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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 26 Pages- No. 50
Poll: we want to build
new elementary school
By Jennifer Kopf
Record Express News Editor
Warwick School District should reor­ganize
its class structure and construct an
additional elementary school.
Residents who have returned district
growth option surveys have thus far
strongly supported this option, “Option 2,”
for dealing with Warwick’s projected
population growth. According to Dr. John
R. Bonfield, district superintendent, 81
percent of the 228 surveys returned to date
have advocated this choice.
Bonfield presented this feasibility study
update at Tuesday evening’s school board
meeting.
The middle school, which now houses
grades six through eight, would only house
seventh- and eighth-grade students under
Option 2. Sixth-grade students would be
removed from their present middle school
position and would be kept in the elemen­tary
schools for an additional year.
This choice would necessitate construc­tion
of a new elementary school, one with a
capacity of approximately 600 to 650
students.
According to Bonfield’s report, an addi­tional
12 percent of the survey respondents
preferred “Option 1,” which would main­tain
the present class organization, and
which would provide for additions to the
elementary schools and middle school to
accommodate growth.
Four percent picked a third option,
which would establish a 12-month school
year. Students would still attend the regu­lar
number of school days per academic
year, but only 75 percent of the Warwick
students would be in school at any given
time.
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Donkey basketball game
nixed due to concerns
By Bruce Morgan
Record Express Staff Writer
Concern from local residents and animal
rights groups regarding animal abuse in
donkey basketball moved officials at War­wick
High School to cancel a game sche­duled
for Monday evening there.
The donkey basketball game was
planned as a fund-raiser for the school’s
Future Farmers of America chapter. In this
activity, participants ride donkeys in play­ing
an otherwise normal game of
basketball.
Dale Gerber, FFA advisor, said he was
aware that animal rights groups were going
to be at the game to take pictures, along
with columnists who would write in favor
of their cause, and people with authority to
arrest Jack Spicer, owner of the donkeys.
“They would have been looking for
trouble and looking to arrest anyone they
could,” he said. “We cancelled it to avoid
any controversy ... we didn’t feel it was
right to put high school students in the
middle of a controversy.”
According to Bob Wyble, assistant high
school principal, a teacher at the middle
school was the first to raise concerns about
holding the event and other people in the
community then began phoning the school
and bringing up similar apprehensiveness.
People’s viewpoints about tire issue began
to reach the school last Thursday.
“We are concerned if there is abuse to
animals and there is some evidence that
(the donkeys) may not have been treated
properly and that was a factor in us discon­tinuing
the event (permanently),” Wyble
said.
Connie Kondravy, co-president of the
Organization for the Responsible Care of
Animals (ORCA), Lancaster, said their
truck would have been at the game but that
she would have done nothing more than
observe.
She said there are two major points of
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Photo by Steve Palkovic
BROTHER COMBINATION BRINGS HOME THE MEDALS — Jeff Martin (left)
and Scott Martin, with their parents, are believed to be the first brother combination
from the LLto win two medals at state wrestling competition in the same year. Turn to
page 6 for story.
Take steps to reduce danger
of toxic chemicals in the home By Daina Savage
Record Express Staff Writer
This week, March 18-25,
not only marks the begin­ning
of spring and the ritual
of spring cleaning, but is
also National Poison Pre­vention
Week.
Yet few Americans are
aware of the toxicity of the
cleaning products they have
stored in their homes.
Although parents recog­nize
the obvious immmedi-ate
dangers of children
ingesting these hazardous
materials, the long-term
effects of keeping toxic
chemicals around the home
remain unknown.
According to the Alliance
for the Chesapeake Bay,
“the average household con­tains
3 to 10 gallons of
materials hazardous to
human health or to the natur­al
environment.
A five-year study by the
EPA concluded that con­centrations
of at least 11
chemicals were 2 to 5 times
higher inside homes than
outside.
