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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 26 Pages-No. 48
Oct. 9 break-in
Twp. police file assault,
burglary charges
by Linda A. Harris
Warwick Township P D.
)fficer Ed Tobin filed
lultiple charges against
ony Hughes, of 489 Obie
oad, Newmanstown, on
eb, 25. Hughes, who will
e 20 on Oct. 29, is formerly
om the Manheim area and
'orks in the Manheim -
ititz-Warwick Township
rea for a trash disposal
;rvice.
Hughes was arraigned on
harges of aggravated
ssault and recklessly
adangering the life of
lothcr, two counts each;
id one count of: theft by
ilawful taking, burglary,
)bbery, and criminal con-liracy
before District Jus-ce
James Garrett shortly
;fore noon Feb. 25. An
Taignment is the first time
person accused of a crime
advised of the charges
gainst him and his right to
lunsel by a member of the
idiciary. (The police advise
le accused at the time of his
Test).
October Break-In
The charges stem from a
reak-in at the home of Mr.
id Mrs. Phares Weaver,
11 Rothsville Road, Oct. 9
: approximately 1:30 a.m.
The criminal complaint
alleges that Hughes, and a
15-year-old juvenile who is
being sought in connection
with the case, entered the
home through a basement
window.
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Woman charged
with theft
by Linda A. Harris
Emma Pagano, 45, of 547
Doe Run Road, was charged
with one count of theft and
one count of theft by decep­tion
by Lititz P.D. Det. Char­les
Shenenberger as a result
of an incident Feb. 14 at
Moravian Manor.
According to the criminal
complaint filed by Shenen­berger,
Pagano is alleged to
have removed a ring valued
at approximately $1,000
from the finger of Eleanor
Manswiller, a Manor resi­dent,
and replaced it with a
ring with a value of $100 or
less.
Pagano was arraigned
Feb. 24 on the charges
before District Justice James
Garrett who released her on
her own recognizance
(ROR). Garrett set a preli­minary
hearing on the
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School district
awards bids
Man, 52, injured at construction site
Members of the Lititz Fire Company were
called to a new home construction site in the
Crosswinds development to aid in the rescue of a
worker who lost his footing and fell to the base­ment
March 1 about 8 a.m. The man, Charles Fritz,
52, an employee of PRD Associates, contractors
for the development, sustained a fractured right
hip and was transported to Ephrata Community
Hospital by the Warwick Ambulance. He was
listed in fair condition late the evening of March 1.
Also assisting at the scene were Lititz Fire Police
and Officer Ed Tobin of the Warwick Township
Police Department.
Lititz police seek hit/run driver
Lititz Borough police are
seeking witnesses to a hit/
run accident which occurred
Feb. 26.
ACCIDENTS
ST. LUKE DR.: Officer
Ron Sandhaus investigated a
hit/run accident reported
Feb. 26 at 9:15 a.m. The
accident occurred on St.
Luke Drive, 130 feet south
of Oak St.
Sandhaus reported that a
vehicle backed into and
knocked down a lamp post
while the driver was
attempting to turn around on
St. Luke Drive. The driver of
the vehicle left the scene
traveling west on East Main
Street.
Anyone who might have
information on a late model
burgundy car with a wide
gray stripe on the side which
carried a light-colored
registration plate should
contact the Lititz Borough
police at 626-0231.
O RA N G E /S PRU C E
Candidates discuss issues in 97th District race
Tim Callahan— 1 1---------— Dick Brown— -------
STS.: Officer Doug Shertzer
cited D. Ray Hurst, 17, of
Ephrata R2, for a stop sign
violation Feb. 27 at 5:38
p.m. at West Orange and
Spruce streets.
He reported that Hurst
was driving south on South
Spruce Street, failed to stop
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by Becky Collins
Warwick School Board
approved bid awards totall­ing
$1,660,943 for two pro­jects
soon to be underway at
the Warwick Middle School
and Kissel Hill Elementary
School.
The bid for asbestos
removal at the middle school
was awarded to Kimmins
Corporation of Tampa, Fla.,
who bid a total price of
$54,859 for the asbestos
removal job.
Some questions arose
from the low bid, as the next
lowest bid was $138,200
from Guardian Inc. of Free­hold
N.J., more than twice
the low bid amount.
