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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 20 Pages-No. 43
Boro council questions
Huber subdivision plans
A preliminary plan for the
Huber tract just north of
Lititz borough brought
considerable discussion
among borough council
members and several
citizens at Tuesday night’s
meeting.
The property is located
east of the intersection of
East Newport and Brun-nerville
roads.
Randy Wright of J. C.
Engineering brought the
plan before council as a
courtesy, at the request of
the Warwick Township
Supervisors.
Wright told council that he
would also be submitting the
plan to the Lititz Planning
Commission for its com­ments.
That step is usually
done first, but Wright ex­plained
that he wanted to
get both council’s and the
planning commission’s
comments by the township
supervisors Feb. 12 meeting.
The proposed subdivision,
to be known as Quail Ridge,
will contain 234 units on 31.33
acres, Wright said. Of those
units, 96 will be apartments
with the balance as
townhouses. He said the
former farmhouse will be
sold on a larger lot as a
single-family dwelling.
The southern property line
of the tract follows the
borough’s northern boun­dary
that that point.
Wright said the apart­ments
will be in three
clusters, with one accessed
off of East Newport Road
and the other two off of
Brunnerville Road.
Cardinal Road will be
extended from the Fair
Meadows development to the
south through Quail Ridge
and connect with Newport
Road, Wright said.
Wright also said that a
landscape screen would be
installed between the
proposed development and
the existing single-family
d ev e lo pm e n t (F a ir
Meadows) to the east, as
mandated by the Warwick
Township zoning ordinance.
Council member David
Bucher questioned Wright
about the increase of storm
water which would flow into
Lititz borough.
C o u n cilman Donald
Stauffer told Wright that the
possibility of increased
runoff “ sca red him”
because “in the last seven to
eight years we finally got the
water problem in that part of
the borough stabliszed. ’ ’
Stauffer said that it “now
looks like we might have
problems kicking up again.”
Wright assured the council
that the township’s engineer
had examined the storm
water runoff figures and
found the planned storm
water management system
adequate for the area.
Wright said the township’s
new sto rm w a te r
management ordinance
s tric tly d etails th a t
development of a property
cannot increase the storm
water runnoff.
Stauffer said he would like
to see the borough’s engineer
examine the figures as well.
I r o n ic a lly , both
municipalities use the same
engineering firm, Huth
Engineers.
The question of increased
traffic was also raised.
Staffer wanted to know if
there were plans for a traffic
light at the Brunnerville and
Newport Road intersections.
Wright said not that he was
not aware of any and that
since it was a state road, it
would be a state decision.
A resident in the audience
questioned what number of
additional cars could be
expected to go through the
borough because of this
developement.
Council members said to
“figure on two cars per
household, or about 500
cars.”
Another resident said the
traffic would probably come
down Cedar and out Lincoln
to Broad, which would make
that roads very heavily
traveled.
Council member Russell
Pettyjohn pointed out that at
some time Oak Street will be
finished through the Fair
Meadows development so
that it will bring some traffic
around Lititz by way of
Second Avenue.
Pettyjohn also asked
Wright if Warwick Township
planned to ask for water
from the borough for the
development.
Wright said, “I wasn’t
going to ask tonight, but I’m
aware we will need to ask. ’ ’
Council president, Clyde
Tshudy, asked if that request
could be honored under the
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Two college students
spend semester in England
by Kathleen King
Kim Garrett and Brian
Roth have several things in
common.
They both graduated from
Warwick High School in 1981.
They both graduated from
Kutztown University Dec.
21.And they both spent the
last semester of their college
career at Crewe & Alsager
College.
The most common
reaction to such a statement
might be the question -
“Where in the world is
Crewe & Alsager College?”
In England, to be exact.
Not a surprising question,
though. If one was a student
at Crewe & Alsager College,
one might ask a similar
question - “Where in the
world is Kutztown
University?”
But actually, many of the
students at Kutztown and
Crewe & Alsager actually
know that each other exist,
because of a special ex­change
program th a t
enables students at one
college to spend a semester
at the other college.
And that is exactly what
Brian Roth and Kim Garrett
did, along with 25 or so other
Kutztown students.
Although many last
semester seniors might be
wrapped up in a search for
employment or graduate
school, Brian and Kim had
other things on their mind.
There’d always be time to
find a job. There wouldn’t
always be time, or an op­portunity,
to be a student at
a European university.
“I wanted to broaden
myself,” Kim explains about
her decision to take the
semester program. Brian
agreed, adding that such a
program, he thought,
“would help me put America
and Americans in per­spective.”
The Kutztown students left
home on Sept. 3. They spent
two days in London, then
split into smaller groups and
traveled on their own for the
next three weeks throughout
continental Europe.
