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Your Award-Winning News Source for the Upper Delaware River Valley Region Since 1975 Vol. 42 No. 41 Q OCTOBER 13-19, 2016 Q www.riverreporter.com Q $1.50 Sullivan West prepares for mock election Social Studies teacher talks shop By FRITZ MAYER AKE HUNTINGTON, NY — John Ogozalek has been teaching for 29 years, and this election year Lhe is teaching Social Studies to four classes of se- niors, and he also has an eighth grade class. Asked which way the students tend to lean politically he said, “I hear kids on both sides, for Hillary Clinton, for Donald Trump, even a little bit for Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate, so my sense is that it pret- ty much mirrors what you would find talking on the street on Main St. Narrowsburg or at Ted’s Diner in Jeffersonville.” He said when he’s teaching about the election he cov- ers the issues, the candidates and the process. He said, “We’ve been following this since before December last year because it started so early.” In an interview that was conducted in late Septem- ber, Ogozalek said he also teaches the students about the process regarding the Electoral College. “You can’t assume kids understand it, it’s complicated,” he said. “There will also be a contest students can sign up for, and whoever predicts most accurately what the final Electoral College vote will be will win a prize—per- haps a bag of chips.” TRR photo by Jonathan Fox This year, as there was in 2012, there will be a school- wide mock election, which is being organized by a se- nior student who is performing her community service Honeybee Fest abuzz assignment for Ogazalek’s class; the vote is tentatively scheduled for about a week before Election Day, which ARROWSBURG, NY — A parade featuring the tivities throughout the day, including a panel discussion is on November 8. 85-piece marching band from Wallenpaupack Area about bees at the Tusten Theatre. In the spirit of the day, As for the mock election itself, Ogozalek says, as in NSchool marched through Narrowsburg on October many revelers showed up dressed as bees. 2012, his sense is that the poll of the students does not 8 as part of the second annual Honeybee Fest. For more on the event, see photos on page 17, and Jona- look that much different from a poll of their parents. There was a beekeeping class and other bee-inspired ac- than Fox’s In My Humble Opinion column on page 21. Continued on page 3 SPANNING 2 STATES, 4 COUNTIES, AND A RIVER THAT UNITES US NEWS: CURRENTS: Mannequin Visit a bog in goes missing an Elevator 4 18 2 • OCTOBER 13-19, 2016 THE RIVER REPORTER IN BRIEF Baker’s office a Toys for Tots Honesdale Scenic Byway Visitor Center collection site HAWLEY, PA — Sen. Lisa Baker has announced that funding denied her Lake Wallenpaupack Office is a collection site for approves hospital ALBANY, NY — The New York State Department of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program. Transportation (DOT) has informed the Upper Dela- New, unwrapped toys can be placed in a donation box ware Scenic Byway (UDSB) that funding for the pro- in the lobby of the office, located in the lower level of expansion plan posed visitors center in Narrowsburg has been denied. the Lake Wallenpaupack Visitors Center, 2512 Rte. 6, Ron Epstein, an assistant commissioner with DOT, between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Fri- By LINDA DROLLINGER wrote in a October 11 email, “While this project is day, except holidays. meritorious and will contribute to revitalizing and The toys will be accepted until December 13. At that ONESDALE, PA — To an agenda laced with 2017 transforming your community, unfortunately this time, the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve coordinator will budget preparation, the October 10 meeting of the project was not advanced under this particular fund- pick up these toys and take them to a central storage Honesdale Borough Council added progress re- H ing opportunity.” facility where other donated toys from other area col- ports on three sizeable long-term projects: the proposed The funding to build the center was in place for sev- lection points will be sorted by age and gender. On De- hospital expansion; the Central Park veterans’ memo- eral years, but was withdrawn after the project bogged cember 17 and 18, the program coordinator invites the rial; and renovation of the borough’s Fair Avenue public down for various reasons. parents of the less fortunate children in Wayne and swimming-pool complex. A DOT spokesman did not immediately respond to a Pike counties to pick out toys that their children would The council unanimously (minus absent Bill Canfield) request to learn