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WÊSÈMÊÊÊm M \ The Warwick School
District, and all other
" T 1 Pennsylvania schools, could
j k face some serious delays in
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hiring new employees, if a
new state bill that will be
For Child Abuse History
B o n fie ld Q u e s tio n s Hiring C h e c k s
Mary Jane Crocker of Canada, gives Abe Thomas, 67, of 215 E. Lincoln Ave., a
hand with his taxes. Thomas has been using VITA for four or five years.
T a x P r o g r am B ig S u c c e s s H e r e
VITA: Giving A Break
To Elderly, Others
By Karen Belber
What happens when an
elderly woman suddenly is
widowed, when her 1984 tax
return forms have not been
filled out, and she’s con­cerned
about living alone in
the family-sized house? Or
when an elderly couple
decides to sell their house­making
a significant profit
from that transaction-and
fails to report the income on
their tax return form?
According to Lloyd
Brookmyer, a coordinator
for the Lancaster County
Volunteer Insurance Tax
Assistance (VITA) program,
the former will panic, and
the elderly couple will-at the
very least-have to pay a
penalty tax. Some people
might say, “So what?” and
continue to make the same
errors. Some people,
though, might be horrified
by the situation and will seek
assistance immediately,
oftentimes having to pay a
high price for th eir
ignorance of tax laws for the
elderly, Brookmyer said.
VITA, a nationwide tax
assistance program under
the direction of non-profit
organizations and in
cooperation with the In­ternal
Revenue Service,
offers free income tax
assistance to people who
can’t afford professional tax
help. The service is
designed for low income,
elderly, handicapped, non-
English speaking, and
unemployed people. Locally,
VITA is sponsored by the
Lutheran Social Services,
East Region, according to
Jan Bailey, administrator
for the Retired , Senior
Volunteer Program (RSVP).
In Lancaster County there
are 32 VITA volunteers,
many of whom are elderly
and referred by RSVP, and
who are former college
professors, economics
graduates and accountants,
Brookmyer said.
Although you don’t have to
be older to be eligible to
volunteer for VITA,
Brookmyer explained that in
the Lititz area there do seem
to be more older, retired
people involved in the
program, which operates out
of the Lititz Senior Center,
201 E. Market St., from Jan.
28 through April 15.
The p ro g ram was
established nationwide 16
years ago, according to
Bailey. Lutheran Social
Services has administered
tax assistance services to
the County for the past seven
years, she said.
Volunteers, although not
required to be professional
tax preparers, must have a
basic tax background and be
enthusiastic about the
program, Bailey mentioned.
The IRS each year sponsors
a training session for in­terested
volunteers, she
added.
Brookmyer, who has been
with the VITA program for
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Pellet Fired At Police Station,
Officer Escapes Injury
effective July 1 is not
modified, Dr. John Bonfield
told the Warwick School
Board at its regular monthly
meeting Tuesday night.
Bonfield said Senate Bill
1505 requires that school
districts must check the
background of all potential
new employees to see if they
have any prior convictions
for child abuse. Bonfield
said the school district will
be required to check with
both the state police and the
Department of Public
Welfare before an employee
can be hired.
Bonfield said that although
he “agrees with the intent”
of the bill, it will be a “very
burdensome bill to im­plement.”
He said it was not clear if
the bill would apply to
employees of contracted
services, such as bus
drivers.
In addition, each check
with the state police would
cost the district $10.
Calling it a “very hastily
drafted bill,” Bonfield said
there were a lot of problems
with the bill, and that he
would be writing a letter to
the legislators expressing
his concerns.
School Board president
William Owens wanted to
know if such a law would be
“leaving the door wide open
for discrimination suits,” if
the school district would
refuse to hire someone who
had a prior conviction but
had u n d e rg o n e
rehabilitation or “taken his
punishment.”
Bonfield said the law was
not clear on that issue.
Bonfield also said if the
school district would hire
someone without checking
on his or her background, the
superintendent could be
liable for a $2,500 fine.
The law would not be
retroactive, he told the
school board members.
On another m a tte r,
Bonfield told the school
board that Federal Mogul is
planning to break ground
within the next 30 days on its
new plant on Lincoln Avenue
and hopes to have the
building “under roof” by
December.
“They are proceeding with
all haste,” he said.
Bonfield said he will be
meeting with the vocational
technical school staff to
develop a program for job
training and retraining in
cooperation with Federal
Mogul.
Other Business
In other matters Tuesday,
the school board:
•Approved the Intermediate
Unit 13 proposed budget for
1985-86, which calls for a
contribution from Warwick
of $14,100, which is ap­proximately
a 7.5 percent
increase over last year.
