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1 EXAMINATION
2 BY MR.
BAXTER:
3 Q. Would you state
your name for the record?
4 A. Deanne
Ebbert.
5 Q. And, Mrs.
Ebbert, how long have you lived
6 in West View
Borough?
7 A. About 43
years.
8 Q. And during that
course of time, have you
9 ever worked in any
position for the Borough of
10 West View, the
North Hills School District?
11 A. Crossing guard
at Chalfonte, Perry Highway.
12 Q. How close
would that be to this particular
13 building that
we're talking about?
14 A. Three
buildings.
15 Q. Three
buildings away?
16 A.
Yes.
17 Q. And would you
tell the Board, if you would,
18 the period of
time that you worked there as a
19 crossing
guard?
20 A. 4 1/2 hours a
day, 7 to 9, 11:15 to 1, and
21 like 2:30 to
4:15.
22 Q. And how many
years have you done that?
23 A. About 20 years
there.
24 Q. 20 years at
that position?
25 A.
Right.
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1 Q. During that
period of time, then, you would
2 have had the
opportunity to observe Mr. Ballon's
3 property. Is that
correct?
4 A. Any properties
along there.
5 Q. Did you ever
observe during that course of
6 time any
automobiles parked in the front of that
7 building on what
we've termed here to be the
8
sidewalk?
9 A.
Yes.
10 Q. On how many
occasions?
11 A. Oh, a few
times. I -- except for the
12 morning. There
wasn't nobody parked there in the
13 morning. Never.
Then a couple times, I asked
14 Mr. Ballon if he
backed up there. I had to keep it
15 clear for the
students, and he said he's just loading
16 the car and he'll
leave shortly.
17 Q. All right. So
the period of time --
18 MR. WATSON: Could
we just go back
19 over that,
because I was distracted.
20 MR. BAXTER:
Yes.
21 Q. What was the
period of time that you say
22 that Mr. Ballon
was backed up to the door?
23 A. Yes. Like
around 11 o'clock -- no. It was
24 when I came --
like at lunchtime, he was loading the
25 car. I said, I've
got students coming. He said, I'm
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1 leaving shortly.
So he never gave me no problem.
2 MR. WATSON: Let's
go back a little
3 further. I think
she started talking about the
4 difference, the
7-to-9 shift.
5 THE WITNESS:
That's in the morning.
6 There was nobody
ever parked there.
7 MR. WATSON: I'm
sorry.
8 MR. BAXTER: That's
okay.
9 Q. And then you
say you had a discussion with
10 Mr. Ballon on
occasion?
11 A. Yes. A couple
of times. He said he's
12 leaving shortly;
and if somebody else pulled in
13 there, nobody's
supposed to park here, and they would
14 leave. It wasn't
just his. The Crowning Glory
15 Beauty Shop,
several times they had companies drop
16 off towels. They
had big bunches of towels, and
17 they'd drop off
stuff and leave.
is Q. Even when you
told Mr. Ballon, he told you
19 that he was going
to pull out of there --
20 A.
Shortly.
21 Q. And he knew
not to park there? Is that
22 what you
said?
23 A.
Yes.
24 MR. CLEMENT: What
is that? I
25 object. She
doesn't know what Mr. Ballon was
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1
thinking.
2 MR. BAXTER: No.
No. I'm talking
3 about a
conversation that she had with Mr. Ballon.
4 MR. CLEMENT: He's
asking what
5
.....Mr.
Ballon was thinking.
6 MR. WATSON:
Overruled.
7 Q. So we have this
clear on the record, did
8 you ever have a
discussion with Mr. Ballon about
9 parking in front
of that building?
10 A. I went down,
and I said, the students are
11 going to be
coming. You're not supposed to be parked
12 here, and he said
he's just unloading his car and
13 he's going to be
leaving shortly.
14 Q. Did you have
an opportunity to observe that
15 building in the
early 1990's up through 1995?
16 A. In '95?
17 Q.
Yes.
18 A. Yes. I was
there until about five years
19 ago. Then I went
to Cornell.
20 Q. Did you ever
make any observations -- do
21 you know when Joe
Barr ran that facility?
22 A. Yes. A lot of
times he walked to work. He
23 would come down
the hill.
24 Q. Did you ever
notice, Mrs. Ebbert, his van
25 parked on the
sidewalk in front of that building?
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1 A. I don't recall.
Anything that would be
2 parked on the
sidewalk bothered me, because I liked
3 it clear for the
students.
4 MR. BAXTER: You
can cross.
