C M Y K WILKES-BARRE, PA MONDA Y, AUGUST 1, 2011 50¢ timesleader.com The Times Leader 3 0 0 9 3 0 $ 2 0 VOUCHER FOR ONLY $ 10 Members of the ethnicity hold day in honor of heritage. LOC AL, 3A A celebration for Lithuani ans Lithuanian Herita ge Day , Last Dinneron Titanic , Wine Fe stival. CLICK, 1C Everybody smile for the cameraSPORTS SHOWCASE AMERIC AN LEAGUE YANKEES 4 ORIOLES 2 IL BASEB ALL RED WI NGS 6 SWB YANKS 3 NATIONAL LEAGUE PHILLIES 6 PIRATES 5 RED SO X 5 WHITE SO X 3 NATIONALS 3 METS 2 Surpr ise at Brick yar d Paul Menard has heard all the jealous jeering throughout his career. On Sunday, he added a new name to that list: Brickyard 400 winner. Menard became NASCAR’s newest first-time winner Sunday with an upset victory at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, a track steeped in tradition for his family. 1B INSIDE A NEWS: Local 3A Nation & World 5A Obituaries 6A Editorials 9A B SPORTS:1B C CLI CK:1C Community News 2C Birthdays 3C Television 4C Crosswor d/Horoscope 5C D CLASSIFIED:1D Comic s 14D WA SHING TON — Ending a perilous stalemate, President Barack Obama and congre ssional leaders announce d agree - ment Sunday night on an emergency deal to avoid to avert the nation’s first-ever fi- nancial default. The arrangement would cut more than $2 tril lion from feder al spending over a decade. The dramatic agreement, with scant timeremainingbeforeTuesda y’sdeadline, “wi llallo w usto avoi d de fau ltand end the crisis that Washingto n imposed on the rest of America,” Obama said. Not jus t Amer ica . Wor ld ma rk et s showed their relief immediately. Japan’s benchmar k Nikke i index, opening this morn ing— at8 p.m.Sunda y onAmeric a’ s East Coast — was up 1.7 percent in early tra din g. On WallStree t, U. S. stoc k futu re s surged. Default “would have had a devastatingeffe ct onour econ omy ,” thepres iden t said at the White House, relay ing the news to thenation and to financialmarketsaround Debt limit, deficit deal reached Obama, congressional leaders OK plan they now have to sell to their parties. ByDAVI D ESPO AP Special Correspondent INSIDE: Weighing D.C.’s war of words, 10A. Struggling states could get short end,10A. SeeDEAL, Pa ge10A The little bus wound its way over green mountains, alongs ide undeve l- oped stretches of the meandering Sus- quehanna River and through some ofPennsylvania’s most pris- tine wilderness. But the ma n insid e wit h themicrophone , the Gas Drilling Awaren ess Coalitio n’sScott Cannon, said there ’stroublein par- adise as he pointed out the changes Marcellus Shale natura l gas drilling has brought to Pennsylva- nia’s Northern Tier. He rewasa dri ll ingrig, the rea wa te r withdrawal site and every so often yet another pipeline was laid out in prep- aration for burial. Thesights werepart of thecoalition’ s “Marce llus Shale Realit y T our ,” held Sunday for area legislators, municipal tizens and officials to educate them- selves about it. “We still have to deal with pipelines, sor stations; they wanted to Cannon said the jury is still out on whether there is enough gas below Lu- zer neCountyto mak e dril lin g her e eco - nomicall viable,but thegas-extracti ‘ M A R C E L L U S S H A L E R E A L I T Y T O U R ’ Gas fields get up-close look PETE G. WILCOX/THE TIMES LEADER Scot t Cannonwaves peo pl e over to get a bett er vie w ofthe dri ll pad site inWyso x T ownshi p in Br adfordCoun tyon Sunday. Drilling foes sponsor trip to see wells A recy clin g faci lit y on the Hershbe rge r prop ertyin T erry Town ship , Brad for d Cou nty , whe re frac k wat er is sto red. By MAT T HUGHES[email protected]DALLAS – Do you prefer a crisp white or a hea rtyred? May beyou fav or a frui ty funnumber toenjoychille d ona war m summer afternoon. Local wine lovers brought their varied tastes to the Luzerne Coun- ty Fairgrounds on Saturday where they sampled all those and more during the Back Mountai n Wine Festival.A number vintners from across the re- gion offered tasting menus filled with an exten- sive sel ecti on of whi te and red wine s to the CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK/FOR THE TIMES LEADER Romayne Wil liams, Hud son, finishe s a samp le at the Back Mou nta in Win e Festival. Wine fest a real toast to summer Turnout of tasters at third edition of Back Mountain event surprises organizers. By STEV EN FONDO Times Leader Correspondent SeeWINE,Page7A WY OMING– May orBob Boy ertermstheidea floated by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of eliminatingparking spaces in this historic borough’s busi- ness district so the big-box retailer can move ahead with plans to open a store in neighboringExeter “ludicrous.” Boyer said borough council in Wyoming has not been asked to take any official action on the pro posa l, buthe saidhe doub ts member s wou ld supportit andhe’drecommen d the y flatl y rej ect it if it were officially requested. “We’re not trying to create a problem,” Boyer said. “We’re just trying to be fair” to the 20 busi- Mayor: Wal-Mart plan a non-starter Wyoming has not been aske d to act on plan that would eliminate parking spaces. By ANDREWM. SEDER[email protected]