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BY MEGAN J. MILLER [email protected] BRIDGEWATER — The 2011 Bridgewater-Beaver County River Regatta is officially sunk, event organizers announced Friday. The annual event, sched- uled for Aug. 19-21, has been canceled, largely because of a funding shortfall and a con- struction project slated for the summer along the Beaver River waterfront area and Riverside Drive. Regatte committee member Vickie Reddinger said that as recently as January the com- mittee had hoped to expand the 2011 regatta into a fourth day. But fundraising problems — specifically, difficulties se- curing corporate sponsorships — hampered their plans. Sponsorship dollars make up about 75 percent of the funding for the event, which is free to the public, Reddinger said. “I want to say thank you to everybody who sponsors with us, they’ve been with us for years,” Regatta President Tim Reddinger, Vickie’s husband, said. “But it’s increasingly dif- ficult. ... People just don’t have money.” Board member Doug Margetic said his main con- cern was the riverfront trail construction project that will require tearing up sidewalks and guard rails and interrupt the flow of traffic on Riverside Drive. “Everybody has to sacrifice something in order to have progress,” Margetic said. “Hopefully what they do down there is actually going to be good for us in the long run.” Tim Reddinger said organiz- Prices & Payments With $3,500 Cash Or Trade Equity Down Plus Tax And License 84mo. @ 7.9% With Approved Credit. www.ronlewisautomotive.com MSRP ....................... $14,090 Loyalty Rebate.......... - $1,000 Military Rebate ............ -$500 Cash or Trade Equity . - $3,500 2011 KIA RIO RIO STK A1251 MSRP ....................... $13,085 Loyalty Rebate.......... - $1,000 Cash or Trade Equity . - $3,500 • YOUR “BELOW INVOICE” KIA DEALER • Over 100 vehicles Over 100 vehicles in stock that get in stock that get over 35 MPG! over 35 MPG! 2011 KIA SOUL STK A1118 L L L L L MSRP ....................... $23,645 Morrow Discount ......... - $395 Rebate ..................... - $1,000 Loyalty Rebate.......... - $1,000 Military Rebate ............ -$500 Cash or Trade Equity . - $3,500 2011 KIA SORENTO SORENTO STK A1200 2011 KIA OPTIMA OPTIMA LX LX STK A168 MSRP ....................... $21,285 Morrow Discount ......... - $328 KMF Cash........................-500 Military Rebate ............ -$500 Cash or Trade Equity . - $3,500 Western PA’s Lowest Price Kia New Dealer WE GUARANTEE IT! 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Animal calls seem to be one of the most common non-emergency calls the police field, particularly bats and snakes in homes. Hill said 911 also receives a lot of calls from people con- cerned about rabid animals. Franklin Township pa- trolman Jonathan Fauzey Bats in the belfry, bees in the attic: 911 center receives all kinds of calls police shouldn’t get TOMATO ALERT According to the urban legend fact-find- ing website Snopes, a tomato in Blacksburg, Va., actually initiated a series of emergency calls in 1990. Sheriff’s deputies, guns drawn, entered and searched the home where the calls had come from and found nothing but an overripe tomato in a hanging basket that was dripping juice onto the answering machine.The only thing authorities could determine was that the tomato juice somehow caused a short that set off a series of calls to the sheriff’s department emergency line. The unusual suspects BY MICHAEL POUND TIMES STAFF In an age in which trash collection is common and recycling for larger communities is mandated, there are still thousands of illegal dump sites across Pennsylvania, according to a Greensburg-based advocacy group. One possible solution? Making trash collection mandatory across the state. The Joint Legislative Air and Water Pollution Control and Conservation Committee, a bipartisan group of state representatives and senators, may take a look at making garbage pickup a requirement across the state. That’s good news to officials at Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful, the Greensburg group that has conducted surveys of 49 of the state’s 67 counties to help track illegal dump sites. The group notes that it found 353 dump sites when it surveyed Beaver, Lawrence and Allegheny counties between 2004 and last year. Those sites account for an estimated 788 tons of garbage, and in its survey reports, the group admits there are probably many more sites it has not discovered. In Beaver County, the group not- ed that as of 2010, 29 of the county’s municipalities — more than half — didn’t offer curbside trash collec- tion; 22 of the county’s towns didn’t offer any local access to recycling, as part of a curbside program or at a drop-off point. That makes a difference, the group reports. Sixty-eight percent of the county’s dump sites were in com- Push for trash collection change causes a big stink Plans for 2011 regatta? Nada. It sank. File photo by The Times’ Lucy Schaly Driver Jay Stover buzzes by at the 2009 regatta. Illustration by The Times’ Christopher Ream ® Better Ingredients. Better Pizza. 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Andreyev was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1986, and the disease had spread to her lungs, liver, lymph nodes and bones at the time of her death, a Michigan coroner told The Associated Press. Jim and Diane Collins, friends of Andreyev’s from Moon Township, were upset. “(Kevorkian) took advan- tage of a vulnerable, de- pressed woman,” Jim Collins told The Times in 1992. Kevorkian defended his aid to Andreyev to AP. “I’ve made progress be- cause for one more human being, suffering is ended.” By Bill Utterback KEVORKIAN
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BY MEGAN J. [email protected]
B R I D G E WAT E R — The 2011 Bridgewater-Beaver County River Regatta is offi cially sunk, event organizers announced Friday.
