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Inside today’s Record
Is our economy in trouble? A bank economist tells
local businesspersons about his fears and hopes for
our financial future. Compare your forecast with his on
page 28.
Each year at this time, Warwick schools present “Ag
in the Classroom,” a program to demonstrate the
importance of agriculture in our immediate community
and to our nation. See what animals visited the
classrooms this year on page 4.
The “fust Say No” program was launched this week
in the Warwick School District with 400 helium
balloons signaling the signing of a pledge by
elementary students, who agree to “Just Say No,” if
ever asked to use drugs or alcohol. See page 16.
National School Lunch Week brought 1400 local
parents and other relatives to school this week, as
they joined their children for lunch in the district’s
cafeterias. Who attended this year’s event? See
pictures on page 13.
$ 1.4 million
OK’d
expansion
for John Beck
Kimberlie Buckwalter Connie King Julie Turano
Rothsville citizens
challenge water project
Halloween Parade
in boro Monday
An organization called
Rothsville Concerned
Citizens officially came into
existence Oct. 15 when a
group of about 50 residents
concerned about the
proposed water system and
rates met at the Rothsville
Fire Hall.
The vote to officially
organize came after the
citizens met with David E.
Wagenseller III of the law
firm of Shirk, Reist,
W a g e n s e lle r &Shirk.
Wagenseller said that he was
substituting for Kenelm L.
Shirk III, who had taken ill.
He advised the citizens
throughout the several
hours-long meeting that a
thorough study would have
to be made of the township
records regarding the
project before a deter­mination
could be made
regarding their chances of
stopping or delaying the
project. Since he was sub­stituting
for his partner and
not as familiar with the
project, he fielded general
questions from the audience.
Several complained they
had attended the Oct. 8
meeting of the supervisors
but were told they would
have to wait until the entire
agenda was completed
before they could speak on
the water project. He told
them that the format as
described was one followed
in such meetings. They also
questioned the Sunshine Law
and some said they felt
Robert Smith, chairman of
the supervisors, had not
interpreted it correctly at
the meeting. Wagenseller
said it would have to be
looked into because the law
applies to all municipal
bodies.
Asked about the disputed
survey taken in 1983 and
their contention that a new
one was needed, Wagen­seller
advised them that
survey wasn’t mandated and
the supervisors as elected
officials could have made
the decision without one.
“That might have been
dumb, but not illegal,” he
said.
When the discussion began
to turn toward legal steps
which could be taken, one
man reminded the group
that they had spent money
trying to stop the sewage
project and the HDC
apartment, but “it was
jammed down our throats
anyway.”
Wagenseller said that
winning or losing was a
matter to be based on the
facts, whether the super­visors
had done everything
right regarding the project
to date. He told them further
that if they chose to hire his
firm or any other to fight the
decision that they would
need an emotional com­mittment
because “you
can’t do it quickly or
cheaply.” In the meantime,
he advised that they should
go to meetings, ask
questions and generally look
over the shoulders of the
township officials to make
sure every “t” is crossed
and every “i” is dotted.
Paul Young called for a
vote on a name and
nominations for officers.
Rothsville Concerned
Citizens won over several
other suggestions. The
following officers were
elected: Drayton Shaffer, 10
Picnic Woods Road,
president; Patti Anonia, 920
Rabbit Hill Road, vice-president;
Pam Young, 2
Picnic Woods Road,
recording secretary; Deb
Shreiner, 14 Picnic Woods
Road, treasurer; and
Franklin Fry, 15 Church St.,
financial secretary.
Prior to adjournment,
citizens voted to establish a
bank account at Meridian
Bank, Rothsville, and to
begin contacting citizens
who had attended the first
citizens meeting but who
were not in attendance Oct.
15. Each family in the af­fected
area will eventually
be contacted and asked to
contribute $7 to the legal
fund. The $7 figure was
approved by the 140 citizens
attending the first meeting
Oct. 1.
The Rothsville Concerned
Citizens were scheduled to
meet at the fire hall Oct. 22
at 7:30 p.m. The meetings
are open to the public.
One of three Warwick High
School seniors vying for the
title of Lititz Halloween
Queen will be crowned on
Monday, Oct. 27, during the
Lititz Lions Club Halloween
Parade in downtown Lititz.
