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Inside today’s Record
What is Lititz’ best kept secret? Perhaps you
know about the extensive art collection at Moravian
Manor, but did you know that there are 398 original
paintings and signed, numbered prints? Did you
know the collection is a memorial? The story about
the art collection in on page 22.
Where are the best hoppers in Lititz. The Lititz
Rec Center of course! The Rec Center Kids had a
hopping good time this week as they raised money
for the Easter Seals handicapped children program.
Their different styles o f hopping may be viewed on
page 19.
it was rodeo at its best as the After School Kids
program at John Beck Elementary performed the
dances, songs, and feats of skill that make a rodeo
an American institution. Pictures of the per­formance
are on page 17.
Tickets are available at area businesses for the
“Champions Salute" to benefit the Stephanie Myers
Transplant Fund. For an update on the banquet, to
be attended by nationally known sports figures, see
page 4.
Robin Miller is this year's Outstanding Young
Educator in the Warwick School District She
received her award at the recent Jaycee service
award banquet. See page 2 for pictures.
Boro backs contest
for best essay
On U.S, Constitution’s 200th
Warwick Township
recycling approved
James B. Shultz, com­mander
of Lititz Springs
VFW Post 1463, has
presented borough council
with the kick-off donation for
an award fund for prizes in
the Lititz Borough U.S.
Constitution Competition.
Following acceptance of
the check, presented at the
Feb. 10 borough council
meeting, councilman David
Bucher explained the pur­pose
behind the proposed
essay contest.
Stating that the com­petition
was being sponsored
by the borough in 1987 to
recognize the 200th an­niversary
of the U.S. Con­stitution,
Bucher said
contestants would be asked
to “Describe how our life
would be different if one of
the important elements of
our Constitution had been
omitted.”
Essays are to be limited to
500 words or fewer, typed or
handwritten clearly and
turned in to the Lititz
Borough office no later’than
May 29.
All entrants must be
residents of the borough.
Three divisions for entries
include: school age, high
school and younger; adult, to
age 64; and senior, age 65
and above.
Contest rules also state
that a writer may submit up
to three entries in the
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Rothsville water system
stalls as supervisors
seek access permits
by Linda A. Harris
Warwick Township
s u p e rv is o r s r e c e n tly
authorized the township’s
solicitor, William Crosswell,
to investigate the reasons
PennDOT turned down the
township’s highway access
permit needed for water line
c o n s tru c tio n in th e
Rothsville area.
Les Andes, municipal
authority chairman, told
supervisors at the Feb. 4
meeting that the permit had
been denied and he
recommended that the
township investigate taking
over the roads in question.
Without taking over the
roads or securing the
highway access permit, the
township will be unable to go
forward with the proposed
public water system for
Rothsville, he noted.
The highway access
permit is needed to lay water
lines beneath the roadbed.
The roads in question are
now designated state roads
and the state has opted to
deny permission for the
construction. PennDOT is
supposed to have invoked a
state law prohibiting laying
new utility lines beneath
state roads or beneath
PennDOT right of ways.
The roads in question are:
Rothsville Road from
Newport Road and Main
Street to Clay Road;
Newport Road from
Rothsville Road west to Clay
Road; Church Street from
Main Street east to Disston
View; and Newport Road
and Main Street from the
West Earl Township line
west to Rothsville Road.
If the township assumes
control of the roads, it will
then be responsible for
future maintenance and
snow removal.
by Linda A. Harris
Warwick Township
supervisors recently ap­proved
a plan presented by
Steve Rohrbaugh, Water
Street Rescue Mission
program director, to add a
number of township streets
to the curbside recycling
program rim by the Lan­caster
center.
Rohrbaugh told super­visors
that the Lititz-
Warwick area residents are
highly committed to
recycling as evidenced by
the participation in the
recycling center at the
township garage area. He
noted that since the mission
took over the center, for­merly
run by the boy scouts,
collections have been
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Members of the Rotary board of directors and
officers include, front row, left to right, Bruce
Caldwell, Garth Becker, Bill Graser, Gil Sawyer,
Robert Gibble; center, Roy Brubaker and Curvin
Smith; back row, Tim Henry, Frank Judd, Tom
Oehme, Gordon Burkey and Robert Martin.
