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Wednesday, November 21, 1990
14 Gateway Press Newspapers SUBURBAN PITTSBURGH'S LARGEST CIRCULATION
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Paws for thanks 5
DECORATING THE “bear” walls at Osborne School for Thanksgiving are these students and family members of students who came to the school’s turkey-day lunch. Frolh'left: Lin-da Hudson andher niece, Michelle Adams; Kelly Hankinson; Jennifer Kumer and her grandfather, Dr. Leroy Lite, superintendent of Quaker Valley School District. The bears were created by Barbara McCombe, an. Osborne School teacher’s aide.
Bell Acres mayor says Tm sorry' to police officer Bernice Ewanko
By Jerry Pelley
Staff writer
A part-time Bell Acres police officer got a public apology last week from her boss, Mayor Floyd McKeivey, as the police department overturned a suspension she received in _ February.
McKeivey read in official letter of apology to Officer Bernice Ewanko at last week’s Bell Acres Council meeting, stating: “All reference to that suspension is stricken from your personal record.
“It is my hope that, in the future* such misunderstandings can be avoided.”
The admission by the mayor was a victory for Officer Ewanko, who threatened the borough and the police.depart-ment with a lawsuit if the suspension was not rescinded.
In February, Officer, Ewanko was given a three-day suspension by the department, which charged her with leaving the borough unattended. Officer Ewanko left the borough during the early morning hours of Feb. 14 to rush her husband, Philip, to Sewickley Valley Hospital after he had complained of ab-domenal pains.
Mr. Ewanko, 70, had previously been treated for cancer and periodically suf-
fered from intestinal blockages, which, if not quickly treated, could be fatal, she said.
The police department suspended Officer Ewanko for three days — Feb. 17,20 and 21 — but paid her during the suspension. Also, despite the suspension, she did in fact work on the 20th and 21st,
But the suspension was on her record.
“There was no investigation,” Officer Ewanko said of
the suspension. “There wasn’t a hearing. The borough solicitor, John .Rumin, told council that they couldn’t suspend me without a hearing.”
Moreover, the officer said, her departure to the hospital did not leave the borough without police protection.
“I called Leetsdale police and got them to cover for me,” she said. “Officer (Edward) Cross took the call and watched Bell Acres while I taking my husband to the hospital.”
Holiday season gets under way
Thanksgiving service tonight, Santa cornin' to town Saturday
Sewickley begins its Thanksgiving weekend with a joint service by the Sewickley Ministerium tonight, and the Christmas season officially gets under way on Saturday with a parade and visit from St. Nick.
Also, a local girl turned television star returns home to help Pittsburgh with its premiere of the holiday season.
The Ministerium will hold its annual Thanksgiving Ecumenical Service on Wednesday, Nov. 21, at 7:30 p.m., at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 810 Beaver -St., Sewickley. Persons of all religious faiths in the community are invited to attend.
Rabbi Shalom Bell, of Beth Samuel Jewish ~Center, Am-bridge, will be this year’s speaker at the service.
Local businesses, government offices and post offices will be closed on Thursday,
Nov. 22, for Thanksgiving, a national holiday.
On Saturday, Nov. 24, Santa Claus is cornin’ to town.
At 11 a.m., Santa will arrive aboard a Cochran Hose Co. fire truck. Quaker Valley High School Band will lead the Christmas parade down Beaver Street, proceeding from Grant Street.
The parade will end at Wolcott Park, Beaver and Broad streets, where Santa will accept Christmas wish lists from local children from noon to 2 p.m.
Cider and^ cookies will be available.
Down in Pittsburgh on Saturday, Hilary Edson, formerly of Sewickley and a star on the soap opera “General Hospital, will be one of the celebrities in the annual Celebrate the Season Holiday Parade.
The parade will be held from 9:30 until 11:30 a.m. in downtown Pittsburgh.
Hilary will join grand marshall Willard Scott, weatherman on NBC-TV’s “Today
Show”; Willie Aames, an actor who starred in the old TV show “Eight Is Enough”; musician Carl Anderson; and The Ultimate Warrior, a wrestler from the World Wrestling Federation.
The parade will include 17 high-school bands, 26 floats and the Philadelphia Mummers.
Ms. Edson, a Sewickley Academy alumna, majored in English literature at Tufts University until her junior year, when she studied at New York University and took an internship with the soap opera “Search for Tomorrow.”'
She landed the role of Tania on “General Hospital” during her last semester in college and subsequently completed her BA degree at UCLA at night while working on the daytime serial.
Ms. Edson is the daughter of Joe Edson of South Carolina and Mary Nichols of Sewickley. She is the stepdaughter of Clifford Nichols, headmaster emeritus of Sewickley Academy.
On Saturday, Dec. 1, local churches will be bedecked with flowers for a floral tour from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The open house is one of the events of Sewickley’s Ses----------Continued on page 3
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% Update on Bell Acres development
5	SVH reveals service award winner
6	Hardbody has help for couch potatoes
7	Trading places With men of the cloth 10 Russian nights light Sewickley ball 13 Submarine crew surfaces in Heights