| EARN IMAGES 2 |
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| Photo of Kenneth W. Haas --- former Secretary-Treasurer of EARN |
| Project Academics provides a mini-scholarship grant to at least three students a year ... Students at Dieruff High School are yearly recipients of the award as well as a student at Allentown Central Catholic |
| Once upon a time the Allentown School Board considered the question to close the Dieruff High School Planetarium as not cost effective ... With the opposition of many citizens including EARN President Dennis L. Pearson to the planned closure, the Allentown School Board charged Planetarium Director Gary Becker to find the funds to keep the renamed ASD Planetarium at Dieruff H.S. going ... In many ways EARN hoped that its neighborhood light display would become attached to efforts to provide funds for the planetarium. |
| Project Haas --- Nativity scene |
| This photo was taken outside the office of former Mayor Joseph S. Daddona ... Harry Forker and Dennis Pearson tackle the wastewater treatment issue by bringing a sleeping bag to the Mayor's Office --- Former Mayor Joseph S. Daddona had promised during the Democratic Primary for Mayor in 1981 that he would sleep at the Allentown Wastewater Treatment Plant called Kline's Island until the then prevelant odor problem related was the plant was otherwise solved ... Pearson and Forker during a particularly bad odor day reminded the Mayor of his promise |
| In the EARN Frontier the East Side Youth Center provide many fine activities for the children of the EARN Frontier ... For a while the ESYC served as a site of a Lehigh County Council of the Aging Nutrition Site that was successfully promoted by the neighborhood ... Currently the Nutrition Site also sponsored by the CIty of Allentown Housing Authority is located at the Senior Citizen Residence Building at Central Park. |
| Allentown Aerial Engine places star on flagpole at Irving Park while in a rare co-operative activity a PPL truck attaches the electrical work and framework on the flagpole. |
| Project Haas - Santa Claus taking a ride in his water slide Sleigh --- A popular fixture of Project Haas until thieves jumped over the swimming pool fence and appropriated it for themselves ... For this act of social misbehavior maybe the thieves are on Santa's naughty list this past Christmas |