Like many Americans
abroad for the first time,
Brian, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Roth, 205 S. Locust
St., said he was surprised at
how many Europeans knew
English.
“Languages here should
be m an d a to ry ,” Kim
believes. “And at younger
ages — in elementary
school.”
She said she tried Spanish
in high school but “didn’t
like it.” She feels if she had
taken a language at a
younger age, it would have
been more interesting and
easier, as well.
In spite of a lack of fluency
in another language, Kim
said she managed to com­municate
and told of an
incident on a train from
Venice to Austria.
“There were two Italian
boys. I think there were
cadettes at a military school
or something. They could
only speak broken English,”
she explained.
Kim said she started
drawing pictures - of' the
United States and where
Lititz was. They did the
same.
“For 45 minutes we
communicated by pictures,”
she recalled with a shake of
her head. “ It was
fascinating.”
Both Brian and Kim
thought that college students
in England were treated on a
more mature level than here
in the United States. They
both agreed that the classes
demanded more intellectual
re sp o n se and more
responsibility on the part of
the student.
“Here they spoon feed
you,” Brian said.
Kim, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. George Garrett, 815
Diston View Drive, agreed.
“In England it’s up to the
student to go and find out the
answers to things. Here they
tend to give you a lot of the
stuff,”
Both noticed a lack of
quizzes and tests at their
English college. But since
they were only at the college
for one semester they did not
get to experience the
demanding finals, the
tutorials, that all English
students dread so much.
Brian said the English
students who come to
Brian Roth and Kim Garrett (Turn to Page 3)
One of Esther Markey's prized possessions is this shot of Discovery, Challenger’s sister shuttle,
on its launch pad.
Science teacher reassures students
following Tuesday’s Shuttle explosion
by Bonnie Szymanski
Esther Markey, fourth-grade
science teacher at
John Beck Elementary
School was going to start a
Young Astronaut chapter at
her school.
She had spent two weeks
this past summer par­ticipating
in a program for
science teachers at the
F lo r id a I n s titu te of
Technology and Kennedy
Space Center.
She had studied space,
rocketry, astronomy and
aeronautics with NASA
instructors and had returned
to the classroom full of
enthusiasm for the space
program and for the ideas
she planned to incorporate
into the Young Astronauts
program.
Tuesday, following the
tragic explosion of the space
shuttle Challenger moments
after lift-off, Markey told the
Record: “I’m going to have
to think about it now.”
“There’s a big lump in my
insides,” she admitted,
noting that she and some of
her students had not wat­ched
the lift-off, assuming it
would be delayed.
They had been watching
the televised preparations
earlier that morning, said
Markey, and concluded that
the shuttle wasn’t going to be
launched. The set was
turned off and the students
began other activities.
It was only when some
released-time students
began returning from
classes that the teacher
heard that the launch had
taken place.
Shocked by what she was
hearing, she turned the
television on again, only to
discover that the Challenger
had exploded in a gigantic
fireball an estimated nine
miles above the earth.
When the television
reports confirmed what had
moments before been only
rumors, “there was just
silence; we couldn’t believe
it,” said the teacher, still
speaking with difficulty,
obviously attempting to
maintain her composure
about a loss she considered
almost a personal one.
A special friendship
On Oct. 25, Richard
Methia, one of the nine semi-finalists
in the teacher-in­space
program, came to
Lititz to speak with John
Beck students at the in­vitation
of Esther Markey.
The two had met as a
result of their mutual in­terest
in the teacher-space
program and Markey’s
involvement in the summer
program in Forida.
Markey had received a
personal invitation from
NASA to watch Challenger’s
launch. “I was really thrilled
to be invited, but after
thinking about it, decided
that delays in the launch
were a possibility and so I
had to decline.
“All the semi-finalists
were there, watching,”
reported Markey.
She said she would
probably be speaking with
Methia in the near future.
During his October visit,
he had told the students
about a plan for a possible
group flight, with all ten
NASA-trained teachers
being sent into space
together someday.
With Tuesday’s tragic
failure and the loss of seven
lives, including the young
teacher from New Hamp­shire,
Sharon Christa
McAuliffe, there is little
hope these plans will ever
materialize.
Markey admitted that her
students’ enthusiasm for the
space program seemed to
melt with the events that
transpired shortly after
11:38 a.m. Tuesday.
Her voice reflected the
pall hanging over her class
when she revealed: “After
this, the children don’t want
to be astronauts.”
She continued, “I told
them, that’s just like saying
you’ll never drive a car
again because you’ve seen a
car accident.”
But her voice, still
betrayed her as she added:
“It was a horrible thing to
happen.”
The children felt her pain.
They immediately wrote her
little notes and dropped
them on her desk.
Some said “I hope you feel
better soon.” or “I’m sorry it
happened.”
