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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 28 Pages- No. 35
Christmas comes early for fire unit By Jed Kensinger
Record-Express Staff Writer
Brickcrviilc Fire Company got an early Christmas pre­sent
Monday when the Elizabeth Township supervisors
decided to provide it with a 870,(XX) low-interest loan to
help pay for a new fire Uuck.
A new SI40,000 fire truck will arrive later this month, a
hall year earlier than the fire company anticipated.
Because of the truck’s early arrival, the fire company was
unprepared to pick up the total tab for the truck, supervi­sors
chairman Larry Wiker noted.
The supervisors said die loan is mutually beneficial to
the fire company and township. The township’s innova­tive
investment in the community is “a good cause for tax­payers’
money,” said Wiker. Although the the S70,0(X)
loan, which has an interest rate of four percent, will not be
accruing as much interest as from conventional invest­ments,
Wiker said, it will help the fire company.
The fire company has raised $70,000 toward the purch­ase
of the truck which will be paid upon arrival. The fire
company expects to receive a $50,000 low-interest state
loan in March or April, about the time the fire truck was
supposed to arrive, secretary-treasurer Rodney May said.
The supervisors called the loan an “interim loan” since
the bulk of it will be repaid when the company gets a two-pcrccnt-
intcrest-rate loan from the state. The rest of the
money must be paid back in five years.
After the meeting May emphasized that the township
did not originally intend to provide a loan. May said the
loan provides an interim solution to a particular set of cir­cumstances
beyond the control of the fire company.
May said he talked to the township’s solicitors who
confirmed that the transaction was legal.
The supervisors also adopted a $492,870 budget for
1989. Residents will see no increase in taxes. Real estate
tax will remain at 2.5 mills.
The finalized budget shows no changes from the preli­minary
budget proposed last month. Township secretary
Rita Snavely said that no residents stopped at the township
office to inspect the budget.
Allocation to the Lititz Community Center remains the
same as last year at $1,300. The supervisors attended the
center’s board meeting Nov. 21 where they told the board
that they opposed increasing the township’s contribution.
The center suggested that the township increase its con­tribution
to $6,710, or $2 per resident. The supervisors
noted that the center’s new budget will not begin until
July. Consequently, increasing the township’s contribu­tion
would be premature at this time, the supervisors
reasoned.
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Hofferth, Husser re-elected to board posts
Warwick School Board
re-elected Wallace B. Hof­ferth
as president and Ruth
W. Husser as vice president
during their anuua! reorgani­zation
meeting Tuesday
night.
Hofferth has served as a
board member for 16 years.
During that time he has
served as vice president and
has actively participated on
the following committees:
legal and finance, long-range
planning, building and
property.
Mrs. Husser has 13 years
of service as a school board
member. She has served as
the district’s representative
to Lancaster-Lcbanon Inter­mediate
Unit 13 Board for
12 years. She has also served
for six years as the represen­tative
to the Lancaster Coun­ty
Vo-Tech Joint Operating
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È Wallace Hofferth Ruth Husser
Committee.
She was selected to serve
in bolli representative capac­ities
for the next year. Mrs.
Husser has chaired the edu­cation
committee and legi­slative
committee.
There were no newly
elected members this year.
All committee chairman
were reappointed to their
current assignments. Hof­ferth
said that neither he nor
superintendent Dr. John R.
Bonficld received requests
for changing the present
arrangement.
The following committee
chairmen were reappointed:
Gerald L. Downing, student
activities; Wilson B. Smith,
building and property; Gay­lord
E. Poling Jr., finance
and legal; Mrs. Husser, edu­cation;
William H. Flickin-gcr,
personnel.
Mrs. Husser and Poling
were reappointed to the legi­slative
committee and Flick-inger
was reappointed to the
meet and discuss committee.
Smith was named chief
negotiator, while Mrs. Huss­er
was chosen pupil services
representative.
Madelyn S. Buckwalter
and Dr. Daniel B. Doremus
were selected to serve on the
Lititz Community Center
Board.
