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M'TH s- t' 1 B-2 Pittsburgh posT-GAzrirrBTursnAY, aprii. 27, I'm REGION STATE Jiff 'f i wo Vlllil van ft Gun shop robbery: scuffle, chase, arrest Lemieux, Westley to meet tomorrow "My face is a little numb and I'm seeing double," shop owner Wayne Lykens told police after the scuffle in his store. Westley said he is open to talking with interested parties about the lease but that those negotiations will occur in private. Stephen Leeper, director of the Public Auditorium Authority, the city-county agency that owns the arena, said yesterday he didn't plan to attend tomorrow's meeting between SMG officials and Lemieux's group. "Our goal was to have both SMG and the potential ownership group begin negotiations on their own," he said.

"We've worked very hard to encourage them to have this meeting, but we don't feel a need to be a party at this meeting." Leeper said there currently are no plans to come up with $20 million or so in public funds to buy out the Penguins' existing lease with SMG at the Civic Arena as the team's attorney, Robert G. Sable, suggested. Sable, on behalf of the team, filed a response Friday supportive of Lemieux's reorganization bid. The filing was made available yesterday. Sable urged the local government to provide a virtually rent free arena for the team as they have done for the Pirates and Steelers.

Sable's response, which nearly amounts to a reorganization plan of its own, calls for the auditorium authority to take the lease from SMG by eminent domain and then build a new arena by 2003. He also calls for an agreement in which Fox Sports Pittsburgh will increase its payments for the broadcasting rights by $3.5 million a year. Sable wrote that Lemieux's plan is lacking in the details needed for the creditors to make an informed choice when they vote on a reorganization plan. it ROBBERY FROM PAGE B-l Mangan faces drug charges because authorities said they found drug paraphernalia in her apartment, including grow lights used for cultivating marijuana plants. When Coraopolis and Allegheny County police at the robbery scene told Lykens at about 9:30 a.m.

that the suspect had been captured, Lykens told them "Wonderful." "Was he bleeding?" he asked. Told no, Lykens responded, "Then I didn't get him." Lykens said he would have fired more shots at the fleeing suspect and his car, "but it was too dangerous, with all the traffic. I didn't want to hit anyone." Paramedics bandaged Lykens' right wrist and left hand, cleaned up his facial cuts from the beating and gave him ice packs to apply to the swelling. "My face is a little numb and I'm seeing double," Lykens told police two hours after the incident, sipping his second large cup of coffee from a nearby 7-Eleven store. In declining to talk with reporters, Lykens said, "I'm having a tough time telling police what happened." "He's lucky to be alive," Selzer said.

Selzer said Island Firearms was burglarized about five or six years ago during the night, when some- By Ann Belser Post-Gazette Staff Writer Talks between Mario Lemieux, the retired Penguins superstar who has put in a plan to pull the team out of bankruptcy, and Wes Westley, the president of SMG, the team's landlord, will get under way tomorrow, Westley said he wants to find out what Lemieux's plans are for the Civic Arena and what Lemieux's group needs from SMG. SMG purchased the rights to the Civic Arena lease for 20 years in 1991 for $24 million when team co-owner Howard Baldwin was trying to put together a deal to purchase the team. The Penguins say it costs them about $6.5 million a year for the right to play at the arena, and Bankruptcy Court testimony showed SMG makes a profit of $4.5 million from the lease. Lawyers in the case and U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Bernard Markovitz have all said one of the keys to solving the Penguins financial problems is to renegotiate the lease.

NEWSPOLL To Democrats: Allegheny Darrell SappPost-Gaette Wayne Lykens, owner of Island Firearms on Grand Avenue on Neville Is-1 land, holds a towel to his injured head after the struggle in his fishing and guns sports shop. Guarneri String Quartet still at top one threw a heavy container through the glass front door. Since then, Lykens changed the front entrance and added more security. The chief said Lykens has operated the store for about 15 years. It is a popular spot for anglers because Lykens carries live bait and a wide variety of rods, reels, lures and other fishing suppliers.

The shop is authorized by the Pennsylvania Fish and Game Commission to sell hunting and fishing licenses. Lykens also is an authorized dealer for several gun manufacturers, selling handguns, rifles, scopes and ammunition. Staff writers Michael A. Fuoco andJohnnaA Pro contributed to this report. CONCERT REVIEW bows the four musicians show no signs of relinquishing their reign as superstars in the world of chamber music.

The concert was sponsored by the Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society. The large, enthusiastic audience at the Carnegie Music Hall appreciated the varied repertoire performed. The first half of the program showcased the flexibility of the Guarneri. Opening with String Quartet in No. 2 in A major, the early 19th century work by Spanish composer Juan Arriaga, seemed a warm-up for what was to follow.

The first movement, written when Arriaga was a mere 16, was pleasant to the ear but mundane in exposition. With the start of the second movement, it became a far more interesting piece, melodically and rhythmically. The playfulness of the rhythmic patterns in the final allegro allowed the quartet to raise the composition to a higher level. tion for county executive on May 1 8th. If the primary election for county executive were today, and you were standing in the voting booth right now, who would you vote for? County Commissioner Michael Dawida? Or county Coroner Dr.

