Budget Cuts Force PBS-39 to Cancel Programs
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BETHLEHEM CRASH: Driver charged with DUI but not with cyclist’s death, NEWS 9 THE LEHIGH VALLEY’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER OCTOBER 13, 2009 Mostly cloudy 60˚ | 34˚ FORECAST SPORTS 8 h 3 75¢ TUESDAY themorningcall.com LIFE 1 SPORTS 1 RECESSION’S TOLL ON PHEASANT PLEASANCE: KIDS: They’re stressed Bird-hunting the way by layoffs, cost-cutting it used to be Strike looms at Saucon Valley By Scott Kraus INSTANT UPDATES out as long as 15 to 17 days. Wednesday walkout OF THE MORNING CALL “The association has a strong resolve to Live coverage of the Saucon Valley settle this contract dispute, and we will con- announced. School With an uncomfortable feeling of déja vu, School Board vote tonight on the tinue to use all the available means to get a Saucon Valley families are bracing for their latest teachers contract proposal. resolution,” Stever said. “We recognize board to meet tonight on second teachers strike in two years, after themorningcall.com there is a concern for the community as well the union notified district officials its mem- as for the association getting a reasonable teachers’ new contract bers plan to stage a walkout Wednesday. contract.” The notification, given Monday morn- The teachers’ strike announcement proposal. Students, ing, came on the eve of tonight’s school Eric Stever, spokesman for the 190-mem- stunned school board President Ralph Puer- board meeting, where members are expect- ber Saucon Valley Education Association, ta. But he said it won’t put additional pres- parents vent frustration. ed to vote on a revised contract request from said if the board rejects the teachers’ new the union. proposal, the teachers are prepared to stay Please see SAUCON VALLEY NEWS 3 PHILLIES 5, ROCKIES 4 Budget cuts BRING ON L.A.! force PBS-39 Ryan Howard, Jayson Werth the heroes in 3-run to cancel ninth, propelling defending champs into NLCS programs Documentaries, Popular ‘Tempo!’ axed after 90 percent funding reduction, CEO says. By Matt Assad OF THE MORNING CALL While day care centers and human servic- es providers are relieved that the newly ap- proved Pennsylvania budget means their funding is no longer held hostage, PBS-39, WLVT-TV officials say they have no reason to celebrate. The Lehigh Valley’s public broadcasting station announced Monday that a 90 percent cut in its state funding has forced it to halt production of its popular 10-year-old show, “Tempo!”, and it has canceled production of all future documentaries, station President and CEO Pat Simon said. Like the seven other PBS stations state- wide, PBS-39 saw its nearly $1 million annual state subsidy cut to just over $100,000, forcing the Valley station to lay off staff and elimi- nate programming. For Simon, the loss of nearly half the staff since February — from 43 to 23 people — and the end of the station’s most celebrated local- ly produced show are particularly painful. “For 10 years, ‘Tempo!’ was a celebration of good things in the Lehigh Valley,” Simon said. “But we have no choice. We no longer have the funding to continue a program that so many people have come to love.” Nationally produced favorites such as “Barney,” “Sesame Street,” “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” and “Nova” will continue to be aired, and two offshoots of the original “Tempo!” — “Tempo InDepth” and “Tempo PublicSquare” — will also continue to air on PBS-39. “Tempo!” takes a weekly, 30-minute, look at important issues in the Lehigh Valley. Air- ing Monday at 7:30 p.m., its show on teens and drunken driving was nominated for an Please see PBS NEWS 2 MORE INSIDE Groundbreaking for Allentown’s hockey arena could happen as early as next spring, mayor says. PAGE NEWS 2 RON CORTES / McCLATCHY TRIBUNE Jayson Werth (No. 28), who had the game-winning RBI single in the top of the ninth, jumps on his teammates after the Phillies wrapped up a dramatic 5-4 win over the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field in Denver on Monday night. The Phillies won the division series three games to INSIDE NEWS one to advance to the National League Championship Series, where they’ll face the Los Angeles Dodgers starting Thursday. By Mandy Housenick games to reach last year’s World Series. closer Huston Street. OF THE MORNING CALL Brad Lidge got out of a two-on, two-out Howard then roped a double off the wall jam by getting Colorado’s Troy Tulowitzki in right field, scoring Victorino and Utley DENVER — The Philadelphia Phillies on one of his nasty sliders to close it out for with the tying runs. are headed back to the National League the Phillies in the bottom of the ninth. Howard scored the winning run on Championship Series, and a familiar foe Lidge also got the save in Game 3 on Sun- Werth’s bloop single to right-center. awaits them. day. “When they came off the field for the Ryan Howard continued his clutch hit- “I really wanted to get back in there ninth, you could sense they still had some- ting with a two-out, two-run double to tie [Monday],” Lidge said. “[Sunday night] thing left,” Phillies manager Charlie Man- Monday night’s game with Colorado and when I faced Tulowitzki, we went with fast- uel said. Jayson Werth followed with what turned ball. And [Monday] I went to my slider. Scott Eyre started the bottom of the Rapidly worsening breathing problems in the out to be the game-winning single in the [Carlos Ruiz] came out to talk to me when ninth for the Phillies. He allowed a bloop sickest swine flu patients in Mexico and Canada Phils’ 5-4 win in Game 4 of the National there were two strikes, and he said, ‘Give single to Carlos Gonzalez and a two-out sin- present a scary worst-case scenario and could League Division Series at Coors Field. me your good one.’ ” gle to center by Todd Helton. Manuel then foreshadow what U.S. doctors face as winter flu Philadelphia, which trailed by two go- Trailing 4-2 after the Rockies scored brought in Lidge to face Tulowitzki. season sets in, new reports suggest. News 11 ing into the ninth inning, won the best-of- three times in the bottom of the eighth, Jim- After blowing 11 save chances in the reg- five series and now faces the Los Angeles my Rollins got a one-out single in the Phils’ ular season, Lidge is two-for-two in the post- Easton’s lawyers have fired back at attorney Dodgers in the best-of-seven NLCS. ninth. season. John P. Karoly Jr., saying he turned an “obvious “We might be down, but we’re never After Shane Victorino’s grounder Philadelphia plays the first two games of blind eye to the truth” in court documents he out,” Werth said. forced Rollins at second base for the second the NLCS in Los Angeles. Game 1 is Thurs- filed calling the city’s police department lawless The Phillies beat the Dodgers in five out, Chase Utley drew a walk off Rockies day and Game 2 is Friday. and unsafe. News 4 A tall construction lift toppled and struck a downtown Philadelphia apartment building on COMPLETE COVERAGE BEGINS ON SPORTS 1 Monday, killing a construction worker who fell 125 feet. News 14 FOR HOME DELIVERY CALL 1-800-666-5492 OR VISIT themorningcall.com.