Can gas really fall Want to hear music below $3 a gallon? under the stars? BUSINESS, 8B THE GUIDE, INSIDE WILKES-BARRE, PA timesleader.com FRIdAy,JuLy 5, 2013 50¢ Wyoming Google’s new ceremony mixes doses project is a of humor real inside job and history ‘Street View’ cameras will be in our area to capture virtual Mark Guydish [email protected] images of business interiors WYOMING — It was a day of heat and humor, of history’s hidden Roger duPuis tidbits and lessons on how they can [email protected] help mold the future. Serving as chairman of the Google’s “street view” photographers are 135th annual commemorative ser- coming back into Northeast Pennsylvania — vice of the Battle and Massacre literally. of Wyoming, Kingston Mayor Web surfers accustomed to cruising the James Haggerty on Thursday PEtE G. WILCoX/thE tImES LEAdER streets of cities worldwide via Google Maps’ brought his usual wit. In introduc- People get treated to a dazzling fireworks show over Kirby Park on Thursday during the annual Fourth of July Celebration in panoramic images will soon be able to click ing the Wyoming Commemorative Wilkes-Barre. open some front doors, touring the interiors Association president, Haggerty of participating businesses under Google’s riffed on Frank Conyngham’s 24 new virtual tour feature. years in the post. Photo crews will be in the Wilkes-Barre and “I asked why he stayed on so Scranton areas between July 29 and Aug. 2 long,” Haggerty said. “He said he to create 360-degree virtual tours inside busi- thought he was eligible for a pen- Going FOURTH to have fun nesses that register for the program, said sion after 25 years.” Ithaca, N.Y.-based Google photography coor- Conyngham, well known for dinator Jim Hilker. injecting his own quips into his Valley celebrates America’s birthday There are, however, two key requirements: speeches, thanked many who interested businesses must contact Google, helped make the ceremony pos- with an old-fashioned blast Hilker said — company policy prevents pho- sible, noted this month marked the tographers from soliciting businesses — and 150th anniversary of the Battle of businesses must pay a “small one-time fee.” Gettysburg, and said he felt a few sheena delazio Google policy also prevents Hilker from comments were appropriate regard- [email protected] disclosing the fee, he said, but he added that ing that pivotal Civil War event. once it is paid, the images will be hosted per- “Four score and seven years WILKES-BARRE — It was a fun, old-fashioned manently on Google without charge. ago,” he said, beginning Abraham Fourth of July celebration at Kirby Park Thursday, Business owners must register at www.see- Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg complete with snow cones, fresh-squeezed lemonade insidepa.com. Hilker’s team of four expects Address and evoking laughs. But and funnel cakes. initially to sign up 20 businesses each in Conyngham had had his joke with And the night capped off with a very modern fire- Luzerne and Lackawanna counties, he said. those six iconic words, waved and works display that left the crowd oohing and ahhing. Additional photography sessions could be said, “Thanks for coming.” Hundreds of people lined the levee system and PEtE G. WILCoX/thE tImES LEAdER added later this summer if demand warrants, As old as the commemora- grassy fields at Kirby Park after enjoying a day of fam- Micah Mcdonald, 7, of Plains Township,takes a spin on one of Hilker said. tive event is, the battle it marks ily picnics, carnival rides, chocolate-covered cheese- the carnival rides in Kirby Park on Thursday during the Fourth “We have to cover a lot of different cities occurred 100 years before the first cake, dozens of vendors and a performance by the of July Celebration. throughout the summer,” said Hilker, whose such service, on July 3, 1778, when Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic. territory includes Pennsylvania, New Yo rk patriot forces and British Loyalists Area residents participated in similar, if smaller- and parts of New England. and their Iroquois allies clashed. scale, celebrations across the region. A parade and High-tech product line About 340 patriots were killed and See FOURTH |3A See GOOGLE |10A See WYOMING |3A SuBmIttEd Photo PEtE G. WILCoX/thE tImES LEAdER BILL tARutIS | FoRthE tImESLEAdER This 360-degree Google image shows the reception Attendees of the Fourth of July Celebration at Kirby Park FREd AdAmS/FoR thE tImES LEAdER Penn state professor emeritus of history area of the Centre Animal Hospital in state College. find plenty of good things to eat, courtesy of the many food Onlookers wave flags as the Independence day parade passes John Frantz delivers the keynote address Google photographers will be in scranton and Wilkes- vendors. in Mountain Top. about Benjamin