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Inside today’s Record
For a realistic view of the destructive power of fire,
described as it is actually happening, see a report on the
film “Fire Power," page 16.
Names and tales of outstanding men abound in histo­ries
o f the Moravian community of Lititz. But many not­able
women have made their mark as well. Local histo­rian
Dr. Byron Horne writes about one, Adeline M. Fett,
who lived from 1819 to 1908. See page 19.
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» by Becky Collins
“We’re optimistic, but
I’m not getting my hopes
up,” said Ellen Dooley,
chairman of a group of
parents from the Quail
Ridge development who
have been fighting Warwick
School Board for busing for
their children for over a year.
Dooley and about twenty
other parents decided at a
charged with sex offensesw“ S nS™
and some possible solutions
in the spring, you watched as a film crew turned Lititz
into a pre-World War il town, and you knew the movie
being filmed was called "The Silence at Bethany.” But
did you know the story is based on the lives o f two Lititz
people? Read about the story behind the movie on page
17.
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AIDS
to be
curriculum
taught here
June Honaman
Rep. writes
legislation
for ‘walkers’
Former WHS teacher
Lititz police have charged
a Lititz man with six morals
charges. It is the second time
in seven years the man has
faced such charges.
MORALS CHARGES
MARION ST.: Lititz P.D.
Det. Charles Shenenberger
arrested D. Michael Braun-er,
37, of 336 E. Marion St.,
Dec. 15, charging him with
three counts of involuntary
deviate sexual intercourse
and three counts of corrup­tion
of minors.
Shenenberger is alleged
to have committed the
offenses, involving a
15-year-old male, who for­merly
lived in the borough,
between January and July of
this year. The offenses were
alleged to have taken place
on three separate occasions
at Brauner’s home.
Brauner was taken before
District Justice James Gar-
I
D. Michael Brauner
rett and released on his own
recognizance. Bail was set at
$5,000. A preliminary hear­ing
on the charges will take
place Dec. 22 at 10 a.m.
Brauner, a substitute
teacher with Lancaster-
Lebanon Intermediate Unit
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and mail the letters to 97th
D i s t r i c t R e p . J u n e
Honaman.
This week, the parents got
an almost unbelievable
answer.
Rep. Honaman has sub­mitted
legislation that will, if
passed, reduce the distance
that school children must
walk to their appointed
schools.
House Bill 2037, submit­ted
by Mrs. Honaman on
Dec. 7, reduces the walking
radius from one and one-half
miles to one mile for
elementary students and cuts
the distance for secondary
students from two miles to
one and one-half miles.
In a telephone interview
Monday, Mrs. Honaman
explained that the legislation
will not be binding; it will
merely be a guideline for
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by Becky Collins
AIDS UPDATE: As of
Oct. 12, nearly 43,000
Americans were diagnosed
as having been infected
with the AIDS (Acquired
Immune Deficiency Syn­drome)
HIV (Human
Immunodefiency Virus)
and more than 25,000 were
dead as a result of the viral
attack on their immune
systems.
Five hundred and
twenty-five of those AIDS
cases are children.
In a matter of a few years,
AIDS has become an Ameri­can
epidemic. The ever-changing
HIV virus has
claimed the lives of both the
rich and the poor, the black
and the white and the famous
and the ordinary in all walks
of American life.
Once thought of as a dis­ease
that was confined to the
gay community, the reality
of AIDS’ impact is its non-discriminating
death toll. Its
reality is also in the new
medical terminology which
each of us now knows.
Although researchers are
searching fervently for a
cure for AIDS, the only hope
for prevention is through
education and changes in
behavior.
For this reason, the Pen­nsylvania
Department of
Education has mandated that
each school district in the
commonwealth formulate
curriculum to teach young­sters
about AIDS. War­wick’s
Assistant Superin­tendent,
Dr. Dan Doremus,
headed a committee of
parents, teachers, ministers
and health professionals in
compiling a comprehensive
curriculum which was
approved by the Warwick
School Board at their Tues­day
night meeting.
AIDS...Beyond Fear
Warwick’s AIDS instruc-
Twp. recycling sheds not a dump,
but residents continue to ‘trash’ them
by Linda A. Harris
Recycling of glass and
paper in the Lititz-Warwick
Township area has been a
fact of life for about 15
years. Girl Scouts originally
set up a glass recycling pick­up
area at the Rec Center
while Boy Scouts collected
paper.
