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17 Gateway Publications
SUBURBAN PITTSBURGH'S LARGESTCIRCULATION
Vol. 83 No: 15®
Wednesday, April 9, 1986
assents
Inside
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Housing sales surge upward in Sewickley
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Miniatures: big, attraction at antiques show
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Turnout for honors dinner, the largest ever

AND THE MESSAGE IS.“You better hurry and not miss out on Sweetwater Art-Center Ming Ding Party on April 19." After dinner parties in private homes all over the Sewickley Valley, guests will proceed to the Allegheny Country Club, which will be disguised as a celestial temple of tempting desserts. Above, Karen Smith Ombres, who will be hostess at one of the dinner parties, sends a message Japanese-style. Mrs. Ombres, who lived in Japan is providing some of the objects for the oriental marketplace, where oriental delights will dazzle the beholder. “Come, come, you’ll see,” says honorable shopper for oriental delights Sheri Landis. More on the Ming ping-on Page 13.	(Photo by Robert Hartley)
Some April Fool's joke: Midnight bandit strikes
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Osborne spellers come out on top
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Early challenger states platform
A midnight bandit or bandits struck several local businesses last week, boldly entering the buildings through their front doors.	' -	’
According to Sewickley Chief Walter J. Brannon, the following, establishments were involved: -Select Market; Beaver and Division streets; Barkus Bakery, 505 Broad St.; and Lerza’s Restaurant, 518 Locust Place.
The culprits used a crow bar to gain entry: The break-ins occurred sometime
betweenmidnightand6:38p.m. on April 1, The entries were discovered as employees or owners of the establishments arrived for work. The burglars made off with $100 from Lerza’s. An as-yet undetermined amount of cash was stolen from Select, where the cash registers were pried open with the crow bar.
However, Chief Brannon said Lerza’s suffered die most damage in the burglaries.
Also burglarized the same evening was Pizza Roma, at 426 Beaver St. But here, police theorize the burglary might be Unrelated to the other three. Although money was taken, the store was not forceably entered, police said.
According to Sewickley Mayor Marie G. Guy, the crimes are still under investigation. County police have joined with the Sewickley Police Department to help in the task, Chief Brannon said.
The Herald asked Mayor Guy the
question many residents and merchants have been asking: How were the burglars able to break into the businesses in full view of anyone passing on the streets of the village. She replied, “That’s very hard to answer.”
She added that the purpose of the investigation is to come up with answers, She said one answer she hopes to learn is “where the guys (police officers on duty) were that night.”
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