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50 cents_____'_____ Wednesday, August 9, 2000	Vol. 97, issue 32
This weekend they all come on home to celebrate the 34th annual Come On Home community reunion. Page 13.
PEOPLE
Toddy is the first day of the rest of his life. Danny Shirey is taking up residence in his new quarters in Natrona Heights. Through the help of those at Verfand, Danny is making a fresh start. Page 3.
SPORTS
Through discipline and talent,
Jason Hoover is
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selling goon examples for his students. Pago 33.
TEMPO
Sewickley Hunt and Hounds will moke a special appearance at this year's Concert in the Park. What a way to end the summer—all to benefit the library. Page 14.
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TOUR DE SEWICKLEY
MEMBERS OF PRESERVATION commissions nationwide gathered at the borough building in Sewickley to take a tour of our hometown, where the present and the past coexist beautifully.	Photos by D.S.Dreetand
Walking tour presents the best of then, now
By Dona S. Dreeland________________________
Editor_____________________________________
Friday’s walk-about had the feel of a tourist adventure.
For many, it was.
Sewickley, and later Ambridge, played host at premier stops on the Mobile Workshop for 90 members of the National Alliance of Preservation Commissions from all across the nation.
They all had come to Pittsburgh with nearly 800 others to take part in Pittsburgh Forum 2000, an event co-sponsored by Pittsburgh History & Landmarks and Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commissions.
On their minds was preservation and the need to take bade practical solutions for the keeping of landmarks in their own communities.
The conference "will provide technical training to historical commissions, review boards, public offi-
THE HOMES of Sewickley took centerstage as we traveled through the historic district.
cials and planners,” said Michele Lefevre, coordinator of Community Preservation, out of Harrisburg,
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Council looks into resident parking issue
By Robert Weible
Staff writer . *________ '
A petition submitted to borough officials for, resident-only parking on the" 500 block of Academy Avenue has run into a few snags.
As a result, borough officials took no action on the petition at the Sewickley COW meeting.
The petition has three major problems, said Borough Manager Kevin Flannery: The front of one property on the comer faces Beaver Street - and has a Beaver Street address; sec-onclly, the street is hot solely SewicMey’s. ft is jointly owned by Edgeworthj and lastly, but nmst importantly, council placed a one-year moratorium on resident-wily parking issues in thespring to study phHting issues throughout the borough.
Even if everything about the petition could be accepted without concern, the petition foil below the required 70 percent of residents’ signatures requiredfor the designation.
One the Academy Avenue residents who didnot sign the petition was Sewickley Mayor Malachy Whalen.
“I’m philosophically opposed to resident-only parking,” Whalen said, “The real parking problem is on the other side of the street.
“It’s a terrible inconvenience to have resident-only parking,” he said. “I definitely do not want it in front of my house.”
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