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CONSOLIDATED WITH THE LITITZ RECORD 1937 Lititz, Lancaster County PA, 17543. Thursday, September 14, 1989
Spring Lake
residents seek
peace in valley
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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 28 Pages- No. 23
By Jed Kensinger
Record Express Staff Writer
Four residents of Spring
Lake Park, complaining of
excessively loud music at
the Pretzel Hut restaurant,
made their own kind of noise
at the Elizabeth Township
supervisors meeting Mon­day
night.
Sister Sharon McLaugh­lin,
of Box 711 Newman-stown
R l, presented a peti­tion,
signed by 11 other resi­dents
of the area who are
seeking a noise ordinance or
any other means to control
the volume of their neigh­bors’
music.
They also complained of
loud music coming from the
residence of Scott Nye, who
lives in the home adjacent to
the Pretzel Hut. All four resi­dents
at the meeting live
directly across the lake from
the Pretzel Hut.
This summer, Dixie Pet-ry,
owner of the restaurant,
erected an outside speaker
that is connected to the juke
box “with a result that we are
able to hear the records as if
they are were being played
loudly in our homes,”
McLaughlin said.
McLaughlin said the resi­dents
unsucessfully tried to
resolve the problem with
Petry. Trooper Sid Mentzer
of Ephrata State Police vis­ited
Spring Lake and the Pre­tzel
Hut owner Aug. 25, after
residents called for police
assistance.
Mentzer asked Petry to
turn the direction of the
speaker to face north, the
residents said. However, she
turned it southeast and it
“still sounds as if it is play­ing
right into our homes,”
McLaughlin said.
“If you go out and sit on
the patio, you can’t even talk
to the person right next to
you,” said John Adams of
Newmanstown R l.
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Funding set for
township project
By Dave Knauss
Record Express
Managing Editor
Plans are moving along
well for the new Warwick
Township municipal build­ing
and park.
At the Sept. 6 meeting the
supervisors set up financing,
approving a proposal from
Meridian Bank for a $1 mil­lion
general obligation note,
according to Township
Manager Robert Smith. The
loan will be paid over 15
years at an interest rate of 7.4
percent.
The supervisors were
scheduled to pass an ordi­nance
officially accepting
the financing at last night’s
meeting, Smith said.
The supervisors were also
expected last night to accept
low bids on the project.
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Bob Rosenberg photographed these scouts and leaders of Troop 42 as they took a rest from hiking in the
woods in 194Q, a year after the troop was founded. They are, from left, Charlie Regennas, Jim Buch, Wilbur
Reist, Ted Smith, Malcolm Ladd, John Hlmmelberger, Harry Regennas and Bob Rosenberg. Using a time-lapse
mechanism, Rosenberg set the camera on a tripod and ran back to get in the picture.
Troop 42 honors ‘Mr. Scouting’
at 50th anniversary banquet
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By Jed Kensinger
Record Express Staff Writer
Fifty years ago, Scoutmaster Charlie Regennas went
down to the Army-Navy store and purchased cheese­cloth
tents for the first camping expedition of Boy
Scout Troop 42.
He remembers outfitting the Lititz troop’s first cam-poree
with a budget of $24.
Regennas, 130 W. Lemon St., first scoutmaster of
Troop 42, relived those memories in a whirlwind last
Thursday night when he was honored for his 50 years
of dedicated service.
In a tribute to Regennas, Bob Herzer, Troop 42 com­mittee
chairman, referred to him as “Mr. Scouting.”
John F. Pyfer Jr., president of the Lancaster-
Lebanon Boy Scout Council, presented a clock-plaque
on behalf of Troop 42.
Regenas continues to serve as Troop 42 coordinator
to the Lancaster-Lebanon Council, of which he is a
member.
His experience in Scouting started when he joined
Lititz Troop 3 when he was 12 years old. He left Boy
Scouts at age 17, after that troop disbanded.
When he was 22 years old, Regennas gratefully
accepted the challenge of forming a new troop. He said
Lester Miller, a young boy at the time, asked him to
start a troop at the encouragement of Miller’s father.
In August 1939, after a committee was established,
the troop registered,eight Scouts. Within a short time,
membership soared to 60.
While he was Scoutmaster, from 1939 to 1947,
Regennas said one of his goals was to provide at least
one local camping and hiking trip per month.
His most memorable experiences, have included pre­paring
food baskets at Christmas and Thanksgiving,
repairing Christmas toys for the needy and helping
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Council eyes
solution for
vendor issue
‘Pastamobile’
issue could
scar Rosey’s
By Becky Collins
Record Express News Editor
Borough Council Chair­man
Clyde Tshudy relin­quished
his chair again
Tuesday night as Lititz Bor­ough
Council debated a ven­dor’s
license for Roland and
Paulette Sousa of Rothsville
to operate a “pastamobile”
in the historical district
along East Main Street.
The Sousas have prop­osed
setting up a mobile ven­ding
cart in front of
Tshudy’s business, the Stur­gis
Pretzel House, to sell
pasta dishes and Italian
sandwiches to tourists.
Borough Business Mana­ger
Sue Ann Barry read a let­ter
from the borough’s soli­citor
recommending that
council amend its Canvass­ers
and Solicitors Ordinance
either by eliminating street
vendors entirely or by
restricting the locations and
times of operation for ven­dors
in the borough.
