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Legacy of
‘Dr. Death’
A Moon Township woman
perished at at the center of
the assisted-suicide storm
that shook the country in the
1990s.
Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who
triggered the storm by help-
ing ailing patients take their
own lives, died Friday in
The unusual suspects
Illustration by The Times’ Christopher Ream
Michigan.
Catherine Andreyev, 45,
256 Lytton Road, died on
Nov. 23, 1992, in Kevorkian’s
presence in Michigan. A
cancer victim, she took her
final breaths through a car-
bon monoxide mask provided
by Kevorkian, according to
an Associated Press story.
Bats in the belfry, She was the sixth person he
bees in the attic: assisted.
“She looked peaceful and
911 center B E AV E R C O U N T Y comfortable,” a police officer
receives all kinds who found Andreyev’s body
of calls police 82o | 54o told AP.
Andreyev was diagnosed
shouldn’t get with breast cancer in 1986,
and the disease had spread to
BY KRISTEN DOERSCHNER her lungs, liver, lymph nodes
KDOERSCHNER@TIMESONLINE.COM Morning
thunderstorm and bones at the time of her
It could be that one per-
son’s inconvenience is an- SUNDAY JUNE 5, 2011 $1.50 death, a Michigan coroner
other’s emergency. Or it told The Associated Press.
could be that some people Jim and Diane Collins,
just can’t distinguish the friends of Andreyev’s from
difference, if calls to local
police departments and Moon Township, were upset.
Beaver County’s 911 Center
are any indication. Plans for 2011 regatta? Push for trash “(Kevorkian) took advan-
tage of a vulnerable, de-
“As you can well imagine,
we’ve received every type of
call you can think of at 911,” collection pressed woman,” Jim Collins
told The Times in 1992.
said Wes Hill, director of Kevorkian defended his
Beaver County Emergency
Services.
Animal calls seem to be
change causes aid to Andreyev to AP.
“I’ve made progress be-
one of the most common
non-emergency calls the
police field, particularly
a big stink cause for one more human
being, suffering is ended.”
By Bill Utterback
bats and snakes in homes. BY MICHAEL POUND
Hill said 911 also receives a TIMES STAFF
lot of calls from people con-
cerned about rabid animals. In an age in which trash collection
Franklin Township pa- is common and recycling for larger
trolman Jonathan Fauzey communities is mandated, there are
still thousands of illegal dump sites
CALLS, PAGE A8 across Pennsylvania, according to a
Greensburg-based advocacy group.
File photo by The Times’ Lucy Schaly One possible solution? Making
Driver Jay Stover buzzes by at the 2009 regatta. trash collection mandatory across
TOMATO
the state.
ALERT The Joint Legislative Air and Water KEVORKIAN
According to the
urban legend fact-find-
ing website Snopes, a
tomato in Blacksburg,
Nada. It sank. Pollution Control and Conservation
Committee, a bipartisan group of
state representatives and senators,
may take a look at making garbage
pickup a requirement across the
Va., actually initiated a BY MEGAN J. MILLER for the event, which is free to state. That’s good news to officials
series of emergency MJMILLER@TIMESONLINE.COM the public, Reddinger said. at Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful, the
“I want to say thank you to Greensburg group that has conducted
calls in 1990.
Sheriff’s deputies,
BRIDGE WAT ER — The 2011
Bridgewater-Beaver County
everybody who sponsors with
us, they’ve been with us for
surveys of 49 of the state’s 67 counties
to help track illegal dump sites.
Today’s
guns drawn, entered
and searched the
River Regatta is officially sunk,
event organizers announced
Friday.
years,” Regatta President Tim
Reddinger, Vickie’s husband,
said. “But it’s increasingly dif-
The group notes that it found 353
dump sites when it surveyed Beaver,
Lawrence and Allegheny counties
Times
home where the calls
The annual event, sched- ficult. ... People just don’t have between 2004 and last year. Those Classified E-H
had come from and uled for Aug. 19-21, has been money.” sites account for an estimated 788
found nothing but an canceled, largely because of Board member Doug tons of garbage, and in its survey
overripe tomato in a
Crossword I7
a funding shortfall and a con- Margetic said his main con- reports, the group admits there are
hanging basket that struction project slated for cern was the riverfront trail probably many more sites it has not Dear Abby I6
was dripping juice the summer along the Beaver construction project that will discovered.
onto the answering River waterfront area and require tearing up sidewalks In Beaver County, the group not- Funnies I5
Riverside Drive. and guard rails and interrupt ed that as of 2010, 29 of the county’s
machine.The only Regatte committee member the flow of traffic on Riverside municipalities — more than half —
thing authorities Movies D6
Vickie Reddinger said that as Drive. didn’t offer curbside trash collec-
could determine was recently as January the com- “Everybody has to sacrifice tion; 22 of the county’s towns didn’t Sports C1
that the tomato juice mittee had hoped to expand something in order to have offer any local access to recycling,
somehow caused a the 2011 regatta into a fourth progress,” Margetic said. as part of a curbside program or at
short that set off a day. But fundraising problems “Hopefully what they do down a drop-off point.
series of calls to the — specifically, difficulties se- there is actually going to be That makes a difference, the
curing corporate sponsorships good for us in the long run.” group reports. Sixty-eight percent of
sheriff’s department — hampered their plans. Tim Reddinger said organiz- the county’s dump sites were in com-
emergency line. Sponsorship dollars make up
about 75 percent of the funding REGATTA, PAGE A12 TRASH, PAGE A9 © 2011 Beaver Newspapers Inc.
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