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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 30 Pages-No. 6
United Zion Home
Marking 80th Year
By Kathleen King
Sunday will be a special
day at the United Zion
Home, north of Lititz.
As a conclusion to a week
of activities marking May as
“Older Americans Month,”
the home has planned an
open house from 1 to 4 p.m.
And in a very quiet way,
the home will mark its 80th
anniversary.
All this week the residents
have been participating in
special a c tiv itie s to
celebrate “Older Americans
Month,” according to
director Carl Ginder.
On Monday staff and
friends brought in a variety
of animals to visit the 90-
some residents. On Wed­nesday,
Lititz Mayor
Raymond Reedy was on
hand to speak and par-ticipate
in a helium balloon
launch.
Today (Thursday) the
residents will join in a
special dinner and spend the
afternoon “ at school.”
A spelling bee, a lesson in
Pennsylvania Dutch, and a
trivia-type contest are
planned.
Sunday’s open house will
be low-key, Ginder said, with
residents acting as hosts and
hostesses and providing
tours of the facility.
Ginder said the United
Zion Home is certified for 46
nursing care beds and 51
personal care beds.
“Personal care is provided
for those people who need
some supervision or
assistance, but generally are
able to do most things
themselves,” he explained.
Ginder said United Zion
thinks of itself as “a small
home having two small
programs (nursing and
personal care. )”
“ We em p h a siz e a ,
Christian atmosphere and
environment here,” he said.
Ginder said a long-range
planning committee has met
several times to “look at the
local needs and services”
and where United Zion fits in
with them.
“There are five church
related homes here in Lititz
and two more not far from
us,” Ginder said. “We don’t
want to duplicate services,
but it seems that people do
want to come to this area.”
Ginder said an extensive
interior renovation program
was done 10 years ago, but
“ that doesn’t last forever.”
“The face of care for the
aging is changing...even
from 10 years ago,” the
administrator stated.
What that means is United
Zion must re-evaluate its
program and make changes
if necessary, Ginder ex­plained.
He said that right now the
“big push” is for personal
care boarding homes, as
well as for the continuing
care facility where residents
are taken care off as their
health and independence
declines.
“There is a change in the
attitude toward nursing
homes,” Ginder said. “They
are no longer looked at as a
place you go to die...it’s a
place you go to live.”
Because most of the
residents at United Zion are
from the local area and from
a rural or small town
community, the homes
emphasizes the activities
and attitudes that reflect
that background, Ginder
said.
“They’re interested in
gardening, in constructive
things,” Ginder said of the
residents. “They want to be
busy.’’
He said because of the
c o n s e rv a tiv e ch u rch
background of many of the
residents, a lot of the home’s
activities center arnimd
Bible study, hymn singing,
and visitations from church
groups.
However, he emphasized
that there are residents
representing 20 different
churches and that the home
does not screen residents by
church background..
The history of the home is
rooted in the United Zion
Church, Ginder explained.
Ginder said the United
Zion Church, once known as
United Zion’s Children, has
its roots in the Brethren in
Christ Church (once known
as the River Brethren).
“Essentially the split (in
the mid-1850’s) was over the
issue of meeting in homes or
churches,” Ginder said.
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Sheri Lynn Beans
Borough’s
Mayoral Race
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Queen of Candles Candidates
Chosen for July 4 Celebration
In This Issue
Editorial 4
Sports Sectionl0,ll,12,13
Social 20,21
Church 26
Business Directory 28
Business Update 29
Candidates for the 1985
Queen of Candles have been
chosen, continuing a
tradition that has been the
highlight of the July 4th
celebration in Lititz Springs
Park since 1942, the year the
pageant was added to the list
of holiday festivities in the
park.
Chosen for the honor of
vying for the queen’s crown
are: Sheri Lynn Beans,
JoBeth Forney, Carolyn'
Hess, Cynthia Hurst, Beth
Ann Keener, Cynthia Lee
Kurtz, Kathy Lynn Lape,
Kelly Longenecker, Kristy
Ann Mellott, Beth Ann
Palkovic, Pamela Jean
Richwine and Lisa Ann
White.
Sheri is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Beans,
21 Pine wood Ave. She has
been a member of the field
hockey team for four years,
on the basketball team for
two years and track for two
years. A member of the
varsity club and glee club for
for two years, Sheri also was
in the homecoming court and
the Halloween Queen court.
JoBeth is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Arne Forney,
11 Skyview Lane. She has
been active in cheerleading,
field hockey, track, varsity
club, and was secretary of
the junior class. She was a
member of the homecoming
court. Her hobbies are
skiing, swimming and
working with children.
Traveling With Meals on W h e e ls
by Bonnie Szymanski
Every weekday morning
about five or six women
gather in the kitchen of the
Lititz Church of the
Brethren, 300 W. Orange St.,
to begin cooking meals for 40
to 50 people who subscribe to
the Lititz Area Meals on
Wheels program.
