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Pictured above are some of the members of the Lititz Fire Company who
helped convert the fire hydrants in the borough. Standing are Dave Shuman,
left, and Scotty Enck; kneeling are Sonny Auker, left, and Lititz Fire Chief Jere
Buchter.
Fire Hydrants Adapted In Borough
Members of the Lititz Fire
Company have been busily
working with the borough in
helping to convert the
hydrants in Lititz Borough
and the work is now com­pleted.
In October of 1980 the
L ititz F ir e Company
proposed to members of
borough council that the fire
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hydrants in Lititz be con­verted
to National Standard
Thread.
Through the cooperative
efforts of borough council,
which financed the cost of
the materials, and the Lititz
Fire Company members,
who supplied the labor, the
hydrants were converted
and repainted.
Cardinal
Still Seeking
By making the hydrants
National Standard Thread,
the firelighting (efficiency
will be improved. In the
event of a major fire, any of
the surrounding fire com­panies
that may be called
will be able to use its hose on
the borough’s hydrants
without an adaptor.
The Cardinal Road
residents turned out again in
numbers to plead with Lititz
Borough Council to help
them seek relief from
flooding that occurs on their
streets and backyards.
At last month’s council
meeting, the residents were
told by council president
Wendell Hower and vice-president
William York to
get estimates for cutting two
swales and present them at
this meeting, which the
residents did. The estimates
came to about $900.
Richard Hurst, developer
of the area which is called
Fair Meadows, was present
at the meeting and said he
was willing to put in a swale
at the bottom of Cardinal
Road. Hurst said that he
looked at the situation and
noted that he is continuing to
sell lots in Fair Meadows
and will be installing a
retention basin. He added
that when the retention basin
goes in it should alleviate the
flooding problem on Car­dinal
Road. He also said he
did not think that putting in
the swales is necessary. “If I
put in a swale at the bottom
of Cardinal Road,” he ad­ded,
“it should take care of
the problem.”
At a previous meeting,
David Anderson, director of
public services, was asked
by council to visit the
development and put in
stakes to define where the
original stream bed had
been. Over the years the
original stream bed has
shifted from its original
location.
The residents want to have
the stream bed, which runs
in back of the properties,
dredged out and made
fRU
deeper. They said that by
draining the water into
Huber’s Run in order to
solve the street flooding
would only in c re a s e
backyard Hooding.
Council said that it will
have nothing to do with
dredging the stream. In
order to be able to dredge the
stream, a permit would have
to be secured from the
Pennsylvania Department of
Environmental Resources
(DER), according to the
Lancaster Conservation
District (LCD).
In response to a letter
from Mr. Richard Carlozzi,
201 Cardinal Road, LCD
recommended that the
borough apply for the permit
and coordinate the project
rather than have several
landowners each submitting
applications. “This would
ensure a more consistent
job,” LCD said, and added,
“ It still should be a
cooperative venture between
the borough and the
residents.”
Council unanimously
voted to bear the cost of
building two swales for
channeling water to Huber’s
Run. One swale will run
between the properties of
David Bonsai, 208 Cardinal
Road and Howard Thomp­son,
212 Cardinal Road. The
other swale will be con-
Antkjue Sale To
Be Held Labor
Day Weekend
The 16th annual
outdoor Antique and
Collectibles Sale for the
maintenance of Lititz
Springs Park will be
held on Sept. 4, the
Saturday of Labor-Day
weekend, 9 a.m. to 5
p.m. with 60 dealers
from several states
participating.
A dm ission and
parking will be free and
the event is sponsored
by Lititz Springs Park
Board of Trustees.
Road Residents
Relief From Flooding structed on the other side of Township Water Supply,
the Bonsai property and will At a meeting last Monday,
be totally on that lot. Bonsai the Lancaster County
and Thompson will be Planning Commission also
responsible for reseeding the took a dim view of the
swales after construction is proposed rezoning,
completed. Both parties said • Approved the use of a $200
that they were agreeable to Sertoma Club contribution
doing that. earmarked for recreation, to
According to one resident, pay the water connection fee
the same 15 residents are for the refreshment stand at
going to return to council the Slow-Pitch Softball
meeting next month to ask League refreshment stand
council to obtain a permit on the baseball diamond
from DER for the dredging near Lititz Springs Park. It
of the stream and that the was specified that the league
citizens will have to pay for will be responsible for
the project. buying a water meter and
In other action, council: paying for any water used.
