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The Warwick Ambulance has been serving the
Lititz community for 27 years. During those years
of style of ambulances has seen several
Photo by Barry L. Runk
modifications. Pictured here are the two current
ambulances, a 1979 Ford Box and a 1982 McCoy
Miller Box.
Growth, Change Characterize
Warwick Ambulance’s 27 Years
Ambulance volunteers help the victim of a 1980
moped accident along Doe Run Road. Pictured
here from left are: an unidentified nurse who
stopped to help, and ambulance volunteers Beth
Metzger, Joan Brubaker, Kevin Smith and Jeff
Frymyer.
By Suzanne Keene
(Editor’s Note: This ar­ticle
is the second in a two-part
series about the War­wick
Ambulance. )
The Warwick Ambulance
v o lu n te e r s an sw e r
emergency calls, transport
the elderly, stand by at high
school football games,
midget football games, BMX
races, and craft shows, and
participate in parades.
Ambulance volunteers have
been serving the Lititz area
for 27 years - years marked
by change and growth.
In 1956, the year the Lititz
Chapter of the American
Businessmen’s Club (ABC’s)
sponsored the first am­bulance,
the ambulance was
housed in the old Lititz
railroad station next to
Wilbur Chocolate Company
on North Broad Street. The
Ambulance Association
started with about 18
volunteers who ran five-day
shifts with two-man crews.
Bob Longenecker, a
paraplegic, telephoned
v o lu n te e r s when an
emergency call came in.
Mrs. Janet Buch took over
the dispatching job in 1961,
retiring in 1973 when
monitors eliminated the
need to telephone volun­teers.
The monitors allow
volunteers to respond more
quickly to a call because all
crew members are notified
simultaneously, ambulance
volunteer Beth Runk said.
Lititz police and state
police at Ephrata are con­tinuing
to investigate what
they regard as the suspicious
death of Lon David Bren-neman,
32, of 101S. Broad St.
Police said the Lancaster
General Hospital employee’s
body was found in the hall
outside his apartment
around 8:20 a.m. Saturday.
Another tenant in the
building, David Getz, was on
his way to work when he
discovered the body.
Deputy Coroner Dr.
William Grosh, Lititz,
pronounced the man dead at
the scene.
Police said Brenneman
had evidence of head in­juries,
apparently sustained
In 1956 the ambulance
answered about 12 to 15 calls
a month. Last year, the
Warwick Ambulance went
on 1,078 calls, averaging
about 90 calls per month.
The difference in this
figure, volunteer Beth
Metzger said, can be at­tributed
to the fact that in
1956 the ambulance an­swered
only calls where the
patient was on his deathbed.
Today ambulances are no
longer seen as deathwagons
but as lifesavers, volunteer
Jeff Frymyer said.
The ambulance itself has
also changed. Instead of the
box-type ambulance of
today, the original am­bulance
was a 1953 Cadillac
Miller-Meteor. In April of
1972 the Warwick Am­bulance
acquired the first
van-type ambulance in
Lancaster County. The
advantage of this type is the
extra workspace it provided,
said Harold Horn, one of the
o r ig in a l am b u la n c e
volunteers.
Several years later, in
1975, the Warwick Am­bulance
added a second unit
- a Dodge van that the ABC’s
approved after assessing the
community’s current and
future needs.
Warwick got it’s first box-type
ambulance in 1979. This
type of ambulance, volun­teer
Beth Runk said, offers
even more work area and
has additional storage
when his head struck a two-by-
four stud in a wall near
where the body was found.
The impact left a hole in a
wall.
Polic e reported no
evidence of robbery.
Born in Mount Pleasant,
Westmoreland County,
Brenneman was the son of
the Rev. Harold H. and Olive
Troyer Brenneman who
survive.
He is also survived by a
son, Chad Price Brenneman
of Lancaster; a sister, Lucy,
wife of Otis Conley, Crocket,
Ky.; a brother Keith A.
