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THE RESS svin is i; the waruhk area eor more thas a cestvry -té - 107th Year ESTABLISHED APRIL 1877 AS THE SUNBEAM CONSOLIDATED WITH THE LITITZ RECORD 1937 Lititz, Lancaster County, PA. 17S43, Thursday, December ‘0 , 1083 25 CENT9AC0PY: $7.00 PER YEAR BY MAIL WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 24 Pages-No. 38 New Councilman A ssesses Role, Eyes Future, Airs Views ■ :\W y W m t Warwick Ambulance volunteers Richard Mellott and Carol Terry deliver Mary McLaughlin to her doctor’s appointment, while Dave Felpel closes the door. About 70 percent of ambulance calls are routine transports like this one. Warwick Ambulance Drivers Give Community Gift Of Time By Suzanne Keene Editors note: This article is the first in a two-part series about the Warwick ambulance. While most people give gifts at Christmas, a few people find ways of giving all year. The volunteers who drive the Warwick ambulance are such people and their gift to the community is their time. “You always keep in mind that someone out there needs you,” said Beth Runk, a housewife who has been volunteering her time to the ambulance for eight years. Mrs. Runk drives about two or three 12-hour shifts a week and is responsible for scheduling daytime drivers, a job she says is quite challenging because there are few daytime volunteers. About 40 people are volunteers, but most of them have other commitments during the day, Jay Weaver said. Weaver, operations chief for the ambulance, makes sure there are crews and interviews prospective drivers. Weaver sometimes gives up sleep to help fill the gaps in the day schedule. He works nights at Yellow Freight and sometimes doesn’t get sleep for two days. - “How can I say my sleep is more important than saving your husband?” he asked. Eight years ago, Weaver decided to volunteer his time because he was bored with his daily routine of eating, sleeping, working and watching television. Other drivers make similar sacrifices. Richard Mellott, a self-employed contractor, gives one day of his workweek to the ambulance. Mellott, who has two children, said he has had a difficult time balancing family time and volunteer time. “I don’t know if I’ll ever meet that balance,” he said. Mellott said he joined because a member of the American Businessmen’s Club, which sponsors the ambulance, requested that he work some days. Feeling he might need ambulance assistance himself someday, Mellott joined three years ago. “Daytime is really bad,” said driver Jeff Frymyer. “A lot of days we’re on all call.” “All call” means there is no scheduled crew and any driver who can responds to a call. Frymyer has been a volunteer for eight years, primarily because it’s something he enjoys. “I’ve always been interested in volunteering,” he said. All a person really needs to become a volunteer is a senior driver’s license, a good driving record - no serious violations in three In This Issue Editorial 4 Sports Section 6,7,8,9 Social 10,11 Classified 14,15 Church 22,23 Business Directory 24 years, and a few hours to give. There are just two more essentials - a caring personality and an understanding family. “You can’t be a good ambulance person if you don’t like people,” Weaver said. It is important that the family support the volunteer and understand when dinner isn’t served on time or when he struggles with emotions about a call, Mrs. Runk said. Volunteers are required to take a 40-hour advanced first aid course and a car-diopulminary resuscitation (CPR) course. They also learn to operate all equipment in the ambulance and practice driving it with an experienced driver. Newcomers are put on with a good training crew, Weaver said. “We try to be very careful who we put new ones with,” he said. “ The actual training comes when you’re on the scene,” Mellott said. No matter how many calls a driver as answered, his growth never stops, he said. “It doesn’t come overnight,” Frymyer said. “You learn something new every night.” Several of the drivers have taken Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) training, a step beyond what the ambulance requires. An EMT is “trained to handle every situation that pops up,” said Frymyer, an EMT. The additional training gave Kim Holsinger, who has completed the four-month EMT course, the selfconfidence she need to be a better driver, she said. Volunteers are responsible for driving the ambulance and caring for patients. They work 12-hour shifts in crews of two to four. When they hear the loud tone that signals a call, they jump into bright orange coveralls and dash for the ambulance. ■....... Some drivers spend their shifts in the cozy room above the ambulance garage on Water Street, while others, living within a three-mile radius, wait at home. (Turn to Page 16) By Kathleen King Councilman-elect David Bucher admits to being a little disappointed with the election. It’s not that he had any problems winning. After all, he was unopposed, Bucher explains. But the very fact that he had no opposition, no one to campaign against, and no issues to get up on a soapbox about, took away a bit of the joy of the victory. But only some of it. Bucher says he initially ran for three reasons. He was irate about the sewer plant, and what he felt was a huge “monstrosity” not needed in the