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Inside today’s Record
One of Lititz’ most popular eating establishments
has been reopened under new management. The
Sundae Best Ice Cream Parlour at 56 N. Broad S t is
now owned and operated by a young couple who
promise to retain the restaurant’s homemade
flavor. See page 17.
How many species of birds would you expect to
find wintering in our area? Twenty-five? Thirty?
Forty? Not that many? Local birders who recently
completed the Lititz area bird count, have the
answer. You'll find it on page 11.
It is the rare family who has escaped being
touched in some way by the problems of drug and
alcohol abuse, teen pregnancy, dropping out of
school— and their accompanying heartaches. The
youth of the 1980s has been called “A Generation
At Risk." On Jan. 28, a program dealing with this
generation, their problems and possible solutions
will be held at the Warwick Middle School. You can’t
afford to ignore the invitation to participate. See
page 20.
While council debates
developer waits... and waits
Mayor vows one-way
ticket for crows
by Bonnie Szymanski
Lititz Borough Council and
the borough planning
commission have been
volleying the problem of a
proposed Chestnut Street in
the Windsor Gardens
development, located bet­ween
Lincoln Avenue and
Arrowhead Drive.
Developer, William
Hazlett said recently that he
has been asking for council’s
cooperation in the matter
since April.
He has appeared before
the planning commission, at
the request of council, and
been told by planners that
the borough would benefit
from the opening of the
north-south street.
Hazlett has told both
council and the planning
commission that he does not
need to open Chestnut Street
to complete his housing
development, as both Walnut
Street and Arrowhead Drive
will provide access through
the development.
During the December
planning meeting, Hazlett
told the commission that an
opened Chestnut Street
would provide a convenient
access to the new Lititz
Community Center and the
school campus.
Said Hazlett the same
evening, “I would ap­preciate
knowing what the
borough expects.”
Jeff Siegrist, borough
council member who acts as
council representative to
planning, informed the
commission that council
wanted “recommendations”
from them about the street.
He said that council was
very clear on its feeling that
“there be no financial
by Linda A. Harris
They blacken the skies
over Lititz each dusk, cause
untold an gu ish for
homeowners whose roofs,
sidewalks and vehicles are
covered with droppings, and
have put Lititz’ mayor on
patrol with high tech sound
equipment in an attempt to
convince them that Lititz’
hospitality does not extend to
their brazen hoards.
Mayor Clair is now
seeking an all-out effort by
Lititz residents to help him
convince an estimated 3,000
to 5,000 beady-eyed black
crows to abandon their
annual vacation in Lititz’
fair 2.2 square miles.
In a telephone con­versation
Jan. 6, Clair said
his crow patrols succeed in
chasing the birds, but they
simply move on to another
neighborhood.
“I’ve learned an awful lot
about crows in the last
month or so: there are a lot
of them, they can be con­vinced
to move, but it’s
going to take more than one
person, and the effort has to
be made daily.
“ There are sev era l
methods I’d like people to try
in the next few weeks:
recorded crow distress calls
(I will duplicate the tape on
cassettes for everyone who
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Business Directory 16,17
brings a cassette tape to the
fire hall), clapboards (a
model of one created by Bart
Sharp can be seen at the
Lititz Borough Police
Department—see a c ­companying
article), vocal
crow distress calls, and of
course, I’ll continue my
efforts,” Clair said.
Peaceful Means Preferred
Clair asserted that he
really wants to use peaceful
means to eradicate the
problem, but indicated that
his patience is nearing an
end. “If we don’t have a
concerted effort by residents
and if that effort doesn’t
show results in the next week
or two, we will ask the
sportsmens group to begin, a
controlled shoot such as we
had last year,” he declared.
“I don’t feel good about
killing anything and the
older you get the less you
want to do it. But the fact
remains, crows have been an
increasing problem for the
last three years or so and it
has to stop. It’s a matter of
priorities and when I’m
faced with dead crows
versus the health and
welfare of our residents, it’s
not a hard decision to make
at all—the crows lose!,” he
said with determination.
As a native of the borough,
Clair explained that he
remembers crows as being
frightened away by anyone
approaching within a few
hundred feet.
Very Brazen
“These are definitely a
different group— they’re
very brazen. They scavange
the fields all day and then
they take off in huge num-
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Planners recommend
Chestnut St. for boro
by Bonnie Szymanski
On Tuesday evening, the
Lititz Planning Commission
once again was asked to face
the problem of what to do
about Chestnut Street, as the
developers of Windsor
Gardens north of the
borough - William Hazlett
and James McKay of
Cousin’s Investments -
made one more attempt to
elicit borough cooperation on
the matter of the street’s
construction.
