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Wednesday, February. 3/1988
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Bob Hamilton gazes upon the Image of the Virgin Mary at Holy Tl'lnity Groatiain Catholic Church in Ambridge. Ha.miiton has been fiilkJ with renewed faith in God and the Virgin-as a result of a visit to Medjugorje, a village in Croatia; where apparitions of Mary have been reported. For the story, see page five in today’s Herald. (Photo by Daniel M. Miller)
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Critics of Sti^ StepKen's settlenifiit scolded
By Mike May
Citizens for ;Pre%rvatiQn» an ad-hoc citizietiis group obpdses ti^ settle mmt between '^the mnmigh *and St. Stephen’s Episcopar Church, was criticized far alliegedly dragging out. hearhigs before the Sewickley> Zoning Hearing Beard:	\
At last'niursday’s hearing, Michael .iFreed, special member of the hearing, board, said« “I am disappointed we didn’t get more accomplished.” Freed .was refentji^lio a lack of witnesses scheduled by Citikens to testify.'
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“We’re ifexperiencing exactly the kind of delay we expected,’’ he said. /
However j David Toal, attorneyfor the; Citite^, tol^ldie bbard that several ;t>f % the' >3;iatn^es were luiable . to attend becai^e of other business. -•
The hearing was scheduled to last, three hoiurSi but was adjourned in aih {NTOximatdy half that tinie-'	J.
Another hiring is schemed ftfr this -Thursday, Feb. 4, at -7:3Cl! p.m., ,in Sewickley Council Chambers. The. board am has allowed Citizens for Preservation to state their ca^e and present Witnesses.
Citizens successfully, argued they should' be t>e^itted , to Ni(eome'>m tei^neht in th^ settlmcstit,casc at a Zon ing Hearing Board mating in January . Attorney Roberts obj^ted to the request, but was overruled..
' Toal argued that becat^e the borough had ‘Chaiiged- its' stance on ffie §t. Stephen’s case, ^rmitting the new -)»nctu^ to be constnicted, that the gi^p stoidd be allows to present its cai% against tiie settlement. ^
At: tte hearing on Jan. 28, Toal.^id he Would nciM the Iward to issue a subpoena for Peter Moriariy, an architect on- the Sewickley HIstonc Review Bo^. Mcriarty is expected to testify on whethei' the space of St. Stephen’s proposed new sanctuary is withiii the 40 percent expansion that is petitiittiedl Alspi- Toal said; h6 waiited ttt have testunoiiy from proj^t airchit^t Paul Whitehead, who was imable to attend last Thursday’s hearing, and froin Margaret Henderson Floyd, an ar-
chitectural historian.
A discussion ensued about whether Ms. Floyd should fly |n frwn Boston>’ testify. Freed sjaid -that the historic district in whicii St. Steirfien s u> now located was created after the application for the new sanctuary was filed in July 1986.
At' the hearing, the followihg jjersons testifii^ for Toalt Emil Grazioli, Shanie ^Ikovits, Carolyn Hammer, William Millar, Mary Walker, C.B. Hays, Stratton Nash, and Bill DeHavjen.
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tdary’s effect on ffie quality Of life in Sewickley, the problems of increased parking and demolition of a historic structure On Broad Street.
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