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Council Okays Change
In Payment Of Hook-Up Fees
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The Rohrer family has been welcoming an ad­ditional
member, Jermaine Dennison of Lancaster,
for one week over the past five summers. Melvin
and Sue Rohrer stand by the playground, while
(top) Jermaine, Peter, Christina, and Jennifer
stand above.
Shared Holiday Program Rewards
Lititz Families And City Kids
Lititz Borough Council
Tuesday night agreed to
allow developers to pay
water and sewer tap-on fees
when a building permit is
picked up, rather than in
advance as is currently the
practice.
The decision came after
approximately 30 minutes of
discussion with developer
Mylin Messick, who has been
building in the Libramont
area for a number of years.
Messick told council that
having over $20,000 tied up in
permits was a financial
burden when he could be
using the money to construct
a street or do other im­provements
in the area.
Council also agreed to
release approximately
$20,000 from Messick’s
escrow fund to reimburse
him for the advanced fees he
had paid for homes not yet
constructed in the area.
Developers will still be
required to pay borough
costs generated from con­struction
of water or sewer
lines in the development
within 30 days of being
billed. If he does not keep
those bills current the
developer will then be
required to pay future
tapping fees in advance,
council said. ------—
In another matter, council
denied a request by Lititz
Police Detective Charles
Shenenberger to move
outside the residency
boundary for police officers.
Council President C.
Wendell Hower said the
“negotiated police contract”
states police officers must
live within 2.5 miles of the
borough limits although
council may extend that
radius to five miles if it
desired. Shenenberger’s new
residence would be six miles
from the borough line,
Hower said.
Council members and
Harold Kauffman, a former
council member and a real
estate agent involved in the
sale of the property to
Shenenberger, discussed the
difference between road
mileage and miles “as the
crow flies.”
Hower said the contract
does not specify the type of
miles.
C o u n c ilm a n D o n a ld
Stauffer responded, “The
problem is, if we need
Shenny (Shenenberger),
he’s not going to be able to
hop on a crow to get here.”
Hower told council that if
it okayed the request, the
council would be in violation
of the police contract,
“Barring any action by
council, it will stand as it is,”
Hower said.
No motions were made to
grant the approval and the
request by denied by lack of
In This Issue
Editorial 4
Sports Section 5,6,7
Social 8,9
Church 14
Business Directory 16
Classified 18,19
By Karen Belber
Two L ititz fam ilie s
recently shared a “holiday”
week with two Lancaster
city children, in conjunction
with the Lancaster County
Council of Churches’ Shared
Holiday program. The
p ro g ram , g e a red for
children between the ages of
six and 12, is in its 18th year,
according to director Linda
Deal.
“It’s the community’s way
of caring for its own, by
se rv ic in g low-income
children referred to the
council by several Lancaster
social service agencies,
including the Department of
Public Welfare, Community
Action Program (CAP), and
the Children and Youth
Agency,” she said.
The two children who were
hosted in Lititz happen to be
brother and sister, and both
have been visiting the same
families for as long as
they’ve been in the program.
The families make a request
for their child each year.
Jermaine Garrison, 10, has
been hosted by the Melvin
Rohrer family of 635 Kissel
Hill Road, for the last five
years, and sister, Ayishia, 8,
has been one of the James
Towers family, of 2010 Old
Rothsville Road for the last
three years. Both children
live at 604 S. Queen St.,
Lancaster.
The first year, for both
families, presented an
awkward adjustment period.
But that, Mrs. Rohrer ex­plained,
didn’t last too long.
“The kids all get along very
well.” Her children, she
added, “Really hadn’t had
much exposure to minority
groups.” The adjustments,
she indicated, were minor
ones. Mrs. Towers agreed.
Melvin and Sue Rohrer
have been involved in the
Shared Holiday program for
five years. Rohrer belongs to
his church council at St.
Luke’s United "Church of '
Christ and that’s where he
first got wind of the
program. The rewards, they
agreed, are immeasurable.
Their three children,
Christina, 10, Jennifer, 9,
and Peter, 7, and Jermaine
“all get along beautifully,”
That, Mrs. Rohrer said,
makes the relationship so
special. She went on to say
that because Jermaine is in
a second floor apartment,
giving him an opportunity to
be in the country for a week,
and “learning to ride a bike”
is a real joy for them.
“On orientation day it was
a joy to see all of the kids
having such a good time,”
she said, emphasising the
“such” . She went on to say
that because “some (of the
children) might be deprived
or have some problems,” the
program gives both parent
and child an opportunity to
take a break.
A morning in the Lititz
Springs Park proved just
how beautifully all of the
children get along. They
were bouncing and bounding
from jungle gym to merry go
round, with Rohrer, at the
request of the children,
tagging along.
The Rohrers had rented a
sprinkler so the children
could keep cool since their
pool was not in service for
Jermaine’s visit. They also
took Jermaine to Bible
School and they went to
•'Oregon - Dairy“' where, as
Jermaine put it, they saw
“moo moos.”
