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; WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 22 Pages-No. 52
Supervisors Delay Decision
St. Patrick’s Day has a special meaning to Peg
Barrett of Penryn, who lived in Ireland from the
ages of three to 18. She is seated in her living
room among some of her Irish keepsakes — a
map of Irish heraldry and some pieces of Bellek
China.
She's Found
'A Little Ireland'
. . . In Penryn
By Kathleen King
With tier lilting
brogue and her vibrant
auburn hair, Peggy
Barrett is as much the
Irish lass as she was
when she came to the
United States at the age
of 18, nearly 35 years
ago.
Her eyes still sparkle
like the lakes of
Killarney, and if ever a
person was touched with
a gift of blarney— it
was Peg Barrett.
When Peg came to the
U nited States from
Cork, at 18, it was not as
a new immigrant, but
rather as a returning
citizen. She was bom in
the U.S. of Irish parents
who returned to Ireland
when she was three.
“My father had a
plumbing business in
New York,” she said.
“ The depression hit and
he packed up the family
and went back to
Ireland and the family
farm.”
She still has a brother
living on the family
farm in Ireland, but her
other brother and sister
long since immigrated
to the United States.
All the 15 years she
lived in Ireland she
“ grew up with the idea
that America was my
country - I was born
there,” and knew some
day she’d go back.
“There was only one
time in school that I was
ever made to stand in
the corner,” Peg said
with a laugh. “That was
the day we learned that
American got into the
war (World War II) and
I shouted “Hurrah!”
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Stobro Rezoning Plan Draws
Citizens' Comments--Pro And Con
By Jennifer Shenk
It was standing room only
in the Warwick Township
municipal building last
Wednesday, March 9, as
nearly 80 concerned citizens
turned out to lend their
support or voice their op­position
to a request by
Stobro Company to rezone
approximately 20 acres of
land located at the northwest
corner of Route 501 and
Millport Road from rural to
commercial.
Stobro, the real estate
company for Stauffer’s of
Kissel Hill, is seeking to
have the 19.7-acre tract
rezoned by the Warwick
Township supervisors to
commercial in order for
Stauffer’s to build a new
retail store there.
Following nearly three
hours of discussion by Stobro
spokesmen and concerned
residents, board chairman J.
Lloyd Rohrer said the
supervisors would “ take the
comments under a d ­visement
and render a
decision at a later date. ’ ’
During last week’s hearing
two petitions were submitted
to the supervisors for con­sideration,
one containing
the names of 32 concerned
citizens objecting to Stobro’s
rezoning request, and the
other, submitted by Roy W.
Stauffer, Stobro president,
which was signed by 40
Warwick Township residents
and 14 non-township
residents endorsing the
proposed plan for the site;
George H. Eager, a
L a n c a s t e r a tto rn e y
representing citizens op­posed
to the zoning change,
told the supervisors Wed­nesday
that “ you can’t take
a commercial zone and stick
it in a sea of rural.”
In the petition submitted
by Eager, residents objected
to Stobro’s request on the
grounds that “ it would
constitute illegal spot
zoning, create a traffic
hazard at the intersection,
exacerbate an existing
traffic danger at the in­tersection,
create traffic
problems on Millport Road,
create offensive illumination
problems in a ru ra l
area...(and would create a
zone) not contigious with and
not part of other commercial
areas in the township, and
would not be in keeping with
the g en e ra l planned
development of the town­ship.”
Stobro’s Plan
Richard G. Stauffer of J.C.
Engineering/Surveying Inc.,
Lancaster, presented the
Stobro plan at the March 9
hea rin g , using a e r ia l
photographs, drawings and
charts.
According to Stauffer,
Stobro is “ proposing a
building, colonial in nature,
about 30-40,000 square feet. ”
The plan also calls for
g r e e n h o u s e s of a p ­proximately
15-20,000 square
feet, Stauffer said, plus
parking and four to five
acres of “ field stock, in-
It was standing room only in the Warwick
Township Municipal Building last week when
nearly 80 concerned citizens attended the March 9
e lu d in g d e c id u o u s ,
evergreen and flowering
tre e s.” The remaining
acreage will include buffer
zones, mounding, trees and
perennial flowers, Stauffer
said.
“Four-fifths of the land
will remain in some sort of
vegetation and one-fifth will
be the building and parking
area,” Stauffer told the
supervisors at Wednesday’s
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hearing of Stobro Company’s rezoning request
before the Warwick Township Board of Super­visors.
Plans Budget Work Session March 28
Warwick School Board
Sets Commencement
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The Warwick School
Board, meeting at Kissel Hill
School Tuesday evening set
June 9 as the date of Com­mencement
for the Class of
1983 and approved the
proposed school calendar for
the 1983-84 school year.
The board also hired
census takers for Elizabeth
Township and Lititz Borough
at rates of 20 cents per name
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Ambucs Show Opens Friday
The numbers Garry Hanna points to in the above picture have nothing to do
with the price of the Ambuc’s 24th annual show which will be presented Friday
and Saturday nights at 8 p.m. at Warwick High School. Tickets for “ Bells are
Ringing” will only cast $4 and the best seat in the house will be available on a
“ first come, first serve" basis.
Playing Sandor, the head of Titanic Records, which is actually a book-making
concern, Hanna has one of the hit numbers in the show when he describes to his
assistants how it all works in the song “ It's a Simple Little System."
