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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 22 Pages-No. 42
School district approves $3.5 million bond issue by Becky Collins
The Warwick school board
voted Tuesday night to
approve a $3.5 million bond
issue to finance additions
and alterations to John Beck
Elementary School, asbestos
removal from all district
buildings, and other capital
expenditures.
The project will include
$2.2 million in construction
and renovation to John Beck
Elementary School, adding
eight new classrooms to the
facility in Brunnerville and
increasing space at the
school by 30 percent.
Also included in the fun­ding
is more than $1 million
for removal of asbestos from
the district’s schools.
Another $140,000 will be
used by the district for
capital improvements in­cluding
equipment needs,
vehicles for the district, and
repairs to existing buildings
as well as an architectural
survey of Kissel Hill
Elementary School. The
school is expected to need
four to six additional
classrooms within the next
few years.
The remaining $100,000
will be used to pay the bond
counsel and investment
banker.
Construction on the new
addition at John Beck
Elementary is expected to
begin in April, 1987, and will
hopefully be completed by
Fall 1987.
The school district have
annual payments of $370,000
on the 15-year bond issue.
The $35,000 committed by
the board to pay for Warwick
High School’s Marching
Band uniforms will not be
included on the bond issue.
Warwick business manager
David Zerbe noted that the
money for the band uniforms
will come from the general
fund.
Other Business
Board approval was
granted for the revised
policy 5000 series pertaining
to student body and 6000
series concerning the
district’s instructional plan.
Wallace Hofferth, who has
been working to update the
policies, noted that many of
the changes were mainly
“editorial.”
The board also approved a
lowering of the rental rate of
the district’s all-purpose
classrooms for the Lititz Rec
Center’s After School Kids
program to $5 per day per
classroom. The fee for rental
of the rooms was $10 per day
per classroom.
The senior class trip to
Orlando, Florida was ap­proved
by the board as was
the AFS trip to Charlot­tesville,
Virginia. Students
making ‘ the trips will be
required to submit a signed
parental consent form,
medical emergency treat­ment
form, proof of medical
insurance coverage and a
student agreement form.
Personnel
Three Warwick teachers
were approved for unpaid
leaves of absence for child
care by the school board in
Tuesday night’s meeting.
Kay Wenger, a teacher at
Kissel Hill Elementary
School; Marjorie Keener, a
teacher at John Beck
Elementary School; and
Dixie Hancock, a home
economics teacher at
Warwick High School were
granted the leaves of ab­sence.
Four of the instructional
staff were granted sab­batical
leaves of absence by
the Warwick board. Whitney
L. Evans, Ruth I. Evans,
Bertha A. Roggie, and Lois
Swartzendruber, were all
approved for sabbatical
leaves of absence for the
second semester of the 1987-
88 school year for the pur­pose
of travel. According to
assistant superintendent
Dan Doremus, each of the
te a c h e r s p re s e n te d
iteneraries for their travel
which were approved by the
superintendent’s office.
The board accepted the
resignation of Audrey G.
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Wilbur Choc, balks
at Chestnut St. plans
by Bonnie Szymanski
Members of Lititz Borough
Council and Planning
Commission discovered
Tuesday th a t placing
Chestnut Street in the nor­thern
sector of the borough
isn’t going to be a simple
matter.
In the first place, observed
planning chairman Arline
Shannon, there’s already a
Chestnut Street in the
borough, so if the street goes
through, it will need a new
name.
In the second place, no one
asked owners of the property
along the street’s proposed
pathway if the street would
prove an inconvenience to
b u s in e s s or o th e r
economically-motivated ac­tivities.
Not 15 minutes into the
first fact-finding meeting -
a tten d ed by property
owners, developers of
Windsor Gardens (where the
proposed s tre e t may
someday be built), and
members of the Lititz
Borough Council and
Planning Commission --
William Shaughnessy, chief
executive officer of Wilbur
Chocolate Co., told borough
representatives: “If the
m a jo rity of (Wilbur)
p rope rty is affec ted,
lamentabley, we would have
to fight it.”
He explained that five
Wilbur loading docks are
located at the warehouse
along the proposed street,
and if the street were con­structed
as now planned,
said Shaughnessy, the docks
would be only 20 feet from
the street.
