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Old 06 Jan 2014, 03:52 PM
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Default Bill Peduto sworn in as Pittsburgh’s 60th mayor

Bill Peduto sworn in as Pittsburgh’s 60th mayor
Mon, 06 Jan 2014 09:46:33 -0500

Bill Peduto was sworn in as Pittsburgh’s 60th mayor Monday afternoon during a ceremony inside Heinz Hall.
“We did not only inherit this city from our forebearers, but we are also borrowing it from our children,” Peduto told about 2,000 supporters and dignitaries after taking the oath on his late brother's Bible. He said everyone's eyes “must be fixed on tomorrow.”
In the audience, attendees recorded the speech on camera phones and snapped occasional pictures. They applauded when Peduto said there's nothing that “good faith, square dealing and hard work” can't fix in city government.
“It is now our moment, our opportunity, indeed it is our duty, to create the next Pittsburgh,” he said in a 13-minute speech that ended with a standing ovation.
The Point Breeze Democrat's inauguration ceremony, which he moved inside last week because of freezing weather predictions, opened like a pep rally with performances by the Allderdice and Westinghouse high school marching bands on stage. Iconic Pittsburgh rocker Joe Grushecky led the crowd in a rendition of “It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.”
Peduto, 49, arrived from City Hall with a city police motorcycle escort with sirens blaring along Downtown streets.
The parents of a Pittsburgh police officer slain nearly five years ago held the Bible when Peduto was sworn into office.
Peduto invited Sue and Max Sciullo to participate in Monday's inauguration. Sciullo, and officers Stephen Mayhle and Eric Kelly were fatally shot responding to a dispute between Richard Poplawski and his mother on April 4, 2009. Poplawski is on death row for the killings.
Peduto has attended an annual memorial service for the slain officers and says the Sciullos are friends he looks at like his own parents.
Inside the ornate theater, citizens joined Western Pennsylvania's political elite, including Jack Wagner, the former auditor general who ran against Peduto in the spring primary, as well as U.S. Reps. Mike Doyle and Keith Rothfus, state Treasurer Rob McCord, Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald and Controller Chelsa Wagner, and more than a dozen state senators and representatives. Former Mayors Tom Murphy and the man Peduto replaced, Luke Ravenstahl, sat in the front row to the right of the stage with a friend of former Mayor Sophie Masloff, whose health is poor.
Pittsburgh Catholic Bishop David A. Zubik prayed that Peduto “fashion a government with the people, for the people and by the people.”
Channel 11’s news exchange partners at TribLIVE contributed to this report.

Monday's schedule
• 1 p.m. swearing-in in Heinz Hall, Downtown
• 2:30-4:30 p.m. Peduto and cabinet will greet the public in Wintergarden at PPG Place, Downtown
• 7-9 p.m. celebration in Heinz History Center, Strip District
STREET CLOSURES
• Sixth Street between Penn and Liberty avenues, beginning about 9:30 a.m.
• Third Avenue between Market and Stanwix streets, about 11 a.m.
• Fourth Avenue between Market and Stanwix streets, about 11 a.m.
• Fourth Avenue from Stanwix Street to the PPG ice rink, from about 2 to 4:30 p.m.
Parking will be prohibited on these streets after 9 a.m.:
• Penn Avenue between Seventh Street and Stanwix Avenue
• Sixth Street between Penn and Liberty avenues
• Liberty between Seventh and Stanwix
• Stanwix Street between Penn and Third avenues
• Fourth Avenue between Stanwix and PPG Place
• Third Avenue between Stanwix and Market streets




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