The LuLac Edition #1552, April 14th, 2011

PHOTO INDEX: ROCKER DALE BOZZIO, AREA NEWS ICON DAVID DECOSMO AND OUR 1972 LOGO.

WAGNER’S WALKING

Auditor General Jack Wagner’s term is running out this year and already there are people lining up to take his place. Wagner won in 2005 and was re-elected in ’08 by a large margin. Wagner is being term limited out. The Auditor General’s post is going to be key in the Republican Corbett administration specifically because of the way Corbett is cutting the budget and in effect re-allocating state priorities. Plus Marcellus Shale money looms large as millions of dollars are coming into the Commonwealth from that industry. The key agency that needs to be looked at would be the State Environmental Protection agency. DePasquale, I’m thinking if elected would certainly know his way around that agency since he served as a deputy secretary in one the agency sub departments. The Auditor General’s office will be on the 2012 ballot. The Democrats have hold that office since 1996 when now Senator Bob Casey won his first term.

ROGERS EVENT

Jennifer Rogers Meet and Greet Tuesday, April 19 at 7:00pm Location: Hazleton Elks Lodge.

MEDIA MATTERS

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE

This week Shadoe Steele’s guest on Saturday Night Live at the Oldies is Dale Bozzio (female) Playboy centerfold 1983, of "Missing Persons." Saturday Night Live at the Oldies is heard on WILK AM and FM Sturday from 7pm to midnight with ABC News at the top of the hour.

ECTV

Production arrangements for ECTV Live are still in the works for the week of April 18th. But host, Judge Tom Munley,is hoping to have a guest from the Steamtown National Historical site in Scranton. Steamtown will be offering free admissions throughout that week as part of National Parks Week.

PCN TEAMS UP WITH AARP TO AIR TOWN MEETING ON HEALTHCARE ISSUES The Pennsylvania Cable Network (PCN) will partner with AARP for an “AARP town meeting on Healthcare Issues.” The event will air LIVE on the statewide network from 7:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 20. For airtimes of any additional airings, visit the daily schedule at www.pcntv.com. Corinna Vecsey Wilson, vice president of programming at PCN, will moderate a panel including Joanne Corte Grossi, MIPP regional director for Region III of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Vicki Hoak, executive director for the Pennsylvania Homecare Association; Ray Landis, advocacy manager for AARP Pennsylvania; Crystal Lowe, executive director of the Pennsylvania Association of Area Agencies on Aging and Diane Menio, executive director of the Center for Advocacy for the Rights and Interests of the Elderly (CARIE) . This is the first of four town meetings sponsored by AARP that will be aired statewide on PCN.

SUNDAY MAGAZINE

This Weekend on Sunday Magazine: Brian Hughes speaks with attorneys Greg Fellerman and Ed Ciarimboli about their Safe Prom Pledge. Magic 93’s Frankie in the Morning speaks with Devon and Susan from the Lupus Foundation of Ne. Pa. about their upcoming fundraiser Brian interviews Kristen Hauser from the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape about their Vision of Hope Gala at the end of April in Harrisburg. And This Week In Harrisburg examines Luzerne County State Senator Lisa Baker’s bills to reform Pennsylvania’s Juvenile Justice system, featuring comments from Baker. Sunday Magazine, Sunday morning at 5:30am on JR 93.7 & 97BHT, 6am on 97.9X, 6:30am on Magic 93, and 9:30am on WARM 590 AM.

PEOPLE PLACE AND THINGS

Friday, April 15th marks he 99th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. ECTV, Comcast channel 19, will mark the anniversary with several showings of David DeCosmo's public affairs program "People, Places, and Things/ Titanic Special." The program features the stories of several regional people with connections to the 1912 disaster. In 1972 DeCosmo reunited two Titanic survivors. One was the late Mrs Thelma Thomas of Wilkes-Barre. DeCosmo was able to connect her to another survivor who had saved Mrs Thomas' infant son during the sinking. The program also includes information on a Scranton couple who died in the disaster and the story of a victim buried in an unmarked grave in Northumberland County. The segment will be run several times over the next few days. The times will be posted on line and can be checked by going to Google and typing ectv schedule.

TRUMP IMPLODING

I predict that by the fourth of July, the Donald Trump for President boomlet will be over. Trump has used as a starter the fact that President Obama was not born in the United states and keeps demanding that the President show his birth certificate. It is in fact on file in the state of Hawaii. Trump also is getting questions about his business practices. While Trump never went bankrupt personally, his businesses have. He is not handling any of those questions well at all and pretty soon Mr. Trump’s efforts will implode. Things are bad but do we want a President who played fast and loose with the bankruptcy laws? Trumps financial machinations in the 90s are a far cry from Harry Truman’s misadventures in haberdashery when he just got out of WW I.

1972

The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan.....Apollo 16 (John Young, Ken Mattingly, Charlie Duke) is launched. During the mission, the astronauts achieve a lunar rover speed record of 18 km/h.... Vietnam War – Nguyen Hue Offensive: Prompted by the North Vietnamese offensive, the United States resumes bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong...The first Boston Marathon in which women are officially allowed to compete……… Hubert Humphrey kicks off his Pennsylvania campaign in Pittsburgh vowing to stay in the state for the next two weeks until primary day on April 27th…….Local Wilkes Barre Attorney Al Danoff a committed McGovern for President delegate tells the local Rotary club that McGovern’;s campaign is a continuation of the 1968 anti war effort. Danoff tells the group that the McGovern campaign is gaining momentum locally, statewide and nationally and the number 1 song in LuLac land and America was Roberta Flack’s “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”. Originally a folk somng from 1957, the tune was featured in the 1971 movie "Play Misty For Me" starring Clint Eastwood. The song is even played on Radio Station WYZZ FM which was known primarily for its easy listening music format. A few of the WYZZ young bucks snuck it in the playlist.