Sewickley Herald

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Vol 93 No. 53
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Serving Aleppo, Beil Acres, Edgeworth, Glenfield, Haysville, Leet Leetsdale, Osborne, Sewickley, Sewickley Heights, Sewickley Hills
Thursday, December 26, 1996
Quaker Valley
School Board aniera the new year with new lenderahlp,
Haney Chatlant-Walker has been installed as president, See Page 2.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR
■ Quaker Valley got off to a slow start but managed to adjust in
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defeat the Sto-Rox Vikings.
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■	G, Whitney Snyder, ihe longtime Sewickley Heights councilman, plans to donate some of his land to the borough for a park. -
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■	Laughlin Children's Center has been educating the area's youth for 40 years, and the school's mission has remained (he same.
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FACE LIFT: When the clock tower at Sewickley United Methodist Church rings in the new year *- literally—it will be doing so with a
new took. Above,, tea Findley of Ambridge and John Emmert of Sewickley guide one of the new faces into the tower,.At the left, Joseph Sovester of the Verdin Co, in Cincinnati Is on the receiving end of this “facelift.”
Photos by Ed Galicia Sr.
▼ PUBLIC SERVICE
Tucci retiring after more than four decades
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Wednesday marks the beginning of 19S7. For many, it means a chance at a new beginning. For others, it means the end of era.
Sewickley Water Works will experience both.
Ernest Thcei is retiring after more than 40 years with the water works, 23 of them spent as superintendent.
Mike McMahan becomes only the fourth superintendent in water works history.
Before starting his career with the water works in Bcscsahcr ef 22SS, Steel worked as a plumber, roofer and supply clerk for the Air National Guard.
As Tfceci tells the story, he took some classes after getting a Job with the water works, That education gave him the knew4m and certification to work with water (IMritniSsa systems.
ERNIE TUCCI (left) will be succeeded by Mike McMahan.
When William Devine' retired in 1913, Tucci was the senior man at water worka “In those days,® says Tfceei,
“you just worked and learned the system as yon came along.0
Net only, did he learn the
Wiles of distributing water, TUcei and the employees of the water works had to learn new technology as it came along.
“The meters are different now. And they use plastic pipe,® says Tucci. “There are also more modem techniques touse.®
One thing that came along during his tenure was the computer, Many might argue that computers have slowed things down, hut for the water works, thqy made things “easier and more controllable.®
Although compters made tilings snore controllable, they couldn’t control what Murphy’s taw kad willed.
As employees of the Water Works, ©1061 and his crew often were called out to fix leaks or other ailments during the most inopportune times.
“It always seemed like there was a leak on the coldest night of the year,® cays Ttteei, “or
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