Cyril Wecht? Dawida 39 32 Aoh COO Undecided 9 April 22,1999 poll By Rebecca Redshaw Jordan, Gretzky and Elway, recently retired greats in their fields, were born in the '60s, the decade the Guarneri String Quartet began Eerforming in concert. Yet 35 years iter, rather than hang up their Vnrk htiier (hail a remote, mtl vnu won't lox' Il between tin couch cushions. TV Hifk. I'Wfj Sundi in the PoM-GaHlf. io HepuDiicans: Aiiegneny couniy win noia a primary elec County will hold a primary elec CQO' 037o results NA April 15 26 63 NA April 15 results Post-Gazette tion for county executive on May 18th.

If the primary election for county executive were today, and you were standing in the voting booth right now, who would you vote for? County commissioner Larry Dunn? Or businessman Jim Roddey? Dunn Roddey Undecided 29 60 11 April 22,1999 poll SurveyUSA interviewee) 986 Democrats and 513 Republicans who identified themselves as hkety voters. Overall error rate is 3.2 for Democrats and 4.5 tor Republicans. Former church treasurer sentenced Drawings for Monday, April 26, 1999 The anticipation of a work by AI-ban Berg sent a shiver of apprehension through the audience. A student of Arnold Schoenberg, Berg composed the String Quartet, Op. 3 in 1910.

Arnold Steinhardt, violinist, described the piece in a pre-concert interview as "a work with huge contrasts and enormous outbursts." Cellist David Soyer added that the work is emotional and romantic with "lots of breast beating and heavy breathing." The passion described was evident in the playing. In the hands of these skilled musicians, the tonal lines crossed over one another, supporting the theme rather than crashing head on. In addition to building the intensity with changes in tempo and dynamics, the composer explored unusual effects with contrasting colors of tone. At times during the second movement, it seemed like far more than four instruments performing. The freneticism of melodic line was broken with melancholy interludes.

Like the art work of the period, Berg painted a stark, bold canvas musi records, computer fraud and 144 counts of forgery. Judge Kathleen Durkin sentenced Baker to one year less one day to two years less two days in the county jail, a sentence she said she designed to keep Baker out of the state prison system. State law requires those receiving sentences of two years or more to serve their time in state prison. Durkin also placed Baker on 14 years' probation and ordered him to repay the church $128,115, saying that, if he did so, she likely would reduce the length of his probation. Forest Hills police and county police detectives began the investigation Oct.

17 after Hope Lutheran of- Lifetime Limited Warranty Cranberry Towne Center Plaza 20800 Route 19 Cranberry Township (724) 772-7474 of its game cally. Renowned pianist Claude Frank joined Steinhardt, Soyer, Michael Tree and John Dallcy performing Robert Schumann's Quintet in E- flat major, Op. 44. Frank's musical sensitivity and dynamic control were the perf ect complement to the quartet's interpretation. Changes in tempo were seemingly effortless in control, adding to the magic of the opening allegro.

Because of the ponderous tempo of the second movement, the sec- ond theme was a breath of fresh air. The enthusiasm of the Scherzo was welcomed, along with the often deli- cate contrapuntal expose. Schumann's final movement reiterates the original theme. The Guarneri Quartet has ap-' peared in Pittsburgh 10 times. In the event it passes this way again, it would be wise to highlight the date on the calendar.

Rebecca Redshaw is an author, and playwright who writes about music for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. for embezzlement ficials discovered discrepancies in the church's bookkeeping. Baker, a part-time teacher at Cornell Middle School in McKeesport and an instructor at Westmoreland County Community College, had been the treasurer at the church for eight years. Baker's thefts hurt the church's morale and finances drastically, said Jane Kossuth, president of the parish council. The congregation was "embarrassed" and left in turmoil after the thefts were discov- ered, and Baker hinted that others were involved, not him, she told the judge at his sentencing hearing yes- terday.

The pastor at the time, the Rev. Lane Cameron, was so "humiliated" that the thefts had occurred when he was head of the church that he left and joined another congregation, Kossuth said. The church was left in poor financial condition, and members reacted angrily when Baker offered to repay $20,000 in return for a recommendation from the church that hq not be sentenced to jail, she told the judge. That offer struck the congregation as "bribery," especially when Baker upped his offer to $60,000 af-' ter the first offer was rejected, Kos- suth said, reading a letter composed by the parish council and ap- proved by the congregation. The 40-year-old church now has only 125 to 130 members, and its 1999 budget is $79,000, Kossuth said.

Baker's attorney, Patrick Thomassey, asked for leniency for his client, suggesting that he be sen-, tenced to a minimum term of eight months in jail. "His life is over," Thomassey told the judge. "He lost his wife. He lost his stepdaughter. He's going to lose his teaching certificate.

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