“Many people that just drive across the Tarentum Bridge to get to Route 28 don’t realize what we have here.” “I talk to people about all the businesses that have been a staple in Tarentum for years, along with the new businesses that have moved into town,” she said.
She is eager to continue the hard work of promoting local businesses, which Homa said is a job done mostly by word of mouth. Homa served previously on the steering committee for the multi-municipal comprehensive plan between the borough, Harrison and Brackenridge.
They printed handed out leaflets at the polls asking that voters cast their vote in that manner. “This is actually the way we intended it to be,” Homa, 68, said. Kerr earned the two-year seat, beating Homa with 204 votes to her 125. Homa captured the four-year term, winning with 210 votes to Kerr’s 129. Republican incumbents Lou Ann Homa and Ray Kerr were vying for two seats up for grabs, one a four-year term and the other a two-year term. Tarentum residents in the 1st Ward will be represented by two familiar faces on council.
