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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 26 Pages-No. 3
Joe Fights Back
By Kathleen King
It’s been nearly a year
since Joe La venture says he
“felt a real sharp pain” in
his back.
That real sharp pain in the
back has been a real sharp
pain in a few other places for
Laventure, including his
pocketbook.
A workmen’s com­pensation
claim stemming
from the injury has not yet
been resolved. Two in­surance
companies continue
to debate who should pay the
$15,000 in medical bills
resulting from the injury.
An interim award by a
workmen’s compensation
referee of 67 percent of his
income enables him to
“break even” when added to
his wife’s income and that of
a struggling neighborhood
store he bought four years
ago.
Forced to accept the
charity of his neighbors and
church, Laventure finds the
situation frustrating and
humiliating.
“It got so that I couldn’t
even stay in my own home,
people were always calling
about the bills I owed,”
Laventure said.
“The hospitals aren’t at
fault for calling - they ought
to have their money - but I
want people to know that it’s
not my fault that the bills
aren’t paid.”
With time on his hands,
Laventure said he started
thinking about the system,
“and learning a little bit
more about workmen’s
compensation.
“I found out that the local
workmen’s compensation
office is understaffed and
overworked.”
What he learned has in­spired
him to get people
organized - people who
share what he feels are
legitimate problems with the
way workmen’s com­pensation
is handled.
“I started calling some
local represenatives,”
Laventure said. They told
him that “one person won’t
get nothing done.”
Laventure said he didn’t
know how to find more
people who have had
similiar problems, because
neither doctors nor the
Workmen’s Compensation
Bureau would reveal names.
Then one day he saw a public
interest story on television
and realized that to get
anywhere he “had to make
some noise.”
So he called a local
television station, and they
put him on the air.
Then he started getting
phone calls.
Laventure’s goal is to get a
large group of people
together with what he calls
“legit” cases for a town
meeting in May. He has
in v ite d th e s ta te
representatives to be there,
as well as persons from the
Workmen’s Compensation
Bureau.
He wants to present the
cases of these people to the
state and let them know
something ought to be done.
Laventure said the
complaints of workers seem
to be divided into several
major categories: the
amount of time it takes to get
a hearing once a claim is
filed; the amount of time it
takes to get paid once a
claim is ruled upon; the cut
in pay some workers en­counter
when they return to
work and are placed in a
different type of job due to
potential for future injury
(especially in back injury
cases); and the fact workers
have to pay a lawyer to fight
their case.
Laventure said some
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In Support of Ag Preserve
Joe Laventure, a borough employee whose
Workmen’s Compensation case is still not settled
after almost a year, is organizing a group of people
with complaints about the Workmen’s Com­pensation
system.
First From Warwick In Over 20 Years
By Bonnie Szymanski
The Warwick Township
Planning Commission is on
the verge of offering to the
Warwick Township Board of
Supervisors its updated and
possibly final version of the
new township zoning map.
Included on the map is a
1,229-acre section of land
located in the southeastern
part of the township.
Abutting Manheim Town­ship,
the section has been the
Kelly Koncle To Represent
Warwick At All-State Orchestra By Kathleen King
Kelly Koncle, a junior at
Warwick High School, only
started taking string bass
lessons at the end of her
eighth grade year.
She apparently caught on,
because this weekend Kelly
will be representing War­wick
at the All State Or­chestra
Festival.
This is an accomplishment
not only for her, but an honor
for her school as well,
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because, according to Ralph
Leaman, Warwick High
School orchestra director,
Kelly is the first person from
Warwick to attend a state
orchestra festival in the 20
years he has been at the
school.
In addition, Kelly is the
only student from Warwick
to advance to state levels in
either band, orchestra or
chorus this year.
Kelly, the daughter of
Edward arid Karen Koncle,
731 Webster Hill Road, is a
slender and intense young
lady. She said her in­troduction
to the string bass
“sort of started out with a
joke.”
Apparently several of her
classmates had been asked
to keep their eye out for
other students who might be
interested in taking up the
instrument, and one of them
jokingly remarked to her,
“how about you, Kelly.”
But Kelly didn’t look at it
as a joke, she said. She
actually looked at it as a
challenge and a needed
change from years of work
on the piano.
