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50 cents	Thursday, May 15, 2008	An edition of Trib Total Media
INSIDE
TEMPO
May Mart was in full bloom this year, with the community supporting the event on Saturday. Page 13.
PROJECT BEGINS
The Union Aid Society officially kicked off its expansion project for a senior housing complex in Sewickley. Page 4.
ACHIEVEMENT
Christina .Giusti won a $20,000 scholarship to an art sichool. Read more on Page 14.
Local News................4
Opinion......................6
Tempo....................13
Obituaries...............15
Sports...................29
Real Estate..............33
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR VISITS
Pennsylvania’s Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll and her granddaughter Victoria Knoll, 6, of Sewickley, make a dinosaur together. Sewickley Academy celebrated 25 years of Grandparents and Special Friends Day on Friday. Lower School students in prekindergarten to fifth grade welcomed grandparents and friends to the school for a variety of events.
Photo by Kathleen Coates
SPLASH PAD CONTROVERSY
Residents upset over park plan
By Kristina Sernfini______________
Staff writer_______________________
Leetsdale Borough may soon boast a new water park, but some residents were left drowning in confusion.
_ Council unanimously approved a $96,960 bid from Tito Pollice Company in Pittsburgh for the first phase of the Henle Park Water Park project. It came as a shock to residents in attendance who felt council did not consider the advice of experts concerning the location of the park.
“They completely disregarded any of the information we provided them or the guidance of Mike Masiuk, the Penn State Extension educator who assessed the trees in Henle Park,” said Judy Fulton of Leetsdale.
Masiuk wrote a letter to council stating that a potential site, near an existing sandbox and swing set, would be the safest place for the water park for the well-being of the existing trees, many of which are more than 100 years old.
The site ultimately chosen by council at last week’s meeting, is closest to a war memorial, near a volleyball net.
“It smacked of resentment because we worked hard to get their attention and point out possible difficulties with the water feature,” Fulton said of council’s decision.
Roger Nanni, council president, felt otherwise.
He said he and council listened to the concerns of residents and talked to hundreds of people, who supported the project because they wanted more recreational facilities in the borough. He said council the location chosen was the least invasive of the locations.
Jim Edson, certified arborist, however, disagreed. In a letter addressed to council on May 13, he listed several measures that must be taken in order to preserve the ------------------Continued on Pago 3
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