Voicing his often-repeated
complaint that the borough
is impeding the time-table
for their development by
refusing to come to a
decision about the street,
Hazlett asked planners to
urge council to take a
positive role in the future of
the street.
Hazlett noted once again
that the development can be
designed and constructed
with or without Chestnut
Street, although the street
would afford a better design
and traffic pattern if it were
included, he admitted.
Garth Becker, planning
consultant for the borough,
noted that, as far as he was
aware, the street does not
appear on any borough plan
or map.
“But we know it exists in
some form.... It has shown
up on some zoning maps,” he
added.
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burden on the borough.”
Hazlett replied that he
thinks the council should be
involved as a governing
body, with input on
specifications about the
street’s construction.
Planner Roger Groce
agreed, noting that the street
feeds into the borough and
acts as an important link
from the north.
He reminded planners that
the borough will assume
ownership of the street when
it is dedicated.
Following the December
meeting, the planning
commission made the
following recommendations:
• That Huth Engineers
prepare and council approve
the entire alignment of
Chestnut Street.
•That a joint meeting be
scheduled between the
owners of the land through
which Chestnut Street would
run: Cousin’s Investments
(William Hazlett and James
McKay), Wilbur Chocolate
Co. (Ambrit), Gibble En­terprises,
and the borough.
•That the street to be con­sidered
contain a 50-foot
right-of-way and a 34-foot
cartway.
• That the need for future
utilities be considered in the
construction of the cartway.
• That a determination of
payment for construction
and improvement be made.
Hazlett suggested that
sidewalks should be included
in the recommendations, as
he foresees heavy south­bound
pedestrian traffic
through the development to
the community center and
the school campus.
On Dec. 30, Hazlett at­tended
borough council’s
final meeting of the year,
hoping to hear council’s
decision on Chestnut Street.
He reiterated his need to
know what will be required
of him so he can “stick to his
time schedule” for the
development of Windsor
Gardens.
Councilman David Bucher
responded to Siegrist’s
question: “Do we really
want Chestnut Street” ?
saying, “Yes,” but adding,
“The big question is: who’s
going to pay the bill?”
Hazlett stressed that his
company is willing to pay
“our fair share,” but asked
again that council provide
“leadership.”
“I don’t want to be held up
on the whole development
until Chestnut Street is
straightened out,” insisted
Hazlett.
Said Siegrist, “If we
decide we’re going to
reserve a corridor, we have
to advertise that.”
Continued the councilman,
“Planning has been saying
for two months this section
should be opened and we
should endorse....”
“It’s been flip-flopping
back and forth for several
months,” remarked Siegrist.
“I think we’re the ones
dragging our feet.”
Council eventually ap­proved
the motion to ad­vertise
for an ordinance to
reserve the Chestnut Street
corridor.
In a final comment,
council chairman Clyde
Tshudy warned the mem­bers,
“Be prepared for
phone calls because people
are going to think that’s the
bypass.”
Irel Buckwalter, a Warwick Township supervisor
since 1984, has been named supervisor chairman.
Buckwalter named
supervisor chairman
by Linda A. Harris
Although he was bom and
raised on a farm, Irel
“Bucky” Buckwalter found
himself drawn to politics in
his teens. He studied
political science at both
Westland College in Con­necticut
and Millersville
State College before settling
down to co-manage the 300-
acre Buck Hill Farms.
Still, he maintained his
interest in things political
and in the 1960s ran for state
legislature. Defeated in his
bid, he turned his attentions
to other pursuits: managing
the family farm, marrying,
fathering four children,
developing an interest in all
types of sports, forming and
running Ids own real estate
development company
(Manheim Township
Development Company),
serving on the Warwick
Township Planning Com­mission
and as a Warwick
Township supervisor.
Named Chairman
Buckwalter, first selected
to fill the unexpired term of
William Hazlett in 1984, he
was elected to a six-year
term in December 1985. On
Jan. 5, fellow supervisors
nominated and approved
him for the post of chairman
of the board of supervisors.
In an informal interview
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Council passes 1987 budget, okays Vets parade
Will homeowners association work, or fail?