It wasn’t long before the
private lessons she was
taking paid off. By her
sophomore year she had
made county orchestra and
band and district orchestra,
and was playing with the
marching and jazz bands
(electric bass).
She also found time to
Kelly Koncle practices for this weekend's All
State Orchestra festival at which she will be
representing Warwick. Kelly is the first Warwick
student to attend a state orchestra festival in at
least 20 years, according to Ralph Leaman,
Warwick orchestra director.
In This Issue
Editorial 4
Sports Sectionl0.il,12,13
Social 18,19
Church 22
Business Directory 24
Business Update 25
continue her studies on the
piano for another year and to
sing in the glee club and
participate in the pit or­chestra
in several of the
school musicals.
This year, her junior year,
Kelly made county band and
orchestra, district orchestra
and regional orchestra, and
now, state orchestra.
Kelly also finds time to
perform with her younger
sister, Katie, who is in the
ninth grade, at church and at
local nursing homes.
Katie “plays the piano
better than I do,” Kelly
insists and also performs on
the flute and piccolo.
Although much of Kelly’s
life currently revolves
around music, her career
ambitions lie in a completely
different field - finance.
“I’d like to major in fiance
and get a job as a stock­broker,”
she explains.
Her interest in that field
came from a project during
an algebra class several
years ago which involved a
trip to a stockbroker’s office.
“I was fascinated by it,”
she said.
Kelly pursues everything
she does with an intensity
that sometimes belies her
age. She is carrying a 4.0
average for the year and is
seventh in her class
academically.
She also recently started a
part-time job at Moravian
Manor and works four days a
week from 4 to 7 p.m. and
some weekends.
“My parents are great
encouragers,” she said.
“ They constructively
criticize, but encourage us to
do our best.”
Her. parents don’t push
music.on her, she said, but
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subject of controversy for at
least a year.
Farmers on both sides of
the townships’ boundary are
again voicing their Opinions
on the subject of preser­vation.
’ One faction wants to
p r e s e rv e e x is tin g
agricultural tracts by opting
for agricultural zoning, thus
opening the door to an
agricultural preserve which
would allow voluntary ac­ceptance
of land use
restriction for a per-acre
payment. In Lancaster
County, that has been set at
$250 an acre, a one-time
payment offered to farmers
who want to preserve the
rig h ts of in d iv id u a l
agricultural landowners to
sell or not sell on an open
real estate market, a right
which would allow
developers to purchase land
which, under an agricultural
preserve, would not be
available to them.
Monday’s public hearing
at the Manheim Township
municipal building was
called by the board of
commissioners to hear
residents’ arguments for and
against the proposal to
rezone.
On the side of agricultural
preservation were the men
and women who, for the
most part, make farming
their main form of livlihood.
One ' spokesman for : the
group, Marty Wenrich, noted
that the farmers of the area,
composed in large part of
Amish, are concerned about
growing traffic around areas
of development as well as
about other problems
associated with farming
near developed areas.
Three farming families
opposed to the zoning that
might restrict their right to
sell land- for development
were represented by Charles
Grove, Lancaster attorney.
Grove, speaking for the
families of Dale Landis,
Martin Zimmerman and
Sam Keens, told com­missioners
they were not
opposed to agricultural
zoning, they only wished to
be allowed the choice of
maintaining residential
zoning on their farms, even
if the surrounding farms are
rezoned agricultural.
Continued Grove, “These
families have geared their
lives to the fact that the land
would rem a in R-l
(residential),” adding that
they wish to be able to leave
the land to their children
with restriction-free deeds.
Alan R. Musselman,
director of the Lancaster
C ounty A g r ic u ltu r a l
Preservation- Board,...ex­plained
to the gathering that
agricultural zoning must be
effected by the townships
before an agricultural
preserve can be established
by the county.
In th e ev en t th a t
agricultural land becomes
p a rt of the county’s
preserves, said Musselman,
farmers may then volun­tarily
contract to accept
deed restrictions for 25 years
or more to prevent
development of the land.
Karen Freeman, specialist
with the ag ric u ltu ra l
preserve board, said she has
spent the last year, since the
spring of 1984, attempting to
convince Warwick Township
that landowners in their
southeastern quadrant
support agricultural zoning
in their area. Their quadrant
is contiguous with the nor­th
e a s te r n q u a d r a n t
pre sen tly under con­sideration
for agricultural
zoning in Manheim Town­ship.
