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Barefoot musician
ELIZA DOUTTLE would have approved of Kathy Billie’s casual keyboard style during rehearsal for “My Fair Lady,” which continues this weekend and next at Sewickley Academy. For more about the show, see page 17.	(Photo by Doug Kaup)
Life Flight chopper migrates
By Nic^e E. Peffer
Sto# writer
The landing area for Life Flight helicopters has been moved from Quaker Valley Junior High School’s athletic field.
Until grass begins to grow on the Sewickley Vall^ Y^CA’s newly resurfaced athletic field, hetie^tcrs will use one of Sewickley Academy’s fields, accotding toFred Potts, YMCA executive directoip.
The straw arid debris now littering the field make landing a helicopter impossible, he said.
The field should be ready in another month or so, according to Sewickley Valley Hospital.
The decision, made by Life Flight and Quaker Valley Ambulance Authority, will not jeopardize patient care, said Irene Daily, of the community relations department at Sewickley Valley Hospital.
Life Flight has used the junior-high football
field three times so far this year to transfer patients to other hospitals.
Patients with critical or severe medical emergencies are transferred to hospitals with facilities equipped to handle their cases, such as a bum or trauma unit. Life Flight does not transport patients to Sewickley Valley Hospital.
The YMCA has glady offered the use of its field for a number of years, Potts said.
At a meeting of Sewickley Council’s police committee earlier this month, Councilman Hugh McMaster III mentioned that Sewickley Hospitel eventually would have to address the possibiltiy of constructing its own landing facility
McMaster suggested the Y’s athletic field is not the safest place tcHSfid a chopper.
The ^rough only received one complaint about Life Flight choppers landing at the junior high, stirring discussion at the meeting.
"Someone’s sleep is 'ftOt'i^re important than someone’s life,” McMaster wblared.
QV teachers top out salaries with $49,900
School board OK's 7.2 % raise
By Rich Bottles Jr.
Staff writer
When school bells ring this fall, some Quaker Valley School District teachers will be earning almost $50,000 per year.
That’s thanks to a 7.2 percent pay hike approved by the school board. Superintendent Leroy Kite told the board last week that an agreement has been reached with the teachers’ union for a five-year contract, which includes annual pay raises of about $200.
“I think we’ve got an agreement we can live with,” ex-' plained Kite. “We’ve always been proud of opr relationsWp with our staff and this is just another example of that.”
Kite said the agreement is in line with the expenditure proposed in the district’s 1991-92 budget, which has been approved by the board a^ ’ includes a real-estate tax increase of two mills. •
The top teacher’s salary for the 1991-92 school year is $49,990, which will be earned
by Edgeworth Elementary teachers Milana Bizic, C. Richard Cunningham, Linda Johnson, Charles S. Siulborski and Sandra Wilson of Edgeworth; and Osborne teachers Martha Farkasov-sky, Margaret Thompson and Lawrence Vaccaro.
The $49,900 figure at the junior high will be paid to Sandra Bridge, Gary L. Hall, Graham P. Hamilton, Joan H. Leja, Linda Neely, Edward Perry, Charles M. Phipps, Robert J. Powers, Charles C. Robatisin, Edward W. Schreiber, Stanley Simantiras, Robert Vojtecky and John Wick.
Senior high teachers topping out at $49,900 will be Alan Carson, Janies Haddox, Peter S. Lansa, Edward P. Schroth, Melvin Smith and Shirley Stevens.
Also included in that top figure are some librarians, guidance and attendance personnel, and a school nurse.
The lowest level of teacher salaries will be $27,541 per year.
QV's Pontiere sings swan song
“The decision was very, very difficult to leave my kids,” said Ernest Pontiere. “I didn’t sleep for a week, tossing and turning about this.” Nevertheless, Quaker Valley’s choral director wiU be packing his bags and heading for North Allegheny High School come fall.
Describing North Allegheny’s offer, the former member of the Letterman singing group explained, “They just kept dangling a carrot in front of my eyes, and it just kept getting bigger and bigger.”
QV Superintendent Leroy Kite told the school board’s personnel committee that Pontiere assured him the resignation “was basically because of the fact that the North Allegheny job involves only one school — a large school —
and that the facility for performing arts is so superior (to Quaker Valley’s).”
Pontiere, who had served a year as QV’s choral director, told The Herald that the decision was not an easy one for him to make.
He described the move as a business decision, which also will allow him to work strictly with high-school students. “It’s more of a total high-school position, which is what I really wanted,” he explained.
He expressed his appreciation to all the students and parents who supported him during his initial year at Quaker Valley, especially wiOi the new programs that he introduced.
“I hope the tradition keeps gouig at Quaker Valley,” he added.
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