Young Astronauts on hold
This week the children had
been filling out “ ap­plications,”
explaining why
they would like to be part of
the space program, why they
would like to go into space.
“Now, they’ve changed
their minds,” she said.
As a result, the Young
Astronaut program, sparked
by Esther Markey’s vitality,
may be stalled.
“I don’t know how much
cooperation I’d get at the
moment,” she admitted.
She said she had wanted to
inaugurate the program as a
continuation of the math and
science programs she begins
with fourth graders.
In the past, the teacher
continued math and science
courses in the fifth grades,
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Esther Markey, John Beck science teacher, displays the model space shuttle
she brought back from her summer study trip (1985) to Florida, designed for
teachers interested in learning more about the NASA program. ' ..... ........... .. ........... . t Local student witnesses explosion
By Linda A. Harris
While Lititz residents heard of
Tuesday’s shuttle disaster from radio,
television, friends or strangers on the
street, Jennifer Foulk, 326 E. Second
Ave., was watching the liftoff from the
yard of her apartment near the Florida
Institute of Technology campus, just
about 20 miles from the launch site.
She spoke by phone with her mother
shortly after the explosion and with her
mother and father later that night.
Shaken in the first few hours, she
didn’t say much about how she felt or
what she saw. During the evening call,
she told her parents she “saw billows of
smoke...and then, debris falling into the
ocean.” She said that reactions in the
entire area which is mostly space-related
industry, was “shock, disbelief
and then, sadness. ’ ’
Jennifer, who skipped her senior year
at Warwick to enter FIT as a freshman
this year, lost her television to thieves
about two months ago. After it was
apparent that the shuttle had indeed
exploded in flight, she went to a friend’s
home to watch television and to learn
what she could about the tragedy. She
told her parents that there were a
number of memorial services already
planned in the area as the space
community pulled together in its grief.
Jennifer herself had a special interest
in the shuttle program...she and a
number of her fellow students had been
accepted into the NASA-FIT work-study
program at the Cape. She had
been scheduled to begin the program in
a shuttle-related area in March. “She’s
very concerned now that the
program will be pushed back until after
all the investigations are completed,”
her mother noted.
During a June interview at her
parents home, Jennifer said “it might
be fun to go on a shuttle someday...I
haven’t ruled that out.” She noted that
she’s had an interest in flying since
early childhood and that an astronomy
course had really helped focused her
career sights on the stars. She picked
FIT because it is one of the few schools
in the U.S. to offer space science
majors. Jennifer has decided that
working in the space field, particularly
in the technological side, is what she
wants to do after graduating.
Nitrates
under
study
Lititz Borough Council
Tuesday night formed a
citizen council to investigate
the growing nitrate level in
borough water and possible
solutions.
Council member Russell
Pettyjohn brought up the
subject and expressed
concern that nitrate levels
continue to be hight.
Director of Public Ser­vices,
David Anderson, told
council that nitrate levels
have increased steadily over
the last several years from
about 10 milligrams per liter
(or 10 parts per million) in
1980 to the curent level of 15-
16 milligrams per liter.
Anderson said the state
Environmental Protection
Agency mandates that
m u n ic ip a litie s warn
residents when nitrate levels
reach the 10 millileter level.
The borough includes a
standard warning on every
water and sewer bill. It
advises residents that
children under the age of six
months should not consume
borough water.
Anderson said scientific
evidence is not conclusive as
to the nature or level of the
danger and that water would
have to be consumed in
extremely high quantities
for it to be a problem.
However, he said the
bo ro u g h h as been
monitoring the nitrate levels
for years and agreed that a
committee should in­v
e stig a te a lte rn a tiv e
solutions. He warned that
any solution would be ex­pensive.
Anderson said the com­mittee
should also take into
consideration the amount of
water actually consumed as
compared to water that is
used for other purposes in
the house. He said the cost of
filtering water that is not
used for drinking may not be
cost effective in the long run.
N itra te s levels are
generally higher in farming
communities where fer­tilizers
and manure are
spread on fields and even­tually
absorbed into the
groundwater, Anderson
explained.
He said the highest levels
generally come in the spring
after the fields have been
fertilized and the heavy
spring rains wash some of
the fertilizer directly into
streams.
Mike Brubaker, 212 S.
Spruce St., who was present
in the audience, asked if
there was a permissible
upper limit to nitrates where
the water would be unsafe
for all consumers.
Anderson replied he didn’t
know of any established
limit.
Council president Clyde
Tshudy asked Brubaker,
who explained he worked for
a firm that did nitrate
testing, if he would be in­terested
in working on the
committee and lending his
expertise.
He agreed to do so.
The council named the
committee the Ad Hoc Clean
Water Commitee directed
borough manager Sue Barry
to ask several other
residents with expertise in
the field to serve on the
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