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School District Population Assessed Values Millage Rates
Warwick 21 ¿05 $130 million 39
Lititz Borough 8,007 $49 million
Warwick Township 9,843 $63 million
Elizabeth Township 3,355 $18 million
Hempfield 36,000 $303.6 million 35.75
Manheim Central IS,000 $120 million 37.75
Manheim Township 30,000 $301 million 38.25
Ephrata not given $151.0 million 43
Final hearing April 28
on high school expansion
Record Express graphic by Todd Klick
Growth spurs expansion programs
Some of the Warwick Middle School students
rolved in a “Keep Lititz Beautiful” campaign
J, Jessica Fausnacht, kneeling; Barbara Norris
d Cassie Cresweil, seated; and Peter Rush,
inding.
iddle school students
•itch in’ to fight litter
days — of the 60s.
A group of students from
the Warwick Middle School
are also involved in a “Keep
Lititz Beautiful” program.
They collected trash on
the school property in a
week-long campaign based
the “Keep Pennsylvania
Beautiful Day.” The trash-collection
idea grew out of
individual study projects
chosen by two Extend stu­dents,
according to Jan Mos­er,
Extend director. (Extend
is the school’s enrichment
program for gifted students.)
Barb Norris studied diffe-
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)y Kathleen King
iturday is “Keep Pen-
/ania Beautiful Day”
i number of area groups
ilanning to do just that,
le Lititz Springs Park
d is planning its annual
g cleanup day on Satur-
Lititz Area Mennonite
)ol hopes to raise
)00 Friday in its annual
h-a-Thon, through
h students get pledges
icking trash along area
!, under parent and
er supervision,
s almost reminiscent of
old “Earth Days” -
onmcntal awareness
by Becky Collins
Growth.
Its effects are most notice­able
on Lancaster County’s
jammed highways, over­loaded
water and sewer
facilities and in crowded
school classrooms.
During the last three
years, school districts
throughout the county have
scrambled to find room for
ever-increasing populations
of students - another by­product
of growth. Four area
school districts we spoke
with are currently involved
in or anticipitate expansion
projects in their schools.
Manheim Township
School District business
manager J im Klinger
remarked that the district is
“just starting to feel the
effects of growth.” At one
time, he explained, the Man­heim
Township School Dis­trict
had a total student popu­lation
of 5,000. Enrollment
dropped off from that peak
in recent years and the
school district leased rooms
out to the IU.
Now the school district is
taking back the rooms they
leased to the IU to provide
adequate space for its own
pupils.
“That flex room no longer
exists,” Klinger said. “The
district is looking to expan­sion
projects as an answer to
growth, especially at the
elementary level.”
“Even with the magnifi­cent
homes being con­structed
in the district, we’re
getting elementary-level
kids,” Klinger said. “It kind
of gives you something to
think about.”
Ephrata Area School Dis­trict
business manager
Roger Brubaker confirmed
that the Ephrata district is
facing similar problems in
relation to growth.
“I do see more expansion
in the district’s future
plans,” Brubaker said. “The
district has recently com­pleted
renovation work at
H ig h lan d and Akron
Elementary Schools and is
presently working to expand
the high school.”
Manheim Central School
District business manager
A1 Romero noted that at pre­sent
the district is “consider­ing
options for the future”
and noted that expansion
may be one option being
co n sid ered by school
officials.
“Growth is a factor for
us,” Romero said.
Hempfield School Dis­trict
is currently in the pro­cess
of renovating and
expanding the East Peters­burg
and Farmdale Elemen­tary
schools.
Growing enrollment and a
lack of sufficient classrooms
spurred the projects accord­ing
to school officials.
Above is a comparison of
area school districts, their
most current enrollment fig­ures,
assessed valuations
and the mileage rate levied
by each school district.
by Becky Collins
Taxpayers in the War­wick
School District have
one more chance to discuss
the proposed expansion and
renovation plans for War­wick
High School in a public
forum. A required public
hearing on the $12.75 mil­lion
project will be held at 7
p.m. Thursday, April 28, in
the senior high school
auditorium.
Mandated by state law,
the Act 34 hearing is
required to record public
reaction and input to the
project.
Present plans for the high
school expansion call for the
addition of 14 classrooms,
one additional instrumental
music area, three art class­rooms,
a new gymnasium, a
centrally-located office and
board area, an expanded
library, locker room and
cafeteria facilities, addition­al
garages, storage areas and
graphic arts areas and four
classes for educating men­tally
retarded students.
Cost to Taxpayers
Warwick School District
business manager David
Zerbe confirmed last week
that the expansion and reno­vation
project at Warwick
High School will raise real
estate millage levied by the
school district from the pre­sent
rate of 39 to 46 mills
over the next three years.
