Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review back issues from October 2006:
Not an ordinary night
Oct 01, 2006; ... The signs were all there, but we kept ignoring them. One June afternoon we walked into our new life in a Chicago condowith our 2-month-old twins and 15-month-old toddler. The apartmentwas a couple of blocks from Cook County Hospital in Chicago's medicaldistrict. The apartment ...
Boat club crew anchors a way to traditions of bocce
Oct 01, 2006; ... It's not the only game in town. But the bocce competition at theSpeers Boat Club is unique in many ways. Where else, on a balmy Tuesday evening, can you find a handyman'smetal tape measure, homemade salami and choruses of "Aflac" asstandard fare at a sports event? "Oh, yes, ...
Hodgson roast to beef up Coyle restoration project
Oct 01, 2006; ... Cocktails and dinner will be the traditional fare Saturday at aspecial event at the Charleroi Elks Club. But Robert "Moose" Hodgsonwill be the "main course" as the focus of a benefit roast. "We're looking for a fun evening that will benefit a goodcommunity cause," said Mark ...
Why Steelers fans should worry
Oct 01, 2006; ... When the compulsive panic-button pushers among us are calling forrestraint, it's probably time to start panicking. Early last week, at least one future first-ballot inductee intothe Knee-Jerk Hall of Fame condemned the use of the word"devastating" in the wake of the Steelers' 28-20 ...
Vote for the best WPIAL players
Oct 01, 2006 ... To help celebrate the 100th anniversary of the WPIAL, the Tribune-Review is asking its readers to vote for the top 10 players in leaguehistory at nine different positions. The first category of voting -- offensive linemen -- confirmedwhat was already generally accepted -- Bill ...
Still playing after all these years
Oct 01, 2006; ... For a couple of guys who can claim more than a century of combinedmusical experience, Eddie Capozza and Dom Petaccia show no signs ofslowing down. And that's music to the ears of fans of TheContinentals. "I still enjoy performing; there's no reason to stop now,"Capozza, 80, of ...
Grasshoppers wing into view in late summer
Oct 01, 2006; ... I took my own advice of two weeks ago and rode my trike on theGreat Allegheny Passage over the Continental Divide in SomersetCounty. It was a beautiful Sunday. The sun was bright and warm, and thesky high and blue with just a touch of haze. The Great AlleghenyPassage trail was ...
Mihalov to lead Elizabeth Forward; Madia wins gold
Oct 01, 2006; ... After winning their first outright section title ever last year,Elizabeth Forward High School's boys basketball team now has a newhead coach as the Warriors look for a second straight Class AAASection 4 championship. Mike Mihalov, former head coach at East Allegheny High School ...
Songwriter Deasy puts pen to paper for debut novel
Oct 01, 2006; ... It started with a walk through the Homewood Cemetery almost adecade ago. Musician Bill Deasy, of Shadyside, spied a headstone withan unusual name and filed it in his memory. Weeks later, during aGathering Field gig at the Johnstown Folk Festival, the name came tohim again as he was ...
Briefs: Enjoy a few days in Paris, a few someplace else
Oct 01, 2006 ... Take advantage of Air France Holidays' Paris combination packages,which let travelers experience the magic of Paris plus another topEuropean destination, such as Rome, Amsterdam or London. Thesevacation packages, priced from $619 per person, include hotelaccommodations for three nights ...
Owner relates sad story about environmental danger
Oct 01, 2006; ... Dear Dog Talk: As the daughter of a medical-school professor and ahigh school science teacher, you'd think I would be a little moreintelligent regarding dangerous environmental conditions fatal toanimals. You'd think so, but you'd be wrong. We lost our beloved 5-year-old female ...
Hole-in-one brings prize
Oct 01, 2006; ... It is rare when a person playing golf scores a hole-in-one. It is even more rare when that hole-in-one comes with a guaranteedprize. But that's what happened to Mark Seamans when he played in the St.Sebastian's Parochial School Golf Outing on Sept. 2 at ...
Q&A: Jeff Reed
Oct 01, 2006; ... Jeff Reed has been the Steelers' regular kicker since signing withthe team in November 2002 and been a model of consistency. He holds ateam record for consecutive field goals made (22), and he hasconverted 38 attempts in a row from inside of 40 yards. Reed excelled at soccer ...
