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Inside today9s Record
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Michelle Stauffer wanted her wedding day to be espe­cially
memorable for her and her new husband, David
Deckard. Read about their unusual mode of transporta­tion
on page 9.
Lt. Col Oliver North is featured in a non-interview in
today’s Record. Read about how a small-town editor
Intrudes on the space of a man whose name is known to
virtually every American. See page 4.
The Warwick Marching Band will spend a memorable
holiday season in England marching in London’s Big
Parade on New Year’s Day. The story about how they
were selected is on page 20.
Suzle Slms-Fletcher has her own Brighton Beach
memories. A temporary teacher for exchange students
this summer, she shares some of her adventures with us
on page 20.
Transportation to and from school is of prime impor­tance
for students who reside in the country. Bus sche­dules
for the 1987-88 school year maybe found on page
13. Parents are urged to clip and save them for future
use.
Stauffer’s of Kissel Hill has a new customer service
designed to give its special customers a lift. Mart Cart,
the world’s first electronically powered shopping cart, is
available at the Lititz store. Read about it on page 15.
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Community center fund-raiser
Phone-a-thon to begin
During the week of Sept.
14-18, volunteers from the
Lititz Community Center
will be holding a phone-a-thon
to begin the “Individual
Contributors” fund-raising
campaign.
Between 5 and 9 p.m.,
over 6500 households in
Warwick School District
will be contacted and asked
for contributions to the com­munity
center. The goal is to
add $500,000 to the building
fund.
“The. Community Center
Board of Directors’ inten­tion
is to construct this new
facility without using any
municipal resources,” noted
Executive Director Fred
Carman.
“The financial commit­ments
made and pledged by
businesses and individuals,
coupled with the sale of the
recreation center building
have been very generous.
What remains is a final one-third
of anticipated costs,
which we hope to meet
through further commit­ments
by individuals,” he
reported.
Commenting further,
Garman said, “The sum of
$500,000 may seem like an
ambitious undertaking, but it
is a realistic goal that resi­dents
of the borough and Eli­zabeth
and Warwick town­ships
can meet. To put it in
perspective, if every family
in the school district could
commit at least one day’s
income for each of the next
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Construction on the eight-room addition at John Beck Elementary is near­ing
completion, and three of the classrooms will be ready for classes on the
first day of school.
three years, we would
adequately fund a center that
would benefit our communi­ty
for the rest of ours and our
children’s lifetimes.”
The fundraising cam­paign
provides opportunities
for commemorative giving
over a wide range and
includes just about any
aspect of the facility or its
equipment, from swimming
pool to exercise equipment
to day-care supplies. Oppor­tunities
for memorializing or
recognition are available at
various donation levels.
Donation levels of $250
and above will entitle the
donor to have his/her name
engraved on a special brass
plaque with donors from the
same level and placed some­where
in the new communi­ty
center.
Donor levels include:
$250 and above, “Friends of
Lititz Community Center”;
$1,000 and above, “Patrons
of the Lititz Community
Center”; $5,000 and above,
“Benefactors of the Lititz
Community Center”; and
donations of $25,000 and
above will entitle the donor
to become part of a group
called “Founders Associates
of the Lititz Community
Center in honor of Ralph R.
Spacht and I. Walton
Bobst.”
Confidentiality will be
honored by donors who
request it.
Coordinating the phone-a-
thon’s volunteer recruit­ment
is Skip Clair. “I’m
always amazed at the will­ingness
of people to give of
their time and energy for civ­ic
activity,” said Skip, not­ing
“the new community
center will be built by Lititz,
not for Lititz, and that is
something to be proud of.”
She commented further,
“I hope people will give seri­ous
thought before they are
called to the contribution or
pledge they can make.”
The Lititz Community
Center will be kicking off
the phone-a-thon campaign
with an old-fashioned Pep
Rally at the Warwick High
School football field on Fri­day,
Sept. 11, at 6:45 p.m.
The Warwick High School
Marching Band will be on
hand to take part in the rally.
Dog bites
officer
Lititz Borough police
are searching for a
medium sized dog
resembling a German
Shepherd with a short
tan coat and a black col­lar
and tags. The dog bit
Officer Harry Yoch-um’s
hand as Yochum
was attempting to place
the dog in a patrol car
near Keller Brothers
Ford.
Yochum had been on
a routine business check
at Meridan Bank Aug.
24 about 12:45 p.m.
when a teenage girl
approached him and
told him she found the
dog wandering in the
area. After biting Yoch­um,
the dog fled in the
direction of Sixth Street.