• Requested Kenneth Wiest, . Reported that it received
borough business manager, notice that the borough’s
to let the Warwick Township poliee pension fund is ac-planning
commission and
supervisors know of. the
borough’s concern over a
rezoning petition that is
under consideration in the
township. Council is con­cerned
about the rezoning of
22 acres of watershed land in
the area of Limerock Road
in Warwick Township from
Conservation to Rural
because the change could
affect the borough’s and,
ultimately the Warwick
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Social 9
Church 18
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tuariaiy sound and that
retroactive to Jan. 1,1982, no
more individual police
contributions would be
necessary.
• Unanimously approved
releasing of the retainage
fee in the amount of $5,000 to
Johnston Construction
Company for the completion
of work at the Water Plant.
When council was told by
Wiest that there was in­sufficient
monies in the
Water Construction Fund to
pay back the retainage,
Wiest was directed by
council to take the money
from the Water Operating
Fund.
•Received a request from
the Rotary Club to reserve
the dates of July 9, 1983 and
July 14,1984 for the Rotary’s
Antique Show in the
downtown district. Council
approved the 1983 date but
said that 1984 was too far
away to approve. Council
also noted that it did not
want the downtown shows to
interfere with the retailers’
Red Tag Days.
Warwick Township Police
Rash Of Thefts Being Investigated
A series of thefts and a
burglary are being in-vestiged
by Warwick
Township police.
Police Chief Harry Aichele
said that two juveniles, a 14-
year-old and a 10-year-old,
were taken into custody and
will be turned over to
juvenile authorities as the
result of a burglary and theft
at Lititz Auto Parts, 814
Lititz Pike, the night of
Thursday, July 22. The items
which were stolen were a
small amount of cash, spray
paint, sandpaper and
masking tape. Aichele said
the incident is still under
investigation because police
have a lead that makes them
think the other individuals,
both from the Lititz and
Lancaster areas, are im­plicated
in the burglary.
A seven-year-old juvenile
girl was reprimanded and
released into the custody of
her parents following two
thefts, Aichele said. The
report stated that $34 was
stolen from a house on Lititz
Run Road and various items
were stolen from the
warehouse in the mill on
Lititz Run Road. Aichele
said all the money and stolen
goods were recovered.
Police received the report
that gas had been stolen
from a barrel at Bowman’s
Plumbing, 2048 Main St.,
Rothsville, sometime during
the night of Thursday, July
22.
Aichele said police
received a report of a radio
stolen from a vehicle owned
by Lynn Mearig on Friday,
July 23, when she left her
vehicle at a garage.
Criminal Mischief
Mervin Wenger, 1024 Log
Cabin Road, reported to
police that his mailbox had
been damaged.
Retail Theft
Aichele said police
received a report from Jim
and Shirleys Cafe, 2036 Main
St., Rothsville, that two
subjects entered the cafp,
took four 6-packs from the
refrigerator and ran down
the street. The incident is
under investigation.
Steven Robert Bear, 39
Forney Drive, was cited
Tuesday, July 20 for passing
on the left side of an in­tersection,
police said.
Receives National, State Awards
Lititz Police Investigate Accidents The intersection of East
Main and Cedar streets was
the scene of an accident July
19 at 9:55 a.m. when the
eastbound Mercedes Benz
truck driven on East Main
by Melvin Auker, 226 E High
St., Manheim, entered the
intersection on a red signal
and, according to Lititz
Police Chief George Hicks,
caused a collision with the
car driven south on Cedar by
Marcella G. Landis, 307 S.
Broad St.
Chief George Hicks an­nounced
that someone
calling himself Bill O’Brien,
of the Lititz Police Depart­ment,
saying he represented
the Fraternal Order of
Police and that he is a
member of the local police
department, contacted a
local business to solicit
funds.
The apparent fraudulent
police said and was taken to
her residence by Warwick
Ambulance.
Auker was cited for en­tering
an intersection on a
red signal.