Brenneman, Hartville, Ohio;
and a maternal grand­mother,
Mrs. Lydia Troyer,
Thomas, Okal.
compartments on the outside
of the vehicle.
The new style of am­bulance
called for a larger
garage and in October of
1976 plans were first made to
acquire the old Borough
garage to house the am­bulance
and to provide
quarters for the volunteers.
The new building was finally
bought on August 15, 1978
and extensive renovations
were completed by March of
1980. The new quarters
consisted of sleeping, eating
and lounging areas for
volunteers on call.
The first ambulance
volunteers had no formal
training. Since about 1977
Warwick Ambulance has
required its drivers to be
c e r t i f ie d in C a r ­diopulmonary
Resuscitation
(CPR) and Advanced First
Aid (AFA).
A number of the volun­teers
are also certified
Em e rg e n c y M ed ica l
Technicians (EMT’s). The
idea of a state EMT course
originated in 1973. The
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22 E. Main St., anytime
during the holiday
weekend.
Police Investigate
Suspicious Death
Borough Council Adds Five
To Service Bonus List
Lititz Borough Council
Tuesday night approved a
motion to grant five borough
employees their base service
bonus at the time they would
have been qualified to
receive it under the former
service bonus policy.
The five employees had
not had their two years of
qualifying service as of Dec.
9, when the other borough
employees received their
service bonuses.
Under the motion, the
employees will receive two
percent of their base annual
income on the second Friday
of December in the year in
which th ey b ecom e
qualified. The amount will
then be “frozen” and in­corporated
into their salary
the following year in the
same manner as the other
employees’ service bonus.
Council President C.
Wendell Hower said the five
employees had been hired
with the understanding that
there was a service bonus
available to them and
council wanted to carry
through with promises made
to the employees when they
were hired.
Hower also told several
borough employees present
at the meeting that council
members had rejected a
suggestion by the employees
to pay the “frozen” service
bonus in a lump sum each
year in December.
“We are not in the banking
business,” Hower told the
employees. He suggested
that they open a Christmas
club at a bank and deposit
their service bonuses which
have been incorporated into
their paychecks.
At Tuesday’s meeting
several employees also
complained about the
processing time on their
health insurance claims.
Councilman Clyde Tshudy
said the problem seems to
have stemmed from the fact
that the borough council
changed agents, although
they kept the same type of
insurance. Tshudy told the
employees with problems
that he would meet with
them individually to try and
straighten out the delays.
Council also told the
employees that any com­plaints
about the system of
requiring purchasing orders
for anything bought by the
employees would have to
come from the supervisors
of the departments. One
employee had complained
that purchase orders, which
have to come through the
borough business manager,
delays them in carrying out
their work.
In another borough em­ployee
matter, former police
officer Leroy Emmerich
complained to council that
he has yet to be informed of
the actual amounts he has in
the police pension fund and
what pension he will be
receiving.
Council said Jhey were
looking into the possibility of
switching trustees of the
police pension fund in hopes
of getting better service, but
that such a change would not
help them know what the
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exact amount Emmerich
will be entitled to when he
starts receiving his pension.
Emmerich, a police officer
with the borough for 17
years, left the force in
February of 1982 and kept
his money in the police
pension fund, because he
was vested in the fund.
Council told Emmerich that
they had made an exception
for him to do so. Hower said
it was the right of council to
refuse him that privilege.
. Council also said that Act
99, the state law that controls
public employees’ pension
funds, was confusing in its
interpretation, and was not
clearly spelled out “in black
and white.”
Emmerich agreed adding
that “it’s black and white
only because it is in ink.”
After some discussion
council said it would have its
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Water Hearing Slated In Rothsville
The Warw ick
Township Supervisors
will conduct a public
water hearing on
Wednesday, Jan. 4 at
7:30 p.m. in the
Rothsville Fire Hall.
