Sewickley Herald

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Serving Aleppo, Bell Acres, Edgeworth, Glenfield, Haysville, Leet, Leetsdale, Osborne, Sewickley, Sewickley Heights, Sewickley Hills
Vol. 97 No. 11
' Wednesday', Match 15, 2000
They’re warm and comfy thanks to corporate gifts and valuable volunteer hours spent at World Vision. For more on Romania, see Page 11
Sports
■ In just his third season, Andy Wormsley, has become'the leaa: ing scorer for the Westminster Titans.
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Lifestyles
■ What better way to celebrate the impending change of seasons than a guided nature walk in Sewickley Heights Park.
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Extra
■ The "Windows for God" series by Sharron Schaefer continues with a trip to St. James Catholic Church in Sewickley, See
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SINGIINT THE BLUES: It wasn’t a good money day for George Gasper (left) and Todd Mussman, Quaker Valley sophomores, as they took their talents to Wolcott Park in Sewickley on Friday. A little jazz and a little blues entertained passers-by While they played without their regular percussionist Dave Keber.
Borough demands phone book corrections
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Sewickley’s phone worries have come to another hurdle with the mis-listing of the official borough phone number in the 2000-2001 Coraopolis/Se-wickley Phone Book.
Instead of the official number of 741-4015, Bell Atlantic listed the main trunk line of 749-2530, which rings directly to the secretary’s phone instead of the main switchboard.
The change, said Kevin Flannery, borough manager, was "without the Borough of Sewickley’s knowledge and written consent."
In a letter to J.L. Cornett, directory manager at Bell Atlantic, the borough states that the unrequested change “has caused many problems
and needs to be corrected immediately."
Because of the change, all phone calls are routed to one staff person’s direct phone number. The phone had been setup for limited voice mail, being one of many in the borough’s network, and calls made to that phone cannot be answered by other personnel when unattended.
“The Borough of Sewickley is a high-service organization that prides itself on providing services to the residents in an efficient and effective manner,” the letter states. “Your firm’s action in changing the printed public phone number has greatly diminished that ability,"
Flannery has requested several immediate corrections to be made by Bell Atlantic, as well as a detailed explanation
of how this happened and documentation confirming Bell Atlantic’s account.
Firstly, the borough requests Bell Atlantic provide an immediate correction to direct phone calls to the official .borough number.
This could be accomplished in two ways, according to Scott Pater, account executive for Lucent Technologies, which services the borough’s phone system.
The first option requires the installation of an analog DID card, which would cost nearly $1,700. The card would allow for calls made to the individual number to be routed to other borough phones.
The other alternative would provide 23 additional lines and allow for two-way calling, but
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▼ QUAKER VAUEY
Board OKs dollars for new tech labs
By Dona S. Dreeland ____________Editor___________
By next term, a new technology and computer lab will be operational at Quaker Valley Senior High.
At its last meeting, QV school board approved the bid for $73,139 from the 1997 projects fund for materials, equipment, shipping and set-up of new lab space.
Included in this expenditure are 16 drafting stations (classroom to be ready by the third term) aiid a networking lab, which will be connected to CISCO Systems, ready for use this fall.
With the connections to CISCO in place, students will be able to earn a two-year certification from their junior-and senior-year studies of networking and troubleshooting.
CISCO Systems is a three-year-old company out of West Virginia, whose on-line course of study is used in 40 countries and in seven languages.
According to the 2000-2001 program of studies, the courses were “designed to provide students with classroom and laboratory experience in current and emerging networking technology that will empower them to enter employment and/or further education and training in the computer networking field,"
Current industry standards and occupational analysis were used to develop the course content.
Dr. Joseph Marrone, director of technology for the district, sees this as a golden opportunity for students.
“They can take charge of their destiny. There are now 70,000 Internet jobs with no one to fill them,”
Since CISCO is the router system for much of the internet, Marrone views the training and the certification as a “new resource to benefit stu-
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