On July 23 at 6:50 a.m. no
injuries resulted from an
accident which occurred at
the intersection of South
Broad and Orange streets
when Paul S. Longenecker,
452 W. Lincoln Ave., was
southbound on South Broad
and Jacob D. Heilman, 1216
solicitation occurred July 23
when a local business was
contacted by the person who
represented himself as a
member of the Lititz Police
soliciting for the Lancaster
County P olic e Chiefs
Association, Chief Hicks
said.
Chief Hicks said that
neither the FOP nor Lititz
Police are involved in any
financial solicitation.
bound on East Orange.
According to police,
someone entered the in­tersection
on a red signal but
police could not determine
which one. There were no
witnesses.
A three vehicle accident
occurred July 24 at Broad
and Second streets when,
police said, the northbound
vehicle driven on Broad
Street by R. M. Hess, 229
Landis Valley Road, hit the
vehicle driven north on
Broad by Bryen G. Muller,
119 New Haven Dr., pushing
it into the vehicle driven
north on Broad by Paul M.\
Buckwalter III, New Holland
R2.E
mily G. Muller, a
passenger in the Muller
vehicle was slightly injured
in the accident and was
taken to Lititz Family
Health Center by Warwick
Ambulance.
Hess was cited for
following too closely, ac­cording
to Chief Hicks.
On July 14 a 13 year old
youth was cited for theft and
h a ra ssm en t a fte r he
removed and stole a part of
the telephone at Zim­mermans
store, 75 E. Main
St.
A girl’s black bicycle, with
no license, was stolen from
Sally Haldeman from in
front of the Haldeman home,
77 Front St., sometime
within a two week period
prior to July 20, police said.
David E. Miller, 34, of 150
S. Spruce St., was cited for
disorderly conduct after he
threw a lighted firecracker
from a vehicle in the first
block of South Broad Street
July 10. He paid a $25 fine
and costs of $37.55 according
to police.
James Eldridge, 63, no
address given, was cited for
defiant trespassing after
appearing on the property at
360 N. Broad St. He was
committed to Lancaster
County prison in default of
bail.
Mark Hess, 55% S. Ross
St., Ephrata, was the victim
of a theft July 24 when a
wallet containing $20 was
stolen from his car in the
Sturgis Lane parking lot late
in the evening, police said.
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Police Warn
Of Fraudulent Solicitation
Lititz VFW Post 1463 Celebrates
50th Anniversary, Burns Mortgage
The Lititz Springs Post
#1463 of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars had double
cause to celebrate Saturday
night. The organization held
a banquet at the Holiday Inn
East to celebrate its Golden
Anniversary and the burning
of its mortgage.
A p p ro x im a te ly 175
members and guests were
present to hear the keynote
s p e a k e r , Th omas
Dougherty, Pennsylvania
State Commander of the
VFW. The master of
ceremonies was Marvin
Miller, Sr., chairman of the
crime victims compensation
board. Also presenting
remarks, as honored guests,
were: Raymond Reedy,
mayor of Lititz;, Curtis Long,
Lititz American Legion Post
56 commander; Kenneth
Garner, commander of the
Lancaster County Council of
VFW; and the Rev. Craig L.
Van Kouwenberg, pastor of
the Lititz Moravian Church,
who gave the invocation and
the benediction.
Following the banquet,
members returned to the
Lititz VFW post home for the
burning of the mortgage and
dancing to the music of the
Ray Beck Band.
The Lititz Springs VFW,
Post 1463, was chartered on
July 23, 1932 with 17 mem­bers.
Its first home was in a
garage in Middle Lane. They
then moved to North Broad
Street in a building that now
houses the Odd Fellows.of
Lititz. From the North Broad
Street location, they moved
to its present location, 14 N.
Spruce St., which was being
used fo r a to b a c c o
warehouse. The purchase
took place in 1940.
The Ladies Auxiliary was
chartered in 1946. Started 50
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Commander Doughtery, right, presented six
members of the Lititz VFW with awards for service
and participation in the post over the years. They
are, from left, John Keath, Harold Wolfe, Paul
Spickler, Charles Weller, Francis Enck and
Kenneth Miller.