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Article published March 3, 2010
A LOOK BACK
Every Wednesday, The Cranberry Eagle takes a look back at the top stories from a year ago.Ambulance driver jailed
An ambulance driver charged with killing two men in 2007 when her ambulance slammed into a car at a Route 19 intersection was sentenced to 11Z\x to 23 months in Allegheny County Jail. Shanea Leigh Climo, 23, pleaded guilty in December, 2008, as part of a plea agreement to two counts each of involuntary manslaughter and recklessly endangering another person as well as an additional charge of driving under the influence of alcohol. Climo, an ambulance driver for the Cranberry Township Volunteer Ambulance Corps at the time of the accident in September 2007, drank alcohol before her shift driving an ambulance. She was taking a 90-year-old man to the hospital at 2:20 a.m. when she ran a red light and slammed into the driver's side of a Chevrolet Cavalier. The accident at the intersection of Route 19 and Brush Creek Road in Marshall Township killed both men in the car. Douglas Stitt, 38, of Mercer and his passenger, Phillip Bacon, 31, of Sharpsville, were pronounced dead at the scene, both from head injuries.Mars terminates swaption
The Mars School Board unanimously approved a swaption termination arrangement that their financial adviser said is a better deal than he had hoped, even in volatile financial markets. Scott Shearer of Public Financial Management said that even with a volatile bond market, he thought the district was getting a better deal than the one outlined earlier in the year, when board members voted to allow Shearer to enter the market to initiate the swaption termination and put together a $10 million bond issue. Shearer said to issue the new $10 million bond resulting from the decision to terminate the swaption, the district was to borrow $5.5 million from an authority in Allentown. The district was to pay 1.5 percent interest on the authority 20-year loan. The $3 million termination payment to get out of the swaption was to be paid with profits made over the years in the district's handful of swaption deals plus $615,000 from the district's capital projects fund. Shearer said because the district made $3 million from the swaptions over the years, the termination payment was not to be paid by taxpayers.EC students offer aid
Evans City School celebrated literacy with a Scholastic book fair and guest authors, and with the addition of a special Sharing Our Reading book drive, students celebrated charitable giving as well. In observance of Read Across America, Evans City students and staff collected books and money to benefit Holy Rosary School in Homewood, Allegheny County. Holy Rosary was nominated to be helped by an Evans City PTO mother and former Holy Rosary kindergarten teacher who knew the school had suffered literary losses. Gwendolyn Young, Holy Rosary president, said a break-in occurred sometime between Christmas Eve and the day after Christmas, 2008. Computer labs and offices were affected, she said. Evans City collected $1,000 in donations. Students also collected more than 1,800 books to donate to the school.Standoff ends in suicide
A usually quiet neighborhood in Zelienople was shut down by police when a resident with a shotgun held police at bay for eight hours before killing himself. The standoff that started about 1 p.m. ended about 9 p.m. when police moved into a home and found Conner O'Halloran, 22, dead in an upstairs bedroom. Police from Zelienople, Evans City, Jackson and Cranberry townships, along with Marion and North Sewickley townships and Ellwood City in Beaver County, and state police responded to the scene. Police closed West Beaver Street from the area near St. Gregory Roman Catholic Church and Glade Run Lutheran Foundation to the Beaver County line. Meanwhile, residents of Woodland and Creekwood drives in the Woodlands apartment complex as well as residents of the typically quiet Timberbrook plan, which includes Oakdale Drive, were instructed by police to remain inside their homes.