“A significant portion of
our warehouse would be
rendered useless,” said
Shaughnessy, explaining
that tractor-trailer trucks
need more than 20 feet to
maneuver.
S h au g h n e ssy s a id
engineers for Wilbur,
making quick calculations at
his request, had estimated it
would cost the company
$75,000 to recreate the five
docks at another part of the
warehouse.
Borough council members
agreed that it was not the
borough’s desire or intent to
cause major problems by
asking property owners if
they would be willing to
donate or sell land to the
borough for the construction
of the street.
“This is one thing I don’t
think any of us thought
about,” noted council
president Clyde Tshudy.
Henry Gibbel of Gibbel
Enterprises Inc., owners of
another portion of land
potentially affected by the
street construction, said .his
company was “indifferent”
about the land, which “has
no economic value. ’ ’
“We wouldn’t stand in the
way of any progress for the
borough,” he stated, noting
only that his concern would
be for the safety of children
in residential areas where
the street would pass
through.
Councilman Jeff Siegrist
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In this issue
Editorial 4
Sports Section 6,7,8,9
Classified 12,13
Social 10,11
Church 20
Manheim 15,16
Business Directory 21,22
Chief Harry Aichele
Aichele named
association
president
Warwick Township Police
Department Chief Harry
Aichele has been named
president of the Lancaster
County Chiefs of Police
Association for 1987.
Serving with him will be:
Tim Burkholder- Ephrata
Borough P .D. v ice-president;
John Sweigart-
Mt. Joy Borough P.D.,
secretary; and Rod Hart­man-
New Holland P.D.,
treasurer.
Aichele noted that the
association now has 40
members, including most of
the chiefs of the county’s
police departments, heads of
college security office, the
county sheriff, the county
detective, and represen­tatives
of the FBI, Federal
Probation and Parole office,
state attorney general office
and the district attorney’s
office.
He explained that the
purpose of the organization
is to build better relations
between various agencies
involved in law enforcement
and the courts as well as to
allow members to discuss
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R E G I S T E R A T T H E S E
P A R T I C I P A T I N G M E R C H A N T S
A&ACleaners
Benner's Pharmacy
Bicycle World
Bingeman's Clothing Store
Bingeman’s Restaurant
Bob's Save Rite
Commonwealth National Bank
D&J Video Junction
The Deli L
Dori Mae Dress Shop
Farmer's First Bank
Glad Rags Thrift Shop
Hess’s of Lititz
Home Video Center
Kreider Hardware Co.
Lippart’s of Lititz
Lititz Office Products/Lititz Book
Store
Lititz Record-Express
Lititz Sewing Center
Long & Bomberger Home Center
Long’s Mower & Hardware
McElroy Pharmacy
Penn Savings Bank
The Pewter Mug
Promises Gift & Entertainment Center
Stauffer's of Kissel Hill (Lititz Only)
Strings ’n Things
Sturgis Pretzel House
The Turquoise Shoppe
Weis Markets (Lititz Only)
White Shield Discount Center
Wilbur Chocolate Candy Outlet
Merv Zimmerman Inc. Plumbing &
Heating Showroom
Township takes precautions to protect new Rothsville well
W i l l l i v e s t o c k p o l l u t e w a t e r s y s t e m ?
by Linda A. Harris
Warwick Township
M u n ic ip a l A u th o rity
members discussed yet
another potential problem
for the proposed Rothsville
public water project and
took steps to prevent it from
becoming a reality during a
meeting Jan. 20.
L a rry Z im m e rm an ,
township engineer, informed
members that a request
currently before the town­ship’s
zoning hearing board
(it was tabled at the
December meeting and was
rescheduled for the Jan. 21
meeting) had the potential to
adversely affect the well
which will supply the
Rothsville system.
The request was made by
James D. Hess, 825 E.
The Warwick Area
Republican Committee is
seeking candidates to fill
vacancies on the May
primary ballot for a Lititz
Borough Council seat, two
school board positions and a
spot on the Warwick
Township Board of Super­visors.
According to committee
chairman Barbara Tshudy,
David Bucher, councilman
from the third ward, is not
planning to run again.
Samuel Hess and Ruth
McKennon, whose terms
expire in December of 1987,
will be on the Republican
ballot in spring. Both were
appointed to fill vacancies
last year.
