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Wednesday, January 26, 1994
INSIDE
Sports
♦	Kevin Larger is <Quo-: ker Valley's answer to Poseidon, He's going places'ijofh in and duf of the water.
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Opinion
♦	Sen. Harris Wofford . believes Martin Luther
- King Day should bs.a day "on" rather than just a day "off." The Herald agrees.
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Lifestyles
♦	Sewickley Valley Hospital Auxiliary is gearing up for its annual ball,
A fashion show and luncheon offered a taste of things to come.
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The romance of opera returns to Sweetwater Art Center on Sunday with a program titled *Ameri cana.' See page 2.
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ICE MAN; Sewickluy's Steve Downing isoneguy.wh0.actuallyenioysthecoIdweather■. He was climbing the ice cliff across the Sewickley Bridge last week, seemingly oblivious to the record-breaking Sow temperatures. See page 5 for more.	Photo by Davidson Chan
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LA. quake sends shockwaves here
Herald Intern
The earthquake in Los Angeles hit home for come former local.resident.and a current one. ■ literally.
Dan Cortese and Raymond Butler were in their Los Angeles homes when the quake hit. , Cortese, of “MTV Sports” fame and formerly of Bell Acred, was leaving Los Angeles for Vancouver the morning the earthquake hit.
He was going to leave at 6 a.srn., but the earth
moved at 4:30.
He couldn’t leave for another day. .
Mary Lou Cortese, Dan’s mother, talked to him before lie left for Vancouver to shoot “Traps,” a detective eomedy/drama with George C. Scott on CBS.	. ,
“Dan said at was very terrifying.”
(for tore’s eesdsmiasura was a wreck, according to Mrs. Cortese.
“The TV was broken; chairs were being thrown,
clothes out of the closet, and the refrigerator
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▼ QUAKER VALLEY
Revolt; board told to resign
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Staff writer
The only details missing are spilled tea and bits of barrels floating in the Ohio River.
A group of 20 or more - the
.number grows daily - Quaker Valley residents planned to ' storm the Quaker Valley School ■ Board meeting Tuesday night with an agenda of their own.
Theas-of*yet-unnamed group, led by Peter Floyd, were to present a petition asking for the resignation of the school board and Superintendent R. Gerard Longo,
(Because the Herald goes to press Monday night, a report on the meeting wil follow in next week’s paper.)
The group met Sunday to circulate the petition, which was introducedprimarily inresponse to the 37 percent average assessment increases for Quaker Valley properties. L
“I’ve never seen any thing like it,” said Bill Provenzano, of Sewickley, president of Ohio Valley Hospital and part of , the revolt. .
“It’s sort of like the Boston TeaParty. Theproblemispeople are being taxed beyond their . ability to pay.” .
Increases on individual properties, according to some reports, have reached as much as 400 percent.
“If it were only one person, there probably wouldn’tbemuch
sympathy,” continued Provenzano. “But these are a lot of elderly people on fixed incomes...and young couples,
. “They’re being asked to pay . an extra $300 a month that they Just don’t have. _ (The school board is) driving people out of their homes, I mean, come on.”
Asm! the goal of the as-of-yet-unnamed revolting pity?
“To force the school board to do something,” said Provenzano.
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