Around 11 o’clock, a bevy
of drivers, all volunteers for
the program, begin arriving.
On a recent Thursday
morning, as the drivers
waited for the hot meals to
be dished onto throw-away
plates and cold lunches to be
bagged into brown or white
lunch bags, according to the
diet request, they talked
among themselves.
Doris Axmacher told of the
time she and her co­deliverer
were driving along
Cocalico Road and were
stopped by a line of cows
crossing the roadway, going
from their barn to the field.
As the farmer watched from
his tractor,out of apparent
curiosity, two of the cows
broke ranks and turned
toward the Meals on Wheels
car. Not to be outdown in
information gathering, the
rest of the cows followed,
said Doris, and as the two
volunteers continued on
toward their destination,
they could see the cows
running away from the
frantic farmer.
Unabashed about their
part in the foray, Doris and
her traveling companion
laughed, remembering this
one of many humorous
Meals on Wheels tales.
Hazel Kassees, another
volunteer driver, said she
sometimes tak es dog
biscuits along for special
dogs who, with their owners,
wait patiently for their
Meals on Wheels deliveries.
Soon the drivers are
carting the heavy insulated
carriers and boxes brim­ming
with bag lunches to
their cars.
When the cars are loaded,
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the volunteers pull out of the
church driveway and begin
making their way along well-planned
routes. The day’s
deliveries have begun.
Every subscriber to the
program pays $12.50 per
week. For this fee, the Meals
on Wheels subscriber
receives a hot mid-day meal
and a bagged cold lunch for
the dinner hour.
Some recipients get
special diets, which are
made with minimal sugar
and salt, for an average total
of 1600 calories for the two
meals. Because preparation
of the meals must be done
quickly and in large quan­tity,
individual diets cannot
be included in the program.
The Lititz area Meals on
Wheels is an offshoot of the
Lancaster program and has
been in operation since Sept.
9, 1973, according to Polly
Eshelman, vice president of
the 20-member board of
directors for the Lititz
organization.
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Five-year veterans of Meals on Wheels, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Graybifl, are pic­tured
as they unload their car in front of the Lititz Church of the Brethren after
completing their Thursday delivery route for Meals on Wheels.
Lititz Meals on Wheels
purchased its meals from
Lancaster for delivery here.
When the Lititz Church of the
Brethren donated the use of
its kitchen facilities, com­pletely
gratis, Lititz area
volunteers took over the
e n tir e job of m e a l
preparation and delivery.
Volunteers also take care
of keeping the records,
making the purchases of
food and other items.
Because volunteers staff
the program from pur­chasing
to preparation to
delivery, there is no need for
government money, ex­plained
Polly recently. She
added that subscribers foot
the total food bill for their
meals.
Coordinated through the
county Office of Aging, the
program is financially in­dependent
in Lancaster
County, unlike some areas,
where the Office of Aging
sometimes is required to pay
for delivery personnel.
Meet the Graybills
On Thursday, May 3, Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Graybill, 202
W. Newport Road, loaded
their car with double meals
for 16 Meals on Wheels
subscribers. It is their fifth
year as volunteer drivers for
the program, and they have
always worked together. On
this day, accompanied by a
Record Express reporter,
they drove quickly (nobody
likes a cold meal) but
carefully to their first stop.
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JoBeth plans to major in
elementary education at
Indiana University of
Pennsylvania in September.
Carolyn is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. Craig Hess,
606 W. Third Ave. Her ac­tivities
include cheering,
softball and varsity club.
She is a member of the
Woodridge swim team.
Carolyn’s hobbies include
swTmming, going to the
shore and babysitting. She
plans a future in radiology
and will attend St. Joseph’s
Hospital School.
Cynthia is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hurst,
1008 Rabbit Hill Road.
Cindy’s activities include
field hockey, basketball and
track. She was vice
president of the sophomore
class, president of the junior
class, vice president of the
senior class, a member of
the National Honor Society
and vice president of the
varsity club. A member of
the FORCE group, she was
student of the month for
March, homecoming queen,
and is active in her church
youth group. She plans to
a tte n d B lo om sb u rg
University to major in
elementary education.
Beth is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Keener, 806
Webster Hill Road. Her
activities have been field
hockey and softball. She has
served as a varsity club
secretary and is a member
of the National Honor
Society, FBLA. Beth plans
to attend Central Penn
Business Schookin the fall.
Cynthia is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert H.
Kurtz, 117 Church Road.
Cindy has been active in
girls track for four years,
field hockey for four years,
varsity club, and FLBA. Her
future plans include business
school.
Kathy is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Geibe,
132 Front St. Her activities
have included cheerleading
for five years, softball for
four years and membership
in the FBLA and varsity club
for two years. She is
cheering co-captain and is
an all-star cherleader. She
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The mayoral contest
between Donald Stauffer,
businessman and member of
Lititz Borough Council, and
Roy . C la ir, L ititz
businessman, should provide
the impetus for a large
number of the borough’s
2,742 registered Republican
voters to go to the polls for
the primary election on May
21.