The annual event, sched-uled for Aug. 19-21, has been canceled, largely because of a funding shortfall and a con-struction project slated for the summer along the Beaver River waterfront area and Riverside Drive.
Regatte committee member Vickie Reddinger said that as recently as January the com-mittee had hoped to expand the 2011 regatta into a fourth day. But fundraising problems — specifi cally, diffi culties se-curing corporate sponsorships — hampered their plans.
Sponsorship dollars make up about 75 percent of the funding
for the event, which is free to the public, Reddinger said.
“I want to say thank you to everybody who sponsors with us, they’ve been with us for years,” Regatta President Tim Reddinger, Vickie’s husband, said. “But it’s increasingly dif-fi cult. ... People just don’t have money.”
Board member Doug Margetic said his main con-cern was the riverfront trail construction project that will require tearing up sidewalks and guard rails and interrupt the fl ow of traffi c on Riverside Drive.
“Everybody has to sacrifi ce something in order to have progress,” Margetic said. “Hopefully what they do down there is actually going to be good for us in the long run.”
Tim Reddinger said organiz-
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REGATTA, PAGE A12 TRASH, PAGE A9
BY KRISTEN [email protected]
It could be that one per-son’s inconvenience is an-other’s emergency. Or it could be that some people just can’t distinguish the difference, if calls to local police departments and Beaver County’s 911 Center are any indication.
“As you can well imagine, we’ve received every type of call you can think of at 911,” said Wes Hill, director of Beaver County Emergency Services.
Animal calls seem to be one of the most common non-emergency calls the police field, particularly bats and snakes in homes. Hill said 911 also receives a lot of calls from people con-cerned about rabid animals.
Franklin Township pa-trolman Jonathan Fauzey
Bats in the belfry, bees in the attic: 911 center receives all kinds of calls police shouldn’t get
TOMATO ALERT
� According to the urban legend fact-fi nd-ing website Snopes, a tomato in Blacksburg, Va., actually initiated a series of emergency calls in 1990.
� Sheriff’s deputies, guns drawn, entered and searched the home where the calls had come from and found nothing but an overripe tomato in a hanging basket that was dripping juice onto the answering machine. The only thing authorities could determine was that the tomato juice somehow caused a short that set off a series of calls to the sheriff’s department emergency line.
The unusual suspects
BY MICHAEL POUNDTIMES STAFF
In an age in which trash collection is common and recycling for larger communities is mandated, there are still thousands of illegal dump sites across Pennsylvania, according to a Greensburg-based advocacy group.
One possible solution? Making trash collection mandatory across the state.
The Joint Legislative Air and Water Pollution Control and Conservation Committee, a bipartisan group of state representatives and senators, may take a look at making garbage pickup a requirement across the state. That’s good news to officials at Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful, the Greensburg group that has conducted surveys of 49 of the state’s 67 counties to help track illegal dump sites.
The group notes that it found 353 dump sites when it surveyed Beaver, Lawrence and Allegheny counties between 2004 and last year. Those sites account for an estimated 788 tons of garbage, and in its survey reports, the group admits there are probably many more sites it has not discovered.
In Beaver County, the group not-ed that as of 2010, 29 of the county’s municipalities — more than half — didn’t offer curbside trash collec-tion; 22 of the county’s towns didn’t offer any local access to recycling, as part of a curbside program or at a drop-off point.
That makes a difference, the group reports. Sixty-eight percent of the county’s dump sites were in com-
Push for trash collection change causes a big stink
Plans for 2011 regatta?
Nada. It sank.File photo by The Times’ Lucy Schaly
Driver Jay Stover buzzes by at the 2009 regatta.
Illustration by The Times’ Christopher Ream
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Legacy of ‘Dr. Death’
A Moon Township woman perished at at the center of the assisted-suicide storm that shook the country in the 1990s.
Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who triggered the storm by help-ing ailing patients take their own lives, died Friday in Michigan.
Catherine Andreyev, 45, 256 Lytton Road, died on Nov. 23, 1992, in Kevorkian’s presence in Michigan. A cancer victim, she took her fi nal breaths through a car-bon monoxide mask provided by Kevorkian, according to an Associated Press story. She was the sixth person he assisted.
“She looked peaceful and comfortable,” a police offi cer who found Andreyev’s body told AP.
Andreyev was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1986, and the disease had spread to her lungs, liver, lymph nodes and bones at the time of her death, a Michigan coroner told The Associated Press.
Jim and Diane Collins, friends of Andreyev’s from Moon Township, were upset.
“(Kevorkian) took advan-tage of a vulnerable, de-pressed woman,” Jim Collins told The Times in 1992.
Kevorkian defended his aid to Andreyev to AP.
“I’ve made progress be-cause for one more human being, suffering is ended.”
By Bill Utterback
KEVORKIAN
