In the news this week 10 years ago:
• Longtime Sewickley Borough councilperson Bob Hague was preparing to step down after 20 years of service. Hague was a social studies teacher in the Quaker Valley School District when he was recommended to the local Republican committee as a potential candidate for borough council. “I don’t know who recommended me … but I got a call from the head of the committee and asked if I was interested,” Hague told Herald editor Bobby Cherry. “I guess it was the moment I was waiting for.”
Hague was planning to retire from teaching and move out of the borough at the end of the school year, precluding him from further service in Sewickley.
• Quaker Valley Middle School student council was preparing to send a large donation of comforting items to Chris Vish, a Quaker Valley alum who was serving with the U.S. Army in Afghanistan. Vish met the students in a Veterans Day teleconference, and council members decided to use the connection for one of their monthly service projects. Students collected items such as snack foods, magazines, toothpaste and DVDs to send to Vish for distribution to his fellow servicemen and women. Council advisor R.J. Long told the Herald, “Our sixth-graders weren’t even alive during 9/11. So now were teaching it as historical events. So we need to treat it as such.”
• Sewickley Heights resident and local concert promoter Rich Engler published a memoir, “Behind the Stage Door: A Promoter’s Life Behind the Scenes,” chronicling 40 years of experience in the entertainment industry. Engler was to be inducted into the inaugural class of the Pittsburgh Rock n Roll Hall of Fame in January 2014.
