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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 24 Pages-No. 38
New Councilman A ssesses
Role, Eyes Future, Airs Views
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.