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The Sewickley
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Wednesday, January 30, 1991
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Hanging in there
QUAKER VALLEY’S Pat South was on top of his game at Friday’s match kgainst Center I^ojans. South contributed 14 points in a winning cause as the Quakers downed Center 66-62. See storyt page 11-	(Photo by Doug Kaup)
Aleppo rezones 79 North parcel
Commercial zoning approved second time by commissioners
By Nicole E, Peffer
staff writer
To the disappointment of several Sewickley Heights residents, Aleppo Township commissioners last week rezoned a six-acre parcel of land owned by 79 North Industrial and Research Park from residential to general commercial use.
Now that their request has been granted, 79 North can continue plans for constructing a warehouse for Sunteca Co. on the site.
The six acres abut land owned by Anthony and Katherine Renda, Sewickley Heights residents, who called upon township ^cominissroners to deny the re-zoning reguest pos^ ed by 79 North due to a restrictive covenant drafted in the deed in 1975.
According to 79 North attorney Theodore Brooks, the covenant restricting the use of the land has been legally dissolved.
Township Solicitor Vincent Restauri repeatedly reminded commissioners that the purpose for the hearing was to make a decision to grant or deny a rezoning request, not to determine if the covenant was still in effect, saying a court would have to decide on that matter.
The Rendas have several options, including settling the matter with 79 North in or out of court or filing an appeal with the township.
The Rendas declined to comment for this story, and their attorney,; Deborah Miskovich, could not be reached for comment.
During a short recess, commissioners examined minutes from two 1975 meetings where a rezoning request was discussed to allow the industrial park to be built. Minutes from the planning commission were missing. No mention of the six-a'cre buffer
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Inside
•3	Winds from Desert Storm ripple Ideal flags
4	Death of a princess sparks remembrance |
5	Village voices: trouble in the Baltics
0	Local schools unite for Kwanzaa fete
12	SA wrestlers hope for post-season tourney
Paratrooper, students make war-time penpals
By .Jerry Pelley
Staff‘writer
Sixteen years have goUe by since Stephen Sipe was a kindergarten pupil at Edgeworth Elementary School.
Whatever impressions were made u^n him by his teacher, Judy Wittman, they have long since suffered from the erosion brought by time and overlapping experience.
Today Stephen Sipe finds himself in grimmer circumstances than those of the nursing atmosphere of a primary classroom.
The former Bell Acres resident now readies himself amid a great assemblage of arms, M-60 machine gun at hand, in anticipation along with hun* dreds of thousands of men of
ferocious mortal combat.
But his old kindergarten teacher, who now teaches first grade at Edgeworth School, reentered his life.
“I heard Stephen was sent over there,” Mrs. Wittman says, “so I got the whole class to get together and write him a letter, just to let him know that people were thinking about him.”
Mrs. Wittmah’s class reassured Sipe that he was on their minds and urged him to take care. They also expressed thanks; to the young infantryman for “saving the oil.’*
Sipe and the Edgeworth first-graders made initial contact when the students sent him season’s greetings in early December. After the obligatory censor check by Saudi authorities, their
Paratrooper Stephen Sipe
message found its way into Sipe’s hands before Christmas.
Sipe responded with a letter they received earlier this
month, which appears on page 2. It shows a buoyant cheerfulness and a devotion to his profession of arms.
“We were all so glad to hear from him,” says Mrs. Wittman. “This letter-writing is a wonderful experience for the young students, It’s making them all so aware of what’s going on in the world.
“Sometimes what they hear on the radio is not always right.”
After graduating from Quaker Valley High School, in 1988, Sipe spent a year at Penn State University studying business administration. But, as his mother, Winifred, will attest, her son always wanted to join the Artoy; and so in October 1989, he enlisted.
Young men seldom answer the call to arms for political
reasons; they answer because they are young men. Before his first year in the Army had elapsed, Sipe had so thoroughly demonstrated his aptitude for martial undertakings that he was awarded an Expert/Infantry Badge.
Advanced training in Puerto Rico and Great Britain earned him parachutist’s wings. Further training sessions in Alaska and Panama were to follow, but larger events have supervened.
When Iraqi armies rolled into the rich little Persian Gulf state of Kuwait in August, President George Bush, fearful of the subjugation of Saudi Arabia as well, deployed American forces to halt their further advance.
As part of that initial deploy^
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