Franklin at the Wyoming Barre from July 29 to Aug. 2 to photograph business Monument on Thursday. interiors for the Google Virtual Tour program. Top Brotherhood figures seized in Egypt sweep Questions remain on how to include freely elected president. Now the group is reeling under a huge backlash from a public fundamentalist group in government that says the Brotherhood and its Islamist allies abused their electoral mandate. The military Lee Keath and sarah el deeb immediate test to the new army- forced Morsi out Wednesday after the Associated Press backed leadership’s promises to millions of Egyptians nationwide guide Egypt to democracy: The turned out in four days of protests CAIRO — Egypt’s military question of how to include the demanding he be removed. moved swiftly Thursday against 83-year-old fundamentalist group. Furious over what it calls a mili- senior figures of the Muslim That question has long been at tary coup against democracy, the Brotherhood, targeting the back- the heart of democracy efforts in Brotherhood vowed Thursday it bone of support for ousted presi- Egypt. Hosni Mubarak and previ- will not work with the new lead- dent Mohammed Morsi. In the ous authoritarian regimes banned ership. It and harder-line Islamist most dramatic step, authorities the group, raising cries even from allies called for a wave of protests arrested the group’s revered leader pro-reform Brotherhood critics today, dubbing it the “Friday of from a seaside villa and flew him that it must be allowed to partici- Rage,” vowing to escalate if the by helicopter to detention in the pate if Egypt was to be free. After military does not back down. capital. Mubarak’s fall, the newly legalized There are widespread fears of With a top judge newly sworn group vaulted to power in elec- Islamist violence in retaliation for AP Photo in as interim president to replace tions, with its veteran member Morsi’s ouster, and already some egypt’s chief justice Adly Mansour, center, is applauded by by chiefs of the constitutional court Morsi, the crackdown poses an Morsi becoming the country’s first after he is sworn in as the nation’s interim president Thursday.The chief justice of egypt’s supreme See EGYPT |10A Constitutional Court was sworn in after the military ousted the Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. neWs Birthdays 8A BUsIness: 8B movies InsIde Local 3A Editorial 9A CLAssIFIed: 1C television Nation & World 4A Weather 10A Comics 10C Puzzles obituaries 5A, 6A sPORTs: 1B THe GUIde 6 0 9 8 1 5 1 0 0 1 1 PAGE 2A FRIDAY,JULY 5, 2013 NEWS www.timesleader.com TIMES LEADER Woman admits theft from LCCC DETAILS LOTTERY Sheena Delazio Griffith faces a maximum nal complaint, Nanticoke ing money came from student December 2008. In October [email protected] of seven years in prison when Detective Capt. William Shultz tuition payments that had been 2011, Griffith was moved she is sentenced on Sept. 3. spoke on Feb. 22 with the col- made in cash. back to the custodian posi- MIDDAY DRAWING WILKES-BARRE – A Griffith will be required to pay lege’s director of security, Bill On March 9, Luzerne County tion before she was placed on Daily number Nanticoke woman charged a $5,000 deductible to LCCC Barrett, who said an account- Detective Lt. Gary Capitano with taking $16,000 from and $11,809 to an insurance ing firm had completed an became involved in the inves- unpaid suspension in March - 3-5-5 Luzerne County Community company at the time of her annual 2011 audit for the train- tigation and spoke with college 2012. Big Four - 9-9-8-0 College while working there sentencing. ing institute and that discrep- President Thomas Leary, who She was formally terminated Quinto - 0-4-7-7-3 as a secretary pleaded guilty After an investigation by ancies were uncovered regard- said Griffith was responsible from employment when she Treasure Hunt Wednesday in Luzerne County Nanticoke police and the ing missing funds. for collecting fees for many was arraigned on charges in Court. Luzerne County District The institute, which opened courses and for transporting 07-14-19-26-30 November. Her annual salary EvENING Janet M. Griffith, 52, of Attorney’s Office, investiga- in 2008, trains police officers, the payments to the finance had been $23,585. Center Street, pleaded guilty tors said Griffith took about firefighters, paramedics, EMTs office every day. She is represented by attor- DRAWING before Judge David Lupas to a $16,000 while working as a and truck drivers in a variety According to the college, Daily number felony charge of theft by failure secretary at the school’s Public of courses. Griffith was hired as a custodi- ney Matthew Kelly. Assistant to make required disposition Safety Training Institute. An accountant reported an in August 2007 and moved District Attorney Shannon - 2-9-0 of funds.