“ Bells" is ready to go before the footlights and all this past week the 35 cast
members have been working hard polishing up the finishing touches, dance
routines and chorus numbers. (See story page 15.)
in the borough, 30 cents per
name in Elizabeth Township
and 15 cents per each ad­ditional
new resident.
Kathy A. Hoffer was
elected area one Lititz
Borough census taker and
Jennifer L. Myers was
elected area nine census
taker for Elizabeth Town­ship.
The board approved
participation in an Elec­tronic
Mail Service that will
involve the Intermediate
Unit 13 and the state
department of education. It
will put Warwick in elec­tronic
communication with
the Vo-Tech schools, other
Intermediate Unit par­ticipants
and the Depart­ment
of Education.
The district will receive a
grant of $1,400 from the IU to
purchase equipment.
Personnel
In personnel matters the
b o a rd a c c e p te d the
resignation of Margaret L.
McDonald, high school
English teacher. Mrs.
McDonald is currently on
unpaid leave of absence for
child care and resigned to
stay at home to care for her
child.
The board also accepted
the resignation of Cheryl
Rice, cafeteria monitor at
Lititz Elementary School.
M a ry b e th H la v a c ,
Swoyersville, Pa., was hired
as a physical education
teacher at the high school
through the end of the 1982-83
school year at a salary of
$67.02 per day. She will
replace Maxine Slagle who
resigned.
Dwight A. Hering, Lan­caster,
was hired on a letter
of employement as a music
teacher for the school
district through the end of
the 1982-83 school year at a
salary of $67.02 per day. He
will replace Mrs. Lantz who
has been granted a sab­batical
leave of absence.
Mary S p a u ld in g ,
Strasburg, was hired by the
board as a district-wide
substitute teacher in the art
department through the end
of the 1982-83 school year at a
salary of $67.02 per day to
replace Elspeth Moate who
is on a ' personal leave
without pay.
Student Activities
Committee
Bruce Holland, chairman
of the Student Activities
Committee reported to the
board that the committee
had considered a proposal by
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Richard Stauffer of J.C. Engineering/Surveying, Inc., points out the site
proposed by Stobro Co. for rezoning on an aerial map of the township during the
March 9 hearing.
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Roy W. Stauffer, president of Stobro Co., explains why the company wants to
relocate its retail store from its current Kissel Hill location to a new site at the
northwest corner of Route 501 and Millport Road.
'Source’ Program Offers Educational
Opportunities For Retired Persons
In This Issue
Editorial 4
Sports Section 6, 7, 8, 9
Social 10,11
Classified 12,13
Church 18
Business Directory 20
Persons of retirement age
will be able to learn a variety
of subjects from American
p o e try to modern
developments in medicine
: through courses offered by
the “ SOURCE - of Learning
and Growing” educational
programs on Tuesday
mornings from April 12
through May 3.
In fo rm a t io n and
registration forms are
available at Lititz Area
churches and Moravian
Manor. All the sessions will
be held at Moravian Manor.
The Registration deadline is
March 28 and Miss Anna
Eby, 31 W. Lemon Street,
Lititz, is the registrar.
There are four courses
offered in this series with
there four sessions in each
course.
Dr. Louis G. Jennings,
professor Emeritus of
English at MillersviUe State
College, will teàch the
“American Poetry” course.
The works of Em ily
Dickinson, Carl Sandburg,
Robert Frost and others
selected by the participants
will be discussed.
The course on “ Religion
And The Arts” will have four
presenters: April 12 - “ The
Oberammergau Passion
Play” by Dr. J . Kenneth
Kreider, professor of
European history a t
Elizabethtown College:; .
April 19 - “Music in the
Moravian Heritage” by
Bishop A.W. Schatt-schneider,
retired pastor of
Lititz Moravian Church;
April 26 - “ Symbolism in
Christian Art,” and May 3 -
“ Church Architecture” both
by P ro fe sso r Robert
Hustead of MillersviUe State
College.
Outstanding American
presidents will be the subject
of the history course taught
by Ruth Herr, academic
dean at Linden Hall School
for Girls.
“ Modern Developments in
Medicine” is the fourth
course offering and will have
the following lecturers:
April 12 - “ Computers and
Medicine” by Dr. Charles A.
Heisterkamp III; April 19 -
“ Computers and X-Ray” by
Dr. P, Noel Connaughton;
April 26 - “ Computers and
the Pacemaker” by Dr. John
Slovak; May 3 - “ Health
Risk Analysis” by Marci L.
Hollern, R.N.
Seven area churches and
Moravian Manor are the
sponsors of this third in a
s e r ie s of educational
programs for retired person.
The Steering Committee is
composed of Gaylord Poling
J r , chairman; Dorothy
Deitrich, secretary; Anna
Eby, registrar; and Kathryn
Bork, Martha Brubaker,
G la d y s R o s t e r , Guy
Snyder,., Levi Weaver,
Walter j . Willenborg Jr., H.
Marie Wiley, and Barbara
Kerr, with Chaplain Erwin
Boettcher as staff associate
from Moravian . Manor. The
committee members come
from the following churches:
Lititz Church of the
Brethren, Lititz Church of
God, Lititz Mennonite
Church, Salem Lutheran
Church of Kissel Hill, St.
Luke’s United Church of
Christ, St. Paul Lutheran
Church* and Trinity
Evangelical Congregational
Church.
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