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Wednesday, January 14, 2004
Volume 101, Issue 3
TEMPO
Soldiers return and soldiers depart. This Bell Acres man is training for his mission in Iraq, and his family could not be more proud. See Page 11.
INSIDE
It's time again to vote for your favorite business or service on this year's Readers Choice ballot.
See Page 35.
SPORTS
Quaker Valley upset Johnstown 9-0 at the Airport Ice Arena last Tuesday night. See Page 25.
Local News....................2
Oplnion............................6
Tempo........................11'
School ......................17
Obituaries...................24
Sports.......................25
Real Estate..................29
HOMECOMING
SEN. JOHN Pippy is home from Iraq and back into everyday routines whether helping wife Kathy in the kitchen or defining issues in the political spotlight.
Photos by D.S.Dreeland
From command to constituents
By Dona S. Dreeland_________________
Editor______________________________
wo of John Pippy’s most public roles are separated by a closet door.
Last Wednesday, when he returned home from the Army Reserve Center in Kittanning, he hung up his camouflage uniform and began making plans for the next day’s meetings as scheduled by his staffers.
Captain Pippy, commander of the 332nd Engineering Company, was no more. Instead, the senator buttoned his suit coat and slipped into the familiar and invigorating routine of politics.
"This is my job," he said, at the media open house last week in his Moon Tbwnship home
That job now is reconnecting with those he represents, staying current with district issues and beginning work on his re-election.
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IN THE VAIUY
New leaders take places to govern
By Rachel Weaver___________
Staff writer_______________
Soon after District Justice . James Russo swore him in.as an Aleppo commissioner, Oliver Poppenberg was elected presi-dent.of the board at the township reorganization meeting Jan. 5.
The new board, including write-in candidate* winner Linda Campbell, did not re-elect former township solicitor Vincent Restauri, but voted 3-1 to elect' Bernard Rubb, a private practice attorney with a concentration in finance, to the position with Commissioner Gloria Vish opposed and vice president Richard Starr abstaining.
Rubb’s fee is $125 an hour, $45 higher than Restauri’s.
Residents questioned the board’s decision to elect Rubb when the township has multiple lawsuits pending.
“We had $56,000 in legal fees last year and we budgeted $30,000 for this year. We’re going to work on trying to do that,” said Poppenberg.
Vish alleged the decision was made prior to the meeting without her input.
“This was a done deal before tonight,” she said, adding she’d been “kept in the dark.”
Poppenberg said the discussion occurred at a meeting Dec.
7, after Vish left.
Resident Bud Smith questioned commissioner’s intentions to develop the tabled ad hoc finance committee made of volunteer residents.
Poppenberg, who was elected finance committee chair, said he plans to draw criteria for the committee at the workshop meeting.
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