The LuLac Edition #3235, June 23rd, 2016

TRIBUTE TO HARRY WEST THIS SUNDAY 
JUNE 26th, 3PM AT GROTTO PIZZA, HARVEYS LAKE 

Harry West and your blog editor during a past WARM promotion. (Photo:. LuLac)

Join us as we celebrate a Legend - Harry West of the Harry West Show, WARM Radio, the Mighty 590. The event takes place on the Patio at Grotto, Harvey's Lake, unless rain, then we will go inside. The menu includes Pizza with any topping and Soft Drinks for $10.00. No gifts please but we would love to have you bring any memorabilia you may have of Harry or WARM radio during its Hay Day. Please contact  Denise DeLuca at 570-239-4896. 
Our good friend Beverly Johnston is organizing the event.

CALLING JOE PETERS

Joe Peters (Photo: Penn Live.com)

Donald Trump seems to be having a staff problem. He can’t seem to get a cohesive message released. I suggest he hire Joe Peters who has served in administration through the years. Here’s why he’d be a great hire:
1. He is a life long Republican with common sense and charisma.
2. As a former police officer he can accentuate Trump’s message on Law and Order. Or give Trump a better one than he has.
3. Joe Peters has been under fire. With his work in Homeland Security, as a candidate and most importantly as a member of Kathleen’s Kane’s staff. He can navigate all sorts of things……even crazy.

BIG MEN KILLING ANIMALS

The Southern Columbia Football team that won a championship has a black eye. Five of the “big men” from the team were charged with beating wild animals to death. It was illegal to do. Five players Blake Marks, Austin Knepp, Gabe Delbo, Nick Becker and Mark Kitchen were charged with the illegal act. The Football coach called it a bad decision. I say it was animal cruelty.
But this is how they were caught. The idiots posed it on Instagram. Again I go back to one of my favorite quotes from one of my favorite movies “The Best Man”.
Y'know, it's not that I object to your being a bastard, don't get me wrong there. It's your being such a stupid bastard that I object to.

WILKES BARRE RESIDENTS SHOCKED!

Mayor Tony George. (Photo: Citizen's Voice)

The abject stupidity ofsome of  my fellow citizens of Wilkes Barre continues to amaze me. City residents are shocked and dismayed that Mayor Tony George who ran on a campaign of “Law and Order” is actually enforcing the laws of the city. I’m afraid that when crime was discussed in last year’s election, maybe some residents just saw Sherman Hills as crime. The Mayor is ticketing people for parking the wrong way on their streets and for various other offenses that were deemed minor. Residents feel that because enforcement didn’t happen recently, then maybe the laws disappeared? Uh no, they’re still on the books.
Plus anyone who thought a Mayor Tony George would not enforce them is living in Fantasy land and not Wilkes Barre. It should be remembered that Officer Tony George made his bones by following the letter of the law. Why people thought he’d lessen his stance for the letter of the law, any law and its enforcement is beyond me.

POLITICO RATES PA SENATE RACE

Katie McGinty and Senator Pat Toomey (Photo: Philly.com)

Politico just released their new Senate race rankings — and Pennsylvania is in the TOP FIVE races most likely to switch parties.
Politico calls Toomey “a favorite of the Koch network” — and only days ago, the Washington Post reported that the Koch Rrothers have already launched ground operations here in Pennsylvania.
This race is getting interesting. Pennsylvania in Presidential Election years has voted the opposite party in terms of the Senate race. 1964 Hugh Scott won while LBJ carried the state, in 1976 John Heinz won while Jimmy Carter prevailed. 1992 saw Arlen Specter in while Bill Clinton carried the state too. So Toomey may still have a chance given history.

