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Sewickley Herald
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Wednesday, April 9, 2003
Volume 100, Issue 15
TEMPO
He's taken his winning ways and .Moving personality from the hods of QVHS to the heights of HeUywood. See Page 15.
AROUND TOWN
it's lime again for the Spring Gallery V&St to be held Friday evening all throughout the village. For moreen the event, begin on Page 19.
SPORTS
In the first of two matches beiween focal rivob, the SA boys tennis team upended QV lost Wednesday afternoon. See page 35.
News.....................2
Opinion.....*............6
Mora Kras................9
Tempo...................15
Church..................32
Obituaries..........34,46
Sports.....***»»*‘****‘»*35
CREATURES GREAT AHD SMALL
BEAUTIFUL AND powerful are Earl Shrlver’s birds of prey. Above, he poses with his golden-eagle. Below, Is a gyrfalcon.	Photo by Tim Edmonson
Earth Day: from a bird’s eye view
By Harry Bradford _____________________
Staff writer___________________________
Some people call him the birdman of Beaver County.
Other people refer to him as just Earl Shriver.
Shriver, an Economy Borough resident, prefers to be called a falconer. The trade was first practiced in medieval times when birds of prey were raised and trained to hunt.
“I was the original founder of falconry in the stated Shriver said. “It goes back 4,000 years and peaked during medieval times when people used archaic English. I had hawks on the farm when I was a kid. There was ho one to guide you if you made a mistake (as an apprentice).”
Shriver, 72, will bring two falcons, a golden eagle and a gray homed owl Saturday, April 12,
to Sewickley Public Library for demonstrations at 10 a.m. and noon as part of Earth Day commemoration.
“I do a lot of programs, sometimes 200 a year,” Shriver said. “I go to New Jersey, Ohio and Virginia. I do quite a few shows in New York.”
When he goes on the road, Shriver takes a van equipped with perches so his birds can ride in
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QUAKER VALLEY
Board requests interim county
assessments
By Dona S. Dreeland_______
Editor____________________
The school district adopted its own Interim Tax Resolution, which asks Allegheny County Board of Assessment to make its calculations on any new construction, whenever the work is completed.
This resolution, to be enforced beginning January 2004, would put a house on the tax rolls as soon as its occupancy permit was secured. •
New homes or those undergoing new construction are often missed on one year’s tax roils if completion falls between assessment periods.
A missed assessment means a missed property tax payment to the district, the municipality and the county.
Among some of the properties recently appealed by the district were those whose owners moved in during January 2002 but were not on the tax rolls until January 2003, explained John Sheline, QV director of finance.
Some properties, he said, were not taxed for two years — although the residents’, tax debt was ultimately pro-rated to the time they moved in
Any type of new construction would fall under this resolution.
A letter from the district will be sent to real estate firms, builders and to the municipalities that issue building permits.
They, in turn, will notify the owners of the district’s interest in their new and/or improved property.
With the board’s approval, the resolution will make its way to county offices.
“The county is generally responsive to this type of request,” said Pat Clair, district solicitor.