Letter to the editor: In praise of Bethel Park's Tim Moury

Congratulations on a great article about Tim Moury (“Bethel Park council and historical society president Moury lives to serve hometown,” Sept. 2, TribLIVE). I know Tim, as does everyone here, to be a very modest and highly motivated leader.

He is too modest to tell you how he saved our community when he decided to first run for council, but he did just that.

As a local journalist at the time, I was acutely aware of the troubles our council was experiencing. Those were very dark days back then, and the council minority was trying to keep council on the straight and narrow.

Our monthly council meetings were nothing but hours of backstabbing, positioning and subterfuge.

Tim took that dark bull by the horns and wrestled it into relative submission. It took a while, and the old power group fought tooth and nail to keep our Cable Television Advisory Board from narrowcasting live their clown show, but democracy won out, and Tim stood above the fray.

I love the community; I graduated from our high school as well, but I cannot put into words how much I value the constant shirt-sleeve hard work, dedication and focus Tim has given us day in and day out. I hope that our council will reward him some day by naming one of the resources he helped to erect after him. No one deserves it more.

Tom Tomkins

Bethel Park