But the highlight of the
week was the camping trip
planned for the weekend.
Jermaine “couldn’t wait to
go swimming on the trip.”
Other activities included a
trip to the Sturgis Pretzel
House, where Jermaine got
horse and buggy pretzels to
take home. He got one for
Ayishia, too.
“Me and Peter stay up late
at night and tell jokes,” he
said in confidence, while he
and Peter giggled.
Connie and Jim Towers
and their children have
thoroughly enjoyed hosting
Ayishia for the past three
y e a rs . Seven-year-old
Marcia And Ayishia spend a
good deal of timé reading
together,” Mrs. Towers said.
One of Ayishia’s favorite
books is “Whisker Forgets
Again.” Four-year-old
Michael and seven-month-old
David also take an active
part in the weekly visit,
although the baby is limited
to enthusiastic squeals, the
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Warwick Township Man Charged
With Statutory Rape
Record Express Office
To Be Closed On Wednesday
The Record Express
Office will be closed
Wednesday in ob­servance
of the Fourth
of July holiday.
News for the July 5
issue should be sub­mitted
to the Record
Office no later than 12
noon on Monday, July 2.
Press releases may be
dropped in the mail slot
at the Record Express
building, 22 E. Main St.,
an y tim e over the
weekend.
, The deadline for
display advertising for
the July 5 issue is
Monday a t 3 p.m.
Classified ads will be
received until 5 p.m.
Monday.
A Warwick Township man
is out on $15,000 bail
following arraignment on
charges of statutory rape,
involuntary deviate sexual
intercourse, indecent assault
and corruption of minors
stemming from incidents
involving an 11-year-old girl,
according to Warwick
Township police.
Terrance Patrick Gard­ner,
45, of 315 Meadow
Valley Road, was arraigned
before Justice Nancy Hamill
on June 25 on charges
relating to an alleged in­cident
on June 15 and other
incidents which police said
occurred at “diverse times”
over the last two years.
A date for the preliminary
hearing has not yet been
confirmed, township police
said Tuesday.
In another criminal
matter, police charged
Grant L. Houshower, 111D
Miller Road, Akron, with
public drunkenness on June
22.
Stolen Vehicle
A vehicle, found aban­doned
along Warwick Road
on June 23 after it was in­volved
in a one-car accident,
was later reported as stolen,
Warwick Township police
said.
Police said the vehicle had
apparently struck a tree
near the Lititz Run Creek
after it swerved off the road
and went through a fence.
The car was reported
stolen from Dorm Frisbie of
Dorm’s Auto Cleaning,
Route 272 and Zook Road,
Brownstown. The 1975 Dodge
Colt suffered moderate to
severe damage in the ac­cident
and had to be towed
from the scene, police
reported.
The West Earl Township
police are investigating the
theft, according the War­wick
Township police.
Accidents
A 17-year-old Ephrata
youth struck a tree along
Heck Road Monday morning
after he braked to avoid a
dog in the road, police said.
John W. Bryson III, 371 Vista
Drive, Ephrata, failed to
negotiate a curve after he
braked, and struck a tree,
causing major damage to his
vehicle, police reported. He
was driving a car owned by
Michelle K. Heckel, East
Petersburg.
Bryson said he had pain in
his right leg, but declined
treatment. He was cited for
failure to drive at a safe
speed. The car had to be
towed from the scene.
In another accident in the
township, a driver crossed
the center line of Route 501,
north of Lititz, and struck an
oncoming car in the
southbound lane. The ac-
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action on the council’s part.
In other matters council:
• Granted Borough Public
Works Director David An­derson
permission to spend
up to $400 as budgeted, on
safety equipment for the
wastewater treatment plant,
including life jackets, reach
poles and life rings.
• Dropped Marion Street
from the resurfacing project
for this year and substituted
the block of North Lane
between Water and Locust
streets.
• Agreed to install two
street lights at the comers of
Chickadee and Partridge
Drives in the Fair Meadows
development.
Ordered the works crew to
paint a yellow line on the
north side of Front Street, 15
feet from the, comer of Oak
Street to within 15 feet of the
first house west of the cor­ner,
at the request of Yerger
Brothers.
• Noted th a t Craig
Wagaman’s term on the
Recreation Commission had
expired and that Wagaman
did not wish to be reap­pointed,
thus leaving a
vacancy on the board.
• Approved the Helen
Kline subdivision of property
located at 25 and 27 North
Locust St., with the condition
that separate sewer lines
and a fire wall between the
properties are installed.
• Agreed to pay Joseph
Laventure, a borough em­ployee
currently off work
with a back injury, $135 for
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July 4th Schedule
Fireworks, candles, band and choral concerts, a
talent show, country and western music and the
pageant of candles will be featured in the 142nd annual
Fourth of July celebration in Lititz Springs Park on
Wednesday. Raindate will be Saturday, July 9. Ad­mission
will be $3 for adults and $.50 for children under
12.
