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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 20 Pages-No. 20
Hearing Set For Wednesday, Aug. 17
Residents Oppose Proposed
Industrial Zone In Millway
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Borough officials decided that the small sugar
maple on the left would have to be cut down
because its root system was severely damaged by
curb removal.
Uproot Update: One More Tree To Go
One more tree will be
added to the list of those to
bite the dust on Broad Street
after removal of the curbing
along the 300 block of the
street severely damaged the
root system, David An­derson,
director of public
services said Tuesday.
A small sugar maple at 316
S. B ro ad St. was
"questionable” before the
Borough Wells Okay
Despite Drought
In spite of the continuing
drought, there is "no par­ticu
la r need for ex­traordinary
conservation
measures at this time,”
David Anderson, borough
director of public services
said this week.
"My own personal
feeling,” Anderson added,
is there’s always a need for
conservation. We’re not
saying don’t use water, but
don’t waste it. We have an
adequate suppiy.”
Anderson said if the
drought continues "there’s
still no problem unless it gets
much more severe than it
was several years ago.”
Lititz has six wells, An­derson
said, four at the
water plant near the Springs
Park and two at Locust and
New Streets. The ususal
procedure is to alternate
between using the four wells
at the springs and then to
switch to the two wells at
Locust Street, Anderson
said.
"Lititz is blessed with
having a large underground
reservoir in this limestone
pocket,” Anderson said.
"We’re not sure where all
the water comes from, but it
keeps coming.”
work was begun, Anderson
said, because it is not a
strong type of tree to begin
with and it was known that
several of its major bran­ches
would have to be
trimmed to meet state
standards.
Morgan Brothers Tree
Service of Heading, the
subcontractor for Windsor
Services, is now in the
process of removing the
stumps of the trees that were
cut down during the last two
weeks.
Anderson said that in other
areas of work UGI had
In This Issue
Editorial 4
Sports Section 6,7,8
Classified 10,11
Social 13
Church 16,17,19
Business Directory 18
advised him that they have
taken care of the majority of
gas line services and they
are currently lowering a gas
main at Orange and Broad
Streets. Denver and Ephrata
Telephone Company is also
lowering their trunk line at
that intersection, Anderson
said.
Work on the water laterals
in the first block of Broad
Street is finished and only
the hydrants have to be
connected, Anderson said.
Windsor Services has
started to tear out the old
curbing, beginning in the 300
block and will continue to
work block by block as ac­cess
is available around the
water line and gas line work,
Anderson said.
Anderson said the. work on
the storm drainage system
in the block between Center
and Lemon will probably
start in the next week or two.
By Jennifer Shertk
Millway residents are
expected to protest the
proposed rezoning of ap­proximately
16.67 acres
currently zoned rural to
industrial at a special
hearing before the Warwick
Township supervisors next
Wednesday evening.
The tract is located south
of Cocalico road and north of
Briar Hill Road in the village
of Millway, northeast of
Rothsville.
Petitioning the super­visors
for the zoning change
are Charles and Verna
Hevener, 34 Woods Drive,
who own a number of tracts
in the Millway area of the
township.
in iheir request to have the
tract rezoned from rural to
industrial, the petitioners
staled that “the majority of
the area to be rezoned
consists of land presently
and validly occupied by
industrial establishments,
pursuant to non-conforming
uses for the past 30 years. ’ ’
Currently operating as
non-conforming uses in the
rural zone are Jaden
Electric, a division of the
Farfield Company, a stove
manufacturing company
and a gas company.
Citizens opposing the
zoning change are concerned
that an industrial zone would
“open the door” to "un­pleasant”
industrial growth,
according to Frank Angelo,
spokesman for the group.
According to Angelo,
about 30 residents met in late
June on a lawn of a Millway
residence to discuss the
proposed rezoning and
"there was a consensus
feeling, pretty unanimous”
in their concern.
“In a nutshell, our main
concerns take two direc­tions,”
Angelo said this
week. "First, we want to
continue our rural lifestyle,
especially for the sake of the
ch ild ren ...an d second,
there’s no way of knowing
what the future would bring
(if the tract were rezoned to
industrial). It would open it
up to unknown
p o ssib ilities., .and the
unknown’ quantity concerns
everybody.”
The Warwick Township
supervisors were presented
the petition at their June 8
meeting by Dennis Pierce,
vice president of the Farfield
Co., who represented the
petitioners, Charles and
Verna Hevener.
The supervisors originally
scheduled the rezoning
hearing for their Aug. 10
meeting, then last month
postponed it until Aug. 17.