Ringing true to friendship
Oct 01, 2006; ... When they were in elementary and middle school, best friends JillAdamson and Alexandra Loos were like other little girls their age. "We played with dolls when we were little and then board games inmiddle school," Adamson, a senior at Bentworth High school, recalls,laughing, "and we ...
Proposed tax credit for accessibility has local support
Oct 01, 2006; ... A local building industry trade group says it's ready to make afinal push for legislation that will increase accessibility in homesfor persons with limited mobility. The Builders Association of Metropolitan Pittsburgh is workingwith the Pennsylvania Builders Association and other ...
Charleroi's Tarquinio still producing for Allegheny College
Oct 01, 2006; ... A standout Charleroi Cougar during his scholastic days, MarioTarquinio's collegiate football career as a Gator at AlleghenyCollege, Meadville, is winding down impressively. The stocky and punishing 5-foot-9-inch, 205-pound senior runningback is hoping to lead the Gators in rushing ...
Waiting to be discovered
Oct 01, 2006; ... Christopher Lee opened the wooden confessional door and pointed tostacks of yellowed manuscripts and letters, some bound with ribbonsand string, all of them crumbling at the edges. They are his proof, the evidence that what he says is true when hecollects $10 admission fees from ...
Girl, 10, killed by truck
Oct 01, 2006 ... A 10-year-old girl was killed early Saturday after she was hit bya tractor trailer on a dark road in O'Hara. Leona Ford, 10, of Garfield, was struck at about 12:15 a.m. alongOld Freeport Road, according to the Allegheny County MedicalExaminer's Office. Ford was walking a ...
PSU notes: Posluszny finds groove
Oct 01, 2006 ... Paul Posluszny is feeling comfortable again, which should makeopposing offenses uncomfortable. The All-America linebacker, who this year has moved inside as PennState went to a 3-4 look on defense, had 10 tackles Saturday in a 33-7 win over Northwestern and pronounced it his best ...
Battle lines redrawn
Oct 01, 2006; ... The Perry Area Heritage Society is redrawing the battle lines forits 18th annual Pioneer Days, slated Friday, Saturday and Oct. 8 inPerryopolis. In recent years, one of the most popular features of the festivalhas been the re-enactment of Civil War engagements at Sampey ...
Big three for the Steelers
Oct 01, 2006 ... Give Willie Reid serious consideration as a punt returner How do the Steelers improve their punt return game? Two words:Willie Reid. The Steelers drafted the Florida State speedster for areason, and his forte is returning punts. The Steelers have to makedramatic improvement in that ...
Notebook: No surprise, Gonzalez's season ends
Oct 01, 2006; ... Mike Gonzalez made official one of the Pirates' worst-kept secretsSaturday: He won't pitch again this season. Gonzalez, who earlier this week had thrown three bullpen sessionsduring the previous six-game road trip, was simply playing catch. Gonzalez hasn't pitched in a game ...
Newsmaker
Oct 01, 2006; ... Christina Manfredi Age: 22 Family: Parents, Judy and Edward; sisters, Michelle, 20, andJessica, 11 Residence: McKeesport Education: Bachelor's degree in history, with a certificate inbusiness law, from Duquesne University, where she graduated in Maysumma cum ...
Deep-six state GOP's deadwood
Oct 01, 2006 ... In what I fear shall be a little-noticed piece from Robert Novak'scolumn "Murtha's GOP foe snubbed" (Sept. 24 and PghTrib.com), it isnoted that Pennsylvania Republican Party Chairman Robert Gleason hassnubbed and is talking down the November election chances ofCongressman John Murtha's ...
Democrats R clueless
Oct 01, 2006; ... Your average Democrat these days is teetering between fantasy andfatalism. There's the fantasy about helping Nancy Pelosi measure the drapesin the House speaker's inner sanctum and watching President Bush eatcrow on Nov. 8. But inside every Democrat is the tortured soul of ...
Some movie endings linger long past fade-out
Oct 01, 2006; ... It happens every time I stumble onto the last quarter hour of"Saving Private Ryan" (1998): I'm hooked if it's anywhere near the moment when Tom Hanks says,"Earn this. Earn it." A minute of screen time later, the elderlyJames Ryan (actor Harrison Young, who died July 3, 2005), says ...