first place. A second reason was someone appealed to his “sense of civic respon- Hbi’ cj le says. The night bef e Republican commit! e meeting he was in-it to consider the po« blity of running for council. "I had 24 hours to flee de Bucher says. The third reason Bucher ran, he says, was because he felt at that time that “borough council was not very representative” of the public’s desires. “I was running from a position of ignorance,” he says of his pre-election knowledge of council and the way it operates. He started attending council meetings regularly between the primary . - the November election and “gained a lot of respect” for the council members, he said. “Once I was a candidate, I realized how much the borough councilmen do, what a difficult, thankless job it is,” Bucher said. Bucher, a native of Lancaster, moved to Lititz in 1975 when he went to work for Grant Heilman who had a photography service. Bucher worked with the customer service end of the business, dealing with magazine editors and publishers. Prior to that Bucher spent several years in the Orient — first in Korea during a stint in the army, then two years in Japan teaching English to Japanese businessmen. That experience he hopes will aid him in his tenure on the council, bringing with him some knowledge of the O rie n ta l m e th o d of organization and worker-management relations, which he says he feels the Japanese, especially, are very adept at keeping well-oiled. Currently Bucher is freelancing in the advertising and marketing (Turn to Page 12) P Dave Bucher, newly elected borough councilman, believes the government of Lititz should be concerned about developments outside of Lititz because many of those situations will have impact on the community in the near future. an Township Police Report Rain-Related Accidents High water resulting from heavy rains caused two accidents in Warwick Township Monday. Warwick Township Police Chief Harry Aichele said Tina A. Rutter, 130 E. Lincoln Ave., drove into a large puddle of water in the 800 block of Newport Road and lost control of her car which rolled into a creek. John. -Testa;'' ■ T13 Rothsville ■ Station Rd., and Rodney Murray, 375 Lake St., Ephrata, rescued her, Aichele said. In another water-related accident a woman drove around a police barricade into a puddle on Cocalico Road where her car stalled, Aichele said. The water came about halfway up the car and trapped the woman and her two sons, Aichele said. Officer Tony Russel rescued them. Police said the woman prefers to remain anonymous. No charges have been filed. Hit and Run ■ ■'Police;^ 4iave? "prosecuted Alice M. Hess, 600 E. Main St., Lititz, in conjunction with a hit-and-run accident on November 22. Aichele said Mrs. Hess allegedly side-swiped a Denver- Ephrata telephone truck operated by Alan Robert Frisbee, 67 Akron Rd., Ephrata, on the Rothsville Road. She has been charged with driving on the wrong side of the road and failure to report an accident, he said. Thefts Charges are pending against a juvenile who allegedly stole a registration plate from Howard Snoke, 121 Skyview Lane, Aichele said. The suspect will be petitioned into juvenile court on charges of theft of a registration plate and driving with no inspection or registration, Aichele said. Shirley Burger, 847 Cindy (Turn to Page 16) Drug And Alcohol Free Youth Lend Their Aid To 'Just Say No’ Campaign (Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series on a group of high school students who are willing to use their influence to prevent younger students from trying drugs or alcohol.) By Kathleen King Last week at a Middle School Assembly, 12 high school students stood up in front of a packed auditorium and introduced themselves. Athletes, cheerleaders, class officers, school leaders, they all had one message to give the younger kids. “I’m proud to say, I’m LITITZ RETAILER’S PRESENT SOUNDS OF TH E SEASON THIS FRIDAY NIGHT IN DOWNTOW N LITITZ 6:30 P.M. to 8 P.M. ★ Featuring Warwick High School Band Members ★ Shoppers in Lititz this Friday evening are in for a special treat sponsored by the Lititz Retailers Association. Warwick High School Band Members will be playing your favorite Christmas songs and carols throughout the downtown shopping district. The merchants of Lititz are ready to fill every need on your Christmas list - the stores are beautifully decorated, the shelves are full, Santa is in his Castle. So pause a few moments as you shop this Friday evening and enjoy the “ Sounds of the Season.” drug and alcohol free.” It’s not a message that gets conveyed very often by high school students these days, with all the emphasis on use and abuse of drugs and alcohol by teenagers. But its a message that the Student Education Committee of the Warwick Drug and Alcohol Action Group wants to get across, according to Christy Wagner, who is co-chairman of the committee along with Jerry Shupp, Middle School principal. Mrs. Wagner said the committee felt that by having “these older kids that the younger ones look up to” convey the message that you don’t have to use drugs or alcohol to be popular or successful “would be more beneficial than anything else we can do.” She said the students were selected on the basis of being drug and alcohol free and also with the idea that they would be well known in