The recycling projects
were eventually merged and
later the Boy Scouts inher­ited
the entire project. With
the approval of Warwick
Township supervisors, the
scouts used part of the town­ship
shed as a permanent
collect site beginning in
1972. The scouts eventually
placed two sheds on proper­ty
owned by Sylvan Brandt,
Lititz, next to the township
shed.
Profits Undercut
In 1986, the scouts
recycled one-half million
pounds of recyclables (alu­minum,
glass, cardboard and
newspaper) with a profit of
about $5,000. However, the
profitability was undercut
by people who consistandy
left non-recyclables at the
shed which the scouts had to
pay to haul away.
At the end of 1986, town­ship
supervisors gave the
scouts an ultimatum to keep
the shed areas more tidy and
to keep papers and other
refuse from blowing onto
adjoining properties. Unable
to continue, the scouts
turned the project over to the
Water Street Rescue Mis­sion
which is spearheading
an effort to make recycling a
countywide effort.
Sheds Popular
Although the Rescue Mis­sion
conducts curbside pick­ups
in Lititz Borough and
makes individual house calls
for residents in Warwick
Township who call the mis­sion,
the sheds remain an
important repository for
recyclables for township
residents.
Unfortunately, despite a
sign on the sheds that articles
must be placed inside the
shed, residents continue to
pile items outside, some­times
failing to tie or pack­age
papers. They also con­tin
u e to p la c e non-recyclable
items at the site.
Scott Cummings, an
advocate of recycling, who
has expressed concern on a
number of occasions about
the problem of dumping
non-recyclables, again
voiced his concern at the
supervisors’ Dec. 9 meeting.
He noted that on that date a
television set was sitting
outside the sheds. In addi­tion,
tires and a mattress
were outside as well as some
recyclables.
Needed Service
Cummings said that he
would hate to see the com­munity
lose a valuable and
needed service, but said he
didn’t know how to make
people understand the prob­lem
of dumping unwanted
non-recyclables and not
p r o p e r l y p a c k i n g
recyclables.
' Supervisor Chairman Irel
Buckwalter said that he and
fellow board members
shared Cummings’ concern
and were also at a loss as to
how to stop the dumping at
the site.
Contacted Dec. 14, Steve
Rohrbaugh, Water Street
Rescue Mission project
coordinator, said that while
the problem of dumping
non-recyclables at the town­ship
boxes is not as bad as
some areas, it is of concern.
He added that the mission’s
trucks visit the site at least
five times weekly and find
junk as well as recyclables
which are not properly pack­aged
each week.
“Because we visit the site
as often as we do, I believe
that it’s not just a few people
who place junk which we
must pay to haul away for
disposal. I believe that there
are probably two types of
individuals involved: those
who place non-recyclable
items they think we can use
in our work with the home­less
and those who just don’t
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Despite signs on the sheds residents continue to place items outside and tr>
‘dump’ non-recyclable items at the site. nemsouts.de and to
In this issue
Editorial 4
Sports Section 6,7,8
Classified 13,14,15
Social 18,19
Church 20,21
Manheim 23
Business 24,25
tion will be divided into
three levels. The first level,
to be taught to fifth grade
students, will provide stu­dents
with a definition of
AIDS. It will also dispel
misconceptions about how
AIDS is transmitted and will
provide youngsters with
information on the causes of
the disease.
The second level, to be
taught in the eighth grade,
will include the concepts
taught at the first level, but
will elaborate as students
will be taught to recognize
the symptoms’of AIDS, and
will learn how to prevent
contracting the disease.
“We will be advocating
abstinence as the only sure
way to prevent contracting
AIDS,” Doremus declared.
“At this level, we believe
there are girls going out with
older guys and being pres­sured
into having sex.”
The third level will be
taught to sophomores. It will
reinforce the concepts
taught at both the elemen­tary
and the middle school
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Bob Wohlsen holds plaque presented by fellow supervisors Dec. 9. Pic­tured
left to right are Jim Klopp, Roy Irvin, Irel Buckwalter, Wohlsen, Wohl-sen’s
wife, and Ian Shields.
Bob Wohlsen recognized
fo r se rv ice as s u p e rv is o r
by Linda A. Harris
Warwick Township
supervisors paused during
their Dec. 9 meeting to rec­ognize
the contributions of
Bob Wohlsen to the board.