Elizabeth Tw p. opens door
to private sewage systems
Following its approval on
Dec. 30 of the 1987 Lititz
Borough budget, set at $2.8
million, borough council told
Lititz VFW post commander
James Shultz that the county
Veterans Day Parade could
be held in the borough on the
evening of Nov. 11.
Shultz had made the
request at the November
council meeting and had
been asked to return in
December for council’s
decision.
The parade will begin at
approximately 6:30 p.m. and
will last an estimated one-and-
a-half hours.
Shultz had also requested
that the POW/MIA flag be
approved for display
beneath the borough’s U.S.
flag on the week designated
by Congress to recognize
POW/MIAs.
Council approved and has
asked to be informed of the
designated week in 1987.
In other business, council
accepted the 1987 calendar,
which calls for bimonthly
borough council meetings, in
response to the reformulated
state Sunshine Law.
Looking for leaks
Council approved a water
leak survey, to be un­dertaken
by Gannett-
Fleming Environmental
O l d - f a s h i o n e d a n s w e r f o r n e w - f a n g l e d p r o b l e m
by Becky Collins
Okay, so we can’t get rid of
those pesky crows by
shooting them, and we don’t
have speakers big enough
for a custom “crow-mobile”
of our very own. What’s a
“Lititzite” to do?
Barton L. Sharp, 139
Newport Rd., has an old,
inexpensive and easy-to-make
solution. “I call it a
clapboard,” he says slap­ping
the two boards con­nected
by a hinge at one end
in a loud thwack.
“This one is more than 20
years old and it’s still louder
than e v e r ,” he said
demonstrating once again
the volume of his time-tested
crow removal system.
The clapboards cost an
estimated 25-50 cents (if you
have to buy a hinge) and
may be easily constructed in
a matter of half an hour’s
time. “Everybody has old
boards laying around the
house,” Sharp explained.
“And ammunition costs too
much - especially when
you’re wasting it on crows.”
Sharp explained that he
first used clapboards when
he was a boy to chase
pigeons. “We had one pair
we used for years,” he noted.
The pair now on display at
the Lititz Borough Police
Station measure 16 x 7 inches
and have a 6% x IV2 grip
nailed on the backside of
each board. “They’re made
of scrap wood,” Sharp noted.
He e x p la in ed the
technique that is best when
using the clapboards to get
rid of crows. “You’ve got to
go out about dusk when they
(the crows) are beginning to
roost and clap these around
the bottoms of the trees until
they’re all gone,” he ex­plained.
“Remember you’ve
got to do it again and again,
those crows you scared off
yesterday have gone
somewhere else to roost, and
you’ve got new birds every
night.”
Sharp, who spent 48 years
as a deputy game protector,
explained that an estimated
69,000 crows roost in Lititz.
“We don’t know why, they
just do,” he said. He is a
recipient of a Wildlife
Conservation Award, the
third ever awarded in
Lancaster County, and
enjoys nature study and
photography.
His idea is to get Lititz
residents out in force with
their homemade clapboards
to move the crows out of
town. “If we could get 25 to
50 people to build these, and
anybody can make one of
these clapboards, and get
them all out at dusk a couple
of nights in succession, it
would work.” “I don’t know
why I didn’t remember it
before,” he said.
Barton L. Sharp demonstrates the proper
method of using the "clapboard.” An old-fashioned
solution to the problem of mass crow roosting in
Lititz Borough, the clapboard pictured above is
more than twenty years old and "still louder than
ever,” reports Sharp.
Engineers, Harrisburg, at
an estimated $3,700.
Public works director
Dave Anderson said, “We do
have water leaks within our
system which we do believe
the survey can find.”
He said he thinks the
survey will prove cost ef­fective
as soon as some of
the leaks are found and
patched.
In a non-related matter,
Anderson apprised council of
a “potential problem at the
waste water plant with
sludge.”
He told council that the
borough sewer authority has
authorized a sludge study to
look into a management
program from plant process
to disposal of the sludge,
some of which is used on
area farmlands.
The county has made ho
provisions for sludge in­cineration,
explained An­derson,
noting ¿hat sludge is
now being used on three
farms in the borough and
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by Bonnie Szymanski
On Dec. 15, Elizabeth
Township supervisors
passed an amendment to
their zoning ordinance that
will, in effect, make this
sparsely-populated munici­pality
one of the first in
Lancaster County to permit
the construction of a com­munity
sand mound sewage
disposal system owned and
m a in ta in ed by an
association of homeowners
and serving only one housing
development.
As a result of combined
efforts by developer Glenn
Wissler, attorney K.L. Shirk
III, system designer J.C.