That millage rate will be
in effect for 20 years in order
to support the project at
School approves new positions,
upholds district walking rule
by Becky Collins
Four new full-time and
five part-time teaching posi­tions
were approved for the
1988-89 school year by the
Warwick School Board at
their Tuesday night meeting.
The newly created full­time
positions are all in the
d i s t r i c t ’s e lem e n ta ry
schools, with John Beck
Elementary gaining two
teachers; one at the third
grade level and one at the
fourth grade level, Lititz
Elementary getting a new
fifth grade teacher and Kis­sel
Hill Elementary getting
an additional second grade
teacher.
Tile part-time instruction-al
positions will be for an art
teacher and a science teacher
at the middle school and
instructors in the areas of art,
business education, science,
and social studies at the high
school.
Eight other part-time pos­itions
were approved by the
board including a part-time
librarian for Kissel Hill and
John Beck Elementary
Schools, library aides at all
the elementary schools, a
clerk-typist at the middle
school office, a nurses aide
at the high school, a clerk-typist
for the athletic direc­tor
and a clerk-typist for the
counselor’s office as well as
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Warwick High School, he
added.
“The first increase will be
felt with the 1988-89 budget,
when the school district will
increase millage to 42
mills,” Zerbe explained. He
added that the projected
three-mill increase for the
1988-89 budget does not
cover any increases in oper­ations
including salaries,
utilities or other fixed costs.
Another three mills will
be tacked on to the budget
for the 1989-90 school year,
bringing millage up to the
45- mill level with one more
mill of support being
required with the 1990-91
school budget.
Zerbe explained, “The
average taxpayer (one with a
$50,000 home) will pay 45
new dollars the first year to
finance the project, an addi­tional
45 dollars the next
year and another 17 dollars
in property taxes the third
year.” By the fourth year, the
average taxpayer will be
paying an additional $107
per year to pay off the bond
service,” he added.
Taxpayers would con­tinue
to support the bond
issue for 12 years at the
46- mill level. At that time,
the bond issue for the expan­sion
and renovation of John
Beck and Kissel Hill
Elementary Schools will be
retired, and taxes “could rea­sonably
drop back three
mills,” Zerbe remarked.
A prepared statement
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Voters go to polls Tuesday H/1<1 A ^
imbers of the “Out of Towners” rehearse for
upcoming dance to benefit the new recrea-lenter.
The dance will be held on Saturday,
April 30, at the Lititz Recreation Center and will
feature music of the Big Band era.
Out-of-Towners’ plan Big Band
benefit for new ree center y Kathleen King
ir's note : Last week the
■d Express ran a story
The Committee of
, a group of rock and
ans who are raising
V for the new recrea-enter.
But it’s not just
ms of ’50s and ’60s
who are sponsoring
s to help build the rec
■ -fans of the Big Band
re doing the same.)
some, just the names
; songs evoke sweet
tries - Stardust, Who’s
Now?, Mood Indigo,
ese Sandman, Tuxedo
on, Mona Lisa, Any
Time, For You, Pennsylvani-a
Polka, Little Brown Jug.
For others, like members
of the Out-of-Towners, they
mean turning to pages in a
book of music, beating out
time, and putting heart and
soul into music that, to them,
has rhyme, rhythm, and
reason.
The Out-of-Towners, a
local group with an unusual
name, began ten years ago
with six people who liked
the sounds of music from the
’30s and ’40s.
Howard Hemmerly, a
New Jersey math teacher
who moved with his wife to
518 Hummingbird Drive
when he retired, had always
enjoyed music as an
avocation.
In his former hometown
of Chatham, in northern
New Jersey, he belonged to a
group which played at nurs­ing
homes and hospitals. For
a while he belonged to a
student-faculty combo, The
Top Hatters, whichplayedat
a regular community event
for the high-school aged
students.
When Hemmerly moved
to Lititz about ten years ago,
he met some people who had
the same interest as he in
music for combos. The six of
them got together and began
playing for nursing homes,
church socials and festivals.
Slowly, but surely, the
group grew until it now con­sists
of 19 local musicians.
Some of the members have
come and gone over the
years, Hemmerly said. A
couple have stayed with the
group the whole time.
He said their name, Out-of-
Towners was “just sort of
picked up.” Part of the idea
came from an old Bob Hope
joke, he said, and part of it
from the fact that several of
the original members were
from out of town.
Hemmerly said one mem-
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by Linda A. Harris
Lancaster County Demo­crats
and Republicans will
be using different machines
during the primary election
April 26 because of the large
number of candidates on the
ballots.
