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<p>EXETER &#8212; West Pittston Mayor Tom Blaskiewicz attended Wyoming Area School Board&#8217;s meeting this week to present certificates and medals to Wyoming Area Secondary Center students.</p><p>The student volunteers helped shovel snow in West Pittston Borough during March&#8217;s historic blizzard.</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m proud to have the school in our town and I&#8217;m very proud of our school district,&#8221; Blaskiewicz said. &#8220;It was a very stressful period for our borough and the community, and to see those kids &#8230; was very uplifting and refreshing. I&#8217;ll never forget them and I hope this district never forgets them.&#8221;</p><p>Wyoming Area students Derek Ambrosino, Cameron Carr, Dante DeLuca, Dominic DeLuca, Marc Anthony Minichello, Blaise Sokach-Minnick, Stephen Sokach-Minnick, Brian Williams and Jacob Williams were recognized during the meeting, as were Wyoming Area Football Parents Association&#8217;s Carl DeLuca, football Coach Randy Spencer and football Coach Tom Campenni.</p><p><strong>Important dates, coaching hires</strong></p><p>&#8226; The Wyoming Area Secondary Center band will perform 7 p.m. May 7 at the school. The band will also play a combined concert with Pittston Area Senior High School May 23 at Pittston Area.</p><p>&#8226; Wyoming Area&#8217;s chorus will perform 7 p.m. May 11.</p><p>&#8226; SATs will be conducted at Wyoming Area on May 6.</p><p>&#8226; The Wyoming Area Junior/Senior prom is May 26.</p><p>&#8226; An auction for the former Sara J. Dymond Elementary School site on Sutton Creek Road in Pittston will be held 2 p.m. June 15. Current plans say the auction will be held on-site.</p><p>&#8226; The board voted in favor of placing an ad for a social worker. Wyoming Area Superintendent Janet Serino said the district currently pays $87,000 for the services of a social worker through Luzerne Intermediate Unit and believes the district can save money by hiring a social worker of its own.</p><p>&#8226; Coaches were hired for Wyoming Area&#8217;s 2017-18 fall sports. Rhonda Pizano will coach cheerleading; Paul Hindmarsh, cross country; Randy Spencer, football; Gordon Williams, golf; Rick Branco, boys soccer; Nikki Sitkowski, girls soccer; Tiffany Callaio, girls tennis; and Brian Reese, girls volleyball.</p><style>
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West Pittston mayor awards Wyoming Area students