Enmgineering of Lancaster,
Elizabeth Township solictor
William Crosswell and with
recommendations from the
township planning com­mission,
the municipality
now is the proud parent of
what township planner
Barry Berger has referred to
as a “ customized or­dinance.”
W is s le r ’s proposed
development - Clay Manor -
calls for the construction of
40 housing units on a 20-acre
tract of land located east of
Brubaker Valley Road and
south of Route 322, where
Elizabeth and Clay town­ships
meet.
The amendment was
adopted on Dec. 15 by a 2 to 1
board of supervisors vote. It
included the amended
definition for community
sewage systems, actually a
clarification allowing the
words “community” and
“public” to be used in­terchangeably
within the
context of the Elizabeth
Township ordinance.
As a result, developers
now willing to construct
their own community
sewage disposal system
(that Is, a system owned and
operated by a private con­cern,
not the municipality)
on R-2 zoned land within the
township and who are able to
meet the restrictions ap­plying
to those community
systems may also develop
under the higher density
provisions that apply to
tracts of land served by
public sewers.
At this time, there are no
public sewer or public water
sy stem s in Elizabeth
Township.
According to Berger, both
public sewer and public
water have been proposed
unofficially for Clay
Township in the 1990s.
The restrictions placed on
community sewage disposal
systems have been included
in the recently revised
township amendment.
According to supervisor
Rodney May, th e se
restrictions will prevent
developers from coming into
the township and flooding it
with high density housing.
Some reservations
May, along with super­visors
Larry Wiker and Jay
Ober, had early reservations
about the sand mound
system as well as the
longevity of the homeowners
association assigned to
administer the system.
Enumerating his reasons
for voting to adopt the
amendment, May said he
and the two other super-
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Domestic incident in Warwick Township results
in new charges against Lancaster man
Warwick Township Police
Department Officer Ray
Lausch responded to a
domestic incident call Jan. 2
at 8:20 p.m. at 17 Karen
Court. It was the second time
in one week the department
was called by Terry Lee
Albright, 32. She told Lausch
that her boyfriend, Brian H.
Perry, 27, of 506 E. Ross St.,
Lancaster, had tried to gain
entrance to her residence at
both the front and rear
doors, shouted, and sounded
the horn of his vehicle as he
left the area. He was
charged with disorderly
conduct and harassment.
On Dec. 27, he was
charged with simple assault
by Officer Ed Tobin. On that
date, he is alleged to have
struck Albright in the face
with his fists and with a
small metal container.
Officers investigated nine
accidents between Dec. 30
and Jan. 4, including the first
of the year at the
NOTICE
The monthly meeting
of the Lititz Retailers
Association has been
scheduled for the second
Wednesday of this
month. The January
meeting will be held
next Wednesday, Jan. 14
from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. at
the General Sutter Inn,
on the Square, Lititz.
Representatives of
the new Rec Center will
be on hand for
discussion of that
community project.
All area businessmen
are welcome and invited
to attend.
Newport/Brunnerville roads
intersection.
Officer Joseph Kilgore
investigated an accident
Jan. 4 at 7:28 p.m. at
Newport/Brunnerville roads
intersection. He reported
that Kimberly Ann Wall, 20,
of 702 Owl Hill Rd., was
driving east on Newport
Road, stopped at the in­tersection,
but failed to see a
vehicle being driven west on
Brunnerville Road by
Gregory C. Harding, 35, of
523 Hackman Rd.
The impact of the collision
caused the Harding vehicle
to travel southeast, striking
a traffic sign, a support wire
for a PP & 1 pole, a Quail
Ridge sign and a township
street sign. The Wall vehicle
continued to move southwest
following the impact and
climbed onto the Mary Clark
property, 660 Brunnerville
Rd., where it damaged
shrubs. Volunteers with
Warwick Ambulance
Association and Lititz Fire
Company assisted at the
scene. Both vehicles were
towed. Wall was cited for
failing to yield the right-of-way
at a stop sign.
Officer William Fasnacht
cited John R. Jansson, 46, of
232 Skyview Lane, with
failing to drive at a safe
speed as a result of an ac­cident
Dec. 30 at 6:28 p.m. at
245 Skyview Lane. Jansson
was driving west on Skyview
Lane when his vehicle began
to slide on the icy road. He
attempted to regain control,
but the vehicle slid off the
roadway and struck a small
tree. The vehicle sustained
moderate damage to the
bumper and grill.
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