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tElie (gazette Friday, March 10, 1995 Page 3 Opposition stalls Route 1 19 project residents who live along that two-mile stretch of Route 119 and told them the chamber would try to find ways to help them." Spadafora said. "Route 119 is the main thoroughfare in Indiana County, and without its expansion the county cannot grow. We also are concerned about the close to 100,000 people in the county that need us to be able to compete with other areas to attract business and industry to the county." He said the chamber would rather see a limited access highway instead of the widening of Route 119, but the PennDOT studies show that is not realistic at this time. "We believe the only choice we have is to expand the highway we have now or end up with no improvement at all," Spadafora said. He said about 500 coal trucks make 1.000 trips daily on Route 119 to and from the Homer City Generating Station.

"Thai is a major safety reason to expand the road." Spadafora said. "You have no way to go to avoid a collision on a two-lane highway. On four lanes there is at least a chance to have somewhere to go to avoid a collision" He said Route 119 and Route 422 are expected to become part of a national highway system being proposed in the U.S. Congress. "We need improvements to both of those highways because they will become part of national system of transportation arteries designed to Continued from Page 1 He said $462,000 is needed to extend a contract for KCI Technologies, Inc.

of Mechanicsburg. the consulting engineer, to June 1997. The current 833,000 contract with KCI began on Nov. 10, 1990. and expires in June.

"Construction funds have been committed for the project in the second four-year period (1998-2002) of the 12-year plan," McNeal said. "We will ask the commission to move the funding up to 1997 or 1998 so the money will be available when the environmental impact studies are approved and the final design of the project is done." McNeal said it is easier to obtain FHA approval of environmental impact studies for projects involving existing roadways than for those constructing new highways where the land has not been disturbed. "Whether there is opposition or not, the FHA requires all environmental issues to be resolved before the final design of a project can begin." he said. "The environmental concerns must be resolved whether they involve wetlands, archaeological or historical surveys, the taking of farmlands or the individual concerns of the property owners." If the Route 119 widening project is approved, McNeal said it will take about two years to gain approval of the environmental impact study and to hold the necessary public hearings for the project. He said it will take two more years to purchase rights of way and complete the final design before construction could begin in 1999.

"If the commission decides a four-lane limited access road is needed and provides the associated increase in funding, we will have to change the focus of the engineering studies," McNeal said. "If no Route 119 project is approved, we will have to re-evaluate how we want to spend state and federal engineering funds." The District 10 office has received petitions with 4,102 signatures in support of the project and letters of support from 355 business. The office also received petitions containing 62 signatures of people who oppose the project. Valerie Mancuso of BJairsville and Sharon Ewing of Black Lick, co-chairwomen of CAR, will represent the citizens group at the commission hearings. "The PennDOT study did not follow the alternate route we suggested." Mancuso said.

"Their studv shows buildings that no longer exist and includes sections of state Game Lands that our proposed route did not cross. "There is a lot more school bus and other traffic to the Blairsville school complex since the new elementary and middle school buildings opened last fall at the same location as the high school," Mancuso said. "We have been told a wider highway will reduce the number of accidents involving rear-end collisions. The wider highway also sets up the possibility of more head-on collisions with coal trucks and tractor-trailers that use the highway." Mancuso said she doubts that PennDOT will be able to widen the highway in 1999 at a cost of 32 million. "We recently met with representatives of the chamber of commerce," she said.

"The highway might help with economic development, but it is not the only thing that is needed. We told the chamber that we are concerned about safety and the loss of properties, and we are not going to budge from our opposition to the widening of Route 119." Chuck Spadafora, president of the Indiana County Chamber of Commerce, said the chamber will support the Route 119 widening project. It also will urge the transportation commission to consider plans to develop Route 422 as a four-lane, limited access highway from Kittan-ning to Ebensburg. "We are concerned about the NBW VERSION Miep Gies holds a new edition of "The Diary of Anne Frank" as she sits next to a poster-sized photo of Anne Frank at a New York news conference yesterday. Gies is the Dutch woman who helped Anne Frank hide from the Nazis and also saved the girl's famous diary.

The new edition restores some of Frank's more personal musings. (AP photo) Farm Bureau plants seed for next bill reductions from 1998 to 2000. The administration hasn't said how those cuts would be made. The Farm Bureau's call to go easy on farm spending cuts came with the argument that the basic U.S. farm program of more than 60 years is feeding Americans and the world cheaply and efficiently, and that farm spending has taken more than Us share of cuts in the last 10 years.

"We believe that reform and redirection of current programs should be the focus of the 1995 agricultural legislation rather than elimination of support programs," Kleckner said. The hearing is the first of five to gather ideas for drafting the bill. The House Agriculture Committee plans to start its hearings QeUUatiWf 15 9h connect every state and county in the nation," Spadafora said. "In today's world, people want to get from here to there conveniently and efficiently, it is not a matter of getting there fast, but businesses want to be able to move materials in and out of areas without a lot of stops and starts caused by congestion and traffic lights." Thomas Fruehstorfer, assistant district engineer for design at the District 10 Office, said KCI Technologies studied the route proposed by he citizens group. He said he doubts if opposition can stop a project through the normal processes PennDOT must follow to address all concerns relating to a project.

"Much greater forces can come into play, such as changes in govern-; ment administrations and priorities," Fruehstorfer said. "Basically a lot of projects are changed, reevaluated and acted on accordingly wiin Dotn support ana opposition. Desert frogs rely on rainstorms to reproduce. Following a rainfall, they will emerge from underground and mate in the small ponds that have formed. srC-Body Tone Tan 286 SOUTH.

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Cohill. Prosecutor Joseph M. Ya-blonski said Piole conspired to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine from 1936 through August, 1994. Piole didn't pay income tax on about 380,000 he earned from the drug sales. He also pleaded guilty to possessing a semi-automatic shotgun and a semi-automatic pistol.

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