Lititz Rotary celebrates 61 years
marked by 'service above self’
In this issue
Editorial
Sports Section
Classified
Social
Church
Manheim
4
6,7,8
20,21
10,11
16
14,15
Business Directory 18,19
The Lititz Rotary Club
celebrated its 61st an­niversary
at the end of 1986.
Through the annual an­tique
show, craft show,
travelogue series and per­sonal
donations, the Lititz
Rotary Club has been able to
donate $94,049 to various
charities and community
organizations since 1981. Of
this $94,049, $76,329 has gone
d ir e c tly to L ititz
organizations. On the
receiving end have been the
Lititz Rec Center, Lititz
Springs Park, Lititz Public
Library, Lititz Fire Co.,
Warwick Community
Ambulance, Lititz Com­munity
Chest, Lititz Fire
Police, Lititz Community
Band, the Gate House and
the Lititz Little League.
Also receiving funds from
the Lititz Rotary Club are
the American Field Service,
the Rotary Exchange, and
the International Exchange -
Experiment in International
Living. These programs
allow Lititz students to study
abroad and give foreigners a
chance to live in Lititz. The
Juveniles involved in serious crimes
at earlier ages, officers assert by Linda A. Harris
Juveniles are becoming
involved in crim in a l
behavior in greater numbers
and at earlier ages, ac­co
rd in g to Warwick
Township and Lititz Borough
police officers.
Officer Ed Tobin, Warwick
Township P.D., served as a
juvenile corrections officer
for a year in Berks County
and has been a juvenile law
specialist for two of the three
years he’s been with the
township department.
He noted that in his five
years as a police officer (he
served with the Pine Grove
police before accepting a
position with the township)
and in his corrections work,
he has seen juveniles in­volved
in everything from
minor mischief to two 16-
year-olds being held at the
Berks County Youth
Detefttion Center for mur­der.
Minor Offenses
“The majority of the kids
here are well-behaved and
even when we do have
contact with them, most are
for relatively minor of­fenses.
We get the full
cooperation of the parents in
95 percent of the cases and
on a first offense, we can
usually handle it informally
n
V r
Officer Tobin
within the department. We
rarely see those same kids a
second time,” Tobin ex­plained.
Tobin, who decided that he
wanted to work with
juveniles while a corrections
officer, sees those statistics
as the bright side of his job.
The dark side is charac­terized
by his frustration in
trying to get help for two
nine-year-old boys who are
responsible for 43 percent of
Officer Shenenberger
the criminal mischief and 29
percent of the thefts the
d ep a rtm en t’s officers
“cleared” or solved in 1986.
“We’ve tried everything—
they can’t be criminally
prosecuted until they are 10
and we’ve recently been
turned down on a request for
counseling for them,” he
explained.
Survival Knives
According to Tobin, the
most serious of the
numerous offenses in which
the boys have been involved
is chasing other youngsters
with survival knives. He has
confiscated the knives.
“ I ’ve n e v e r had
youngsters this young in­volved
in the amount of
criminal activity as these
two, even at the Berks center
which handled kids from 10
to 17,” he declared.
He added that the figures
attributable to the two boys
significantly affect the
township’s overall statistics
for juvenile crimes. “It
lowers the average age for
criminal involvement and
raises the percentages for
juvenile crime, especially in
the areas of criminal
mischief and theft,” he
explained.
Costly Crimes
While most people don’t
think about the amount of
damage done by juveniles,
Tobin noted that the average
criminal mischief incident
attributed to juveniles
resulted in a loss of $78.21
and that of the juvenile
criminal mischief incidents
cleared, there was $3,279 in
damages with only $1,628
recovered. The average
juvenile theft incident
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Lititz club also sponsors four
Warwick juniors at the
Rotary Leadership Camp
held each June at Messiah
College.