Business manager David
L. Zcrbe was renamed rep­resentative
to the Lancaster
County Tax Collection
Bureau.
Reappointed as the dis­trict’s
solicitor w'as the firm
of Shirk, Reist, Wagenscllcr
and Shirk.
Gust fe ted with town p a rad e
Above, Manheim Central’s Cathy Gust, new Pennsylvania Teacher of the
Year, is surrounded by her enthusiastic pupils during a “celebration of
learning” Friday. Below, these students were cheering “Hat’s off to Miss
Gust” as they waived their construction-paper top hats to onlookers during
a parade. (Photos by Jed Kensinger)
Teacher of
the Year
praised
By Jed Kensinger
Record-Express Staff Writer
Smiling faces of
Stiegel Elem en ta ry
School children, shouts
of joy, a rainbow assort­ment
of balloons and ban­ners
proclaiming “Hat’s
Off to Miss Gust” told the
whole story.
Manheim Central stu­dents,
faculty, admini­strators,
school board
members and local gov­ernment
officials hon­ored
Cathy Gusf Pen­nsylvania’s
new Teacher
of the Year, Friday with a
parade and balloon
launch. Manheim Central
High School marching
band played peppy mus­ic,
while Miss Gust
waived to her friends
from a fire truck that
paraded through the
neighborhood surround­ing
Stiegel Elementary.
Hundreds of school
children, including 43
kindergarten students
from her afternoon and
morning classes, partici­pated
in the parade.
Stiegel principal Mary E.
Adams called the event a
“celebration of learning.”
Following the parade,
congratulatory remarks
were extended to Miss
Gust by Mrs. Adams,
school board vice presi­dent
Barry I. McFarland
and district superinten­dent
Dr. Lewis E. Jury. A
plaque commemorating
Miss Gust’s honor will be
placed inside Stiegel
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Council se ek s
way to reduce
nitrate level
By Dave Knauss
Record-Express. Editor
Lititz Borough Council will find out at Tuesday’s meet­ing
how much it may have to spend to reduce the water
system’s nitrate level from as high as 22 to below 10 parts
per million.
PSC Environmental Services of Limerick plans to give
the council an estimate on the cost of installing an ion
exchange system, deemed the cheapest and most practical
of the three methods under consideration.
Like other public and private entities in the county that
operatepublic water systems, the borough is under the gun
from the state Department of Environmental Resources to
lower the nitrate level to below 10 parts per million by
March 31.
Nitrates, a chemical from septic tanks and farms that
pollutes groundwater, can cause “Blue Baby Syndrome”
in infants. Also, nitrates can form nitrosamincs which are
suspected of causing cancer in people of all ages.
In recent months the nitrate level in the borough water
supply has been tested at between 15 and 22 parts per mil­lion,
according to borough Business Manager Sue Barry.
Federal standards regard a level below 10 as acceptable.
An ion exchange system, which is to be built into the
new public water system for Rothsville, is the finalist in
what was originally a list of 10 options, according to bor­ough
Business Manager Sue Barry.
The other two methods the council seriously considered
arc denitrification and blending, she said. The former has
not been performed on water supply but has been used
successfully in denitrifying wastewater.
Geology consultant James Humphreyville has investi­gated
the practicality of tapping other wells to blend new,
low-nitrate water with existing water, thus lowering the
nitrate count. But indications are that new wells arc more
north of the borough than was expected, Barry said. The
closest ones seem to be in Brickcrviilc, and cost of laying
pipe out to the town would be prohibitive.
An ion exchange system is similar to a home water sof­tener,
Barry said. Instead of neutralizing the hardening
agents and converting them to a sodium compound, it
neutralizes the nitrogen compound and turns it to
chlorides.
The process would turn out brine — sodiums, sulfates
and nitrates — that would probably be disposed of through
the wastewater treatment plant, Barry said.
Work on installing the equipment for the ion exchange
system in Rothsville will begin next week, said Ron Nuss,
operations of the Warwick Township Municipal Authori­ty.
The system should be completed in about two months.