Clinton: The real Bill has emerged
Oct 01, 2006; ... From behind the benign facade and the tranquilizing smile, thereal Bill Clinton emerged Sunday last during Chris Wallace'sinterview on Fox News Channel. There he was on live television, the man those who have worked forhim have come to know -- the angry, sarcastic, snarling, ...
Eucharistic minister always took initiative
Oct 01, 2006; ... Back in the 1990s, Florine Sands, a Eucharistic minister, feltthat the interior of Sacred Heart Church in Shadyside was showing thewear and tear of time. So she organized a fund drive. "My mother contacted many adults who as children attended SacredHeart School and asked them for ...
Cleanup set for Kalp Discharge
Oct 01, 2006; ... The Kalp discharge that flows from the old Melcroft No. 1 mineinto Indian Creek along Route 711 has long been an eyesore and aconcern for area residents. In fact, a former Saltlick Township supervisor, H. Dean White,said he met with state Rep. Jess Stairs and then-state Sen ....
Fortunate 40
Oct 01, 2006; ... Steelers running back Jerome Bettis was known during his playingdays for having nimble feet, but he never danced his way through acrowd any better than William Leehan of Edinboro did last week. Leehan was one of approximately 500 people who surrounded thestage at the Kersey ...
Leyland: Pirates made right choice
Oct 01, 2006; ... Jim Leyland was never a candidate for the Pirates manager's jobeventually given to Jim Tracy, and he's fine with it. "I wasn't talked to about the Pirates job," he said. "The Piratesjob was pretty much a done deal, and I think it was a smart done-deal. I have no problem with that ....
PennDOT reopens part of Route 65
Oct 01, 2006; ... Residents and merchants north of the River Pointe Plaza landslidein Kilbuck breathed a half-sigh of relief Saturday after PennDOTreopened the southbound lanes of Route 65. "That's good for the commuters, said Robin Hays, co-owner of PartyAnts, a party supply store along Broad ...
Local officials fear losing cable revenue
Oct 01, 2006; ... To Arnold Councilman Skip Alcibiade, it's a trust issue. While the state's General Assembly considers legislation thatwould wrest control of cable franchising rights away from localgovernments, Alcibiade and several other community leaders in thearea are watching the issue with a ...
Brownsville to discuss diabetes
Oct 01, 2006; ... Fayette County is No. 1. However, no one wants this distinction. The county is first inSouthwestern Pennsylvania in deaths from diabetes, and it nearlyleads the country. But a free diabetes forum could help the county improve upon thosesobering statistics. Diabetes Education ...
Proposed 'live fire' zone irks some anglers
Oct 01, 2006; ... America's war on terror may impact the fishing for steelhead,walleyes and perch at Lake Erie. The U.S. Coast Guard has proposed creating several permanent "livefire" zones on the lake. Each of those sites would be closed tofishing during certain times of the year so that Coast ...
Panthers rocket to resolution
Oct 01, 2006; ... As if Pitt needed any additional motivation for Toledo, thePanthers got an unexpected source Saturday and made the Rockets payfor their pain. This wasn't just about payback for the 2003 defeat that knockedPitt out of its top-10 national ranking. The Panthers erased theemotional ...
Recant, then rethink
Oct 01, 2006; ... Republicans have begun to discover that their leader is not theparagon they once thought he was. Perhaps he is not a conservative at all but a deficit-mongeringbig-government advocate, a world-changing radical in disguise and acultivator of global anti-Americanism. Perhaps, ...
Spending Bucs
Oct 01, 2006; ... They should pursue Jason Schmidt. Seriously, what would the Pirates have to lose? No less an authority than managing general partner Kevin McClatchyhas promised the 2007 payroll would max out around $48 million. Say goodbye to the money that was paid to veterans Jeromy ...
Tigers reverse recent woes with playoff season
Oct 01, 2006 ... DETROIT - Tigers manager Jim Leyland leaned back in his office atComerica Park, propped his feet on his desk and allowed himself aMarlboro Red. It was 10:45 in the morning, about two hours before the playoff-bound Tigers were set to host the Toronto Blue Jays in front of alarge ...
