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Ben QrwMW says thtt bronze statue of the soldier at the new Allegheny County’s Vietnam Veterans Monument reminds hkn of the brother lie joet in Vietnam. Marine RFC Bruce Grejgory Greene, a LeetsiJaie.native and 1969 graduate of QOiifar Valley Higft$chOot, waa killed on Feb. 17,1970 in Quang Ham Province while on combat patrol. B.en was serving with the tl,B. Anilny in Germany at the time of his brother’s.Oeath. Both he and his mother, Grace Greene, a Gold Star Mother, ittemikNi llie <dlM of the monument on Veterans Day. for the story, see page 5 in^ todays Herald..
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Letters laud QV Ambulance
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Oataen Club wraps it up
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Lifters throw weight around
Watson Walk bolps children
OSPdC names Whd's WKo list
Ambulance woes aired at Leetsdale meeting
Bumworth and Shaughnessy square off on issues of certification ordinance, management
By Marjie Halsey
After tabling the issue for two months, Leetsdale Borou^ Council unanimously voted against adopi^ an ordinance designed to restrict ambulsudce service in the borou^ to certified companies. Quaker Valky Ambulance Authority board member James F. Shaughnessy, a Leetsdale resident, attacked the authoriiy’s management and asked for support in improving Conditipas at the amraance.
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Council President Edward Joseph invited Quaker Valley Ambulance Authority director Gary Bumworth and ShaugtmMmy to address council on the ordnance. “We siB^y didn’t know enough about this,” be said.
Buniwdrth qxike firs|; encouragiiig council to adopt the oMUnance.*‘We don’t expect the council or the public to understand ^t an ambulance service is supposed to be,” he said. **The ordinance includes a Icrmat for evaluation of an ambulance iervice,”
State law includes reqpiirements for, emergliicy vdiicles, but not for ambulance services, Bumworth explained. “This ordinance does not restrain trade,” he said. “Others could operate an ambulance service, but they wovdd have to do it ri^t. They couldn’t come in bore with a hrarse and.buggy and claim it was an ambulance. Ri^t now they can.”
Leetsdale, like all the communities in the Quaker VaU^'itmbulance AuthtHi-ty, pays a per Capta fee to the authority that allows eadi resident an unlimited number of ambulance calls and ti^Si^portation to any hospital within, a 15-mile radius without cl^e. Beymtd that distance, residents are charg^ an additional.mil^e fee.
“Can the MMRation of iother ambulant in tM borou^ effect our cost? ” ai&ed councilman Tom Molitor.
“NoV’ said Bumw^. “It w|ll cost the residents more if they call an ambulance they have to pay for; Quaker Vall^ i^bulance Will .continue to operate the same way whether you
: this ordinance dr not.” aughnessy then addressed council, “I wish to compUment the council members for not' enacting this ordinance in a baSty maimer,” he said..He explaiioed that he ori^nally submitted the ordinanceio the council “in a spirit of cooperation/’ but since .concluded that “such an ordinance is not needed in any 'Of the communities	the Quaker
Valley Ambulance Authority area.”
“It is ludicrotK 'to think that any transporting (outfit would Come in and compete in any manner whatsoever,” he continue. ^ughnCssy also suggested that the ordinance would open the B<Hrough to challenges in the courts as to its l^ality.
“I suggest that Mr. Bumworth take this back to the Valley Ambulance Authority .area (Coraopolis, Moon Township) where there is a definite risk of undercut^^-the fee trf |140 a year.” “Mr. Shaughnessy is our ai^inted re|>re3entative and we should do what he recomm^^^” said Molitor.
Council then pas^ a mpticm not to
adopt the ordinance. Solicitor Carl Ker-chner pointed Out that no motion was necessary, but Molitor said, “No, we want to do it this way. We want jt to be dear.” i
After the vote, Bumworth said/I appreciate the change of heart Mr. Shaughnessy has bad. We can continue to cqierate fine without it.” He then left the meeting.	:	.
Shaughi^y and the council continued to discuss the ambulance authority. Shaughnessy asked Council to write a letter to Uie board a^dng that a new ’'solicitor be sought, one who lives in the authority’s area. “I need support. There is an apathetic condition among our . Ixiard meinbers. The man who just walked out has ev^onc in l^s poi^et except me,” he said. “We have board members with their heads In the sand. The place is gbing to hell.”
Council agi^ to Write the lettef and councilman Charles WascO said he would attend the next meeting of the Authority board to support ■Sbaughn^y^
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