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Candlelight services are planned by many local churches.
Candlelight Services
Commemorate Birth of Christ
Several area churches will
hold their traditional
Christmas candlelight
services Sunday and Mon­day
evenings. Some of the
churches planning these
special services are:
Brunnerville United
Methodist, candlelight
service with Holy Com­munion,
7 p.m., Dec. 24.
Coleman M em o ria l
Chapel, near Brickerville,
candlelight service, 7:30
p.m., Dec. 23.
Jerusalem Evangelical
L u th e ra n C h u rch ,
Rothsville, Communion
service, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 24.
Jerusalem United Church
of Christ, Penryn, can­dlelight
service with Holy
Communion, 7:30 p.m. Dec.
24.
First Church of God,
candlelight service, 7 p.m.,
Dec. 24.
Lititz Baptist Church,
candlelight service, 7:30
p.m., Dec. 24.
Lititz Church of the
Brethren, candlelight ser­vice
with procession of gifts,
7:30p.m.,Dec.24.
Lititz United Methodist
Church, organ recital, 7
p.m., followed by candlelight
service, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 24.
Salem Lutheran Church,
Kissel Hill, family can­dlelight
and carol service,
7:30 p.m.; candlelight
Communion service, 11 p.m.,
both Dec. 24.
St. James Catholic
Church, children’s Mass, 6
p.m.; midnight Mass, both
Dec. 24.
St. John’s Lutheran
Church, Brickerville,
candlelight service, 11 p.m.
Dec. 24.
St. Luke’s United Church
of Christ, candlelight
Communion service, 7 p.m.,
Dec. 24.
St. Paul’s Evangelical
Congregational Church,
Rothsville, candlelight
service, 6 p.m., Dec. 23.
St. Paul Evangelical
Lutheran Church, Penryn,
Communion and candlelight
service, 7 p.m., Dec. 24.
St. Paul Lutheran Church,
family service, 6:30 p.m. and
candlelight service, 11 p.m.,
both Dec. 24.
Trinity Evange lic al
Congregational Church,
candlelight service entitled
“A Night of Rejoicing,” 7:30
p.m., Dec. 24.
Other community chur­ches
hold special services
but due to limited seating,
require tickets which are
distributed in advance of the
services.
G e m C h e m R e c e i v e s P e r m i t
A f t e r O n e - Y e a r R e v i e w
By Kathleen King
After more than a year of
waiting and delay, Gem
Chem C h em ical
Management Company has
received a permit to operate
a residual and hazardous
waste recycling center at its
facility on Kleine Lane.
Gem Chem had filed a
permit with the Department
of Environmental Resources
last November and received
notice last week that the
permit has finally been
issued.
The permit will authorize
the company to take certain
industrial wastes, such as
Banbury Sludge, which is a
byproduct of tire and tube
production, and other waste
oils, inks and oil sludges and
recycle them into a usable
fuel.
Some of the products that
will be used are listed as
hazardous because of their
‘ ‘ c h a r a c te r i s t ic of
ignitability.” However,
Robert Benvin, facilities
supervisor with DER, said
because Gem Chem is going
to take these materials and
recycle them, a permit for
the hazardous wastes was
not necessary. It was the
permit to process residual
wastes, some of the in­dustrial
by-products, that
caused the delay, Benvin
said.
A p p ro x im a te ly 50
residents of the neigh­borhood
had protested the
establishment of the facility
at a special meeting con­ducted
by borough council
last March. In response the
council sent a letter to DER
stating “there has been
strong community op­position
to this particular
facility being located within
the borough.”
At that time Benvin said
such a general reaction
without specific issues of
concern stated was usually
not sufficient reason to deny
a permit application.
During the months of
review some modifications
were made in the storage
and outdoor containment
facilities as well as the
loading and unloading
methods, Benvin said.
However, the recycling
process remains the same,
he said.
Part of the delay came
after a fire destroyed part of
the DER headquarters in
Harrisburg, including Gem
Chem’s entire file. Ad­ditional
delay came from the
review of a $10,000 bond
required to cover any en­vironmental
clean-up that
might result from a spill or
accident, Benvin said.
Although the permit has
finally been issued, the
company will not be starting
work immediately, ac­cording
to Larry Gemmell,
president of the corporation.