Angelo expects a crowd at
the township building next
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Zoners Deny Application
For Second Dwelling Unit
In a continuation of a
hearing from last month’s
meeting, the Lititz Zoning
Hearing Board Monday
night denied a petition by a
potential homeowner to
establish a second dwelling
Karen Koncle:
Wheels Turning,
Keeping Warwick’s
Home Fires Burning
Editor’s Note: This is the
second in a series on
business and professional
women in the Lititz area.
By Julia Marshall
If you’ve got some time
; and you like puzzles, try to
catch Karen Koncle, War­wick
Township Ad­ministrator/
Secretary -
Treasurer, in one of those
rare moments when she has
time to chat.
You’ll find her to be a
confusing hodgepodge of
ideas and values that seem
to contradict one another
yet, in her, combine to form
a pretty interesting—and
admirable—whole.
That this wife and mother
of two actually landed a job
in municipal management
is, in itself, surprising in
view of the fact that she
holds no degree in an age
when it’s considered de
rigueur. More surprising is
the fact that she handles the
task with ease, even finesse,
despite her lack of formal
business education and
despite her complete
dedication to her family.
In earlier decades, she
might have been snidely
referred to as a "tough
cookie.” Today she’s that
often emulated but seldom
successfully copied 1980’s
phenomenon, the woman
who can do it all without
missing a beat, not to
mention without missing a
report deadline or a season's
canning. She handles a
demanding career without
neglecting her husband and
daughters, without turning
in a second-rate job per­formance.
And without compromise.
"I don’t particularly care
if you like me a whole lot as
Warwick Township Administrator/Secretary-
Treasurer Karen Koncle: “ I’m extremely forthright
and vocal. I see this position as one that requires
such qualities.”
long as you respect my
moral code and what I’m
about personally,” she said,
explaining that perhaps her
fast-paced, no-nonense
approach to her work may
have left her lacking in
popularity among former co­workers.
“I’m extremely forthright
and vocal. I see this position
as one that requires such
qualities,” she said.
That’s pretty strong stuff
for a former state Honey
Princess, but Mrs. Koncle,
who has worked for the
township since October 1982,
feels that keeping quiet
wouldn’t get the job done. A
prime responsibility of her
position, she said, is
providing the Board of
Supervisors “the kind of
resources a governing body
needs to acquaint them with
the fullest, most complete
amount of knowledge to
enable them to make in­telligent
decisions. ”
Her job is made easier by
the attitude of Warwick’s
board members, she said. “I
have the pleasure of working
for a very well-educated and
very humanitarian board,
which is a very unusual
mix.”
Before taking her position
with the township, Mrs.
Koncle served from October
1979 to April 1982 as Lititz
B o ro u g h ’s B u sin e ss
Manager/Secretary-Treasur-er,
her first venture into
municipal management.
Her study of English,
psychology, and humanities
rather than business courses
during her attendance at
New Jersey’s Centenary
College for Women and at
Millersville University made
her an unlikely candidate for
the Lititz position. Mrs.
Koncle has her own theory of
why she was selected for the
slot.
“I understand I was one of
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This Saturday, Aug. 13
Rotarians To Host
Annual Craft Show
The Lititz Rotary Club
will host its Fifth annual
sidewalk craft show in
downtown Lititz this
Saturday, Aug. 13.
The show will begin at
9 a.m., with more than
350 c r a ftsm e n
representing more than
90 communities in six
states participating.
The exhibit this year
will include wood-carvers,
clockmakers,
quilters, potters, can-dlemakers
and more.
Among these are
Elmer Kehs and Peter
Hoover, of Pottstown,
wood-carvers who have
participated in the Lititz
show for the past four
years.
More numerous but
equally famous are a
group of quilt-makers
whose displays annually
attract much attention.
Basket-weaving, pot­tery
making and candle
making will also be
demonstrated as will
scissor cutting.
As in past years, the
Lititz Rotarians will
donate all profits from
the show to various area
civic groups.
The crafts show is
held annually by Lititz
R o ta ria n s as a
memorial to the late
Lawrence J. Ruggiano,
under whose presidency
th e show was
inaugurated.
Rain date for the show
is Saturday, August 27.
unit at 327 S. Broad St. in a
converted garage that was
used as a doctor’s office.
Kerry and Kathy Lodish,
19 E. Second Ave., had
requested the board to grant
them a variance to the
Zoning Ordinance, Section
122-19, which deals with
required lot area and width.
