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Vol. 96 No. 16
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Child Health’s House Tour Is set fojr May 6 & 7. Visitors will travel from all around town to enjoy our. community and help the children. For more, see Page 11.
Around Town
B It was a none too "Shabby" event held to benefit Sweetwater Center for the Arts this weekend. Auction night was totally "Chic."
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Last chance
B Friday is the last day to make your reservations for the Sewickley Herald Honors Dinner, coming April 30. For information, see
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The winnors
fl The votes are in for this year's Sewickley Herald Readers' Choice Awards. The best of everything is listed beginning on
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FINDING THEIR NICHE: Ann Gulp’s six figures of Buddha will take their places In the new Indian Nationality Room at the University of Pittsburgh this fail. Molds and stone replicas will be made from her sculptures by Architectural Restoration Castings Co. in Ambridge. Gulp, a long-time resident of Sewickley, teaches at Sweetwater Center for the Arts.
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Residents challenged to turn off TV
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“Abstaining completely from TV is unrealistic for most of us,” said Jill Clark, librarian and young adult services coordinator at Sewickley Public Library.
But that is exactly what the purpose of National TV Turnoff Week is.
“The goal of this week is to raise people’s awareness of how much television they watch and encourage them to look for alternatives to TV.”
National TV Turnoff Week, now in its fifth year, begins tomorrow (Thursday) and continues through Wednesday, April 28,
The week is part of a broadly supported effort to reduce the amount of television Americans watch and is sponsored by TV-BYee America (TVFA), a nonprofit organization promoting richer, healthier and more connected lives for
families and communities. Locally it is sponsored by members of Sewickley Area Libraries.
The week attempts to get Americans to focus not on television and what’s on, but what television displaces: creativity, productivity, physical activity, thinking and doing.
The average American spends three hours and 44 minutes watching television a day, totaling more than 55 days of non-stop watching per year.
About half of the people know that they watch too much. According to a survey by A.C. Nielson in 1998, 49 percent admitted to watching “too much TV.”
The problem can be especially profound in children, when watching not only may disrupt their learning but also cause developmental problems as well.
American youth watch an average of 1,500 minutes watching television, a stark contrast to
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des Rotisseurs come to town at China Palace
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On Sunday, China Palace Restaurant will be living up to its palatial name.
Closing its doors to the public, a rarity since they only close for Thanksgiving, China Palace will be hosting a meeting of the Confrerie de la Chaine des Rotisseurs, Bailliage de Pittsburgh (the local chapter), a gastronomic organization founded by King Louis DC in 1248.
The society disappeared after the French Revolution, only to be revived in Paris in 1950.
Currently, there are nearly 140 local chapters in the U.S. alone, boasting more than 7,000 members.
The organization is devoted to upholding fine cuisine and has regular fund-raising events to provide scholarships to local and national schools that specialize in culinary arts.
Preparing the special menu for the Chaine will be China Palace’s executive chef, Mike F. Chen, with Chao Hua Chen and Hsia Pao Chang.
Peter Hanowich, bailli (president) of the Pittsburgh chapter, said these dinners, which happen six times each year, are more ‘dinner as theater, as opposed to dinner as dinner."
He added that it’s not uncommon for a restaurant to prepare up to six months in advance of the event.
Doris Chen, who is part owner along with Mike Chen, said the staff of China Palace has known about the dinner since before New Year’s and has been preparing steadily since.
“It’s a lot of preparation,” said Chen. “ We had to go to New York’s Chinatown several times for authentic Chinese settings.”
What's more, Chen said that China Palace will opt for art
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