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'■. ■’	...	- ■■	■' Wednesday, July 18, 2001__________ • Volume 98, Issue 29
INSIDE
SCHOOL
QVH5 students took their civic lessons seriously. Their finished project, Bell Acres Nature Trail, will bring benefits to all. See Page 32.
SCHOOL
Students ore still molting news for their academic achievements of the last year — here at home and all across the nation on university campuses. See Page 25.
SPORTS
They're o younger generation kind of "Odd Couple," but they click on the ice and it shows in their many figure skating accomplishments. See Page 35.
INDEX
News.........................2
Opinion......................6
Tempo.......................13
Real Estate...................21
School.....................25
Obituaries,....,......,.33,34
Sports.................,.,.35
ANOTHER WORLD
MIKE KISS (kneeling) leads his regiment as a captain in the Union forces.
Photos by Tim Bc/monson
The Pittsburgh Rifles’
Local re-enactors preserve war history
By Chris Wells_____________
Staff writer___________
Just over the wall of the Sewickley Public Library veranda, where blue-jacketed elements evoking a factious era were quartered, history whispered along Broad Street on Saturday as it may have 135 years ago.
Infantrymen, depicting men who took up arms in defense of a federal notion of unified government, on this day hiked their faithfully reproduced sabers and displayed archaic rifles for townsfolk and hobbyists alike. As the term “living history” is meant to communicate, these sorts of gatherings attempt to draw both the amateur historian and sidewalk pedestrian into a slice-of-life re-creation of military camp authenticity.
Ken Bowman, an 11-year veteran of such his-............ Continued on Page 3
OFFICER KEN Bowman explains his weapon to Bob Tomazeski of Am-bridge.
SEWICKLEY HEIGHTS
More acres dedicated to nature reserve
By Chris Wells_____________
Staff writer_______________
A 23 year-old compact borne out of a private grant of property to Sewickley Heights was closed on Monday when formal dedication for 11 acres across from the Fern Hollow Nature Center was eased through borough council.
The heavily wooded lot, bounded by Glen Mitchell Road and Sewickley Heights Drive, had once been slated as a town-house plan to complement housing units in the Sewickley Heights Manor subdivision.
With the dedication July 16, the U-acre parcel has been anticipated as a passive-use supplement to the existing 1,539 acres of Sewickley Heights Park, at the elbow of Fern Hollow and Glen Mitchell Roads.
A long-range objective for the uniformly even terrain contained within the confines of the acreage is a lightly sloped walking trail. Fern Hollow Nature Center runs programs that apply its naturalists in community-based informative biological drives.
“People can take a walk across the street should they have been to the nature or history center,” said William Rohe, borough manager.
Rohe stressed the importance of the park as an outdoor haven to be crafted for direct accessibility to handicapped naturalists.
In transforming the lot from a buffer between a row of proposed townhouses and private property to a preserved nature refuge, Sewickley Heights Council figures to merely serve
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