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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 26 Pages- No. 51
Utility bills
will be raised
15 percent
By Daina Savage
Record Express Staff Writer
Lititz Borough residents
will be paying 15 percent
more for total utilities after
Sept. 10 to help finance the
planned $2.7 million nitrate
removal facility, according
to borough engineers.
Projections for the new
rates through 1994 were pro­vided
by G. Matthew Brown
of PSC Engineers at Tues­day’s
borough council
meeting.
Brown said that the first
rate increase would be effec­tive
after Sept. 10.
Residents would realize a
15 percent increase in their
total utility bill, which
includes water, sewage and.
garbage, Brown said.
The second rate increase
would occur after Sept. 10,
1992, and would be less than
5 percent, he said.
“The two increases will
show a surplus through
1994,” he said, noting that in
order to secure the loan for
the nitrate facility, operating
costs must not create a
deficit.
Brown said the present
rate per quarter for 10,000
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Township plans
town meeting,
hopes for crowd
By Jennifer Kopf
Record Express News Editor
For the second year in a
row, Warwick Township
officials have announced a
town meeting for area resi­dents.
The gathering has
been set for 7 p.m. on Mon­day,
April 9, at the Warwick
Middle School auditorium.
Part of the impetus for
scheduling the April 9 meet­ing,
officials said, was the
popularity of last year’s
event. Nearly 150 people
attended the last Warwick
town meeting last spring,
and officials are hoping to
match or increase those
numbers.
“It’s the opportunity to
say publicly ... to the super­visors
what the concerns
a re ,” said su p e rv iso r
Michael Brubaker. The town
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meeting format, he said, also
brings people who normally
don’t attend municipal
meetings out to interact with
elected officials.
“We have poor atten­dance
at supervisors’ meet­ings,
and I can understand
th a t,” Brubaker said.
“There’s not always some­thing
there (at a regular
meeting) to attract people.”
Another purpose of the
town meeting, he said, is to
get information out to the
public. “A lack of informa­tion
leads to a lot of frustra­tion,”
Brubaker said.
The topics that attracted
area residents last year, he
said, were growth rates,
Route 501 traffic, and what
Brubaker termed “the trash
question,” or the ongoing
process of establishing a
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This Saturday, Ed Stroble
will hang up his scissors
By Bruce Morgan
Record Express Staff Writer
Ed Stroble has seen the
lean days, pulled off the
best practical jokes,
heard the best ditties and
given more than a few
haircuts during the past
60 years he has spent in
Lititz.
There wasn’t a day he
didn’t enjoy opening up
his barber shop, at 59 E.
Main St., and spending
time with the regular
crowd of people who
stopped by.
Some would get hair­cuts
and others a shave,
but everyone got a chance
to speak his piece about
current events, sports or
some other chosen topic.
And more times than not,
each had a good laugh in
between.
They created many
memories while passing
awav davs like that, and
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these are what Stroble
will remember most as he
prepares to close the
doors at his barber shop
for the final time. On
Saturday, March 31,
exactly 55 years from Lhe
day he moved to his pre­sent
location, Stroble will
call it quits.
At the end of this
week, he will trade his
barber chair in fora living
room sofa and get in
some well-deserved
relaxation.
“Guys have come in
here for years and I’m
going to miss that, but
there comes a time when
you have to change and
that’s the way it is,” he
said.
A number of these fel­lows
were at the Baron
Stiegel Restaurant in
Manheim on March 16 to
throw Stroble and his
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Ed Stroble receives a corsage from his daughter,
Ninea, during his roasting dinner at Baron Stiegel
Restaurant on March 16.
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By Daina Savage
Record Express Staff Writer
These third-grade bud­ding
journalists from John
Beck Elementary wrote
some of their own story.
Miss Roy’s class raises
$275.00 for Siberian tiger
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“At the beginning of the
school year a notice came to
Miss Roy’s third grade class.
, We were very excidid for we
llllll : could adopt a Siebam tiger
from the Philidelfia zoo,”
wrote Shawna Stutzman,
-i7i.lt j Caitlin McGeehan and Ali­cia
Carpenter.
“The zoo was having
trouble getting enough
money to feed all of the ani­mals.
They started sending
out fundraisers that had
sevcrel choises of animals to
rais money for. Miss Roy’s
class chose a beutiful Sibe­rian
Tiger,” wrote Jess
Dunn.
The tiger was born on July
4, 1980, at the Philadelphia
Zoo. She was named Martha
after the wife of George
Washington because of her
patriotic birth date.
“Our class saved a Sibe­rian
tiger by razing money,”
wrote Michelle Marks and
Jennifer Von Kirk.
“We started in Novmber
and went to March,’’wrote
Ivy Zimmerman.
“We been working hard to
adobl Martha,” wrote Becky
Groff.
