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Traffic screeched to a standstill Tuesday af­ternoon
when a mother duck leading nine newly-hatched
ducklings took off toward the stream
across Main Street. Aided by Richard Vetter,
owner of the General Sutter Inn, the duck family
did make it across the street-but not without some
coaxing...
“ That way. You want to go that way,” Vetter explains to the mother duck as
she stops outside White Shield for a breather.
Traffic stops on Main Street
as man leads ducks to water
by the Record editorial staff
A corrupted version of the
patriotic “Stars and Stripes
Forever” march begins:
“Be kind to your fine
feathered friends....”
Richard Vetter, owner of
the General Sutter Inn on
Lititz Square takes those
words seriously. Twice this
season, he’s adopted mother
ducks nesting in a secluded
area near the hotel.
As ducks-in-waiting, both
lived the gourmet’s life.
Vetter daily ordered fresh
halibut, blue or flounder for
them and kept their water
bowls filled.
Few people knew the first
duck family was there, so
well had she hidden her
unborn brood.
When they emerged from
the egg state, Mother Duck
number one took her
ducklings on a long night’s
journey to the Lititz Run
rippling through the middle
of town.
Vetter and his employees
thought they’d seen the last
of ducks nesting in what had
become known as “the
maternity ward.”
That was in early spring.
By late May, another batch
of eggs was being kept warm
by another mother duck.
Vetter and company began
the second vigil. The daily
delivery of halibut, blue and
flounder chunks was
renewed.
Visiting was not en­couraged,
but as more and
more neighbors discovered
the duck’s nesting place, it
became the norm to see
people bending over,
directing a form of baby-talk
into the bushes by the
General Sutter.
On Monday, duck number
two became the mother of
nine fuzzy ducklings.
Leaving the nest
T h e r e ’s a p o p u la r
children’s book by Robert
McCormick called “Make
Way for Ducklings.”
It’s about a family of
ducks who decides to live in
the city and how a friendly
police officer stops traffic
for the family of ducklings to
safely cross the street.
On Monday, fact mirrored
fiction as ducklings bom by
the side of the Sutter took to
the streets of Lititz.
Vetter said later he knew
from experience with duck
number one that the mother
duck would take her brood
down to the stream. But he
thought she’d wait until the
early morning hours, as her
predecessor had done.
Unfortunately, when word
got around that the new
babies had pushed their way
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..."See I told you she could understand English,”
Vetter quips to passersby as the feathered en­tourage
regroups and heads for the stream.
Bypass,
alternatives
discussed
by Linda A. Harris
Increasing numbers of
vehicles causing in­terminable
delays for
motorists traveling routes
501 and 72 may be just a hint
of things to come if planners
and residents don’t begin to
address the issues now.
That seemed to be the only
concrete conclusion reached
June 18 as approximately 100
residents, businessmen,
municipal officials, county
planners, a PennDOT of­ficial
and a county com­missioner
met at Warwick
Middle School to discuss
travel in and out of Lititz and
Manheim.
The meeting was the latest
of four initiated by Warwick
Township Supervisor Roy
Irvin and Lititz Borough
Councilman Russ Pettyjohn.
Previous meetings bet­ween
municipal officials in
March and April and a
public meeting in May
resulted in maps showing
present roadways and
possible spurs and bypasses.
Those ideas were the jump-off
point of the June 18
meeting.F
uture issues
After a brief introduction
of the discussions held to
date, Pettyjohn turned the
meeting over to John R.
Ahlfeld, county planning
commission director, who
explained that the county
was presently in the process
of updating the county
comprehensive plan.
Ahlfeld noted that future
plans for routes 501 and 72,
including a possible bypass,
is one of three issues which
must be addressed in the
next six months by the
county planners. The other
two issues are the routes 23
and 30 connection and the old
beltway concept for Lan­caster.
He said he was pleased by
the large turnout and hoped
that such meetings would
help county planners come
up with an idea they could
present to PennDOT.
“We must speak with a
unified voice if we are to get
anything accomplished,” he
asserted.
A number of those at­tending
questioned the cost
of a bypass, the time such a
project would take and the
effect on the economies of
Lititz and Manheim.
Mixed emotions
Dan Lane, Manheim
Borough secretary, noted
that he had spoken with a
number of individuals and
businessmen in his com-
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For over two centuries, Moravian Church
Square has remained a tranquil oasis of constancy
in a changing world.
Moravian Church celebrates
sanctuary’s 200th year
by Linda A. Harris
Because the history of
Lititz and of the Lititz
Moravian Church areclosely
interwoven, members of the
historic congregation are
inviting residents to join
them for an eight-day
celebration to mark the
dedication of the present
sanctuary 200 years ago.
The Rev. Roger Knisely,
pastor of the congregation,
which was organized Feb..9,
1749, recently released
details of the celebration,
including the writing of a
new a n th em , a
congregational dinner, the
return of the Pageant of
Light and Sound, first shown
in Lititz in honor of the
Bicentennial in 1976. In
addition, a special pageant
has been written by three
members and will be
presented by a cast of 35.
Theme Announced
The theme of the event is
“Recalling the Past ■ - -
Building for the Future.” On
Aug. 9, Holy Communion will
be observed at the 8 a.m. and
10:30 a.m. services, while
the Pageant of Light and
Sound, “If These Walls
Could Speak,” will be
presented at Church Square
at 9 p.m. The pageant will
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also be presented Aug. 10-12
at 9 p.m.
