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The Luther Townhome Apartments building at Luther Acres contains 96 units.
Helps All Ages In Variety O f Ways
Lutheran Social Services -
East Region - Serves Needs
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Photo by Pat Herr
George is 11 years old^Life
at home is an unhappy lot
made desperate by periodic
physical abuse. Finally, with
no other solution in sight, he
ran away. Now he has at
least temporary refuge in
the Emergency Care Shelter
operated by Lutheran Social
Services - East Region (LSS-ER.)
Martha and Malcolm are
in their sixties, in reasonably
Halloween
Parade
The annual Lititz
Halloween P a rad e
sponsored by the Lititz
Lions Club h a s . been
scheduled for Monday
evening, Oct. 26.
Announcement is
being made at this time
so that persons or
groups interested in
entering the event can
make plans for par­ticipation.
Cash prizes will be
awarded by the Lititz
Lions Club to marchers
in the four judging
categories: Children’s
D iv isio n , Group
Division, Float Division,
and Adult Division.
Please note that there
is no judging or prizes
awarded for “Com­mercial”
entries and
th a t th ey a r e
discouraged from en­tering.
Rain date for the
parade will be Tuesday,
Oct. 27.
good health with modest
resources. Their three
children are married and on
their own. No longer needing
their large home with the
upkeep involved, they have
moved into the Luther
Townhome Apartments,
Lititz, operated by Lutheran
Social Services - East
Region (LSS-ER.)
Sarah is 78-years-old. She
worked hard for many
years, raising a family,
maintaining a home. Her
husband died four years ago,
and her h ea lth has
deteriorated to the point she
cannot be cared for properly
by her family. She is in the
Spang Crest Nursing Home,
Lebanon, pperated by
Lutheran Social Services -
East Region (LSS-ER.)
Earl is 29. Honorably
discharged by the U.S.
Army, he started drinking to
excess. Two years ago l^e
was sent to prison for rob­bing
a liquor store. Now he is
free, working hard, earning
a living with his alcohol
problem under control. He
came back with the help of
the Offender Development
Program administered by
Lutheran Social Services -
East Region (LSS-ER.)
Marge and Sam are in
their mid-thirties, married
with two children. After 14
years their marriage has
begun to go sour. Efforts by
family and friends to ease
the strains have not been
successful. Their pastor
suggested they seek
professional counseling.
They are getting it through
Lutheran Social Services -
East Region (LSS-ER.)
The people above are
fictitious. But their stories
are typical of the situations
encountered by LSS - ER
every day.
“When people think about
LSS - ER, they picture us as
being an agency for the
aging,” said the Rev.
Charles L. Scott, Executive
Director. “Our program
does have a heavy emphasis
on the elderly, but we serve
the needs of all ages in a
variety of ways.”
Last year more than 3,000
persons were served through
the agency’s activities, Scott
reported.
The origins of LSS - ER
date back to 1949, when
Lutheran Service for Older
People was incorporated in
Lancaster County. The
organiation was known later
as Lutheran Social Service
of the Lancaster Conference.
In 1952, Lutheran Service
Society of Lebanon County
was incorporated to operate
the Spang Crest nursing
facility. Then, in 1965, the
two groups merged to
become Lutheran Social
Services - East Region, the
area social ministry agency
for the 68 Lutheran Church
in America congregations in
Lancaster and Lebanon
Counties. Administrative
offices are at 600 E. Main St.,
Lititz.
Growth - rapid in response
to need - became the order of
the day. Luther Acres, a 40-
acre complex in Lititz,
began to take form with the
’ Sharks’ To Appear O c t. 25
'The Eyes’ To Be Featured
At High School Teen Dance
The youth group of St.
James Catholic Church will
sponsor another high school
teen dance on Sunday, Sept.
27, from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.
The dance will be held at the
Parish Center at 505
Woodcrest Ave., Lititz.
Music will be provided by
the fast rising rock and roll
group “the eyes” and by DJ
Mike Bell, between sets.
The band “the eyes” has
been playing around Lan­caster
County for a little
over a year. It has five
m em b e rs: George
Shinkosky on bass, Mike
Weirich on keyboard, Dave
Walton on lead guitar, Mel
Henry on drums, and Wendy
Barnhart featured lead
singer. The group has just
released a record on its own
label featuring "I Need to
Know You’’ on one side and
“Person to Person” on the
other.
Donation for the dance is
$2 at the door. The Parish
Center is air-conditioned and
re freshm en ts will be
available. For more in­formation
call 626-0662 or
626-7709.
F u tu re dances will
spotlight the Sharks on Oct.
25, 1981 and Phaze on Nov.
22,1981.
Wendy Barnhart and “ The Eyes” will be the
featured group at a high school teen dance to be
held Sunday, Sept. 27 from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. at
St. James Parish Center, 505 Woodcrest Ave.
