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SPORTS SHOWCASE
By SHEENA DELAZIO sdelazio@timesleader.com
NANTICOKE – For years, the city has been working to create the Greater Nanticoke Area Recreation Park as part of a revitalization of the downtown. Now, the city is one step closer to making the park a reality after filing eminent
domain proceedings in Luzerne County Court to acquire nearly 90 parcels of land. The $1.1 million plan began nearly seven years ago. The planned park will include bleachers, a concession stand, practice football field, several pavilions, skate park, tee-ball field, basketball courts, softball field, sitting areas, open practice fields, natural and camping areas, walking and biking paths, and a boat launch and fishing area.
The first step is land acquisition. “No agency will give us funding (to start the project) if we don’t have the land to make something happen on,” Holly Cirko, Nanticoke city administrator said. “We won’t get funding until that’s over. Until that’s done, we’re kind of on hold.” The declaration of taking proceedings filed April 10 in county court includes nearly 90 parcels of land that will See PARK, Page 12A
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This soccer field on Lower Broadway Street is on land already owned by Nanticoke that will be part of the new recreation area.
Giving it to them straight
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pare for the brutal realities of the job market that would await them. They began networking for jobs much earlier, as freshmen in some cases. They pursued summer internships not simply as resume boosters, but as gateways to permanent jobs. And they developed more realistic expectations about landing a job in the ideal place and at the ideal salary. On campuses across the country, spirits are more upbeat this spring, and the
WILKES-BARRE – Attorney Tom Marsilio knows exactly what to tell his clients who have been charged with alcohol-related crimes. His own story. He’s been there. For 15 years, Marsilio struggled with an alcohol addiction. And then? “I was sick and tired of being sick and tired. That’s the honest-toGod’s truth,” MarMarsilio silio said. “I woke up and decided that’s it. I’m done drinking.” Marsilio’s story appeared recently in the May/June issue of The Pennsylvania Lawyer, published by the Pennsylvania Bar Association and distributed to 30,000 readers six times a year. Marsilio, 63, says he began drinking at age 22, the same age when he joined the U.S. Marine Corps. He tells his clients he has driven drunk on three different continents, but luckily was never arrested. He can recall falling asleep in the back of a Denver police cruiser after an alcohol-related crash in which he was an inebriated passen-
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here is something about flowers and Mother’s Day. Maybe they are the perfect gift; especially those ready to plant for a summer bloom. The sunshine and the occasion Sunday brought out people to shop at the flower tent on Wyoming Avenue, Wyoming. Lori Sullivan, right, loaded a flat with some pansies, daisies and marigolds. Meanwhile her daughter Morgan, behind Lori, checked out the assortment of annuals for sale.
’12 grads entering better job market
By SCOTT MAYEROWITZ AP Business Writer
NEW YORK — The class of 2012 is leaving college with something that many graduates since the start of the Great Recession have lacked: jobs. To the relief of graduating seniors — and their anxious parents — the outlook is brighter than it has been in four years. Campus job fairs were packed this spring and more companies are hiring. Students aren’t just finding good opportunities, some are weighing multiple offers.
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In some ways, members of the class of 2012 got lucky. They arrived on campus in September 2008, the same month that Wall Street investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed, touching off a financial crisis that exacerbated the recession. On campus, they were largely insulated from the collapsing U.S. economy. While older brothers and sisters graduated into a dismal job market, they took shelter in chemistry, philosophy and literature classes. They used their college years to pre-
THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS WEEK
>> GOODBYE, GIBBS: Television’s top-rated show not named “American Idol” bids the glowing box adieu this Tuesday when “NCIS” airs its 2011-12 finale. Our witty, crime-solving heroes put a lid on their ninth season with an episode titled “Till Death Do Us Part.” You can bet terrorists are involved, at least one murder and some head-slapping. The show airs at 8 p.m. >> LIL’ SWIMMERS: Consider, for a second, the lowly 6
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Nanticoke park dreams closer City files to acquire land to start long process of creating recreation park downtown.
KUCHAR CAPTURES TITLE AT PLAYERS Matt Kuchar looked beyond the edge of the 16th green at a scene packed with enough stress it could wipe away even his smile. Across the water was an island green that was awaiting him Sunday in The Players Championship. The guy dressed all in orange and pumping his first was Rickie Fowler after making a 20-foot birdie putt on the par-3 17th to cut Kuchar’s lead to two shots. Kuchar stepped over his 15-footer and answered with a birdie just as big. PAGE 1B
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brine shrimp. Science types refer to these tiny crustaceans as Artemia from the family Artemiidae. Kids, and adults who live a “maturity-optional” lifestyle, like to call them “Sea-Mon-
keys.” And if you’ve ever wanted an excuse to raise yourself a kingdom of the critters, then this Wednesday is your day. It’s “National Sea-Monkey Day,” of course. Stir up a batch of the little tykes and throw yourself a Sea-Monkey party. Just make sure you can tell the punch bowl apart from the “monkey tank.” That could be disastrous.
>> I’M GOING TO WONDERLAND: Looking for something to do with the kiddos -- other than sit at home and watch “SpongeBob”? Then pack your little ones in the family truckster, and drive straight down the rabbit hole this Friday at the F.M. Kirby Center. The American Family Theater will be performing Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” with a show at 10 a.m. The kids will love the tale of talking rabbits with bad time management, good-natured invisible cats, mentally unstable headwear makers and temperamental monarchs with Machiavellian ideals of justice. Don’t explain it to them THAT way, though.
>> THEY THUS BLOWED UP MIGHTILY: Action movies
often get labeled as mindless entertainment. So, to combat that, we’ve hired William Shakespeare to pitch an upcoming film: “Be thou fencing with idleness O’r this Saturday’s eve? Then align ye walking pedestals in synchronous harmony and alight to yon theatre. Where a battle most foul doth brew, betwixt warriors of seafaring iron and a rain of devils from the starry heavens. ‘Battleship,’ be thus the moniker of the stirring yarn, that taketh place without copious abundances of spandex.” TRANSLATION: The new action flick “Battleship” opens on Friday. It’s got explosions, aliens and big boats, but it ain’t “The Avengers.”
>> DANCE, MEET THEATER: The Little Theater of Wilkes-Barre will be hoofin’ it this weekend when it presents the dance-filled production of “Stepping Out.” Just to be clear, it’s a play about a group of folks in a tap-dancing class, not about some people who go outside for a quick smoke. That play would be boring. Showtimes are 8 p.m. on Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday at the theater on North Main Street.
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