On Aug. 13 at 8 p.m., on the
a n n iv e r s a ry of the
dedication, the congregation
will present the pageant,
“Historical Sketches in the
Life of the Lititz Moravian
Church. The one-hour
program will be followed by
the Pageant of Light and
Sound at 9 p.m.
On Aug. 14, a
congregational dinner will
be held at the Warwick
Middle School cafeteria at 6
p.m., followed by an an­niversary
program at the
Warwick Middle School
auditorium at 7 p.m. The
Pageant of Light and Sound
will be presented at Church
Square at 9 p.m.
On Aug. 15, the church
p age ant, “ Historical
Sketches in the Life of the
Lititz Moravian Church,”
will be presented at 8 p.m.,
followed by the Pageant in
Light and Sound at 9 p.m.
Both will be presented at
Church Square.
The celebration concludes
Aug. 16 with an anniversary
Lovefeast at 10 a.m. at the
church and the Pageant of
Light and Sound at Church
Square at 9 p.m.
Members Write
“Historical Sketches in the
Life of the Lititz Moravian
Church,” written by
members Daniel Graybill
Jr., Bob Derek and Dale
Shelley, looks at the history
in both a serious and in a
light-hearted way, according
to Shelley. Thirty-five
m em b e rs of th e
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Moravian arch to be dedicated Sunday
by Becky Collins
“Selig sind die Zodten die
in dem Herm sterben” is the
German verse inscribed on
the archway leading visitors
into the tranquility of God’s
Acre. On the reverse side of
the archway is the English
v e r s e , “ I am the
Resurrection and the Life.”
The archway’s scriptural
message is not only ap­plicable
for its placement at
the entrance to the Moravian
cemetery, its place in Lititz
history has been retraced
and is as solid as the
limestone pillars which
provide its support.
The first burial at God’s
Acre was a three-year-old
child who was buried in the
field on November 8,1758. At
that time a low wall of loose
fieldstones surrounded the
cemetery.
The wall was in place until
sometime in the period 1810
to 1820 when this stone wall
was replaced by a neat fence
of pales and a noble entrance
gate. The arched top of the
gate on the side of approach
was inscribed with the
G e rm an te x t from
Revelations 14:13b.
The archway stood at the
entrance to God’s Acre for
approximately 30 years.
Around 1850, the arch was
removed without any at­tempt
at restoration.
Interest in erecting a
second arch at the entrance
swelled during the 1960s to
1980s. A committee was
appointed in 1982 to in­vestigate
the various types
of arches in use in other
God’s Acres in Europe and
North America and the real
work began in earnest.
Money for the archway
was provided through
memorial donations from
the Lititz Congregation.
The new archway will be
dedicated during the 10:30
service on Sunday, June 28.
According to the Rev. Roger
A. Knisely, senior pastor of
the Moravian Congregation,
the regular service will
begin in the church sanc­tuary
and will process to the
entrance to God’s Acre for
the dedication ceremony.
Rev. Knisely will speak on
the “One Church” em­phasizing
the body of the
church as including those
members who have gone
before and those who now
embody the congregation.
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The tranquility of God’s Acre is framed by the new Moravian Memorial Arch.
The arched entryway into the cemetery has a long history and is the result of
untiring efforts by members of the Lititz Congregation. The arch will be
dedicated during a special ceremony on Sunday.
Expansion plans detailed for Kissel Hill Elementary
by Becky Collins
Architectural plans for the
expansion of Kissel Hill
Elementary were unveiled
during a public meeting
Monday by architect Tom
Marsenkowski, an architect
with the firm of Reese,
Lower, Patrick and Scott.
The new two-story ad­dition
will add over 23
thousand square feet to the
existing structure, divided
into ten classrooms. The
addition will be located on
the southeast side of the
existing facility and will cost
the school district an
estimated $2,165,000.
In his presentation to the
public during Monday
night’s Act 34 hearing, Dr.
John R. Bonfield, superin­tendent
of schools, noted that
rapid population growth in
the school district has made
expansion projects at Kissel
Hill and John Beck
Elementary schools a
necessity.
Plans for the expansion
project were presented to
th e D e p a rtm e n t of
Education on June 1. “The
DOE felt that our plans for
the expansion were right on
schedule according to our
needs,” Bonfield com­mented.
“The only change
they thought needed to be
made was to construct ad-ditonal
space in the school
library,” he added.
That suggestion has been
implemented into thp ar­chitect’s
plans which now
call for an additional 1,700
square feet in the library.
The district has begun to
consider plans for additions
at the high school, as studies
indicate a continually
growing popilation in the
Warwick are?.
Those same figures show
an increase from the present
student cenr us of 451 to 506
by the 1988-39 school year at
Kissel Hill Elementary.
They indicate a slight drop in
student population at
Warwick High School that
year although the projected
figures rise by over one
hundred students the next
year.
According to the school
district’s time line, bids for
the construction project at
Kissel Hill Elementary will
be awarded at their January
19,1988 meeting.
Construction on the
project is to begin during the
Spring of 1988 with com­pletion
expected by the
beginning of school in
September.