Yochum and other
officers searched the
area, but failed to locate
the dog. Yochum has
been advised by medical
personnel that if the dog
is not located within the
next week, he will have
to begin a series of anti­rabies
injections.
Anyone having infor­mation
is asked to con­tact
Lititz Borough
Police at 626-0231
Smoke detector ordinance
remains on table by Bonnie Szymanski
“It’s very interesting to
note that the founding
fathers of our town of Lititz
in the 1700s had an obvious
concern for the fire safety of
the residents; they required
every resident to clean his
chminey no less than three
times per year.”
In a final attempt to con­vince
Lititz Borough Coun­cil
to approve a smoke detec­tor
ordinance for the bor­ough,
Councilman Jeffrey
Siegrist, a member of the
Lititz Fire Department,
made a plea for passage of
the measure Tuesday before
council opened the meeting
to public discussion.
Jim Shultz, commander of
the Lititz Springs Veterans
of Foreign Wars, observed
that purchase and installa­tion
of smoke detectors
might be a hardship for some
residents, especially the
elderly.
He suggested: “...maybe
between the fire company
and the VFW and the Legion
in this community, we might
be able to do something to
help the situation,” adding
“maybe ...we can come up
with some money to get
enough smoke detectors at
cost and sell them at cost....”
Council President Clyde
Tshudy has consistently
backed the concept of smoke
detectors but has disap­proved
of an ordinance
requiring residents to install
smoke detectors or face a
fine.
Following Shultz’s offer,
he noted: “We’re beginning
to get the input that I wanted
two months ago.”
Siegrist assured Tshudy
that the fire company is will­ing
to assist residents in the
installation and use of
smoke detectors and that, in
fact, fire company members
installed 400 smoke detec­tors
in the home of local
senior citizens several years
ago.
The detectors were pro­vided
by the county Office
of Aging and installed free
of charge by the fire com­pany,
stated Siegrist
“I understand from what I
read in the Lititz Record that
you were thinking about
having someone come into
your house and check to see
if you have smoke detec­tors,”
began Pat Rhoads, 116
Front St.
“This I’m against” she
asserted.
“That was just kind of
brought out in discussion,”
replied Siegrist. “We really
don’t have anyone to do
th at,” he assured her,
observing that the borough
has a grass and weed height
ordinance, “however, we
don’t send someone around
to measure it.”
“If you don’t mow your
lawn and the neigbor com­plains,
then somebody com­es
around,“ he added.
Continuing his argument
the councilman told her: “If
you complain your landlord
hasn’t intailed smoke detec­tors,
then somebody can
come around and check.”
Leroy Emmerich, 25 W.
Marion St, criticized the fire
company for being “lax in
their education” regarding
smoke detectors.
“Now I think we need
education rather than a law,“
continued Emmerich.
Siegrist countered that in
his opinion, there will con­tinue
to be many people
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Spacht Funeral Home to merge with Groff
R. William Spacht, owner
of Spacht Funeral Home,
127 S. Broad St., has
announced plans for a mer­ger
with Groff Funeral
Homes, Lancaster. Under
terms of the agreement the
Lititz facility will continue
i to operate under its estab­lished
name. Spacht wilt
remain as full-time licensed
supervisor.
Spacht, who said the mer­ger
has been under discus­sion
for several months
noted, “ I expect to be here
for quite a few years in the
future.”
In a related move, Groff
was appointed licensed fun­eral
director Stephen J.
Montpetit to manage the
new acquisition. Montipetit,
who has worked with Spacht
for three years, attended
Pennsylvania State Univer­sity
and has completed mor­tuary
work at Catonsville
Community College in
Maryland. A resident of
R. William Spacht
Ephrata, he said he plans to
move to Lititz with his wife,
Lisa, and their two sons
when the merger is finalized.
Commenting on the mer­ger,
Spacht noted that the
firm’s funeral service to the
community will be main­tained
just as in the past.
“We’re glad to have the
opportunity to continue our
tradition of excellent service
in conjunction with the
Groff family,” he declared.
Robert F. Groff Jr.
Spacht Funeral Home has
been a part of the Lititz com­munity
since 1875. Original­ly
founded by William Enck,
it was purchased by Spacht’s
father, Ralph M., in 1919.
Spacht, a licensed funeral
director since 1951, pur­chased
the business from his
father in 1963.
The Groff family, with
over 85 years’ experience in
Stephen J. Montpetit
the business is now in its
fourth generation of service
.to Lancaster County. Groff
currently operates three area
funeral homes - Fred F.
Groff Inc., Lancaster; C.
