Sewickley Herald

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Vol. 91 No. 6
INSIDE
Lifestyles
Page 19.
Sports
♦ The Causby Show is
receiving highest ratings in Quaker Valley. Of course, we're talking about Farrah Causby. ,
Page 21,
INDEX
Things $«#n.,...........2
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Opinion..-.............6
Village Voices—........7
School New*............9
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Healliu....................1 5
Obituaries............20
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l-eetstlale, Osborne, Sewickley, Sewickley I leights, Sewickley Hills
Wednesday, February 9, 1994
♦WTAE4V newscaster Sally Wiggin will be in town on Friday uiOfn-y ing to speak to the Senior Men's ■ Club of, Sewickley. .
Pag© l#o'
Religion
♦ Spring is on the way, if only because next Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. Local churches set services.
Linda and Peter Floyd of Sewickley
didn't like the 'valentine* they receiver from the I county, ! See page 4 to find out why. ;
50 Cents
HEART TO HEART: Dr. Lawrence Gipson and his wife, Vivienne, keep romance alive ail year round in their elegant Osborne mansion. Not surprisingly, Valentine's Day is one of their favorite days of the year. To learn more about love secrets from other Sewickley Valley people, see page 11.	Pfmto &y Davidson chan
▼ TAXES
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Quaker Valley Tax Reform League met on Sunday to establish committees and consider actions to control the growth of tax increases at all levels of local government.
According to spokesperson JackieRoonoy,tliencwlyfonned. League is concerned about permanent, long-term solutions to the following problems:
® High property taxes in Allegheny County;
• Lack of uniformity in assessments;
® Unexpected, intolerably large assessment increases;
® High cost of administering
now has a league of its own
the property assessment system;	■
*	Complejdty of the property-tax system;
*	Windfall tax collections at
all levels of local government;
‘ ® Limited relationship property tax tears to the taxpayer’s-ability to pay and that it should not be local government’s main source of-revenue
The League has elected officers and committee chairmen.
Peter Floyd of Sewiekley is file general chairman; Klaus Gensheimcr of Edgeworth is assistant ehairman;Havid Yaske of Sewiekley is treasurer
and finance-committee chair..
Other committees and chairmen are;
•	Legal*. Michael Lyons,
Sewiekley;	;
® School Board Accountability: William Provonaano, Sewickley; ‘
® Political Action: Marianne and Richard Wagner, Osborne;
® Taxpayer Education and Assistance: Dolores Bassett,
Edgeworth;
® Membership: Linda Floyd, Sewiekley;
® Public Relations: Jackie Rooney, Sewiekley;
*	Advisory Members: Larry
O’Loughlin, Sewickley; Donald Dunbar, Sewickley.
Allegheny County Commissioner Larry Dunn was a guest at an organizational meeting of . the group last month, talking about state Senate Bill 448?, the Fisher-Hart Bill. It would put a S percent cap on assessed value of real property in the county.
ThoLeague sdpports the bill, but requested that Dunn consider additional actions that would provide for total reform in the tax-assessment system. .
He returns to speak at Sewiekley Methodist Church on Fob. 26.
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