center 8A ready to move on, the nation shed at the base of the Pentagon and • Shanksville ceremony, 9A paused to remember a defining day. and Dallas Middle School, he gently handed Sept. 11 over abase in Iraq. • America pauses to remember, In doing so, it closed a decade that said. President Barack Obama quoted 9A produced two wars, deep changes in Junior Tori Flormann, 20, to history Sunday and etched the Bible and spoke of finding • Volunteers seek post-9/11unity, national security, shifts in everyday and Sophomore Dina Boyer, its memory on a new gener- strength in fear. George W. Bush, still 9A life — and, months before it ended, 19 sang the hymns during the new to the presidency that day, in- • World remembers with us, 14A the death at American hands of the service. Flormann said she ation. A stark memorial took • Unease, confidence for trav- voked the national sacrifice of the elers, 14A elusive terrorist who masterminded was in her fifth-grade class- its place where twin towers Civil War. Vice President Joe Biden the attack. room at Woodland Regional once stood, and the names of said hope must grow from tragedy. The anniversary took place under School in Prospect, Conn., And Jessica Rhodes talked about compassion, and suggested that heightened security. In New York when the Twin Towers were the lost resounded from chil- her niece, Kathryn L. LaBorie, the now, 10 years on, it is time to turn a and Washington especially, author- hit. “I remember all of a sud- dren too young to remember lead flight attendant on the plane corner. ities were on alert. Ahead of the anni- den the teachers seemed un- terror from a decade ago. that hit the south tower. She remem- “Although she may not ever be bered a radiant smile and infinite found, she will never ever be See9/11, Page 14A SeeVIGIL, Page 8A ANEWS BSPORTS Television 6 WEATHER INSIDE Local3Weather 8 Puzzles 7 Obituaries 10 CCLICK Comics 8 Partly sunny, a shower Editorials 13 Birthdays 3 DCLASSIFIED High 75, low 58. Details, PAGE 8B 6 0981510011 K PAGE 2A MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12,2011T➛ timesleader.com HE TIMES LEADER www.timesleader.com High water raises understanding DETAILS LOTTERY MIDDAY DRAWING Iam a weath- events of the past 40 years. blockage of those tunnels or a say thank you Army Corps of DAILY NUMBER 8-1-2 er geek. During Agnes I was a teenag- failure of the Huntsville Reser- Engineers. BIG FOUR 2-4-8-8 Iwasn’t born JOE er and she was an adolescent. voir Dam -- a high-risk structure We walk on it, skate on it, sled QUINTO 6-0-6-5-4 that way. But I We didn’t know each other then, because of the homes and struc- on it, watch fireworks from it. TREASURE HUNT was baptized in BUTKIEWICZ but we had the same experience. tures downstream -- could im- We take it for granted most of 07-08-21-22-26 the river of We suffered and sacrificed and pact Kingston from the uphill the time. On Friday that big experience of OPINION worked, but the upheaval pro- side. lump of land we call the levee NIGHTLY DRAWING 1972. vided a sense of adventure to And while the river stage system saved the collective Back then I was carefree, my tracks. Literally. My heart kids our age. reached just 34.14 feet during backside of lots of people. Yes DAILY NUMBER 1-3-0 careless 14-year-old living in sank. A lump filled my throat. We remember the 1975 high 2006, according to the gauge, sir, I will pay my levee fee with- BIG FOUR 8-3-5-7 Kingston at the time of Tropical Ihaven’t forgotten what a water, when folks still recover- this past record-setting crest has out complaint. QUINTO 1-0-2-1-3 Storm Agnes and the defining flood did to this valley. I remem- ing from Agnes walked the levee made it apparent the gauge can That levee did not save every- CASH FIVE flood of the Wyoming Valley. In ber the smell of the mud, and top to look at the river crest at be as fickle as the weather. one, however. Residents in West 01-08-26-28-43 our collective memory it was a the heaviness of the effort. I 35.06 feet -- authorities didn’t Age and experience, alas, have Pittston, Plains Township, Du- high-water event, and if Tropical know the numbers: Thirty eight stop people from doing that eroded my arrogance if not my ryea, West Nanticoke, Shickshin- HARRISBURG – Two players Storm Lee sent the river to the would be the second-highest back then -- with a battle-weary confidence. This time we evac- ny, Falls and Tunkhannock and matched all five winning highest recorded level ever in level ever. The predicted rise swagger. uated. I went to the office, tem- other communities have suf- numbers drawn in Sunday’s Wilkes-Barre, the flooding of was steep. This wasn’t going to We lived in Kingston for the porarily in a hotel conference fered devastation that is com- “Pennsylvania Cash 5” and 1972 remains the most devas- be good.