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50 cents	Wednesday, July 26,2000	Vol. 97, Issue 30
IN THE GARDEN
Delores Wilson Smith (left) pauses with event co-organizer Marianne
raising garden party. Page 13.
SEWICKLEY
Sgt. Tom Tuite retired after 20 years of service with the Police Department. Page 5.
SPORTS
QV knocks Vikings out of playoffs at last at-bot. Blaise Milburn pitched 10 strikeouts.
Page 25.
NEWS BRIEF
Sewickley Borough's meeting with Administrative law Judge John Corbett was canceled Friday, because Bell Atlantic did not comply in a timely fashion.
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MIILENNIUM MAYORTHON
LEETSDALE MAYOR Mike Maruca signs the pledge for the Millennium Mayorthon. The relay came through Quaker Valley last week on Its 6,000 mile journey to Washington D.C.	Photos by Tim Edmonson
Mayors lend legs for oigan donation event
By Robert Weible__________________________
Staff writer_______________________|______
Three local Mayors have traveled their way into the Guinness Book of World Records as part of the first-ever coast-to-coast mayoral relay.
In an attempt to help raise awareness for organ donation, the First Family Pledge Millennium Mayorthon came through Quaker Valley last week. But things didn’t go as smoothly as hoped.
After a hand-off in Aliquippa, the ceremonial baton wound its way to Leetsdale, where Mayor Mike Maruca awaited its arrival. When the truck arrived the walk was canceled in an attempt to get back on schedule.
The pledge signing ceremony, which was to be -----------------------Continual! on pago 3
EDGEWORTH MAYOR Bob McGinnis takes the baton from special team Mayor Philip Anderson for his leg of the relay.
REGION
Bell Acres OKs request for wireless
By David McElhinny
Staff writer , _________
Bell Acres Borough has approved a motion that could springboard the area into the future.
- This new project is a high speed, wireless, digital radio communication network (hat will allow residents to get online without tapping into: a phoneline
“This is really a no lose situation for the borough,’ explained John Dohanich, borough solicitor. “This system will allow wireless communication service to the entire community at no cost to the borough,”
Metricom has a patented technology called “Ricochet,” a new concept in radio communication.
Tbmake the system work, the company will come the area and install devices called pole-top radios on top ^SSS^telOphOiie poles and liijit ^standards throughout Bell Acres and other surrounding communities Which approve the system.
“Whoever owns the poles will receive a fee for the use,” said Greg Reynolds, Metricom’s manager for the Pittsburgh area. “The pole top radios replace the heed for telephone wires and will actually allow people to get on-line faster.”
The pole-top radios, ten-pound boxes that are 4 x 7 x 10 feet, are the key ingredient behind the company’s “Ricochet technology,”
“Those boxes represent about 15 years of research,” says Reynolds. “When ------Continued on pago 2
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