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SUBURBAN PITTSBURGH'S LARGEST CIRCULATION
Wednesday, April 23, 1986
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■ WITH A HEY, and a ho, and hey nonino. Two students from Sewickley Academy act but a scene from William Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” in Edgeworth’s Way Park. Ninth grade students of the school will celebrate ■ the bard’s 422nd birthday April 23 at a celebration beginning at 7:30 p.m. The school’s cafeteria will be turned into a Tudor banquet hall and students will appear in Elizabethan cbstgme to present a program of readings and dramatic scenes from the great, playwright’s works.-Opening remarks will be presented by William Shakespeare, impersonated by an actor fronmthe Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival company. Above, Brian Hutchison and Lela Means catch the essence of budding spring while being serenaded by Jean Lee, violin, and Erica Brown, flute. ■
Bell plans $1:7 million upgrade project here
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Garbage might be costly commodity if bill passes
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Sewagespilling into local creek worries Leet
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This architect had ! all the Wright stuff says Fastorius
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Contes travel far for a peek at Halley's Comet
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Civil War expert coming to town, Sunday evening
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State Key Clubbers elect two local youths
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Ming Ding brings out the kimonos, and the pyjamas
Sewickley’s phone service has made great strides since it was' introduced nearly ICO years ago, when 14 subscribers were served from a small office behind the Sanitary Milk Company.
Today, in its central office budding on Beaver Street, Bell of Pennsylvania technicians are
putting the finishing touches on a Service modernization program that by late summer will offer space-age telecommunications to Sewickley's nearly 8,000 subscribers.
Bell Manager Donna Kaufman said the project represents a $1.7 million in-vestment in the community.
According to Ms. Kaufman, the hub of the.program is a state-of-the-art switching system-installed last year in the company’s central office in Per-rysville. She described the new system as a' “computer-based, digital electronic unit employing the very latest in communications technology.”
She emphasized, “The switcher is so advanced, it gives us the capability to serve several communities. It means that through the Perrysville unit we can upgrade service in Sewickley without installing a totally new switcher there — and expense that could run into several million dollars. In-
stead, we need only install in Sewickley a less costly electronic module to work in combination with the main unit in Perrysville.” Because of the expense savings and operating efficiencies of digital electronic systems, Kaufman said Bell is employing the new technology wherever it can “to keep down our
costs — savings we can pass on to our subscribers.”
For Sewickley subscribers, those whose phone numbers begin with 741, the electronic switcher promises improved service, faster transmission of calls and an array of up-to-the-minute communica-
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