Miss Freeman cites a
petition she said was signed
by Warwick Township
landowners in 1984 and
presented to the Warwick
Township Planning Com­mission
at that time, stating
their support of the rezoning
measure.
In an article published in
the Aug. 2, 1984, issue of the
Record Express, a group of
landowners reportedly
approached the planning
commission with such a
petition. A copy of the
petition shows 14 signatures,
five of which belong to
Warwick Township
residents.
At the nine, planners were
reportedly favorable to the
idea of rezoning from rural
to agricultural for the
southeastern quadrant.
In a Jan. 31, 1985, article,
reporting on a planning
commission meeting,
reference was made to the
petition. Miss Freeman is
reported to have admitted at
the time that not all farmers
in the area were supportive
of the agricultural district.
Planners noted that they did
not wish to “force an
agricultural zone on them if
they don’t want it.”
During Monday’s public
hearing, Irel Buckwalter, a
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For Ladder Truck
Housing To Feature Parade, Ceremony i tt 4L m a 4 i. 4 a nn Over the next two /“\ _ rii - À.
weekends, the Lititz Fire
Company will be holding two
major events: The housing
of their new ladder truck,
and the annual chicken corn
soup festival.
The housing, to take place
on Sunday, April 28, is
scheduled to begin at 1 p.m.
with a parade. Scout troops
and other interested parties
are welcome to march along.
Line-up commences at
12:30 p.m. on Orange Street
just west of Broad. The
parade route is as follows:
north on Broad Street to
Front; east on Front Street
to Water; south on Water
Street to Main, and west on
Main back to the fire hall.
Guest fire companies at
the ceremonies will include
East Petersburg, Brun-n
e rv ille, B rick erv ille,
Manheim, Rothsville, West
Lancaster, Lincoln, and
’April Showers' Sale Continues
The a n n u a l L ititz
Retailer’s “April Showers of
Gift Certificates” promotion
continues this week in Lititz
area stores with over $900 in
gift certificates and prizes to
be awarded. The contest,
which ends Saturday, April
27, is open to all ages,
although children under 18
who register should be ac­companied
by an adult.
E a c h p a r tic ip a tin g
merchant is giving a prize or
series of prizes either in
merchandise or gift cer­tificate
form. Winners will
be selected at random by
each merchant from those
who enter the event in that
store.
No purchase is necessary
to enter but you must
. register your name, address
and telepone number at a
participating store to be
eligible for that store’s
prizes.
Winners in this annual
contest will be notified by the
individual store owners and
a complete list will appear in
next week’s issue of Lititz
Record Express.
Ephrata.
F o rm a l housing
ceremonies begin at 2 p.m.
with Paul F. Diehm
presiding as master of
ceremonies. Honored guest
speakers include State
Senator Gil Armstrong and
Representative Robert S.
Walker.
Refreshments will be
provided by the Lititz Fire
Co. Ladies Auxiliary.
Friday May 3 the annual
Lititz Fire Company chicken
corn soup festival begins.
R id e s, g am e s and
refreshments begin on
Friday at 6 p.m. and on
Saturday at 10 a.m. A closing
hour has not been scheduled
for either day.
On Saturday, fire truck
rides will be available for $1
per ride. Refreshments will
include Fink’s french fries,
Lititz Jaycees funnel cakes,
bavarian waffles, bar-b-q,
hamburgers, and, chicken
corn soup. Those intending
to purchase soup should
bring their own container.
Helium balloons will be
available to support Cystic
Fibrosis, as well.
The members of the
Housing and Festival
Committees, along with all
the members of the Lititz
Fire Company, welcome and
encourage the public to
attend both upcoming
ceremonies.
The new features:
• A 445 horsepower
automatic diesel engine.
• An aerial device that can
be operated from the pump
panel. (The pump operator
can give temporary control
to the person at the tip.)
• High pressured air
system on the tip of the
aerial so the firefighter can
be supported indefinitely.
(Air normally runs out after
10 to 15 minutes.)
• A 3000 watt diesel
generator and a 7200 watt
power invertor.
• Two 500 watt flood lights.
• Four portable 500 watt
telescoping flood lights.
• A four-inch discharge
outlet, which will supply
water to a large diameter
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