First green roof planted in county
Oct 01, 2006; ... Kate Krinock made history Saturday by planting the first "greenroof" in Westmoreland County. Krinock, of Greensburg, joined about a dozen volunteers on theroof of the GreenForge building on Donohoe Road. Krinock and her compatriots planted more than 6,000 sedums, hardyplant ...
Student loves life in the fast lane
Oct 01, 2006; ... At the age of 9, Jessica Donato, of Carmichaels, Greene County,traded her Girl Scout cookies for a junior dragster. Now a sophomore at California University of Pennsylvania, she isfinding a balance between her life in the fast lane and her life as atypical 19-year-old college ...
Letter: Respectful Pirates appreciated in San Diego
Oct 01, 2006 ... A day after the Pirates broke up the Padres chance at its first no-hit game, the Padres' Trevor Hoffman became the all-time save leaderat the expense of the Pirates. As important, the Pirates players, manager and coaches stood intheir own dugout after ...
Attorney challenges ruling on estate
Oct 01, 2006; ... A prominent Fox Chapel attorney is fighting to overturn a rulingthat she exerted undue influence over a 97-year-old client who, justa month before she died, awarded half of a $560,000 estate to theattorney and her father. Relatives of Bernadine V. Strobel, who died Oct. 2, 2003, ...
Video project taps Holocaust survivors
Oct 01, 2006; ... Today begins Yom Kippur, and among the many Pittsburghers ofJewish faith who will spend the holiday in synagogue will be SquirrelHill resident Shulamit Bastacky. Bastacky has lived in Squirrel Hill ever since she moved therefrom Poland in November 1963 at the age of 22. It's the ...
Barack Obama's 'audacious' aura of hope
Oct 01, 2006; ... WASHINGTON Sen. Barack Obama insists that he's not running for president. Buthe is not exactly running away from it, either. Why should he? TheIllinois Democrat has leaped further and faster into the publicconsciousness than any presidential hopeful in memory, based on ...
Riders strive for 8 seconds of success
Oct 01, 2006; ... There is one sport where every second counts, because there areonly eight of them. Professional bull riders, who weigh an average of 150 pounds, haveeight seconds to stay atop a 1,500-pound animal that flips its hindlegs and bounces a cowboy like a rag doll. They try to hang ...
Just fix it: Heth's Run Bridge, Highland Park
Oct 01, 2006; ... Thomas Ehlinger is tired of driving over a cracking bridge. He says Heth's Run Bridge, near the entrance to the Pittsburgh Zoo& PPG Aquarium parking lot, has been crumbling as long as he canremember. "It's a fiasco down there. I can't believe it," Ehlinger said."It's ...
PSU makes strong strides
Oct 01, 2006; ... Penn State seemed to have gotten everything it desired from itsgame against Northwestern on Saturday. Quarterback Anthony Morelli, the subject of criticism during theweek, threw for 288 yards in the Nittany Lions' 33-7 victory. Deon Butler re-emerged as the go-to wide receiver, ...
Springs celebrates old-time arts
Oct 01, 2006; ... The Springs Museum Grounds will come to life with the 49th annualSprings Folk Festival, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday in theSomerset County town of Springs. The festival usually draws more than 15,000 people to see morethan 140 demonstrators of pioneer ...
Shaler pulls off upset of North Hills
Oct 01, 2006; ... An afternoon of rain at Shaler High School had sent eyeblackstreaking down Travis Wolff's cheeks. A heavy bandage was wrappedaround his left hand, the result of a second-half injury. As Wolff prepared to board a bus Saturday following Shaler's 14-8WPIAL Quad North Conference ...
Georgia Tech reverses last year's blowout
Oct 01, 2006 ... BLACKSBURG, Va. - The memory of getting blown out at Virginia Techsimmered for Georgia Tech all year. Now, the Hokies know how it feels. Reggie Ball and the No. 24 Yellow Jackets made their secondconsecutive visit to Lane Stadium a huge success Saturday, jumpingout to a big ...
A conversation with Tony Snow
Oct 01, 2006 ... Trib: President Bush's poll numbers seem to be making aturnaround. What's driving those numbers? Snow: We are telling our story. I think, for a long time, a lot of the Iraq war coverage wasdriven by stories about bomb-laden vehicles being driven up to policestations and the ...
