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Sunday, May 25, 1997     Page:

Diamonds and coal
   
DIAMONDS
    … to math teacher David Kachurak of the Crestwood Area School District,
for the honor of winning the Parent Teacher Student Association’s “Teacher of
the
   
Year” award. Every school in America has a few great teachers. Kachurak is
among them; and as we read in Friday’s paper about his dedication and teaching
style, he reminded us of other great teachers we have knownCOAL
   
… to Vic Kopko, for taunting Hanover Township Commissioner Samuel Sorber
at a commissioners’ meeting Wednesday night; and to Sorber, for rising to the
bait. After the meeting in which Kopko seemed to show contempt for Sorber,
Sorber lunged at Kopko and had to be restrained. The incident was an
embarrassment; here’s hoping both men learned a lesson in civility.