•Turned over $6,945 in
delinquent per capita taxes
and $28,900 in delinquent
occupation taxes to a
collection agency. The
uncollected taxes represent
approximately 10 percent of
the total per capita and
occupation taxes levied,
according to David Zerbe,
business manager for the
school district. Zerbe said
the district was turning the
delinquent taxes over to a
collection agency earlier this
year to add some “ in­centive”
for the delinquent
taxpayers to pay their
overdue taxes.
•Hired an architect at a fee
of $1,500 to do a study to see
where an elevator can be
installed in the high school to
make the second floor ac­cessible
to wheelchair-bound
students
•Noted that two separate
study review groups will be
examining the elementary
math program and the in­dustrial
arts program to
determine if updated
programs are needed.
Bonfield said the industrial
arts study group will be
taking nine to ten months to
review how the school
district can “ integrate
technology, as well as math
and sciences, into the in­dustrial
arts curriculum.”
•Accepted the retirement of
Arlene Fenstermacher, as a
cafeteria employee at the
Lititz Elementary School,
effective March 1, and
thanked her for her “loyal
and dedicated service to the
students attending the
Warwick School District. ’ ’
•Elected the following
instructional employees:
Marsha Campbell, 207 E.
New St., as a substitute
teacher at the Lititz
Elementary School, ef­fective
through the end of the
1984-85 school year; Nina
Brown, 127 N. Shippen St.,
Lancaster, as a special
education teacher in the
middle school resource
room; and Margaret Lynch,
412 Harvestview North,
Mount Joy, as a part-time
English teacher at the high
school, effective Feb. 20
through the end of the
current school year.
•Elected Cheryl Garner,
640 W. Brubaker Valley
Road, as the 1985-86 varsity
cheerleading advisor, ef­fective
July 1, at a salary of
$1,024.
•Granted unpaid leaves of
absence to Dixie Heacock, a
home economics teacher at
the high school, for child
care for the 1985-86 school
year; and to Georgette
Young, an elementary
teacher at Kissel Hill, for
personal reasons, effective
April 29 through May 3,1985.
•Accepted the retirements
of George Remetz, principal
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Three Long-Time School Employees
Announce Retirement Plans
A borough police officer
escaped injury, but the glass
window to the door of the
Lititz Borough Police
Department, 7 S. Broad St.,
was broken when someone
apparently fired a pellet at
the building early Friday
morning.
According to Assistant
Police Chief James Fritz,
Officer Douglas Shertzer
was in the vestibule between
the outer and inner doors
when the pellet broke the
window about 1:40 a.m.
Friday.
According to police, the
vandal apparently used a
pellet gun or .22-caliber rifle.
The pellet came through the
window of the outer door
about head high, causing
$200 damage but injuring no
one, police said.
The incident is under in­vestigation
by the Penn­sylvania
State Police,
Lancaster Barracks.
In a separate incident,
Lititz police reported that
vandals used either a BB gun
or pellet gun to shoot out the
driver’s side window of a car
belonging to Elizabeth
Clark, 505 W. Marion St.,
sometime between 1:30 and
6:15 p.m. Sunday.
Damage to Clark’s 1980
Chevy Chevette was
estimated at $100, police
said.
Police said vandals also
shattered the glass at the
phone booth next to the
police station at 7 S. Broad
St. sometime between Feb.
10 and 11.
The glass was shattered by
a stone or pellet, causing
approximately $50 damage
to the telephone booth, which
is owned by Denver and
Ephrata Telephone and
Telegraph Company, 131 E.
Main St., Ephrata, police
said.
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Two principals, Carl B.
Kaufman and George
Remetz, and the superin­tendent
of the science
department at the high
school, Stanley C. Schoen-berger,
recently announced
their plans for retirement.
Among them they have
worked in the Warwick
School District for 89 years.
Remetz has been a prin­cipal
in the Warwick
elementary schools for the
past 21 years, first at John
Beck, then, most recently at
Lititz Elementary. Before
that he taught at the
elementary level for many
years.
Remetz graduated from
Swoyerville High School in
Luzerne County in 1941.
Following his service in
the U.S. Navy, he earned his
b a ch e lo r’s degree in
secondary education from
Bloomsburg College, and, in
1949, got an elementary
teaching job in Belaire, Md.
Remetz remembers with a
chuckle how he came to
teach in Lititz.
One weekend he and his
wife Bernadine were
traveling from Maryland to
Wilkes-Barre by way of
Route 501.
“As we drove through
Lititz, we passed Wilbur
Suchard, and my wife said,
‘Gosh, this town smells good.
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George Remetz
You should get a job here,” ’
he recalls.
After writing to the school
district here, Remetz
received an invitation from
G. Marlin Spaid, who was
then supervising principal,
to come to Lititz for an in­terview.
That was in 1954 and he got
the job.
