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Vol. 89 No 33
Serving Aleppo, Beil Acres, Edgeworth, Glenfield, Haysville, Leet, Leetsdale, Osborne, Sewickley, Sewickley Heights, Sewickley Hills
Wednesday, August 12, 1992
THE HERALD visits Steeler camp. See page B-6.
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B o b G r 0 m o spends his days at the top — usually , high atop a church steeple,
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EASY RIDERS: these bikers, heading down Beaver JStreet. Sewickley, are dctbrs Jurgen Prochnow, (left) and Craig T. Nelson, in town to film ''The Fire Next Time," id C$$ TV-rtt&vie. The film makers used Sewickley settings for three days last week. Why is everyonie on bicycles? See page A52.	photo	by	Gina	shiveiy
T PLANNING COMMISION
Planiiets give approval to Eden; coundl vote decides school's fate
By fiNM SHIVELY
staff writer
Please don’t close our school That was the request of 60 parents, teachers and an administrator who attended a public hearing of the Sewickley Borough Planning Commission last week.
If it’s up to the planning commission, Eden Christian Academy — the school in question, located in Sewickley’s St. Stephen’s Church — will remain intact.
The planning commission voted 3-1 to recom-niend that Sewickley Borough Council, grant a conditional use for Eden, even though it is within l.UOO-feet of an elementary school at St. James Catholic Church, q proximity forbidden by borough zoning.
Council will decide the school’s fate after a public liearing on Aug. 17, at 8 p.m. Carolyn Hammer and Jonathofi Showe serve on both the planning comlmission and borough council. Their split vote ^s. Hammer opposing, and Showe in faVor tfiay indicate a similar split on coiincil.
The Aug. 17 verdict will be just nine days shy of the first day of school on Aug. 26.
If council does not grant the use, then the parents of the 41 registered students will have to find another school for their children.
Commission president Edward Hyde says that one reason the commission is making the recommendation is there were no objections at the hearing. “We have taken note that there is no testimony in opposition, ’ ’ he says.
Additionally, the commission determined Eden is a school and does not serve a church function. Hyde referred to it as a “landlord-tenant” situation, saying Eden is independent of St, Stephen’s.
The borough’s conditional-use requirement states that a building can’t be within 1,200-feet of a building which is of the same or similiar category.
“We need more substance as to what this condition is trying to present,” says Eden lawyer Joe Otto.
A parent, Tim Zeffiro, took it a little further —----------------------Continued on Page Ai.
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Leet Township is going to get all it can.
Commissioners there are planning their 1993 Quaker Valley Council of Governments (QVCOG) application, and decided to seek more funding for projects than originally thouglit.
“Let’s go for broke,” says commissioner Carolyn VerSzyla.
She says the federal government subsidies will probably be decreasing in the future, and now is the time to get as much money as possible.
When Leet applies for community development (CD) monies, if a project is approved, then Leet and QVCOG split the cost 50-50.
The application is due this Friday, and the commissioners agreed to ask for funding for the following;
•	Separation of storm and sanitary sewers on Ambridge Avenue, and possibly on Mound, Orchard and Oak streets;
•	Four storm-drain replacements and 13 inlet drain repairs;
•	Curb-cuts and other improvements to make township property accessible to the handicapped.
In another engineering matter, commissioners voted to fix a headwall and deteriorating sewer-pipes on Myrtle Hill Road.
Engineer Pat Cooper says the 40-feet of pipe, half of which is concrete pipe, and another half that is terra-cotta, need repaired.
According to Cooper, a manhole-cover blew off the sewer. He attributes it to the clogged and cracked pipes.
Commissioner Paul Ferder-bar questioned whether or not the repairs are “only a ban-daid,” but commissioners agreed that is not financially feasible to fix the entire length of pipe at this time.
Other commissioner business includes plans to advertise for eligibility for a full-time police officer.
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