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Thanks to the contribution of G. Whitney Snyder and other Valley residents, The Frick Car and Carriage Museum is a reality. Page 11.
SPRING SERENADE: Dave Dickinson (center) and Ginny Wendt (right) fill Hegner Way with the sweet sounds of Van Morrison’s “Tupelo Honey” as R.J. McMillen listens in. With school out, Sewickley Valley youth are looking forward to many afternoons of leisure.	Photo by Vince nrmiey
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Briggs Process ready for testing
Graduation
■ Quaker Valley and Sewickley Academy said farewell to their seniors as both schools held graduation ceremonies.
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Around Town
■ Japanese television crews have taken a keen interest in Old Economy Village in Ambridge. Find out why.
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Nows
■ As decision time nears for local 911 service, find out what Newcom is offering potential customers in the Valley.
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Heights mans design can help environment
ByOisditwti
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The best way to cure a sickness is not to get sick in the first place.
Aubrey Briggs of Sewickley Heights applies the same philosophy to the environment: The best way to clean up pollution is not to pollute in the first place.
The push is on for the Briggs Process, a self-contained pollutant cleanup system. Patented nearly three years ago, Briggs believes it is an idea whose time has come.
“Basically, we have pollutants spewing into the air. The technology to clean all this up
Aubrey Briggs
exists, but before you can, it (the pollutant) is gone,” says Briggs, a 76-year-old native of Australia.
“What I have done is put a lid over it.”
The Briggs Process incorporates existing technologies to make it effective. Oversimplified, the “BP” works like this:
■	A dome-like structure is built around a coke furnace, for example.
SI Escaping heat and pollutants are captured in the dome.
■	Some of the captured heat is used to fuel the cooling process. Remaining heat can be “sold” to run steam turbines and create electricity. Heat that goes outside will be pollutant free.
■	The cooling of pollutants is achieved through a process called absorption refrigeration.
■	Cooled pollutants are “scrubbed” repeatedly until dust and other precipitates are removed.
n The solid wastes then are ■	Continued on Pays 2
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HISTORY
Commission loses all but two members
By Vint* Vwnlty
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The future of Sewickley’s historic preservation appears to be uncertain.
frustrated by a lack of support from Sewickley Borough Council for proposed revisions to the Historic Districting Ordinance, five of seven members of the Historic Review Commission have resigned, possibly putting the very existence of the commission in jeopardy.
The dispute centers around recent revisions to the borough’s Historic Districting Ordinance, which were proposed by the HBC and submitted to borough council for approval last fall.
Those revisions, according to former HRC chairperson Mary Beth Pastorius, were designed to bring the borough ordinance in line with state and federal mandates. Among other things, they would help properties in historic districts to be placed on the National Register of Historic Landmarks, possibly giving property owners access to state and federal grants.
Council asked Robert McTieraan, solicitor, to review the revisions, and in April McTieman and Richard Tucker presented their analysis to council. They suggested several changes, some of which were designed to keep the borough’s ordinance in line with the Pennsylvania Historic Districting Act, the enabling legislation.
But, Mrs. Pastorius contends, those changes would “basically gut the key aspects of the ordinance”
Robert Hague, a member of both council and HRC, was one of those who resigned from the commission. He said one reason was an apparent
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