The state giveth, then taketh away
Oct 01, 2006 ... Whoops. That essentially sums up the contents of a letter sent by thestate Bureau of Commissions, Elections and Legislation to many localDemocratic State Committee candidates in the May primary. Apologizing for a clerical error, the bureau's Jonathan Marksexplained that ...
The 'greed Olympics'
Oct 01, 2006; ... HARRISBURG It took Gov. Ed Rendell more than 14 months to use one littleword. Only last week did Rendell admit that the pay-raise bill he signedin July 2005 was a "mistake." That summer he called it, on balance, "good legislation." The governor admitted the ...
This week's coming attractions
Oct 01, 2006 ... The international celebration of the centenary of the birth ofDmitri Shostakovich reaches Western Pennsylvania next weekend whenpianist Vladimir Feltsman and conductor Vassily Sinaisky perform withthe Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Feltsman will play Shostakovich'sFirst Piano Concerto, ...
Kiski Area QB to miss rest of season
Oct 01, 2006 ... Kiski Area junior quarterback Josh Vick, who was the leadingpasser in the WPIAL after four games, has a torn ligament in his leftknee and will miss the rest of the season. Vick sustained the injury while being tackled during the firstquarter of a game against Penn Hills on Friday ....
Woman dies inside burning apartment
Oct 01, 2006; ... A Hill District woman was found inside her burning apartmentSaturday morning, and authorities said an attempt had been made toset her on fire. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner's Office ruled the death ofMarsha Proctor, 49 of Elmore Square, as a homicide, but said thecause ...
Pitt spotlight
Oct 01, 2006 ... Bad fake: With a fourth-and-1 at its 42, Toledo attempted a fakepunt, but the snap was mishandled by running back Richard Davis for a10-yard loss that gave Pitt possession at the Rockets' 32. Nice catch: On first down, Pitt quarterback Tyler Palko zipped apass to tight end Darrell ...
Pens GM talking to agents
Oct 01, 2006; ... BUFFALO - Penguins general manager Ray Shero talked to the agentsfor Jordan Staal and Kristopher Letang on Saturday. Staal, 18, and Letang, 19, are the only two unsigned players intraining camp, which ended yesterday with the Penguins' seventh andfinal game of the ...
For some candidates, it's a big headache
Oct 01, 2006; ... Welcome to this column's special Excedrin-to-Election edition. Today we will dispense with the various political polls and all oftheir confusing fluctuations and plus-minus margins of error. Whoneeds that stuff to judge a candidate's electability? Not us. We're far too hip for ...
Football's all in the family
Oct 01, 2006; ... To casual football fans in Mt. Pleasant, seeing junior Chet WelcJr. and sophomore Jeff Welc on the roster and on the field at thesame time may not raise much curiosity. Chet Welc Jr., a 6-foot-3-inch, 220-pound junior tight end/outside linebacker/defensive end, who scored two ...
Losing your temper is not the way to solve problem
Oct 01, 2006; ... Have you ever heard yourself out of anger and frustration raisingyour voice and ranting at an operator, a clerk, financial aid officeror bank teller? Well, I'm here to tell you: If you really want to resolve aproblem, yelling, ranting or complaining excessively is not the wayto ...
Early mistakes sink Seton Hill
Oct 01, 2006; ... Things started out badly for Seton Hill, as the Griffins fumbledthe opening kickoff of their non-conference matchup with Walsh. That was only the beginning of the Griffins' problems. Seton Hill (1-4) turned the ball over on its first threepossessions, and the Cavaliers built ...
Scrubbing up: Consumers may get higher rates
Oct 01, 2006; ... Owners of coal-burning power plants in Pennsylvania and 27 otherstates are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to installemissions-scrubbing equipment that could raise consumer rates 7percent to 10 percent and affect power availability, some expertsbelieve. Hurrying to meet ...
An intricate web
Oct 01, 2006; ... WASHINGTON There are five weeks until the midterm elections. But Democratsare acting as if they are already back in control of the U.S. House. However, they may yet be confronted with problems created by oil-hungry, greedy supporters. Among them -- Andrew Young. Young, ...