Remember When: Sewickley Herald headlines from 1982

Melanie Linn Gutowski | Thursday, October 19, 2023 7:00 a.m.

Sewickley Herald

The front page of the Oct. 20, 1982, issue of the Sewickley Herald.

In the news this week 41 years ago:

• Arnold Behrer of Edgeworth was set to return to the Valley following a 9,500-mile cycling tour of 25 states. Behrer, a kidney transplant patient, undertook the tour on behalf of the National Kidney Foundation on a mission to celebrate what he called his “gift of life” from his brother, John, as well as proving that “kidney transplant recipients can lead a normal lifestyle.” Behrer and his brother underwent the transplant operations in 1978. Behrer’s tour began in Seattle in the spring of 1982 and continued until late October, averaging 75-80 miles per day.

• The new Sewickley Bridge celebrated its first ‘birthday.’ Arthur W. Hedgren Jr., project engineer for the bridge, was to be honored by the American Institute of Steel Construction at a ceremony in Chicago. He was the winner of the “1982 Prize Bridge—Long Span,” a prize given primarily for aesthetics.

• The Laughlin Children’s Center had recently unveiled its new annex, created in a restored house on Frederick Avenue. The former home, clad in board-and-batten siding, was one of the oldest in Sewickley, dating to the early 1860s.