Eligible voters in the
Warwick School District,
including Lititz Borough,
Warwick Township and
Elizabeth Township, number
7,681. Voters registered
under party affiliations
other than Republican or
Democratic number 628.
Registered Republicans
have been reported by the
county Board of Elections at
5,926, 494 more than during
the 1983 primary election.
Only 64 more Democrats
have registered since 1983,
bringing the total to 1,755.
In L ititz Borough,
registered voters number
3,540; in Warwick Township,
3,230; and in Elizabeth
Township, 911.
A second contest in the
borough will appear on the
Republican ballot for the
third ward council seat.
Incumbent Russell Pet­tyjohn,
Lititz businessman,
and Barbara DeLancey,
homemaker and anti-drug
and alcohol activist, will be
the two candidates listed.
Incumbent Clyde Tshudy,
Lititz businessman, will be
listed on the Republican
ballot for the first ward
council seat, and Jeff
Siegrist, Lititz businessman,
will appear on the ballot for
the second ward , first
precinct council seat.
No D em o c ra tic
nominating petitions were
filed for these offices.
Also listed on the
Republican ballot will be the
name of Mary Wiest, can-didate
for tax collector.
Warwick Township
Although voters will be
asked to choose two can­didates
for supervisor in
Warwick Township, only the
name of Roy Irvin, in­cumbent,
will appear on the
Republican ballot. There
will be no candidates for
superviosr appearing on the
Democratic ballot.
Two names will appear on
the Republican ballot for
auditor: Norma A. Wike and
Joseph V. Stewart.
Anetta T. Keith will be
listed on the Republican
ballot as candidate for tax
collector.
Republican candidate for
the off ice of constable for the
township will be Robert L.
Nagle.
No Democratic petitions
were filed for the previous
township offices.
Elizabeth Township
On the Republican ballot
in Elizabeth Township,
voters will be asked to
choose one Candidate for
auditor. Listed will be Daniel
M. Groff and Leroy S.
Ulrich.
A p p e a rin g on the
Republican ballot for
supervisor will be the name
of Larry R.
cumbent.
Wiker, in-
No nominating petitions
for any office were filed by
Democratic candidates in
Elizabeth Township.
School District
Four candidates for
Warwick School Board will
appear on both Republican
and Democratic ballots.
All incumbents, the four
candidates who have cross-filed
for the primary election
are: Gerald L. Downing,
Ruth W. Husser, Gaylord E.
Poling and Wilson B. Smith.
On Tuesday, May 21, the
polls will be open from 7 a.m.
to 8 p.m.
In Elizabeth Township
Candidate's Eligibility
For Office In Question
by Kathleen King
An Elizabeth Township
man, running for auditor on
the Republican ticket in this
month’s primary, might not
be able to take office if
elected because of a
criminal conviction in
Lancaster County Court, the
Record Express learned this
week.
The situation involves
Daniel M. Groff, 1651 Fur­nace
Hills Pike, who is
seeking nomination as
auditor on the Republican
ticket in Elizabeth Town­ship.
In November of 1984 Groff
was convicted of arson and
recklessly endangering the
lives of persons by a jury in
Lancaster County Court.
That conviction stemmed
from an incident on Aug. 16,
1984, during which time
Groff set fire to two junked
cars on his property when an
Elizabeth Township solicitor
and a L a n c a s te r
photographer arrived to take
pictures of his property in
connection with a zoning
dispute.
Groff testified on his own
behalf during the trial and
denied the charges.
According to Groff’s at­torney,
William Campbell,
Groff is waiting sentencing,
which will probably occur in
July. Campbell said there
would be an immediate
appeal filed following sen­tencing.
Groff is currently
free on $25,000 bail.
William Boehm, a legal
assistant with the state
E le c tio n B u re a u in
Harrisburg, said the con­stitution
“precludes persons
convicted of infamous
crimes from holding office. ’ ’
“ What’s infamous?”
Boehm said.
But Boehm said there is
nothing in the state election
code which clearly prohibits
a person that is not eligible
to hold office from running
for that office.
He cited several cases
where election petitions
were challenged on the basis
of residency or age. In some
of the cases the court said
the name should be removed
from the ballot, and in other
cases the court said the
name should remain on the
ballot and that the eligibility
to hold office had nothing to
do with a person's right to
seek the office.
Karen Axe, chief clerk of
the Lancaster County Board
of Elections, said someone
could have challenged
Groff’s election petition, but
no one did. If someone did,
the court would have had to
rule on the challenged
petition, she said.
“ The election board
determines who wins and
who loses; we don’t decide
the qualifications,” she said.
According to Chuck
Hoffman, a spokesman from
the Department of Com­m
u n ity A ffa irs in
Harrisburg, if Groff is
elected to the position
“nothing will happen unless
someone challenges his right
to take office.”
Hoffman said there is an
action in common law known
as “quo warranto,” in which
anyone with an interest in
the case could file a petition
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