Sewickley Herald

              A Gateway Publications Newspaper
Vol. 89 No.
Wednesday, January 22_, .1992
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Edgeworth, .StonfteW. JtoysyjBaJ^ew,	Osborne, ^ewfekl^rSiwicWeyTH^n^	.
More fireworks blast Sewickiey
Council president Sacco ousted; Alphonse Sealerdo gets the seat
By Frank ffboni.
Staff Writer
BM§mtiwe e/utter. ~	-	. ■ ■
MONVMENfAL»OPORTiC)NS.	special alvfo©s- •
t§ 1!ie.presI&a« -ffl|-t!i6'S8#eldey Valley Hospital, is lie staff eist of which legends are tailored, Weflem9s deskwttli-its Mt, Everest ®! papers was celebrates! 1b a satatetp til© retlr--■ sag executive m Friday night at a dinner In fee Edgevvortk Club. ’Aflge' Weisner of€ora©iioli$» Weieea’s secretory ®S2S yeans,jibes witka facsimile of tie WMeen' office created on stage -fora musical Mtete to her former boss, Sea related photo on Page 12.	■. .
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-	Musical chairs .continued on Sewickiey Council Mondky,. night as Frank Sacco was voted .out as council president and Alphonso Scalercio took his place.
“I'ana unhappy with recent developments,” said Councilman W.D. George, who' made; fee: motion- to depose Sacco. George said he missed the reorganization meeting on •Jan,.6 because of his wife’s, illness; '	•
.. “There are three -things- you can -do when .you’re' unhappy-With a situation, .On®,.you can live with. it,. Two, -you' can change it. And three, you can "leaveit; ;■	-•-
-	“And I am .going to -try, to change it,” George said;. v '
And changeithe-did, • .
George- also - moved -that Alphonso Scalercio be nominated as council’s president. Scalercio, who was elected: vice president ah fee;, reorganization meeting, received. a: close 5-4 majority,.
■' Voting; for Scalerciowere; himself, George, Clinton . Childs,' Hugh. ■' .McMaster- -III and Laurence- O’Loughlin. Voting in favor of Sacco were Sacco, -C.B.’Bays, Carolyn Hammer and Peter ScUieht.
■ .George said he admires Sac-. co, council’s lone Democrat, .for .trying to put a coalitionof people together who were, interested In. changing' the' borough’s politics.
- “We .got our act together,” -said George, -referring-‘-to-the t S-i Republican majority on the ’ council. “We were very uncomfortable with the possible changing; rof-. .the committee assignments.”
rWith. Scalercio now - pregi- ■■ dent, ,-McMaster .moved; to nominate O’Loughlin for vice* president of council, -O’-LougWinreceived anMma-. : jority vote, with Sacco the only, dissenter. . •
-•.- In oilier- news at the council meeting Monday:- ...
•Council unanimously approved Chuck Means--as
borough manager and solicitor, ■
■ • Council postponed addressing fee issue of fee firing of Nancy IC. Wolf, a former borough secretary, until Jleans has a chance to review fee-matter.	'
Tom McMullan, a labor and
agency
that may have been violated in; Mo. Wolf’s case.
The New Deli is defunct; Flo reflects on its demise
By Mesfe E. Peffes*/
' Staff writer
Patrons of fee New Belt, were stutadf last week when they discovered ' fee front dears sported a ’.'Closed” sip.	- -..
Despite is paplnrfty. wife, tfeo tab crowd,' Florence “Fla” Clifffiiifflbslo was forced to ©toes .dawn fta IswisMsy eatery duo t® hcalfe problems osid sfcisg ©vcrhcad^osto.
Oa Ilcs..,Z0, Mbs. CMrak-hsto suffered a heart attack. Etoo said even though jMw ess in ffia best ©f health, she would have kept the Deli go-tog csadiaw. " -
“I weald havo carried on through say daughter and epiaf^yen.”' dto said, “bat
' - fee overhead was killing me. I
gssa. .this was. God’s way;,of. ling me to get oyt ”
' - ’ Mrs.-Chirumboto described the rent costs as “en-oruciating” and said there was no way she. could con* teas. “Vou would have to cell tat ©f coup and sandwiches .to keep up, 'and I taw If jier -wasn’t going to work ©at,” she
'■said. - - .......
^ “Wlisa I siped its lease almost five years ag©, 1 knew an Increase was corning. At feo time, I didn’t feiak to include the amount -of overhead.” ■ f ho eost of a rent increase was determined each year by ■ fto Mdfegty owner, Grant MeCargo. Ttdtast was pro*
' jested each year by assuming
-	.-sheserveda growing number
of customers' each year, she said/ V", ,'	...
“Tim more business yea get;-' the- more rent they ' want,”- she concluded..“If'I .
-	-would have -known then, 1 wouldn’t have signed, the lease.”
“S&o-,tod fee. lease, .fee ' lease caid what fee lease caid. --Sfeo taw what ta was get-' ting fete,” crrplaifficd Tom Efe-•Carg®, con of fes building’s owner,
MeCarg® caid a now tenant has Est ticca found yet.
Mrs. Chif-raafesl® said she found running a small teincas both rewarding and feeuraglng. “It’s cad to a certain estent, .beeauco wo served o© many lovely
customers, and I miss fesm. I loved &o place, and I loved feopceple.
“I dsi’t efeiiak tilings are going to got any better,” Mrs. Ciiirambol® predicts. .
“People have come to me aM t©M mo business has dropped., and said feoy oiw not doing near an Wcl as fcetore. A ibw etoTra v?^ht hrwo ceM
around Christmas time. Others will etase down, I don’t feink we’re going to bs the only one In this-town.” Perliaps-Mrs. (Iitoambola Is correct Sloing Fact Bakery, tesated oa PcsMes Street, ales closed last week. Tito bakery had been in fee fesrsugh- less than a year.
Per reae-fieus to the IMl’a cfoesflg, eeo page 4.