“It’s kind of anticlimatic,”
Gemmell said Monday.
“We’ve been told since last
February that it’s ‘just a
matter of a week,” ’ he said.
Because of the long delay
in the permit, Gemmell said
it was necessary to make
some changes in business
strategy.
“One of the adverse af­fects
of the process (of
review) is the drain on the
small business,” he said.
He said he hoped that
production would begin
within the first quarter of
1985, but that it would
probably be a phased in
gradually. To take up some
of the slack left while the
recycling business hung in
limbo, Gemmell said, the
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Beginning With Class Of 1989
School Board Revises
Graduation Requirements
The Warwick School
Board Tuesday approved
requirements for graduation
from high school, effective
for Warwick’s Class of 1989,
which will comply with the
state’s new Chapter 5
curriculum regulations as
well as " im p ro v e
scheduling” for the students.
Under the new graduation
requirements adopted by the
board Tuesday, students will
be required to pass an in­creased
number of credits to
graduate. The board boosted
min im um g ra d u a tio n
requirements to 22 units of
credit from the current 19.
(The state’s Chapter 5
regulations call for a
minimum of 21 units of
credit.)
Board member Ruth
Husser said the increased
number of credits required
for graduation should
present “no hardship” to
Warwick students.
“Fifty-six percent of the
Class of ’84 will graduate
with 22.5 or more credits,”
Mrs. Husser said.
Changes from past
graduation requirements
are as follows.
• Physical education will
become a semester, five-days
a week course, rather
than the current two times a
week for the entire school
year.
• Pennsylvania history,
currently taught four times a
week for the year, will be
taught to 10th graders five
times a week for a semester.
• An a d d itio n a l
mathematics credit will be
required in 11th grade.
• Health will become a
semester course, taught five
■ days a week. Currently, at
Warwick health is taught
three times a week for the
year.
• Vo-tech students will
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Record Office To Close
For Holidays
The Lititz Record
Express Office, 22 E.
Main St., will be closed
Monday afternoon, Dec.
24, and Tuesday, Dec.
25, in observance of the
Christmas holiday. The
Record office will also
be closed on Tuesday,
Jan. 1, in observance of
the New Year’s Day
holiday.
Due to the Christmas
and New '• Y e a r ’s
holidays, deadlines for
news and advertising
will be moved up for the
Dec. 27 and Jan. 3
issues.
Press releases for the
Dec. 27 issue should be
submitted to the news
department by Friday,
Dec. 21. For the Jan. 3
issue, press releases
should be submitted by
10 a.m. on Dec. 31.
The deadline for
display advertising for
the Dec. 27 issue will be
noon on Dec. 24; for the
Jan. 3 issue it will be
noon on Dec. 31.
C la s s ifie d a d ­vertisements
will be
accepted until 10 a.m.
on Dec. 24 for the Dec.
27 issue and until 10 a.m.
on Dec. 31 for the Jan. 3
issue.
Six Juveniles, Three Adults Involved
Area Police Join Forces For Round-Up
Calling it the largest
“round-up of juveniles and
adults” in the borough’s
recent history, Lititz police
this week charged nine area
teenagers with various
counts of burglary, theft,
criminal conspiracy and
criminal mischief stemming
from a rash of incidents
which occurred in the
borough and surrounding
areas over the past several
months.
Det. Charles Shenen-berger
of the Lititz Borough
Police Department said the
arrests resulted from a joint
investigation by the
borough, Warwick Township
and Manheim Township
police of incidents ranging
from a rash of thefts from
cars last August to van­dalism
at the bandshell in
Lititz Springs Park last
month.
An 18-year-old Lititz male
was released on $10,000 bail
after being charged before
District Justice James
G a rre tt Monday with
c rim in al conspiracy,
burglary and theft.
Two other 18-year-olds,
one from Lititz, the other
from Warwick Township,
will be charged with
receiving stolen property,
Shenenberger said.
All nine of the teenagers
involved in the police
“ round-up” are male,
Shenenberger said. No
names were released at this
time.
According to Shenen­berger,
as a result of the
investigation, six juveniles
are being charged as
follows:
-A 16-year-old Lititz
youth, burglary, theft,
criminal conspiracy,
receiving stolen property
and criminal mischief.