the school and the community. Mrs. Wagner said the use of the Drug and Alcohol Free Youth, as they are being called until they come up with a name for themselves, is part of the Student Education Committee’s “Just Say No” campaign. The campaign is aimed at educating the young people in the Warwick School District, especially those of middle school age, on drug and alcohol abuse. And helping them learn how to say‘No’. Part of the “Just Say No” campaign is the distribution of buttons with the saying on it, Mrs. Wagner said. Rather than just hand the buttons out indiscriminately, or having the middle school principal hand them out, the committee decided to use the Drug and Alcohol Free Youth to do it. “Kids who would get a button from the principal would be considered “goodie-goodies’ or ‘the principal’s kids,’” she said. But now the high school group will be circulating among the middle school students during homeroom, giving them an opportunity to ask for a button. “I’m drug and alcohol free” is the key phrase which will get the middle schoolers their “Just Say No” button, Mrs. Wagner said. Mrs. Wagner said the high school group is being given training in three areas to help them be more effective in their efforts. Last Friday, before they went to the middle school to speak at the assembly, the students were given a briefing by Dr. Gary Scibal, a local doctor who is a committee member. “Dr. Scibal spoke to the kids and gave them some basic information on drugs and alcohol,” Mrs. Wagner said. “He gave them some resources to go to or refer kids to if someone would come up to one of them and say ‘I’m using such and such’ or ‘I’m thinking about using such and such” ’ she said. The second part of the training session will deal with public speaking, Mrs. Wagner said, and the third will be a preparation of an outline of the students’ credibility. After the holidays, the members of the Drug and Alcohol Free Youth will be visiting the fourth and fifth graders in the district, Mrs. (Turn to Page 14) ' ? /- . 'i w * Members of the Drug and Alcohol Free Youth who are spreading the word tha you don’t need drugs and alcohol to have fun are, left to right, kneeling: Cind; Hurst, Jo Beth Forney, Kristi Mellott, Kathy Lape, Kelly Longenecker; Standing middie row: Doug Williams, J.R. Zartman, Todd Hazlett, Dave Shaeffer; b ad row: Ron Wood, Lance Wagner and Phil Maxfield.
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Title | Lititz Record Express |
Masthead | Lititz Record Express 1983-12-15 |
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Subject | Lititz (Pa.) -- Newspapers;Lancaster County (Pa.)—Newspapers |
Location Covered | United States;Pennsylvania;Lancaster County (Pa.);Lititz (Pa.);Warwick (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) |
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Language | English |
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Full Text | THE RESS svin is i; the waruhk area eor more thas a cestvry -té - 107th Year ESTABLISHED APRIL 1877 AS THE SUNBEAM CONSOLIDATED WITH THE LITITZ RECORD 1937 Lititz, Lancaster County, PA. 17S43, Thursday, December ‘0 , 1083 25 CENT9AC0PY: $7.00 PER YEAR BY MAIL WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 24 Pages-No. 38 New Councilman A ssesses Role, Eyes Future, Airs Views ■ :\W y W m t Warwick Ambulance volunteers Richard Mellott and Carol Terry deliver Mary McLaughlin to her doctor’s appointment, while Dave Felpel closes the door. About 70 percent of ambulance calls are routine transports like this one. Warwick Ambulance Drivers Give Community Gift Of Time By Suzanne Keene Editors note: This article is the first in a two-part series about the Warwick ambulance. While most people give gifts at Christmas, a few people find ways of giving all year. The volunteers who drive the Warwick ambulance are such people and their gift to the community is their time. “You always keep in mind that someone out there needs you,” said Beth Runk, a housewife who has been volunteering her time to the ambulance for eight years. Mrs. Runk drives about two or three 12-hour shifts a week and is responsible for scheduling daytime drivers, a job she says is quite challenging because there are few daytime volunteers. About 40 people are volunteers, but most of them have other commitments during the day, Jay Weaver said. Weaver, operations chief for the ambulance, makes sure there are crews and interviews prospective drivers. Weaver sometimes gives up sleep to help fill the gaps in the day schedule. He works nights at Yellow Freight and sometimes doesn’t get sleep for two days. - “How can I say my sleep is more important than saving your husband?” he asked. Eight years ago, Weaver decided to volunteer his time because he was bored with his daily routine of eating, sleeping, working and watching television. Other drivers make similar sacrifices. Richard Mellott, a self-employed contractor, gives one day of his workweek to the ambulance. Mellott, who has two children, said he has had a difficult time balancing family time and volunteer time. “I don’t know if I’ll ever meet that balance,” he said. Mellott said he joined because a member of the American Businessmen’s Club, which sponsors the ambulance, requested that he work some days. Feeling he might need ambulance assistance