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A Gateway-Rjjblications Newspaper
Sewickley
Vol. 91 No. 1
Serving Aleppo, Bell Acres, Edgeworth, Glentield, Haysville, Leet, Leetsdale, Osborne, Sewickley, Sewickley Heigh»« Sewirkley Hills
Wednesday, Decemfjer 29, 1993
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I People
♦ Sewickley's Gary Murphy is named president of The Builders Association of Metropolitan Pittsburgh/ n local non-profit group.
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Religion
♦ A Sewickley man is going to start WatcniWORD Productions and produce a video Bible to communicate its teachings.
AULD LANG SYNE: in front of. a clock with its hands approaching midnight, Sweetwater Singers wait for New Year's Eve. This Sunday at 12:56 p.m./Susan Brandt, Sewickley, Trlcla Wolf Inger of Thornburg and Susie Goodwin
of Sewickley will perform at the Pittsburgh Steelers-Oeveiahd Browns gams. Kick-off lime is »p.m. See page 2.
Photo by Wifee May
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♦ Edgeworth resident Courtney South is making wavesinthe pool. in fact, she has qualified for a national meet.
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Millage cut from 24 to 19 because of county’s assessment increase
If UNK TIM	high.	^ »	* to otter news from the meeting, council
lirff wilw	In reducing its millage, council unani” unanimously approved an ordinance estab-
mously approved the Borough o£ Sewick-	1 ishing property that formallybelonged to the
.... ..	ley Heights 1994 budget, with total expem	Sewickley Heights Trust now as part of the
Falling inline with Sewickley Hills, Bell	dittoes of $1,169,533.	Borough of Sewickley Heights Park.
Acres and Edgeworth, Sewickley Heights In regards to the assessment increase,	“It’s a landmark event,* said Snyder,
cuts its millage rate because of Allegheny Leetsdale couhcilman-elect Jim	He said there is no other borough in county
Countyraising propertyassessments42per-	.Shaughnessy penned a letter to Council	thatcanboastofhavmgSOOaeresof parkland
cent in the borough from 1993 to 1994.	President G. Whitney Snyder suggesting	only a miles outside of a metropolitan city
At its meeting last week, council unani-	that Sewickley Heights Council consider	like Pittsburgh . He said the lands parallels
mously approved reducing residents mill-	passing a gentrification ordinance.	Little Sewickley Creek, a high-quality trout
age from 24 to 19.	Snyder told Shaughnessy the issue has stream, and should keep the watershed in
Council, as a whole, expressed concern	bear passed onto the borough’s solicitor	tact for generations to enjoy,
about the county raising properly assess- for review and that he hopes it will he Snyder said he doubts an event like this ment rates in the Quaker Valley School rhs	enacted at the January meeting,	will ever be repeated,
triclJtsaiditcouldhurtrealestatesalesin , The ordinance, airea% onthe hooks in Sewickley Heights Borough and the Trust the Sewickley valley.	Leetsdale, protects residents who Jived in	was in court for more than a year trying to
Borough Manager Bin Rohe said he was	the borough in the same house for more	pass toe land over to the borough
“shocked* to learn Sewickley Heights prop-	than lOyears against a ssessments exceed-	The Trmte« wanted to give the landover,
arty assessments went up percent. Rohe	ing 5 percent in any one year.	hut shareholder Don Rose wanted todeydop
saidan increase of 10 percent is of th* norm.	A resident, though, must contest the	the land to raise money for not only the Thrust,
but a raise of that stature seemed rather	assessment increase. It is not automatic,	but the borough and the school district,
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