Bill Gallagher, president
of Design Coalition and
Environmental Hazards
Control (EHC) of Lancaster,
voiced his concern with the
bid, noting that the company
has only been in business for
one year. “There’s not a lot
of track record, although we
could see no irregularities in
their bid,” he stated.
EHC has been retained by
the school district to draw up
the plans and specifications
for the removal of asbestos
from all the middle school.
Stated Gallagher, “I’m
not saying he can’t or won’t
do it for that amount, but
there could be problems. I
think we should carefully
review their (Kimmins)
insurance and training docu­ments
as their bid represents
quite a financial difference.”
Warwick School District
business manager David
Zerbe responded to Gallagh­er,
stating, “We have done
extensive research into the
company and got fine
recommendations from the
public works companies
they have completed jobs
for.”
“The company, in their
eyes, was in compliance
with all safety and training
regulations,” Zerbe stated.
He remarked that he had
spoken to the president of
Kimmims who stated that if
his company had made a
mistake in computing the
bid, they would still finish
the job and absorb the loss.
“He said ‘w e’re large
enough to do that,”’ Zerbe
noted.
Kimmins has branch
offices in Wilmington, Del.,
New York and Texas.
According to John H.
Bonfield, superintendent of
schools, asbestos in the
middle school is located in
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Editor’s Note: This is
ie second in a series high-ghting
two candidates
rom Lititz who aré vying
ar the 97th District Legi-lative
seat.
by Becky Collins
Timothy Callahan could
arrow a phrase from Gen-al
McArthur. He has not
:t begun to fight.
Callahan, the Democratic
irty’s candidate for the
'th District seat in the Pen-ylvania
General Assemb-
, does not face opposition
the primaries.
Still, he faces an uphill
ittle in becoming a state
presentative in the largely-jpublican
97th District.
While Callahan may have
ore time to organize his
mpaign, he still has to
come visible to the voters
the district before the
ovember general election.
A relative newcomer to
incaster County, Callahan
came involved in the local
:mocratic party after sens-l
an “arrogant attitude on
j part of office holders in
ncaster County.”
“Citizen input into gov-íment
is not solicited and
not encouraged,” he
served. Callahan added,
wanted people to see that
y have a choice. The
mocratic party is tradi-nally
the party of prog-
Timothy Callahan
ress, the party of the working
people and of women.”
Callahan noted that he
sensed an uphill battle from
the time he first decided to
run for the legislative seat,
but quickly added, “I’ve
been getting a good deal of
positive response.”
“In this district there are
roughly 15 thousand Repu­blicans
and five thousand
Democrats,” Callahan said.
“Many of the people I went
to when I was gathering sig­natures
for my nominating
petition were very enthu-
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by Becky Collins
People who know Dick
Brown were not surprised
w h en he m ad e th e
announcement that he was
an official candidate for the
97th Legislative District
seat.
The fact that Brown con­tinues
to be a candidate even
without the Republican par­ty’s
endorsement doesn’t
surprise that many people,
either.
Brown, who became
involved with local politics
as an advisor to the Warwick
Township Planning Com­mission
during its early
1970s deliberations on the
township’s comprehensive
plan, was the first to promote
the idea of a recycling center
for the greater Warwick
community.
The idea was to combine
the efforts of local scouts
who recycled glass and pap­er
for fundraising activities.
Brown’s concept caught on,
and through the efforts of the
township supervisors, local
citizens and school students,
a shelter was built.
The Lititz Recycling Cen­ter,
operated by three troops
of Boy Scouts, handled the
largest volume of recycl-ables
in Lancaster County in
1985.
Richard “Dick” Brown
Problems On the Home
Front
Yet that huge volume of
recyclables proved insur­mountable
for monthly col­lection
by the scouts in 1986.
The recycling center also
received more than its share
of non-recyclable goods;
items that the scouts had to
pay to have hauled away
from the collection site.
A lack of storage compli­cated
by pick-up scheduling
conflicts resulted in an
unsightly mess for neigh­bors
of the collection site.
The neighbors asked War­wick
Township officials to
take action to have the site
closed. The supervisors con-i.
curred, ordering the scouts
to clean up the area around
the center or close it for
good.
It was almost the end of
the most successful collec­tion
center in all of Lancaster
County.
Then Dick Brown got
involved.