Stanley Eckenroth Home for
Funerals, Terre Hill; and
Groff High & Eckenroth
Funeral Home, New Hol­land
— as well as the Man-eval
Funeral Home in
Williamsport.
School, students
prepare for new year
by Becky Collins
Back to school.
Those three words evoke
memories of tight new
shoes, unblemished blue
jeans and children day­dreaming
of recess and a
break to the out of doors.
As the last week of sum­mer
vacation draws nigh
youngsters look to trading in
pool passes for lunch tickets
and parents breathe a sigh of
relief, knowing that begin­ning
Sept. 9 the refrigerator
door will finally get a break.
Throughout the summer
months, Warwick School
District personnel have been
working to ready classrooms
for yet another year of
school. Administrative per­sonnel
have been filling
instructional and non-instructional
positions,
while construction and
asbestos removal crews
have been on the scene at
two of the district’s schools.
John Beck
Students at John Beck
Elementary have a new prin­cipal,
Joseph L. Narkiewicz,
and three new classrooms.
Narkiewicz most recently
served as an elementary
school principal and special
education coordinator for
the Manheim Central School
District. Approved by the
Warwick School Board as
the new principal at John
Beck Elementary school on
June 17, N a rk iew ic z
assumed his duties as princi­pal
at the Brunnerville
school on Aug, 17.
His areas of special inter­est
include TELLS remedia­tion,
special education and
long range planning. Nark­iewicz
and his “wife, Betty,
have been residents of Lititz
for the past nine years. Two
of his sons, Brent and Eric,
are students at Lititz
Elementary.
The $1.4 million expan­sion
and renovation project
at John Beck is still in the
construction stage, and
according to an update by
Warwick superintendent Dr.
John Bonfield, is progress­ing
on schedule.
He remarked that three of
the eight classrooms to be
built as part of the expansion
project will be completed by
the beginning of school.
Additionally, a small group
room will be available for
use. The remaining five
classrooms are expected to
be completed within the
coming weeks.
Asbestos removal has
been completed at John
Beck Elementary.
Several new faces will
greet students as they go
back to school at John Beck.
Judy Weaver, who taught
third grade last year, will be
teaching fifth grade. New
teachers at John Beck
include Joy A. Hartman,
long-term substitutes Lois
Class and Iris Hoffman and
Heidi Limbert, who has been
hired as a part-time music
teacher at the school.
Kissel Hill
Robert Heron will no lon­ger
have to split his time
between acting as principal
at the Kissel Hill and John
Beck Elementary schools.
Heron will be devoting his
full attention to Kissel Hill
Elementary and toward sol­ving
the space crunch pre­dicted
with the coming of
school.
Kissel Hill Elementary
will have six new teachers
beginning Sept. 8. Those
teachers include Sarah
Mowery, special education;
Jodi Knighton, Mary Seitz,
part-time physical education
teacher; Sara Gajecki, long
term substitute, and Janice
Huntsinger, a part-time
e lem e n ta ry g u id a n c e
counselor.
Preliminary drawings for
an eight-to-ten room two-story
addition at Kissel Hill
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In this issue
Editorial 4
Sports Section 6,7,8
Social 9
Manheim 12
Church 14
Business 15,16
Classified 17,18,19
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for Labor
Day issue
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Monday, Sept. 7 in
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weekend.
The deadline for dis­play
advertising is Fri­day,
Sept. 4 at 5 p.m.
Classified ads will be
accepted until Tuesday,
Sept. 8 at 5 p.m.
Plaque dedicated at Lititz pool
in memory of Lester
by Bonnie Szymanski
A plaque has been erected
at the entrance of the Lititz
Springs Swimming Pool in
memory of Lester E. Stark,
borough councilman from
1972 to 1986.
Stark, who died last year,
was “instrumental in bring­ing
the pool to the forefront
of attention,” according to
Councilman David Bucher.
Stark had served on the
council’s swimming pool
committee since the com­mittee’s
inception during
Wendell Hower’s tenure as
president of Lititz Borough
Council.
“He was always down
there checking on things,”
recalled Bucher this week,
asserting that the borough’s
swimming pool was “always
Stark
very special” to Stark.
Clyde Tshudy, present
council president, agreed: “I
associate Lester with the
pool,” he commented,
adding that Stark also spent a
great deal of time meeting
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Photographed this week with the newly dedi­cated
plaque in memory of Councilman Stark
were, left to right, Nevin Koch, borough works
crew supervisor; Mrs. Gladys Stark; Clyde
Tshudy, council president; Andrew Amway, pool
manager; Councilwoman Ruth McKenna; and
Craig Wagaman, assistant pool manager.