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Nothing neighborly about cockroaches Port Richmond residents fear new infestation By DAN GERINGER geringd@ THOUSANDS of invading cockroaches turned Port Richmond's award-winning 3600 block of Sepviva Street, near Venango, into a disgusting, disease-prone mess, say the furious, frustrated residents. During the spring and summer, the tree-lined winner of 'beautiful block' awards was overrun by hordes of roaches that spawned in the animal and human waste at 3613 Sepviva, neighbors said. Block captain Miriam Oleckna, who lives next door to the heavily infested property, became tearful when she showed a reporter snapshots of the dog feces, the dirty diapers spilling out of torn garbage bags and the rampaging roaches that might force her to leave the only home she has ever known during her 79-year lifetime. 'I was born in this house and I don't want to move,' Oleckna said in a voice on the verge of breaking. 'But I can't put up with this. When the judge forced that woman to leave this summer, it was like heaven around here. Then he let her come back.' 'That woman's' mouth, Oleckna said, was as filthy as her feces-strewn yard. 'Effing-old-lady this; effing-old-lady that,' Oleckna said. 'I heard more f-words in the two years she's lived here than I had in my whole life. And I couldn't believe the mouths on her children.' 'That woman' is Oleckna's next-door neighbor, Marie Bowers, who became equally tearful when she told a reporter how the courts ordered her and her children to vacate their roach-infested home so the city's Department of Licenses & Inspections could fumigate and remove all the roach-riddled furniture. 'I felt like I lived in Frankenstein's castle and the people were coming to burn me out,' Bowers said. 'L&I changed the locks on my front door so I was locked out of my own house.' 'Everything they said was majorly exaggerated. Their exterminator said that the roaches were so bad, they felt like a cat running down his

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