himself someday, Mellott joined three years ago. “Daytime is really bad,” said driver Jeff Frymyer. “A lot of days we’re on all call.” “All call” means there is no scheduled crew and any driver who can responds to a call. Frymyer has been a volunteer for eight years, primarily because it’s something he enjoys. “I’ve always been interested in volunteering,” he said. All a person really needs to become a volunteer is a senior driver’s license, a good driving record - no serious violations in three In This Issue Editorial 4 Sports Section 6,7,8,9 Social 10,11 Classified 14,15 Church 22,23 Business Directory 24 years, and a few hours to give. There are just two more essentials - a caring personality and an understanding family. “You can’t be a good ambulance person if you don’t like people,” Weaver said. It is important that the family support the volunteer and understand when dinner isn’t served on time or when he struggles with emotions about a call, Mrs. Runk said. Volunteers are required to take a 40-hour advanced first aid course and a car-diopulminary resuscitation (CPR) course. They also learn to operate all equipment in the ambulance and practice driving it with an experienced driver. Newcomers are put on with a good training crew, Weaver said. “We try to be very careful who we put new ones with,” he said. “ The actual training comes when you’re on the scene,” Mellott said. No matter how many calls a driver as answered, his growth never stops, he said. “It doesn’t come overnight,” Frymyer said. “You learn something new every night.” Several of the drivers have taken Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) training, a step beyond what the ambulance requires. An EMT is “trained to handle every situation that pops up,” said Frymyer, an EMT. The additional training gave Kim Holsinger, who has completed the four-month EMT course, the selfconfidence she need to be a better driver, she said. Volunteers are responsible for driving the ambulance and caring for patients. They work 12-hour shifts in crews of two to four. When they hear the loud tone that signals a call, they jump into bright orange coveralls and dash for the ambulance. ■....... Some drivers spend their shifts in the cozy room above the ambulance garage on Water Street, while others, living within a three-mile radius, wait at home. (Turn to Page 16) By Kathleen King Councilman-elect David Bucher admits to being a little disappointed with the election. It’s not that he had any problems winning. After all, he was unopposed, Bucher explains. But the very fact that he had no opposition, no one to campaign against, and no issues to get up on a soapbox about, took away a bit of the joy of the victory. But only some of it. Bucher says he initially ran for three reasons. He was irate about the sewer plant, and what he felt was a huge “monstrosity” not needed in the first place. A second reason was someone appealed to his “sense of civic respon- Hbi’ cj le says. The night bef e Republican commit! e meeting he was in-it to consider the po« blity of running for council. "I had 24 hours to flee de Bucher says. The third reason Bucher ran, he says, was because he felt at that time that “borough council was not very representative” of the public’s desires. “I was running from a position of ignorance,” he says of his pre-election knowledge of council and the way it operates. He started attending council meetings regularly between the primary . - the November election and “gained a lot of respect” for the council members, he said. “Once I was a candidate, I realized how much the borough councilmen do, what a difficult, thankless job it is,” Bucher said. Bucher, a native of Lancaster, moved to Lititz in 1975 when he went to work for Grant Heilman who had a photography service. Bucher worked with the customer service end of the business, dealing with magazine editors and publishers. Prior to that Bucher spent several years in the Orient — first in Korea during a stint in the army, then two years in Japan teaching English to Japanese businessmen. That experience he hopes will aid him in his tenure on the council, bringing with him some knowledge of the O rie n ta l m e th o d of organization and worker-management relations, which he says he feels the Japanese, especially, are very adept at keeping well-oiled. Currently Bucher is freelancing in the advertising and marketing (Turn to Page 12) P Dave Bucher, newly elected borough councilman, believes the government of Lititz should be concerned about developments outside of Lititz because many of those situations will have impact on the community in the near future. an Township Police Report Rain-Related Accidents High water resulting from heavy rains caused two accidents in Warwick Township Monday. Warwick Township Police Chief Harry Aichele said Tina A. Rutter, 130 E. Lincoln Ave., drove into a large puddle of water in the 800 block of Newport Road and lost control of her car which rolled into a creek. John. -Testa;'' ■ T13 Rothsville ■ Station Rd., and Rodney Murray, 375 Lake St., Ephrata, rescued her, Aichele said. In another water-related accident a woman drove around a police barricade into a puddle on Cocalico Road where her car stalled, Aichele said. The water came about halfway up the car and trapped the woman and her two