Hess was appointed to fill
the vacancy left by the death
of Donald S ta u ffe r.
McKennon was appointed
when Lester Stark retired
Newport Rd., to be allowed
to convert a poultry building
to use for hogs and to
possibly spread manure
from the operation on the
land. The farm in question is
located at Clay and Pine Hill
roads and lies within the
well’s recharge area.
Zimmerman noted that the
land slopes toward the well
site.
E n g in e e r ’s R e com ­mendation
Zimmerman explained
that while it was possible
that the manure-spreading
would not affect the well’s
quality, municipal authority
members should strongly
recommend to both the
zo ing hearing board and the
township supervisors that
the petitioner be required to
from the council for reasons
of health. Stark is now
deceased.
Robert C. Smith, who until
this year had served as
chairman of the Warwick
Township Board of Super­visors,
will not run when his
term expires in December.
Contacted this week,
Smith said, “After five
years, I feel I’ve met my
obligation. I think someone
else should be assuming the
responsibility at this time.”
Voters will have the op­portunity
to vote for five
school board members in the
p rim a ry . Three have
already made a decision to
ru n a g a in : William
Flickinger, Wallace Hofferth
and Madelyn “Bunnie”
Buckwalter, who was ap­pointed
in 1986 to fill the
vacancy left by Louise
Kauffman when she moved
present expert studies
showing that it would not
affect the well as well as a
plan to prevent any possible
contamination.
Scott Cummings, a
member of the zoning
hearing board, explained
that the request had been
tabled once and that
members were indeed
concerned about the
operation’s effect on the
well.
The municipal authority
voted unanimously to follow
Zimmerman’s recom­mendation
and present a
written statement to the
zoning hearing board at
Wednesday’s meeting.
Meeting Approved
Les Andes, chairman, said
from the school district.
The remaining two seats
must be filled, said Mrs.
Tshudy.
In Elizabeth Township,
only one member of the
board of supervisors will be
running in the spring
primary. Jay R. Ober, whose
term expires in January
1988, said this week that he
plans to run again for the
supervisor’s position.
According to Mrs. Tshudy,
residents of the Warwick
School District who are
interested in being con­sidered
as candidates for the
vacant school board or
municipal government
positions are requested to
send their resumes to the
Republican committee vice
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that some reservations
concerning right-of-ways
and e a s em e n ts had
been expressed verbally by
PennDOT personnel con­cerning
the proposed
pipeline route for the new
system, but nothing had
been presented in writing.
Members authorized Zim­merman
to set up a meeting
between the authority and
PennDOT to iron out any
problems so that the
authority could proceed with
its highway occupancy
permit petition which
PennDOT must authorize.
Authorize Bids?
Following the meeting,
Andes said that he hoped
that the state Department of
Environmental Resour-ces(
DER) and the Farmers
Home Administration(FHA)
will have completed their
review of the Rothsville
plans and that PennDOT’s
reservations will have been
resolved prior to the
February meeting of the
au th o rity . Then, the
authority could conceivably
authorize advertising for
construction bids for the new
system at that meeting, he
added.
Andes noted that con­tractors
would have 30 days
to submit bids which would
then be submitted to both the
DER and the FHA for review
and approval. That review
would take an additional 60
to 90 days, so it will probably
be June before bids are
awarded and construction
can begin.
The chairman repeated
what he had said on a
number of occasions—any
estimated hook-up and user
fees were just that because
no fees can be established
before the bids are ap­proved.
Rates must be
structured to prove that the
loans can be repaid and that
the system will operate
without a loss.
Concerned Citizens
A number of residents
from the Rothsville Con­cerned
Citizens group asked
questions concerning the
system.
Patti Anonia told mem­bers
that there are a number
of citizens in Rothsville who
simply cannot afford the
connection costs or the
quarterly user fees because
they are on very small fixed
incomes. She questioned
why alternative financing
couldn’t be sought.
William C ro ssw e ll,
township solicitor, informed
her that the methods she had
suggested, such as allowing
citizens to determine what
method they would use to
pay, couldn’t be used
because they are illegal
under Pennsylvania law.