The following is a list of
the national, state and local
candidates and the lever pos­itions
they occupy on either
the Democratic candidates’
machine or the Republican
candidates’ machine.
PRESIDENT
(vote for one)
DEMOCRATS: A1 Gore
(1A); Jesse L. Jackson (2A);
Michael S. Dukakis (3A);
Jennifer Alden Wesner
(4A); Gary Hart (IB); Lyn­don
H. Larouche Jr. (2B);
Paul Simon (3B); and Dick
Gephardt (4B).
REPUBLICANS: Pat
Robertson (1A); Bob Dole
(2A); and George Bush
(3A).
U.S. SENATOR
(vote for one)
DEMOCRATS: Joe Vig­nola
(5A), Philadelphia
County; Susan Sullivan
Kefover (6A), Potter Coun­ty;
John J. Logue (5B), Dela­ware
County; and Steven S.
Douglas (6B), Delaware
County.
REPUBLICANS: John
Heinz (5A), Allegheny
County.
16th DISTRICT
U.S. CONGRESSMAN
(vote for one)
DEMOCRATS: Ernest
Eric Guyll (18A), Lancaster
County.
REPUBLICANS: Robert
S. Walker (15A), Lancaster
County.
STATE A TTO RNEY
GENERAL (vote for one)
DEMOCRATS: Jim Dod-aro
(7 A), Allegheny County;
Edward Mezvinsky (8A),
Montgomery County; and
Don Bailey (9A), West­moreland
County.
REPUBLICANS: Barba­ra
Hafer (7A), Allegheny
County.
STATE TREASURER
(vote for one)
DEMOCRATS: Cather­ine
Baker Knoll (10A),
Allegheny County; Harry
Young Cochran (11 A), Fay­ette
County; David W.
Sweet (10B), Washington
County; and Robert D. Shaf­fe
r (11B), Law ren c e
County.
REPUBLICANS: Mario
Mele (8A), Montgomery
County; John Kennedy
(9A), Cumberland County;
and Philip S. English (10A),
Erie County.
STATE SUPREME
COURT (vote for one)
DEMOCRATS: Allen E.
Ertel (12A), Lycoming
County); Eunice (Ross
(13A), Allegheny County;
James J. Walsh (14 A), Lack­awanna
County; Paul Ribner
(12B), Philadelphia County;
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Local Republicans greet vice president
by Becky Collins
The visit of Vice Presi­dent
George Bush was a spe­cial
one for two Lititz men.
Steve Gibble and Michael
Mendenhall were among the
privileged few who greeted
the vice president as he
stepped off Air Force Two
Tuesday morning at Lancas­ter
Airport. Mendenhall
even seized the opportunity
to get an autograph from the
vice president before he was
whisked away to the Lancas­ter
County Republican fun­draiser
at Olde Hickory Inn.
Gibble, a Lititz attorney,
is election day and special
events coordinator for the
county Bush campaign, and
Mendenhall, an accounts
representative at Yerger
Bros., Inc., is communica­tions
director and spokes­man
fo r the co u n ty
campaign.
More than 600 county
Republicans, many elected
officials, turned out to greet
Bush at the fundraising
breakfast on the first stop of
a campaign swing through
Central Pennsylvania.
And, although they
waited outside in the morn­ing’s
crisp temperatures, in a
line stretching the length of
the banquet area, their
enthusiasm was high.
They got what they came
for.
Their $50 bought a plate
of scrambled eggs, sausage,
hash browns and fruit and
the opportunity to see (and
be seen seeing) the man
many believe will be the
next president of the United
States.
Bush rewarded their pati­ence,
stating, “I can’t get
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Several candi­dates
in the April 26
primary election took
advantage of the
invitation to submit a
summation of their
background, educa­tion
and position on
the issues as they
saw them. See page
17 for their articles. It’s the second big
week of the Lititz
Reta i le r s ’ Apr i l
Shower of Gift Certi­ficates.
Look for spe­cial
April values and
the “umbrellas’’ that
tell you to register at
participating stores.
You could win more
than $500 in gift certi­ficates
and merchan­dise,
now through
April 23. Winners will
be announced in
next week's Lititz
Record.
New s u p e rv is o r
Michael Brubaker
is Warwick Town­ship's
newest, and
youngest, supervi­sor.
An agronomist,
he has his own busi­ness
providing ser­vices
to farmers:
You’ll find his philo­sophy
on local gov­ernment
on page 26.
Record Express Photo/Linda Harris
Vice president George Bush praises the U.S.
response in the Persian Gulf at a Lancaster Coun­ty
Republican Committee fundraising breakfast
Tuesday.