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Vol. 90 Mo. 12
Serving Aleppo, Bell Acres, Edgeworth, Glenfield, Haysville, Leet, Leetsdale, Osborne, Sewickley, Sewickley Heights, Sewickley Hills
Wednesday, March 17, 1993
Yolanda Meade had 'em in her spell in 'Godspell." See page9A.
In Two Sections 50 Cents"'
INSIDE
► Former Steeler Ray Mansfield is goring to take the heat in a charity roast cooke d’ u p by Charles Puskar, a friend and business par.tne r fro m Edgeworth.
Local News
► Sewickley Valley feels the wrath of the Mother of All Blizzards, which brought the valley and the state to a standstill' over the weekend.
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► S e w 1 c k I e y ' s oldest resident is celebrating the second year of her second century.
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SHAMROCKS FOR SCARRIFF l Richard C. Smith surveys
some green fpr St. Patrick's Day at Heritage II in Sewickley's Nickelodeon Mall. Flower shop manager Ellie MacDonald offers two different varieties of the plant: the traditional green and also an exotic purple. "Scarriff," the estate in Bell Acres where Smith and his wife, Betsy, reside, is named in honor of a town in Ireland.	photo by Davidson Chan
T ELECTION '93
Candidates think spring (primary)
After this weekend, it couldn’t seem less like spring.
However, those looking ahead to the primary on May lfl were feeling the heat of a deadline last week. The following candidates have filed petitions with Allegheny County Department of Elections:
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Incumbent James Addison and newcomer Gloria Vish are shoe-ins on the Democratic ticket for township commissioner. Come fall, they will face incumbent Republicans Louis Trapizona and Pete Russo, The four will Vie for three slots open.
Incumbent Republican Hazel Johns is running unopposed for tax collector,
Bid Beret
In the mayor’s race, Councilman Charles Kulbacki will vie for a spot on the Democratic ticket against Richard Loftus. Incumbent Republican Floyd McKelvy is running unopposed.
Four seats are up oh council.
Running on‘the Republican ticket are incumbent George Gaydos Jr., and newcomers Carol Russo, Thomas Gorman and Henry LaRue, On the Democratic ticket are Andrew Raynovich, Philip Ewanko, James
Flevaris and Richard Blanarik.
Incumbent Democrat Nancy D’Amato is running unopposed as tax collector.
Edgeworth
For council, four Republicans are running for four available four-year terms: incumbents Maureen McKnight, J, Scott Wendt III, Joseph Hoepp and newcomer David Martin. Dr. Gary L, Smith is running unopposed for the two-year council seat. No Democrats filed.
Incumbent Mayor William Kelly, a Republican, is the sole candidate for mayor.
Newcomers Leon Thomson and John Symons are running for two positions as auditor.
Incumbent Carol Furness is running unopposed for tax collector.
Glanfield
All seven seats on council are up. Incumbent Charles Hauser has filed on the Republican ticket. On the Democratic side are newcomers John Kerr Jr. and Scott Mawhinney, Incumbent John Menhart is not seeking re-election.
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at odds
By FRANK TIBONi
Staff writer
Words got a little heated in Sewickley Council chambers Monday night.
Council agreed by a 7-2 vote not to require Police Chief John Mook and Fire Chief W.G. Edel to attend its Committee-of-the-Whole (COW) m eeting and pre-, , sent their monthly reports. Councilmen Frank Sacco and Peter Schlicht voted against the measure.
Now, Mook and Edel need only make a written report available to council members for COW meetings.
Council President Laurence O’Loughlin said this is a way to streamline the meeting, but Sacco argued that streamlining can mean diluting.
“I don’t like this sense of isolation,” Sacco said, referring to Mook’s or Edel’s not having to address council formally anymore.
O’Loughlin pointed out they can still come to any meeting.
Councilman Hugh McMaster III argued that Sewickley is paying Borough Manager Donald Sandor to run things and that council should let him take charge of the police and fire departments.
“This intimate contact (between the chiefs and council) had a way of alienating borough managers in the past,” McMaster said. “They should have to go through the borough manager.”
Schlicht asked whether McMaster meant the fire company was possibly making end runs around the borough manager. McMaster had brought up how the purchase of the borough’s new fire truck last year was handled by the fire committee, headed by Schlicht.
Schlicht defended the committee’s handling of the purchase, saying later that this measure was just another example of how the COW is, “Administrative efficiency and let the public be damned.”
O’Loughlin reactly vociferously to that comment: “You owe council an explanation,” O’Loughlin emphasized repeatedly. Schlicht said he did not have to explain his opinion.
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