“On March 22nd 1990
They came out with their
grand totle. It was $275.00,”
wrote Dunn.
“The money we raised
goes for her food + other
things,” wrote Stulzman,
McGeehan and Carpenter.
Many benefits go along
with the satisfaction of help­ing
the endangered animal.
The zoo will send special
gifts to the class, including:
an official ADOPT Certifi­cate
of parentage, a fact
sheet about the animal they
adopted, two ADOPT news­letters
a year, an ADOPT
window decal for the class
room, a poster-sized photo
of their adopted animal,
ADOPT pins for each stu­dent
in the class, and a copy
of the zoo videotape
“Extinction is Forever,”
about the zoo’s endangered
animals and conservation
efforts.
“On March 15th 1990 we
went to the zoo to see Marth-a,”
wrote Groff.
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Photo by Stan Hall
A Thursday night blaze was contained to the upper rooms of a Lititz woman's home at 772 S. Cedar St.
Fire causes $12,000 damage to house
Resident escapes uninjured at 772 S. Cedar St.
Watching Thursday night
television prevented a Lititz
woman from discovering
her house was ablaze until
neighbors came pounding
on her door.
Flames were shooting
through the roof when fire­fighters
arrived at the scene,
but Rachel Oatman was able
to escape uninjured from her
home at 772 S. Cedar St.
Faulty wiring in a lit
upstairs bedroom closet
started the two-alarm fire
that caused $ 10,000 worth of
structure damage and
another $2,000 in damage to
the contents of the home,
according to Lititz Fire
Chief Jeffrey Siegrist.
“I was getting ready to
write both units off,” Sie­grist
said of the two ajoining
townhouscs. “When I pulled
up, you could see flames in
th e f r o n t b e d ro om
windows.”
With the help of a sturdy
fire wall, firefighters were
able to contain the blaze to
the bedroom and roof area.
Oatman leased the prop­erly
from Messig Realty of
Middletown.
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Art is not for money
or fame, kids are told
By Bruce Morgan
Record Express Staff Writer
“I think the image we
have portrayed on our
children throughout the
ages is that the artist is
outside of society and the
artist is this weirdo,” said
Dr. Dorothy Hook, a
graphic artist and War­wick
Middle School’s
artist-in-residence.
That’s the image Hook
is trying to change as she
demonstrates the art of
murals to students at the
middle school, drawing
and painting projects and
visual images in waterco-lors
and oils. During her
15-day residency, she
will spend half her time
with students and the
other half with her own
work.
Her residency is co­sponsored
by the Pen­nsylvania
Council on the
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Linden Hall student
fights crack scourge,
starts with art sale
By Jennifer Kopf
Record Express News Editor
It’s difficult to turn on die
news these days, news origi­nating
out of a metropolitan
area or the local variety, and
not hear a story dealing with
crack, an especially danger­ous
form of cocaine.
But it’s still easy enough
for most people in this area,
whether it’s right or not, to
be able to turn off the televi­sion
and not be directly
affected by the crack
epidemic. It’s easy enough
to ignore without trying too
hard.
But one young woman, a
senior at Linden Hall School
for Girls, 212 E. Main St.,
decided that “turning off’
the issue wasn’t what she
wanted to do. One of the
results of her campaign,
Women Against Crack
(WAC), is a money-raising
art exhibit which begins
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C o n t e s t
w i n n e r s
s e l e c t e d
Debra and Emily
Bren eman and
Keanna Oswald
were named win­ners
for the first
week of the Annual
Easter Coloring
Contest. 29 young
L i t i t z a r t i sts
entered the contest
this week. Read
more on page 14.
Fai s s h e r a l d s 6 0 t h a n n i v e r s a r y m c s t u d e n t s p l a n p l a y g r o u n d
In 1930, Roy
Reidenbaugh left
Armstrong to found
an electrical ser­vice
company in
nearby Lititz. Sixty
years later, his
descendants and
their employees of
R.S. Reidenbaugh
Corp. benefit from
his early risks.
Read more on
page 22.
Students from
the Manheim Cen-irai
School District
will get together on
April 2 and provide
ideas and dreams
for the design of a
wooden p l a y ­ground
structure to
be built in Manheim
Veterans’ Memor­ial
Park this fall.
Read more on
page 13.
W a r w i c k s t a r t s
v o l l e y b a l l t e a m
Warwick High
S c h o o l br oke
ground this spring
season by starting
their first ever vol­leyball
team. Bas­ics
will be the main
empasis during
practice as they
prepare for next
year’s league sea­son.
Read more on
page 6.
Inside
the
Record
Business 22
Church 23-24
Classified 14-17
Editorial 4
Manheim 13
Obituaries 2
Out of the Past 25
School Menu 2
Social 20-21
Sports 6-9