Council debated the effect
of total elimination of street
vendors in the borough and
noted that there was much
concern in the community
that the only present vendor,
Rosey’s Lunch Wagon,
would be put out of business
if council should decide to
eliminate street vending.
“Most of the people who
have talked to me would like
to see Rosey’s stay,” said
councilman Sam Hess.
Bruce Bucher, 26 Wood­land
Ave., reminded council
that Rosey’s has been a part
of Lititz for 68 years.
Joe Rihn, 128 E. Lincoln
Ave., told council he consid­ers
Rosey’s part of the charm
of Lititz. “I ’d like to see that
part of the town stay,” he
added.
Referring to Lititz as “an
oasis in the desert of Lan­castrian
commercialism,”
Richard Vetter, owner of the
General Sutter Inn, asked
council to carefully consider
two points in deciding the
fate of street vending in the
borough.
“First, you have to consid­er
the fairness and then you
must consider the quality of
life in Lititz,” Vetter said.
Vetter told council that a
$60 vendor’s permit allows
a vendor to operate 52 weeks
a year and five days a week.
“That amounts to a contribu­tion
of just 23 cents a day to
this town,” he said.
Business owners in Lititz
pay taxes to support the
community, he added, and
employ the town’s residents
in their businesses. Part of
the unique charm of Lititz,
he said, is its “quaint, quiet
taste of the past.”
Vetter entertained those
gathered in council cham­bers
with the story of the
Dutch boy who stuck his fin­ger
in a leaking dike to save
his town and said, “By vot­ing
this (application) down,
you’ll stop (commercialism)
from getting bigger and
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Photo by Stan Hall
FASHION SHOW MODELS — Four Lititz girls are contestants In the 1990
Miss Lancaster County Scholarship Pageant. Last Saturday they got some prac­tice
by taking partin the fifth annual Miss Lancaster County Fashion Show Brunch
at The Restaurant at Doneckers, Ephrata. At Doneckers they are, from left, Don­na
Groff, Stephanie Keebler, Jill Downing and Jennifer Graber. The newwinnerof
the pageant will be crowned on Saturday, Sept. 30, at The Ephrata Fair.
Moravian Manor Day
offers spice of life
By Jed Kensinger
Record Express Staff Writer
A normally quiet residential retirement community will
take on the flavor of a street fair Saturday during Moravian
Manor Day.
Lemon Street, roped off for the festival, will be trans­formed
into a midway of food stands, craft demonstrations
and musical performances at the quarter courtyard of
Steinman Hall.
Moravian Manor Day, sponsored by the Lamplighters
Association, will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event is
the first fund-raising project for The Lamplighters, a new­ly
formed auxiliary to Moravian Manor. Numerous Mora­vian
churches in the Eastern District and non-Moravian
volunteers support the nursing home through The
Lamplighters.
All revenues, including the $10 fee per booth, will ben­efit
Moravian Manor residents.
The event is an outgrowth of an annual festival held the
third Saturday in September, previously sponsored by Fel­lowship
of Stewards to Enrich Retirement (FOSTER).
A new format is in store for Moravian Manor Day to
make this year’s event more festive. The number of booths
has tripled this year, says Gail Steinweg, volunteer
coordinator.
More than 50 volunteers from the community are help­ing
to make Moravian Manor Day a success, says
Steinweg.
A wide variety of crafts and baked goods made by Mor­avian
Manor residents remains an important part of the
event. But this year, about 50 artists and craftsmen from
outside Moravian Manor, including some from Reading
and Philadelphia, will demonstrate their work.
A sampling of Saturday’s specialty items include
baskets, Shaker knob racks, teddy bears, chalk boards,
ornamental farm animals, linens, wooden soils, wreaths,
dolls and dollhouse furniture and Moody’s salad dressing.
Take-out chicken barbecue will be served, as well as
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Photo by Jed Kensinger
Harry D. Weaver, a Moravian Manor resident, finishes a ceramic angel for this
Saturday’s Moravian Manor Day.
Groundbreaking se t
Grace Brethren
Church will break
ground on a new addi­tion
to its West Lincoln
Avenue facility Sunday
during morning ser­vices.
The new addition
will triple the size of the
present facility which
also serves as home
for Lititz Christian
School. The story is on
page 19. U
Warwick’s w in n in g ways
Warwick’s Field
Hockey team began a
new season of compet­ition
last week with a
repeat championship
win in its own invitation­al
tournament. Tourna­ment
results and a
story on who to watch
this season are on
page 6.
Recycling
schedule
Recyclable mater­ials
will be picked up in
Lititz on Wednesday,
Sept. 20, in the area
south of Main Street
and east of Route 501.
Recyclables — glass
containers and alumi­num
— should be
placed on the curb by
7:30 a.m.
‘The Pride o f L ititz ’
Warwick Band and
Football Parent’s Night
turned out to be a
gigantic pep rally to
kick off the new sea­son.
The unique dis­play
of school spirit
combined the energy of
the cheering squads,
band and football team.
See the story on page
28.
Record
Index
business 11
Church 18-19
Classified 24-27
Editorial 4
Manheim 20
Cut of the Past 22
School Menu 17
Social 16-17
Saorts 6-10