The parade is scheduled to
begin at 7 p.m. Rain date for
the parade is Tuesday, Oct.
28.
This year’s Halloween
Queen candidates are:
Kimberlie S. Buckwalter,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
I.D. Buckwalter, 1011 Lititz
Pike; Connie M. King,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Boxleitner, 806 Scott
Lane, and Ronald King,
L an c a ste r; and Ju lie
Turano, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Turano, 470
Snavely Mill Rd.
The 1986 queen will be
crowned by Lions Club
president Dave Rill in front
of the judges stand on East
Main Street.
Queen Candidates
Kim has been a member of
the track team since ninth
grade and served as captain
her junior year. She has
played field hockey since
seventh grade and is a co­captain
of the 1986 team. Her
other activities include
statistician of the boys
basketball team, Varsity
Club and president of
Student Government. After
graduation, she plans to
attend a four-year college.
Connie is co-captain of the
hockey team, on which she
has played since seventh
grade. She was selected for
the Lancaster-Lebanon All-
Star Team last year and the
Keystone State Games this
past summer. Connie is vice
president of the Varsity
Club. After graduation, she
plans to go to college and
major in architecture.
Julie is the president of the
senior class and a varsity
cheerleading captain. She
has been active in field
hockey, Varsity Club,
yearbook staff, and class
activities. In her freshman,
sophomore and junior years,
she was elected to the
Homecoming Court. After
graduation, Julie plans to
attend a four-year college to
major in elementa ry
education. This year’s
candidates were chosen by
senior class members.
Prizes
Cash prizes totalling $500
will be awarded by the Lititz
Lions Club to marchers in
the four judging categories:
group division, children’s
division, float division and
adult division.
Floats and Marchers
Floats, individuals and
groups without floats may
register the night of the
parade, beginning at 6 p.m.
Lions Club members will be
at the corner of East Main
and Cedar Streets (at
McElroy’s Pharmacy) to
assign each person, group or
float a number.
Judges viewing the par­ticipants
in the parade will
refer to the marchers by the
numbers they wear.
Judges
This year’s judges will be
Ruth Evans, kindergarten
teacher at Lititz Elemen­tary;
Anita Lipkowski, first
grader teacher a t Lititz
Elementary; and Kay
Shanaman, first grade
teacher at Kissel Hill
Elementary.
Parade Route
The children’s, group and
adult divisions of the parade
will form on East Main
Street, east of Cedar Street.
Floats are requested to line
up in the first two blocks of
South Cedar Street.
The Warwick High School
Band, the Warwick Middle
School Band and the Lititz
Community Band will
participate in the parade.
The parade will move
promptly at 7 p.m. beginning
at Main and Cedar streets,
going west on Main Street to
Broad, south on Broad to
Lemon Street, east on
Lemon to Cedar Street,
north on Cedar to Main
Street and west on Main
Street where it will pass the
judge’s stand a second time
and then disband.
Winners
All first prize winners are
asked to report to the judges
stand after the parade to be
photographed.
There will be a slight
pause the first time the
parade reaches the judges
stand to announce and crown
the 1986 Halloween Queen
The Warwick High School
Band will perform while the
judges are making their
decisions.
Lighting Request
The Lions Club is asking
residents along the parade
route to turn on any outside
lights or to use spot lights
from their houses to help
illuminate the parade route
to assure the safety of the
marchers.
Food Stands
The Lions Club will
. operate two food stands this
year, one in Sturgis Lane
next to Lippart’s of Lititz
and one at the patio of the
General Sutter Inn.
The stands will be open by
late afternoon so early
arrivals for the parade can
buy supper. Homemade
pumpkin pies will be among
the food items featured.
In case of postponement
because of rain, Warwick
Schools will be notified prior
to dismissal. Radio Stations
WIOV, WLAN and AYNCE
will also be used for an­nouncements.
A $1.4 million expansion
and renovation project for
John Beck Elementary was
approved by the Warwick
School Board in their
Tuesday night session. The
school’s new addition will
add eight new classrooms to
the existing structure, in­creasing
available space at
the school by 30 percent.
The addition of classrooms
to the school located in the
village of Brunnerville is an
indication of the district’s
population explosion. Ac­cording
to state enrollment
figures, Warwick is the
fastest growing school
district in Lancaster County.