sons, Aichele said. Officer Tony Russel rescued them. Police said the woman prefers to remain anonymous. No charges have been filed. Hit and Run ■ ■'Police;^ 4iave? "prosecuted Alice M. Hess, 600 E. Main St., Lititz, in conjunction with a hit-and-run accident on November 22. Aichele said Mrs. Hess allegedly side-swiped a Denver- Ephrata telephone truck operated by Alan Robert Frisbee, 67 Akron Rd., Ephrata, on the Rothsville Road. She has been charged with driving on the wrong side of the road and failure to report an accident, he said. Thefts Charges are pending against a juvenile who allegedly stole a registration plate from Howard Snoke, 121 Skyview Lane, Aichele said. The suspect will be petitioned into juvenile court on charges of theft of a registration plate and driving with no inspection or registration, Aichele said. Shirley Burger, 847 Cindy (Turn to Page 16) Drug And Alcohol Free Youth Lend Their Aid To 'Just Say No’ Campaign (Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series on a group of high school students who are willing to use their influence to prevent younger students from trying drugs or alcohol.) By Kathleen King Last week at a Middle School Assembly, 12 high school students stood up in front of a packed auditorium and introduced themselves. Athletes, cheerleaders, class officers, school leaders, they all had one message to give the younger kids. “I’m proud to say, I’m LITITZ RETAILER’S PRESENT SOUNDS OF TH E SEASON THIS FRIDAY NIGHT IN DOWNTOW N LITITZ 6:30 P.M. to 8 P.M. ★ Featuring Warwick High School Band Members ★ Shoppers in Lititz this Friday evening are in for a special treat sponsored by the Lititz Retailers Association. Warwick High School Band Members will be playing your favorite Christmas songs and carols throughout the downtown shopping district. The merchants of Lititz are ready to fill every need on your Christmas list - the stores are beautifully decorated, the shelves are full, Santa is in his Castle. So pause a few moments as you shop this Friday evening and enjoy the “ Sounds of the Season.” drug and alcohol free.” It’s not a message that gets conveyed very often by high school students these days, with all the emphasis on use and abuse of drugs and alcohol by teenagers. But its a message that the Student Education Committee of the Warwick Drug and Alcohol Action Group wants to get across, according to Christy Wagner, who is co-chairman of the committee along with Jerry Shupp, Middle School principal. Mrs. Wagner said the committee felt that by having “these older kids that the younger ones look up to” convey the message that you don’t have to use drugs or alcohol to be popular or successful “would be more beneficial than anything else we can do.” She said the students were selected on the basis of being drug and alcohol free and also with the idea that they would be well known in the school and the community. Mrs. Wagner said the use of the Drug and Alcohol Free Youth, as they are being called until they come up with a name for themselves, is part of the Student Education Committee’s “Just Say No” campaign. The campaign is aimed at educating the young people in the Warwick School District, especially those of middle school age, on drug and alcohol abuse. And helping them learn how to say‘No’. Part of the “Just Say No” campaign is the distribution of buttons with the saying on it, Mrs. Wagner said. Rather than just hand the buttons out indiscriminately, or having the middle school principal hand them out, the committee decided to use the Drug and Alcohol Free Youth to do it. “Kids who would get a button from the principal would be considered “goodie-goodies’ or ‘the principal’s kids,’” she said. But now the high school group will be circulating among the middle school students during homeroom, giving them an opportunity to ask for a button. “I’m drug and alcohol free” is the key phrase which will get the middle schoolers their “Just Say No” button, Mrs. Wagner said. Mrs. Wagner said the high school group is being given training in three areas to help them be more effective in their efforts. Last Friday, before they went to the middle school to speak at the assembly, the students were given a briefing by Dr. Gary Scibal, a local doctor who is a committee member. “Dr. Scibal spoke to the kids and gave them some basic information on drugs and alcohol,” Mrs. Wagner said. “He gave them some resources to go to or refer kids to if someone would come up to one of them and say ‘I’m using such and such’ or ‘I’m thinking about using such and such” ’ she said. The second part of the training session will deal with public speaking, Mrs. Wagner said, and the third will be a preparation of an outline of the students’ credibility. After the holidays, the members of the Drug and Alcohol Free Youth will be visiting the fourth and fifth graders in the district, Mrs. (Turn to Page 14) ' ? /- . 'i w * Members of the Drug and Alcohol Free Youth who are spreading the word tha you don’t need drugs and alcohol to have fun are, left to right, kneeling: Cind; Hurst, Jo Beth Forney, Kristi Mellott, Kathy Lape, Kelly Longenecker; Standing middie row: Doug Williams, J.R. Zartman, Todd Hazlett, Dave Shaeffer; b ad row: Ron Wood, Lance Wagner and Phil Maxfield. |
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