Donation for the dance, sponsored by the youth
group of St. James, is $2 at the door.
Unclaimed Bikes,
Paris to Be
Displayed In Twp.
Warwick Township
Police Chief Kenneth
Martin has announced
that a public inspection
of unclaimed bicycles
and bicycle parts will be
held Saturday, Sept. 19
from 8 a.m. to 12:30
p.m. at the Warwick
Township Municipal
Building on Clay Road.
A public sale of the
same items will be held
Saturday, Oct. 3.
Average Increase Per Employee is $1,775
Board Reaches Agreement
on Teacher Salaries
dedication of a nursing home
in 1966. Today, Luther Acres
also features a 98-bed skilled
nursing facility.
"We had a 20-year plan for
development and completed
it in five years,” Scott ex­plained.
Today, LSS - ER has
assets (buildings, grounds,
equipment) valued ^gt $10
m illio n . The a n n u a l
operating budget is. ap­proximately
$5 million. The
staff includes about 250
employees. _____
In meeting peoples’ needs,
the agency’s program of
Congregational and Com­munity
Services, directed by
Gerald Shenk, administers a
number of activities.
For the young, there is
Family Day Care Homes,
which last year, provided
responsible day care in a
family setting for 161
children from infancy
through age 12 in Lebanon
County.
The Agency’s Emergency
Shelter, Willow Street, near
Lancaster, is available for
housing non-delinquent
youngsters. Over the past 12
months more than 100 had
temporary shelter there.
The R etired Senior
Volunteer Program (RSVP),
which is administered in
Lebanon County by LSS -
ER, last year placed 351
retirees in 43 volunteer
stations, including hospitals,
schools, libraries, nursing
homes, and other com­munity
agencies.
Individual or family
counseling is available
through the Agency’s Life
Enrichment Program. Last
year 212 persons were helped
in dealing with emotional,
f in a n c ia l, or s o c ia l
problems.
The agency’s Offender
Development Service last
year helped 51 Lancaster
County prisoners or parolees
become productive, job-holding
citizens.
LSS - ER also sponsors a
p ro g ram to p ro v id e
assistance to the elderly and
low-income persons in
completing tax forms.
Approximately 1,500 were
helped last year.
Round-the-clock nursing
care was provided for 283
patients at Spang Crest and
Luther Acres. A total of 249
persons reside in the Luther
Acres apartments and
cottages.
“The success and ef­fectiveness
of LSS - ER is
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Warwick teachers voted
favorably on the newly
negotiated salary agreement
and the contract was ratified
by the Warwick School
District Board of Directors
at a special meeting
Tuesday night at the high
school.
The ten ta tiv e wage
agreement was adopted
following negotiations that
started in January and
culminated in mid-August.
Wilson B. Smith, board
member and chairman of
the district buildings and
property committee, was
selected by the board to
serve as its chief negotiator.
The te a c h e r s were
represented by Kay Garrity-
Roth, Judy York, and Dale
Gerber as spokesmen; Willie
Joiner served as mediator
for one bargaining session.
Warwick teachers are in
the third year of a three year
Collective Bargaining
Agreement which provided
for re-negotiating wages in
the third year. The third
year started September 8
and the wage reopener was
invoked. Written notification
of the agreement was given
to the board which ratified
the contracts in a unanimous
roll call vote.
The average increase is
$1,775, or 10.5 percent, at a
total cost of $303,883 to the
district. The increase is for
the 1981-82 school year and
shows the increase over the
80-81 school year per em­ployee.
Salary increases range
from 9.4 percent to 11.4
percent with a beginning
teacher’s salary ranging
from $10,875 to $11,750.
A continuing professional
growth incentive providing
$100 for a period of three
years to a teacher receiving
three graduate credits or six
Intermediate Unit credits
was extended to cover
teachers on the bachelors
and m a s te r s d e g re e
beginning at step 7 on the
s a la ry schedule. The
agreement was reached
after nine bargaining
sessions which began in
January with one session
held with the mediator.
In other business, the
board approved awarding
the bid for fuel oil to Carlos
R. Leffler, Inc., Richland, at
$.8114 per gallon for number
4 oil and $.7951 for number 5
oil.
Warwick Township Supervisors
Woolley, Slaugh Form Corp.
To Develop Crosswinds
The Warwick Township Board of Supervisors an­nounced
at its last meeting that a new building cor­poration
has taken over the developing of the Crosswinds
subdivision. Douglas H. Woolley, 406 Rudy Dam Rd., and
Paul H. Slaugh Jr., Lancaster, have gone into partnership
and formed a building corporation to build the homes and
install improvements in Crosswinds.