The hearing is open to
any resident of the
township, but discussion
will be primarily about
a public water supply
system for residents of
the Rothsville area,
supervisor Robert
Smith said this week.
The h e a r in g in
Rothsville is being held
because approximately
half of the property
owners responding to
the water survey sent
out by the supervisors
la s t S ep tem b e r
responded favorably to
a public water supply
system, Smith said.
L aw ren c e Zim­merman,
president of
Glace A sso c ia te s,
engineers for the
township municipal
authority, will explain
technical problems of
the system and answer
q u e s tio n s a t the
hearing, Smith said.
New cost figures for
the Rothsville area,
based on an updated
study by G la c e
Associates, will be
announced at the
hearing, Smith said.
All R o th sv ille
residents and citizens of
Warwick Township are
invited to attend the
hearing on Jan. 4 to
discuss water for the
Rothsville area and to
ask questions.
In Eyes Of Salem Lutheran’s New Pastor
Community Service Part Of His Role
By Kathleen King
M em b e rs of the
congregation at Salem
Lutheran Church may soon
see a familiar face fly by on
a Brunnerville Fire truck —
their new pastor.
The Rev. Irvin Straw Jr.,
installed as pastor at the
Kissel Hill church on Dec. 11,
is planning to join the
Brunnerville Fire Company
which is near his home. By
doing so he’ll carry on a
practice of community
service that he began while
he lived in Loganville, York
County, and served as pastor
of two churches there.
Straw said he joined the
volunteer fire company in
Loganville because he knew
they needed drivers and he
was often at home working
in his study in the mornings
and could respond to calls
then.
In addition he said he was
many times helping a
member of his own church
when he responded, either as
a fireman or as an am­bulance
attendant, for which
he was also qualified.
He hopes to be active in the
community, here, as well.
Straw, a graduate of
Gettysburg College and
Seminary, found the church
at Kissel Hill attractive for a
number of reasons, all of
which helped him make up
his mind about the op­portunity
to serve there.
Straw’s previous two
pastorates were each in
parishes where he served
two churches, and in one
instance served as pastor, in
a yoked ministry with a
United Church of Christ
congregation.
Because he has always
had more th an one
congregation to care for,
Straw said the opportunity to
serve one congregation, in
one church, was very at­tractive.
“I had served multiple
ministries for 17-and-a-half
years,” he said. “With one
church I can develop one
program.”
And, he adds with a smile,
“I ’ll finally, be able to attend
Sunday School.”
Another positive feature of
the Kissel Hill Church was
the opportunity to buy his
own home.
“I had always lived in a
parsonage,” Straw said,
“here I could buy a home. I
found that attractive at the
age of 42.”
Straw said the Kissel Hill
church reminds him of his
wife’s home church. “I like
the closeness of it. It’s small,
compact,” he said.
Straw said in a “small,
community church” like
Salem Lutheran, he can
carry out his particular type
of ministry which em­phasizes
a family at­mosphere.
“My church is a church
were Christian friends
meet,” Straw said.
He believes in calling
people by their first name,
he said, to emphasize this
sense of Christian friend­ship.
At the moment he’s still
working on learning the
names at his new church.
One unusual circumstance
about moving to the Lititz
area, Straw said, was
knowing that another pastor
from the Loganville area,
with whom he had been good
friends, had recently moved
here.
Straw said the Rev.
Jimmy Ross, the new pastor
at the Lititz Church of the
Brethren, had served in a
church in the Loganville
area at the same time he did,
and for about the same
number of years -12.
Not only that, Straw said,
but the churches in Lititz are
located about the same
distance apart as their
churches in Loganville were.
And in addition, they now
live about the same distance
apart as they lived in
Loganville.
“No one is going to want to
hear of Lititz in Loganville,”
Straw jokes, “after losing
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The Rev. Irvin Straw Jr., recently installed as
the new pastor of Salem Lutheran Church, Kissel
Hill, relaxes at home.