They said they wanted to buy
the property at 327 S. Broad
St. and convert the unused
doctor’s office into a
dwelling place for use by
Mrs. Lodish’s father.
The Lodishes had told the
Zoning Board last month
that all it would take would
be the installation of a
shower and some kitchen
cabmets to convert the
building into suitable living
quarters.
The Zoning Board post­poned
a decision last month
in order to get input from the
Planning Commission on the
ramifications of such action.
At Monday n ig h t’s
meeting the applicable
section of the minutes of the
Aug. 2 Planning Commission
meeting were entered as
evidence into the hearing on
the Lodish case.
In those minutes Garth
Becker, engineering con­sultant
to the borough,
concluded that because of
the way the original
variance was granted in 1980
to the current home owner,
Dr. Manuel Balikian, to
expand the existing garage
and convert it into a doctor’s
office, that that building can
be used for no other purpose.
A fte r c o n s id e ra b le
discussion, and a motion by
member Robert W. Fitts to
deny the variance which
received no second, a second
motion was made by John
Reidenbaugh to deny the
variance. Reidenbaugh said
the situation does not meet
the conditions for granting
variances as set forth in
Section 122.61.A (3) of the
Zoning Ordinance.
Section 122.61.A (3) allows
the hearing of a case for a
variance if the unique
physical characteristics and
topographical conditions
create an unnecessary
hardship to the owner, and
prevent the reasonable use
of the property.
The Zoning Hearing Board
said that because a variance
had already been granted to
this property, another one
could not now be granted,
and that there was no hard­ship
because the property
does have a reasonable use
as granted by a variance to
Dr. Balikian three years
ago.
In the other case before
the Zoning Hearing Board,
the board granted per­mission
to Dr. D. Beryl
Sherman to erect a sign at 1
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Police Investigate Accidents, Thefts, Burglaries
A 72-year-old Lititz man
was cited for a stop sign
violation following a three
vehicle collision at the in­tersection
of East Second
Avenue and Cherry Street
last Friday afternoon.
According to police, Jacob
B. Hershey, 419 Laurel Ave.,
was travelling south on
Cherry Street, failed to stop
for the stop sign and collided
with a car driven west on
Second Avenue by Nevin Lee
Groff, 323 S. Church St.,
Quarryville.
The Hershey vehicle then
continued south and struck a
U.S. Post Office Jeep which
was parked outside 302 E.
Second Ave., police said.
There were no injuries and
damage was moderate to all
three vehicles, police said.
Officer William Seace
investigated the accident.
Another three-car collision
occurred on Broad Street
near Front Street on July 29.
According to Officer
Douglas Shertzer, a "chain
reaction-type” collision
occurred when a pickup
truck driven by Michael J.
Kauffman, 146 S. Spruce St.,
heading north on Broad
Street, ran into the back of a
car driven by Carl W.
Kemble, 333 S. Front St.,
Harrisburg, also headed
north.
The Kemble .car then
struck the rear of a pickup
truck driven by Dale F.
Reinhart, who had stopped
for traffic backed-up from
Lincoln Avenue, Shertzer
said.
Kauffman was charged
with following too closely.
Damage to Kauffman’s
1974 Datsun pickup was
moderate and it had to be
towed from the scene,
Shertzer said.
Damage was light to the
other two vehicles.
A two-vehicle collision
occurred on July 27 at 7:20
p.in. at Route 501 and Middle
Lane.
According to police,
Caroline L. Hess, 51 E.
Lincoln Ave., pulled out
from a stop sign on Middle
Lane into the path of the
northbound vehicle of An­thony
L. Ruth, 2107 Main St.,
Rothsville.
Due to limited visibility,
no charges were filed,
Shertzer said.
There were no injuries.
Lititz police are in­vestigating
a hit-and-run
accident which occurred on
July 29 at 8:45 a.m. m the
400-block of Second Avenue.
According to police, an
u n id e n tifie d driver
sideswiped a parked car
belonging to Anthony J.
Gilliano, 61 Lamppost Lane,
Lancaster.
Damage to Giliiano’s 1981
Chevy Malibu was
moderate, Shertzer said.
Burglaries
Lititz police are in­vestigating
the theft of $200
in cash from an East New
Street home on July 28.
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A U.S. Post Office Jeep and two cars were in­volved
in a collision Friday afternoon at the in­tersection
of East Second Avenue and Cherry
Street. According to police, Jacob B. Hershey,
Lititz, was charged with a stop sign violation after
he failed to stop, struck a westbound vehicle on
Second Avenue and then the parked postal
vehicle. There were no injuries.