Student Loan
Fund
The Lititz Rotary Club
began to process student
loans in 1946, starting with a
total of $450.
Today that modest amount
has grown into a revolving
loan fund of more than
$61,000, including more than
$60,000 in outstanding loans
to 40 individuals.
In 1986, the club was able
to grant loans to all ap­plicants.
The maximum loan
per student per year is $750,
although not all students
receive that amount and not
all students receive a loan
for each year of study.
A recent report from the
club lists 110 students who
have received the Rotary
Student Loans. Out of this
number, only two loans were
not paid back into the
revolving fund.
Over the years, the
revolving fund has grown not
only through member
donations, but also by means
of interest paid by students
who have used the monies.
Money for the fund also
comes from R o ta ry
travelogues and the annual
Rotary-sponsored craft
show.
Although applicants must
be residents of the Warwick
School District, colleges and
curriculum s a re not
restricted.
The remaining $17,720 of
the $94,049 total has been
shared between Camp
Harmony Hall and the
Rotary In te rn a tio n a l
Foundation. Camp Harmony
Hall, located between
Elizabethtown and Mid­dletown,
has been in
existence for almost 40
years. Each summer,
physically disabled children
from all over south central
Pennsylvania enjoy the
activities and friendship at
the camp.
The Lititz Rotary Club has
been supporting Camp
Harmony Hall not only
financially but also with
manpower. Each spring,
club members volunteer
time to prepare the camp for
another season. This past
year, the Lititz club paid for
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McDonald’s seeks
speedy court action
averaging five to six times
weekly. “We can’t go more
than two days without
emptying the facilities,” he
explained.
Supervisor Roy Irvin
declared that the two sheds
facing Main Street, have
been the best he’s seen them
in 10-to-12 years.
Rohrbaugh proposed
beginning curbside service
sometime in May and
possibly expanding the
curbside program in the late
summer.
Among the initial streets
to be included are: Pinewood
Avenue, Buttonwood Drive,
Sensenich Drive, Green Acre
Road (from Orange Street to
Sensenich Drive), Becker
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by Linda A. Harris
“McDonald’s position is
that we want to get to trial
and get a decision as early as
possible,” according to
James H. Thomas of
Blakinger, Byler, Grove,
Thomas and Chillas, P.C.,
McDonald’s local counsel.
Thomas, responding to
questions on the McDonald’s
suit against Warwick
Township and its super­visors,
declared th a t
“McDonald’s doesn’t decide
to go into a location lightly.
It looks carefully for a good
location and a safe one. After
all, the people who work and
eat there are of a concern to
the corporation.”
He added that the cor­poration
officials felt that
they had met and even ex­ceeded
all the regulations
and requirements for ap­proval
of its subdivision
pían. “McDonald’s has tried
very hard to resolve the
issues brought up in regard
to the plan,” he said.
Thomas explained that
corporate officials and its
local engineers, Huth, met
with planning commission
officials and had met all the
concerns expressed by
members. “You know the
people on this planning
commission are very
knowledgeable, sophis­ticated
people. They studied
the plan very carefully and
m ad e a n um b e r of
suggestions and comments
which the corporation later
met or exceeded in its final
amended plan,” he asserted.
Thomas said that in his
opinion, the supervisors
erred in turning down the
plan as amended. “The
ordinance sets up very
specific, objective standards
and those standards apply
uniformly. Plans can’t be
turned down for a nebulous
reason, such as health and
safety. Supervisors are
required by law to cite
specific ordinances and
sections for denying plans,”
he explained.
According to Thomas, “if
you start making new rules
on a case-by-case basis, you
may as well not have an
ordinance. If they had
wanted two points of access
to Rt. 501, they should have
put it in the ordinance to
begin with, ” a reference to
the supervisors’ suggestion
of a new street for access
b e tw e en M cD o n a ld ’s
proposed site and the
remainder of the Keller
property.