School district officials
hope to break ground on the
new 15,000 foot addition by
March or April. A public
hearing on the project will be
held on Nov. 13 at Warwick
Middle SChool.
Board approval was
granted for the $1.3 million
construction cost of the
addition as well as the hiring
of the law firm of Barley,
Snyder, Cooper, and Barber
as bond counsel and Shirk,
Reist, Wagensellar and
Shirk as district counsel for
the project. Soliday and
Company of Lancaster will
serve the district as in­vestment
bankers, and will
conduct the sale of the bond
issue.
Construction costs, legal
fees, bond council and
financing of the expansion
and renovation project will
cost the district a total of
$1,381,644.
Superintendent John
Bonfield noted that the
public hearing on the project
was in accordance to the Act
34 Taj Mahal Act. Act 34
specifies that the district
must hold a public hearing if
the addition to an existing
school has a cost of over 20
percent of the original
structure.
Personnel Update
The board approved
Sandra Couch as an English
teacher and drama director
at the high school effective
December 21 or sooner if a
replacement can be found
for her current position.
Mrs. Couch will replace
Andrew Belser who has
resigned the English teacher
position and Joseph Centini,
who served as drama
director.
Julia Carlton was ap­proved
by the board to work
with the middle school
program for gifted students.
An increase in aide time at
Kissel Hill Elementary was
approved by the board due to
increased enrollments in the
fourth grade. This will in­crease
the time the aides
work from three to six hours
per day. Aides included in
this decision are Margaret
Ivey and Sara Gajecki.
The board also approved a
personal leave request by
Michele D. Whitmyer, a
teacher at the high school,
for a personal leave without
pay for child care effective
Jan. 5 through Jan. 16,1987.
Other personnel changes
included approval by the
board for election of Susan
Yeagley, Debra Miller, and
Cheri Haines as part time
aides for the kindergarten
classes at Lititz Elementary.
Board acceptance was
recommended for the
resignation of Charles
Sanford, a custodian in the
middle school, and Paul D.
Miller, wrestling game
m a n a g e r. Both men
resigned their positions for
personal reasons. The board
a lso a p p ro v e d the
resignation of Susan Brady,
a resource room aide at
Lititz Elementary. Mrs.
Brady’s husband has been
transferred, and they will be
moving out of the area.
Jay Meads received board
approval as a fulltime
custodian in the middle
school, replacing Charles
Sanford. Replacing Jay
Meads at Lititz Elemenary
School will be Shirley Singer.
Kathleen Arnold was hired
as a part-time aide at Lititz
Elementary effective Oct. 20
replacing Susan Brady.
The employ of Donna
Smith as a part-time aide at
Kissel Hill Elementary was
accepted by the board. Mrs.
Smith is filling a new
position due to increased
enrollments in the first
grade.S
pecial Education
The Warwick board passed
an amendment permitting
the operation of two special
education classes currently
operating above maximum
enrollment.
Superintendent Bonfield
explained that the amend­ment
permits the district to
continue these classes within
policy guidelines. He also
noted that there would be an
audit of the special
education program later this
week.
“A team of teachers and
administrators will visit
classes throughout the
district and interview the
staff. We welcome the
audit,” Bonfield explained.
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Ree Center campaign 'off and flying’
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How Meals on Wheels volunteer
became driver scheduler
The above aerial photo by Steve Palkovic shows
the general site of the new community center and
various landmarks. The numbers represent:
proposed community center (1); incinerator (2);
Middle School (3); swimming pool (4); Warner-
Lambert (5); High School (6); Second Avenue (7);
Orange Street (8); and Lititz Church of the
Brethren (9).
by Bonnie Szymanski
About a decade ago, Ginny
Henry, a Lititz homemaker,
was asked to ride along with
a Meals on Wheels volunteer
driver.
When all the clients had
been visited and all the lunch
drops made, Ginny thought,
“Hey, I really enjoy this.”
So, she started driving her
own lunchtime route,
carrying a load of lunches
and dinners to people unable
to prepare their own meals,
either temporarily or on a
permanent basis.
By 1979, she had taken on
the added role of scheduler,
preparing the lists of drivers
and their routes for a month
at a time.
