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BLOSSOM TIME IN SEWICKLEY. April andMay are believed by many to be the two most beautiful months in Sewickley. Last week a profusion of blooms came forth and the pretty picture was held in check by lower than usual temperatures in the Valley over the weekend. St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church is in the background.
(A Herald photo).
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Loyalty Day Parade in Sewickley Saturday
The Donald T. Campbell Post 5756 and its Ladies Auxiliary announce the Fourteenth Annual Loyalty Day Parade on Saturday, May 5, beginning at6:30p.m.
The .parade will start at Broad and Thorn Streets and go down Thorn to Grant, up Grant to Beaver, then continue through the business district. The judging area will be at Broad and Beaver along with the reviewing area. The parade will end at Beaver and Chestnut Streets.
Again this year, the parade will be a competition. The units will be in the running for many cash prizes. Judging will be the Great Lakes Judging Association.
The event brings to a end Loyalty Day activities sponsored by the local Veterans of Foreign Wars. The post sponsored a poster coloring contest for Osborne and Edgeworth elementary schools along with St. James School. The best posters were forwarded to the County Competition. Post 5756 also sponsored an essay contest for the Queen of Loyalty Day in which students from Quaker Valley took part. The winners of both contests will be announced on-May 5. The parade will be the final way all citizens can: show their Loyalty and true love for this great country of ours, according to James Yant, parade chairman, and Edith Davis, co-chairman. Their committee includes: Louis Valenzi, Leo T. Balk, Scot Reilly, Elizabeth Ford, Marguerite Ciarletta, Bertha Hancharik and Sue Hillman.
The Loyalty Day Parade lineup is as follows:
Police -Escort - Chief Walter Brannon, Loyalty Day Banner, Grand Marshall -Col. Edward Miller, Massed Colors: D. T. Campbell Post 5756 V.F.W., V.F.W. Post 3372 Leetsdale, V.F.W. Post 402 Coraopolis, Post 2454 Bellevue, Post 456 Mt. Oliver, American Legion Post 4, Sewickley & Guests Post 450 and Guests. Valley Veterans Association, Glenfield.
Massed Colors lead by George F. Sarver Jr. Officer of the Day. Vikings Baton & Drum Corp Color Guard, V.F.W. State, District 29, Allegheny County Council & Guests, Sewickley Mayor David Guilot, Sewickley Borough Council; United Boys & Girls Brigade of Wilkinsburg & Swissvale, Keystone Cadets Sr. Baton & Drum Corp -Coraopolis, Keystone Cadets Jr. Baton &
Drum Corp - Coraopolis, Legion Lancers Jr. Drum & Baton Corp. Bakerstown, Pa. Gordon Highlanders Pipe Band - TTafford, Pa., Scott Township Scotties - Carnegie, Pa., East Butler Sparks Jr. Baton & Drum Corp * Butler Pa., White Heather Pipes & Drums - Ambridge, Pa. G.I. JOE - Frank Meyer, Pacesetters Baton & Drum Corp -Johnstown, Pa., Baldwin Continentals Jr. Baton & Drum Corp - Pittsburgh, Pa., West View Post 2754 Color Guard, North Hills Buccaiineers Sr. Baton & Drum Corp, V.F.W. Post 5756 Little Loyalty Day Queens, North Hills Buccaneers Jr. Baton & Drum Corp, Robinettes Jr. Baton & Drum Corp Butler Pa., Highland Cavaliers Jr. Baton & Drum Corp -Tarentum, Pa., The Highlanders Jr. Baton >& Drum Corp - Wexford Pa., Tall Cedar Pipe Band - Turtle Creek, Pa., Shriners Clo\yns Western Pennsylvania.
Ohio Valley Fireman Association will be spaced throughout the parade.
Fly the flag on Loyalty Day
V.F.W. Post 5756 Sponsors of the Loyalty Day Parade, to be held here Saturday, beginning at 6:30 p.m., have requested citizens to fly their flags on Saturday, May 5.
The first lighting of the Bicentennial Flag in Wolcott Park may coincide with the parade event, said William E. Start, chairman of the Sewickley Valley Bicentennial’s flag raising committee. The all-weather flag flying from a newly erected standard in the park serves as the permanent reminder of the local celebration of the Nation’s 200th anniversary. Lights are being installed so the flag will be visible at night, Start said.
Social security
status tor soccer
A precedent-setting motion that would make interscholastic soccer the 19th varsity sport sponsored by the Quaker Valley School District was tabled by a 5-3 vote at the April 25 meeting of the district board of directors.
While the school now fields an extramural soccer program, director August W. Frisch moved to table director Shirley Barker’s motion to field an interscholastic soccer team in the WPIAL for 1979.
The action came after a discussion involving about seven representatives of Sewicidey Area Soccer along with players and parents of players participating in the extramural program. Mrs. Barker’s motion set precedent because it marked the first time the board has ever discussed induction of a new athletic program, according to superintendent Dr. Leroy Kite.
Dr, Kite said the district has conducted preliminary work necessary to fielding a team, but Quaker Valley lacks adequate locker and field facilities required to support an interscholastic soccer program. Interscholastic soccer is played
in the fall, and Dr. Kite indicated that facilities at the junior and senior high schools are then in constant use by the football and girls’ athletic programs.
While the Quaker Valley Little League’s plan for the district’s BeU Acres property includes possible construction of a soccer field, director Josephine Sybo said the board has to finish its discussions with the league about rights and responsibilities of the property. Until then, the league cannot construct anything on thesite,
"One of the things we could do is dovetail our plans for soccer with that,*’ Mrs. Barker said. Such construction still would not solve the lack of locker room facilities, Dr. Kite said.
Admitting reluctance to tell the story, board president Dr. Michael M. Zahorehak said the president of die Western Pennsylvania Umpires Association filed a complaint with the WPIAL after soccer players were in each area of the baseball outfield on April 7 while interscholastic baseball game is in progress, Dr.
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Fire damages
Sewickley Heights Police estimate damage to a home on ThaWmont Drive at $20,000following an April 24 fire.
Sewickley Heights Police Chief William Kording said fire struck the home of William Leipert following accidental damage to an outdoor gas regulator. Tree surgeons were reportedly cutting limbs from a tree when one of the branches fell on the regulator, sending a surge of high pressure into the home’s furnace.
The furnace caught fire and burned a room located above the furnace, The furnace itself was almost melted, Kording Said, Smoke damage was reported throughout the building he said.
“The (Columbia) Gas Co. was prompt getting here. It’s lucky they made it, or it would’ve been a lot worse,” Kording said.
Aleppo Township and Sewickley Heights Volunteer Fire Departments worked to douse the blaze.
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