| abstract | - "I'm very excited about serving again," Mr. Simeone said. He said he had noticed a renewal of community spirit, with more people attending council meetings and a citizens group successfully raising money and lobbying for the opening of the swimming pool this summer. Of being a Republican chosen unanimously by Democrats in that July 3 vote, he said: "As a rule, politics means nothing here except around election time. We're not Democrats or Republicans on council. We're Dormonters." Mr. Simeone is a retired sales engineer for a company which mainly sold piping. He lost council elections last year and in 1999. "My strongest accomplishment was the borough building," he said, referring to the former Hillsdale Elementary School, which was converted into a municipal center. He said he was one of the original proponents of the plan. In past years, he served on the planning commission and the library board and organized house tours in the borough. He and his wife, Lucetta, have six children and nine grandchildren and have lived in Dormont since they were in their 20s. Mr. Simeone said he was only slightly aware of this year's clash of new council members Ann Conlin and Rebecca Lafferty with most other members of council. That conflict was centered on the pair's questioning of solicitor bills. "It seems the wounds are healing," he said.
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