THE GREATEST DANG  SCHOOL BOARD IN HISTORY IS AT IT AGAIN

The Citizen’s Voice reported the other day that according to a ruling from the state Office of Open Recordst he Wilkes-Barre Area School District has to disclose plans and specifications for its proposed new high school.Kim Borland, an attorney with the group Save Our Schools, requested the information. Save Our Schools has opposed the district’s plan to merge Coughlin and Meyers high schools in a new high school facility built on the Coughlin site in downtown Wilkes-Barre.
The district did not demonstrate “that the requested building plans and specifications would be reasonably likely to threaten the personal security of an individual” and “would be reasonably likely to threaten the physical security of a building,” the ruling said.
Okay, first off if Attorney Borland had not made the request, the information wouldn’t be released. Plus the reasons about security are just bullshit. These guys have no plan and I think that’s the reason why they won’t release it. This thing is going to cost millions and most likely bankrupt local homeowners. If anyone on the Board had guts, this plan should be put on hold. The District has kicked the can down the road for less pressing reasons than the survival of homeowners who happen to pay the bills.
The district has 30 days to decide whether to appeal the ruling to the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas. (Citizen’s Voice, LuLac)

MEDIA MATTERS

ECTV

ECTV Live hosts David DeCosmo, Rusty Fender, and Director Mark Migilore welcome Jean Ruhf from the Endless Mt Vacation Bureau to the program during the week on June 27th to discuss summer events and activities in that popular tourist area of Pennsylvania. 

ECTV Live is broadcast on Comcast channel 19 (61 in some areas) and is see three times daily throughout the week.

SUNDAY MAGAZINE

This Week on Sunday Magazine
Brian Hughes speaks with Ruth Drew from the Alzheimers Association about Alzheimers Awareness Month.
To mark the 44th anniversary of Hurricane Agnes' arrival in Northeast Pa, we take a look back at WARM radio's coverage of Agnes, narrated by WARM News Director Jerry Heller, with interviews conducted by news reporter Dale Cleveland, featured on the CD produced by WARM entitled "River On A Rampage". Special thanks to Tony Skutnik.
Sunday Magazine, Sunday morning at 5am on NASH-FM, 93.7, 5:30am on 97BHT, 6am on 97.9X and Sports Radio 590, WARM and 6:25am on Magic 93.

BOLD GOLD COMMUNITY FORUM

This week's guests are Plymouth Township Supervisors Gale Conrad and Joe Yudichak. They'll discuss how the community moved out from under state fiscal supervision. Tune in Sunday morning at 6 on 94.3 The Talker; 6:30 on NEPA Sports Radio-The Game 1400/1440 am and 106.7 fm; and at 7:30 on 105 The River.

SUE HENRY’S SPECIAL EDITION

Tommy Woods and Harry West on WILK's/Entercom's "Special Edition" with Sue Henry. (Photo: Sue Henry) 

Tune in to Sue Henry's "Special Edition" this week as Sue recaps the week's news. But her big event this week is when she, the incredible Sue Henry interviews both Harry West and Tommy Woods. The show will run Saturday at 2 p.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m. on WILK, and on KRZ, Froggy and Max 102 early Sunday morning.

BUDDY RUMCHEK

Want to hear some great parodies on the news? Tune in to WILK Radio at 6:40 and 8:40 AM on Mondays. As Ralph Cramden used to say, “It’s a laugh riot!”

KAREL ON THE STREET

Tune in Wednesdays on WILK Radio for Karel on the Street. Hear some of the funniest and heartwarming comments on the issues of the day on Webster and Nancy with Karel Zubris.

BOBBY V’S DOO WOP SOCK HOP!!!!!

The Doo-Wop Sock Hop can be heard every Sunday night from 6P to 9P on “105 The River (104.9 FM) Host is the incomparable Bobby V. www.105theriver.net www.doowopsockhop.net.

1971

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President Richard Nixon declares the U.S. War on Drugs…….– Southwest Airlines, a low cost carrier, begins its first flights between Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio.Britain announces that Soviet space scientist Anatoli Fedoseyev has been granted asylum…..Britain begins new negotiations for EEC membership in Luxembourg………Massachusetts passes its Chapter 766 laws enacting Special Education…in Pennsylvania Governor Milton Shapp suggests that the Commonwealth take a page out of the Bay State’s book and get more progressive in its approach to Special Ed….in Luzerme County Commissioners Wideman and Crossin deny any rift that will impact the fall election and 45 years ago this week the number one song in LuLac land and America was … "Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian) by The Raiders featuring Mark Lindsey.