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BO cerit,s. ^	Wednesday, April 4, 2001 ____'	_____________Vol. 98, Issue IB
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TEMPO
Meet the women who planned Sewickley's Riverfront Park and find out why they're our Women of the Year. Page 13.
JOIN THE PARTY
You tan help us celebrate our community by attending this year's Herald Honors Dinner. Ihe date is May 11. For reservation information and a list of former nominees, seePage 12.
SPORTS
Jim Stillwagon, with Sewickley Academy's tennis team, talks about the post, present and future of his career on the courts. See Page 33.
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CULTURE CIRCUIT
BOOKS AND more will be available at the Friends of Sewickley Public Library’s Book Bash this weekend at Quaker Village Shopping Center. Above, Dr. Joan Smith donates bags of her science fiction favorites to the fund-raiser.
Photos by Chris Weils
WHAT A WEEKEND
Galleries, library welcome patrons
By Dona S. Dreeland_________________________
Editor__________________________
The artful will walk the walk and bibliophiles will talk the talk this weekend as the community comes alive with two big events.
On Friday, residents and Sewickley visitors can share their evening in the pursuit of art and things literary.
FYom 6-9 p.m., Sewickley art galleries — Bird in the Hand, International Images, Sweetwater Center for the Arts and the new Tom Mosser Gallery — will open new exhibits during Sewickley’s Gallery Walking Tbur.
And from 5:30-9 p.m., Friends of Sewickley Public Library will host “Books & Bubbly,” a preview party for the group’s four-day book sale housed in the former Sears store in Quaker Village Shopping Center, Ohio River Boulevard
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THE WORK of artist Li Xlo Hang at International Images during Sewickley Gallery Walking Tour.
QUAKER VALLEY
Board listens to appeals on appeals
By Dona S. Dreeland
Editor____________________
They called it an “unwelcome welcome.”
A few of the newest Quaker Valley residents attended last week’s meeting in hopes of making their frustrations with the district’s appeal of their property assessments known to the school board.
Doug Resler of Osborne and others who had purchased homes last year came before the legislative session to express their outrage at the notices of appeal that had been sent.
(Resler had already addressed the board for an hour as it met in committee the Tuesday before.)
“It's not just. It’s not fair to target us. There are discrepancies across the board,” he said.
When Resler had received his letter stating that the district was appealing his assessment in light of the current market value, his purchase price, he started calling others new to the area.
Many of those came forward to lend their voices to his.
“Don’t target us,” said Michelle Dobbs, another of the 39 who received the appeals letter. “Hold the community to the same standards. Fair is fair.”
The so-called target had taken its shape on their properties in particular, as Pat Clair, district solicitor, explained, because with the recent sale, there was a clear market value
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