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PAGE 4 - THE FOREST CITY NEWS, FOREST CITY, PA 18421 * WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2017 * PHONE 570-785-3800 * email [email protected]
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Wallenpaupack (2-3) — M. Peet 3 0-0 8, E. Rosenthal 3 0-0 8, M. Guerrieri 2 2-2 7, D. Vosburg 0 6-6 6, G. Hiller 2 1-2 5, K. Pillar 1 1-2 3, A. Pillar 1 0-0 3, J. Cyrlin 1 0-0 2, N. Steffen 1 0-0 2, C. Fenstermacher 0 1-4 1. Totals: 14 11-16 45.
Forest City (04) — N. Yates 5 2-7 12, K. Rotella 5 0-2 11, D. Knehr-Cook 3 0-2 6, J. Paulin 3 0-2 6, J. Non 20-04,J. Smith 00-00, K. Shema 0 0-0 0. Totals: 182-1339.
Wallenpaupack 7 11 5 22-45Forest City 8 2 17 12-393-point goals: M. Peet (WAL) 2,
E. Rosenthal (WAL) 2, M. Guerrieri (WAL), A. Pillar (WAL), K. Rotella (FCC. M Wallenpaupack, 46-30 (WAL: Santiago 14; FC: Shema 10)
by Guy ValvanoIt became a reunion of sorts
when Bill Puntar turned up at Julius Prezelski’s 90th birth-day anniversary breakfast on Dec. 7 at Ambers Restaurant in Carbondale.
The two men, who first be-came acquainted with each other at religious education classes while students in the first grade, hadn’t crossed paths since March 2008, when Puntar had paid his respects upon the passing of Prezel-ski’s wife Mary.
Prezelski, whose date of birth is Dec. 13, was the break-fast guest of some friends, who presented him with a blanket at the breakfast. For-merly of Forest City, the long-time Forest City Regional High School boys’ basketball coach is currently a resident of Clarks Summit Senior Liv-ing in Clarks Summit. Puntar, a Vandling resident, will be-come 90 years old on January 6, 2017.
“You might say we grew up together,” says Puntar, whose wife, the former Alice Karasky of Simpson, will observe her 90th birthday in May 2017. “We have been really, really good friends,” added the for-mer member of the Forest City Regional School District Board of Education.
“Over the years, we saw a lot of each other,” Puntar noted. “We played against each other in sandlot baseball. I would see Julius at the basketball games when he was coaching the team at Forest City, and also after he retired, when I would go and sit next to him in the bleachers at a basketball game. During World War II, we came across each other at Sampson Naval Training Base up in Seneca Lake, N. Y. I was just finishing boot camp when Julius arrived there.”
A former basketball, base-ball and football standout at Forest City Regional High School, Prezelski was head coach of the basketball teams at his alma mater for 34 years. He took over as head coach at the school at the start of the 1958-59 season, after serving as head coach at the former Waymart and Milford high schools and also at Mountain View High School in Kingsley, Susquehanna County.
Prezelski posted a 757-290 record in 42 years as a coach and is recognized as the win-ningest boys’ basketball coach
in an area encompassing Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wayne, Pike, Wyoming and Susque-hanna counties. At one time, he was the winningest boys’ basketball coach in the state of Pennsylvania. He retired from coaching on March 23, 1993.
Like Prezelski, Bill Puntar has led a busy life. He worked as a prison guard for six years and then took a job with Ben-dix Corporation in Sidney, N. Y., commuting 60 miles daily to his place of employment until retiring. Over the years, he spent many hours visiting nursing homes, often enter-taining the residents.
It was during a recent visit to a nursing home that Puntar came across Marty Andrews. The former Carbondale St. Rose High School basketball standout mentioned he was going to attend the breakfast honoring Prezelski and in-vited Puntar to accompany him. When Bill learned Julius Prezelski would be the guest of honor, he jumped at the chance to be reunited with his longtime friend.
As expected, most of the conversation centered around basketball.
Good friends catch up for Coach Prezelski’s 90th birthday breakfast
Coach Julius Prezelski, left, and Bill Puntar, right, catch up during Coach’s 90th birthday party held recently at Am-bers Restaurant.
There is something comfort-ing about finding a doctor that we can trust and depend upon to help us when we most need them and to keep us on track to live a healthy life. For 34 and one half years Dr. David Tomazic has been serving For-est City and the surrounding area. There has been many changes to our health care sys-tem and more changes are in-evitable. Dr. Dave wants his patients and the community to know that he has no plans to stop providing the care that has endeared him to his pa-tients.