-A 16-year-old Warwick
Township youth, criminal
conspiracy, theft and
receiving stolen property.
-A 16-year-old Lititz
youth, burglary, criminal
conspiracy, criminal
mischief and receiving
stolen property.
-A 17-year-old Warwick
Township youth, burglary,
theft, and receiving stolen
property.
In This Issue
Editorial 4
Sports Section 6,7,8,9
Social 10,11
Church 22
Business Directory 24
-A 17-year-old Lititz
youth, criminal conspiracy
and burglary.
-A 17-year-old Lititz
youth, burglary, receiving
stolen property, criminal
mischief and drug sales.
Following their arrests,
the juveniles will be
petitioned to juvenile court,
Shenenberger said.
Some of the stolen
property has been recovered
as a result of the in­vestigation,
police said, but
several thousand dollars
worth may still be missing.
Shenenberger said he
doesn’t anticipate any ad­ditional
arrests resulting
from this investigation.
“We’ve gone about as far
as we’re going to go,” he
said. “It’s pretty well going
to solve this rash.”
Luminaries: A Christmas Tradition In Hilltop Manor
By Kathleen King
“...yet in the dark streets shineth, the
everlasting light..."
If you happen to drive up
over the hill past th e ‘Zion
Home on 501 north of Lititz
Christmas Eve or Christmas
night and wonder what the
glow is coming from the area
just east of you - rest
assured. It is indeed a fire,
but it’s a fire of 1,400 candles
securely nestled in sand and
paper sacks, lining the
streets of the Hilltop Manor
development.
They’re luminaries and
this will be the eighth year
that the residents of the
development, more com­monly
known as the May
development, will illuminate
their streets with candles.
In some count r ies
luminaries are believed to
light the way for the Christ
Child as he comes to your
home. It’s much in the same
spirit that the residents of
this development light their
own streets.
Many people drive through
the development with only
their parking lights on.
Others walk through it.
To the residents and to
many who have seen it in
ye a r s past , i t ’s a
breathtaking sight.
' It’s become a tradition and
a project that involves
everyone in the develop­ment,
in one way or another.
The idea for using
luminaries came from Neil
Shelley, 903 Perry Road.
Shelley’s neighbor used
them one year to line his
sidewalks, and it so im­pressed
Shelley that the
following year he ap­proached
his neighbors on
Perry Road to see if they’d
be interested in doing it as a
project.
The first year they did 15
houses, Shelley said. They
used about 210 candles. The
second year neighbors on
Farm Lane wanted to join in
and the project jumped to 35
houses.
Each year the scope of it
grew and now this year there
will be 140 houses, and 1,400
candles, each spaced 18 feet
apart, Shelley said.
Now that the project has
grown so large, committees
have been formed
representing each street in
the development. That has
taken a lot of pressure off
Shelley, who did most of the
work himself the first couple
years.
As he has from the very
start, Shelley sits down each
year to figure out the cost of
the project per household.
Then the commitees collect
door to door, usually about
three or four' dollars per
household. The developer,
Kreider May, contributes,
too. One area resident, Gary
Goodhart, who is in business
with his father in Leola,
donates the sand for the
luminaries each year. And to
make 1,400 luminaries, it
takes a “big pickup truck,”
full of sand Shelley said.
One or two people will pick
up the candles and bags,
similar to white baker’s
bags, at a supplier, and then
the items will be delivered to
the committee persons. Then
usually the week or two
before Christmas the
neighbors get together and
make up the luminaries for
their streets, Shelley said.
The afternoon of Christ­mas
eve will find a group of
neighbors setting up the
candles in their designated
spots. To make the work
easier, Shelley has spray-painted
small marks along
the streets to indicate the
placement of the luminaries.
Candles are lit just after
dark, about 6 p.m. and burn
until midnight or so. The
next night new candles will
be put in find lit again, he
said.
Of course all this depends
on having fair weather at
Christmas, Shelley said.
“One year was completely
wiped out,” Shelley said. It
was a windy night and many
of the bags caught fire or the
candles were blown out, he
said.
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Luminaries will provide a gentle glow in the Hilltop Manor development
Christmas Eve and Christmas Night.