He began making tele­phone
calls to people he
knew through his environ­mental
efforts with the Lan­caster
County Solid Waste
Advisory Committee, even­tually
turning to the Water
Street Rescue Mission.
The Mission, which has
been involved in collecting
recyclables since the ’20s,
took over the operation of
the collection site from the
Boy Scouts and began regu­lar
curbside pickup of
recyclables, a collection
program that is still opera­tional
today.
On The Campaign Trail
Brown notes that his best
role is that of the problem
solver. He hopes to take this
ability to Harrisburg as the
97th District Representative
to the Pennsylvania General
Assembly.
“I believe today’s legisla­tor
must be creative, innova-
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Splintered, bent and dilapidated benches in the bandshell area at Lititz
Springs Park will be replaced this spring due to a donation to the park from
Lititz Mutual Insurance Company.
Park gets new seating
by Becky Collins
There will be 650 shiny,
new seats in the bandshell
area of Lititz Springs Park
this Fourth of July, thanks to
Lititz Mutual Insurance
Company.
Park Board member
James Axmacher told the
Record Express Monday
morning that the park board
will be replacing the bench
seating with stadium-type
aluminum seating and resur­facing
the macadam area
around the bandshell, a pro­ject
made possible through a
generous donation from
Lititz Mutual Insurance
Company.
The dilapidated seating in
the area of the bandshell has
been a great concern for park
board members for a number
of years. “The cost of replac­ing
the seating was well bey­ond
the scope of our annual
budget,” Axmacher said.
“Funds raised at the Fourth
of July celebration just cover
maintenance of the park.”
Axmacher noted that
plans for replacement sea­ting
at the bandshell include
continuous length benches
with backrests arranged with
a center aisle. The benches,
to be installed by Stadiums
Unlimited of Grinell, Iowa,
by June 4, will be ready for
use at the 146th annual Inde­pendence
Day celebration,
scheduled for Saturday, July
2.
They will also be in place
for the centennial celebra­tion
of Lititz Mutual Insur­ance,
which will take place
June 18 in the park.
Henry H. Gibbel, Lititz
Mutual president, remarked,
“We’ve been in this com­munity
for 100 years and
Lititz has been very kind to
us. This is one way that we
can repay that debt,” he said.
“We consider the park a
very valuable asset to the
community,” Gibbel said,
noting that Lititz Mutual
Insurance has been a neigh­bor
of the park throughout its
100-year history. “We think
this seating will serve the
park well for many years to
come,” he added.
Inside
today's
Record
The Warriors display
leir joy after repeating as
hamps in the Lancaster-ebanon
League, in the
layoffs they defeated
'empfield and Manheim
ownship, both of Section
>ne, to capture the overall
tie in the LL League,
lore pictures and stories
ppear on the sports
age. Picture by Nelson
feit
In this issue
Editorial 4
Sports Section 6,7,8
Social 18,19
Church 20
Manheim 22
Business 25
Classified 13,14,15
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RETAILERS
TO MEET
The March meeting
of the Lititz Retailer’s
Association will meet
next Wednesday, March
9th at 7:30 PM at Binge-man’s
Restaurant, 35 N.
Broad St.
All area businessmen
and women are wel­come
and invited to
attend. __________
Township supervisors
await details on
lawsuit settlement by Kathleen King
Warwick Township
Supervisors are still in the
dark about the details of an
out-of-court settlement
between a Lititz police offic­er
and the township’s police
chief over a lawsuit alleging
the chief slandered the bor­ough
officer and his wife.
In November 1986 Lititz
Officer Douglas A. Shertzer
Sr. and his wife, Suzanne E.
Shertzer, filed a lawsuit
against Harry Aichele, War­wick
township police chief
alleging that Aichele made
“defamatory statements”
about them to the “general
public.”
“We haven’t seen a copy
of the settlement yet,” Irel
Buckwalter, chairman of the
township board of supervi­sors,
said Monday. Buck-waiter
said the suit was
handled through the town­ship’s
insurance carrier,
S c o tts d a le In s u ra n c e
Company.
The settlement, reached
last week, calls for an
unnamed payment to the
Shertzers.
According to Robert G.
Hanna, an attorney hired by
the insurance company to
defend the suit, the settle­ment
does not mean Aichele
admitted slandering Shert­zer.
In fact, Hanna said,
Aichele denies the charges.
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