Paul Young of the RCC
thanked Crosswell because
he said that was the first
time anyone had given the
citizens a concrete ex­planation
of why optional
methods of payments were
not feasible.
Members welcomed
Donald D. Hackman to the
au th o rity and, in a
unanimous vote, selected
him as the authority
treasurer. Hackman was
appointed to the board to
serve the unexpired term of
Donald Caldwell.
In o th e r b u s in e s s ,
authority members voted to
approve:
• purchase of a truck crane
for $1,800. The equipment
had been budgeted for $2,500.
• the revised water and
sewer budget.
• provide water service for
the Spruce Creek Apart­ments
on Brunnerville Road.
Will try for second term Crow shoot begins today
by Linda A. Harris
Warwick area Republicans
seek candidates for primary
Garrett is candidate
for district justice
Milk Helt is ready to begin controlled crow shoot.
James L. Garrett, 6 Ridge
Drive, said this week that he
intends to run again as a
candidate for district justice
for the magisterial district
that includes Lititz Borough,
Warwick and Elizabeth
townships.
Garrett has served this
area as district justice since
February 1981, when he was
appointed by Gov. Richard
Thornburgh upon recom­mendation
of the Warwick
Area Republican Committee
to replace deceased Justice
Sharron Simpkins.
In the following November
election, Garrett was elected
to a six-year term, which
will expire in January 1988.
Garrett, who is originally
from Indiana, attended the
University of Indiana before
becoming an insurance
salesman, specializing in life
and group policies.
Before becoming district
magistrate here, Garrett
was a sales manager for an
insurance company, later
becoming a local in­dependent
agent.
Following his appointment
by the governor, Garrett
completed state certification
requirements for district
justices.
He also continues to fulfill
the 32 hours of education
required annually for
district justices through
attendance at a week-long
session at Wilson College in
Chambersburg.
Garrett said he considers
the case load for his office
moderate. As district
justice, he presides over
summary offenses, in­cluding
motor vehicle and
non-traffic cases.
He also presides over
preliminary hearings for
criminal cases and makes
judgements in civil cases up
to $4,000.
Finally, Justice Garrettt
performs weddings, “lots of
them; more than I ex­pected,”
he noted.
Garrett is currently active
in the county, district and
state associations of district
justices. He is past president
and board member of the
Lititz Rotary Club and
currently serves on the
board of trustees of the Lititz
Moravian congregation.
He and his wife, Dorothy,
are the parents of two
married sons.
Peaceful means to con­vince
thousands of crows to
leave the borough have not
met with success due
primarily to a lack of con­certed
effort by borough
residents.
So starting Thursday
(today), Jan. 22, at 5 p.m.
“Crowman” and dozens of
other registered marksmen
will try a decidedly less
peaceful method—shooting.
Team Captain
“Crowman,” a.k.a. Mike
Helt, is among the borough’s
most experienced crow
shooters having started
about five years ago helping
suburban and rural friends
rid their properties of the
black-feathered pests. He
was a team captain during
last year’s borough shoot
and is one of five captains
for this year’s programs.
“Crowman,” so-named by
friends because of his
knowledge of the scavengers
and his pursuit to learn more
in order to help rid the
borough of them, is quick to
point out that the shoot is not
designed to kill all the crows
in the borough, but to con­vince
them to leave.
Health Hazards
“I don’t enjoy killing living
things just for the sake of
killing them, but we’ve got to
decide whether we want to
continue to let them roost by
the thousands in the borough
and take a chance on health
hazards to say nothing of the
unsightly mess and the awful
noise,” he explained.
Helt noted that last year’s
shoot was not the first time
crows had been shot. He
explained that his father had
told him that at one time
there was a bounty on crows.
“We’ve come a way since
then,” he asserted.
“Crowman,” said his own
patrols to locate the favorite
roosting areas of the beady-eyed
pests indicate that once
again, the Linden Hall
campus is a major area and
that the northern end of the
borough is also heavily in­fested.
Crows Victims
He also acknowledges that
crows are victims, in a way,
of society’s prejudice. Their
large size (they average
between 14 and 18 inches),
pitch black feathers and
habits do not endear them to
many, including birdlovers.
However, he warns, people
cannot let sympathy rule
when the birds regularly
tear open trash bags and
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