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. Wednesday, January.6,1999-
INSIDE
Update
■ Brooke Perkins is back to being an active young girl in her playroom, made' possible by Make-A-Wish, She's awaiting new tests. .
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News
■ Free holiday parking was a gift from the borough and the chamber of commerce to shoppers, but others took advantage.
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Sports
■ Coaches share strategies for encouraging winning teams in winter sports. They all promote teamwork through practices and in games.
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THE YEAR IN REVIEW
Remembering the best that was 1998
July
Leetsdale holds a weekend of 4th of July events planned by Leetsdale Community Activities Committee.
•	Summerbridge program is under way at Sewickley Academy.
•	Quaker Valley’s Key Club and Sewickley Academy’s Service Organization took their environmental concerns to the streets with a storm-drain stenciling project.
•	Ruth Campbell, local attorney, was honored for 50 years "membership in Pennsylvania Bar Association.
•	Virgil Hovis, at 85, was still working at his Sunoco station near the Sewickley Bridge.
•	C.S. Kim Karate School members raised more than $400 for Muscular Dystrophy Association.
•	Mario Lemieux hosted the Celebrity Golf Invitational at Nevillewood.
•	Numbers were totalled for another successful Sewickley AIDS Garden Tbur. More than 700 visitors enjoyed a Sunday tour of private gardens.
•	The area recovered from storm damage as power lines were restrung and activated and fallen trees removed.
•	Jeannette Russell celebrated the first year anniversary at her Beaver Street address and 15 years in the bridal salon business.
•	The Little Garden Club of Sewickley celebrated its 75th anniversary.
•	St. Stephen’s celebrated 25 years of its annual summer camp.
•	Five QV graduates shaped the Pittsburgh Select soccer team in a game against Reading Rage of the pro-soccer league. Select won 4-1.
•	Quaker Valley Hail of Fame introduced its new inductees: Vince Cortese, Ken Johns, Bruno Raso, Ken Alvania, Black! Belcastro, Kevin Carpenter, Gene Klein, Jenise Lockhart and Robert McNamara, Induction ceremony will be held next month,
•	Concert in the Park raised thousands of dollars for Sewickley Public Library’s renovation project.
•	Little Buddies, a pet care store, opened on Broad Street.
•	Sewickley Public Library made application for $400,000 state Keystone Grant. (The grant was denied in August.)
•	John Maruca resigned from Quaker Valley School Board because of a job relocation to London.
POWER LINES WERE down on Pony Hollow Road after high winds moved through area. Residents’ frustrations continued for days.
•	Davis Run Bridge reconstruction began in Osborne.
•	Sweetwater Flatbread Co., Sewickley’s newest restaurant, was besieged with complaints about venting its wood-fired ovens.
•	St. Paul’s Lutheran Church of Sewickley and St. Matthew’s of Leetsdale entered into a cooperative ministry under the pastorship of the Rev. Thomas Moog.
•	QVRA’s senior girls’ slow pitch soft-ball team won back-to-back championships.
•	The Rev. John Guest addressed Promise Keepers rally at Veteran Stadium in Philadelphia.
•	Raymond Copeland purchased Dallas Irvine Funeral Home in Sewickley.
•	Hussey Copper in Leetsdale celebrated its 150th anniversary,
•	D. T. Watson’s board of trustees counted Dr. Darrell Salk, son of Dr. Johas Salk, as a new member.
•	Consignment Cottage, a resale shop, opened on Beaver Street,
August
Sewickley Police Chief John Mook was
Virgil Hovis at his Sunoco
named president of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the FBI National Academy.
•	Come on Home Weekend celebrated its 32nd anniversary.
•	Nearly 700 bikers traveled the Quaker Valley during Tour de Sewickley.
•	QV administrators moved into their new quarters at the middle school on Graham Street.
•	Groundbreaking took place at Sewickley Public Library,
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