The nitrate level for the new Rothsville water system
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The Lititz community is invited to experience
the warmth of the Christmas season in song at
the annual Lititz Christmas Carol Sing Dec. 15 at
Lititz Church Square. (Photo by Becky Collins)
Community to sing
at church square
By Becky Collins
Record-Express News Editor
Lititz residents are invited
to begin making plans to
attend the annual Lititz
Community Carol Sing,
sponsored by the Lititz His­torical
Foundation, Thurs­day,
Dec. 15, at the Mora­vian
Church Square.
Skip Clair, coordinator of
the event, noted that the fes­tivities
will begin at 7:15
p.m. with a concert by the
Moravian Trombone Choir
under the direction of Jean
Doherty.
Christmas caroling, she
added, will begin promptly
at 7:30. Song sheets will be
provided by the Historical
Foundation.
Those who plan to attend
this year’s carol sing are
requested to bring pocket
flashlights or lanterns. “Last
year the wind really picked
up and all the candles were
blown out,” Mrs. Clair
explained.
She also advises carolers
to dress warmly for the even­ing,
in layers preferably,
with warm footwear.
After sharing the spirit of
the season in song, the com­munity
is invited to partake
of hot mulled cider and
Christmas cookies served by
the Lititz Girl Scouts in the
Moravian Church Social
Hall.
Recycling gluts
market for local
paper company
By Becky Collins
Record-Express News Editor
Waste paper recycling is
no longer strictly an envir­onmental
issue. It has
become an issue of econom­ics
and two of Lititz Bor­ough’s
leading indicators
reveal that the bottom has
fallen out of the waste paper
market.
At Ram Corporation, 15
Lititz Run Road, 300 tons of
newspaper sit in the ware­house
awaiting the day when
the glutted waste paper
industry is back on its feet.
According to Morris Graff,
majority stockholder at Ram
Corp., the blame for a
gorged waste paper market
can be attributed directly to
political involvement in pri­vate
industry.
“It all boils down to one
thing, when government
puts their hand into private
industry, the taxpayer pays
for it,” said Graff who also
stated that he supports vol­untary
recycling efforts.
Graff remarked Monday
in a telephone interview that
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New scrib e
in Brunnerville
A new correspon­d
e n t fo r th e
Brunnerville-Lexington
area is into her second
week of writing about
the community where
she lives. Irene Moody
has somehow found
the time to add words-mith
to her roles —
besides wife, mother of
a five-year-old, com­munity
leader and tax
preparer. Read more
about her on page 13.
R e cy clin g
Recyclable mater­ials
will be picked up at
curbside in Lititz in the
area north of Main
Street and east of
Route 501 on Wednes­day,
Dec. 14.
Residents should
have their recyclables
— aluminum cans,
g la s s c o n ta in e r s ,
newspapers and corru­gated
cardboard — on
the curb by 7:30 a.m.
for pickup by the Water
Street Rescue Mission.
Gingerbread people
. Lititz is destined to
become the ginger­bread
capital. A War­wick
High School home
economics class and
senior Tom Horvath
each claimed one of
three top prizes and
Girl Scout Troop 44
took honors in the
Arthritis Foundation's
annual Gingerbread
House competiton.
Their story is on page
28.
Parkland
With the beautiful
Lititz Springs Park as
the base, the borough
is not doing too badly
as far as parkland
goes. But as more peo­ple
move into the bor­ough,
there will be a
need for more parks,
according to the city
planner who worked on
the new comprehen­sive
plan. For more
about open spaces in
Lititz, turn to page 28.
Area hunters bag b u ck s
Among many suc­ce
ss stories, seven
area hunters entered
the woods last week
and emerged victori­ous,
proudly showing
their bucks to friends
and family. Three of the
bucks had antlers in the
double-digit category.
Find out which out-doorsmen
we ’re talking
about on page 12.
R ecord
In d e x
Business 24
Church 1b
Classified 25-27
Editorial 4
Manheim 18
Out of the Past 20
Social 14
Sports 6-8