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Vol. 86 No. 47©
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Pilgrim parade
dAViD BIRLEY, a kindergarten Student at Eden Christian Academy, Sfewickiey, learned about the liistory.df Tlianksgiving as lie and fellow classmates donned Pilgrim garb to celebfatie the season. Meet some local descendants of the Pilgrims on page 3, share a Thanksgiving memory on page 15, aind talk turkey with food editor Marilyn Fletcher Rahn on 19.
No tax hike in 1990 BA budget
By Tony
The BeU Acres preliminary' budget, approved at this month’s council meeting, calls for no in^ creases in borough taxes. Pto-perty taxes will remain at 19.6 mills,
. Council voted unanimously to' advertise the balanced $494,783.35 budget,-which includes a five petiieht increase in wages for the fire department.
Councilman Latry Pryor explained the budget also includes a tax-anticipation loan to provide the borough with a cash flow. Bell Acres Was unable to function without Such'a loan in 1989.
Carl Kerchner, borough solicitor,^ says therfii’s nothing wrong with the wgter-ailthorify ordinance.
“Off the to)p of my head, I don’t see any conflict,’’.Kerchner said. He will write to the water authority, clarifying a 1956 Sewickley ordinance.
Charles McNamara, water authority chairman,' brought a copy of that ordinance to council. The document gives Edgeworth the right to supply water to Bell Acres. McNamara expressed fear that the ordinance contradicted the .borough’s own or* dinattce. The water authority asked him to talk to council Kerchner called the Sewickley
ordinance “just .routine” and “somewhat innocuous.”
Several roads in the borough will have their speed limits reduced to 25 mph. Sevin Road, not Sevins, \wll be one of those roa(b.
Solicitor Kerchner pointed out' that the road used to be known as Sevins, and the name appears ■both tways in borough documents. '
The only vote opposed to lowering the speed limit came from Councilman Larry Pryor, who said he was voting against the ordinance because he would get a speeding ticket.
Cherchez fa femme
Sewickley GOP seeks maverick
By Greg Hohman and Tony Soltis
Some Republicans — both here in Sewickley and down at the county headquarters — say they smell a rat.
Party leaders contend a female committee member in Sewickley “worked on” a letter sent out by Pine Street resident Paid L. Hammer before the Nov. 7 election. The letter, dated Nov. 1, urged voters to “consider replacing David Guilot and Alfonso Scalercio, with their opponents.”
Guilot and Scalercio are Republicans. Guilot, incumbent councilman in Ward III, lost his seat in the Section. Democrat Lynn Hyland received nine more votes than Guilot.
According to GOP officials, the party prohibits; committee members from campaigning ;?against fellow .party mjernlbers and supporting a rival party. A person who engages in such behavior could lose his post and be expelled from the party.
Frank Stoner, Sewickley Republican chairman, said, “It would not be fair to comment until we find out more.”
Councilman Pete Schlicht, a Republican, suspects there has been a violation. Schlicht says the Allegheny County Republican Party will handle the situation if evidence does surface against any of the 10-member committee, five of whom are women.
County Commissioner Lawrence Dunn, head of the region’s Republican party, says he has heard about the alleged violation, but does not know names.
An unidentified source said the Republican leaders do know
the woman’s name but were hesitant to reveal it, fearing an inflanimation of the volatile issue ’over the St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church expaiBion.
Dunn states he has had similar cases in the past and will act swiftly to bring about the perpetrator’s ouster.
Michael O’Conner, the party’s executive director within ttie county, also has heard about the letter and the possible involv^ ment of a Sewickley Republican committee member. However, he, too, said he hadn’t any names.
Both Dunn and O’Conner said any Republican who actively supported a Democrat or' publicly campaigned against a Republican candidate would be in clear violation of the party’s by-laws.
Hammer’s missive also recommends that “fellow citizens’’ withhold their vote from Republican Clinton Childs, who ran unopposed in Ward II.
Residents who received the letter were told the election characterized ^‘a timely opportunity to tell borough council how deeply you resent and oppose the efforts of the two or three people who dominate the St. Stephen’s Building Committee, and who do not live in the borough, to force their unfortunate expansionist plans upon your community without any regard for the {permanent harm to the health, safety and welfare of the townspeople. ”
Church building-committee members, the letter goes on, “have cajoled several council-men into forgetting your best interests and blindly .supporting the unnecessary and ill-advised enlargement of their institu-tiont”
No decision on St. Stephen's
ByOreg Hohman
The gravy might thicken on Thanksgiving, but the plot won’t thicken in the St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church imbroglio until after the holidays.
That’s when Allegheny County Judge Alan Penkower is expected to schedule a meeting with attorneys for the church and the “intervenors,” Citizens
for Preservation of Sewickley.
Representatives on both sides say they are willing to talk. However, neither Jame^ Roberts, attorney for St. Stephen’s, nor Paul .Hammer, a member of the citizens’ group, had confirmed a date with Penkower,
Attorneys from four parties were present at a Sept. 14 hear-——---------------  Cont’d on p*2
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