According to Woolley, the C ro s sw e ll, tow n sh ip
Centerville Corporation still
owns the land, but he and
Slaugh will be doing the
building. He also said
Slaugh-Fagan Partners, 15
S. Broad St., will be selling
the homes.
Questioning the validity of
a detension basin agreement
of March 27,1981 because of
new developers, the
supervisors went over the
agreement with Woolley.
Woolley explained to them
his ideas and plans for
building in Section III.
Residents Complain
The supervisors heard
complaints from four
residents of the New Haven
Drive/Mayfield Drive area
of the township about
c om m e r c ia l v e h ic le s
parking in residential
districts. Citizens in this
particular area of the
township have had specific
complaints about this
problem for several years.
A letter the supervisors
received from William
solicitor, was read. The
letter cited a recent Com­monwealth
Court decision
which upheld the en­forcement
of a ban against
p a rk in g c om m e rc ia l
vehicles in residential
districts in a Westmoreland
County township.
Before they could decide
what course of action to
follow concerning this
matter, the supervisors said
they would have to check
further with Crosswell.
Communications
The supervisors received
th e fo llow in g com ­munications:
• A thank-you letter and a
check from Frank Bucher,
2160 Main St., Rothsville, for
the work the township had
done to the guard rail in
front of his property. The
check was to cover expenses
involved.
• A letter from PP&L
recommending new lighting
at the intersection of Main
Street and New Rothsville
Road in Rothsville.
Other Business
in other business, the
supervisors:
• AWarded the bid for
regulatory and warning
signs to D.W. Miller In­dustries
Inc. for a total bid of
$2,210.70, providing the bid
form is correct.
• Authorized the payment
of a $17,070.65 bill submitted
to Warwick Township from
The Warwick Township
Authority for the overlaying
of 7,346.06 square yards of
streets. This action was
taken within the terms of the
Intermunicipal Agreement.
• Reported they had
received complaints about
youths driving recklessly at
the Midway Reception
Center, located on Lexington
Road. The supervisors said
they would notify the police
of the complaints and send a
letter to the appropriate
person or persons involved.
• Signed contract with
Rohrer’s Quarry for snow
removal equipment and
operator rental to be used on
certain state and township
roads.
Business manager Walter
Lightner explained that two
of three burners at Warwick
High School and one of two at
Lititz Elementary School
have been converted to use
gas and will do so until the
temperature reaches 20
degrees. They will then
automatically convert to oil
use. He further said that the
district had been fortunate in
being able to “top up” the oil
tanks at a good price when
oil was down $.20 to $.21
during the summer.
“Hopefully, unless this is
an especially bad winter, we
will not need to buy too much
oil,” he emphasized.
The Superintendent’s
report included information
from Dr. John Bonfield, that
the projected enrollment for
the new school year, 81-82,
shows a net decrease of 20
students.
Based on projections, Dr.
Bonfield said that the 1981
enrollment report showed a
net decrease of 21 students in
the elementary schools, 28
students in the middle school
and 27 students in the high
school. He suggested that the
decrease in the middle
school was due to the fact
that 284 fifth graders moved
up to the sixth grade this fall
and it will take some time
(for the numbers) to work
their way through the school
system.
An u p d a te on th e
enrollment will be given as
soon as actual figures are
compiled after the start of
school.
.Walter Lightner was
elected to represent the
Warwick school board on the
Lititz Rec Center Board,
replacing Dr. Robert Harris.
Dr. Bonfield recommended
board approval of the ap­pointment
indicating that it
was a yearly appointment
and that he was pleased to
nominate someone “close to
the board, near the central
office, and who knows the
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In This Issue
Obituaries, Births 2
Editorial 4
Sports Section 6,7,8
Social 10,11
Manheim News 14,15
Church 16
Business Directory 18
Classified 19,20
Saturday, October 10
Lititz Sewer Authority To Dedicate
New Wastewater Treatment Plant
The Lititz Sewer Authority
announces the dedication of
th e L ititz Borough
Wastewater Treatment
Plant located on Lititz Run
Road, Lititz.
The Lititz Sewer Authority
cordially invites the public to
tour the plant facilities from
1 to 5 p.m. on Saturday,
October 10.
Construction of the $14.5
m illio n W a s tew a te r
Treatment Plant began in
February 1979 and was
completed this past sum­mer.
The new, modem plant
will treat collected sewage
from Lititz Borough and
Warwick Township and will
provide advanced treatment
as required by the Penn­sylvania
Department of
Environmental Resources.
The treatment processes
incorporated innovative
biological and technological
methods to treat the sewage
and thereby protect Lititz
Run Creek.
Should you have any
questions, please feel free to
call Dave Anderson, Chief
Operator, Director of Public
Services, at 626-2172.
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Although not yet completely finished, the Lititz Sewer Authority expects the facility to be ready for the
facility’s dedication on October 10. . . . .
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