SOME VERY SAD NEWS OUT OF BEAVER COUNTY THIS MORNING. FORMER COUNTY COMMISIONER DAN DONATELLA HAS DIED. DONATELLA – A MIDLAND NATIVE – WAS AN INFLUENTIAL FIGURE IN COUNTY GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS. FORMER REPUBLICAN COMMISSIONER CHARIE CAMP SERVED TWO TERMS WITH DONATELLA. IN AN INTERVIEW WITH BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS. CAMP SAYS HE FELT VERY SAD AFTER HEARING THE NEWS OF HIS PASSING…

CAMP TALKED ABOUT WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO WORK WITH DONATELLA AS A COMMISSIONER…

CAMP – WHO CURRENTLY WORKS FOR THE PENNSYLVANIA TURNPIKE COMMISSION – SAID HE OWES HIS LOVE OF TRANSPORTATION ISSUES TO DAN DONATELLA…

CAMP TALKED ABOUT WHICH ACCOMPLISHMENTS HE ACHIEVED AS A COMMISSIONER WITH DAN THAT HE’S MOST PROUD OF…

CAMP SAID WHILE HE DONATELLA WERE FROM OPPOSITIVE POLITICAL PARTIES, THEY BOTH SHARED THE SAME PHILOSOPHY…

CAMP EXPLAINED HOW HE DONATELLA WERE ABLE TO WORK SO WELL TOGETHER…DESPITE THEIR POLITICAL DIFFERENCES:

CAMP SAID HE LEARNED A LOT FROM DAN…

CAMP TALKED ABOUT WHAT DONATELLA WAS LIKE AS A PERSON…

DAN DONATELLA DIED WEDNESDAY AT VILLA ST. JOSEPH IN BADEN. HE WAS 81.