Currently Dr. Dave and his staff including his wife, Peg, Ellen Linde, Joanne Sterchak and Tammy Swetter have of-fice hours in Forest City on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Dr. Dave is also filling in for Dr. Walter Dobushak who due to an illness is unable to tend to his practice in Vandling. Mon-day, Wednesday and Friday you will find Dr. Dave at the McAndrew Medical Clinic in Vandling. Both practices are part of the Wayne Memorial Health System. The Wayne Memorial Health System is a growing medical conglomer-ate with plans to expand in our area. Although there is nothing definitive at this point it is very likely that a larger medical clinic will be coming in the future to our area. Dr. Tomazic and his staff would be part of this larger practice.
Medicare plays a large role in the decisions that doctors and patients have to make. The amount of money paid from Medicare is scheduled to decrease in 2017 and again in 2018. It is becoming increas-ing difficult to remain a sole practitioner, Dr. Tomazic said. Also it is more and more a re-quirement that e-records, elec-tronic medical records, have to be used due to insurance reg-ulations. Going to the filing cabinet and pulling a patient’s file will some day be obsolete. For physicians, being part of a larger practice is the wave of the future.
New patients are welcome to see Dr. Dave and his staff. Perhaps half of their patients are of the senior part of our population which is charac-teristic of our community in general. Dr. Dave also sees some of his patients in nurs-ing homes. He is loyal to his patients and feeling a respon-sibility to continue to care for them. Dr. Dave also is appre-ciative of the loyalty of his pa-tients to him and his staff. He has some patients that are over 100 years old.
Many of the people that
have health challenges can improve their health by mak-ing changes to their lifestyle. It is easy to lose track of what we need to do to be healthi-er. Most people don’t drink enough water. It is important to be hydrated. Most of us do not get enough exercise. By looking for ways to get more exercise, parking in a spot far-ther from a store to get some extra walking, will help us to be healthier. As always, smok-ing, alcohol and diet will have a lot to do with how healthy we feel. It can be possible to get off of medications by mak-ing a change to our lifestyle. Moderation is a good concept to adopt to our daily life.
Flu season for our area of-ten hits hardest in late March and early April. Getting a flu shot is a good thing to do and encouraged by our health care providers. It is possible to get a flu shot too early so getting your shot in October, Novem-ber or December is a better idea than getting one earlier as the immunity created by the shot will lose its strength over time.
For young people consider-ing a career in health care Dr. Dave thinks it is a good choice. You will always be able to find a job once you have completed your education. There is a lot of satisfaction in helping peo-ple. Nursing and other careers seem to always have open-ings for qualified people. Dr. Dave knew by the time he was a junior in high school that he wanted to become a doc-tor. Through his education at Villanova University and Philadelphia College of Osteo-pathic Medicine, his journey to become a physician became complete and his patients are thankful that it did.
Dr. Dave and Peg have two chocolate labs named Nova and Scooby. Dave and Peg are the parents of three children, David, employed by Comcast, lives in Vandling with his wife Krista and their two children, Natalie, age 5 1/2, and Lauren, age 3 1/2; a daughter, Renee, a family physician, lives in Scottsdale, AZ; and a son Bob, a pharmacist for Rite Aid, lives in Omak, Washington.
Dr. Dave enjoys golfing and deer hunting. To Dr. Dave and your staff, thank you for your dedication to taking care of us.
With 1 week remaining in the 1st half, Guild Flagstone has a 9 point lead over NEP Telephone. They will meet next week to de-cide the 1st half winner.
This week’s results had Yaci-novich Excavating taking 24 points from Kozlowski Tow-ing, Guild Flagstone taking 19 points from Thiede Livestock, and NEP Telephone taking 16 ½ points from TMT Builder’s.
High game and series this week was 288-742 by Jim Mi-can. Team High Scratch game was 1052 by Guild Flagstone and scratch series was 2991 by TMT Builder’s. Team High Handicap game was 1265 by NEP Telephone and team handicap series this week was 3723 by NEP Telephone and TMT Builder’s.
Other scores: Matt Tomazic 247-678, Tom Johnson 233-675, Derek Benson 246-663, Bryan Tallman 246-656, Dan Long-street 246-650, Chris Lutz 226-632, Mike Cottrell 218-630, Bob Johnson Sr 243-626, Bob Smith 226-612, Al Snyder 211-610, Blake Tyson 213-589, Hank Morris 204-589, Ed Kozlowski Sr 225-566, Mark Opeil 219-565, Trevor Payne 204-558, and Ed Kozlowski Jr 215-530.
The following splits were converted: Ed Kozlowski Sr 5-7, Chris Lutz 2-7, Bill Kovaleski 3-10, and Frank Molinaro 3-10.
StandingsGuild Flagstone 225NEP Telephone 216Thiede Livestock 183 ½Yacinovich Excavating 182 1/2
Kozlowski Towing 179TMT Builder’s 171
BOYSW’Paupack 45, FC 39
Mon., Dec. 19A 4th quarter letdown al-
lowed the Buckhorns of Wal-lenpaupack back into the game with a 22-12 run to defeat the Foresters 45-39. The Foresters led 27-23 after three quarters but fell short to the Buckhorn 4th quarter run.