A peek under the kitchen
sink and in the garage could
reveal furniture polish,
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cleansers, air fresheners,
disinfectants, bleaches, rat,
roach and ant poisons, moth-
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A Lititz police officer stops a motorist for exceeding the posted speed limit. The
vehicle was clocked at 40.7 mph on two different Acutraks used by both the officer
and the reporter.
Acutrak used
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town traffic By Daina Savage
Record Express Staff Writer
During the recent rash of warm weather, the borough
has seen spring flowers blooming, small children don­ning
shorts, and the Lititz Police Department operating
a new speed-checking device.
The device is called Acutrak, and police have used it
to waive down over 43 drivers in the past two weeks.
The device seems simple — set lines drawn out on
the roadway, and a small stopwatch-like instrument.
Unlike other speed checking devices, operating the
Acutrak system requires only one officer.
This fact alone makes the Acutrak more desirable to
small police departments, like Lititz’.
All members of the Lititz police force have received
special training with the device and are able to use it in
spare time between other calls.
Unlike other systems the police department uses to
check speed, the Acutrack system can be set up and
used in less than five minutes, said Officer William
Seace.
SpeedCheck, another system the department uses
which requires two or three officers to operate, “is
more cumbersome and time consuming,” he said, not­ing
that the officers would stay in one location for sev­eral
hours while using the system.
Lack of manpower is the reason speed checks
haven’t been run for some time, said Officer Douglas
Shertzer.
Acutrak also offers the officers the ease in moving
quickly from one location to the next. “We have gone
from location to location in an attempt to get motorists
to slow down,” Officer Seace said.
“If they slow down, we’ve accomplished what we
set out to do,” said Officer Joel Hartz,
“Going over 40 is not going to get you there any fas­ter.
I can’t see the reason with this school at the top of
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Sauder’s (Easter) Eggs make local stores
By Bruce Morgan
Record Express Staff Writer
Sauder’s Eggs, 576 Furnace Hills Pike, is
making it easier for people to prepare for Easter.
Beginning this year, they will make colored
Easter eggs available in clear display cartons to
shoppers of local grocery stores. The new pro­duct
hit tire shelves of these stores on Monday
and Tuesday, said Paul Sauder, president of the
company.
“It’s something I’ve been looking at for a cou­ple
of years and now since we have the hard-cooking
operation (which they began in January,
1989), it was just a spinoff from that,” he said.
To get the project on its feet, Sauder’s Eggs
took its hard-cooking process one step further
and has recently finished building a warehouse in
which to store their dry goods (empty cases and
cartons).
“ We have a goal of doing 500 cases of Easter
eggs because that’s all we can manufacture this
year, but I’m looking to do a lot more next year,”
Sauder said.
“We’re limiting our marketing to a local area
and we have chain stores in New Jersey and New
York City that would love to have it, but I can’t
give it away because I can’t make them,” he said.
Sauder’s Eggs started using the new $200,000
expansion project two weeks ago. The building,
which still requires some electrical and plumbing
work, is 100 feet by 70 feet and is two stories
high.
Another new project which is part of then-expansion
plans is selling non-colored hard-cooked
eggs to grocery stores on a year-round
basis.
These hard-cooked eggs will be sealed with a
preservative, the same that coats M&M candies,
to give them a six-week shelf life.
“It’s a great snack item to put in people’s
lunches to take to work or out on a picnic and you
don’t have to worry about keeping them cold,”
Sauder said. “We knew the demand was there for
the hard cooking, especially someone who was
going to do quality aspect of hard-cooking eggs.”
This entire expansion project has been in the
works for close to five years now, but only seri­ously
got going when Sauder’s Eggs hired Bill
Murray, who has a degree in food science from
Penn State, in June 1988.
The company then began the hard-cooking
process in January 1989 and has been making
them without shells for food service businesses.
Sauder said salad-grade eggs are shipped to
salad companies, for making macaroni salad and
potato salad, and that premium grade eggs are
used by businesses to make red beat eggs.