Thomas said that it now
remains for the court to
decide if the supervisors
fulfilled the letter of the law
in taking action within the
ninety-day period and
notifying the petitioner
within that time frame of the
specific reasons for thè
decision. He said that he had
received the copy of the
supervisors’ Dec. 22, 1986,
letter Feb. 4 and had not as
yet studied it in detail.
He concluded “ Mc­Donald’s
record on safety
concerns speaks for itself.”
James Wenger named
to planning commission
Lititz Borough Council has
appointed James Wenger,
262 S. Cedar St., to fill the
Lititz Planning Commission
vacancy left by the
resignation of Grant Smith,
who has moved from the
borough.
Wenger is a landscape
architect with the Lititz firm
of D e rek & Edson
Associates, 33 S. Broad St.
He is a graduate of the
P e n n s y lv a n ia S ta te
University.
In other business, council
returned a planning module
to Huth Engineers without
taking action, stating, “We
believe we should not be
participating until such time
as the subdivision is ap­proved.”
The Warwick Township
Board of Supervisors
recently turned down ap­proval
for the McDonald’s
subdivision plan. The
borough was presented with
the planning module for
action because the tract of
land that includes the
proposed McDonald’s
subdivision extends into the
borough.
•Public works director Dave
Anderson reported that 1,052
Christmas trees had been
collected and turned into
mulch following the recent
holiday season.
•Council has authorized the
police department to pur­chase
a Chevrolet cruiser
from the state at a cost of
$13,573.60.
Lititz police chief James
Fritz told council that he will
be including borough crime
clearance rates on his 1987
police reports.
In otheF police business,
council approved a request
for Officer Doug Shertzer to
attend a basic crime scene
investigation seminar, Feb.
24-26, at Harrisburg Area
Community College, at a $15
cost for meals, plus mileage.
•Cousins Investments Inc.,
developers of Windsor
Gardens, reported that the
borough’s recent request to
relocate Chestnut Street
entirely onto the develop­ment
tract would mean that
two 12-unit buildings would
have to be relocated on the
Windsor Gardens plans.
Cousins’ newest plans are
before the Lititz Planning
Commission p en d in g
comments from the Lan­caster
County Planning
Commission.
•Council approved sub­division
plans for the
proposed Evangelical
Christian Church on
Newport Road at the in­tersection
of Oxford Drive,
subject to approval from the
county planning com­mission.
•Council also approved the
subdivision plan for the
George Biemesderfer tract
for an expanded parking
area on West Second
Avenue.
Clay Manor plans approved
by County Planning Commission
by Becky Collins
It’s back to the drawing
boards for developers of
Clay Manor, a proposed
housing development in
Elizabeth Township.
Preliminary plans for the
housing development were
approved by the Lancaster
County Planning Com­mission
on Monday, con­tingent
upon the developer
meeting 15 diffe ren t
requirements and sub­mitting
five more items to
the commission.
In c lu d e d in th e
requirements are the
redesign of ten lots to con­form
to lot configuration,
frontage, and/or radiai
lineage ordinances.
The developer was also
informed by the Planning
Commission that his request
for a waiver on planting a
visual and sound buffer on
the property abutting Route
322 was denied based on the
Commission’s feeling that
buffer planting was a
necessary provision by the
developer and not the future
lot owner.
The Planning Commission
sta ted th a t while it
recognizes an elevation
difference between the rear
yard area and the abutting
major street, the planted
buffer will result in aesthetic
improvement to the lots.
Barry Berger, chairman
of the Elizabeth Township
Planning Commission stated
that he was pleased with the
decision of the county
planners. On Jan. 21, the
Elizabeth Township Plan­ning
Commi. ■' "n refused to
recommend approval for the
preliminary plans because
of lot size requirements and
the request for a waiver of
the buffer planting or­dinance.
“I feel very good, at least
the county did listen to the
township planners,” Berger
remarked. He added that the
county planning commission
had studied the plans in
detail before making any
ruling reg ard in g the
proposed housing project.
Community Sewage System
Clay Manor, which will be
constructed on a 20-acre
triangular tract of rural
property east of Brubaker
Valley Road and south of
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