He taught fourth grade at
the Lititz Elementary School
for a couple of years, then
switched to teaching sixth
grade.
Remetz earned his
m a s t e r ’s d e g re e in
elementary administration
from Temple University and
Carl B. Kaufman
became principal at John
Beck Elementary School in
1964.
He served as John Beck’s
principal for over a decade
and a half before returning
to Lititz Elementary, this
time as its principal.
Over the years, Remetz
said, he’s noticed some
change, but kids remain
kids.
“The children here are
fine-some are more verbal
than they used to be,” he
said, adding that the com­munity
now seems to be
more involved in the schools
and education than it used to
be.
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Stanley C. Schoenberger
The biggest change, ac­cording
to Remetz, is the use
of computers in education.
“Our kids are really
growing rapidly in that
area,” he said.
He added that “Warwick
has a fine faculty. The
teachers put a fine effort into
their work.”
Remetz said he has seen
“second generations of kids
come through.”
“It’s good to have them,”
he added. “I have a warm
feeling for those children
whose parents I knew as
children.”
Remetz said he ap-
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Warwick To Host Annual Festival Of Choruses
Connecticut Company
To Acquire 25 Percent Of
Woodstream Common Stock
Directors of Woodstream
Corporation, a manufac­turer
of hunting, fishing,
animal and pest control
equipment, Monday ap­proved
the sale of $1,900,000
of its 10 percent convertible
subordinated debentures
held by The Prospect Group,
Inc., a diversified venture
capital company based in
New York City, to The
Forschner Group, Inc.,
Shelton, Connecticut.
Woodstream placed the
debentures, convertible into
180,952 shares of Wood-stream
Common stock, with
Prospect in June, 1984.
Prospect also acquired
102,203 shares of Wood-stream
common stock from
individual stockholders in
privately negotiated tran­sactions
during 1984.
These shares are also to be
purchased by Forshner, the
exclusive U.S. distributor
and marketer of original
Swiss Army Knives and
p ro f e s s io n a l c u tle ry
manufactured by Victorinox
of Switzerland, the largest
cutlery manufacturer of
Europe.
Forschner has announced
its intent to convert the
Woodstream debentures
after the purchase from
Prospect is completed. With
the conversion of the
Woodstream debentures and
the purchase of the Wood-s
tr e am s h a r e s from
Prospect, Forschner will
hold 25 percent of Wood-stream
common stock.
The c h o ra l m u sic
department of Warwick
High School will host three
school choral groups in
concert on Friday, Feb. 22,
at 7:30 p.m. in the Warwick
High School auditorium.
Admission is free.
The three groups are the
Cedar Crest chorus, directed
by James Garrett; the
Manheim Township choir,
directed by Dean Sauder,
and the Hempfield Singers,
directed by Richard Kline.
Each of the choral groups
will perform individually, as
will the Warwick glee club
and show choir, which are
directed by June Lantz.
For the finale, all the
singers will combine to sing
“ Every Valley” and
“America the Beautiful.”
A reception will follow the
concert. Following the
reception, the Warwick
choral students will host a
dance for the students.
The Cedar Crest Chorus
currently consists o f' 87
students who select chorus
as an elective subject. The
chorus rehearses daily and
p r e s e n ts fo u r con-certs/
programs at the school
each year and several
concerts in the community.
There are no auditions
required for admission.
Each student is taught to
sing to the best of their
ability. Directed by , James
H. Garrett Jr., since 1966,
the chorus will be per­forming
several selections,
one of which is “The
Comebacks of Bonnie- Polly-
Suzanna- and Clementine”
by James Leisy.
A p p ro x im a te ly 100
students perform in the
Hempfield Singers, directed
by Richard L. Kline.
Through the year they
present a spring musical,
perform at church concerts,
and perform for civic
organizations. They will be
singing “ G lo ria ” by
Orgento, “Hew Excellent is
They Name” by Butler, and
“Alexander’s Ragtime
Band” by Berling.
Manheim Township Choir
consists of 80 members and
the show choir has 30
members. Both are directed
by M. Dean Sauder. Of their
80 members, 11 participated
in county chorus, five in
district chorus and three in
regional chorus. Among the
selections they will sing
“Glory To God In the
Highest,” by Pergolesi with
the show choir performing
“Old Mother Hubbard” by
Hely-Hutchinson.
The 87 member Warwick
Glee Club and 26 member
show choir will be hosting
the eighth Annual Festival of performing in addition to the A few of their selections and “Climb Every Moun
Choruses. Warwick will be other choirs. are “The Gloria” by Mozart tain” from Sound of Music.
The Warwick Show Choir will be one of the
groups performing Friday night at the eighth
annual Festival of Choruses, hosted by Warwick.
The event will be held in the high school
auditorium and features chorus groups from three
other schools.