The Pageant of Candles will begin at 9:15 with 12
Lititz women vying for the title: Beth Eidemiller,
Paige Hilton, Terri Keasey, Susan Lusk, Lisa Mar-colina,
Karen Maurer, Tracey Miller, Sheila Moody,
Leslie Parker, Tracy Randall, Karen Samelko and
Anne Yeager.
Flower girl will be Elizabeth Hamsher and crown-bearer,
Jason Brown. Mike Hackman will be master of
ceremonies.
Schedule of the days events is:
1:30-2 p.m.-American Field Service Talent Show.
2:30-5 p.m.-Dick Robins’ ‘ ‘Second Sun Country’ ’
(country-westem-band).
5:30-7 p.m.-Lititz Community Band.
7:30-8:30 p.m.-Coatesville Choraliers.
9:15-10 p.m.-Queen of Candles Pageant.
10:30-11 p.m.-Fireworks Display.
Independence Day Holiday Sparks Bright Recollections
By Kathleen King
To some people, Lititz and
J u ly F o u r th a r e
synonymous. Some come
here year after year to see
the glittering candles light
up the park, listen to the
music of bands, and watch
the explosions of color in the
sky.O
thers grew up in Lititz,
when the Fourth of July was
THE holiday, the highlight of
the year, an outstanding
annual high-point of their
childhood.
The memories may be a
bit faded around the edges,
but many of the details are
as sharp and clear as a new
photograph, and the sounds
and smells and textures of
those long gone In ­dependence
Days still linger
in many people’s memories.
“The Fourth of July
celebration was always quite
the large time for Lititz,”
Mrs. Barbara Keith, 86, a
resident of Moravian Manor,
recalls.
“You always went to the
park,” she said. As a child,
Mrs. Keith lived at 337 E.
Main St. with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Levi Rudy, and
five brothers and four
sisters.
“They had a train into
Lititz, and the trolley (from
Lancaster) which stopped at
the Park View,” she said.
An important part of July
Fourth was of course, the
band concerts, Mrs. Keith
said. She remembers
listening to Paul Beck’s
Band and especially recalls
the delicious confections she
would buy at Enck's Stand,
in the park, located where
the refreshment stand now
is.
and re fre s h in g ,” she
remembers.
Mrs. Keith said that her
family didn’t go to the park
as a group, but rather the
children usually went with a
group of their individual
friends.
“My father slaughtered
cattle, and that work had to
be done first,” she said.
Mrs. Keith also remem­bers
the baseball games on
July 4, which were an im-
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“They had ice cream,
drinks, candies of all shapes
and Kinds,” she said.
But if you wanted a drink
and didn’t want to pay the
price, there was always the
clear, fresh, cold Lititz
Springs water you could
savor by using the tin cup
which hung on a chain by
where the spring bubbled up
into the park.
“It was delightfull... cold Mrs. Barbara Keith
portant event of the day. Her
brother, Harry Rudy, was a
pitcher on the town team for
a while, and she used to go
see him at the baseball
diamond, near the water­works
which then had a
grandstand.
And of course there were
the fireworks.
After she grew up, she and
her husband, Chester Keith,
who was from Brownstown,
always took their children to
the park on the Fourth of
July, the life-long resident of
Lititz said.
That is, until the children
were old enough to go on
their own, with their friends,
just like their mother before
them.
C. Chester Long, who has
lived in Lititz 94 years, since
he was four, recalls the
Fourth of July when he was a
young man, and participated
in the parades, which were a
regular feature of July
Fourth celebrations he said,
around the era of World War
I.
“I always helped prepare
a float for Long and Com­pany,”
Long remembers.
Long and Company was the
forerunner of Long and
Bomberger, a company
which he helped found.
Lone recalls that the
parade was in the morning,
around 10 a.m., he thought.
“Dr. Harry Bender was the
grand marshall. He rode a
beautiful horse,” Long said.
The streets and houses
would be decorated with
flags and bunting and the
whole atmosphere of the
town was festive and ex­citing,
he said.^
Company was the order of
the day for the Long family,
he said. A lot of the out of
town guests would arrive on
the trolley the night before
and have to spend a day or
two with his family, he said.
And of course the kids had
to put firecrackers on the
trolley tracks to hear the
exciting cracks, bangs and
sizzles that made July
Fourth so special.
Long said in his youth
there were always two
baseball games on July 4,
one in the morning and one
in the afternoon. A visiting
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The candlelighting ceremony in Lititz Springs Park on the Fourth of July has
always been a crowd pleaser, just as it was in this photo taken in 1934. (Photo
courtesy of Harry Eshleman, whose grandfather Harry Gorton, was on the park
committee in charge of the candlelight ceremony and fireworks.)