“The benefit of a restaurant getting these hard-cooked
eggs is that they are already peeled,”
Sauder said. “They don’t need to have labor to
peel them.
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Film company taps
Warwick students
Movie concerns
By Jennifer Kopf
Record Express News Editor
It’s not too uncommon
these days to have seen your­self
videotaped for a home
movie.
What is still unusual is the
chance to appear featured on
the silver screen. Last week,
16 Warwick High School
students got that chance
when they were interviewed
by a California film produc­tion
company for its upcom­ing
presentation, “Heart and
Sole.”
The company, Camfel
Productions, produces prog­rams
that are shown in high
schools across the country,
said high school Assistant
Principal Robert Wyble.
Camfel has brought its films
to Warwick for several
years, and this year con­tacted
the school about film­ing
some local students for
its 1990-91 production.
“They address issues that
success, goals
are important to the age
group,” Wyble said earlier
this week. Interspersing
interviews with high school
students with other film
footage, and adding a score
of popular music, creates a
presentation that goes over
well with a teen-age
audience.
This year’s film, which
was shown last Monday at
the high school, dealt with
issues surrounding self­esteem.
Warwick students
interviewed for next year’s
film were asked questions
dealing with success, goals,
and dreams for the future.
“They asked what do
most people think success is,
and what I thought success
is,” said senior Jon Stoltzfus,
a member of National Honor
Society and the volleyball
team, and one of the students
who took part in the project.
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A NEW HOUSE FOR SPRING VISITORS — Pedestrians aren’t “seeing doi>
ble” when they pass 401 S. Broad St. in Lititz - there are identical houses on the
property. Quentin Johnson built the smaller version as a Christmas gift for his
wife, Mary, and a lucky pair of nesting birds. It took three nights of work, one of
them an all-nighter, to complete the project. The yellow birdhouse is a step ahead
of its larger counterpart, which is in the midst of a paint change from yellow to
white. “We tried out the color scheme on the birdhouse,” Johnson joked. Erected
four weeks ago, the birdhouse “hasn't seen any activity yet” — but just wait until
the feathered neighborhood residents hear about the vacancy.
Spring
Sales Days
Lititz Retailers’
A s s o c ia tio n is
sponsoring Spring
Sales Days this
weekend - March
22, 23 and 24.
Check this issue
for the special
bargains and be
sure to register for
the $250 givea­way!
Top prize is
$100 with two $50
winners and five
$10 winners. See
page 2 for parti­c
ip a tin g m e r ­chants.
Easter
Coloring
Contest
I t ’s ju s t four
weeks until Eas­ter...
and time for
the annual Lititz
Record Express
Easter Coloring
Contest. Anyone
ages 4 thru 10 can
enter and prizes
are awarded each
week in three age
groups. See page
16.
Recycling
schedule
T h e Wa t e r
Street Rescue Mis­sion
will pick up
recyclable mater­ials
at curbside in
Lititz in the area
west of Route 501
on Wednesday,
March 28. Resi­dents
should have
their recyclables on
the curb by 7:30
a.m.
Ed Stroble receives roasting
It was “Ed Stroble Day” in Lititz last Fri­day
and to top off the special occasion, a
roasting dinner was held in his honor that
evening. For the 185 people who
attended, many of whom got a chance to
be roasters themselves, it was event they
won’t soon forget. Read more about the
roasting dinner in “Mid the Turmoil” on
page 4 and pick up a copy of the Lititz
Record Express next week for a story on
the man who has been cutting hair in Lititz
since the 1930’s.
Warriorettes
advance
The Warwick
girls picked up their
first ever victory in
the PIAA Champ­ionship
Tourney
when they domi­nated
the second
half of their game
with North Penn
and went on to a
67-53 win. Read
more on page 7.
Inside
the
Record
Business 20
Church 15-16
Classified 22-25
Editorial 4
Manheim 18
Obituaries 2
Out of the Past 21
School Menu 14
Social 13-14
Sports 6-9