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After flying high, she’s got her feet on the ground back home in Sewickley. Meet the Herald’s nominee for Citizen of the Year on Page 11.
;Vol. 95 N0. .16 .
Wednesday; April 22; 1998

People
H To lakes many volunteers to keep the Gettysburg Battlefield ready for visitors and historians. Read Ken Bridgen's story on
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Sports
■ QV's Quarterback Club is preparing for its annual Spring Flower Sale, May 9. Posies help fund football extras. See
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Lifestyles
■ Union Aid Society is celebrating TOO years of service to the community with an open house on Sunday. Its cause of caring is on
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▼ MAN OF THE DECADES
Laughlin Center honors William Boyd
Friends and family gathered at the Edgeworth Club last Wednesday to celebrate the lasting influence that William Boyd Jr. will have on Laughlin’s Children Center of Sewickley.
For 29 years, he served the center, most recently as chairman of the board of trustees. He held this position for 27 years.
While he will continue to serve as a trustee, he turned over the chairman’s role to Roger Wright.
“The Laughlin Center has never been in a stronger position than today,” Boyd said.
“We have an outstanding staff of professionals led by our new executive director, Dr. Flo Van Cara, who has clearly demonstrated her ability to lead the center to a new level of excellence in helping children."
Wright called Boyd’s service “extraordinary.”
Boyd is a retired senior vice-president of Pittsburgh National Bank and is president of William Boyd Jr. & Co. and Table Print Company Inc.
He also serves many other non-profit organizations including the Extra Mile Education Foundation, the Heinz-Yale Scholarship Trust, World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Symphony Society.
He and his wife, Ann, live in Sewickley.
CELEBRATING THE dedication of William Boyd to the work of the Laughlin Children’s Center are (from left) Dr. Flo Van Cara, executive director of the center; Julie Kloo, president of the center's board of directors; Roger Wright, new chairman of the board of trustees; and the man of the hour, William Boyd.
▼ SEWICKLEY
Library receives councils approval for grant
If Sheldon ledftn _________________Staff WMfer
Curiosity might have killed the cat, but it was a strict deadline that almost killed Sewickley Public Library’s expansion project.
The library board has applied for a $400,000 Keystone Grant, a grant whose application must be co-signed by both the school district and Sewickley Borough Council.
Last month, officials from the school district signed on to the application, sight unseen.
One down, one to go.
Last Tuesday, Michael Parrish, legal representative for the library, met with Sewickley Council of the Whole to get its nod on the grant request.
Unfortunately, the council members hadn't seen the application, and Parrish did not have one to show them.
To complicate matters further, the deadline for the council's approval was last Friday, giving council members no time to review the request.
“The library has handled things Very poorly. They're coming here at the eleventh hour, asking Us to make a decision on such an important issue," said W. Brewster Cockrell, councilman.
Council's approval is Crucial because the borough plays an important role in the distribution of the money, If the grant is approved, it is the borough that receives the money from the state. They would then deposit the money in a checking account, and the library would make requests for
funds from them,
“This is pretty standard grant procedures. 1 don’t foresee any problems,” said Donna Taylor, library director.
Given such short notice, yet aware that the library was in need of the money, the grant request was approyed by a vote of five to three.
However, certain restrictions were added by the council members.
First, the library must write a hold-harmless/indemnification letter for the council.
Second, the borough solicitor must review the complete proposal, Third, that every attempt be made by the library to have the deadline postponed.
Finally, all administrative, audit and " ■■ ■■ •	1 ' Continued on Page 2
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