The task of scheduling
drivers to make an average
of 50 deliveries five times a
week between the hours of
11:15 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. is
Ginny Henry
not an easy one.
and unexpected company
result in routes without
drivers.
And who fills in at least
once a week?
Correct. Ginny Henry.
She has driven many of the
Lititz area Meals on Wheels
routes, which cover the
borough, Rothsville, Kissel
Hill and Brickerville.
Delivering two kinds of
meals - special (low salt,
low sugar) and regular diets
- Meals on Wheels drivers
take their clients a warm
lunch and a sandwich or
other cold light meal for
dinner.
But drivers are not the
only volunteers who keep the
Meals on Wheels program
But when the schedule is running,
complete, complications and Volunteer cooks spend the
other human variables such hours of 8 a.m. to noon each
as illness, memory lapses day in the kitchen of the
(Was this my day to drive?) Lititz Church of the
Brethren, preparing the
day’s lunches and dinners.
Mrs. Guy Snyder does
scheduling for cooks in a
manner similar to the
scheduling Ginny does for
drivers.
“Everday we need one
chairman (to direct and
c o o rd in a te th e k it-chen/
driver operation), four
cooks and four drivers,” said
Ginny.
She also listed the other
behind-the-scenes volun-
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In this issue
Editorial 4
Sports Section 6,7,8,9,10
Social 18,19
Church 20,21
Manheim 22
Business Directory 23,24
Classified 13,14,15
“We’re off and flying,”
I Robert B. Hershey told
fellow members of the new
community center steering
I committee.
Hershey, chairman of the
I fundraising committee, said
that the group had recently
completed phase one of its
program, that of training.
The second phase which
began Oct. 16 and will run
through Nov. 15 con­centrates
on gift-giving by
steering committee mem­bers,
Rec Center board
members and close friends
| of the Rec Center.
‘We must make our own
I committments to this before
we can approach others,” he
declared. Hershey further
revealed that he has com-
| mitted himself to a $25,000
donation for the new center’s
lobby which will be named in
memory of his father, John
G. Hershey.
Hershey warned that the
$2 million fundraising goal
can only be reached if
everyone makes a com­mittment.
“This is a once in
a lifetime opportunity to do
something for our com­munity,”
he asserted.
He asked each member of
the steering committee to
begin to seriously think
about what they could give to
the effort, adding that there
were a number of ways to
handle the donation. He
explained that individuals
could opt to pay over a three-year
period and to make
y e a r ly , s em i-a n n u a l,
quarterly or even monthly
installments. Other methods
of giving include stocks,
bonds, real estate, material
and labor, he explained.
Those contributing $1,000 or
more who wish their gifts to
remain anonymous (other
than those giving an item on
the named gifts list) may
r e q u e s t su ch an
arrangement.
He urged fellow members
to “share the enthusiasm” of
the fundraising group which
has already committed
$47,500 to the fund.
The next phase will run
from Nov. 16 through Jan. 31
and will focus on members
contacting persons on a list
of possible donors as well as
contacting the chief
executive officers (ceo) of
major corporations, and
officers of service clubs and
other groups.
“We expect to have our
brochure ready by Nov. 15
and that will really kick off
the third phase of contacting
businesses. It will have
drawings, the kinds of
programs we hope to offer
and a named gift list among
other things. We feel we
have a real story to tell
businesses. With more
people becoming health and
fitness conscious, a number
of corporations have already
built or are considering on­site
fitness centers. We feel
we can offer their employees
an excellent program with
this new center,” Hershey
asserted.
The local businessman
said that he expects that
service clubs and other
groups will provide another
valuable source of support
based on initial input. He
added that members of the
group are ready to speak to
interested groups and will
speak to clubs “as often as
they want us.”
Other sources of revenue
discussed include individual
giving, matching funds from
corporations which match
monies donated by their
employees as well as grants
and foundations.
Groundbreaking and a
“fun day” are tentatively
slated for May 2.
Test borings at the
proposed site will begin
shortly and a sign will be
erected at the site as soon as
boring are completed.
Residents are urged to
submit ideas for a com­munity
center logo by Nov.
1. Entries will be judged and
prizes awarded.
Next steering committee
meeting is set for Nov. 11 at
7:30 a.m.