Sewickley Herald

              Sewickley
A Gateway Publications^Newspaper / ’
This nowspopor is printed on TtcycUd popor.
Serving Aleppo, Bell Acres, Edgeworth, Glenfield, Haysville, Leet Leetsdale, Osborne, Sewickley, Sewickley Heights, Sewickley Hills
Quaker Valley played the first home night game in school history on Friday, but South Side spoiled the party. See Sports Page 25.

^■ • ~j"'-■ \:r .'V-''	ber 40,<1991; y .‘'vr.-.i; -4o Cen{$r_ ;



REGAL MOMENT
THOMAS FODOR of Leetsdale displays the photos he shot at the wedding of Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana.
Fodor recalls ‘meeting’ Diana
Lifestyles
9 Interested in finding the perfect pet? Some folks visited the Village Saturday to show off their version of the perfect pet.
Page 11
News
■	Will the change in area codes cause problems? One area rire chief thinks it might, but the trouble may be short-lived.
Page 3
Peeple
■	The Woman's Club of Sewickley Valley will turn 100 years old in October, but the group's mission and ideas remain fresh.
Page 10
%t MwUrkK
*■ -** —** —
elm wifflr_________
Thomas Fodor had the summer of 1981 off. He was a student going for his masters’ degree at the University of Pittsburgh. He was a enjoying his free time when he got a once-in-a-life-time offer.
Fodor’s sister, Cynthia, was the head researcher for ABC, and her upcoming work schedule included covering the Royal Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. Cynthia
asked her brother if he would like to come along.
He accepted. Happily.
“I was thrilled for the opportunity,” said Fodor, a resident of Leetsdale and president of Quicksigns by " Ad-Com in Coraopolis.
Using some money he had been saving, Fodor went to England and stayed in a youth hostel.
On July 29, 1981, Fodor was standing on the top of a 15-story building directly across the street from St. Paul’s Cathedral.
“I had a really good view. And I took as many pictures as I could. Part of me was completely exhilarated by the experience. And the other part of me was hoping I wouldn’t fall off the budding.’’
Despite the fact that this event took place nearly two decades ago, some of the images of that day are crystal clear for Fedor.
“I remember that when I zoomed in on the two of them, I just got so excited. I
—— Canfiiaeed on Pag* 2
^MERfALLEY
School passes the test
By 9eaa S. Greeted Staff writer
Report cards came early for Quaker Valley Middle School as the district met and passed a second inspection by borough officials Monday.
. Approximately 20 items wfere check-listed by Ray Wolfgang, budding inspector, and W. George Edel, boro ugh fire marshal. At issue were minor — but important — items remaining from the previous Monday’s inspection.
“Most of the items were resolved,” said Wolfgang, of his on-site review. “It was in good order. (There is a better) delineation between . work areas and school areas.”
With debris and hazards removed, stairwell lights, door closures and hardware in place and differences in the floor height rectified, the school area is tidy and safe.
“We tried to respond to the facts, to the things they asked us to do,” said Greg Smith, school board facilities chair-parson. “There is no benefit to anyone not to get things done.”
The “doing” will continue while the seventh- and eighth-graders experience their first full week of the new school year.
Day 1 of classes at Quaker Valley Middle School was met by people holding wooden signs. They weren’t protesting the in-progress state of the building. They were parents, members of the Home and School Association.
Their placards read: “May I help you?”
And help they did, directing students to the cafeteria for a first-day orientation meeting and answering parents’ questions.
Theirs was not the only cooperative effort that helped
«—-» CanttewHl on