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Serving Aleppo, Bell Acres, Edgeworth, Glenfield, Haysville, Leet, Leetsdale, Osborne, Sewickley, Sewickley Heights, Sewickley Hills
* ^ Wednesday, February 24, 1999
SA/QV swim team has dipped into some success. Through practice and dedication, race times have gotten quicker and brought pride. See Page 19.
▼ FASHION IN FOCUS
COUTURE AT THE CLUB: Sewickley Valley Hospital Auxiliary hosted its annual luncheon and fashion show as the kick-off event for this year’s fund-raiser, “Vintage Hollywood Ball." For more on both events, see Page 9.
▼ BOARD NEWS
Aleppo officials accept amended contract
■	QV's Matt Hydzik won a recent competition for his performance of a scene from "Romeo and Juliet." For more, see
Page 18
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■	Sewickley council revisited a few issues at its last meeting. Among them was the ongoing saga of scents on Walnut Street.
Page 4
Church
■ Lenten events continue at local churches with luncheons, worship services,and soup/sup-pers. For places and times, see
Page 16
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Aleppo officials accepted Chris Anderson’s amended contract at the township board’s last regular meeting in a vote of 4-1.
At the request of the board, Chris Anderson, township tax collector; submitted a revised agreement outlining his services.
The original contract allowed Anderson to make monthly payments to the township for the tax money collected.
The board expressed concern about the interest that was earned on the tax dollars and asked Anderson to draft amendments to the contract.
The new contract states he will deposit checks and make payments to the township within four or five days of receipt, and this will be done several times a month.
Under this agreement, the township would receive tax dollars quicker and Anderson would receive about the same commission.
The contract also states that for any amount collected above 102 percent of last year’s taxes, Anderson would receive 10 percent of the collections, a tax development incentive.
"If you don’t make any more,” Anderson told officials, “I don’t make any more money.”
Patty Causey, board member, expressed concern about
the incentive. .
“Why can’t the township keep the money?” she asked. “It’s his job to collect it.”
These concerns were raised after a meeting in late January with Anderson when the contract was tentatively approved.
Gloria Vish, board president, Barbara Steinour, vice president, Causey and Anderson had met on Jan. 21 to discuss the final contract.
At the end of January’s' meeting, board members left with an agreement that would just need formal approval at the regular board meeting in February.
“I had a change of heart,” Causey said, since the January meeting.
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▼ SEWICKLEY
Strange smell raises concerns of pollution
ly Mark Barton
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A strange smell reported in the Sewickley area on the night of Feb. 8 is gone with the wind.
Kathleen Doerge,' a marketer with an environmental microbiology lab, recalled smelling a “light smell” around 9 p.m. that eventually got worse as the night progressed.
“It actually woke me out of bed around 1:30 a.m.,” She said, adding that she had the windows slightly open because her apartment building is warmer than usual.
“This was not an organic smell,” said Doerge. “It was pungent, strong, a petrochemical."
Doerge, who doesn’t drink or even take aspirin, said that she suffered vertigo, stumbling and hitting her head on a towel bar in her bathroom.
Dave Zazac, spokesperson with the Allegheny • County Health Department, said that there were two other calls that night and if Doerge had called around 9 p.m., a health department officer would have been immediately dispatched,
“Our policy is that if we have three or more complaints within an hour, we immediately check it out,” said Zazac.
Sewickley Police Department records show no complaints for that evening in regards to any kind of odor or smell.
The Health Department reported that there were no reports of breakdowns in any industrial zones on Neville Island, the area Doerge suspects that the smell came from,
Zazac also stated that instrument readings showed acceptable levels of sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide in the air.
However, Doerge holds Zazac’s statement in question.
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