which projects had been funded with like, ensuring that no child goes without Christmas in approved Wayne Memorial Hospital’s (WMH) expansion the “idle earmark funding.” our area. plan, as submitted for its consideration at a September Toys for Tots of Wayne and Pike County served over 26 conditional-use hearing. Construction can begin as 3,000 children in last year’s campaign and are expect- soon as WMH has secured approval of its variance re- Child pornography sentence ing this year’s need to be more. quest from the zoning hearing board; received approval MONTICELLO, NY — Michael Eason, 34, of Monti- For more information call Shari Tirado, the Toys of lighting, parking and planting plans; and has met all cello, was sentenced on October 7 in Sullivan County for Tots coordinator for Wayne and Pike counties, at other borough and planning commission requirements. Court to a total of five to 10 years in state prison by 570/253-0711. The plan provides for 50 new private patient rooms and County Judge Michael McGuire for the use of a child hundreds of additional parking spaces, as well as a cano- in a sexual performance and related felonies. pied common entrance and shell space on the fifth floor Eason entered guilty pleas to all of these felony of- Pennsylvania Senate race that can be used as future needs dictate. fenses on July 8. District Attorney Jim Farrell said a dead heat that Eason, who was a level 3 registered sex offender Betty deMaye Caruth announced completion of the PENNSYLVANIA — The race between Republican for a prior rape conviction in 2004, was arrested on Walk of Honor, a Wayne County veterans memorial in incumbent Pat Toomey and Democratic challenger January 15 after Liberty Police began an investiga- Honesdale’s Central Park. Under construction for almost Katie McGinty is tied, with each getting 42% of the tion into Eason at the request of the Sullivan County two years, the memorial will open to the public with a vote according to a poll released on October 8 by CBS/ Probation Department. ceremony at 11 a.m. on Veterans Day, November 11. Both YouGov. Liberty detectives learned that Eason had engaged date and time are significant; the armistice officially In the wake of the video showing Republican presi- in a chat with a 14-year-old boy, using an app on his ending World War I was signed on the 11th hour of the dential nominee Donald Trump making sexually ag- cellular phone, and had the boy send him a picture 11th day of the 11th month. The ceremony will include an gressive and lewd remarks about women, Toomey has of his genitals. Eason posed as a teenage girl in this address by state Sen. Lisa Baker, veterans’ group salutes condemned Trump’s words and pointed out that he chat. Detectives then searched Eason’s cellular phone and music provided by school bands. never endorsed Trump. McGinty meanwhile has at- and, after an analysis by the New York State Police Paul Meagher of the Honesdale Lions Club announced tacked Toomey for not taking a more aggressive stand Computer Crimes Unit, found images of child pornog- that his organization will spearhead a capital campaign against the controversial candidate. Analysts have raphy and the existence of Internet accounts that he to jumpstart renovation of the borough’s public swim- said that Trump’s behavior may pursuade some Re- had been using, which he had not reported to the sex ming pool complex. Noting that each summer the pool publicans to stay home on Election Day. offender registry as required by law. serves almost 100 Honesdale YMCA youths daily, in addi- In the presidential contest, Trump was once nearly Farrell said, “Parents should be very mindful of the tion to Dyberry Day Camp visitors and the general public tied with Democrat Hillary Clinton in the race for the applications on their kids phones and should be check- of all ages, Meagher said the renovation will guarantee White House, but now, according to the CBS News/ ing to make sure that their children are not being safe water recreation to Honesdale residents and visitors YouGov poll, Clinton is ahead, with 48% of likely vot- exploited. Thankfully, this defendant did not engage alike for years to come. ers as opposed to 40% for Trump, 4% for Libertarian in any sexual acts with this child, and his acts were Estimated to cost $250,000 to $275,000, the renovation is Gary Johnson and 2% for Jill Stein of the Green Party. long overdue. Meagher acknowledged that the pool would discovered shortly after they occurred, and he is now have been forced to close years ago, had it not been for being held accountable for these crimes with a state the many “band-aid” repairs made by Rich Doney and his prison sentence.” Department of Public Works crew.