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A Gateway Publications Newspaper
Vol, 94 No. 14
Serving Aleppo, Bell Acres, Edgeworth, Glenfield, Haysvrlle, Leet Leetsdale, Osborne, Sewickley, Sewickley Heights, Sewickley Hills
Wednesday, April 2,1997
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Ed Schroth, Quaker Valley Senior High science teacher, has received one of the seven Science Awards for Excellence for his work. See Page 4.
Spring
■ Daylight savings time is here! Don't for* get to turn those clocks ahead before you go to bed on Saturday evening.
Nows
R Bell Acres has been tqrgeted as a potential site for a tire recycling facility. The matter won't come before borough council until paperwork is done.
Page 5
Sports
R After winning the WPIAL title last year, Quaker Valley boys' track and field team has its sights set on states.
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▼ adventure:
SLOW BUT SURE
CINDY AND Rich Engler rejoice after successfully making to the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa (19,340 feet).
Englers conquer Kilimanjaro
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In a hurry-up world, there are still some things that are done best when they are done slowly.
That’s what Rich and Cindy Engler found out when they ventured to Tanzania to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa.
The journey was long — a hike of 40 miles to reach a summit less than four miles high — and each day, each step, even each breath was carefully calculated. But as the Sewickley Heights couple will attest, the end justified and sanctified the means.
The Englers and 10 fellow climbers were scheduled to meet their guides at a lodge 25 miles from the base of Kilimanjaro. They pulled up
to the hut and found only giraffes occupying the area.
After a brief period of anxiety, the guide arrived. The mountain, however, was still nowhere in sight.
Kilimanjaro, an inactive volcano, is visible only twice a day: early in the morning and around 6 p.m. It was just about 6 p.m. when the group was told to turn around; the haze evaporated to unveil their craggy destination.
“I had a big knot in my throat,” says Engler.
Pennsylvania roads paled in comparison to the deplorable condition of the dirt paths that needed to be navigated to get to the starting point. Driving those 25 miles took two hours.
Once there, the 12 climbers and eight guides
met porters from the Chugga tribe who would carry their gear up the mountain. There were 32 porters in all — 32 hardy men unfazed by the journey ahead.
“These guys carried a complete city on their heads,” says Mrs. Engler. ‘Sixty pounds on their heads, wearing sandals, passing us up and smoking all the way.”
Feelings of excitement wrestled with pangs of apprehension as the climb began. The Englers were extra careful about what they ate and drank, right down to boiling drinking water that already had been boiled and declared safe.
‘We didn't want to get ill,” says Engler. “Their hos-——* Continued on Peg* 2
Residents
approve
payment
Camp Meeting Ext. to get line installed
Bjr Vines Tawniey
________StaK writer___
After more than a year of off-and-on debate, water soon could be flowing to four Bell Acres homes along Camp Meeting Road Extension.
The four Bell Acres residents have agreed on a plan to finance the Camp Meeting Road Extension water project. The plan includes a 10-year loan Uiat will cost each household $117 per monte.
Bush Prisby, the last of tee four homeowners to agree to tee 10-year plan, said he sent tee necessary papers to borough solicitor John P. Dohanich last week.
“It became apparent that if we want water out here at all, we will have to go with that scenario,” Prisby said.
Bell Acres Borough Council had tabled the project at its March 10 meeting until the residents could agree on a payment plan. Originally, two of the residents supported tee 10-year plan and another favored a one-payment plan
Prisby, one of the catalysts of the project, initially had supported a plan teat would have charged tee residents based on frontage assessment. That type of plan was used to fund the Hawthorne Acres water project which, according to Prisby, was originally to have included tee homes on Camp Meeting Road Extension.
“We really were only trying to get back what was taken away from us in tee first place,” Prisby said. “We bought our house with the understanding teat it was to be included in teat water project.
“But we have been living
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