Noah Yates scored 12 points while Kolby Rotella hit for 11.
GIRLSScr. Prep 48, FC 29
Fri., Dec. 23The Lady Foresters met the
No. 4 team from the Lackawa-nna League Girls conference in an away game and fell behind early for a 48-29 loss. After go-ing down 17-8 in the 1st quar-ter they played good defense in the 2nd and 3rd quarters keep-ing the high-scoring Prep girls to single digits but Prep came back 16-9 in the final stanza.
Kendra Bendyk hit for 11 points while Mackenzie Hart-man had nine and Maggie Kowalewski hit for six.
ROTARY TOURNEYFOREST CITY
Fri. Dec. 23, 1st roundWestern Wayne downs
WyalusingForest City defeats Mtn. View
(No box scores)CHAMPIONSHIP
Mon., Dec. 26West. Wayne 50, FC 37
In the championship game Western Wayne had a strong 2nd half for a 50-37 win. Zach Rovinsky, a 6-3 freshman, had a double-double with 21 points and 10 rebounds to lead the 4-2 Wildcats.
The three Forester scorers were kept in single digits with Kolby Rotella, Noah Yates and Jared Paulin scoring 8, 7, and 6 points respectively.
Dahlton Frisbie, Western Wayne, was named MVP of the Tourney. Noah Yates and Jared Paulin, from Forest City, Matthew Lavin, Mt. View, Jon Morrison, Wyalusing and Luke Pike, Western Wayne, were named to the All-Tourna-ment Team.
Dr. David Tomazic is now part of Forest City Area
Wayne Memorial Hospital
Forest City (1-2) — K. Bendyk 4 0-0 11, M. Hartman 3 2-2 9, M. Kow-alewski 3 0-0 6, S. Fortuner 10-0 2, C. Bonham 0 1-2 1, H. Gillespie 0 0-0 0, E. Urban 0 0-0 0, L. Statkun 0 0-0 0, C. Calabro 0 0-0 0, E. Kelleher 0 0-0 0. Totals: 113-4 29,Scranton Prep (6-1) — J. Sirotnak 6 0-0 14, C. Kline 5 1-3 11, H. Dav-eski 4 2-6 10, K. Dzwonczyk 2 0-0 4, K. Rose 1 1-13, D. Merritt 1 0-0 2, A. Weston 10-0 2, M. Purcell 1 0-0 2, J. Penetar 0 0-0 0, B. Wilder 0 0-0 0, E. Penetar 0 0-0 0, M. Mills 0 0-0 0. Totals:214-1048. F o r -est City 8 6 6 9-29Scranton Prep 17 6 9 16-483-point goals: K. Bendyk (FC) 3, M. Hartman (FC), J. Sirotnak (SPI 2. JV: No game.
Western Wayne (4-2)—Z. Rovinsky 9-15 2-421, S. Walck 4-9 4-6 12, 0. Frisbie 3-10 4-5 11, L. Pike 3-9 0-0 6, K. Sauter 0-10-10, D. Boots 0-0 0-0 0, R. Carey 0-0 0-0 0. Totals: 19-44 10-16 50. Forest City (1-5) — K. Ro-tella 2-11 3-4 8, N. Yates 3-5 1-2 7, J. Paulin 2-4 0-0 6, D. Knehr-Cook 0-0 4-6 4, K. Shema 1-10-0 3, Je. Non 1-2 0-0 3, J. Smith 1-10-0 2, E. Paulin 1-10-0 2, B. Keller 0-0 1-2 1, T. Clift 0-0 1-2 1, Ja. Non 0-7 0-0 0. Totals: 11 -32 10-16 37.Western Wayne 9 8 13 20-50Forest City 8 5 10 14-373-point shooting: WW 2-10 (Fris-bie 1-4, Rovinsky 1-6), FC 5-14 (J1 Paulin 2-4, Shema 1-1, Rotella 1-4, Je. Non 1-2). Rebounds: WW 29 (Rovinsky 10), FC 26 (Yates 8). As-sists: WWI 1 (Walck 4), FC 6 (Yates, Rotella 2). Steals: WW 8 (Frisbie 3), FC 8 (Ja. Non 3). Blocks: WW 1 (Rovinsky), FC 3 (Yates, Rotella, J. Paulin), Turnovers: WW 14, FC 17. Fouled out: Yates.All-tournament team: Dahlton Fris-bie (Western Wayne), MVP; Mat-thew Lavin (Mountain View); Jon Morrison (Wyalusing); Noah Yates (Forest City); Jared Paulin (Forest City); Luke Pike (Western Wayne).
