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ED SCHROTH takes a minute to thank “Up the Creek Gang” parents and their friends before their plane leaves for China.	Photo by Ed oaiicic Jr.
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They packed everything but their enthusiasm. That, they wore on their faces.
Energized, expectant, 17 Quaker Valley students gathered to take die long walk to the gate at Pittsburgh International Airport and an even longer flight to a whole other world.
Members of Ed Schroth’s “Up the Creek Gang” departed the city last week on their way to Beijing and Quingdao, China. Their two-week journey, the second for a student group from QV, was by invitation of the Chinese Association of Schools and Technology (CAST).
“As far as I know,” said Schroth, who will be leading the tour with his wife, Theresa, “we are the only U.S. high school student
group to be invited for this kind of visit.”
The trip is academic. Science will direct their daily schedules. They’ll work with Chinese students, exploring the environment via the five laboratories that' will help to teach how to conduct water and soil analysis.
In advance of their arrival, a video of aquatic insect life in Little Sewickley Creek was shipped to Beijing. When die kids and the kits connect, they’ll conduct comparison studies of aquatic insects there.
“It’ll be great to interact and show the bio-system labs to them,” said Jonathan Bikowski, whose excitement about the trip has been fueled all year from the many articles he’s read.
“It’ll be great to learn their system.”
There will be lots to compare, as he has discovered,
from just the look of a Chinese biology textbook, which condensed information on the laws of nature.
“It’s skinny. It’s to the point. Bam. It’s there,” Jonathan said, understanding that in China, students have a better understanding of the basics. “They grow them (students) to be the top.”
While science will be the focus of the student work, cultural sharing is bound to occur as the QV group visits in Chinese homes, camps on Bai Hua Mountain and stays overnight in a fishing village on Huang Dao Island.
The QV girls and boys — 15 are 1997 graduates; one will be a junior and one, a senior in the fall — have brought their curiosity to this great adventure.
“I want to see how things operate in their society,” explained Brennan Hydzik.
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The wheels of the east Beaver Hoad project soon will be turning — smiles to frowns, that is.
Osborne residents asked more than a few questions concerning Phase I plans (storm sewers, curbing and sidewalks) that incorporate a 600-foot area starting near Osborne Elementary School.
Some residents left with their curiosity satisfied. Others did not.
Dick Wagner, 1449 and 1445 Beaver Road, voiced his twofold concern about widening a 21-foot space.
“It’s impractical to widen the road at 1449. Safety is the main issue.”
Wagner, who lives in close proximity to the school, explained that widening the road will tempt drivers to speed up and jeopardize, children’s safety.
Secondly, he said, widening will encroach upon his yard creating a landslide with the possibility of his home edging over.
When confronted by Richard Stewart, borough engineer of NERA, said total width would be 24 feet. Plans call for straightening a ragged edge, not widening per say.
“There is an error in the drawings. When you widen a 24-foot section by 8 feet, it will be 32. If they say it won’t be, I’ll have to believe them.”
Timothy Felt, 1446 Beaver Road, also feared consequences of a widened road. Felt’s home is the road’s outer edge, and, he said, a speeding car could easily careen into his home and wind up in his living room.
“Widening the road is a misnomer. We shouldn’t lose sight of the real problem
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