W o h ls e n , who was
appointed to served the
J o h n a n d P e n n y B u z z a r d
Wilbur exec, wife
d is c u s s ‘retirement
Penny Buzzard
by Linda A. Harris
John A. Buzzard has
guided Wilbur Chocolate
Company since 1971, first as
president, then as chief
executive officer and chair­man
of the board, and cur­rently
as chairman of the
board. At the end of the
month, he will become
chairman emeritus.
“Oh, I’ll still be here. I’ll
have an office and I’ll keep
in touch. You know there’s a
joke in this industry that cho­colate
gets in your blood and
if you cut yourself, you
bleed brown,” he explained
with a smile.
For Buzzard, the 16-plus
years at the helm of Wilbur
have been a series of good
memories and a lot of
achievements. One of his
first suggestions after arriv­ing
in Lititz was that the
company’s hallmark Wilbur
Buds be made in milk choco­late
as well as the original
dark sweet chocolate variety
brought some incredulous
reactions from longtime
plant employees and man­agement
personnel, he said.
Change The Buds
But, Buzzard was not eas­ily
discouraged. He searched
through the company’s line
of chocolate products, found
a formula he thought would
work and soon, the company
had a product that the nay­sayers
thought was “all
right.” That was high praise
for the new guy on the block
who dared to tamper with the
affections of dark Wilbur
Bud fans, he explained, the
smile on his face recalling
the fondness of the moment.
Today the product mix is
about 50-50, he noted.
Buzzard was not brought
John Buzzard
in just to suggest a new line
of Wilbur Buds, however,
and just two years after his
arrival, he announced that
the company would build a
$100,000 addition to the
north Broad Street plant. He
said that the new facility
would be in use for choco­late
refining and conching
within six months and would
increase the company’s liq­uid
chocolate and cocoa but­ter
holding capacity by more
than 500,000 pounds.
A 20,000 square foot
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unexpired term of Steve
Wallace in January 1986,
chose not to seek election to
his own term.
Chairman Irel Buckwalter
read a resolution into the
minutes of the meeting
expressing the appreciation
of fellow board members
and residents of Warwick
Township for the two years
Wohlsen served as supervi­sor
and as liason to both the
planning commission and
the zoning hearing board.
Buckwalter added his per­sonal
thanks as did other
members of the board.
Wohlsen was presented
with a plaque in recognition
of his service. He accepted
the plaque, noting that it had
been “a short two years. In a
lot of ways, it has opened my
eyes. I guess I just don’t read
n ew sp ap e rs c a re fu lly
enough.”
He told fellow supervi­sors
that many nights he
attended the meetings after
twelve hours filled with all
kinds of activities, but never
failed to come home from
the meetings without being
uplifted. He then urged the
supervisors to continue the
effort to bring a water sys­tem
to Rothsville at the ear­liest
possible date.
Wohlsen’s wife, Carolyn,
told the audience that “I
came to Bob’s first meeting
when he was sworn in and I
wanted to be here for his last
one.” She said that the entire
family was “proud and hap­py
to live in such a fine com­munity”
and for the services
of all involved, including
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H e a r i n g c l i n i c i a n
L i z L y o n s
d i s c u s s e s p r o f e s s i o n
By Ann E. Boegel-DiNovis
Record Correspondent
Children in the Warwick
School District who have
hearing problems have a
new teacher to assist them.
She is Elizabeth Lyons, an
itinerant hearing clinician
from Intermediate Unit 13.
Liz, a friendly woman
who enjoys working with
children, is in the field
because of a love of lan­guage.
‘ ‘Most teachers who
work with the hearing
impaired have a story about
some deaf friend or relative
who inspired them, but I
don’t. I like English and I
knew I wanted to do reme­dial
work with kids. My first
year in college I was in a
speech program, but I
wanted more language
work. So I switched into spe­cial
education for the deaf,”
she explained.
She completed a five-year
program at Bloomsburg
University to earn both a
special education teaching
degree and a masters in edu­cation
of the hearing
impaired. This is her fourth
year with the I.U. 13. She is
working with children in the
Conestoga Valley school
district and Brownstown
Vo-Tech, as well as War­wick.
Previously, she has
worked in the Lampeter-
Strasburg School District.
Itinerant Clinician
As an itinerant hearing
clinician, Liz travels from
school to school working
with children diagnosed as
having hearing problems
and says she particularly
enjoys the variety of her
work.
‘‘Every hearing impaired
child has different problems.
I work with 23 students now,
including eight in the War-
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e
Liz Lyons discusses her profession while exa­mining
a student’s hearing aid.